skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Percentage of Bachelor’s degrees conferred to women, by major (1970-2012)
Wonderful! Thank you Andrew!

Now alongside Udacity, another set of classes with certificates - does anyone know if they hold any value to prospective employers? Last I've heard was that a recent PhD in ML was a must.
I'm glad these courses use python. I had a lot of trouble with Ng's machine learning course because I was trying to learn MATLAB language, remember long disused linear algebra, and trying understand the substance of the lessons all at the same time.
Acadmic citation guidelines have little to do with copyright (for example, my university requires me to cite public domain works -- despite there being no copyright on said works).

Most citations or reasonable quotations fall under fair use, but reproducing an entire work (and/or modifying it) fall under copyright infringement.
2 Israeli teens responsible for international cyber attacks
Paying with cash is faster.

Inserting your card, entering your pin, waiting a bit, getting some receipt printed, and finally signing it does take significantly longer than getting the right amount of change from a cashier who is used to doing this.

Paying with a debit card always makes you look a bit like a twat. It's similar to paying with a handful of coins.
Damn though they are _fun_
You missed the part when they are in holidays in Europa or Asia and realize that American whatever credit card is usually not accepted and they begin shouting at everyone what kind of third world country this is.

Disclaimer: I've seen exactly this a few times
Just to play devil's advocate, it might imply that women don't want to do the work.
Use of credit cards in the US really took off in 1980 when interest rates were deregulated[1], credit cards were then heavily promoted. I remember at that time, to use a credit card in a grocery store had a social stigma. But now, many people here rarely use cash.

What are the credit card interest rates in Germany? (In the US credit card interest rates can be 20-30%). Maybe there's less incentive to promote use of cards in Germany, or maybe transaction fees are regulated to make small transactions impractical?

[1] https://www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/bank/bt_9805.html
The article is missing one key piece: how are card payments developing over time? My personal experience is that things have changed rapidly over the last years with most larger stores now accepting credit cards and contactless payments are increasingly becoming normal (just months ago cashiers might have looked dumbfounded at you when waving your card over the reader).

It is also critical to note that Germany has some of the lowest prices for groceries. Shops have hence been very slow in offering credit card payments.
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The Marines have hired historians to write manuals on how their great works.
A lot of them are similar but then you have games like Fortnite which looks totally different.
The difference is between usable and reusable knowledge.

If every few years you have to throw away a good part of what your learned and redo it, taking big breaks becomes very hard.

You can do this in music because you start exactly where you stopped. In programming we haven't yet reached a state where knowledge of tools, frameworks and ecosystem can remain the same for years. Things change pretty rapidly here.
The courses are not yet live. Meanwhile, here is a list of 23 Deep Learning online courses aggregated (aggregated by my company):
https://www.class-central.com/report/deep-learning-online-co...

Also, link to Andrew Ng's original ML class: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning
If you are alleging that they photo-shopped these screenshots - it would be intellectually honest to present a proof, rather than just smear the source, because you don't like it.
Julian is not exactly example of perfect gentleman, but his was surely great move for his popularity.

Many women hate him already anyways, so not much was lost.

https://imgur.com/a/jy7BU
Contactless debit cards are a lot more reliable than phones, mainly because they have one unique job. My card plays up now and again but that is only since it went through the tumble dryer, which distorted the card and seems to have affected the reliability of the NFC chip, in practice this means I sometimes need to tap twice.
Congrats. The .mil & .biz folks have been acknowledged in what has been implicit in every advancement I've seen in the last 40 years. sci-fi pop fiction postulation and conjecture based on the science community brain trust. Most of these guys were consultants or engineers anyway and empowered to write. There are iconoclasts like Ellison and the visionaries but the hard science guys always get paid for their visions.
They may be creating their own highly detailed maps. In that case it would be a limitation of how much effort they have invested in generating the maps.
He left Baidu to start deeplearning.ai.
>Given the fact that men and women have a 50/50 balance, and given that many programs reach as close to perfect equality as they can, it seems obvious to me at least that they would be trying for a 50/50 distrobution between the sexes.

>If this isn't actually the case, then their PR should make it known, because the implications of the current system do make it seem like minorities may be given precedence at the expense of white or asian men.

You want them to go out of their way to clarify assumptions you are making about things they never claimed?
To be fair, in Brazil we usually prefer cards because of the risk of being robbed.
German living in UK here. I think the flaky-currency argument is non-sense. I see this argument mostly in anglo-american articles when the authors try to figure out why germans are still mostly cash-transactional.

I paid in cash back home mostly because it's faster. Cashiers are used to calculate the change and quick getting it out. CC/Debit card payments take a bit longer, since you almost only have chipped payments, get the device to work, enter pin, wait for receipt that you have to sign sometimes, etc. I was never pick pocketed on the street, so this wasn't an issue either.

I only started paying by card with the introduction of NFC/ "contactless" payments, since this one is faster.

Also, the UK coins are quite heavy having €10 worth of coins is half the volume at least compared to the old pounds.
I built a 2.5D engine back in about 2006 with SDL and C on OSX. It worked (eventually) and taught me a lot. It wasn't particularly clever but had collision detection and textures, the latter stolen from Wolf 3D of course. It's a valuable experience as a programmer.

What I never managed to understand was how they managed to get the performance they did out of the hardware. Mine crawled at a miserable 8fps at 640x480 on a 2GHz Core 2 Duo iMac.

Performance is where the magic in this really is! Can't wait for the book.
Link should be "mystavanger.com" rather than "mystavanfer.com"; once there, the site looks nice and there are a lot of really good photos.
Ask HN: Biggest wins when reducing cloud computing costs
I'm curious about the best ways people have found to reduce cloud infrastructure costs.

Has moving from a third-party service to a self-managed solution been worth the additional work required? What about simply shopping around and switching from one vendor to another?
LGPL isn't enough for a runtime unless your entire runtime is dynamically linked. Either GPL or LGPL with runtime exception works fine though (that's what libc and others have, I believe).

That is, they added an exception saying that if you use it in a certain way (unmodified, runtime for compiled code), then it's exempt from many of the GPL's clauses. Used in any other way, however, and you must comply with the (L)GPL
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Sure, both things are totally fine and valid to say.

Attitudes like yours have polarized me to the extent that now I just say, "I'm super racist, here's what I think:" just to see people's confused reactions.
Can't believe I'm saying this... but what an acquisition for GM. Masterful potential future pivot
Depending on the merchant and the bank, debit cards might not work. For example, the debit card from my bank will not work if used to pay at Amazon (allegedly the bank is too strict about payment details and Amazon doesn't provide something). I had to get a credit card specifically because of this (the debit card works everywhere else I tried it).
Handling cash is not free either, it also comes with transaction costs.
Yes, it really distracted away from the core lessons of that course.
So then based on the admittance data Asians have it easiest? Must be due to discrimination in their favor, not because they are pressured to get good grades and do well. Surely you see the hypocrisy of such a position?
This sounds like that weird right-wing notion of "censorship", that has become popular recently. Let me elaborate a little…

When I hear "censorship" I am thinking of government agents sitting in newspaper editorial rooms striking out all statements in an article that does not align with the government's point of view. It means actively suppressing certain kinds of information from being distributed.

What is happening here, looks more like this: a Google employee publishes an email. Lots of people in the company find the content objectionable. Subsequently they decide that they do not want to work with somebody having these opinions. I do not see, how that is even close to censorship. It is not like he has a right to keep that particular job. He can still go out on the street and shout his opinion at the crowd.

Censorship, intimidation & oppression are very strong words to describe a situation, where somebody lost their job, because they wrote an objectionable essay on a company mailing list.

There is a difference between a right to express your opinion, which I support, and a right not to face any resistance or social consequences for voicing that same opinion. The latter of which is made up by the political right trying to relabel it as "free speech".

You can't cry censorship every time you are criticized for something you said. And let's be honest here: white men with regressive points of view are still not particularly threatened of not being heard. After all, they are well represented in pretty much every single powerful institution like parliaments, courts and executive boards. They'll manage to get their opinion heard, I'm afraid.
I don't even know what is the rate on my credit card. I use it all the time. I just pay back the full amount every month. I think that's the best way to use it. You don't need to carry cash. You don't need to pay interest.
Might also check the page rank of the domain. If it was used previously you might be surprised how loathe search engines are to direct requests to you.
Well, it depends. Are you claiming there is a biological difference between men and women that explains the gap in veterinary medicine? If so then yes, I would say that is your claim.
In addition to selling purchase history, CC companies may also be (at least partially) funding the rewards with transaction fees.

Some cards (e.g. Amazon Store Card) get you relatively high rewards at a specific vendor (Amazon). I predict there are special deals in place with the banks/transaction processors involved that make these rewards more possible.
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The story is currently at "1600 points by QUFB 14 hours ago | 2129 comments" so your take away that you can't discuss this topic is indeed ironic.
100 times over, but by 100 different silo-ed datastores... so its hard to equivalent draw conclusions needed for AV's in a city.

not to mention the biggest complexity is still understanding deviations from said-detailed environments.
I wonder what would be the comments if the title would swap men and women. Definitly this would top HN
You can still buy the oyster card with cash however, right?

Now try catching a bus late at night after the shops close - what a silly system.
Does anyone know why does 2.5D ray-casting perspective in Wolfenstein 3D look so much better than a typical 3D perspective (usual matrix)? When you turn around staying on a single spot, walls aren't changing their size in Wolfenstein 3D, whereas they do in any 3D FPS...
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Google employee fired for divisive ‘anti-diversity’ memo about women in tech
I guess I should photoshop more people in my stock facebook placeholder :^(
On the rare occasions I pay for high cost items in cash, it hurts. I can definitely see the value in paying with cash if you area trying to stick to a budget
Bitcoin uses a fixed amount on energy correlated to the number of miners and their hash capacity.

As more miners join, more power is used. But at the same time, miners could be removed, and hash capacity lowered, and the number of transactions per hour would be still the same.

So: energy used: number of miners. Transaction capacity: block size.

Both things are orthogonal. One number is independent of the other.

Right now the protocol is being updated to increase transactions per hour, and this has little to do with the number of miners.

To resume: if the world's economies ran on Bitcoin, because of some big transaction capacity increase, then the energy used would be about the same, because miners would be about the same.

Energy use in Bitcoin has no correlation with number of transactions processed.
Should have [2009] in the title.
I'm not a lawyer but my understanding is that copying semantics could still be argued as creating a derivative work. This is what e.g. Whisper Systems claimed before publishing an axolotl spec, that anyone implementing the spec was doing so by deducing the semantic meaning of a copyleft piece of software and thus was a derivative work of said copyleft piece of software. This meant that the resulting binary was covered under the copyleft license (GPLv3 in that case, but my understanding of EPL is similar) https://medium.com/@wireapp/axolotl-and-proteus-788519b186a7

I don't know if Rich or the other Clojure copyright holders care enough to ever make trouble, but I'm pretty sure most companies with a decent legal team would think thrice before offering a piece of code built using Ferret

GCC has already solved the problem the other commenter you mention brings up with the runtime library exception https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception-faq.html but I don't know if you can tack this on to the clojure-derived parts of ferret. I sure wish SFLC or someone was able to do legal counselling for new/small projects like this, I feel like a big reason people shy away from copyleft isn't the hippie dippie bullshit but because these interactions are impossible to reason about by laypersons
Half the planet is trying to outlaw encryption and private networking and this is the battle for censorship Assange is picking?
I am 31 too! :D And although I like travelling I haven't done much of it in the past year because guess what, I am getting a house too. But I am getting it built which prevents me from moving until its completed. So, I did the layout, interiors, etc. I enjoy it!

Working on an automation system for the house using ESP8266 behind every socket and learning Elixir, React Native, etc. along the way.

I also get to work on Self-Driving Cars, Hydroponics and other stuff I like.

This would not have been possible if I was stuck at a 9-5. I work remotely and independently.

Tim did Tango and Vagabonding because maybe thats what made him happy. Being a te(/a)cky guy I am doing all things geeky to make me happy. :)
But why would they care? Stripe does payments every 3 days or so and you can easily create more accounts. I never ever checked my credit card history, and I assume many people who only use it as secondary payment system don't. It's easy as fuck therefore IMO a valid scenario.
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Do you also have the other markers?

It's not like a single marker determines everything.

It's not even like having ALL markers means one is 100% depressed.

It merely gives you a confidence score in the person being depressed.
Climate change report leaked
This would be considered sexist harassment in some circles.

update: LMAO - it's been flagged and killed. It's almost like the left ignores science when convenient just like the right does.
Lighthouse > pagespeed https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/
Nice. Maybe kilo? https://github.com/antirez/kilo
I guess it is possible that he's is claiming they are capable but their biology makes them not want to do it. I don't think it's a very likely interpretation, and even if it is a correct interpretation, I don't really think it is a difference in kind.
> Last I've heard was that a recent PhD in ML was a must.

Nope, personally know a lot of people who work in Machine Learning roles at the big 5 companies without a PhD.

Although specifically they did not have any of these courses on their resume. They did however have various ML projects which these courses can lead to.
Obliviousness to the world at age 30 is inevitable? Hardly.

At age 31 the author just wrote a whole book based on her naivete, apparently without a mea culpa or inquiry into how that did or could happen, even after an Ivy League education.

I persist; inexcusable.
Pretty much every national chain, especially supermarkets, accepts credit cards. You won't have as much luck at owner-operated stores or restaurants. Berlin is probably the most card-friendly place in Germany by the way.
That however is because of your American card and not the POS systems usually not asking.

I have to verify any transaction over 20$ with my Swiss credit card for example. Even on contactless
Anybody have a clue when these will actually be up? I really enjoyed his ML course.
It is already attractive enough for all the hackers in the world to try. And they do. The underlying technology is secure.
Its ironic, today we could really use a paper "in defense of fuzzy logic"
Alot of urban areas are very provincial.
Brands have meaning only through the associations people make with that brand over time. This is determined by advertising, PR, word of mouth, products/services the brand offers, and more. The actual brand is just an empty container for these associations.
Here in Scotland, I pay nothing to get any prescription dispensed; Wales and Northern Ireland also lack prescription charges. Wales's abolition of charges actually saved money (because they could get rid of the means-testing infrastructure).
This is a really dumb argument. First of all Sanskrit has a precise definition in Indian culture. It is Sanskrit ("perfected" or perhaps more appropriately "systemized") as opposed to Prakrit ("natural") language because it is described in a descriptive grammar, the Ashtadhyayi ("eight chapters") of Panini. Paninis work was emended in some places by Katyayana in his Vartika and as both of these are in the terse, sutra format, they were explained more thoroughly by Patanjali in the Mahabhashya ("Great commentary.") These three works are the formal definition of Sanskrit. Today Brahmanas like me mostly do not study these but a 15th century reorganization called Siddhanta Kaumudi ("Moonlight of the Correct Principles") by Bhattoji Dikshita (or abridged versions thereof.) but nevertheless the formal grammar set by muni traya ("three sages") Panini, Katyayana, and Patanjali define what is Sanskrit.

So there is no such thing as Rgvedic Sanskrit and proto-Indo-European is certainly not Sanskrit even though they are obviously antecedents of it.

As an analogy take COBOL where you can have English-sounding text such as "ADD 1000000 TO BANK-ACCOUNT." Yet you would not sound very smart if you said "The first use of COBOL is in the Canterbury Tales." If you needed to lookup COBOL syntax you would not consult Shakespeare despite the fact that probably all of the words in COBOL already exist in early English literature.

An ironic thing the author could have pointed out is that Panini's birthplace was near Lahore. So in "cultural nationalist" terms one could say Sanskrit is a Pakistani language! But this is really about politics not scholarship and unfortunately politics makes otherwise intelligent people deranged.
> "If you gave me a bag of money, I wouldn't sell" shouldn't be taken literally. If you offered 10 million dollars for 1 million dollar property I'm sure many of those baby boomers would sell.

The context seems to imply something deeper than that, a complete non-interest in selling:

> “Give me $2 million,” the homeowner replies. “I don’t want no low number.”

> It turns out the price is for the whole block. Even then, the potential seller has second thoughts.

> “I wouldn’t sell even if you gave me $2 million — this is my retirement,” he says. “If you gave me a bag of money, I wouldn’t sell.”
I also think/thought like that.

But if banks wanted, they could actually track the serial codes on the bills around. And since often cash is used in only 1 hop (so ATM -> you -> shop -> bank) they could know pretty well where you spent your money.

A quick reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9948081

E.g. about China: "According to schedule, by late 2015, the serial number of every Rmb100 note withdrawn from banks by members of the public can be traced."
Yeah I think I was confused
To address your specific concerns regarding "learning the maths": that's a bit disingenuous from the people stating it. It is actually logic they are talking about, rooted in the discrete math branch. For seL4 you can actually read the proofs and their conclusions: http://sel4.systems/Info/FAQ/proof.pml. It's a lot of (structural) induction style proofs. That page will be a good starting point and just google around for missing holes as you need.
Maybe it's the valley, maybe it's been the luck of my draws... Whenever politics surface in the companies I've worked for, it's assumed I'd agree with people's liberal takes. This is both overt and conversational, jovial, and other random conversations and comments. The undercurrent is always liberally bent. I feel that and have always leaned left (in most ways, but not all), although I'm starting to have my doubts as the left seems to want to go hard left with identity politics.
Direct link to the pdf: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/climate/2017/climate-rep... seemed very slow loading, so a mirror could be appreciated if this becomes popular
A company staffed by racists will by boycotted by the majority of consumers. Its only customers will be other racists.

Plus, most other companies will refuse to supply goods and services to it lest they feel the backlash of catering to racists.

Not exactly a feasible venture.
> Here is a copy of the memo

A copy that conveniently leaves out all the links and citations, as well as several graphs and charts.

And while they do note that "two charts and several hyperlinks are also omitted", one of those charts is quite important given that it's right before he starts going on about how men and women differ on average, but that

"Populations have significant overlap. Reducing people to their group identity and assuming the average is representative ignores this overlap (this is bad and I don't endorse that)"

Anyway, here's the full thing, links and charts included:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...
I think Mongoose was called mongoose before mongo db plugin existed.

https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose - that's the project from which Mongoose OS stems.
I've had this in my bookmarks. I believe it was discussed once here on HN:
http://webdevchecklist.com/
We can fix it. I have started a git repo for this https://github.com/michaelchristophernewyork/probability

please help clean up if you have time.