skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>and no one seems to care

I'd have to disagree with that. There are lots of people who care and have tried to be good stewards to the public. The problem is that you also have corporations with major amounts of cash and influence that actively discredit anyone who speaks out. These are facts.

For example, whether or not GMO issues are horseshit or not doesn't matter when anyone who speaks out is given a gag order or when we find leaked documents showing that companies know of damage and our systems are so fucked we aren't even allowed to ask about it without getting sued into oblivion.

People care, but caring isn't enough anymore.
Not much new here. This article is essentially just re-affirming all the scientific statements that were already made in the original memo, backed by links to scientific studies.

Only difference being that the author of this article has a PhD in sexual neuroscience (so people might have a harder time accusing her of not knowing what she's talking about) and is female (so some people might have a harder time of accusing her of sexism).
Immediately down voted. LOL bring it on.
I don't think no-poaching agreements infringe anyone's liberty and it that sense I don't see how it goes against free market principles. If you sign a contract with your employee saying you won't do no-poaching then doing so would be a breach of contract obviously but that would be a specific use-case. I totally agree that it breaks the laws though as it is illegal in the US. I was talking about free-market principles and no-poaching doesn't break these principles.
Me neither. It just seems really fragile and unwise.

I've had people tell me that tests deal with all the issues I would fix with a decent type system, but this seems to involve writing tests to see if things are passing the right types around, which is code the compiler of any strongly typed language already has in it that you don't have to write.

I don't even find dynamic languages faster to get started with, but maybe that's because I'm so used to static ones with good type systems. If you can call C#'s type system "good", that is. It's mostly adequate!
Here are three unspeakable truths for the United States. Bringing them up is a risk: there is almost no chance for calm, composed conversation.

1. The US Federal Government is not held accountable to the Constitution any more.

2. Income inequality is back to 1930's levels. Beside US Federal Government solutions, across-the-aisle solutions are attacked by corporations and large news sources.

3. Belief systems, their movements and organizations, that unite the populace against the US Federal Government are attacked by corporations and large news sources.

I like your optimism. The US has legs. Though we're crippled, we're not out of the race.

I like to engage in quiet, one-on-one conversations and subtly advocate for better solutions. I think Kolmogorov was a master at that.
The gold standard is paper ballots cast at a precinct, counted the moment the polls close.

In the USA, average precincts are 500 voters. Totally doable. In fact, that's how many jurisdictions did it.
1. Select the right audience for your message. (E.g., Does it need to go to the Google founders, or is the true audience open public since the problem is still bigger?)

2. Educate your audience ahead of time, or at least as the opening part of the message:

2a. What the intentions for the message are? (E.g., help understand the true root causes of diversity gaps, reiterate that there are invalid opinions commonly held, and also boldly indicate that someone needs to stand up even in a culture there people do not openly share such analysis and/or opinions.)

2b. What the approach is (which would be to deep dive into the correct root cause of the issues (e.g., why working women have lower average salary than working men)? And explain that without understanding of the true root causes, it will only take longer to reach the optimal balance, never reach it perfectly, and the current situation may already be the maxima under the current set of beliefs.

2c. What are common pitfalls and misconceptions (e.g., assuming all gender gaps are coming from discrimination as the memo writer noted)?

3. The core message:

3a. What are the knowns (existing research) that points to the root cause?

3b. What are the unknowns that still need researching?

3c. Summarize the proposed next steps.

4. If as a result of capturing all of the above, the message is becoming too long:

4a. Revisit if you are targeting the right audience.

4b. Split it into smaller logical blocks, and deliver them in steps, so that people can actually follow, getting convinced along the way, rather than get inflamed.

5. There will still be people unfortunately who would not understand all this but who will resist nevertheless. A second round of explanations/FAQs would be needed to address them.

6. There will still be people unfortunately ... (Your approach above should be devised to help reach consensus.)

7. If at any point you realize that something was wrong in your own thinking, correct it, and revisit if your broader message still stands and is worthy. If you come out wrong too often, it's good for you (having learned something new), but be prepared to loose trust.
If that's the case that stuff needs to enter the public domain.

We need better legislation around orphaned works; those whose ownership is too complex to resolve should be treated the same as those whose ownership is completely lost. In both cases, ownership can't be reasonably determined.
> Why can't the memo be both sexist and science? Arguing that there are differences between genders that make one gender unsuitable for a task can be as scientific as you want, it's still sexist.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/21/against-murderism/

Definition by motives vs. definition by belief.
I noticed the site is reporting JS and CSS sizes AFTER gzip, not before. That seems unnecessary. Browsers will download the compressed version, so it's the compressed version that determines the page speed.
James Damore and His Google Memo on Diversity [video]
I agree but it is £26/month in the UK (~$35/month), not 14. Where are you getting that price from?
I think that was true up to the point where the US-based programs all devalued and largely put a stop to churners. The game is hard enough if you're only willing to deal with domestic reward programs that I think the vast majority give up chasing aspirational awards.

Anecdotally I've found that things have been getting gradually easier. For example, now that AA has devalued their award program and Citi cards can't be churned so easily, it's a lot easier to find Cathay Pacific awards if you're redeeming through another program like Alaska.
Isn't that the majority of the evidence tho? What I keep hearing is that women are underrepresented because women are slightly more than 50% of the population but 10-20% of engineering jobs.

That implies that diversity initiatives are going to continue until we have slightly more than 50% representation. Which is not bad in and of itself, but it seems like the initiatives are not allowed to used research or data beyond less than 50% representation. It gets sinister and loaded with unintended consequences when the expected shortcut is just to implement quotas to teach that one metric.
‘Future Visions’ anthology brings together science fiction – and fact (2015)
I saw -$9000/vehicle and 40,000 vehicles and thought, that's only $360 million of losses. At the scale of Uber, that's just a cost of doing business. It's half of what it paid for Otto, and probably less than 1% of the startup costs for producing self-driving vehicles.
To put it another way, $360 million one way or the other is noise on Apple's bottom line. It is 0.05 of the variation in GOOG market cap over the past five days (~$7 billion).

I'd bet it provided far more bang for the buck than $360 million spent on advertising...with more bang for the buck over online advertising being a four star lock. The interesting story of Uber's subprime leases is not the losses, but the predation on driver partners.
The US is the only country that taxes worldwide income.

So i travel between different countries without living much in any particular one and i pay zero tax. And if i ever want to live somewhere fulltime, i can defer income into trusts and collect it in future years when i happen to not be domiciled anywhere.

Options available to everyone except US citizens.

Or for example my friends in Russia who are US citizens have to pay a crazy US rate instead of the far more reasonable 13% in russia.

All the comments about scandi countries assume people actually declare income without using many more legal strategies available there compared with the US. The effective tax situation for wealthy US citizens is actually much worse, it is just obfuscated by the headline number.
The Top iPhone Apps in the U.S
I'd rather say it's a good idea but it also is a technical problem that is not yet convincingly solved. It is clear though that open source by itself is not a solution, for the very reason you mention (how can one be sure about what code is running on a machine one doesn't own?).

That being said, from times to times articles show up about someone who claimed to have invented a viable solution. So we should not diss the idea and keep an open mind. Eventually someone will find a solution.
> How do they not have bugs all over the place ? :P

Who says they don't?
It's the natural reaction after getting attacked by right-nationalist /pol/ trolls for years.

You can't discuss with the trolls, you can't argue with them, you can only shut them down.

Naturally, if someone honestly makes the same argument that the trolls copied, the reaction is also the same.
I would take a look at Fukuyama's "Origins of Political Order" and "Political Order and Political Decay". The first hints of meritocracy were in China during the Qin and Han dynasties, where exams where used to provide positions in bureaucracy to those not of noble birth.

Prussia was really the first example of this in the west, where in 1770 all civil servants were required to pass a written exam.
Mostly yes. This has more information https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/c....
And here I am typing a small novel every time I want to unlock my crypt, feeling smug, when just now I realize that some day even my passphrases will become "not enough". This is a weird feeling- excitement for the future, but also fear
I anticipate the engine's control computer will be able to adapt in any case. It's like the Mercedes driver who puts in 87... it'll work, and the gas is cheaper, but the tradeoff is the engine runs in "poor fuel" mode and is less efficient, eliminating any savings.
And it will end it.
Amazon Web Services Joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation as Platinum Member
See comment above about trusts.
As far as I could tell from the coverage (I couldn't get past the first few paragraphs of the memo), it asks for more diversity in terms of right-wing/conservative thinking, and for Google to stop encouraging women to apply.

On the surface – that's asking for both more and less diversity, however Google rejects the idea that conservative views (that are compatible with Google's HR policies) are discouraged, which would suggest there isn't more diversity needed there.
Bingo. And those of us who've studied voting computers extensively have concluded they're to be avoided.
How fancy are modern cars compared to the original cars?
Sexism relates to prejudices, discrimination. It's a negative word.

And no one argued that an entire gender is unqualified for a task. Where do you come up with all this stuff?!?
I submitted this article an hour and a half before this duplicate submission, and it got flagged to oblivion. Telling. But I'm glad to see it's back now.
> Seems to me that our technology may actually just be hitting a wall in regards to life expectancy.

"Americans Are Dying Younger". That will mean that the wall is moving making technology less useful to keep life expectancy. And this is not true.

If we can do more to keep people, not just alive, but healthy. We should do it. Even if there are people that don't see it that way: Fox News host laughs at Democrats saying thousands will die under Trump healthcare bill: 'We're all gonna die'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics...
I flagged it. How many times do we need to have the same repetitive discussion? This topic is crowding out other quality submissions.
> But for the right, it became a potent symbol of the tech industry’s intolerance of ideological diversity.

To me, totally missing the point. Not just "for the right". To many who would consider themselves mostly aligned with left wing politics, myself included, this is just the latest in a long line of media (social and news) driven forced punishment for people guilty of expressing a viewpoint or just generally doing something a bit poor taste in public. It doesn't really matter if they've done wrong. It's not a considered or proportional type of response.

Sure, there are far bigger injustices in the world than someone losing their job, but this sort of thing is wrong because it's for the wrong reason. It's headlines driven HR.
Wikipedia says 401ks are pensions.

> In the United States, a 401(k) plan is [a] tax-qualified, defined-contribution pension account
I suspect the author meant "left, except for a free-markets philosophy and a dash of libertarianism".

In many other ways SV is clearly skewed left.
Voting still requires registration, which requires eligibility. At this point, you are also checked for uniqueness, so you can't just keep moving house to get more and more votes.

You can't just turn up at any polling station and say "give me a ballot paper", you turn up at the right polling station for your address and tell them your name and address.

They cross you off the list and if the same person tries to vote again, the voter is challenged, and a special (tendered) ballot paper is issued (which isn't counted in the vote). If a ward returns a significant number of tendered papers, then the returning officer can take action.

Polling places are small, and serve no more than 2500 voters.

So. In order for an individual to vote fraudulently, they must pretend to be an actual voter, they must know the name and address of the voter(s) they are pretending to be, they must do it early in the day, and they can't just keep going into the same polling station over and over, pretending to be someone new, otherwise they are likely to be recognised.

In order for a group to do this at a scale that matters, they must also be pretty sure that most of the real voters aren't actually going to turn up to vote.

Given all that, it is probably easier to engage in intimidation and/or bribery of actual voters, than to fraudulently complete ballot papers yourself. Voter ID doesn't protect against that.
Zunger passed judgement on Damore's engineering skills based on that memo.

Doesn't give Zunger much credibility. And he asked for the guy to be fired or punched. That's a mob mentality, hardly rational.

Zunger is exactly what's wrong with the tech world right now.
I'm not :)
Accidental deviation. What I wrote IS how I've remembered it apparently. Maybe because a battery horse makes more sense to me than a horse battery. Not sure. either way, I'll start using it as my password and see how long it takes to get pwned.
Facebook has killed Lifestage
From the article:

> However, unlike countries where similar schemes have been implemented, invasive bio-metric collection is being imposed as a condition for basic entitlements in India

Remember: India has a unique set of challenges to overcome if it has to survive and prosper as a nation. It is surrounded by not-so-amenable neighbors and with cross-border infiltration at a constant strategy used against India ("death by thousand cuts").[1]

And almost 20 million Bangladeshis have illegally crossed over from the eastern border [2] [3] and (unfortunately, reportedly getting Aadhar cards through whatever means, which defeats the purpose if it is true), for a country of a billion odd people at risk with such high uncertainty profile - the requirement to identify at least their own citizens vs the intruders/ offenders becomes a strategic and security action from the government perspective.

I think we would be in wrong to compare the "right to privacy" in this scenario to that of the more developed nations that are pretty much geographically blessed/ isolated, population wise less dense, religiously homogenous and technologically advanced as such that they can track covertly vis-a-vis getting biometric details directly. In fact, the Supreme Court of India has observed that [4] "Supreme Court asks if right to privacy is absolute?"

[1] https://www.pgurus.com/india-superpower-or-balkanized-war-zo...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration_to_India#H...
[3] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Two-crore-Banglades...
[4] http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/privacy-not-absolute-s...
I would agree with Xenopticon, as a solo operator, it's been a huge boon. However, I have noticed a bit of a split in the way I code.

The problem is that I tend to write two kinds of JS. On the server I write ES7 and use currying, iteration, and promises as the main paradigm, while on the client side code I tend to write more compatible, imperative, event oriented code.

It's a bit of a bizarre split, and it does impact my productivity. Perhaps I would be better off using Babel, but I tend to avoid adding steps to my toolchain, since I'm the only one who will maintain it.
It's not 1%, it's the 10% of global population (the developed world) that benefits. Those cheap clothes you got your kids from Gap, they were probably made by similarly aged kids in Bangladesh.
how well does Angular perform on production?

as far as i know, React is used more widespread
In what sense could that possibly be "left" then?
Does a system have to be 100% free of security concerns to "work"?
Yesterday I heard on the tv or radio I heard the metric "€/vote" as if a vote was product.
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It's a memo, not a scientific study. Goal is to point out issues for discussion.
>Litecoin

>Problem: Originally ASIC miners pushing out GPU miners from >Bitcoin, recently, all the drama in Bitcoin is making people >look for a backup Bitcoin.

This is incorrect. Litecoin was created to be silver to Bitcoins gold. Litecoin was also around long before ASICs entered the bitcoin mining arms race. I will agree that it was partially designed to increase decentralization of mining however by preventing or slowing the introduction of ASIC mining. However this does mean more inefficient GPU miners are required.
>Many of those people would offer you more respect than your offering them.

I would suggest a far larger proportion of those people would not offer you more respect for that very fact that the poster appears to be atheistic. Within the US which is a very religiously tolerant nation atheism is something that is frowned upon, just look at the politicians there and how an atheist is treated when running for office. In many Muslim countries becoming an atheist is problematic at best and potentially can result in death if you have left the islamic religion(apostasy).
>"The Xchange Leasing division had been estimating modest losses of around $500 per auto on average, these people said. But managers recently informed Uber executives that the losses were actually about $9,000 per car — about half the sticker price of a typical leased vehicle."

So their accounting was off by almost two orders of magnitude?

My first thought was "how was this even allowed to happen?" But then I read:

>To fund these leases, Uber obtained a credit facility of $1 billion last year from a consortium of banks including Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Chase, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley."

I think this is what happens when its all funny money. Uber loses hundreds of million of dollars a quarter and yet big banks have no problem writing them a check for another billion. I'm guessing none of the banks asked what the credit facility was for or even any details about the leasing plan it was intended to fund?
User Interviews – What We Learned
Maybe they should work in salt mines? What is so bad about that? We need to get rid of this stigma that if you're not an intellectual then you're automatically some poor serf at the bottom rungs of society. Your attitude is a perfect example of elitist culture, that anyone who doesn't have an "advanced" ""education"" isn't worthy of any dignified position in society. Forcing all people to go through a watered down higher education is wasteful and stupid. Higher education is a thing only needed for certain roles and should only be attempted by a fraction of the population.
"Graduation requirements have not changed. Students still have to pass the same amount of classes. "

This is where you are wrong. Classes such as remedial English or basic mathematics did not used to count for college credit, they now do. Therefore students can graduate with a lower level of performance than was previously possible.
> Netflix’s Mr. Hastings warned Mr. Thiel last August, a few weeks after Mr. Trump had accepted the Republican nomination for president, that he would face consequences for backing Mr. Trump.

> In contrast, Mr. Hastings, a supporter of Hillary Clinton ...

From my PoV, the fact that Hastings has received no backlash for supporting Clinton after Trump won, is a sign that right-wingers/conservatives/Trump supporters are more tolerant of the opinions of left-wingers/liberals/progressives/Clinton supporters than the other way around.
Introducing WDTE: A Simple Embeddable Functional Language Written in Go
I meant to respond to the response someone else made:

It's not a debate to be won. Some people just keep insisting it is with this cloying, sweaty desperation. It's embarrassing, and it's awful that these Silicon Valley ghouls have so much power that we have to consider them at all.

I read the article, it didn't have any real science and made a bunch of insane, half-baked assumptions. The guy is a dumbass and deserved to be fired.
Something hard, complicated, and expensive might work: say, a ratcheting minimum age requirement, stipulations that exporters provide documentation on the working conditions at all mines they buy from, extensive investment in the mines, and foreign aid to get early-childhood schools set up with local teachers.

Unfortunately, providing an incomplete or imperfect solution to a problem automatically makes everyone blame you for that problem, even when you provably helped fix it[0]. Anyone who helps fix the problem of child labour by slowly improving working conditions or by brokering a compromise will be blamed for anything and everything remotely connected to it.

[0] https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...
If I was given a $500 hotel voucher (that was non-transferable and expires) and I had absolutely no use for a hotel room I would value that voucher at $0, yes.

Just like if Amazon offered me a year of prime membership for $10 I'd say "no thank you" because I value prime membership at $0. (Don't shop at Amazon much, don't mind waiting for shipping, have all the streaming I need)
Original (and complete version), https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/tensorflow-tuto...
Stop flagging articles you don't agree with that discuss science. It's not how HN is supposed to work.

According to the HN guidelines, flagging is for spam or off-topic submissions. This is neither.