skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>He is extrapolating from a few pieces of evidence to form the basis of an entire argument about why women are underrepresented while devoting zero time to the role of culture or bias

Well should everybody making an under-representing argument be fired then? Because that's almost everybody, everywhere. How careful should one be? Isn't this a pointer that it's more about the "no touch" subject than about him under-representing in his case?

>I think he tried hard to be even-handed but then there's things like, 'Women have higher neuroticism'

If that's supported by research, should he just push it under the rag because it's inconvenient? (E.g.: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/may/22/women-men-me... ).

>It's not that people can't talk about this stuff, it's that it is very easy to get it wrong. And a lot of people have trouble recognizing that it is easy to get it wrong.

Well, the ability to talk about something also includes the freedom to "get it wrong". They call you for it, give their arguments, and the conversation moves on. If you have to tiptoe on eggshells lest you be fired or beaten up or whatever, then it's just as if you can't talk about this stuff.

The idea about "freedom of speech" as only meaning freedom from persecution from the government is extremely limited, allowing for any powerful employee, media mogul, the dictatorship of the majority, vocal minorities, etc to bully anyone who says something they don't like. Speak should be met with counter-speak and opinions with counter-opinions. Not with firing people, beating them up, hate correspondence, threats and so on.

>B. If what I believe doesn't match the values of a company, I'm either not going to join that company or I'm going to refrain from publishing manifestos on the corporate intranet.

Well, there are people who want to be able to work in a company AND speak their minds. I don't find it inconceivable. And this climate affects both men and women in many aspects.
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No he CLAIMED he wanted to treat people like individuals, but that's literally, completely negated by the rest of his memo. He cites statistics with some sources that aren't even reputable and others than haven't been touched in a quarter of a century, and when there is credible science he attempts to create detached conclusions that implied that these certain psychological traits across various populations were somehow applicable to the professions those populations are in -- with absolutely NO substantive data on the subject. He literally just winged it and went "Obviously these traits, that are barely statistically significant across the general population, SURELY negatively affects being an engineer or a manager. Just believe it. Moving on here are my totally worthless solutions at solving my totally made up, detached conclusions."

And people are trying to treat it as scientific, and some still want to pretend he wasn't shoe horning a political point in while masking it with feel good language. Despite the fact that he uses all of his data to separate populations by sex and treat them differently. My mind is being blown this morning.
Google and the like greatly benefit from creating an environment where work and the workplace can be all consuming.
Yes, the top calls all the cards. Yet, it is still a human organization, with all the features of a human organization.

As to answer. Inside a corporation, there is as much freedom as the top allows. With the consequences of that emanating from all the levels, so it is wise to not make it entirely freedom-less.
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Well, is Google's diversity profile really different from the diversity profile of the computer science departments it recruits from?
Not really, I'm using https://www.startpage.com/
I live in New York City, and we are entirely satisfied and impressed nightly with Sun Basket. It doesn't have nearly the reach or brand awareness as some of the bigger players, but it's everything I've ever wanted in one of these services. Worth checking out.
You can use example.com as well.
Alzheimer password generator - Chrome extension for domain dependent password generation

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/alzheimer-password...

https://github.com/viralpoetry/alzheimer-password-generator
What do you mean? This is a service that would allow users to share their screenshots with others.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Volt#Concept_vehic...
If that's the company's reaction, it's time to find another company. I don't use the headphones to ignore colleagues desperate to talk about work out of preference. The comment to which I was responding was specifically about people wanting to shoot the shit. If your company, like you, can't tell the difference, I would say you are well suited to each other and not to work nor work with me.
Or, depending on the person, much much worse.
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Wildcards do help.

If you've got super-secret-subdomain.example.com, a wildcard for *.example.com doesn't expose its existence. A non-wildcard certificate does.

There's a bit of security-via-obscurity going on here, but sometimes the need for such a thing is out of one's control.
I agree with theGimp. From my experience they do seem to care about this. I actually still carry the debt card they sent me in my wallet (http://imgur.com/TuVKm5k). Facebook also seems to be the most generous in terms of giving out a reward. I ended up submitting a few more issues after this and always got something reasonable (usually 1k to 1.5k).
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Wow, surprising. I thought I'd see a lot of "me too" responses.

So maybe it _is_ just me, or my ISP throttles encrypted traffic, or ....
IMO much more likely that the lines were drawn as some kind of worship to gods believed to live in the sky, rather than for viewing by humans floating overhead in balloons.
Reminds me of Hofstadter's "Given any record player, I guarantee a record can be made to break it"
Right, it "seems to be supported." There's a lot of just-so storytelling going on here. Take a look at American football in 1940. No black players! Hm. Black people must be bad at football, perhaps more suited to being airmen (pilots). Seems to have held up perfectly over the last 77 years, eh?

Do people have no sense of history here? The internet lets you look up all sorts of things, like how the racial composition of US track and field has changed over the 20th century, or how Paavo Nurmi (a poor guy from an underdeveloped country) dominated distance running in the 1920s, challenged only by another couple poor guys from underdeveloped Scandinavian countries. It was clear from publicly viewable sporting events in the 1920s that Scandinavians are really the best at running; east Africans really didn't figure into the competition.
If other enterprises are similar to the one where I work, the warning will not come up in October. Like all software, we're a few versions back on Chrome. It'll take some time to get up to Chrome 58 :)
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Many people, especially developers, specifically hate group recognition. People who like group recognition are the easiest to support (if they’re actually good), but sadly, these folks are the least likely to actually enjoy maintenance work; enjoying group approval correlates with a desire to work on the Big Cool Sexy New, which maintenance work decidedly is not.

You have to know your people, and give them support that motivates them. But that takes (gasp!) good managers.
All platforms potentially. You would want this so you can share screenshots with others and you would have access to your data. It ends up being pretty affordable for $2/mo + S3 costs which are minimal.
Kinda dig the Lynx-friendly layout, though.
It feels like gotcha journalism.
The peterson interview is much much better.
I tried this, and while 'targeted sentiment' may be neutral, 'document emotion' has Joy at 0.880435 vs the rest at 0.

If you change your example from 'I like it' to 'I like puppies', the 'targeted sentiment' changes from neutral to 'puppies	positive	0.550431'.

While the first example you found does seem odd, the rest seems to work quite well. Maybe it just has problems attaching 'it' to a 'target'.
I came to the same conclusion WRT core data. I'm caching data myself to files. I would use SQLite directly if I need a real data store before I would use code data again
I disagree. The context of the original quote was;

> Considering how low US income tax is

Now I do understand what you mean when you make the distinction that for expatriate taxation based on citizenship, only the federal taxes are considered, but that is not what the original language actually said in the context of the statement regarding how low US income tax is, and weasel language to push a political agenda is annoying at the best of times.

To be scrupulously fair and expose my biases though, frankly even federal taxes alone are high as far as I'm concerned. Any amount is high when you're forced by threats of violence to pay it. The appropriate amount gathered by that method ought to be zero percent.
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Of course, since the headlined article mentions the absence of systemd, this raises the question of whether there is udev in there.
> I was in SV last year for a couple of months during the election, and everyone I met were all paid up members of the church of political correctness up front, but when you spoke to these people in private there were a lot of people who were secretly conservative, but "It's Silicon Valley and you can't be a Republican out here".

I guess they did not consider the voting booth to be private, as SV is one of the areas that swung towards Clinton?
They could have also built man-lifting kites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Franklin_Cody#Kites
> Lol this site is a joke, how much is TunnelBear paying him for the top spot?

Sadly, this is the case for a lot of media/recommendations/etc now. Maybe it has always been this way, but it's much more noticable now.

The fan driven recommendations/sites are a thing of the past as everyone is trying to monetize and make money off their articles.

Even worse, with the move by corporate america/government agencies/political groups into the social media space, even comments/submissions have to been viewed with some degree of skepticism.

It seems like every other article/submission/comment/etc are selling something and the internet/social media/etc is no longer a community but a marketplace.
And course the reply:

I found Aphex Twin's reply disappointing.

Like a petulant child he essentially
negated	Stockhausen's points, without engaging with them. It seems to
me that Stockhausen was trying to be helpful -- after all he had been
a music teacher for nearly 1/2 century with academic offspring like
Kraftwerk and Can. Aphex Twin seemingly was unable/unwilling to	see that there
are other approaches to music than the orthodoxy of 1990s dance music. Aphex Twin's main musical
criterion seems	to be dancablility:

you can't dance to. Do you
reckon he can dance? You could
dance to Song of the Youth, but
it hasn't got a groove in it,
there's no bassline."

I would	argue to the contrary: dance music -- whatever its merits for
dancing -- cannot be interesting as art music. Why? Because dancing,
specially dancing well, is itself demanding: most brain capacity is
used for moving the body along to the music in the right way, and that
capacity is missing for listening to and analysind the fine points of
the music.

Reich, Glass et al. might disagree.

Of course the
art music tradition of American mimimalism that you refer to, does change tempi and changing rhythms quite a great deal. It does so in novel ways that had not been explored in previous classical traditions. That's the main novelty that American mimimalism gave to the world.

Periodicity is what ...

I agree with that, and add that modern pop-music errs on the side of too much periodicity, which renders it uninteresting as art-music, but useful as aural background and for dancing.
I mean I would hope so too, but it appears to be patently not true. Thus the ask HN question, where can one find these mythical offices.
<He was encouraged to give feedback like this so that the company could react to internal problems and self correct before they became worse.

I never got that. Ty. But isnt one of the mechanisms to get feedback making input anonymous? Did they ask for authored input? Really? About diversity?
I don't understand how you could read it that way. In the memo's suggestions sections he clearly states that people should be treated as individuals. Is there some other way to read that section? Bold is my own.

> I hope it’s clear that I’m not saying that diversity is bad, that Google or society is 100% fair, that we shouldn’t try to correct for existing biases, or that minorities have the same experience of those in the majority. My larger point is that we have an intolerance for ideas and evidence that don’t fit a certain ideology. I’m also not saying that we should restrict people to certain gender roles; I’m advocating for quite the opposite: treat people as individuals, not as just another member of their group (tribalism).
Maybe you have 4K source video and you happen to watch it sometimes on your mobile phone or 1080P TV. You're gonna need a good CPU.
If you want your employees to all be able to have as many nice things as each other you should pay them all the same. If you don't I don't see how a company parking lot is any different than one employee paying more for a shorter commute than another.
I've been using DDG for a couple of years. Once in a while I'll do a !g search to get google results but most of the time DDG is fine. I search on all sorts of stuff, not just programming.
Stack Overflow has blogged about their private offices for developers many times before. This is a post from 2015, I'm not sure if that's still the case: https://stackoverflow.blog/2015/01/16/why-we-still-believe-i...
I'd recommend watching this for its entertainment value (perhaps ironic entertainment value).

> "Bones": The Crack in the Code
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2076424/synopsis
I'm 43. In my late 30s, I was worried, too. But, what surprised me was just how much impact turning 40 had. At 38, I was averaging maybe 10-15 software employers contacting me a week. Now, it's dropped to maybe 3 a week. And, the quality of recruiters has dropped, too. Just a few years ago, recruiters from well-known companies would contact me directly. Now, I only get recruiters from no-name recruitment firms.

Of course, a lot of other factors may be in play. Maybe recruitment just isn't as strong as it was a few years ago.

I'm currently interviewing currently in SF. It's a painful process. I can't tell if half of the companies are even serious.
Cool project!

Given that the whole point of the tool is that it's a tiling terminal app, I'd appreciate a few more screenshots on the page or in the readme showing the different ways it lets me organise my terminals.

I'm a big fan of Gnome's design with the unified title and toolbars. For a terminal app such as this, however, the fat title bar combined with the tab bar make for a fairly large and heavy looking header. I wish it was a little more compact.
They addressed this in the conference call. In essence they want to make sure that order fulfillment is staying at high enough quality levels. And they've struggled lately operationally which has caused issues with that. I'd expect they turn it around soon.
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Yes, it's expensive to re-encode video to a different resolution or quality.
Do pretty much all programmers in Microsoft get their own office?

Is it as simple as that or there's more to it?
Really.

I mean, Spencer says a lot of things. Do you believe all of them, or only the ones you find convenient? And the same Breitbart article [1] quoted there also devotes an entire section to disposing of the three dozen or so legit would-be Nazis on the fringe.

Of course, that Breitbart article also dates from March 2016. Spencer didn't hit the big time for quite a few months after that - not, in fact, until just after the election [2], whereas "alt-right" in general had never really left the zeitgeist after its first big splash in August. But that changed when the media made Spencer its darling, because of course it did - the man is eminently hateable, which is precisely why he was made so notorious so fast.

[1] http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/29/an-establishment-co...

[2] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2015-01-01%202...
It's actually perspective transform invariant, which is a more general class. The name is misleading.

SIFT and its multiple descendants, yes, and also things like Random Ferns, google "Boosted Random Ferns for Object Detection" (it's damn difficult to get a clean link to pdf from google...)
Nice to see Guile so improved lastly. Also https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ is nice.
Which 3-Series bits?
And back to moving the goal post. The discussion is about where the dollar's value primarily comes from, not about whether energy is more than just a commodity never mind that energy != oil as oil only makes up about ~4% of world energy production. The value of the dollar does not come from oil, it comes from tax payers, that's the truth; deal with it.
Sorry 'bout the delay. I didn't expect someone to even still be able to find the article after 5 hours much less reply to this.

Either way, the justifications are the point of my comment. He starts off with luxury homes being hard to travel between and traveling the world when many Americans don't travel internationally at all or even move out of their state.

I'd throw in that his first point was one I MOST agreed with all things considered. I can't deny A/C is important to all Americans, and basically makes the sunbelt hospitable to humans. And about 80% of Americans do fly so they might miss that (1) (however, should be noted about half fly less than once a year, it might be possible a lot of people only flew a long time ago in better times. I can't find the data though so that's the most I'll say).

For his other points:

Red Curry and Vindaloo Chicken? In a time where popping in the microwave or ordering fast food is at an all time high compared to preparing food or actually going out? A lot of people would be happy just to have a personal chef even if it's only local food.

The internet being gone? What a shame that people lose out on the largest source of depression in their lives! In 1916 you have the advantage of occupying yourself with activities modern society has stamped out, like English fox hunting or playing IRL Sims with a company town! Funny thing about that second part, since paternalism was already dead and towns in general was in decline, it kind of makes the argument that it would be better to be rich even further into the past.

Medicine's a bit of a wash. Modern Medicine is effective but you need to actually afford it in the first place. For a lot of people, it would just be a trade of actually having some treatment for not having as many vaccines. Speaking of which, 1916 was around the time anti-vaccination had lost in the original argument. Now its gaining steam again, so they might not even have that benefit soon. Dentistry is better, but its telling he only mentions the toothbrush. 22% actually floss, and its a bit telling the amount of people that getting a cavity before adulthood is the complement (2). I'd imagine a lot of people would be fine with dentures if it was still socially acceptable like it was in the past. They're already fine spending money to cosmetically have better teeth instead of actually taking care of them.

Overall, its a bit funny that, when you think about it, the article is basically written by a staunch right libertarian, but sounds like it was written for every stereotype of the "liberal coastal elite". Reminds me of that Popehat article where he realizes that while he's libertarian he's probably more "coastal elite" than the left overall.

[1]http://www.gallup.com/poll/1579/Airlines.aspx
[2]http://www.statisticbrain.com/dental-hygiene-statistics/
But that's not loadbalancing - you still have to trust any host you get to through the jump host; with a new enough ssh and sshd, you can use a CA to sign host or client keys, and get an experience similar to https. (There is even a DNS record for that, iirc)

Any TCP loadbalancer will do as long as all the hosts share the host key, which is considered bad practice but isn't worse than e.g. Sharing a TLS certificate, which is not considered a horrible practice.
I think i've seen a YouTube presentation on this?
Moreover....

Calling anyone "cis" also immediately demonstrates one's own bias towards a particular philosophical framework regarding the difference between trans-identifying people and people who are not trans-identifying.

It's the same as how referring to individuals as "saved" and "not saved" intimates that one has a religious philosophy.

Every philosophy makes certain assumptions about the world, and some of those assumptions are weaknesses rather than useful heuristics.
That's kind of insane...
Why would anyone want to work for a sweatshop just because they provide offices?
There might indeed be reasons to avoid US jurisdiction -- that's true, but it's not relevant to the point I attempt to make, which is that labeling the US "bad" by default and without qualification is silly, and is one (of several) ways TOPS might lead less savvy potential customers astray.

As an aside, I'm skeptical that there are "tons" of actually good reasons to avoid US jurisdiction. I don't doubt that good reasons exist. It's just that I've seen plenty of bad ones! :-)

And to clarify: no, advertising Cloak is absolutely not my goal. If you're interested, I'm always happy to recommend trustworthy VPN services that aren't Cloak. I mention Cloak in that post because in my (biased!) opinion it's a good exemplar of the six criterion I look for. That's no accident, since I co-founded Cloak and built it in part to satisfy those criterion. That I'm Cloak's co-founder is pretty clearly disclosed both here on HN and on my personal blog. I should mention, for completeness, that I'm no longer affiliated with Cloak.
No, they don't just use the software because it "feels familiar". Everyone is acting in their best interests, nobody is going to sit in a sub-optimal position just because they can't be bothered. If you use non-standard software, then everyone else will reject your proposed blocks.

The only way you can use the concept of Schelling point is to explain why so many people use Bitcoin rather than Litecoin or another slightly-tweaked variant. Much like the example in the article, if you ask anyone to pick a cryptocurrency to pay with, they are likely to say Bitcoin because it is familiar.
You mentioned it in the question already, but when I worked at Microsoft as a contractor I got an office.
You can say the same about seat belts, but they are compulsory almost everywhere now.
welcome to london
Completely off topic, but didn't IBM have a system called Watson in the 1990s that was used by the police? Try as I might I can't find a reference for it anywhere.
it's just a brand name at this point, which they attach to any machine learning they develop or acquire, and they should stop trying to sell it as a distinct technology.
That would require someone to take a big risk for a benefit they would only get a small share in.
Yeah, there's no evidence for gender preferences at all, except for the tons of evidence for gender preferences. This evidence is certainly up for debate, but don't go preaching on your high horse about how it is settled and no one has ever studied this, and how dare he even make an argument.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rabble-rouser/201707/wh...