skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If any non-zero subset of reasonable people are so offended by a behavior that they'd leave the industry because of it, we have to cut it out.

Maybe.

But why don't those same people build companies that don't have this behavior and out-compete the companies that do?

It's not enough to eliminate the behavior, you have to eliminate the incentive.

To that end, founding a "service" to help me be diverse doesn't convince me. Founding a company doing something and blowing your competitors out of the water because your diverse employee base simply outperforms them convinces me.
While this post has some useful tidbits and definitions wrapped up an easy-to-read format, it is far from complete and I hope nobody views it that way.

For example, you can't have a complete discussion about pricing without talking about packaging and fencing. So if you're interested in pricing as a topic, make sure you find another sources that go deeper in those areas.
> Which rules? There are no rules saying "you can't do marketing" or "you can't claim to change the world".

It was unclear to me whether you were suggesting sexism was under the domain of "normal imperfect human behavior" or not. If you weren't, then I apologize, I misread.

> I am implying it's a natural consequence of a startup being oriented on doing something new, never done before, and natural consequence of somebody being about to undertake a high-risk/high-reward activity.

I agree with this premise, but I'm going to argue that the vast majority of startup founders are not interested in actually changing the word and are using hyperbolic rhetoric to both appeal to a cultural standard in the industry and to convince their employees to work harder for less compensation and more uncertainty. If I take a glance at AngelList, the vast majority of startups are trying to fix small problems in niche fields. Admirable attempts no doubt, but changing the world they are not.

> So what? Why is it "toxic"? What's your problem with them believing it? People hold much more dangerous and useless false beliefs every day than belief that you can have positive impact on the world.

Because these people make it harder for qualified people with less rhetoric to gain funding. Because these people employ others who are convinced by their rhetoric. Gambling laws and Ponzi Scheme laws exist to stop greedy actors from exploiting human failings. My argument here is that joining a startup is akin to gambling, and giving them a free pass is akin to taking an amoral stance on gambling.

> Didn't I just admit there are some companies that are just hype in the very next phrase, and explained why this admission does not disprove my point?

Yeah apologies I wasn't super cogent here.

> There are lots of people that invest in all kinds of crazy stuff, from hipster juicers to high-stake poker games.

Again, there's regulation around high stake poker games and other such gambling because it's widely recognized that high risk gambling can be exploitative and ruinous. I don't see any such urge in tech.
You act like the highly paid people you are whining about dont pay taxes. They do.
You are also acting like you and the other "actual Seattleites" have an ancestral claim to the region. Are you a Native American? Doubtful. Your ancestors stole the land and now you act like your entitled to say who gets to live there?

What a hypocritical, provincial attitude to have. And honestly, greedy as well.

My family came to this country in the 1600s. If I had your attitude, I would hate everyone. But I'm not entitled enough to think that my earlier arrival means I earned privileges.

Welcome to America, where effort and talent win over "I was here first"
The problem isn't tech-specific at all. But an article trying to cover all workplaces from medicine to trucking would be vague and boring. The authors are doing what good authors should: writing what they know, which is the tech world.
It's not a matter of representativity. It's a matter of measuring a different thing.

The article measures shares of reasons between the people that left, but those are not correct by the share of people that left on each subgroup.
But all non-computable numbers are irrational.
This looks fantastic, they are properly innovating and not just trying to be a web version of sketch. I just looked into how paths work (pen tool), and it is finally exactly how I originally envisioned they would work when I was first introduced to them decades ago. I never fully understood why the pen tool had a surprisingly high learning curve and general awkwardness. I assumed it was to meet some specific high-end needs of pro designers (I am an engineer first). Figma seems to be showing otherwise.
Because Germany was defeated (largely by Russia, who was promptly fitted as "new" enemy).

No one has been convicted for fire bombing dresden, or Hiroshima and Nagasaki - or the fire bombing campaigns in Japan. No one has been convicted over nan king. No one (afaik) have been convicted of us support for the coup in Chile.

There's atrocities to go around, only the weak at the international levek gets prosecuted.

And while it didn't "go well" in neurnberg - it certainly helped nazi Germany meet many milestones.
How to Convert Scanned PDF to Word in Nice Formatting?
Link to the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54
Can anyone explain how someone can make a build system and not make correctness and speed the top priorities from the start? Once you do that parallelism is third feature you implement, the first being running an action, and the second being a hash based dependency graph of those actions inputs & outputs. Once you have that dependency graph parallelism and caching just appear pretty much for free.

It looks like google uses bazel (a parallel dependency graph based build) internally and they have 1-2 second rebuild times on apps much larger then Slack [0].

0 - https://medium.com/@Jakeherringbone/what-angular-is-doing-wi...
I can tell you that the tactics used by so called justice seekers are exactly the same we had in my dear soviet union. I don't know where it is heading but because America decides the course if the western civilization, I feel uncomfortable.

Peterson is doing great work. I hope he can handle the pressure.
Direct link to the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54
Hoping that someone might have some recommendations for a problem that we have in particular.

We have multiple sites, each of which has it's own theme. Our various sass files check the theme variable passed into the sass loader, and decide on the correct values for particular styles. Our react components import the stylesheet and reference values accordingly. We also have a spattering of old backbone on some pages, so it's not just react involved.

Unfortunately, this means that we have to build our entire application for each theme. This takes an excruciating amount of time. Parallel Webpack makes it somewhat manageable, but I'd like to eliminate building for each theme altogether.

Any ideas on paths we can look into? If our application was all React, I'd consider styled components or a theme HOC. It's not though, so I've put those options on the back burner for the moment.
> It is consistently ranked as one of the better places for software engineers to work

Where? By whom? I looked for a while and I couldn't find a single source to suggest this. There are plenty of lists of good software workplaces, Amazon shows up on none of them.

People like working there because it is a great resume-booster. Work a couple years at Amazon, kill yourself for work, then move on to a real company with that on your CV.

>despite NYT hit pieces

Or as everyone else in the world knows it, "accurate reporting".

Here's a quote from an article from an employee that I think captures it:
“Amazon is a culture of self-driven workaholics”

If you join the cult and agree it's a good idea to work yourself to death, it's a good place to do that. It's not a good place to go if you want to be a Seattleite, participate in a community or have a life at the same time.
Yes. Every material ultimately has a fatigue limit; there's nothing you can stress indefinitely without it eventually breaking. Now, other materials can move the number of possible cycles up and down, and potentially move the number up sufficiently that it becomes a non-concern (because other factors would drive airlines to sell and scrap the old aircraft), but it'll never be infinite.
"by Sebastian Gorka"

Yeah, no thanks. I'll believe 100% of the book before I believe 0.01% of what Gorka spouts.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/03/06/chart-the-perce...

For web developers, it's 34%, which is roughly the same as dentists.

Computer "science" is kinda BS as a field.
I guess you didn't read the NY Times articles about the working conditions for women in General Motors' factories?
Modern "boss key"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key
Do you really need an exhaustive list of people not giving a shit about civil liberties, human rights and American values as long as its "terrorism and pedophiles"? "Muslim ban" is just the latest and least subtle. Let's work backwards:

Trump advocated targeting civilians in a war zone as a campaign promise. It was met with thunderous applause.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/trump-kill-innocent-famil...

How do you like your second amendment? How do you like due process of law? How about fuck both those things cause we're going to put people on Kafkaesque lists without any day in court and bar them from gun ownership without explanation. Surely such a measure would be massively unpopular with Republicans...
http://time.com/4370009/donald-trump-gun-control-watch-list-...

In fairness on that last one it didn't matter who you voted for. Hillary literally said the same thing.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/...

Its not like the US would actively hack US citizens on US soil in order to suppress a peaceful protest. Oh shit.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/26/standing_rock_prote...
But you know, fuck them hippie protestors and occupy types. Whole lot should go get jobs amirite?

Do I need to continue? Because I can. I've barely even touched upon the Obama era. And obviously the Patriot act and Guantanamo before that.

Let me be clear here. I don't hate America. But when transgressions like this are applauded it becomes clear that a huge fraction of our populace just doesn't stand for our values. Our country is only as good as the people in it.
> No we shouldn’t look at that. I only care how you can produce in the role you occupy.

Aren't you agreeing then? After all, you are looking at output given the role they occupy right?
How do you use MKL and friends on objects in the Java heap? It seems like you'd have to copy to the native heap, do your linear algebra operation, and then copy the result back from the native heap.
An in-between option might be to use https://github.com/drtyhlpr/rpi23-gen-image -- it generates a Debian distribution for you with (more or less) only the packages you specify.

The most recent image I built ended up being around 700MB, but I included some stuff you may not need, so you might be able to get that smaller.
I watched this interview the other day. It was infuriating. I mean, you expect today's journalists to be provocative, sure. But this interviewer relentlessly, and in the most hostile manner, misrepresented Peterson, put words in his mouth, and made sideways accusations. I don't know who she is, but if she's supposed to be any kind of serious journalist at all, she deserves to be called out for this.

Most striking to me was that her tone, body-language, and words all seemed to broadcast this message: "To those at home, my guest is a villain. We all know it. I'm going to get to the bottom of this, get him to confess his crimes, and maybe get some insight into the mind of a bad person."

Again, I don't know anything about this interviewer or Britain's channel 4, so I don't know if this sort of thing is just their standard format.
I noticed most of the comments in this thread were about not wanting a high tax rate of 100%. I just want to offer a counterexample where people are all for it: in Costa Rica there is a similar import tax on luxury and technology items and is roughly 50-80% on cars:

http://www.costaricatax.com/import-tax.htm

http://www.costaricatax.com/luxury-tax-cars.htm

One of the main reasons for this is that everyone wants to go to Costa Rica because it's one of the nicest places in the world. So in a very real sense their import tax is a "pay to stay" tax. As Denmark is also one of the nicest places in the world, they do this as well.

Everyone forgets that in the end, the people are the beneficiaries of these taxes by way of government services like free healthcare and education. Eventually benefits will come as universal basic income (UBI) as well.

Now for the opinion part - I find it sad that the United Stated of America no longer has any appreciable tariffs, so in a way doesn't think of itself as a really nice place to go anymore. 40 years of so-called conservative thinking on this (that government of/by/for the people is somehow the enemy) has done a great injustice to our culture and global image as a beacon of democracy. I was born in 77 so just barely remember that it didn't always used to be this way. I fear that young people today are experiencing their cultural worth being stolen and that their feeling of ineffectualness is being amplified by divisive political tactics that will never pan out. Low taxes generally cause these sorts of problems; lower taxes will make them worse. And taxes just got lower, supposedly, even though the US already pays some of the lowest taxes in the industrialized world. The very fact that the US is unlikely to raise taxes appreciably anytime in the foreseeable future does not bode well for our quality of life IMHO.
> The theory called asymptotically (as-em-TOT-ick-lee) safe gravity was proposed in 1978 by Steven Weinberg.

Would a person interested in an article about quantum gravity not be familiar with the term asymptotically?
I acknowledge the problem, but at the same time I am not sure what is the solution. Should Amazon relocate to a brand new city where it is not possible to gentrified people or should amazon just relocate to other country and cause problem there? I would think both is not optimal since Amazon does provide a net positive impact on the local economy. And I would even argue that the city could take advantage of this new tax source to improve education and perhaps output engineer talents that is much in demand now and in the foreseeable future
It's SJWs who are destroying freedom my always playing the victim card to have power over companies thru social shaming and acting really offended to scare you into apologizing or else you lose your job. Fuck this bullshit ends now.
IMO there were enough critical precursor technologies to start making discrete semiconductor devices from silicon by about the late 1920s, had a large industrial backer known the useful properties of such devices. They had most of the pieces for "how" by then but didn't discover the "why" until a generation later. And of course people spent a lot of time pursuing dead ends before discovering which industrial techniques would successfully combine to make silicon suitable for semiconductor devices, with properties surprisingly different from silicon of only 99.5% purity.

- The electric arc furnace, from the late 19th century, enabled the large scale production of crude silicon.

- The crystal bar process, from 1925, is similar to the Siemens process developed in the 1950s for refining purified volatile silicon compounds to electronic-purity elemental silicon.

- The Czochralski process, from 1915, permitted the growth of large single crystals of purified silicon.

There's a great review article from 1981, available through sci-hub, if you want more details about the history of purified silicon electronic devices:

"Twenty Five Years of Semiconductor-Grade Silicon"

DOI: 10.1002/pssa.2210640102
In general I think education is good for society, but it doesn't really matter. The rat race will emerge in some form or another. The first paragraph of the excerpt you posted misses that point in my view.

Now the second paragraph. It's not clear that government spending cuts lowers general education. For instance, state governments have been lowering their support of public universities for a long time now, while tuition simultaneously has increased. Yet more and more people keep going to college. And taking out tremendous loans to do so! This is evidence that the draw of participating in the rat race is so strong that it can't really be stopped.

Of course most government spending on education consists of K-12 spending. If we eliminate public schools then either a permanent underclass that cannot participate in the rat race will be created, which has been a state of society in the past, or people will take out loans just to participate in k-12 education. That would put the poor at a bigger disadvantage than they are at now though. Is that what we want as a society?

So it's not really about "bettering us all" at the cost of enduring a rat race.

The dilemma is really between lowering government spending and accepting severely limited social mobility vs having a more inclusive rat race with more government spending.
I haven't worked for companies like Google or Facebook or any other giant behemoths, so no idea how things are there, but in other places it's pretty far from a cult where I am.

I worked for a non tech Fortune 500 company. It was fairly cult like. It didn't really bother me because my father and ex were both career military, so I considered the cult like elements evidence of how unimportant the work was. The military isn't cult like. You take things seriously because lives are on the line and national security is on the line. Having been around the military helped inoculate me against the cult like elements of corporate culture.

I had some sympathy for why it was that way. Building a very successful company is kind of like magic. We don't really know how it works, yet it is life giving. These people had well paid jobs because... Magic. And working there meant that when I made small talk while ordering food or getting a haircut, people oohed and aahed that I worked there at all. Not everyone could get in.

But my work as a military wife, without even being in the army, had been more important. For me, it was a step down in intensity. It was just a job. Meanwhile, coworkers often felt working there was the biggest thing that ever happened to them.
It is not used on objects on the java heap. No copying occurs.
> Having written bespoke scraping systems professionally, I think you overestimate the applicability of this technique.

You may be right, but I would say that it shifts the balance. If the content is poisoned, the scraper will have to spend effort on quality control and they can never know for certain if you have detected their workarounds. It doesn't stop them of course, but it certainly raises the cost of scraping you at little extra cost to you.
> You don't want cars overall to start with.

So you punish those who have/want one? Ouch, I wouldn't want to live in your world.

Work the other side, make people want to not have one. Making people's life miserable is not a good way to manage your citizens.

> And as wealth increases ... lower income buyers.

Except that the wealthy person just buys a cheaper car. They still have a car, and you have not accomplished your goal.

Your mistake is you taxed spending, without even checking income.

Your scheme does not make people not get a car, it causes people to get a cheaper car, that's all.
Chrome doesn't crash, it gives you an error page with the message "Google chrome ran out of memory while trying to display this web page"

IE11 just gives an OOM error in the console.
This interview really demonstrates the style of argumentation you see around these topics, just dialed up to 11.

Practitioners of this form of argument intentionally mis-represent the other side to form a strawman argument. This works exceptionally well on Twitter, where someone quote-tweets their adversary, intentionally warping their words with the intention to shame. Some people have called this tactic "dunking on" their opponent.

Those tactics work very poorly in this 1-to-1 format, in part because of the longform nature, but mostly because one can't instantly appeal to an outside audience for likes/retweets.
I have a 15 minute commute, but I'm atypical. One of the patterns that grew in (as I understand it) the 1940s and 1950s was the tendency to work in the city, but have a home farther out in the suburbs.

Apparently, the average commute time is 25.4 minutes, according to the US Census Bureau (although it gets much higher in some places): https://project.wnyc.org/commute-times-us/embed.html#5.00/42...
Did you read the link? Those aren’t his words, they’re straight from Google employees.
> For a leader, you want a strong vision for the future, passion, a very strong will, charisma.

Europe was plagued with many of this style of "leader" between the 1920's and 1940's and tens of millions of people died for it.
Cultural Marxism
OP here. Someone from LinkedIn Product Management reached out to me yesterday on Twitter, then followed up today. He said "We reset your counters this morning. We're in the process of updating our logic as we obviously don't want to get in the way of you interacting with your network. The limit is there to product our member data from scraping and commercial use. We misclassified some of your queries and are reviewing ways to prevent this going forward."

A fair and appreciated response.
> Early on, Valerie realized that she unconsciously thought of literally every single job other than software engineer as “for people who weren’t good enough to be a software engineer” – and that she thought this because other software engineers had been telling her that for her entire career.

This spoke to me for two reasons.

1) Plenty of professions are like this. Lawyers, consultants, doctors, bankers, stock brokers etc. Everyone thinks that their profession is the 'best' one.

2) As someone in tech, but not a Software Developer, the number of times I've gone into technical conferences (yes, even the 'inclusive' ones) and got the feeling of being lesser just because I don't write code for a living bothers me. In particular, the stigma associated with being in customer facing roles (particularly sales) is strong.
TL;DR: What attributes qualify a crypto to be a Sh* t Coin?

Serious question, not trolling. I am asking as there's a sea of shilling and mis-information out there and it's getting very difficult to figure out what's real and what's pump-and-dump / shilling, painting the tape, washtrading type scam.

My question is, What makes a "Sh* t" coin a "Sh* t" coin? I'm getting varying answers depending on source. Is it the current price (like fraction of cents) or is it a coin that has a landing page site with a "White paper" but no usage, or something else?

I thought Ripple ( XRP ) was onto something when they claimed that they have "partnered" with 100+ Banks, Financial institutions to provide liquidity and fees saving in cross border transfers.

Further research unearthed the fact that they do not have a SINGLE real customer, and that all the ones they hype on reddit r/Ripple and on CNBC are "Trials" / Pilots of their xCurrent and xRapid blockchain based software.

So does this make XRP also a Sh*t coin?