skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's almost certainly true about the marginal value of the last bit of the subsidy and the crazy games around the formula for school funding. A simple, flat formula might be better.

Having had friends who were in bad schools but who had parents who did care it's not clear that the public school system does listen much to people when they have an almost captive audience. Having had a parent and friends who are teachers in the public school system doesn't inspire much faith that where they are broken they are easy to improve either.

The current system with all it's flaws but with distributed control and choice that saves the government money has some advantages.
Under ACA insurance companies must spend 80% of of premium dollars on claims and activities to improve health care quality. 85% in large markets. Sort of like the cost-plus system in defense spending. The company % take remains the same so there is incentive to increase the amount spent. Just jack up the premiums.
Course availability is different, just as course availability varies from semester to semester in the residential program. Not every class is taught every semester. However, the coursework has the same rigor and the degree awarded is the exact same one as the residential one.
> if they thrash shit and take over rallies, maybe cops had a reason to shoot? Note - I know there was no reason in at least some cases.

What does this mean? What is "thrashing shit and taking over rallies"? Under what circumstances do you think it's acceptable for police to shoot citizens?
Just enough example of how truly awful Uber is.
I've never run a piece of software that used a GPU for anything other than rendering. I believe I'm part of a very large majority.
It's also not just about self confidence and "dusting yourself off", but about being immersed in the field and understanding how the process works. If you're a CS major, and all your friends are CS majors, you've heard everything there is to know about the interview process, you know it's normal to bomb one or two, it takes some practice, maybe you borrow someone's copy of Cracking the Coding Interview to get better, etc.

But if you come from outside that culture, and you don't have many friends in the industry, you might bomb one algorithms and data structures interview and think "wow I guess I'm not cut out for this". The only reason I didn't think that after my first interview was because I knew so many people who had been through it before me.

It might be easier to frame the problem as "how can we reach people outside our circle" rather than "how can we reach more women", even if it amounts to the same thing.
Here is the talk a few years later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL-I3-C-KBk
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Why is millennial humor so weird?
It doesn't, please read the rest of my post.
Thanks for your point for point response mate. I'm going to take a look at all of it.

Sorry for the points that were unclear. They are general frustrations that I've had. This looks like it'll help with a lot!
You are very cautious in your interpretation of my comments, and I think that is extremely valuable. Thank you.

>>If I'm interpreting this correctly as "This is what I did in response to my impulse to prove myself. This is what women in tech should do about their's as well."

I am very explicitly avoiding saying what someone should do. I try to celebrate different approaches than what I would have taken to the same problem. But I reserve the right to have an opinion bout the effectiveness of the approach. In this case, I think the outrage and fury directed towards a straw-filled white man has negative consequences. Maybe these activists will get what they are struggling towards, but not without consequences on how the quiet people perceive them. There is no monolithic group that will universally accept a position. Being restrained in your position will make people feel safe about expressing opinions that challenge your own.

>>So I think this need to prove yourself stems from a serious, real issue, and so it's wrong to downplay this issue by equating minorities' perpetual feeling of needing to prove themselves with your feelings, to conclude that the problem exists inside them, and not outside them.

I am not sure I agree that it is "wrong" to downplay it. This model has worked for me. Seems unhelpful to keep that perspective a secret. I have achieved a level of success I did not expect in my career.
also Is 7nm The Last Major Node? https://semiengineering.com/7nm-last-major-node/
And ... having considered it, I reject the approriateness to the present situation.

Notably: this failed in the case of Nazi Germany, rather profoundly.

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/RCGDd2Gt...
Updating: interesting, but inappropriate.

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/RCGDd2Gt...
The interesting thing is it seems on the surface that Google did invite these kind of discussions in their forum probably by the nature of forum, the explicit rules about sharing ideas to improve the company, the product etc.

Now one of the valuable lessons one learns operating in any large institution is that yes there are stupid questions no matter if the policy explicitly states there aren't, and there are always unwritten rules. Failure to discover the unwritten rules leads to getting fired, let go, skipped by during a promotion, etc.

Just curious, what do you think would be a proper venue. Tweeting at Google HR publicly, private emails to owners / upper management?
Thanks for the pro tips homie! I'm taking this and some of the other responses and making a cheat sheet. You guys have genuinely improved my situation.
As a white man the burden has fallen on me since I was a pre-teen to explain why I shouldn't be discriminated against.
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Right! But is it SVG or only Canvas?
Most people probably wonder why there was such an outrage. This article seems to be a good starting point:

http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/picture-yourself-as-a-s...

The article summarises the effect that stereotypes have on people

Two examples extracted from the article:

* When women and men were both asked to "think like men" (article details how this was done) on a mental rotation test, they did about the same. When asked to think like women, there was a huge difference - a huge drop of average score for women, 10% for men.

* Two groups were asked to take a test, but one of the groups was primed by the statement: “This is a genuine test of your verbal abilities and limitations due to various personal factors involved in performance.”. The test takers were given the impression that their score on the test was associated with their personal academic aptitude. The other group wasn't primed in this way. In the primed group, black people had a drop of performance of 2x (the number of items solved was halved).

So imagine having looked at studies like these. They show how severely people can be affected by stereotypes - orders of magnitude more than any statistically insignificant biological differences. Then you see a work colleague who is seemingly perpetuating stereotypes and those stereotypes are going viral...
This again? The memo is out in the open for you to read.

> "Women, on average, have more:"
> - "Neuroticism (higher anxiety, lower stress tolerance). This may contribute to the higher levels of anxiety women report on Googlegeist and to the lower number of women in high stress jobs"
> - "Extraversion expressed as gregariousness rather than assertiveness. Also, higher agreeableness"
> - "Openness directed towards feelings and aesthetics rather than ideas. Women generally also have a stronger interest in people rather than things, relative to men..." (Ironically, this is a good thing for an engineer to have)
Who's shouting down?

Online foreign counter-government literature can be globally censored by a national censoring, corporate-critical websites can be taken down by invalid copyright/trademark notices while books cannot be pulled without thorough vetting, and most websites out there slowly decay into dust - far faster than books.

My point is not that books and libraries are superior - it's that they are different from the internet, both tools convey knowledge with unique strengths and weaknesses. I do think it's absurd to simply write them off as "a waste of money", an irredeemable tool that was waiting to be made obsolete.

We will rebalance our usage just like we rebalanced radio after TV came out and TV after the internet - the end-state is a very interesting question, TBD whether books follow the path of vinyl or VCR, but I think "complete elimination" is the most improbable path.
You're very welcome to contact me - several other people have been in touch since this post, and there may be an opportunity for an ongoing discussion.

My email is in my profile.
"It seemed like he cherry-picked research that agreed with his views and didn’t seek dissenting research or opinions before sending the document to internal Google groups."
- The purpose of posting this memo was to seek dissenting research and other opinions.

Pure gold. This is exactly what I was thinking when I read that.
When I searched for something when Google first came out I got a mix of results from a variety of sites I had never heard about. Today it's basically Wikipedia at the top, with results from the same list of about 3-4 sites depending on the topic of what I searched for.

...and if you actually try to search for more obscure/"fringe" subjects/phrases with Google, you either get no results (despite knowing that there are still active sites with those phrases), or it starts thinking you're a bot sending "automated queries" and blocking you for a while (not even giving you the option of completing a CAPTCHA.)

The first time that happened to me, which was within this year, was my realisation that Google had truly changed, and not in a good way.
The takeaway is don't circulate your sexist opinions widely within the company you work at, especially when you're calling your opinions fact.
I actually watched the debates and couldn't believe Dole closed out his first debate with Clinton imploring youngsters to "tap into" his "homepage" (the above link)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZhyS5OtPto&t=89m55s
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12861805
I worked with one of the largest ad publishing companies. They wanted to track data about every client served an ad. This generated over 1.2 Terabyte per hour of data when the MySQL master started to max out. We had the largest possible multiple core system. It was going to cost my client $30k to upgrade to SSD drives to get more out of MySQL. Also note we had to store this data on an expensive SAN in order to feed the data at a reasonable rate to MySQL or PostgreSQL.

I had just learned of MongoDB and went to school at 10gen for their sys admin class. I talked to the developer about storing the data in NoSQL using a small sharded cluster on a Friday. Monday morning he asked me to setup a MongoDB cluster. Tuesday we moved over from MySQL. They ended up using much smaller servers, got rid of the 3par and epsilon SAN's and saving tons of money.

My point is there are certain situations where NoSQL is still the answer unless you can cluster your SQL write server. I've moved on from working with Ad publishing clients but, I'm sure there are other places where SQL databases are not adequate.

NoSQL might be or, have been, a fad but, like any tool when used for the right job it works.
To be clear this was meant to be a tongue in cheek rephrasing to point out what was problematic about the gorilla statement and the google memo, I do not believe this.
So he's wrong. People in google should have worked that out, made a point of pointing it out to others, and got on with their work. Instead they freaked out, leaked to the media, and got this guy fired.
Why don't the insurance companies get together and blacklist the "bad" rehab facilities? I mean, insurance companies want their patients to get off drugs, so that they stop costing money, right?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ad960009.a...

I use this
I am very bitter after Uber pretty much laughed at my Uber account being hacked and thus $1k stolen from me. These hacks were happening about a dozen or more a day for months and years and did they respond properly by alerting users that they should change their password? No, their PR blamed it on the users saying those getting hacked should have used a stronger password or something to that extent.

Further, thousand of us aspire to reach Kalanick's heights and to see all lack of graciousness and humility for his position is disgusting! His persona is one of a greedy BRO who thinks he's king one who needs to be kicked off his horse and learn humility! Thankfully it looks like this is slowly happening!!!

Give it up Travis and save Uber or continue being your greedy BRO king self and in turn burn Uber to the ground.
> In fact, I did not refuse to consider his arguments. I considered them. They're poorly sourced, terribly reasoned, and not very well communicated.

There are prominent, respected authorities and experts on both sides of the political spectrum who disagree with you, ones who have explained in detail why they disagree with you. What do you think about that?

> My point is that you'll ALSO never find truth if you climb every adversary-constructed hill in the state space.

I feel like you didn't read my comment, because you're repeating your previous argument: "...climbing every ant hill to the bitter end may not get you to an answer in your lifetime anyways," to which I responded, "This is a strawman and an argument to absurdity, i.e. also irrational."

> Your suggested method for finding truth is even worse than mine, and what's more, you're claiming the opposite.

Again, I feel like you didn't read my comment. Where did I suggest such a method?

> I'm at least admitting that I have to use heuristics. You're just watching the tower of exponentials crank up and claiming "no problem! We can compute that!"

Where did I say that?

> It's possible to remain open to new ideas and also not waste time on evaluating or responding to arguments that aren't motivated by a genuine search for truth.

I agree with this.

However, you are jumping to a conclusion by assuming that he is not interested in the truth. It is quite arrogant of you, to assume you know what is in his mind and heart. This is not good faith on your part.

> Do you spend all your free time reading and/or responding to arguments from flat earthers, BS science posted on white supremacy forums, and marketing claims made by infomercials and bill boards? Do you engage with every crank preacher and evangelist who comes to your door or yells at you on the street? Of course not.

Once again you prove Damore's point: by equating him with such people, and equating his memo with such things, you are evincing an emotional, prejudiced overreaction and stubborn refusal to seriously consider his arguments.
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I am not making the argument you are describing.

With respect to messaging tone, there are feminists and social justice people who end up being so tone deaf that they alienate otherwise sympathetic people.
He didn't imply that either. Are there no criticisms that don't depend on mischaracterizations? He's citing a study of gender differences which purportedly shows gender differences which might explain part of the gap. The point is that the data don't unanimously support the discrimination hypothesis and it might merit looking at other hypotheses.
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Most common GC "problems" have fairly simple solutions. If we're talking about 50GB+ heaps, then we're already talking about a problem that's getting significant engineering investment, so custom solutions become warranted, ie. a special purpose library that manages its own resources that plugs into the safe runtime, similar to unsafe Rust, just less integrated.
Allow me to be profane for a moment:

FUCK CANCER

https://clinicaltrials.gov

Start Here, please!
The idea of gender diversity in a company itself being good has absolutely no evidence in reality.

It all depends on what kind of company, what product industry etc. and it might not be about gender or minority diversity but something completely different.

This is what I think is wrong with this whole discussion. Diversity has become a goal in itself yet no evidence to support it's positive impact.
Make SVG great again!
You don't need to alias "all" of your columns, just about 1 out of 10. And I don't understand the complaint about terse table aliases being non-obvious. The answer key is right below the select clause.
I am from India too and would like to know more about your experience with the program.Can you share your email id?
No matter what qualifiers he tries to put on it, saying the bar is being lowered implies there are people at Google that he thinks do not deserve to be there.
And thus employment of CS graduates should be compared with employment of Engineering graduates, except in the case of Academia, where it ought to be compared with other sciences.
I think his dad was just trying to get his son to stop whining about how bored he was.
But that wouldn't appease the public who wanted him fired? If the public( let's say women's group) aren't appeased and they boycott google, it affects google ?

It is possible that google gave an offer to James D to be silent along with the pink slip, which he might have turned down?
That doesn't imply inferiority. There are a lot of characteristics in which men exhibit more variance than women, but the average for both genders is the same. It might just mean there are more men at the top and bottom, not that women are inferior.
They don't usually include process names in consumer targeted marketing material...
> And, actually, the whole reason why NATO is at their borders is the Russian insistence of their sphere of influence.

Uhh, no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO#German_reu...
Like you said, most people know who's done them a service and who hasn't. If only that was what they were selling!

Just pretend to care while they're rattling on about their kids and their sex lives, meticulously regurgitate their opinions--verbatim--on the test, and watch the circle of life remain unbroken as one generation of over-credentialed under-performers passes the torch to the next.

I mean, hell, it's only four years of your life. Who's going to miss that?
But the jobs to come have much less to do with your education as they will more and be be about talent and uniqueness, the exact opposite of what education does to people.

There is a world of difference between being educated and getting an education.
Can you substantiate this? I have some friends who would be interested in this if you can.
A complicated solution to something that is not a problem, at least for my lowly business CRUD apps.
Well, orchestras introduced blinded auditions in the 1970s, when there very few women, and now women are the majority in most orchestras.

So why do you think there is such a disparity in outcome?
I feel bad for the poor NLP tokenizer that will process this later and decide that two-to-the-forty-seven is a word, strangely unattested in any corpora.
Inkscape is OK, but a little rough. Take a look at Affinity Designer. It is very polished and has a feature set approaching Adobe illustrator at a very reasonable price. It's also well supported by the publisher.
No, he would be right.

Source: https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2014/07/do-librarians-need-a...
I see the problem here. It's too strong to say that being good in using your emotions (say, as an actor) is a form of level 1-cognitive grasp of a level-2 cognitive process.

"Non-epistemic" might be an alternative to "non-cognitive".
You're not going to be in the Alexa top 10,000. Go run a docker container for $3/month to host your site, cache it with cloudflare's free plan and pay $12/year for a domain. Its only $48/yr to host all your content. It's really not that ridiculous.
Very cool. You might need a seizure warning -

[core.cljs]
https://github.com/polymeris/carlos/blob/master/src/carlos/c...
and
[svg.cljs]
https://github.com/polymeris/carlos/blob/master/src/carlos/s...

Look clear enough for me to follow. Thank you.

Will work on this, too:

(:require [carlos.core :as core]))

* edit: clearer even unrendered
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Really? I thought the MongoDB fad had gone away, that common sense returned, and people either used proper document stores, or proper relational databases, or graph databases.
I hope IPv6 _never_ catches on (2011)
There is a big difference between saying a negative comment consequence of X is Y and therefore consider Z. And saying X was wrong therefore revoke X. X had a negative consequence does not even mean that he thinks X was net negative never mind that he thinks X should be revoked.
It's actually worse - http://blog.archive.is/post/151510917631/how-do-you-guys-kee... says it's $4k/mo.

http://archive.is/robots.txt doesn't seem too bad, it looks like you could slowly inhale everything... in theory. There are no sitemaps (they're there, but empty placeholders); you have to know the site name to be able to get a workable list.

The author hasn't ruled out/blocked archiving the snapshots, but apparently it's... big. http://blog.archive.is/post/154930531126/if-someone-was-will...
Thank you for posting this! Since that memo came out, I've asked myself several times - am I not woman enough because I love math and programming. I didn't know I would love either till I did a bit of deliberate slogging on both when I changed careers. Math, I deliberately learnt in high school simply because I no longer wanted to confused. Computing I learnt the slow hard way, again deliberately. But once I got a hang of it, it's been my passion!!!
No they're still making full price on tickets too, it's just that the money is coming from some VC that's willing to dump it for a bunch of data instead of directly from the customer.
But practically speaking, the hiring process is not the right place to rectify those disparities.

Fix problems at the source, don't apply hack after hack to route around it.
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Those are different statements. The memo didn't say "liberal parties are a platform to authoritarians and antifascists". If it had, I would agree with your characterization. The strawman arguments in this drama are staggering. I guess Damore couldn't have been all wrong if his critics depend on mischaracterizations and other fallacies.
Humanity is the same as it's always been. There have always been those who will take advantage of whomever they can.
It's an arbitrage issue. If you can borrow EUR for 1% and it costs %1 to get a USD/EUR hedge, you can turn around and loan USD for 2% and be guaranteed to not lose money. The market eliminates arbitrage opportunities whenever they appear; so if the cost of borrowing EUR is less than the cost of borrowing USD, you'll have to pay at least the difference in order to get someone to guarantee a rate for converting USD back to EUR later.
Damore should sue Gizmodo. Big companies like Google and IBM and the military though, they usually have CoC requirements that essentially boil down to don't embarrass them in public.
> By definition they helped Trump more in WI, MI and PA.

No, not by definition. There's all sorts of other reasons why Clinton could get fewer votes. Clinton has just been trying to blame every reason except those that blame her campaign.

The real question isn't "what could have cost her a fraction of a percentage point here and there?", but instead "why was such a razor edge to begin with?"
Its not the web. Its the like/retweet/upvote/view counters and their impact on human behaviour. Delay or take away the stimulus and herds start behaving very differently than they do currently.
I'm reading Raymond Chen's Old New Thing blog articles from 2006. Most of the links that I try (75%?) are dead.