skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not presuming he is a poor performer. I am saying that the quality of his performance is open to question, and I would like to evaluate it for myself. It could be good, and I would not be surprised, as most people hired at Google are pretty sharp. It could also be bad and I wouldn't be surprised, for the reasons mentioned.

> all his peers in Google somehow colluded to fake his reviews and performance evaluations.

Oh, do you have copies of those? I would like to see them, too thanks. Otherwise, you don't have much in the way of evidence that those exist. You have a proven liar about performance making claims about performance. He could be correct in this case, or he could be lying again.

> all his peers in Google somehow colluded to fake his reviews

Have you ever been part of a performance review process? Even the best-designed ones are imperfect and political. Sometimes not-very-good people get promoted. Sometimes very good people don't. I have heard a number of stories from Google pals of people energetically trying to manipulate the process.

When it's my job to read performance reviews and promotion packets, I take them with a grain of salt. I look at work output and actually talk with people. Which is all I'm saying I'd like to do here. Maybe Damore really is competent. Maybe he isn't. I'd like to see for myself.
I wonder if Free Geek can refurbish and donate some useful parts?
I read this as block lettuce the first time around.
I don't think it's that simple -- there's a real risk that your opinions are outed. Perhaps even nefariously ala Drupal.
>I've heard many partisans against diversity say that, but it has not been something I've observed myself.

Did you look into the lawsuit? There are screenshots of people, who appear to be very pro-diversity, saying exactly this.
As an aside from the interesting article, does any one else find it pretty scary and privacy invading that stackoverflow think it's ok to match our IP addresses to the company we work in?

It seems like a massive invasion of privacy (which I guess lots of websites are doing).

But to me that SO can so casually mention the mass surveillance and privacy invasion they're doing without thinking that there's anything wrong with it is the worst part of it.

I certainly never knowingly agreed that they could check my IP address and then try and figure out what company I work at from it.

EDIT: Once GDPR is live in the EU, I think it might be interesting to see if I can challenge this privacy invasion and inappropriate use of personally identifying data. I guess we'll see if GDPR has any actual teeth in this instance.
Wow it's the first time I heard of this type of dreaming. It's intriguing that people dreams in so many different ways, I wonder what causes that.
The energy required for a transfer orbit from Mars is only a bit more than the Moon. Energy matters more than distance or time.
You are still talking about ~5,000 new MBA's from 'top' US schools per year even trying to be that exclusive. Over 20 years that's ~100,000 people which does not seem insane, but you can still be very selective while drawing from that pool.

Sure, they tend have high earnings, but this is the same pool that both want to and could get into a 'top' school which is a rather biased sample.
I think what ataturk was saying is that it's not enough to say that we need "reform". Reform can absolutely have a negative impact.

My own health insurance rates have gone up quite a bit, as have my deductibles and copays. My raw healthcare costs have also gone up, and it's gotten much more difficult to figure out how much things are going to cost before agreeing to pay for them.

Summer before last I was living in Charlottesville, VA and working a job that did not include benefits. My wife and I are in our early 30s and have two young children; none of us have any significant long-term medical issues. The most basic "bronze" plan available that exempted us from the ACA fine was $1,400 / month. I did the math and saw that the break-even point for me where insurance would actually save me money was somewhere around $35k / year in healthcare costs. Since then, more insurers have pulled out of Virginia and marketplace rates there are the highest in the country.

What we had prior to the ACA was objectively less efficient than most of the developed world. What we had from 2014-2017 was much worse than it was before, though, for anyone except perhaps those whose coverage was highly subsidized. It's yet to be seen what will happen now with the repeal of the individual mandate, but I expect things will get worse yet. It's a positive financial thing for me and my family if we have to go back out the marketplace to be able to buy plans that don't meet the government minimums, but from a system perspective it'll just increase the mean level of risk for those that are actively insured and drive up premiums.

I think the way forward for my family if we're not under and employer plan is to save the money that would have in the past been used to pay insurance premiums, and to purchase catastrophic coverage that doesn't kick in until those savings are depleted. I would welcome an expansion of tax-advantage healthcare savings accounts - particularly if it were possible to manage that money in a longer-term investment like a 401k plan. After all, the plan is not to need to spend a ton of money on healthcare when we're young.
Please do post the "solid research on innovation and diversity of experience and thought" that says 40-something white men will deliver "fuck-all" when tasked to do something creative or innovative.
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I read 27 subjects participating to the study in the paper. Where did you see only three?
Somehow or another I got on this company's email list even though I don't own any of their stuff. I stay subscribed and skim the emails because they are really well written and demonstrate great enthusiasm for the product. Really top notch marketing. And a lot of the products look and sound really great.

But they are invariably eye wateringly expensive even after taking into account that I expect them to be expensive. I don't know what kind of income I'd need to be making before I felt comfortable spending $395 on a hoodie, $225 on a tote bag, or $225 for sweatpants but I'm not there. (Refs: https://shop.outlier.nyc/shop/retail/experiment-049-hardco-m..., https://shop.outlier.nyc/shop/retail/experiment-062-paper-ny..., https://shop.outlier.nyc/shop/retail/merino-coweight-sweatpa...)
Sometimes it can be a dream in which you are mentally awake and have full recollection of going to sleep, mental presence and full control of the dream state, sometimes just a dream about the subject of lucid dreaming that often ends in a digression or false awakening. Sometimes I've had dreams where my thoughts are separate from the dream character I am acting as, like when watching a film. It doesn't occur to me then to affect events in such a case, since I'm kind of a passive observer even though I'm aware I'm witnessing a dream. Lucidity doesn't automatically guarantee full mental awareness, or dream control.
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There's no evidence that Apple's ideas about privacy or encryption have any positive effect on sales. The only people who might even be aware of it are tech people, and that doesn't move the needle at all. See the tech people gripes about the Macbook Pro, which went on to sell well anyway.
Right now I'm stuck working on getting SDKs installed.

I got my android app running which was easy after all the installs and updates.

Now I'm doing some weird command line stuff to try to get my Javascript server to wake up. Changing ports, more SDK updates, etc... Changing my App.js doesnt update, except if I turn everything off and back on again.
My crypto group chat let me know there was going to be Ripple news today.

Bought under 2$, already at $2.25.

This is the bull run market I hate, but I'm also well connected...
Do you have experience with that?
I agree that alleges should be in the title.

Mods: Can you change the title to be more accurate and unflag?
Ooh. That I did not know.
Ah, good point, I forgot about this.
I have had lucid dreams, but rarely. In "ordinary" dreams, yes, I am myself and also not myself. I often feel like a character in a movie that I'm watching passively at the same time. The degree of compulsion vs. agency varies over time within a dream, and from one dream to another.
I really like this article. Will you do more of them?
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Yes, whatever the Bilderberg lizard people truly in power decide upon. It's all in plain sight if people would just stop drinking the tap water and wake up.
(2, 3, 4) only applies to planar graphs, which the graph of a code base need not be. E.g. if you have n classes which all pairwise talk to each other, you'll need n colors.
I always have to show up to reiterate this is not a problem limited to Javascript. There have been framework fads for as long as there have been frameworks. I have dim memories of dozens of C++/Java/Python/Ruby/etc. next-big-things.

It does seem like there are more of them and they rise and fall faster in the Javascript world, but this is probably better explained by the sheer number of Javascript programmers than anything else. The labor statistics I can find peg the number of US software developers in 2002 at around 612,000 and around 3.87 million in 2016 - and most of the new ones focus on web development. There are way more web programmers out there than there have really ever been, so it makes sense that the rate of frameworks appearing (and to a degree, the overall lifecycle churn) would be accelerated.
A screenshot from one discussion at one large company and presented by someone suing the company, even if it shows what you say, isn't evidence of widespread behavior.
Malicious can happen through server compromise, too.
More than that MoneyGram is a loss making entity with a negative equity. This is just an attempt by MoneyGram to pull a Kodak (last ditch attempt to stay afloat by attaching itself to "cypto" currency bandwagon)
Surprisingly, I somehow failed to notice this until yesterday. If it becomes an issue, I am not in any way attached to the name - i'd be happy to change it.
Don't these guys have software to write and adspace to sell? Why are they spending time discussing politics at work?
You have to leave Mars's surface at 6300 m/s to get to Earth, ignoring slowing down at the end which is accomplished by the atmosphere. To get to Earth from the Moon takes 5670 ms/s. The Moon is much closer in Cartesian space, but that just means that the delay from an object leaving the Moon's surface to getting to the Earth's is much smaller, it affects latency but not throughput and on geologic timescales both latencies are small.

EDIT: See this map of the solar system in delta-v terms:

http://i.imgur.com/AAGJvD1.png

EDIT2: Argh, I messed up my calculations and the distance from the moon is just 2410 m/s. You have to factor in how often Mars gets hit by stuff and the speed at which stuff is going given Mars's gravity well.
As I understand it, that's because the field is spherical. If you place a sphere in a river it can only go straight downstream. However if you combine two or more spheres in a line and angle that line with respect to the flow, it's possible to move diagonally downstream to reach either shore.
Now that it's up you can see:

This repository is also available on Mango at mango://{...}
When I use the term to describe myself I mean that I care most about economic issues and less about social issues. Regulating banks, fixing healthcare, worker's rights, stabilizing the working and middle class, limiting the negative affects of globalization, etc. This election made it very clear to me that establishment democrats have largely dropped those ideals (except for a few I still admire like Warren) in favor of pushing social change.
Is gogs maintained anymore? Everyone I know switched to the community fork, gitea.
>I think the biggest issue here is that Uber actually has programmers on its staff who think its ok to write a program whose sole purpose is to try and break the law.

People who grew up in a situation where the law and the institutions that create and enforce it did them little good and plenty of bad (i.e. urban poor) often have little respect for it (though they may follow it as that's usually the least worst option when you're moving up the economic ladder).

I don't see a problem with software that shuffles data and access around to create cross-jurisdiction paperwork headaches for the police. Forcing them to cross their t's and dot their i's before going in makes it much harder for people with political ambitions to go fishing for stuff to put on their resume. We all know that law enforcement practices saying no via similar "oh you have to go get the info from these people" spaghetti fairly often with FOIA reqs.
From an economic perspective:
"The dolphins are not only gaming the system they are saving and using a capital structure to increase total output." [1]

[1] http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/01/dol...
>> An MBA largely has value because it acts like a cult promoting the networking between MBA's. It's arguably a great hack to extract value from organizations as opposed to customers.

I don't think this applies to the average MBA (full disclosure, I have an MBA). Most MBAs are just normal people who are just trying to do their job better.

Having said that, I guess some grads of the "most elite" business schools do that cultish thing you're talking about, but I would argue it has less to do with having an MBA than being a member of that top school. Those people tend to be the most visible representatives of MBAs while only being a very small portion of all people with MBAs.
That's weird, polling data shows a +12 point spread on favorability numbers for the ACA[1].

What's interesting to me is that the ACA never had majority favorability until repeal was legitimately on the table. And then all of a sudden people "woke...up" as you put it to the idea that their 20-something year old children could lose health insurance, or a person who had cancer years ago could be denied coverage, or that an underemployed person in Kentucky could lose their Medicaid-based health insurance.

Let's be clear: the ACA has a lot of problems. Some of these, like spiking premiums this year, are due to the actions of the current Congress and President. Some of these are due to a lack of real competition, which may have been addressed if the law had included a public option buy-in[2]. Some of these, like shitty exchange websites, are a real problem.

[1] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/obama_and_dem...

[2] Blame Joe Lieberman for this: https://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/02/16/16766/elimination...
In what respect is "tipping off" a crime?

In the UK, in respect to the Proceeds Of Crime Act 2002. Financial regulations tend to be fairly universal in the West so I don’t doubt Canada has them. Start jailing people who send these messages and it will soon stop.
That really surprises me, given that he has an obvious love of Disney properties. Examples: "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom", every third post on Twitter being about Disneyland, etc.
Really not the end. The existence of issues that cannot be addressed via 'langsec' does not imply that we should give up on 'langsec'. There will be more security issues due to buffer overflows than there will be CPU bugs this year. More importantly, there will be orders of magnitudes more users with data compromised via buffer overflows, compared to CPU bugs.
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You can go deeper than this. Attempt to define "intelligence" in any philosophically meaningful way and you might find that it isn't clear that a coffee table isn't intelligent on some level, or alternatively that a human being isn't just a sufficiently complicated coffee table. "Consciousness", in the philosophical meaning, is even more interesting because it is entirely non-empirical; it can't be measured in any objective sense.

Any deeper implications of this are left as an exercise for the reader.
Yes, except not in those frequency ranges.
They use spring. Really, as simple as that

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NanoRacks_CubeSat_Deployer
Python is just an outlier when looking at this. Here's[1] a larger set of languages and frameworks, and given the premise it's not hard to guess the JS frameworks from the graph.

1: http://sotagtrends.com/?tags=[jquery,angularjs,c,c%2B%2B,rub...
I also work in Banks (in the UK) and would agree with this. I think people don't tend to wear their politics on their sleeve - i.e. most people wouldn't say in conversation who they are voting for - but you can tend to spot that some people trend more left wing than right.

The team I was working with during Brexit was very pro-remain, for instance, and that tends to be largely (but not exclusively) a position more popular on the left.
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> ok to write a program whose sole purpose is to try and break the law

Is it 'breaking the law' to turn off computers when you see the police knocking at your door (or in the parking log) but don't know why? Meaning they haven't presented a warrant or even exchanged words with you yet?

Even in the particular event cited: "about 10 investigators for the Quebec tax authority burst into Uber Technologies Inc.’s office in Montreal"

The act of bursting in but not (yet) saying anything? I would argue that no laws have been broken.

Edit: A similar situation might be if you see flashing lights behind you when you are driving. Doesn't mean the police are there to stop you could be someone else or could be a mistake you haven't been officially notified of an infraction.

Breaking into an office is not the same as presenting a warrant and then prevent access to data detailed in a warrant.
Fan collector culture runs much deeper than you're giving it credit for. The fine art market is dominated by hoarders, but other markets are dominated by fans. Mixtape culture is just one example.
Personally I think it would be considered a success, swift sucks, ACH sucks - Ripple giving us a way to apply a lot of the benefits a decentralized cryptocurrency purports to provide (cheap, fast transactions) would be wonderful.

Hell, I would love if I could track payment remits through Ripple someday - stop dealing with the terrible EDI formats our bank dumps to us on a daily basis and just monitor the blockchain. We could have knowledge about payments in real-time AND have a much saner time dealing with them.
> Basically, the defense can't outpace offense, and we're doomed to forever be pwnd by manipulative people.

This might be a decent summary of where we are now, but I don't think it's inherent to the problem. To stretch a metaphor, antibodies to viruses are reactive, but white blood cells are proactive against new diseases.

I run a stack of privacy and attention defenses on my browser. Sometimes new attacks come out and I lose ground, as with browser fingerprinting. But sometimes new attacks come out and run aground on the protections I already have - the various cryptocurrency mining scripts, for instance, were all stopped because I disabled Javascript for unrelated reasons.

Blocking the intrusion of the day is a Red Queen situation, agreed. But it's possible to make the game asymmetric, to raise the cost of future attacks and so do better with each round of the pattern.
Yeah, a cryptocurrency called Rai currently uses it (maybe IOTA too?). Essentially, each account gets its own blockchain and they're connected together using a DAG data structure.
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If the rate is set right, it would be break even for a person who is carbon neutral.

That doesn't sound right. Wouldn't it depend on using the average amount of carbon? If you're above average you pay out more than you get back, if you're below average you get more than you pay. Probably depends on the exact way the money is returned.

I don't know about this particular scheme, but some use the proceeds to offset regressive taxes, making the scheme progressive overall.
Its good to know my donations would have atleast some purpose.
From a Fortune article about this [1]:

> The partnership will see MoneyGram pilot the use of XRP through a new Ripple service, called xRapid

So there is usage of XRP.

[1] http://fortune.com/2018/01/11/ripple-moneygram-xrp-cryptocur...
I think since it uses digital signatures to send the transactions it's a cryptocurrency. It's not a decentralized one sure.
The article says they attributed it to HB9, which I was able to find in a catalog of supernova remnants (warning, PDF: http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/surveys/snrs/table-IV-l.pdf). On page 63, it gives the coordinates for the remnant to be 5h01m, +46°40', which would put it right around the brightest star in Auriga in this sky chart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Perseus_IAU.svg. The catalog gives the size as 140x120 arcmin (2.3x2.0°), which is huge and probably means its very faint by now, which explains why it wouldn't be included in the sky chart by S&T. Curious if any astrophotographers have managed to capture it, I searched astrobin.com and found one photo: https://www.astrobin.com/229090/B/ (edit: and a second: https://www.astrobin.com/73794/B/).

Edit: Looks like another designation for HB9 is Sh2-221, which turns up much more results in a search engine.
To expand upon that: many people buying Ripple/XRP the coin believe (falsely) they are buying shares of Ripple the company. I found [0] helpful.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Ripple/comments/6jd9w6/this_is_the_...
The nose-plug check is more reliable and physiologically based: pinch your nose so that your nostrils are blocked, shut your mouth and breathe in. If you're dreaming you'll breathe in anyway since your nostrils aren't actually blocked.
a) SaaS companies often have the resources / domain knowledge to provide a superior service to the self-hosted alternative

b) Outages are inevitable and if you're using a SaaS you get to blame someone else for it (and sometimes it gets resolved quicker)
Interesting. How would this be related?
Yep. Moreso the MoneyGram announcement is not new news, this is their business model. I suspect the well timed press release had something to do with XRP sinking over the past few days.
The headline of this is that it was implemented in response to a legal police search that resulted in uber getting banned in a country because it was breaking the law. It was then repeatedly used to obstruct justice.

This wouldn't be news if I told you that Intel makes its engineers encrypt their hard disks and require passwords on wake and insist no one leave their computer unlocked.

The news here is that they're using this technology specifically for obstruction of justice.
Every time I see openssl rather than libressl getting attention, I'm reminded of how often incompetence is rewarded.
For that to be true, Ripple's market cap would have to be in the trillions unless they invested half a million or even a quarter of a million dollars.