skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really hope that this marks a turning of the tides, because what has been going on in tech, as well as certain non-tech industries, in the name of "diversity," has been nothing short of abhorrent.

The doublespeak is inescapable. They claim to stand against racism and sexism, but will not hesitate to discriminate based on race or sex to meet some kind of nonsensical demographic parity targets which are absolutely not reflective of the actual qualifications of applicant pools.

Meanwhile, with the other hand, they claim that the existing industry leaders are in the wrong for supposedly doing just that, when merely conflating equality of opportunity with equality of outcome. How the hell do you seriously expect to achieve something like gender parity, for example, through hiring, in a competitive industry when incoming male graduates outnumber female graduates 10 to 1?

How can people be so disconnected from reality and blame biased hiring practices?
I don't think making light of a otherwise sad situation, is "fueling hatred". It's actually lightening the mood while pointing out room for improvement. Trying to stay positive is something we can all do, even when there are injustices.
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Some biases are on the surface and you might be able to avoid them. Others are unconscious and without knowing it exist you can't avoid it.
Problem is people think they are not bias when they actually are!
Let's try something, for the next 10 person that you meet, try to come up with a reason of why you like or dislike them.
And those reasons are just coming justification for your feelings, and it is coming from your unconscious!
I believe the end goal is some proof of extraterrestrial life. As sensing becomes more accurate, we may be able to detect certain biochemical signatures. Even of a hypothetical alien variety. At even great distances.

Its an answer to the age old existential dilemma: are we alone in the cosmos. And would indeed provide a modicum of hope for the future of humanity ;)

Exoplanet hunters rethink search for alien life

https://www.nature.com/news/exoplanet-hunters-rethink-search...
Let’s see: they’re spending tens of millions of dollars to put something into geostationary orbit that will presumably last there for years. I’m thinking they’re probably using radiation hardened parts.
A long time ago, I saw someone else's brilliant answer to a similar question, so I will repeat it here. All you need is paper and pencil for your students. The idea here is to focus on concepts, not code:

Ask them to write down all of the steps required to to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. For example, a student may come up with the following solution:

1. Get the peanut butter and jelly.

2. Spread on bread.

3. Put other bread on top.

As the instructor, you must "break" their solution with a funny skit (as opposed to being pedantic). Try to do step 1 in front of the class: You flail your arms around like an absolute madman, reaching for the peanut butter, but you cannot reach it. Eventually, the students realize step 1 isn't clear enough for you. They come up with:

1a. Walk to cupboard from table (i.e. the peanut butter is stored somewhere; we need to go there).

1b. Pull out peanut butter and jelly (we need to acquire the goods).

1c. Walk back to table.

If you think about step 1b, you can see a potential problem if your hands are full. So, you proceed to get the ingredients with full hands, only to drop the jelly on the way back to the table; you didn't have enough free hands to get the jelly! At this point the students are facepalming you, which is good, and it encourages them to be even more explicit in their instructions; perhaps they include a check to make sure your hands aren't full before getting the ingredients.

This comedic, adversarial process between the students and the teacher continues until the students land upon an imperative, explicit way to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Breaking down problems into imperative, unmistakeable steps is exactly the kind of skill which is used in programming, as computers lack linguistic pragmatism.

The lesson here is that computers are dumber than we think, and programming is the art of making them smart. The instructor plays the role of a dumb computer acting out the students' instructions. The students quickly get the point: their instructions aren't good enough for a computer, even if they are good enough for a human, and it's not that hard to be explicit if you take some time to think about it!
I remember back in college when I applied for a job in a multi-national company, I didn't get a math screening quiz that applicants from outside of United States had to take. The quiz was pretty easy middle school math that would take 15 minutes to complete.

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 the quiz were carried out in US, the company would need to prepare some report stating that math is essential to the job, which would be very cumbersome and costly to do scientifically.

I found it ridiculous as the position clearly needed math and I believe basic arithmatic is a valuable skill to ask for majority of the jobs, even for low-skill positions like cashier at Walmart. While eliminating discrimination is a great cause, all the band-aids to make the issue look less bad is shameful. Instead of improving basic education for minority communities (which costs some money now with high return from enhanced labor productivity and less welfare), our governments/society artificially discriminate in the opposite direction and suppress valid criteria that are statistically unfavorable to minorities.
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Reminds me of Glenn Cook a celebrated fantasy author who went under the radar for decades. He wrote all his novels manning a console at an auto plant on the night shift. Good stuff.
Sorry to hear you had to go through it. I feel like I'm getting damn close to finally escaping something very similar now, after several years of it dominating my life.

It's was largely a psychosomatic thing for me. It started with an RSI that I'd had for years, then I read about people with horrible RSI problems which turned out to be psychosomatic (through Sarno et al). Unfortunately, because I was already in a fairly paranoid state at this time from various things like a recent Type 1 Diabetes diagnosis (and pushing myself to use computers even though it felt painful)—while I felt I had enough evidence to confirm that my problem was psychosomatic, learning this made things go very wrong.

It seemed to me like my mind/body were sort of attacking me and giving me the RSI, and if it's not strictly physical, why should it have to be limited to my wrists? Every semi-controllable aspect of my body started going out of whack if I were to think about it happening (e.g. blushing, sweating, etc.). The longest lasting of these was a very distinct squeezing sensation on my forehead—just like a hand were placed on top of it, in a specific position. The intensity varied with my concern about it. There were times where I noticed everything was fine for a few moments and the sensations were absent—but as soon as I'd check for them they'd immediately come back and my thoughts would be dominated about how the situation was evolving moment to moment.

Anyway, I started meditating about 2.5 years ago (spent about a year reading about it before starting a regular practice, mostly avoiding it initially because I'd tried a couple times and it would horribly exacerbate the forehead squeezing sensations), and it's helped me tremendously. It's kind of like it restored a balance in which parts of my mind activate under different conditions: ordinarily someone is anxious and perhaps even aware of it, but they don't try making it go away through thinking about it—they trust at least to a certain extent that their body/mind know what they're doing and the response there is correct, and the 'problem' resolves on its own. At that point in time I essentially never left the conscious thought mode.

I can see all those possibilities of acting in one way or the other now—not perfectly, but pretty well often times. And the more clearly I see it the more often I make the choices which make things better rather than worse—finally escaping the feedback loop (woo!).

I've got a lot of thoughts on meditation now, and they're mostly positive at this point, but I also don't think I'd have gone so far with it unless I had absolutely no other choice. And it does seem a bit scary at times (mostly just from hearing stories)—but I think people tend to be fine as like as they 'take it easy': avoid extremes. I went through an extended phase where that bothered me a lot, but I feel pretty good about it now.
I hope my comment didn't come across as I am portraying them as a victim. I saw first hand hiring based on quotas and I hated it (and I am an immigrant with dark skin).

I was just stating a fact about Google, that they were among the last to implement quotas in Silicon Valley, and why I think they started doing it.
This is very well implemented, and simple to use.

I would strongly recommend investing effort in the Search function though. It’s extremely unresponsive: I literally can’t type a full word without it “losing” characters due to background processing. Probably it should wait at least a second before attempting to retrieve any results (assuming I even want instant results, which frankly I do not; a “Start Searching” button would be just fine).

Also, it isn’t really clear how search categories work, since there are no drop-down menus in a profile to select a category. In the text field beneath your name that describes what you “do”, are you expected to type the name of a category verbatim to match that category? And if your description doesn’t match any of the categories, does that mean you can’t be “found”?

Finally, I find the site very “large” on the desktop; I can see almost nothing without scrolling around. I know a lot of sites have this issue these days but it’d be really nice if you could just fit the minimal content on one screen.
I thought the QLD Gov IBM ban was explicit. It certainly was as of 2016: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/queenslands-ibm-ban-lives-on-... (this is the same article linked by GP).

I'll bet there's plenty of IBM salespeople who hate that one guy who made bank on the QHealth deal...
Who said anything about computers? The whole universe is in a constant state of Recycling. Remember that old adage "energy/matter cannot be created nor destroyed?"
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Mid-November. Two months is still months, but I can see it leaving an impression of being longer than it was.
Not cringing, but I think I understand your point...

However; I feel like with modern infrastructures, projects don't really "fit" can be packaged into a container, and used virtually anywhere. (Oversimplification acknowledged!)
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This begs the question, what is Latino and what is white? I was born in a Latin American country to a Latin American mother and a Canadian father, have lived here my entire life but if you saw me you wouldn't even think I spoke Spanish.

Likewise, I've made friends in the US who are of Mexican descent and look very much like it but don't speak a lick of Spanish.

This has led me to feel not at home in either my country of origin or Canada. Since I'm too white to be from here and don't know enough about Canadian lifestyle to relate to anyone there.
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700 LY is actually very close in! Some of these discovered exoplanets are 20,000 LY away.

700 LY is practically our backyard and makes it much easier to observe.
Intron, you were right. Two hours later the HN front page has replaced this sexism story with a story about discrimination against men in favour of women.
Are there any plans for an Android App, or will it all be browser-based?

Also where is the github/code located?
People outside of tech think there's this silent discrimination and hostility against women and minorities, but it's the complete opposite. If you could choose your race and gender going into these interviews, you would be a complete idiot to choose male or white or asian.

It's not just in hiring either. Another thing I've noticed is if you fail as a male engineer, you get fired. If you fail as a female engineer, you get reassigned to product management. These positions seem to be reserved for non-males. Women get reassigned, men get shown the door.

It's getting to the point where all of this is so overt and so undeniable. It's all to avoid lawsuits, but what if they're just exposing themselves to more lawsuits on the other end of that pendulum?

I have to think at some point the race- and gender-based meddling these companies do in people's careers will have to stop.
> "So you being poor is justification enough to spread divisive comments and fuel further hatred (on either side)"

This is over-dramatic...

I'm just saying in today's world you can identify as whatever the hell you want, and nobody can question it apparently...so It might be a good strategy for white males to "identify" as the race/gender that seem to get additional points on their applications based on their race/gender.
This isn’t a new problem. Women and POC that were hired following affirmative action reported being called “affirmative action hires” and faced workplace discrimination based on the idea that they didn’t deserve the jobs. Maybe they did, maybe they didn’t, but how was the issue of them being denied jobs based on sex or race to be solved otherwise?
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If the title of his book is justified, maybe the fast and slow systems?
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I read the comment you're replying to more as "IBM shouldn't commit to projects if the client isn't mature enough to make it work."
This might be a dump question but if we were to look at our planet from far away what exactly would we see?
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There are many people is that position. For example, the conflict between Hispanic and Latino identity.
So many downvotes, but nobody wants to spar, what a pity.
From my experience it is not so hard to build completely terrestrial links that have latency that is large enough such that TCP works (althought it should not), but TLS handshake will timeout. For GEO links you will get exactly this behavior by using BGAN terminal over Bluetooth DUN profile (BT adds enough latency for this to happen).
My 2013 MBP had a charging circuit issue, too. I brought it to Apple, and they said replace most of the internals, $800. I took it to a third-party authorized Genius Bar (Create More on 3rd St), and they replaced just the charging circuit for about $200.
This starts with the [diversity pledge](http://thehill.com/policy/technology/284517-white-house-pres...) pushed by Obama administration, including companies like Airbnb, Box, GitHub, GoDaddy, Intel, Lyft, Medium.

No wonder many Asians sigh relief when Clinton failed her presidency, or she surely would have pushed for more.
I propose a new term: "Clown Car" security.

For situations like this where a fiasco just keeps getting worse, each step its own facepalm.

* Asking users to generate private keys on the issuer's server

* Storing those private keys

* Emailing those private keys

* Sending that email completely in the clear

* Running unsanitized user input on their server

* as root

(Copying my comment from the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16492284)
> "Wow, this guy could work on the beach" is actually "damn, I must work even on the beach".

This is a fantastic way to put it.
The article states that the options expense of $917 million is one of the deductions, that would only account for ~16% of their 2017 earnings ($5.6 billion) and something like ⅓ of that in taxes, so not anywhere near 100% of their taxes are involved.

Do you think allowing companies to treat compensation as an expense is a bad thing? The employees will be taxed on the value they receive by exercising the options and will generally be in higher brackets, so the big impact of the exercises is that the employees end up with something like $600 million (the government gets a big chunk either way).
Been working in Singapore for 13 years now. Originally from Sweden.

In my case, I already knew I needed to move there for family reasons. Before that I had already considered moving abroad but it wasn't until I knew where I wanted to go that I could start looking for real.

I was browsing job boards and did get a couple of interviews. Nothing was particularly interesting though. Then on a fluke I got in touch with another European who worked for the Singapore branch of a European company, and they were looking for tech people. A few interviews later I had a job offer, and the company helped out with the legal parts.

It's all worked out pretty well and I currently have no plans to leave the country.
Amazon's policies promote counterfeiting
To be sure, some of this is inappropriate. Asking if someone is the "token woman" is wrong on many levels. But not all of the stories are "shocking". For example, one woman in this article complains that at conferences, men tend to not approach groups of women that are talking to each other, interrupt them, and begin talking to them. Is that unusual or discriminatory? I wouldn't do that, regardless of the sex of the participants in a group chat.

Further, in the era of #MeToo, the chasm between men and women in the workplace will grow wider simply because of liability issues. One man's innocent, casual conversation with a female coworker can these days become that woman's #MeToo moment, aired publicly, both in the court of public opinion and in courts of law. This ultimately causes fewer interactions between men and women in the workplace - especially between direct reports and their managers - which can easily lead to fewer advancement opportunities. This is borne out in data. According to a recent study, almost 30% of male managers say they are not comfortable working alone with a woman — more than twice as many as before, according to the same study [1].

I would suggest that articles like this focus on incidents that everyone can agree is atrocious and actionable behavior. If failure to interrupt a group of women talking amongst themselves at a conference is now a #MeToo moment, it's just going to cause deeper concerns about liability, which will in turn cause even more backlash.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/natalierobehmed/2018/02/06/amid...
"you're not going to do anything very interesting..." to the dynamics of the solar system.

the orbital dynamics of the solar system. (the thing you'd be worried about if you thought you needed to learn how to make 416-body systems stable.)

certainly packing the habitable zone full of new places to live is interesting, on all sorts of social and technological levels. it just doesn't raise any questions about the stability/dynamics of the n-body system that is the solar system (until you maybe start taking apart the gas giants).

hopefully that clears that up?
How does this compare with an RSS reader?
Looks like it has evolved from Uber Central right? Or is it based off something else?
The timeframe for these alleged actions predates the release of Damore's memo.
SQL is fine, most of the quirky way of stating things is because it's declarative, which actually makes it very powerful. The biggest problem is that the standards move so slowly that many of the database implementers came up with their own dialects.

The latest official SQL:2016 is actually pretty great and it would be better if all the various databases converged back to that, however it's probably too late for that now, let alone a whole new language...
700 light years away. We'll need to solve for human lifespan first. There's another planet about 5 light years away. It's just a matter of time.
That's called getting lucky and rich. Your story has nearly nothing to do with cryptocurrency and more to do with winning the lottery. Please elaborate on the crypto part.

I have also made a sizeable amount from crypto, as well as other investments, but crypto is the most fun to follow. I have been inspired to create blockchain-type applications and use crypto in upcoming projects.

My next goal is to create an app that stops parking tickets via blockchain and common kindness.