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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.

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

...in the US.

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?

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.

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.

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?

blind reliance on algorithms can be catastrophic.

And in other places, basic algorithms smash human judgement:

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

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...

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

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

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).

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

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.

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.

Snap also has google by the balls here.

Surely they don't.

What if snap comes out with a statement saying Gcp sucks and they're moving to aws?

Then we question why Snap committed billions of dollars to infrastructure that "sucks", and wonder why they couldn't figure it out, but Google could.

You think people will take Snap more seriously than Google itself?

similarly configured PC laptops cost just as much or more.

I guess that depends on what "similarly" means.

The Dell XPS 15", for the same price has a far better processor, far better video card, 32GB of RAM, 4k screen and a 1TB SSD. The Macbook has a touchbar?

http://www.dell.com/ca/p/xps-15-9560-laptop/pd?oc=nxps159560...

I'd love to see the laptops that cost more...

How many Macbook Pro users fit that profile?

The vast majority.

I think you should provide a bit of evidence for the "large numbers" of people in favour of "reducing civil liberties" on these boards.

Say what you will about Trump's other policies, but it's high time someone took an ax to the H-1B program.

He's just getting started. I'm sure we'll see some doozies; hopefully nothing tragic. But let's not pretend that everything Trump does or will do is stupid or evil, and give him credit when appropriate.

HackerNews loves to pat itself on the back about what a great community it is, but when it comes to politics (and other specific topics) the bullying and one-sidedness is as bad as anywhere on the internet.

But this is exactly why half of America is in utter shock about what's happening: their discussion circles involve one "side", and the other isn't acceptable.

the large number of authoritarians here.

Everybody who has a different viewpoint than me is a <insert label>!

This is already exactly how normal, hailable, regulated taxis work

It's funny, isn't it? Every pro-Uber article around here talks about the over-regulated, controlled taxi environment and how damaging it is. Then a service appears that goes the other way: peer-to-peer, no middle-man. Now people complain that it could be dangerous, and they need regulation and control?

Which is it? And what makes anyone believe Uber (or themselves) know what that "proper level" is?

Just google "scirocco dsg gearbox problems"

Or Google "subaru head gasket issues", or "tesla drive unit failure".

I don't think there's a manufacturer that can avoid having runs of faulty lines.

Though corporations are just groups of individuals who themselves could absolutely be guilty of crimes.

...or completely innocent of crimes.

I think it's important to remember that when there's talk about beheading corporate executives (and this isn't the first time I've read that on these forums): people are more likely to be innocent than not.