skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Income taxes are a distraction. Bill Gates is not filing income tax on 40B worth of stock. Real wealth comes from owning assets that appreciate and pay dividends, and our capital gains tax rates are even less progressive than the income ones (there are only two capital gains tax brackets and they cap out less than half of income - which should then mean its no surprise people who get paid in income get poorer and people who profit off capital gains get richer).

If anything should be progressively taxed its individualized capital gains. It is simultaneously very healthy to incentivize everyone to invest a bit in capital, and extraordinarily detrimental to the health of civilization to let capital concentrate without any impediment.
Wait, are you implying that the logic in that last sentence is false? That makes perfect sense given what X and Y actually signify. That's like saying "The faster the boat fills with water, the faster you try to bail out! And you think bailing out even faster will somehow be a good thing?"
Your Astra weighed 1000lbs less, had no air conditioning and probably no air bags and would have probably killed you in a 40mph collision though, innit?
Don't confuse CPI with inflation.
On the other hand, if you do have all the markers, maybe you should step back and consider.
Selling has an effect on the market, but "not participating nor offering for sale" .. doesn't?
From the post:

But, could it possibly be that, we don't get to 50% of female employees in tech because, at present, they generally show less interest in those disciplines and are therefore less represented? No? Why should we aim to get to a 50% proportion if the proportion in the pool we are picking from is not even close to that? And why would 50% be a target anyway? The target should be to ensure that good people are hired and that they are able to work well together, regardless of the minority they might be in.

I think tech giants try hard to get that part right and to ensure that discriminations do not happen. Maybe the problem lies somewhere else: universities, or even at a younger age, in families (no we all know education has nothing to do with that kind of thing). Or maybe we could look at marketing and role models in our society. Maybe we just need time to let numbers even out, maybe there isn't even a problem to begin with, because females might actually be 5 times less likely to be naturally interested in tech. Who knows?
I suspect the contents of the memo had little to do with Google's official reaction to it.
I think this is a great step forward for ICE . Combining this technology into generators (and cars like chevy volt) will make an extremely convenient and fuel efficient vehicle.
I thought he advised the opposite approach to the one the Greek government wound up choosing?

In any case, there is no free lunch, and the lunch had already been eaten when he was brought on board. In the absence of a miracle I would expect every alternative to be painful. From your experience we can conclude that he did not work a miracle. That's hardly an indictment.
Why don't more people use FreeRTOS? I always find it to be a nice way to coordinate all the tasks you need to run in an embedded system, without having to manage a huge kernel like Linux. It's also free so there's that...
You can buy somewhat older hardware with Libreboot from various outlets including Minifree.org, tehnoetic.com, Zerocat.de, and Vikings.net. They all offer x86 hardware that works without blobs and without ME.

(Of course they don't solve the problem of firmware on disk controllers or network chips, but there is no such project yet.)
They didn't leak oil did they? They burned oil as part of the strokes right?
So, which one do you use?
Why make metal robots when you can manipulate DNA and make biological ones?
Why Phishing Works (2006) [pdf]
It's actually about ethics in game journalism?
Huh? My rotary doesn't leak oil. Mileage is an issue but not significantly worse than other sports cars of that era or even today.

I also could probably connect you with a good rotary mechanic (or several) in all 50 states plus Puerto Rico (hell, especially Puerto Rico)

The biggest issue with the FCs isn't the engine, it's the reliability of the electric systems and heat (as a distant second). With the FDs it pretty much the twin turbos. And with early RX-8s (04-early09) it's a lack of proper engine lubrication due to a design flaw.
Why Diversity Increases Meritocracy
> Uhh Pichai repeats exactly what the memo claimed: that women are

>> being “agreeable” rather than “assertive,” showing a “lower stress tolerance,” or being “neurotic.”

> Go ahead and claim women are more neurotic and have a lower stress tolerance.

Pichai seems to think that "neurotic" is an insult. Turns out it's just part of an established model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits
> EC is Eurocheque, a German specific card system.

Eurocheque hasn't existed since 2003. The current system is Girocard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girocard), it's just that the colloquial name is still "EC".
Panem et circenses. We have a long way to go still.
Thanks for the reply. You're pretty much the only person that attempted to answer my question.
I wonder how they accounted for volumetric differences-- brains have structural differences between genders, with male brains usually 8-13% larger overall, but it's a lot more complicated than that, with volumes and neural densities varying across many different regions: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763413...

This would trivially seem to affect blood flow, since blood vessels for different sized regions would behave differently.
Lesson 2 from Robert McNamara and the Cold War: "Rationality alone will not save us."
And my counter-argument to that is:

Why does it matter what the employee dresses or looks like, if they produce the same results?

I have never understood the reason for people forcing their views of how people should dress onto others. It is absurd.

Granted, there are levels of what is 'appropriate' for the workplace, but I think generally having a flexible dress code is important for employee morale.
Yes, but that's not really on topic for this discussion, is it?
> Why do you want to keep people from spedific religions stick together? It's for a society always better if groups mix instead of this ghettoization. I know that still many try to stay with their folks which is ok but why to enforce it?

They are not forcing anyone to do anything. They are giving people an option.

If a Muslim wants to marry another Muslim, and this helps them accomplish that better than Tinder or any other apps, that's great. Why is that such a problem for you? Why do you even suppose it's any of your business?

Full disclosure: I am agnostic.
Maybe it is my German roots, but I share the preference for cash and dislike of personal debt.

More than 90% of my Brick & Morter purchases are in cash up to about $500. I stop at an ATM every couple of weeks and withdrawal $300-$500 dollars and I'm set. Cash is anonymous, quick, a one-time thing (no bills to pay later), and the standard method of payment in the small (rural) stores I frequent.

Credit cards are reserved for buying gas, large purchases, online transactions, and travel.
I think Goering's famous quote just about sums it up:

"..the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”
Security Analysis on Snapchat [pdf]
So how about making investors explicitly state that they are not US persons?
Which is why I think South Korea should ultimately be the one to decide if there should be a strike/war. The US is probably more protected based on distance and that the US has shown (granted provisionally) that it can shoot down an ICBM.
anecdata != data.
You haven't presented any alternative views on what a presumably more competent economist could have executed on. Just because life was bad doesn't mean that it could have been better.
>> it's not fair and I'll never be in his bracket anyway so I won't have to deal with it

And he wouldn't be in my bracket so he doesn't have to deal with struggles either.
We've had 600 confirmed weddings and 6,000 couples leave after finding each other within the app

We think the former is likely higher too as many choose to keep it private
How many mass graves are there in Siberia?
And I'm investing in Bitcoin. Just because it is at its peak doesn't mean it can't go even higher!

I might be crazy, but your perspective isn't any more rational than mine :)
One of the authors, Thomas Piketty, wrote Capital in the 21st Century, a fascinating book about the mechanics that drive wealth concentration. He explores the limits of wealth concentration, as a positive feedback loop that inevitably destabilizes, often violently. I don't want to spoil it, but it isn't all just analysis and observation, he does also make recommendations.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18736925-capital-in-the-...
How long until somebody issues paper money backed by bitcoin?
At the moment GuixSD doesn't yet work on ARM. Not much is missing and you can use Guix as a package manager on top of some other variant of the GNU system, but GuixSD on ARM is not quite ready yet. Give it a couple more weeks.
Honestly there have been efforts to bring north korea back into the fold (in regards to keep fanning the flames)..see the Sunshine Policy see the Kaesong Industrial Region see the Six-Party Talks. These have been largely ineffective and in some cases ended in North Korean military action (see Cheonan). It hasn't been all sanctions and war and bombing. It sometimes takes two to tango...
It’s also “highly rational” for the NK leadership to run a autocratic dictatorship, brutally crack down on dissidents, leave the nation’s people starving, and shut off most contact with the outside world. The regime seems unlikely to survive any dramatic change in political order.

Bill Clinton’s administration tried a much more conciliatory approach, but it’s not like the North Koreans have been especially cooperative partners in renormalizing relations and deescalating the conflict over the past few decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreed_Framework

Overall it’s a very tough situation for the US, because NK could do catastopic damage to South Korea and maybe Japan in the event of a war, but in their current political position NK has little reason to negotiate in good faith.
Just in the past three months bitcoin has gone from $1500 to $3000 to $2500 to $1800 to $2900 to $2500 to $3400. You'd make more with a lot less risk just waiting for a dip and buying.
I actually came here to commend the author for letting me opt out of the nonsense. It may not seem like a big deal for you but the images are distracting to me, require more scrolling in order to reference something that was mentioned previously and do not add anything to your content.

BTW I think your content is great and I imagine you think so to. You commented on the fact that most of the comments were about the GIFs and not the content. I think that should be a not so subtle clue about the value of some lady waving in front of a green screen.
I know it is bad style, but I still have to sincerely doubt that you actually read the memo. The author explicitly states what his goals were (a change in which pro-diversity methods to apply, end of positive discrimination, being aware that 50-50 is an unreasonable goal if biological differences exist, focusing on what is right for google instead of what gender ideology dictates, which includes raising diversity though, because that's good for google). I'll end this discussion here, you are either unwilling to read or unwilling to understand the memo, as well as the video I linked.
The lazy part of me thinks that using a POWER based system as my desktop for internet related activities provides one of the best protections from shitty, buggy software. No one's exploit is going to include POWER based shellcode to go along with their vulnerability. My browser might crash, but that x86 shell code isn't going do to shit.
There are plenty of apps for Christians, as for all other kinds of specialized markets.

When you say 'white Christians' you're changing the subject in a particularly trollish way. Please don't comment like that here.
Close! 6,000 couples have met here and left muzmatch with 600 now confirmed to be married
This region is 30% covered vs. there is a 30% chance this region is (read: fully) covered.
Show HN: Prediction Game – Try to Generate Random Bits
If you gain enough followers, you can make serious money. Like with almost anything, it takes time, effort, and some money to get to the level when you can quit your full time job.

As a blogger you will have to produce content interesting enough to a large audience. You will have competition in pretty much every niche.
What about getting Trump and Kim in a room together to hash it out? Seems like the best option for all parties.
> Germany doesn’t use the MasterCard or the VISA network

Well, it is used (almost all major stores and large grocery chains support both Visa and MasterCard), but Girocard is far more widespread.
And that mileage was presumably measured using imperial gallons, which are 20% larger than US gallons. And it probably didn't get 40mpg anyway unless it was on the highway 100% of the time.

http://www.carfolio.com/specifications/models/car/?car=26732...
Rotary engines do not "leak oil", they burn oil a modest amount of oil by design. If you think about it, there really wasn't another way to lubricate them.

Practicality was pretty low, though, as you rightly point out.
Initially with cigarettes, society only focused on the positive aspects and even after 50 years people still smoke.

Once a company gets going, even if it is discovered there are long term issues with their products, they will be hard to compete against.
Wikileaks may have started with the best intentions from the "information needs to be free" playbook (or maybe it has always been corrupt).

But it is very clear for anyone who has been watching, that they are absolutely operating as an arm of the Russian government now.

They put their "reputation on the line" to denounce the Steele Dossier. I wish I could remember the other weird calls they've made recently... but there have been a few.

There has been congressional testimony claiming Wikileaks as a propaganda arm of the Russian government.

Through the US election they switched their hosting to Russia:
http://www.stopfake.org/en/wikileaks-switched-to-russian-web...

Current CIA director Mike Pompeo: http://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-cia-boss-wikileaks-is-a-r...

James Clapper former Director of National Intelligence.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/08/clapper-wikileaks-is-russi...

Not being funny - but I think a job at wikileaks is likely going to get you walking out the door in handcuffs one day.
How many years do you estimate.
The convention is to add the year of publication to a title if the content is not current. It has nothing to do with whether it's been discussed before or not.
Has the NYT ever claimed that Trump met prostitutes in Moscow?

Go ahead, find a link saying they have.

Did Breitbart push the PizzaGate sex ring story? [Yes](https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/789143692540055552), [absolutely](https://twitter.com/AndrewBreitbart/status/33636278100561920).
Do you submit prompts to /r/WritingPrompts? If they're good, you could get hundreds of stories for free(some of them great).
Wait so they didn't actually go back and see if the people they identified as depressed had a diagnosis of clinical depression?
> Some of the most important and least controversial efforts to address gender diversity in tech are the people trying to make better toys for young girls. As I've heard it stated, we have a shortage of engineers, not a shortage of princesses and our toy aisles should reflect that.

This SMBC comic sums up the issue perfectly: https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=1883

On a side note, I've also noticed that the bulk of my female classmates in college and the bulk of my female coworkers since then have been either Indian or Chinese. It might be worth exploring why Indian and Chinese women are more willing to work in tech than western women.
> Free speech is also not really relevant here as it has to do with the government's inability to restrict speech.

From the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
Excluding the Miata, when are sports cars ever practical?
> there's no reason to worry there

There are failure modes that have plagued exchanges for centuries. Namely, when things go down (a) lots of activity happens in a short period of time, often leading to administration and technical failures, and (b) lots of people lose money which presages them (i) refusing to pony up and (ii) suing.
Seems strange to not mention leaving 25M people in abject poverty under a dictatorship for half a century.
I was on holiday in Germany. In The Netherlands I pay everything with my contactless debit card, where you hold it near the reader, wait 1 second and then you've paid.

Every cashier in Germany (provided they accepted cards in the first place) insisted on "taking" my card, sticking it in the machine for a non-contactless payment, then hand me the machine so I can enter the PIN, then take back the machine, wait for the transaction to finish and then remove the card from the machine and hand me back my card. If that's the standard card-experience, I can imagine why you think cash is quicker...

(At one shop I saw the machine accepted contactless; before the cashier could take my card I quickly paid contactless. The cashier was 50% flabbergasted and 50% upset and seriously doubted I actually paid, until the receipt rolled out to prove it).
Outside of Europe maybe. Inside, well, UK and France have already said no more ICE vehicles to be sold past 2040, and other countries are planning the similar (including India). That’s a big loss of market and consequent economy of scale.
It's more like "tax the guy whose work is being disproportionately rewarded in comparison to everyone else". I wouldn't argue with the idea of a doctor making more than a dishwasher, or possibly even a good hedge fund manager making more than a doctor. But 1,000 times more? No way!
Even the SEC realizes that not all token sales are securities. Some people in the industry simply aren't getting it, they are creating a straw man which the agency isn't even arguing for.

> The agency said that it would focus on coins that should be categorized as securities.

So there are all these people on the periphery just HOPING for their prophecy of a heavy handed government breaking the cryptocurrency rush.

They read the headlines.

They create the headlines.

They purposefully don't read the SEC report or consider any information to the contrary of what they are expecting.

Despite S.E.C. WARNING? This is an article about everyone getting smarter and restructuring their offering where necessary, and continuing to move forward.

Even the WARNING in the SEC's DAO report two weeks ago acknowledged that not all token offerings were securities. But detractors and regulated entities with a legitimate reason to be skittish, used it as the WELP SHOW'S OVER GUYS argument which is completely unfounded.

> Nick Morgan, formerly a lawyer in the S.E.C.’s enforcement division, said that the security label was likely to apply to any coin that an investor buys with the expectation that it will increase in value as a result of the efforts of the entrepreneurs who created it.

The SEC still answers to the courts, and this consolidation of capital will allow these new organizations to take it to the courts efficiently. The Howey test from the 1940s did not consider this kind of asset to ever exist. It isn't an end all be all, it is a test.

The SEC is not mandated by Congress to undermine interstate commerce, it is created to provide confidence. So far, they've been playing it smart.
Actually I think the hyper growth of the top 1% is attributed to development of Automation and globalization. Here is a brief explanation of how each move money to the top.

Technology - Here is a simple thought experiment. You have 10 cashiers each are paid $100 a day. The total expense for these workers are $1000. The store in total makes $10000 a day. The owner nets $9000 a day. New technology comes out that replaces workers, you now only need one machine that costs $100 to maintain a day. The store owner nets $9900. Now just imagine this kind of replacement happening at every level of society.

Globalization - With technology comes better ways to communicate with foreign countries with cheap labor. Take the same experiment but instead of replacing workers that cost $100 a day with machines, we replace them with foreign workers or undocumented immigrants which cost $1 a day. Your total expense is now $10 a day. The store owner now nets $9990 a day. This also happens at every level of society.

This is the cost of efficiency and technology.
Mazda is only working with Toyota on electric because they have to for compliance reasons in CAFE states. The CEO has quite recently panned EVs and said they will die when subsidies go away[1]. I'm sure they will produce a compliance-only vehicle available only in California and probably only for lease, like Honda has done with the clarity.

[1] http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1111876_mazda-exec-engin...
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."
-Phillip Brooks, echoed by JFK
As I wrote: It strengthens and enforces typical stereotypes which don't make life easier for the target demo.
Typically during BTC crashes even the best exchanges struggle to keep up with the load of people selling.
To add some more specific data to my parent, from http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/:

Inflation from 1946-1980 (34 year period): 322.6%
Inflation from 1983-2017 (34 year period): 145.9%
But a black hole has literally never been imaged.
I was raised during Communism in Bulgaria, and at that time, women had equal rights in my country unlike here in America or in some Western European countries! And this was the case well before I was born! Since 1945, women were stimulated to take traditionally male jobs - from operating heavy machinery to military training. My country was proud of women succeeding and even exceeding men in the full spectrum of life. But even during that well-established equality, women were nowhere to be found in Computer Science! It wasn't about abilities; it wasn't about opportunities - it was about desires and interest! Although many of the teachers were female, very few of the students were, too. And nobody - men or women, - thought something was wrong about that situation, and that something had to change! I believe there are a lot of parasitic organizations in the States that find existence in blowing non-issues out of proportions! Although we're equal in intellect, we're emotionally different, and we have different interests! So, to try to compensate for that artificially is harmful, not helping genders, races, or ethnicities in any way! If there are documented cases of bias, they need to be severely persecuted, but to "prove" bias by assuming that if mental abilities are the same, then women, blacks, and Bulgarians should be proportionally employed at Google as well, is a fallacy!
Or perhaps he is just turned into someone that doesn't think it's ok to shutdown someone just because they tell you something that's not the mainstream politically acceptable opinion... which is actually on of the foundations of his project since the beginning.
If only we had an executive branch focused on removing government regulation of business, and the deconstruction of the administrative state...
In Britain or Germany they both would be more moderate conservatives