skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, it's certainly not the same for everyone. I intentionally left out other obstacles like physical and mental health problems, drug/alcohol dependence, gender/ethnicity stereotype, communication barriers, legal status, being a parent, physical/sexual abuse, etc.

Having a car can be a huge benefit (after you pay for the mandatory registration and insurance and gas), until it gets stolen or robbed (which happened to my friend six months ago and she's still trying to work her way back to a replacement vehicle). And another friend, now that I think of it... And another, heh. Assuming it wasn't totaled, the fee to get the stolen car out of impound, plus a fee for every day it sits in the yard, on top of the repairs for bullet holes, smashed in windows, etc can make it more feasible to just save to buy another used car.

I think another thing that isn't stressed enough is how homelessness can drag on your mental health. You have constant stress, and dealing with obstacles and unfairness on a daily basis can feed depression, make you more irritable, lose energy, etc. Not being "chipper" enough can be a big burden in terms of getting clients (especially for women; thanks, male chauvinism). I am of course not trying to tell you this, but for other readers to consider.

Thank you for telling your story, I hope your situation improves soon. Have you considered applying to a TED talk on bias or invisible burdens for people with lack of resource security?
TL;DR: Intel is having hard time to keep up against AMD. It reminds me the Pentium 4 era, when Intel had to push clock and power consumption to crazy levels [1]

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/11550/the-intel-skylakex-revie...
> Besides, my local librarian doesn't decide what books the library will have

vs

> curated collections open to the public

What's the difference between Google removing a terrorist video from public view (they never delete anything), and a library having a book but the librarian not making it available to the public?

I mean, you rebut me when I say Google curates its own content, then turn around and say librarians are different, their duties include curating content.

Edit: How come people don't call Google some sort of evil censoring overlord when it comes to child pornography? You'll get the good ol' "I defend to the death your right to speak" when it comes to terrorist videos, but not child exploitation ones. Where are the people angrily demanding that google put child pornography back into their search results, out of a demand for freedom of speech for all? Why is that topic treated differently to terrorist recruitment videos?
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For breaking the law and working to undermine the Constitution? Is that not a big enough claim?

Maybe blame specific people (the DIR NSA Hayden, Bush, Obama). There was a strong culture at NSA of NOT spying on Americans until those clowns came along.
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From what I've seen (and again, I might be very bitter about consumer facing products) the behavior is that even if they think they know your name they will still end up on Google. At which point whether you are solve.com or getsolve.com it matters very very little.

Like it or not, Google is the entry point and how consumers will find your service.
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Yep. Similar to how we used to write the high performance code in ASM and the business logic in C. Now we write the high performance code in C (or equiv. low-level language) and the high performance code in a slow but expressive dynamic language. My favorite is writing high-level code in some kind of Lisp (previously Clojure, lately Racket) because REPL-driven development makes it incredibly fast to iterate and experiment and then cement/polish it into production code all while having the same state in memory.
I'd love to have small, low power, easy to setup, x86 chips or modules-with-BIOS, in the 40-200 MHz range, with 486DX/DX4/early Pentiums instructions and similar or better performance; possibly with a few basic SoC functions (UARTs, simple VESA-like graphics (no unusable 3D acceleration), integrated memory). And not some Chinese NDA doc-less chips like Vortex.
Sadly, vendors are still shipping hardware that requires Java applets for critical functionality. (ASRock, I'm looking at you.)
Meanwhile, Germany sends automatic weapons to Mexico. Of course only to the good guys. The police that was involved in the killing in Iguala (the missing 43) was equipped with them.

There is evil, and there is more evil.
Two stereotypical emotional memes for men:

Everyone worth discussing with knows it is an simplification.

Same as "women and feelings".

I'd guess however that pretending there is absolutely no truth to it whatsoever might leave one with a disadvantage when trying to understand what goes on.
there's also remote.com
Very possible. Now when you view one your friend's story it ends with an ads.

I don't want to view a publicity for some products right after I see a video of my friends.

It was all fine when they added optional publicity feeds/story you could click on. Since it's forced, I can't see it lasting.
Ethiopia's coffee is the latest victim of climate change
He can't prove it logically, but he feels very strongly that it must be true.
> This is a standard part of feminist theory- basically the idea is that people with no power spend a lot of time wondering what powerful people think, so they tend to have a good understanding of what powerful people think.

Can you provide any sources for this in feminist theory? Because I've never previously encountered it, and I'd genuinely like to know more about how it fits with other bits of feminist theory if it really is a standard (or even common) element.

> And that's where you get the trope of women being mysterious creatures, whereas women seem to understand men perfectly.

No, that trope predates feminist theory by many millenia, it is not a product of it.
I really get a cringe when people act as if their ideals are reality when they are just ideals in their heads. Good morning: a great majority of the world lives traditional lifestyles in patriarchal societies, and even in the "best" parts the gender disparity in responsibilities and rights continues, and the stereotypes are true to some extent for most of them too.

I dislike feminism per se as I see it to be just another sexism and not a step towards gender equality, as it tends to cause sexual etichette becoming more visual and everything having gender associations, and comes with detrimental practices like positive discrimination and extension of gender equality into non gender-related parts of life. And in tech these are so much amplified.
" Ah, but if you created a sockpuppet and posted the wrong answer in reply to your question, then you'd be guaranteed to get useful advice."

I've gotten some great information on forums like this doing exactly that. I usually pose it as a challenging assertion or question rather than a statement of a fact I'm sure about. Gotta balance using that for it's benefit vs effects on one's own reliability.
You know when you swipe right one time too many and your screen is filled with ads? Click on one. That's a Snapchat show.
I don't even understand fellow men. Where are these women that understand guys?
>Language does not have to be consistent

Parties have to agree on terms for language to be of any use.

>mathematics are a game we play

Ok? So is money.

Rest of your comment is a nonsense since it follows a declaration that 'maths is just a game', then gets incredibly specific on a bunch of stuff which, if we're being consistent, is just maths.
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To be honest, I don't see how an increase in algorithmic judgments will necessarily lead to a culture where we are more blindly trusting of them. I think it's up in the air, and there are forces working both ways: the more present it is, the more that engineers and policymakers have to think about it, though perhaps end-users will start noticing it less (?). In any case, it seems like those latent forces are to blame, not "big data" in it of itself.

The scale point makes some sense, I'll admit. We're raising volatility in applying potentially-discriminating judgements in the first place. Perhaps indeed it's a tradeoff between the expected boons of algorithmic decision making and their increased risk of discrimination. That said, the scale argument would then not hold for replacing what are currently situations with opaque human judges with robots.
That's the very old style one, you could also just open it with a piece of wire.

You can't easily open the lock, but as people can still walk away with the bike it isn't a real deterrent either.
The theory explains the trope.
The software industry has a lot of equivalents: we just mostly ignore them. You can have a verifiable degree from a verifiable university with several years of experience in reputable companies and still have to sit down and answer trivia questions and try to program a basic algorithm on whiteboard, none of which you'd need in the day-to-day job.

I think "dignity" is a spot on word for it: professionals like doctors and civil engineers are generally assumed to have the qualifying skills that their resume says they have; software developers are assumed to have no skills unless proven otherwise and your resume barely gets your foot in the door.
> IDEs generate 90% of my Java code

This is a problem btw..
What's funny is that people and especially agents will say that they are ethically bound as your agent (the buyer) to help you. Money always trumps ethics unfortunately but I've found very few people who actually seem to understand this.
I am in no position to do a TED talk. I do a lot of blogging (I have multiple blogs) and I participate on various forums and I started a Reddit a couple of months back called Housing Works because the shortage of affordable housing is such a huge part of this and getting worse. I run a blog called the San Diego Homeless Survival Guide. Because of that blog, I have been interviewed 3x times by various reporters and that has never resulted in media attention for the site, probably because the first two asked why I was homeless and I talked about my medical situation, which always gets me dismissed as a lunatic. The third incident was recent and not an interview per se. Perhaps it shall get mentioned in their article, but I am not holding my breathe.
What's my opinion on the speech? That it's true that people conceptualized of a "white race" prior to the 1950s, but it doesn't contradict my claim that an inclusive white identity lacks long historical precedent, historical pre-eminence or robustness. If it were robust and pre-eminent, the KKK wouldn't have targeted white Catholics or Jews. If it were robust and pre-eminent, Irish Americans wouldn't have been treated poorly in much of the US. If it were robust and pre-eminent, "race scientists" of the late 19th and early 20th century would not have divided whites into distinct sub-races with purportedly unique characteristics. Ethnic balkanization among whites in the US persisted throughout the first half of the 20th century – think of the distinct ethnic mobs and tensions that characterized NYC – and mass conscription during WW2 substantially changed this.
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I imagine your conversion to be extremely low.

First pass. Click the link > Blank page.
Hit refresh. See a page and understand nothing.
Click the only button on the page and land on a form the size of the declaration. Leave.

Tried again. Scroll hijacking, blurry fonts.
I'm a fan of humour in comments, easter-eggs, etc... but for no good reason, this bothers me.
Correct, but it's an unhelpful distraction from the more difficult structural problem. It's like having some hippie come along with a lecture about aligning your chakras and so on - there's a worthwhile spiritual philosophy underneath all the buzzwords, and a sincere intention to be helpful and motivating, but if you're not already in that meditative frame of mind then it's both unhelpful and annoying.

Talking about work ethic is valuable after other existential and economic anxieties have been alleviated and a person is in a position to make choices - not just select from expiring alternatives - about what sort of life style and goals they wish to pursue. Offered without regard to the situations that marginalized people find themselves in, it's mere pablum.
Boston can have some pretty rough winters snowfall wise. I was under the impression this was much less of a problem in places like Amsterdam.
Ask HN: How do you test videos on different platforms
Hi HN,

Trying to figure out a way to test a video player on a variety of platforms (Windows, iOS, etc.) and can't find a good tool. Any ideas?
I don't think you're necessarily out of touch, but you might be looking at it with the wrong lens.

Time Warner is a media company. Their business is creating and monetizing media, either by selling it or by selling advertising for it. Traditionally they did most of it by TV and cable. With the advent of the internet and sites like Hulu and Youtube, Time Warner is also moving online. But that's if you're trying to focus on selling the content.

If you're trying to sell the advertising around the content, then you've got a problem. Traditionally you make all of that money on highly valuable ad placements between segments of your TV shows right? Sports broadcasts, for example, are premium advertising inventory, but in the last few years things have been hurting badly because of increasing numbers of cord cutters. They all went to Snapchat, Facebook, Netflix, Google (Youtube), so all of these tech giants are trying to eat traditional media's lunch. It's a blatantly obvious move with the sports broadcasting agreements that Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, etc. have been signing.

This is Time Warner going "well if you can't beat 'em, join 'em." Better to embrace all formats that would let you reach (and monetize) audiences than to get left in the dust. Snapchat has somewhere around 150 million active-ish users, and your average TV show (not the blockbusters) probably sees somewhere around 5-10 million viewers? So the numbers actually work out in terms of just reach. I'm not so sure about monetization.
Personal details of nearly 200M US citizens exposed
It is only impossible​ using safe Rust. Unsafe code blocks should allow to represent this behind safe API.
This is why I'd rather lose 25% of the performance these days and take a canned pre-built PC. I just can't afford the time to find this out. It was bad enough trying to find a working set of drivers for my T440 and that only took an hour or so.

I lived through the age of self build K6's, Athlons, dual Celerons and SLI Voodoo 2's and heatsinks the size of a can of coke. I'd rather just have a shitty old thinkpad and a box in AWS now. This all happened when I realised a naff old Pentium III 1.4 GHz (Compaq AP230) was actually my goto machine despite having things 3-5x the speed.

I run a fair few high CPU/RAM simulations with LTspice as well for ref.
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Patriarchy plus the romanticization of what is outside the norm explains the trope and is, in fact, the explanation I've usually seen for it from actual feminists.

“Oppression grants women deep insight” seems closer to a gender-based version of the “noble savage” concept than anything feminist I've seen.

Still waiting for actual feminist theory sources for the “theory” in question.
After Terror Attacks, Britain Moves to Police the Web
I've heard that its intended to be the ASCII code for "*" which represents a wildcard (i.e., anything).

Is that what you had in mind or do you have different interpretations?
The OP appears to conflate selective pressures with unconscious human decision-making. At least, that's what I took away from it.

That seems confused to me, but I can't speak for anyone else in the thread.
I found the school voucher idea to be the best part of that article. I didn't know the cost was so close for some of those public and private schools:

"I have a 17-year-old daughter who went to a private school for a few years before high school. This private school is the best school I've seen in my life. It was judged one of the 100 best schools in America. It was phenomenal. The tuition was $5,500 a year, which is a lot of money for most parents. But the teachers were paid less than public school teachers—so it's not about money at the teacher level. I asked the state treasurer that year what California pays on average to send kids to school, and I believe it was $4,400. While there are not many parents who could come up with $5,500 a year, there are many who could come up with $1,000 a year.

If we gave vouchers to parents for $4,400 a year, schools would be starting right and left. People would get out of college and say, "Let's start a school." You could have a track at Stanford within the MBA program on how to be the businessperson of a school. And that MBA would get together with somebody else, and they'd start schools. And you'd have these young, idealistic people starting schools, working for pennies."
Yeah the mplayer colors are pretty bad. TRUE COLOR MASTER RACE
In Chinese reporting it was quoted that Deng mentioned to Thatcher: "the PLA will march over across the Shenzhen river to HK on Jul 1, 1997 one way or another."

The official Chinese newspaper also famously showed a picture of Thatcher losing her footing coming out of the meeting hall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJdO-c8vuYc
I can't wait
You wouldn't tell your child that, but nor would you toss them out on the street if they were having difficulty absorbing the lessons because as a parent you're responsible for their well-being and you have a duty (social/cultural rather than legal, but still) to create the conditions within which they can thrive.
> Just because some skeezy website shares all my personal information does not make it public information.

I kinda think it does mean exactly that. Just because you don't want something to be public doesn't mean that it isn't public.
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If this diatribe against postmodern art is sincere, I would offer that the author does not have a full understanding of where art sits as we begin the 21st century. We are in the middle of a stunning revolution in art that addresses many of the exact issues the author raises.

Art is far from dead and postmodernism was certainly not the end of it. If the author is in a contemporary art gallery and thinks all modern artworks look the same, perhaps it is simply not very good modern art that he or she is looking at...
wow, this is a huge question and a huge distinction "If they say they don't sell your data, ask if they are selling theirs." I've never even contemplated the ramifications of derived data. Can anyone enlighten the gang about what risks reside along this derived data surface?
That's just what your brain wants you to think.
The value-add over the $95/5 years of Global Entry doesn't seem to warrant the price.
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The[1] biggest take away to me in the review. The AMD at 95W was within striking distance of the 140W Intel part. Then a 65W snuck above a 140W part. Yes TDP is measured differently, etc. But still interesting.

[1] http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph11550/87127.png
I would add some state governments too.
> I asked the state treasurer that year what California pays on average to send kids to school, and I believe it was $4,400. While there are not many parents who could come up with $5,500 a year, there are many who could come up with $1,000 a year.

> If we gave vouchers to parents for $4,400 a year, schools would be starting right and left.

But if the public spends $4,400, that's not what goes to the school, since the total includes state and district oversight that is outside of the school.

This money would not be available to alternative schools unless you are suggesting that they should receive public funds without equal accountability.
I call it scarcity of resources. You won't see wars and what not when you have humanity with abundance of resources.
Failure for whom? For the HK people that enjoy a democratic system? Probably. For China? Seems like it has gone pretty well. Power transferred peacefully (albeit with some demonstrations) and they are slowly but surely gaining influence in the politics without any sort of resistance/rebellion or need for military intervention. To the rest of the world HK is still HK. I suspect they're trying to run the same program in TW.
Australian Defence to move secret files out of data hub after Chinese buy-in
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I left the Netherlands 15 years ago, but if I recall correctly, entrapment is mostly illegal, and cops usually don't care very much about bike theft, which is very low on their priority list. From what I understand, rampant bike theft is less of a problem outside of Amsterdam (and maybe a few other "big" cities).

(I never had my bike stolen, living in an urban area in the south of the Netherlands. That doesn't mean that it didn't happen there... if you leave your bike standing in odd places, it may well be gone when you come back. One way employed by thieves was to drive around with a van and just pick up any bikes that were standing around, locked or not, in broad daylight or not.)
Really? Are you sure? If CoffeeScript isn't fully compatible with JS then what is it? I mean at some point it has to go through a JS interpreter to run.
PHP is career killer. Its makes you worse developer, confine you as web developer and have poorly paid jobs.
The Australian Defence Department will terminate its relationship with a Sydney data centre in 2020 and move its secret files back into a government-owned hub, because a Chinese consortium bought half of the centre's parent company.
Key points:
Chinese consortium bought 49pc stake in data hub's parent company
Defence will shift data back into government hands once contract expires
Moving data could cost up to $200 million
The department is preparing to spend up to $200 million on the move, despite assurances from the company, Global Switch, that its files are secure.
I'm 24, I think Time Warner is out of touch. Or maybe I'm old too
>Lead poisoning and 'bad work ethic/poor impulse control' can look very similar.

As can the effects of traumatic brain injury and chronic abuse or neglect.
My biggest take away is that Amazon will use these stores to take on the restaurant supply business. I'm willing to bet the CEO of Gordon Food Service, which covers eastern US, is clueless on how his company's fortunes are imperiled.
> Maybe this force is not only trying to help us evolve but wants to teach us something marvelous if we overcome it.

I'm having a hard time figuring out what you're trying to say.

It seems like you're attributing some mysterious intentionality to our violent impulses, as if there's some benevolent entity somewhere in there.

It sounds like you're talking about God.
There are things that are equivalent. The issue isn't that there aren't credentials that could be trusted for software developers, so much as no one interviewing for software developers cares.

My degree was an ABET accredited engineering degree that required practical software development skills (including soft skills). Outside of interviewing in my hometown, no one knows that or cares.

The software industry tomorrow could easily adopt the internships and test/certification requirements of a profession like medicine or engineering. The industry doesn't seem inclined to do so, however, for a weird variety of reasons and excuses, and seems for the most part overly satisfied with trivia questions and whiteboard problems.
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