skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is a rebuttal to the article: http://all-about-sanskrit.blogspot.in/2015/06/my-response-to... . Note that the article itself is from 2015.

Major points I could gather from the rebuttal:

- The recorded language was not "Sanskrit". There are a few Sanskrit-sounding words and a some names of seemingly Vedic-deities mentioned (along with several other non-Vedic deities).

- Some scholars even contest whether PIE was an actual language and is not just an artificial construct.

All in all, it seems to me that the writer's claim that

> Amazingly, Rigvedic Sanskrit was first recorded in inscriptions found not on the plains of India but in in what is now northern Syria.

is quite a bit far fetched. I tried locating a paper referring to the Mitanni treaties (http://sci-hub.io/10.2307/595878), but it doesn't include the text of the treaty itself (which anyway I wouldn't have been able to understand, seeing as it is not even Sanskrit). At any rate, what the HindutvavAdis seek to resurrect is mostly classical Sanskrit, which most definitely is Indian, just as English itself is, well, English, any external influences and contributions notwithstanding.

I also find these kinds of strained attacks on Hindutva extremely disingenuous and ultimately counterproductive. You want the other party to listen to you, not to shut down and shout their positions even louder, marking you as an enemy. We could begin by acknowledging some of the valid points they raise.

I for one think that there is some truth to the allegation that we (Indians) are not aware of our own intellectual traditions. I myself hadn't heard of the likes of Nagarjuna, Dharmakirti, Prabhakara, Bhartrhari, and Abhinavagupta until very recently, and I understand their theories still less.
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Yep.

https://qz.com/123642/physical-money-costs-americans-more-th...

>larger businesses spend a significant amount of money dealing with cash—collecting it, sorting it and getting it to the bank without it being stolen. US businesses lose $40 billion a year to cash theft and loss, about 1% of total revenues.
Well, he should. He's a vandal (no pun intended).
When I worked on an online platform for people to learn hands-on technology with experts in person such as woodworking or glassblowing, we went from door to door in Brooklyn, asking for their trust to give us a try.
The laws on liability are very different in Europe and the US. In the US a stolen card is the bank's problem. In Europe it is the consumer's problem. This difference in laws is critical to this discussion, both sides are saying "you are wrong" when in fact both sides are right in their respective country and wrong in the other.
I'm finally getting around to taking this course. I too find Octave to be a bit weird, so I'm a little behind on the programming assignments. However, I'm looking forward to getting comfortable with a different way of programming.

Everything I've read about the course suggests that the programming assignments are actually pretty easy. Hopefully I'll reinforce, rather than confuse the core concepts in translating them to this unfamiliar language.
He had sources from here to the moon.

Have you actually read the memo you are criticizing?
> 2) Put the cheapest shiny sheen over the decrepit and crumbling bones of an aging house, hiding as best as possible infrastructure problems

There is a good reason for this, we deal with it in Toronto. The permit you need to do a tear-down and rebuild will cost you as much as the materials for the house and there will be huge delays in acquiring the permit. If the red tape wasn't so burdensome, we could rip down these garbage, post-WW2 matchboxes and build modern housing.
> Different policies could produce a different outcome. My list would start with a tax code that does less to favor the affluent, a better-functioning education system, more bargaining power for workers and less tolerance for corporate consolidation.

> less to favor the affluent

We already have progressive tax brackets. For crying out loud, the top 20% of earners shoulder 84% of the tax burden of the federal government[1]. Where does that number need to be in order to silence the socialist rabble-rousers? 90%? 95%?

1. https://www.wsj.com/articles/top-20-of-earners-pay-84-of-inc...

Edit:
I've only received 1 answer to my question, and it involved allusions to bloody revolution, so I'll ask again:

Where does that number need to be?
This is a pretty solvable problem from a car service's POV: overprovision your fleet to account for people who want to take a car for a full day or even a week, and then charge significantly less than ZipCar but more than a local ride-hop (you could even change pricing plans so you pay by the hour/day instead of by the mile). Because your fixed vehicle costs are amortized over a much larger number of customers than ZipCar and your car can get itself from where there's supply to where there's demand, you can eliminate the reservation aspect and charge significantly less.

On an economic level, the occasional person who wants to reserve a car for a weekend uses up a much smaller fraction of a car than one who owns one outright.
That's a rather strong way of putting it, but yes, you should assume that every device you use can be penetrated by a sufficiently advanced and motivated actor. You should also be comfortable with the fact that state level actors have been recording information so that they can reach into your past should you ever become a problem with them. In that mindset, you have to create a security environment such that the truly advanced actors aren't motivated enough to bother with you. At the same time, don't leave your front door wide open so that any teenager can walk in and steal your TV.

I'm personally not worried about the 5eyes (but anti-gov activists should be). I'm worried about the smart kid who can use metasploit to take the banking info off my laptop in the middle of the night without me knowing it. A Purism laptop doesn't protect me from the smart teenager any more than an HP does. Full disk encryption and a Yubikey probably does, along with a decent firewall. Using cloud services where I encrypt my data before uploading is better than one where I transmit unencrypted (or where the cloud service controls the key).

A company willing to drop several thousand dollars on a Talos II might be worried about corporate espionage, so they might be willing to pay for a verifiable bios.

The NSA has to worry about thousands of hackers from dozens of countries around the world, so they are willing to pay for custom silicon.

Of course, you also need to consider physical security, which is like this: https://xkcd.com/538/
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He does a provide a source in the form of a wikipedia article that uses actual citations [1]. The version with sources (gizmodo removed them in their first publication of the memo), is located at [2].

As for your comment on his "blatant disregard for social context", he explicitly mentions that he believes that biases should be corrected and that society probably also is to blame [3], he just doesn't believe that biological factors does not play any role at all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_psychology#...

[2] http://diversitymemo.com/

[3] http://diversitymemo.com/#suggestions
Would love to see a "Differences with Clojure" section.
I don't know about 100%, but it is quite a common thing. That said, even if you make a crime/situation/scenario up entirely, there is a good chance it has happened somewhere.

Case studies of actual investigations - what worked, what didn't, what the big break was, etc - are not uncommon in law enforcement academies and training.

When you watch stuff like CSI and Law & Order, their criminal investigation stuff is often about as accurate as their high tech and computer science stuff.
You clearly have an axe to grind, since you've posted the same links and research at three times in this comment chain. Every single time you leave out this quote, also from the first article:

>But it is not clear to me how such sex differences are relevant to the Google workplace. And even if sex differences in negative emotionality were relevant to occupational performance (e.g., not being able to handle stressful assignments), the size of these negative emotion sex differences is not very large (typically, ranging between “small” to “moderate” in statistical effect size terminology; accounting for less than 10% of the variance). So, using someone’s biological sex to essentialize an entire group of people’s personality would be like operating with an axe.
For your question here's a few handy ones:

- https://humaan.com/checklist/

- https://simplesecurity.sensedeep.com/web-developer-security-...

- https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Web_Application_Security_Tes...

I find checklist apps/sites super useful. I've been building my own version of an interactive checklist site for email copywriting: http://honegrow.com/optimize-your-emails

What would be cool would be a checklist aggregator!
You can't pay your taxes with Bitcoin (the Wikipedia author probably means something else?). You can't even pay most tax in cash even if you wanted to. Bank transfer in EUR is the only way.
The "right-wing" categorization is probably not that helpful, I agree.

If I understand you correctly, by turning the argument around (against LGBT, atheist, liberal, etc. people) you want to challenge my point that it is okay to criticize and resist certain opinions and draw consequences from them.

I feel like there is a big difference between the scenario at hand and systematic persecution of certain groups of people.

You seem to assign a huge value to keeping a job. Do you think this is equal to being tracked down and killed by police? That's what e.g. LGBT people face in some countries, is that what you mean by that?

From my point of view, that employee actually tried to advance a very hostile political agenda with what he wrote, that might have harmed many people. Of course, this harm is not as visible as being fired, but it does hurt the opportunities for women, who have to try twice as hard in an environment, where you need to fight with people over whether you are even biologically capable of doing your job.

On the other hand, following your example with the guy making pro-LGBT statements: you make it sound like LGBT is some sort of political agenda by itself. But people usually just _are_ lesbian or trans without making a huge fuss out of it… I do not see how this compares to writing a 10-page essay systematically attacking half of your co-workers.

And, no, I would not defend Google for firing somebody for, say, being a lesbian. That's a completely different scenario.
I recently moved from the Netherlands, where card is overwhelmingly favoured (at least in Amsterdam and Den Haag, I've never been somewhere that doesn't take card and some places refuse cash) to Berlin, which I think is even more pro-cash than most of Germany. Cash is way slower, and I've now got a couple euros' worth of coppers that are utterly worthless because no-one's going to bother counting them out. In the Netherlands the smallest denomination of cents is 5, but you could live for years there and not know, because almost everywhere takes card (and most machines support contactless).
I'm not sure how I feel about this since I have my own beliefs which make me a big outsider in terms of politics (being a Mutualist anarchist isn't fun when you try to explain it to coworkers). But my view is that it's best to never discuss politics or religion (and sometimes sports this one depends) at the job since it can rub people the wrong way. It's not fun working where you've either ticked someone off or you've been ticked off by someone else. Some polite distancing of one's beliefs from their work life I feel is more important than trying to offer any advice to HR, even if it has some merit. It's just asking for a pink slip and a black mark on your resume.

But the biggest confusion I think is how conservatives react to this situation for me. I use to be an avid fan of Buckley and use to read the National Review regularly as a teenager (yes I'm weird). So when I see conservatives lash out at Google over their right to fire anyone at will or on the basis that the employee is disrupting the environment at work (be it rightful or not from the point of view of fairness) I see hypocrisy of the most base kind. Conservatism in the United States values the freedom of companies, employees, and private citizens to associate and disassociate on their own. If Google wants to hire Mutualists like myself and not hire a GOP or Democrat then they should be on the principles of American Conservatism have their choice respected and not challenged in court or in some dishonest manner which violates the property rights of others. To attempt to walk back or moderate the position of free association on the basis that might hurt some people who share conservative values is to undermine the very basis of conservatism in my opinion. Basically, you can't have your cake and eat it too. Either all businesses and private citizens have the freedom of association (and disassociation) or they do not have that right. It stinks but consistency in political ideologies is an important metric to understanding whether or not an ideology can sustain itself. If American Conservatism cannot sustain itself under such consistency then the ideology is flawed and should be reformed such that it can give a conditional freedom of association on a consistent basis both in political theory and in terms of law (i.e. accepting that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and subsequent additions to the law are warranted and consistent with said ideological grounds). Mind you, I'm not a conservative at all but I'm speaking from my beliefs that I held many years ago and how I interpreted American Conservatism. But I recall Buckley holding a similar view as the one I described. And it would take a mighty strong argument for me to be convinced that the contrary is consistent with American Conservatism and conservatism as a whole.
I don't know. Seems like you are following his advice by building something that does not scale.
As someone who lived 40+ years in Germany ...
>not take 4% back on gas and 3% on restaurants
yes? This is the same argument for using stuff like gmail. What, are you really gonna pay 20 bucks a year for email? I'm sure everyone's price to sell away their privacy is different but I'm a little off-put by how cheaply people are selling themselves these days. I hope it never becomes a problem (e.g. Stasi) but if it does I won't be crying for those people whose lives will be ruined.
... who then went on to be Minister of Finance for the Greek government.
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IIRC they're a bit better than an Intel core on a single threaded load with some variance depending on the workload. But going from 1 to 2 threads per core increases the Power 9's throughput by 80% instead of the 20% you expect with an Intel core. And you can go up to 8 threads per core for something like 120% the total throughput of 1 thread. All those numbers for threads per core are also highly workload dependent. The more cache misses the more SMT helps.
No because 100:100 and 0:0 would be equal in value but far different in meaning. It must be a score and not a ratio.
Law and Order certainly pulls a lot from real cases, but it's not that high of a percentage. I'm sure many are inspired by multiple cases mixed together but most murders are pretty boring by fiction standards.
In terms of network effects of ISA-specific optimizations, it's problematic that not only is the workstation so expensive but POWER8/9 cloud availability seems to be only for orgs that buy a lot of compute time.

If you are a dev who isn't being paid by e.g. IBM or Red Hat to work on ppc64le stuff, it seems hard to get access to running your code on real hardware and running on qemu doesn't really make sense for optimizations.

It seems to me that the ISA could benefit from scaling down so that more developers had access.
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What if Germany also has a round of Demonetization, similar to what India did in November 2016? Would the Germans continue to use cash to pay for anything after that?

I'm a fan of the Indian demonetization experiment, and I believe it has yielded positive results, at least in terms of being able to use your credit/debit cards almost anywhere.

If such a drastic measure is taken, then there'll be some aversion to cash, which will, in turn, move more people to non-cash modes of payment.
> I'm sorry, what have our society and companies become?

Afraid of angry, vocal and hysterical internet lynch mobs on social media.

Whoever is most easily offended and cries loudest gets to decide.

Being actually right, or god forbid principled, is clearly a thing of the past.
This is just a theory btw, just like any other economic theory.
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Earns more relative to what? They earn more than in the past, but they earn less than they would have had growth been distributed the same way it was in 1980.
Tell me when you find the answer! I'll build it and sell it to those people.
I was driving home a few months ago in the rain on Division in SF. Cars were stopped, and I immediately couldn't figure out why. When I passed the stopped vehicles I got my answer: there was seemingly a wall of water coming down from the freeway overhead and an autonomous car was stopped as it apparently didn't know how to handle the situation.
> After all, banks remained basically insolvent in this fractional reserve scheme.

This is incorrect. Bank solvency has to do with the assets of the bank, even in markets with commodity (e.g., gold) or representative money (e.g., gold-backed paper). The assets of a bank include loans, the liabilities are the money the bank owes to depositors. There is no reason a bank can't take a gold deposit and loan it out (thereby, "creating" gold).

The purpose of a central bank, at least in orthodox economics, is to loan to solvent banks that are nonetheless cash-poor. Imagine a mismanaged bank, that has loaned too much, and cannot meet the demands of depositors. If the loans + cash are more valuable than the deposits, the central bank will loan to the bank to meet their temporary cash shortage. [0]

This is essentially what happened in the case of AIG. The Fed believed that the value of AIGs assets were greater than its liabilities, and loaned them the money at a penalty rate. The Fed believed that AIG was _solvent_. There were a number of extenuating factors here that I'm glossing over, but that is the underlying point. The reason that Lehman was not saved was that the Fed had substantial reason to believe that the assets (primarily the sub-prime loans) were not worth more than the liabilities, and the Fed will not lend into hole. Lehman was _insolvent_.

Fractional reserve banking, by itself, does not suggest solvency or insolvency. Without fractional reserve banking, there cannot be credit. Sharia banking is an example of full-reserve banking, because interest is prohibited, so there is no incentive to loan. (There are ways Islamic banks get around these prohibitions).

[0] I would suggest looking at Bagehot (1873) for a full description of this idea.
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"Why is this a problem, as long as everyone is not worse off?"

But then nothing ever changes? shouldn't things improve for everyone? Otherwise what is the point of a society?
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Spent a month in university libraries handing out candy and asking groups of students to try out our sharing platform. We then would take what we learned that day and code changes/fixes before we left or when we got home so we could go out again in the morning.
Your ghosts have ip addresses and the snoops have taps, so really it's only your reputation with the other users you are running from.

I play the same game. :)
> That reduced the market cap of the original security

Actually it didn't. The BTC market cap has increased since the fork.

> would you account for this in capital gains the same way you would with a stock split

Stock splits have no effect on capital gains.
Do you count the change before you redeem it? That is a huge time-suck for me, and I hate doing it.

Also, I feel really bad for the cashiers that are unlucky enough to have all that change dumped on them and are forced to count it all. Some banks have change counting machines, but surprisingly, many don't and the change is still counted by hand while you wait.
> I'm not sure what you mean when you say "who defines where that partiality starts and ends?". I'm not advocating that anybody be deciding it.

I know, no rational person would. But on the other hand, assuming there is one such ratio and that "we shouldn't do anything to fix the current imbalance because the magic ratio explains it" is a terrible idea. That's what the whole manifesto was about really: let's not fix a problem that doesn't exist, because testosterone.
"Isn't it legal in only a handful of counties in Nevada, though?"

Indeed; it's notably illegal in both of Reno's two largest cities (Las Vegas because Clark County has too high of a population, so prostitution is automatically illegal per state law; Reno/Sparks because Washoe County specifically outlawed prostitution), which really hinders the effectiveness of such an experiment. About 90% of Nevadan prostitution happens illegally, from what I understand.

Still, that's better than 100% illegal statewide, which is the case in pretty much every state bordering Nevada IIRC.

"no independent contractors allowed anywhere in the state"

I'm pretty sure most (all?) prostitutes in Nevadan brothels are independent contractors. They still report to brothel owners, though.

"it's still pretty repressive"

Indeed it is.
Some would not fight because they are leftist pacifist.

Some would not fight because they are immigrants.

Some would not fight because their country is full of immigrants.
I would have preferred 90% female classes or workplaces. My thinking is I would have a better chance to be hired if I could standout from the crowd.

The push to 50/50 would cause me great concern as I would lose my advantage. Do any women feel the same way with the situation now?
You can audit the classes for free, which lets you watch the videos, and take the quizzes but not submit them (which is annoying).
> does anyone know if they hold any value to prospective employers?

Sure they do. It's not a free pass but it is very very very helpful to have a strong foundation in classic ML and statistics.

> Last I've heard was that a recent PhD in ML was a must.

Not really unless you are looking to jump into a pure research lab. Generally you need publications in the field.
Yes, sure. The first one was their UN peacekeeping units being attacked[1], and that second one was never proved, the only evidence is evidence by repetition, ala Goering.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_for_the_Russo-G...
Good point.

The other thing I often hear from people that don't view this as a problem (not suggesting this is you OP)is that, yes, its true that, the income of the top 1 percent has grown but so has the income of everyone else (save for the bottom 5%) just not at the same rate. Your standard of living has increased slightly over just maintaining (matching inflation).

Personally I think its still a problem because like it or not humans tend to get upset when there is perceived (and in this case real) injustice in the distributions of productivity gains despite not strictly being worse off.

I notice a lot of this in the hierarchy working at F100 company. The higher up you go the more managers pat themselves on the back for the productivity gains seen at the company. For them increasing productivity is a mater of the size of the bonus. For those on the production floor working harder/smarter becomes a mater of having a job or not.