skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a reminder than a nuclear bomb is no different than an army killing 6 million people like the holocaust did.

Sarcasm aside, you are talking nonsense, when you can write 'kill.everyoneWhoLooksLike("armed muslin")' without having to actually pull the trigger from your jet aiming at each group of guys that just seem to talk and passing time everything changes drastically, specially when you can show the former is a lot cheaper (in lives AND money)
Actions are very, very different from beliefs when we anthropomorphize an abstract notion of a race of people. Humanity is a logical 'or' of all its actions. Beliefs, the operation is much more complicated.
I don't get that part about a styling void, but I agree with the rest.
LOL

Sounds like the unfortunate result of PHBs who don't have any common sense or backbone to support their team. The fact that Erica's manager rejected the "peer bonuses" given to Erica suggests that her manager is really unfit to be a manager.
A bunch of me will arrive at consensus faster than a bunch of a whole lot of different people. I'm all the same, after all, so it's easier to come to some common agreement about what this is. Ask a million people what that is, they'll tell you a thousand different answers.
It's a huge bullet to byte if you think about the ethical implications downstream. Individualism assumes that the relationship between a nation state and the individuals that make it up is exactly not like this.
The issue with pay was always a thorny one for me at Google. Not what they paid me, I thought that was fine, but that there was so much enforced secrecy around it.

The entire goal, as far as I could ascertain, of that secrecy was to keep people who had been mislead about how they were being paid, from being able to prove or disprove that Google was actually paying people what it said they were paying people.

And what had been presented as a really performance driven, no discrimination, reward metrics, was perceived to be yet another 'management beauty contest' where managers could swing bonus dollars toward people they liked (regardless of their performance) and away from people they didn't care about.

And to be clear, I was ok with that, it's how a lot of bonus systems are set up, but it bothered me that it was presented as something else. And while I didn't start a spreadsheet, I did get advised by HR that my questions were not helpful :-).

It was suggested that if it bothered me that much maybe I didn't really want to be working there, I thought about that and agreed with that conclusion.
I have a serious question and please don't crucify me but can this partly be because women aren't as confrontational as men and won't argue for a higher salary when hired (since we know thats when you get your good base salary)? I remember when my girlfriend got hired at her current tech company and I begged her to make sure they put her stock and bonuses in writing but she refused because she didn't want to piss the company off and lets say the deal went bad for her. Obviously this is an anecdote about one situation but I wonder could this be one of the reasons? Companies want to pay you as little as possible to get your talent, it is up to you to negotiate for a better salary and if that isn't happening then I'm not sure what you do? I believe for equal pay for equal work totally but I'm wondering if one of the reasons we don't see that is the salary negotiation process. Please share your thoughts.
True statements you'll never hear from HR...
I was thinking about something similar to this idea recently, but replace "United States" with a large corporation.

In a sense the United States is conscious, but the "experience" of being the United States, or Exxon mobile, or Google, is so far removed from the experience of being a person or even a rabbit that it doesn't matter. i.e. It's a metaphor more than anything else.

We take in information through eyes, ears, etc made up of cells. We think in a brain, experience emotions, inhabit a body.

The United States takes in information through organizations, people, computers, etc. It thinks and makes decisions via all sorts of different systems and processes. It doesn't have a physical body, it has different parts and material all over the place made of many different elements.

Perhaps it's true we only value forms of consciousness similar to our own.

I don't know, I don't philosophy well. This paper was thought provoking.
I see our various emotions not as the opposite of intelligence, but rather as high speed, roughly-tuned, very imprecise guesstimation engines. Handy where our basic intelligence is incomplete (infancy mostly), when our information is incomplete (to aid guessing) and when we need extremely fast reaction times.
An illusion to whom? And of what? :)

But while materialists may reject consciousness as a fruitful term, there's a problem with finding a functional definition of consciousness -- or even one that agrees enough with what we colloquially understand consciousness to be -- as consciousness, as we understand it, plays absolutely no observable function. Dismissing offhand as an illusion something that is not just perceived to be real but perceived to be the realest thing there is, is just waving away a really hard problem. I can accept that consciousness may be an illusion, but that doesn't make it any less elusive, as illusion itself pre-supposes consciousness.

And suppose that you come up with a theory of when consciousness -- or its illusion -- emerges. How can you possibly test that?

There is a huge difference between, "we can't talk about it in a scientifically meaningful way" and "there is no it to talk about". The former most certainly does not imply the latter.
You're certainly not the first person to think of this, you need to be careful with that though or you get wage suppression and price fixing for work:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/reddit-ceo-ellen-pao-ban...
Ask HN: As a recent grad, should I change my job if I'm not learning anything?
Hello there HNers,

I joined a large Silicon Valley company 6 months ago as a new grad. The company is more of a hardware company than software and there is no culture of developing really good software. Hence, I feel I'm learning very little in my current job. I belong to the Cloud Computing group which I think is cool. In spite of that, I haven't had much opportunities to learn so far. The product that I work on is small but critical, has a small codebase and there hasn't been too many chances for me to write large amounts of code or make design decisions. And, it is nearing completion. In mean time, I've done my best to learn things like build systems, deployment, cloud computing et al.

I have spoken to my manager about this and he has promised to give me more opportunities to code in a new product that's coming up. But to be frank, I don't believe the company can offer me more simply because it's not known as a pure software company.

How do you suggest I approach this situation? Is this normal for most new grads or am I being too impatient? Should I start looking for jobs? I'm concerned that it wouldn't look good on my resume to quit my first company before I complete at least one year.

I'd really appreciate your advice. Thanks in advance!
Thx! Mh ... yeah, maybe. But he's my biggest role model. So I need to be positive about it :)

Yes, I know what you mean. There was a downside to that!
Corsera has a course from Stanford on Algorithm Design. They explain it really well there.
The public isn't nearly so concerned about military actions carried out by a volunteer military. But nobody is proposing that we reinstate the draft, are we? And as a reminder, even the draft did not stop Vietnam - including My Lai, Agent Orange and uncountably many other atrocities. Why would eliminating drones do so? There is no drone-based explanation for why we accepted adventures like, say, Nicaragua. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not primarily enabled by drones. Maybe you can argue that drones "helped." But the real thing that feeds this is the insanely high approval ratings of a "war president" (at least at the beginning, before political objectives are clearly unwinnable) and the high electability of presidents who beat their chests about raising our military profile. Which is the fault of an irrational, undereducated, bloodthirsty electorate.

I will go even further here: in my opinion, drones have not really helped make the wars more palatable at all, on the contrary, they have actually been the single best, most emotionally impactful argument anyone can think to deploy against US military policy and the Obama administration in particular. THAT is the reason we keep hearing about them, not necessarily because they are more heinous, but because the issue is perceived as a great political vulnerability and political opportunity. It sounds better to say that things are now worse than ever because of Obama's unprecedented evil than to point out that the real problem is why we are bombing at all. I don't expect focus on the drone issue to have any real fruit in terms of reducing the impact of US wars.

I wonder if you even base your opinion that drone strikes are resulting in more deaths on any real data or if you made up your mind ahead of any data. And I suspect you are grossly overestimating the degree of care taken in bombing campaigns prior to the drone era. The risks to high-altitude bombers in the conditions we are using drones are not vast. The real risks are of overbombing, which is one of the objectively worst and most immoral aspects of bombing campaigns in decades past (think cluster bombs).
Did you break it down by citizen, green card, guest worker visa?
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«Choosing a career» is not always what happens. Do you think those who wash public toilets, just happened to have chosen that career?

Fact of the matter is, unless you're born rich or have aquired enough capital to live off other people's work, you need a job to get by. The ratio between shit jobs and cool gigs is increasing, and those who are worse off in the first place get the shittiest jobs — for less pay of course!
But if you see this as anthropomorphizing then you're not a materialist, or you'll have to show some qualitative, essential difference between the US and the neurons in your brain. There is nothing to anthropomorphize because there's nothing special about the anthropos: the two are either examples of the same phenomenon or they're not.
50 years of Fortran at CERN (2007)
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Yes, definitely. This is a common hypothesis, and it gets some study. See, for instance,

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Women_Don't_Ask

http://geekfeminism.org/2011/06/17/quick-hit-one-reason-wome...

http://fdiv.net/2012/01/20/pseudo-science-and-pseudo-feminis...

There is both the possible cause of women being socially conditioned (or biologically wired, or whatever causes this) to be less confrontational, and the possible cause of women finding it riskier / being in worse negotiating positions for structural-inequality reasons.
I think the big white space left by Tesla (aside from cheap cars, which is problematic) is reconfigurable or cargo/commercial.
I dont believe I said anything about vanity domains, so I dont know what you mean by that.

I meant that email is broken in the sense that when some stranger mistakenly thinks that your email belongs to them, and continues to give it out or sign it up for mailing lists, you have absolutely no recourse. If you have an email address that like mine is easily mistaken for other ones you get incorrectly-addressed personal emails many times a day. There is no way to find the actual intended recipient or get in contact with that person to say "hey you seem to be confusd, stop using my email address". And there is no really good way to filter those emails, since after all they are coming to your correct address.
I think this is the kind of problem that's difficult to appreciate unless it happens to you frequently.

The problem with email is that anyone can email you if they have your address.. thats why we have so much spam. I dont know what the solution is, but it would be much better if the recipient had to opt-in to the conversation somehow as well.
I think that to a materialist, the question might not be a hard one at all. The theory may well be that consciousness depends on the strength of the connections between the components of the collective "mind", and that some range of connection power (i.e. the ability of one component to influence others) is required. You then measure the connection strength among people in the US, and it may turn out be well below the threshold require for the thing that will be defined as consciousness. After all, solids and fluids behave differently enough for the difference to be considered qualitative, even though there is just a quantitative difference in the strength of the connections between their components. So there may be nothing special about our brains except for the strength of the connection between neurons which lies within certain "magic" bounds. Collectives with connection strength either below or above those bounds may display some behaviors similar to intelligence or "consciousness" but not quite.

Other possible, but similar measures can be the number of components (much larger in the brain than in the US or an ant colony), or the average number of connections each element has. In any case the result may be the same: a quantitative difference may lead to a qualitatively different result.
I have a P85 and it does not handle like a boat. The low center of gravity and 50/50 weight distribution makes it handle a lot better than you'd expect. It has good slalom course numbers, especially for a sedan, just under the Porsche Panamera.
For some sender's I don't even have the "report as spam" button, even though most of the shit I get from them is ads I didn't ask for. Just because it's from a well recognized company domain.
Who said that there's no definition provided? as per my understanding of Upanishads which are the most profound works on consciousness:

consciousness (atman/soul) is self-existent, ever-blissful non-material energy. it has no beginning and no end. It never born so never dies. it's the absolute truth because it's not subjected to change, death and decay. Material reality is only a relative truth because it's always changing. Whole of our body cells recycle every year. But we're still aware of the body as before. that awareness is the non-material atman, which associates, itself with this body as long as it's bound.

Yogis for ages have been able to go to the source – atman – by silenting the mind and its modifications (vritis) and have been able to observe the causal, subtle and gross planes of existence along with wheel of time. Hence Upanishad declares: "That which cannot be observed through mind rather through which mind gets the ability to observe is atman"
The more interesting thing to me is not just that the base salaries were different, but that her personal bonuses were denied by her manager while her male coworker's bonuses were awarded — despite both of them being involved with the creation and distribution of the spreadsheet.

Regarding negotiation, I don't think companies really benefit from doing it. If they offer as much as they are willing to pay for your talent up-front, then you can adopt a take it or leave it attitude. The company will gain the benefit of increasing pay equality. Having pay equality is a step towards increasing diversity, and increased diversity will produce better products and companies.
On a recent trip to Norway I saw a lot of them on the road and I have concluded that the i3 looks a lot better in person (and in context) than in photographs. Photos, particularly staged press photos, seem to emphasize its odd shape and unusual lines.

Conversely, I think the Model S looks a lot better in photographs than in person. I don't know why, brains are weird.
How does this compare to TerminalIDE? I'll try this out and KBOX too for myself. Thanks!
You don't speak for me.
An alternative to DNT header might be a "Do Track" header: the browser generates a unique user ID instead of saving server-generated cookies. Users could control which sites receive their ID, manage multiple IDs, or they could reset their ID (like clearing cookies). Sites that still insist on active fingerprinting could be penalized by (opinionated) browsers with scary icons in address bar (like mixed content warnings).

I think there is still value in minimizing passive fingerprinting because it allows servers that don't serve active content (e.g. third-party image servers) to track users.
Mozilla's ‘Great or Dead’ philosophy may save bloated blimp Firefox
Just replace "material" by "measurable".
They also started delaying or outright rejecting some mail more aggressively so you don't even get to find it in spam. A few days ago I received a confirmation code from my CA sent to hostmaster@ the next morning after I requested it.

What's even worse they rejected email to postmaster@. I know you can adjust the spam filter sensitivity somewhere in Google Apps but come on, you should not reject any mail to postmaster by default.
The gig economy works for things like driving because there's little benefit in having the same person do the job every time because the job varies (the pickup and dropoff places are different, the time of day is different, etc). There's no reason to care about who is doing the work. When it comes to things like cleaning that is very different. Who you let in to your house matters. Homejoy's benefits are worth something while you're 'auditioning' cleaners, but once you find one who's good at cleaning, reliable and honest then those advantages evaporate and you're better off hiring the cleaner directly.
This is just a recopying of the tweets without any additional story. Better URLs may be the first tweet in the stream

https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/622079372367781888

or the Storify with her consent:

https://storify.com/_danilo/ericajoy-s-salary-transparency-e...

Per HN guidelines on linking to the original source, I think this should be changed to one of these.

The subject of the story / author of the tweets also has problems with this particular reporting:

https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/622198075453353984

(What's the legality of writing a news article that is primarily a bunch of tweets -- long enough to be copyrightable -- from someone else, without a copyright license, and without significant independent commentary? What's the ethics of posting it without their approval?)
Kara's ethics statement claims that she has no non-public information related to Megan's job

I see nothing in that ethics statement that contradicts the GP's assertion which was:

It's not unreasonable that Kara, and by extension
her team, would therefore have made a number of
high-level contacts inside Google
>People with similar qualifications should have similar salaries.

People with similar capabilities should have similar salaries. The qualifications are meaningless once you actually land the job.
Whenever I see a new feature proposal for a programming language, I like to check how a language in the lisp family could solve the same problem with a macro (not trying to point out who is better than who, it's just for fun). For example, this 3-liner would get you the "multiple array unpacking" in clojure:

(defmacro pep448 [f & args]
(let [unpack? #(and (list? %) (= (first %) '$))]
`(apply ~f (concat ~@(map #(if (unpack? %) (second %) [%]) args)))))

which can be used like this:

(pep448 + ($ [2 3]) 4 ($ [5 6 7]))
=> 27

A bit verbose, so you probably wouldn't do it this way in real life. Thankfully there are generally easier and more elegant ways to handle this kind of situation.
There are other solutions for this, of course. Collective bargaining comes to mind: if I negotiate a 10% increase in wages just because I'm good at negotiating (not because I'm objectively a 1.1x programmer in a way my union agrees with), it's a 10% increase for everyone.
Sounds like there should be another choice after you report something as spam: Spam - ads I didnt ask for. Spam - fraud attempt, Spam - I unsubscribed 5 times but still get updates, Spam - my ex keeps stalking me, etc.
The data in the OP shows that the variation is far higher than you exist.
Yes, but at least they're using the same verification mechanism as elsewhere so if you have already added the domain to Google Webmaster for example under the same Google Account, it will be automatically verified.
Well, then how about this: People with similar qualifications and capability should have similar salaries for similar roles and responsibilities.
Exactly. If companies don't adjust existing salaries to reflect that, then they are basically telling their employees to quit because the best way to get a "raise" is to switch companies.
I shudder at the data reliability issues of a self-selecting sample of individuals being asked to self-report salaries.

There may well be real pay inequity issues -- in fact, my default presumption is that such problems exist anywhere that there has not been a systematic effort to avoid them -- but unless there's far more to this spreadsheet than the article describes, I don't see how it can reasonably be taken to have any large-scale significance.
Since I couldn't find your contact, I had to track you down here. Sorry :-)

It's OT; regarding attic. Could I shoot some basic questions, here or on an email?
Twitter has a license to republish your tweets -- that's why the service exists, and why people use it.
> The more interesting thing to me is not just that the base salaries were different, but that her personal bonuses were denied by her manager while her male coworker's bonuses were awarded — despite both of them being involved with the creation and distribution of the spreadsheet.

There's nothing that says they had the same manager. They may have, in which case this is very suspect. Or they could have had different managers who were reacting differently to the situation.
I don't see any data listed, did I miss it?
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Good point. We changed the URL from http://fusion.net/story/168986/ex-googler-says-she-got-in-tr....
Would it be possible to apply the same filter to a sample video to make the colors pop for a color blind person? Maybe apply this filter http://i.imgur.com/EILB2lW.png via a VLC plugin?

If so, that would be a fantastic way to demo this product online. And also could be a great way for potential users to know if it would work for them or not.
There's also another solution: salary transparency. If you believe in markets, you'd agree that a critical element of them working properly is an abundance of information.
On the Foundations of Geometry by Henri Poincaré (1898)
"Fuck you! Now give me my bonus". Why should somebody who you call an asshole in public be obliged to give you a goodwill bonus?
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