skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"When through our background check processes or from input of our community we identify and determine"

i.e. AirBNB is doxxing their user's political beliefs.

It certainly appears that AirBNB, acting as a broker of housing, is in violation of California laws concerning discrimination:

http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/landlordbook/discriminati...

A landlord [this applies to brokers, etc. as well] cannot refuse to rent to a tenant, or engage in any other type of discrimination, on the basis of group characteristics specified by law that are not closely related to the landlord’s business needs.

Complaints process, links, etc.: http://www.dfeh.ca.gov/complaint-process/
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Why on earth do you think people should be expected to tolerate a "diversity of views" on whether they are inherently less qualified than white men?
If you leave a trailing slash it will prevent this problem.
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> Gold's value comes from its (a) millennia-long history of stably holding value across cultures and technological domains

That's recursive - you're basically saying that gold has value because it has historically being valuable. Which begs the question of why it has been valuable.

I'm not saying that this doesn't add some (most, in fact) value to gold. I'm just saying that this isn't a property that is enabled by anything specific to gold.
There, in fact, is a movement to bring more men into nursing.

http://www.rwjf.org/en/library/articles-and-news/2011/09/mal...

Quotes from the article: "Through this initiative, called 20 x 20: Choose Nursing, it awards scholarships to undergraduate and graduate male nursing students; recognizes excellent nursing schools for men; and has created a poster advertising campaign designed to appeal to men."

“One day, men might actually make up 50 percent of the nursing workforce, in a similar way that women have been able to enroll and work in law, engineering and medicine,” Lecher says. “That would be true gender inclusion and balance.”

And, there are some really good reasons to have more men in nursing -- as nurses take over more and more primary care duties from physicians, it's a really good idea to have gender diversity in providers, especially for sensitive issues like prostate care and STD's.
https://www.slideshare.net/lenbass/programming-in-the-1960s
"Socialized" is the key word here: these skills are taught, and thus are learnable. There is no excuse for men not learning these skills once they discover they lack them.
I've played four or five different multiplayer games on it and it's indeed great. But they're leaving a lot of potential innovation on the backburner:

The touch screen and the the Joycon accelorometers/advanced rumble aren't used at all in many games, or if they are, it isn't anything innovative. ARMS is an exception, though, but I really don't think many people bought the game.

The Mii avatar you create can't do much of anything. On the Wii U, Wii and DS there was a bit more you could do with those.

Amiibo aren't really useful except for small in-game bonuses

The companion app is currently lackluster. They could have made a Mario Kart 8 section where you compare your scores to your friends, a BotW section that would interface with your game... for now it's just a Splatoon app with a few nice features, with only one main feature actually communicating back to the game.

I guess those middle two aren't Switch-specific, but there are a lot of Nintendo-specific things that they should really considers spending time cultivating.
Not sure if this will help you: https://medium.com/@shiyan/ethereum-summary-a53c4a8e66d?sour...
Yes, as has been discussed here before, thinking in terms of proofs is a huge part of mathematical maturity, as required by university undergraduate mathematics. See "The Book of Proof" etc.
That's nice but how does what Hitchens says apply here?

The Manifesto writer apparently still works at Google. No one is silencing him. A whole shit ton of people are disagreeing with what he says. The remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence. No one is enforcing his silence, though in CA, Google as a corporation could dispense with his employment at will.

Are you saying that we shouldn't disagree with him, that we should be silent, and that you'll cite Hitchens for that? Really?
crowd sourced... boaty mcboatface.
Open source doesn't mean royalty free (though I have no idea if this format would be royalty-bearing).

There are open source implementations of various MPEG and JPEG codecs, but they still carry a licensing fee to use them. Most people who don't use Linux don't realize this (installing Linux and trying to deal with av codecs is a quick education in the difference).
I aiming that explanation at people who had read and understood the article. The article explains bivectors and how they can be used to represent reflections, and "closure" is a fairly common concept, so once you put those two together you should get a mathematical object which I've called "the even-ordered subalgebra". I haven't explained why it's even-ordered or what a subalgebra is, but I used those terms so you could at least have the vocabulary to talk about it or do a Google search.

Mathematics education is hard. In my experience, you start out with no understanding of a subject and can't understand it when people explain it to you, and at some point it clicks and you can't understand why it was ever difficult. I could be intentionally obtuse and, for example, describe a vector space as an "abelian group, field, and homomorphism from the field to group endomorphisms", but I feel that's the only people who would use that definition already have a good understanding of vector spaces.

The reason that I consider the non-GA approach to quaternions as rotations "hand wavy" is because it's not constructive, or perhaps just because I personally don't understand it. Using GA, I can construct a representation for rotations in any Euclidean space, not just 3D space, but 2D, 4D, 5D, whatever. However, without GA at my disposal, the fact that unit quaternions are a double cover for SO(3) seems like some kind of black magic that came from the void.

I have a few drafts of an introductory article I was writing on geometric algebra sitting on my hard drive, but I've never been able to get the article into a state I'd consider publishable. So instead, I'm trying to inject what I know into HN discussions.
There are plenty of AirBnB places in fairly touristed places in the developing world for 15-20€/day.
Quite accurate estimate on our apartment in Stockholm, Sweden (we rent out sometimes at a slightly higher price than estimated)
> listen to what people in NYC say about the dating scene there

I live in NYC and think the dating scene here is fantastic, at least for someone in their 20s. There's lots of opportunity to meet interesting people and have fun together. This is going to sound silly, but one of my strongest reasons for preferring NYC to SF is the better dating scene.
8TB HDD were manufactured only since 2014.
And if you're not virtue signaling, be sure to constantly say everyone else is doing it, to signal your own superiority.
Tons. When cities are 30+% black, as most are in the South, lots of daily interaction with blacks is par for the course.
Right, he's just asking questions, what's so harmful about that?

He's "asking" whether or not an entire category of people deserve to be in his field. Which means he is actually questioning whether an entire gender deserves to be allowed to be engineers. That is on its face extremely offensive and damaging. Imagine showing up to work today in silicon valley as a female engineer. Imagine having spent years, decades, busting your ass to get a job in a field you've been passionate about since you were a child and here some asshat out of left field can dangle your entire career out over a precipice in front of the world like some circus act.

That's the real problem here, the problem of entrenched misogyny and tribalism in the industry so deep that it means everyone who isn't a white skinned techbro has to constantly validate and re-validate (and re-re-validate) their own existence on an ongoing basis. White dudes have the luxury to call into question the validity of the careers of hundreds of thousands of other people with just a few words, but they never seem to have to prove their own worth. That's the problem here.

The industry, the world, is on an un-level playing field, with those who are at a disadvantage at the edge of a cliff facing a steep slope to get further from the cliff. Those higher up sometimes ask "but do they really deserve to be here? what if we just push them off, look how close they are to the edge, it would be so easy". This is not ok.
Ask HN: Building a learning platform for intrapreneurs, need feedback
Need some validation from folks who are leading large teams of people. I'm building a learning platform for companies that want to train their employees, so they have the skills to launch new ideas to help build new revenue streams within the company. Skills like: How to build an mvp of an idea, without coding skills, how to validate the idea with basic marketing, how to talk to customers, etc.

How much would your company pay to get access to the courses within the platform?
Make the schools have to refund some of the money if their students default.
Not to stoke the fire but she's on this [1] page with Flores as advisor.

[1] http://arthistory.rutgers.edu/menu-iii/current-students/curr...
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> The app took you too a daycare? Where people leave their children? Did you actually enter it, or just move on? I'd feel pretty uncomfortable with a random stranger and his friends showing up to my kid's daycare. I hope the apps have gotten better location filtering in place since 2015.

Sure you did. Emphasis mine.
How is this "Artificial Intelligence" (from the about page: https://www.eliotandme.com/about)?
> And so, after eliminating all choices from one's existing in-person social network, people with bad social networking skills look for dates on the internet.

What, no. That's not the kind of people using online dating.

There's people who intentionally want to meet people outside their friends' group (for obvious reasons).

Then there's people who use Uber despite the fact they have a friend who has a car. It's easier.
Recursion is hard, but it is a fundamentally great tool.

If I talk to someone who doesn't understand programming, they can usually understand the if and for statements that you might find in food recipes or in legal contracts.

But almost nowhere outside mathematics and computer science (and certainly not as common as recipes) do you come across recursion.

It's mentally hard to think of a problem so that each step gets simpler.

Solving the towers of hanoi is not straight forward, I can't follow it at the speed that I can read as I could with basic math, I have to really think if what they are suggesting works and how does it work.

However when you get to solving hard problems, recursion really helps. I know from having spent hundreds of hours with interview questions. Bugs can make a problem go from taking me 30 minutes to 4+ hours. Where as using recursion and other functional programming concepts, once I got to the solution it would usually be bug free. So whereas it might not be as fast, I would be more confident in my final answer.
How can you even say that? They were peacefully living when the insane Japanese killed thousands of Americans, and were preparing to invade the USA? It was fight or be killed. So if you are defending you homeland, defending yourself from murder, your wives from rape, you are somehow no longer innocent?

Your like the witch hunters. If you float your guilty so kill them. If you drown your innocent but dead.
It may have a lot of potential, but currently cryptocurrencies have at most as much social value as traditional currencies - which cost considerably less energy. (That's assuming they are actually used as currecies and not just as a hype and speculation vehicle)

As for energy consumption, I see no fundamental reason why mining has to stay green. If the valuation should climb high enough that renting a nuclear plant becomes profitable then someone will probably do that.

Even with hydro, the mining spends energy that could have been used for other things.

Finally, what I find most worrysome is the combination of PoW and self-adjusting difficulty. The practical effect seems to be that not just is constant energy required to maintain the system but that energy demand is also steadily growing.
Slightly more up-to-date data: http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/human-capital-and-risk/...

There is, indeed, a movement to bring more men into the nursing profession.

"Although all of the benefits of becoming a nurse would plausibly outshine any kind of challenges nurses face...there are still reasons that prevent men from eagerly pursuing a career in nursing. Even today, despite the growth in healthcare, nursing is still perceived as a field that is less prestigious, and so requires less training and education. One male student, named Gillis, noted that a recent graduate of Stanford, who was interested in a nursing program, was told, “Stanford grads don’t become nurses.” There were also students, ones who excelled in school, but were also told something along the lines of, “You’re too smart to become a nurse.” Also, there’s that old sense that men still feel as if nursing is a female profession, and so men choose to pursue a field that’ll be viewed as more appropriate for men.

"Of the nearly five hundred [male nurses] who participated [in a survey] 73 percent claimed that negative stereotypes of men working as nurses realistically contributed to the shortage, 59 percent noted that what might deter men was that nursing has always, especially in previous generations, been seen as a female profession, and the rest, 42 percent felt that men lacked male models and mentors within the field."

http://everynurse.org/men-entering-predominantly-female-care...

https://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2017/mar/01/w...

Even more, men have some advantages in the nursing profession.

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2015/03/124266/male-registered-nur...

https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/blog/2014/04/why-do-...

https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/blog/2014/08/women-i...
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They do have conferences. I think the bigger issue is that there isn't really a good budget for this stuff.

Most of the budget goes to handling fires that are really out of control, and there's more and more of those every year.

If you doubled the budget, hired fuels teams with scientists at the head of the teams (instead of fire fighters) and applied that budget to thinning and controlled burns, you'd probably have much safer more defensible forests areas.

Also, there's a huge gray area around what fires to prioritize and when to fight them. A good example of "letting it rip" and "let them log" was the Egley complex fire in 2007 (one of my last fires!): https://www.forestsandrangelands.gov/success/stories/2009/nf...
> Most likely Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved a million Japanese lives.

No, there were alternative ways. Before dropping to the city, you can just drop it to the mountains or along the sea coast to show the power of the bomb. If it doesn't work, do it multiple times in different locations. After that drop it to the military camps. If all doesn't go well drop to the city. Also it didn't have to happen twice in the city, because it was a matter of time for the Japanese government to surrender. It was just an inhuman action to drop two atomic bombs in the city skipping all of these steps.
> But maybe they do, but would you spend $100k defending a $90k investment?

If I thought I could successfully "flip" it for, say $500K, which is pocket change for the affected people in that neighborhood, then sure, $190K would be a bargain. And if the 40 property owners could kick in $20K each to sue the investor, surely they'd rather kick in $10K each to buy the street back instead.
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I see the reasoning, especially from one steeped in the coinosphere, but this one seems best classed as very unlikely.

Currency exchange is a solved problem with costs and overhead that is very likely much less than going into the "securing the blockchain" business, even as a side gig.

How much "securing" would they need to do anyway? Just a little to help them sleep at night?

Not to pick on you particularly, but in general there is so much mushiness and hand waving in the coin space about what exactly is the value proposition other than to the person selling you the coin at a profit.
I have a similar project in 1000 lines or so c++, called bingot

https://github.com/shi-yan/bingot

It was inspired by another simple crypto currency called basiccoin

https://github.com/zack-bitcoin/basiccoin

at the time, basic coin was only 600 lines of python.
And nurses get paid well too. You can also point to well-paying construction jobs and the like. I think (and I'm sure I'll get obliterated for saying this) but it's easier to support getting women into "tech" because they are high paying, physically easy jobs and they are super cool. Nobody thinks being a dock worker or a plumber is a cool job, even though they are very accessible with minimum post-secondary education (also notice more women go to college than men?).
Buzzfeed mostly is (or was; I pretty much stopped reading it) clickbait but every once in a while they have great in-depth, high-quality articles like this. I suppose it takes much longer to investigate and write these articles than it does to churn out the clickbait.
or maybe you overpaid for your apartment. it's not uncommon in cities on the west coast for prices to irrationally exceed the possible rental income.
This is constantly brought up as a counterpoint to women in tech on HN and it seems like no one that uses this argument ever does any research. Trying to get more men in nursing has been a thing for a very long time, in many ways its like the inverse of tech. A quick Google of "men in nursing" would show you a ton of resources and opinion pieces that look like a mirror of women in tech initiatives. Just because you aren't aware of the struggles of a given field because you aren't close to it doesn't mean they don't exist.

With nursing it's very clearly a social issue. Nursing is seen as a women's job even though having more male nurses would improve the quality of health care.

There are also other female heavy professions where there it is seen as important to bring more men in to increase diversity. Generally anything that has to do with working with children (childcare, especially teaching). In education getting more male teachers, especially minority male teachers is seen as important to provide young men with role models.
If you're investing in real estate you always want a mortgage and you always want it cash-flow positive. If it's not cash-flow positive on the first day of renting it out, then you don't buy the property. Investing for equity is about the dumbest mistake some real estate investors make. Always invest on cash-flow. Investing for capital appreciation is a recipe for disaster. With positive cash-flow, the underlying value is irrelevant.

When I say you "always want a mortgage" I mean that if you have a mortgage you have your tenants paying for the house. Your cash on cash return is far higher. If your potential property doesn't support that, then find another property. Paying $200k cash for a house that nets $500 per month is far less interesting than buying 10 houses at $20k down that each net $200 per month -- and it takes exactly the same cash.
Yes, but why backup the internet if you can't process the data afterwards without waiting for ages for the results.
Those farmers probably got relief money from the government to help offset the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars worth of crops lost to floods.

> What is wrong with people?

Ask the residents of New Orleans. Or the Netherlands. Or the Venetians.

They're people, in their homes. People are typically pretty irrational when it comes to their homes.
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Tesla had a battery swap system that was faster than filling a normal car - but it turns out the demand wasn't there. Granted, there is still a disadvantage to doing long distance runs on battery, but it accounts for a relatively small percentage of driving.
hence why I said "from ... perspective;" I certainly am guilty of engaging in behaviors that are "wrong" from such a perspective
I really like the "What You Can't Say" essay. Interestingly, what it says is not that speaking out is bad. It says that you must weight the benefit of speaking out to society, to the cost to yourself. It says you know what, sometimes it's ok to pick your fights, to be a coward, or to turn a blind eye to the destruction of the good in society. I agree that sometimes it's important to be selfish.

This means that I can avoid the short term cost to me, but what about the long term cost?

Every time you stay silent, you are complicit in the foolishness and irrationality in society. Every time a mob silences an individual and you ignore it, you lend power to the mob, and power to the idea of a mob in the mind of society.

You lend power to the idea that the louder you shout, the more correct your idea is.

And it's the ideas that make our society.

Here's an example of where this is going: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-nvNAcvUPE . The rabbit hole goes deep.

I am worried that even HN, a crowd that prizes itself on being intellectual, is so easily swayed by virtue signalling and shouting loudly (see comments here and on other similar threads). If these rational minds are so easily swayed, what about the larger crowd that thinks even less for itself? These centres must be held to a higher standard or we risk corruption of everything.

Your choices make a difference, choose wisely.
Arctic silver is not electrically conductive. It is slightly capacitive, but even getting gobs of it randomly across a motherboard is most likely not going to do anything.
> tediously counter-argue every single argument

I haven't seen a single criticism of the paper that even recognizes the author is referencing large-scale incontrovertible research involving the Big-5 personality model (the giveaway is the use of terms "agreeability", "conscienciousness", "neuroticism"). Instead we get what you offer: off-hand casual assertions that there must exist research which runs against large-n and replicable science-driven studies using the only mainstream and empirically-supported model of personality that seems to work.

Basically, this makes criticisms like yours on-par with climate change denial in the sense that they either fail to grasp the point being made or offer personal observations on irrelevant points as rebuttal. It is bad news for Google either way, since the author is correct to point out among many other things that high levels of "agreeability" are demonstrably bad for anyone to have in corporate environments, and if this affects men in the same way it affects women then why are the solutions gender-excluding? Anyway, perhaps you should research the Big-5 model if you aren't familiar with it: very interesting new research coming out on it continually.
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