skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> then where are all the experiments

That is exactly what I am asking you.

Where are all the small scale experiments that show diversity in race/gender in a team lead to better outcomes?

There are a lot of small scale studies on effective teamwork. I went through them a long time ago when I did my business degree.

I don't recall any of them suggesting diversity of race / gender were large contributors.

Business schools have been running small scale studies on effective teamwork for decades.
I came to think that it's actually pretty simple. Hierarchies are generally bad for human societies. Capitalism has no stellar track record, but it somewhat works because it lets people to have multiple social hierarchies, e.g. I can work for capitalist2 instead of capitalist1, and it's quite easy to switch (doesn't require to move my family to another culture).

That's why capitalism works quite well in democracy (where multiple hierarchies are allowed) and becomes really oppressive in other political systems.

The socialism/communism failed where it made one social hierarchy dominant (so-called "communist" countries), just like all other systems like that. In situations, where one social hierarchy is not dominant, like Scandinavia, socialism actually works really well.

(Marx is partly to blame, in my opinion, because he focused to much on "state" without stressing "democracy" enough. But then, having single hierarchy in society was more or less a norm, so it does make sense what he did it.)

Of course, this has nothing to do with anarcho-communist ideals which almost always, in some form, reject hierarchy. The standard explanation (that WSJ espouses) is quite selective how it assigns blame to communism and praise to capitalism - it completely ignores the hierarchy problem. Interestingly, the free market ideal of capitalism (which is kinda unreachable utopia similar to what communism is to socialism) actually eschews any social hierarchy as well - everybody is his own master, and they are all competing at the same level.

So to sum up - I think human societies are "free" (and so "successful") to extent in which they can avoid having a (single) hierarchy. Of course, it's tough because we have natural tendency to have social hierarchies, and we also probably need them for cooperation. Both socialism's and capitalism's original goal was to sidestep existing social hierarchy, and the extent to which they succeeded in that task determined their practical success (but this is true for other systems as well).
Oh, you mean, forming their own opinion instead of blindly following the opinion of the newspaper editorial boards, and the experts predicting immediate financial collapse?
>Get in touch if you'd like to sponsor us to work on onion services to make them faster, slower, or stabler.

That's a strange comment.

Why would they accept money to make the TOR system slower?
Trump won because American democracy is twisted to overvalue rural voters, who have really fucked up and detestable values. Hillary won the actual popular vote, which you already know, if the pathetic approval ratings lately haven't made clear.

Congrats for being on the side of the undereducated, underskilled, and xenophobic.
The structure was amazing, all the more so for it being transmitted by oral tradition.

You want to read up on research into oral traditions and primarily-oral societies. Walter Ong is the usual starting point there.

Oral traditions aren't just accidentally memorable, or an artifact of people with specially-trained huge memories. Epics like the Iliad and Odyssey, and oral traditions of other societies, are truly impressive technology, though we never think of them that way. In literate societies, especially ones which have been literate for a long time, we think people would just have to rote-memorize this stuff, but really it's built with rhythms and patterns and structures and formulas, and you end up with works that are easy to learn, easy to recite and easy to reconstruct and even error-correct on the fly.
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Only if by theory you mean "let everybody magically have everything and be happy". If you get to the particulars of how that is supposed to work, turns out the theory is pretty crappy too. E.g. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem
Are you sure about Haskell not having m:n threads? Because it's seems weird, considering GHC is listed as one of a few examples on wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(computing)#M:N_.28hy...
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One party controls all the branches of US government.

The fact that they have trouble passing these "protect the children" type laws QUICKLY leaves me in awe of the resilience of the American political system.
Slightly OT

Dopey Prince Talal was arrested yesterday.

A prominent investor with stakes in companies like Citigroup, Apple and Twitter, just to name a few.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/04/billionaire-saudi-prince-alw...
If it was about the features, they could (and should) have released these bits as part of AOSP, as free software.

Not doing so reveals there actual reason: control. Forcing every manufacturer to ship Play Services and thus being able to force various things on their devices is a major financial benefit. It also ensured that Amazon or Nokia were unable to set up a commercially viable Android Fork without Google.
It does unless Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission is outdated [0].

[0]https://ballotpedia.org/Citizens_United_v._Federal_Election_...
You can say we have had the very same thing with full state Powers that had nothing to do with Capitalism, since the beginning of History, so putting it on the back of "Capitalism" is kind of tenuous. Anybody or any organization in a position of ultimate power will go in that kind of behavior. Plus, the East India Company was pretty much a proxy for States involved in the area.

The point of capitalism is that you are supposed to have a lot more competition because of fragmentation.
factors like whether the behavior is targeted at an individual or a group of people, and if a report has been filed and by whom

Why should it matter who reports it? Either its in violation or it isn't. This is weaselly in the extreme.
I get that you don't seem to like Democrats - that's fine, I don't much care for them myself (although Republicans probably even less). However, the problem we are facing today is different than just spin. People are fundamentally trying to alter the public's perception of truth, not just spin or political opinion, and they have found that they can do this by saying a lie loud enough and often enough.

And in case you think this is just opinion/spin itself, check this out:

https://www.texastribune.org/2017/11/01/russian-facebook-pag...

There are foreign powers coughRUSSIAcough actively trying to disrupt/damage/destroy our democratic institutions. Considering the ongoing investigations by Mueller we still do not know if POTUS is a puppet, through threat of blackmail or evidence of dirty laundry, to Russian agents.

This a real thing. This is important.
That doesn't make it better in my opinion. The politics of nations, strong border controls and vetting for refugees are nuanced there are pros and cons to all angles in that debate.

Whereas, Joel dictated that if you supported "carving up the world" you were against the sprit of Stack Overflow, no matter how that might impact you as a non-American.
So basically you can manufacture an Overton Window for whatever idea you wish to sell. Oh well...
I've stopped mining. It's still a little profitable on paper (~$1/card/day after subtracting electricity cost) but only because you can't measure what impact mining has on the life of your hardware.
Likewise. 2000 years ago in Roman Britain I am certain many people did it and some of them would have been women.
It's good you welcome contributions to your open platform.
In case your next demo is based on my work, please notify me in advance.
According to a prior HN comment by LogicHoleFlaw here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=347486

From the paper:

George Harrison on 12-string pairs 2 through 5: (A2 A3) (D3 D4) (G3 G4) (C4 C4)

George Martin on piano: D3 F3 D5 G5 E6

John Lennon on 6-string: C5

Paul McCartney on his Höfner bass: D3
What does the ‘cough’ around Russia mean? I’ve seen people do that before.
> Instead, the CIA interrogated him and tortured him for years.

> I think the CIA is generally good [...]

You're either having strange moral values or suffering from cognitive dissonance ;-)

(I don't mean to attack you, it just jumped at me while reading your comment)
Every time I read these stores on HN, I can't help but point out this:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/509026/how-obamas-team-us...

Obama was lauded for using "Big Data" and "Data Science" to rally voters. It's not hard to guess where his team got the data from.

Now the same thing worked against, for better or worse, people are going out of the way to chastise social media.

Where was this concern when the same companies try and collect as much information as they can - user preferences, tastes, political bends - all in the name of "enhancing" experience. There were tons of articles written on praising the same companies on how clever they actually were.

Lastly, it is funny that economist etc are acting holier than thou when they themselves would be collecting some form of data from their readers to enhance ad revenues etc.

IMHO, its not social media rather letting the collection of personal information get out of hand which is at fault.
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> Does evidence really exists that these tests are predictive?

Currently IQ is considered the best predictor.

If you have two applicants around the same IQ but one has higher conscientious then it could be a decider in a company, but why is it needed in this study I can't see.

No idea how good Raven and Stroop tests are for predicting IQ?
I don't think it's possible to complete a maths program without spending some time with Fourier series in the context of vector spaces of functions, convergence of series of functions, linear operators and so on. However, I can very much imagine that applications, e.g. to sound processing, are not particularly emphasized; so it might have taken that book for the professor to make the right connection.
I'm really disappointed that you've mixed opinion and fact.

The FACT that the vote of some in rural America, by design, is worth more than the vote of someone living in a city (for the race of the US presidency) is literal fact.

Back when the system was designed the difference in representation strength would surely have been far less; cities were far smaller and their density within a state arguably balanced by the likelihood of someone way out in the far flung reaches to actually turn out to vote.

Leave the topic of who ran last time, and also the other topic of what views some voters you might not have even met, have any due time elsewhere... (maybe a different sub-thread in this discussion).
Even better, create several different "Overton Groups", where each group has a different overton window. When these groups try to communicate with each other, they find each other's positions to be outrageous and compromise is impossible.
Russia is an "illiberal democracy". Germany absolutely isn't.
If you read the full article a tldr; would be much appreciated.
That decision lifted a restriction preventing private entities from running political advertisements in certain situations. What people generally mean (and indeed, what dawnerd means here) when they say "freedom of speech does not extend to private entities” is that even if speech is legal, a private entity has no obligation to host or disseminate it.
The whole "let's blame it on Russia" thing is getting boring. At one point, my dear American friends, you'll just have to face the mirror.
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Is this butthurt never going to end? Trump won, HRC lost. The reason? Maybe people do not want to elect a person under FBI investigation. Maybe people do not want to elect a person who does not know the meaning of "confidential". Maybe people felt like their voice was not being heard by politicians and media, and Trump would listen as an outsider.

Ah, who am I kidding. Let's blame Zuckerberg and the Russians!
Most GCM and checkin related code is actually a Java rewrite of open-source code by Google. They released a client and some protocol specs as part of Chromium: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/chromium/+/trunk/...
> Alternatively if you believe publishing bias and/or feminist conspiracy

Why does it have to be a conspiracy?

There are two major groups pushing this research:

1) Companies looking to make a buck by providing "solutions".

2) Social justice types.

Both these groups want there to be serious problems caused by a lack of diversity.

And then you look at the expressed ideologies of the researchers themselves and it is clear they also want the same outcome.

As such what makes the research that comes from these groups any different from research coming out of corporate and political think tanks?

I wouldn't blindly trust the Cato Institute so why would I blindly trust these researchers?
Don’t the writers think we need to know whether his really small mining operation is profitable?
See also: The Toxoplasma of Rage - http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/ - which is a great discussion on the topic.
For me this falls down because my next questions is "cool, so I can run a database in a docker. So my data is save inside the docker?"

Which it isn't, and I still don't know how to attach permanent storage to a docker (if thats even the right term).
One more comment to stir the pot....

Anyone here want to take a guess at which of these posts are paid propaganda? :P
“Holding them accountable” for the crime of enabling an opposition party to distribute its message and court its base has not worked out so well in history.

Jailing Facebook executives over the consequences of the right-wing resurgence they enabled makes about as much sense as jailing the actual conservative voters and politicians who are implementing it. It sure would be satisfying, but there are lines you don’t cross.
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For one thing, so they can be eligible for student services like health care. So student loan repayments don't trigger while they're still in school. Any international student on a student visa. Accurate tracking of which professors go to which graduate students, and the means to record their progress.

And that's just off the top of my head.
Is this a common phrase? I googled variations of it and only turned up less than 10 results.

If that's what it means, then yes, I agree that private entities don't have to host it.
Thought the same thing until recently.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jenna-abrams-russias-clown-tro...

https://www.texastribune.org/2017/11/03/russian-facebook-pag...
While it's easy to attribute malicious intentions, open market "sell" trade seems to be pretty common at Equifax:

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/efx/insider-trades?sortname=tra...

It is surprising considering executives normally set up automatic sells, like in the Bezos case discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15623102

So, it remains to be seen what actually happened here.
It's funny that we can't just meet at the obvious middle ground.

Russia didn't win the election for Trump, but you are kidding yourself if you believe it didn't play a factor. US democracy has a lot of work to do, but Putin is an ex-KGB strongman who assassinates his opponents and annexes neighbors. It's pretty obvious how he operates.
That 2014 article really doesn’t age well, and it’s ahistorical to claim that there wasn’t and isn’t broad support for a more liberal regime in Ukraine.

Regardless of how decimated the Ukrainian population was while under Russian control, and how effective russification was in creating a divided polity, there is still a substantial part of the country who wants independence from Russian dominance. To believe that this is a just result of western encouragement or interference is to be either narcissistic, pessimistic, or duped.
> Maybe people do not want to elect a person under FBI investigation.

But Trump and his associates are also under investigation... And every single one of Trump's people are currently using private servers as well...

> Ah, who am I kidding. Let's blame Zuckerberg and the Russians!

Ah who am I kidding. You're already too far gone if this is how you think.
I think the opposite is true. Pure capitalistic free market naturally tends towards monopoly or collusion. State intervention is needed to ensure competition.
The CIA has many people working as "journalists" in the USA for the same reasons.

Over 40 CIA working as 'journalists' and on the JFK assassination story in 1973. How many are CIA reporters today?

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-3...

e.g.

https://theintercept.com/2014/09/04/former-l-times-reporter-...

If you've read the Podesta emails you'll know how close the MSM and DNC are.

I don't doubt the RNC has the same type of relationships.
He is the president, he pardons himself.
She addresses that word directly in the article:

“One of the things I struggled with,” Wilson continued, sounding more exhilarated than frustrated as she began to unpack “polytropos,” the first description we get of Odysseus, “is of course this whole question of whether he is passive — the ‘much turning’ or ‘much turned’ — right? This was —”

“Treat me,” I interrupted, “as if I don’t know Greek,” as, in fact, I do not.

“The prefix poly,” Wilson said, laughing, “means ‘many’ or ‘multiple.’ Tropos means ‘turn.’ ‘Many’ or ‘multiple’ could suggest that he’s much turned, as if he is the one who has been put in the situation of having been to Troy, and back, and all around, gods and goddesses and monsters turning him off the straight course that, ideally, he’d like to be on. Or, it could be that he’s this untrustworthy kind of guy who is always going to get out of any situation by turning it to his advantage. It could be that he’s the turner.”

EDIT: And later in the article:

“If I was really going to be radical,” Wilson told me, returning to the very first line of the poem, “I would’ve said, polytropos means ‘straying,’ and andra” — “man,” the poem’s first word — “means ‘husband,’ because in fact andra does also mean ‘husband,’ and I could’ve said, ‘Tell me about a straying husband.’ And that’s a viable translation. That’s one of the things it says. But it would give an entirely different perspective and an entirely different setup for the poem. The fact that it’s possible to translate the same lines a hundred different times and all of them are defensible in entirely different ways? That tells you something.” But, Wilson added, with the firmness of someone making hard choices she believes in: “I want to be super responsible about my relationship to the Greek text. I want to be saying, after multiple different revisions: This is the best I can get toward the truth.”
I actually don't get why facebook doesn't bury political posts in your feed. People are not going to be more "connected" when arguing about politics online.

From an AI point of view it's much simpler to detect if a post is political in nature
With all the stops it's still way faster than driving through midtown at rush hour. And I don't know where you're going in NY or whether you're capable of walking, but pretty much any destination in Manhattan and large swaths of the outer boroughs are within a 10 minute walk of the subway. I would not count that as needing a car or bus to get to your destination.
When you love a corporation you can only be disappointed when it does not love you back.
We're the exploits helped out in any way by Windows itself or were they solely exploiting IIS alone? Never used it but I assume at least before it may have been pretty integrated into Windows.
Slightly off-topic, but the web-based visualization tool - Chromium Catapult's Trace-viewer [0] - used to present the profiling data here is pretty nice I think.

The input JSON data format for Trace-viewer is also simple, so it's easy to to leverage it when creating a profiling tool. As a simple example I built a POSIX function call tracer for Linux - cpuusage [1] - which uses it.

[0]: https://github.com/catapult-project/catapult/blob/master/tra...

[1]: https://github.com/d99kris/cpuusage
How is any end user to know what is the original whatsapp?
I find the focus on $100k in ads frustrating. There is evidence that Russian intelligence also created groups, with hundreds of thousands of members, which pushed shamelessly extreme viewpoints. It seems like this effort in addition to paid commenters and bots would dwarf the effect of the limited amount of advtertising that has been reported.
You're right. This tip was meant to be used in non-localized UIs.
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>Which is probably why most German news outlets don't have comments sections.

I don't have a good list of what relevant german online news outlets are, but taking a few guessed stabs at mainstream-y outlets:

www.tagesschau.de/

faz.net

www.focus.de

www.welt.de

www.spiegel.de

www.zeit.de

www.mdr.de

all have comments on some articles

www.sueddeutsche.de

bild.de

www.n-tv.de

don't have comments on articles as far as i can see

Doesn't seem like "most" to me. Am i missing something?
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Lot of reasons - liquidity, risks etc.

But mainly because of something called counter party risk. The caveats of selling a bitcoin on Golix exchange has been stated here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15627972

So the inflated price is in lieu for the risks someone is taking to withdraw from the exchange.

At $50 a day, it will take more than 8 months to even cash out a single bitcoin. By the time someone realises the mistake, the price might have jumped to 15k USD.
You are most certainly right about Putin, but that's not the point. You can't just blame censorship and failing policies on a foreign country. What I find truly intriguing is this lack of self criticism on the part of many people in the US. And about annexing neighbours, let's not talk about Vietnam, Iraq, Syria, Lybia, Sudan, Somalia and all the shady things that happened in Central/South America in the 60's.
It seems like they are just optimizing for “engagement”, and that outraged codes as egaged based on the metrics they collect.
I don't think that's true. A safe harbor can't make you liable for something, it can carve out a specific case where you are not liable. So the DCMA safe harbor could say that they are not liable if they never moderate. That would mean that by moderating they would give up their ability to claim safe harbor. It would not make them liable. Their liability would then be judged based on what they did (ie was their moderation negligent in some way).
Linux user base also has an effect. It's all people who know what they're doing or someone having a newbie relative using it just for browsing the web.

If Linux was 90%+ of the market, getting people to download some stuff with a curl command promising some BS or having people download and run sudo would only need to touch a fraction of users to be highly valuable. That's just a random example off the top of my head. And also because I don't use Linux on desktop so I don't fully know how everything works there.
Blockchains don’t help with ensuring you’re not missing any data, their purpose is to define which series of logs is the “right one”, which doesn’t make much sense in anything but a distributed context. The purpose of the Bitcoin blockchain is to define the “right” log of transactions, that everyone agrees is the right log.
2011 Russian Election

Vladimir Putin accuses Hillary Clinton of encouraging Russian protests

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/dec/08/vladimir-putin...
paywall. how to get around it?