skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that the first function of a political system, democratic or not, is what Jurgen Habermas calls "The Suppression of Generalizable Interests". An alternative take on it is at

http://trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf

What it comes down to is putting certain things on the agenda and removing other things.

Despite overflowing coffers, for instance, Google has been effectively silent about the problem of underinvestment in internet access. Every so often we get some "Willy Wonka" idea like Google Fiber or Loon, but it never amounts to anything -- in the case of Loon, Google destroyed a business that was already using the technology to deploy internet to people... for nothing.

When we look at what really matters to Google, note how quickly they mobilized when Trump tried his stupid "muslim ban". It is an ugly truth, but the overwhelming majority of immigrants who are coming to Google and similar companies are male. If anything were to move the needle on gender balance it would be gender balance for immigrant engineers, but you know that is off the table.

Or look at the housing and homelessness mess in the Bay Area. Google and Silicon Valley runs roughshod over 99% of the Earth, but in their local area they can't solve problems at all.

If we did not have a "winner take all society", it would not be such a big deal about who gets the opportunities at Google. Somebody else would be hiring all of the great engineers that Google overlooks. As it is, Google is hiring engineers just to keep them away from competitors such as Facebook.
From experience you want to get them used to noise rather then keeping things quiet.

With the first child, I made the mistake of hanging out of the window at 10PM trying to get the attention of the pizza guy so he didn't ring the door bell so we got to eat in peace.

By the third child, you could set a firework off in the living room and she'd stay in bed.

Be noisy! Be free!
There was a recent, interesting discussion on econtalk that I think I'd related to this. In order to get a generic approved you need to proof bio-equivalence. To do that you need three original drug. The original creator of the drug has interest to delay this as long as possible. So they use the special drug thing to make it really hard for their competitor to get the drug. Sounds totally insane but apparently is common now. The original intend of the special drug thing was to protect people from more dangerous drugs that you need to be well informed about.
Thanks for the link! I was specifically looking for a book to read on my commute in NYC, but the course was ten bucks so I bought it anyway, why not.
> One explanation is that, as researchers have found, memories of hyperinflation have quite a bit of staying power. People in countries that suffered banking crises quite sensibly often prefer to save in cash [...] For the same historical reasons—they loathe debt.

This explanation seems absurd (or at least counter-intuitive). If your fear is hyperinflation the two things to do would be to avoid hoarding cash that can be worthless tomorrow and to buy as much tangible stuff as possible with a debt you will have to pay back with this devaluated currency.
America's broken economy, in one chart
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The HN community is a subset of the tech community, so take everything (especially the latest hype and politics/ideological stuff) with a gain of salt. Also, as with all online communities, beware that some people view HN with disgust due to negative experiences in the past.
Helpful, bought it. Although the first book I picked to read was dreadful.
Thing is, the need to formally define "behaviour" like that is a symptom of poor organisational/team structure. If you have multi-discipline teams with end-to-end accountability for a complete product (or vertical slice of a product) then your "spec" can be replaced with a problem statement and all of a sudden people can start focusing on whether the output solves the problem rather than whether it satisfies some arbitrary behaviour.
Ask HN: Why is there not unsupervised anomaly detection module in python
Hi Folks, I just asked me the question tons of times. Why it seems to be that there is no real unsupervised anomaly detection library in python. Aren't these techniques used anymore, or is there simply nobody thinking about implementing this?

I'm thinking about some algorithms as shown here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomaly_detection

Looking forward to your opinions.
I spent a few weeks working in Munich and was surprised when I first went into a supermarket to buy lunch. The payment process was like stepping back in time 20 years in the UK. No self-checkout kiosks, just a single cashier, and a line of people all paying in cash.

It worked, but it was a much slower process than was I was used to. I guess the stereotype of German super-efficiency made me assume they would be quick to adopt such technologies. But I think perhaps that is countered by a degree of conservatism about switching away from systems that are understood, and proven to work.
Which is how it should be.

The owners of any business are free to create whatever business environment they want to create. The market is supposed to punish or reward them accordingly.
"reasoned manner" != suggesting colleagues have inherent traits that make them less biologically suited to their work.

I get it. Some of the points in the memo were reasonable.

But just because the bread and cheese on your shit sandwich look delicious, doesn't mean it's not still a gross shit sandwich.
Not really. Things are quire cheap so you don't have to carry a lot around. Also the crime rate is really low.
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I second this anecdata. I carry an Amex (credit) and a Mastercard (debit) backup. I don't carry any cash unless I know I have an imminent need.
Curious about your reservations about Canadian-style single payer, where hospitals and doctors get reimbursed by the government but are otherwise independent. IMHO it's the best solution, but I acknowledge my own bias since I grew up there.
As a Swiss German I think the currency stability argument is moot. Swiss Frank is one of the most stable currencies available and we still have a similar attitude to cash as Germans. IMO it's mainly due to the following reasons:

1) CC is slow, at least in Switzerland. Like in Germany, efficiency is baked into the culture - people hate to wait on someone paying his chocolate bar with credit card. It's also not rare for people to show you that discontempt. This trains people into behaving.

2) Switzerland, as most of Germany, is a mostly urbanized place with good public transport and facilities close to where people live. Meaning, there's way less weekly mall-shopping going on than in less dense countries like the US or France. So, the average total price is lower since shopping trips are more frequent, often about every second or third day after work.

3) Security concerns. For a long time CC were as insecure as the US ones, with a simple swipe of the magnetic stripe being sufficient, and CC fraud was relatively frequent. So, many people have an instinct of only using CC when necessary, and if at all possible not in public places. Debit card on the other hand have always been relatively secure (6-digit pin code, 3 tries), so they are used more often, maybe more so than in the German example since Swiss banks have pushed them since around 20 years ago.
I think male Asians and Indians are not considered as adding as much 'diversity' in tech.
If I wanted to make something that (say) reports sensor readings over MQTT to AWS IoT, what firmware options are there? NodeMCU looked great (Lua!) but doesn't seem to support X509 client certificates (which AWS needs). There's Arduino, Mongoose, Micropython - any others? What's the best way to go?
Didn't you hear? Differences in muscle tone are heteronormative.
whats the fine print for your 1-3% cash back? wondered about that. Will you be sharing (allowing the card issuer) to sell meta data of your transactions?
>Because it is not fair that compensation should be based on negotiation skills.

Negotiation skills are at least something anyone can learn, but nobody can learn to be of a different race or gender.
> Frankly, I have a hard time seeing how anyone over 30 could find this piece compelling. It's founded in a childish self-centered view of the world, a self-indulgent bubble that finally popped for the author, but not until age 30?

Ironically it sounds like you yourself are living in a bit of a bubble. I can assure you that many Americans over the age of 30 share what you describe as a self-centered view of the world.
With Ripple, no one can steal money. Just like with bitcoin, all transactions have to be signed by the payer at least. However, instead of POW being what selects the next miner, there's a different consensus algorithm that doesn't waste electricity. And Ripple moves more money than bitcoin per day.
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According to http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Robberi... Germany has 65.2 robberies per 100k whereas the US is sitting at 146. Poverty rates are higher in the US but I think that Germany's relative safety is what makes people feel comfortable carrying cash. I'd go back to cash if I could, but it's not safe and the local government where I live has basically no interest in making it any safer...
From the other side, the slur seems to be "SJW." (Social Justice Warrior)
Isn't it more of a game theory situation? If your competitors exploit their workers and you don't then you will be too expensive?
This is true, but he still attached his name to it and that was the vein I was going in.
This is great - I was thinking about this idea but for the entire stack. Eg.

* DNS provider

* CDN

* email

* servers (cloud/vps/hardware)

* authentication integrations

* messaging (notifications, sms)

* monitoring (performance, uptime, etc)

* etc..

There are many possible details in building a site/app and often someone starting a side project that has an talent in a certain part of the stack may be unfamiliar with other parts of the stack and what the options (and tradeoffs) are.

If anyone knows of such a list, please share.
Yes, I learned about the Weimarer Republik and it's economic issues in school in Germany. (I guess it was in 8th or 9th grade and that history class was mandatory.)
bunch of nonsense. people dont cause climate change and they can certainly not stop it. This means, that you can either try to live under sea level like a stuborn fool, or relocate to a safer place once the danger increases too much. Building higher walls will just end up with higher and higher walls... just piling up shit on shit. a solution to a problem is something that makes it go away, not hide it behind a wall, wtf.

On another note, all this awsome dutch flood control, totally destroyed the environment here for a lot of bird types (migratory ones mostly) and a lot of other animals, so its destroying nature by combating it, like ignorant people have been doing for centuries now. lets combat nature, good fucking idea. >.> work with nature ffs, cause you are nature.

tl;dr:
1) a work around is not a solution
2) dont fight what you care about... take care of it and respect it!
This was my initial thought as well but I remembered listening to this podcast and I think it touches on this idea and expands on it.
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/07/22/487069271/episo...

One of the examples in the podcast expands on the viewpoint that computers are for men and that idea is ingrained even to the level of the family, so computers are kept in the sons bedroom so incidentally the daughter had less access to it.

Its not suggested by guidance counselors to females when looking to select electives in junior high school.

So if they are seen as a male hobby or interest, at a time when what your peers think is so important, girls are less likely to want to venture into that area and be outside the norm.
I guess I'm a unicorn according to you. Reading Chomsky, Haidt, and Pinker at the same time before it was popular. SJWs are the enemies of free-thinkers everywhere, across a variety of spectrums.
> I think the biggest implication is how far they're willing to go to compromise commerical hardware.

This.

Phone basebands, the Intel ME[1], NICs, Windows, anything from Cisco; they all have to be considered broken.[1] With Linux, at least there is a public code history, but considering the value of the target, tricky code can't be ruled out, nor can attacks at the distribution/packaging layer.

Vernor Vinge wrote a fun book called _Deepness in the Sky_, which, among other things, explores some implications of untrustworthy computing.

[1] And plenty of things not on that list, and perhaps something on it isn't. But for some risk models, they have to be assumed broken.
Argentina has rampant cash usage at all stages of inflation, mostly for tax evasion purposes (VAT is 21%)
Have you heard of Usenet?
sadly I believe that relies on special software bridges or gateways to talk to "true bittorrent networks".
> There is not a single doubt that biology dominates and partially determines psychology

If it "dominates" it's inherent it (at least) "partially determines", reducing your assertion to "There is not a single doubt biology dominates psychology," which is basically untenable, scientifically.

> I am principal and scientific.

No. No you're not, unless you actually are a principal, but then it has no bearing the matter at hand. You approach is also not very scientific.

> There are evolutional and biological reasons why this or that aspect of sex differences emerged and what is for. Whatever is valid for all species applies to humans too, no matter what liberal arts graduates would say about man's superiority.

Let's cut your unsound and poorly constructed argument short here: I cede this proposition. That means, for the sake of argument, I will assume it as completely sound and correct.

Now,

explain to me, in detail, how this (now assumed true) inequality of the sexes leads to one of them being unable to code (or assume various complex technical tasks) as well as the other, purely from biological differences.

I'll save you the trouble. You can't, because if you could, you wouldn't be wildly speculating about it online. You'd be writing scientific papers about it.

Your larger argument boils down to:

-men and women are biologically different,

-there are difference between men and women

-therefore these difference must be biological

It's a fallacy. Scientifically rigorous arguments are not build around fallacies.

P.S. principled and scientific minds usually shy away from using laden and denigrating terms in their arguments.
In the UK Amex offer a 5% cashback card right now. It's not very long term and drops to 1% after a while but hey, they exist in Europe.
Better border security with ML for entity resolution
"German aversion to mortgage debt is part of the reason why the country has some of the lowest homeownership rates in the developed world."

That's not just because of an aversion to debt. German Banks require a much larger down payment for their mortgages. Usually 30% or more.

Banks will also look at the physical age of the borrower. They will not hand out 20-30 year loans to someone in their 60s.
I was under the impression that any power plant that uses a source of high temperatures to operate would also benefit from a water cooling system with a hyperbolic cooling tower. It improves the efficiency for whatever it is you're doing on the hot end.

They're just iconic for nuclear power plants for some reason, to the point where some people mistake the cooling tower for a building containing a nuclear reactor. And this discourages their construction at other types of power plant, because people freak out about nuclear plants in their backyard. And obviously they aren't used where water cooling would be prohibitively expensive.
It seems that it is you who is coming to the table with the pre-conceived notion that the program is an absolute good and that the letter is an absolute bad.
The facts are absolutely not clear, it's a hotly debated historical topic, and the fact that you claim it's clear is just a testament to how the American education system chooses to portray its own history to its children.
It's funny that Lidl, the store in the picture at the top of the article, is one of the stores I always pay with debit card in Germany. They have great NFC support and don't give a damn if I pay my 79¢ bread with card.
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Wordpress has their pretty complex one under share-a-like license https://en.wordpress.com/tos/

There's many "terms of service generator" type websites. Some free, some charge per section (https://termsfeed.com/wizard/terms-service).

Personally I think we didn't have one for the first year, no user or paying customer minded or ask us about that. (not legal advise)
Biggest telltale sign of an unreal game for me is when it streams in new objects/effects a frame too late. If you turn too fast you often see the end a corridor drawn in a frame late and see the skybox in some worst cases. You can even see it in this video [0] which looks gorgeous in stills but as soon as the camera changes there is a single frame where the reflections are not drawn in yet.

Still amazing tech, just something I've noticed.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nLGoqqDc0w
With most credit cards, your entire purchase history (sometimes including item-level data) is for sale to data brokers and advertising companies. It's a high price for that 1-3% cash back.
Dockerize your app and keep hot-reloading
I fully agree, if anything this would be about bank runs. Also it is a cherry picked example, I can cherry pick one too. Poland had a hyperinflation episode in 1920s and another high inflation event in the 1990s; yet card adoption (and adoption of innovations in consumer banking) is among the highest in Europe.

The differentiating factor is whether a solution is supported by the merchant. If it is, you will see adoption. Merchants in Germany do not support CCs and limit debit cards, so people do not use them. They do not do that partly because they can get away with it and partly because the fees they are being charged are high (both per transaction and per POS). Naturally there is room for the government to step in here. E.g., said Poland lowered the maximum allowable fee Visa/Mastercard can charge a few years back; along with that went away minimum spending limits on transactions in shops.

This will change though as Germany starts moving to a cashless economy as, e.g., Sweden is doing.
OK, in the paper you linked to presumably they've classified IT/CS jobs as 'thing-oriented' work. Now, let's classify them as 'people-oriented'. Whoops! Suddenly women are very interested.

You see the problem? The study is biased from the outset because it's designed to 'prove' that women aren't interested in IT.
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Russians largely saw the Soviet Union as an extension of Russian power. Hence all the russification that occured in non-Russian majority republics
I can't seem to find any more details on the survey other than basic methodology. The thing that I'm curious about is the language used in the survey.

In a sense, you could argue that some of the disparity in results comes from what people would interpret as the meaning of "fight for your country", but I'm curious as to whether the ambiguity of this phrase (fight at the behest of my country, fight to defend my country, fight to defend my country's "honor"?) carries over into foreign translations and whether that affects the way the question is interpreted.

Or it is possible that the underlying question was more specific to avoid these linguistic ambiguities, and we are seeing a "digestion" of the various more specific questions.

If someone can dig up a link to more detailed survey results, I'd be interested in seeing it. All the link in the article leads to is a press release about the results.
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By that logic, we should let companies have explicit policies against certain races cause the market will sort it out... I don't think I've ever heard that "the market" will deal with unfair internal HR policies.
Knowing a little inside info about this development I must add a big word of caution on this science. It may be possible to add this type of coding in an optical format, in short the code may be able to be added say to a video and when someone watches the video the optical tissues in their eyes and retina may begin to transfer into whatever form of tissue is coded. This may indeed be able to effect brain tissue by this route of administration and that is terrifying!
Take a hike to Poland if you want to marvel at this tech in action. Paying contactlessly that is. Called "zbliżeniowo" in Polish, that's also the word to say in response to being told the total if you want to use the card without pin and not the cash.

It's not universal but extremely common at small shops, super markets, 'better' restaurants. Out of the way places, milk-bars ("bary mleczne", it has nothing to do with milk, it's a cheap place to eat simple foods at), pawn and thrift shops, street vendors, etc. are the majority of ones that don't have it.

In Poland such a limit of 10 zlotys is common-ish (I've seen it ONCE in Warsaw when visiting) but will run afoul of agreements terminal owners have with banks and the fees are (I have no idea if that's true, it's hearsay from consumer legal advice websites) percentages not fixed so there is no difference in the end.

Of course even if that's true the incentive is there - pure cash has no fees and most people buy little things very often so it adds up.
I'm mildly interested that the document has this quote:

> It is nice they brought me in for equal opportunity survey points but don’t waste my time if you don’t take females seriously.

which uses "females" instead of "women". Recall, that was the offense the March for Science twitter account got lambasted for[0], for which they later apologized[1]. I remember being surprised at the time and wondering if it was just a few inane twitter followers, but I found a lot of articles, e.g. this one[2] by Jezebel about how it's rude and offensive.

Still don't know what to think. I never really thought anything about using "females" that way, but nonetheless filed it away as a usage to avoid, so it caught my eye to see it here.

[0] https://twitter.com/sciencemarchdc/status/834840542848679936...
[1] https://twitter.com/ScienceMarchDC/status/835145373098323969
[2] http://jezebel.com/the-problem-with-calling-women-females-16...
Can't this apply to coding frameworks? I feel the entry is too high using Stack overflow and when answers are wrong they are promoted anyways.
As the other request said, please post more information. I want your lifestyle and hope one day I can come up with an idea and put it into action to achieve it.
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IANAL, but I don't think there is a specific time to do this. On the other hand, if you have users I would err on the side of caution and at least put something simple up. A good resource for a privacy policy and terms of use is CooleyGo:

Terms of Use:
https://www.cooleygo.com/documents/terms-use/

Privacy Policy:
https://www.cooleygo.com/documents/privacy-policy/
I'm not clear on the context it was delivered in, but that memo was pretty focused on measurable phenomena and fairness to individuals even when making generalizations. If that's what it takes to get fired from Google, there's clearly no room for discussion on this matter.
I believe the majority of people haven't actually READ the memo and just form their opinion based on what different websites tell them. It was actually hard to find the actual memo. Everyone is talking about it, but almost no article linked to it.

Here it is. Read it and form you own opinion. https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...