skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My apologies, I probably should've used the phrase "gender discrimination" or "discriminating based on gender", since there is no large scale institution discrimination accompanying it, though this particular app is institutionalizing different roles based on gender.
Sure, why not? It's a big company with a lot of brand recognition. The people most likely to be interested in this kind of product will first think 'oh, they have a big client!' before they think 'oh, they are used by a company I dislike because of anecdotal data or their stance on so called net neutrality.'

Heck, I'd be even more interested if they told me they serve the NSA or Palantir, as much as I dislike everything they stand for.
Sounds to me like an excellent way to get yourself sued or worse.
Ah interesting. Did you find any notable results? My understanding is that IQ (as a proxy for intelligence) matters up to a certain cutoff and beyond that its importance drops off (i.e. you might want the person who writes the software for the airplane you're riding to have a 130 IQ, but beyond that the quality of the work doesn't improve much).
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I think it may be that some folks (not necessarily from reddit) sometimes abused the remote thing, and it became hard to control for some managers, and so there was a cyclical shift in the culture from "remote is super-cool" to "remote is da suck!". If so, this cycle will come and pass as all fashions do.

I know that sometimes working remote is great (been on both sides - working remote and having to coordinate with remote team) and sometimes it's challenging, especially if timezones are involved. A lot depends on the team and how well people communicate and record things. With education it's less challenging since in most scenarios the lectures are non-interactive anyway, the exercises have to be done individually or in very small groups, and the tutorship can be done online too as it does not require the same amount of communication as full-scale symmetrical collaboration.
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It's fixed now, the thread rehit my RSS feed too.

I've signed up, I always like a rethinking of teaching code online. Honestly, I haven't see anybody do it in a really good way that doesn't just target passive learners or already active professionals. I'm excited to check it out. :)
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I'll try it out with chrome when I'm home. 😃
> How exactly does it legitimize anything?

The fundamental model behind Siren exactly agrees with their prediction. I meant "legitimizes" only of in the sense of "to those people", which it does: the gender norms presented in Siren exactly correspond to the prediction or norms thought of by those problematic actors.

In this way, it actually (to them) encourages their problematic behavior rather than discourages it by way of reaffirming their (warped) worldview that makes those behaviors seem reasonable.

> I see Siren as a very pragmatic solution to the problem. The problem exists, this app is a response to lived reality.

Setting aside for the moment that I don't think that Siren actually even addresses the problem that it claims to, even if it did, solving the named problem only solves the problem that (some) women have with online dating at the cost of making a gender-based power structure, while simultaneously ignoring (or even worsening) the problems felt by the other gender in the same arena.

I'm not sure I view this as "pragmatic" if your overarching concern is the poor treatment of women in the dating scene or sexism in a more general setting.
I'm the opposite - I'm a very non-picky eater, and always have been. Mixed flavors don't bother me either.
Actually the problem with Reddit are low-functioning people who join subreddits for the attention and trolling. Most of them a griefers and almost all of them are looking for porn and other stuff like that.

I have a few small subreddits I get on that seem to be free of that:

http://www.reddit.com/r/DiscordianHumanism/

http://www.reddit.com/r/OS2/

http://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/

http://www.reddit.com/r/KindleFreebies/

http://www.reddit.com/r/ebookdeals/

http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/

http://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/

You will find better content on those Subreddits even if they don't have a lot of members on them like the others that are so popular that they get the low functioning trolls and attention seekers who cause only trouble.

The DiscordianHumanism subreddit was created because of the trolls on Atheism and SecurlarHumanism and sort of combines Discordianism with Humanism for a different take on the world, etc.

A lot of the subreddits where you ask for advice, you often get bad advice and a groupmind who votes up bad advice and votes down good advice. This is because the low functioning people outnumber the mid-functioning and high-functioning people. You will find a lot of the low-functioning people are under 18, and posting from their parent's basement with no supervision.
Or maybe get a truckload of "thank you" postcards..
COMPLETELY agree. In fact, just 3 days ago I managed to cancel my NY Times subscription entirely, precisely for the reason you mention.

I'd been paying them $240 a year for their hackassed 'you can read it on a tablet and the web but not on a phone' plan. Then I got the new iPhone XXL, and suddenly was interested in reading news on my phone after all (since this new model finally has a screen big enough to read text on).

But I couldn't, due to having the wrong subscription type, and then I had to do the multiple-annoying-step process of finding the old subscription, turning it off, then adding the new subscription that let me read it on a phone and the web but NOT on a tablet... at the end of which their app told me I had to log in. Which I did, but it then told me 'Fuck you, customer, that email is associated with a different subscription' (to paraphrase).

So I just canceled everything and deleted the NY Times app.

In this era, it's an amazing achievement to get a lot of people willing to pay money to read your news content. It's sad that the NY Times fucked that up so badly with their insane pricing and convoluted subscription choices.
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Citing a single example of a legislator talking incoherently about firearms while trying to regulate firearms seems a fairly reasonable example of "gun owners get nervous when people who don't understand firearms try to [regulate] their ownership". That makes no claim that only people who don't understand firearms try to regulate them - such a claim may or may not have been intended.
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> ... it's almost a third form of film.

What are the other two?
Finally some sense of reason from an EU bureaucrat!
> being in the same office can minimize the frequency/setup/teardown of formal meetings.

Aka "You won't get shit done because person B saves five seconds by asking you and costs you 5 minutes by them asking while you try to remember what you where doing".

Been there, done that, never again.
Agreed. Historically this "evil spirit" metaphor has been a symbol used to deny accountabilty for everything from battery to rape and murder. It also includes religious baggage.

A homunculus didn't do it; I am it and I did that.
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Practical SOA / microservices – Hydration
in the early stages of a company, my experience is remote doesn't work. Better to be with each other. There are body language cues you get from one another. The success of fully remote startup teams is rare. statistical outliers.
● Same as the Facebook Depression effect: Seeing your "friends" have awesome lives makes you feel more miserable about your own.

● Being surrounded by happiness /or/ the expectation of happiness makes people feel behind, like losers, and makes them depressed.

● Depression is highest in 1st world countries.

Now, think about Las Vegas, it's a "celebratory / party" town. Lights, glamour, parties, fun times, gambling, excess, big business, big hotels. Its atmosphere only exaggerates the idea that "everyone is doing fine but you, you're a loser". Building a startup community there is probably not a good idea.
This might just be a backdoor way to cut head count.
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We also get to have arbitrary names rather than trying to stuff everything into single word. "People who disagree with me on the internet" is a valid name for an Eve table.
It's a trade off. You gain raw code output but lose a lot of the culture and serendipitous communication that leads to awesome breakthroughs. So many great things have come from random talks or drunken brainstorming.

As an employee, I always tried to work from home 2-3 days and then work from the office 2-3. Was a great happy medium.
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Hmm. Is root privs escalation part of shellshock? If not, then I think this is just going to try to yum update or apt-get update as the www-data user / nobody user / apache user / you get the idea.

Anyone who's running their web server as a user with enough privileges to run package installs unattended is probably in for a worse fate than an unexpected bash update, I imagine...
I don't understand how vacation can be unlimited when it's paid, almost by definition. If it's unpaid, then that is not a "vacation" but an "leave of absence" or a "sabbatical".

If you disappear for 3 months, but only two weeks of it is paid, it's a two week vacation, and 2.5 month absence, no?

Can you describe what are the actual ground rules behind these "unlimited vacations" at this company you joined?
>encourages their problematic behavior

How exactly does this app encourage men to creep/stalk women? I don't see where it "makes behaviors seem reasonable." It explicitly denies men the ability to perform actions that other platforms allowed.
I was actually rather surprised when this version wasn't called "Windows One"
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I'm presuming "documentary" and "narrative".
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I wonder how much this phenomenon varies from one addictive substance to another. For example, obviously there are a lot of people who remain addicted to tobacco long past their mid 20s.

Also, is it possible that some of these people who are considered to have grown out of their addiction, simply substituted one addiction for another? I've heard that the rate of tobacco use among recovering alcoholics is very high. It's true that they're probably better off being out-of-control smokers than out-of-control drinkers. OTOH, I wouldn't say such people have really grown out of their addiction.
This would be of interest to you then: http://siliconangle.com/blog/2014/09/29/heres-why-the-intell...
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Apart from possibility, one thing bothers me here is that how quickly (and arrogantly) they will match viability of cognitive therapy to RNA markers. Cognitive therapy works and does not work for so many reasons, and none of those reasons have anything even remotely to do with RNA.

I am saddened and angry that in the end, the researchers will show and justify the experiment using results based on statistics. What medicines and therapies work and do not work will be left to chance, random trial and error, and complicated numbers. The statistics will fail to acknowledge and show the situations and mental states of the patients at that time in which such and such therapy was possible or not possible.
I appreciate your precise wording. Makes me wonder how many deaths were nonetheless caused by these non-wartime detonations.
> You don't get what you don't pay for.

True, but I would argue besides the point: the US universities/colleges offer a more integrated experience because many have a somewhat different tradition more in line with the "monk-like" experience from UK universities such as Oxford and Cambridge than with the public university systems of continental europe which assumes that many of these amenities are provided by other actors.

They also have to make up for massive differences in educational level, meaning you have a lot of foundational courses that are plainly unnecessary from the perspective of the German educational system with its, previously, 13 years of schooling -- and Germany is a lot more homogenous in that respect compared to the US, so the system works without all that much hand-holding.
Cool visualization! But the top 50% of that (which seems to be the most dense) could have been completely avoided if you just slapped a CloudFront instance in front of it.
I never asserted that one should always be civil. I welcome honesty and open conversation. My point was that a conversation - a whole set of comments on a story, for example - can be civil and still overwhelmingly racist or sexist or what have you. I took the original poster's comment to be saying, "Well, as long as we keep it civil.". I'm saying " Come on, we can do better than that if we want, and we should." I'm also saying "YC doesn't get a pass for keeping it civil but overlooking a general culture of objectification or ignorance."

I could do without the civility, to be honest. I'd rather be compassionate and thoughtful and inclusive but irreverent and disrespectful.
But the parent has a point. That font is really hard on the eyes.
Super interesting.

I've also got no sense of smell, though my ENT thinks it was due to an accident I had as a baby (fell face first onto broken glass), that severed the nerve.

I can smell absolutely nothing (not gas, not coffee, nada)... but, on the other hand, have a really strong sense of taste. Maybe this is what's leaning the doctor to that.
Keeping you anonymous to the charity to preventing them from spamming you with mail is maybe the best part of this pitch. Even well run charities send a tremendous amount of mail after you give a donation. It's one of the big turnoffs I have about the whole donation process.
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It's violently offensive that I have to take delivery of a giant rolled-up paper bale every week if I want a good deal on unlimited digital access.

Until the rocket scientists at the NYT get that through their pointy little heads, nothing is going to change.
This happens quite often
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I'm amused that Nikita Shamgunov's bio suggests that he was a 'distinguished senior database engineer' at Microsoft. The title "Distinguished Engineer" at Microsoft refers to a pretty select group of people, not just any senior dev
Huh? Reddit isn't forcing anyone to move to sf. Remote workers have the option to stay where they are and receive 3 months severance on top of that, which is awfully generous. If any side is losing out, it's Reddit because they're shrinking their talent pool.
Why would you spend several hours per week reading something that you think isn't worth $8 per week?

Worms, meet the world outside the can. You're going to love it.
Rust 1.0 is supposed to be somewhat minimal, so things like custom operators and monadic syntax are out scope since they can be bolted on in a backwards-incompatible way in future versions. Active patterns would probably also fall under this.

Likewise, having functions have their own private global state is not on the table, and seems to me to actually be unsafe since the function could be called at the same time in two different threads overwriting the operations done to them.

For not warning when returning non-unit values for unit returning functions, a lint could probably help there.

Type inference isn't changing. The rule is that items need to be explicitly declared and expressions are inferred. Closures are expressions while most (all?) functions are items. It's a purposeful limitation on inference based on experience with prior languages.
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Stuff I have done before:

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- business writing (RFPs, copywriting, posts/articles)
- scientific/technical writing (graduate level academic thesis, tech documentation).
- strategy (marketing, product commercialization, new markets, business naming, etc).
- write pitches, speeches, other written communications that stay on message and brand.
- strategy consulting projects

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•Voiceovers (product videos, audio book narrations, etc)

•Design and aesthetics related issues (physical product design, styling, etc).

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Ohhh... interesting. Thanks for the link!
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