skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great point to make too - if the hospital chooses who renders me service, I shouldn't be getting a separate bill from them.
You say you owe your country nothing. If you truly don't think so, we're all the poorer for it. A very modern malaise. The right wing in this country has taken a curious turn of late.

I think embracing these imagined grievances is going to lead you down a dark road, but living well is the best revenge. Enjoy whatever it is you get out of your trolling. Ta ta.
What's the most powerful line of code ever written?
Don't see why, you don't have to use the keywords given, and in the future existing keywords could be deprecated.
It is quite replaceable if you represent the actual graph as a data structure with terminator nodes. No need for more recursion - the data structure is recursive, but algorithm is not.

It is even easier to prove bounds. You get to prove correctness for cycles (if applicable), connectedness of the graph and whether a terminator node is connected to all acyclic arcs. (Latter can be a trivial proof on the constructor.) Just like for recursive implementation except proving the cycle lemmas is easier.
Do politicians use bug trackers or version control etc.?
> You have no right to be outraged or offended...

What. Of course there is a right to be offended and outraged by someone's opinion. It's the same right that allows someone to share a dumb opinion in the first place.
does it not strike anyone here a bit odd that only white men are rushing to defend the manifesto guy?

isn't any employee that needs to write a 10 page manifesto about anything on the wtf side?

and now a practicing psychiatrist from the midwest who really likes to pontificate on the web about anything rushes in to gloriously defend the rights of the eternally oppressed - men. who can't just shut the fuck up and compete. no, it has to be endless verbal diarrhea.

sometimes i wish actual alpha males would exist.
The funny thing is that "diversity" really implies difference. And in a very unequal workplace it makes sense to focus on beneficial traits that diversity may bring. Those traits certainly exist in aggregate, which is why it is worth pursuing at an aggregate level. But individually it is ridiculous to use gender to imply that traits exist in one particular candidate.
Sure and we should not have intervened in Panama... Or Chile two of the better economies in LatAm. You don't see Chileans running across the border to Argentina --oh, wait, it's the socialist Argentinians who streamed into Chile during the socialists' tenure.
I find it so bizarre people get this interpretation - it's completely nonsensical. Point: "Chinese tend to be short so not many of them go into basketball". Counterpoint: "I'm Chinese and 6'5" are you saying I'm short and bad at basketball?"
I don't believe there is a functional pure market solution to health care in the world and I don't believe there ever will be.

The companies in question own system you almost can't reform it without first literally lynching the fat cats that run it.

We MIGHT be able to render it obsolete with a single payer system that actually takes care of the citizens.
Astroturfers... it's going to be a busy day! Put on your concerned faces!
I had to lol at "there is significant possibility of unexpected changes."
> It is therefore justifiable to apply a post correction.

But if your premise is that (essentially) people are wrong, how do you know that the post-correction will be appied "correctly" (i.e. not make things even more wrong)?
You must have never heard of a thing called an 'NGO' or the 'CIA'. Even when, on the surface (i.e: what CNN says), the US is not pursuing it's interests globally, you can be pretty sure that it has its finger in the pie somewhere.

heres an example of some of the US's 'assistance' to voices that they want heard. http://www.twn.my/title2/resurgence/2010/240-241/media2.htm

I'm definitely not pro-socialist or anti-capitalist, those are just overused labels which only further muddy any discourse on the issue's which matter. Given the US's history in South and Latin America though (and to be honest, world-wide), I definitely don't see them as some beacon of freedom and democracy.

sidenote, same shit happened in Brazil, Rousseff was democratically elected, media (which is owned by a small oligarchy in Brazil) fanned the flames to get her impeached, the replacement? An equally corrupt, more Washington leaning politician (we don't see the media jumping up and down as much for this one though). Dilma was looking to strengthen BRICS and that obviously couldn't go on.

(all politicians in Brazil are corrupt, thats the only reason you become a politician in brazil, no matter what side of the political spectrum you are on)

[1]: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/730909086775152641
> the author of the memo is completely correct and, as others have said, his memo is drastically misrepresented in the coverage it has received. he simply points out that women could have less desire to go into fields such as cs because of their biological makeup.

I'm not sure you read the memo? The author never provided evidence for this claim - it's pure speculation. The only points he's able to support with science are the statements that there are biological differences between men and women. Quote:

"Women generally also have a stronger interest in people rather than things, relative to men (also interpreted as empathizing vs. systemizing)"

That is accompanied with citations. OK, sure, let's take that at face value.

Next, he says:

"These two differences in part explain why women relatively prefer jobs in social or artistic areas. More men may like coding because it requires systemizing and even within SWEs, comparatively more women work on front end, which deals with both people and aesthetics"

No citation, no nothing here - just pure guessing on his part. If you're going to make an assertion like this, you need evidence - just, "it makes sense to me!" isn't proving anything. I find it surprising and disappointing that so many fail to read this memo critically.

> men and women are not the same. The author is completely correct?

No one is saying men and women are the same. Similarly, no one is providing evidence to back up your and the author's assertions.
After installing, go to the app folder, there are stored all files/data https://getpublii.com/docs/install-publii.html
> You absolutely have a right not to be outraged or offended by someone's opinion at your place of employment if you work for a company with any sense.

What?

Harassment is different and can be objectively defined in the scope of the business and/or role.

But outrage/offense is subjective. You can change your views from one day to the next, or flip perspectives over lunch. You don't get to come back from lunch with a new view, and have a 'right not to be offended'.

You come across as very entitled.
> The New York Times has made the 545 page report available (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/climate/docum...) and at a passing glance, it contains oodles of data. The article links to it.

Lisa said that mean temperatures rose, then mentioned that President Trump and his cabinet have said that "the human contribution is uncertain", that report (which I have read in its entirety) does not detail any way in which the (degree of) human contribution to climate change is "certain". The document has a helpful rubric for what they would consider "Virtually Certain" or "Extremely Likely" on page 9.

I'm just not satisfied with the link between the two clauses in that paragraph. One does not imply the other.
According to professor of economics at Harvard, Claudia Goldin, the gender pay-gap is mostly explained by women self-selecting into lower-paying professions and by choosing to work jobs with more flexibility in hours and time off. If I am understanding her correctly, equal pay for equal work is reality or close to reality.

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-true-story-of-the-gender...
You would fire anyone who voiced any political view? Regardless of being correct? What kind of managerial strategy is that?
If you are looking for something like CouchDB but only syncs partial subsets of the data you request (rather than the whole thing), try checking out https://github.com/amark/gun (disclosure: I build it). However Postgres is probably the best database choice out there right now, so you made a good decision.
Read the article, it says that the report itself states that it is very likely that half of the increase in temperature (which has been observed in pretty much all data sets, this part is not controversial) is caused by human activity.

The article is not a jab at the Trump administration, it warns the reader that such a report exists, and that it may not be approved for publication by the administration, which, you may admit could be problematic.
Don't say...
New device can heal with a single touch, and even repair brain injuries
Every time I read about women in tech discrimination problem I keep wondering: is it supposed to be specific to US or global?

Are there any countries that could serve as an counter-example? That is, has numerical parity between men and women in tech ever been achieved without implementing targeted diversity policies?

It would be great to have an example. "Look at country X! Their society doesn't discriminate based on gender, they are not promoting gender-specific roles, and as a result representation of women in tech / stem is equal to men".
Curiously Curtis Yarvin wrote about this kind of witch hunt a few years ago: https://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2013/09/techno...
How a government was elected and how a government behaves are two different things.

They're undermining both free media and the justice system. How would you call that?
“CIA chief hints agency is working to change Venezuelan government”

tag line: The US has a long and bloody history of meddling in Latin America's affairs

date: Tuesday 25 July 2017 16:00 BST

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cia-venezue...
This response has the tone of justification by exactly the very minds condemned as being closed.

I read the article which attempts to establish as fact very clearly unsubstantiated subjective claims. Never mind the toxicity -- the dude is just flat wrong.

"Treat people as individuals, not as just another member of their group."

I totally agree, and this individual got his due.
" The average temperature in the United States has risen rapidly and drastically since 1980, and recent decades have been the warmest of the past 1,500 years, according to a sweeping federal climate change report awaiting approval by the Trump administration."

i.e. if Trump's administration does not approve it, it does not exist :D
From the New York Times:

"Before being fired, Mr. Damore said, he had submitted a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board claiming that Google’s upper management was 'misrepresenting and shaming me in order to silence my complaints.' He added that it was 'illegal to retaliate' against an N.L.R.B. charge."

Maybe this is why he was fired? It sounds like he was becoming pro-actively hostile toward Google. And there may be more than we outsiders know going on.
You really ought to read his document before commenting. And when you do, keep an eye outfor any quote whatsoever that says justifies your claims. You won't find one.
One trusts that the National Climate Assessment will also be available publicly, one way ot the other.
Alabama has been Republican since the Civil Rights Act was passed. http://www.270towin.com/states/Alabama

On to voter fraud!

But those numbers likely don't indicate
anything nefarious like widespread voter
fraud. It's actually pretty common for
voter rolls to be a mess. In fact,
Judicial Watch threatened to sue 11 other
states in April for the same reason.

A 2012 Pew Research study found around
2.75 million people were registered to
vote in multiple states and more than
1.8 million deceased people were still
registered to vote.

Oftentimes, people don't realize they
need to notify local voting officials
when they move or when a loved one dies.

But outside of a few isolated incidences,
those extra numbers don't generally lead
to voter fraud.

http://www.abc2news.com/newsy/11-california-counties-might-h...

Q: How big a problem was voter fraud in the 2016 election?

A: There have been just four documented cases of voter fraud in the 2016 election https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/01/0-...
And to bring this back around to the utter insanity and disingenuousness that has erupted from this episode, this is a line from the linked article, Ellen Pao’s gender-discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2015 also brought the issue to light,

Pao's issue was shown to be a non-issue, yet "it brought the issue to light" ok...

I wonder why the author didn't mention the resolution of the lawsuit? I wonder why she mentioned it all? Oh right, peddling falsehoods, both explicitly and implicitly.
Wow, that seems like Star Trek level tech. Can it really be possible? I wonder why this isn't bigger news.
OpenBSD is the only one that already has fixed the bugs and security issues
I think that at this point if you don't believe climate change is happening and is man made and is significant then it is unlikely anything is going to convince you.

If that's the case, then wouldn't it already be born out in other widely available temperature datasets?

It is. Really.

There's even a nice dataset on Kaggle you can play with if you like: https://www.kaggle.com/berkeleyearth/climate-change-earth-su...

If you have data to back up your points, show the data

The data is linked, and there is plenty more data out there.

Enjoy.
> One of the biggest problems that Google has with it's employee retention is imposter syndrome.

Can you elaborate on that one? I'm really curious, as my naive assumption would be that impostor syndrome should improve retention (something like "I'm not as good as my current employer and coworkers think I am, so I better not change jobs because this is the best I could get").
A marriage of war and peace: the tumultuous world of Lev and Sonya Tolstoy
I think it should assume the reader is fairly educated on what Bitcoin is, as most newcomers to Ethereum are probably coming from the Bitcoin space, and then differentiating the two coins.

- What makes it potentially more powerful than Bitcoin?

- What are Ethereum Dapps/smart contracts good for and what are they not good for? There are definitely limitations to coding apps on a distributed network where every node has the code

- Developer intro

There's a lot of marketing gimmicky material out there jumping on the buzz word train ("Distributed! Consensus! OSS!") without offering any real value. Something with real substance that is presented effectively would be awesome
Cited primary sources, linked his biological argument to his workplace argument with something other than handwaving, avoiding tying his scientific argument to a related but not equivalent political argument, taken into account evidence collected from women who've left the industry and ensured that his model accounted for that, and, uh, basically written an actual thesis? If I'd submitted work like this as an undergraduate I'd have got it back with a lot of red ink and a pretty terrible grade.

(I work for Google and have a PhD in Biology from Cambridge University)
At this point, I'm not sure that anything will make much difference. Or at least, for anyone now alive. There's just too much inertia, at all levels.
> > The draft report by scientists from 13 federal agencies, which has not yet been made public, concludes that Americans are feeling the effects of climate change right now. It directly contradicts claims by President Trump and members of his cabinet who say that the human contribution to climate change is uncertain, and that the ability to predict the effects is limited.
These are entirely separate claims. The author of the article is saying that the United States are warmer; then implying that the change is entirely man-made and detrimental to make a political point (in this case, a hit against President Trump, though I suppose it's a step in the right direction that NYT are now allowed to refer to the President as the President).

- I think that paragraph is a little confusing. It might be better as "It _also_ directly contradicts claims" - ie the first sentence is not tied to the second sentence, even though I could see how it might at first read that way.
> Here they fired him not for perf (defensible) but for difference in opinion (maybe defensible but icky) not anything bad he did.

He wrote the manifesto and distributed it within the workplace. That's absolutely an action he took at work, that's a thing he did.

See also the Shoe Rebellion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12022280

You don't have freedom of speech at work. Apparently in the US that's not a freedom of speech issue until the Government says you can't say certain things at work.
Quite frankly, any employee who posts a 10 page manifesto is deeply suspect.

You're a fucking coder, not the founder. Don't like your gig? Go somewhere else. Grow a pair.
> "these are moves of power, not reason"

Bingo. Feelings have replaced facts as a measure of righteousness. And, sadly, there are entire industries plugging feelings of injustice by "white cis-males" or some other group of people who are oppressors by dint of simply being a majority.

It's such a mess. And if you give a sht about the Western tradition of reasoning*, it's a cultural shame. Entire national narratives are being powered by lies and mistruths.

The least we could do is talk about it.

But look at what happens when you question this insanity? You're fired and ostracized.

Genuinely sad.
Companies have forgotten how to incentivise employees. If you want people to work for you and not the competition it's not a matter of advertising and getting more eyeballs (especially if you're Google) you have to actually do some stuff that makes the job more compelling. Like paying people more money.

If women are really worth more to the company, for diversity purposes - if not literal diversity of people, at least diversity of opinion and experiences - it would make perfect sense to just actively headhunt women from other companies and simply pay them more than the other people.

Companies never want to actually pay employees more money though.
Depends. Are they going against the will of the people and are they doing it illegally? Or are they following protocol?

Germany kerbs free speech in many ways vis a vis the US, but we don't call them undemocratic --they followed protocol and it's their version --not a version I'd prefer, but still not undemocratic.
Maybe to relate it to that bombers manifesto, since there is a show about it on TV.
If people care, stuff leaks :)
Do you mean pay the scientists or a different group?
The idea that someone who brought so much bad publicity to their employer and to themselves, regardless of how, could ever stay employed by that company is completely ridiculous.
But they can always find another reason to let him go. "Restructuring" or some similar thing would work. They just fired him, I presume the lawyers looked at it and probably didn't see much of a risk.
He's rushing in to gloriously defend the rights of the eternally oppressed.

Sounds like he's competing to me.
> It is. Really.

That was my point, Lisa presented this fact as though it's unique to the report. In this case, it's just background data, because anyone can look at temperature trends and let out a giant DUH when asked if the mean temperatures are rising.
Essentially I am asking you to be that mentor (to your past self) and share the email you could write, specific to YOUR particular coding that you were doing. Think a mentor should include "why"? Then include why.

Remember: I didn't ask for a shortcut, I asked for specific sentences that you could have sent back in time to prevent this:

>months later I was still dealing with the consequences of early bad decisions.

Your sentences can be literally anything, specific to your specific situation, that could have prevented those bad decisions.

So, let's be clear. Your message to the past you reads:

"Hi - I am you from the future. I was asked to send back a message in time listing specific things you can do right now, having just learned Go, based on my having to deal with your code, that can prevent your bad decisions which you will be dealing with months later. It is impossible to put this into English words. So, I have no advice for you of any kind. Fuck you, past-me. And also fuck me - I'll just have to deal with your lack of understanding. I hope you have found this mentoring by me to be as helpful as I have. I don't believe in mentoring."

So, that's the new version of your message, based on your review of your own code and memory of your decisions and learning process at the time.

Well, okay. I guess I accept your viewpoint. (Note: if there's some other reason you don't want to answer publicly, such as not talking about your codebase, you can email me at the email in my profile.)

I am looking for specific architectural advice, using your experience as a case study.
Could your great grandmother vote?
Indian IT Layoffs: 400 Cognizant executives accept voluntary separation package
Information technology firm Cognizant said around 400 of its senior executives have accepted its voluntary separation package which will help the multi-national corporation save around $60 million dollars annually, PTI reported on Sunday.

http://www.beyondlayoff.com/2017/08/layoffs-in-indian-it-cognizant-says-400.html
I don't think @microcolonel is an astroturfer, he just seems to be fairly right leaning in his views.

I'm always a bit surprised by this, you would think the right would be fairly conservative about environmental issues. I guess it's because big business/oil has done such a good job of buying the politicians off.