skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe Python has this problem though as it will automatically promote a fixed sized int to an arbitrary precision int if the former isn't sufficient. See:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4581842/python-integer-r...
It’s available across all of the mapped area of San Francisco where the test fleet operates, and the app works like any ride-sharing experience, mapping ride requesters with available cars.

What area is that? Isn't all of San Francisco "mapped" 100 times over by this point?

If the "mapped area" isn't all of San Francisco, does this speak to a limitation of their tech or a regulatory/deployment issue?
Out of curiosity, did you have any published writing prior to working with/for SciFutures? I'm quite interested in contributing...
An aside note: I have noticed that recently (starting about one year ago) there has been a meme of Breitbart not being a reliable source, while its opposite counterpart Huffington Post does not seem to have this reputation. I wonder if there is a better reason for that than just political disagreement, perhaps there are studies on the relative reliability of different sources (online and offline)? Thanks!
Unfortunately, not everything has an objectively correct answer (aesthetics! ethics!) and so what you are saying kind of reinforces the point that diversity of viewpoints is vital to group problem solving. A group with the same blindspots will all make the same mistakes.
Woah, TIL
Lots of countries that are very safe use mostly cards instead of cash. Like the all of the Nordics.
Also Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. It even has a Robert Heinlein cameo.
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And I can't see how one would interpret that as meaning "ill-equipped to handle the rigors of the tech industry".
The title is a bit misleading. It should say "Amazon secretly owns a whole collection of brands".

It is the ownership of the brand that the article suggests Amazon is keeping a secret. Almost by definition a "brand" cannot be secret in the eyes of the consumer. A "brand" is not necessarily the same thing as the owner or the manufacturer of a product.
The article is a bit different than the title, but still interesting.
> Have you ever considered the option that your black friends was wrong?

Yes of course, it was the first thing I thought and I held onto that. If both parties were on equal ground you would be quite right and there would be equivalence so you could just flip the roles, but they aren't. Middle class white men have greater opportunities in society. Racism and sexism are oppressive by definition, and redressing inequality of opportunity isn't oppression.

And btw talking about institutional racism is the opposite of an emotive argument. It's a more precise way to highlight that the issue is systemic and not the result of individuals being deliberately racist.
Waymo had no business plan, like up until they hired Krafcik they had put no serious thought into how they would commercialize their technology. Through what appears to be arrogance they bungled a promising partnership with Ford that seriously compromised both Ford's and Waymo's chances in this race and ultimately led to the firing of Ford CEO Mark Fields.

http://www.autonews.com/article/20170529/OEM/170529795/googl...

General Motors on the other hand has played their cards brilliantly, and I'm baffled as to how Cruise has managed to make such steady and thorough progress in such a short amount of time. GM is the most futuristic car company out there, and at some point in the not too distant future they won't be so easy to dismiss. It doesn't fit the narrative. Shared, electric, autonomous: there's only one company that has all 3 of these on lockdown and it isn't the company everyone talks about.
Right. That's not the same as asserting that women are "ill-equipped to handle the rigors of the tech industry".

He's talking about distributions, and why women might be naturally under-represented.
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> The arguments that there are fundamental differences between men and women doesn't seem to prevent much higher proportions of female programmers in India, or Romania, or China.

Suppose that the much higher proportions of female programmers in poorer countries might be because their choice is more limited; there is way more incentive in a poor country to want to land a fairly secure and well paid job, because you risk starving if you don't.

Going for a liberal arts degree (or similar) in India, Romania or China would then be discouraged.

Conversely, in the West, people are more free to pursue whatever profession they may like, because they most likely won't starve if they do.

I'm not saying that this would be the only explanation for the gender gap, but I do think the explanation involves many more factors than 'computer games in the 80s'.

I personally think it's naïve to dismiss inherent biological preferences entirely, especially since there are many studies that corroborate that they _do exist_.
Chains like Lidl are competing in the ultra-competitive German discount supermarket sector (Germans loooove discount chains, there are so many in Germany, and the price of groceries is therefore cheap on average), so it makes sense they'd be quick to deploy it.
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It doesn't have to even be a politically charged opinion btw. Holding opinions like "let's not refactor this module right now" when everyone else thinks it's a great idea can quickly get you marginalized.
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People have always used whatever comes to hand to explain why they're better than other people. Science, morality, manifest destiny, God's chosen people, physical characteristics, literature, history, geography, geology, climate, technology, law, banking, on and on. Pick a group, pick a reason.
>each also has a safety driver in place behind the wheel for testing and as required by law. Still, Cruise says those drivers have had to take over manual control of vehicles engaged in Cruise Anywhere service only on a few occasions, with the vast majority of the driving done autonomously.
For anyone here in the US, US healthcare is just a fucking joke.
NFC payment has been rolling out more and more over the past couple years. Edeka is probably the biggest exception, I'm waiting very impatiently for them to catch up.
I guess a guy going door to door is more "interesting" than someone saying "we've been looking at Zillow and Trulia for 6 months and not finding anything."
Sounds like a headline from The Onion. But really, it's a perfect match. Wikileaks doesn't employ any women, do they?
I didn't bring up the effect, there are multiple people replying to you here. Not paying attention who you are talking to is a common mistake that leads to the kind of cross-talk we are seeing here ;)

As for disputing the relevance of the effect, that wasn't really clear from your brief comment. I'd say that a test of a mental capacity that shows natural gender differences before nurture had a chance to kick in does invalidate HelloWorldInWS's argument that there can't possibly be a biological effect that makes men (or women) better at any particular mental task.

Your comment "Weird that a group of people who spend their youth being told that they're naturally bad at math and critical reasoning have hangups when given these tests. Only explanation is that their doubters were right." is also not terribly relevant, because

- mental rotation ability differs even for babies

- IQ tests are calibrated so that the average is 100, regardless of gender. So women can't actually perform worse than men. It's just that the variance is higher, which means that men are more likely to be very smart or very dumb, while women are more likely to be of average intelligence. (The explanation I've heard is that having only one X chromosome gives genes there outsized influence in men.)

- the abstract of the linked study on the Cognitive Reflection Test mentions that both genders expected their performance to be better than it actually was, so lack of self-confidence was probably not an issue.

I'm sorry how my edit came across to you, I actually just wanted to mention it because it seems important to know that even if there is some mental difference contributing to the current gender distribution in tech, it might still be possible to even it out by practicing the relevant skill.
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It says 1) that women are innately different from men in some unspecified way and that 2) this difference may explain the gender gap in technology. I think "women are ill-equipped (or worse-equipped than men) to do tech jobs" is a statement that naturally follows from those claims.
Is Andrew Ng still with Baidu? Thought it was curious that it uses tensorflow.
Are you French? In English, we say "comfort" not "confort"
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I've seen these driving around SF, they're still using the standard engineer in the driver's seat model. One almost hit me when I did the standard SF, 'drive around the person waiting to turn left in your lane' thing on 16th.
I cannot see any possible interpretation of those claims that does not necessarily imply women's being ill-equipped to do the work.
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Done, please enjoy your (mostly) gif-free reading
Forcefully taking private property from individuals to later sell to other private parties for private use sounds like the nightmare version of eminent domain.
A court will decide that.
> Is it much different from Hacker News deciding what sort of content is appropriate for this forum?

Bad example, because one goes to HN specifically for curated content.

> Would you be opposed to an airbnb clone that only rented to white supremacists?

Lets run a few variations of this, and try and find a consistent position: Would I be opposed to HN deciding what content is allowed? To a nazi Airbnb clone? To the New York Times deciding what they publish? To every newspaper in Nebraska colluding on which stories they allow? In secret? What if the top 80% of websites, by views, do so? What if Facebook does it? What if your local car dealership doesn't want to sell to communists? What if Toyota doesn't? What if an alliance of car manufacturers representing 98% of global car sales doesn't? What if a taxi service with 5 cabs to it's name refuses to drive Hillary supporters? What if it controls every cab in New York? What if Intel requires you to use their own Linux distro, and bricks your chip otherwise (they warn you before you buy)?

In all these cases, the answer is the same - it's only troublesome once the company, corporation, shadowy behind-the-scenes cabal, whatever, gets too big. Once going to a competitor is no longer viable, or very difficult, or something you don't even know you need to do (sure it's easy to go to death2amerikkka.ru/imperialistPigAggressionInSouthAmerica/latestNews/, but you don't know of the site, and have no reason to distrust the CNN/Fox talking heads parroting the government's position).

So to answer your second question - no (at least not beyond 'they shouldn't have done that, but I guess it's their right'), but only if there are viable alternatives for renters. When not using their service becomes very disadvantageous, I'd be very opposed. Of course being opposed doesn't say much - a better question is, what should be done about it? The answer is known, but neglected - fire up the dusty antitrust laws, and do what was done to Bell and Standard Oil - don't just prevent mergers, but break up the companies.

Sorry for the wall of text - I try to be concise, but failed in this case. Maybe next time ask easier questions.
Thank you.

It looks like there's been a steady up trend for gender diversity (starting from 2014), even if women to men in tech positions are 2:8.

Although, the racial diversity is abysmal.
> Yes. Every credentialed scientist in the field is bought and paid for by Monsanto.

I only raised a real possibility that is not factored in the two bullet points. Conflict of Interest. We assume that scientists are somehow immune & should not be questioned, particularly when there is evidence contracting their conclusions.

Nothing to do with HN logic. From what it looks like, you are far more of the HN maven than I am...
I don't believe that's true. At least not in the overly generalized way you're presenting it. You can always find extremists and crackpots in any group, and opponents can always project those people as being representative of the group.

This is a human issue that is not confined to liberals and women, or liberals and hispanics. If you go out to rural locales and make a big show about being liberal in a conservative stronghold, people will invariably judge and mistreat you. If you're a conservative in a liberal stronghold and make a big show of it, invariably people will judge and mistreat you. Not everyone, but some. It's not right, I don't agree with it. And I feel like plenty people are moderate enough that they would agree.

But somehow we can't stop the inmates from running the asylum. And our system seems to give greater weight to people who scream the loudest. People are smart enough to know if they scream loud enough they'll get their way. And options like compromise and collaboration take actual work, and why bother with work if screaming and fussing is accessible to everyone without any effort?
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oh, fair enough! I didn't realize that style of stack was used for anything but nuclear.
The point of a brand is to acquire cachet over time as people have experiences with products marked with those brands. Brands start out meaningless, and continue to be meaningless by default unless/until they become respected as a reliable signal for something.
In my US experience, the variation from customer to customer is much larger than the difference between cash and card. You can be pretty fast or very slow with either method.
There’s a big difference between paying for speculative fiction about your own industry as a form of long-term brainstorming (what the article is about) and paying authors to publicly produce works that further your political agendas.

As I understand it, the works discussed in the article aren’t published in the traditional manner, and are for the use of those who commissioned them.
Works out well for them too. I'd imagine most people are overly optimistic about how quickly they'll be able to finish.
> Mature organisations and cultures can tackle controversial topics. Google used to be able to do that too. It obviously cannot anymore.

You do realize that it wasn't the controversy that landed this guy in hot water, but rather the veiled attempt at using pseudo-science to create a conspiracy theory about Google discriminating against males, right?
So far I've used vim, neovim, cursive and spacemacs and all have solid repl integration. I am generally a vim/neovim user and have been using that for years. It's good. Recently, I've been using spacemacs and like it better. Cursive is pretty solid too though if you're an IntelliJ user.
Well this is the thing, you can't really discriminate against somebody with privilege, simply by definition. You have to actively promote those who don't in order to come anywhere near a remotely fair and efficient system that gives opportunities to those who qualify on merit.
The US Army Lab has solicited sci-fi stories and awarded grants to build the tech they describe.
Did the author really say that women are too stupid? No. He used his words rather carefully. What might have angered some people is his statement that women are more interested in people/relations while men are more interested in things. regardless of whether it's true, and if it is, whether the reasons are inherent or cultural - how is that bad?
I can totally understand the author on this as I spent several years training both men and women. They do enjoy solving technical problems, but with time find them boring if left to solve them alone. But let them work in pairs or in groups, give some interaction, and the spark of interest is back. Most guys just didn't care or preferred to do it on their own. I was happy with the performance of both sexes, and to say one is better than the other is really sexist. But to state that they're different? I'm sorry, but we're born this way, there's nothing wrong with it!
It's super fun and easy. But

A) there is a risk as everyone can create a stripe account and buy a charger. Personally I would never notice.

B) every transaction creates costs. Some visible (depit charging fee) some hidden (credit transaction fee)

C) At least in most of Europe it is far from widely supported, even thought it's growing for a while now. Except you stick to the most touristy places that is. In south east Asia I haven't seen it at all except in tourist focused places.
I feel ya, this stuff wears me down too. It's exhausting thinking about this stuff and wondering what the right thing to say or do is.

However, that's exactly what the women and other under-represented minorities have to handle every day in tech! (and they don't even get the option to skip discussing the issue)

There's a reason women leave tech, and it's the reason you're feeling right now! And there's a problem if we don't address those feelings.
Plus, when paying by card even if you dont want a receipt you need to wait for the merchant receipt to be printed out before the transaction is complete. With cash if you dont need the receipt and pay the correct sum you can be on your toes.
The paper is probably OCRed.
Google had a private dogfood beta in 2014; I remember being intrigued by it but I wasn't eligible because I'd just moved farther away and my commute now included highway. (It was for surface streets within 5 miles of the Googleplex only.)

Not sure why it's taken so long since...my guess is that they're being super cautious on the regulatory front and also might not have an idea on go-to market strategy.
We have and pretty much all supermarkets accept that. Doesn't mean that cashiers have even heard of it (even pointing to the huge signs advertising that at the register surprises some) or customers are aware of it. It doesn't help that the national debit card scheme Girocard hadn't had working contactless payment until recently (which is the type of card most customers use).
> The memo itself was incoherent.

That's funny. Compared to the response I've seen against it, it seems extremely coherent, tactfully presented and scientifically sourced.

It's an internal memo for crying out loud. Compared to anything I've seen in any company I've worked with, this sets the bar for extreme professionalism.
The important thing is whether it's company opinion or worker opinion. I used to work in part time blue collar-ish jobs to put myself thru school. Lots of the people there were older blacks and whites who had very little schooling beyond secondary school --you may or may not be able to imagine their opinions on people not their race, women, fat people, non hetero, etc.

It's not pretty to have those views, it's not pretty listening to people's uninformed opinions, but so long as it's not the company and those people are not directly affecting your promotion or success failure, I don't see an easy way out of that issue.

If those companies were to fire people for non conforming opinions, they'd be left with skeleton crews, if any. Blue collar and near blue collar jobs give you a different perspective on life.

In some ways I think Democrats have alienated some of their die hard constituents because of their failure to recognize that blue collar workers don't have the same mindset urban hipsters and political advocates have.
Agreed, would be pretty interesting. But good to keep in mind that the existence of vandal jerks neither validates nor invalidates any of the ideas they espouse.
I don't like these brand names. Don't sound interesting or something I'll remember easily.
>Those BASTARD Mosul Kurds ! I KNEW they did something to deserve getting mass-murdered and raped.

First of all, I wrote "in a democracy". For all the sneer, you missed that part.

Second, those "Mosul Kurds" did very much rebel, and for a long long time. For all the sneer, your example doesn't match their history.

Third, even if they hadn't that would be irrelevant, as they were a minority in that country. It's the duty of the general population that first and foremost should not let its government do injustice, not of an oppressed minority, that not only doesn't control the government but also has the majority against it. For all the sneer, you missed that obvious counter-argument as well.

>Thanks for clarifying that not revolting means you are guilty of whatever government happens to rule the piece of land you're currently occupying does.

You're welcome. People in a democracy are not just random bodies occupying random pieces of land and getting on with our lives whatever happens. They are citizens, they vote, they participate in the public discussion, the voice their opinions, etc. Silence is complicity.
I would rather read wikipedia.

Let us debunk the this article, point by point, step by step.

1 - >Sanskrit is the liturgical language of Hinduism, so sacred that lower castes (more than 75% of modern Hindus) weren’t even allowed to listen to it being recited.

Dog barking, no source or authenticity of the claim.

2 - > The earliest form of Sanskrit is that used in the Rig Veda

Again, no source for this claim ?

3 - > a dynasty called the Mitanni ruled over the upper Euphrates-Tigris basin, ...............

Hers is the wiki link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitanni

Here is the wiki link for

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrian_language

Here is when the author writes like the edgy teens .

"magine that: the irritating, snot-nosed Subandhu from school shares his name with an ancient Middle Eastern prince. Goosebumps. (Sorry, Subandhu)."

This is the problem with such authors, instead of posting, exact point by point details, they pump in their own opinions.

Here is when the author starts attacking others,

>;Were PN Oak and his kooky Hindutva histories right?;

Here is when the author starts making up facts and building upon facts he has not proven yet.

>;Popular national myths in India urgently paint Sanskrit as completely indigenous to India.;

Again, he is debunking something the opposite of which he has not been able to prove yet.

>;, has not a shred of supporting evidence, either linguistic or archeological”;

Why would I read website which constantly publishes fake news and provocative headlines?

This website constantly abuses and produces fake headlines.

Here are examples.

Please watch out for yourself.

http://www.opindia.com/tag/scroll/
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Probably they need more precise maps than are available from Google Maps or the equivalent. And other autonomous car companies aren't willing to provide their maps.
While we all learned in middle school geometric algebra that the even subalgebra of G3 is isomorphic to the quaternions, what is the relationship between the even subalgebra of G4 and the octonions?

If you write out a multiplication table, it seems that it's isomorphic.
But... Octonions aren't associtive. Does the even subalgebra of G4 somehow lose associativity? Is it equivalent to Octonions with a cannonical multiplication order?
This is really exciting to hear. Andrew is absolutely a fantastic teacher!
> They are protecting against a lifetime of large exposures

Would eating food products everyday be considered a "lifetime of large exposures"?
> I think "women are ill-equipped (or worse-equipped than men) to do tech jobs" is a statement that naturally follows from those claims.

It doesn't. You and the article make a leap that amounts to putting words in Damore's mouth.

On the flip side: in fields where women are over-represented (veterinary medicine), is this because men are ill-equipped to be vets or is it that most men opt not to take this career path?