skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This could indicate the need for a company like Airbnb that proactively markets to people who think this way. Markets abhor a vacuum.

If companies become political, then they should expect competitors who will use politics as a market differentiator. They should also expect customers to differentiate between their options based on politics as well.
Outrage over Google memo goes too far
>I'm speaking of the mob members who simply agree with certain absolutist and easily manipulated notions. (Like: "Hate speech is violence", or "we should never question someones claim of being emotionally hurt"). Simply believing in these notions make prone to mob aggression in support of authoritarianism.

Do you have anything to support that notion?

We are all prone to mob aggression. That is the whole problem with mobs. It allows the individual to disconnect themselves from the actions of the whole. Any large group of people has the potential to turn into a mob.
I don't take too much of an issue with this. It's clear that the current system isn't working well enough, evidenced by the low graduation rates and high student loan burdens, so I don't see what's wrong in trying out a new approach and measuring the results. If this doesn't work, then I think we should try something else.

Ultimately we need to change the way we fund education, but that a whole lot more complicated.

For those who disagree, I'd definitely like to read why over just a vote in either direction.
^this

So many great shows too. Such an awesome resource for fans.
California has a three-tier system

* University of California - real college

* California State University - college lite

* Community colleges - advanced high school
>Because we all know that software estimation is a solved problem. Particularly with non-technical managers.

Oh wonderful. They don't do estimates at your company then?

This was explained to me by one of my professors 20 years ago. There are two types of company mentalities:

A: The high school mentality. You show up 8 to 5 but it doesn't really matter what gets done.

B: The college mentality. You pass or fail based on how well you do on the test. Show up if you want, or don't.

The way I see it, if your manager can't tell if you are productive, he or she has no business being a manager and they are the problem.
Edit: New accounts cannot reply so I rewrote my comment

I'm talking about equality in terms of attributes. The distribution of traits in males and the distribution of traits in females, are not equal. So I will not say males and females are equal. They do qualify as equivalent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_relation

I believe people should be treated as individuals, if you take two distinct persons A and B, I don't believe they are equal. The only person equal to person A is person A. On this vein, you can't say Group A is equal to Group B, unless Group A and B are the same group.

You can apply equivalence relations to groups, which is basically a lower threshold for equality.
> They fired him for making women and minorities at google feel unwelcome due to their gender and ethnicity respectively. That's a violation of the company code of conduct and kind of a dick move

And also creates a situation which potentially exposes the company to legal liability under state and federal laws if not addressed, independent of company policy; hostile work environment based on sex or race is itself employment discrimination under the law.
Could be engaged..?
I ran the tests myself a while back.

http://imgur.com/0G3qbpr

One thing that really surprised me was that my terminal emulator made even things like nano or neovim have high latency.

I suspect that most people don't really care that much about the difference between 30 and 10, but care whenever the latency spikes to 60-70 (which is more likely in VSCode and especially Atom, compared to neovim).
Bear in mind that everybody loves something, even if it's just beer, or ice cream, or criticizing other people.

'Love' means giving something full attention (metaphorically speaking, to "open your heart fully" to that something).

Btw, this Roald Dahl extract from 'The Twits' is relevant to visual attraction:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/e8/54/ef/e854...
In the future when I do my next job hunt I'm giving serious extra consideration to any company with private offices or high wall cubes even if the comp is worse. Open office plans suck. It's time these companies start being penalized
There are endless free programming, math, and other educational videos on YouTube. It just requires a small change in one's perspective on what is "entertainment". :)
Okay, so your argument is that it's "fake news" because Gizmodo nefariously stripped hyperlinks while openly telling everybody about it? Or was that note added later?

I still think it's clearly attributable to ignorance rather than malice because presenting the text of a document is not uncommon to do; the fact that it changed the tone of the memo is unfortunate, but doesn't make the news "fake"
They can't be racially diverse if they are white. If you mean educationally diverse, you're just trolling.
Heinlein, Friday

When it was noted that Californians with college degrees earned more than those with high school diplomas alone, the California voters passed a law granting all citizens a bachelor’s degree upon graduation from high school.
Critical Flaws Found in Solar Panels Could Shut Down Power Grids
They all need to figure out how to interoperate. It's not just all the services it's all the devices that can only connect to 3 out of the 5 services
Understand about not having the time, but maybe you could create issues (https://github.com/stripe/stripe-dotnet/)?
That post was sarcasm, but it was incredibly intelligent sarcasm. Irony tends to be one of the higher forms of comedy when well executed.
I owned some QC25s for a while and also found that they're useless when it comes to voices.

The solution I've found to voices is IEMs, those in ear headphones. I'm currently using a pair of Etymotic ER4SR with the foam tips that came with them and I can't hear a thing when I'm in the office. They're not as good for deep ambient noise like the rumbling of a bus or train engine but I haven't found anything nearly as good when it comes to voices.

The stock foam can get a bit uncomfortable for a while though so I'd recommend getting some Comply branded tips, which I find much more comfortable and close to as good. In the end though, I ended up paying for custom molded silicon tips, which by all reports I should barely be able to feel at all, let alone experience discomfort with. Still waiting for them to arrive though.
I think you missed the sarcasm
> I suspect it's the fact that his PR event caused by the memo

In which case they should be firing the people that leaked it outside google. At the moment it seems as though they are rewarding the leakers (who I suspect disagreed with the memo) by giving them what they want.
ipfs?
How I overcame my Bitcoin investment fears and just created a goddamn wallet
I make it a point not to spoil interview questions I'm currently using to bunker bust folks who know all the usual answers.

Sorry. ;)
> What "political movement" did the guy they fired represent?

Extreme liberalism. The same condition sadly afflicting much of media.

> "Half the world's population is unsuitable for technical work because of their gender" is bigoted nonsense.

Where did he say that? You are quoting it as if he wrote it, so please point out where he wrote those exact words. The fact you are making things up and misattributing it to him is rather disturbing.

>Bottom line: the core thesis of the "manifesto" was on par with eugenics, anti-vaxxer propaganda, or anti-climate FUD

So point it out.

You make outlandish claims but provide no specifics. It's almost as if you are making things up to further your agenda.

Also, feminists claim half the world's population is not fit enough to compete with men in baseball, football, soccer, hockey, tennis, etc and therefore need their own leagues/tournaments. Are these feminists sexists?
> I know what he meant.

No, you don't. By your extremely aggressive tone, I can see that not only you completely misunderstood my post, but also was offended by it.

Not only that, you don't even seem to think that maybe you don't know, that there are different ways to voice and interpret messages.

I'm not making an appeal to emotion, I'm explaining that perhaps you can't comprehend why people act in a certain manner because you're not in their place. That is normal, we all do it. It has nothing to do with gender or skin color, just with not being in the place of the other person.

I even tried to make it very clear:

> Also, please don't think that I'm judging you or saying that you're a bad person because of it. We all share the same difficulties, and that doesn't make us better or worse, just humans.

But you just chose to ignore it and believe in your own truth.

So not only you don't know what I meant, you intentionally ignored my clarification and decided to create your own reality. And I'm sure that no matter what I say, you'll continue to claim that I just mean to offend you.

Well, if the cap fits, wear it.
Community colleges are simply lower division; they have guaranteed transfer programs to both University systems, and arguably stronger lower-division programs because they have better lower-division faculty-to-student ratios, and a pure teaching focus.
Oh, parts of PA are quite bad, though it's been a while since I drove there. Come to Southern California where there are all sorts of on/off ramps that are only on a single side of the freeway and have 90-degree turns followed by essentially zero merge area onto a 65MPH speedlimit.
They fund it because they wanted a language to suit specific goals and be purpose built to address certain problems. Why does anyone make anything? To solve a specific set of problems -- positive side effects are a bonus, such as the solution being general purpose enough that it can be used for other tasks/problems too.

Ansible has one goal in mind: configuration management. It can also talk to my toaster and send a Tweet when I pop some bread in there. I guess Ansible is a "general purpose" configuration management tool, except it's not :-)

Terraform can be used to run a PowerShell script on a Windows box it never provisioned. I guess it's a scripting framework now.

I think Go can be used as a general purpose language, but that's not how I see its design ethos. It caters to that crowd, but does have an underlaying goal I believe.

As long as people are happy and things are working for them then all is well, I guess.
jeff sessions justice department?
Also, some companies haven't bought in to the whole "technology" thing just yet. I've left positions solely because I knew that if I stayed there for too long I would be completely out of touch with what the modern world is doing to fulfill their technology needs.

I can't imagine I'd make the same decision had the company's code base not been worthy of consideration for an exhibit in a museum.
I'm not sure where "equivalent" came from, and haven't really heard it used in this context before. What do you mean by that?

Anyway, I think you've got it backwards. "Equivalent" suggests that men and women are functionally interchangeable, which neither of us believes. "Equal", on the other hand, has a long history of being used to carry social and political meaning.
All that stuff would emit blackbody radiation if it were regular matter, and we'd be able to see it.
Yes, I understand that. I spent a decade of my life building a startup in this space. If you have an angle on how to change copyright law then I'm all ears.
The main point is correct.

But observables are very different from promises at the core. Not only are they cached, but they're also eagers, while observables are not. The very minimum implementation of an observable is just a few lines of code. Promises...are much more complex. So I'm not sure how reusing operators between the two efficiently would work.

So yeah, just use observables. Most people think observables are a more complex, higher level abstraction with promises being the primitive, simple one. It isn't true though. Observables are much, MUCH simpler, and are perfectly suited to doing everything promises do, but better (lazy, optionally cached async primitive is way better).
Your theory is not based upon sound economics. If everyone was colluding in the way you describe to pay themselves more, then a situation would emerge where companies that didn't comply with this conspiracy would be significantly more profitable than those that did.

Note that, although managers may wish to throw money around because it's not theirs, shareholders view every penny spent on salaries as an expense that eats into their profits. They have an incentive to insist on lower employee salaries whenever possible, and they're typically the ones who make the rules in most firms.

Also, if situations like that could exist, you wouldn't only see them in the US.
I hadn't covered security because at the time, it wasn't a major point of comment in the discussions. However, now that several people brought it up, it's useful to discuss.

I'll refer you to this page on the site, https://mongoose-os.com/docs/overview/security.html. It'll give you a pretty good overview of where the teams head is at. Mongoose is using ARM mbedTLS with a few patches to optimize for small memory constraints. Theres support for quite a few of the most common crypto chips which are used. All the supported cloud platforms (AWS, GCP and Adafruit I/O) as well as the mqtt support and local http/ws support all have the options to turn enable tls. The greatest think, imho is that its possible to fully encrypt the flash on the espressif chips. For those who don't know, those chips are pretty prolific in IoT and AFAIK mongoose is the only platform (aside from the Espressif SDK itself) which can do that. So pretty keen on security.

Your point about automatic device update being hacked is just FUD. There are can be multiple attack vectors on any given device, and thats why great security doesn't just happen, it has to be a pervasive part of the underlying philosophy of the platform. All the sound bases are kind of covered here, encryption on almost every level, from the application level to the transport level to the flash itself.
in my opinion they don't need to BE programmers but they need to be ABLE to program.

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=398

relevant song by scott aaronson
> people try to magic up a new copyright law which does what they think it should, and are honestly shocked when their forms of words are worthless.

Yeah, silly people. Remember email in the early 1990's? It was clear that copying email messages from disk to memory, and memory to frame buffer, constituted copyright "copies". And that no implicit grant of permission existed. So after Berne, unless there was an explicit grant in an email, copying it from disk to screen was a copyright violation. Various organizations attached footers to outgoing emails stating the terms under which they could be used, but most didn't. And yet silly, silly people - they just ignored the legalities and continued reading their emails each morning. It's like they thought they could just do something reasonable, establish a societal norm, and copyright law would eventually adapt to it. Silly people. Oh, and forwarding, without distribution right! And display, without performance right. And more recently, Pinterest! So, people have been confused for decades. So many people just don't understand how the law works, and how it evolves.
I worry about how much it increases my environmental footprint. I have an entire house of climate control being used for the sake of one person. I have lights in the house being used for one person. Sure I don’t commute by car, but I’m willing to bet commercial HVAC systems are more efficient per person and commercial lighting systems are more efficient per person and all of the other things that go into an office are more efficient per person when they’re being shared by 100+ other people.

I haven’t done any math on it, but it’s something I do worry about.
>Now, are you saying we shouldn't let bright kids from bad schools get into college?

Show me where I implied that.
I think it's more complicated than that. They didn't get along - evidenced by the fact he gave up almost $15M in guarantees to opt-out.

https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2017/3/1/14599712/colin-kaepern...

There's a lot of other issues here - it's unfair to say he got "fired" because of what he did last year. He's been very bad lately - huge dropoff since he went to the SuperBowl.
My Sennheiser HD280 Pros are pretty good, and as a bonus the cable is durable enough that I can use them to lasso uncooperative coworkers while I'm listening to music.
We're going one step better at my work with our new/future office, "Activity Based Working". All the trappings of "open plan" but with even more features to make Government work more soul-crushing and complicated.

One office, with desks for 80% of the staff (because the other 20% need to take the hint and resign). Each desk only has one monitor, keyboard, and a mouse. If you've got certain ergonomic requirements, or need a colour accurate monitor, or a large monitor, or several monitors then you're just a naysayer who is obviously not productive enough to understand the ways of the future.

No one 'has' a desk, instead you grab your laptop out of your locker each morning and go find one. Or you might be allocated a desk via a morning raffle, not sure on this one yet. At the end of each day you clean every surface with alcohol wipes, which you then queue up to place in the singular bin that services the 300ish staff. Anyone who sits at the same desk twice will have to complete "Activity Based Working" training, in much the same way intoxicated road users may attend a DUI class.

There will also be no car parks for staff, who are being encouraged to use public transport. The fact that this public transport doesn't actually exist yet is just a "growth opportunity", but who's growth we're referring to here is not yet clear.

This might all sound like a joke, but the sad thing is it's 100% serious. Literally all of the above has been set in stone by minister that our department reports to.
Assemblies and associations with names like "Nazi uber" and "Hate van"? No thanks. Shut it down.
I know I'm weird, but I don't recall ever in my career wanting to use a whiteboard
cal poly slo is a pretty decent school
That's not anywhere close to true.
And now they destroy his life... A clear message to everyone: If you want equality you are a racist misogynist nazi and you are not allowed to exist.

They literally think this guy is a Nazi who wants to commit Genocide on non-Whites.
Right, so if people want the convenience, they are going to have to get off their wallets. Broadcast was so cheap because we had central distributions with set times and they just shot it out there and you could watch if you want.

I'd rather providers compete on content and service so I can drop people who shove commercials in my face.

People have spent years complaining about all the channels and nothing to watch and this trend starts to reverse that because the providers are going to have to compete in content.
yes the cc3200 is a difficult platform to deal with, but one that is very popular due to the proliferation of the boards, the excellent battery life capabilities and the number of inbuilt sensors. The support for it isn't totally baked yet, at last as far as my last go-round with it, but it is being actively worked on.
I don't like it when people try to emotionally manipulate me.

Dorsen is threatened with a beating as he works in heavy rain

It's almost a cliche. There may be a horrible injustice going on here, and if so it really deserves better reporting. Give me some numbers, some sense of scale. Is this a widespread problem?
Is Amazon Prime a "gadget"? Being able to not think about delivery speed or shipping costs is such a relief for me. I can pretty much order things as I need them instead of having to plan around going to a store or ordering a week+ ahead of time.
The universe of human endeavor is not a line between backwardness and progress. Social medial platforms could evolve into more robust means of communication, tools of brutal oppression, advertising-saturated hellscapes, monuments to human vanity, or slightly more advanced contacts lists. They already are most of these things and more. What direction or combination of directions this technology takes will be determined by 'idealists' and 'drivers'. These will not be the people sitting on the sidelines and cheering, but rather the cynical, dissatisfied, and imaginative people who have the capacity and desire to envision a tech landscape dramatically different than the one we currently occupy.
because money is a bet against bets against bets (the day before and the day after snap IPOed--was $25 billion really created? Where did it come from--and where does it go?)

And part of how the money supply has billion-xed since 2000 and no one seems to notice
Few in the middle believe these rights obligate a private company to host objectional material.
I think if a company offered an open office plan with the option to remote full time, you might be the only person in the office. :)
> The life expectancy gap has continued to close since we started measuring it, nationally and globally.

This article is referring to the US, not the whole world. In the US, the life expectancy gap is increasing between the rich and the poor:

http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article...

Life-expectancy is also not the end-all of health care, just one indicator. Prior to the CHIP program, many poor children had no access to preventative health care at all.

> more people are college educated today than at any time in the past. In the recent past, only the elite could afford college. This gap has only been closing

More people have degrees, but the goal-posts have also moved considerably and a college degree (depending on the type) doesn't have nearly the value in terms of job prospects that it used to have. Just citing the degree rate doesn't provide any of that very important context.

When it comes to primary and secondary education, the gap between rich and poor is considerable and persistent:
http://news.stanford.edu/2016/04/29/local-education-inequiti...

> Both poor and rich homes are similarly good at keeping out weather conditions, at heating, cooling, having bathrooms, kitchens.

Take a drive through a very poor section of a city or rural area, say in the rust belt or in a rural area, and you will find that this is often not the case. Beyond the home itself, these locations often have worse infrastructure: buckled roads and in recent cases contaminated water.

> The gap is small as-is. I see little reason to close it further.

No doubt, for people who think as you do, all of the above disparities are totally acceptable, a natural state of affairs, and we as a society should just stop any efforts to further mitigate them.