skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On average.

He makes it clear at the beginning that individuals must be judged as individuals separate from their race or gender.

But, when talking about groups of people, the only way to do it is to use averages.

Girls like to play with dolls more than boys on average. Agree or disagree?

If you agree you're a sexist these days.

Which is a shame because real sexism is walking up to a girl playing with Legos and saying "here sweetie, play with this doll, it's more lady like."

We're now to the point where main stream thought has conflated real sexism perpetrated on an individual with the very mention of statistics of a group.
Outside the Bay Area bubble, this is extremely damaging to Google's image.
Is a language only a language if it is spoken? Sanskrit has a lot of cultural significance to Indians and it forms the basis of the vocabulary of the modern Indian languages (even the Dravidian ones.)

So it is somewhat like Latin but perhaps a better analogy for what the Indian nationalists want from it is Hebrew. That was also a language no one except specialists spoke. Until they did.
> does indexical randomness fit your definition of "fundamental" randomness?

No, it does not. MW is determinsitic. The fact that you don't know which universe you will observe is a limit on your knowledge. It does not make the things actually random.

There are other interpretations of QM where there is literal randomness, independent of an observers knowledge.
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Hahaha... mechanical Turk, I was one of those, the xxx ones were at least entertaining
16 in 10 is a startling overrepresentation.
I really like the two charts further down, comparing the growth distribution with the growth average.

I keep seeing a lot of statements/articles/op-eds/etc saying things are fine because if you look at the data, you see that the average (insert measure here) actually hasn't changed much. Those charts show why such a statement is a fallacy.
Just do some research into the trends, it's been enough to convince me: nuisance flooding along the east coast, number of regional summer days in the 90s, sea levels have been rising but the rate is now increasing, satellite imagery of the antarctic, recession of glaciers, and then notice how all these trends correlate with the increase of atmospheric CO2 since the industrial revolution. Rather than the headlining global trends, I think it's more impactful to see how climate change affects different regions.
Using the homestead exemption isn't avoiding property tax. It's legally allowed for any owner who meets the criteria. The banks do still have to pay the property tax; the exemption only lowers the taxable value.
This isn't shocking if you understand the different legal context around credit cards in the US.

Historically if in the US if someone gets a hold of your card, if I report it as soon as I know there is a problem you are legally out $50, and the credit card company and merchant has to eat the rest of the loss. In most cases the credit card companies figure since they have to take the rest of the loss they may as well get the customer service points by taking that $50 as well. As such it is only a minor inconvenience if someone gets a hold of your card, most of which is related to waiting for them to mail you a new one. Because of this people don't care about chip and pin being more secure: security was not their problem. This is also a factor in why the US is much more likely to use a credit card: there are no anecdotes about someone losing a lot of money because of their card.

By contrast in Europe you were liable for all amounts charged on your card before you report it, even if you had no way to know about the charge. Since the credit card companies didn't have to take a large risk they typically didn't agree to take it on. As such a credit card is much riskier, and so it is prudent to not use your cards if you have a different option. When chip and pin came out consumers were interested because it gave them some ability to limit their loss: their chip/pin card could be lost without the potential of great loss.

Note that the above is historical, and like all generalizations is false in some way. Laws change all the time which means the current reality is probably different - but the historical reality is still shaping our world. Europe is not a country, each country in Europe always had their own laws which differed in some way from the next.
Why does the photo show a lady getting in the back seat? There is no driver(?), and the front seat has an airbag...
This might be wrong, someone correct me if so... I'm thinking of the split that occurred as being nearly if not actually just like a stock or other securities split. In effect some portion of the original security 20% or so left. That reduced the market cap of the original security, and created a new market cap for the new one.

Now it's possible the new one could eventually become worth 0 and the original would increase back to it's pre-split. A question this then raises for me, is if you went through this split, would you account for this in capital gains the same way you would with a stock split?
The fun thing is that I found out that these 64-bit call gates are rarely used. Because it does not disable interrupts for example.
Back when AMD was developing x86-64, they were probably focusing on Linux which did not use call gates.
Only going to reply to your last point, this isn't my experience at all with Google. I work in SV, and get contacted by an internal recruiter at Google a couple times a year. What school did I go to? None. Ok, I have a certificate from the Defense Language Institute, but no degree. So I'm not sure this is a problem.
Four PhDs in Social and Gender Biology disagree with him.

http://quillette.com/2017/08/07/google-memo-four-scientists-...
That is basically it :)
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The short wait times are because of the higher costs/smaller number of people having access to MRIs. It's a tradeoff, and honestly I don't think it's worth it.
I disagree. I felt the language was very simple and easy to learn, and after the first exercise it was natural to use. Considering the course was very mathematical, the language was a perfect choice.
I do think she learned about world affairs rather late for someone who went to college, but it's inevitable that there are some people like that, just like it's inevitable that there are people who are below average in any skill you can think of. Good for her that she chose to write about this.

There are, after all, millions of Americans who never get a good understanding of what it's like in other countries. Changing this is a huge challenge. Going around saying things are "inexcusable" doesn't actually help fix them.
Only three sith deal in absolutes.
Does it? I thought "Wehr" translated to "War". (Disclaimer: I don't actually speak German.)
Or the North!
Is it wise to create more of them?

Yes, if what you mean is "is it wise to let anyone who has no desire or ability to work subsist at a level where their basic needs are met?"

Yes, if what you mean is "is it wise to separate subsistence and health care from work, so that creative destruction of jobs does not condemn the displaced to bankruptcy, homelessness and a shorter lifespan?"

No, if what you mean is "is it wise to allow the wealthy to create further generations of trust-fund babies who have no incentive to do anything?"
At the end of 2016 all companies testing autonomous vehicles in California filed their disengagement reports. Waymo reported 1 unplanned disengagement every 5000 miles, and GM reported 1 every 180. Nobody else was even in the running. These metrics are crude, but it's currently the only benchmarking system we've got, and we'll see in December where Cruise is really at when they report their 2017 numbers.

Cruise does distinguish itself by driving mostly on busy downtown SF streets, a challenging environment, and they've released impressive videos showing off their capabilities.

A few weeks ago Kyle Vogt claimed Cruise would surpass Waymo 'in a few months', whether they do or not remains to be seen, but they are making sustained progress and they have the full force of General Motors behind them.

Unlike Waymo, Tesla's Autopilot program, and Uber's autonomous driving program, Cruise's operation has been drama free, without any lawsuits, leadership blowouts, or departures of key people. This implies they've got a solid team under good leadership, and I think it matters a lot with complex software projects like this.
I think they're legally required to have drivers at the moment.
So it appears, that you can still take this course for free, and you only get a "digital certificate" of dubious value if you purchase the course. Am I missing something here?
I'm confused by the slider task. The explanation simply says that voles eat much more than elephants per unit of body mass, but the sliders suggest that voles literally eat more food per day than elephants.

Are the grass pictures supposed to be interpreted relative to the size of the animals next to them?
He also started Coursera, which brings us full circle :)
That's kind of an ideal party. They organize the vote but don't promote any candidate. Just make sure you are ready to vote, if you are willing to exercise your vote.
That's not a replacement for backups, that's an implementation of backups and only if you send it to an offline disk or remote system.
Actually I think the opposite is true. The winning side chose to rub Germany's nose in it the first time around, both economically and politically. The result was the rise of national-socialist party, with "national" bit addressing political humiliation, and "socialist" promising to deal with poverty and economic recovery. Note that this did not happen the second time around, and allies occupied Germany for quite a while and helped it rebuild and become a democracy.
I manage a data science team and the courses aren't valuable in and of themselves. I need to see that you've actually used the principles from them on interesting projects that we could utilize for our company -- projects either in your own work or pet projects that you've done completely yourself.
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The Turkish payment system really is an eye-opener for its sophistication. I used to work in credit cards and did a study tour to Istanbul in 2004 to see it first hand and talk to both merchants and the issuing banks.

One big difference in Turkey is many shops had 5 or more card terminals, each in the colour of the issuing bank. Banks competed for both merchants and consumers by offering value-added features unique to their terminal, such as instalment credit instantly accessible to only their customers.

Instalment credit was popular in Turkey following the economic crisis in 2001 (3000% interest rates) because many people simply didn't have the cash to pay up front for major purchases such as whitegoods or even shoes.

In most other countries, shops have only one payment terminal, supplied by the acquiring bank (acquiring = acquires payment transactions, as distinct from issuing = issuing payment cards to consumers). That terminal has to support all cards equally, using the base Visa/MasterCard standards. Hence there are no value-added payment options.
I'm indeed thinking independent stores, family-run restaurants and discount markets such as Netto which only accept the German card; local kiosks and fast-food places take cash only. I can confirm credit card works in upscale markets (like Rewe) and major chains.
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> Why own a car (pay taxes, insurance, parking), when you can have one at your door in a couple of minutes ?

Because when I want to use one to go to the mountains or the beach on a holiday weekend there will be none available or surge pricing? This is already the case to some extent with rentals and car sharing services.

I own a car in NYC that is only used on the weekends. Financially this is a somewhat dubious proposition compared to Zipcar, but it's a win for me in two ways: it's always available without any reservation process, and my financial incentive is to use it more often since I've already paid all of the fixed costs (tax, insurance, parking) of ownership. I like this incentive since I enjoy getting out of the city. With Zipcar the annualized costs are fairly similar to owning a car and using it a couple of weekends per month, but a simple weekend getaway comes with a $300+ pricetag up front for the car rental.
I think theres a difference between the money received for UBI and from a trust fund.

Please correct me if Im wrong with an amount.
I used to think this, and I still think it'll happen in urban centers, but there are pretty big swaths of rural or just low density areas that wouldn't be well served by this, so it'd take a while (a couple decades extra maybe) to get local rideshare hubs going, and in some more remote places it maybe would never happen.
Can you quote the specific part of his memo he should apologize for?
Which is fine. There is a limited space on this planet so obviously population can't grow forever. It's high time we start decreasing world population if we want to save the environment and keep this planet habitable.
The article is not pro amazon. It reveals new information. The writer has done research, tracked goods to their origin warehouses, even bought some products and reached out to multiple amazon executives for comment.

Clumping it together with the typical amazon affiliate click bait that offer the minimum bare basic content and exist solely for affiliate link income is misleading and uncharitable.

Google, Facebook, Snapchat all exist on ad income so in many ways writers, journalists and software engineers are on the same boat.
You're confusing non-aggression pacts with MR pact, which in fact DIVIDED Europe between two different dictators and basically lead to WW2.

Also that guy Starikov is nota a historian, but an ultra-right nationalist playing current Kremlin tune. So his "works" should be taken with a truckloads of salt.
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If you met a trust fund baby who didn't have to work, but still chose to work and live a normal life, would you even know it?
Take a look at rtorrent: https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent

It fits the efficient, small memory-footprint and no ads requirements. "Full Featured" is subjective as it depends upon what you consider "Full Featured".
Impact of video games on plasticity of the hippocampus
> Have you met any trust fund babies who don't have to work? Do you think it's wise to create more of them?

What is your basis for believing that UBI would create more of them? UBI would be ... universal, so A) society would better adapt since it's pervasive and B) there's no way any single individual would have access to a trust fund baby lifestyle off it.
Focus on the pipeline, k-12, getting girls excited about tech.

Then in a decade you'll have a much wider pool of talent to select from and can just take the best while appeasing diversity advocates.

The same could be done for racial minorities.
The chart says "Note: Inflation-adjusted annual average growth using income after taxes, transfers and non-cash benefits." Does that include employer-paid health insurance? I assume that is part of what is meant by "non-cash benefits".
If so, the reality is even more desperate than the already shocking graph. Because that health insurance is a big chunk of money, especially as a percentage of income, and the employee never sees a dime of of it. It's not available to pay rent because it's going straight into medical care. Not that it's not valuable, health insurance is extremely important. But the take-home paychecks of workers in the lower-income range are actually going down.
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> Not paying attention who you are talking to is a common mistake that leads to the kind of cross-talk we are seeing here ;)

I apologize! :)

And yes, I have a tendancy to be brief and sarcastic rather than clear, to the detriment of my discussions.

I will not argue that there are no measurable cognitive differences between any given classifiable group of people. I will argue that there is nothing shown that can account for the 80/20 gender split we see today in tech.

However, I do believe that societal and cultural pressures, in the form of stereotyping and prejudice, can cause that split. This argument is what I was alluding to, and what I was attempting to support with my link.
For me it's a different world anyway. Currently I carry about $300 in 4 currencies, a debit card and a credit card. I travel a lot and without a stack like this I would have been stuck many times.

The credit card never really saved me. It really just is there to make life a little easier.
Just so I'm clear, what this appears to be doing is the moral equivalent of a function that asks if some constant equals what we know to be its value (true at compile time)? And then at program-init time (via __attribute__((constructor(101)))) changing the value of the constant in the text section so the test is now false?

If so, that's both quite clever and something I don't think I want in my codebase :P. The good news is I'm pretty sure Daveed's proposal that you mention (http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2017/p059...) got support last time it came around EWG so I'm hoping we can just go that way.
Transaction costs for cash is probably higher than for credit cards.

For cash you have to count and recount that cash at the end of the shift, and then the bank counts are recounts it again. This is a significant amount of labor. By contrast with a card once the initial transaction is done everything is put into the computer electronically and no human has to look at it again.

Also cash is subject to theft. In some locations this risk is a significant part of the transaction costs - not just the cash, risk of death in the robbery. Electronic payments are subject to loss, but generally there is a trail to chase when it happens, and the possibility of death is much less.
Yeah. The common myth is that barter preceded currency, like primitive man was going around, trying to swap his carcass for some arrowheads or something. The myth is that the development of currency followed from that, as a way to facilitate barter.

Not so, according to this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years

Worth a read.

Edit: another good, quick read: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/barter-...
Interesting, as it used to be the other way around. Udacity charged ~$200/month for a nanodegree (with a 2 drink minimum) and Coursera charged a flat fee (around 600 if I recall correctly) with no deadline for completion.
He had some great thoughts and elucidated the best I've seen so far. Thanks for contributing this.
Oh, thanks, cool.

It's designed with GNOME in mind, but not part of GNOME itself, so installing it doesn't require pulling a huge part of GNOME either, and that's a nice plus! :)
Yes. I think most folks are keenly aware of which of their friends have "family money".
that does not make sense every time.
lets assume that 20% of CS graduates are women but you are searching to hire only top 30% overall. there is no garantee that the top 30% will have 20% woman it could be more or less.

And even if it is and everybody is looking to hire the top 30% then the poll of the best women candidates quickly dries, and you have a harder time every time to find them. So if your agenda is to have 20% of women, you will probably ultimatly have to adjust your criteria.

gender should not mather, if you hire only the best you should hire them it does not mather if they are women or man.
I don't know what the Google chap was referring to specifically, but unequal gender representation in leadership roles is definitely skewed by unequal gender choices over child rearing. It strikes me that there's a perfectly sensible argument to be made that a material part of this inequality has a biological basis. I think there's next to no sensible argument to be made that most maturity decisions are made due to some lack of leadership ability or potential.

Or put another way, if someone makes the case that there are biological or cultural effects that impact on choices people make then I, for one, am willing to listen. Not least because there may be opportunities to mitigate those choices (I have had some success, for example, with mothers returning to the workforce in leadership roles).

If someone makes the case for biological or cultural reasons why someone is ill-equipped to do most 21C jobs in a developed society, then I usually assume they are just bigots as I've seen little to no evidence for this.
Now you have resigned yourself to using your personal interpretations of "fair" and "political activity" as your arguments. Not much left to discuss then...
> Thank you Obama.

Take a look at the animated graph in the middle of the article. There was a lot of movement under Clinton and Bush Jr. as well. Obama didn't fix it, of course (or even stop it), but it's not fair to single out Obama for your scorn.
What "same lands" are you talking about? Poland had same rights as Bolsheviks to parts of Russian Empire.

If you don't know, Lenin proclaimed that Bolsheviks aren't successors to Tsarist Russia.
I can add that in Mexico the culture is to also not carry that much cash - due to risk of robbery and losing the wallet or it getting washed in laundromats.
Nginx 1.13.4
Are they, or are they keenly aware of which friends have "family money" and let it change how they live?
I love Hy, but fyi, it is not as much a Clojure dialect as Ferret or Clojerl. The latter two share syntax and semantics, while Hy only shares syntax.
Apparently, construction work has seen a 30% rise in wages in Texas in the last few months --some attribute it to a tighter market precipitated by fewer undocumented workers. It'd be interesting to see if those results pan out and if tightening labor markets lead to significant rises in wages in other sectors of the economy where imported labor resulted in downward wage pressures.
Did you have the right of way in that situation?
tarball: http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.13.4.tar.gz (or wait for it to show up in your package manager)

The most notable change is the (new) mirror module which allows you to more transparently pass requests to your backends. Previously, this required modifying headers and potentially request body.

Documentation here: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_mirror_module.html
Among others the Citi Double Cash, earned in 2 steps:

1% earned when spending

1% earned when paying the bill

Cashback is not immediately applied to the balance so it's actually 2% and not something like 1.9999999. No annual fee but it's not really worth it to apply for this card per se, better to get another card that comes with a signup bonus (this one never does) and "product change" it to this card by calling in.
So you are effectively nitpicking words, single words, present or not in a cited source out of a 10 page reasonable critique of existing policy?

And for what? To justify a guy getting fired?

For real?
It seems that after inflation, nearly everyone earns more over time. Isn't that good?
The wording in the linked GitHub page makes it sound like you are looking for people that are already ML practitioners. Are you able to support developers with no ML background that are interested in making a career change?