skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not convinced it's reasonable to call it a problem. Prohibitionists have done little good, particularly when it comes to lighter drugs, such as alcohol or marijuana.
If there isn't any financial hit, then there isn't any value in added security.
Not really, it's opt in and provides a EULA
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The Russian strategy to interfere in our election to bring about the result that occurred and that they wanted to occur clearly involved many parallel strategies operating in tandem, including targeted social media advertising in swing states, but also including possible collusion between Trump campaign officials and foreign agents, some of whose interactions were captured in foreign surveillance.

The surveillance gives us the best chance of stopping something similar in the future. First it does so by letting us know that collusion was happening.
Second, because the Obama administration made the surveillance public, the national security apparatus is in a political position to investigate this independently even though our country is under control of a new regime, due to political safeguards put in place designed to protect the independence of our law enforcement apparatus. Not even Nixon could get around being investigated by his own Justice Department. I'm not saying this will happen (Trump is a corrupt individual, after all), but knowing about collusion thanks to surveillance puts it in a better position to happen.
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and the strict hiring process for men is bad for women in the long run.
Asus provides it as an opt in option :) it's not on by default
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And you are proved wrong by the fact Greece's government clearly was (still is?) "an unsophisticated or under-informed borrower". I mean the outcome of this borrowing speaks for itself.

When I take out a loan a bank usually asks for collateral but these loans to Greece are unsecured and not worth paying back. The banking system should have been left to fail but instead we live in this world where governments bailed them out. Capitalism for the poor and Socialism for the rich.
To be clear, this router does not spy on you. If you want to enable features like the virus detection service or traffic history / analysis, those features rely on upstream services and your data will be sent to ASUS / Trend Micro.

Unless I'm missing something from the article, I won't be trading in my ASUS, I just won't be turning these features on.
It seems like ten or fifteen years ago most startups went out of business due to not being able to raise money, whereas today most startups go out of business due to raising money.

Whether or not people regret this probably depends on personal utility, but I think the way most people think about this (and the standard startup advice) hasn't caught up to the new reality.
100X the price? When it comes to SIP trunking at least, Twilio is one of the cheapest[0] if not the cheapest pay per minute provider. Compare with Flowroute[1] for instance, another popular SIP trunking provider, Twilio is significantly cheaper, especially on origination.

[0] https://www.twilio.com/sip-trunking/pricing
[1] https://www.flowroute.com/pricing/
Compared to Germany for example with a bunch of holograms and whatnot: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/DE_Licen...

In contrast to e.g. the French, our drivers licence is a valid means of identification though.
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As I said, it'll be in C++, Go is great, Rust too, but I just can't get used to their syntax :D
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The smoking age in Arizona, California, Kansas, New York City, and a lot of cities and counties have 21 as the smoking age.

And 21 is the gambling age in many states in the US.
I guess that's the point of her article - that a man waking up and deciding to be a woman has as much legitimacy as a white guy deciding that he's black.

Ie if you accept one, you have to accept the other.
It's more like... if 1 good female developer gets a CS degree for every 10 good male developers, you would expect the workforce to be 10% female. However, if you artificially force 50% female representation you'll have to start drawing upon bad female developers since the rate of good developers is currently only 10%. You first have to increase the output of good female developers from schools before you can scale up their representation in the workforce, not the other way around.
Drivers licences are issued by the states, so the quality of licences vary. Each state comes up with their own implementation, which can be as secure as they see fit. If you have any friends from Pennsylvania and Minnesota you should ask to compare their licences; only one should seem difficult to reproduce.

There really is no national minimum on the security of a drivers license. Since a drivers license can be used to board a domestic flight, there is something called the REAL ID Act that attempts to set a federal standard for state issued licenses. But other than that the states are mostly on their own with regards to implementation.
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So, if I read your own second paragraph correctly, the system was actually designed to equalize votes between states?
Then the 'distribute votes to slave owners' is just an emotional reflex-bating?
It said 14MB or so for me.
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Why is parent being downvoted for asking a simple question?
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> through some mechanism

It is hardly surprising or novel that junior/less experienced developers will write code that has more problems and thus gets rejected more often.
True. Which harkens back to the active or effective management vs passive or ineffective.

I was just struck that it would seem logically difficult to make a case that sale of public land (able to be hunted or fished) to a private party is "for the public good" in the sense of "preserving the traditions."
I've only been through JFK a few times, but every time it was a swift and uneventful experience, in as well as out. Maybe I was just lucky though.
Wow, the modifying assembly code part was impressive! I wouldn't even be able to find the dialog drawing routine amid thousands of lines of undocumented assembly, let alone modify it. It's amazing that a high school kid could figure it out.
I've actually been looking for something like this. I only rarely ever need to figure out what a color is, but its always been difficult. This app makes it much easier. Thank you!
With someone like Sheryl Sandberg heading up Facebook's operations, it would be hard to believe that there weren't mandates to achieve gender parity starting from the top.

That Facebook hasn't achieved gender parity yet would suggest to me that the world hasn't yet caught up with supplying the demand for female employees at various levels of the corporate ladder without it impacting their business operations.
But if its completely open source, what will backers get that others won't?
How do you organize your family "as the family"? How do you organize your company "as the company"? How do we organize ourselves in this website "as the HN commenters"?

When you say "as the people" it seems to imply that "we" ought to have some general agreement between all residents of this arbitrary territory limits known as the US.
Militias don't need a state.
Why are India's top judges doubting each others' sanity?
If you're a stereotypically ethnic Polish person (just guessing from the username) no one is going to even look cross-eyed at you if you can speak English at all.

The 21 year drinking age is still idiotic and actively harmful.
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Just FYI, a handful of states have 19 or 21 as the age to buy tobacco, and while I think you're right about the age to gamble being 18 in most states, most casinos require you to be 21 – at least from my anecdotal experience.

This doesn't change your overall point about fake IDs, but it does support the idea that America has a bizarre set of age limits around "sinful" behaviors.
"most startups today go out of business because they raised money" citation please.
I guessed as much, since I noticed the project is relatively young.

Kudos on what's been done so far! ^_^
I'm very torn on these kinds of studies. In my field we see a lot of studies looking at gender and racial disparities in healthcare offered (e.g. what kinds of _______ therapy are prescribed to various racial groups). While such disparities are probably important in some cases, the "why" is generally not addressed in the study outcome, and rather the results are open to all sorts of interpretations based on our biases.

And then of course any disparities, properly normalized for alternative factors (or not), have to be corrected. Very messy science. It's also easy and politically expedient science - these days we're obsessed with inequality, and if you just comb around you're bound to find some statistically significant disparities and that gets everyone's attention. If researchers were trying to investigate population-level thoughtcrime, this is what it might look like.
> only sensible thing to do is default

The problem here was cashflow; defaulting might save you from more loan payments, although actually doing it is quite painful under international law (see Argentina). But Greece needed to take out further loans in order to meet immediate public funding needs - and defaulting would have prevented that, or made it much more expensive.

I've turned this over in my head a number of times. None of the options are particularly pleasant, but it's not a good idea to pretend that defaulting would have been trouble-free.
For the record, working with a company because they fill a need in which you lack expertise and then creating your own version that reduces your need on them is called a switchback.
Whenever I read "in the UK" these days my mind wanders to how BREXIT will affect it ?
I've read and heard enough Japanese to be able to pick out the differences in VA direction between English and Japanese audio tracks. 90% of the time, I end up preferring the Japanese tracks.
This is not a throwaway account. Anyone can look at both my comment history and profile to determine identity.

You, on the other hand, represent yourself under the guise of anonymity, yet with purported knowledge of Facebook internal processes and discussions. The ramification is that, we as a group, must now take the irrationality of "your" identity and match it up with a rational "truth" presented which is "the level of rejection between genders is the same" (at Facebook).

The act of anonymity is likely rationalized as required to avoid judgement. Alternately, the act may be rationalized as an act by the company to avoid judgement, which means you aren't you, but someone posting on behalf of the company. Third, you may be an irrational actor who is posting this to troll us, which is to say an irrational desire to spread irrationality further into our group.

In all cases, this comment is highly irrational. If it's a troll, it's an objective of the troll to seek to spread further irrationality (additional unknown work). If it's a real human, who works at Facebook, posting this information is irrational because we have no way of knowing the context of the conversation, i.e. why did such a topic come up to begin with, who discussed it, who wrote the tests for it, and who conducted and analyzed the test results? Third and finally, if it is the company itself posting it, why is the company posting it? From an irrational standpoint, keeping this information "unofficial" makes it more likely to spread as a "truth" coming from the company, which means they are acting more like a troll with a purpose. (Which is not to say all trolls do not have purpose.)

If the company was ever to make this a public statement, I'm sure more work, or irrationality would come of it, given the questions I raise above about whether testing for this is done in a logical and fair manner.

Side note: I don't believe we should allow anonymous accounts to post because of the work required to untangle the logic. This is currently not possible to do with the HN software, so it's a moot point, and remains a source of dissonance for us.

Edit: Hello Facebook. Streisand effect, anyone? Getting about 1 negative downvote every 2 minutes. Fascinating.
My wife bought something at a "local artist fair". They didn't even bother to remove the "made in china" sticker.
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I am not sure why any bandwidth usage history, web history or QoS system would require Trend Micro's services.
Wow, what a flashback! I remember following various translation teams and their progress while in college and playing all sorts of SNES games I'd never gotten to play as a kid (via zSNES). I remember the drama of the early leak and the eventual "proper" release. Realizing that it was 20 years ago caught me by surprise.
And can you share insights into what percentage of female engineers there see promotion (as compared to males), and if it's at the same velocity? Because, you know... spin.
Before the days of prevalent computers and searchable databases, one would just take someone else's information to the DMV and get a real ID with their info.
Does this mean employees eventually shown more details? The WSJ article I read[1] cast both analyses as flawed in that the employee's study may not have accounted for an engineer’s previous experience before joining FB, while the official one apparently failed to offer enough data to conclusively rule out gender bias and employees' request for more detailed data was denied.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-female-engineers-clai...
Although for Chinese dollar is the King, they form deep communities to aid each other in trade and are loyal. One interesting example of strong communities - I have newer seen a Chinese beggar in Europe, but a lot from neighboring and other countries.
This seems like an interesting side effect, that I'm not sure policy makers had anticipated.
Not gonna lie, that was kinda cool even after 5...
No, the issue with the article is that its author didn't take into account (as someone claiming to be from Facebook said in a different thread) "skill level" when making their comparisons. (This claim aligns with the statement in the blockquote at the bottom of the article.)

Maybe on average women get less code into the code base, but it's unfair to everyone if you don't remove the influence that seniority has on your dataset before pointing at gender.

Women face many problems in this industry as it is. If I could, I'd ask The Verge not to make up any new ones.
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Hi All
I am happy with my current life running a small bootstrapped product and consulting business. I quit my job 2 years ago to do this full-time and couldn't be happier. All good so far.

However, I always had this itch for data science when I used to work in my corporate job (Investment banks/capital markets). Thinking of spending some time with Data science preferably getting an actual degree. The reason I am thinking of an official degree is that I will get to network with tons of people (would love to apply to NYU as I am not too far). That may open up possibilities for future even though I am running a business today.

Anyone doing something similar ? Thoughts ?
Yanis describes in The Weak Suffer What They Must? that the situation was very simliar to the subprime crisis in the states. Giving a lot of risky loans that then could be split and re-packaged.
Hah, I also had the Alps for the same reason. I always wondered what percentage of their sales was to kids making fake IDs.
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He works at Facebook and is stating it as a fact.
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It was doing an update check apparently, which a lot of software does. I bet anything in the same class as ZoneAlarm phones home.
Not that this greatly affects your counterpoint, but your calculation is off by three orders of magnitude:

151,000,000 calls/year ÷ (365 days/year * 10,000,000,000 calls/day) ~= 0.000041 = 0.0041%.
Thanks for the licensing guide. I decided to use MIT license for the project.

Please let me know if you made anything useful with this processor!
>How are the environmental effects ofthe production of the huge batteries, their disposal or recycling evaluated.

Very easily. Batteries are very simple and have about a dozen input materials, usually from single sources. They are some of the most easily analyzed products in the world. There's a steel jacket with a plastic gasket, a cathode material (in Teslas this comprises lithium, nickel, cobalt and aluminum), an electrolyte mixture (common, safe liquids like ethylene carbonate or dimethyl carbonate), a separator (one of many common plastics), and an anode mixture (around 55%/45% natural and synthetic graphite, possibly with a few percent silicon). Every one of those materials is extremely common, readily available, and highly recycled or recyclable. Almost all steel and aluminum is recycled, and plastic can easily be recycled. The electrolytes are just small carbonates, used in a ton of industries. Nickel is the biggest threat by far- per pound cobalt is slightly worse, but there is 5.3x[1] as much nickel in a battery.

If we switched to 100% electric cars using Tesla sized batteries, they still wouldn't use as much nickel as the stainless steel industry does. There is no comparing the byproduct during manufacture. Lithium battery production is just great.

For recycling the worry is solely that the nickel and cobalt will leech from broken batteries into the water supply. This doesn't happen with stainless steel because well, it's stainless. Luckily nickel and cobalt are also the most valuable part of the battery, and are quite valuable to recover through shredding and incineration. The scrap value of nickel alone in the battery is more than the scrap value of steel in the car, so recycling is virtually guaranteed.

>I've seen only some very dishonest ones like "once the batteries are not usable in cars we'll sell them" where the worth of the used batteries was immensely overblown.

Are you sure you have your facts right? A battery is "used" when it's maximum capacity is 80% of it's original capacity. It continues working long after and can even degrade slower. The only problem is that it's much heavier for it's capacity- 25-50% heavier. For permanent storage that isn't a problem. Their value could easily be 50% of the original price or more, for well kept batteries- recycling wouldn't even be an issue in that case. At that price buying used batteries would be almost as cheap as buying gasoline for generators.

[1]: http://neicorporation.com/specs/NANOMYTE_BE-45_NCA_Spec_Shee...
I think trendia's point is not that those people are correct, but that people are influenced by their surroundings; that it is the orgsmizstion we must change, not the people in it.
"Though the country [China] only has 10 percent of arable land worldwide, they produce food for 20 percent of the world's population."

Nice way of saying they produce enough food for their own population, and make it look like an act of charity.
I just dont get why I would ever spent 1000 USD on a model that does less than the Surface for a similar price.
That part doesn't make much sense either because gender representation isn't a legitimate concept. Individuals have different strengths which may help them succeed if their pursuits use those strengths. This results in uneven gender distributions within industries and there's nothing wrong with that.

Unless you think there is some sort of overt discrimination happening that's stopping females becoming senior engineers, in which case you'll need to define it.
I said no serious financial hit, not no hit. Serious in terms of "the stock price went down significantly", there's still costs of breach clean up etc.

Also there's a big negative externality in that a lot of the costs are borne by users of the app/system and not necessarily the developers, but due to a lack of liability for software development and security breaches that isn't taken into account by many companies
Regarding if upstream service is needed for bandwidth usage history, as it needs computing power - well not at all. DD-WRT has basic banding report by days of month for close to 10 years [0]. I'm personally using it for 5+ years on a 20$ TP-Link and it just works, without the need of an external service.

[0] https://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/images/3/3c/TrafficByMonth.Sampl...
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So is "dress for the job you want" still worth heeding or not?
All Vox Media brands are smug and toxic liberal rags. Best to avoid them entirely.
The other thing I hate about the bicycle push is the self-righteousness of many involved and the complete lack of consideration for people who cannot ride bicycles for various legitimate reasons, plus they are down-voting cowards.
It's not as big a problem as in northern Europe (alcoholism), but it's still a problem. Alcohol has claimed significantly more victims than all hard drugs combined. I agree prohibition is not the answer, only a change of culture will deter you from e.g. driving when you're drunk. But taking the drunk drivers off the streets or shutting down premises that systematically serve alcohol to kids, is not a bad idea
Just like Iceland did?
Yeah, discovery is awful, and it's really hard to distinguish fakes.
Does this mean Fb hired more junior women ? it would be ironic if trying to get more girls into a company would backfire in the medias now..
I think that's not related to "here". It's more likely that that is because they've "taken part of this internal discussion at Facebook".
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No good dead goes unpunished.

As long as Facebook continues to increase the percentage of women it hires, it will have a disproportionately high number of junior female engineers. Intentionally failing to control for that fact is great if you want to profit from the problem of under-representation of women in engineering roles, not so much if you actually want to solve the problem.