skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As for dishonest people, I suppose I like to believe I can believe other Googlers, especially when there are so many of them in this case who were upset by this.

This touches on another problem area of ambiguity/clarity in my statement. We should question the reasonableness of the claim of being hurt - by which I not only mean "Were they really hurt?", but also "Is it reasonable for them to have been hurt?"

I can choose to be deeply hurt and offended by almost anything. We must strike a balance between respecting peoples feelings, and not allowing manipulators to exploit that respect to unreasonably coerce our behavior.

If you take 'respect for people's feelings' to an absurd extreme, we could create a world in which I could have you jailed for posing the questions you pose above. 'They hurt me.'

The fact that some demonstrably ideologically intolerant people successfully pressured Google to fire someone for expressing reasonable opinions based on evidence - this suggests to me that our society has already crossed certain thresholds in the balance between "respect for claims of being hurt" and other societal values - such as the allowance of independent thought.
I'm sorry, I know that I'm reading a dead discussion. But your comment shows that you have no idea what impact The Descent of Man had. Both good and bad.

You can argue for or against it on many grounds, ranging from Darwin's sexism to the importance of treating humans as just another animal to its misuse by the eugenics movement culminating in the Nazi excesses.

But arguing against it because it did not impact the public position shows an ignorance of history.
The US should strive to have better standards -- but it seems that there are interests that aim to have a less-educated population. There are strong forces thwarting the establishment of a well-paid and well-educated teaching profession in the US, strong forces against having standards in education (witness the fight against Common Core), and then strong forces determined to co-opt any minor successes in that direction (witness the crap materials produced by our major ed publishers labeled "common core", and the incredible profusion of badly-written tests that are in the end only designed for profit).

The US citizenry allows this, overall. Partly there is the manipulation of reasonable desires for "freedom" and "local control," and part of it comes from the social attitudes toward math and science that lead to STEM being disproportionately dominated by children of immigrants in the US.
Why then did that track so neatly with other scientific majors? There's no reason that you'd need the same number of aspiring typists as aspiring doctors.
"Cryptology Makes Even Smart People Feel Dumb"
As I noted, my comment is not about their code. Nor the functionality for that matter. And yes, I'm aware of the issues in PS and PDF rendering, having worked on them as part of a not-so-common and very-common operating system that deeply used them.

Wasm is designed around bringing non-web-native languages to the web. A good project would have been to enable new web native languages to complement JavaScript. Instead, there's an emphasis particularly on bringing C++ to the web. I think this is counter to the philosophy of the platform and harmful in the long run.
Until transaction fees start to rise due those people pushing their own agenda on the network.
> but the basic move is to grant credit for remediation [see below].

Your quote does not really support that description; it suggests that they will be directed into either non-remedial for-credit courses with additional tutoring or other support, or courses with the same content (and credit) as non-remedial courses but a stretched timeframe. The former is clearly not credit for remediation (the only “remediation” is outside of the for-credit classwork), the latter arguably could be described that way but the content is not remedial, only the manner of presentation.

> since California has eliminated the high school graduation exam requirement, it gets harder to see which college bound student needs help in the 11th/12th grade level.

It was suspended through 2018, and there is a recommendation to repeal it, but the exit exam wasn't based on current curriculum standards and the other assessments (including several in eleventh grade) that are aligned with those standards aren't being eliminated. So I don't think it has any bearing on how hard it is to identify students falling behind.
Replicating a study is not something that is likely to get you published, and putting in twice the work to run an experiment twice is unlikely to give you twice the 'return' on your time investment (assuming the funder even supports spending twice as much).
I wonder if limiting APM would be a simple way to make the AI's play more "human" and less exploit-y.
That's how people think...Creating models and theories via abstraction from personal experience and thoughts. All original ideas are projections in some way, requiring courage to put through into the world.
Well, 1% loans never existed. They were just teaser rates. After a time period (say, 3 years), it would reset to awful ARM rates that the borrower couldn't possibly afford.

The loan agent: "No problem, just refi before then."
Feel free to explore what truth is. Hint: You will end up in epistemology. It is also clear you have never read a Postmodern text in your life.
Probably paying $3k in rent for each of those apartments, $300 in utilities and cable, $800 in cleaning/laundry/expendables, plus probably budgeting $100/month to cover the faster than average wear and tear.
So $109k/year in profits pre-tax. You could live on it, but you wouldn't exactly be rich.
Another factor: I know several people who went into math because it could not be politicized. There was not a party line to toe.
> Generalizing characteristics of people based on their gender is harmful

So we should completely deny that there are differences between genders?

I strongly disagree that we should be denying reality.
Everything you say is true except for "that they had much less vacation" -- in truth, they had much more vacation. The average American male now works 270 hours more per year than the average American male of 1970.

A useful (though old) book on this subject:

The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline Of Leisure – by Juliet Schor
I've been interested in generating reasonably accurate 3D models of NYC subway stations for awhile. It always bothered me that routing stops the second you descend into the station. If anything, that is where you need it most because some of the stations are confusing and the signage varies in helpfulness. Visitors often do not even know what side of the platform to stand on.

I went so far as to purchase a Project Tango[1] tablet several years back. I was trying to automate some of the mapping work using SLAM[2] but did not get very far before real life took over. I would be very interested in picking this project back up, especially with the recent developments in AR/VR. If you are interested in helping out, please reach out. Email is in my profile.

[1]: https://get.google.com/tango/
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_...
As much as they've charged advertisers on all travel related keywords. I would guess in the billions, as an order of magnitude.
Software that is designed to prevent malware from uploading sensitive information to the internet has an option to upload sensitive information to the internet. What idiot thought that was a good feature to add regardless of the warnings? It makes the software do the complete opposite of what it's supposed to do.

If someone needed that then it should have been a special version of the software, not sometthing that's a single option to enable. Way to easy for it to get turned on by accident. Even smart people sometimes make mistakes, not to mention interns, managment that likes to pretend they're techies, botched upgrades, etc.
horribly.
I really like where Netlify is going and how they embrace open source to achieve their goals. There's just one thing I miss in their mix: strong typing. No Elm, PureScript or ReasonML (just yet).
That would be quite interesting, having humans handle the macro while the AI focuses on the micro. I'm reminded of "Advanced Chess": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Chess

> Advanced Chess is a relatively new form of chess, wherein each human player uses a computer chess program to help him explore the possible results of candidate moves. The human players, despite this computer assistance, are still fully in control of what moves their "team" (of one human and one computer) makes.
Probably my favorite Yale Course to date!
Millennials are ditching the cookie-cutter McMansion for the 'McModern'
> the guy is talking about

I don't want to be overly semantic or PC on HN, but just saying the GP may be female, judging by their name on profile. Being misgendered could be very offputting and discourages participation, so you may have wanted to say "this person" even if it doesn't sound as offhand as you'd have liked it to come across.
In my experience, a 80k CAD position would translate to a ~100k USD position. A 140-160k USD position would translate to a ~120k-140k CAD position.
Totally. Auto financing is really scary.

One of my dopey co-workers bought a BMW 5-series with an 84 month loan at 2%. $600/mo for 7 years for a car that will be upside down from day one.
Ehh if you look back a lot of the music from any decade is crap. It's just easier to forget.
There's an important difference between silencing opinions that (you think) are very stupid for practical engineering reasons, and not wanting to work with the fools who hold them; and between silencing opinions because you think they are morally abhorrent and harmful just by being expressed, and punishing people for holding or expressing them.

Morality is a psychologically distinct category. Being morally wrong is not the same, is not treated the same, as being factually wrong. A core part of the problem here is that something we'd want to be discussed factually, like choice of programming language, instead became a moral issue.

If a programmer advocates for ASP in a PHP company, it's reasonable he'd be fired, although I'd hope he'd be given a warning and a second chance first. However, thousands of people across the company would not get involved, the CEO of a megacorp would not cancel his family vacation to make a personal statement, the news media would not give it prominent coverage. Nobody much would care about a not-very-senior employee turning out to have a foolish or wrong factual opinion and being fired for it. But everyone cares about an employee making a moral stand that some (including other employees) may agree with, and being fired for that.

To repeat my earlier point: advocacy of ASP, here standing for any technical or factual matter, might be very wrong factually; but advocating for ASP would not hurt people's emotions and feelings of safety.
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"PI" is principal investigator.
That's a good idea, just not for me. I read up on the criteria they ask about from time to time as a refresher. Last time I checked, Google had a study guide and it was really good coverage. Anything I don't know, I'll look up, then forget a few weeks later because I never use it. I also don't live in a city with any of those companies present (except for we have a Microsoft and Apple store). Finally, I'd rather have 5 hours of dental work done without anesthetic than sit in a stuffy conference room getting grilled about tech minutia for 5 hours. There's that. :)
Sorry. I'm out of date https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=50852#...
I sincerely don't think diversity programs amount to that. And if you know any that do, call them out because they are not diversity programs, they are "discrimination" programs in essence.

As a side note, I think you expect too much from talent in this specific case. There have been more than one companies that have hired excellent talent only to succumb to the market forces.
> if your theory predicts nothing more than a positive/negative correlation between two variables it is too vague

Can nobody publish these results? Is it not a sensible building block on the way to precise predictions?
In America, a lot of Vietnamese restaurants have Pho in the name because it is a dish they serve, then the rest of the name makes it sound like some English word. One variation: Pho King. I have seen it said that Pho is pronounced Fuh, so Fucking is what that sounds like (according to some sources).

I also recall a wood stripping product called EZ Stripper demoed in the commercial by a busty blonde with those words emblazoned across her bosom. I also strongly suspect that pizza places who advertise their product as "hot and ready" are well aware that has sexual connotations and consider that to be a feature, not a bug.

Sex sells. Plenty of people use that fact intentionally.
People should stop saying that net neutrality died, it didn't die, it just won't be mandatory in the US, companies can still offer plans that respect net neutrality.
That's on your end though, I don't see anything they need to do to support other languages
> And yet you dismiss it?

I don't dismiss it because I have no idea what it's about. I don't approve of it either, for the exact same reasons.

Anyhow: You're comparing reading less than 10 pages of large text with generous spacing and numerous illustrations to end-to-end reading a full book almost 500 pages long.

You can't be serious.
So all treatises are manifestos? How about we call it an essay?
I attribute this to lack of citizen sophistication. If you expect a public discourse to have clarity or nuance on statistical terms, then it probably means paying for statistics training for every citizen, even if it's just a little statistics unit as part of a larger civics course.
Eventually it should replace Javascript. It ought to, because it defines a standard, versatile platform to execute code on the browser.
> The whole purpose of the project was to provide means of identification of people that didn't have any kind of document – passport, driving license, etc.

That was just the guise under which it was launched. Aadhaar has been a poorly thought out and poorly implemented solution that's still looking for problems. Responses to RTI (Right to Information) queries have shown that 99.7% of people who enrolled for Aadhaar did so using existing identification documents. Only 0.3% enrolled without identity documents using the "introducer" system. [1]

[1]: http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/very-few-indians-didn-t-...
You often get two valid blocks at the same time, and whichever one gets the most blocks built on top of it wins.
> Who initiated the treatment? He did with his 10 page write-up.

No, the person or persons that leaked it to the press did that.

Will google go on a witch hunt to fire all those people too? Likely not...
Agree that Common Core is good as a set of standards and as a set of teaching methods. However, I know how some ed companies put together their "common core" materials -- just permute existing crap and relabel. There is a lot of bad material out there with the Common Core label.
Hey everyone, it's Ozgun. When I first wrote this blog post, it was much longer. Based on initial feedback, I edited out parts of it to keep the post focused.

If you have any questions that aren't covered in the post, happy to answer them here!
My suggestion was simply that they add a has to go with the email parameter (since they generated the URL), such that you can't just check against an email (and you can't generate the hash).

The scope of the issue is limited, but the fix also does not seem that hard. However, I appreciate it is easy to throw out such an idea, and the reality of implementing it is probably a bit harder. :)
See you space cowboy... Sorry, couldn't help myself.
> The idea that some groups of humans are intrinsically inferior to others is one of these "banned" "facts" that has been excluded from civilised discussion for a reason

Have you ever heard the quote "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it"?

I think it's much better to be able to discuss bad ideas, and discuss why they are bad, rather than to prevent (or apply strong pressure against) anyone from publicly bringing them up.

If we make it difficult to discuss about certain topics, who decides which ideas can't be talked about? What if a bigoted group comes into power? Won't this norm to hinder certain discussions hand them a powerful weapon for oppression?
> complaining about downvotes

That's why I made sure not to complain. I wasn't particularly angry, mostly just wondering what motivated people to downvote and expanding on my original comment based on the assumption that people actually disagreed or weren't aware of how decimal points work in different languages.
> Now, as a thought exercise: who do you think subsidizes VCs?

Everyone who pays taxes on non-capital income.
The human mind wants freedom and to have options. That's why the grass is always greener. Spend a month traveling and being back at home will sound ideal. Get stuck in an office and traveling sounds perfect. Finding the right balance is the key. In my case though I have had the freedom at times to be anywhere I still gravitate to keeping a home base.
Maybe the link should be changed, as the text under the video reads:

"IF you have come here, go here instead: https://youtu.be/SEDuVF7kiPU

The video here is incomplete."
As an example of what you can conclude with this thought process: if you are a small "startup coin" you should seriously considering a proof-of-work scheme that is weirdly unique in that it forces people to not be able to reuse hardware they have from another (particularly if more valuable) coin.

I imagine there is much danger here of thinking oneself smarter than any attackers.
In a global, generalized way.

At least for me, usually the extreme image for the right is a dictatorship, and the left, academics, popular people and their twitter mob.
Implementing Backup
Okay, but then you're not talking about a coffee any more. I typically pay ~$1.50 for a coffee, and it takes only a few seconds of labor (often just giving me a cup so I can fill it myself).

Edit: Missed the pour over part, yes if you want to pay and wait for that. I'm not convinced that there's any discernable difference from a regular drip coffee that would stand up to a blind taste test (cf wine tasting).
I guess they got their answer. :)
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> Quite sad I have to specify!

I was pretty sure you were quoting a comment but the "I only lasted five minutes" in combination with the quote made your comment somewhat ambiguous and I really didn't want to watch the whole 45 minutes just to figure out if he said that or not.
I think someone hasn't read the whitepaper.
Thanks for the article, but it is far from a substantive rebuttal, at best I would call it an opinion piece, with its "proof" based on logical errors and assumptions.

> There's a "chicken or the egg" question that needs to come with every assessment of behaviors of groups vs societal expectations and pressures on those groups. People in power, like yourself presumably (despite your insistence of having "no particular horse in the race) will always pretend that things are the way they are because of divine or otherwise pre-determined reasons. It's silly that people who consider themselves so rational are unable to comprehend how obvious this is.

You are mistaking your imagination for reality. You cannot read my mind. Regardless, you are the one advocating social engineering, not me, the onus is (or should be) on you to prove sexism is the cause of gender imbalances at companies. If sexism is so rampant, why is it so difficult to produce any evidence, and why is the "evidence" so commonly produced the equivalent of "bro-culture" conspiracy theories. That this is considered "evidence" only further illustrates how differently the human mind can perceive reality.

> Also lol @ programs for underrepresented groups “increase race and gender tensions”. Get fucked, dude.

What does this refer to? And please refrain from profanity and personal insults. If you have the moral high ground, as you seem to believe, no need to use filthy words and personal insults, your superior ideas should suffice, no?

> edit: came across one of the ones I read before from a recently ex-Google employee: https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-man... super good and worth a read

It opens with an outright lie: "You have probably heard about the manifesto a Googler (not someone senior) published internally about, essentially, how women and men are intrinsically different and we should stop trying to make it possible for women to be engineers, it’s just not worth it."

Absolutely fascinating.

EDIT: After reading that, my conclusion of how you find these sorts of articles compelling is that they are rebutting a twisted strawman of the original manifesto, where the author is imagined to be making a whole bunch of assertions that he really isn't. I think that explains quite nicely the breathtaking difference of perception.

For what it is though, it is absolutely brilliant, extremely well done, and I mean that completely seriously. I'd bet big money that person will absolutely dominate in the corporate world.
Ethereum is harder than bitcoin, specially the dApps thing of ETH
At the very least, you get as code reuse mechanisms: functions, ad hoc polymorphism via interfaces, struct and interface embedding, and reflection.
Using the same platform for everything has advantages, e.g. code sharing between client/desktop/mobile/server, mastering 1 standard library as opposed to several, seamless serialisation of data between platforms. From what I've gleaned from the docs so far, WebAssembly is very well designed and more pleasant to target than LLVM. Having a single compiler ensures that the code behaves the same on each platform.

If you are asking why I think it may happen rather than why it would be a good idea: imagine that you are a compiler writer for language X. You can target WebAssembly and run the language not only on the web, but also cross platform on servers and desktops and potentially mobile, and you even get a cross platform standard library including networking, UI (DOM/HTML), OpenGL, and more. This will save a tremendous amount of work compared to targeting LLVM separately and implementing your own cross platform libraries (which requires expertise on each platform that the compiler writer is unlikely to have). It's like targeting the JVM but lower level (compiler writers like this) and runs seamlessly on the web like JS.

Browser WebAssembly implementations will compile really fast because it has to be loaded and compiled for use on websites, making it suitable for a really fast compiler for interactive development and REPL, while it will be possible to compile to fast code via LLVM.
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Just because women tend to be naturally more empathetic than men doesn't mean that men aren't fit to be psychologists. It just means that more women will pursue that profession.
definitely. i have worked with perl and php extensively and ruby and python occasionally and personally prefer js to any of them.
But the reality of production systems is much more complex than this. Many medium- to large-production systems are written in multiple languages across large and diverse teams, have legacy components, varied open source components, and so on, all talking to each other. Sometimes this is as simple as sending messages around, but sometimes not. C is usually the lingua franca since it's the common denominator on most systems. Maybe WASM will end up in a place to better serve that role?
> Maybe when I am 60, 70 or 80 the film industry will get their shi* together and finally agree on a solution that has long been found in the music business.

You mean DRM free video MP4 files like the DRM free audio MP3 files on Amazon.com, iTunes and elsewhere? Yes, that would be a starting point.