skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ABM defenses change things in a context of mutual nuclear _disarmament_ not in ability to annihilate each other. If USA stops playing according to the agreements, why others should?

Yes, USA is saying that it has to come up with something like this to counter rogue states and I can believe that. But why should Russia/China or any other country keep their part of the mutual nuclear disarmament bargain in that case? (ABM defenses is part of the deal here) Everyone has a different view on how to enforce peace. There is actually a theory in international relations that the safest earth can get is when everyone have nuclear weapons capable of destroying everyone else.[2] And it is part of a neorealist theory so Russia and China are pretty "realistic" in their approach. To be honest the safest way for any country is to have such a weapon that can crush the earth if used. Is it safe for humanity? No. But it is definitely the safest way to ensure your regime.

"The US had to do something like this because of North Korea"
Well, USA never did anything about Israel, Pakistan, India. There are 10+ more countries "being one screwdriver's turn" from the bomb. Why bother now? And here is another POV: Initially ABM defense was advertised to stop Iran ballistic missile development and USA sold lots of Aegis parts to Europe/Turkey/Saudi Arabia. And Russians freaked out about radars in Poland covering most part of western Russia and backed Iran... And I think they had their reasons for concern because Poland wasn't even in range of Iranian missiles at that time. And it goes on and on, but anyway it pretty much started the new race on a global scale. Doesn't matter who was the first: India/Pakistan/NK/Iran, ABM escalated it to a completely new level. Btw i doubt many ppl know that it was Pakistan who started NK nuclear development in 2002.[2]

"But would we have a chance at stopping one North Korean nuke? Yes"
And that's the real danger. If someone in Japan or South Korea think the same, that they are truly protected with this shield, they will have strong desire to influence/provoke North Korea/ try a regime change... And that can cause a full scale war with nuclear state. The point here: is it really secure or just an illusion of security? And btw North Korea probably has more that just 1-10 or even 100 nukes at this point.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea%E2%80%93Pakistan_r...
Not a panacea, but if you imagine - every effort is begun with a built in base probability of failure (battle won or lost before it's fought kind of thing) - that a smaller effort reduces likelihood of failure cause you have less unknown variables.

Breaking things up, not necessarily with the teams, but with time. Milestones, separate the projects over time. Also, the shorter deadlines I've found help keep focused. Longer than a couple months - things can languish.
Hell, Wachovia got off with a $160mil fine and all they had to do was buy and change their name to Wells Fargo!
While I can't speak for others, I'm not sure that most people here think there is a gender gap because of inability on the part of women, but instead maybe a difference in general interests between the sexes.

I'm also not so sure about your claim that "there are more than enough qualified women to fill tech jobs in roughly equal proportion with men." I rarely have the chance to talk to women who are similarly interested in computers, and at my university there are very few women who are in any of my CS classes, despite that I feel that those who are there feel welcome (hopefully. I am not all-knowing, this is my best guess).

I think a better solution to the problem than pressuring people into hiring women simply for the virtue of being female and aiming for 50% would be to call sexism what it is. Call out when people who do the bad of hiring a less qualified man instead of a woman (this is a contrived example, hopefully you're understanding my point).

Solving sexism with more sexism probably won't work.

These are my honest thoughts, hope that's ok.
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Certificate transparency seems like it'll make a compromised CA much less of an issue.

If it can be reliably proven that a CA is compromised, then it can be fixed.
This comes up everytime i post about this and most people agree with me that transpile means convert to a different source language. It is definitely a common use, but I realize it is a gray area.

Edit: Compiling def isn't wrong, but Transpiling is more descriptive to me as it indicates you're not going to assembly or machine language or something like that.
What size deal is this post talking about, in dollar terms?
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Are you sure? USA has more of a culture of speaking out about problems instead of hushing up about them. And one of the points of the OP article is that even in the USA, men don't understand how common these stories are, because they aren't paying attention.
This is actually a step backwards in accessibility. The phys.org article could be read with any browser, text to speech, or sight assistance tools.

But the NASA.gov page is just a blank, black screen until you turn on javascript and it renders the text in.
And Pennsylvania suing IBM: http://fortune.com/2017/03/10/pennsylvania-ibm-lawsuit-tom-w...
I use Nim a lot and I've never seen libraries that mix different styles. I use grep without issues.

Style insensitivity is useful when wrapping C libraries.
OK, we've changed the title above to use your phrasing.
I've been on the free Zoho plan with my own domain for years. There have been a few minor issues but in all I love them. Can definitely not complain about the price. The web interface is very capable and they seem to take security very seriously.
One big point in the article was the option grants worth almost 1B. They fail to mention that the recipients of that 1B pay income tax on it.

The article stating that it’s a non-cash expense is meant fool the uneducated to think it’s a free lunch, but like depreciation it’s a very real expense.

Are you saying the 1B should have been taxed, then the remaining be distributed to employees and taxed again?
Pregnancies are not all exactly planned…
You can pay for performance and offer retention bonuses if you are concerned that your employees increase in value over time until later.
As a man I have no equivalent experience, so it's very difficult to judge. However, being in a mostly male environment the probabilities of encountering a 'dick' are very good. Should all 'dicks' be sent to the gulags? How can we stop them becoming/acting like 'dicks'? Enact tougher 'dick' laws?

I really don't understand how this could ever be resolved. Talking about it seems like a start, but it really makes me feel like I am part of the problem as a man, and I don't feel this is positive tone to this conversation.

Help?
NBA is totally underrepresented by non-black Males, let's sue them.

Swim tournament is severely underrepresented by deep skin colors. Meanwhile track and field is the opposite.

Let's mix all colors everywhere based on population percentile, to achieve diversity, equal rights and fairness.

Or do something like Dr.King hoped, that is, don't judge a person by color.
They really don't. There is a link to the Wikipedia page for matrix multiplication. If these are the people you want to hire, you might as well start outsourcing or generating random numbers
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+1 for this. Well worth the 2 hours.
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> Remember all those women that dropped out of the Software workforce in the 70's?

What's this?
It sounds as though some recruiting leader was told to hit their goals for minority hiring percentages but wasn't given much oversight in how they did it. This sort of thing is often the result of such mismanagement.
Yeah, I expected this reply.

The PhD is sufficient but not necessary here, right? A PhD researcher's job description is basically "learn necessary math, become a domain expert, and publish papers advancing that domain." It's difficult (but possible) to gain the same experience in industry if you don't have a graduate degree. Which company would pay you to work through Bishop or Goodfellow for a few months? Even a principal DS doesn't get that deal, much less a junior/associate.

Also remember: my comment addressed non-vanilla cases. In your example, this is the difference between a researcher advancing 3D programming and someone using Unity or Unreal.

(Also, sorry for all the edits. Done now!)
Charlie Stross was once a sysadmin/programmer.

Larry Correia was an accountant (and a gun store owner).
If you're transmitting the RSP2 (mentioned earlier) is about $100 cheaper and can transmit in all of the lower spectrum. HackRF works well as a transmitter in this spectrum as well where its dynamic range isn't the limitation like it is when receiving.

You can add a down converter of course and shift spectrum where the SDR is comfortable playing into the lower bands, but if you're going to do that you might as well get the PLUTO-ADALM from Analog devices which is only $150 (I got mine on the intro deal of $99 but still).

That said the LimeSDR excels at MIMO type applications (as that really is its design target).
hey cool, At one stage I was working at a company where we continuously looked for people and got recruiters to send promising candidates. However I got a feeling after a while they actually were sending me people to prescreen them... I always thought comapnies should colaborate to do technical interviews. :)
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This is exactly my point when I say it needs to be better understood: you wouldn't do it within a single project, but if you've got a third party library that exposes a `read_file` method you can use it as `readFile` meaning your own code base is more consistent.

In other words, you're not limited by the design decisions of another developer (or language, as nimmer pointed out).
No they are not. But that's not what the article is talking about. It's saying that the distribution of wealth is essentially random with respect to abilities and I'm saying that is not that case.
Is this discrimination? Why or why not?

Reminds me of this controversy from not too long ago:

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/30393117/ns/us_news-life/t/asian-a...
Your email bounces. Is that spelled correctly?
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And they're being dropped in favor of geosynchronous providers.
> From my point of view, I would avoid approaching a group of women talking by themselves since I'd be the odd one out.

That is exactly sexism – the subtle, insidious kind that us men tend not to even notice. You aren't the odd one out; you and them are all professionals at a conference.

That many men – the majority of attendees at most tech conferences – make decisions like yours is a major reason why it is more difficult for women to advance in tech fields than men. Behavior like this is exactly what people mean when they talk about "patriarchy". That it's subtle and "innocent" – "I'd be the odd one out" – is what makes us not recognize it in ourselves.
Machine learning aim assist project gone awry.
That's a good point. There are many fields that are dominated by women or non-whites, yet there is virtually zero attention paid to those. Why is that?
Despite it not being the only problem, there is a "pipeline" problem.

I believe that affirmative action can help speed up solving the pipeline problem.

If nothing else, just having X% women in tech a few years sooner can help us to hit the critical mass of women where things like "I have never worked with a woman before" become something that no senior person could say.

On top of that it provides role-models for children, who pattern match themselves against where they might be in the future.
To this day, managing state in React remains an open issue.
Anyone who has worked for a large tech company in SF in the last 3/4 years knows that this has happened everywhere.

In fairness, Google was one of the very last ones among large tech companies to play the quota game. But the problem is that that's a game that once the first company starts playing it, everyone else is forced to play it too.

Company X publishes a report with amazing diversity numbers and brands itself as a great company for certain minorities and diversity in general, along with some unbelievable BS about how they achieved that. At that point, you have to introduce quotas too to get similar numbers or your brand and recruiting will be strongly affected.
This link seems to be breaking because of the "Diversity Deficit" charts
Ok, I'll hit you with 3 questions:

1. What bandwidth capacity are you aiming for per spacecraft?

2. Are you using commercial or rad hard parts?

3. Is there a deployable antenna that makes the spacecraft larger than 3'x3'x3'?
yeah and then is 田中 one or two things? It all depend on the domain. To me 'é' and 'ê' mean different thing that are both outside the make domain. In French you also have half white space (diacritic that latex can handle) for terminal '?!..'
Those are simply outside make domain .. so bothering about space encoding as: ' ', '+', "%20" or '_' seem futile.

It all depend of domain convention. Make align on variable naming convention .. that is all
I'm not sure that's an equivalent relation. I wasn't able to read the article, but NBA representation has a lot to do with skill and performance.
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ali rahimi alludes to the problem of google engineers simply needing to tweak models that were previously tuned by google researchers who do have well-developed intuition [0]. because the intuitions in explicit form are at best heuristic and not necessarily even consistent, signing up to improve a model without them might result in spending indefinite time and compute resources without guarantee of positive results. which is a terrible perf-theoretic strategy...

[0] http://www.argmin.net/2018/01/25/optics/
I get that bringing the slightest offenses to the forefront feeds into denialists arguing that everybody is just too sensitive. That being said, I would bet that women suffer more frequently from these borderline, casual cases than violent, overt ones and I'm much more likely to see the former in broad daylight, especially in a professional context. It's hard to accept that I should brush off sexist comments and hold my tongue until I witness an assault (or whatever the threshold is for intervention-worthy).
I did it last year through Coursera (it's what pushed me to apply for my current master's program) and got the certificate, so I was able to complete everything. I don't remember there being any special measures taken on my end to get it to work. Dunno what the issue was, if something was fixed in the intervening time, or what.
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Aren't the goals like that a mismanagement, to begin?

Either state officially, like "we do racial profiling of candidates", if you in fact do, or, well, don't if you don't.
I have a problem with that statement.

Still it’s good to see thst your first instinct is military grade handwaving. I have to wonder if you have similarly high standards in all cssss, or if your skepticism is reserved primarily as a means of deflection.

All of which is to say thst you could actually trust the people telling you their stories in the article, or discuss the underlying issues, rather than deflect via nitpicking. It’s grotesque. This whole thread, the voting patterns, the flagging of the article, and the sheer force of whining from people who feel put upon by hearing about this is also grotesque... More than it would be on another site, where at least stupidity and lack of education could be an excuse.

Edit: I mean, look at this thread and compare it here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16497551

It would be funny, if it weren’t so childishly obvious.
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It's unfortunate that often the loudest advocates for a cause are not its best advocates, and this leads to backlash. Sometimes people who take on roles that require extreme confidence forget they are fallible.
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All good options.

But don't forget to represent people of different body types by weight and height as well.

As a very short, fat, and white dude who can't jump...but has a decent jumper, I still want my shot at Lebron James in the NBA.
Yes, and that's part of the problem to solve.
There are no countries where the problem of sexism is solved. Maybe it is better in Europe, but it still exists everywhere and still huge. And in the most countries it is times worse. It is reasonable to protect oneself from that behavior with all legal means and it would be strange to expect anything else of a person facing high probability of being discriminated against.
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I’m not a lawyer, so I’m curious (and I can’t read the article): are quotas legal? Irrespective of their efficacy or morality, they must’ve held up in court, right? I thought it was fairly obvious that organizations have minority quotas. Then again, I also know that discrimination against ANY gender and ANY skin color (including male and white) is illegal, which was born out recently when Google’s decision to fire a rather opinionated individual who regularly derided straight, white men was upheld. Political beliefs are not a protected class, and you can absolutely be fired for them (although I think in this case the person was let go because railing against vast swaths of your coworkers is disruptive and rude, even if they’re “cishet white boys”).
I suspect Google, YouTube, YC, and many other Silicon Valley companies have followed a similar pattern:

Step #1 Discriminate against the lower classes through a biased hiring process that favors upper class people over more qualified members of the 99%. A system of "culture" tests, nepotism, and simple favoritism. The "elite" investors fund the "elite" founders which hire "elite" friends.

Step #2 Realize your policy is classist and racist.

Step #3 Disregard the idea of creating a merit-based system.

Step #4 Commit explicit racism in an attempt to balance out your on-going racism.

Step #5 Ignore classism entirely, despite it being the root cause.
Being a man does not make you a part of the problem any more than being a woman makes you a victim. The behavior is what's bad, not being a male. This thought process is actually what we are trying to battle: being of one sex or race does not make you inherently better or worse than anyone else.

I hope that there is a positive to find: that socially we can empower those who would otherwise be victims through our support. I'm not sure what exactly that looks like yet, but we're figuring that out. We're talking about it. That's positive :)