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New comment by forgetsusername in "Twitter’s head of diversity is leaving and its chief HR officer has already left"

forgetsusername — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 21:21:04 +0000

>We used to teach kids to be colorblind but now we're teaching them to see nothing but color.

I don't think either method worked.

New comment by forgetsusername in "Twitter’s head of diversity is leaving and its chief HR officer has already left"

forgetsusername — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 21:18:32 +0000

>Pinterest has a Head of Diversity [1]. Her name is Candice and she's great.

I think the question is: What does the role actually do? The cynic in me says it exists to signal that your company cares about diversity. Okay, but after the hiring decision is made, based on whatever criteria make the company properly diverse, what happens? Does this person act as a recruiter for underrepresented people?

New comment by forgetsusername in "Twitter’s head of diversity is leaving and its chief HR officer has already left"

forgetsusername — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 21:08:48 +0000

>Calling a company with a head of diversity bloated for instance is telling of your politics.

Calling a company with a head of diversity-- and that loses tons of money-- bloated, is sensible business acumen. Unless you blame earnings woes on diversity issues.

New comment by forgetsusername in "Twitter’s head of diversity is leaving and its chief HR officer has already left"

forgetsusername — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 20:59:47 +0000

>Many of these comments seem to indicate that lots of people are threatened by diversity

Because the position of "VP of diversity and inclusion" sounds ridiculous?

>These results suggest that racial discrimination is still a prominent feature of the labor market.

This surprises precisely no one. What does it have to do with the article?

New comment by forgetsusername in "Mark Cuban on Why You Need to Study Artificial Intelligence"

forgetsusername — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 20:48:39 +0000

>But we will also see a huge proportion of sites that could use it continue to ignore it for years to come. There are big business opportunities in finding ways of making a dent in that portion of the market

I agree with this wholeheartedly. I think there are pockets of HN that are out of touch with the reality in SMBs across the country (and planet). Often these businesses are struggling to track data, let alone utilize it for decision making or analyze it any sophisticated manner. "Out-of-the-box" ML will be another tool in the toolbelt in these instances.

So, sure, if you are trying to build Massive ML Tech Co., you won't be able to hire a few devs who watched a ML series on Coursera to achieve that goal. But there's ample opportunity to apply that knowledge elsewhere.

New comment by forgetsusername in "Dakota Access Pipeline to win US Army permit for completion"

forgetsusername — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 17:17:12 +0000

>I personally know people who went to the Standing Rock camp that were not paid protesters.

I didn't see OP claim that there weren't "real" protesters, only that some were paid.

New comment by forgetsusername in "Mark Cuban on Why You Need to Study Artificial Intelligence"

forgetsusername — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 17:12:27 +0000

>Any place doing serious ML

Good thing the vast majority of businesses won't need "serious" ML, but instead will require only simple implementations to help solve business problems.

New comment by forgetsusername in "Five arrests in 'fully loaded' Kodi streaming box raids"

forgetsusername — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 16:48:25 +0000

>Prime has a boat-load of movies and tv shows available for free or pay to watch on demand.

...in the US.

New comment by forgetsusername in "Five arrests in 'fully loaded' Kodi streaming box raids"

forgetsusername — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 16:47:51 +0000

>Or buy it and wait hours to download it?

How it it streamable on Kodi, but takes so long to download from a legitimate source?

New comment by forgetsusername in "The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow"

forgetsusername — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 16:32:11 +0000

How valuable is this without any of the discussion context surrounding these books? It seems unlikely that I'm going to purchase a book based on a metric like "mentions", when much of the discussion could be negative. I mean, I get it from the perspective of scraping/development practice, but it doesn't feel overly useful. And I'm a book hunter.

New comment by forgetsusername in "Hackers Have Stolen Millions of Dollars in Bitcoin Using Only Phone Numbers"

forgetsusername — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 10:39:39 +0000

>I personally have 4 factors for my gmail account

Tack this on to the list of reasons why no normal person will use bitcoin in any quantity.

New comment by forgetsusername in "Rackspace lays off 200 locals in company-wide cuts"

forgetsusername — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 10:30:32 +0000

So why aren't the sellers before PE and buyers after PE aware of the fact that no value is being added by PE in the interim, and hence sell cheaply and overpay?

Why is it so obvious to you, but not these other people? How does this charade perpetuate? Maybe there is value in there somewhere?

New comment by forgetsusername in "Goldman Sachs automated trading replaces 600 traders with 200 engineers"

forgetsusername — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 21:58:01 +0000

>blind reliance on algorithms can be catastrophic.

And in other places, basic algorithms smash human judgement:

https://www.amazon.com/Clinical-Versus-Statistical-Predictio...

New comment by forgetsusername in "Tesla Model S P100DL Motor Trend all-time world record 60mph in 2.27s"

forgetsusername — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 18:09:06 +0000

>Another 10 years from now, what will anti-EV people be saying

Pointing out facts is now "anti-EV"?

Many a car can be optimized for acceleration:

http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/22/12004422/fastest-accelerat...

New comment by forgetsusername in "Trump Is Right: Silicon Valley Using H-1B Visas to Pay Low Wages to Immigrants"

forgetsusername — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 23:29:08 +0000

Assuming that anyone who works for GS, or banking in general, are homogenous in morals and ethics and ability is equally delusional.

New comment by forgetsusername in "VIZIO to Pay $2.2M to FTC"

forgetsusername — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 23:12:01 +0000

Only in America is locking people up the solution to all life's problems.

New comment by forgetsusername in "Super Bowl Delivers Thrills, but No Ratings Record"

forgetsusername — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 23:06:36 +0000

The NFL nailed it with Sunday games (although more and more are added to the schedule). It allowed you to to follow the sport closely without memorizing a team schedule, and every fan had the day off from work to watch. I wish more sports followed that system. It was easy to get into.

I still enjoy watching the game, but sadly it's become a sport I watch but won't play (or have my kids play).

New comment by forgetsusername in "Vancouver house prices are falling"

forgetsusername — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 00:35:31 +0000

Lending is pretty lax, just like it's been in spots all over the planet for over a decade.

New comment by forgetsusername in "Facebook’s AI unlocks the ability to search photos by what’s in them"

forgetsusername — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 15:44:11 +0000

>Are there (tech) news-sites which do not have this 10-100MB bloat with three js framweorks and gifs, ads and whatnot?

The HackerNews comment section, with the added benefit of it being more informative.

New comment by forgetsusername in "Snapchat reportedly hit 160M daily users and $400M revenue in 2016"

forgetsusername — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 10:41:58 +0000

>id honestly be curious to why this comment is being downvoted so much

Because it confuses revenues and earnings? It defends Snap chat for not having "negative billions" when, in fact, it is has negative billions.