skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that a man can come in and start proclaiming he understands statistics, and then take umbrage when people explain to him he doesn't know what he's talking about.

Two gender gaps exist. One is much larger than the other, and popular discourse regularly conflates them. Oh well. That doesn't give you carte blanche to state things that are false.
You get compression at the low end. It’s not especially cost effective to maintain manufacturing capacity for a bunch of similar designs. If I can make better margins on a $5 part than I can my $4.25 part I’m going to be really tempted to shut down that line and make more of the other or a higher margin chip.

That’s part of the story with Linux on BIOS. Motherboards started shipping with EEPROMs that were 2-4x larger than the BIOS would ever get, as big or bigger than typical rescue disks.
> what sorts of positions are likely to have this as a possibility?

all the ones with access to the personal data of millions of people?
> "So my long standing fantasy has been to do a line of mass customization clothing. My thought is this would potentially be a means to leverage technology to provide semi custom clothes at a fraction of the bespoke price."

I have similar dreams. I have some ideas on how to simplify the design of Jacquard looms, which I see as a vehicle to get there, but these ideas are just at the exploratory stage at the moment.

If Jacquard looms are new to you, I can recommend this video introduction:

http://youtu.be/K6NgMNvK52A

Something I think about often is how to roll out tools like this to the mass market in a positive way. I can see some downsides in democratising fashion, but handled right I think it could be an enormous source of joy.
App developers aren't given raw access to the IR camera though.
Legally bound? I don't think so. But most companies consider lying on your resume grounds for immediate termination.
"""Although many markets selling animals in China have already been closed or restricted following outbreaks of SARS and other infectious diseases, Yuen agrees that the latest results suggest the risk is still present. “It reinforces the notion that we should not disturb wildlife habitats and never put wild animals into markets,” says Yuen. Respecting nature, he argues, “is the way to stay away from the harm of emerging infections”."""

This is a totally foreign notion to me, wild animals into the food market, what sort of examples can be found in such markets? Interesting thought to consider wild vs domestic food sources and the tradeoffs between the two. Domestic could have negative consequences too though like farmed fish with bad farming practices vs wild fish.
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I'd argue, but it's more facinating to watch you dig that hole.
This deserves some discussion, but alas, I'm not a linear programming expert.

The article implies that the best solution was brute-force, and therefore they use Genetic Algorithms to search for a "pretty good" solution as opposed to the optimal solution.

Linear Programming on the other hand would find PRECISELY the optimal solution. But there are all kinds of constraints on what kinds of programs Linear Programming can solve.

It seems like this constraint problem can be solved through Linear Programming methods, but I'm not an expert in that algorithm. So maybe Jet.Com is being inefficient here with the algorithm (just a little bit inefficient).
Giving your previous salary was a good way to help them offer you you a higher salary.
"Oh, I see you spent four years in jail for molesting a 7 year old. Oh well, we certainly wouldn't want to discriminate, so please accept this offer to work in our day care"

It's not at all unreasonable to exclude certain people for certain jobs based on their criminal history.
thanks, that was it. I forget i have it most of the time
I never suggested it didn't. Only that it was capable of change.
For what it's worth, I was recently able to recover some Apple IIe/Mac 800K floppies for a relative using a KryoFlux board [1] and a regular PC floppy drive. I was glad to have that option, since I sure don't have any vintage Apple 800K drives lying around!

[1] https://www.kryoflux.com/
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Does your wife have a solution for convincing relatives to stop buying tons of electronic toys that light up and buzz for Christmas and birthdays?
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Doesn't mean tabula rasa. The news is filled with actors and politicians whose careers are in shambles due to past abusive behavior.
Yeah, I think both laws are right steps in the right directions. But I don't know if they are big steps.

The hope is by the time a company has invested enough to make a conditional offer that they are more willing to forgive a conviction history.
> Why more women in a forum where apparently not many women want to participate is getting better?

s/is/would be
I think the point is to encourage companies to go through the initial assessment of a potential employee in the hopes that they will find the candidate to be the best option, and then have to actively choose not to employ the person because of a prior conviction. In addition, they will have to evaluate (and it sounds like document) whether they feel the conviction would impact the candidate's ability to perform that specific job for that specific company.

Today, many employers have a blanket "no convicts" check-box on their application forms. This makes it very hard for convicts to find work.

Yes, many companies will continue to have this practice, and some for very good reason, but this creates the potential for a little more sanity to be applied.
Getting minute, subpixel movements can ironically give you MORE resolution if you process it over time, though you'd probably need some sort of "anchor" points
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San Francisco advances toward launching a public bank
"Recently, I was following a thread on Facebook in which several men were debating the reasons for why it seems that men and women are drifting apart. "

politics. politics put a strong divide between white and black in the US. "vote for me, all your problems are because of white people, white privilege" etc. it drove both groups away from eachother like water and oil.

then that shifted between men and women, and I knew immediately what the outcome would be.
The rules ask one post per company. You posted at least four.
It sounds like what the author really needs is a chatroom.
I choose now to live as a corporation.
It also doesn't appear to be checking if a goal has already been set as failed, so someone could fail their goal repeatedly and drain the contract of all its funds.
>>will just encourage more people to lie about prior convictions

What is the point in lying about conviction? All convictions from every location are recorded into central databases run by companies like Lexis Nexus, so unless the employer is not using any kind of quality back ground check service lying is pointless as your criminal history is about 2 clicks away on a keyboard.
Yes, that is sort of the point of the EU. Whatever I wanted though, the vote has already happened, and the leavers won. We'll all be seeing what happens to the UK as a result.
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I wonder if this applies to services that connect workers with employers (e.g. caregivers, etc.) and premptively do background checks. People have been unconditionally blocked from those over things like tiny mariajuana possession charges that are years old (and in a state where such a charge wouldn't even be filed now).
what does embed python interpreter mean? are they actually writing a python interpreter using rust so they can write python code and compile to rust?
> without discriminating against the 100 million Americans with a criminal conviction

Word "discrimination" has a negative meaning that's not
always true. Wouldn't you discriminate against 200 millions Americans who can't write FizzBuzz when interviewing for coding position?
Sunk costs are sunk. A truly competitive market wants you to operate at the marginal cost of production.

The only way to recover R&D costs is through protected IP, with my personal preference being brands and trademarks.

Fashion is not protected. That's why it changes so quickly. If you can't come up with new and appealing designs every day, you will die in that industry, because the knock-off copies are being made the day after they ship, at the latest. If you have a valuable brand and poor security practices, there might be copies on the market from the day after your design reaches the factory. But the legal knock-offs will not have your brand labels in them.

The problem is trademark infringement. It isn't copies, but counterfeits. Here's the money quote from the article:

"Detecting and combating counterfeiters is not easy," said Monks. "Many are operating out of countries where prosecution may be impossible, and that gives them the confidence to flaunt their products on image-driven social platforms such as Instagram. Taking action against their accounts is digital whack-a-mole; the counterfeiter generally has dozens more accounts already created and ready to activate in order to avoid disruption to their trade."

So... caveat emptor. Without a global convention on trademark protection that heavily punishes incoming trade from non-member nations, the burden is on suppliers to devise anti-counterfeiting measures that allow consumers to determine at the point of sale whether a product is genuine or not.
I think a lot of people here are missing the psychological effects of the nuclear family because of a focus on housing or community.

I think she's right to point at the nuclear family, because of what it is: self-sufficient. Income, forming a household, reproducing the structure in the next generation, it's all there. You don't need other people. And when you don't need other people, it's easier to go it alone. It's easier for other people to go it alone. You don't have your friends help you move, instead you hire movers. You don't cook together, at best you host, and then as we dive into modernity we neither host nor cook. We hire people to watch the kids. We don't want to burden other people. We don't actually NEED help, so we don't ask for help. We'll finish it all off by hiring people to watch us die.

I see some wisdom in the conservative critique that the state should not replace family, should not replace mutual support, that needing each other is a gift for both the person who needs and the person provides help. But it's not government per se, it's the professionalization of support.

It's small, but I have extended family that shares carpooling for the kids. We need to talk about schedules, and sometimes we resent each other, and we take over for each other when someone is sick, and it can be annoying, but I see all these kids regularly, and we can't fall out of contact.

I SHOULD invite people over for dinner, except also have them help me prepare for dinner, maybe even clean for dinner. I personally would not be offended to myself receive such an invitation. But I don't do it. It would pierce the facade on our nuclear family, and my wife is not comfortable with compromising that facade. (Being a man I don't place any self-worth in my housekeeping, and so it is admittedly easier for me to expose any failings.)
It's a fully intentional loophole. You can still ban convicted criminals from employment. The law is trying to make sure that you do so after meeting the person, interviewing them, and convincing yourself that you want to hire them. Then you're free to withdraw the offer if the criminal history changes your mind.
I wouldn't even have waited. I will just walk away myself, the kid will follow and if he/she doesn't I will observe from a distance.

Question: how do you handle other types of bad behavior, like when your kids are running around in a tightly packed shop?
Story time!

A friend of a friend got an offer from CHG healthcare. She checked Glassdoor and found her pay to be at the lower end of the position. She countered with a number near the higher end. Instead of negotiating, CHG Healthcare rescinded her offer. And that's how you perpetuate the wage gap!
Germany is giving financial assistance to refugees that return home voluntarily
No, the nuclear family is not the reason we're all miserable, but if the nuclear family is your sole outlet for community then it may well be.

I've recently realized that my wife and I are very much people who want a "village" for lack of a better word. A wide circle of friends whose lives we regularly move through as they move through ours and is in close geographic area. It takes effort and time, especially with peoples busy schedules. It means that we do things like host a Halloween potluck on our front lawn for the neighborhood before we were off to trick-or-treat with the kids, that we speak to our neighbors when we're on walks and know their dogs names, making some encouragement signs for the elementary schools 5k run that passed in front of our house, and dozens of other things.

We've made our home in an area that facilitates this, with a little "downtown" area with a pharmacy, a neighborhood bar, and a few restaurants within walking distance an easy 15 minute commute from city center. We can't go anywhere on the weekend without seeing and talking to someone we know or being introduced to someone we don't. And as a bit of an introvert I don't always enjoy every interaction, but I do crave it for my family. I don't get into playing with kids much and their volume is at time stressful, but I love seeing mine run around with friends on long summer evenings and being so excited to see them when we're out running errands and how my wife enjoys being able to catch up with our friends for a shared dinner around our table or theirs on a week night.

It also means that there is some amount of shared responsibility for each other, which means things like being offered a generator when our power was out for a couple of days thanks to this seasons hurricanes. It means an extra set of hands for whatever tasks is usually no further than a text message way. It means that our homes are full of condolences and offerings of food/child care when there is a serious sickness or death in the family.

It takes a lot of work, and the stay at home parents (mostly women and maybe as much as a quarter or so of the families in our group) all put a lot of effort in facilitating these kinds of relationships, reinforcing those connections on a daily and weekly basis that the whole profits from. Its not for everyone, but for people like the OP finding a community like this can go well past solving any sense of isolation.
San Antonio. I have a home there. The mortgage is 800 and I rent it or for 1500. There are several military bases around, so there are always people looking for temporary housing.

https://us.teamblind.com/article/where-is-a-good-place-to-bu...
I have no problem with surveillance if it stops crime. Private surveillance cameras are already pretty much everywhere and no one seems to mind. My ideal form of surveillance would be passive though. The data would be recorded, but no human would have access to it without something like a search warrant. And everything would be deleted after a week. Just like with private surveillance cameras.
Sure, but if you wanted to exclude prisons, you could exclude anyone with a multi-year gap.

Would you hit some people that didn't go to prison? Sure. But it seems a close enough filter to discriminate on...
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> To be fair I was shocked when visiting the US how bad many Americans are at formulating themselves on paper.

The thing about English is that it's such a clusterfuck; slang, contractions, and "incorrect" grammar are hard to criticize when the language is already such a mess. Partly in jest, I liken it to a linguistic Broken Windows Theory[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
> Salary history may be discussed if an applicant “voluntarily and without prompting” discloses salary history to a potential employer.

People who believe they're highly paid might find it advantageous to disclose that: they'd avoid an accidental lowball, companies that can't afford them, etc. So there should be three types of people: (1) those who disclose and are highly paid, (2) those who disclose and think they're highly paid but aren't, and (3) those who don't disclose.

If being in group 1 is advantageous, then not disclosing (group 3) could be taken as a signal that the person thinks their salary is low and doesn't want to be anchored--but isn't that the information this law is supposed to be hiding? Even though they haven't named a price, it's still a signal that they might accept an offer under market.

On the other hand, that makes it harder for employers to calculate an offer that's more than they're making but still under market. And the gap should shrink with every job change, in theory.

Is there any data (maybe from other states) on how the game theory shakes out here?

Edit: another provision makes it more complicated.

> (c) An employer, upon reasonable request, shall provide the pay scale for a position to an applicant applying for employment.
One of the key factors in the Scottish referendum was EU membership, with Spain having said the would veto Scottish membership. The EU referendum leaves many here feeling cheated
This is not just limited to watches, of course. I'm an avid collector of headphones. One of my favorite legendary headphones is the Sony MDR V6 [1]. I made about 3 purchases before I could get my hands on a real one. Even some popular retailers sell fakes unknowingly. The fakes are so good that most of the time you wouldn't even know [2]. And they only keep improving.

There was once I spotted a fake in a Sony showroom in Asia and even they were blown away when I pointed out the differences. Thankfully, they took it off the shelf.

It's a really, really a sad thing in the collector's world.

China of course, is where most fakes are made, and you'd be surprised how many fakes are out there on Alibaba, despite Jack Ma claiming otherwise. This is their bread and butter. With all that said, I think it's perhaps a cultural issue, as everything they possess is a clone of something:

Baidu = Google

Weibo = Twitter

Youtube = Youku

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Even their high speed rails were a brutal rip off of the Japanese trains [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_MDR-V6

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiGoyNbVDvI

[3] http://fortune.com/2013/04/15/did-china-steal-japans-high-sp...
I think Iron Dome has a high success rate due to the type of missile. Mostly 80mm unguided 'Katyusha' and 122mm 'Qassam' unguided rockets, which are destroyed by multiple interceptor missiles with proximity fuzed explosive warheads.

I was in Tel Aviv in 2012, when larger Fajr-5 330mm rockets were fired at the city and I saw several of them being successfully intercepted, a few thousand meters out from their targets. Sadly there was one rocket that hit Tel Aviv, killing several people, and another 'failure' of sorts when debris from an intercepted Fajr-5 landed in a Tel Aviv street, however the warhead did not explode and it was simply falling at terminal velocity... Iron Dome also has an interesting optimisation mode where it tracks the impact point and will not waste a salvo against the incoming threat if it will land somewhere harmless like the sea or open countryside.
Most likely yes, if the employer has employee's in the state, they have a legal nexus thus must follow that states laws
His post was obviously sarcasm.
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We ban accounts that take HN into this kind of flamewar, especially when their comments are trollish.

Since you've been doing this a ton, I've banned your account. If you don't want to be banned on HN, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and promise to follow the rules in the future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I appreciate this response, thanks.

Our disconnect may boil down to this: in my view, WhatsApp's features are, in hindsight, obvious, simple, and easy to implement by any competitor. The advantage (and value) in WA is in the already grown network, the familiar marketplace network effect growing out of that.

Facebook acquired WA for the network of users, not the messaging features. It could easily and more cheaply have fielded an identical app with the same or superior features. It didn't, though, because it wanted to not leave a competitor in the marketplace.

Thus the judgement that it was $19B of mis-allocated capital from a larger viewpoint. We apparently disagree on this point.

On the other hand, working fusion power technology would be hugely consequential for most of the human race, especially in places like Africa that are so energy-needy at this point in their development.
I use *s surrounding, just like here. Outlook automatically bolds it, but they're still present for unformatted views.
It's amazing we need to explicitly say this. This should be obvious, yet by many comments you wouldn't realize it.
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And to develop their own new "fingerprints" and "big data" bases about who "owns the eyeballs".
Stay-at-home parent discovers she doesn't like being a stay-at-home parent. Concludes society must be to blame.

Yawn.
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I don't think it's pointless.

When your job is "representing" a group of people, you'll take notice when a pile of those people disagree with what you are doing.

We can't break the camel's back if we don't add straw.
Do you have an actual legal reference for this?

If you ask me what my favorite food is and I say Fish (when it is really Pizza), I did not commit fraud.

If I testify before a court and lie, I commit a specific offense (perjury).

It is not actually clear to me what lying on a CV is in the United States. It may actually depend if you are applying to a government agency vs McDonalds....
I highly encourage reading Sex at Dawn [1]. It's an amazing paradigm-shifter regarding human sexuality.

In a nutshell, it (convincingly, IMHO) argues that the modern story society tells itself about mating and family is dead wrong, and that we as a species are wired for communal (or rather tribal) mating. It's a deep rabbithole. It's also available in audiobook form, if you prefer.

You can get the gist of the argument from wikipedia [1] and a TED talk one of the authors gave [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_at_Dawn

[2] https://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_ryan_are_we_designed_t...
No! Multi-tasking should start in the crib. How else is your bundle of joy going to get into Harvard?
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