skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you recommend a ML related course from Udacity?
Show me one groundbreaking technology that wasn't also used to the detriment of humanity. As long as there are shitty human traits, there will be shitty use of new technology. The only question is whether good will outweigh the bad. Just as with nuclear technology, it is still too early to tell whether humanity will be wise enough to handle its own intelligence.
>If it is unverified (and quite damning), why publish it?

They are reporting on the effects of unsubstantiated reports, not publishing them as fact. A far cry from BB knowingly publishing falsehoods.

>Has the NYT ever claimed that Trump met prostitutes in Moscow? Go ahead, find a link saying they have.

You skipped over that part. Have they ever claimed that?
So that anything else that is connected to AWS can control your doorbell. Maybe the doorbell could have different sounds depending on what service (pizza, Amazon,friends) is on its way or just pulling up to the driveway right now.

I think a smart doorbell is a great idea for a product.
Would need incredibly low latency for that to be safe, I think. FPS games use a pile of tricks to send minimal data over the network which wouldn't be available to an autonomous car: we don't have access to the game engine, after all...
Generally I think people who are basically compelled to spend time together should use company policies, and their own judgement, to figure out what's professionally acceptable in context and work in reference to that. I don't agree with how home/work lines are often blurred and I see nothing wrong with opinions being shared at work, except the naive expectation that one has the right to say anything at all and, if it's "just an opinion", experience no consequences. It's just basic professionalism. In the real world outside of work, people can express all ranges of opinions (well, most), and others can choose to react, or not. Others can even choose to just not deal with you if they don't like your opinion (again, mostly). At work, you have a complicated long term contractual and financial relationship to the employer and other employees. It's appropriate for people to come into that with some self awareness and caution about what to say, and to whom.
You joke, but the sentiment is correct. The poor have it incredibly good today relative to the rich - better than any time in history. In the past ( 2000BCE-1900CE) the disparities in lifestyle were much, much, larger. Stark disparities in access to water, much shorter life expediencies, no transportation beyond walking, limited food. The disparities in lifestyle between the rich and the poor have only continued to decrease over time, despite the dollar amount.

That said, I don't deny that disparities still exist. Disparities are natural and just, and I have no problem with that.

Along with that, if you still want to help the poor and donate your income, go do it! I think it's a great thing. And importantly, nothing is stopping you. You don't even need to government to help you. There are inumerous private charities more than willing to help you.
Have you been a worker on Mechanical Turk? Share your experiences
What kind(s) of work did you do? How much did it pay? Was it worth it?

What did you like and dislike about the various jobs, and about Turk itself.
He did not.

He asked for proof. The person responded with anecdotes. That kind of reasoning will just result in another person giving his/her anecdotes stating the opposite. Neither is proof.
this is basically the idea of the core compromise liberal political philosophy is meant to address:

> People talk about “liberalism” as if it’s just another word for capitalism, or libertarianism, or vague center-left-Democratic Clintonism. Liberalism is none of these things. Liberalism is a technology for preventing civil war. It was forged in the fires of Hell – the horrors of the endless seventeenth century religious wars. For a hundred years, Europe tore itself apart in some of the most brutal ways imaginable – until finally, from the burning wreckage, we drew forth this amazing piece of alien machinery. A machine that, when tuned just right, let people live together peacefully without doing the “kill people for being Protestant” thing. Popular historical strategies for dealing with differences have included: brutally enforced conformity, brutally efficient genocide, and making sure to keep the alien machine tuned really really carefully.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/21/against-murderism/

it's a terrible shame we seem to be forgetting this as liberalism simply becomes a tribe
Since the embedded plot isn't showing up, you can see it at https://plot.ly/~aatish/115/an-ounce-of-a-smaller-creature-g...
One of my personal indicators that Bitcoin is in a bubble is when Bitcoin articles on hacker news are overrun with people talking about their bitcoin related businesses, instead of being overrun with skeptics and people saying it's in a "bubble".

We have gone from %90 negative a couple years ago on HN to about %50 negative today.
I think the idea you are advocating, that they should change the nature of the job to make it more accommodating to a more diverse talent pool, is the kind of thing the memo was advocating. See the section titled "Non-discriminatory ways to reduce the gender gap".[1] In that section, he suggests making the work more cooperative instead of competitive and making part-time work first-class, among other things. He also suggests making the work more collaborative, which seems a lot like your "changing the things coders are allowed to focus on." He then goes on to note that doing this will also mean Google will diversify the kind of male that it gets, just like you do.

Or am I missing some difference in what you are suggesting and what the memo suggested?

1. http://diversitymemo.com/#reduce-gender-gap
Around my area in the Northeast of the US, Apple Pay is becoming ubiquitous. I just put my iPhone near the reader and use touch id. It takes seconds at most and I don't have to expose my wallet to would-be muggers.
Not to mention half of the database leaks in recent years, especially of porn sites, contained them anyway
The primary place where the policies should be discussed is the company. He got fired for sharing his opinions. I don't see how is that supporting open discussion of the topic?
You should have held out on the wait-and-see. The moderate-sized rear cabin with those little suicide doors (you are talking about the RX-8, aren't you?) is absolutely great for baby and child seats.

Also, yeah, I had my RX-8 tow started once. The recovery guy actually suggested I drive his truck while he sat in the car and tried to start it. So there I was with the new experience of driving an enormous full-size recovery vehicle, getting quite concerned as I looked in the mirror and saw clouds of white smoke pouring out of my car's exhaust! But, once properly wary of flooding, the car didn't give me any trouble before or since.
It's a submarine promo for the company mentioned. Seems pretty appropriate though for a company paid to create stories to use stories for its own promotion.
Pretty much anything, built games, learning apps, marketplaces. Any way I can contact you?
Some folks have set up donations for James Damore to help him until he finds new employment: https://www.wesearchr.com/bounties/james-damore-official-fun...

Engineers should help engineers in times like these.
I wonder if Neal Stephenson gets paid to do this. He's predicted parts of where we're headed with Diamond Age and Snow crash.
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From features I really wanted that no one was offering.
The first comment in this thread, read like "I made a mistake, sorry." I took it at face value. This comment makes me think that might have been a mistake because it misses the point that copying articles from one source onto another source and then submitting to Hacker News, is not consistent with the community norms of Hacker News [1].

The earlier submission makes Hacker News worse because it is low quality. That is the relevant harm here. It is why the community flagged the earlier submission. If that isn't compelling, maybe the high number of the comments here that are unrelated to Graham's essay (like this one) might be.

[1]: It is also inconsistent with the guidelines which favor original sources.
>lost WW2 "better" than most countries won it

Finland also lost Karelia and other territories in the Winter war. Nominally a different war, but for finns it's a one long conflict with Stalin's Russia.
BTW, if you want to audit, you need to search for each course individually (or click seycombi's links above) and click the Enroll button there, there's no Audit option if you click Enroll on the full Specialization.
Ok nice good to know that they will include some of the stuff in the new versions
That assumes that 'members of protected classes' cannot also hold 'discriminatory beliefs'. I dont believe the two are mutually exclusive.
inspiring story. thank you. i have a technical BA but have done similar hopping around new york etc. since then and have been self-teaching cs trying to figure out a path that will work for me. how did you jump into a management/product? did you read up on those skills or are you a good at selling yourself?
how did you make the decision to go back to school?
i'm most interested in how you were able to commit to giving up art.
Really proud of the Angular community and the hard work of the organizers to make this happen.
I only see value for Windows as a desktop OS, and I think the intent of WSL is improving the dev experience on Windows.

If you need a high quality Linux server, why not just run Linux?
You should see the way young children use wooden blocks if you doubt that wooden blocks are addictive.

I watched my nephews, for 20 minutes, simply throw blocks into a box and say "throw and a miss! Throw and a hit!" It was mindless and ritualistic, and frankly we should frightened of this wooden blocks trend. Don't get me started on the game they call "Tag". /s

I feel like the word "addiction" is losing it's meaning. Just because someone likes something and continues to do it doesn't mean that it's an addiction.

// edit: And really, think about your own experience with video games. Sure, we all played video games at the expense of our homework and conversation with my parents. But who could blame me? Middle & high school cater to the students with room-temp IQs, my parents just rambled about the economy and weather and the boring things I talk about now, and I lacked any challenge in my life expect punking noobs in Starcraft.
Good points.

My thinking was that they specifically said CoC violations and then used misrepresentations of his writings (writings that were, AFAIK, specifically encouraged) to justify those CoC violations.

Had they just said "I no longer like your nose", that would probably have been safer, but of course not effective PR and I am pretty certain that getting rid of him was a pure PR exercise.

Heck, they might even have given him some hush money in order for that not to happen.

And yes, this is all mostly uninformed speculation :-)
I'm pro affirmative action, and I honestly didn't read his message as "My position is superior". The central argument to me felt like he was trying to say he saw things differently, and there should be space for him to say that, not that he has the ultimate truth. I agree with that, even though I think he misunderstands how affirmative action works.
From the project's "about" page:

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This article doesn't say anything about citations, unless I'm missing something. I've read the memo, "citations" (some of them hardly qualify) and all. "Anti-diversity" might be a little hyperbolic, but it's hard to argue it is anything else in good faith.

The author feels comfortable making the claim women are biologically more neurotic, in a professional setting, no less. His "citation" for this fact is Wikipedia. This is unimaginative sexist bullshit that everyone has heard before. That people feel the impulse to defend this is disgusting.

Whatever innate differences there are between men and women are small and nowhere near as big a factor in the gender-ratio as say, arrogant weirdos sending credos to their entire company declaring women unfit to work in their industry.
Is there an honest non-scummy way to raise capital through this mechanism for something without an inherent scarcity built into the system and that doesn't carry nasty future litigation risks (or at least doesn't carry them more than a SAFE or a convertible note)?

My impression so far is no but I could be wrong.
Bizarrely, some of these non-American ICOs still advertise in the US. I can't remember the exact ICOs, but some have paid for billboard ads, taxi ads, and so on. I suspect that the 'no Americans' is just a tickbox that they know is easy for their investors to ignore.
It's ok just because C-173 got Cronenberged there are still plenty of dimensions left. Sometimes rebooting is the only option.
Credit card users subsidize cash users, because they pay tax to the government that runs the cash system they don't use!

The credit card fee overhead might be too high, but every form of payment system has overhead to operate & maintain, and there's nothing fundamentally wrong with that.
People still pay for hedge fund managers time, they just do this indirectly via 401k fees. Rather than look at some mythical 'the average person' you need to look at total spending because there is a lot of indirect spending going via corporations and the government.
Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three.
Not in the least. Bitcoin has many uses, and is a fundamentally new technology. Naturally it's going thru the technology adoption life cycle and every few months/years it catches up to the wider levels of adoption and more mature use cases.

It will become a currency when most of it has been mined and it's in widespread use and there aren't billions of people who have never heard of it... the price will stabilize then.

It's an error to think that the only use of bitcoin is as a currency. (in the traditional sense)
> Not only is he wrong

That's merely your opinion, which clearly can be seen from the comments here, has disagreement.

> he made an extended case for the wrong argument and did it in a way that inflict maximum company damage.

How did he inflict damage on the company?

Whoever leaked this internal memo did the damage, but I haven't seen any witch hunt or firing in that regard.

Strange, eh?
Absolutely, look out for one in 3.5
>there's no explanation for why you only experience a single branch

Isn't that obvious given that the particles of your brain can't interact with the particles of your brain in physically-different branches?

>it seems fair to demand that a sufficiently intelligent agent with no prior knowledge of our physics should be able to predict what the theory says about their future observations. ... Even if you add that in, there's nothing to suggest which branch the agent will experience

Don't you get that same problem with other interpretations that instead assume interactions can have a truly random result on some probability distribution?
One of the reasons the US keeps "blustering" about N. Korea is S. Korea and Japan are extremely worried about a nuclear armed N. Korea. Likely because N. Korea has been conducting low level military actions against them over the last 50 years, abducting and killing civilians, firing artillery barrages, attacking and sinking military ships, all with the intent of blackmailing ransom payments.

Now N. Korea can only go so far with artillery barrages or sinking military ships before they face military retaliation. But once they are nuclear armed, they could bombard the suburbs of Seoul until a ransom was paid. Without fear of retaliation. Because they've already made it quite clear they really want to use their nuclear weapons, so pay up or get nuked.

So if the US backed off, S. Korea, Japan and likely every other country in the region would immediately acquire nuclear weapons. And either N. Korea stops its blackmail programs or a nuclear war breaks out.
From games that I wanted to play but were not available
For some reason HN isn't letting me respond to your next comment. I trust mattis because I have listened to him give many speeches and he struck me as a sober thinker willing to grapple with hard questions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKIJKQRb53o

My approval of mccmaster was originally based on his reputation stemming from his book "dereliction of duty" about how american generals mishandled vietnam. So that's why I trust them a little bit. But I do not trust them that much. I think they are intelligent people but...I think the pentagon induces a lot of group-think and intellectual momentum and suppression of dissent. When all you have is a hammer..the world looks like a nail. This is part of why I prefer having civilian Sec-Defs..and why it is important to have a president who is willing to cast aside the advice of his advisors..since in the past 15 years (though I liked ash carter and gates) a lot of that advice has been hawkish drivel. I really recommend a book called "The generals" by Thomas E. Ricks (on this topic). Tldr: don't trust the generals that much but more than trump.

For why I trust people (in general), I trust people who are willing to seriously consider the possibility they are dead wrong and people brave enough to seriously consider opposing views. I trust people who try to be rigorous in all things.
I agree with you on "nobody has to give you space or time to voice your speech".
If you want to be free to speak your opinion but there are harsh consequences, that speech wasn't really "free". A lot of people will agree with you, a lot will not.
My point is, there is no such thing as freedom of speech in our society, it's not an absolute freedom, and I'm OK with that.
Our society will take a long time before we can truly accept freedom of speech and all its consequences.
The other side is: What we have always seen in our society is if you think differently than the main stream thought you should be aware that will be consequences.

What do you think?
That's true. The fastest growing social network within German universities was an anonymous one. This is opposed to the USA, where Facebook was the fastest growing network based on the ideal of knowing exactly what classes Y person on your campus went to.
I think the idea put forth in the Conservatives for Climate Change Action is that instead of the proceeds from the carbon tax accessed on US carbon producers (and indirectly average US consumers/citizens) going to developing countries for unspecified environmental activity (Obama pledge the US would provide $1B to developing countries), the carbon tax proceeds would be pumped back into the US economy via annual $4000 dividend going to average US consumers/citizens.
I appreciate the comment, but it just doesn't work out that way. In theory yes, what you are saying holds up. In practice(I'm running these 24/7 and generating my income solely from them) this has not happened yet, and is showing zero progress towards happening.
Good point. I don't drive car but in western countries I basically had to pay the bikes worth as deposit because I didn't carry a credit card. Plus this was seen as super unusual (even having a this high euro amount on hand was seen as suspect)
I don't think what I believe about the memo matters. I just wanted to hear what people had to say with regards to being inclusive of people with ideas they don't agree with. Judging by how few responses I got that even attempted to answer that question I'm going to guess that many people aren't interested in being inclusive of people with dissenting opinions that they find offensive.

In the interest of answering part of your question (since I just complained about how few answered mine) I'll say that I do think there is a role for companies to play when it comes to diversity. I'd love to see companies get involved much earlier than when it comes time to hire. Because I believe the problem is with the pipeline I think that if companies want to address the problem then they should start where the pipeline starts: early education. If Google is more interested in getting more women involved in tech I would support the idea of Google hosting a summer camp for girls at their HQ. Or funding programs to do those kinds of things in other places in the country. Of course I have no idea if this kind of thing would work and it would require patience (years) to see if it would pay off. But it seems like a good place to start.

I haven't really thought a ton about how to solve the pipeline problem but it seems obvious that you'd start at the beginning rather than the end. Perhaps I'm wrong. What do you think?
One route is to pick a niche hobby/interest of yours and build off of that. Find pain points and then write up an level of effort estimate for a software solution.

Often there is little or no competition in these uber-small markets. Because you are your own customer, you might have a good idea of your monetization options.

Even if you fail monetarily, at least you solved your pain point.
They could've literally put this as a workaround
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One of the differences is Austrians don't rely on empiricism. They start off with first principles about how humans behave and basically prove all of their proofs about human behavior and economics from their.

Mainstream economics has a much larger reliance on empiricism(especially recently after the Great Recession invalidated a lot of Chicago school models).

They differ fundamentally but like any field you should start with the mainstream. Start with the consensus of how the recognized leaders of a field agree on how the world works. Then start branching off into sub-fields(some of which will be labeled quackery like the Austrians). This doesn't mean they're wrong. Many times a sub-field is labeled as quacks before the mainstream finally accepts them. But more often than not the mainstream is right.

Some recognized leaders would be Greg Mankiw(representing conservative mainstream economic thought) and Paul Krugman/Brad Delong(representing liberal mainstream economic thought).

Also I think the best way to start an education in a particular field is with a textbook. They are great overviews of a field.
Yeah, but which university policy? There's no chapter and verse in the statement: https://twitter.com/universityofga/status/894964656007196672

I suspect the policy discussion is all bullshit and the only real policy violation was the unwritten policy of "avoid negative media attention".
Thanks! I didn't know that!
All of their $ or all of their ETH? Most ICOs don't take $.
I am not sure what you call this style of arguments ? You are deviating from my point and intention.

Lets take GPA for example. Do you think 2 people getting a GPA of 3.0 are of the exact same knowledge level ? Is it possible that one has the equivalent score of 3.13 and the other has 2.87 and that they were both normalized to 3 ? Same thing with the jobs. Maybe you see this at your job too. There are going to be people more skilled at what you do and people less skilled at what you do but still pulling the same salary. The salary you earn is an approximate estimate of your skill measure but not an measure of your exact skill.