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This is from his HN profile:

I’m writing a stack-based functional programming language called Kitten: https://github.com/evincarofautumn/kitten
Some people wouldn't want to run businesses in a Spanglophone territory where shipping is more expensive and electricity can be spotty. The local economy may not be quite as strong depending on your industry, and meanwhile you're sending your kids to private schools because the public ones are questionable. Hospitals are less efficient and many government functions, including the ones with which your company interacts, are slow. Supermarket items cost more than they do in the contiguous states, as do gasoline, natural gas, and electricity. And you will need a car because public transportation is not so good, and often nonexistent. Culturally, there's a very relaxed vibe and a strong sense of economic pessimism, which isn't exactly the hopeful and driven mentality that you may want for a startup.

So maybe you're paying less in taxes but your lifestyle, company culture, and ease of doing business worsen. #tradeoffs
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More like 22 official languages in 10 scripts.
Yes -- just like how the copies of 8-bit computer games that we can run today on emulators are generally the cracked copies rather than the copy-protected (old-school DRM) originals.
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Don't you think that clients' peer selection logic could be improved to build lower-latency tunnels? Perhaps an intuitive UI could be provided, allowing the user to tradeoff anonymity with latency.
Look at what happened out there.

When Bitcoin first hit $1000, many businesses started accepting bitcoin, even some hosters. Tipping bots became popular on forums, there were tutorials for old people on how to use bitcoin on TV and in the newspapers even, etc.

Now? I don't know a single business I use that offers bitcoin payments. All of them have removed it again. Bitcoin's actual value as currency has gone down massively.

Yes, it is used. A lot, even. But not as day-to-day currency.
you could be more respectful
Company also presented me as their "employee" -- where I have literally no legal connection with them at all.

The market for the position as a contractor is 500K/yr and they want 300K and pay 200K where ~45% of the 200K gets taken for tax and med...

So... WTF? Should that be acceptable?
I am fast running out of room in my life for yet another streaming service. I already pay for Netflix, Spotify and a couple of other services. It is all becoming too much, if Disney thinks I am going to pay $10 per month for their service they are sadly mistaken. Just because you own Star Wars does not mean people will pay for your platform to exclusively watch it.

I believe this is a huge mistake on Disney's part. Understandably, they want a piece of the pie that Netflix is enjoying but they'll need to offer something pretty special to entice myself and others to signup. If anything, this is just going to make people torrent whenever they encounter some Disney content they want to watch they could previously get on Netflix.
Teach web development and get robbed at gunpoint!

What a beautiful city full of good people!
Well the Pinkertons were also known for providing wildly inflated estimates of the confederate forces to George Mclellen. Why should they change now?
And have a mandatory seat belt rules, and disallow restroom 45 min after work begin and 45 before end of work time.
They've tried it: http://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.full.pdf
> Nice - you just proved that diversity programs are unnecessary

This merely shows why they're not legally mandated. "Necessary", or "desirable" is another matter entirely.
Can you, in one sentence, explain what Tezos is? Something of the form:

Uber - Order a taxi with your phone

Facebook - Connect with your friends online

Google - Find stuff on the internet

Wikipedia - An encyclopedia that anyone can edit

Amazon - Buy stuff online, without going anywhere

Tezos - ???

(And "Tezos is a new decentralized blockchain that governs itself by establishing a true digital commonwealth" doesn't count as an explanation).
> one is presented with Google's internal research claiming that unconscious bias is real and measurable, and that diversity hiring yields both better individual and group performance

Consider this, if diversity hiring yields better individual and group performance then this implies that different races and genders perform better at certain skills, and that taken in aggregate, this leads to measurable performance increases overall at the individual and group level.

After all, if there was no difference across gender or race, then it would make no difference whether you had 100% white male or 100% asian female, or any other combination of different demographics.
A pyramid scheme works such that if the growth stops, the whole pyramid collapses. It is dependent on newcomers.

With crypto, if anyone leaves or growth stops the price simply goes down. It doesn't collapse. It's more like stock.
Isn’t this kind of what we all wanted? Split up the monolithic cable package?

The idea of getting almost everything we could ever want through one $10 a month subscription with Netflix is almost too good to be true, I would expect in the long term the average person will end up paying about the same as they used to with a cable bill, ideally spread among multiple providers.
They do this, or at least have done this. If a "digitally depressed" person has exhausted all possible suggested friends, FaceBook proceeds to suggest friends that they assume will be sexually attractive to you, as an example.
I thought this was a joke comment but I clicked on your user profile and now I'm not sure.
No.

Arguments #2 and #3 were not made. Argument #1 is utterly uncontroversial.

Please read the essay.
> "He conducted research in computational biology at Harvard, Princeton and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining a Ph.D. program at Harvard. He dropped out before completing the program."

P.S this is not a quote from James Damore directly
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>Google is heavily invested in the political movement.

What "political movement" did the guy they fired represent? "All men are created equal" is a political statement, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" is a political statement, "Half the world's population is unsuitable for technical work because of their gender" is bigoted nonsense. That he tried to use discredited pseudo-science to back up his statement doesn't make it any more valid than bigoted nonsense from less educated people.

If he had kept his nonsense to himself, it wouldn't have been a major issue for Google. But because he chose to share it with his coworkers, who then leaked it, they were put in a position where if they kept him on, they would be seen as endorsing the nonsense, but if they fired him, they were seeing as joining in some kind of political crusade.

Bottom line: the core thesis of the "manifesto" was on par with eugenics, anti-vaxxer propaganda, or anti-climate FUD. If someone in their HR department was seen as embracing those ideas and encouraging their coworkers to put them into practice, Google would probably fire them as well.
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Why not? Aren't those people also creating hostile environment for minorities?
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Someone is trying to create a Facebook account using your contact information. Something that happens to me hourly, because people just cannot stop assuming sinan@yahoo.com is their email address.

Don't confirm. Usually, the emails have a link where you can tell Facebook you are not trying to open an account or reset your password. Carefully inspect it before following it.

Ten years ago, I got fed up enough to write a post. It hasn't let up ;-)

https://www.unur.com/sinan/outbox/070715-sinan-at-yahoo-com....
6. One person gets sick and sneezes, everyone gets sick.
Illegal streaming service of choice already has all the content.
Modern automatics though provide similar constant acceleration. Even better are dual clutch transmissions. About 8ms between gear shifts.
well, the ctx can be passed between goroutines and still give the ability to cancel the logical operation, no matter in which goroutine it happens to live
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SO random. I just listened to this today. songexploder.com/gorillaz

Nice work!
At least that way you can hear the sales staff selling features that have not been developed yet.
Sounds like there was some disqualifying factor you're not aware of. (Citizenship, willingness to relocate, whatever.) No one sends out immediate rejection emails to experienced engineers unless they really have to.
Steam does more than that. It combines social elements (What are my friends playing now? Do they want to join me? What games do they recommend?) and lower price points as well (Summer Sale etc). I know lots of people that stopped pirating games because Steam was reliable (pirated games rarely are), took away the pain (mostly) of patching games and because if you are willing to wait, games are actually pretty cheap.
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There are other more complicated reasons but this is a pretty good answer. Basically that matter at some point must have been at the Big Bang and with all the heat generated around that time some of it must have interacted with the debris that GP is talking about. We don’t see evidence of that.
It’s important to remember that though we as humans lose things all the time. The universe cannot. We got what we got.
You have some strong points in here, except one which is worth pointing out:

> Google management didn't "call him names".

Google's management (including its CEO) did, however, repeatedly lie and misrepresent the essay as justification for their actions.

This was cruel and should not be forgotten.
Agreed if human drivers were actually terrible nobody would ever drive. The risk would simply be too high.
If the system works then it must be worth $40000 to the users of the block chain. There is a valid point to be made about energy efficiency but this possibly is right for the price of securing a global "bank".
The statement by Google's CEO categorizes some specific sections of the the article into the "okay" bin, and some sections into the "fireable" bin. That's about as good as a start as you are likely to get.

https://www.blog.google/topics/diversity/note-employees-ceo-...
"there are “only two ways to make money in business: One is to bundle; the other is unbundle.” - Jim Barksdale

https://hbr.org/2014/06/how-to-succeed-in-business-by-bundli...
There are many things in today's world that religion doesn't allow, all religions not just Islam. The app is not trying to enforce a religious practice only connect two people of the same faith. Just like other date sites like compatiblepartners.net, a gay Christian dating site.
Once you understand RLE, LZ is only one step away --- instead of repetitions of individual characters/bytes/etc., you encode repetitions of longer strings.

But starting with RLE is IMHO definitely a good choice --- far better than Huffman, as a lot of introductory material seems to do. A minimal LZ12/4 (4KB window, 18B max length; an old favourite of the demoscene intro packers) compressor/decompressor pair is literally a few hour's worth of work, and yields surprisingly good compression for its simplicity, much better than simple order-0 Huffman.
Ex-Googler part of “Sexist” skit at Harvard which had to issued formal apology
Node.js is an event loop which is accessed via Javascript callbacks which are invariably nested. Each nested callback must have an error-handler otherwise the error "bubbles" to the top of the call stack and crashes the server because a Node.js server runs in a single process. Erlang and Elixir, on the other hand, handle requests with real concurrency, spawning many small "green threads" within the Erlang VM, not OS proceses. These lightweight processes can crash without affecting the other threads running in the same VM and co-ordination of these threads is handled by a genserver. Golang has a similar concurrency model but without the benefit of Erlang's genserver so you have a greater chance of race conditions. Why the world opted for the Node.js model of "concurrency" I will never understand. Then again, Java and Javascript are still the most popular languages in the industry so what does language design have to do with anything?
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My point was that the reason for changing it is because of NFS and that it caused sysadmins to become confused. Not that it was changed along with the NFS release.
Putting on headphones and listening to white noise like rainfall blocks out just about everything for me. I don't like open floor plans due to noise when I'm not wearing headphones, but with them on it's fine. When I don't put my headphones on it allows me to engage with my team when I am not hyper focused on something.
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You might enjoy librivox.[1]

It's like the Project Gutenberg of audiobooks, recorded by volunteers. The recordings are new, but many of them are of old books, now out of copyright.

The quality of their readers varies, but there are some surprisingly good readers on there, such as my favorite so far, David Clarke, who did a superb reading of The Count of Monte Cristo.[2]

[1] - https://librivox.org/

[2] - https://librivox.org/the-count-of-monte-cristo-version-3-by-...
what about Roku? I thought they have a central search where you can enter a movie or show name and then it shows you the results from your connected services like HBO, AmazonVideo, Netflix etc.
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I really can't agree with your take on inflation being a necessity for stable societies.

It's a fallacy.

Eventually developed countries hit a point where they are just chasing the next economic hit only to cause disastrous misallocation of resources. Japan went down this path decades ago, the west is next.

Reserve banks should target 0% inflation. Dividing the dollar down to 8 decimals neatly solves hoarding issues.
For those who discuss this as "being fired for wrongthink":

Companies fire people for lack of cultural fit. How is this any different?
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Quick explanation of MapReduce
Other countries can help. "What do I need?" Answer:"scalable, mobile first (only) blah blah." If you don't know any of that, the how's, you can get outside help. Hopefully outside mentorship that comes from outside money.
Any ability for me to mentor remotely?
The numbers are definitely not comparable between Linux and some other unix variants. OpenBSD "idle" load average are about 1, for example.
That comment made me sad. It was deleted before i could reply to it. So much sweeping hate and judgement.
> his argument is the gender imbalance is not concerning because women have, on average, smaller brains and lower IQ's.

Where does he say that? Or are you trying to be sarcastic?
My company took over production support of an ESB from another company for a client a couple of years ago. The worker nodes had about 100 JVMs running on it and its resting Load Avg was around 30. This on a 2 CPU RHEL vm.

Out of morbid curiosity, I restarted one of the test servers and ran top. Load Avg was in the order of 2200 for about 3 hours.

The worst part was that the guys we took it over from didn't even think it was a problem.
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That's a nice notion, but being called out as "vile and corrupt" is exactly what my fear is. I would want a teensy bit more nuance before we decide to stake people out as corrupt.
I wasn't referring to any particular course.
Nope. In my opinion, Any startup that has that as their exit strategy is not going to hit it big. They already have a ceiling.
The Monero Team is doing lots of cool things, and the proactive security testing they do is comforting. I'm excited to see what this brings to the project, and I applaud the devs for their hard work.
Sarcasm that's marked is not sarcasm.
If you believe that, in the aggregate, "white" people are
intellectually superior to any other race of people,
you're a white supremacist.

Were the 52 professors who signed Mainstream Science on Intelligence in 1994 white supremacists?① Is the APA a white supremacist organization?② If so, with 117,000 members, it would be by far the biggest white supremacist organization in the US.

Thomas, I understand that this is an emotionally charged topic, and you want to attack Damore's argument from all possible angles, but group differences in intelligence has been settled science for many decades, and misrepresenting the facts is not exactly making us look good. It's a long-running conservative meme that people who are interested in promoting equality ignore science for ideological reasons, and this is, you know... exactly that.

Group differences in intelligence are obviously bad, and they seem to be narrowing over time by Flynn effect actions, but they do actually exist. Saying that anyone who measures a difference between groups is literally promoting the supremacy of the white race is pretty wild. What measured difference makes you a white supremacist? 10 IQ points? 0.1? If you measure a difference of 0.000001 IQ points, should you instantly lose your job for being A Racist, as you've argued elsewhere?③

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①: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_Science_on_Intellig...

②: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence:_Knowns_and_Unkno...

③: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14953843
You pass them to an asynchronous function and said function can do something like `token.throwIfCancelled()` if you've called `token.cancel()` elsewhere.
> I see people attacking him in general terms, calling him a bigot/sexist/etc, but they never mention anything specific he wrote.

You don't need to have any specific valid reason to be offended unfortunately.

> Can anyone point to anything specific that is upsetting so many people?

Also being offended is quite contagious also.
Based on both an article from the announcement time [1] and the wiki page [2] the Defenders are jointly produced by Marvel TV and ABC Studios, merely distributed by Netflix. If that is true[3], then Disney (which owns Marvel and ABC) owns the rights to them, and once the current contract expires Netflix will no longer be able to distribute (stream) any of the Defenders series.

That would apply to Agents of Shield as well, which is also part of the Disney family.

[1]:http://deadline.com/2013/11/disney-netflix-marvel-series-629...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Jones_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Cage_(TV_series)
[3]: You would need a lawyer to examine contract language to be 100% sure, but Disney has armies of really good lawyers and understands the importance of IP better than anyone else on the planet, so it is extremely plausible.
They are pushing forward with this by purchasing a controlling stake in BAMTech, which is the streaming tech company behind HBO Now, MLB and others.
As well as being able to install uBlock Origin on mobile FF.
my kids dont even watch that much tv, but if it was only the entire disney movie lineup - including new releases and old releases - but not including star wars or marvel or any tv shows, id pay $10/month without blinking. at $15 id still probably do it.

edit to add: not having to handle media is a big deal - dvds get scratched _very_ easily - plus being able to access the content on an old iphone or ipad wherever you are is worth its weight in gold.
Facebook shuts down its Snapchat competitor Lifestage and its Groups app
I'm hearing you out, but I grew up in Nigeria and have been hearing lots of stories from friends who are back there working in businesses and forward-thinking foundations, and I'm excited at the prospect that huge percentages of young people will soon overwhelm the status quo with new thinking. I know business alone can't solve all the problems but I'm amazed at the sheer numbers of new startups I've been hearing about:

https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/why-lagos-in-nigeria-is-af...

https://angel.co/nigeria

https://www.quora.com/Which-Nigerian-tech-startup-will-be-wo...

https://techcrunch.com/tag/nigeria/

http://digitalhealth.com.ng/

I didn't even know till I searched just now that Lagos already has online grocery delivery! It's been quite a few years since I was living there and incredibly hard for me to imagine. :)
This article is ... odd. Some of the wording doesn't make a lot of sense. An example: " (Time of year not weather indication were not cited).".

From what I can gather, 60 participants were given an electric bike for 10 weeks, and around 50% later went on to buy the bike they were given. Usage was 60% at the beginning, dropping to 28% by the end.

So half or greater of the people who purchased a bike weren't even using it.
Japan wasn't ready to surrender unconditionally. It didn't surrender after Hiroshima. They only surrendered a week later after Nagasaki. Before that they were only ready to surrender if the US agreed to let them keep the territories they'd enslaved.

Before the nukes, US Bombings were already killing hundreds of thousands of japanese civilians a month. Tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers were dying in combat, and in suicide attacks. Thousands of americans were dying as well. Every day of delay cost thousands of lives, mostly japanese. You seem to care about them, why do you advocate for longer war to kill more of them?

War is hell. The US didn't rape Nanking. It didn't bomb Pearl Harbor. It didn't torture and murder millions of surrendered civilians and POWs. The Japanese entered in a war where their only way out was unconditional surrender, and the Emperor and the military junta that ruled Japan refused to even consider that option until after the 2nd japanese city was destroyed by a nuclear bomb. The firebombing of tokyo wasn't even close to enough to get them to quit.
That's not obvious. Why @ means *? And what does W/mile mean?
But there is piracy version for streaming content. In CIS region there is an app for android(incl. TV) that allow You to watch literally any tv/show/movie/animation. Quality is shitty sometimes, but free is free
In Common Lisp this is just let, where the variables are dynamic variables.

(There is a dynamic binding operator called progv, but the situation for that is when the variable names are computed.)
If I brought my employer bad press or just made myself enough of a bother with complaints about their tabs vs. spaces dictate I could be fired.
How long would it take to crack your password?
Great program, happy to see it expand to Oakland!
I know you were asking rhetorically, but there are still reasons to own a vehicle, even in a world with L5 autonomy.

A pretty big thing you can do is keep stuff in there. This is perhaps a nice-to-have for many people, but for certain use-cases it's mandatory (ie a general contractor who keeps their tools in their truck.)

There's also the idea of doing clandestine things[1] in your car which you don't want some data vacuum to pick up.

Some people like racing, and/or doing work on their engines as well.

And of course, status symbols remain "in", this year and likely for the foreseeable future.

L5 autonomy does away the "typical" use-cases of personally owned vehicles (ie, move a person and maybe a few light goods a short to medium distance), which is great. Not everyone owns their vehicle purely as a point-to-point human transporter, though.

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[1]: (Like planning surprise parties) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu5b_jYWVcQ&feature=youtu.be