skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, Joe Rogan is considered a right wing youtuber? I listen to his show all the time and I'm a pretty big liberal and while he sometimes does the whole "everyone is sooooo PC now" thing, he also talks negatively about Trump, the GOP and right wing politics constantly.

I also listened to the James Damore episode, and while I thought James did a good job of making his point and Joe did an AWESOME job of interviewing him while not taking sides, it felt like James was pretty disingenuous and lacked a general understanding of how to behave in a workplace as well as how to treat other people.
and denies the moon landing. That doesn't make him right wing, but it sure makes him a less credible person.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/26/jo...
I dunno I'm pretty sure everyone involved was pretty confident it would be delicious.
Across their diverse payment solution names, they actually have all the tech to build a Stripe competitor. Looks like they finally got their act together (hopefully!).
A lot of people felt a little guilty about it afterwards, on both the Allied side and the Finnish side, I think.
I would assume that any apology would be backed up by some king of statement about what he has learned since the memo.

At the very least he should have learned how important soft skills are and that his idea of what makes a good engineer was woefully incomplete.

If he hasn't learned anything, then why would anybody hire the guy?
I'd be interested to know whether more liberal media/shows extended invitations to him (that he declined?), or whether it was only conservative platforms that allowed him to present his case.
Seriously Facebook, stop treating us developers like sh*t
Long story short:

1-Monetizing our mobile apps with Facebook Audience Network for more than 2 years without any problem.

2-Facebook reports via email a violation without giving us enough details to fix it.

3-Email doesn't have any way to appeal or request more info (really Facebook, we want to fix this and stay in your good graces)

4-Join a Facebook group for developer support ask a question and get out account frozen because they think it's fake and have to wait one week so I can verify I'm a real person ¿?

Seriously Facebook, stop treating us developers like sh*t
At some point you will just be implementing your own half-assed blockchain because you "don't need a blockchain". Why?
A recent article on Quillette actually addresses your assumption quite well: http://quillette.com/2018/01/05/empathy-gap-tech-interview-s...

Basically, the assumption that there's a single kind of "smartness" that generalizes equally across technical competence, social competence, and awareness of political trends is not a valid assumption. The number of non-neurotypical people that work in tech fields should make this clear.

It's also unfortunate to see such glee at the idea of someone's life being ruined and happiness at the thought of a large megacorporation's large amount of resources being able to do it.
Agreed wholeheartedly. What this article shows is fundamentally no different from C++ templates manipulating `int`s (IOW, not dependent types), except for the richer selection of (promoted) data types.
Just try. For me that was way easier than expected.
> Alt-right Twitter agrees that murder is wrong, the national debt is concerning, and that sexual assault is supremely immoral.

Alt-right Twitter seems to believe that murders were only committed by Hillary Clinton's death squads, and that random violence in America's big cities doesn't exist (until two seconds later when apparently people are so terrified of violence in America's big cities that we need all sorts of invasions on civil liberties so people can walk outside ever).

The national debt is a good thing, and if you oppose it for the reasons alt-right Twitter does (it has the name "debt" in it, and debt is bad, right?), that's a sign of a pretty flawed world-view.

Alt-right Twitter thinks sexual assault is so immoral that cultures that are successfully calling it out and reforming are bad cultures, and cultures that are ignoring it and electing people who deny credible claims are good cultures. It just so happens that the first group of cultures are left-leaning and the second are right-leaning - what a coincidence!

If those are your three examples, I am absolutely happy to define myself by disagreement with all of them.
The author of this overview, Laura Deming, runs the Longevity Fund, and has a research background in the study of aging. She merits congratulations for being, I think, the first by a few years to put together a longevity-focused fund, now joined by e.g. Jim Mellon's Juvenescence venture, Methuselah Fund, Apollo Ventures, etc.

Rejuvenation research after the SENS Research Foundation model of repairing the known root causes of aging is a massive arbitrage opportunity. It remains the case that most people just don't get it, and are thus enormously undervaluing research and companies in this space. That is changing in senescent cell clearance, but six or seven other nascent areas of research and development are in exactly the same position senescent cell clearance was in back in 2010 - no attention, little funding, low valuation, huge potential for breakout gains in said valuation on producing a technology demonstration for rejuvenation in animal models.

It seems likely that the Longevity Fund will do well on the basis of having invested in Unity Biotechnology alone, even putting aside any other successes. The article linked here is a useful overview, with copious references, of the type of work presently taking place in the aging research community. It well illustrates that, aside from senescent cell clearance, nearly everything that counts as a major interest by funding and number of scientists involved is a form of tinkering with stress response biochemistry to modestly slow aging - not addressing root cause molecular damage by repairing it, but rather messing with metabolism to slow damage accumulation. Nowhere near as helpful.

Given what we know, where the data exists to compare outcomes between short-lived and long-lived species, the approach of altering metabolic processes to enhance beneficial stress response mechanisms is not going to move the needle all that far in humans. The results should be exercise-like and calorie-restriction-like in that they have worthwhile effects on long-term health, assuming that the cost of development and treatment is low, but they won't add much more to life expectancy than those two items are capable of achieving - which means perhaps the low end of five to ten years at best in our species, assuming life-long commitment to the intervention. Given that senescent cell clearance is a going concern, and other damage repair approaches such as cross-link breaking should follow in the years ahead, we can hope that the focus of the research community will shift as other approaches prove themselves much more cost-effective and successful.
>In the earlier half century the got the widespread use to electricity, radio, TV, automobiles, airplanes, and in the healthcare we got antibiotics and vaccines.

Plus General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. Those were huge advances in human understanding, and are still fundamental to physics.
> classroom teaching really wasn't the majority component of his job.

It's the title of the job: Professor.
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Completely agree. I also think, "disingenuous" since it's the most obvious fake answer, and also "uncreative" since they couldn't come up with anything better.
> Many people think that way, but I really much prefer to organise my music in iTunes than in the file system.

iTunes + filesystem aren't the only two options. At the time, I usually had my library set up in Winamp and XMMS, and iTunes was annoyingly opinionated about what the structure of the library should be. I would've liked the option to use something besides iTunes.
You're completely ignoring the "preferences" part of that statement though. It's unfortunate that he threw the "abilities" bit in there as well, but when reading in the context of the rest of the memo, I think it's fair to say he Damore believes the distributions differ due to "preference factors", much more than he believes its due to "ability factors".

And a very strong case can be made that women make different life choices which result in generally different outcomes in those areas.
MIT Researchers Working on Better 'Vision’ for Autonomous Driving
MinVmVersionForCpuBasedMitigations is for VM/Hyper-V: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-w...
Not OP here, but there are literally thousands of ways that not having a smartphone could be a punishment. The first thing to realize is that times change. People didn't used to have clean shirts either, but they do now. Making someone wear a dirty shirt might not have been a punishment in the past (what else did they know of?) but it could certainly be seen that way now.

Give a child access to a smartphone for years. It will change their brain, it will become a part of them (as far as they are concerned) as it will be predictable, reactive, entertaining, etc. Then take it away. That is clearly a punishment: you have adjusted the mind of a child to become accustomed to something and then ripped it away. It would be literally insane to not see how this could be a punishing experience for a child (or even, an adult).

Again, I'm not OP and not going to argue the point of phones in schools. But I will say, do not assume that young people today are the same as young people in history.

Our society has given smartphones to children at large. We should not be surprised if taking them away has unknown and potentially negative repercussions. Perhaps access to this kind of technology should be done in moderation (but how to do that? I don't know) so as not to shock anyone's system (or our society's system).
Does that include diversity training that focuses on implicit and explicit consciousness bias differences between men and woman?
Because you could have the answer to nearly any question at your fingertips, and yet it's arbitrarily taken away?

How is it not a punishment?
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I also find it interesting (or sad) that all this human intelligence and capital is being used for such ridiculous purposes instead of solving society's real problems and making the world a better place. But then again, its not like this is something new in human history...
You must be from US.

As a European, I find all these things very absurd. Like the guys with the "dongle" joke that both got fired [1], and if I remember correctly, so did the woman reporting them.

Maybe you should all start by treating each other with more respect, whoever it is. And don't go witch-hunting.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/how-dongle-jokes...
They're all trying to Venmo-ify payments. You run a balance on their platform and just pay with that.

Tech companies are trying to become outright banks, but with none of the FDIC insurance or other safeguards that goes along with it lol. Innovation...
Except it is. Damore himself cites a study by David Schmitt at Bradley University, indicating that women had certain personality traits across cultures. What did Shmitt have to say about Damore, when interviewed?

> “It is unclear to me that this sex difference would play a role in success within the Google workplace (in particular, not being able to handle stresses of leadership in the workplace. That’s a huge stretch to me.)”

For more, check out the citations on this article: https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/16/16153740/tech-diversity-p...

Finally, even if the facts were true that women on averaged perform worse in tech, how do you want to use that information? Cancel all the sensitivity programs designed to solve other very real problems in tech? Or are you saying not only that biology "plays a role", but that _nothing else does_ so we should just completely ignore this as an issue?
He denied it 11 years ago you mean, by that blog post. He has changed his stance, as seen here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mmlmxamw_k

You should listen to his episode with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, they talk about the mindset of denialism quite a bit.
When I stopped using Facebook and deleted the app, Facebook started sending me emails like "You have 7 unread notifications". They didn't even specify or list the notifications itself, just the count unread. Super desperate.

Obviously I clicked the unsubscribe link. :D
Ballistic conduction does raise the possibility that the bulk electrical resistivity of carbon nanotubes or graphene (etc) could be lower than (say) copper, but this is not practically as useful as superconductivity. The Josephson Junction (which is at the heart of SQUIDS--used for measuring extremely small magnetic fields--and also superconducting qubits--probably the most promising of the current quantum computing technologies) relies on the quantum mechanical nature of the phenomenon.

Because of Cooper pairing, you can avoid resistance even at the interface between one superconductor and another, thus allowing the complete cessation of all resistance. This allows you to store energy in the form of continual circulating current with no energy input, something that wouldn't be practical with merely much lower electrical resistance enabled by ballistic conduction (which still has significant tube-to-tube resistivity).

So I'd say that probably most practical applications of superconductivity are not transferable to ballistic conduction. Still nice to beat copper in conductivity (which hasn't happened with carbon nanotubes and graphene except for microscopic samples or with corner cases like high temperatures, high frequencies, etc).
> A lucky set of circumstances led to the iPod dominating the digital audio player market: bold marketing, a smaller HDD form factor, high-speed FireWire connection, and a great integration story on Macs.

The best thing about the iPod was its usability (the scrolling wheel). Mac integration is pretty irrelevant since almost everyone had a PC back in those days.

I had an iRiver H340 [1] back in those days (~2004 or so). It had decent hardware keys for control, and a whopping 40 GB of space (with a 2.5" HDD). iPods back then had a fraction of that. The iRiver h3x0 could play both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis. The battery would last long enough for commuting back & forth. But it didn't have such a scrolling wheel. Nor did it have any of the DRM garbage. Nor did it receive any of the marketing or hype the iPod had. You could however just download a bunch of MP3 from a.b.mp3.* or whatever and fill your device up. Back in those days, it was even legal to "download" in my country. Or you could use EAC to rip a bunch of your CDs and have it with you on the go in a more portable... "format". Oh, and it had USB OTG. You could also pimp it with unofficial open source firmware, Rockbox [2]

Quoting Cnet's review from 2005: "It's just not as out-of-the-box simple as the iPod. If this all sounds discouraging, just remember: the H340 does so much more than the iPod." and "It's noticeably thick, not to mention heavier than it looks. (In the world of gadgets, a few ounces or fractions of inches make a difference.) The overall look is utilitarian although the color screen does add some style points. We like to call the H340 the "Soviet iPod."" [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iriver_H300_series

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockbox

[3] https://www.cnet.com/products/iriver-h320-20gb/review/
if bilogical reasons makes you more likely to study a field other than engineering. I say that this biological reasons make you less likely to become an engineer. and by "you" I mean a random woman. Of course some woman want to go and study engineering and they have the right to do so and be hired in a fair hiring process.

No body is arguing against the right of women to become engineers. It's just stating that the assumption that "hidden bias" exists if a field is not at 50/50 is untrue.
and by the way, I'm yet to find any proof for that. if you find a study that indicates no discirimination leads to 50/50 in all fields or at least in engineering I will be happy to read it.
Samsung’s the Wall TV is a modular 146-inch monster that uses MicroLED
You can't blame the people for trying to do something about corrupt government and cartel violence. Problem is the whole "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" thing.
This is under the fallacious basis that one only becomes wealthy by appeasing the wealthy... by getting into their social group. Which is hardly how modern economies work (although politicians has made great strides in shifting economies back towards that under the guise of a well-intentioned 'helping hand').

If anything we should be striving to limit the power of artisotricacy type groups (whether in dynastical political families, special interest group form, oligopolistic industry cartels with political pull, etc, etc).
Do you think kids should have access to anything they desire while in school if they're capable of bringing it into the school?
If you mean the final retirement, then no, he's alive and probably kicking. You may be thinking of Gene Cernan.

Young's Apollo 16 crew is the only moon-landing team still intact. Apollo 8 is also still fully manned. They were the first, and took the iconic pictures, but they didn't land.
That should read 0.98 × kg × km
I went ahead and started fleshing out a combination of both of these along with an example of using golang templates: https://github.com/Xeoncross/vanilla-go-server
Or Cambridge Analytica or Project Veritas or Fox News or Sky or the Wall Street Journal or Heritage Foundation, it's not that small a pool, off the top of my head.
Hey Google, You got your fingers in too much of my life already. I'm going to avoid you also being my bank.
I get your gist, but if someone spends 99% of their time playing Candy Crush and 1% using Wiki, it's not a net win for them vs spending 50% of their time doing nothing and the other 50% reading a book instead.
Maybe they forgot that the research could result in a profitable therapy?
Odd, are you in the U.S.A? It's not debit card only in the UK.
Quotas do have their place for instigating change, to more correctly state my views (which are incredibly complex, just like the subject is): I think that they rapidly outgrow their usefulness. If you have women in hire/fire positions, in theory the bias should work itself out. It probably wouldn't in reality.

It's a nasty situation. We want to make progress as society, which means quantifying that progress (quotas make this impossible). However, at the same time we are trying to make that progress to represent individuals and, yes, place them in lucrative jobs to level the playing field (which quotas assist).

> reason to believe that your hiring process is biased and you are missing out on qualified candidates

That is to my point. How could you justify that position if you have no way of measuring it? Find 50 lions and 50 white lions, put them in an enclosure and ask a scientist to tell you what percentage of lions are white based on that sample.

I'm not saying that we don't have to solve this, or that it has been solved. It hasn't. I really question our approach (and I don't have a better alternative, apart from eradicating gender stereotypes from a young age).

Are we still in the 1990's with a social equality facade?
1. Except he never even said women on average are worse. Secondly people being upset is not an argument against the truthiness of statement, no matter how problematic.

2. “How dare he question the effectiveness of affirmative action” is also not an argument.
Are there (in part) biological reasons for the differences in behavior between men and women? Clearly there are sociological differences. Damore clearly did not separate the two ideas or their relative impact on the issue, which led to the enormous amount of publicity.

The idea that the tech industry needs to change their approach to incentivizing women to the workplace still stands regardless.
Now, I have not read the paper, but I would have thought the free market combined with sky-high wages and demand, combined with a lack of inventory, was the cause.

Rent Control surely just prevents local families from being muscled out by the tech employees?
Good point, I guess it's pretty facile to make a joke about that sort of thing.

Still, though. Poop.
I can't make a "rational argument" about what people I don't know might do. I am saying that it's very much in their interest and that I would not be surprised if they do it. How about we check in here again when it happens / fails to happen?
It doesn't really make sense to claim the Saami have lived there for 10k years. Samic language(s) arrived in that area more like 1.5k years ago.[1] Sure, there were people there before that, but they were not "Saami" in any meaningful sense. But yeah, it's before the Finns, anyway.

[1] https://www.academia.edu/4811760/An_Essay_on_Saami_Ethnoling...
> My girlfriend did not qualify for medicaid in this new state because she was not a minor, pregnant, or considered disabled by the federal government despite not being able to work with the lupus.

What state was this in? In Maryland, a single individual is Medicaid eligible up to an income of $16,600/year. There are 18 states where non-disabled, non-pregnant adults are not covered by Medicaid. That's not an "America" problem, it's a problem with those states and their voters.
They're not stupid, surely they must know that constant change and fragmentation of their products just weakens thier offer to the consumer?

Whats their gameplan? Are they just throwing as much as they can against the wall to see what sticks, a survival of the fittest attitute to their apps?
Rent control solves some problems. Creates other problems. Similar to almost any intervention in free markets. Sometimes the cost of intervention outweigh benefits, sometimes they don't.

Rent control allows people (wealthy or poor) to remain where they are without purchasing their residence. Unfortunately, to do accomplish this objective, it increases the price for new arrivals (be they wealthy or poor).

In California, Prop 13 does the same thing -- drives up the cost of housing for everyone other than the people who already own a home.
Except I would trust Stripe a thousand times more than Google.

Edit: trust them not to cross reference me to hell and track my every move. Security would be as good on either side.
> I am en EU citizen, therefore an outside observer

I don't recall asking, but while we're throwing bona fides around - so am I

> I find the amount of state surveillance in both China and the US to be way beyond what is acceptable.

The fact that both are bad in no way means both are remotely equivalent - far less equivalent than your altitude analogy would imply

> Btw, I don't think you're as reasonable as you think, in not wanting to discuss the kind of hypothetical scenario I'm proposing. It was very common back in the days of the Cold War with people defecting from the USSR to the US, etc.

I'm apparently reasonable enough to recognize the world has changed since the cold war - not least of which China - sufficiently so that it's hardly a reasonable point of comparison
You're absolutely right! I'm not sure why the parent thought that this article was trying to make a real point there at all. Gives me the impression that he/she didn't read past the first sentence before making that comment.
Their lack of customer service makes me cringe at the idea of paying through them.