skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Either way, out of sync with whatever everyone else was wearing, and when she changed her clothes but not her gender she was accepted by the others.
There's a certain specific londonish dialect i'm thinking of, but don't know the name for, so i abbreviated it to chavs, but feel free to extrapolate my thoughts. My problem also isn't the people, my problem is that i cannot fucking make out the words they are trying to form, but i guess you can ignore that too despite me literally saying that in my previous post.
I have a hard time believing a warrant canary is something that can be trusted. It seems it would be one of the first things that would be brought up to the judge and the judge would order to continue updating the canary.

These warrant canaries seem amateurish and nothing more than theater.
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An air traffic controller being calm under pressure is about as surprising as an anti-social nerd making fun of people for not being interested in the exact same things he is.
I associate people who believe throwing or acting "like a girl" means doing it half-assed or terribly with people who are either uneducated, close-minded, or just plain assholes.

I understand there's a problem in our country, even in our whole world, but is forcing this down our throats the proper way to solve it? Is it solvable? Not to sound like an asshole myself, but with the route feminism is taking us, we're going to have people hand-feeding women who don't deserve to be in a specific role. I myself have specifically experienced such an event where my manager hired a woman because he said we need to hire one, not because she had experience that made her worthy. In fact she had far less experience compared to the other people interviewing. One of my best friends on the other hand is one of the most kickass programmers I have ever seen and everyone respects her for it. She works for her status, rather than feeding off of being a woman.

People shouldn't judge a book by its cover, as they say. That's what this is all about and I may have gone off-track. However, its also naive to forget or completely deny that people are inherently competitive. People like to boast about themselves, not others. Woman or man, work politics are something everyone has to deal with. It's wrong for someone to use a woman's gender against her competitively, but then again it's also wrong for a man to throw another man "under the bus" or take credit for someone else's work to get ahead. I hope that one day we can work towards being better to humans as a whole rather than better towards a specific gender or race. Maybe I'm an asshole, who knows. Maybe we are all assholes.
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I can assure you i'll hate the fuck out of you for triggering my question recognition flag without asking a thing, regardless of what's hanging between your legs or what clothes you're wearing, and i know quite a few people who share my sentiments.
This is not accurate.

In a fully hypothetical situation.

The US government has obtained secret warrants and a mandate to ensure that the secret warrants stay secret.

The warrants are served and whatever agencies are involved start doing their penetration / searches / seizures.

SilentCircle does not update their canary as is their policy.

The US government realizes that this action has compromised their secret warrants and take steps to mitigate the situation. They do this by coercing the person or persons at SilentCircle that can post an update to post an update stating that everything is just peachy now. Followed up by another post on their blog, or here on hacker news (as happened the last time they did not update the canary) stating that it was a misunderstanding or a simple error and no to worry everything is fine.

The value of the SilentCircle has in my opinion been nil since the last incident occurred when it was not updated.

I would like to believe that our government will act transparently in accordance with democratic principles
and in accordance with the public courts but this is
not always the case. It may be the case in most cases.

I would also like to believe that SilentCircle employees would not agree to "fake" their canary under any circumstances, and this is probably 90% certain. If the government arrested a high level employee for not cooperating, it would certainly leak out at some point. I do not know what methods are available to secretly force an American to do the bidding of the government in a case like this but they may have means of being persuasive.

I fully agree that this is a hypothetical situation and maybe very unlikely.
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The claim that female voices has an effect on speaker quality should seem to be extremely silly for anyone who regularly goes to international conferences. I personally just happy if I can understand the words the speaker is trying to pronounce, and if the concept they are translating from their own native language matches the English words.
Another perspective is that this type of genius is a narrow measure of intelligence and an even narrower predictor of "success".

In leadership for example, do you think CEOs have the highest IQs in the company? How about Churchill, King, Lincoln? No doubt very smart people but relied just as much on other abilities.

What about the arts? How many of your favorite musicians or comedians are great at math? Arguably these abilities are orthogonal to what Tao can do, yet are clearly a form of genius.

The innateness/validity of EI is not yet settled but emotional intelligence enables people in ways that just are not possible with only pure problem solving prowess. How long would most math PhDs last as politicians, if they were somehow motivated to do so?

Speaking of motivation, how many IQ points past our own does someone of average ambition have to reach before we can't just out work them? Quite a few in my experience.
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For full time devs? Rarely. For interns? Absolutely. We had many applicants whose programming experience was closer to web design, and weren't conversant in basic data structures. I don't think it was inherently evil to tell them to come back next year, after they've taken a course in algorithms.
I'm not ignoring it, but the whole point is that the reasons that people give for liking/disliking a particular dialect are often not the real reasons. I think it's pretty telling that you chose to identify one of your example dialects using "chav", which is basically a term of abuse directed at a certain social group which isn't dialectically all that homogenous.
Or if one is going to make an assumption, err on the side of unoffensive ones. If there is a chance that it is offensive, don't verbalize it.
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Just 18 elite universities produce half of all computer science professors, 16 schools produce half of all business professors, and eight schools account for half of all history professors... What that means is something every Ph.D. from a less-prestigious institution knows all too well: No amount of publishing, teaching excellence, or grants can compensate for an affiliation that is less than favorable in the eyes of a search committee.

This is just wrong. It is possible that publishing and grants are correlated with institution rank (and teaching excellence is usually a relative measure so hard to compare across schools anyway).

It seems decades of anti-discrimination indoctrination have resulted in a situation where no argument is to sloppy, and no evidence is to flimsy, when you are arguing that discrimination exists somewhere.
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While that can be true for employees, founders' stock works differently than options granted to employees. When the company is started, founders write a check to the company for a very modest amount (~$100) and buy all of their equity up front. They can do this legally as, on day 1, the company doesn't have any real value.

And because the founder has already bought her equity with the $100 check, she never has to pay anything else. If she leaves, what's vested is hers.
There's clearly a corporate agenda with 2.0 but who cares. The most important question is "Is this the best thing for my scenario?" Probably not but it has a name.

There's too much talk about "typescript" and not enought about what problems Angular 2 solves compared to "not" having a ready made framework or how many problems it adds.
This answer could possible address the test question. It leaves the other two issues I raised unanswered. Not that you have to address them, but just saying that the approach you guys implemented might work well for a very small subset of companies that share traits in terms of company size, structure and industry sector.
[Assuming you meant LDA = Linear Discriminant Analysis.] It looks like the toolkit implements "unsupervised" methods, where the datapoints don't have a special "label" feature that is treated specially in the embedding. If you do have labels, see also neighbourhood components analysis (NCA), amongst others.

They say they've biased towards spectral methods. Getting neural net methods to work requires a different type of experience.

If you're prepared to use Matlab, there are neural net and some supervised methods in this toolbox: http://lvdmaaten.github.io/drtoolbox/ A bunch of this stuff, if not all, might work in Octave too.

Some practical advice. Try linear methods like PCA and LDA first. Think about and/or try out different rescalings and representations of your features. Also look at what the code in a "blackbox" toolbox is doing. From memory, I think the Matlab toolbox reduces the dimensionality to 20 with PCA before applying most other methods. (What if your data has less than 20 dimensions? Change that code!)

I've had poor experience with most of the spectral methods. Things I've got to work include the simplest (like PCA), NCA, t-SNE and variants, and auto-encoders. On many datasets, PCA has worked the best!

If you meant LDA = Latent Dirichlet Allocation: It looks like the toolkit implements methods that are mainly used for real valued features, rather than sets of counts.
I would guess this is because the first rate schools produce more PhDs than there are jobs at first rate schools.
I think it'll be sticking around, just not in Polymer core. Core should be as focused as possible.
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People forget this now that hipster is a high fashion super cool trend, but the things we associate with hipsters originated from poor artsy types who lived in industrial neighborhoods and bought clothes at the thrift store because they couldn't afford to shop at Bloomingdales and live in SoHo. PBR is dirt cheap.
I think of hiring someone as a process akin to testing experiments in my startup. There are so many variables when people try to work together. Hiring processes that mimic that strategy should be the best bet IMO. This article is a little low on practical advice although I realize it's focused on the issue.
Maybe if the author wasn't such a prude, this would have been more enjoyable to read.
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Same for text editors

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“Why are your slides so pink? It’s very distracting.”
“Stop pushing your hair behind your ear when you present. It’s very distracting.”
“Your voice goes up after every sentence you say.”
and comments rating my appearance.

My Technical Communications professor told me to not add flashy colors to my slides, be careful about too much distracting movement especially hand movements, speak consistently and wear clothing that doesn't distract from the material.

Either she is sexist towards men or this article is desperate. I think it might be the former, but I could be wrong.
It's difficult to achieve some kind of objectivity. Of course no one wants to believe that they are innately bad or easily coerced into doing terrible things to other human beings, so it seems like it would be very natural to expect them to lash out at the methods of the experiment.
I know this isn't reddit, but at the risk of downvoting, I had to say that this is the funniest line I've read in a long time. I literally laughed out load for a good, long time.
I suggest you give that a try. You will find it nearly impossible, stretching analogies into meaninglessness and then stacking them atop each other.
If it's the study I'm thinking of [1], they essentially tried to measure how much more actual merit hires would need to have to justify the inequality of hiring decisions:

> Despite the confounded nature of merit and social status within measurable prestige, the observed hierarchies are sufficiently steep that attributing their structure to differences in merit alone seems implausible.

It's not the strongest argument, but I'm having trouble coming up with a way to separate it out. You could try to measure the subsequent productivity of professors once hired, but it's likely that scientific publishing and citation also has a prestige bias, so the confounder is back.

[1] http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e1400005
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The headline is kind of clickbaity, since what the author really says is that everything breaks at 10-40 employees, which is much less useful as a benchmark. I'm an early employee (no. 10 or so) at a very fast-growing startup (https://www.futureadvisor.com).

We're now at about 45 people, and more than 50 including contractors. Nothing's broken yet. We had to change, we did, we'll have to change again.

We have a product (online investment management) that we believe in, and two founders who have created a great place to work. Sure, people are here because it was a good career move and it's exciting to be in a growing company. But they're also hear because they like it. They like their teams. They like the mission. It's fun. It's meaningful.

Maybe this startup is doing everything right. But maybe this article is scaring people too much, as well.
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Are you familiar with the psychological research about bias in decisionmaking?[0]

It sounds like you have come to the same conclusion psychologists are coming to. Under stress, the human mind uses mental shortcuts, or heuristics, while making important decisions, and act irrationally.

I don't often come across a post that takes on these biases so systematically, and translates them into one of the most important decisions a startup has to make, i.e. the hiring decision, and you even invent useful ways to mitigate their effects. Kudos for that!

Every company should be doing this. Overcoming bias should be a top priority at all HR departments.

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I did not downvote, but I personally don't have any issues with people wearing suits - wear what you like. Only thing I've disliked seeing are popped collars, but more as a warning sign to stay away from the people wearing them if I can help it.

I also do not penalize for dress during interviews either. It's a distraction from the important things, and irrelevant to the answers to the questions of coding ability and culture fit.
I wonder if China has captured his DNA and made 50 or 100 clones.
I didn't mean to hurt your feelings. I just thought your example proved that Python can be used for high performance apps. Dropbox once ran on it. They might have had problems but it was after they already experienced success.
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If someone is asking you to implement rand(7) given rand(5) as part of their way to qualify your ability to do a job, you probably no longer want the job.
Thanks for that. Given that the sensational announcement was on HN yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9158417), let's change the URL of the current post to this critique (from http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/06/archaeologists-...).
This is not difficult or even all that ambiguous. The whole point of a canary is to confirm a negative effect by the lack of an ongoing positive action.

From the site:

- a declaration that, up to that point, no warrants have been served, nor have any searches or seizures taken place.

Any such declaration disappeared at some point. The lack of a positive statement that the canary is valid (and everything's ok) is obviously deliberate, since the news items are both updated and signed.

That's about as clear of an indication as possible given the circumstances. Even this was possibly risky, even though it shouldn't be. Respect their integrity.
There's a pretty large difference between ostracizing an individual for voicing an opinion and choosing not to financially support a multinational conglomerate for contributing to political causes contrary to one's beliefs.

I do agree that splitting everything on US party lines would be utterly ridiculous, but I don't see what would be wrong with making it that much easier to boycott corporations opposed to, say, paying their employees livable wages, or reproductive rights for women, or marriage equality.

Though I also don't see what's wrong with boycotting a company simply for spending a fortune aggressively and offensively marketing their aggressively mediocre adjunct lagers.
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The difference there is that the restaurant has to have a brick and mortar "tasting room." A "porn site" only has to have a virtual presence. The same goes for the "booking agents." To "work," at least temporarily, the arrangement simply has to be inaccessible in a form which can be presented in court.

A better format would be an online "school" for porn film production. So the site could charge "tuition" and act as a way to match "actors" and "producers." Any additional transactions between parties involved in the shoot could happen outside the website.
I've spent a good amount of engineering hours doing research on this thought when I had it in the shower a few years back. My thought was a little different in that : " perhaps we could beam a laser with encoded information on a loop journey, that is meant to return to earth in X million years."

Such a trajectory might also depend on the position of earth and other objects and have a very narrow windows. As if watching a pond on a windy day and the wind eases off for a second or two yielding a glimpse of your own reflection and then to pick up again leaving a blurry pond.
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This is an open acknowledged issue on elixir-lang-core mailing lists. Many requests to make Elixir behave like Ruby are shot down. Often, what is requested already has a powerful analog in Elixir. If not, a lot of thought goes into how to add said feature according to Elixir idioms and style rather than blindly porting from Ruby.
"If you introduce Glacier then it's not apples-to-apples anymore."

This is a thread about storage costs for backup as a service, so I felt at least it's in the same family of tree-bearing fruit ;)
>When 90+% of developers are men, of course men are going to assume you're not a developer if you're a female

For one, that's a crime against statistics and formal logic itself. "90% of RAM is not fault tolerant, of course men are going to assume it's not RAM if it's fault tolerant" would be a ridiculous thing to say, because you just can't reason that way.

The kind of reasoning you want to do works like this: 90% of developers are male. Given that there are about as many men as there are woman, a randomly chosen woman has a 10% chance of being a developer. That's valid statistics. The problem is that this works relatively good while speaking to people in a subway, but at a tech conference you don't have a fair sample of either males or females. You aren't choosing at random but from an extremely skewed sample.

Of course there's instances where these kind of assumptions are valid, but most often (and with most stereotypes) it's just people applying statistics wrong.
Assuming that a judge would go so far as to compel them to make a false statement, which would be unconstitutional.
Oh I wasn't implying that the gif was malicious. I was just saying that whatever script they're using for this is widely-used.
qmail has been in the public domain since 2007, and patches have always been allowed.

Most of your other statements seem similarly at odds with reality to me, but they’re more statements of your taste than anything else.
> nvidia.ko isn't generally considered to be a derived work

That's far from clear. Many core developers (including Torvalds, IIRC, but correct me if I'm wrong) are on the record that they consider Nvidia to violate the spirit and/or the letter of the GPL there. It's just that nobody cares enough to litigate.