skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bullshit. Black people aren't discriminated because they're from a 'black race', there is no black race. They're discriminated against because their skin color is black. Discrimination on the basis of skin color can (and obviously does) exist without the existence of an concept of race.

As for hispanic, that's an ethnonym, i.e. an ethnic group, that's exactly my point. This is how we talk in say the Netherlands about what you call the 'racial debate', on the basis of ethnicities like hispanic. And these ethnicities can indeed comprise of black peoples, and within that context we can and do, all the time, talk about racism and discrimination, but that's wholly different from the notion that the human race has different subraces, a black, white, yellow whatever, that's a ridiculously silly and outdated sociological model and anyone claiming otherwise is terribly ignorant.

As for 'who wins if we allow ourselves to believe', really? Do you really base your beliefs on who wins, rather than on what is true?
Where did Obama do that? The only comment from him I've seen was his tweet that just said, "Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great."
It's a shame you're getting down-voted because I think this is actually the most cogent response to my comment of any that I've seen so far (at least the part about political jokes, not so much the think-of-the-children part).

The problem is that anonymity won't save you from a government that doesn't tolerate political jokes. Hiding the joke's originator won't prevent the government from punishing you if they find a copy of it on your laptop or your server.
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That's nice if you live in a country that respects the freedom of press.
Yeah but black markets can still exist even if it is profitable for some. From what I've read some consumers are turning to black markets because it's cheaper than licensed stores [1].

[1] http://www.cnbcprime.com/marijuana/video/pot-after-hours-the...
Thanks, I feel dumb. Although that makes his argument "WhatsApp is good because you can use it to keep in touch with friends and family" which is meaningless.
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Sick days?
This assumes the statement is not verifiable. Most political statements are easily verifiable once they actually make it out of a particular political stronghold. The goal with public anonymity is to continue making such statement while staying out of jail until such political stronghold is no longer.
> providing plausible deniability for the distribution of pirated content and child pornography.

It helps with any banned or unpopular content, such as anti-government content in many countries or religious content in a locale where that religion is oppressed.
Why? That is literally what they're doing. As I read it, there are extended services available to those with black skin, but if you have brown skin, then "fuck off".
That's fine for small breaking changes like an API being renamed, but some times breaking changes require actually refactoring code which is hard/impossible to do without intimate knowledge of a codebase.

Think python 2->3 or Angular 1->2. These types of changes do happen, and I bet they happen at Google. I don't think anyone is rewriting a downstream app when they make these changes. Most likely they are doing something like forking the library and renaming it, which is just another form of versioning.
> My point is, what about all the other people?

The common racial categories today (of which others are subcategories) are (though different names are sometimes used) Black, White, Asian/Pacific Islander, and Native American. Sometimes Pacific Islanders are considered a separate high-level group, rather than part of a top-level group with Asian. [0]

(Hispanic is an ethnic group that is usually treated as cutting across racial groups.)

> There are Indians, Central Asians, Arabs, Persians...

In terms of the usual racial categories, that's Asian, Asian, White, and White.

> Even 19th century racialists in their ignorant understanding of the world didn't lump 2/3 of the world's population into a miscellaneous category.

Actually, I'm pretty sure the old Mongoloid from the long-dominant threefold racial category -- which is the closest parallel in the old scheme to the modern Asian category but is even broader -- certainly did so even more than one could argue that "Asian" does in the dominant modern scheme.

[0] See, e.g., the categories used by the US Census (and the US government more generally, which do break out Pacific Islanders separately) http://www.census.gov/topics/population/race/about.html
For people who work with legacy technologies, it can actually be the reverse situation. Yeah, your knowledge of The Latest Hipster Web Framework becomes less valuable year on year, but the situation is a little different for senior personnel running Fortune 50-level ops on legacy technologies. They aren't exactly churning OpenVMS systems architects out of coding boot camps. It's a lot the same situation as COBOL programmers are in - they're not something you need a million of, the work may not be 100% stable, but when you do need them they're fixing mission-critical systems that have millions/billions of dollars of business riding on them and the rates are astronomical.
>Most central banks dictate that there should be 2% inflation, which means the economy needs to grow 2% per year.

That's not true. Inflation isn't directly tied to growth. The Fed attempts to make inflation 2% no matter what the economy grows. 2% growth might cause 2% inflation, but if there was 5% growth, the fed would reduce money supply to keep inflation around 3%.

And during no growth, the fed could increase money supply to ensure inflation during recessions. And that is in fact what they did during the great recession.
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No, but the contents will be attributed to you...
So then the obvious solution is to create your own bank and start depositing money in the Fed. If you can't create a bank, you could probably buy one. I know a YC company that was trying to do that, so it can't be that hard!
Happy to answer any questions folks might have!
Not necessarily. Over the past seven years the monetary base has expanded significantly, yet inflation has remained super low.

It's true that creating money out of thin air increases the supply of money. But the price of money is not set by one factor of supply alone. You also have to consider the velocity of money (affecting supply) and the demand for money. If these are changing too, then you can certainly increase the supply of money without devaluing the currency.

Also you can have counterintuitive effects where increasing the supply of money stimulates the economy increasing the demand for money thereby strengthening the value of the currency overall.
So first the fed cut rates and many people called them unprincipled and we would have run away inflation "just around the corner" and they were shown to be quite wrong. Now these same people are calling for raising rates what traditionally used forms of data suggest is at least a little too early and there seems to be a possibility that the fed is going to raise rates.
> the numbers Wired quotes for the lines of code in Windows are not even close to being correct

OTOH you can't blame them for being incorrect if you (as in, Microsoft, not you personally) are being so secretive about the figures. I'm pretty sure everyone would love to see how Microsoft works internally, especially now that you teased us with that Windows build system.
The final paragraph is pretty good:

Every time you play a free to play game, you just build this giant online database of who you are, who your friends are and what you like and don’t like. This data is sold, bought and traded between large companies I have worked for. You want to put a stop to this? Stop playing free games. Buy a game for 4.99 or 9.99. We don’t want to be making games like this, and we don’t want another meeting about retention, cohorts or churn.

Gamers are such a wonderful userbase to exploit, and they have pretty much willfully put themselves there.
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YC is a private business of course, but since they started this initiative, wouldn't it be even more efficient to make YC staff itself more diverse? Rather than doing segregated open hours.
Neo-classical capitalism doesn't even acknowledge the laws of nature let alone follow them.

Jeremy Rifkin has written a lot of about this topic and his arguments that economists should first learn the laws of thermodynamics before being set loose on the economy.

His book, "The Third Industrial Revolution" touches on this topic quite a bit, if your interested…
http://www.amazon.com/Third-Industrial-Revolution-Lateral-Tr...
A number have tried, and failed.
Interestingly, the following three failed as a function of being based in transit-legislation-heavy San Francisco:

* Loup

* Leap

* Night School

My understanding is that Chariot is still operating and doing well, though.
This is an excellent paper by the Bank of England about how money is created in modern economies:

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...
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Just a sidenote: I think the reason the term "WiFi" never caught on in Germany is that

1. It sounds really awkward in German (most speakers will pronounce the "W" as in German, i.e. "Vi-Fi").

2. WLAN is easier to say (think "V-LAN").

3. It can easily be confused with "HiFi" (which, btw, is commonly pronounced as "Hi-Fee" for some reason, creating additional confusion about the acceptable pronunciation of "WiFi" in German).

Another interesting(?) note: unlike WLAN, LAN is commonly pronounced with a long "a" in German. I'm pretty sure I've heard the word "LAN" used a lot less since WiFi became so widely used and most people seem to just use the German word "Netzwerk" (network) or even simply "Netz" (net). Confusingly, a lack of "Netz" ("Ich hab kaum Netz" -- "I have barely any net") can also refer to mobile connections (because "Handynetz" = cellular network -- and yes "Handy" is a faux-English word commonly used in German to refer to mobile phones because marketing is stupid).
Not sure I understand your point. The source the article refers to claims Windows XP is ~45 million LOC, not me. I myself didn't give any specific numbers about the size of the codebase.

Now, I don't think anyone would come for my head if I did give you a number -- what harm could it do, after all? But, personally, the line I draw is that I don't get too specific about internal data beyond a general order of magnitude, because I'm not here to speak for the company.
Well, you just said what it doesn't have, so I guess you speak for the company after all.

Anyway, let me guess. Judging by how the size of all binaries shipped with Windows varied between releases, I'd be inclined to think Windows 10 does not have significantly more lines of code than Windows Vista.

So I'd guess at most 100 million lines of code?
> harder time starting a startup

and you certain its all due to their skin color etc?
Sorry, I'm having a hard time to believe it.

> we also want to do targeted outreach to underrepresented

Having that much resources to invest (limited, are they?), you likely will end up funding a business based on founder's skin color. Sorry, but that how it looks like from outside.
Am I the only one who initially read 28 instead of 2B ? :)
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The premise of the argument -- having a dead child or a terrorist act "to point to" -- is flawed to begin with.

Having real-time access to ALL COMMUNICATIONS is hardly useful (it would take minutes/hours for the monitoring systems to find actionable data, if it finds it at all), and having it after the fact is useful but generally limited to discovery and cross-examination (which can be achieved regardless, as there are established legal procedures for it).

The issue is trust -- whether tech companies provide unlimited access to all data (and the specifications for how that data is stored, and the staff available for on-call assistance, and [...]) or provide an XKeyscore-like interfaces that was built in-house (and the specifications for how to use it, and the staff available for on-call assistance, and [...]), it simply isn't worth the the risk to set the precedent.

Publicly they cry wolf, but privately they're simply jealous of China's capability to wield their tech sector with such agility. The LEOs can't get in, there is very limited HUMINT and SIGINT, and that makes them nervous. "Going dark" is a reality today, and having to turn to the State Department or the DoJ bugs the hell out of them.

Getting told "the pool's closed" offends them on a basic level. Frankly there is no argument they can make that could change my mind, especially given the economic risk of being labelled a patsy or a nark. Even if they let the US Government have free reign, such an advantage will soon become worthless as word spreads that they're a security risk and summarily ejected from the LEO's apparent target.
If it makes you feel any better I had the same question and had to look around for context!
"All my comment served to do, was concisely articulate the issue of the preceding contexts, which is self-evident when reworded to be less generic"

I doubt you could concisely articulate anything if your preceding contexts depended upon it.
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That's the same as saying "the same order of magnitude"
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She ended up with a criminal record, had to plead guilty, and had to state that she feels like she did the wrong thing.

This case put me off living in the USA.
Having never worked on the secret sauce, I honestly don't know. There is a small team of people who tend to do many of the global refactors, I might expect that they are given special permission.
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Yes, the fish taco counter.
That is not correct. For demand deposits there should be a 100% reserve requirement. No bank run is possible: if everyone shows up and wants the money they are legally able to demand at a given moment, it's all there.

Loans are then (strictly) duration matched with financial instruments offered to the public. Collateralization provides the banks with assets to offset the inevitable bad loans, but "investors" can't demand their money back earlier, and the banks had damn well better be on point when it comes to making and managing the loans, or they are out of business. There would be a secondary market for these instruments, of course.

It's pretty straight forward when you just think in terms of contracts. Its a testament to how fucked up (or, perhaps, effective) our education system is that smart people like yourself can't see these problems straight away.
There's this new invention called the Internet that lets you easily communicate with people who live in other countries. But this was just an example. There are other ways to establish pseudonymity without anonymity.
Yes.

I recommend that you read the linked paper, where Palley highlights the 5 channels through which QE should have had an expansionary effect on the economy, according to Keynesian economic theory (hence the name of the paper).

Here are the 5 channels:

1. A traditional Keynesian interest rate channel whereby the Fed purchases long-term bonds in order to reduce the long-term interest rates as it is unable to further reduce short term rates (zero lower bound)

2. The Tobin’s q channel whereby some of the liquidity is directed to the stock market, increasing stock prices and investment in turn

3. A wealth effect that increases consumption brought about by higher bond and equity prices

4. Expected inflation brings forward consumption and investment spending as households and firms purchase in the present rather than in the future when money is expected to lose real purchasing power (increased velocity of money due to inflation)

5. Increased net exports whereby some of the liquidity is used to purchase foreign reserves, decreasing the exchange rate and devaluing the dollar

I'll leave it up to you to research whether or not these 5 channels have been effectively manipulated as Keynesians would have predicted through QE. But I have a feeling you already know the answer...Bonus points if you can answer this question: Why did channel #2 work so well, and why haven't we seen the supposed wealth effect (#3) predicted under a burgeoning stock market?
What danger is created that wouldn't exist otherwise? If people are bringing explosives through and they're being confiscated and thrown in a bin, then without the confiscations those explosives would be making it onto airplanes instead. Having them explode in a bin would be much preferable to having them explode on an airplane.

Again, I don't agree with the liquid ban, but it's a problem with the goal, not a problem with the methods. There's no real evidence that liquid explosives pose a threat that needs to be countered. However, if you take as a given that you're tasked with stopping them, the system as it's set up is a decent way to go about it.
I doubt it is, and I don't think I'd get in trouble for sharing it.

But, it's not my job to decide whether or not that information should be shared, because it's not my job to speak for the company.

I'm having a hard time understanding why people think this is not a reasonable position.
Even if they were always on running *@home increases their power load a lot during non school hours when they'd normally be at dead idle. The way @home software usually works is once the CPU has been at low utilization for a certain period it cranks up it's computation. If he was top of SETI@home then the computers were definitely up 24/7.
But it's a weird idea. The assumption is that the activity of a company is limited to a static set of things and that when those things require less activity (because the market shrinks) then the people are not required.

In fact companies are constantly starting and changing business activities, and their people should be being moved onto those new activities, sometimes these activities fail, and I would argue that the shock is the result of a set of these transitions failing, resulting in a collapse of the organisms ability to adapt - and layoffs.

This is what seems to be happening at IBM and HP - their management (at all levels) has stopped being able to find new activities for their workforce, and this failure is creating the shocks. My belief is that this is due to a disruption - specifically Hadoop, which has torpedoed the market for differentiated servers and software in enterprise data. "The Machine" was an attempt by HP to ride this out and find an new set of activities (by redefining enterprise computing) maybe the 3D crosspoint announcements from Intel have convinced the HP Enterprise management that the gig is up for this and there is no point in continuing?
They are intended to represent historical building styles of Europe without bias to any particular country. They used to be fictional, then someone built them because they wanted to prove a point.

And that, precisely, is why we can't have nice things.
That's ridiculous. Now you're going to say I'm "breaking the law" for installing a bitcoin miner on all the computers I support and donating the money to charity (well, some of it;rent doesn't pay itself)!
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first of all, i AM a gay guy, and anyone who wants to know me must eventually know that as well. i do not find the idea of hiding it or avoiding discussion about it attractive.

in an ideal society, it should be as you say - everyone free to be themselves. but we do not live in that society. and if we want to get to that, then we need to take action. and asymmetric situations require asymmetric measures in order to achieve change.

i believe your intentions are good, but do you realise that what you're suggesting sounds like we should all pretend that we're not black/white/gay/str8/whatever? it's really silly. for gay people, it was important to show our pride, not because we wanted to label ourselves even more, but because we had to direct attention to the issue to get it fixed, raise our visibility, get heard. and ultimately, going to gay pride was for me an incredibly empowering experience. one cruel thing about systematic discrimination is that the people affected by it often internalize it, and perceive themselves as less worthy. coming together and standing up for ourselves helps fight that too.
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Any mention of the Fed on HN seems to come with a generous helping of heterodox complaints about QE. I'll just point out that despite throwing everything at the wall for 6+ years they are all still batting zero.
>Windows is fast, stays fast, and that's pretty much all I care about.

are you in CO?
I'm not sure what kind of policies he's outspoken against, but if someone is against policies that they perceive to be hostile to Muslims, how does that make them Islamists who want to establish Islamic rule?

He is a Sufi (mystic, esoteric) and more than a bit eccentric. I saw his brand of Islam described as "New Testament" elsewhere. He has tried to argue (contrary to most Islamic scholarship) that the earlier peaceful Meccan sections actually abrogate the later warlike Medinan sections of the Quran. I don't think he's any sort of Islamist at all.

"He says he has serious issues with the hardline, traditional readings of the text, and he's writing a book about his reading of the Koran -- with working titles like Jesus Among Us With the Quran, or The New Understanding of the Quran."

http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/why-mohamed-elhassan-the-...
The situation sucks, but I find it so amazing, the outpouring of support for the boy from everybody! Hopefully his faith in people will be restored.
Yes you can blame them for being incorrect. If they don't have a correct and relatively up-to-date figure, they should be clear about that. "Microsoft declined to comment on how many lines of code Windows has now" or "Windows XP used 45 million lines of code, but that was 14 years ago so it's not a very good comparison to anything".
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You are right. But on that level, even breathing is an impossible problem, because the air molecules could statistically bounce out of the room.