skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair to Damore, his paper wasn't intended for wide publication. It was a quick internal write-up intended to generate discussion among people who already had some frame of reference for Damore's background and professional trajectory. There was very little chance he would've been mistaken for a biology professor within the Google Skeptics discussion group.

A big four-paragraph disclaimer at the beginning would've been a big waste of everyone's time, and it could just as easily be interpreted as a sign of hostility or malfeasance. If people want to dislike something, there is an infinity of potential nits to fixate on.

I've always been brash so I've been through the "delivery ringer" many times. The conclusion I've reached is that frequently, the only way to avoid it is to be so opaque and listless in your communication that people aren't sure what you meant.

If you say something people don't like in a non-ambiguous way, they will be mad, and they will insist on finding a reason to dismiss it.
Do you completely reject the prescence of existing biases, conscious or unconscious, that give an advantage to males? I would hope not, since such biases have been clearly shown in blind studies by e.g. swapping names on resumes, etc.

But unless you do, you should agree that the choice is not between some biased "affirmative action" and a perfectly unbiased, meritocratic alternative, because the latter does not exist. The real choice is whether we try, in some least-bad way, to level the playing field or not.
If he is actually providing commentary and it does meet the fair use requirements, the EFF would probably end up representing him.

Remember to donate to the EFF, they're literally the only thing between you and a world where the corporations rule the world.
Then it's time to shut down Twitter. I read that somebody is putting up 'Kill Trump' post there.
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If you're interested in Enigma machines and find yourself in Maryland, you can play with one at the NSA museum next to Ft. Meade.
As a student, I agree with many of the words you said but for different reasons. I've had a middle school teacher who told us about her own sex life during class. I've had a high school teacher who droned on and on about her divorce (to the point that everyone learned so little, almost no one passed the AP exams she was supposed to prepare us for) and put down religions - again, during class. College isn't a whole lot better, and elementary probably had similar stories that I can't remember.

We (students) all hated those teachers who wasted our time with things that wouldn't help us get further in the job pipeline. I'd like a little more gamification, because I'm in college and still dealing with too many profs who teach less and less about what people need to do their jobs and more and more stuff no one asked for.

There doesn't have to be an immediate connection between what a teacher says and the subject they are supposed to teach. Many fantastic teachers have inspired me and made me who I am by giving little pieces of unrelated advice. But the advice of a teacher is really, well, just the advice of some teacher. They aren't gods. Plenty of them give really bad advice. I just care about students learning to learn and developing critical thinking. Students can read literature for opinions on things unrelated to school subjects, and ponder on their own. They can watch movies, listen to songs, google things, or even talk to other students. But I don't think teachers should go even further out of class discussions than they already do.
What image format do you recommend that would work better on a screen reader?
Free speech is not a sometime thing. Just ask 1926 Germany.
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Weird that this anecdote has people disagreeing with it. I guess people only buy for brandname-bragging when YSL is on a handbag, or Ferrari is on the bonnet, but never when Apple is on electronics. Never mind that Apple's greatest successes came from turning electronics into fashion; clearly when people buy Apple, it's only ever because they've done a sober analysis of suitability for the task at hand.
I (honestly) don't understand why someone more connected to me is definitely more deserving of a higher priority.
I think he was just asking official investigation to see if there are problems:
1. he made point about ideological echo chamber and wanted everyone to look to see if it's true
2. he saw potentially illegal practices, produced what you call a book report and asked this to be officially discussed to figure out if there is any merit to it

I see it as honest call for discussion but everyone is treating this as some malicious attempt to exercise sexism. We are all educated and civil people please have some dignity and apply Hanlon's razor to these kind of things: "Don't assume bad intentions over neglect and misunderstanding."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
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Twitter (ideally) removes those posts/users.
This article neglects to mention that anyone can relatively easily become a domain registrar.

It seems strange that someone would expect a registrar to defend them for the couple of dollars per year you generally pay.
I recommend anything other than Sedgwick for algorithms and data structures.

I damned near didn't touch a computer for two years after being forced to trudge through his books in college.
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> 1,000 people who donate a million will have exactly the same impact as one who donates a billion and will be far more democratic.

Except if they don't. Or they do to a variety of causes, each with duplicate administrative overhead.

I'm not a fan of wealth concentration, but it does afford patronage opportunities that simply aren't taken on average in the alternative "more people with less money" world.
Then we took away their easy access to propagandize hate and they stopped coming for us.
Very cool. SVGs can be very sensible choice for certain applications that canvas doesn't cover well.
My school has a large Chinese international student body. The school is marketed as being diverse, but really those students are from wealthy families and can easily afford the 40k+ tuition. In the end, the campus isn't diverse, it is segregated. But at least the uni has more money for research.
coming soon, full SVG websites featuring:

- loading bar until website is fully loaded

- animated buttons that bounce and flash

- full screen 2 second transitions from page to page

- all in one page, no urls!

feels like 2010 again : ]
States handing out their electors according to vote would make the system non-racist.
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yep.

you can believe that you have a chance to never live to a ripe old age and then never make long-term plans. this means: not saving up for a family, not having a family in the first place, not committing to a profession, business, or a path of learning that requires years or decades of consistent effort, or simply not having much of a life at all.

it would be like a company that never makes decisions that affects them in the long term (of more than a year) because the chance of running out of working capital exists.
And then google came for you...
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Please don’t downvote ocdtrekkie just because you disagree with him/her… that’s what replies are for. Downvote comments that don’t add to the conversation.

I’m here to say I am uncomfortable with e.g. GoDaddy censoring their users, too. I’m uncomfortable either way.

Because I remember when another web host, BlueHost, which happens to be owned by Mormons, decided that it could not in good conscience host (non-pornographic) websites for lesbians, and deleted their accounts without warning.

I’m not trying to make a false equivalency, but… should your web host decide whether they approve of your speech? No.

OTOH, should companies profit off hate speech or Nazism? No!

It's also worth noting that “hate speech” is hard to define! SPLC is the best-known authority here and they have absolutely fucked up and mis-categorized non-hateful religious criticism as “hate speech”. Would you like to see GoDaddy start deleting ex-Muslim bloggers on “hate speech” grounds?

Edit 100% not to detract from anything said previously, but it’s valid to say that the line exists at “direct incitement of violence”
> I thought that that was (also?) a problem with the radar, where it bounced under the truck and thought the road was clear.

Ultimately this was driver error, since he wasn't paying attention and didn't break.

As for why autopilot did not engage the breaks, you could blame any of the forward facing sensors since they all failed to see the truck.

If the vehicle had windshield-height radar, or a better vision system, perhaps the system would work.

The problem with the radar was it couldn't see the object at that height.

The vision system confused the trailer for an overhead road sign.

After the incident, I remember some people reporting more breaking occurring on highways underneath overhead signage. That made me think the fix they put in place was to raise the threshold for what is considered an overhead sign. That is, they chose to err on the side of assuming the sign is an object ahead.

That may have been a temporary fix. I'm only speculating based on driver reports that appeared in /r/teslamotors a month or two after the crash was reported.

I don't know whether Tesla ever gave an official statement about how they fixed that issue. Tesla wasn't found to be at fault so they probably didn't have to. Also, the whole system is constantly under development.
Maybe people are overusing images and part of the way they mentally justify it is vector graphics?
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If you expect other people to rally behind nazis you're going to need to invest a lot more effort.
I was just pointing out that specific statement. I've got thoughts, but no specific perspective on the rest of the article. It definitely raises interesting questions.
You do realize that's not the point, right?
Well, Harvey Mudd is an undergrad-only STEM school, so I'm not sure having a grad student edit it would have been possible.
Wow, svg sits there and does mostly nothing on my phone. Just like Flash! Can't pinch to zoom to read the text that was too small, just like Flash! Half the supposedly neat interactive gewgaws like "turn this gear" didn't react to any presses or gestures at all. Just like Flash!
That archaic nobility distinction is useless to the conversation, especially when the most powerful men in the world we're discussing about have the background I'm talking about.

https://www.dailysabah.com/columns/taha-meli-arvas/2017/05/0...
Yes, that's exactly what I'd like, with something more modern than cobol of course :)
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The tools we used were turned on us and now there are only the silent and those tell everyone what to think.
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"but this memo was a mistake and showed poor judgement and more than a little bias"

"openness" and "freedom" are core values of Google. Even in a scenario where someone made effective arguments refuting all of James' key points, a "one strike and you're out" policy seems antithetical to Google's culture. Or any healthy culture for that matter.

If James wrote what you said he did above (I think you mischaracterize him greatly), and if his ideas are as poorly constructed as you suggest they are, surely Google employs someone intelligent enough to go point by point through his memo and really school him. Such a response would do more to build a case for the worldview you appear to espouse than the lazy, generalized retorts being lobbed his way.
Education is about doing things at scale. Learning is about individual gain on delta. I believe better personal tools for learning could do a better job for individuals on average.
>From what I read, it was suggested that it would be hard to even figure out what The Daily Stormer could've done 'wrong' according to Google Domains' Terms of Service.

The Daily Stormer is a very small customer that probably only pays google $5 per year, but brings negative media attention that'll cost significantly more than $5 per year.

It's obvious what they're doing wrong, they're not paying Google enough money for it to be worth keeping them as a client.

If you're costing a business money you really can't expect to remain their customer for long.
I am from one of ex-USSR countries and graduated in 2008. I did not see many gals in college in CS/Engineering degrees. They were presented, but in minority. About the same I see females presented in tech companies in engineering departments.
I use svg all the time to make tiny web interfaces for embedded systems. When the entire web app has to fit in 350k, you don't have space for gif's or jpg's.
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Of course not! I just don't know why someone would want that.
Very good analogy, it was extremely difficult to find good web hosting in 1926 Germany.
Edit: I'm dumb (and bad at reading words).

I don't believe this assessment is entirely fair -- MongoDB essentially commits every write to a majority quorum of nodes.

Remind me again how many machines a standard Postgres INSERT/UPDATE commits to?

(Disclaimer: I still like Postgres better.)
Proof for what? Smaller number of available women? That's obvious. That if larger companies hire the best of them, the remaining supply/quality will shrink? That's obvious too.
Welp, then GoDaddy or Google should email the Daily Stormer to take down the posts they disagree with. What I am trying to say is that it is ridiculous for a domain provider to make editorial suggestions.

Just shows how far their tolerance for free speech goes as soon as pressure builds up.
Mine did for most of it, still a rip-off. But at the same time I got a much better job out of it, just didn't actually need the degree to do the job.
You are either for free speech and net neutrality or against it, you can't have it both ways and choose who can speak freely and who cannot...
"breitbart.com" has GoDaddy as a registrar, and Cloudflare as a cache provider. Should they be cut off?
I believe the memo + followups included claims that the hiring process is not the same either.
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A few minutes earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15023981
That was so frustrating. 2 months ago, for no reason, iTunes decided to download the free U2 album and play it each time I started my car... I never use iTunes :x
why did they decided that it was a good idea to auto download and auto play the album is quite a mystery...
Didn't he publish it on one internal message board, which most people generally don't read? That hardly constitutes 10's of thousands or readers.
talking about how the author said women are less suited to being good engineers

Quote from the memo: "I'm simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ"
SVG has the opposite performance profile of Canvas.

SVG hits a performance ceiling as number of elements increases.
Canvas, since it's rasterized image can handle a rasterized representation of millions of SVG elements.

However as Canvas dimension increase, it will hit a performance ceiling.
Following the other poster I am really curious - are your against free speech? If so okay, no place to argue here.
I wonder when this "lawfare" (really more like TOSfare) on registrars, hosting providers, CDNs, payment processors, and fundraising sites (like patreon) will escalate into the use of censorship-resistant/distributed alternatives (like bitcoin, or onion services or whatever) among people with extremist political views (of any flavour).
Making various things, explaining various misconceptions, playing with blockchains.

Makes me zero money and some knowledge.
The benchmark measures almost exclusively read performance, so that's not really a question.

Now the real question is why mongodb isn't faster than postgresql in this test. MongoDB gives so many guarantees up just to get more performance, and then looses to PostgreSQL? This is the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals.
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Disturbingly, you would seem to be saying that any registrar business should cut off any customer that causes them any problems whatsoever. What if I’m hosting a pro-LGBT blog for Russians and the Russian government starts filing complaints with my registrar? Your argument is that this is a fine time for me to be cut adrift.
I've got a fancy 1080Ti and Tensorflow. If you have any particular things I could try or should read about, I'm happy to look into doing some research! Googling for "Tensorflow recommender" gave some interesting starting points.
He may actually have referenced race.

He brings up IQ here,

"the Left tends to deny science concerning biological differences between people (e.g., IQ and sex differences)"

IQ has no relevance to a discussion on gender gaps, so, why mention it?

The quote's context is politics. In that context, IQ has recently been used in discussions over racial differences [2].

It begs the question, is Damore being honest about his views on race? If we replace "IQ" with "race", would that change the meaning he meant to convey?

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-do-scientists-think-about-the-bio...

[2] https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/6/15/15797120/race-bla...
It looks like the NoSQL movement was just a fad and plenty of startups got burned by it and some still stuck with this tech , writing inefficient workarounds for something that comes OTB with the regular SQL databases.
The same, only i would have finished some of them.
It does tickle me slightly to see people with generally progressive sentiments become flaming supporters of private property and free enterprise over the issue of objectionable political content, smugly pointing out that free speech doesn't apply to businesses and more likely than not linking to that stupid xkcd comic--as though the debate being held over "free speech" were strictly a legal one.

I don't know. Defending Nazis isn't the hill I'm going to die on, but I'm very wary of the "let woke tech corporations root out hate" approach. ToS violations are very malleable things and can be leveraged against other controversial viewpoints as well. There's a communist youtuber who has had his material taken down multiple times for making a silly song about the shooting of Tsar Nicholas II. Making light of a 100 year-old regicide is hate speech in Google's eyes. Reddit has likewise targeted very neutral and scholarly attempts to document jihadist media. Free speech is not compatible with free markets.
SVGs are actually quite accessible to assistive technology. Here are some tips I used for a recent demonstration: https://www.sitepoint.com/tips-accessible-svg/
I worked full time while studying.

With one course, it was challenging but I could fit it into my schedule without too many changes. My schedule was to watch lectures during the week in the mornings before work (45 minutes or so a day), and then do homework in the mornings on Saturday and Sunday. Usually I still had enough time to hang out with family and friends.

With two courses, I had to be really strict about my schedule - basically, I'd go to work, come home, study, sleep, repeat, and usually use an entire day of the weekend to get things done. I got really good at saying no to people.
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The article is proposing SVG for rendering responsive text for articles. So the screen reader comment is valid.
I would definitely look at the ergonomics of your work environment. Do you work on a laptop all day? I don't know how people can do that, it is terrible for your neck and back. Something like this could be causing (or contributing) to your fatigue as much or more than the intense thinking.
I'm working on https://www.pagedash.com, sort of a personal web archive. Hope it helps people like journalists or authors to keep links alive with their original content, even if the original website goes down.
No one said that the top 1% don't have the biggest impact.

Currently, our geo-economic systems are structured such that the world's underclasses rely on the emotions of the wealthiest 0.0001% of homo sapiens in America to continually fund triage operations to ameliorate problems that societies have developed institutionalized solutions to.
Oh oops, totally misread "read" as "write" :P
Do you have any info that companies that don't have great numbers tend to file S-1's confidentially compared to companies with great numbers?

In my experience, companies that can file confidentially will, regardless of their numbers (and I think all companies now have the option to do so).
So far I have completed 2 courses. It was really rewarding. I am learning plethora of technologies and subjects. I am really enjoying .Right now I am going at 1 course per semester. I started Spring 2017. I will gear up from next year and go for 2 per semester. Yes , there are limited courses online. But these would be good enough to start with. Good luck .
> Do you have children?

Do you teach your children everything, or send them to school / daycare?

> And from that observation that boys and girls are different, I wouldn't call it a stretch to assume that men and women might not be exactly the same, either

It is a giant leap in logic to conclude that a slight difference in average personality must undermine women's professional abilities in software engineering.

There is no scientific consensus that toy preferences are linked to prenatal testosterone or career choice. Those who say they are linked, such as Damore, are pushing scientism– using undercooked research to back up the status quo.
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It's worse than that, cloudera went public at a valuation below the price set during their last round of fundraising. Also, people are bullish on tech companies that are consumer tech related or are in the enterprise space serving industries not relating to tech directly. P/E ratios for companies like oracle, ibm and cisco aren't that high.
If this is a commonly used notation in the paper, then it would make sense to state once up front "here's how we refer to sets and their members". DRY and all that.
Are you that desperate for a God that you recoil when scientists and mathematicians find a natural explanation for some phenomenon?

The more you break apart the world through science, the more you realize that even the simplest of rulesets can give rise to an incredibly complex network of of structure, behavior, and incentives — no deity required.

Enjoy your ever-shrinking God of the Gaps.
I haven't read the whole piece yet, but I find that the first question I ask myself is: if the interviewees were males, would they have been given pseudonyms?

I don't have an answer to that question. It's all hypothetical. I'm just pondering.
Part of the fix was to use radar: https://www.tesla.com/blog/upgrading-autopilot-seeing-world-...
Freedom of speech doesn't override the immediate harm of hate speech. If all you care about is the utterance of words, great, but we can't (and don't) decide policy based on one dimension.
MongoDBs market is not exactly the same as the Hadoop vendors' although there are overlaps. One of the biggest driver of adoption for mongo are projects that start out as small, rapidly done prototypes and then grow large. It's really easy to start with and scale to decent amounts of data with mongodb.
Yeah, this is why bar-lowering policies are bad. If that's not what Google is doing, then Google should explain their approach to employees so said employee doesn't need to question his or her qualification unduly.
So, how crazy to use SVG for a cross-platform UI?
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