skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I was really really good, I'd advance the state-of-the-art in neural network-based machine translation, recurrent neural network language models, neural Turing machines, etc.

Right now, the state-of-the-art is exciting but falls short in some world-changing areas like question-answering. As much as I want to, though, I have no idea how to push the field forward, however.

For the other things I want to do, I am probably sufficiently skilled to do, but I just need the time and motivation.
He claimed that Google's diversity policy lowered the bar for hiring, how can you read that and not think he was claiming that a portion of his female/minority coworkers were underqualified for their jobs?
It is Not really 'new' item when Amazon said 'new'
So I order CPU fan from Amazon/fulfilled by Noctua Cooling Solutions.

Today as 8/15/2017 I received it and opened it.. See what I got.. Surprise..

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-gf_viT8PGTT2FQcFZDQ1FkX0U/view

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-gf_viT8PGTYk9MQlV4MER3bms/view

- I ordered 'new' and is this new?
- What the , random weight??

1. Does Amazon now considering returned and opened item as 'new'?

2. Does even Amazon check inside returned item?

(Submitted email/phone to Amazon support and still waiting...)
This is weird. It says MoviePass will pay them the full ticket price when a pass holder goes to a movie in their theaters. Leaving aside how exactly that is supposed to work financially for MoviePass, what is AMC's actual problem with this? It's just a bunch of "not in the best interest of blah blah".
Well, I imagine that's an edge case. Most startups aren't handling money(sans payments ofcourse).
For a genetic study of prevalence of a genetic condition in Chinese males, you'd want a homogenous group of Chinese males.
> There is nothing natural about a dung learning to navigate using the stars.

Yes there is, it's perfectly natural as was just explained to you above. No magic required, simple evolution.

> An incredibly complex network of structures is more proof of a higher order.

No, it isn't. It's well established that very simple rules can create incredibly complex network of structures with no higher order whatsoever.

> Enjoy your belief in a perpetually self-correcting field of science and a perception of the world that never ceases to change. By definition, you'll never find peace.

Nonsense. If you require iron age superstition to achieve peace, that's you; others don't have that requirement.
And yet you parade largely debunked factoids as supporting evidence:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/04/...
> Is there evidence that Google's diversity efforts hurt the company?

Here's one example. Google has spent over a quarter of a billion dollars on diversity efforts in the last 3 years, and has barely moved the needle in terms of diversity in their workforce [0].

Some of that can be explained by long-term efforts that will take more than 3 years to show dividends, but not all of it, and given the lack of results, you'd think that it's worth considering if current efforts are addressing the actual problem or if they're just throwing money in the wrong direction.

You can't do that without questioning the current methods and examining other ideas, but when the reaction to questioning current methods and examining other ideas is to stifle discussion and say 'no, this is right, you are wrong, and btw you're fired', then you may well find you keep spending hundreds of millions of dollars, for little to no result.

You could argue that a quarter of a billion dollars is pocket change to Google (and it is) and therefore doesn't represent any real harm, but it's still a lot of money to throw around on something that might not actually solve the problem.

0: https://www.axios.com/googles-diversity-efforts-are-making-l...
Directly speaking, that's right. Indirectly, the latter statement is, of course, false in that libraries provide the means for anyone in society to raise their station and thus contribute more to GDP.

But I think you're making a good point that others are missing: The most valuable things in society are often things that aren't easily measured by straightforward means.
Ask HN: Website Builder suggestions or recommendations
I am looking to build an extremely simple website that essentially will have email contact information and a name with some other brief 'about' type information.

I was considering squarespace or wix but was wondering if anyone had some better wisdom or experience they can share. I fear implementing a django or jekyll type solution and would prefer an easier route.
I don't think the memo does that. I've not been convinced by anything I've read trying to indicate that it does. I am convinced that people saying it does seem to read more into it and are upset by perceived implications.

If I felt the memo implied or created that stereotype I'd denounce it as well.
Works for me. For future reference, isup.me
I'm not particularly religious, or superstitious, but I have to believe there is a special place in hell for those that would prey on the sick like this.
> Most door-close buttons in elevators and request-to-walk buttons at crosswalks serve no purpose other than to give us something to fidget with.

Ha, I was right! Wretched things.
We don't hire for language skills, so this will do nothing to persuade me. I am a lot more interested in someone who can own a problem and drive it to conclusion. Coding is part of it, obviously, but only one of many.
Not a fan of the product demo with random background music format, but seems useful.
great rant by Jordan Peterson on this topic that touches on work and work cultures that don't appeal to women: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eieVE-xFXuo
Huh, The Botany of Desire kind of lead me to believe this was already established. Any plant scientists in the house?
> Why is a debate worse than a discussion?

Debate works really well in two situations:

1. All parties are experienced with debates and enjoy debates. In particular, they can partake in a debate and then, afterward, dispassionately evaluate the arc of the debate; OR

2. The setting is inherently adversarial and there is a third party who will ultimately decide the outcome.

Almost all workplace conversations -- and indeed almost all life conversations -- do not fall into one of these two buckets. In particular:

1. Making use of debate in a search for truth is a difficult and non-universal skill.

For individual debaters to get something out of a debate, they need to know how to disengage from their advocacy and evaluate the arc of the debate from an objective vantage point. This is a skill that requires training. Discussions, on the other hand, allow people to perform this switching between viewpoints as the discussion unfolds. This is much more natural.

2. Adversarial settings create emotional attachment. In debates, people very often become emotionally attached to their arguments and advocacy, causing ego to get in the way of a search for truth. In contrast, discussions do not require a stable advocacy, they are non-adversarial, and no one "wins". These characteristics de-emphasize ego and place the emphasis on whatever actually important issue is at hand.

3. Debates often end up confusing quality of argument with ground truth.

It's always important to remember that constructing arguments is a skill and is time-consuming. It's certainly possible to "win" a debate and still be dead wrong about ground truths -- either by refining debating skill or by throwing more resources into argument construction.

4. Most people don't enjoy debates. I don't have any evidence here, but I think it's probably true. And in a work place, keeping your co-workers happy is probably a lot more important to achieving the company's goals than whatever epsilon benefit debate has over discussion.

Maybe if universities looked more like The Academy everyone would be competent and comfortable in debates, and also understand their inherent limitations as a mechanism in the search for truth. But that's not the world we live in.

So, although I enjoy a good debate as much as the next person, I've found that debates are a truly terrible method for making decisions in most professional settings.
For the lazy, because it takes some doing to figure out - this is in Seattle.
Air Canada, FAA hindered investigation of SFO near-miss
I'm amazed by the range of completion rates in that first scatter plot. Here are the Australian figures, for contrast. Note that living in the NT is strongly correlated with being Indigenous. (Indigenous Australians are the people formerly known as Aborigines.)

http://www.mitchellinstitute.org.au/fact-sheets/senior-schoo...
> it's rare these days for Intel to talk more than a generation ahead in CPU architectures.

This, to me, looks like the PS2 vs Dreamcast move, where Sony blocked Dreamcast sales with PS2 hype. We've been waiting for 10nm for a while now, and now Intel is essentially confirming "yes, it's really coming this time" where they might not have otherwise--it's hard to not see that as a reaction to Threadripper. At least on the surface, increased competition has led to increased transparency, which is good for consumers...or at least I'm happy knowing I have the option to avoid a big, hot, power-hungry chip if I want to.
Google isn't the only company hiring women.
> I don't see any mention of race in the memo

The memo is mostly about women, but race is mentioned several times in the memo - mostly in terms of training programs at Google that are only open to people of certain races.
So as a rough estimate if there would be 4 semesters , I would be spending roghly 1750 USD per semester . I know there would be some deviation. But is that a fair guess and financial planning ?
The memo didn't have that discussion either, welcome to the party.

The discussions are more like: is there a quota? Is the hiring bar being lowered? etc...
>But few really oppose the basic predicate of these removals: that private companies can and should be arbiters of permissible speech on their platforms.

I am proud to count myself among those few. Social media is the modern public square and must be treated as such.
The kid came way before this plan did :)
It (the linked statement) seems to read "we don't like this at all but it looks like there's nothing we can do about it right now, but we're sure going to look for a way to stop it".

The part they don't like is probably the general feeling that this will devalue their product. Ticket prices already "feel" high to the general public. Having advertised services out there (even if ultimately untenable) that drastically undercut standard prices will not help this perception at all.
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First, you've crossed over from criticizing delivery into criticizing content, so it's clear that's actually the part that offends you. What you're saying is that Damore shouldn't have delivered his opinion unless it was first made to match something reasonably close to your own opinion. There is nothing inherently "dishonest" or "perverted" about Damore's memo; that is a subtext that you are choosing to read in because you disagree with its conclusions.

If Damore had pined on the tragedy of the modern economic structure while exhaustively disclaiming every potential discriminatory implication before he began the memo, I guarantee people would've read just as much "intellectual dishonesty", "perverted reasoning", and "loads of bias" as they did now. In fact, they very likely would've read more, taking the content that initially appeared friendly to their POV as a sign that Damore had malicious intent and that he was attempting to hoodwink people by pretending to be "on their side".

As discussed below, if someone wants to dismiss something they don't like, airy, abstract terms like "perverted reasoning" will get bandied around no matter what. These terms are great precisely because their subjective interpretation allows the writer to sound semi-credible in their condemnation without having to specify further.

Damore was fired because once this hit the mainstream press, it was the only way for Google to preserve a strong defense against inevitable discrimination suits.
I just spent all day trying to manually wrangle SVG in the browser. I'd be happy with a good static SVG editor to be honest.
2017’s Generation of Static Site Generators (2016)
As some one who took a sociology 101 class in junior college... nothing in his memo is original/new/insightful. This is a classic nature vs nurture argument.
This may be true that the private system as a whole saves the government money. However, I'm not sure that the last dollar of subsidies spent on the private system saves the government any money at all - i.e. would someone switch to a public school if that dollar was taken away, or would the private schools just move the cost to the consumer who would bear it, or perhaps they might cut back on the indoor shooting range or second Olympic pool (in the case that the dollar is going to an elite private school)?

The argument about that last dollar obviously extends backward quite a way before becoming hugely disruptive or that big a deal. Obviously cutting all subsidies to the private system overnight would be an enormous disruption, but it's far from clear to me that the policy of subsidizing private schools at the current level saves the government any money at all.

As for keeping the government system honest - I think this works both ways. I think having people exercising "feet" rather than "voice" harms the public system by taking out people from participation. The argument is similar about selective public schools (I went to one). I see a lot of flaws in the public system too - tons! - and any strong movement back towards public education in Australia would have to be accompanied by some major changes in how they are run (IMO way too much for the convenience of mediocre teachers and even-more-mediocre bureaucrats).
Hard to believe Softhome.net is still around, and has changed little since 1996:

https://web.archive.org/web/19961226121720/http://www.softho...

Also funny that my email address I signed up for in 1996 with them is still active, even though I dont check it for years at a time.
By definition they helped Trump more in WI, MI and PA. Where MI, PA, and WI would have put Clinton over 270. Have there been any cases where Republicans would have won the presidency but 3rd parties were spoilers in a handful of states? I don't think so. Maybe in 1960.

Percentage increase is less relevant with Trump on the ballot, compared with the raw votes that swung the electoral college.

I am not saying don't vote for 3rd parties. I am saying if you're in a non-safe state for your 2nd preference, do vote trading with someone in a safe state or vote for your 2nd preference who has a better chance of winning. If you vote trade, your 3rd party candidate will still get the same percentage of votes nationwide, and your 2nd preference will actually win.

The combination of mass incarceration, the racist electoral college as it is, and the the demographics of the country make it seem likely that some pragmatic and tactical voting in non-safe states will go a long way for Democrats, at least that seems to be the lesson from the past two decades. Hacking the electoral college anyone?
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Internet Billionaire
That's a good roadmap for future discussion.

One must note that it is not a roadmap the left uses. Ever.
afaik an algorithm is literally a logical sequence of steps to produce some output. Whether the output is correct, or approximately correct, or even wrong, is irrelevant to the usage of "algorithm".

Which ofc is why we can say an algorithm is incorrect; correctness is not part of the definition.
Been going on in Boston for a few years.
This one at The Economist is also very good.

"The e-mail Larry Page should have written to James Damore"

https://www.economist.com/news/21726276-last-week-paper-said...
Well if you purchase a yellow book from 1994 I doubt you will find many businesses listed there to still exist and show correct phone numbers...
Yes this is true, although what happens when the profit motivated corporation doesn't make profits or loses revenue?

Isn't it more likely that a profit motivated OSS project will lose resources in this case, potentially affecting the product?
But you can't opt out of the problems with garbage collectors without dropping the language.
Yeah, that makes sense. This still leaves them in the position of griping about getting money when people see movies in their theaters, though.
Seems like you're arguing semantics, as the phrase could easily be changed to "current engineering culture" to invalidate your point.

If you find it objectionable to change the phrase in such away, consider the fact that, as a computer scientist, I went to school and took classes with many mechanical, civil, and electrical engineers. I'm still friends with them today. The cultures are intertwined.
One point that I do wholeheartedly agree with Damore on is that putting quotas in OKRs is a very bad idea. It's an easy feel-good number that can have all sorts of negative consequences. It casts doubt on every female hire, and IMO almost certainly invites bias in the interviewing process.
I'd recommend "Extreme Ownership" by Jocko Willink.
Yes, it's heavy on the military tone, the guy is a Navy SEAL.
But I found the advice in the book most applicable in my role as a leader and manager.
Don't confuse people's tendency to no longer bother looking past the top of the first page of Google with the internet somehow shrinking into whatever fits those slots. Of course the most popular sites now dominate the top of Google's search results, but Google isn't the internet any more than Facebook is.

The breadth and depth of information on the web now vastly surpasses what was available in 1994. Youtube and other video and music streaming sites have provided a media revolution to compare with the transition from radio to television. Social media, whatever its drawbacks are, allows people to communicate and collaborate far more personally than email or basic chatrooms would have.

And let's not even get into the ways that Javascript, HTML5 and Webassembly have and will transform the web into a platform in which virtual machines will converge to becoming just another content type. I know people here like to rend their garments and scream Javascript Delenda Est[0] into the void and just hope everything that happened to the web in the last 20 years just goes away, but the day is coming where all archived and obsolete code will have a URL endpoint that bootstraps a VM and runs it. The best the web of 1994 could do is file downloads, maybe Java applets and flash.

Sometimes the way people here seem to dismiss the modern web is baffling. I get it, but look at it from the point of view of the mainstream web user. The web offers access to so much more than would even have been possible in 1994, and lets people interact with one another on a much more direct and complex level.

Yes, the added richness and depth comes with a lot of baggage, but its undeniably there.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11447851

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14697520
??? Huh ???

You think most businesses are less than 24 years old? Or do you think businesses change phone numbers every few years?
You don't think it was going to stop if the pedestrian stepped out in front? If autonomous cars can't do that, they can't do anything.
Intelligent answers are hard to come by, that's why I too would write a a program capable of Spock like question answering facility.
The Rise of the Fidget Spinner and the Fall of the Well-Managed Fad
Thank god for Archive.org

This was my first professional website (19yrs ago!)
for the largest Banking Agency and holding company at the time:

DOREMUS https://web.archive.org/web/19980204230930/http://www.doremu...

DAS
https://web.archive.org/web/19981203013454/http://www.dasglo...

Sadly my 1st Print Interactive Award for best Shockwave site requires a plugin:
https://web.archive.org/web/19990429113419/http://www.eyebal...
The most impressive rabbit I've pulled out of the SVG hat in this regard is being given a 2.1MB logo and told that it had to appear full screen during the log in and be "crisp and not all jaggy".

Did it in about 900 bytes.
He's not advocating people rely on his server, he's saying hosting it himself allows him to quote freely without worry. If someone else wanted to quote him and followed his example, they would not have a problem when he died.
Peeves me to no end as well - FWIW, the Django version is:

{% now "Y %}
At this point real compute happens on the GPU. I think we'll see a shift to major apps being driven by GPGPU.

The CPU's performance has started matter less and less.
We attempted to do a complex animation in SVG and the primary complaint was that it killed the browser in terms of CPU and memory usage. Are we doing something wrong?
I was surprised recently that my wife knows who Ev Williams is (she's not technical at all, doesn't blog, and doesn't tweet). Surprised because he's not Gates/Jobs/Zuckerberg famous. Yet, I guess it makes sense because being responsible for blogging and Twitter is a pretty big footprint of influence even if he's a lot more low-profile and non-aggrandizing than those other guys.
It is not up-front, it is per-semester. I think there is a relatively small application fee ( $50? ). Once in, it is ~$500 per course plus ~$300 per semester. So if you take one course a semester it is ~$800 for the semester, if you take two courses per semester it is ~$1300. The program requires 10 courses to graduate. For some classes you will need to buy a book or two, but many do not have any required textbook, or use a book available online.
Your remarks seem like a collection of things you'd like to say, a bit of abuse ("pontificated", reiterates the guy who replied to my 5-liner with a rambling mini-essay about a large array of random education issues not connected to my post), and an appeal to authority (I'm not a teacher -so what?)

I am not proposing the private schools shut down. I would like to see them funded less (and suspect that we would continue to have a private school sector if they were not funded at all). I would like people to stop attributing the success of privates/selectives to the fact that they can admit who they like and kick out their problems.
Sounds like pinboard.io
> Anyone can relatively easily become a domain registrar.

Relatively easily? It isn't exactly a cheap venture: e.g. $4k+ per year to become an ICANN registrar.

I think people shouldn't have to pay that much to exercise their free speech.

> It seems strange that someone would expect a registrar to defend them for the couple of dollars per year you generally pay.

I think that unless a registrar is legally compelled to unregister your domain name, they shouldn't take it upon themselves to unregister your domain name just because other people are offended by what you put on the web server that your domain name resolves to.
Most businesses fail within the first few years. 24 years later much would have changed.
> I think it's about being prejudged by others at first glance which minorities in tech get in every interaction they have. I think that it's valid to say that's a significant struggle.

> When people meet you, they don't assume a baseline level of incompetence.

In a way they are prejudging him though. They consider the baseline for him to be one who assumes they're incompetent. He has to prove otherwise. Or perhaps not quite as severe, he is assumed to have privilege which you yourself stated.

It seems to be a problem with assuming things about an individual from population distributions. Perhaps we've forgotten how to treat others as individuals and be treated by others as an individual.
Startups got burnt by NoSQL because they wanted to use it for everything instead of thinking over use cases that fit. It's a good thing that this fad went away and now people would be more likely to educate themselves about relational vs. non-relational db before jumping into the fire pit.