skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be curious to read these, doesn't seem logical at all to me.
So if you give up eating meat, but your grocery bill is the
same because you’re eating lots of salads and kale
smoothies, then you haven’t really done the environment any good.

If you're buying more food that has less "calories per $" you're either eating less calories or you live in a magical land where mathematics is for losers.

(in a footnote) It doesn't take into account externalities that occur while producing food.

Oh, so the author lives in that magical land, that's sorted it...
NYC? Boston? Likely hyperbole.

That said, and you address this indirectly, it's a sad state of affairs when the threat of random nuclear discharge (?) is normalized and as a matter of fact-ly consider inevidible.

"What did you do this weekend Bob?"
"Well, painted the kid's bedroom, and took the car to the car wash to clean off the fallout from last week's blast. Thankful, it wasn't as bad as the Blast of 2019..."

Things happen for a reason. And sometimes that reason is because of a lack of imagination otherwise.
Yes and echos the life of certain words through the play - the use of the word 'nothing' which gets batted around until it is hanging in the air above the stage at the end.
There's also https://github.com/postgraphql/postgraphql
An audit isn't a fishing expedition. Being audited for compliance with relevant laws is part of being in business; if it's an unbearable burden, your options are

1. Get out of business, or

2. There is no second option.
It's not about Krakow per se. But when a company works towards specific targets like "90/10 supplier offshore ratio", rather than metrics based on quality or efficiency, I don't think quality comes first.
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Can someone explain how they would be able to get away with paying women less than men?

And if your answer is: "They just pay them less."

1) Why? What is the purpose of them doing this?

2) Why don't they also just pay men less as well?

3) Wages trend, in a competitive market, towards marginal productivity of labor. What is preventing competitors in the market for engineers from poaching all of the underpaid yet equally talented women at below market costs, say half the gap Google is assumed to be creating? Surely this would be a clear path towards extra profits, no?
I agree with that in general, but it's a bit oversimplified. America is also a dangerous and violent society--our per capita murder rate has averaged 5-10x higher than the U.K. for over a century (long before private prisons and modern mass media).

I agree that it's a moral failing if the people that we don't deal with that problem in a more graceful and humane way.
Surely they have multiple datacentres as redundancy.
He would have to totally give up Facebook.
A major issue I had with yik yak was that it really didn't work if you were going to a commuter school or lived in the suburbs then the local list was dead.
Or the use of 'nothing' in Lear which is much darker. This is the alternation in Shakespeare from bad, bawdy pun to the abyss and back again
"I'd bet on this being an ASIC"

Aren't all the iPhone chips ASIC's with the main one custom by those hardware people they acquired? Seems to be default expectation for whatever they add next. They sure as hell have the money, too. :)
Why the downvotes? Give some feedback, yo.

I'm currently transitioning out of being a geek, that's why I was asking.
Trump Administration Proposal Would Let Police Track and Destroy Drones
I had originally been for package.lock, but after reading right through the issue I now agree with your excellent suggestion of package.lock.json.

Rather than just talk here, I've posted against the issue suggesting this approach basically asking for up/down votes.
https://github.com/npm/npm/pull/16441#issuecomment-304458746
Simulation is useful in itself, but what does that have to do with VR?
From [0]

Interestingly, silver may be ineffective against MRSA, while copper is fatal.
How the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper” Was Retooled to Sound Fresh 50 Years Later
I love the irony of writing an article on how one's main study in life is 'nonsense'. I think Shakespeare would probably enjoy such a take and agree...
Erm. This may be a nitpick, but managers are people and as such we have actual, real feelings.

Ironically, a good manager will generally have a pretty solid amount of empathy because that's key to being good at the job. So if it's not okay to crap on engineers (it's not) then it's also not okay to crap on managers.

NB: not affiliated with Microsoft. Edit: Freudian slip.
Correction: The above draft was not the one I was thinking of. Here it is:

http://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-luotonen-ssl-tunneling-...
A fascinating graphic novel about the origins of Dungeons and Dragons
Yeah, this article is a bit confusing. The US has prisons just like this. Prisoners who commit less severe crimes or prisoners who have a good record are eligible.

Do journalists think every US prison is like Pelican Bay? Do they think Shawshank Redemption is representative of the norm in the US?
>Because it is the citizenry who punishes the politician that appears even remotely soft on prisoners, or supports prison reform.

So, because the man on the street rejects shorter sentences or decriminilization, he is to blame for "brutal torture and humiliation" and privatization? Nah.
Phrases like 'basic decency' and 'human nature' are what people fall back on when they can't articulate why a particular ethical position is desirable. This makes you vulnerable in an argument, because when your terms are vague your opponent can project different meanings onto those phrases and you won't have a comeback. Intuition is an excellent guide for your own actions, but it's not by itself persuasive. You need to dig deeper and figure out what are the bases of 'basic decency.' Don't worry, it won't stop working for taking it apart and putting it back together again. Go back to Plato and look how Socrates keeps peeling back layer after layer of unstated assumptions to reveal the core truths.
> have shown multicultural policies are better than assimilation ones

Yes, up to a point, or are we supposed to bend over to accomodate backwards/barbaric practices?

Multiculturalism works if it doesn't involve a-holes

> And saying most of them want a free ride is just nonsense.

I didn't say most. See (try google translate, the video is interesting but can't be easily translated):

https://www.reddit.com/r/de/comments/4j9cip/falsche_versprec...

http://cicero.de/berliner-republik/migrationspolitik-jedes-u...
There is a fair amount of stuff online that you can listen to (youtube, etc) I think with Shakespeare (and even more so Chaucer who wrote in Middle English) - if you hear it for a while you can read it better.
In this case, it means increasing a structure's ability to survive an earthquake.
Ralph Koster's experience with online communities has informed his views. They are sophisticated because the problem is messy: http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1024060/Still-Logged-In-What-AR I look at online communities differently.

The problem from Koster's perspective is that when the target of harrassment/abuse/etc. turns off the source feed the feed still goes into the target's community. The communications analogy is not hanging up the telephone. The harrasement/abuse/etc. is delivered in public. Even if the target does not see it, the target's community does.

Perhaps an analogy is that one afternoon all of the target's neighbors opened their mailbox to find a flier falsely asserting that the target was a child molester. Most of the intended effect stems from the target's neighbors reading the flier. It doesn't matter much if the target read it. And in conversations with neighbors, "no I did not read it" does not make it better...and the fact that there are conversations with neighbors means that not reading the flier is not a way of avoiding the harassment/abuse/etc.
The system that's down was built, and is currently supported by, Tata Consultancy Services with support from BA IT staff. Once the system was built, BA made the majority of the IT department redundant.
Great explanation. Would love to see more companies that understood this - we would buy their products! :)
American prison is actuall not a system but a culture. Think of how hard it is to change a culture, you probably need new leadership with enough power like a CEO at Microsoft to do something drastic in a reasonable amount of time, say 10 year frame.
Makes me think they came up with the name first and then decided to build it
You need to get out of whatever bubble you're living in. Human civilization is doing fine. Machine learning will do some stuff but not major changes at the civilization level in the next 40 years.

Walk into any real world business today. There's a huge amount of need for humans, because fundamentally business is about trust not productivity.
Wages are set by supply and demand. Systematic discrimination results in less demand for women, which results in lower wages.

There is some profit opportunity for companies who take advantage of this, but it's not enough to erase the difference.

Consider, for example, how pervasive racial discrimination was (and still is) in business despite the fact that accepting minorities as customers and employees would be financially advantageous.
The two data centres are geographically very close to each other, straddling the runway.
Google is [was?] a geek company. You could get a good pay by being really good at coding. Most companies out there, the only way to get a high compensation is to play Games of Thrones on the management ladder. Actually doing any work is shunned upon.
I wonder what would happen if the author went to the places he noted Apple had on top of each other and did the "Move Pin" thing. I wonder if the changes would show up.

How long does it take Apple to trust users that submit corrections? Or, do they do such a thing?
Suppose that there's compelling statistical evidence that Google underpays women, but no evidence of any specific intent to do so (which, IIRC, is how these things usually play out). Beyond the immediate legal remedies, how do they they fundamentally fix the processes that led to that outcome? Would they even really know where the leaks are in this machinery that admit such biases? How many other companies have the same fundamental problems that go unexamined because their outcomes happen to not suggest a legal issue (e.g. a bias based on alma mater, favorite movies, shared hobbies, etc.)?
"We had also reported the benefit of using a copper-based device, contrived by us, which was as effective as the pot but at a fraction of the cost." [12]

[12] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19230946/

(Device spoiler: Water in glass bottles with copper coils.)
Author here. My point is more that most people are missing the forest for the trees. Sure, animal based food has externalities. But how do the externalities of chicken production vs kale production make up for chicken using 18x less resources per calorie of food produced?
> The US could start by no longer jailing drug consumers or first-time low-level street dealers. It just really really doesn't work anyway. That would reduce the prison population by what? 2/3? Suddenly you have 3x the budget and space, which should allow for quite a few improvements.

Nothing like that: https://www.google.com/amp/s/fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/rel.... Releasing every prisoner with a drug crime as their most serious offense would reduce the prison population by 14%. (Almost all that is low level dealers--few people are in prison for mere possession.)

It would be a good step, but people overestimate how big an impact it would have.
The government is not any different from any other adversary other than in terms of scale, and you know full well that government litigators don't have carte blanche to just allocate resources, significantly obviating the supposed scalar advantages. They too are heavily constrained by their budgetary limitations and accountability requirements, which are arguably far more onerous than those which obtain in the private sector..
An interview with someone invested in the process, https://blog.ycombinator.com/hiring-engineers-with-ammon-bar...
Many families in rural India use copper pots for this reason
Shakespeare's tobacco pipes contain traces of cannabis [pdf]
It's also not generally that easy. There's more than one system required to operate flights, usually more than 10. Some would be in BA data centers (UK), some in Amadeus/Altea data centers(DE), etc. Some applications are vendor provided, some in-house. So, you can have two of everything. But when you have something big, like a power outage, getting everything talking to the "surviving/dr" instances of all the different sytems isn't easy. And, the outage itself causes a huge spike in client driven transactions. Every passenger and employee is hitting whatever the equivalent of a reload button is.

The fix is more expensive than any major airline has been willing to spend thus far.
Doug Hofstadter at Stanford – Autolipography (2008)
Not exactly Cannes, this film fest is Fargo _ with drones
I'm a big believer in fully anonymous communication. Unfortunately, we live in a censorious age. Those who enable anonymous communication frequently become the targets of legal and social pressure exerted by angry mobs, mobs mostly composed of people who aren't even trying to communicate anonymously. Yik Yak fell in part because, instead of listening to their users, they listened to people who weren't their users.

The next Yik Yak needs to be fully decentralized --- with anonymous development, so there's nobody to sue --- and with a network architecture that resists technical blocking attempts. The next Yik Yak needs to treat censors as adversaries, not partners. Only this approach can bring anonymous communication to its full potential.
There are ways to greatly improve chances that AI will be beneficial to humanity rather than otherwise.

Check out:
UC Berkeley's Center for Human-Compatible AI, led by Prof. Stuart Russell, a co-author of the field's standard textbook. [1] He just gave a TED talk on the issue [2].

Several other noted researchers in AI are working on the issue as well.

For a short primer: https://futureoflife.org/background/aimyths/

[1] http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-ri...

[2] https://www.ted.com/talks/stuart_russell_how_ai_might_make_u...
Unsurprisingly people who have done long stretches of time in Norway's prison system disagree with this article. Only a few prisoners enjoy the freedom of this island, which is equivalent to a trustee camp in a US min security prison. The rest who were given 10+ year sentences are in complete isolation in what the media loves to refer to as hotel prisons. In these cells everything is provided for you including your own shower, therefore there's no reasons for the guards to ever let you out and you stay in there 23hrs per day. Because the media calls them hotels, it prevents any prisoner from being able to complain and be taken seriously, so often these guys will either light their cells on fire and hopefully get transferred to one of the older style jails so they can talk to other inmates, or they just kill themselves.
So question for llvm devs here: what benefit does this provide? How does it enhance go? Does it make go programs compile into more efficient binaries targeted to specific cpu architectures?
> If it were a high margin business, perhaps things would be different. It's not.

Most of the loss here is not from lost bookings; a lot of people who prefer BA will probably just wait and book once the systems are restored.

It's going to be from secondary losses -- lawsuits, ding to the reputation and so on.

These numbers are estimatable, even for low-margin businesses.
While I dont really agree with the original argument, while what you say is true, I dont think population density was the point. Prison population as a percentage of the total was. Brazil has ~4.2 times higher prison population compared to total. You could argue that compounds with the 1.5 times population density though which would come out to ~6.4 times prison population density.

Though 659k vs 3.9k prisoners is a pretty significant difference if you look at it that way.
Computer Security is Not a Science (but it should be) [pdf]
Microsoft and UN team up for ‘landmark’ human rights technology partnership
Computer Security and Machine Learning: Worst Enemies or Best Friends? (2011) [pdf]
Too bad that things back then done for 'compatibility' meant that things now suck because breaking changes back then weren't done. This is probably why UTC time on Windows is still broken.
My take is that Google isn't doing this intentionally - in fact, all salaries are generated by a "compensation team" which supposedly has an algorithm that generates an offer based on prior comp history, other offers, etc - and I believe it probably also specifies how much wiggle room there is for negotiating (granted, I have not seen said algorithm - this is based on my experience as a candidate). It's a system designed to be fair - gender is not taken directly into the equation. This is what Google means when they say that there is no gender pay gap - how could there be, when salaries are generated by an algorithm that doesn't take gender into account? A man and a woman with an equal compensation history and the same counter offers should, in theory, get the same Google offer.

However - it's entirely possible for the inputs into the algorithm to be skewed based on gender, and that's where I think the systematic gap may appear. A person's salary history can be incredibly gendered - women are less likely to negotiate for their first job (even if it wasn't at Google), and that initial gap can follow them for their entire career. Women are more likely to take time out of the workforce to care for family/children, which can result in lower pay when they return. Other companies known for high counteroffers (for example, Uber) may be biased against women and be less likely to give them a good offer. There are any number of reasons why a woman might have less negotiating leverage against Google than a man, and as long as offers are based on these inputs and not strictly on level and performance, it is easy to see how a gender gap might arise.
You might want to read this:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060130-00/?p=...
I agree with you on that. But I had to stick up for Krakow!
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Silver is used (in a cream) to prevent infection in wounds, particularly burns.
Meet the Nerds Coding Their Way Through the Afghanistan War
NoSQL refers to non-relational DBMSes, not a literal lack of SQL... QUEL is, if anything, closer to relational algebra than SQL is.

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

QUEL is a better language (more consistent), and SQL won not on technical grounds, but because Larry Ellison is a better salesman than Michael Stonebraker.
Last year, I installed an older version of this and 3 months later I got a nasty email from COMCAST telling me I was using more than a TB per month and was going to get charged a fortune unless I stopped. It was really hard to pinpoint it as the cause because when I was investigating, the screensaver turned off. I think the newer version caches thankfully.
I agree, but I've been around this sort of thing and seen the post incident analysis, been in the discussions, etc. Despite the huge costs of these outages, they pale in comparison to the costs of a real HA solution for all "needed to fly" applications.

To give you some idea, ITA Software was bought by Google for $700 million. They were some of the best and brightest minds in this space, on par with any Silicon Valley darling. They successfully wrote a modern replacement for one popular airline function...shopping. They failed, however, at delivering a modern reservation system, despite tons of money and talent invested.
Huh.. This was one question i have always wondered but never thought to look up even after 15 years of coding..
The better way is to reduce poverty. You can build whatever "rehibilitation" program you want, but if the future holds no promise, why follow the rules?
My gut thoughts are that if google does not turn up a lot of information, that probably correlates pretty well with the state of the startup scene. Nova Scotia is not a financial center and not a place known for software or hardware innovation. That's not to say that there are not sound technical people or investors who understand the nature of startups, but rather that Nova Scotia is probably an econsystem with weaker network effects than better known locations. That is pretty typical of most places.

Good luck.
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This does not tell the whole story. There is also a huge racial element to how and why we lock people up (and for how long). The documentary 13 explored this in depth and showed how whites used "prison/jail" to makeup for the lost free labor of slaves. Or how Regan used "the war on drugs to simply lock up blacks. To have a discussion about the American prison system and never mention race shows just how bias the HN crowd is; even in the face of overwhelming evidence.
While NT was vast improvement, the 3.1/9x was pretty significant feat of engineering and in comparison NT is "just another OS".

In my opinion the lacking memory protection was not about the architecture itself but about the fact that it was meant to be single-user and thus there were no permissions. IIRC from Win32 code you had to jump though some hoops to be able to access whatever memory/hardware you wanted (ie. you could not overwrite random non-owned memory by mistake), the fact that you could do almost whatever you wanted in vm86 code was essentially an feature and that Win16 code could access any other Win16 process data was weird design decision that is also shared by all NT versions up to 2000 (where it is configurable).
Don't know when I would use this, but that doesn't stop me from being very impressed.
Did you use any of mentioned products?
"Redevelop the old system in modern open source tech" is a tough sell when so many of these airlines are differentiating on technology. Myself and many other frequent fliers will not engage with companies with poor functionality and bad UX. We move or stay loyal when airline tech allows us to do & see most of the things we need.
This is not a Google specific thing, it happens in almost every company in the United States. Salesforce is a great public example of a company trying to eliminate gender bias in pay and they are having trouble doing it with constant internal monitoring/feedback. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/compani...
Also since Google claims to be gender neutral yet unable to reveal the data, we can't judge whether or not the problem is if pay is tied to position - is it similar to the original programmer salary question, did the pay go up because the culture changed or do fields requiring a lot of time in the office just get more salary - https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/what-pr...
> people could generate arbitrarily many self-play games

I have doubts. Their TPU design may be a large factor into making matches at this level within the time limits. And at this point, some implementation details might hook into Google-specific libraries that require the ability to spawn processes in thousands of servers, which past blog posts[0] have hinted at.

[0]: https://deepmind.com/blog/decoupled-neural-networks-using-sy...
An this is why I'm trying very hard to get coreboot to work on my systems, and I'm very eager to see Libreboot-type of FSP/BSP-free images in the future so we can actually verify our boot chain.

Keeping all of the firmware code secret makes no sense, and seems to be artificially enforced by 'patents', and 'trade secrets' while most likely the vendors are trying to keep buggy code secret and hope that obscurity alone will keep them safe.