skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, so the claim is subdomains = bad, subfolders = good.

Is that true? I'm seeing vague claims ("Subdomains accumulate positive signals differently than root domains") without anything of substance to back up their veracity or relevance.
And there are many times when this can not happen. Example? Eviction. That requires a process, complete with appeals. Good.

Do that.

This is not okay, even if Nazis suck.
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Integrated schools help to reduce racial achievement gaps. In fact, the racial achievement gap in K–12 education closed more rapidly during the peak years of school desegregation in the 1970s and 1980s than it has overall in the decades that followed—when many desegregation policies were dismantled. More recently, black and Latino students had smaller achievement gaps with white students on the 2007 and 2009 NAEP when they were less likely to be stuck in high-poverty school environments. The gap in SAT scores between black and white students continues to be larger in segregated districts, and one study showed that change from complete segregation to complete integration in a district could reduce as much as one quarter of the current SAT score disparity.

https://tcf.org/content/facts/the-benefits-of-socioeconomica...

Not only were they more successful in school, they were more successful in life as well. A 2011 study by the Berkeley public policy professor Rucker C. Johnson concludes that black youths who spent five years in desegregated schools have earned 25 percent more than those who never had that opportunity. Now in their 30s and 40s, they’re also healthier — the equivalent of being seven years younger.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/opinion/sunday/integration...

Desegregation and Black Dropout Rates J, Guryan. 2001. has some good data on the decline in black dropout rates in districts with integration.
Would you please stop engaging in ideological flamewar on HN? I realize there has been a lot of this lately and it's not always clear where to draw the line, but you're definitely on the wrong side of it here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15021984 and marked it off-topic.
Anyone making arguments for/against firing him for the memo need to be reminded that we don't know why he was fired.

It's just as likely he was fired for lying about having a PhD from Harvard.

Edit: I stand corrected, he was just enrolled in a PhD program.
Ask HN: What is the best time to introduce eventual consistency into a system?
Let us say, there is a relational db intensive SaaS application that is being tested for its capabilities. As more and more data is saved by customers, the operations become slower and slower, because the use case needs to go back to some of the data stored earlier(need to select, sort on some fields) and update some values. So the longer the customer has used the product, the slower the application becomes.

Is this the right time to introduce eventual consistency to the application so the newer saves can be done faster so the user experience is better? All operations are done on a single db txn, because we need ACID properties of the relational database. So in case something fails, rectifying it outside the context of the user request is going to be difficult for user.

This is the classic case of users outgrowing the capabilities of the application. Could anyone speak from experience or provide pointers to examples of what worked for others?
The 2015 stackoverflow survey has this interesting statement: "Developers in India are 3-times more likely to be female than developers in the United States." See https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2015

Actually it is worse than it sounds because most of the female developers in the United States are H1Bs from India, China and other Asian countries, and Romania and other eastern-European countries. If you subtract their numbers then the difference is more severe.

There is something in the US culture that makes American women not want to take up tech. The diversity memo doesn't address the fact that more women take tech jobs when impediments are removed, as evidenced by the larger percentage of women in tech jobs in other countries.
> This is absolutely false I do get to tell the group how to receive the message.

I only hope for your sake that you learn otherwise before you put your foot in your mouth in a very big way someday, rather than after.
If you guys were going to write an interpreted language AND/OR a transpiler, which toolset would you use?
Did he? can you probe it? I found more article supporting him than not supporting him, but you might find the opposite, did you?
Thanks, that was plenty respectful and I didn't know that. I wish there were sources and numbers to define "overwhelmingly", and I think refugees are probably more likely to pay "a substantial price" than a voluntary migrant, but overall I get the point.

I'll fall back to my other question then, why would people leave? I was looking at this image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_migrant_crisis#/media...

It seems like most migrants at the moment are not from Africa. If their motivations are mostly economic, we would expect the numbers to rise in proportion with the population, right? And they would be tempered by economies improving as their citizens get healthier and more productive and they stop having to fight and treat malaria. After some time, people will adapt to having healthier children and the rate of population increase will get lower.

I'm just not seeing this imminent crisis of exploding numbers of African migrants, and I don't see how the issues of integrating people could possible outweigh the benefits of people not dying.

I also have some issues with what qualifies as "mass societal disruption", but I guess that's mostly a semantics argument.
>> Nope. My dad's tech workplace in the '70s was hostile to black people even though there was almost no visible action.

What do you mean? They didn't hire, fire, promote, or speak differently?

>> Yes, but cherry-picking results and selectively quoting articles isn't rigorous science. There is a long history of misusing science to promote preconceived agendas (tobacco industry, new age quantum garbage, eugenics, etc).

This is fair. Except from my side, I feel like I'm seeing cherry-picking by the other side. I studied psychology, and in college nobody seemed to dispute innate differences between men and women (I was taught of some in infants).

So since both sides feel the other is cherry-picking, we can either A) fire people for it B) talk it out like scientists.

>> I apologize, I just can't understand the last half of your post. It sounds like you're saying the women who wrote this reply are part of some powerful in-group-alliance?

I'm not suggesting there is an alliance of women. I'm suggesting there is a politically motivated core (SJW is the closest word I know for the group) at google and the larger public. The fact that this group is treating science as politics explains why:

- They are trying to fire people for ideas (because it's US vs THEM in their heads)

- They are deliberately lying about what Damore said (because it's politics, so no holds barred).

- They are not at all expressing a coherent vision of what "equality" would look like if they could make all the rules, but instead fighting for their own minorities (and disregarding Jews, Mexicans, ugly people, fat people, tattooed people, and all the other groups that certainly are slightly discriminated against)
Can you please recapitulate Scott's argument, in a few words, and the scientific evidence it's based on?
Google will be sued for it.
It will be too enticing for lawyers to pass up.

It'll be open season on Google now, and they deserve it if the blacklists and age blacklist is true.
There are diversity efforts in the fields of teaching and nursing to hire more women, as the dominance of women in those fields in harmful in much the same way that the dominance of men in software engineering is harmful. Teaching especially needs more men, most especially at the elementary school level, as many children are not exposed to many positive male role models.

An important factor here is that software engineering is a highly desired and highly compensated field, which aren't true of nursing and teaching. Having an imbalance of gender in software engineering thus contributes to inequality in social status and compensation in a way that imbalances in female-dominated fields do not.
at my university there actually isn't much of a difference between a master's salaries and bachelors. There's a 10k difference, however, the average undergrad would not get into the master's program. Undergrad gpa is 2.9/4 while the master's program required at least 3.4/4 minimum. I'm sure if you compare the best 25% of undergrad's salaries out of college, then it would be comparable to the average master's student salary.
My point still stands if you replace overreaction with reaction.
Lowering the bar for a cohort is going to create different distributions of skill in that cohort, this person wasn't the first and won't be the last to come to this conclusion. I think damaging organizational cohesion is never the right choice but both sides of this argument contribute to that damage.
Or they've taken the term, misunderstanding it, perhaps, and redefined it to express ideas they actually have.

Whether those are good ideas is another topic.
Without stating anything regarding the merit's of Damore's arguments either way:

There is a long tradition of this kind of memo inside Google. Many products you probably use every day are better because of one or another.

This genre is not exactly encouraged, but lots of good stuff comes out of them.

Whatever else that memo was, the genre is common, and the genre itself not considered mutinous within Google.
To be clear, I'm completely fine with a commute. I thought that was obvious when I said suburbs. Hell, my current commute is ~35 minutes. How is it that Berkeley is apparently so cheap while being that close?
Never say "Never" or "Always".
> Yeah, they are crappy people who do crappy things.

I mean, yeah, but to be clear, one of them killed a woman on Saturday on purpose. That's not crappy, that murder. Like, Nazis deserve rights like all people do. But when you start killing people and you shout a lot about how you are going to kill more people and 'cleanse' the US of a lot of people, like, I dunno, maybe we should do something more than just talk about how Nazis have rights. Like, come on guys, they're real actual Nazis, not video-game sprites. They want to kill you and your family and your friends and everyone you love and the are VERY clear and loud about this

EDIT: Here's a quote to back it up: "The thing about us fascists is, it's not that we don't believe in freedom of speech. You can say whatever you want. We'll just throw you in an oven."

-"Unite the Right" attendee, Pete Tefft, speaking to his father Pearce Tefft.
Here's what I found:

> Can I return items at Amazon@StateCollege?

> Yes, we accept returns of most items that were sold by Amazon.com. You can print your return label at home or use our self-service kiosk to print a label for your return. Select ‘Returns’ on the main screen to find options for starting or continuing a return process. If you need a box or tape, we are happy to provide them.

> Can I return anything at Amazon@StateCollege?

> No. We only accept Amazon returns with prepaid mailing labels.

I thought it was more clear than that on taking returns, but now I'm not sure what they're willing to provide prepaid return labels for.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/campus?campusId=CAMPUS_PSU
(1) how do you propose to 'jail Uber'?

(2) this is a pretty good ruling in that it can't put the horse back into the barn but it can make sure Uber ups their game.

(3) this has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11, either peripherally or through analogy, and misrepresenting the findings of the 911 commission to this extent is pretty poor. I have some friends who are total conspiracy nuts when it comes to 9/11 and even they do a better job that this.
"Everyone who doesn't agree with me should shut up and go away."
"I was just following orders"
Reverse Engineering IoT Devices
Congrats and good luck!

I work on the same, just for my own company to automate customer interaction (well, at least 99% of it).
> Though, the fact that he jumped to this 'lowering the bar' line of thinking shows to me that he was fishing for a conclusion.

Let's focus on things we can actually know rather than speculating about Damore's state of mind.

I'd ask a few questions about this interview practice though.

1) Is this the entirety of Google's diversity practices in hiring? I'd be surprised if it is. So even if this isn't lowering the bar it still doesn't prove conclusively that's not what they're doing. Again I'd like to see a more complete accounting of what exactly it is they do. However, I'm certainly not saying that you need to provide this in order to have a legitimate argument, you don't have access to this information any more than I do.

2) This practice seems to have a somewhat narrow view of what a interviewer bias looks like. In particular it only tries to eliminate bias in the case of a minority being rejected. What would happen if we were to instead attempt to detect interviewers who were prone to bias by randomly giving rejected candidates second interviews and seeing which interviewers wound up frequently disagreeing with their peers? If the assumption that bias only effects minority candidates is true this would have much the same effect.

3) What if it wasn't a second chance but 100 chances? I.e. if you're a minority you get to interview for Google 100 times and if any of those say yes your in. White people only get 1 shot. Unless you think Google's false positive rate is 0, this would have to lower the bar wouldn't it?
One Hostname to Rule Them All
Is that compressed or uncompressed size?
A lot of people still really don't truly understand the fascist mindset. They don't understand that they don't debate in good faith, and they don't care about facts, or free speech, or anything. They don't care about truth, or lies.

They care about power, and they're fueled by hate. Their genius is their ability to use words as weapons, to strike at the weaknesses of a civilization as they are doing now in this free speech 'debate'. They'll use truth, or lies, as needed to get what they want. They're not bound by the usual rules framing debate.

During the Charlottesville attack this weekend, these assholes were all over the internet claiming that the attacker was actually an antifa socialist, doxxing an innocent person in the process. After that turned out to be of course false, did they express shame or regret at their lies? Of course not. They went onto the next justification, claiming that the driver had been 'provoked' into driving into the crowd. Now they have the fringe Alex Jones element claiming that the Nazis at this rally were Jewish actors.

That's what we're dealing with here. People need to get that through their heads and stop thinking that fascists can be reasonable. They're inherently unreasonable and they use that to their every advantage. They're not ashamed of lies, and they will tell different lies and different truths to different people to sow chaos, confusion and inaction amongst those who speak against them.

After they've won, let's see exactly how much they hold up their reverence for free speech as they're claiming to do now. They don't care about free speech. In fact I wouldn't even say they're necessarily against free speech. They don't care about ideas - they'll just kill anyone who gets in their way. They're using our reverence for free speech against us.

In some twisted way you could almost say they really are more evolved. Just as we are able to control animals in large groups by understanding their behavior and manipulating it, fascists dedicate their energies to manipulating human emotions and behaviors, both at the micro and macro level. By driving out all compassion from themselves, they open themselves up to actions and manipulations that most people would be prevented from doing by their human shame.
Controversy and hostility are not the same thing.
For some reason I believed that CSP rules can be hostnames but not paths. At least in Mozialla's documentation above there is not a single example of a rule with a full path. I can't check it by myself right now to find out the truth as I'm far away from my development PC.
One person taking offense is not demonstration of anything. Sixteen out of sixteen taking offense comes a lot closer to demonstrating that it was offensive, though.
How? Presumably tens of thousands of employees read it; how can you possibly know which needle in that haystack converted it to a different format and then sent it to a reporter? Especially if it was done over Tor or similar? How exactly do you track that? There are technologies that work that allow for anonymous means of communication.
> Consider his particular use of science and data to be sketchy

I can say this for any research paper I have read in my life as all of them are incomplete and doesn't include all the research done (because you fill the top limit pages only with the bibliography). Given that it is impossible to put all the references, I want to understand why his use of science was sketchy?
(a) Because you're in an environment that has already selected for "not trait X"

(b) Because you don't have to prove anything to anyone, especially about trait X. All you have to do is your job.

(c) Everyone has something like that.
Whatever happened to Project Xanadu? Wasn't that 'apposed to address these?
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Our current design isn't well suited to adaption to a GPU, because it branches a lot and the memory accesses aren't strided evenly. So we couldn't just plug our current code into a java-to-cuda compiler; we'd need to change the design.

So no, we haven't yet tested using GPUs.
Ironically hosted on a different hostname than their main site.
He did a much more balanced job than 99% of his critics, including The Economist.
I always had the impression that psilocybin in particular either was not tested for or does not stay in your body long enough to be tested for. My only concern with psilocybin mushrooms would be their legality, but IIRC, it is not illegal to possess spores for them.
You can: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

SSH in, upload your executable (or compile it on the server, they have many compilers pre-installed) and run it. The OS is managed by them.
Last year I did 30 000km doing mostly 1500km, one-day marathons - I still do this route a few times a year, but now it includes a stop for the night, because this mode of traveling did a few bad things to my eyes.

I always did at worst a single one-hour stop, because it's simply unhealthy not to do so. I calculated that on this route in a Chevy Bolt I would have to do four stops, and in a 85kWh(or better) Tesla - three. That's three and two more stops respectively. On one hand that's a lot, on the other I could simply take a nap then or get something to eat.

My point is: it's entirely doable with an EV today. Even better: I've seen people do it.
Cookies aren't restricted to paths as well.
This seems roughly cognate to "There are people who want to do their jobs, and there are people who want to poke the people in Group A with sticks. Should an employer constrain Group B from poking the people in Group A altogether just because Group A doesn't want to participate?" I think most people would easily answer, "Yes, we should prevent people from going around poking unwilling coworkers with sticks, and they should also be prevented from getting around the rule by throwing sticks around and just 'happening' to hit those coworkers, because it's not useful to have people doing that in your workplace and it disrupts Group A." I don't think anybody would really say, "Getting poked with sticks is just Group A's cross to bear."
> Mines concluded that the United States faces a sixty-per-cent chance of civil war over the next ten to fifteen years. Other experts’ predictions ranged from five per cent to ninety-five per cent. The sobering consensus was thirty-five per cent.

It sounds like they took the average and called that the consensus, while in reality, the experts couldn't disagree more.
Another workaround instaed of having the music app or adding a single song as many people have mentioned is opening whatever app you perfer to play music and hitting the play button prior to plugging it into your car system. Then, as the iPhone is plugged in and your car recognizes it, it will see an audio file on the car - the one that is currently playing. It will continue to play that song.
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I think a vocal minority (10%) has bullied the silent majority into a position of "If you're not on our side you're hurting us and should be fired." They did this by controlling the language, by getting to define who's a victim, who's a minority, what's "offensive," what's a "safe-space."

We're seeing the backlash now, because people are finally admitting it's gone too far.
It was my understanding that the FAA already tried that, and thanks to the efforts by a certain drone operator and the AMA, the registration process and rules basically reverted back to what they were for all RC aircraft, provided your aircraft was under some weight limit (I think it was 50 lbs):

http://amablog.modelaircraft.org/amagov/2017/05/19/faa-regis...

You still have to register if you are flying your drone for commercial use, and you still have to follow a variety of other rules and regs worked out (quite a long time ago) with the AMA - but provided you do all that (and they aren't onerous from what I recall), you can basically fly almost anywhere you want.

I should note, though, that it is probably prudent to get and fly under an AMA membership. It's fairly cheap insurance, ultimately.

All that said, unless I am wrong - this could all change after Labor Day:

http://www.modelaircraft.org/aboutama/gov.aspx
The IC assessment was just regurgitating CS's report. The IC just took CS at their word since they would have contracted out to someone like CS to begin with. The FBI, for instance, wasn't allowed to look at any of the evidence directly. AFAIK, no government entities have looked at the raw data.

Edit: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jul/...

> In his testimony in January on the cyber attacks, then-director of the FBI James Comey said the agency never got access to the machines themselves, but obtained access to the forensics from a review of the system performed by CrowdStrike, a third-party cybersecurity firm.
All data, including user passwords, and all their content going through a third party. All exchanged for some dubious SEO benefits. What can go wrong?
> He posted his thoughts on an internal discussion board

An internal discussion board intended for controversial discussion no less!
So, you're saying that all differences are either "socially constructed or due to discrimination?"
Before you do anything, have a look at the numbers.

I sell a Mac app, which performs periodic update checks, so I can estimate how many users I have. The update checks also contain info about whether the product is licensed, and whether the code signature is valid. I assume that copies of the app that say they are licensed but don't have a valid code signature are cracked.

Here are my numbers from July:

13301 trial users

4934 paid users

367 pirates

If I look at these numbers, I don't see why I should bother doing anything about pirates. Any effort spent on convincing pirates to pay is better spent on convincing trial users!

(PS: the update check can be disabled, and I don't know how many people disable it, so the above numbers are rough estimates at best. Also, invalid code signatures might be caused by things other than piracy eg. software bugs)