skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> when women weren't expected to be a significant economic contribution to the household.

This is wrong. One, domestic labor is still economic activity. Economy used to refer solely to the activities of maintaining a household. Ironic how it has been transformed so that unpaid labor is not considered economic.

Two, proletariat women have always been expected to and have contributed a wage to the household. This is on top of being expected to perform all unpaid domestic labor. The idea of a woman who only works at home was a middle class and upper class phenomenon.

A strong impact on how women's work was divided was the advance in technology that vastly reduced the amount of domestic labor required to maintain a household.
But you pay those transaction fees whether or not you use a credit card. I believe there are even laws against charging more for paying with a credit card (beyond just having credit card minimum like you see at delis and mom and pop shops).

Yet another example of wealth transfer in the US from the poor (who often don't have credit cards, or don't have the high rewards ones because they cost $150+ dollars a year) to the upper middle class.
Anecdotally, my neighborhood has 115 homes. No sales in 2 years. No homes listed at the moment.

Average age of owners is about 55.
Hell, I'd go a step farther: I don't even particularly like software development as a career, but I picked up programming early because I liked it as a hobby and needed to program & assemble computers & configure servers to do stuff I wanted to do and... it just became the path of least resistance to a decent-paying career. It's hard to turn away from it when you're just walking into places cold in high school and college and landing relatively high-paying jobs on the first try, but I definitely didn't choose it like sitting down and saying "I want to be a software developer, so I better learn programming now". FFS I did most of a Poli-Sci/IS degree my first attempt at college because actual classes about programming/computers seemed like an intolerably dull thing to do (I was proven right when I later picked up my CS degree—god was it boring).

So,

> Like, I didn't choose to go into software development and so learnt to code, I chose to go into software development because I could code.

Yep.
A lot of the immigrants I know are very pro-America. Unsurprising when you consider that, unlike most America-detractors, we have first-hand experience with how miserable other parts of the world can be.
I use IntelliJ with Cursive, I have had to do zero configuration, it just works with lein projects.

I will eventually switch to Spacemacs and CIDER once I've really honed my Clojure skills, but for starting out Cursive was what allowed me to learn Clojure in the first place.
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I am sure others have had the issue where you shop around for free versions of prescriptions only to have the insurer tell you to sign up for 90 day supply with a cost. They seem rather insistent on it but there have been no repercussions for my ignoring them
Most generic co-pays for medication also are about $10-$12.
I found this quite hard to read despite the interesting content, mainly due to the animated gifs inserted throughout the article. It's very hard to focus on a line of text when there's an image darting around on the page. I wonder why the author decided to include them?
$45k a year, untaxed, for what, a few minutes of work per day? Sign me up. There are professional pickpockets all over the world, that make a healthy living off of it.

Also, average monthly salary in Germany is $2666. Sounds WAY more profitable to be a pickpocket.
A few years ago I was living in the UAE and I was surprised that cheques were so common. When you rent an apartment you typically give post-dated cheques for each quarter at the start of the year.

It sounds a bit crazy, but by law if a cheque bounces it was a criminal offence (I believe they recently changed it or were thinking about it).

There are a lot of interesting advantages to this, as you can effectively escrow cash without a third party. If you receive a cheque you know you can always (or should always) being able to cash it in.
Tim Sweeny has been doing the game engine thing a long time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZZT
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Power 9? Last I looked no one was even selling power 8 on the retail scale. Tyan had some finished? Systems kind of sort of available? And that was it. I thought IBM had stated they wanted to challenge and take Intel on in the data center and cloud space. But they sure are not doing a very good job. Sham because the hardware is a breath of fresh air.
False. Once a bank acquires title to a property they are legally liable for the property tax. Local governments can (and have) foreclose on REO properties for failure to pay property tax.
Perhaps not even for Thailand; I just happen to know of this particular episode. But regardless, Buddhism's influence there certainly didn't start 14 years ago!
> It's worth remembering that one of his conclusions was to end or replace gender-based diversity programs at Google. Given that, it's easy to understand why people would be upset. If gender-based diversity programs are responsible for qualified women getting jobs that they otherwise wouldn't have gotten due to bias, then the lack of that program means those women wouldn't have gotten those jobs.

Wouldn't the same be true about any non-optimal hiring practices and procedures though?

Google is pretty famous for constantly evaluating and tuning their hiring processes, because presumably - they sometimes fail to hire qualified people, and sometimes hire unqualified people. They want to tune their process so they are as close to 0 as humanly possible for each of those cases.

Maybe the guy is a sexist and racist asshole, I don't know him - but if I give him the benefit of the doubt and read him charitably, I take it to mean he's saying gender-based diversity programs might produce worse ratios of qualified/unqualified hires, and unqualified/qualified passes than some of his other proposals. In other words, tune the hiring process, as it relates specifically to diversity hires, to improve the ratio of qualified/unqualified workers.

I have no idea if that idea is crazy or sensible, but it doesn't strike me as being obviously one way or the other. I'm sure with all the attention this is getting somebody, somewhere, who may be experts in these things could offer their take on it.
>"each Googler to do their utmost to create a workplace culture that is free of harassment, intimidation, bias and unlawful discrimination.”

Which part did he break exactly? Bias? Seems like something that can be construed to mean basically any ideology or opinion, conservative or liberal.
I dispute that corporations must function as a profit-making enterprise over all other concerns. A good company's first priority is employee happiness. Happy employees = hefty profits: https://www.forbes.com/sites/meghanbiro/2014/01/19/happy-emp...
You ever try the Economist? A good science section, plus global politics, economics and culture. Don't let the title put you off.
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So a cluster of modern cores could approach a UNIVAC...
It's common in clinical and academic language. There's a certain kind of creep who uses them to describe social relationships, usually in a reactionary way. The clinical connotation coupled with the regressive opinions has turned it into a red flag of sorts for when someone's about to say something gross about humans.

Depending on the context, one norm is more relevant than the other.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14956811 and marked it off-topic.
Full, unedited document. Gizmodo did a hatchet job ar taking charts and links out.
People should read it and then apply reason to it.
Difficult when we get into cult-like mob mentality.

James Damore document: [https://medium.com/@Cernovich/full-james-damore-memo-uncenso...]
The population is ageing, so it would be surprising if the share of houses owned by older people wasn't rising. The population has risen by a hundred million since the seventies, which may well have increased competition for houses. It's possible owner-occupiers refuse to sell because they enjoy having somewhere to live.
but hatred for the government isn't an archetypal right-wing sentiment. Perhaps a libertarian one, to which I would agree (or maybe not hatred, more distrust). Is your main point that the GP said "modern left" where they should have said "progressive" or "far-left"?
Does not really explain the Japan case.
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Read the original memo. The author doesn't say - or imply -
that any section of population is inferior to some other. The author only argued that the diversity policies at Google are irrational, create bad atmosphere (resulting in basically the reverse of the stated goals) and hurt their business.
> I wanted to ask is if we take gender based affirmative action, would that explicit form of action be consider moral when made into a general rule rather than applied locally by specific companies. If it is not, then why is it moral when done in smaller scale.

I see your point now. That is such a good question. But I think in US as in other countries there are laws for gender diversity, like you have to pay more taxes if you don't have gender diversity. And some countries have positive discrimination policies that give money to company who hire minorities.
They would be better bosses if they weren't harsh jerks that would alienate a good % of humans on this planet. Lionization of a-holes like steve jobs is terrible, regardless of their accomplishments.
Unity will tend to be easier, unless you need performance then Unity can get harder!

There are more tutorials out there for Unity but a lot of them are written by people who don't have much more of an idea of what they doing then you do.

Less experienced developers might benefit from using neither of these things at first, start with maybe basic 2d stuff using just SDL2, or maybe a framework like monogame.

This way you can learn a bit about game programming, fundamentally, without having to learn how to use the engines and its editors and so on.
>>Hence the name: Finnish Defence Forces.

"Wehrmacht" means something along the lines of the "defense force" too.

Not saying the rest of your reasoning is wrong, just pointing out that calling your army a "defense force" doesn't necessarily mean that it's used for defense only...
I wonder if the millipedes ever use to prey on the beetles? I'm trying to find examples in nature where a prey species, evolved in some way to become the predator of it's former predator.
True, still the color choice is poor. Strong red color brings to mind, personally, a high value. I thought it would mean 90-100, except it actually meant 0-9.

If red isn't clearly good or bad, then don't use it. Use light to dark shades of the same color or white to color, etc.
It's very easy to throw statements after the facts and aftermath is known, many years after it happened. But when events are hot, it's another story. Lets forget about Iraq, and return thinking about notion of ally, in it's essence.
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This is a terrible way to do IK. It is numerically unstable and will give vastly different solutions upon slight changes to the input. Coordinated Cyclic Descent using twist and swing quaternions give much better results:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/2165347X.2013.823...
> Moral of the story: stupid angry lynch mobs win when they are loud enough to be the majority. It doesn't matter how uninformed the majority viewpoint is.. majority > minority.

The operative phrase being, "loud enough". I.e. loud enough minority looks like majority.
Not the first and not the last:

spark(hadoop tool vs java framework), yarn (hadoop tool vs facebook pkg manager), ...
Same here, they're useless and look very unprofessional. Keep only the ones that are actually useful.
>But there is a large...LARGE community of people that do not actively go looking for new information

I have to wonder what good an article like this is then. Which I think is the overall point of GP's post.
The French Foreign Legion would like a word...
For those who, like me, missed the news that Google fired the author of the original memo, here's the HN discussion around that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14952787
I think that HD rumble is actually pretty great. It's not essential, but games are better for having it. In Mario Kart 8, it conveys the "texture" of the road. TumbleSeed does a fantastic job mimicking the feel of something rolling across a board between your hands.

It's especially nice in handheld mode, where the user doesn't have a decent speaker system to emphasize things (and may not even have the sound turned on at all). In those situations, the user may not be able to hear the sound effect when they get hit by a shell or drive off the road. But with the rumble, the punch of it is still there.
Try going to a "technical college" instead of a university. All your text books will be "advanced X". These schools have earned their reputation for being easy to pass.
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Lose the gifs, and you have a very good article. I think they distract, rather than enhance.
Seems like there are at least a few of those algorithms in scikit-learn:

http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/outlier_detection.htm...

http://scikit-learn.org/dev/auto_examples/neighbors/plot_lof...
> I doubt immigrants would have the same interest in war as the natives.

Many, many immigrants serve in the US armed forces. Some move to the front of the line to earn their citizenship that way, but it's not much of a stretch to imagine that the kind of people who are attracted to living in the US also relate to the idea of military service.

It's understandable that it would work differently in Europe. Most of those countries definitely have a different "brand," as it were...
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Updates for large software (mostly games) is often distributed via BT. But it's mostly invisible to the end user because the client just does it transparently.
Promoting your software through 1-day sales and bundles
What about for the limit which I guess would be like a tentacle?
Isnt that whats affirmative action is about. People need to own it. Yes skills may vary depending on hiring practices. But so what?
It seems that you are assuming that the attacking country would employ some form of genocide tactic.
Range depends on driving style, speed, temperature and probably a million different variables. I think there's like three different standards of determining "range" and they vary quite a bit.
So I'm a little confused on how licensing works in these types of situations. 'GPL may force you to give the source code', which source code? Presumably whatever code lives on the device that uses Mongoose is just one piece of a much larger puzzle. So does this imply you only need to give the code that lives on the device running Mongoose? Or any of your code that interacts with it?
Express Scripts is pretty bad as well. I've lost count of how many hours I've spent on having to jump through the oddies of mail order pharmacies...
Idea: overheated discussion detector could probably run more efficiently the next few weeks by replacing the implementation with 'cat thread.xml | grep Google | grep -v technology'
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Check this map out, you might be surprised:
https://www.plugshare.com/

And Tesla's supercharger map:
https://www.tesla.com/supercharger

I've found they tend to be out of the way or attached to shopping centers/big box stores/other places you wouldn't expect. It's rare to find a charging station with gas-station-like visibility, the numbers just aren't there yet I guess.
How can people who aren't participating in a market be said to be "dominating" it?
you make the company look bad you get fired end of story.. it's pretty simple

no one was paying this guy for his opinion
Your argument seems to be that in an work environment opinions should be kept to one's self.
Would that apply only to Republicans or to Democrats as well?

It is an utopia to pretend that the workplace should be opinion-free. Especially since the workplace on purpose tries to blur the lines between personal and professional lives: dorms on campus, cafeteria, malls and dry-cleaning amenities on campus.

If that's the direction business are going towards to then it is normal to accept that the employee comes with opinions attached.
To be fair, 'the market' is much less strictly economic now – the phrase or even the idea itself, not the network of economic activity (which remains as 'economic' as ever).
Or at least a way to toggle them all off at the beginning
There's enough "top workers" available in pretty much any kind of social/racial/gender-based group you could delineate, that even companies with explicit discrimination policies can find the talent they need.

The market won't give you the solution you seek; the issue does not impact profitability enough.
Government regulation is actually the culprit here.

Google is being sued by the Department of Labor for violating a gender discrimination regulation: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/07/google-pa...

These companies behavior has nothing to do with the free market. It is a response to government regulation.
It's part of the merchant agreement not to charge a different price if using a CC (though it's common to offer a cash discount even if it does violate their agreement).
GPL does not allow static binaries from both GPLed code and commercial code.

A workaround is a plugin mechanism with dynamic loading of .dll or .so libraries. But that won't fly on a microcontroller.
>> Even though I would never join the army to fight wars...

ok, so obv a hypothetical scenario - some other country invades Belgium, your country starts drafting ppl into the army to defend itself - you saying you're going to evade the draft? Why?
stop stirring the generational warfare pot. boomers didnt ruin the economy, the banking class did. the solution to fixing it isn't kicking working-class people out of their homes. why should they sell if they enjoy where they live? and even if they did sell, where would they go? if there's a housing shortage, they'll have just as much trouble as everyone else buying a house -- if not more, because of ageism.

we need to fix the perverse incentives capitalism provides that discourage building enough housing. blaming old people accomplishes nothing.
I wonder if this is an end-run around my hands-down favorite part of the ACA, the hard limit on the "Medical Loss Ratio" (MLR). Insurance companies must spend at least ~80% (the number varies by plan type, but call it 80%) of premiums on medical expenses, and if they don't, that's when you get those refund checks in the mail. (In the 90's, you had a few insurance plans with >90% MLRs, but by the early 2000's the average had declined to 70%, and you had some companies selling plans to college kids with a 10% MLR.)

This is overall good, because insurance is one of the few industries that benefits from monopoly conditions (bigger risk pools are better), so you want a hard cap on how much money the monopolies can extract. But maybe demanding non-generics is a way to increase "medical losses", which in turn is a way to increase their permissible profits?
Do you know what a vector is?
Vector:Line == Bivector:Plane

A vector is an oriented (+,-) magnitude(length) _in_ a line. A Bivector is an oriented (+,-) magnitude(area) _in_ a plane.

That area does not have any particular shape.
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Nick built a nice product here.

I personally am not going to pay for it (sorry Nick!) as I just used it as an addon to looking at the data every few weeks, I am not making money with my sites, but I am happy that some people feel different and actually do pay. It's great to see the idea and product actually work.
Holy shit, I had no idea this had a name - I've been doing this all my life.

I guess it also explains why I find angular designs more attractive than rounded/circular ones - sitting here at my desk looking at the circular monitor stand bases, cylindrical bluetooth speaker, coins and some cables coiled up, these things can't be knolled, so I tend to stack round things instead (in diameter order, of course).
The main criticism against Purism laptops is that they still contain proprietary blobs (from Intel) in the coreboot payload. We have no way of knowing what's in those blobs.

Purism tries to be free, and is a step up from other vendors, but doesn't go far enough for some people.
I think they meant baby boomers own majority of prime real estate. Bunch of old people sitting in big family houses with 5 bedrooms. That's the problem. So yes, technically they are not participating in the market.
OMG, Cancelling his vacation? what message about work-life balance is the CEO sending? ;^)
Google can indeed impose a code of conduct on its employees when they sign up.

However, that does not give licence to Google to place unreasonable limits on employees constitutional rights.

To do so would give privately entered contracts the power to overturn the constitution which society has enacted.

The debate here is over whether his comments were reasonable in this context.
Off topic, but it seems like the ranking algorithm needs some tweaking. Should this article posted 12 hours ago really be on the 15th page of HN (rank 381) when most of the front page articles submission timestamps are older?
I'm at a loss why anyone is expected to sell their home.
This comment breaks the guidelines by being gratuitously negative: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. (They also ask us not to use uppercase for emphasis.)
TIL. thx :)
I'd like to throw in that I wonder if this article is a bit late, and in a way Americans are already coming out of exceptionalism.

I was noticing I cared more about international politics than I previously did, and I saw a lot of other Americans putting more skin in the game than in the past (Although the only way I know this is from the last days of the French Election, where a bunch of tone-deaf English/bad French memes were being pushed to save Le Pen). It is European focused but hey its a start I guess.

More importantly though, is the lack of trust in institutions. When the article started talking about conspiracy theories and the deep state I had be do a double take for a second on whether she was still talking about Turkey.
Add a way to toggle the gifs off at the beginning for people that don't like memes distracting them from the content and you've got yourself a winner.
I think the implication is that after the technical staff came up with the proof of concept, the operation to actually deploy it probably got reviewed by a somewhat senior official charged with making policy. He's expressing more surprise that the policy maker deemed the operation in the best interests of the United States than that the technical staff came up with the idea.
If there's a big discussion about underqualified lovers of brainteasers being hired, and my coworkers start to look at me suspiciously, I can simply stop wearing my "I love brainteasers" tee shirt. Underrepresented minorities don't have that option.