skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's on the Internet Archive, sources don't get much more credible than that: https://web.archive.org/web/20170807163817/http:/people.terr...
Yes. Unless your future job or other expected application of the knowledge will require you to memorize and instantaneously recall the information, it makes no sense to test that way. An open book test still tests your general familiarity with and understanding of the material (without those things you won't be able to perform adequately within the time limit, due to not knowing where to start/what to look up/how to look it up).
I remember cracking up laughing when he described Germany's proposed austerity measures as 'fiscal waterboarding' - such a vivid description.
You referenced G. Edward Griffin's book, which implicitly points to him as an authority on the subject so I think that its completely acceptable to question his authority. (I'm more familiar with ad hominem as an attack on the person giving the argument, i.e. you, not someone they reference as an authority)

I'm also not aware of James Watson's wacky ideas about biology. I know he has some controversial and maybe racist ideas about intelligence, but I don't think any of his ideas about biology are described as quackery.

And its about Bayesian inference, sometimes the mainstream is wrong. Not as often as it's right, but sometimes it's wrong. Sometimes people without credentials make large contributions to a field, not nearly as often as the credentialed make contributions but sometimes. Rarely a conspiracy theorist is right. But I think people who maybe don't know that much about economics should at least be aware of his position in the field before investing considerable amount of time reading his book.

Maybe vaccines cause autism, but it's a weird place to start a biology education.
That's income tax!

You are mixing the end taxes with only a type of tax in order to try and prove your argument.
Fun to read some of these reviews, apparentl from random internet folk, like on jungle boogie - https://archive.org/details/78_jungle-boogie_the-bobby-true-...

Some guy just wanted to tell everyone some neat little facts about this thing he apparently knows a lot about. I find it fascinated how much people care to know about things like this.

EDIT: whoever this "arc-alison" character is, they're prolific - I'm finding their informational reviews all over this archive.
If this is true, it's still seems to me a non-story. A tenured professor wanted to break the university's rules... and wasn't allowed to.
That's what makes it a very good book!
Please see my reply in another sub-thread.
I like scrutiny: http://peacockmedia.software/mac/scrutiny/

It is a mac desktop app

It will do the most generic checking (dead links, spelling, site maps, ...) leaving the more nuanced for either a person or a custom script
Dear Dang,

> When you say 'white Christians' you're changing the subject in a particularly trollish wa

No, it is not trollish, not at all. It's exactly what they are doing and IDK what is different with my example. 'Religion' is also often used as a polite way to target ethnicity. Which is also reflected in my example (and exaggerated to make it clear).

Dang, I think I brought some valid points and I would be happy to hear your/YC's opinion without sticking to some rethoric nuances of my post. Since YC is invested there might be some bias on your side.

This idea discriminates and strongly creates stereotypes. If latter is wrong please let me know why. Or Sam may reply.

I can't stop such ideas but I can kindly ask people like you who represent HN why you back such businesses.

You can answer, you can ban or shadowban me and/or censor this post. But whatever you do I would be happy about a response.

Just imagine I would be one of the bigger LPs of YC (before shadowbanning me).

To the downvoters: just keep on, I don't care.

EDIT: regarding you other point

> There are plenty of apps for Christians, as for all other kinds of specialized markets.

They are also just plainly wrong. The subtle difference is that YC is in none of them invested. And for some very good reason.
There are no neutral journalism. If you want a reporting of facts unbiased by opinions, it would be "viral Google employee memo on the subject of diversity recruitment." Any editorial on the matter would necessarily make a subjective evaluation.

I'm torn by the two sides. On one hand I see the rational and level headed language in the memo versus the reactionary bait-click headlines. On the other hand I sense a mens' rights argument at the core of the memo that isn't very organized. The memo argued against discrimination against men in the hiring process, then suggested creating roles that won't fit the stereotypical male. That's discrimination at the role creation process! If google followed that advice, the author would still have something to be against.

The central point of the memo, from what I read, was that any gender discrimination to hire more women in the workplace necessarily discriminates against the men that would have otherwise gotten the job. Sure he made some good ideas for how to hire more women. But no matter how reasonable the language he used to couch his message, the essence was still against diversity because it will hurt the job opportunities of men.

Another underlying assumption here is that the technical merits of a candidate is the overriding quality to be considered for hiring. And since the pool of qualified applicants are male dominated, then any bias in hiring women will hurt the obviously qualified men. If technical abilities follow a normal distribution (and why not?), then more highly qualified men will be discriminated.

However, technical ability is not the only overriding quality and Google is trying to take the diversity of the team into account during the hiring process. Thus, Google is taking a grander view of not just considering the individual merit of the applicant, but applicant's impact to the team composition as well. This is equivalent to someone in Overwatch who has high stats in a game that won't change his character/behavior even though he does not help the team. Say the player has high elimination stats because they are fighting away from the main fight where his team is at a disadvantage (say holding down the point).

This is a textbook case of the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. People who agree with the memo focuses on the parts. They think "hire more great parts = better team." But team composition is actually more important. People who labels the memo as anti-diversity are in favor of team comp, whether they know it or not.

But personally, the most important point of diversity for me is the end of sausage fest at work. Group conversations with one dominant gender day in day out kind of suck. This applies to either gender.
Did you read it in the original Chinese, or the English translation? I haven't read either, but it's possible that the English version misses a lot of nuance from the original version.

(It's also quite possible the original is crap, and the translation is doing a very adequate job.)
Turbos are definitely taking hold in the American auto industry as well, with stuff like the Chevy Sonic and Fiesta/Focus really making good use of them with tiny engines. The 2015 Focus had an option for a 1L, 3 cylinder engine with a turbo for commuters. Great stuff.
Questions around the solvency of bitfinex have been circulating for years. Do they even allow USD withdrawals at present? Their actions are weirdly reminiscent of the long fall of mt gox.
Well, cards can be canceled and fraudulent payments reversed. The same can't be said of cash.
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Just curious, what's the copyright on this kind of material?
I initially thought this had something to do with Bill Gates and Windows. But it just has to do with Windows.
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Makes no difference I think. Burden of proof is on the emitter.
Matt Levine at Bloomberg has it explained perfectly: The ICO emitters seem to have no idea that once the SEC declares an ICO to be a security, any US-person investor who had put their money in such an unregistered security and lost some, is entitled by the full force of the law to all of their $, paid back in full...
One of the great lessons I've learned in life is that you can't change other people. Indeed in this case it seems like the "old boys club" in software development is the result of the gender balance not the cause. I can't think of a single male dominated profession that isn't seen in that light.

If we're serious about fixing the ratio it needs to be done with policy and young, well before students graduate highschool.
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The problem is projects like these: http://bitqyck.me/ A classic hard-sell 80s pump and dump scam reborn in the ETH era.
Bitqyck came to my attention through a family friend with very limited understanding of cryptocurrency, but just enough financial literacy to be in an investment group being fed these scams by people they trust as technical leadership. I imagine, ultimately, these people will demand protection from having to vet ICOs themselves, and twenty years later there will be an awesome movie about this time starring Leo DiCaprio.
It seems the text was revoked as it was in violation of university policy.
this is not the first time microsoft has done this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX

one could even argue they are somewhere between the embrace and extend phase.
I know it's nitpicking but Rewe has accepted credit cards since 2007.
At this point there's no way to prevent Bitcoin speculation so people might as well give up on using it as a medium of exchange.
Be careful, you might be blacklisted! Remember, thoughtcrime is still crime.
I came here to wonder the same. Is the key word in this sentence "cannot" or "currently"?

Do they to force win32 to continue to be a viable server platform, by forever restricting reliable Linux daemons, or do they eventually want to allow Windows to be a viable Linux server?
I don't recommend dating coworkers, I recommend befriending coworkers and cautiously dating their friends.

Dating apps work OK if you're average to above average in attractiveness, writing skills, and flirting, and you can keep your anxiety in check.

If you're below average in some of those areas, you need to be in non-romantic group settings so that people can observe you move confidently in space and become attracted to you. That means hobbies.

> I don't understand how it's so commonplace for people to go on 10-20 dates

Yeah, I guess I was thinking about online dating. The in person stuff is slightly different. If you volunteer for environmental restoration every weekend, you will go on 10-20 "dates" over the course of 50 weekends, while pulling up invasive species next to someone who is a little bored. That will be your first date. If you like each other, you just have to say yes to more opportunities to be with them, and they'll be doing the same, and you'll eventually get to a "real" date.

Do your best to look cute before you show up to these events, and get your mental health in order beforehand. Events with physical activity help with both of those things.

> I have a hard time reconciling all my feedback with the notion that I'm part of some exceedingly rare group that is undatable.

Yeah, no, doesn't sound like you're in that category. From what you're saying it sounds like you're just missing the 10-20 first dates thing.
I find it ironic that while he wants Facebook and Google regulated like utilities, he also supports getting rid of Net Neutrality.
I see BTC as the crypto reserve currency, so it would make sense for the others to fall with it.
>And since they appear to have used the willful misrepresentation of what he wrote as the reason.

Wouldn't this help Google's case. Employers are allowed to fire at will employees for any reason, or no reason, except for specific reasons specified in law.

As far as I am aware, there is no law against fire an employee for being publicly accused of engaging in political speech (or whatever other behaviour Google wants to cite). The laws are only speak to fireing in retaliation for actual conduct.

Of course, this might be one of those cases where the courts take a more holistic look and determine that the laws also protects employees accused of the behaviours, regardless of if they engaged in them. Also, while the memo was misrepresented, the misrepresentation is not so egregious as to make this a slamdunk arguement in this case, even if it were an accepted legal theory in general.
None of them are right, but some of them are useful.

Many of their followers forget the fact that they are thinking in simplified models. If reality seems to contradict the model, it is because the reality is somehow deficient from the ideal of the model and if we could only just shape reality to be closer to the model...or so most economic arguments seem to go especially when it comes to public policy.

Wikipedia is actually pretty good at being a neutral source in this area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schools_of_economic_thought

Understand the implications of the inevitable simplifications and you'll avoid drinking anyone's Kool-Aid.
Exactly. Consider the extreme case where your employer is your doctor (ick, but bear with me). They give you free doctor services for being an employee.

"You got a 20% raise this year, because this year I 'billed' you $15k for the medical services and comped it, while last year I 'billed' you $5k and comped it. (Cash salary of $45k.) Yes, the service was physically the same but we wrote it down as being worth a lot more!"

Did you really get a raise? You don't know, because that "fee" is almost entirely unhinged from actual market dynamics. That's an extreme version of the current situation, but illustrates why it's not the same as increased real compensation.
A universe peppered with black holes may also explain the Fermi paradox. A terrifying but logical thought.
And lose their jobs, mortgages, insurance, etc., to low scoring resulting from data mining.
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/historical-highest...

It seems plausible that over a long term, the top marginal tax rate can have a non-linear affect on growth. If safe returns on investments outpace inflaction+taxes, then you have exponential runaway of inequality.

Between 1980 and 1982 the top marginal tax rate dropped from 70% to 50%. This is a large change in a short period of time, and the tax rate drops continued until 1989 when 28% was the top rate.

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There is a similar, but less drastic pattern for capital gains: https://www.fool.com/retirement/2017/02/11/a-95-year-history...
Article which talks about the black hole simulation in Interstellar: https://www.wired.com/2014/10/astrophysics-interstellar-blac...
> 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.

That doesn't include how much you spend exactly. And it only works most of the time (what if my money gets used as change for another customer?).
I checked his LinkedIn page beforehand and it indicates he has a Phd.

Regardless, I wouldn't consider this mistake to be like 'these mistakes' I discuss in the article.
Being "educated" about what happened historically is also acknowledging what's changed for the better. Pre 1964 I'd certainly agree institutional racism existed, because you could point to policy, directives, and laws that were used to actively discriminate. I challenge you to find that now in Google or any other U.S. company, educational institution, or government agency. The G.I. Bill issue is largely rooted in Disparate Impact, which continues to be a gray area.
current service mesh users - do you prefer having these capabilities as features of container orchestration platform or do you see value in having choice over the service mesh for your use? how did you pick the service mesh you use currently?
I have noticed the same. In these cultures it's more acceptable to be interested in such things. Probably because financial success is more important in such countries, gender stereotypes be damned.

Still, it proves that a better gender ratio is definitely possible in the US as well
I don't like NPR's attitude of conflating social anxiety of meeting a random bunch of people and whether they're going to accept you with racial issues.

This makes me like them significantly less.
We found the common terminology is Muslim dating even though the intent is very different, kind of like how the smartphone is simply called "phone" but isn't (largely) used for that purpose

All of those features are optional, to most it's very much fun and light
We have the big and beautiful 280 between Mountain View and San Francisco, and I thank goodness every time I make my way to the city for it. I'd never go the speeds on my bike I do on 280 anywhere else, but it's just such a gosh darn huge road I get to make a 45-60 minute trip in like 30 minutes.
I wonder more about how this data affects what the people they know see.
Everybody and their brother with a soundboard has stated an opinion about ICOs and the SEC guidance. Literally anyone influential has said something and if they haven't, expect them to say it tomorrow.

The gradient of opinions is just as abstract as the weeks before.

It would be a mistake to take that as canonical just because you respect that particular entrepreneur's non sequitur criticism of existing token sales. When the argument is that not all token sales are securities offerings, not even the SEC has made that mistake, and the argument is that new token sales don't have to be securities offerings, but they can be too.

Here is what the SEC will never get: they will never get investor protection from this asset class. Their entire regulatory framework is around that.

Congress can modify the SEC's mandate to support this. Congress can create a completely new agency and regulatory framework to provide for more applicable confidence and protections in this asset class.

The SEC will never ever ever use the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as currently written to ensure a fair market of all cryptographic token issuances.
How much power do you guys all think a minister of finance has?

In almost every government, its an executive/cabinet level position which means all his power derives from the President or Prime Minister. He doesn't take independent action, as he has no independent power.
the intelligence community has had a very long history of writing fiction novels as ways to communicate some of their realities. see john le carre
> It’s also “highly rational” for the NK leadership to run a autocratic dictatorship, brutally crack down on dissidents...

Maybe it is rational. NK situation is very fragile. To keep it they need to minimize risks of some riots or disobedience to the government. I think you are confusing terms "moral behaviour" and "rational behaviour". One can be completely immoral and at the same time highly rational.

> 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

Maybe I misunderstood something but article you are referring to claims that US take their part in breaking the agreement. I reason from that, that blaming NK in breaking an agreement and marking NK as uncooperative and unwilling to deescalate is just wrong.

> in their current political position NK has little reason to negotiate in good faith.

NK has a lot of reasons to negotiate. But NK cannot let itself to show weakness in initiating negotiations and taking one-sided deescalation steps. Its the rules of deescalation. Peaceful process of deescalation can be initiated by strongest side only, and at least first steps should be reciprocal and reciprocal not on the paper but in reality too, judging by results of that steps. If weakest party try to start it would be the sign of weakness, sign of relying on mercy, and the result of such a try might be the reverse -- futher escalation from strongest in hope that weakest just die from terror and drops all his claims. If weakest party start deescalating it would bury all his hope for some sort of compromise.
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Looking at the "about" page for the project, it explains that they're using a special turntable with 4 styli that can record simultaneously. So it doesn't really increase the workload by 4 times to archive in this more thorough way.

https://archive.org/details/georgeblood&tab=about
> especially the US south, that specific narrative /.../ has usually indicated that somebody's about to

Stereotyping is ok, as long as we are doing it for the right reasons. For us, there's no need to consider the personality and the content of the message, as long as we can label him a Nazi because couple of words matched.

> Online people tend to take off the mask and you get actual Holocaust denial.

Wow, it's Holocaust denial now. Gowdin, save me!

> It's this specific story or narrative that Marxist intellectuals were trying to use class warfare to gain power, and when it failed they shifted to promoting race and gender based politics to gain power, that is very troubling for me due to repeated experience

Let's see. Do Marxist intellectuals participate in race and gender based politics? Yes they do. Do they want to have power? Of course they do, what's the point of getting into politics if not getting power and getting policies you like enacted? So what exactly makes you a conspirologist Nazi when you mention these obvious - and entirely unsurprising for anybody who knows what "Marxist" and "politics" means - facts?

> Citing it offhand as a commonplace makes me wonder whether he shares the same intellectual influences

Nope, nope. You didn't just "wonder whether he shared influences" (if you go far enough, everybody shared influences, otherwise we couldn't even communicate), you said his claims were literally Nazi talking points and connected to antisemitic conspiracy. Which is not true at the least, the only common thing is the basic facts which no sane person would deny. After recognizing those facts, the actual Nazis go way off course of the facts into the looney bin territory, and invent crazy conspiracies like Jews being behind all this to take over the world. The author does nothing of the sort. Yes, they both start with the same facts. That's because facts are facts, they are independent of who recognizes them. It's where you take it from there is important. The Nazis take it into craziness, as is their way, the manifesto author does not.
Totally

Don't get me started on email..!
> measures inflation based on a basket of goods bought by the "average" consumer. Most of these goods are in competitive markets

> I've suspected that maybe a simple way to fix this would be (snip) to drop money out of helicopters.

Wouldn't a simple way to fix this, be to change the relative importance of the "basket of goods" so that it reflects what real people actually spend money on?

Because housing, healthcare, and daycare/education when totaled should probably be 60-75+% of that basket, since that's where most people's money actually goes. Based on this - https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf - the percentages the Fed currently uses seems far, far too low.

The cost of gasoline going up 50%, or the cost of laptops going up 50% is far less hurtful than say, the cost of rent going up 50%, or the cost of healthcare going up 50%. I suspect if we used realistic numbers for inflation cost calculations, we'd see the real rate is far higher than is currently claimed, which would help economists better understand why so many people are suffering so much under a "good" economy.