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Half of scholarly papers searched for online are free to read
> Growth should go to the people who make it possible...

Everyone with a job makes it possible.
I wonder how much having to be globally competitive affects the income growth? Non-skilled factory labor is the easiest thing to move to a different country. The 1990s-now were huge for pulling the lowest of the low out of poverty around the world. It seems that unskilled laborers in developed countries took a hit at the same time. Until the world is playing on a level playing field wage-wise, I'm not sure the situation will improve.
They are still popular, and they are doing everything they can to reduce your ability to compare their offerings: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=tr&tl=en&js=y&prev...
Credit cards don't require a PIN. Just get a credit card and pay it off every month. Free points!
Your talking points are all really good. Along the same lines, I built www.writegreen.org to help people express their support for sustainability from a variety of ideological perspectives, including conservative, religious and economic opportunities.
Why anyone would trust Juniper firewalls or VPN's after this incident is the question.

Against the advice of the cryptographer community, they implemented a known backdoored algorithm in 2008, and then let that backdoor be usurped by unknown attackers until discovery in 2015.

Every piece of code released by Juniper should now be questioned for back doors.
Margins in many businesses are razor thin in Germany. Which is the reason Walmart and others stopped doing business in Germany. For many businesses 1-2% transaction cost is the difference between success and failure.

But yes tax avoidance is a huge problem in restaurants in Germany.
Udacity has a 50% tuition back policy if you finish < 12 month (very reasonable). I've finished a ND, and asked for my money back (still waiting tough, its a 8 wks standard period )
I think the best way to summarize the memo is that he quotes a bunch of science, which is true.

He also makes a bunch of unfounded claims that aren't really related to the science. And people argue that because he said a bunch of sciency things that scientists agree are correct, that everything he said was true.
Factual facty fact: he didn't "suggest he had one". You make it sound as if he was inflating his credentials. He was listed as in the PhD Biology programme on Harvard's alumni site, and the press incorrectly reported that he earned a PhD.

Now, it's important to correct the record if he didn't complete the PhD. But he did publish papers (at Princeton and MIT).
Personally speaking, Google and Facebook provides me with useful and timely information. Life was more inconvenient before these companies were around. Yes, they introduce some of their own new problems, but I would rather not return to the pre-G/FB days. It would be best if future companies and products learn lessons from the current situation and build even better information platforms.
Thank you for clarifying.

Regarding the first point, about women being higher in neuroticism, the author does provide a source - wikipedia. I understand there are different versions of the document, some of which omit sources or links. The version I'm using as a reference [1] maintains a hyperlink to Wikipedia's page on sex differences in psychology. Wikipedia may not be the most reputable source, although I've always thought quite highly of it, but in this instance, Wikipedia, which does seem to support the author's contention, has it's source, an academic psychology paper. The paper's abstract [2] does also repeat the Google author's claim, that women are higher in neuroticism.

As far as the Google author's sourcing goes, I believe linking to a well sourced article on Wikipedia should be a sufficient citation for the document (which wasn't intended as an academic paper but something more like an argument on a forum - per my understanding).

I don't see how this claim, that women are higher in neuroticism, leads to what you alleged the author was claiming - that the biology of women hurts productivity at Google. This seems to me like a possible explanation of why there are not as many women in leadership positions, and not an argument that the women who are in leadership positions have any defect.

By analogy, suppose I was asked why there were few Chinese basketball players, and I answered that height is useful in basketball, and Chinese people are shorter on average than white and black players. This may be a suitable explanation for the observed phenomenon, or it may not be, but either way you should not interpret me as claiming that Yao Ming is a short person.

For your second point, this seems obviously true. The "false negative rate" presumably refers to when candidates who would be good hires are rejected for some undesirable reason. In other words, the test is generating an incorrect negative (your interview comes back "Do not hire" on a person who would make a good candidate).

This false negative rate effectively "raises the bar" to get hired at Google, albeit in an undesirable way. The initiatives that the author links to in this section are presumably aimed at reducing the false negative rate for women, and thereby lowering the bar that women need to clear to get hired.

Obviously it's a good thing to reduce your false negative rate. You get more qualified employees and people who are qualified get a good job. The discriminatory part of this, which the Google author is highlighting, is that Google wants to reduce the false negative rate FOR WOMEN and isn't applying these same initiatives to hiring in general.

I agree that the author did not have enough regard for the social context of his post. He seems to have believed Google's lies that they cared about letting employees express themselves and share ideas to improve the company - when, of course, Google is a soulless corporation that will fire anyone with the temerity to criticize their sacred cows. I think that says roughly that the employee was a bit naive.

[1] - https://www.scribd.com/document/355823379/Google-s-Ideologic...

[2] - http://doi.apa.org/buy/2001-01642-012
This one appears to be (but it's also not available for enrollment just yet). Then, for example, his ML course (https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning) is available for purchase: http://collabshot.com/show/1hWhMQ
There was a time when furniture stores, appliance stores, etc, provided credit directly. You could buy items from the store and make payments over time. Credit cards were seen as a generalized way to make these purchases, if you go far enough back in time.
Someone being not jailed to me sounds like the laws actually did protect his speech as satire?

That fact aside, it's certainly problematic to have laws against insulting a foreign leader (Erdogan in this case). It must be noted of course that this particular type of insult (e.g calling someone a child molester) is probably enough for accusations of libel/slander in other countries as well, whether or not they have that odd "foreign leader" paragraph Germany has.
Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14956698
However median is correct in showing that in general things are not so hot.
There's no real way of describing the Clintons as "left" that would satisfy any self-described leftist. They just have no connection whatsoever to any historical leftist movement.
Almost every major department store and big box retailer has their own white label brands. Amazon is not unique in doing this nor in making it slightly obscure. You can usually figure out which ones are which.
I wonder how this is true "people hate to wait on someone paying his chocolate bar with credit card".

In the US, I always wish they had non-cash lanes at grocery stores (especially at Costco, Walmart) because paying cash is almost always a super slow process.

Do prices and taxes in Germany for stuff usually end up in whole numbers? I think in that case it's easy to calculate total owed and be ready with the exact amount of cash.
At least in the five years that I've been in America, the credit card workflow is almost never like that. It's more like

- Total amt

- (After deciding which card is best) Get card out

- Swipe, but piece of shit card reader complains, so retry. Or insert chip, then the piece of shit card reader makes the same sound for "wait" and "remove", sometimes cauing confusion.

- Wait for piece of shit card reader to show up signature bar (or less commonly the cashier has to print out a receipt and have you sign it)

- Done.

I love credit card rewards though, but I'm not sure if it's a zero-sum game.
I am a woman and do NOT want to be (or viewed as) a token diversity hire. It affects my job because it means I get less interesting work, in practical reality. Diversity programs mean that equally & highly qualified women operate under the cloud of an assumed diversity hire, and are thus, viewed as less-competent.
I really liked the "income growth" animated graph.
Does someone know if the nytimes used a specific library ?
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Not clickbait bro.

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

>Large companies wanting to reach a new demographic may use a secret brand to establish clout among that demographic. This imprint brand may use the distribution network of the parent brand, but ship from a dummy company.
The scientists that wrote the papers were concerned with a single field of science. There's a whole societal context that's not considered, and that is what makes his position pseudo-science: just like phrenology, finding correlation and assuming causation is just bad science.

> The way in which you describe actual science as pseudo-science because you don't like the conclusions is very scary, by the way.

The way you describe cherry-picked papers on a single field of science as definite proof of your world view is really scary too. How low will you lower your bar to explain the world in terms you like?
This is described as a beginner specialization, so you're probably fine if you're comfortable with Python and have a passing familiarity with linear algebra.

The older machine learning class alone is eleven weeks, compared to nine weeks for the first three classes of this specialization. You might consider going through the first four weeks of that class, which lays the foundation for neural networks by introducing linear and logistic regression.
What about the google employees who publicly called for the author to be fired (e.g. on twitter/social media)? Shouldn't these actions also be considered in violation of their Code of Conduct - those actions seem to fit the description of "harassment" and "intimidation".
From the introduction: "Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don't have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership."

The weasel-word "may" rescues this from being an outright statement of fact. However, he then spends much of the rest of the document explaining how it is this way. For example:

"Women on average show a higher interest in people and men in things. We can make software engineering more people-oriented with pair programming and more collaboration. Unfortunately, there may be limits to how people-oriented certain roles at Google can be and we shouldn't deceive ourselves or students into thinking otherwise (some of our programs to get female students into coding might be doing this)."

In other words, software engineering as it currently stands is much more suitable for men than women. We may be able to modify it to some extent to help that, but we probably can't modify it so much that women become equally good at it.
It's not hate! its called schadenfreude which only happens when laughing at the follies of those above you.

If it happened to a poor person it tragically common.
No, the company should critique the hell out of his memo and explain logically why it's wrong.
I was a math Ph.D. student at Purdue University and studied commutative algebra. I understand what you were getting at. My comment was mostly tongue in cheek. For someone not versed in mathematics what you wrote could be ironic in a slightly humorous way. I.E. that the hand wavy way explanation is more understandable to a layman than subalgebras, and whatnot. That's the ironic difference between mathematicians and non-mathematicians. What is hand wavy to us is concrete to them and vice versa.
I think its clear most people would like the distribution to look more like it did 1980 than 2014. I'm sorry I forgot what a socialist nightmare 1980s America was.
Sorry, but what is "EC" and "SEPA", and what do they have to do with the real cost of dealing with cash?
Well, if the top earns more they pay more too. On a serious note, I don't think this is a tax issue, but more of a scary direction for our economy. Where does it stop? How do we deal with inequality? How do we keep things fair? I mean the "best" doctors can all be working for the 1% just by... asking exorbitant prices. Is this ok?
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You're right, I worded that poorly. I meant only for when I pay with cash I lose the 2%.
> Paypal has taken over German online payments, since it can be linked with a bank account.

Very true. Whenever payment processors are discussed around here someone will inevitably mention how glad they are that they could finally replace Paypal with Stripe, and why would anyone still use Paypal anyway these days?
I like Stripe as much as the next guy, but in Germany it‘s absolutely necessary to offer Paypal and Stripe can only act as an additional gateway.

However credit cards are gaining momentum here - the online store of my employer almost sees an equal share between both methods. And then there‘s still about 15-20% of customers who opt for manual SEPA transfer.
I'm talking about a particular context. I'm sure you can cite "reverse-racism" in post-Apartheid South Africa too, but that isn't germane to the conversation.
Try this with your friends: work the phrase "fiat money" into every possible conversation, and see if your friends get cramps from rolling their eyes so much.
But the economics will certainly change in the future. Self driving cars can be used around the clock and probably be used to deliver packages and food overnight. Maybe even empty your garbage or deliver batteries as an cheaper(?) alternative to your power company. Also scale and competition could get much bigger.
Sounds like a joy to debug
> You can still buy the oyster card with cash however, right?

You don't need to buy an Oyster card as contactless bank cards work on Oyster systems as well.

> Now try catching a bus late at night after the shops close - what a silly system.

London is a 24 hour city. :P
Yes, thanks to the European Union starting 2016.

"The new regulation will cap interchange fees at 0.2% of the transaction value for Visa and MasterCard consumer debit cards and at 0.3% for Visa and MasterCard consumer credit cards effective as of December 2015." https://www.adyen.com/blog/eu-interchange-fees-cap

That put a lot of credit card schemes (get fly miles or points or cashback for each purchase) in trouble and they had to change their offers. My credit card company wrote back then I can now only earn status miles with their silver card now, at 99 Euro/year cost.
The guy did have a degree in the sciences...
Pichai does in the note.
Definitely, we help folks pick papers that are appropriate for their skill level.
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I had to look through four or so articles to find an edited and incomplete copy of the controversial text. Fortunately there are complete copies of it as it was originally posted linked elsewhere in the thread. It's possible that they haven't read it (in its unedited form including the references as intended by its author) because reporters have, for some reason, made it hard to find.
"Why is this a problem, as long as everyone is not worse off?". Well actually for a large number of people it is getting worse. Here is data on middle class losing ground: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/12/09/the-american-middl...

Here is data on life expediencies: http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/12/08/50466760...
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You missed the step where the digital pen on a string doesn't work to sign the touch pad followed by using your finger.
Author's name is also misspelled in the header on one of the early pages. It's obviously been scanned and OCRed.
The problem with shotwell is that is too much greedy. After running out of space three times in a day and finding again an autogenerated shotwell cache with several Gigas of garbage, I find it more annoying than really useful.
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Anyone from outside of California would see SV as heavily left leaning. You have people protesting Google buses, Berkeley riots over conservative speakers, anti growth liberals preventing new construction, while simultaneously decrying the lack of affordable housing and gentrification, and plastic bags are the devil.
> the top 20% of earners shoulder 84% of the tax burden of the federal government

Income tax is not synonymous with the tax burden. The article states it's less than half:

> The individual income tax remains the most important levy in the U.S., providing nearly half of federal revenue.
> What the hell is this "rape has nothing to do with sex" nonsense

This is because feminists (and everyone else) started rejecting Freud's theories of sex in the '60s. Freudian theory states sex and aggression are interconnected (e.g. the much misunderstood Oedipus complex). Even now people think violence is due to our culture, not biological drives or instincts. This is why feminists say we have a "Rape Culture," and that all we have to do is fix culture, then all rape and violence will disappear. Freud was much more pessimistic. "Civilization and Its Discontents" is a good summary of why.
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I honestly don't care if there is a "sinister" purpose behind the good scifi I've read. Fund the next Iain banks please. In fact - throw me $50k to live for a year and you've got yourself a book - or I can at least guarantee some words on pages mentioning spaceships / robots, etc.
.local is reserved for mDNS too, so using it internally via an authoritative DNS is bound to result in issues.
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These were the teens Brian Krebs tracked down last year, Yarden Bidani and Itay Huri.

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/israeli-online-attack-ser...

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/03/alleged-vdos-owners-pois...
Well let's ease their burden and make sure the bottom 80% can pay more taxes by giving them a better wage.
I dunno. Does 95% beat getting shot?

BTW, your comment is yet another indication that Hacker News is infiltrated by people likely to be paid to post pro-hyper-rich propaganda. I mean, what's in it for you to oppose a more progressive tax rate except to prove your deep misunderstanding of the power of capitalism to push all the money to one corner?

So what if the rich pay for everything. Look, man. The poor have nothing. There's nothing left. They're not going to retire. They'll work until they drop dead. They don't get decent health care. They'll die from avoidable, treatable illness. And if conservative Congress had its way, there'd be less Medicaid. Oh, and now they want to take away the right to sue elderly nursing homes. At what point do you decide that torturing your fellow American is enough?
> at least not in my experience.

I'm glad you're here to speak for us all.

I hope you never have to deal with anyone in your family being admitted to inpatient or residential treatment. As if severe illnesses weren't enough stress on the family, having to immediately come up with your insurance's out of pocket maximum deductible and then spending all of your free time on the phone trying to find ways to keep up the coverage can just push you to the limits.

There's nothing worse than the look on a doctor's face when he's trying to be optimistic while telling you that your kid must be discharged because the insurance company's doctor has deemed them better and is denying claims and you can't afford the $2400 a day it costs to keep them there.
I would imagine that they know exactly what they are doing and feel very conflicted about it, but they're weighing their options in the prevailing political climate and choose the least bad one. It's still very very bad though.
I've found cash to be much faster and more pleasent than card for eating out.

- Waiter brings check

- Leave cost + tip

- Leave

If you pay with card that's an extra trip from the waiter which can take a pretty long time.
I bet some tax cuts for the rich will clear that right up.
It's she actually. And the patches are equivalent in terms of dosage, and I've been on both. They even look exactly the same.

The only thing that might be different, as far as I can tell, is the adhesive they use for the sticky part.
Clearly it isn't high enough to prevent what we see in the graphic presented here - a teeny tiny fraction of people running away with the entire country's economic gains.
>shouldn't things improve for everyone?

Are they not? According to the chart, income growth is positive (things improving) for everyone but those below the 5th percentile.
I find the grouping of Facebook and Google interesting because I don't view them as similar at all. His Google complaints seem to be aimed at YouTube, and while certainly it could be argued YouTube is addictive, it doesn't seem anywhere near as insidious or manipulative as say Facebook. It is also an amazing platform for creators of all kinds, and also unlike Facebook is creating this incredible resource of freely available, forever archived videos. I see great public good from that.

On the Facebook front, there I agree 100%.
> Different policies could produce a different outcome. My list would start with a tax code that does less to favor the affluent, a better-functioning education system, more bargaining power for workers and less tolerance for corporate consolidation.

It floors me how anyone, especially anyone with even a basic STEM background, could look at a growth curve that approaches infinity that rapidly, then turn around and say 'gee, I wonder if tinkering around the periphery of the system would solve the problem'.

No! Clearly some central mechanism has gone horribly awry.

The only explanation I've ever seen that adequately accounts for those curves is inflation. Inflation drives up prices, both of goods and of assets. A higher cost of goods narrows the margins for wage-earners (i.e. the poor and middle class), and higher asset prices inflate the net worth of people who earn income from assets (i.e. rich people) — this effect compounds over time.

If I'm wrong, please, convince me. Article & book recommendations gladly accepted.
> It is only a disingenuous argument if you are convinced that the gender imbalance is the result of a discrimination in the first place, which you seem to be quite certain it is.

Then you proceed to write two paragraphs essentially supporting my position that we really don't understand why the imbalances exist. But somehow, this guy stating as a matter of fact that it's a biological thing is not disingenuous. I'm not sure how you can hold both beliefs.
Please site sources?
Seriously, it sounds like the author of this article is the first journalist who actually read the article in full and reflected on its contents.
Unfortunately, it's a few days too late - the rest already spread wrong summaries, the misinformation has been spread, and the author of the memo fired.
The landlord deducts mortgage interest as a business expense, a cost savings which is passed on to renters.