skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Diversity" programs are by nature unfair- they provide explicit preferential treatments to specific groups in order to counteract presumed other factors that make those groups less likely to be present in the first place.

Often, but not necessarily. Since this is a forum for people who like to be technically correct, I'll throw my two cents in here.

To give an example, let's assume that there's a split between group A and group B between high cost and low cost universities. Group A are 90% of the high cost students and group B are 90% of the low cost students. Google send representatives to mostly the high cost universities at the moment, because they're assumed to have the best students. This is resulting in a remarkably large proportion of As at Google. To counteract this, you could go and explicitly target Bs, which would fit with your description. Or, you could lower your threshold and start sending reps to lower cost unis as well. This increases diversity yet at no point is specifically preferring Bs.

I picked this example of high cost/low cost unis purely because it's easy, not to make any statement about whether this kind of thing happens or is important for future performance. this is also not a hugely important point, but it was floating about in my head.
We haven't made sufficient "progress" until we have Blipverts. As "Bryce Lynch" said in that Max Headroom episode: "It's not my problem. My brief was to find a way to stop channel switching. I mean, you know, I only invent the bomb, I don't drop it. Ha ha." [he gives that quick shrugging grin of an uncertain adolescent]

The thing about going out with a bang vs. a whimper.. come to think of it, I'm pretty sure it will be a shrug.
Because Peter Thiel has seemingly no problem with suggesting absurd things.
The author doesn't like writing using markup languages. Some of the rest of us do.

I'm with him to the extent that LaTeX evangelism can be oversold - when I'm talking to curious colleagues I tend to stress the vertical learning curve as much as the quality typesetting and convenient cross-referencing - but I do think most of his argument is simply a matter of personal preference.

For me, the fairly stiff default structure imposed by a LaTeX document class makes my writing easier, quite apart from any advantages at the publishing stage.
That pulled me in and probably burned thirty~forty-five minutes. Well worth the read and very reminiscent of https://www.amazon.com/Spherical-Tomi-Jack-Mangan-ebook/dp/B... crossed with http://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack
Since this representation is internal, it means that if there is ever a need for more clusters, they can switch to 64 bit integers without breaking any compatibility.
I expect your overall cost of living is going to be lower in a random Rust Belt town (or for that matter in a far flung suburb of Las Vegas) than in some middle-of-nowhere property unless you're really willing to give up a lot of modern conveniences.
Censoring Indian History
I looked into ClickToPlugin. The developer ended development because of Apple's development policies [0].

Also, I just remembered: the big extension that Safari was missing is Reddit Enhancement Suite. I could've lived with Safari if just RES was missing. However, in summation, all those issues made me decide to switch back to the RAM/CPU/battery sucking Chrome.

[0]: https://hoyois.github.io/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/
Hand-unrolled loops and -ffast-math can change arithmetic results
Which is a pretty ridiculously slanted and incomplete argument that goes completely against company views.
Thank you for posting. It takes considerable courage to say even as much as you've said, in this forum.

It sounds like you don't have the same form of CFS that I do. I have the sudden-onset type: one week I categorically didn't have it, then I had what seemed like an ordinary flu-like viral illness, not noticeably different from others I had had, but then a couple of weeks later, when I tried to resume my previous level of physical activity (running and biking), I was hit with the brain fog and post-exertional malaise -- even a brisk walk was enough to bring it on.

I was under considerable emotional stress at the time, embroiled in a serious dispute with a family member, and between jobs. I'm sure that all that stress had something to do with my contracting the CFS. That's not to say I think it was just stress; rather, the stress weakened me in some way that allowed this thing, whatever it is (EBV?), to get a foothold. As you say, the body is not separate from the mind.

My doctor was sympathetic, and put me on an antiviral drug, valacyclovir, for a few years. It helped some, I believe, but wasn't a complete cure. I have also pursued some alternative approaches, primarily breathwork, which I still do occasionally. My symptoms have always been a lot milder than those some experience -- I've never been bedridden -- and they're now even milder. It's to the point that as long as I'm careful not to go too fast on the bicycle I can function as if I didn't have the disease at all, but if I overexert myself I am rudely reminded that it isn't completely gone.

Anyway, thanks again for your story. I still find it heartening and inspiring even though it sounds like your illness had a different cause than mine. I wish you continued healing.
If you can make a connection with the right type of corruption, there definitely would be government funds available to increase the ability of the government (federal, state, and local police) to project power.

Drone + facetime + blinking red light + emergency grenade (tear-gas, of course). $1k parts, sell it for $10k/ea in bundles of 10 along with "police drone training certification level 8999" at $5k per student (minimum 5 students).
Which is not a tech or labor cost problem but a management problem.
> "Maybe on the long run but it looks like Tesla might have self-driving cars about 12-24 months before anyone else, that's lucrative"

Given that they are behind almost all other car makers, that's highly unlikely.

[Source: self-driving disengagements per 100k miles from CA DMV]
This is a slippery slope I'm happy to walk on. Reasonable people can agree that no safe harbor should exist for Nazis.
Wikipedia:

Proposals for such inoperable machines have become so common that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has made an official policy of refusing to grant patents for perpetual motion machines without a working model. The USPTO Manual of Patent Examining Practice states:

> With the exception of cases involving perpetual motion, a model is not ordinarily required by the Office to demonstrate the operability of a device. If operability of a device is questioned, the applicant must establish it to the satisfaction of the examiner, but he or she may choose his or her own way of so doing.[24]

And, further, that:

> A rejection [of a patent application] on the ground of lack of utility includes the more specific grounds of inoperativeness, involving perpetual motion. A rejection under 35 U.S.C. 101 for lack of utility should not be based on grounds that the invention is frivolous, fraudulent or against public policy.[25]

The filing of a patent application is a clerical task, and the USPTO will not refuse filings for perpetual motion machines; the application will be filed and then most probably rejected by the patent examiner, after he has done a formal examination.[26] Even if a patent is granted, it does not mean that the invention actually works, it just means that the examiner believes that it works, or was unable to figure out why it would not work.[26]

The USPTO maintains a collection of Perpetual Motion Gimmicks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_%28patent%29
Or most people don't put as much into a relationship as it would take to realize their goal? When you marry or have kids with someone, that someone is supposed to be your first priority in life. It's kind of like thinking about religious service, but not necessarily including that spiritual edge to matrimony. Kids aren't that first priority, because kids need both parents to be fulfilled, and the couple is supposed to be those who best fulfill each other. Your plan of marriage shouldn't be centered on what you'll get out of it, but what your significant other will get of it, because you are specially positioned to be that provider of happiness and comfort and vice-versa. Live for the other and your own happiness is reciprocally secured.
> The way you decide whether to trust someone or something is whether someone you already trust trust them.

You can also trust someone with something small and then increase the level of trust as they prove reliable. Note that this also works for reestablishing a healthy relationship after someone screws someone else over. The "trust by proxy" model doesn't allow a resolution to "I don't trust them and I already know them" problem. This is the problem that warring countries have. And it's the problem overly antagonistic political factions have.
The 6 is for the number of users. ;-)

On a more serious note, your comment is pretty much what I've seen most people say. I will probably poke at it, at some point. I won't have a good reason to do so, except just to learn.
> It's often cheaper to buy storage at today's (relatively high) prices than to continue to size the transmission infrastructure for peak demand

Electricity billing is fundamentally flawed: Industrial users will pay a demand charge according to their peak usage, when they should really pay their contribution toward the local/regional/national utility's peak usage.

Residential customers may pay a time-of-day generation rate, but still pay a flat per-kwh rate for transmission and distribution. All 3 should be time-of-day, at the minimum. Wires sag more when you use them during the hottest part of the day and when they're already running hot. Upgrades need to happen to handle peak usage, not off-peak usage.
> Maybe because the "deep american society" remains much more sexist than in Europe, thus justifying a much stronger defense from feminists?

No my theory is that the USA is the home of these hyperleftist utopians. The US installed these uptopians as rulers in Europe after WWII.

The host always has the most immunity to the disease. The strongest critics and detractors of the uptopians also live in the US, and they are more visible as TV and movie villians in US media.
I apologize for ignoring the second half of your post. In addition to it being some form of rebuttal, it contained 5 negative clauses. Basically, I couldn't figure it out and thought best to leave it alone.
So the women at google are worse than the men.

Do you not see why he was fired yet?
It is part of the NYT's opinion section, and not the editorial board's opinion.

Newspapers include opinion sections from very diverse authors. The NYT has, for example, published a section by Putin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/opinion/putin-plea-for-cau...
I think you answered your own question... GraphQL and similar are meant to push complexity to the endpoint partly in order to not tax resource-constrained clients. If that's part of your requirements then it's a great fit, otherwise your points are valid.
I would think that ITIL is one of the obvious standards here, but you have to pay for it. Since you are working for a big pharma firm though, surely you can expense the cost of some manuals?

Alternatively a quick search threw up this: https://wiki.en.it-processmaps.com/index.php/ITIL-Checklists

You might have to do some deeper searching since you get mostly commercial stuff in the first few pages of hits. I guess this area has not attracted much open source interest.
I used the official site, they cover most of basic stuff - then just read the API docs, and explore what others do in their components.

There are also some tutorials on codelabs https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/polymer-2-ca....

https://polymer.slack.com/ - Join their slack channel for more information.
Is the fact that GraphQL is typed really a negative?
Ah, the dear old NYT. Yesterday one of the NYT columns posted to HN was on how even sex was better under socialism. Not that they wear their politics on their sleeve or anything...
If you aren't clear of the definition of "eating clean," then let's ask, what strawman do you think the author was knocking down?
There are still many gaps the developers need to fill in order to use GraphQL in production. But when implemented correctly, one of the practical benefits is that multiple queries from client to server can be merged into one, thus saving bandwidth and improving performance.

a full query model of your domain means an explosive quantity of potential strategies piped through a single endpoint.

I agree with this fact. But like you said, it's just trade-offs. I'm sure certain types of projects will benefit more from the pros than cons of GraphQL. But certainly not all projects will do so.
They are not specifically representing milo.

> The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are ideologically diverse: the ACLU itself, an abortion provider, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and alt-right-Internet-troll-to-the-point-Twitter-actually-banned-him Milo Yiannopoulos.

It's a parade showing that the whole spectrum objects to this policy.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/dcs-transit-agen...
BTW, can anyone please suggest a good online compiler course for creating your own programming language with labs/exams/certs? I can find pretty good courses for almost anything but not for compilers... Something that would focus on handling grammar (LALR, LL, CYK etc), ASTs, semantics, types, code-completion, imperative/OOP/functional/logical/self-modifying constructs etc. or even NLP-to-AST conversion...
Probably word processors don't have an analgoue to LaTeX macros, but surely they do have search and replace, don't they?
No, this is about the EM field. The magnetic field of CRTs is very weak (so weak that it is dwarfed by nearby rail power lines which have a rather weak M field as well; so weak that you have to recalibrate for monitor movement relative to earth's M field).

I doubt this works, at all, for a variety of reasons.
I supposed I very slightly lean towards an edit for increased clarity on Taplin's part, but it I don't think the current phrasing is meaningfully wrong, in the way that you do. Damore left the door wide open to that interpretation, and I'm not at all sure it isn't what he thinks.

> He didn't get a world class editor (present performance notwithstanding) or the opportunity to print retractions

I'm sure he is surprised at his memo's international newsmaking, but he is not modifying his stance based on the feedback he has received. In his recent WSJ article [0], Damore wrote "I committed heresy against the Google creed by stating that not all disparities between men and women that we see in the world are the result of discriminatory treatment" ... which indicates he still thinks the memo was basically fine and that that's all he was doing. He's focusing on the echo chamber and the most gentle and obvious idea in his memo (that not 100% of gender variance is socially constructed). He assumes the only people who were not in agreement with him and complained were those who believe "that all differences in outcome are due to differential treatment and all people are inherently the same."

He takes no responsibility for not ever quantifying the biological effect, yet still recommending changes to the processes based only on that the biological component exists at all. This makes no sense to me. Unless maybe he cannot even see the logical gap there because it is filled with his own beliefs and stereotypes about gender.

I assume that article gave him the opportunity to consult a world class editor, and he may print retractions if he chooses.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-i-was-fired-by-google-15024...
Thought the same. Strict typing allows many optimisations and compressions. Without strict types most of graphQL has no benefits anymore.
Was Reginald Denny’s attack during the LA riots considered a terrorist act? How about the Baltimore riots? We are really quick to label “domestic terror” when it suits our politics but rarely is it used to describe events such as the Baltimore riots or the Michael Brown riots. There is a double standard and I think that double standard is why we get a president like Trump. People are sick of being labeled racists, bigots or “extremists” because they don’t agree with left wing politics.

No excuse for white supremists of course, but there ought not be an excuse for anti-white rhetoric either. The very term “White privilege” is racist to the core. Ideas like “black lives matter” or “La Raza” are racist by definition.
That's... An odd reaction to someone making a correction. Really hope you don't act this way in code reviews or any other time you're getting feedback.

Typos are know-better errors. The person committing the typo knows the right spelling, they just hit the wrong key. Pointing out the error wouldn't teach anyone anything new.

Malapropisms, on the other hand, are don't-know-better errors; the person committing the error doesn't know what they did wrong. In that case, pointing it out could be educational both for them and other readers.
> If an article appears under the New York Times' logo and URL, then it can reasonably be assumed to reflect an opinion that the New York Times wishes to be associated with.

No. That is not a reasonable assumption. Newspapers frequently carry highly opposing pieces in their opinion sections. That's how newspapers have worked for a very long time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op-ed

The NYT has, for example, hosted Putin in the opinion section:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/opinion/putin-plea-for-cau...
Parked Electric Cars Earn $1,530 from Europe's Power Grids
If you ban the advocates of genocide speaking publicly they will simply speak underground. If they do it in the open you'll at least know who they are.
Mockingoose – mock mongoose models like a boss
I don't mind annoying people to solve problems.
Under CC-SA nonetheless. In fact, Hal Abelson (one of the authors of SICP) was also one of the founders of Creative Commons. Moreover the other author (Gerald J. Sussman) is in the board of directors of the FSF.
Observing and noting key similarities between two different sets is not equivalent to saying the two sets are equivalent.
Since opinion pieces in the NYT have many times taken completely opposite sides (often in rapid succession), and the OpEd page is not considered journalism (i.e. it is opinion), I think your statement is patently false ("the NYT
doesn't want...") unless you believe that the NYT wishes to be associated with all opinions. In fact that is how OpEd pages are supposed to work if one believes their readers might be able to think for themselves.

See their editorial submission page for yourself:

https://www.nytimes.com/content/help/site/editorial/op-ed/op...

"We're interested in everything, if it's opinionated and we believe our readers will find it worth reading."
In other words writing systems software for OS X if you are not employed by Apple is a fools errand?
Correct. I should also have clarified that my comment applies to Rakudo Perl6 running on MoarVM. As far as I'm aware, other backends are still behind in implementing proper Unicode semantics.
Why I do not like Hugo
1/2 Hz? I wonder if music with 120 beats per minute trigger that.
No, all that shows is that they're not concerned with who provides the opinion piece. (And they shouldn't be.)

It doesn't make any sense to publish something under your name and then complain when people think you're endorsing it. If I paste a pro-Nazi editorial into my blog, should I resent being held to account for it?
I guess swearwords always seem less serious in your non-native language, since you're not culturally ingrained to think they are bad.

It also doesn't help that swearwords seem to be the first thing people learn in other languages. I can't actually speak French, Spanish, or Italian, but I have a good handle on swearing in all of them.
I'm surely able to write a C routine that uses custom 1.5x-growing buffer and does everything, including subexpr indentation shift etc, in one pass.

The point is that I cannot delegate this work to newbie/lowcost who will cat-cat-cat strings allocated by other newbie thousand times with no idea that it is slow and consuming. Even telling them how to do it properly I'll spend more machine cycles than simply sending it in production. Even then, very source strings are not under my control and I'm no world dictator to tell a bunch of maintainers who don't even know me what they should do for my performance case. It is real world, not my cool homegrown toolkit.

It is not how-to talk, it is why not make already inefficient method slightly more forgiving by appropriate means.

If you don't like a list, take an array, but I like to see tests against it before taking that "death" argument. Maybe tomorrow I'll test all three (multicat, list, array) of immutable strings here.
When you quote, quote accurately, especially if you put your quotes in quotation marks. Full stop.
I've found that to be true, as well. Say what you will about systemd, but they've really done a good job documenting it. There are also useful blog posts from some of the developers delving into various topics. Nearly every question I've had about systemd (and I've had a lot, as our products interact with the init system tons) has been answered either by the docs or by a blog post by one of the systemd developers.

e.g. I recently dug into how to build an inetd style (called "socket activation" in systemd) service. I found pretty good core docs, and a very good blog post with real and useful examples.

Learning my way around systemd has just been a good experience, all around. I have my complaints, but doc quality isn't among them.

It's a big project, but having it all come from the same folks does lead to a consistency across sub-systems that is rarely seen in the Linux world.
So use LyX. It's a LaTeX word processor. I've used it for years to avoid having to directly write LaTeX.
In a more perfect world, it'd make sense. Mutations in particular make lots of sense because it narrows the scope of any required transactional semantics.

But the fact that I've only seen one implementation correctly implement the query semantics worries me deeply. At first I assumed I was using bad libraries! But soon I realized that lots of devs were simply shipping significantly less efficient servers to production.
I can see the difference and interesting unexpected conversation did come out of it.
Not sure what you mean by a sub-session but my perusal suggests an entirely new conversation key is negotiated by current participants when those participants change. The spec doesn't say anything about requiring everyone to be online but I think it's implied. It may be that not everyone has to be online at the same time (which would just delay the negotiation IIUC) which is interesting but I wonder what would happen if an offline participate rejoins and doesn't get a full transcript from when they were last online with the carrier. Sounds entirely possible for an IRC/XMPP carrier with people not using bouncers.
Most people don't want to dialogue more with people who don't share their values, they'd much rather find people who do share their values. We are tribal animals, the current dissent in this country is a symptom of our tribalism not scaling up to 300 million people. There are tribes in this nation who are not going to get along, ever; the country is too big. Diversity doesn't scale.