skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you TOTALLY misunderstood my point.

Which was: how come drwl accepts the status quo with NBA and not with programmers? Why do they simply assume that some qualities are more prevalent with Blacks but not with males?

I am not taking a position in my comment one way or the other, just pointing out a potential double standard so the reader can make their own conclusions by reconciling them :)

I assume you are clearly on the side of "things are the way they are because that's how biology works". So here is another one, far more politically charged. Are you prepared to endorse this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United...

"There is general agreement in the literature that blacks are more likely to commit violent crimes than are whites in the United States. Whether this is the case for less serious crimes is less clear."

This statement is considered racist. However the equivalent statement for men and women is not considered sexist: men commit far more violent crime than women.

Therefore, should these things be used in profiling people suspected of violent crime?

You can go on and on about these things.
That would be an interesting model for the ground stations. Everybody else builds large and capable ground stations with big dishes. Iridium for example provides global phone and slow data coverage using only one public ground station, but also uses a completely different band to talk with the ground stations vs. the handhelds.
If you build a ship that accelerates at a constant 1g towards the destination until the midway point, then decelerates at a constant 1g, due to time dilation, the people on board would experience "only" 12 years passing for a 700LY journey. People on Earth would still need to wait 1400 years for the first communication back, of course, but at least you won't have to build generation ships.

Edit: I got my numbers from http://convertalot.com/relativistic_star_ship_calculator.htm...
Do you find that LBGT status is still an obstacle in tech?
You did not answer my question.
Friend of mine had setup interview at Google London, he flew in, came into the office and they completely forgot about him! :D He was just sitting there for a few hours, then left.
I'm an engineer I do something similar despite sitting in front of a computer it's often faster for me to solve simple problems "by hand".

I keep a notebook beside me as I work I end up going through several notebooks a year. I think it's a consequence of how I was taught in school. During high school physics one of the first thing we were taught was to always sketch out a diagram depicting the problem and all the boundary conditions. It is a habit I carried on through university and into my career. I guess the equivalent in programming terms would be to draw a state diagram before attempting to write any code.
#6 Repeat Steps 3-5 until the problem is solved.

EDIT: Also, double down on the ideological fervor until th problem is solved.
Netlify is fantastic for deploying static sites.
Same memory, but from the local computer swap events in SoCal.

I remember the space shuttle and couple others in multi-color pens something like 30" x 40", had more than a few hanging up in the garage.
> Note that $25 is nowhere hear the average for Americans' copay for primary healthcare visit.

$24 primary, $37 specialist, though that was published last year so it may have crept up a bit (it's been trending slowly upward.) [0]

> You've just got really excellent insurance

$25 is more than my primary care copay. I know I have excellent insurance; I also don't assume everyone else's is like mine. OTOH, you apparently have really crappy insurance and are assuming everyone else does.

[0] http://time.com/money/4044394/average-health-deductible-prem...
Household Chemical Products Contribute to Poor Air Quality
How big is the iOS team?
I believe what you describe. I believe there are plenty of people who have the problem you describe--to a significant extent. And of course it's not limited to who you hire, but also who you associate with, and how you treat people. Many people, of all walks of life, act based on their assumptions of others, to some degree.

I'm a scientist. I believe in the power of observation, action, and assessment (further observation). If I perceive that a problem exists, then I: do my due diligence to determine the extent to which it exists (if at all), determine if and how I should solve it, and carry out that determination. I believe there are plenty of people that could use an adjustment, at least for the matter you describe.

But I'm an even bigger believer in priorities. Of investing energy and time--of our one, limited life--towards the goals that I think matter the most. The health of our planet and power inequality, for two. There are just some people for whom any such "adjustment" would only serve to (at best) distract them from other endeavours, where they may be sorely needed. Good people, who do truly good things. At what point do you stop this (re)education? Can we hope for a complete disassociation from our biological tendency to observe and encode patterns? Do we even want that? At some point, the energy expended on a perceived problem may greatly outweigh the returns you get from the investment. Energy that could have been better spent.

Right now, I see much energy--mostly talk--being devoted, in a "shotgun" approach, to this problem and other social problems. I see it talked about in mass-consumed venues, and I see others parroting talking points. But for me, my colleagues, and my friends, it just isn't a problem. I interact with individuals all over the world and we are able to work together toward common goals. And I think that's what matters most.
Well when Asians are discriminated against in university admissions and now even when searching for a job (at least in the case of Asian males), exactly what kind of privilege do Asians really have?
You specify your "race"/"gender" during application (or refuse to answer). It's up to you how you want to move forward I guess.
Japan's cryptocurrency exchanges to announce plan for self-regulating body
On a sidenote, can someone talk about what kind of tools are being used to integrate the subtitles and scrolling behavior over a youtube video in this course? Is there an OS implementation?
I think this is a pretty big deal and has been for at least a few years, yet there have been no repercussions for Amazon yet. It feels like it should be illegal to enable this kind of thing.
The key here is spot beams, right? The big satellites have dozens, maybe hundreds of spot beams covering multiple countries but yours has a handful? And multiple satellites can share the same orbital slot if their spot beams are pointed in different places, right?
Learning about far-away planets is useful if we want to know more about planets in general, such as how do they form and what kinds of planetary systems are we most likely to find outside our solar system?

Even if we never visit that particular planet, we may learn something useful that tells us something about planets nearby, or even about our own solar system.

At this point, we're just collecting data about extra-solar planets, which we weren't sure even existed until recently. With so many unknowns, it's exciting whenever we can fill in our knowledge gaps just a little bit.
Is it false? You can identify as whatever the hell you like these days...that is a fact.
And it's hard enough for me to approach groups of men, let alone groups of women.
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As an employee of organisations I can tell you one reason for resistance: this sort of systematization ends up being endless meaningless churn.
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At Dividend we are providing financing for residential solar installations and soon Home Energy loans (windows, furnace, etc.)

Our stack includes a Clojure API that allows solar installers to push their projects through the pipeline from prospect status all the way to in service. We also have a Clojurescript web app that is based on re-frame. We deploy on heroku and use RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, SendGrid, and other services. You will work with a small development team less than 10 people that include 2 remote. We collaborate with our product team using agile and try to stick to the manifesto. We are in the FiDi in SF, also have offices in San Diego, and Austin.

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Down and out in Disneyland: study finds most LA workers can't cover basic needs
I ordered an instant pot on amazon. instant pot box shows up, with mfr.s packaging.... I opened it and similar-looking - but much cheaper - chinese knockoff was in box.

if amazon's customer service wasnt so good i would have dropped them already. (I know it's not them making the mistake, but still..)

however I buy stuff there much less frequently now since i have no way to know if I'm getting counterfeits for certain types of goods.
I've long thought that a graph visual based query client would be really neat
Yes, this is how companies start to decline.
It turns out that the reason is that screening for basic math competency could be discrimination, because it reduces the chance of hiring for minorities who do less well at math testing.

If it genuinely screens for basic math, then there's nothing racist about it.

artificially discriminate in the opposite direction and suppress valid criteria that are statistically unfavorable to minorities.

Eroding meritocracy is ultimately bad for everyone. It's through climbing meritocratic ladders that minority groups throughout history have raised their prospects.
Can't believe my old post got picked up! If anyone's looking to get a plotter I would still highly recommend an old HP 7475A as a gateway drug — they're relatively cheap, not too big (the size of a large-ish inkjet printer) and incredibly well made. I've had a lot of fun using the Geomerative library for Processing.org to play around with my plotters, but really anything goes as long as you can access your serial port and don't mind reading the plotter's manual. I generally save the HPGL output to a text file and then use a small utility app I've written to send it to the plotter. Sometimes I'll check the output in Cenon.app before wasting any paper or ink.
It’s outrageous.

Possibly there is a case that corps should pay zero income tax and workers should bear the entire burden, but I’ve never heard a convincing argument. This, corps create wealth argument, and CNBC corporatist babble is pretty unconvincing.

Given inherent advantages of capital over labor, and the fact corps enjoy special privlidges provided by the US Govt, why should their fair share of the burden be paid by workers and their grandchildren’s future of US $20T debt interest payments?
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Measuring the Health of Our Public Conversations
Amazon will replace whatever stupid crap you end up with. This is why it doesn't hurt their brand. You know they will fix it, so it's just a minor inconvenience to the customer, most of the time. Meanwhile, it shuts down businesses.

You'd think politicians might care about this, but they're too busy handing out billions to get them to move to their state.
Three at the moment...
This is ruling out Amazon for so many categories of product and has been going on for years.

Yet they don't seem to be bothered.

So now I look on Amazon, then see if I can buy direct or from a different retailer.
probably never. in a way, this broadly applicable quote applies: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

80% of people in the US make less than $75k. the idea that people experience diminishing returns on income is a strong argument in favor of redistribution, and is a couple notches more sophisticated than just saying outright that rich people don't deserve what they have. how many people are likely to seriously interrogate the claim that they deserve more than they are paid and/or would use it more efficiently?
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EnergySavvy is a Seattle-based startup with the mission of reducing energy usage by helping utilities provide a smarter, more personalized customer experience. We're looking for an operations engineer.

Who are you?

You have a strong understanding of cloud computing solutions. You are a strong engineer who thinks of infrastructure as code (or even better, as config). You love the idea of building immutable infrastructure and fault-tolerant systems. You think of servers as cattle, not pets. You know what cloud vendor goodies are worth using, while still keeping an eye towards avoiding vendor lock-in. While you understand the need for monitoring and alerting, you dream of building self-healing systems. You believe in collaboration, acting as a force multiplier, and making the right tradeoffs. And you have been looking for an opportunity to join a company where you can use your powers for good.

What would make you a good fit:

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I imagine your surname would carry a lot of weight.
Then I wonder why poeple just don't lie? EG just put down: disabled autistic transgender native american. Everyone wins. Google gets to check a bunch of boxes and helps you jump to the top of the list. I doubt they would check your parents race and examine your privates.
> Well, USA never did anything about Israel, Pakistan, India.

Under current circumstances, neither Israel nor India are going to even try to attack the US. Pakistan might be tempted, but I believe they don't have a ballistic missile capable of reaching the US. So there was less reason to do anything about them. (Iran, now, is more worrying.)

> If someone in Japan or South Korea think the same, that they are truly protected with this shield...

But I don't think anybody believes that. Could it stop a North Korean nuke? Hopefully, yes. Is anyone confident enough to want to try it? I doubt it; nobody believes that ABM defenses are anything like 100% reliable.

> And btw North Korea probably has more that just 1-10 or even 100 nukes at this point.

I think it's about 10-20 warheads. Do they have 10-20 ICBMs that are operational? I doubt it, but I don't know for certain.
Predicting the 2018 Oscar Winners
You are Generation 0 (Zero) like me. Your ancestral roots are anglo, hispanic, and native american by tradition.
>To achieve this, our Data Warehouse team was tasked with identifying every foreign-key relationship between every table in the data warehouse to backfill all the ID columns with corresponding UUIDs.

Given the decentralized ownership of our tables, this was not a simple endeavor. The most promising solution was to crowdsource the information by scraping all the SQL queries submitted to the warehouse and observing which columns were joined together.

Am I missing something, or does scraping SQL queries to effectively get an ER diagram sound a bit strange? If you have SQL and a relational database, don’t you already have a formal model of the relations encoded somewhere? E.g. in the table definitions, annotations in your code, or at least as a Word document?

The tool sounds great, but isn’t it a failure having to write it in the first-place?
A good independent recruiter will do this. Many senior engineers I know maintain a relationship with a couple of recruiters who know what kind of startups they like and only bring them compelling offers. The recruiter can expect a multi-decade relationship with the engineer and thus has reasonable incentive to treat them well. They will even sometimes place these engineers commission-free when they know it is the right thing.

You can also get into this relationship with certain VCs.
The real barrier to entry to ML is statistics. Most computer science degrees require an intro to statistics class, but if you really want to understand ML and where it should and can be applied appropriately you need a much deeper understanding.

IMO, it's much easier to pick up the programming required for ML than the statistics. This was reflected in the classes I took as a double statistics/computer science major. Most of the people in my CS department's machine learning course were statistics students looking to go into data science, not computer programmers looking to get in on the ML trend.
STRATCOM Boss Makes Case for Satellites Capable of Tracking Hypersonic Vehicles
And yet every thread about Slack (or Discord or Gitter or whatever) is full of people saying "why not just use IRC"?, as if IRC could replace a complete service.
As far as I can tell, they are still deeply infected by toxic ideologues who will witch-hunt anyone who openly disagrees with their politics. So many of my old classmates did this vehement un-personing of James Damore, even when they had no factual basis for what they were saying. Someday someone should write a play about it. In the meantime, there's "The Drumhead."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjJN08uqt70
I think Amazon should go back to just being a bookstore, maybe seller of indie items, kind of like that etsy-like nichce and focus on AWS, which is their clear cash cow at this point.

This whole being an "everything" store thing is a drain on them, and a drain on our economy. Plus they aren't exactly winning in some of the categories they thought they would be now -- groceries for example -- Walmart has shown they will fight to the absolute death on that, and I don't think they can win in that space (buying Whole Foods was a nice gesture, but Whole Foods reputation was fading from that "cool grocery store that has all this organic stuff" to "just a really expensive grocery store" especially once all the other grocery stores started carrying organics).

Of course the kicker is if they can release their fully autonomous drone fleet. Which may be what, 10...20 years off after sorting through FAA regulations at the minimum?
1. Our first design has a capacity of up to 10 Gbps. And we have a technical roadmap that can significantly increase that in future spacecraft designs.

2. For various reasons it doesn't make sense to go into that level of detail on a public forum.

3. Yes.
I've seen this especially in the power charger category... Apple power chargers I end up always just having to go to the Apple Store for now. Sigh. I want to use Amazon, but have had so many sketchy "Apple" products sent my way.
> Not good for anyone.

Not good for employees but I don’t see how it’s bad for Google.

Unhappy people are less likely to reflect on things, and more likely to do what the boss tells them to. Which is what you want your employees to do when you attract them with nice “don’t be evil” slogan, and make them optimize an ad server for the market capitalization metric.
It's not #MeToo causing problems for sure since it attempts to battle sexism by raising awareness. It is sexism which causes all types of problems that you mention. Avoiding women in workplace is essentially sexist. And for non-sexists there is no reason to do so.
Typo: working link is https://www.seedlinktech.com/about/career/tech/
The phrase that jumps to mind is "Easy come, easy go".

Companies built on slow painful progress inevitably have a broad customer base, customers that were acquired through slow painful progress (although they probably have a few whales still). They're less likely to have the loss of one deal/customer sink the whole ship.
I tried putting a calligraphy pen in my plotter and it was definitely rough on the nib because of the angle. With continuous line drawing it would probably be ok, but too much up/down movement might get messy. Still fun to watch though! Here's a short video of it in action: https://www.instagram.com/p/BNCxyfLBh8_/
False.

That is what PGP / GPG's Web of Trust offers.
Because of the counterfeiting on Amazon, I’m becoming price-insensitive and ordering direct from brand websites. I’d rather order once at full mark up than burn time dealing with fakes.
Real estate agents have a lot less reputation, their clients are less able to compare outcomes, and their clients are less highly connected than clients of an agency like this.
It does hurt their brand. People have to go through return and re-order.

It’s becoming like eBay.
The law of large numbers is your friend.

"Large" is ~ n > 30.
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A new recommended career path for effective altruists: China specialist
It is indeed a little subjective and changes with time. This Wikipedia article explains it fairly well I think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_programming_languag...