skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazed how many replies the stork comment got.

First off, I agree that the backseat was exceptionally roomy for a 4-door coupe. For adults.

Once you have your first, you realize very quickly that babies come with a LOT of stuff. The first carrier for newborns sticks out a LOT from the back of the seat. The sorcerers at Mazda Engineering made it comfortable for tall people in the backseat by compensating for limited front-back space by using up-down space. This made it impossible for use for an infant unless the front seat was scooted all the way up.

But then there's the stroller. Good luck with that in the comically small trunk opening. Bags of stuff, boxes of stuff, yes, these things are non-optional, and they don't fit in that car, especially all at once.

The final nail was the fact that it's kinda hard to insert a child plus carrier into the backseat with your hands full. Having it back there would've been easy. Getting it back there wouldn't have been. Retrieving it, even more difficult.

After you make your peace with the above, and still manage to cram everything in, bear in mind you still need two adults, not just the driver, to fit in the car at the same time.

We could've done it, somehow, but it was smarter to sell it and buy a cheap used SUV, with plenty of room for everything. It also bears mention that I had used that car as a daily driver for 10 years.
Google Analytics Rolled Out the New User Interface
Basically non of the images you ever see from anything in outer space are real. It's always composite images or colored in or spectrum-shifted into our visible light range.
> Saying "women have a harder time leading" is a pretty bold, striking statement, and one that needs some damn solid evidence if you're going to say it. To back it up just by saying "women are less assertive" is not remotely evidence of that statement.

I'll admit that this may not follow directly from the linked research. So he doesn't have 100% scientific coverage. But who does?

I see though that you really find this statement deeply problematic. Would you find it equally problematic if someone said "Men have a harder time showing empathy"? How about "white men"? Would you claim people needed "some damn solid evidence" to back those statements up?

If not, may I ask why? Because this is by far the most common double standard I see when gender inequality is discussed, and seemingly everybody thinks that's just fine.

Anyway: You seem to be nitpicking on a single aspect of a otherwise well structured, well sourced, 10 page long carefully laid out critique of existing systems in a internal memo.

Your conclusion: that because of this tiny snafu in this otherwise good piece, he surely should be fired. Really?

Honest question: Have you ever written a internal memo with this much effort put into it to back up your statements and arguments with scientific sources? I surely haven't. And I'm opinionated enough to write these kind of emails.

I for one, am happy to work somewhere where we don't require people to get a PhD in their email-subject before being allowed to start a discussion. We call low barrier to entry. It supposedly increases diversity of thought.
Its because they have less options for financial security in their family.

If you dont believe me ask them yourself, but make a clear distinction between immigrant and first gen.
People who have bought black and white posters also bought rope.
Our only rope now for only 0.42 €.
When you insinuate that some of your co-workers have certain drawbacks because of their gender, it makes that particular gender all the more aware of their behaviour and they are put in a position where they to take extra effort to prove otherwise. This is creating hostile environment for them.
This is the reason why similar forms of generalisation, like racism, is frowned upon – not just because of innate sense of right or wrong.

Being white male, I bet most of us would never have faced any significant discrimination and please stop pretending that we know how other side feels.

Some people are suggesting Google's stance on LGBT is alienating people - Really? So, people who advocate taking away LGBT people's rights and opposed to their ways of life are complaining of persecution?
> All of their $ or all of their ETH? Most ICOs don't take $.
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Doesn't matter. Delaware law has allowed contributions "in kind," e.g. with labour. When something goes wrong, the promoter has to pay cash restitution, penalties and, often, legal fees.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal nor securities advice.
The Amish have been making this exact same argument for literally hundreds of years, and yet here we are doing fine.
If I have read their argument correctly the author proposes that the interview "bar" was lower only relatively speaking. Allow me to elaborate: in a somewhat clumsily stated thesis they point out the disproportionate care granted to the favoured class is evidenced by an allegedly reduced false negative rate. If that's true then, in a way, Google haven't reduced the technical "bar" per se except by making the test more reflective of their actual expectations for hires. This is, I believe, the heart of the author's argument in this case: these improvements in the interview process apply only to favoured groups. If true, these exclusive improvements yield a test which, though just as technically thorough, is paradoxically still easier to pass given a favoured candidate. If my understanding is correct, there really has to be a better way to phrase the author's argument such that it can't be misinterpreted in the most common way it appears to be being taken now.
It’s nearly impossible to dislodge a tenured prof but easy not to replace one
I don't think it's a trivial difference. Lowering the bar suggest that people are now being accepted on lesser merits. But a false negative is a binary condition. Both positive and false negative results are over the bar. False negatives are positive results we misjudge. If he is suggesting something else he should say that and support it. I would define "a higher percentage of applicants succeed" as "more likely".
Why I quit: local newspapers can needlessly ruin lives for empty clicks
One of the major criticisms of conscription in the US is that, in practice, whether those methods of avoiding conscription were actually available depended on race, class and how wealthy you were. So only some men could actually take advantage of them; the rest were screwed. (This conflation of the experience of a few better-off men with the experiences of men as a whole seems to be quite common in many social justice circles for some reason.)
I started by scratching my own itch, made a really simple program, then released it for free. Some people started using it. But that wasn't the great idea.

What then happened is that a couple of those people found the contact form on my website, thanked me for my program, but also asked "Would you be kind enough and interested to write this [other program that automates a task I do often]." Those ideas are the ones that actually made money for me.

So make it really easy for people to contact you and talk about the problems they have. Give something away, to encourage those people to find you in the first place. And put contact forms everywhere, so even launching email or Twitter isn't an obstacle to contacting you.
How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2017
there's a very good (and old) article about linux load averages here: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9001?page=0,0
This line of reasoning works only in a static universe. In a expanding universe, stars can move apart faster than the speed of light. Thus there might be a lot beyond the observable universe that can never be detected.
Reasonably well written article. I heard a similar news item on BBC's World Service. Is it something about Britain/Europe news which lends some perspective or is it a function of literal distance?
There's no such thing as 'mixed' marriages for Muslims. Muslim women may only marry Muslim men, and Muslim men must raise their children as Muslims.

Also, devout Christians do the same. Right or wrong, until the whole world is athiest, this won't change.
That is kinda the hole point.
You see the lose-lose situation they're in? The SJW are demanding his head on a pike, yet Google knew that if he sued he'd probably win.

In the end they washed their hands of him.
I couldn't find a workout app that I liked. The ones I tried just didn't fit the flow-of-use I wanted. I just wanted something to track my weight lifting, and wanted it to be super simple. So, scratched the itch with Riker.

https://www.rikerapp.com
Regardless of whether our nations are corrupt, it makes no sense to consider NK "rational" with all the... executing an official with an anti-aircraft gun because he fell asleep, the cult of personality... Un is volatile.
But yeah, the sanctions are useless and just make everything worse. We should've already learned from WW2. Sanctions only helped the Nazi regime succeed.
I always got the best side project ideas when I was working on some other random side project.

Once you start to work on an even mediocre side project, just wait and after few days you get so many new ideas coming out of the mediocre project.

So, the message is, just start working on any idea.
gather 10 ideas a week -> get feedback -> wait/think -> get feedback -> build only the ideas that are revenue probable + have customer demand.
Total Eclipse (1982)
Like ethanol? Biogas? Methane from farming and landfills? We are already doing all of those.
> So this is ... diesel without the NOx

NOx is not peculiar to diesel engines. Gasoline engines also generate NOx. All internal engines make NOx. As long as you burn fuel + atmospheric air you get NOx. The atmosphere is 78% nitrogen. Some of it gets oxidized.
The Guy Who Invented Those Annoying Password Rules Now Regrets Wasting Your Time
He's talking about preferences, so why wouldn't you think about the choices people make?
You can terminate it at any time unless your reasoning was illegal, thus wrongful termination.
Clean Google Calendar
My debit card from Wells Fargo is referred to as an ATM card on the card itself. Using my PIN was required and even then some merchants would error. Since the switch to chips in America I haven't had an issue with the card being declined except when a merchant requires me to fall back to reading the magnetic strip.
> Same applies to Big Macs, pizza, slushies, Cheetos, TV, seating, laziness, political pundits, marijuana, ...

> In the end it is all about caveat emptor: is up to the customer to decide.

In a balanced world, where choices are relatively evenly spread, this may be true.

In a world where the number of harmful choices far exceed the number of healthful ones, and the harmful ones are much more profitable (and so promoted more heavily), free choice becomes a different proposition.

However much willpower, intelligence, and savviness we think we have, we get tripped up by our firmware defects, even when we know they are there and try to be wary[1].

Deliberately exposing ourselves to proven brain hacks and thinking we are immune and have real choices is ... inadvisable.

Anyone who is diabetic (or simply overweight) and tries to buy or eat food that is not harmful to the pancreas will appreciate how eternally vigilant one must be to avoid the cleverly hidden food label traps, and how choice is manipulated, cynically and incessantly, by the US food industry.

Extrapolate this to most US industries, and re-evaluating "choice" may be a depressing task.

[1]: Thinking: Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman

EDIT: typo
What's different about it compared to other scientific theories?
As an American living in Hong Kong:

Cash can be faster because you do know the total before hand since the price on the menu/price tag is what you pay. This is because there is no sales tax or tipping. Buying 3 items at HK$12 each? Your total is HK$36. If there's a queue I usually have my exact change ready before I'm to the front.

In the US, you can rarely tell how much you'll pay since sales tax varies by county or sometimes by city.

A side effect of this is weird totals like $23.76 that result in lots of hard to spend small change which also disincentivizes cash use.
See aksiL swap

Performance tends to degrade rather...rapidly when you start to actually meaningfully swap actual working memory. With modern quantitys of RAM I'd almost prefer to just run swapless and let the system OOM so it can just be rebooted and get on with it...
Google is what people use to get information. Facebook gives people news. Both of these companies could have a large impact on our lives and politics.
They also released lego boost robotics kit week ago for mentioned age frame, and it is amazing!
Former-NSA Hacker Creates Cybersecurity Company, Challenges Industry
Former-NSA hacker Marcus J. Carey is the founder of Threatcare, a platform that is quickly becoming the standard for organizations to verify that their cybersecurity is working. One of the things that makes Threatcare unique is their “proactive” approach which empowers users to be aware if they would be able to stop an attack.

The Threatcare platform can be used to train staff in their own environment, rather than off-site, to run simulations to validate your system's security, monitor cybersecurity consistently and continuously, and even evaluate new security controls.

Even though organizations are putting large spends into their cybersecurity, many have no idea what their product’s capabilities are. Most don’t know if their security could withstand a real attack by hackers. This is where Threatcare's platform comes in.

Threatcare's aim is to make it simple to validate cybersecurity and ensure cyber defense efforts are effective. Cybersecurity is a new field that can easily become overwhelming and over-complicated, but Threatcare offers a solution to remedy that. As Carey explains, “We're helping several organizations with proof of concepts. What we've found is that many of them [software] don't work as our customers think they should. We've been able to help vendors improve their offerings as well. We're not trying to make vendors look bad, we're trying to elevate the current state of cyber security.”

Threatcare enables companies to evaluate products, monitor security controls, train security staff and carry out on-demand attack simulations. These are all things that can pose any number of challenges, but with the Threatcare platform, these hurdles are easy to overcome.

To learn more information about Threatcare's offerings, you can visit their website at Threatcare.com
All the Secret Stuff That Happens When You Visit Google.com
Indeed. Therefore it seems a bit much to pick on America now given that it's doing no worse than what every powerful country has done throughout history.
A clear photo of someone's face is very useful if they are found (via other means) to be engaging in criminal activity.

Have you ever seen low-res security footage where the perpetrator was hard to identify? Timestamps + secondary cameras can help with identification.
I remind others to re-read Amazon's strategy of undercutting its own sellers. The article mentions another example, but the Rain Design laptop stand is another example: http://business.financialpost.com/technology/amazon-com-inc-...
This is one time I wish I would have read the comments first as I went and searched this information :)
Heads up. Bitcoin is likely to be forever deflationary until it fails. There are no capital controls to increase the supply which means as people lose their wallets it becomes more and more constrained. I agree that it's a trash fire that will never be adopted as a regular currency, but its value could go up for a very long time like any collectible.
>The cynical dystopian insinuation around technology, on a technology site no less, is getting old.

A technology site is exactly the place for cynicism about technology. The idea of seeing an ad for a suicide hotilne on a social media site is even more distopian than the op's crack about mandatory happiness.
This is almost North Korean propaganda.

>The real question is why the US keeps blustering about N. Korea and why US hawks keep fanning the flames.

North Korea fans the flames by its continued, calculated provocations. You're right in that they aren't crazy: this periodic activity is designed to elicit a response from the international community, and up until the 2000s this worked. Their provocations used to result in more aid being sent their way. They've become less effective in recent years.

>US sanctions have helped NK become an insular place where reality is distorted and basic famine prevents much dissent from occurring.

No, the brutal and monstous Kim regime did that by establishing a totalitarian police state. It's wrong and frankly somewhat racist to strip every non-US actor of their agency.

>Like playground bullies, US politicians need small countries to push around to make themselves feel powerful.

North Korea created the current situation when it attempted to conquer its southern neighbor and was forced back. It has created a nightmare state of total control explicitly built on a "military first" policy. It has routinely and repeatedly threatened to attack and destroy its neighbors South Korea and Japan. The idea that the US is just "bullying" this dangerous state is simply mad.

That's not to say they must be attacked. It's a very difficult situation where either the world attacks North Korea and millions die, or they let it stand and millions of North Koreans suffer while the regime builds up a nuclear arsenal.

And this ridiculous idea that North Korea needs nuclear weapons to keep the US out is equally absurd. The US doesn't invade North Korea today for the same reason it didn't do so for the 60 years since the end of the Korean War: NK doesn't need nuclear weapons to wreak massive devastation on South Korea. It has enough conventional weapons to make a war with North Korea, however short, utterly deadly. Nuclear weapons changes the game in that North Korea can now threaten Japan more fully, and can possibly even sell them.

If you're not a paid propaganda agent, you should be. You do good work.
Eat the Lollipop, Toss the Stick, and a Weed Plant Grows in Its Place
The merchant fees do fund a substantial portion of the rewards programs for cards.

However, there's a pretty large market for credit/debit card transaction data. Even Google purchases it[1]. Both your credit card company and the payment processors/networks themselves are able to monetize this data quite effectively. And the more complete people's transaction histories get the more effective this data becomes for different uses and the more the companies can charge for it.

Depending on the demographic a particular card is able to capture, the transaction history may be valuable enough to run the rewards program at a loss or break even when looked at purely from the merchant fees recouped.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/05/23...
Outrage over Google memo is misplaced
Again no sources....
The obvious solution would be for foreigners to co-invest with local VCs/Angels. I think if investors have an eye toward making these kinds of investments in a sustainable and ethical way, it is definitely possible.
Looks nice. Question: is there anywhere that explains exactly what the test looks for? I tested out a site of mine and it said everything is ok (go me!)... but I'd like to know what exactly it checked, for example when it says "SEO, looking good" -- what specific things on the page is it looking for?
I've enjoyed the Deep Learning Nanodegree [0]. It is a 6 month survey course of deep learning techniques and applications. Some of the lessons and instructors are better than others but overall the content and projects have been good.

This course is not to be confused with the one-off deep learning course they offer [1], which I have not taken but have heard is not as good.

[0]https://www.udacity.com/course/deep-learning-nanodegree-foun...)

[1] https://www.udacity.com/course/deep-learning--ud730
Google Can't Seem to Tolerate Diversity
this argument might hold water if there weren't a preexisting plethora of other dating sites/apps that cater to all kinds of other groups.

this app/site is a safe ("halal") place for a _self-selecting_ group to congregate. how can you possibly have an issue with that? the people who explicitly want to find a muslim spouse can use this site, the people who don't particularly care if their spouse is muslim will use some other one.

if you want to build that site (for people specifically trying to find a spouse instead of trying to have fun, but not explicitly for muslims), just do it and quit shitting on this site.
What a great story. Thanks for sharing and congratulations on your early success - best of luck for more success to come!
I've been testing this out over the past 6 days with $500 to see how it would actually work while keeping my current amount in. I've been working a bit more on the micro level, but it still is pretty consistent in its volatility (lol).

So far I have a 4.6% total return on trying to capitalize on the volatility. That's much less than if I had just held at the original buy. I'm going to keep doing it though to see how it works in long term flat and drop periods. When you hold yourself to rules, it also decreases maximum losses too. I see the strategy as a great way to make safe money relative to crypto.

Right now if the volatility and my returns hold for even just two years, it could be going from $500 to over 100K. It makes it really tempting not to increase the amount I'm playing with even slightly, but I have yet to see how the strategy fares on long term drops. I do have confidence it will perform well on long term flat periods though.
Thats really exciting. It would be amazing if we could get clear observable confirmation like Einsteins eclipse.
Show HN: Nim in Action
I can't help but agree with almost everything he said about general traits in men. They seek esteem over most everything else, and are competitive by nature. And that explains at least part of the reason they're drawn to leadership positions in companies.

Of course I'm not going to get fired for saying that publicly.
We don't know that it was NSA, and in fact it's a little unlikely that it is, because NSA is the author of Dual_EC and the standard includes recommended default values for Dual_EC's Q, which we can presume NSA knows the dlogs for.

The smoking gun for this backdoor was a modified Q, which NSA wouldn't have to do, and which represents truly spectacularly bad tradecraft, by drawing attention to a backdoor NSA claims isn't a backdoor in a way that leaves virtually no doubt that it's a backdoor.
So if people leave after finding each other but don't get married wouldn't that technically be dating?
Thanks. It's clones.

http://www.brendangregg.com/Images/brendan_clones2006.jpg

(I made that in response to a similar comment back then...)
It's not about technology. It's about power, capital, and society.

We already know that Facebook/Instagram can manipulate your real-world emotions and thoughts by what it chooses to show you.

We also know that susceptibility to ads for different products varies depending on emotional state and context (pre 'surveillance capitalism' it was well known that you could get much bettter responses to aspirational products as the weekend approached, and to products like make-up on Sunday evenings as the work-dread sets in).

The question is, if you have a load of high-value inventory to shift, but your audience isn't susceptible to it, why not treat this as an optimization problem and make them?

It's the right thing to do for your shareholders, completely legal, and near undetectable.