skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...and for those who are paying $150, $130 of it goes to lawyers and people trying to get laws passed to allow them to sabotage any real competition before it even becomes a problem. facepalm
Believe it or not, there are large teams with a vast majority of competent people.
IO performance: Is that really an SSD?
"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."
They have that nausea-inducing sound beam thing. I was wondering what a head-mounted version would weigh. Maybe integrate with an eye-tracker.

Or a decibel meter hooked up to some old hag librarian robot that rolled around shrieking "SSSSHHHHHHH!"
A 'worst-case' for discrimination against men seems very likely far less severe than the current state of discrimination against women where 9:1 ratios are not unheard of. And this is certainly a wonderful opportunity for debate and may not be correct, it currently is not proven to be incorrect by any stretch, and thus it cannot be claimed that the hiring practices are discriminatory.

You can't compare the population ratios of engineers to the population ratios in the general population. You have to compare it to the population ratios in the applicant pool. Google does not control the world, and it isn't desirable that they do so. The gender gap in the tech industry is as concerning as the gender gap among garbage collectors. If you don't care the same amount about both, you're being hypocritical.
In nerd speak, programmers are like the Jedi in star wars. When a great wrong is committed against the Jedi, they feel a disturbance in the force.
I have none of those accounts, ghost or otherwise. I don't intend to either. Does this doom me forever to be a suspicious person?

Why can't it simply indicate that I have no interest in sharing my personal life with those companies?
This. And the negative corollary: if you always chose the rad work, and leave your devs the menial work, you're gonna have a bad time.
Here's a streaming search I like, that lets you sort by RT/Metacritic score.

https://www.cinesift.com/ by reddit user yombato (not sure of their hn alias)
1. Less than a year if you are at the beginning of your career in one of the tech hub.
There is a lot more to it than the monthly rate. There are also those terms of service.

To give you an example of what I mean: Netflix lets me subscribe and unsubscribe at whim. If they looked at my profile, they would also understand that changing that would result im my abandoing them altogether. I watch a low volume for a while, my viewing drops off for a while, then I unsubscribe for a while. Keeping track of the terms that allow me to do this is easy because it is one company. Now imagine that there were multiple companies that I subscribed to. Keeping track of those terms of service would change from an inconvenience to a pain. Seeming as most of them are traditional media companies, I also have far less trust in them. Adding 'activation fees', 'deactivation fees', and 'annual contracts' is in their blood. My apologies for the paranoia, but I have dealt with unilaterally changing agreements before.

My response to them would be: thanks but no thanks. Their services/content are not important enough for me to deal with the headache of entering into an agreement with each studio.
And all of that falls under Crappy Environment.
Niven's short story characters always seemed to be celibate men with no friends who owned a spaceship for some reason, vs. a high school physics problem. (see Neutron Star)

Did have a pretty good run around Ringworld or Integral Trees, which could be good with rewrites, though I think he went on to become such an "I'm so smart" skeptic type he turned into a global warming denialist?
The only thing I really see working for customers is a la carte for individual shows - say 0.50 for a kids cartoon up to $5 for a new release blockbuster.

Subscription is an annoying mess. Netflix movie selection is so bad now that I don't really expect them to have what I want. Kids shows that used to be on Netflix are no longer there.
The weeks-away(?) new Microsoft-associated 1440x1440/eye headsets will be an improvement over the Vive/Rift 1080x1200 PenTile.

Higher risk, but almost "retina", is foveated displays like Varjo http://www.ubergizmo.com/2017/06/varjo-20-20-vr-headset/ http://www.kguttag.com/2017/07/10/varjo-foveated-display-reg... .
If you actually had solved this problem you'd be a trillionaire, alas.
As it happens, this isn't the case. Sun introduced NFS in SunOS 2, which unsurprisingly had the BSD view of load averages and did count NFS IO as short-term waits. A NFS server with problems could send client load averages up to monstrous levels (a load average of several hundred was not unusual, all of it from processes waiting for the NFS server) and many sysadmins got to see this first hand at the time.
People will definitely turn to piracy if it becomes too difficult/fragmented to watch the content they want to watch.

As a result, for these services to be successful, we'll probably see some renewed fighting against piracy and some work toward increasing regulation on the internet. Unfortunately, the political climate is probably pretty good in the US right now for Disney and other big content creators to start pushing for these.
People quit because the modern, zero-loyalty, everyone-for-hire company does not provide a long term strategy for providing intrinsic motivation (autonomy, mastery, purpose); they don't want to pay for retention and therefore don't provide perks for retention.

The culture around ROI is a massive factor. Too short? Too long? It has to be balanced.

Another belief I hold: most people want to be told what to do.. to a certain degree. That's the trick.

The political way of phrasing this is that leadership also has to be balanced. Too much results in predictability and people getting bored. Too little results in people feeling lost.
True, this is why I work on a 43" screen in an open office. I can't see ANYTHING but screen!
CDN costs of serving HD movies at scale aren't trivial.
Wait you're saying that of you take the top 100 women and the top 100 men in chess, who've been given the best of everything to succeed, that you can still distinguish performance on this intellectual task merely on the basis of sex?

What are we going to do to solve this problem? Perhaps we should encourage more women in chess and train them better from all early age.

Chess is sexist! Why do we even encourage things like chess in this enlightened age.

And only a sexist person would bring up chess in this discussion. Atone!

/s
If it was true then yes. If you find reality offensive then that's your problem to deal with.
How about open the site and do something???

Click a few links. Read the text. Buy something.

You're not thinking of delivering a site without doing the most basic QA, are you?
Indeed. There someone that is perceived worse than being assigned menial/boring work: when your manager doesn't even want to assign it, fearing losing "cool points".
How would one go about removing the pops and clicks from recorded audio programmatically?

I really like some of the audio here but it needs some post processing. The only thing I can find to do it is audacity and it doesn't look very friendly to scripting.
> but it still kills a lot of spontaneous conversations.

Yes, I think that's the point.
Nah, in this case it's good sarcasm, if someone doesn't get it they need to work on their sarcasm detector:

http://www.wikihow.com/Detect-Sarcasm-in-Writing
You've done all the hard work here, really appreciate your release that gave me a fun Saturday night!

My part took all of four hours to write, setup, deploy and post.

At this point I'm going to pull the stream down, been going 5 days now with a few crashes in Doom that are getting a little frustrating to debug.

Thanks again! This was great fun!!
I will never pay for YouTube Red. When an unskippable ad starts playing, I just look away. Most of the time, I realize that I'm wasting time watching idiotic YouTube content, and I quit the app. In this, they're actually lessening my addiction to their platform in that they're giving me a break to consider if I should keep watching or not.
shrug - they're a billion dollar company so maybe it wasn't that bad a decision.

We're planning on using stripe (with our .NET code base) and if they didn't have an api - we would have simply used their REST api. We weren't going to switch to another payment processor just for a wrapper around the web service.

Also - the .NET ecosystem is large - but how many .NET-based products are there (that would take payments via Stripe)? It's got to be a small percentage right?
relative to their immediate competitors, yes they have a fairly big library. but in absolute terms, the chances that a random movie i want to watch is available on netflix is already pretty low. losing the disney catalogue isn't going to significantly change that.

my favourite movie piracy website claims to have 32 times as many movies as US netflix does.
yes it is. put up a site, write a white paper (even one that doesn't make any sense), create an ERC20 token and you can raise lots of money.
Not to dispute your claim that it's low, but the physics checks out.
The cited link saves me explaining it:
>Reports are 300 W/mile at 55 mph. If you do the product of these two numbers (300 * 55) all units but W will cancell eachother out so the answer is 16500 W = 16.5kW

The time component being on the mph allows the conversion.
Those pops and clicks are part of the charm!
4 cents/mile is roughly in line with rates for traditional auto insurance today. And as these rapid improvements are likely to continue, these costs will quickly come down.

Sure you can imagine some class action / criminal legal disaster but the auto industry has survived repeated scandals. Corporate criminal negligence is extremely rare.

In five or ten years this technology could be saving 100,000 lives every year. I hope we are not so risk adverse that these benefits are needlessly delayed.

http://www.insurance.com/auto-insurance/auto-insurance-basic...
That particular post is listed by Scott as one of his "top posts." at http://slatestarcodex.com/about/
I suspect Yonatan Zunger would argue that James Damore broke the peace by writing something that hurt people.

(Whether it's true or not is irrelevant in that case; a hurtful truth is still hurtful.)

That would be my first objection to this theory. If tolerance is a peace treaty, then it's easy to argue that the slightest breach of the peace merits the severest response, as a diplomatic insult might lead to a shooting war.
Well, it already happened as I said, except for pirated content.
The mobile version is generally okay, but it takes way way much more than safari to start up, which absolutely sucks when you just when to quickly look something up.
I mostly work from my home, which is self-sufficient for water (rain tanks) and heating (firewood), produces its own electricity (solar), has its own septic, produces some of our fruit and veggies and all of our eggs, with virtually no food waste that is not fed to the animals and low amount of landfill waste (you really think about it when you take it to the tip yourself). I occasionally commute to the local coffee shop by bicycle, or drive to the beach, and work digital-nomad style on mobile internet.

Then I jump on a plane to my employer's office every few weeks.

I wonder how that stacks up?
It's implicit in the thesis. It's there in the very first fucking line if you use [0] source.

Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don’t have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership. Discrimination to reach equal representation is unfair, divisive, and bad for business.

The fundamental disconnect between people like the OP and companies like google is over the the idea that there is an untapped well of talent locked away in groups under represented in the space. That's the whole reason these diversity programs exist.

You can look no farther than the countless blog posts on how hard interviewing and sourcing candidates that get upvoted here. Candidate acquisition is hard and expensive and it is not helped by exclusionary hiring practices. [1]

As much as we'd love to live in a world where we all spoke lojban and full meaning in language was implicitly clear, we're stuck with English so context and tone matter.

At best you have a tone deaf person writing a tasteless memo full of bad science and incorrect assertions, at worst you have all the toxic thinking that makes a lot tech such awful places to work. Engineering deserves better than bad math and dog whistles. It's really hard to argue "discrimination" when as a white guy in tech every team you're on will be full of people like you, think like you, hire like you and all the existing metrics are designed based around how you were raised. Like, there really is nothing in this world easier, than being a white dude in tech in my experience so it's very difficult to take any thing said there in good faith.
underrated.

But seriously, open office is the devil incarnate. I don't see how it can foster communication, unless you think communication is to distract some people, so some other people can look like they're doing something.
anyone using microsoft or apple operating systems deserves to be infected anyway. maybe that's a bit harsh.
Maybe they'll have Disney exclusive content and a variety of non-exclusive content licensed from others. Like the current Netflix model.
I disagree because I know a lot of geeky women who don't like geek culture because it is hostile to women. In my life, I haven't noticed a difference in gender when it comes to someone being a "geek" or not. I'm not sure how to gather broader evidence really, though F/M ratios in hard sciences requiring quite a lot of "geek" are much higher than in computer science.
Honestly, given that it's an open floor plan, it looks nice to me.
Given that its neighbors' top two electricity sources seem to be Nat Gas and Nuclear, seems probable that most of the electricity comes from those sources
BAMTech valued at $3.75B following Disney deal
http://elpj.com
I keep the Netflix DVD service, which lets me watch whatever I want (with a year lag).
Not even close. Mozilla has been windows-centric for years. While they've kept Linux support really well, and most features make it, windows tends to be the first platform they address.

Under the hook, it's extra windowsy. For example, they just dump config/cache/etc in a way similar to what's done on windows, and refused to support the XDG spec, which most desktop apps use.
We wrote an intro to AI/ML for Sec pros book [pdf]
I remember a time when classism in tech was a hot topic, but it's rarely discussed anymore.

What happened?
Google must be a pretty interesting place to work in with an opt in group for these types of discussions. I guess that could be good but it seems like their informality might be coming to bite them.

Maybe I've just been exceptionally good at picking professional places to work at but I've never heard comments like the ones you've mentioned. Why not go to HR? Those are pretty strong statements.

My understanding is our harassment laws are pretty strong. During a sexual harassment compliance training at one of my companies, I learned that the fastest growing sexual harassment cases are men suing men. (If I remember it correctly) for things like feeling pressured to have acted more manly. And they win. The laws in this country are incredible and add enormously to the productivity we have in our companies.
> You don't have to be a structural engineer to build a house ;)

No, but you're going to need one on call.

I'm reminded of when when I was still living at home and my parents had an extension and garage conversion done.

Two builders did the whole thing, one in his late 40s and one in his 60s, and for the most part everything they did was just grunt work with very little need for craftsmanship. It's just banging together stud timbers, pouring concrete, digging holes, laying and packing store bought materials etc. Sure there's a lot of experience behind doing that safely and efficiently, but it's not rocket science and nothing a confident DIY enthusiast couldn't read-up on as they went along.

However there were 3 times when they had to call in experts. 1) a bricklayer (a surprisingly impressive craft if you don't want your house to look like shit). 2) roofers (you definitely don't want a roof laid by amateurs) and 3) a structural engineer to advise on (and to sign-off on) reinforcing a supporting wall that held up part of the new roof.

Software isn't that different. You need someone who really knows their shit for maybe 20% and the rest you can sort of palm off and can be done by any of ours peers with just a few years experience.
Cable channels are also funded by ads, though.
Do you have any evidence to support your claim that "every accident is different in its own way?"
>I'd have to sign up for 6 different services in order to add up to my previous budget.

that's a good point. but for comparison, in 2004 my cable budget was zero because i was in high school and living with my parents. In college we shared hard drives full of movies around the dorms, and ever since i've lived on my own my tv/movie budget has been some combination of netflix and piracy that added up to less than $10/month. The ship may have sailed on people being willing to spend $60-100 per month on TV.
There's a sequal to toy story and frozen?! Wow! Who knew
Perhaps 'organised' rather than 'well-organised'? But the point is that 'India' has a national government (and a cricket team, and an army, etc), and 'Africa' has nothing of the sort.
For an average investor a "1000-employee company" sounds much more impressive than "10-employee company", even if the revenue is the same and the rest 990 folks are browsing catgifs most of the time. Kinda like hiring film extras.
Is your username not a reference to his arm?
Liberals / progressives keep missing the point - silencing your opposition and calling them names only shows how weak your side of the argument is. That's how you get 4 more years of Trump.

Fight bad ideas with better ideas, better arguments.
You and I both know that no MBA with delusions of grandeur is going to pay attention to Peopleware.
There usually is no explicit treaty. That's why it's a hard problem. People become so used to those around them being mostly reasonable* most of the time that when white supremacists show up to promote genocide, no specific line has been crossed, so those around them just continue to act like this is just another thing to be 'tolerated'.

(*reasonable by mainstream standards, which already allows for a lot of unreasonable stuff, like billionares polluting the environment in the name of profit, which is somewhat related in that not bothering to define what is okay and what isn't contributes to the persistence of some really bad problems)
It's established to be a CONTRIBUTING factor.

What makes it controversial is that we can't know HOW MUCH it contributes.

It's very bad to use this factor as a basis for discrimination.

It's awesome to use differentiating factors that we already know of to make our collective spaces better and more accepting of everyone.
On the contrary, there are more common types of accidents and learning from those will prevent future incidents with some probability.
I imagine you will eventually be offered progressively large discounts to add more streaming services:

Netflix: $12 per month

Disney: $15 per month

Netflix + Disney: $22 per month
We know what will happen, though: studios will spend $ on content and $ on their streaming service, and $$$ trying to stifle competition and consumer rights. If they had instead spent $$$ on content and $$ on their service, people would pirate much much less, but somehow they don't see that or can't / won't run the real numbers.
I won't comment on who the project is. It's not my goal to bad mouth anyone. I just wanted to share my experience.
This made me laugh out loud. Thanks.

Also wow, what a time capsule that picture is in terms of office style and computer hardware.
Heh, so Google's own projects run into Google rate limits too.
It's not really a mystery. The EPA and Monsanto have known why for 3+ decades.
>$36K is pretty close to average car price in the US now:

You have to keep in mind that $36k 'average' number is highly inflated by luxury purchases. Most people end up spending closer to $20k. I think when they hit below that magical $19,995 number we will see massive adoption.
This site so janky on iOS.
I was thinking recently of that net neutrality pretend graphic showing different websites available for different fees the way premium cable channels have traditionally been offered. [1]

I realized that with or without net neutrality, content providers will find a way to charge us individually for access to their content. This story seems to add support to that notion.

[1] https://m.imgur.com/5RrWm
Oops. Maybe he can go back to Apple now :D
For example, Neil DeGrasse Tyson once quite regularly told people that if the ice caps melt, the water level will be above the elbow of the statue of liberty. As far as I can tell, this does not match the models, it doesn't make sense, and it makes everything these public "science guy" types say utterly suspect.

Not sure what your problem is here. The Statue of Liberty is 90M tall, and if Antarctica and Greenland melt then estimates are that sea level will rise between 60M and 70M.

It's unknown how likely the icecap melt is, but plenty of scenarios lead to significant ice-cap break up by 2100.
And look at Starz now! (TIL Starz has their own app to pay for and download their content)
"Agenda" itself has become a negative word in the US, and so that comment can be read as an attack itself. (I upvoted you in good faith.)
https://gowatchit.com/watch/movies/all-the-presidents-men-44...

Click "Watch the Movie" and it will show you several ways you can watch it (including all you've listed above and more).
Where will they get the money to bootstrap such a large production pipeline?
What escapes this whole shebang is the fact that his post went Viral inside google. Would he have been fired if it didn't?
Why, do you think that if we exit the EU things will become instantly better?

Actually most economists that I've read from very different camps agree that the main problem in EU is monetary union without political union. Specifically, European nations used to solve that kind of crisis devaluating currencies, now an impossible measure. So taking Greece completely out of the Union was a sensible proposition... among others. It wasn't the decision that was finally taken, but it doesn't seem so weird at all.

If you take some time to think about it, the problems that you mention in other comments like high pensions demand extremely hard measures to be solved. People won't give up what they consider their well-deserved rights so even if you plan to remove red tapes and throttle the public money tap, it would take a long time with strikes and social unrest everywhere. That kind of problems are never solved with fair measures unfortunately. So whatever you think Varoufakis was wrong about, I'm very sure nobody had a right answer for it, including the current path.

Best of luck, anyway.
Memorizing names and locations of cities and landmarks in a far-off country that you have no plan to visit, when those names and locations are instantly publicly available and there is an infinite number of more useful things to learn instead, is a waste of time.

Don't conflate being able to recite geographic info with knowledge. It's not knowledge, it's just... data.
This one is particularly baffling to me. $200,000,000 is a fortune.

We're all presumably working on our own startups here. Can you imagine getting $200,000,000 in seed funding without even starting on your project? Just absolutely WTF is going on there?
Looking at the Top 70 Altcoins by the Problems They’re Looking to Solve