skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there is no market that LIBOR measures

Except that's not true. Interbank lending is still a $70 billion market in the United States alone [1]. Small compared to banks' balance sheets and less than the $500 billion from as recently as February 2008, but material nonetheless.

Good rule of thumb in finance is to ignore Matt Taibbi.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IBLACBM027NBOG
Already been done, see CS Lewis
Looks like that's happened https://mnot.github.io/I-D/thanks-larry/
No, it's mail fraud because they sent a fake package to the wrong address and used the shipping confirmation to defraud someone out of $1500.
There's a lot of good responses here, but the real reason is Amazon isn't set up to do it any other way. The arm of Amazon that does direct purchasing is fairly small and invite only. It's been this way since the beginning. They now have an automated program called Vendor Express that does direct purchasing, but only for certain categories and because it's 100% automated and self serve there are a lot of problems.

They are working on it though, and Vendor Express gets better every day.
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You're right of course, but in particular the "Goolag" thing was pretty ridiculous.
* Google Insights/Trends

* Google Adwords Keyword search tool

These two help in calculating demand of a service or product.

* If you've got contacts, Random Sampled Survey
The ethereum “hacker” didn't hack anything
I have no general posting strategy. I just respond to what I see. My opinion of the overall HN community is that there are alot of people on here with a wide range of knowledge and opinions, the vast majority of which I find informative or interesting. I disagree with alot of things people write here, but very rarely is that because I find the opinion I'm disagreeing with to be extremely irrational.
Patrick Smith, the author and eponymous "pilot" in the title, has been writing interesting articles about flying and a pilot's life for years. He is as much a traveler as he is a pilot and loves what he does. If you have any interest in flying or travel but have somehow not come across Patrick Smith before, check out his archive [1] and his book [2] Pilot Confidential, an update of his earlier book, Ask The Pilot, named for his now-defunct column at Salon.com iirc.

[1] http://www.askthepilot.com/archives/
[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16235130-cockpit-confide...
Put your money where your mouth is. Go provide your legal services to article's author.

I expect to see an article on Monday, from you, which bemoans exactly how easy it is to track thieves like this. Show us the face of the accused, too.
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>Also, Amazon is usually very good about protecting buyers from scams.

Retrospectively...sometimes.

Don't get me wrong I like them (average like a package every 48 hrs) but I have fairly limited confidence in their ability to protect people. Especially with the inventory co-mingling fiasco.
Liking zero indexed lists is such a dumb programmer meme. Lists are for humans to read and therefore should use the natural numbers, which start at one. Arrays are zero indexed because the first item of the array starts with zero offset.
Also most hired men would be only slightly above the cut, if I'm not wrong. In any case, I'd be happy enough of being above the cut, some people are never satisfied, really :).
Oh lord that's note even close to a good rebuttal. Mostly because it starts off with a list of "sexist" assumptions, some of which don't even tangentially relate to the memo.

What the article says:

> Sexist assumption 6: Gender bias is not a real issue. Anyone who thinks so is blinded by political bias.

What the memo says:

> Of course, men and women experience bias, tech, and the
workplace differently and we should be cognizant of this, but it’s far from the whole story.

Literally, can anyone argue against the guy without misrepresenting and demonizing his argument? I don't even agree with him and find this stuff head-ache inducing.
> can't applaud enough to Google here

Just to be sure here, you would be fine with Google being hostile, like creating an uncomfortable work environment for, members of the LGBT community, environmentalists, pet owners, vegetarians, Buddhists, pro-choice members, PHP programmers, truck owners, under-roll toilet paper users, tort reform advocates, accountants, FSF members, IE users, people who want maternity leave, Bears fans, Apple users, Mr. Pibb drinkers, or any of the billion other political issues we interact with daily?
I feel like either amazon, or the market, is missing an opportunity when I read stuff like this. Amazon could be:

1. Gathering intelligence about the person making the claim from public sources (twitter, LinkedIn, blogs, etc.)
2. Mashing that against past purchase history (inside amazon or through browser fingerprinting across a wider pool, though they are amazon and should be pretty wide on their own)
3. Ferreting out when high-trust customers are making claims against more shaky merchants

Claims like this should be the backbone of a fraud management platform. They can take high-quality customers getting screwed over and not only rectify the problem but also spare their other buyers from the embarrassment & fraud
They would have faced backlash either way, it is hard to say.
Amazon seriously pisses me off these days.

Here's an example:

- search Amazon.com for "1 tb usb flash drive"

- the first hit (for me) is a fraudulent drive for $26.99 USD [1]

- there's no mechanism that I can find to report the drive as fraudulent, suspicious, or spam

As far as I'm concerned, Amazon is the new Best Buy. I go there to find something I want, and then buy it somewhere else (NewEgg!)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Drive-Memory-Stick-Storage/dp/B...
You have to make false claims to be a fraud.

It doesn't really matter if the OP (or anybody else really) is a super genius or not. People from outside the field can't tell, and so they approach those with a high media profile, and who match some of the preconceived ideas, like the buzzword bingo mentioned in the blog post.

The same is true even inside our field. When I'm interested in some architectural design pattern, I often read an article by Martin Fowler. Why? Because what he writes sounds plausible, and because I've heard his name a hundred times before. I've never seen production code he wrote, or been on a project he worked on. Maybe he feels like an impostor too, sometimes?

I'm not calling Fowler an impostor; I just want to draw the parallels how second-hand knowledge influences our perception of expertise.
He didn't though. He didn't say that at all. He simply said that LESS women are interested in this field than men. He didn't say NO women were qualified, or anything close to it. He said aiming for 50/50 might not be the best idea, because there simply might not be that many women interested.
Or maybe there is a large community of very angry people who identify as victims (gunpowder) and this particular firing was the spark.

It's not a useful distinction. By the same argument all the people upset about his firing should stop reading the news about it and get on with their day. All these valley programmers who lean right politically do seem quite eager to play the victim after all, really they're out looking for something to set them off like Damore's firing aren't they? They obviously have a political agenda don't they? They're recirculating news about damore's firing amongst themselves aren't they?

It's inane, the problem has a defined source: Damore bringing his political opinion into the workplace.
A lot of the time people use git to get source code to build and run on their computers. You can probably hide a nefarious code in many places, where it would be less noticeable, too, like pre-generated configure/Makefile.in scripts. I don't think anyone reads those. Another reason to welcome those new simpler configure/build systems like meson/ninja.
At the moment it's not but of this mania continued for some more time it will snowball as more and more folks get in just because they don't want to miss out.

I hope you are right and crash comes early on.
Someone should invent something else. I like free software but it's not sustainable as an author.
Personally I've been using Walmart for consumables (paper products, cat food & litter). Still use amazon for books (the dead tree variety) and the occasional electronic item. Delivery time is comparable, and the free shipping threshold is $50 IIRC, regardless of what you're shipping (e.g. 100lbs of cat litter).
> I'm wondering more and more why Amazon hosts third-party sellers at all.

To offer better selection. I dislike dealing with third party sellers as well but for certain rare items (say, used vinyl) it's the only way, and it's better than nothing.
No it's not. Here's a start:

https://www.quora.com/What-do-scientists-think-about-the-bio...
The cognitive burden part is a really important point. I used to like it a lot more, but recently I find shopping on Amazon.ca exhausting. Even for a cheap little $4 whatsit, I routinely find myself paging through multiple options, all with terribly inconsistent descriptions, in search of one that looks the least like a scam. Only to find that the one size sold by Amazon[1] is sold out and everything else is sold by random bozos and shipped by turtle at six times the price, and probably not even the same product anyway. If I decide to buy it somewhere else, I am then followed by that gizmo everywhere on the internet.

Meanwhile, as Amazon has descended to the realm of YouTube comments[2], my local retailers have actually been getting pretty good at this whole online shopping thing. Which isn't terribly surprising, come to think of it. Even smaller department stores like London Drugs have been doing searchable inventories, order fulfilment, curation, and distribution for a hell of a lot longer than Amazon. All they needed was the technology and the incentive. I think it's a matter of time until people realize there are better options and just leave.

[1] The size sold by Amazon is of course measured in shekels, while the others are measured in furlongs and picoparsecs.

[2] I'm being rather unkind to YouTube comments.
I wonder what your "credentials" are to speak on the subject. I grew up in the USSR. During 195x my grandfather and grandmother together with their 5 children did a number of years in a low security camp at the Russian North cutting timber.

>It's not similar. It's not even remotely similar, that's what you don't get.

It looks similar to me, very similar (and i'm ok with it because it is against conservatives this time).
The horror. Where should people turn to get their approval stamps before they are allowed to write documents? Is it only bad to write about things, or should thinking about things also be frowned upon? Where can I get a list of safe, government approved topics to think about?
He is not talking about raw programming skills, but the tech environment. And then he goes on to point out how the tech environment could change so that more women would want to be a part of it, or to stay in it longer once they were in.

In other words, he was saying there is something in tech culture which is inherently less palatable for the average woman than the average man. He never claimed that the culture was good and the women were deficient. Instead he said the culture should change instead of artificially trying to fill it with equal ratio hires.
tl;dr group of founders at epinions gets conned by the ceo, their partner - and they sue that guy (who has a dubious reputation on many counts) as well as everyone who touched the deal including benchmark. they got a settlement. they probably would have lost at trial. i don't see how that reflects negatively on benchmark.
I agree, his reporting is terribly one-sided.
> This would happen even in exchange traded options. If you knew the specifics of the settlement window, you would know when the price would go wonky.

Exchange-traded options settle on a predictable window; there's no "if you knew" to it [1]. Also, the price goes wonky near expiries because that's when delta approaches one. Market makers switch from hedging with derivatives to hedging with spot; that means jitters.

Not saying there's no fraud. But pricing going wonky around a settlement event makes sense as everyone prepares for it.

[1] http://www.dtcc.com/~/media/Files/Downloads/legal/service-gu...
Alleged Yahoo hacker, will bypass hearing and go to U.S. to fight charges
> but I think it is plausible to craft an abstract picture that creates fear, arousal, or some other "primitive" response.

Visit a modern art museum - I think one can find many examples.
Oh lord that's note even close to a good rebuttal. Mostly because it starts off with a list of "sexist" assumptions, some of which don't even tangentially relate to the memo, or are directly contradicted.

What the article says:

> Sexist assumption 6: Gender bias is not a real issue. Anyone who thinks so is blinded by political bias.

What the memo says:

> Of course, men and women experience bias, tech, and the
workplace differently and we should be cognizant of this, but it’s far from the whole story.

Literally, can anyone argue against the guy without misrepresenting and demonizing his argument? I don't even agree with him and find this stuff head-ache inducing.
You know, every single person on the internet that I've seen argue that the science is solid in the Google memo point to this article in The Globe and Mail. It's bizarre.

I've tried to toe the line and not get into the argument as much as I can because, as evidenced by the previous HN thread [1], it's just two sides yelling past each. Some are citing scientific papers stating they are correct (which a single paper does not make), others are arguing based on remembering other scientific papers and virtually no one seems to be an expert but are all commenting as such.

What I would like to point out is the article in question isn't very well sourced. It points to "four - academic studies" [2] [3] [4] [5] but none of those are actual studies; they're all replies to a single study (Sex beyond the genitalia: The human brain mosaic [6]) and none include a methodology to how they came to their reply conclusion as the full text barely contains anything additional to the extract. Now I'm not writing them off as wrong but those are being misrepresented as studies without having the proper information a study or research paper would require. Unless it's available elsewhere? It's unclear at least to me and appears, again to me, as very misleading.

Ultimately there is a boat load of research out there. Some of it is going to support the Google memo writing. Some of it will not. Some of it can be used to represent both sides of the argument. I think a better article, should one exist, should be used to defect your viewpoint should you side with the Google memo. Much of science requires a consensus and rock solid testing methodologies and I'm just not seeing that sourced in the article.

Again, I am not an expert but this is my impression from this article. Feel free to make any corrections to my statement :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14952787

[2] http://www.pnas.org/content/113/14/E1968.extract

[3] http://www.pnas.org/content/113/14/E1971.extract

[4] http://www.pnas.org/content/113/14/E1966.extract

[5] http://www.pnas.org/content/113/14/E1965.full.pdf

[6] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4687544/
I read the memo and it was a rant. There are sections in which random thoughts are connected and unfinished, like a stream of consciousness
> He was fired for being political at work. Don't be political at work.

Well, more specifically, I think he was fired for being political in a way that caught outside attention and caused bad PR. Plenty of people are political at work, whether they be work politics or otherwise. This is a "You made the company have to weigh in on something that is way over your pay grade, and that's not something we're going to take a chance happening again with you." Executives and boards don't like when they have to stop what they're doing and put out a PR fire started by a low rank employee, whether that employee expected that outcome or not. That the firing of the employee causing problems at the executive level coincides with a way to combat the PR just makes the decision all that much easier.
Alt-Right Activists Call for Google Boycott After Employee Is Fired
IE used to use 32×32 for saving a bookmark to the desktop, 16×16 for the address bar favicon.
Depending on your music preferences YT does a pretty good job at it, there are many more gems hidden on YT compared to all the other music services combined.
Successfully registered and then denied login at a website. “surname too short”
Building a new cycle lane has all of the same costs getting it approved as a new road does - planning, buying the land, landowner negotiations, navigating planning permissions, public consultations etc. A bit of digging and tarmac on an existing one avoids most of that, it's just a case of finding the money - and the national government has announced a funding pot that councils can apply to.
Companies play around with their origin stories
Thanks for posting the link. David Sanders is an amazing speaker, and the best person to learn Julia from, if you get a chance.

There's a bunch of his videos in the Julia channel on Youtube.
It really didn't kill the product - Jobs did. Yes, the Newton OS had some great stuff in it - I loved the soup model, but in terms of a newspaper or billboard ad? The handwriting was a no-brainer. Yes it was mocked - in much the same way that Siri is mocked today, but with small adjustyto your native handwriting written input became fast Nd accurate
Some have been jailed. Jay Merchant, Tom Hayes, etc.
Okay, help me out here. People keep saying that he mischaracterized existing research but then we have qualified people in the field saying that he got it right.

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/no-the-google-manif...
You might want to read the article. 40 foot drops at the very outside, and 50 out of 2 billion passengers worldwide each year requiring medical attention. Sounds like less risk than walking the dog.
But i'm not proposing "Stop complaining and do your job" :). Or just quit at the first sign of crap.

It's actually the complete opposite.
Also check out Jonathan Roberts, the artist of (among other fantasy maps) the official map folio for the Lands of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones.

His blog is full of both granular and general advice: http://www.fantasticmaps.com/

And his article in the Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding is my go-to reference for using cartography as a worldbuilding device: https://www.amazon.com/Kobold-Guide-Worldbuilding-Wolfgang-B...
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The memo didn't claim anything about efficacy in engineering, period.

It claimed some contribution of biology to career preference on average, which is absolutely supported by research :

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3166361/

"We explored the contribution of sex hormones to career-related interests, in particular studying whether prenatal androgens affect interests through psychological orientation to Things versus People. We examined this question in individuals with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), who have atypical exposure to androgens early in development, and their unaffected siblings (total N = 125 aged 9 to 26 years). Females with CAH had more interest in Things versus People than did unaffected females, and variations among females with CAH reflected variations in their degree of androgen exposure.
Results provide strong support for hormonal influences on interest in occupations characterized by working with Things versus People."
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14885321 and infinitely previously

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=visual6502.org
This is his biggest mistake. Even if your managers are calling for you to do so, don't break any of these rules.

And if you do, do it with careful preparedness about setting and context. Do not publish it. Oh and be prepared to be fired anyways.
There is plenty of thinking about that. Search some of the bitcoin forums and you'll find tons of examples of people solving that problem in a variety of ways.
> Most of it has been and is locked up, not touching other aspects of the global economy, and most of the actual bubble value will vaporize without ever touching any part of the 'real' global economy.

I think the question is how much actual currency will be borrowed against cryptocoin valuations, and how much and over how many generations will people manage to leverage that credit, before that value vaporizes. Derivatives will always be the problem. With the actual economy not producing returns (over 1 or 2%), cryptocurrency may distribute the paper value that investors demand throughout the economy without 99% of people and funds being able to find a mention of any cryptocurrency in their own portfolios.

What is the state of cryptocoin derivatives anyway? Are they being synthetically collateralized? Are they part of any major consumer fund mix?
It's funny how German banks/VC's did not step up to make an investment in one of the most visible tech German companies. Instead a New York based firm and Singapore firm did.
And then I couldn't register for a new account with a fake surname because the system apparently deems the email address already taken.

I mean what the actual hell. Even the last two Chinese presidents both have two-character surnames (written in Latin script of course). And why would you allow an account to be created and then inaccessible to the client? This is both hilarious and tragic. I'd say this kind of programming is quite a way to let people stop taking you seriously immediately.
Soundcloud offers an amazing service that benefits everyone that uses it. In a modern technologically competent socialist society, why can't something like this be run by the government?

The amount of art that would be lost if soundcloud actually shut down is tremendous. There's a public interest in keeping it around, in my opinion
Forget favicons... it supports emoji domains!
To reply to myself, I need to first state that I am not a lawyer. I have, however, taken a number of courses on both law and procedures. Please keep that in mind.

I have also now spent more time on this than I'd expected.

One of the DMCA provisions, is that (as others have mentioned) that software to circumvent copyright is also prohibited.

I do not believe that EasyList meets the legal definition of software. It's not software, I don't believe. It is a list used by software. Basically, it is a configuration file. By itself, it performs no functions.

Its pretty much a 'dumb' plain text file. It is not executable, in and of itself. By itself, it does exactly nothing except take up space.

Computer software is defined in 48 CFR 2.101 and, unless my reading is incorrect (and it may be), this doesn't enable a program to be produced, created, or compiled.

I can find no rulings on this subject, however.

I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, and you should check with a qualified legal professional in your jurisdiction before acting.

That said, this does make for a potentially interesting case. It's probably a good thing to get some decision handed down. That and, well, it'll be pretty easily circumvented regardless of potential rulings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storey#Numbering
The https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website has its flaws but it's the largest open source Rails code base I've seen. Actively maintained.
Unless there's something I'm unaware of, they have no way to check the actual shipping address based on the tracking number without direct cooperation from the shipper. The reason they use the shipping city is that most shippers provide that information about every tracking number. To get more information you have to be the one who shipped the package. In this case amazon was not the one who shipped the package. It was a 3rd party seller who shipped on their own.