skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/6rjpji/marijuana_comp...

"Their balance sheet is appalling, and I have no idea who would loan this company the money to purchase the land, as it goes against almost every underwriting principle. The company brought in $378k in revenue last year and had an operating loss of $1.8 million."

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/6rjpji/marijuana_comp...

"They have about 14.5B shares currently issued, and are authorized to issue a total of 25B."
to people deciding not to use a condom

I don't think that counts as part of the "use effectiveness rate", which AFAIK are only those who (claimed to?) have used one but failed.
It's a hard problem. I think there's a simple observation that helps explain why it's going to be so hard (the article hints at this without saying it): a healthy adult man is, more or less, fertile. At all times. If a adult man is infertile--if him having sex can't result in pregnancy--there's something at least slightly wrong with him.

By comparison, an adult woman is often infertile--three weeks (ish) out of every month, or whenever she's pregnant, she can't get pregnant.

So it stands to reason that it's harder to produce male hormonal contraceptives: we can (at least sort of) fake healthy-but-infertile states of women, but there are no such states for men; we have to construct one from whole cloth, so to speak, and that's much harder.
Only now their pay is 25% lower, and they no longer have health insurance and other benefits.

They never did. Taxi drivers were, and are, considered contractors, and have no benefits[1]. Also, not only did they earn little already, as they had to pay upfront to work, by renting the medallion from lovely people like Gene Freidman[2] - and the rates were already up to $85 per 12-hour shift back in '93.

Just read this NYT report of the life of NYC cab drivers, back in the "glorious" pre-Uber days: http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/09/nyregion/driving-a-taxi-di...

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/29/labor...

[2] http://nypost.com/2017/06/07/taxi-king-arrested-for-scamming...
Please don't take personal swipes at people.
If we look at species other than human, those that have the sexes behave as equal partners tend to be very identical in traits with very few sex-type differences. Having division of complimentary abilities and preferences also means that losing half of that to predators results in a bigger loss than if both acts as backup for the other. Those species that do have many sex-type differences are usually refereed to as tournament species, with very little partnership in the care of young.

In pair bonding species, sex-type differences are few. In the extreme end, some species can even switch gender depending on the local balance. Some fish even "keep track" of who went female/male last time, as eggs cost more energy to produce. Those that cheat are then shunned.
It also assumes that the owners will know WHY the ad revenue is drying up. They may assume it has something to do with the content.
You wouldn't believe what happens. They slip off or break and intercourse is continued without them. Some guys put two on at a time, some guys insist on wearing the larger sizes even though they don't fit. Some reuse condoms, some store them in their wallet for two years. Some guys put them on wrong or inside out. Some guys use a lubricant that weakens the latex.
I am against any bias, I want to asses people by their skills. What I am saying is that some skills are in our genes and we cannot/shouldn't change that (not even with positive discrimination).

And you, instead of taking a look to the video I put in my previous comment, you decided to call me stupid. Great, do you know how I try to cure my stupidness? Reading and watching videos of people who knows more than me.

Food for your brain: how created a prejudice first about the other in our conversation?
transaction fees are almost always a percentage of traded amount, hence it does not matter if you trade $10 or $100000
Google limits Conspiracy Theory and UFO sites after the latest update
So far:

"Machine learning AI got future"

"Hello!! Nice to meet you."

"Havz a nice day"

I like the spelling on that last one. I think I havz to use it to spice up my typing life.
I wouldn't worry about that. Any Go transition will be easier to automate because Go is a much simpler, more constrained language than Python, and none of the proposed Go2 changes pertain to the interpretation of string data.
Somebody misled you, Go is very stable.

Go 1 was released more than 5 years ago, we are just about to release our 10th stable release, and there were NO breaking changes. We take stability very seriously: https://golang.org/doc/go1compat.

And about Go2:

> Go 2 must also bring along all the existing Go 1 source code. We must not split the Go ecosystem.
For me, Lapland is significantly less exotic than Minnesota.
Thanks for the suggestion! #1 is in the works and #2 is in early planning stages.
I actually really doubt that Google, Amazon et al have proper backups of every client's storage - I've never come across details or even an idea of such a system. They just have enough redundancy and, more importantly, a "never-delete" architecture - data is merely tagged for deletion for a significant amount of time before it's ever deleted, and various systems check consistency on an ongoing basis.

Of course, even that doesn't prevent you from fucking up - your datastore will do exactly what you tell it to. Nobody can prevent you from doing the equivalent of rm -rf on your S3 store, or accidentally deleting the only copy of that movie your client's been working on for the last four years, and nothing can protect you from it except a decent backup.
>That has to be a nontrivial market.

Yes, but it might be so much smaller a market than a male contraceptive without that problem that the company decided it wouldn't be able to recoup its development costs.
There's a right way to roll a condom on, and a wrong way. It isn't rocket science, but when your brain is competing for blood with another organ..
We already have done the social engineering by creating communities where it's not socially acceptable to reinforce gender roles. Now we're talking about protecting them from you.
Isn't this how most companies are set up? If the architect/technical lead is the surgeon, then the junior/mid level developers are the support team.
I was also curious about this. A male contraceptive that is incompatible with drinking would be a good fit for many people who don't ever drink, including me. There would definitely be people it was a poor fit for, but it still seems like there's a teetotalers market. The main question to me is whether it's compatible with the small amounts of alcohol that are in many foods.
Regarding the mind, "The Blank Slate" is actually the dominant viewpoint.

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

Deviations are not tolerated.

For more details, see Pinker (who then debunks this): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blank_Slate
Is neoprene really the only way to make wet suits? I doubt it.

Regulate. A dirty word on HN, surely. Regulate the production of and, possibly, the import of neoprene, etc. Force industries to innovate - I know that's not a dirty word here - in order to sell these goods to Americans. Maybe then America becomes the sole producer of environmentally-friendly wet-suits to the whole of the word.

I think this is the only solution since your proposed solution of just "put the plants somewhere else" is, as you've pointed out, untenable.
This isn't Nate Silver is it?
Some of the UNIX systems I admin actually have Tcl installed by "default" (Solaris and AIX) and no Python. So I use Tcl there when I want to do things about shell.
‘My sister says I am an alien’: 9-yr-old applies for planetary protection job
Are you suggesting the blogger should flesh out Airmule's policy? It seems for something that is the core of their business model, Airmule should have a policy written and ready to reference.
> I don't think that counts as part of the "use effectiveness rate", which AFAIK are only those who (claimed to?) have used one but failed.

It actually (usually) is, because that's a really important part of the effectiveness of a method. That's why I added the part about abstinence - it might work if you're consistent and committed about it, but people still decide not to use it as a method.

If someone invented a condom that had a 100% perfect-use effectiveness rate, but it also made sex uncomfortable to the point that people decide not to use it most of the time even when it's available, it's real-world effectiveness would be low. And that's the important number to measure.
>"As an added bonus, instead of all that money going to a large corporation, it will go to an individual."

You realize that a "large corporation" employes lots of local people to maintain and operate that hotel right?

Those same local people who are employed by that "large corporation" all contribute a portion of their paycheck to local and state tax coffers.
And his argument is that in this one sense they are, except that computing professions haven't yet taken the corrective steps medicine and the law have. The evidence seems to strongly support his argument.
Squats usually end up in houses where no one cared in any way for years and some times, like the recent short-term squat in Munich, for decades.

And the only interest which the "owners", mostly in form of offshore companies, have is to make huge amounts of money at the cost of the city, so I don't have a single tear left for them.
I wouldn't go that far but the ethics of Monsanto mimic those of cigarette companies when they claimed tobacco smoking was healthy and recruited doctors to promote smoking.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/business/monsanto-roundup...
>"Professional landlords" doesn't even mean anything.

It means people who rent whole units as a business, as opposed to persons renting a room in their house, or renting their home while they are away.
I kind of feel the opposite. I'm a music nerd and enjoy listening to records, but I never watch movies or TV. This is the most difficult barrier I have with interacting with people at social events, because people talk about television instead of music. If anyone brings up a popular reference, I likely don't understand it and immediately have to drop out of the conversation. The best way to fix this is to watch just enough of popular TV (skip through movies in 15 minutes just to get the idea, watch the pilot episode of TV shows) while alone to make sure I know at least enough to keep up with friends. It's much easier for other people because they actually enjoy it.
Introducing Arty Widget: building a place to celebrate art made with code
this review is also very good if reading a 500 page book isn't on the table for those interested: https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/

(though it has its own political perspective that some may find disagreeable)
Here's a more straight-forward (but equally hand-wavy) way to calculate the probability that N is a perfect power:

P(N) ≈ (number of perfect powers near N) / (size of the neighborhood)

≈ (ⁿ√(N + r) − ⁿ√N) / r, for some smallish r

≈ d/dN (ⁿ√N)

= ⁿ√N / nN
It's too hard to guess that even with hindsight. Stallman probably would not have objected to Tcl at all if it was GPL and not BSD.
Yes, I was hypothizing local owned (not chain) hotels, but you are right, anyway nowadays there will be the 15 % or higher fee that booking.com or similar charge, at least for the bookings that went through them.

If you reduce the "before" of (let's say that the chain/franchise fee is lower and that not all bookings (thankfully) go through booking.com or similar, by 10% of 120,000,000 in the "before" i.e. 12,000,000 and reduce by the same amount 10% of 99,000,000, 9,900,000, you get to a "before" of 168,000,000 and an "after" of 170,400,000, so you have a slight increase in "income" :

2,400,000/168,000,000=1,4%

But anyway the "unit prices" were arbitrary and just for the sake of the reasoning.
This is unfair. You want to call people white supremacists based on the literal, objective content of their views, i.e. using the phrase in a narrow, technical sense, while knowing full well that calling someone a white supremacist will rally behind you a whole train of people who are happy to free-associate all sorts of horrible things with the phrase.
This does not seem as much of a trouble as having a preferential hiring policy for some classes of people and then having the ability of these people doubted not just at the hiring time but through their entire career.

To wit: I am a foreigner living and working as a software engineer in the USA. My English is far from perfect and a lot of people assume I am dumb just because of my thick accent. I failed few interviews because of this. I have absolutely no problem with that and am happy with my career. My achievements speak for me. I would not be as happy if this had been made a "diversity" issue and people with heavy accent were given advantages in hiring. This would forever invalidate my achievements as a proof of my competence. I would actively oppose any moves to establish such policies and would not approach any company that had them in place.
Even though there is some reward for expertise, backups are not difficult. What exactly does Big-4 bring to the backup table that none of us with Amanda, rsync, or BackupExec could do?

Cost of resources aside, a person could run hourly full-backups all day every day and have just as good a backup regime as a billion dollar company. Time-to-restore is something that the aforementioned expertise factors into, but a good backup is the linchpin, and can still be restored by whatever means.
I am intrigued, what is "plan b"?
The main externality is driving the price up and shrinking the pool of homes for actual residents who need to rent a place to live. This is already happening in some parts of the world. For example, people from Barcelona are starting to protest (see [1], and [2] by the way. In Spanish, sorry!). In my city, Málaga, it's starting to happen as well. I personally know a person who had to move out because the landlord wanted to use their flat for Airbnb.

[1] https://cincodias.elpais.com/cincodias/2017/08/03/companias/...

[2] http://www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcelona/20170626/4237071...
You can enforce political correctness but you cannot enforce respect or attraction.
Perhaps genetic algorithms could be useful for hyperparameter optimization of deep learning methods? ;)
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Creating a super minimal Vue/React/Polymer lib with Web Components
> By comparison, an adult woman is often infertile--three weeks (ish) out of every month, or whenever she's pregnant, she can't get pregnant

So you're telling me that I could have unlimited unprotected sex with my partner for three weeks out of every month (assuming we had perfect fertility information about those three weeks) and there would be 0 chance that they would get pregnant...?
Depends where you are located and what kind of apartments it is.

The average rent in whatever is somewhere around 50% of the income, so if you own 3, you don't need to work.
> playing directly into what the terrorists want

It more complicated than that. As much as it suits some terrorist, it suits a larger group composed of the likes of the militarised police forces, the administration hawks, defence forces protecting our freedom, arms firms, security companies, the tsa etc. It's a big industry that needs a scary bad guy.
Writing some manifesto can be at most offensive, but is nowhere near "abuse". And it's under no circumstance as grave as physical assault.

Try your tough guy act in real life and you'll have a very serious discussion with the police.
I would think "business continuity" is a core function of, you know, business.
Boardgames are a great way to teach. There are so many to choose from now. Also there is nothing better than spending time with your kids. https://boardgamegeek.com/
Lies, damn lies and statistics in practice.

What I mean is statistics can be considerably more misleading when the methodology is not explained. I found your comment incredibly helpful in understanding the point you were making.
I wasn't even remotely defending Airmule in my comment, just the opposite. Maybe you should reread my comment and it's context as a response to the OP?
>The rate of loud and obnoxious long term renters is lower, due to the risk of people going to your landlord and forcing your eviction.

I agree that the rate is higher, but not the reason. Most bad renters know it's almost impossible to get evicted from a long term rental. You must not know anyone who is a long term landlord, because you throw around the word eviction like it's nothing. It's a long and expensive process at the end of which you'll most likely have extensive property damage on top of lost rent.

Frankly, you're overestimating the importance of a negative review. If we ever had to kick someone out it would be for a good reason. If you had a party at the house, that would be against our contract and you'd get tossed. I'd then get a bad review, mixed in with all my other 5 star reviews. To that one review I would simply respond "Visitor threw a party with 20 people which was in violation of our contract. This is not a party house and we're upfront about that. Anyone who thinks they can rent my property under false pretenses should heed this review and not rent from me."

Now I'm better off on airbnb. My average review is still high and now prospective visitors know I won't put up with shit.
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Men are more physically violent I'm not entirely sure that if we take into account all types of violence that this would still be the case.

Latest studies into domestic abuse also hint that there is almost equal parity between men and women as both the victim and the abuser.
I gave up my TV in January.

I don't miss the black mirror when it's turned off.

I don't miss making special space in my house for another screen.

I don't miss Netflix.

It has forced me to be more conscious about what I want to watch, and where and how.
They install more analytics, A/B testing scripts and survey popups to figure out why.
Just talk about other things lol. Watching TV just so you can understand pop culture references sounds pretty depressing.
* Taxes on property reduced, turning it into a more desirable asset to hoard.

* Wealth inequality went through the wealth meaning more wealth seeking hoardable assets (bitcoin is also part of this phenomena, imo).

* Governments stopped building social housing, cutting off supply of new apartments.

Airbnb squeezing people out and low interest rates are symptoms of this phenomenon.

Cutting zoning restrictions is just what property developers like to blame it on because it acts as an impediment to them building more profitable luxury developments. For some reason people listen to them.
> "I have no issue with cities imposing a 30% tax on AirBnbs and using the income to build up the housing stock for locals. They should do this, it makes perfect sense."

The problem is that USA is a capitalist country and allows markets to dictate the supply and demand in housing. Look at San Francisco -- the locals have been displaced by techies who can pay as much rent as landlords demand (sometimes even 50% increase in rent over a couple of years). do we have any solution for this kind of problem? I don't think so.
> If not, what might have changed between then and now?

I think that what we're seeing today is what happened back in '70, just in extreme overdrive.

Mainy caused, imho, by a massive explosion of the amount of money in circulation, which craves to be invested. Given that Yo could get 1.5M$ at 10M$ valuation, there's nothing better in the current ultra-low-interest environment than to invest the money in housing stock.

Also, the massive flow of capital from new-rich Chinese and Russians (which mainly affected London, but side flows also hit Berlin and Frankfurt) is a factor.
While some of the points are worth exploring, and have actually with Google's own research (aka psychology safety and Google's project Aristotle on what makes a great team), much of this essay becomes immediately discredited by creating suspect on the premise of questioning employment opportunities for women.

I thought about this a bit but let's say it was indeed a factor of employment and advancements over some men in roles.

There is signifant research on the benefits of a diverse culture.

Decades of research by organizational scientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists and demographers show that socially diverse groups (that is, those with a diversity of race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation) are more innovative than homogeneous groups.

I would argue that it isn't a problem that diverse members are indeed advanced because of ONE of the factors being their contribution to a diverse group. That doesn't negate the necessity that they must also be good at their job.

Furthermore, great engineers are people oriented. Anyone can learn how to write code, but it takes skill to hone in on necessary insights that deal with people, interaction, and the nature of finding solutions that I suspect are meant to help people.
To be frank, with the way that the company you choose to work for harms neighborhoods like mine, the level of civility he's extended you is probably more than you've earned. I wouldn't have been so kind.

And extended-stay hotels accept any length of reservation.
No, they have a public rating to maintain on airbnb. Evictions are actually easy to hide, just move to a different state or keep looking for the next sucker on CL that is a newbie landlord.
I understand your viewpoint and I think that's definitely something we should also be working on

But as a straight male currently just having casual relationships, I want to be able to control my body's ability to get someone pregnant so I don't have to worry about the consequences

I am the target market for something like this and I'd imagine many of my 20-something year old peers feel similarly
Are they luxury apartments because they're palatial or inherently high-cost, or because they're centrally located?

It's unlikely that there's any such thing as an actually affordable apartment in a major world city, unless we've moved the method of allocation to something like lottery or waiting list, in which case it's only affordable to a lucky few.

I would encourage anyone who thinks that luxury apartments are for the rich while single family houses are normal to consider the relative luxury of life in the actual structures (not location). You'll find that, as structures, luxury apartments are much less luxurious than lower-density uses of the same land.
This is me but with sports.
Not sure why you're citing some unrelated incident, I think you're jumping to conclusions that I'm talking about the one you cited, but I'm not. This one was not made public.
> Try commuting on your bike without dedicated lanes. It's dangerous as hell

I've been doing it for over a decade. I take the lane and the vast majority of cars switch to the adjacent lane to pass me. It's not dangerous at all if you ride in a predictable manner.
There's no public postmortem, it was in 2015 as I recall, it was handled internally and just with affected customers.
> would expect there to still be cases where novel situations could trigger hard wired emotions at any point in life.

I agree. I should have said the primary expression often gets modified or covered up, and not implied it always does.
I'm curious, what do you think about public services? E.g. is it ok to ride the bus without paying if you get away with it? What if it only takes a a fake QR code to do so?

Because in the end, even big evil mega-corporations have human stakeholders. For some of them that's their livelyhood. Not everyone is in it out of greed.
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My two week project turned into a full-time open source startup