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If you aren't attached to stuff that is attached to the ground or too heavy to move, you don't really need to combat fires, do you?

You either walk around the fire carrying your belongings, or you light a fire downwind from where you are and move onto the burned down ground before the original fire reaches you.

Uncomfortable, but (unless you are really unlucky) survivable.
Because a society doesn't work well if only a few people receive the benefits of progress. The big strength of the western economies since the 50s that most people benefited from advances. If more and more people start to feel that their life stagnates the economy will stagnate too.
Note for the American readers:

in the glorious lands across the ocean, chip cards of all kinds use a PIN instead of a signature, which makes way more sense anyway. Chip & sign is an American abomination.
Indeed, perhaps SDL graphics primitives other than surfaces were used. These are notoriously slow implementations. Or the code was not in C/C++ and messed up the garbage collector or had huge overhead memory allocating.
The trust fund babies I know make more money than you could imagine, and are conspicuous consumption incarnate.
>top 20% of earners shoulder 84% of the tax burden of the federal government

Much like I'm going to ignore the ad hominem of suggesting anyone who sees the current American economy as less-than-perfectly fair is a member of the "socialist rabble-rousers", you seem to be ignoring the fact annual taxable income represents a smaller and smaller percentage of one's assets as income increases. There are hundreds of exceptions, loopholes and incentives that are tilted toward the better off. Why do I get to write off some of my mortgage payments on my taxes simply because I can afford to take on a mortgage?
No, I'm pretty sure that I hate capitalism. We're talking about a system engineered from the ground up to produce quasi-feudalism, that fails to address even the most basic needs of the majority, and has a built in auto-destruct due to it's reliance on unlimited continuous growth despite relying on finite non-renewable resources.
1 yes (you can always try this in OTOY.com home page - cloud demos menu)

2) yes, it works as shown in the video using the standard Unity samples unmodified to prove viability of the system on GearVR and Samsung Internet. We also have this working non PC/rift and daydream now

ORBX.js is < ORBX.lua on top of luajit. But an ORBX file can be flattened down to a cloud stream if user agent can only play ORBX.js feature set.

ORBX is a container with the render graph of the content in xml/Json + assets. Just like a web page, it can be cached to archive (.orbx file) or streamed from a URL or URI over raw UDP/tcp or web wss or https
America has much higher "rewards" than anywhere else. The reward money comes straight out of merchant fees.
I think this works better for something like Facebook, Instagram comments tend to be compliments.
I think that only applies to the US. My credit card has a PIN. You don't need it for contactless payments but they are limited to €30.
>"Donald Trump campaigned on the promise of more jobs for working-class Americans. In service of that end, he has proposed canceling free-trade agreements, building a wall to keep out immigrants, and eliminating lots of environmental regulations. Critics who avow that they favor more jobs for the working class, but oppose achieving more jobs through those specific means, are not described as “anti-job,” especially when they suggest specific alternatives for job-creation. Even if their alternatives would result in fewer jobs than the Trump administration’s plans, that still wouldn’t make a writeup of their proposal “an anti-job memo.”"

Great point. While reporting on this memo isn't 'fake news', it is an example of reactionary, knee jerk, click bait journalism, which is a pernicious problem that stifles nuanced debate, and is probably doing more damage to our society than literal 'fake news'.
I didn't know Eisenhower, Nixon, and Ford were 'socialist rabble-rousers'.
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Yes.

90% of money being held by a few people whose material needs are already satisfied does not create demand for products and services but mostly inflates stock prices and real estate and other "wealth storage" types of assets.

Money in the hands of the bottom 90% gets spent on things like new cars and shoes and going out to restaurants or getting haircuts. Providing these goods and services is what jobs are made out of.
As far as I am aware, Wolf 3D had an approximation of such perspective constructed from multiple rectangular projections. This trick also allows you to reuse part of the perspective transform while moving forward. Wouldn't look to nice in high res as long as number of projections isn't increased. Seams would get noticeable.
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Most things should be similar. Proprietary drivers (like for graphics cards) obviously won't work (though the firmware should, I reckon, since that's independent of the host CPU). Proprietary software in general probably won't work unless you can convince the vendor to ship a POWER build. Even some FOSS might not work fully (or even at all) if it relies too much on specific architectures (in particular, I know V8 - and therefore both Chromium and Node.js - only very recently got POWER ports).

I personally run OpenBSD on all my (Apple) PowerPC hardware; it seems to work a lot more reliably than the Linux distros I've tried (in particular, I remember the install process for Debian being rather painful on PowerPC due to OpenFirmware, while OpenBSD is just as easy as it is on x86: mash the Enter key until you have a working system; at most, I sometimes need to tweak some boot settings at the OF prompt, namely if it was previously running OS X).
As far as I understood he says google has a positive discrimination policy to hire minorities and want to achieve a 50/50 gender diversity (or at least something that doesn't match the diversity in the pool of candidates). That was my conclusion from sentences like this from the document:

- "Stop restricting programs and classes to certain genders or races."

- "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."

- "I’m also not saying that we should restrict people to certain gender roles; I’m advocating for quite the opposite: treat people as individuals, not as just another member of their group (tribalism)."

If this is not the case he should apologize for it.

Note: I mostly agree with his arguments.
By "a prefect coin", I was referring to a half silvered mirror.
In other words, the autonomous car was smart enough to not drive into a waterfall, whereas you were not.
And you believe the stereotypes were completely unrelated to the roles society assigned to the genders? And that those roles might affect the choices people might make during their lives?

It's kind of unbelievable that people who are willing to take a single study that says pre-natal testosterone determines all future behavior at the same time are happy to dismiss hundreds of other studies showing the impact of gender stereotypes.
In Canada:

- Cashier asks if I'm paying with a credit or debit card.

- Cashier enters the total amount into POS terminal. Meanwhile I pull my card from wallet.

- I tap the terminal with my CC.

- I put my card back into wallet. Meanwhile the cashier asks if I need the receipt.

- Optionally: take the receipt.

- Done.
Back seat behind the driver is statistically the safest. In case of a collision a driver will instinctively try to save himself and therefore crash with the passenger side. Being behind the driver therefore puts you at less risk
The problem is, in order to fix this, you have to get people to stop voting against their own interests. Until we figure out how to do that this is only going to keep getting worse.
The fact that a small percentage of Americans pay a large percentage of total taxes is a sign of income inequality, not an argument against it. The lower 80% don't pay nearly as much in taxes because for the past 30 years, they've been going broke, hence the article being responded to here. The top 10% of Americans own three quarters of the countries wealth; they aren't "shouldering more of the burden" when they pay most of the tax, they're being taxed reasonably in a system where they have unreasonable wealth.
I think it only takes standing in a few long lines to compare cash vs. card, to understand your analysis does not reflect reality(?)
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What kind of tasks were you hired to do on this latter topic?
The point is that we pay more and actually get things for it. I think a lot of the people commenting from outside the US think we pay more and have a lower level of service than they do, which is incorrect.
> he believes that biases should be corrected

So he believes in decreasing the false negative rate? I'm confused.
In India all credit card transactions need a PIN after the card is swiped.
They stick out about the same amount as the side mirrors, which I assume is not a coincidence. I suspect that molded body parts to hide the extra hardware won't make much of a difference to the majority of consumers. Do you want a ride in the cheap, safe, ugly car or the expensive, glitchy, sexy car?
> Well actually for a large number of people it is getting worse.

Maybe, but that's not what was complained about in the original article. So OP's point stands.
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Couldn't they have something like a real Human remote driver. That can intervene, but also can oversee multiple cars.
I do something similar. I pay writers to write me sci-fi and fantasy stories based on my prompts! It allows me to read what I want to read!
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There was actually a dispute about a potential Cruise cofounder getting compensation for equity at the acquisition. They recently settled the lawsuit out of court [1]. I agree they have good leadership, but they're not without any lawsuits.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/car-startup-cruise-settles-le...
If you want to see e-commerce as a relevant branch of the economy, it's stifling growth.

Funny enough, banks are now charging withdrawing fees for cash. So if you only ever buy things with cash, you will loose money on just acquiring it. Net loss for the non-banking economy.
> SHA-3 (or better, the Keccak permutation)

SHA-3 is just Keccak with specific capacities. If you mean that they should not implement only the standard SHA-3 functions then I agree, having c/raw/SHAKE256 as well would be nice.
> I dunno. Does 95% beat getting shot?

I'm not thin-skinned enough to consider this a threat, but I do think its inflammatory enough to be in violation of HN's guidelines.

As for the accusations of astroturfing, I don't know what to say, but I hope this paranoia that is increasingly common on the internet goes away. It's downright unhealthy.
Conor Freidersdorf argues this is an American phenomenon:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/what-th...
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How do you interpret it, then?
I think you are giving all the click-bait writers far too much of a benefit of doubt. Let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that they don't know what they are doing.

They know exactly what they are doing, and what they are doing is creating outrage and profiting from it in this eyeball-click-ad driven journalism economy.

Very few are going to have the wherewithal to forego hundreds or thousands of dollars in ad revenues for the sake of a slightly more gently or fairly worded headline or article. The incentives just do not match up.
If you get bags for change (like shops use) and split everything by denomination and amount it makes it a little easier.
There has been almost no increase in median household income since 1970s.

- http://web.stanford.edu/class/polisci120a/immigration/Median...

- https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

- http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
> Why is this a problem, as long as everyone is not worse off?

That's the thing that many don't seem to realize, large swaths of the country _are_ worse off. There is a very large chunk of the population that has multiple wage earners and are still barely scraping by. Younger people are being required to go tens of thousands of dollars into debt to start a career that makes significantly less than it did 20 years ago. Job concentration has made it so that the only places with good job prospects are becoming prohibitively expensive to live in, mostly because of housing and rental costs. Medical expenses are ballooning out of control, goods like food and vehicles are getting more and more expensive, and nowadays there are new classes of bills that are basically required to make it in the world like cell phones and internet bills.

What makes all of this even more difficult is that there are pockets of the country that are still experiencing economic growth. The people in those areas have been insulated from the wider economic truth that quality of life is declining for much of the nation. This is part of why there were pockets of the country that voted strongly one way while the interior of the nation voted the exact opposite. And the fact that extremists on both sides were nearly elected(Sanders) should be a sign that it's not just the political right that is feeling pressured, but a large chunk of the country overall.

So yes, it is a problem that is threatening our social, political, and economic stability, and needs to be addressed.
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Firstly, you somehow did not even consider my whole point, which was that being a "geek"/"dork"/"nerd"/whatever is not exactly something men are encouraged to be. And based on this I questioned to which extent men are actually (in the words of the original poster) "steered" towards tech.

Sure there may be some bias in early childhood between the sexes, but honestly, I have a somewhat hard time seeing this having a serious effect on someone's career decision much later.

Firstly, this whole argument just seems like it could just as well be some urban legend. What possible proof is there that this actually has any effect? I'm not even sure how one would go about investigating this. I feel throwing around some argument which seem plausable (to some people) but in fact have basically no solid support and then treating it as if it were an established fact is, well, maybe not so good. It seems more like something the president would do. [1]

Secondly, and more importantly, there is a very significant number of both men and women who during high school will receive a fairly through introduction to the natural sciences and to me this would seem a much more significant than some trucks and dolls one played with when one were 5 years old. To provide a more precise counterargument, many boys wants to become firefighters or police officers, yet when they grow up, many abandons these career plans.

I admit I may be extremely naive, but the argument about people on TV has always struck me as somewhat odd. It seems to rest on the assumption that most people (well, at least women/girls) in fact think men and women are different, otherwise, why would it matter what gender the people involved have?

Finally regarding the last point about career paths, well, the problem with all the examples is that there are jobs with similar pay where almost all employees are men, compare say kindergarten teacher with being a construction worker. Sure, I can admit that there is some pressure here and it being (significantly) easier for a man to become a construction worker and a woman becoming a kindergarten teacher. But if there was a wage gap between these two professions it is not as clear to me.

I would also like to point out that one can discuss things in different context, if these arguments were just made in general about how (some) women feel and how things have affected them and whatnot, that is one thing. But we are not just discussing things in general, instead there are some (at least to me) very serious accusations of of discrimination, and then we have as a society enacted and allowed a large scale discrimination of men in order to offset this. And now we have a man being fired for daring to even question these accusations that have been made against him.

[1]: If there is some solid support for this view I will happily admit I am wrong.
Also remember that whole Eastern Europe (including East Germany) had no electronic payments before fall of Soviet Union.

So credit cards took off in US in 80s but half of Europe just got out from under communism in early 90s and they were not very trustworthy of western banks so would prefer cash.

Also the banking and payment infrastructure was non existent so needed to be built from scratch. This probably slowed down uptake of credit/debit cards considerably.

Cash is still king in Eastern Europe today.
They're not really growth curves, the curves show relative growth rates. Not quite the same thing.

And if you think some central mechanism has gone horribly awry, what central mechanisms changed around 1980?
> You realize that you still are not selecting the most skilled candidate if you filter based on diversity at any level.

This depends on the size of your sample and the positions to fill. It is easier to find one good candidate from 100 individuals than 100 from 1000.
Its d3.js - just follow the debug logging they didn't disable for production in the console ;)
Yes that was the actual point, with CC you don't get the feel or pain of losing money ... When paying through cash you physically feel losing an amount of money. Humans.
This chart may be difficult to read initially, but do you notice how almost all of the grey line is above the orange line?

That's because almost all the population in 1980 was experiencing 2%+ income growth. Now the only people experiencing that level of growth the top 2% of income earners.

The vast majority of the US is stagnating as far as wealth growth, this can only lead to catastrophe if maintained, in my opinion.
Relevant older comment of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11152492
I think it's a pretty tortured reading to look at someone talking about innate biological differences and think "choices about child rearing."
> Should the company just say "well this guy made some good points maybe we should reconsider our diversity programs."

Only if they had been so close-minded to not consider that possibility before and are now convinced when this new evidence is presented after doing their due diligence to verify it (good luck with that). Seems more likely the truth of the guy's points are irrelevant and the programs the company provides to minorities exist for a bottom line that takes into account the company's reputation (which, in this case, he seems naively unaware of as a relevant component to decision-making).

> Should they tell all the black employees at the company that they should be more open minded to that opinion?

Open minded in what way? Open minded as in "engage with it", well, probably. There are explanations for studies that show differences between races (and women) that aren't biological. It's worth it to look at the studies and ask yourself what you think the most plausible explanation is based the available data if you haven't already.

> As a black guy at that company I would be really unhappy about that and I'd probably quit. I genuinely don't understand how that's supposed to work and would love to hear some suggestions.

As a woman in tech who has also lived extensively overseas in cultures where women are considered inferior (at worst) and "separate but equal" in terms of domain at best, I find the best way to engage with these kinds of thoughts/opinions is directly.

Sure, there is indeed a marked difference when you look at men and women. Fact. I don't want to be someone who turns my head from facts. However, who knows what amount of that difference is nature vs nurture. Nature leaves us little room for improvement, nurture leaves a lot; why would we choose, because it would indeed be a choice, to assume the gaps are intrinsic to the sexes and limit our ability to close what are unfair gaps when it comes to prestige and pay? Further, if they ARE nature, then the few women who do have that interest + talent are entering into a profession that wasn't really designed for them and it makes sense they'd benefit from more support. Why would we deny them that? What, exactly, is the problem with the diversity programs even given the assumption a group as a whole tends to on aggregate not be as well suited?

Anyway. As someone who holds a fair amount of opinions that aren't PC, if I want to not be fired for them then I need to give other people the same right to offend with opinions as long as their actions are appropriate.