skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting concept, the key difference with specific niche apps is the intent of the user when signing up

We're solving for very specific requirements, aside from the benefit of shared identity I think it'd be a lot harder to keep the product free of feature creep and still appeal to all

Thanks for the kind words
Interesting read, somewhat related:

A 19th-Century Vision of the Year 2000

https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/france-in-the-yea...
Can I please come and live in your world? It sounds saner.
A software development consultancy.
Is there really a difference? If you're fundamentally skilled at something but not interested in it, are you equally good at the job as someone both fundamentally skilled and interested?

For another example, he says that women are more driven to have a work-life balance. He cautions about making any changes to accommodate this, because "currently those willing to work extra hours or take extra stress will inevitably get ahead and if we try to change that too much, it may have disastrous consequences." His suggestion here is to let women have part-time jobs.

The way I read this is: doing really good work requires extra hours and stress, which women won't do. If we try to accommodate women by no longer rewarding people who reject a work-life balance, we'll hurt the company. Women are, on average, less valuable to the company because they're less likely to work extra hours or take on extra stress.
> "you cannot currently use WSL to run persistent Linux services, daemons, jobs, etc. as background tasks."

Still, this has me wondering if that's the ultimate goal here. Is Microsoft trying to position Windows 10 as a high quality Linux server in the long-term?
It's funny how these mistakes creep in. For example, Dr. James Damore does not have a doctorate. Reference: https://twitter.com/nitashatiku/status/894939560391565317
>I'm glad these courses use python

But how will cheaters rationalize violating the honor code now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12279526
> The initiatives that the author links to in this section are presumably aimed at reducing the false negative rate for women, and thereby lowering the bar that women need to clear to get hired.

You (he) can't say that you are lowering the bar since a false negative is positive like any other positive. Widening the bar is a more apt analogy.
This feels like fake news.
I had hoped this would be for a philosophy course where this kind of policy could be a discussion.
He's saying the program itself is, and this is the reason why.

"Politicization" is quite vague and the author doesn't explain exactly how these programs are "politicized" or what that means. I suspect it comes down to their mere existence.
In Germany credit cards are very uncommon. We use debit cards, many places don't accept credit cards (but debit cards), some places accept only cash. Paying with a credit card also has a fee while paying by cash or debit cards is free.
And India has gone ahead and banned them!

https://www.medianama.com/2017/08/223-india-blocks-access-in...
I've been using WSL on Windows 10 since it's release. I'd love to know the inside story of how it came to be. A lot of companies would never try something like this.

For me WSL has worked as perfect as could be expected, nothing failed to run that I need yet. The gaps are being slowly closed (e.g. executing between WSL/Windows). I no longer have to develop in a VM, nor be forced to use a Mac just because it has "unix" under the hood.
Sometimes I think Conor Friedersdorf is my hero. He regularly turns out articles on prickly topics with a cool, compassionate tone.
Does anybody have a copy on line of the entire memo, with charts and references?

The author may have a good libel case against Gizmodo, in that they published his document under the heading "Full memo", while omitting key parts.
> because he's taking a mocking tone

Given as the alternative is "punch the Nazis!" from one side and "lol libtards are nutz, praise kek" from the other, I'd rather take a gentle mocking now at then. Even if I disagree from time to time. Scott is not ideal, maybe, but definitely in the top 10%. Maybe even 1%, but I don't read enough to claim that.

Also, I don't see much mocking going on there, could you give a couple examples, maybe my understanding of mocking is different?

> without sufficiently backing up his case.

There's plenty of links in the article. Which claim do you think is not backed?
Yeah, and Mazda rotaries are really good at that.
>Actually US foreign policy is demonstrating right now that large conventional forces are an equally effective deterrent.

I don't understand your point. North Korea has had nuclear bombs for over a decade.

>Also perhaps I'm just a "sheep" but I'm pretty sure the Libyan people didn't rebel over a theoretical currency change.

Of course not, but it was a reason for us to care. Lose the attitude. It's obvious you're not familiar with this topic:

https://news.vice.com/article/libyan-oil-gold-and-qaddafi-th...

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/09/20/349549267/w...

http://www.salon.com/2014/03/08/35_countries_the_u_s_has_bac...
No. It depends on the fact that when something decides to go wrong, it frequently goes south fast. So, for example, a busy lock in a database goes from 99% of capacity (using very little resources) to 101%, processes start backing up, and the system goes haywire.

Think of it as being like traffic. Analytically it is easy to think of smoothly varying speeds. Reality is that there is a car accident, then a sudden traffic jam. We are poking around to figure out where and when that traffic jam happened. And sometimes the cars get cleared off the road and by the time we begin looking the jam is already evaporating.

So comparing the 1 min and 5 min load averages tell us whether the jam is getting worse, holding steady, or improving on its own. Looking at the 15 minute one tells us whether this happened recently.
The Jones Act: Why only 2% of US domestic freight is carried by ships
How to Grow Machine Embroidery Business Through Customer Trust
Honestly, I think you'd be better off with your checklist and a competent employee than trying to automate many of those things away to a third party who doesn't know what the project is supposed to do.

Sure, get in tools for things like dead link checking (no-one likes trawling through pages), but for most things it's going to depend on what the site does.

A service will only go so far as to make sure you don't have anything blatently wrong. In my experience, it's the non-blatent things that blow up the worst. Little green lights from a third party are nice and all, but you should still be verifying things are really OK.
The employee in question tried to start a conversation by posting a memo on email to other people - so starting a conversation the way they are usually started. It was abruptly ended.

Anyways my main point was the breach of code of conduct is just the technical reason he was fired. If you read the line item he was fired for, its clear its vague enough to be used many many different ways. I don't think its productive to focus on whether he broke some rule somewhere when the whole situation that led to the firing is known to us.
I have made the same observation in SOMA area. Not even once I saw the car being driven autonomously
But why not make that for micropython instead of making a whole new language?
I agree with the comment suggesting this might not be real. But still, choosing my own grades sounds as stressful as hell.
> To me, the Google memo is an outlier—I cannot remember the last time so many outlets and observers mischaracterized so many aspects of a text everyone possessed.

How about every article or video about cryptocurrency, PRISM, AI, 'Data Science' and a litany of other topics in tech? I have seen almost no 'tech' journalism of any merit, so I'm not surprised to see sloppy coverage of another complex issue. But that shouldn't stop meaningful HN comment threads :)

The fact is, the memo does not simply put forth a question for debate, it treats a massive legacy of misogyny in our culture as a feature, not a bug. He really genuinely sees no problem with a world that pushes people into gender roles. In fact, he thinks we should optimize for it. It's a selfish tantrum thrown by someone feeling a lack of affirmation - disguised as vague argument that he really understands people, tech, and companies much better than his bosses.

If you helps for you to remove anything about identity in here: it's as if someone posted a cruel, snide rant in defense of GOTO statements, attacking OO programmers. Not only is he wrong, he made an extended case for the wrong argument and did it in a way that inflict maximum company damage.

So yeah it would be a big ol' red flag.
I've seen it typically trigger above $50 at grocery stores in the US.
Ok I went back and read more:

"Data collection was crowdsourced using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) crowdwork platform. Separate surveys were created for depressed and healthy individuals. In the depressed survey, participants were invited to complete a survey that involved passing a series of inclusion criteria, responding to a standardized clinical depression survey, answering questions related to demographics and history of depression, and sharing social media history. We used the CES-D (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale) questionnaire to screen participant depression levels [26]. CES-D assessment quality has been demonstrated as on-par with other depression inventories, including the Beck Depression Inventory and the Kellner Symptom Questionnaire [27, 28]. Healthy participants were screened to ensure no history of depression and active Instagram use. See Additional file 1 for actual survey text."

So it sounds like they found depressed and healthy subjects via MTurk and verified them using surveys. I guess that's slightly more rigorous than just "people on MTurk thought the person in this photo looks depressed"
It's at http://diversitymemo.com.
Cash workflow:

- Cashier tells you the total amount

- Since I was watching the register display, I already have a rough idea how much this will be, and I have prepared the bills to hand over.

- Cashier gives change and receipt

- I walk away, and after I'm out of the way, I put the change into my wallet.

- Done

Similarly, credit card workflow (American):

- Cashier tells you the total amount

- You insert in chip reader a card you already had out

- You sign, sometimes

- You wait 5 sec for transaction to finish

- You put card back in wallet while receipt is printing

- You put wallet back in trouser pocket while receiving receipt

- Done

The time spent on these is very, very similar. Being prepared with your form of payment and dealing with putting away the results (change, card, receipt) after you leave the line results in a very similar time. Signing (or pin) and waiting on the transaction takes a comparable amount of time to the cashier counting your payment and making change. In each case, less than 15 seconds, and at that point, who cares?
> Similarly, when it comes to “tests and exams” for Watson’s “Data Management” and “Energy Informatics” courses, all will be “open book and open notes”

This part I actually see as a good idea.

In the real world, you have access to Google, to books, to notes, to everything. I'd much rather see difficult tests that allow access to all the needed material than tests designed around the normal distribution of human memory, favoring those who can recall everything they've ever read.
Curzon line was suggested _during_ the war.

Besides, as I said - Poland had the same rights to these territories, so it was a fair game of whoever captured them first.

And if we're talking about broken agreements - Bolsheviks broke that agreement first.
One thing i have been curious about is why women don't find jobs like construction, or plumbing or electrical work appearing. Any thoughts?
It is definitely a recruiting tool, rather than 'sort of' one. Just check out the website for the game today (and through the wayback machine if you will)

It can be difficult to tell apart the content talking about the game and the content talking about joining the army, but it is often explicitly about joining the real army.
They would raise prices, not different from Europe or Japan or Korea. Organics and the trend toward bespoke/crafts items seems to indicate people may not be as price sensitive as we might suppose.
I keep bringing it up, since it's the most egregious use of that logic, the time that the Fed insisted inflation must be low because the new iPads have faster CPUs[1]. As if a better quality luxury good (whose faster CPU is almost entirely eaten by new bloat) somehow cancels out higher food, healthcare, education, and housing costs.

Interestingly, they never seem to adjust inflation upward because of product debasements (other than price per unit in a bundle), so that seems to bias the numbers.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-dudley-ipad-idUSTR...
The records I clicked on have this notice

Digitized from a shellac record, at 78 revolutions per minute. Four stylii were used to transfer this record. They are 3.8mm truncated conical, 2.3mm truncated conical, 2.8mm truncated conical, 3.3mm truncated conical. These were recorded flat and then also equalized with NAB.

The preferred version suggested by an audio engineer at George Blood, L.P. is the equalized version recorded with the 2.3mm truncated conical stylus, and has been copied to have the more friendly filename.

I'm trying to guess but can't imagine what the reasoning for this is. I've tried A/B/C/D testing a few tracks on some crappy speakers and can't discern any difference.

While it's certainly admirable to try and digitize it as thoroughly as possible, I just can't see how a difference of 0.5mm in the stylus width is worth increasing your work load 4x times over (having to record each record 4 times rather than just once).
Most ICOs usually exclude Americans. Because these scamsters know it's a bad idea to get Uncle Sam angry.
Some observers argue that basic income has been tried in the past and failed.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/01/the-failure-of-a-pas...
Well, it is "tax avoidance," which is completely legal. It's just not "tax evasion," or any kind of special exemption.
It's always nice to be home in Prague from Munich in 2.5 instead of 4.5 hours in exchange for just 1.5l/100km more consumption (and going 250 (155 miles per hour) instead of 130 km/h).
>I'd be interested in seeing stats on social media adoption in Germany, because my hypothesis is that they lag the rest of the world.

Not only do they lag in general, but I also remember a study which showed that in Germany higher education levels are associated with significantly less social media use, while it's quite the opposite in the rest of the world.
Are you aware of a study that is focused on (software) engineers? The McKinsey study looks at companies' top management for its diversity metrics, but I don't really trust studies across professions. Most anecdotes I've read about the benefits of diversity boil down to "if only we'd had a <minority> on the team, we would have noticed <problem affecting minority>".

But as a developer, my requirements are set by project managers (50% women in my experience), the design and marketing is done by a diverse team, testing is done by other people (or end-users, sigh); so developers are "only" concerned with the actual implementation. Consequently, I don't find it intuitive that more diversity (of gender/ethnicity) would help my team.

Do developers in other companies or countries (Germany here) have wider responsibilities, and thus, diversity is more important? Can engineers at Facebook or Google write user-facing features on a whim? (The terrible mic drop Gmail gimmick comes to mind...) Could that explain the difference in how much teams benefit from diversity?
Isn't that the problem, though? Bitcoin was supposed to be a medium of exchange. Cash for the internet, in other words. Investing means that people really aren't going to be doing that, and it's just going to sit on a dusty flash drive on the shelf.
Awesome analysis, I have added it to my favorites list. Around 1990 or so when I was in the kernel group at Sun and a team had just embarked on the multi-processor kernel work that would later result in the 'interrupts as threads'[1] paper. During that time there was an epic thread on email which was something like "What the F*ck does load average mean on an MP system?" (no doubt I have a copy on an unreadable quarter inch tape somewhere :-(). If it helps, the exact same pivot point was identified, which is this, does 'load average' mean the load on the CPU or the load on the system. While there were supporters in the 'system' camp the traditionalists carried the day with "We can't change the definition on existing customers, all of their shell scripts would break!" or something to that effect. Basically, the response was if we were to change it, we would have to call it something different to maintain a commitment to the principle of least surprise. This has never been an issue for Linux :-).

As a "systems" guy I am always interested in how balanced the system is, which is to say that I am always trying to figure out what the slowest part of my system is and insuring that it is within some small epsilon of the other parts. If you do that, then system load is linear with workload almost regardless of task composition. So disk heavy processes load the "system" as much as "compute heavy" processes and "memory heavy" or "network heavy." In an imaginary world you could decompose a system into 'resource units' and then optimize it for a particular workload.

[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=202217
Dig deeply into some area, become a professional.

Then hire other people and try to optimize your business to work without your control. It's very important to be able to manage the company remotely.

A lot of people are trying to get to some huge expertise to achieve "bigger salary" or something. But no one really focuses on earning a small regular no-hassle income.

That's mostly it...Focus on 20% of stuff which gives 80% of results, like the book said.
It sounds like the first step might be opening your mind to the possibility there are things you could do better that you haven't already thought of. Do you know how to take good pictures of yourself? (That other people like?) Are you a good writer? Both of these, for example, are great skills to brush up on for dating networks.
The issue is scale. It's one thing to have a few million dollars and give an inheritance to your family. It's another thing to make hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars a year at a time when the quality of life for most people in the country is declining. It probably wouldn't be as much of an issue if everyone was experiencing the growth that the top 0.1% is.
The AMD Ryzen Threadripper is the most powerful processor we’ve ever tested
According to wikipedia the fuel can be a large source of nitrogen for NOx: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOx#Fuel
New Conference in Atlanta Focused on Diversity, Inclusion and Angular
Not small by percentage, but the cost for the time saved is small. Might cost you $15 to save 2 hours or more.

Of course, just take it to the bank and they'll do it for you for free.
While I agree the parent's comment is inappropriate for this forum, I feel yours is running afoul of the first guideline[1], which is "Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity."

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Smuggling HTA Files in Internet Explorer/Edge
This is strange, I never had such a problem, but in my case I don't point Shotwell to my main image directory (which is on the NAS) but to a local one where I store photos before I decide what to keep and what to ditch. Every X days/week/months, depending on laziness :), I open its directory and move most important images onto the NAS.
So nothing very big, but over here it still points to a tree containing several hundred photos without hitches.
There's an unspoken scorched earth policy for lame humour and Reddit-style puns (which, btw, is marvelous). Also, intellectual honesty will take you far.
> But somehow, this guy stating as a matter of fact that it's a biological thing is not disingenuous.

Can you point me to where he states this? The closest I found was

I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men
and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why
we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.

which is still very much in the "we don't understand, but maybe this is an explanation" camp.
Maybe this is old news to people who pay attention to car news, but the most interesting thing to me is this line from the press release:

> From 2019, start introducing electric vehicles and other electric drive technologies in regions that use a high ratio of clean energy for power generation or restrict certain vehicles to reduce air pollution

I've been kind of disappointed that Mazda hasn't gotten into the electric car market yet; I'm glad to see they're coming around.
What weird planet are we on where people would avoid clicking a link they'd otherwise be inclined to click because someone might make 3 cents from the click? You guys spend way too much time thinking about this stuff.
I think both of you are largely grandstanding. You didn't make any effort to respond to the ethical meat of his post and instead fired back about why that person represents what's wrong with [HN/the internet/the world].

Why are you so focused on the tax burden stat? What is the significance or takeaway from that? Are you arguing that rich people's lives are being too adversely affected by their income taxes? Are you saying poor people should pay more taxes? Are you basically arguing the libertarian/objectivist view that the government shouldn't be meddling in free enterprise?

As others have argued, I would say that relative income tax burden alone is not a great indicator of much.
There have been multiple crashes though.
Of course it's "until you get caught", and then subsequently released to just start over. Thieves exist, getting caught isn't a deterrent. You're taking it from the perspective of someone logical, with a vision of the future, savings, etc.
There's a higher quality PDF available [here](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.13....), it has a credit footnote: "Converted to electronic version by: Roby Joehanes, Kansas State University."

That person already did the OCR cleaning (and the fonts are nicer).
Clippy, 2018: It looks like you're depressed, can I help you with that?
"Better safe than sorry" is a token mindset when archiving, especially when archiving lossy things.
A few points:

1. the fixed pie fallacy[0]. You actually need separate evidence to suggest that the 1% are taking away income growth from the rest of the percentiles.

2. The 1% generally makes the most in good times, and loses the most in bad times. The chart did not seem to include asset devaluation loses - e.g. the housing crises, stock market loses, investment losses etc. This is a huge omission. The past 34 years may also not be a very representative prediction of the future.

3. There is nothing morally wrong with income diversity, particularly if the poor still live long lives, are not hungry, have access to modern technology, transportation, and modern entertainment. I personally think income diversity is a good thing. As my right bias, I believe generally that "Disparities are natural and just" , and not "Disparities are due to injustices" - Fired Google Engineer.

[0] http://www.aei.org/publication/the-fixed-pie-fallacy/print/
It's good work, but I suspect Mahle's TJI (as used in current F1 cars) is a better bet.

- Fuel efficiency gains over 17%
- over 40% thermal efficiency
- over 99% reduction in NOx
- significant reduction in CO2

http://www.f1technical.net/news/20316

http://www.mahle-powertrain.com/en/experience/mahle-jet-igni...