skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At a different company, he noticed that a team of white engineers from affluent backgrounds chose to delay shipping an Android version of the product because they believed they would make less money on the platform. But it turned out that Android users were far more engaged than iOS ones, and the group later regretted prioritizing the wrong platform.

Plenty of companies made that bet, especially if we go back a few years. Hell, nintendo just made that bet with super mario run. There are good and bad reasons to do it.

I'm not really sure what the point is? These guys were wrong because they were rich white guys as opposed to they were wrong because x?

> I’m considered a non-technical founder, despite the fact that I have an engineering degree from Stanford and maybe I guess I don’t look like a technical founder.

Are you capable of (and/or interested in) working on the tech side of things? Then why would you not be a technical founder. If you aren't, then does the engineering degree really have any bearing?

The steps they took sound reasonable. I'm curious about which were the most effective.

> So they built a Slackbot that assigned and circulated dishwashing responsibilities around the entire workforce

I'd quit. I hate doing dishes. Can I just agree not to use the dishes?

> They decided that the opposite of the word “guys” was not “girls,” and that they would use the word “women.”

Unfortunate quirk that guys is fine, but girls is condescending and women sounds awkwardly formal.

I wonder if having a female founder has helped. Strong female leader, someone for people to look up to.
Millennials earn 20% less than Boomers did at same stage of life
I mentioned that I'd probably be discriminated against in a hiring context due to my views, if I were to make them obvious or easily available.

But, tangentially and not in an American context: This currently affects the place where I live.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad-Based_Black_Economic_Emp...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Economic_Empowerment

It actively rewards companies for hiring non-white individuals (and white individuals are a minority here). Such a company would gain preferential access to government contracts via a "point based" system that influences their choice in employees/owners and suppliers. It's really just a proxy for coercing companies into hiring for quotas rather than actual talent/availability, and for preferring suppliers based on their black-ownership rather than their ability to deliver. This sort of thing spiders-out into the overall economy outside of just government contracts.
Somewhat OT, but kidney donation is surprisingly low risk in the long term.

"Compared to the general public, most kidney donors have equivalent (or better) survival, excellent quality of life, and no increase in end-stage kidney disease"

https://nhsbtdbe.blob.core.windows.net/umbraco-assets/1433/1... [PDF, page 7]
Fun fact: the concept of handles that this article talks about is almost exactly the same as Windows 1.0's concept of handles. See for example https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20041104-00/?p=...
This one?

http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(06)01534-0
It's probably a trivial matter, but is anyone else confused as to why the color red is cited throughout the article? Presumably the color of the peppers has nothing to do with the findings. Right?
I wouldn't call this art

You'd be wrong then.

It's pretty zen, really.

You have a very low bar for calling something "zen". I'm good at flipping bottles of mustard and such behind my back without dropping them. No point really, just fun. Zen?
Living in Andy Cohen’s America
not trying to be a pedant and i completely understood the context. we're talking about tense, not grammar. there is a huge difference between saying "VR is not good right now" and "VR will never be good".

"Virtual reality does not merely replicate reality"

i'm assuming OP meant "VR [has the possibility to] not merely replicate reality." or "[ideally] VR can not merely replicate reality...".

we're trying to predict a trend- how well developed the technology is now seems less relevant than it's end-game.
> A good parent spends more time with their children than anything else.

This isn't necessarily true. However, sleep deprivation (rather than actual hours spent with the kids) is a big problem.
Hi! I'm Nate, another one of the Lever founders here. Have any questions about our efforts here? I'd be happy to respond.
>Can this be verified? Can this be verified to be the case 100% of the time? Is there anything stopping the client from lying to a user

No.

OpenWhisper system otherwise GPLv3 auditable libraries are closed source for usage by WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Either OpenWhisper systems has elected not to enforce their copyright (in which case you could make a BSD/MIT/Apache fork of their software), OR they have consented to Facebook allowing them to circumvent the license.

Eitherway. The code in WhatsApp is off limits for anyone not working with Facebook so well never know. Closed source crypto is bad. We only have WhatsApp's word the Facebook libraries have no modifications.
Hundreds of unsecured Elasticsearch servers wiped, similarly to MongoDB attack
The hardware is not just cheaper, but its orders of magnitude more powerful. There have also been two huge breakthroughs that I think make this wave the real deal, sub mm motion controller tracking and 90 fps to the eye.
Yes, and it's quite hard to do compete with the big companies on what they're trying to achieve with much more people.
I would suspect that there is a selection bias here, as a whole lot of the low end of the general health distribution would prevent you from donating a kidney, or at least make it less likely. So you'd expect them to do better than average if donation had no effect.

To know if there is an effect, you need to not compare to the general public, but to a subset similar in factors which are associated with the outcome measures to kidney donors.
Should be plenty of places / people you can check out a rift/vive with without buying
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This is very good question. We covered why poker is hard. Now, lets cover why it is hard for computers.

Simply: building model of the opponent(s) is part of poker.

In games like Chess and Go without hidden information you can just "play the game" best you can. Other players are not important. Optimal strategy against good player is optimal against bad player are the same. It's just playing the game.

In poker this is not true. Bets reveal information about the player's strategy and his hand. Figuring the other player out is part of the game. Against bad player, optimal strategy is usually different than against good player. Playing against tight-agressive is different than playing against tight-passive. In multi-way poker it's important to know how strong is the player sitting left to you and change your game accordingly.
Just as an fyi, dramamine (non-drowsy if you're trying to work) works really well for VR induced motion sickness.
Name calling results in reassigning fear. People are afraid of the unknown and so try to box it up in something digestible they can fear less. We tend to blame others because it's easy and cheap to do so. If you are wrong, that means I'm right and so then I wasn't wrong about it and don't have to think about it anymore. And you are wrong, so why would I think about it again?

I think it's interesting the entities are not two, but many and one at the same time. Elon Musk is an individual and he is also part of the press process. My rationale is that the press includes everyone in the press, including the people writing the stories and the people in the stories.

We know Musk. He doesn't know us.
And anyone with sufficient access could push an update from the app store to a selected target that bypasses the normal security protocols of any given messaging app. Who checks their app store downloads against source code?
Okay so I asking around on the intel forums. They fences for instruction ordering, and cache load/flush.

But not for load/stores. If you load/store from data within an RTM region (after _xend()) you have no atomic protections.
I'm not absolute in saying that there isn't anthropogenic climate change. I'm saying politics are a big factor in the whole debate.
> Or we could try going the free-ish market approach and try to find a much freer balance with the FDA/USDA/occupational-licensing/scrap Medicare/Medicaid,etc., which we do not currently have AT ALL.

Is there any country that has implemented this successfully?
Thats pretty much right, but it's not the viruses that are interacting with the light.

The virus is injected, and then infects cells. It re-writes their DNA, like a lot of viruses we are all made sick by, and inserts a DNA code into the cell. In wild viruses, that DNA code would make other viruses and start the process of infection all over again. Here, that DNA code is for a protein called an 'opsin'. Just like in your retina and eyes, this opsin protein is affect by light of certain colors. In the case of exciting the nerve cell to 'fire' (the other general case is inhibiting the cell from 'firing') the opsin protein is in the cell wall and opens up the cell to the extra-cellular environment. Similar to osmosis, this causes some of the ions in the fluids (Sodium, Potassium, Calcium, etc) to rush in or out of the cell. The specifics depend a lot on the particular cell, but mostly on the relative concentration of the ions in the cell and in the extracellular fluids.

Shine light, the protein (delivered via viral infection) opens, ions rush in/out, the cell 'fires'.

Also, in longer axons like in the eye or the spine, you do have cross talk like with copper wires. BUT only if those axons are un-myelinated. That is bio-talk for cells that wrap around the axons of nerve cells that are very fatty in composition. Basically, myelin is like the plastic insulation you have on copper wire. They do a lot of other things too, but in the spine and eye, they act as isolators for the nerves that have to go a long distance. When that myelin 'goes wrong', you can get disorders like ALS and such.

Here are some sources to learn more about optogentics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optogenetics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb07TLkJ3Ww
The author seems to be referring to working from home, not remote working. I live in Vermont, but work for a company in SF, which is a lot different than working from home on Fridays.
Or like the residents of Mount Weather (from the show 100)
The first phrase of the first comment you offered on this thread was about how annoying in their ignorance you thought the comments of the people you were replying to were, so you should probably not lecture people on civility at length.
What a truly bizarre comment.
yes, included with many routers

http://www.linksys.com/ph/support-article?articleNum=136710
>> Essential's engineers are developing a proprietary connector that serves double duty for charging the battery and expanding the phone's functionality over time, one person familiar with the planning said.

This is unfortunate. I wonder where usb-c falls short in their design?
I think there's a stronger correlation for religious people being active climate change deniers. Surely the creator would not destroy EVERYONE all at the same time?! That would be capricious and unfair!

But I admit I can't think of a purely free market solution for avoiding climate change, and perhaps as libertarian types haven't figured out how to innovate those incentives they just have to deny it's not real rather than admit the free market isn't going to innovate those incentives and arrive at a correction on its own before it's too late. The reality is, it's already too late. Now we're in the position of having to manage the consequences of our failure: soft landing vs hard landing.
That's awesome. Laser-activated, killer mice (along with sharks with lasers) need to be in the next Austin Powers movie.
This again has nothing to do with question in hand. Yes, poker is imperfect information game, everybody knows that. Why does it make it easier for humans than for computers? Humans cannot do these computations in the head any better than computers, quite the contrary.
Yea but this is splitting hairs. All of these players are better than the best 3-4 years ago.
This is a really nice explanation. I think it's helpful to go a little deeper and clarify that the virus itself isn't performing any electrical activity. Rather, the virus transfects the neural cells with a channel protein [0] that opens up in response to light. By opening the channel protein, the cell allows an influx of ions, which starts the electrical activity of the neuron in a very similar way to how it is 'naturally' stimulated. Furthermore, viral transfection is one of a few methods to expresses this protein in the animal. A population of mice that express it can be bred and maintained, with no need to transfect each one.

[0] https://web.stanford.edu/group/dlab/media/papers/Zhang%20Nat...
I think both of these can't be generalized . Sometimes they are true, sometimes not.
I grew up on the opposite side of the Classic Mac learning-C++ camp. I had a copy of MPW, and a trial version of CodeWarrior from some CD in the front of a "...For Dummies" book I had checked out from the library. I was SO jealous of the people who got to use the professional version of CodeWarrior! They were obviously real programmers, and I was not, because my development environment was free and theirs was not.
Ugh don't remind me of WebOS. What a beautiful OS, wasted by an incompetent company.

Some days I still wonder what the world would look like if geeks had picked WebOS instead of Android to rally around.
I can confirm that the rekeying notifications are off by default, also Android
Microsoft Acquires Artificial-Intelligence Startup Maluuba
That's news to me. At least it's news that this is actually practical for any interesting cases (i.e. real crypto code). Do you have a reference?
So full-on paranoia mode on:
What would you do if you wanted to compare safety numbers? I'm guessing most people would call and read out the code.

How far are we from targeted interception of calls, with replacement of key phrases? Voice synthesis seems to be there more or less, if I understood Adobe's recent demo correctly, but real-time parsing of conversations to determine where to intervene is probably not close yet.
> The ACA wasn't a bad attempt given the constant efforts of the opposition to sabbotage it.

Actually, it was, given that many of the misfeatures of the ACA were premptive compromises to gain the support of opposition that never accepted it anyway.

But even so, it's better than the status quo ante was, and there's no sign of anything better on the horizon amidst the rush to repeal it.
Yup. I am remote, in the midwest. My coworkers on the coast are able to work from home every so often, or on certain days of the week, while I am just expected to fly out a few times a year to sync up and socialize.

I would say WFH is absolutely a perk, if the company already has a solid remote culture.
> It is really interesting how the American mindset is to never look abroad to see what works and what doesn't.

Oh we definitely look abroad. In fact that's one of the major arguments for a single-payer system in the U.S. - such a system exists successfully in every other capitalist democracy. So why can't we make it work here?

And this looking abroad is not a tonic against bad thinking. Conservatives routinely look at health systems in other countries and decry them: long waiting lists for elective procedures, high marginal income tax rates, etc., etc. Any flaw in another system is magnified and considered a non-starter.

Obamacare was based on an older Republican plan which had been implemented by Mitt Romney in Massachusetts. But in the run-up to Obamacare conservatives hyperventilated about "death panels" and how the ACA was going to destroy the economy. None of which came to pass.
Can someone ELI5 how gene editing works? I understand that CRISPR can target specific genes to make changes but how does that work in practice?

Suppose we identified the gene for Huntington's disease and wanted to design a therapy to snip it out and put a benign replacement in its place. Given the human body contains trillions of cells, each carrying the complete set of genes, which cells would be targeted by the therapy? If the CRISPR therapy targeted only cells in a certain organ or region, does this mean the person would have different sets of genes in different parts of their body? What does this mean for any children born post-treatment? Do they inherit the new genes or are they stuck with the old crappy version?
And then there's the EU market where it's mandatory for phones manufacturers to equip phones with USB charging.
this very much reminds me of the TV show episode black mirror - san junipero
It seems to have come back from the dead too :-)
Because a computer has to adapt to the opponents strategy or else the human can simply exploit the rule based algorithm that the computer is following. Most dedicated online players are already using an arsenal of software for probability, statistics, and player profiling while playing, so a computer would really not have an edge with the math since the human is running the same computations. A human can start poking around and explore methods to fool the computer.
I'm confused. The way I understand it is that once the double checkmark appears, those messages are locked in and never rekeyed. That means once you see those checkmarks, you're guaranteed no one can snoop on that message anymore.

Assuming you have the notification on (Which anyone who cares about security could and should turn on), once you see a warning, you could just delete all messages that don't have the double checkmark (if any) and not send new ones.
Except that the obvious interpretation of the second checkmark not appearing is that the message was never received, not that it was decrypted by an attacker. Especially when there's a key change warning afterwards. I think this is still the correct interpretation in Signal proper, but who knows at this point?
Reanimation powers are hidden behind the "vouch" link :)
How are you supposed to sell to people who feel you don't give a damn about their opinion?
I never understood why this is not glaringly obvious before anyone implements such a plan. Or maybe it was and this was intended? Seems just as likely at this point.

I mean, this is a constant joke in professional circles. If you are hourly billing and you can use your shitty talent to create something in 8 hours that your good talent would create in 1 - it's usually economically beneficial to have the worse employees do the work as it's more profitable overall. Up until the point where you lose the customer - but in this case that's not a concern.
> Having been a programmer and a lawyer, I can't think of anything about the respective jobs that is a good explanation for why my programming jobs were 10% women while my legal jobs have been 50% women

Having worked as a tech guy in a law firm there are many differences between programming jobs and legal jobs.

A huge one is tech is 10x more diverse and frankly it's a big turn off for many women. Many women place a premium on the social side (just like the much derided brogrammer) and frankly at most companies the social side is far worse than at the average law firm.
Because somehow, someway women are never responsible for their own actions or behaviors.

Thank you for illustrating that.
Do you attend any Python meetups in the city, some folks there might have good ideas for paths ... ie: https://www.meetup.com/NYDataScientists/events/236709796/
CRISPR is a newly adopted technology that allows the bacteria in the cell to fight against the Viruses that affects the Human cells. It also allows making some specific changes in the DNA of the Human Being and some other organisms.

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat is the acronym for CRISPR. It is an RNA gene-guided editing platform, which is helping to break a double-stranded DNA at a specific location within the genome by making use of a Protein Coat (Cas9) and a synthetic RNA guide.

In the simple life forms like bacteria and another organism, a simple sequence of CRISPR acts as a crucial component of the Immune System for protecting the organisms health. Viruses are the small infectious agents that invade the bacteria in the cells and attack the bacteria. If viral infection threatens this invaded bacteria, then the CRISPR immune system can attack and destroy the genome of the invading virus. The genome of the virus contains the genetic material for its replication. By destroying the genome, the CRISPR immune system protects the bacteria from viral infections.

Source:http://www.whitedust.net/what-is-crispr-and-how-can-it-edit-...

you can learn more about it and watch the video about CRISPR/Cas9's mechanism and function.
"Annual physicals" in asymptomatic individuals are known to be a useless waste of money and time.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/re-thinking-the-annual-phys...
That makes sense. But does it mean that if I don't have a real idea of what I'm doing (i.e. you cannot assume my moves are optimal from my point of view) your expertise is essentially useless against me?
Unless medical care is cheap enough for everyone to always afford all the care they might require with the cash in their pockets or the money in their checking accounts, I believe my fundamental question is relevant. Since some medical care currently, and for the forseeable future, requires the time of extremely smart, talented, and highly-trained individuals, I don't believe it's possible to make it that cheap.

I agree with everything else you said though. Costs are too high and are a major reason this is so hard to solve and price transparency is a big part of the problem. A related (because it distorts the market in a similar way) problem is that most people don't see the true cost of their insurance, because they get it as a benefit from their employer. I would be highly in favor of any credible attempts to fix these issues. But that's not what I've been hearing from the party that's about to be completely in power.
It actually doesn't matter. They are talking about comprimising the servers. The government has the power to force a backdoor (remember Lavabit?). All Whatsapp has to do is update their client, and all the beautiful encryption schemes are ruined.

If you need a truly secure communication system, it has to be open source and self-hosted. You still have to trust the hardware though.
They'll just provide some dinky adapter.
Ozo+(Large+Scale+Painting)+by+Frederic+Thomas+
> In fact that's one of the major arguments for a single-payer system in the U.S. - such a system exists successfully in every other capitalist democracy.

Every other OECD country ("capitalist democracy" is a problematic category) except Mexico has some form of universal coverage, but not all are single payer, several are hybrid public/private systems.
Square Enix Taps Mobile Strike Maker MZ to Create Final Fantasy XV Mobile MMO
That pictures a bit old, but even still there're at least a handful of "middle aged or above" people shown. Also, I started working at Lever after this photo was taken. Not only am I middle-aged, but there are plenty of us here who are.
i've got a berghaus dart 40 backpack that i've had for at least 15 years. it still gets use at least one a week to lug groceries. it's starting to fall apart but probably has a few years left in it.
http://www.drchilepepper.com/marie-sharps-hot-habanero-peppe...

so tasty!
Quite simple really. Because women don't want to do physically difficult jobs like oil worker, construction worker, mechanic etc.

If there are cushy office jobs where you have to sit most of the time, women are clamoring for equality in those. If you have to do a lot of physical labor, not so much.

Where is the feminist outcry to put women on oil rigs in the middle of the gulf?