skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand this kind of callous judgement of writers trying to make money. We don't see judgement here for the Amazon engineers that wrote the ref system, or Amazon for, well, selling product. I find it frustrating - somehow the writer has no integrity because they want money for their work?

What, to you, would have been an acceptable way for this writer to present their research? Raw data handed to the internet on a silver platter as they bow out of the room and fund a server to allow us to access it?

I disagree that the article is clickBAIT. I agree that the writer picked a title that would garner clicks, and then they gave us some interesting (to me) research. It wasn't holistic, it doesn't tell us EVERYTHING about Amazon, no, but it gave me enough to Google if I'm more interested.

And if they're gonna link to Amazon products anyway, why wouldn't they use referral links? Are we going to lambast someone for seeing a harmless way to make some change and taking advantage of it?
But Germans don't trust contactless payment because in theory anybody could hold a card reader against your wallet while you're innocently waiting in some line.
Portable Cloud – A Forgotten Stanford University Device Reemerges in Zimbabwe
"Controversy" is the easiest thing in the world to abuse. Anyone who doesn't like an opinion on anything can say it's "controversial" and therefore shouldn't be spoken about it in case it upsets people.

Mature organisations and cultures can tackle controversial topics. Google used to be able to do that too. It obviously cannot anymore.
Where does product management belong?
Health, fitness, and dieting books
What's stranger still is when affordable housing advocates align with the boomers against building new construction because its not all affordable. Basically its much easier to say no to anything than yes to a compromise.
Is that really true? Whilst I probably haven't been to McDonald's in the same amount of years I'm not sure how that could have worked even 15 years ago in Sweden, which is one of the countries with the least cash usage in the world.
Yeah came here to point this out, that's definitely an error.
How is Japan not on that list of countries that pay for things primarily in cash?
> time, friction, and effort required

Is it important, or isn't it? I'm pretty sure you'd find the time to do something that would save your job, so shouldn't a rape threat be the same?

> posted a picture of my house

This would be taken seriously, but aren't the vast majority of rape threats.
I think we have to keep in mind that Google is a corporation, and has to be governed by some policies.

There's a larger issue that most people aren't talking about, I cover it here:

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=286
Exactly... the guy in the article is painter, a job that is easily transportable. Move to Detroit, it's starting to improve and they are almost giving the property away.
It is, this was a poorly thought out comment on my part, and after re reading it, it's a bad/illogical argument.
You are going to delete this, but this kind of zealotry is ruining the site.

Time and again I find older discussions from 5 years ago that were much more lively, open and interesting.

A lot of interesting commenters have left and it is easy to see why.
That's precisely _not_ what was said.

But I guess the brigading has commenced- I would invite you to read the thing without bias and read it's citations and sources. Even if you disagree that we could do more to remove things like, stress and status to make tech less appealing to men.. you might find out why people are agreeing with him and why this piece circulated internally.

Mostly, it seems, scientists agree[0] with the "facts" he states that arent' google specific. So dismissing it outright without having the discussion is only doing the women in tech a disservice.

[0]: http://quillette.com/2017/08/07/google-memo-four-scientists-...
Actually, you can translate Google Docs file into a .html file. So it can work.
I suspect the main reason is that in a safe country like Germany people feel more comfortable carrying around large amounts of cash. Japan is extraordinarily cash-oriented, but it works because people don't get mugged; even if you leave your wallet on a train you can expect to get it back with all the cash still inside.
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The "memory of hyperinflation" theory is an obvious crock, because the prediction is 100% backwards-ass wrong. If you thought hyperinflation in the near future was at all likely, you'd want to buy everything on credit.
> if the screen shots and messages in the article[1] aren't fake

You could share your thoughts on this rather than making a clickbait comment.
Because you can live in 1 house and rent out other 5 for a lot of stress free passive income. Plus houses are a very safe investment, the price will go up over time.

There is no reason to sell unless you need cash for something else (startup, for example).

What would you do with cash after selling those extra 5 houses? Put it into stock market? Right now when it's mega inflated from cheap money? Too risky, safer to keep those houses.
I was thinking the same thing, but, I would worry that the drones might not work well in that atmosphere. Very hot air filled with toxic gasses would definitely require better than average "weather" sealing. Looks like the atmosphere is made up of Hydrogen Sulphide and Chlorine, and would require getting awfully close to 0ph boiling water.

I'd hate to see what happened if the drone failed and you dropped a mix of plastic, metal, and a high-density lithium battery into it. I suspect it isn't worth the environmental risk.
Impossible Burger’s ‘Secret Sauce’ Highlights Challenges of Food Tech
Opt for money order, cheques?
In 4 party schemes, most of the transaction fees don't actually go to Visa/MC.
A mechanical engineer claims to invent a perpetual motion machine
Absolutely, I too think it's a matter of supply. So often shops refuse to take cards to avoid the fees. I suspect a systematic or law issue making card transactions more expensive.
accordording to this, it seems germans are really near to the europe average. http://en.finance.sia-partners.com/cash-here-stay-question-h...
How does this not violate the Spotify ToS? I thought they had banned exporter apps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroticism#Sex_differences

Neuroticism is an actual measurable thing and the research seems to indicate that women typically measure about half a standard deviation above men on it.

I honestly didn't know this before but it seems like when he's making these claims he's using objective research that finds these things across cultures.
Actually your comment is crap and comes out as Xenophobic outburst. Rather than critiquing the article you resort to belittling someone's name and religion which is deplorable.
I think it is possible to have a successful team of one. Customers aren't usually included as part of the team.
These unconscious biases make it even more important that 'members of protected classes' join management, rather than people with discriminatory beliefs.
Nearly every one of your Medium posts could be interpreted as a copyright violation. Copy pasting text and calling it a "curation" doesn't give you the right to publish others' works without their permission.
All systems have flaws. You hear about flaws in the US system, but they are not nearly as common as you think they are, at least not in my experience.
Are there banks that provide credit card-like protections for debit cards? I thought you couldn't reverse debit card transactions. There are usually daily limits, though, which would limit how much you could lose.
Another difference between American and other systems. Credit cards in US don't have PIN numbers. Only Debit cards have PIN.
We had hyperinflation in Brazil (end of 80s and begin of 90s) and you can use credit/debit card almost everywhere (I even saw a video of a Brazilian that lived in Japan for 10 years commenting how weird this is for him)
True capitalism provides only incentives to build, it's boomer era policy that makes this either very difficult from a bureaucratic standpoint, or unprofitable, and in most cases both. It's not right to blame someone for wanting to stay in their home, I disagree with that entirely. It's also not right to restrict and regulate supply to the extent that future generations have nowhere near the same opportunity for home ownership the previous generation took for granted.
> In particular, as part of Google's mandatory diversity training, you're presented with Google's internal research showing that diversity hiring yields both better individual and group performance.

Are these numbers available to public somewhere?

I'm asking because I would dearly want to find comprehensive data. When I've done some of my own research, I have run into sets of studies, which all agree on one thing: more diverse groups get better results. The snag is that these studies disagree - wildly - with the magnitude of the effect. Some claim maybe 2% improvement. Some others claim up to ~30%. Yet others somewhere inbetween.

The figures also fluctuate quite a bit over time. Study from 2008/2009 shows numbers that are almost entirely unrelated to a study from 2014/2015. Some studies claim that gender diversity alone bears very little benefit[ß], and other studies from the same time come out with results that sort of imply you will need cultural diversity for notable results.

But by far the worst piece of news is that the measured and/or recorded numbers appear to be geographically distinct. Results from US studies are different from those in UK, which in turn differ from mainland Europe studies. That only raises more questions. Such as...

- are the numbers consistently different across regions?

- ... across continents?

- ... across cultures?

- what is the measured effect between "just" gender diverse and culturally diverse groups?

- do age groups matter?

... and so on. I genuinely would like to know. (For the record, and you can check this from my earlier posts as well: I am firmly in the camp who believe that diversity is beneficial.)

N.B. The most recent study I know of is the McKinsey report from 2015.[0]

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ß: I can dig out the research articles if there's interest. I have some of them sort of easily accessible.

0: http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-...
Is there a non-paywalled version? I don't feel like signing up to the Wall Street Journal right now.
Not Slack, Stack. It's a Dutch cloud storage platform by TransIP, one of the bigger hosting providers. 1TB for free.
Here, https://www.reddit.com/user/EugeneZavidovsky - is the discusion about SMS direct democracy on another my reddit account. People are afraid even of public voting : ) Well, it's possible to make it secret with clever enough citizens, but I don't think, it is reasonable...
For contrast, I'm Swiss, and all of my debit cards have either been Maestro or PostFinance (in Switzerland, the Postal Service runs a bank which maintains its own debit card scheme).

Maestro is technically a MasterCard debit card, but I'm not aware of a possibility to use it for online payments. VPay (i.e. "proper" VISA debit) is starting to make inroads.
You're right, unfortunately I don't have that data. I can only give you my personal experience of the NHS.

The often portrayed boogieman of NHS waiting lists are usually incorrect. I saw my GP this morning after ringing up 20 minutes previously and had an appointment within the hour. I was in and out within 30 minutes with a prescription that was electronically sent to my pharmacist who had filled it before I arrived later today. The whole process cost me nothing, except for the prescription fee which is capped at £120 a year for the heaviest users.

Last week my wife ended up in A&E (what you call the ER). She was seen within 2 hours by a doctor who assessed her, triaged her, gave her some medications (which were free as they were in hospital) and sent her on her way. It's an insanely efficient system.

Primary care in the NHS (GPs, Emergency care) is usually pretty impressive despite what many tabloid papers say.

Secondary care can often have waiting lists but their length is legally enforced with the state having to pick up the tab for private care if wait times are longer than the legal maximum.

America seems to think this is the way to kill your population. It's really pretty great!
Thanks! I wasn't sure; I should have looked it up instead of guessing.
TL;DR - If you post a lot of gray pictures of yourself with a sad face that nobody likes or comments on, you are probably depressed.

They used the color of the photographs, number of people in the photos, level of engagement, and happiness rated by Mechanical Turk to determine depression.
Was waiting for this comment. I often ask myself, "Do I want any entity to have a copy of the exact dates and amounts of my entire daily consumer activity?". Whether anonymized or not there is a tremendous amount of knowledge that can be gleaned from non-itemized debit card ledgers.
Sin and Songbirds
And Julian Assange has now given the former Google employee a job offer:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14958285
> somehow the writer has no integrity because they want money for their work?

Writers job is writing article, spread news and knowledge, and make money.

If you write ads and claims it an article or news, you loss your integrity?

Does this sound reasonable to you?
I wouldn't mind the GIFs if they were A. smaller (most of them take up a good 2/3rds of the height of my viewport at 1600x900) and B. could be paused. They're humorous at first, but then they're distracting as I'm trying to read the stuff around them.
my position is very simple: sheep don't need to hear a wolf out. there is nothing to discuss.
As someone who's participated in outreach efforts for undergrad internships, I too find his conflation of outreach and hiring worrisome. Very few of these programs, from what I've seen, do more than get minorities into the interview or selection process, which I'm ok with. My problem has always been how few big tech firms seemed to recruit outside of their usual circles (Ivies, private schools, flagship universities).

I went to an HBCU in undergrad and one of the most frustrating experiences I had was when Microsoft sent an employee to talk to our group about what they were doing with regards to increasing diversity instead of what we could do to become better candidates.
The why is easily explained and has nothing to do with the 'tumultuous history': it's all about the privacy. I shudder what data is available in the US (and other countries) on customers buying habbits.

Sure, with eShoping on an ever rise, this privacy increasingly vanishes.
Right. My question is if the code on the bare metal device talks to, say, a cloud server running an API, does the code running the API also fall under the GPL, and therefore need to be released? I assume not, but assumptions can be dangerous.
Hey, the article mentions HN-favorite Ken Liu, author of the Three-Body Problem.
In Germany the price advertised is the price paid. Not so in America due to taxes and fees.
Considering it starts with a straw man, continues in a highly emotional tone, doesn't address a single point of the original "manifesto", and is little more than a piece written to prop the author up ("I don't even work at Google anymore but I had to clean up after you, son.."), I fail to see that article as more than an embarrassment for the (very senior) guy who wrote it.
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This is nice! One minor error - 本 does not mean a tree, but a book or a root. 木 would be appropriate for the word 'tree'.
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With Apple/Android Pay it's even faster, no need to dig around in your wallet.
Its the same in many countries.
Many here seem to feel sorry for the fired employee.

We don't need to tolerate intolerance. Nobody cries for the Nazis, for example.

"Tolerance is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be peaceful no matter the conduct of others. A peace treaty is not a suicide pact." [1]

[1] https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1...
> rape threats and death threat

Which any 14 year old with internet access can make, the seriousness of which depends entirely on your perspective. I note, "I'm gonna rape you" isn't taken as seriously when directed against a male, meaning there is a strong component of interpretation there. What do you think the probability (of an attempt) of any particular rape threat made online is?

In the meanwhile, we are comparing this to the real outcome of someone being fired. It seems an apples and oranges comparison; Either we compare threats of rape, to threats of being fired - or actual instances of both. You can't balance real consequences with speculated ones.
And in 10 years, this will be a part of your Citizen Score.

I should burn this nickname and be more diligent about persona management. Or get off social media entirely.
I really fail to see what this brings to the table.

In the section on their main page contrasting with arduino, they bascailly just say that they're more reliable, with nothing to really back that up.

Looking at their documentation, I don't really see how they can make that claim. The issues with Arduino's reliability stems, IMO, from the fact that Arduino code isn't an RTOS. Ie. there's no separation of real time priorities. This also seems to not really be an RTOS either, just a fancy bare metal environment.

What is this structurally bringing to the table beyond Arduino other than "we think we wrote the code better"?
Google’s Social Justice Warriors Create Wrongthink Blacklists
I feel like what is missing from this article is that there are in fact group differences, and just what they imply. The article really tries to be neutral, so let me try to do the same.

There are 2 groups, squares and triangles, and contrary to what the article says, understanding of right angles is in fact important for senior polygons.

Now further assume standard deviations in understanding of right angles between squares and triangles differs by one sigma between the groups. Let's take the same as in the article, squares understand right angles better.

(in reality, in properties that might be important for jobs, speed, IQ, strength, ... standard deviations of 1-2 between groups are very normal between groups. For IQ, when selecting the groups on purpose, you can pick groups with a 3.8 sigma difference)

Given that assumption, what would the expected distribution be, given 50-50 squares vs triangles in the population ? (this is assuming that every time a senior polygon position opens up a square and a triangle face off for it, and the one with the best knowledge of right angles gets the promotion)

1 sigma: ~76% - 24%

2 sigma: ~92% - 8%

3 sigma: ~98% - 2%

4 sigma: ~99.7% - 0.3%

To give one relevant example, one might take the diagnosis of vitamin D insufficiency. If a patient comes in with these symptoms, and they're black, they're about 3 sigma more likely to have that problem. So if a patient comes in complaining that he's been having bone pain for months/years (in other words, the husband/wife/kids dragged them into the emergency room after they've been complaining about it for 10 years), if the patient is black you should probably prescribe a food supplement and 1 hour of sunlight (yes, really). If the patient is white you get them into an MRI and look for bone cancer. Why ? Look at the above numbers to see how often you'd be right. Now of course if the supplement doesn't work after a month you should still get an MRI, but using it as a first stab at the problem is a waste of time.

This is why you can't have meritocracy. Races are different, in ways that society finds important (and literally everything else as well), and "small" differences will result in large imbalances in outcomes. Small is taken here as compared to what one sees in reality for differences society judges as important.

This is also why island species only occur on islands (google island species, and don't take islands too literally). If there is a 1 sigma difference in procreative success between differing island races, the "worse" one's population will halve every generation. It is easy to see that this will not result in a mixed race result, one race will die out. It's harder to see intuitively that this happens at 0.1 sigma as well, but run the math and you'll see it's true, just takes longer.
I think this is a common misunderstanding. The US seems to use "credit card" to refer to all payment cards, but is rarely limit to just _credit_ cards.

I think the distinction between credit and debit cards is more commonly made in Europe.
> This might eek out a little more compression

It's "eke": http://www.dictionary.com/browse/eke
Andrew Ng launches new deep learning online courses
No, it's just not a good look for a news organization to have content so entangled with income, especially if they don't even mention it. I think http://thewirecutter.com/ does a good job, and they're also way more open about the fact that the site is covered in affiliate links.
I am critiquing the article. The author of article is doing exactly that, belittling the base of Hindus beliefs with personal agenda. I see no other explanation other than that. This has became a common theme by non-Hindus in India to come up with crappy evidences to attack the roots of Hinduism in disguise of decent looking articles like this one and fool the intellects which should be stopped.
Update: he doesn't have a PhD https://twitter.com/nitashatiku/status/894939560391565317.
That is barely credible given the source is Breitbart.
"Infected" discourse, how sad. As if mainstream ideas you don't like are a disease that needs to be wiped out.
Growing a Language (Guy Steele)
So just to be 100% clear, and for the edification of everyone (myself included);

It is literally safe to assume that every single device is 100% compromised and the 5eyes, can if they wish, monitor every single thing you do, based on these issues, correct?

But then, you also have to think that every service that you use, outside of your own 100% controlled purview (I.e. Literally any cloud service) is also summarily compromised to the point that you cannot say that one is completely secure...

Would this be safe to say?
They might argue that packaging a product with their OS and selling it is the equivalent of white labeling it, which might be technically true, considering the user would have no idea what's powering the thing.

It would be the equivalent of writing a GUI plugin for WordPress and trying to sell it as something like Squarespace.

Not that I agree with this possibility of Mongoose OS's approach. I don't at all, and think it would completely negate their "open source" claim, from a semantical standpoint.
Agreed, I'm for the political party that just wants people to vote, regardless of which candidate they're voting for. That truly real party that we all know and love.
I certainly knew a few people from high school who I suspect probably would have ended up in jail had it not been for the Army (NB I did not go to a posh school!).
The population keeps getting bigger, the amount of land stays the same. Something has to give or it's unfair to people who were unlucky enough to be born later. I'm all for having an absolute right to property you can carry, but land is different.
In case of large defaulting companies history has shown that there are no 100% safety nets despite all claims.

Those claims are made to increase trust and lower market interest rates for companies to borrow money but regularly failed once really needed.