skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This gender discrimination lawsuit is likely total b.s. From an overly zealous agency. It's a simple fact that on average men are 1) much better at engineering type things, and 2) more interested in them. Just like the average woman is obviously better with babies than the average man.

While I don't know the facts of the case, so I can't say if there really was gender discrimination, I suspect when actual differences in contribution are accounted for, the gap goes away.

It's a woman's world, because winning requires complaining the loudest. Men usually don't complain nearly so much as women so they get stomped in court and public opinion.
Would be a nice start indeed.
First discovered in 1893. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligodynamic_effect

There are a whole class of heavy metals that act as germicides.
A winner-takes-all voting system results in only two parties (Regional third parties can exist, but not national ones). No conspiracy required, only maths.
What are you trying to optimize for? The American system exists to satiate our citizenry's craving for cruelty (and to express hatred for minorities), and in that capacity it is a resounding success.
This isn't a civil suit though.

And fishing expeditions (at the firms cost) shouldn't be allowed. We'll see what the court decides.
So IANAL but "an emergent pattern" (which doesn't sound as bad as, e.g., internal memos to the effect of "let's pay the gurls less hahaha") may be more than enough for the government to categorize Google's behavior as gender-based wage discrimination.

If/when the government does that, I think 2 things happen:

1. the government announces some punitive action against Google; things they must do, things they must pay, etc;

2. the probability of every Jane, Jill, and Hillary who worked for Google winning a wage discrimination case skyrockets, at least some workers file such cases or enter negotiations to settle such discrimination.

The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 means (pardon my rough summarization) that a worker can sue over discriminatory pay even if the discrimination / 'lost' wages occurred a while ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilly_Ledbetter_Fair_Pay_Act_o...
I could be mistaken, but from what I'm seeing in that thread they really have no idea what caused it. Which, btw, seems fairly reasonable for how early into this incident it is. I wouldn't expect a root cause for a while.

Delta Airlines also called their outage a "power outage", but it looks like there was reason to believe it wasn't.

http://observer.com/2016/09/did-a-cyber-attack-ground-delta-...
I'm not quite sure why the Scalaz IRC behavior issue got such a focus here, but here's the chat logs of one of the incidents https://gist.github.com/betehess/77de5b4b35ae11801936
Microsoft can do it: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/04/11/ensuring-equal-p...
COM files were not limited to only 64k of accessible memory, but the difference was that upon loading COM file got one full preallocated 64kB segment that got used for all of data, code and stack, while MZ format files specified in their header how many paragraphs (segment register increments, ie. 16 byte blocks) they need for code and how many additional uninitialized paragraphs should follow that (minimum and maximum required).

In both cases programs were free to allocate additional memory from DOS, but by default EXE files were loaded in such way that this wasn't necessary and automatically got the largest continuous block of free memory allocated to them (in fact they got the highest addressed block of free memory, but in any sane state of DOS it was also the largest).
I think it's ok to infer someone holds and opinion (i.e. is libertarian, Stalinist, some other annoying internet political opinion) and to check out of the conversation if they do.
Not sure about copper pots specifically, but Wikipedia has a reference suggesting 1893 [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_properties_of_co...
> Nothing in this statement says they are going to do something illegal. There is no "…or we'll keep it". That line isn't in there. Your mind had to fabricate it.

The statement itself violates the law. It is setting up a deadline for customers to withdraw their funds which is completely illegal in all Europe.
I guess we can all agree that we can't make it undetectable if ads are not loaded at all. The idea would be to load them in a sandbox environment (so it would be harmless whatever malware is attached) and then just send the webpage back to the user ad free.
I wouldn't say we know it's useful or not. It went to profiles with handles and profile pictures. It lost its appeal when it did that. That's was when my community jumped ship to Jodel.
Seems like a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14429858
>And pardon my only partially feigned ignorance, but if you're paying them based off the position and not gender, why do you need additional wage data?

Aren't Asians "overpaid" in the US tech industry? Any investigations into this? Of course not. This stinks of hidden agenda.
prisons are just the beginning. when you get out you can find yourself prevented from obtaining a job, a residence, and even assistance, because of local, state, and federal laws.

The Renew Act of 2017 is trying to expand the age limits for expungement of records of first time offenders.[1] its a start but there are more opportunities to fix the system post prison too. you don't even have to go to prison to have a record that prevents you from being productive in society.

one of favorite examples are the volunteers for smoke jumping, putting out forest fires. there are states where its illegal for a person who did this job in prison to obtain the same outside. if we keep up the barriers where do we truly expect people to go?

[1] http://dailysignal.com/2017/05/24/heres-smart-modest-increas...
Once they release the new architecture paper it'll be a matter of time to have not only games, but also a working ai of a similar strength.
They are setting a deadline for withdrawal "through the platform" (which they presumably will shut down then), not explicitly for withdrawals at all. (I mean, it's possible that they are that dumb, but it seems highly unlikely and legally very clear cut)
Traditional German manufacturers scrambling to get their foot into IoT, but also various international companies. The RevPi modules pop up at places you can't imagine. Before long there's going to be Linux in every electric cabinet. In other news, Linux world domination is progressing according to plan.
Small teams evolutionary advantage
As an intensive care specialist (what would be called an attending in the US) I find it best to control my emotional response to my job. Also, empathy is probably not as wise as compassion in this context, from a career longevity point of view. If you find during your training that you have difficulty setting emotional boundaries and regulating your emotional responses, consider choosing a specialty with fewer unhappy endings (though probably not something with a strong pattern recognition component such as radiology or anatomical pathology, given technological progress in that area - you'd have to expect that we will need less of them as time goes by). There's lots of scope to do less emotionally taxing but still very useful and satisfying work if that fits your aptitudes better.
DebianStretch: Planned for 2017-June-17
Wikipedia would be a good starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_properties_of_co...
If they aren't making efforts with their women employees, it would follow they aren't doing much to help out their black/Hispanic employees either.
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But wait what does "MZ" stand for ?
They do have DR plans, but the reality is that whole thing is a huge distributed system with parts from different vendors, in different locations, etc, with decades of legacy.

A power outage the reboots a whole datacenter would screw any major airline for at least half a day.

Thus far, nobody has found the economics of a modern, truly HA setup worth the cost. Outsiders greatly underestimate the complexity too. Think something like 40 disparate applications from different vendors, or some homegrown systems, in different geographical locations. Then, all the client applications are in buildings you don't own (airports) where you aren't allowed to control the infrastructure.

If it were a high margin business, perhaps things would be different. It's not.
> They are setting a deadline for withdrawal "through the platform" (which they presumably will shut down then), not explicitly for withdrawals at all.

it doesn't matter, the nature itself of the statement is illegal in Europe at least.
Oh, come on! Why did you have to ruin the fun? Don't you know we can have a ton of fun chuckling sarcastically to ourselves when we see folks like GP keep making these kind of shockingly delusional statements?
So, a question bordering on the philosophical :

What can be done to prepare for the end of human supremacy, and quite likely human civilization? For instance, as a software developer it feels almost pointless to continue improving at my craft if AI systems will surpass me within 2-4 years (even if the pessimists are right about it taking 5-10 years, that's still an awfully small timeframe).

Likewise, it feels a little pointless to work on any endeavor - technical or otherwise - including but not limited to AI research itself. From a purely practical standpoint just getting up to speed on AI research will take a solid 5+ years, and from a moral vantage point I'm not sure that's even a defensible career given the obvious and hugely negative implications that field will have for human civilization.

Even in artistic endeavors, humans will soon be second fiddle to our own creations - so it's not like there's any "point" to starting down that path either.

Is it time to just engage in a hedonistic, nihilistic, fest of gluttony and "fun" while that's still possible? Honestly, news like this just makes me consider ending it all : it feels like none of us will have much of a future before long.
Our superhumans are:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarathon
I don't know why more people don't use them. All those digital photos we take, we get to watch them on a photos screensaver on a computer in the kitchen. Just makes sense to do that if you have a centrally located interface.
How to manage the daily stresses of an IT career
Asians are apparently "paid too much", so er, docking wages for being Asian, anybody?
I somehow got copper in my fish tank...

Don't.
no secure boot support, btw. it's sad.
Because there might have been a falsehood involved along the lines of, "this is what we normally pay for this kind of work" when that's not true at all.

A contract based on lies is fraud.

The information asymytry here is huge. It's worse than a sleazy car salesman showing a customer a doctored blue-book to inflate the price of an old junker.
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> At this point, it is hard to complain.

Actually, it's very easy to complain. If they released the model, people could generate arbitrarily many self-play games instead of depending on DM to release 50, could create arbitrarily many tools using the model instead of depending on DM to create and maintain a single tool, and could verify the results of training a clone based on even sketchy descriptions of the methods instead of depending on DM releasing a detailed enough whitepaper and then guessing at whether a reimplementation is competitive or not. DM is only being 'generous' if you ignore how releasing the model is easier for them and superior for us in every way.
Privacy is the basis for fundamental freedoms.
Krakow is a big tech center, is in the EU, and it's not obvious why moving jobs there would have anything to do with a drop in quality.
Plotnine: A grammar of graphics for Python
The problem with copper is, it's toxic to more or less everything. No, it isn't as bad as lead, and humans tolerate it far better than most organisms, but I'd still rather not ingest it.
Can you actually double it? I am not so sure. Even if you could, what percentage of cost does that actually represent?
"Copper content (177±16 ppb) in water stored in copper pots was well within the permissible limits of the World Health Organization. Copper holds promise as a point-of-use solution for microbial purification of drinking-water, especially in developing countries."
I mean, you cannot undo 10 years in jail either.
The author isn't hyperbolic. The problems that require what we call common sense continue to defeat all AI's. These board games don't require that. It comes down to pattern recognition, heuristic search, and good hardware. The examples of language and driving are great as the AI's only seem to do well on really narrow situations that require no greater understanding of context. And far as common sense, there's only a handful of projects like Cyc that were trying to teach it to machines.

Humans take 10-20 years of semi-supervised learning to acquire this combination of common sense, knowledge, and problem-solving. It also happens in stages where the infants or especially young children have brains in overdrive taking in everything followed by stages that are more selective about what they take in and solidify. Training AI's to be smart for real, common sense and all, might take over a decade of data for the first one unless this problem can be decomposed. Still will take years of similar experiences.
I don't put much stock in that article. Their conspiracy theory is that no other businesses saw a power outage. But it didn't have to be a supplier/mains problem. They could have had an issue with their own, internal power grid. Their data center likely has a UPS, generators, huge switches to move back and forth from battery/mains/generator etc. A fault there would cause an outage.

Edit: Yep. http://bgr.com/2016/08/14/delta-finally-explained-how-one-po...
You don't think parents will be destabilized if the media doesn't report on it?

We could try stopping killing their kids and see if that changes anything.
it's such a shame we've spent so much on manned space flight when unmanned missions give us results like this.

what was the last similar result that came from manned flight (that couldn't have been accomplished in an unmanned flight)?
I guess Uber is no longer the popular tech company to rip into. I've seen some articles surfacing about Facebook, they'll probably be the next people to hate for a little while.

Everything about this is so wrong. It all comes down to laundering money out of Google, thinly veiled with this false idea of "justice" from incorrectly used statistics.
I never really understood the Google worship. "Don't be evil" was an ingenious PR move which earned them an army of useful idiots willing to defend their every move, but never actually applied internally as far as I could tell. I think the reality was "see how much evil we can get society acclimated to".

As for Facebook, I think anyone who ever had a positive opinion of them should be evaluated by a psychiatrist.
As a data point, there was an intense lightning storm in south west UK (where I live atm) around 3am this morning (~13 hours ago).

There were lightning flashes a few times per second, near continuously... for about 1 1/2 hours. I've never seen anything like it before.
and while at the time probably based more on observation than a proven mechanism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_sheathing dates to 1700's
(ACM 2013) When do you think computers will crack Go?
that would make a lot of sense - there was a heavy storm that moved north from south coast right at that time

you can have all the DR in the world but if you never fully test it - you never know if it's going to be 100% on the day - the only way to fully test is to do a full failover from the primary and see what happens - but it could be a real career low if you do that on something so commercially sensitive and it all goes very wrong

interestingly it's a bank holiday weekend - so every possibility some people who knew some of the special incantations to get things back up on days like this are out camping somewhere remote - and will have 500+ messages when they get back in to signal tomorrow and wonder why they ever try to go away - and if they ever do go away again - wonder how they will ever be able to relax
Wouldn't it increase the likelihood of further crime, due to lack of income?
This article seems to miss the point of why Yik Yak really failed. It didn't fail because of bullying, or bad publicity - That doesn't discourage users from using the app unless they're the ones targeted. The app failed because of the ham fisted attempts to control the userbase and remove a problem that did not affect the vast, vast majority of the userbase by introducing the "Handles" feature, and then later making it non-optional.

I'm not even sure if this was a response to harassment, at the time it almost seemed like a pivot for the company - To become the next Snapchat or Facebook, sell targeted ads, and become what every other social company does. This was not what users wanted. It was the only place where people could truly make their thoughts heard without fearing social backlash, which is an issue of incredible importance for University students. And being able to talk with people of a similar age from your University was the perfect gauge for all those things you might want to say but can't. And the handles feature completely removed that. It became extremely easy to tie a person to a handle (Simply watch them while they've got the app open!). There was clear and immediate backlash and people started uninstalling the app en-masse, even posting on the platform about why they were doing so. Yik Yak reversed the update but the damage had already been done - People didn't trust the company to make the right decision any more, and the majority of users never reinstalled.

Note that I'm not saying harassment was good and that the company should have just thrown their hands up in the air and done nothing - The change marking offensive language was welcome, and responding to geo-fence requests in problem areas was fine. But the article fails to mention that the community moderation is incredibly effective. Stupid and offensive yaks were removed quickly through the power of the community - It only took 5 people to say "I don't like this" and you could remove a post.

Perhaps where I was (A small university in the north east of England), we didn't feel any real harassment. People posted racist and homophobic things occasionally, but these posts were quickly removed. Changes to the apps main functionality and appeal came overnight and surprised many people. They now hated the app, aimed at removing a problem that simply didn't exist in the community.

RIP Yik Yak. I'll miss you.
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I studied comparative politics in college and this is absolutely true. Different voting system have different outcomes due to the nature of the rules. Unsurprisingly, every attempt to make a more fair voting/systems ends up with its own pros and cons, such as giving minority parties disproportionate influence due to need for coalitions​.
Airlines should band together and form working group to redevelop the old system in modern open source tech.

Yes it would probably take 5+ years to develop and roll out, but they can't keep maintaining these 50 year old mainframes that cost them tens of millions a year in downtime.
I'd imagine that wouldn't have worked on NT or 2000 either. You just likely jumped from the 9x series of OSs to XP which was the first one to offer "good" memory protection. Full explanation for how you could do this here[0].

It really was the wild west back when 9x was popular. I'm genuinely surprised they ran as well as they did. NT was a vast improvement.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_9x#Kernel
That's ignoring that much crime happens out of greed, monetary or honourary, basic income doesn't satisfy either, by definition.
Yes - a genius. If you are thinking and writing in English today, you do so in his shadow.

But there is ambivalence. I don't think Shakespeare himself would have thought of himself in that way - and that would nto be false modesty. Taking another example Socrates, who I only know through translation, seems to vacillate on certain ideas. Sometimes life seems incredibly precious to him at other times not really worth much... But that is not a weakness in his thought. He is delineating a very real indetermancy.

In another context TS Eliot when asked about "The Waste Land" - which I believe Tolstoy would have seen as just as bad a Shakespeare - referred to it as “the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life… just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.”

I don't believe this is just humblebragging. And this goes back to Orwell's point in the essay that Shakespeare was at times a sloppy thinker, a bad punner, a weak dramatist but an incomparable poet.

Yes - it fails and the result is a pile of fragments which those who remain use to build up again.
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11 Years Old, a Mom, and Pushed to Marry Her Rapist in Florida
Considering it's almost word-for-word the OP with s/harassment/bullying/, it's probably fair to say the GP is making a point about this "just don't listen" line we keep hearing w.r.t online harassment.
Newtons apple from 1666 is still alive today
There is also Cayley (https://github.com/cayleygraph/cayley) which supports more query languages, including GraphQL, and multiple backend stores.
Krapp - as in "Krapps Last tape"?
I agree with you for the most part, except in certain situations. The problem is how to distinguish these situations as I dont believe in a black and white its always x time for y crime, that sort of thing.

For example, a rampant child abuser (sexual) who would say get life in prison. I think they should suffer the entire time, somehow, bring on that moral retribution. I would have to think long and hard to try to come up with something feasible though and not trample too much on morality, ethics, human rights, etc. For instance I chose a lifetime sentence for that example as there would be no need to rehabilitate.
'cd ' diassembles into arpl [si+0x20],sp which seems like privileged instruction but actually isn't, on the other hand it is not even valid instruction in real/virtual mode and thus causes illegal instruction exception.

It is interesting to note that code for the warmest of warm reboots on PC is 0xcd 0x19 (int 0x19). This jumps back into the point in BIOS code when it starts looking for the operating system to boot. Needles to say, this works reliably only in pure real mode and confuses NT's NTLDR in really interesting way (the thing was obviously originally designed to be run from DOS and contains some left over logic from that time).
The initials of the formats designer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zbikowski
Of course they can do it, the question is should they and do they want to. The latter is obviously no.

You can testify against yourself too if you want to, it doesn't matter that you don t have to. Well, maybe if you have committed a crime you should since you said you're a good person and don't do evil? The amount of smart people thinking and buying the idea that all the social issues companies are working for are being done for nothing besides win your mind and heart amazes me. And then you say advertising doesn't work?!
And the wiki article has another reference [0] stating, "The first recorded medical use of copper is found in the Smith Papyrus, one of the oldest books known. The Papyrus is an Egyptian medical text, written between 2600 and 2200 B.C., which records the use of copper to sterilize chest wounds and to sterilize drinking water."

[0] https://www.copper.org/publications/newsletters/innovations/...
This related and enormously powerful and touching article advises new doctors on how to break the news of a child's death to their parents. Unfathomable responsibility for those distant from performing it: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/opinion/sunday/how-to-tel...