skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Unfortunately, when we flip the point around, and say that the universe of risk assets should grow more expensive in response to improvements, people get concerned, even though the exact same thing is being said."

Discredited the article to me..

Improvements of a market reduce its friction and make it more efficient: transaction costs disappear for instance. Cost and price aren't the same thing. The latter includes the former.

Price can be seen as formed by a supply-demand process. In this process investors and capital seekers are BOTH subject to the cost of an inefficient market. They're not two sides of a coin.

Maybe not so recommended.
Really liking this. Are results not linked to an account deleted at some point? The privacy policy does not mention that that is the case. Could that be added?
Thank you!

Halal being "ok" Islamically, free as the old competition are very expensive, and fun so the process sounds noncommittal (many are put off by fearing being rushed into something they're not necessarily ready for)

It's a LEMP stack heavily utilising Memcached for performance and XMPP for real time functionality
To those downvoting, this is relevant because it means that CNN is taking its wording from Pichai. It would have been more accurate to say, "Google CEO cuts vacation short to address controversial memo he says argued women aren't biologically fit for tech jobs" -- but one can understand why they just parroted his take on the thing.

It is a different kind of error than Gizmodo labeling the thing an anti-diversity screed.
I seem to remember some similar board based on RISC, anyone know what I'm thinking of?
how to make a clickbait article. find some random statistic and fill an article with speculation about it.
> you consider all these problems "solvable", almost in a sense of being trivially solvable, while I feel that most people wrestle with at least one of these for their entire lives.

Yep. Two reasons:

1) Like I said, they're easy solutions but slow. The human mind is not built for 2 year slogs without reward.

2) All of these things are moralized, which makes it really hard to "just try". We think if we fail it reflects poorly on us, which makes it slower to start, slower to recover from missteps, and we just run out of time.

> And people with these problems nonetheless have or had SOs.

True! I was responding to someone who couldn't get past a first date for a decade, with the major things that could be getting in their way. In reality, solving just one or two might be enough to get them over the hump.
Maybe? Certainly languages with equivalent expressive power existed.
It seems to me that you're ignoring the huge increases on the far right side of the graphs in the article. How does the wage increase of the top 1% (or higher, even) factor into your view of the "less competitive" middle income working class of the US? Has the top 1% really become _that_ much more productive over the last few decades relative to the middle class? I really don't think so, but I'm not an expert on this.

It seems to me that you're defending the uppermost social class in the US, and are attempting to place blame on the middle class of the US for not being able to compete on the global stage against the lower classes of third world nations. They aren't necessarily more productive, they're just willing to work for less. A lot less. I may be misunderstanding your entire point, though.

> So in order to maintain the globally-superior wages we have become accustomed to, we must maintain and even increase our productivity edge. How do we do that?

Couldn't we do this by having competitive taxes on the highest income workers, and then reinvesting that money into things like: reducing the cost of education, reducing the cost of healthcare, improving mass transit and infrastructure, and other things that in general detract from the middle class's ability to "increase our productivity edge". This seems like at least a step in the right direction, instead of allowing the upper echelons of society to vacuum up and hoard billions of dollars that aren't serving any higher goals other than making a select few wealthy beyond reason.
Archetypal indeed
I am almost certain that they gave this guy a termination agreement in which he agreed not to sue Google, and in return would be given a massive golden parachute. Google felt they needed him gone for business reasons. But of course they had no legitimate reason to fire him and he could sue if they did. If that's not the case, expect a lawsuit from him shortly.
Speaking for America, where it's common to pay by card, I have never had a waiter bring a terminal to the table.

They take your card away and bring back a card receipt for you to sign & leave a tip on.
Nail on the head, here. With sources so dubious, it doesn't warrant legitimizing this by discussing it any further.

The author also contributes to the Daily Caller which is a right-wing blog owned by [Fox News'] Tucker Carlson[0] that has frequently parroted alt-right platitudes as gospel. They regularly play a pretty wild spin-game. I'd very very wary of any of their "facts". Citing sources like the so-named CSC Media Group USA[1] lends his article little credibility. (Not to be confused with the British-Irish television subsidiary of Sony, CSC Media Group[2], whose name they may be appropriating for less than savoury reasons).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Caller

[1] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/csc-mediagroup-usa/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSC_Media_Group
Exactly. I'll continue to use my card whenever possible to save at least 2% on every transaction. But this comes at the cost of getting my CC data stolen from shitty POSs 1-2 times a year. Small inconvenience, but worth it.
It looks like around 90% of ICOs are securities and "restructuring" them to not be securities would probably make them unprofitable and thus pointless. The only way for most ICOs to comply with SEC regulations is to not exist.
Certainly a bit of everything on there... :)

https://archive.org/details/78_rambling-wreck-from-georgia-t...
From Convicted Murderer to Debut Author
>most television apps have adopted the annoying "play the next episode unless the user opts out in X seconds"

To be fair, this is how broadcast/cable TV always worked.
> your comment is yet another indication that Hacker News is infiltrated by... pro-hyper-rich propaganda.

Be careful here. It's one thing to disagree and to point out percieved logical fallacies. It's another thing to group everyone who disagrees with you into a category that you dismiss. People very easily form an us-vs-them mentality due to our tribal evolution, and this line of thinking has the potential to go down that path.
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> Then we invented currency as a store of value

The book actually says the opposite: Currency is a standardized to-the-bearer IOU, a credit that always has a corresponding debt or obligation somewhere else, usually from the issuer.

The US dollar, for example, has always been a debt instrument, even if that debt was once "IOU some shiny metal" as opposed to "IOU services", or "IOU -1 on your tax bill".

Even with rare-metal coinage, it was important to users that the issuer would honor its stated debt-units, even if its value as a "X grams of metal Y" could go lower.

The easiest way to see that currency is not a store of value is to consider how many old bills get shredded to scrap fibers and replaced with fresh ones, all without triggering a crisis over the "value destruction" going on. It's impossible to imagine the same with, say, burning worn-down diamonds into carbon-dioxide.
Technologies are always at their best when they're already being obsoleted. Just as electric cars become practical ICEs are getting great and so are the transmissions, making for great modern powertrains.

There were rumors last year in F1 that one of the manufacturers was doing HCCI for it's engine (the same that Mazda has done here). I don't think any actually did but Ferrari did introduce a jet ignition system[1] that allows them to run much leaner. I wonder if anyone is thinking of adapting that to normal road cars.

[1] http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/opinion/f1/ferraris-formul...
Solaris and BSD load averages are based on CPU only. As for avoiding TENEX, here's the comment from the freebsd src:

/*
* Compute a tenex style load average of a quantity on
* 1, 5 and 15 minute intervals.
*/
static void
loadav(void *arg)
{
[...]

:)
JFK almost launched off a nuclear conflagration and is considered one of the best american presidents. Donald Trump isn't even near average. These are impossibly stressful decisions in which literally millions of lives lie in the balance. I trust McMaster and Mattis..but at the end of the day the President makes the decisions. During the cuban missile crisis THE JOINT CHIEFS pushed HARD for a full out attack on the cuban mainland. JFK was almost swayed. I think it is very reasonable to ponder whether or not a 71 year old reality television star who is very clearly quite emotional...is capable of winning bets of this nature.
Decision making under uncertainty is hard for even the best of us. I do not believe he is the best of us.
No it doesn't. 500-dimensional vectors have lengths.
That sememed to be the basis of it but this was a couple of years ago or more say 2010-2012 something like that man that was a while back wow.

Yeah you had to search some term and find the link. It seemed to work as they would be beyond the first page result usually or at least not #1 but say #4 on page 1.

But it could be biased you know based on your own search history I often check externally with say Tor to see how sites rank from other viewpoints than my own.

Anyway hope that is helpful. You could also just sign up and look around. I think I still have a 99.99% satisfaction rate a lot of jobs you need something close to that to apply but it is shit work though. Some go up to $1.00+ woweee but those take like half an hour to do it's ridiculous.
Stores that accept credit cards sell more than those that don’t. I have been to plenty of cash only places were the prices are exactly the same or higher than credit accepting places.

Additionally cash increase the potential for tax evasion, which means that increases the price of government for those who are legitimate.
This is excellent, glad to see these guys trying again. They attempted a crowdfund of this project a year or two ago and didn't raise enough, which was a huge disappointment. Hope the second try is the charm.
"The study also found increased blood flow in limbic areas of the brains of women, which may also partially explain why women are more vulnerable to anxiety, depression, insomnia, and eating disorders." That is the claim James Damore made in his argument.
How to Create Pragmatic, Lightweight Languages
Why Blockchains Fork: A Tale of Two Cryptocurrencies
Mazda is kind of small, it would be like expecting an electric vehicle from Subaru. Ya, it will happen eventually, but the big guys are going to have the resources to go first (well, and startups built on the concept itself).

Also, hydrogen was supposed to be the big clean fuel in Japan, but that fell by the wayside when the bigger Chinese market decided it would be electric.
> I've tried A/B/C/D testing a few tracks on some crappy speakers and can't discern any difference.

You might want to try with a half-decent usb dac and a set of good headphones if the goal was an a/b test?
If you don't drive, waiting 30 minutes for a robotaxi to show up is vastly better than having to rely on someone else to ferry you around or being stuck at home.
You're trolling, right? 40mpg is pretty great.
Ruth–Aaron pair
If anything that "strengthens and enforces typical stereotypes" is a bad thing, I should've been banned from attending mathlete competitions or LAN parties. Those definitely reinforced stereotypes and made some aspects of my life harder. :]

It's a free world dude.
What his predecessor tried to do. Fix the economy. Greece's problem isn't the debt per se, it's the fact that our economy isn't competitive. There's a lot of red tape, many professions are regulated (pharmacies are a prime example), we import way more things than we export, entrepreneurism is very low, public sector is corrupted, the insurance system is bankrupt, and a lot of things don't work as they should in a modern western country. Even if we defaulted in all our debt, which is highly unlikely even if we exit the Eurozone, we'd be in the same position give it a few decades. There are a lot of structural problems in the economy and Varoufakis did nothing to address any of these. All he did was acting like a rock star who is clueless of how things work in the upper levels of EU policy making. In the six or so months of his reign he didn't introduced a single policy to fix structural problems. Not one, nothing, zero, ziltch. He was so fixated in the debt issue and acting like a fucking primadona that he forgot there were other equally pressing matters to attend to. Like running the damn country for one.
Good point and thanks for the clarification. Glad to know I moved in the right direction. :)

I used the term "ledger" simply because that is the common term used to describe blockchains. My reason for writing the code was to explore how a hashed transaction "ledger" fits together at a more technical level, instead of as a marketing buzzword. Plus it is there in case others want to understand just that piece of it.

That link is very straightforward. I have a copy of Haber & Stornetta's 1991 paper on timestamping but haven't read it yet.
Matt Levine, today: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-08-08/ico-risks...

"To me, it seems odd that people would pay millions of dollars to reserve space on a new cloud storage network, and obvious that they're really paying that money for a speculative investment."

"If you do an illegal securities offering, people who bought your securities have a right to get their money back. If token prices keep rising everywhere, this is not a big concern -- why would anyone want their money back when they have such valuable cloud storage? But if the ICO mania fades, expect a lot of lawsuits from investors who are shocked to learn that they were buying unregistered securities."
I disagree. I think all links to Amazon should be affiliate links. So if someone doesn't put them, I am disappointed in them. :)
A newer story states that the "stress reduction policy" was revoked due to conflicting with university policy on grading:
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9558
Gender shouldn't matter, but unfortunately it does.

There are many components to the problem, but one component is institutional bias in the hiring process itself. You assume that all candidates are given a fair shake by an impartial, unbiased set of criteria that should be ferreting out the best talent and making offers to only those people. But those supposedly impartial criteria are executed upon in interviews by fallible human beings with their own personal or institutional biases, not by impartial pattern-matching robots. Consequently, many talented female engineers are passed over for inferior male ones, not the other way around.

I have interviewed literally thousands of candidates in my tech management career, and not once have I seen an inferior female candidate picked over a superior male one because of a diversity initiative. I have, however, had to work with young male interviewers to train them to properly identify their own unconscious biases and to ensure that they are truly being as impartial as possible when interviewing candidates of any gender. And to the degree that that is impossible - well, that is why we still have diversity targets.
His stress reduction policy is a written policy producing an assigned grade, and the policy is consistently applied to the class, so there's not really any risk of losing accreditation. Grades are inherently subjective, and this is just another method for producing grades - to regulate them would require a standardized assessment like the SAT's or AP exams, or a standardized curriculum like Common Core, and so far neither of those exist for business school or even most undergrad courses.

OTOH, anyone in the business world will probably find this article after a quick Google, so graduates from the program will probably have a hard time getting a job that actually requires the credential; even if the stress reduction policy was never implemented in practice, the fact of a professor considering it is something to take note of. But a business degree seems pretty worthless anyway, economically speaking. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GII18KY/ I have a hard time believing it's actually #8: http://www.terry.uga.edu/academics/offices/management-inform...

And of course the professor withdrew the policy, anything that calls attention to the school in a negative fashion is grounds for losing tenure...
Do you have any concrete examples of liberal countries pushing values?

I mean as one example we can take western countries that give aid to African countries - is it right or wrong to condition the aid on ending persecution of homosexuals? Perhaps not a good example...
This is really just more evidence of a longer trending-up in the belief that fibbing is OK if it serves the greater good. You can exaggerate the dangers of secondhand smoke, if that helps you stamp out smoking. [0] You can exaggerate the general population's risk of contracting HIV, if that raises awareness for AIDS research. [1] And you can, clearly, misrepresent the science on gender differences if it serves a larger feminist platform. [2]

Surely, some scientists must know they're doing this. But, crucially, most people are just repeating what they've been told by experts.

[0] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...

[1] https://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/people-think-i...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hb3oe7-PJ8
Google (or any other company I can think of) is not trying to have 50/50 gender balance. They are trying to have the same percentage split as the pool of applicants, which I think is fine. Looks like lot of people do not understand how gender diversity programs work or their purpose and hence all this misunderstanding.
I toggled the gifs off since I read the comments before the article. I must say, the article is excellent and you could even share it with a non-technical manager or spouse*

*goes ands talks to wife about compression basics :)
> if the poor still live long lives, are not hungry, have access to modern technology, transportation, and modern entertainment

They have their bread and circuses, what are they complaining about?
I can't tell which is which from the filename, but I did a basic layman listen to https://archive.org/details/78_baby-its-cold-outside_frank-l...

1. "friendly filename" sounds good, little static/pop, etc

2. Super loud squeal thing in the background, yuck. Voices sound poorly equalized

3. Quieter than (2) but way more noise than (1), voices causing weird audio artifacts in my headphones (as if they're blowing their available range) and are radically changing volume in the middle of a line

4. Weird squirrely noises on high-volume peaks, sounds like crap on the loudest parts. Right channel is like, totally f'd in the A man.

5. Seems to be same as (1), but with the standardized filename. I gotta agree with mr audio engineer, it just sounds the best.
As long as we're one-upping, I'll jump in here to say that my Nissan Leaf gets 140 MPG ;)
> The idea that the wealthy's tax burden should increase as a result of [growing income inequality] is ridiculous, however.

The issue is that inequality is growing to a point that there is a potential for social, economic, and political destabilization. How do you propose the issue be addressed? Because it should be apparent that trickle-down economics isn't occuring, and I don't see how things can improve without some sort of wealth redistribution.
while simultaneously reaffirming that regulated broker-dealers can trade securitized tokens that are properly registered bringing trillions of dollars into the crypto space overnight when TD Ameritrade and ETrade starts trading these.
As with TV? Maybe a bit worse because you can wander down your YouTube black hole instead of being subject to the scheduled broadcasts.

Yes, it is addictive, but not in the same manipulative way that Facebook is.
More pseudo-ransomware attacks are probably on the way
Then what I'm wondering is why you trust the generals? Or anybody for that matter?
Any chance your MPG was measured on imperial gallons? Looks like 40MPG imperial would be normal for that car, but 40MPG US would be a fair bit more than expected.
> CVC code

I heard that those are very easy to crack. It might have been this article from 2011 where I read about this (German, sorry): http://www.zeit.de/2011/21/Kreditkarten-Sicherheit
This seems to be reiterating almost exactly the points that the "manifesto" was making. Maybe people will actually read this one before responding without being primed for outrage by Gizmodo.
I've had Mazda's last model of rotary-engined car, the RX-8, as a daily driver for the past five years (sixty thousand miles). It has served me well and my local garage have performed regular servicing and mechanical repairs with no problems.

So I think your opinions are a little bit overcooked.

But I don't want to overdo mine in turn. The fuel consumption is excessive by modern standards (but comparable to other vehicles of similar performance). The engine consumes oil by design and needs to be topped up every few weeks. The whole car is in a high state of tuning, and has given me a few large service/repair bills - but never stranded me at the roadside. My garage once admitted incomprehension and sent me to the main dealer for diagnostics before they could begin repairs.

All in all I think Mazda pitched the RX-8 well as a sporty car for enthusiasts, whose reliability might have come in under par in the market for, say, small family cars. I just want to fight the impression that having a rotary-engined car is a drastically different, worse, experience than one with a piston engine. Generally you just get in and drive.

Wankel engines are just one of (surprisingly many) technologies that were more-or-less viable but just not able to become dominant. Like, we would all still manage to drive around if the only technologies developed happened to be opposed-piston engines, or two-stroke diesels, or axial-cylinder engines with a swashplate. We might even see a few of them come back if the market moves towards series-hybrid vehicle setups. A light little rotary always running at its peak-efficiency speed might be a reasonable choice for a range-extender/series hybrid.
I recall Dad getting phone calls from his mortgage company back in the 70's. They had bought their house in the 60's and had a rate around 3.5% and the caller wanted him to refinance. "What's the rate?" "Its a low-low 17%!" "No thank you."

The idea of a 17% mortgage is frightening.
> Maybe we just need time to let numbers even out, maybe there isn't even a problem to begin with, because females might actually be 5 times less likely to be naturally interested in tech. Who knows?

No, no. Google clearly knows. That's why they are going for 50/50.
You might find this interesting: https://www.1843magazine.com/features/the-scientists-who-mak...
Most larger bank locations have a machine you can just throw your copper into.
This is off-topic, so very briefly:

The NYT published at least two stories about an "unverified" dossier on Trump.
Admitting it is unverified, yet they claim:

1. "consequences have been incalculable and will play out long past Inauguration Day"
2. "By all accounts, Mr. Steele has an excellent reputation"

Is it just me, or do they (subtly) suggest that, while "unverified", there may be something to the dossier?

If it is unverified (and quite damning), why publish it?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/us/politics/donald-trump-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/us/politics/donald-trump-...