skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I guess that's what I meant by information vs actually being harmful. I expect it to have negative effects to loans/employers/etc.
You need to add Pricing immediately.
Talking about creeping: I just saw a self-driving Chevy Bolt hold up traffic turning left from Franklin onto Lombard. It crawled through the turn like a panicked tourist. Granted that this is not a smooth turn, requiring a sharp adjustment at the end. I think this was a GM test or perhaps Lyft. The car was named "Wombat".
I occasionally read HN comments, and once I see something people are touching upon in their comments that can either be automated or shown using an app, I post that idea and see the upvotes.
My thoughts wouldn't amount to anything more than a layman's understanding of pop psychology which I don't think adds anything useful to the conversation.
>In India the reservation debate has reached a point where things like 'citation needed' and 'provide proof' are now largely excuses to cover for pointless spending towards socialist 'rob peter to pay paul' schemes.

We're not in India and this is an international forum.

>I won't debate this further with you

Your opinion is formed so strongly that you never even debated in this thread. You're repeating the same sentiments and ignoring what the other person is saying.

The person is not even claiming what you are saying is false. He is only asking you to support what you're saying. And you've already attributed qualities to his personality.
True fact: saying "I'm not a racist but..." makes anything you say afterwards definitely not racist.
For the same reason people use OS X to actually develop applications that will actually run on GNU/Linux.
I am not even joking. In the next few years we are going to see Linux on the desktop!
I though you Americans have it pretty rough when you're caught going over speed limit?
It's important to distinguish between what the memo's author says, and what effect his words actually have. It is an anti-diversity memo, even if it isn't intended as one.

The author makes shaky statements about gender, reinforcing sexist stereotypes. The author applies rationalist disclaimers, which enables already-sexist readers to feel that their sexism is rational. And, most distressingly, the author asserts that Google made a mistake hiring many of the women who work there. Actively making your minority coworkers feel unwelcome is an anti-diversity behavior, and it was an obvious and predictable consequence of how he chose to communicate.

I don't claim to know the author's intent, or how he truly feels about the women he works with. But, regardless of whether he's actually opposed to diversity, we judge words by their consequences. These words are thoroughly anti-diversity in consequence, and judging them in a vacuum is dangerously naive.
And yet here we are, discussing this... together.
OK, that makes sense. Just using it as a ledger for a blob of text about the loan
I've read he has another job offer with Wikileaks. Here's to hoping he gets it (if he wants to work there). http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/articl...
I write down 5-10 quick ideas per day just by surfing around, reading articles or building upon current techniques or current features. 99% doesn't become anything, the 1% is usually a combination of other ideas put into one.
See my other comment about women having "conquered" the field of law because they have a representation in higher education 1 percentage point lower than their proportion in society, falling to 36% working in the field and 30% at state judge level.

It's such a superficial appraisal of the reality, it's insulting that he then mocks people who think there may be systemic issues.
It is beautiful, politically correct logic is eating its self.
Nice scare quotes there. Those words never appeared in the document. Talk about intellectual dishonesty.
I've talked to an Aldi employee as of late and he said Aldi is proud to now have the fastest Card processing of all the German stores (within the regulatory limits: you have to put in your PIN or sign the receipts except for those fancy/scary NFC chips) and the Cash workflow is still faster, according to their own statistics. Consider that I already look into my purse while standing in line to get an overview of my available coins and that the cashier starts to collect the likely change the moment they tell you the total amount. This speeds up the process considerable compared to the – likely more cash-inexperienced if I follow your description – American cashiers.

I can also second the opinion of many other commenters that the privacy implications of credit cards, especially the RFC ones which allow for invisible tracking, is a huge turn down of card payments in Germany.

And last but not least, as a developer, I gotta vent some air and complain that credit cards payments are huge pain in the butt, because of all those pesky special cases that arise from fraud prevention and risk reduction. Which isn't necessary for any sane payment method which can collect money directly from your bank account without the possibility of any charge-backs. This is one of the core reasons which persuaded me a European Fintech Startup Scene is necessary, so that Stripe with its CreditCard-centric API doesn't stand uncompeted.
> one could even argue they are somewhere between the embrace and extend phase.

I see it more as grasping at straws to stay relevant. The Ballmer-era FUD campaign was mostly a failure (and bad PR). "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em".
>If a problem is political providing proof might be very difficult, since those in power will claim that there is no proof of a problem existing, and hence there is no need to investigate the problem further. This circular logic prevents any kind of proof from ever being produced.

This topic is very measurable, regardless of the government's stance. The government cannot prevent proof of this. At most they can just not fund it.
Funny enough, if he would write a manifesto about topics you suggest, he wouldn't be fired.
NT has had support for "personalities" since its inception. This is not even the first *NIX one it has had :)

Still, I agree that it's an impressive achievement.
None so far. There's plenty of crowdfunding sites that could be used instead, but ICOs allow the companies to raise money before they even produce a beta of their software. They also have no investor protection, so the company has no obligations to deliver. Finally, these people know that there is a pool of investors out there who think that crypto coins are bound to increase in value, so they will throw money at any new coin.
While the nuclear weapons are in flight, north korea could level Seoul.

Furthermore the citizens in north korea have a right to not be summarily executed because they had shitty leaders.
I dislike Udacity, they interrupt every minute to ask stupid non-useful questions and some of their courses have very low quality.
> even students who do not chose their own grades (within the institution) could be negatively affected

That's right. Since there's no way to tell which ones chose their own grades, all the grades become worthless.

One of my high school teachers decided that everyone taking his class should get an A. The result was the students simply didn't respect him or the class.
OCR has come a long way, but still has lots to improve.
Because we don't want to be tracked by the bank what stuff we buy?
This is also why I prefer using credit over debit cards: with credit, a fraudulent transaction (before being cleared) is merely decreasing my available funds (and because I generally pay off my balance monthly, this has zero impact on my life). With debit, the money comes out of my account, and only once a fraud investigation is complete do I get my money back.

Contactless cards also typically have a per-transaction limit in the area of $100~$200, so the amount of damage someone can do without the PIN and before you cancel the card is quite limited. I actually wouldn't be surprised if you do too many transactions in a certain period of time it would ask you to do a PIN transaction.
Any sound restoration software would greatly improve these recordings.

For example this one from 1902: https://archive.org/details/78_medley-of-emmetts-yodles_yodl...

I'm sure Izotope would give the RX license for free in exchange for a blog post (or any other audio software company).
In the US, the credit card security comes from the vantage of "it's quite literally.... not your money". If there are any failures in security, the bank pays, thus ease of use is of greatest concern to the consumer.

In the USA, its rare that you'd have to sign for anything under $20.
I'm pretty sure every single German supermarket chain measures that, it's just a requirement to operate at those margins. The Edeka cooperative published in 2012 that their all-in cash handling cost is 0.14%. The 2013 Steinbeis Cost of Cash study[0] estimated a much higher number of 2.7% for merchants. The truth is probably somewhere in between.

Such studies have also been used to arrive at the EU interchange cap.

[0]: http://www.steinbeis-research.de/images/pdf-documents/CFP_Co...
fast.ai also has a quality ML course
> I don't know that they represent a large enough swath of the economy to account for the broad trends we see here.

I'm not sure it is that broad to begin with. The 99.999 percentile of adults with these near-infinite income gains represents only ~2,000 people. While wealth and income aren't the same thing, I expect there is a lot of overlap with this list[1] that outlines 400 of the potential names.

If you look at how they made their fortunes, many are directly attributable to copyright. Bill Gates certainly wouldn't have topped the list if anyone was free to copy/resell Windows.

> To my original point, though, making money off of a copyrighted work represents income from an asset, the value of which compounds over time, due to inflation.

Increased value of an asset does not necessarily translate to increased income. A primary residence, for instance, is a good example. The value of your home may be increasing, but nobody is paying you to live there. Many people are quite happy to pay top dollar for an asset that generates no revenue on the hope that capital gains alone make the purchase provide returns.

But you do rightfully point out that those who have entire control over a certain asset have complete control over the streams of money directed at that asset. That is not exclusively limited to copyright, but changes to copyright opened up a whole new set of wide-ranging assets to hold that were previously not there. Anyone holding hard assets was presumably already milking it for everything it was worth, thus, while incredibly profitable, not increasingly profitable.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2016/10/04/forbes-...
This article is interesting, but all it talks about is why big animals have a lower metabolic rate than small ones. I wish it would have also addressed the question of why small animals have a higher metabolic rate than big ones. If elephants can get away with having such a low metabolic rate, why can't voles?
Great article. Interesting, insightful, and actionable.

Cheers
Everyone line up for the Google blood test that tells you what job you can have.
So you're advocating for your country to undergo the same sort of economic shock therapy that other states before have undergone?
I would argue that IQ tests don't measure every single aspect of human intelligence, it's interested in one specific construct, if it exists -- g, which stands for a general capability. IQ is a test made for humans, but the concept of g is far more general than humans, and applies to machines as well.

When Google's AlphaGo beat some famous champions, people were wondering whether Google's program was merely a Go-specific program, or a more general program that learned to play Go.

I would also argue that if you went out and created another test for IQ, it would likely have high iter-rater reliability with IQ, but maybe have rough edges and have less empirical attention than mainstream tests like Ravens Matrices. That has been the history of people trying to make a name for themselves by making another intelligence construct, only to find it has insufficient distinction from IQ.
I love signature, because I play the credit card sign up game. Hard to remember PINs when you open a card a month.

Also because if my card gets stolen, I'm assured that my pin wasn't lifted by camera or keypad shim. The signature will be not present or not mine on fraudulent transactions, so I can tell my card issuer to fix it and not worry about them telling me I had "poor PIN security" or that it was somehow my fault.
just sounds like different learning styles
My guess, some of the Linux tooling will be easily ported or usable with Windows out of the box scenario is what they may be chasing.

Especially many tools out there for DevOps have *nix first flavor to them.
Agreed. At this point it's like trying to "extinguish" the world's deserts or oceans :)
Your hero div has some weird overlap issues in smaller screen heights http://imgur.com/a/yxyHr
I remember hearing this is the correct way to interpret some weather forecasts. 90% rain could mean certain rain over 90% of the area, rather than a 9/10 chance of rain over all the area
To the contrary, non-slaves produce more value than slaves, therefore slavery is not only unethical, but also un-capitalistic.

Capitalism explains many things, certainly people stopped Apartheid, but it can very well be both, slavery and segregation are unproductive, and therefore anti-capitalistic.
Tax "avoidance" usually implies exploiting some sort of unintended loophole in a tricky way that doesn't necessarily generate much economic value. In this case the homestead exemption is specifically and explicitly allowed. There's really nothing being avoided.
Existing product sucks, no good alternatives.
It's weird how some people seem to think the only two alternatives are neo-con world empire or give all our money to some other guys who aren't accountable to the U.S taxpayer or hardly anyone at all. Can't the American government do pro-climate things itself instead of paying money to someone else whose only qualification is that they don't have any reputation yet for corruption because they haven't done anything yet?
I know right! We began monetising in March but our existing features remained completely free, you wouldn't think that from the reviews though
While I'm not sure about any specific record, the reason they'd use different styluses is probably because they don't know which particular style was used to cut the original media. The closer you are, the better the reproduction should be. Too narrow a needle and you'll wobble in the groove too much. Too wide and you'll end up ignoring higher frequencies and loose content. I'd also imagine the state of the media to be relevant, i.e. scratches and other defects will be picked up differently on each size of needle so you could even piece together a composite of each needle if one picked up a scratch and the others didn't.
No, that's not at all how dog whistle rhetoric applies. Please see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics and particularly the section on the US.

What you're doing is, ironically, actually an attempt to shut down discussion. You're basically saying that an entire 50+ year historical record of politics in America isn't appropriate to bring up because, you claim, it might be used inappropriately to simply shut down debate.
LendUp (YC W12) is hiring people to reinvent financial services for half the US
I won't address most of your comment, but if my generation's interest in video games is anything like the future, I have very little hope in our ability as humans to resist being manipulated by people with money.

It's less the homework and more your ability to interact with your neighbor without a reward.
He doesn't have a PhD. https://twitter.com/nitashatiku/status/894939560391565317. He was in the PhD program at Harvard for two years, and published nothing during that time.
I hope that AI scientists will one day solve the problems with message forums. Message forums aren't designed to engage this many people. A popular MOOC gets tens of thousands of daily posts from students.

Maybe Andrew will make a practical class project out of trying to improve mass-collaboration using his MOOC as the test subject?
Actual data suggests pickpockets are in massive decline.
I suspect criminals are more rational than you might think.
http://www.npr.org/2011/03/06/134298101/pickpocketing-an-art... Sure, you can make a living picking pockets, but drugs / cyber crime etc. have more 'advancement' potential.
This is great work in general and excellent historical research.

As an additional historical note: in Unix, load averages were introduced in 3BSD, and at that time they included processes in disk IO wait and other theoretically short-term waits that weren't interruptible. This definition was carried through the BSD series and onward into Unixes derived from them, such as the initial versions of SunOS and Ultrix. At some point (perhaps SunOS 3 to SunOS 4, perhaps later), the SunOS/Solaris definition changed to be purely runable processes.

(I'm not sure what System V derived Unixes such as Irix, HP-UX, and so on did, and their kernel source is not readily available online for spelunking.)

As of early 2016 when I last looked at this, the situation on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD was somewhat tangled. FreeBSD load average only included runable processes, but NetBSD and OpenBSD counted some sleeping or waiting processes as well.
They want it to be a viable POSIX server.

The majority of web applications use languages with runtimes that hide any Linux specific features.

Given that the majority of enterprises allow only for Windows desktops, and won't pay for OS X machines, this is an appealing path to Ruby, Python, Erlang, Java, .NET Core, ... server based applications on azure cloud deployments.
Germany has "volksverhetzung" which amounts to hatespeech laws. To me it seems like an intentionally broad law banning "incitement of hatred", a noble goal for sure, but still not free speech. They also have laws against holocaust denial (again, noble intent) but that is not free speech. They also have anti-nazi laws ("the distribution or public use of symbols of unconstitutional groups") which again is not free speech. Somehow the US allows all of these forms of speech but has maintained its position as a pretty decent place to live, even for minority immigrants. Free speech is a binary despite what the detractors will try to claim. If someone wants to run a nazi political platform it is up to the public to make the judgement call to not vote for them.
Ask HN: CloudFlare won't refund a plan cancelled on first day of billing period
First, I love CloudFlare and recommend them a lot to clients and friends.

We recently had a DDOS attack and enabled the business plan on two of our domains. Initially we weren't sure which one was under attack.

Thank you CloudFlare for providing a great service, it's well worth the $200 when an attack is under way.

The attack lasted about a week. We cancelled the business plan on one of the two domains before the renewal date but the second one we did not cancel until we saw the charge come through.

So I contacted CloudFlare support and they are indicating that even though our invoice says Aug 4 - Sept 4, they charged my client $200 on Aug 4th and we downgraded the account right after that the same day and contacted them for a refund.

They are indicating that their policy is that they do not provide refunds after a charge is made.

They did say they credited this account $200, but said it won't show up as a credit we can see in the dashboard which doesn't give me much confidence that there is a credit there. This particular domain didn't happen to be under attack so we don't plan on enabling Pro or Business on it in the future. So I don't expect we would ever need this credit.

On one hand I appreciate CloudFlare having a free plan and providing excellent services so I don't really mind 'donating' $200 to them for a plan we aren't using.

On the other hand I recommend them a lot and I do not feel this is a fair business practice.

They should offer prorated refunds of services not used. Especially when you cancel the same day they charge your card for a renewal.

It's a typical thing for SaaS users to cancel a service when they see the charge if they aren't using the service any longer.

Just wanted to see if anyone else has ran in to this with CloudFlare or if anyone from CloudFlare can reach out and give us a hand with this.

Thanks in advance.
Actually this could be a single sith as well.

Also you don't normally get more than two, so there's that.
I evaluated it. I read the manifesto in its entirety.

He starts off by saying he's not against diversity, but then spends the rest of the paper demonstrating the exact opposite, and then justifies it by claiming that men and women are biologically different, and that a lack of diversity is ok because of that, or that any perceived discrimination is ok, because it's not really discrimination.

And he uses the issue of "dialog" as a smokescreen. It's the same kind of tactic used by creationists wanting to "teach the controversy." They don't really want to honestly debate the merits of each position.

This isn't dialog, nor does he want dialog. It's simply him trying to justify his prejudice, and railing at "PC culture" for not letting him do so.
>Only someone who is not a woman or not from a minority could say this.

This statement is just way out there. I almost want to say the opposite to you.

I've known an African American PhD who says this. After his defense he had trouble finding a job. My company was ramping up hiring of minorities. He sent me his resume, and I asked him if I should enter his minority status in the system as it would prioritize his application. He said "No way."

He didn't get a decent job for a whole year after that. He doesn't regret it at all.
Just to note the self-segregating perfection of the fundraiser being hosted by Charles C. Johnson[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_C._Johnson
more torque = less rpm @ same hp?
Even if what the author stated was wrong, it's absurd to suggest that misrepresenting a few studies about gender differences is equivalent to harassment. Humans aren't so fragile that they can't ignore the politically incorrect opinions of a coworker.
That seems like a self-inflicted problem. Why would you have to mark the future thread as a duplicate?
I solved a problem that I had at work. I needed a tool to make interacting with HTTP APIs easier, and didn't like any of the existing ones, so I created Insomnia [https://insomnia.rest/].

It took a weekend to build a proof of concept, then I released it to the public. As I improved it, the user base grew slowly. Then, a year later, I was able to quit my job to pursue it full-time. If you're curious, I have an Interview [https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/insomnia] on Indie Hackers with more detail.
Predictability, Computability, and Free Will (2004)
As an Ask HN, or some other way?
I actually thought the translator did a pretty good job (not to say that I can read Chinese or do a direct comparison). My only complaint was that I wish they'd westernized the names--they all sound too similar to my American ears.
Not really because what Microsoft is doing is actually GNU/Windows.

Google is busy with ChromeOS/Linux and Android/Linux.

Apple keeps developing their NeXTSTEP/BSD derivative.
i would be surprised if it did. from my limited knowledge of targeted advertising, the ads aren't based on network data but individual behavior.