skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I have done.

He actually asked for something different - for programs and classes to remain but for the exclusions based on race and gender (i.e. no men allowed) to be eliminated. He also pointed out that even Google's resources are finite, and thus the costs and benefits of diversity programmes should be judged rationally, e.g. he suggests that mandatory 'unconscious bias' training doesn't seem to have made any difference. So is it worth requiring it? These are reasonable questions anyone can ask.
I've never had an Airdrop problem that couldn't be solved by moving the devices closer together. But like so much in computing, YMMV.
Naaah, that depends on quality of oil (and of course characteristics of the engine), as hinted it is a long standing dispute.

A number of people (particularly in the US, but not only) change their oil every 3-5,000 miles for reasons like:

- my father always changed oil every 3,000 (or 4,000 or 5,000) miles

- a friend of mine who races changes it every 2,500 miles so changing it every double that is appropriate

- the dealer (or the mechanic just around the corner) told me to change the oil every 5,000 miles or the engine will explode

Of course the Toyota engineers (mind you the same ones that designed, produced and tested for a few zillions miles the thingy that you chose to buy, implying that you trust them overall) saying 10,000 miles are a bunch of incompetent morons, what do they know?

http://toyota.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/7604/rela...

Seriously, the 10,000 miles for (partially) syntethic oil is on the very low of the expected range of duration of a modern oil on a modern engine, i.e. it is a conservative enough duration, 12,000 to 15,000 is common.

And IF there is something that makes an oil or engine go bad is NOT "continued use" (like taxi use) but rather cold starts after long periods of inactivity (or racing, for other reasons).

In this the other also mostly psychological "limit" of "oil must be changed every six months no matter how many miles" has some more background reasons.

Still a (partially) synthetic oil is good for much more than that, usually 1 year at the very least.

Fully synthetic oils (very expensive) can last much more (but you need to change filters ever 10-15,000 miles anyway).
> How do you feel about car part quality?

Hopefully if those cheaper 3D metal printers linked to last week[1] become a reality, it might go up?

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14892602
Likely correlating with race:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_African...
Look up mass-murders/high-school shootings in the US and tell me they are less common than in Germany.
Long term capital gains are 20% if you're in the top tax bracket (making a little under $500k/yr) so I doubt you'll find many people being sympathetic there. It's 15% on long term gains for the majority of people.
For me I think movies mean less than they used to. We are spoiled with the amount of entertainment constantly being released to us nowadays. I will not go buy a movie or see a movie at the theater anymore - no matter what it is. It could be the most anticipated film in a half a decade and I'll still wait for it to be conveniently streamed to me. Maybe I'm getting old, but I feel like people don't create movie libraries anymore unless they're pirates. We don't have 1 specific night a week where we get everyone together for a special movie. We watch movies and shows all the time and that makes them less special/valuable. I don't think I'm articulating this well.

Disney thinks I'll tack on another streaming service to watch Mulan or Captain America: Civil War - but they're wrong...
I'm someone who is thinking of changing carriers at 30 to become a developer. I love the idea of cutting out bureaucracy and office politics and be paid decently. I'd love any thoughts and advice from more experienced people about what I should do in the next 12-24 months.
Sure! Lifestyle businesses are great, and so is the whole digital nomad thing (I spent all of 2016 and a good chunk of 2015 traveling around the world).

There are a ton of upsides but I wouldn't go back to it full time. For one, it's surprising how few of the digital nomad types are really that interesting, and while integrating with local populations is fun, you'll still find yourself missing the familiarity of people from your own culture (or similar, Western cultures, assuming you're a Euro or American)

Once you get used to life on the road it's grand. Still, nomad nests like Chiang Mai are insipid and full of scores of people hustling their drop ship schemes. More power to them, but it's just not my vibe.

I dunno. Go nuts, travel, see a bunch of shit, just don't assume the beach is going to be as stimulating as the (very likely) metro urban environment you're living in now.
One of the primary reasons I moved to Europe (and not even a particularly cycling-friendly place within Europe) was so I wouldn't die under the wheels of some lifted pickup truck while riding my bike to work.

Try again.
The way I read it: large companies use Carbon Black to have all their files and executables to checked for maliciousness. CB then uploads these file to antivirus.com to have them checked against 50 AV engines. VT 'hides' the uploader behind a dedicated API key, in the case of CB: 32d05c66
directdefense then download some of these files from virustotal and found (among a shitload of nothing) sensitive stuff, wrote a blog and blamed CB.
With a little more digging they would have found many, many more services and applications that do the exact same thing.
Genetic high cholesterol can easily cost more than $100k in costs over a life time, even assuming that treatment is successful in averting a heart attack. A one time $100k treatment to fix the gene is already break even. That is before we discuss the side effects avoiding them is worth quite a bit to a lot of people as well.
No idea, but many drivers who aren't familiar with the area just follow the GPS and end up getting lost down there.
Sure, that makes sense in the short term. But if everyone did this, over a long period of time, two things would happen:

(a) Diversity programs would at some point stop being ineffective.

and

(b) Identity politics would achieve cultural hegemony.

I agree that it would be wise to shut up if doing so had no long term effects (as in your example of a manager asking about religion), but that clearly isn't the case here. And in the case of (b), I would say that long-term effect is extremely undesirable, for both businesses and individuals.
I disagree. I am pretty sure that the guys saying they wanted me to die didn't actually want me to die. It was just a way to taunt.

It is absolutely ridiculous that someone who has never seen me, met me, know where I live, any of my history, my sexuality, my family can possibly achieve any of emotion that could ever be taken seriously enough to be considered bullying. It is stretching the term almost far enough to be meaningless.
at a risk of dropping below the HN value threshold:

whoosh
I expect the opposite.

Manufacturing, farming, fishing, etc were much more common industries for those who are now 85 than it is for those who are now 55.

There is a huge difference between retiring from manual labor at 60 after having worked from you were 15 and retirering from a desk job at 65 after having worked from you were 25.

Then take into account that they used to work Saturdays, that they used to work more hours per day, that fewer had recognized disabilities, that fewer received welfare, that they had much less vacation, that women had more pregnancies and that those of them that worked had shorter maternity leave.

The 'lucky' old had worked more and physically harder at 60 than we will have at 70.
That sounds less technical and more philosophical. From a practical perspective, does it really matter if an intelligence has no self? If the AI judge decides to execute someone, is it ok just because the AI doesn't have a personality?
Well today I learned a couple things. Thanks for the example and ideas.
Yup. The ability to compose fixtures too, a test can depend on a fixture but so can an other fixture.

Combined with flexible scopes and the ability to mark and select/deselect tests based on name and marks it makes for genuinely great stuff e.g. some of your tests depend on the database, you can have a session-scoped fixture handling a connection, then a function-scoped one depending on it and getting a cursor, and if you don't select any test depending on the latter no connection will be created at any point.
I can't think of a better place to legitimize your argument than alt-right YouTube.
I've never heard that term before. Interesting, thanks for the link.
What does 'a lifestyle business' mean, anyway?
The students taking Sally's class all knew what they were in for and many had been preparing for it for all of high school.
James Damore has shown an amazing strength of character and is a hero for doing what he did.
Amazon Web Services chooses its Kubernetes path, joins CNCF
You've got to admit, it's an odd feature to have. No company would ever want this feature on. It goes against pretty much every data protection law going. Yet they have it, and it's a click or two away with some mild small print? Sheesh. It's like selling a walking boot with a shotgun attached pointing at the toes with a label on the trigger saying "do not pull".
Regardless of fancy navigation mechanics I don't think I've ever played a 3D environment game where after some time I didn't memorize the map to some degree. I assume this is the case for most people that play games.

I'm more concerned for people that drive around using a GPS in an actual car and somehow never learn the city layout.
IIRC, flagging has a lower karma threshold than downvoting.
I am not sure how you managed to insert GMOs in this list.
Is there a repository?
First your comment of missing the trees for the forest didn't add anything to the discussion.

1) If you hire more from group B other company cannot hire them. So you will have imbalance in another place. You don't solve the problem but move it to another company.

2) Skills usually are related. If you need some set of skills for a position I don't see how not having them is going to increase the productivity.

3) I never said we are assigning the right skills to the positions. I strongly believe that we should have more "female" skills in more tech positions because they add value and we are not doing it now.

4) When you are not good at one skill you don't want to have a position where that skill is valuated. You are happy working in positions that fit the skills you have. This fact decrease the number of women that want go into tech because they don't like it. We can solve this if we add more "female" skills to tech positions and learn to assess everybody by their skills even when they are different.
Your startup needs a Chief Miracle Officer (just maybe don't call it that)
"Unfair" is your word, not mine. The personal attack doesn't bother me - I've been called a paid FSB agent in the past and that was actually pretty hilarious, I'm not about to get out of sorts over something this picayune. What annoys me is the fact that it spoils your argument - of which you're still doing a disappointingly poor job in support.

If you want to say that a you think a lot of people have taken quotes tendentiously out of context, or just deliberately misrepresented Damore's statements outright, in order to support ideologically driven and tendentious counterclaims, then say so. I'm not about to disagree with you on that - in my judgment, one of the reasons our society is so badly broken these last few decades, and just barely limping along in a state where one good solid crisis could well bring it down, is because lies have gained such ubiquitous and unassailable primacy over truth.

How do you think it helps you make an argument like that, to tie it to a failing comparison between the dissimilar actions of a pair of people approaching the issue from totally disjoint perspectives and with totally dissimilar intents? More to the point, what effect do you think that has on everyone else who tries to make arguments similar to yours, but with the good sense to base them more firmly than you have done here?

I think you may not be aware of, or may not take seriously enough, that this is a situation where, because we're arguing against a strongly held and ideologically driven mainstream opinion, we each have to expect to be taken as pars pro toto by people who aren't interested in reasoned discussion toward joint identification of the most useful course of action to follow - but rather in making us out to be the most absurdly overblown, unserious, and hateful assholes they possibly can, the better to render us mute and unable to participate in public discourse. That's why "alt-right" means "Nazi" now.

When you make sloppy, shitty arguments like this, calling out personalities instead of parsing ideas and basing your statements on ad hom instead of anything that merits being taken seriously, you make life a whole lot easier for people who would like to define "we should treat people as individuals" as "secretly hates women and wishes he could still own slaves".

If you're going to continue to participate publicly in this kind of argument, from this direction, then you need to hold yourself to the highest of standards, because believe me, there are plenty of people out there who will use any deviation therefrom to paint you as every kind of monster in the world. If you can't or don't care to do that, then the best thing you can do to help advance your cause is to stop participating in public at all, because doing it as poorly as you are here hands a weapon to those who have no higher goal than to make us all regret the temerity which led us to question the prevailing orthodoxy. That weapon doesn't just work on you. It works on all of us. When you do this, you make that much higher the bar we all have to clear just to get a fair hearing in public, and for no good reason in the world. You should stop.
When we see things like: "it is not uncommon for her patients to drive two hours for an appointment, as maternal wards have closed at rural hospitals. "

it's probably due to demographic changes more than defunding healthcare as such. If you have communities where there are no jobs, people move out, population diminishes, that also means that some services are shut down.

This happens also in my country (which is a North European welfare state with good pre- and postnatal care and very low child mortality): some people have to go quite far away for the check-ups.
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Embedding copyright notice is one. I used to work in journalism. It's a real issue.
Not all engineers are driven by "fun." Some certainly are, but I know many who prefer to work on projects with tangible business value.
Eclipse Science
"After 90 hours of playing first-person shooter games..."

90 hours in the gym @ 3 hours / week = 7.5 months of exercise

At this point one expect to see physical changes in the mirror.

Why would it be any different in the brain?

A much broader implication may be that dedicating around 90 hours to something is the point at which your brain will start to show physical signs of adaptation.
No one has looked to school administrators for moral guidance in many, many years.
I can't speak for the abuse of the term (I've never experienced what you're describing), but 'mansplaining' refers to a very real phenomenon.

To put gender aside, egos and biases can always get in the way of two people explaining their viewpoints. You are pretty lucky if you've never had somebody explain a concept you already understood in a very condescending way.

Many men do this to women when they assume that these women aren't as knowledgeable as they are. 'Mansplaining' specifically describes this.
Incorrect; this is not granting credit for existing remedial courses, it is eliminating the existing set of remedial courses, and the testing and other policies aruoud them, and requiring new models (but not dictating one single model for all campuses.)

There area number of alternative remediation models that have been used in other institutions without the problems experienced by the current CSU remedial ed program that campuses may be guided by. This is all expressly laid out in the article.
It was the thesis of his viral letter[1]. I'm simply supposing that he tried out the same argument in an informal context first, and that's what he's complaining about here.

[1] Yes, it was. Don't pretend that it wasn't. If he genuinely felt that women and minorities were just as valuable candidates why did he write 10 pages about why efforts to ensure their inclusion were hurting google? The fact that he framed the argument creatively doesn't change the fact that fundamentally he feels Google is hiring too many women, thus the diatribe.
> Sexism is taking a random male and a random female, and claiming that despite all the facts presented to you, the male is taller than the female. It doesn't matter that in a specific case a female is taller than a male.

Upvoted for this. Great definition of sexism.

> Well I'd argue that isn't great accuracy as 50% is what you'd expect from chance.... In fact, I might expect a similar accuracy from a machine-learning technique to predict sex based on your height. ...With height, I don't think anyone thinks it's anything other than genetic....

If the method is probably as good at predicting sex as one based on height, which everyone agrees is genetic, then why isn't that great accuracy?
> we all know what he meant

Sure, eventually. But I had to parse that sentence three times to figure out whether he meant 10% or 10,000%. I'm a non-native speaker from Germany myself so I'm doubly careful about reading commas and periods in figures like that correctly. Adding extra decimals for emphasis isn't exactly uncommon.

I only expanded my comment because of the downvotes. I actually made sure to keep it short and explicitly mark it as "nitpicky" (i.e. unimportant to the greater discussion) exactly for the reason you state.
What an absurd interpretation. If anything the guy appears to be very quiet and shy. Having said nothing sexist at all up till now, in the memo or otherwise, insinuating that this guy picked a fight and had some sort of outburst in front of the thought police, all based on the use of the word "that"?! Hah!
The law might prevent the firing but it shouldn't. Sexist ideas should be exterminated by social exclusion.

No, I am not a believer in "free speech". Some ideas are harmful and not to be tolerated.
I'm not sure what you are arguing in favor of exactly.

Say we do make actual individual merit the only factor in hiring and pay. Would those "unlucky" enough to have been born a starving child in Africa ever have a chance at getting a high paying IT job? Likely not, as they won't have the education or skills needed to do the work.

I'd argue your use of "luck" in all these cases is wrong. It's more like fortune, and that hiring and pay is tied to both individual merit, and the merit of your ancestors. And when I say ancestors, this is usually as little as 2 or 3 generations. A vast majority of those in the US are descendants of a wave of poor immigrants in the mid and late 19th century. Going back 4 or 5 generations on all sides of my family tree, no wealth of any significance was transferred down, other than work ethic and usually trying to give offspring the best chance they can. It was not by any means perfect, but I was the first in my family to go to college, earn a degree, and be "successful". Note: I'm defining successful as "more assets than debt". I'm not wealthy by any sense of the word but I have a stable income and I'm able to save for retirement and own a home (via mortgage).

If we take that merit out of the equation - what societal pressure or incentive is there to improve upon oneself, and make a better life for one's children?
Terrorism is fear word.

If you look at the raw numbers, Terrorism is just minor nuisance, even rocket barrages.
Long term capital gains is 15% until you hit a super high income tax bracket. Many states lack capital gains taxes at all (e.g. Washington, which I find very livable). Thanks Obama.
I understand the arguments about how valuable interpersonal skills are to software development, but I don't like talking about them for a couple reasons:

1. The effect sizes we're talking about are tiny. A randomly selected cohort of men and women can routinely be expected to produce more women innately skilled at math, or more men innately skilled at negotiation. It's one of the more galling aspects of the debate about this stupid "manifesto", which at one point redraws a well-known chart about the overlap in ability between men and women to exaggerate the difference between the sexes: at no point do any of the advocates of the "manifesto" address effect size compared to the observed disparity in the field.

2. Very little about computer science as it is practiced in the industry is tied with any rigor to any particular skill. For the most part, software development is a standard white-collar symbol manipulation job in which productivity is defined mostly by meticulousness and generic learning and pattern matching. Attempts to break down aptitude by gender tend to imagine computer science in terms of compiler theory and algorithm design, when in reality 90% of all software development is repeated iterations of "wire this database column into this UI table".
The more important point is, that when people feel strongly about something, facts presented that counter their opinion trigger cognitive dissonance. That's why nearly everyone I follow on Twitter was complaining about a memo (usually calling it a manifesto) that had little to nothing to do with the one I read.
I didn't say 100%.
To make it a bit less conspicuous, take the third character (or something) from the service name and put it as the fifth character (or something) in an otherwise long random string.
This will look like a random password... until someone gets two or more passwords made with this strategy, then it's pretty easy to find out the strategy.
Just have the electronic system return a clearly labeled ballot to the voter, which would be verified and turned in before leaving. A physical count can be used to confirm the electronic count or vice-versa (physical counting has vulnerabilities too).
This site is extremely jarring on mobile. Please whoever made this fix that table at least. It renders only two columns at the time and does it terribly.
I was open to all those things.
And ironically an argument with google...
Whoops... Did HN Crash their site?