skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a thing in Switzerland as well. The waldkrippen are all over the place. It looks like it may be a traditional thing, but I don't know what the history of it really is.

I should also say that at the age of 4 kids are expected to go to kindergarden on their own.
The Elecjet AnyWatt is a great but sketchy USB-C MacBook dongle
It's an example of a principle-agent problem, for one. Generally speaking, members of groups make decisions that are better for them than for the group.
My main feeling about all this is that "let it burn" probably is the only way to deal with the mess. It must have been pretty obvious from quite early on that trying to fight blackhats on level field as a single individual is not sustainable, and the time that he has been buying is in no way enough to employ the major cultural shift needed to improve the landscape. Attempting to suppress the attacks seems just to make people complacent, so it might be better just to let the attacks to do their damage and hope that those spur some improvement.
That wouldn't be relevant; Japan is skewing old, but doesn't have a similar gender imbalance.

Edit: to clarify, I am saying that Japan does not have a gender ratio all that different from other countries - meaning that gender differences shed no light on its crime rates. It's an irrelevant statistic.
> I don't buy that at all. As long as the argument is based on science, there's no reason you can close your ears to other fields of study that could affect your own.

Keeping your mind open to other fields as a researcher doesn't mean, nor is reliant on, having to accommodate casual opinions over dinner.

> Do a search for the Swedish gender equality paradox.

I've read about it, I'm not convinced. If gender equality overall was the main culprit for gender inequality among professions we should see a difference between similar European countries with different levels of equality. According to the figures on the web page of the book popularizing the theory, the UK is far less gender equal than Sweden. Yet, the UK seem to have a lesser percentage of female engineers than Sweden. Just to name one example.

What seem more plausible is that inequality tends to correlate with development. The less time a country has been "developed", the less gender equality there is. But being "developed" recently also mean that you have less cultural baggage.

Sweden is an old engineering culture dating back to at least Alfred Nobel (of Nobel Prize fame). Ericsson was formed in 1876, ASEA in 1883, Volvo in 1927 etc. It also avoided the second world war, when women in other countries "got their break" in technology. And has since the 80s had one of the strongest informal computer cultures in the world. This is obviously quite different from an emerging economy were much of the industry has formed in recent decades.
Why do they send the packages to random people instead of sending them to accomplices or just faking everything and not even sending the package? Is it to avoid fraud detection by the marketplace?
I like to drive around thinking about what it is like to be a driving (human) computer. Every time I touch the brake because I see a kid standing a few feet from the curb and a small dog on the other side of the street is running, I wonder when an electronic computer will understand that the child might dart across the street after the dog.

Of course, I've learned these things from growing up human, but only one computer needs to conquer a driving challenge, maybe driving on a snow hidden road (watch out for barely noticeable ditches on the sides of the road), and then all self-driving cars can do it. It will be interesting to see how long it will take to achieve level 5.
My impression (without any internal knowledge on the subject) is that this was intended as a way to promote Firefox to Mr Robot viewers. A lot of people in this thread seem to have this backwards, IIUC - it's not an ad for Mr Robot, it's the onboarding experience of an ad for Firefox that ran in Mr Robot.

The folks behind this presumably wanted this experience to be seamless, and were also trying to keep it under wraps to preserve the surprise factor. This meant that they bypassed the usual processes by which Firefox engineers would have had the opportunity to (a) raise concerns about the deployment approach, and (b) suggest other mechanisms that would have achieved the desired experience while keeping deployment appropriately scoped.

It's really heartbreaking that it ended up this way. The marketing team was trying to think outside the box to bring new users to Firefox, which is crucial if Quantum is to succeed. Surprises and stealth are the bread and butter of marketing, but they didn't think through the dangers of applying those things to engineering. Moreover, the very nature of surprise and stealth meant that they missed the chance for internal feedback before it went live.

A lot of us inside Mozilla are hurting right now. We poured our lives into Quantum for two years for the long-shot dream of giving Firefox a fresh start and saving the web from monopoly. It's frustrating to feel that all our hard-earned goodwill might be squandered by a few people and a botched marketing stunt. But the people behind that stunt were only trying to help, and I'm sure they feel especially terrible right now too.

Mozilla will learn from this. But the mistakes here are probably less sinister than they may appear, and it would be sad if they caused our most closely-aligned users to switch to Chrome.
How do you quantify the goods and services that come from prisoners? It's not like they're stamped with (made in prison), but more likely would be marketed as (made in US).
I wasn't quoting the article. I was quoting the comment. I thought the comment was relevant to the discussion and wanted to make sure it was highlighted here.
Please do take the time to do a little formatting touch up when pasting. It makes the reading experience better for everyone.
> But I'm curious as to the arguments against all gender bathrooms?

In college, my freshman-year dorm bathroom was unisex. It initially created huge complaints from everyone. The women complained that the toilets were always messy and the men complained that the toilets were always occupied. Those may be stereotypes, but they're also frequently true. We eventually resolved our issues by designating 1 stall as "standing only" and the other 2 as "sitting only" to ensure that men could always pee without a wait and women could always sit without having to clean first.

But that only worked because we could impose those kinds of rules. A public bathroom is a different matter and I'll bet both genders get annoyed with having to share with the other absent those kinds of imposed rules.

Note that this kind of thing can be cultural as well. At my last job, the non-Asian women complained about some of their Asian counterparts' bathroom use. It seems that women who grew up with squat toilets liked to stand on the seats so they could use their preferred squatting technique. This resulted in much the same sort of messes that result from men standing when they pee.
I have to agree. I owned several Sony audio products and listened to many (earbuds, amps and portable players) and they always sounded good for the money. I especially like the way their portable players sound, they seem to have really nice amps.

(Darn, had to create an account to post this comment)
Most do especially at flight control to record incoming planes along with steady snap cams that relay black and white feeds unless O’Hare is somehow less serious than Helsinki airport in 2005
First, taxis exist in more than NYC. Second, what about all the other AutoNation, like automating the jobs of paralegals, and myriad other jobs getting automated, where is the outrage? I don't see it outside affected groups, there is no hashtagrage for all those other sectors being disrupted or flat out shipped overseas. What's so special about bodegas? Why isn't Dominoes ostracized for displaying mom and pop pizza joints?
A quote from the video:

"The lightning hubs will require they be setup for financial regulation and reporting laws. Require massive amounts of liquidity to keep well funded open channels. Offer fraud departments to watch the block chain constantly and prevent theft, all while taking small fees for every transaction you route through them. Does this system sound familiar? Just replace the term 'open channel' with 'checking account'."

Anyone with more intimate understanding of the lightning network agree with these 'requirements' ?
Ask HN: Value in Being a Generalist?
TL;DR: Are generalists valuable? If so, any tips on getting a job?

As for the long of it: I love learning new things. I became an attorney based on a completely delusional assumption that as an attorney I'll have a lifelong career of learning new and novel things, and applying them to my craft. Of course after actually practicing for a few years I realized that a) I hate the law, and b) no one in the professions actually want's you to learn anything new. It's all about specialization and then endless repetition.

For a while after quitting my law practice I worked at a startup where I was basically in charge of operations, coding, writing copy, doing design work, "putting out fires," and generally doing anything we didn't have a dedicated person to do. I loved that. After that company dissolved for various personal and market reasons, I moved to the desert, off the grid, and worked on a bunch of small personal projects for a few years.

Now I am ready to rejoin civilization, and would love to get another "generalist" position, but it's not like there are job listings for that sort of thing. So I guess my question is, is a generalist person valuable in a startup? If so, any recommendations for finding a company to join? Or should I just give up, specialize in something, and go with the flow? :)

Thanks for any recomendations!
With Facebook 'Likes' Alone, Researchers Can Tell Your Race, Gender, etc (2013)
Do not execute the random, obfuscated python code linked to from this paste. This could be bait, and could PWN you. This must be audited first before anyone runs it.
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Ravi Programming Language
There are also stories about adults getting kidnapped 2 blocks from home. People still leave the house.
I was growing up during the 90s. In Russia.

"I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
That's really strange...here in n Boulder we have a lot of flashing pedestrian crosswalks and I'll have never seen a failed light. I suspect the lights should have a lifetime of years and not months.
What success of Signal? I use To in Android for texting but only a small percentage of my contacts are even using it.

However I'm not really convinced Signal is all that secure in the Android ecosystem, and I trust Open Whisper Systems even less than bigger tech companies to not fold under pressure.
Ethereum is pretty flawed actually, it's easily congested when new ICO's launch for example, and some other network issues.

Though, I can't say how this new crypto will handle things, I AM interested in seeing how Nxt/Ardor saga play out. It's much more secure, and stable than btc/ethereum and I think the child chain setup is going to be very popular.
The general media describing a 'problem' doesn't mean it really exists. The media has been slating Google and Facebook for years because journalists are envious and angry that these companies have become so influential in news distribution and monetisation. The most visible cases of this are in Europe where there are constant attempts to pass a "Google tax" on linking to news stories, but the same dynamics are present elsewhere.

I tend to agree with the OP that privacy is a red herring. People do not care about sharing their data with large corporations. The idea that they do is the root cause of much wasted effort and malinvestment in the tech sector. It's a pretty idea but it's false. People will happily provide all sorts of information about themselves to get even quite trivial things for free. Companies that bet on privacy usually end up marginalised and struggling. Companies that bet on free+ads take over the world.

If governments give in to the temptation to "fix" this because of powerful newspaper owners, it will be a sad day for everyone. The silent majority that doesn't actually assign much value to trivia like their purchase history or inbox contents and already have enough bills to pay will have been oppressed by the loud minority that massively over-estimates the value and importance of "private data".
What do you think "PC" means?

Historically, the modern sense came in the last 1980s as a pejorative term the right could use against the left.

You'll note that phrases like "I defend the right of Americans to bear arms" is never considered politically correct, even if said by a politician who utters it to get votes - a right-wing politically correct statement.

PC is a boogie-man term that the right uses whenever the left tries to complain that someone on the right is being racist, sexist, cruel, demeaning, etc.

Complaints of being PC come up when students want to put signs up describing, say, the historical context of slavery and black oppression by people otherwise considered heroes. These are students who want to add context, having their voices shut off, not students trying to limit debate.

I could go on, but what do you think that PC means, in such a way that people who are PC would agree to it? Because I'm "PC", and I agree with matt_the_bass's quote that part of being PC is to reproach people for being a 'd_ck'. I don't see how speaking up limits debate (withing the usual time/place/manner restrictions). I don't agree with Altman's summary that PC is a general "willing[ness] to make accommodations to treat others well."

Regarding "policies, administration ...", etc., I have to know which definition of PC you are using, and if you think that the freedom of speech trumps the freedom of assembly/association.
> There's a clear case to be made that guns should be at least as well regulated as cars.

So I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt because based on what you've posted, that you're not familiar with gun regulation in the U.S because you're from the U.K.

Guns are heavily regulated. You can't walk into a corner store and pick up a handgun. No were never going to allow registration or licensing as a barrier to acquire firearms. That doesn't mean there are no laws in place to prevent unlawful gun possession.

Criminals don't care about laws, it's a fundamental issue that gun control proponents continue to ignore. More gun control only makes life unnecessarily more difficult for law abiding citizens to exercise their rights.
I only got 1 unordered package from china so it probably was not part of that scam... it was worth $10 too...
What does this have to do with technology? Why is this on Hacker News? While it is an interesting story, I don't come to this site to read stuff like this.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. What about board games do you expect to fruitfully from using category theory insights?
He's wasn't trying to contradict me. The things we say can be (and are) both true at the same time. I took the approximate average of a 365 tries binomial of 1%, and he computed the probability distribution function of this same binomial for X=0.
>>> a point when it will be cheaper to pay out when (a relatively few) people die rather than invest in further R & D.

Not before a long time.

A death is really expensive, Americans are trained to sue like crazy, a car accident is a simple case to grasp and attribute to the manufacturer who has a lot of money to pay.
A subtle example would be trashing "flyover" states. There is no intent to debate whether people from Texas are rednecks, but people feel free to say it.

Similarly the Brexit vote revealed alot about people's true characters and beliefs. The vote largely broke down along class lines, working class for Leave, middle class for Remain. And those middle class types, who tirelessly virtue signal about how left-wing they are, when confronted with what the actual Workers really want, are quick to condemn the entire lot as racist mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging morons. Class divisions are never far from the surface in the UK.
Its so underpowered though, other Allwinner SBC vendors already have H2+to H5 boards for cheap (eg: $6.99 for an OrangePi Zero), even an H2+ chip has 4x the cores at a similar clock as the CHIP.
I asked some developers when I was on a tour there and they said yes and no, and that sometimes their 20% work became they're full time work. Not sure what that means exactly.
I don't care how high the standardized test scores are, I would never consider subjecting my children to this oppressive environment. They would probably get kicked out anyway as I strongly feel that respectfully questioning authority is an integral part of any child's education.
Someone I know used to work in one of those places and wasn’t overly happy. It’s a lot of standing around in the cold, there are a lot more risks you have to watch out for, and some kids simply don’t get it and are quickly bored
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I've started using more nutmeg in my cooking thanks to that channel.

Some of his recipes are amazing. Especially since they come from a time where tastes were familiar yet different. It is stepping into an alternate school of Western cousin, different ingredient availability made for different tastes.

Another aspects is a willingness to spend a long time on a single dish, without automation, makes certain types of dishes possible that contemporary home chefs are mostly unwilling to cook. The liberation of female labor from the house changed cuisine in America, as it is slowly doing country by country as equality takes over. One of the wonders of traveling is eating food that took all day to make, home made Pho is a good example of this (though it isn't that labor intensive), as is couscous from scratch.

I actually have a 72hr "bone in bacon" soup that is in a similar vein. However, now that I am married, I don't have the time to prepare it! Spending 3 days tending to a pot isn't something I can justify anymore. It doesn't help that the one European grocery store that carried smoked bone in bacon shut down years back! (An amazing product!)
I read it as burning out is eating yourself. Working too much regardless of the income, regardless of burnout or not is eating yourself.
I don't think much of it: the practice was quite normal until recently when an ombudsman made an interpretation which the parliament apparently had not intended. So the parliament made a specific law about it and the old way is resumed. Overall, I think it is quite okay to try to keep drug dealing out of concerts and such.

Food queues turn up if there is free delivery of food. There was certainly much more poverty (I mean poverty of the "difficulty to make end's meet" kind) in times before the current food queues. But there is no longer a social stigma in picking up food from queues, and similarly the last-resort income support is nowadays increasingly treated as a universal basic income, even if the law wasn't intending it so.

The actual problem is that it is increasingly hard to lift oneself up from (relative) poverty through work because the job market eliminates entry-level jobs.
Women and people of color have no part in Silicon Valley’s favorite myth
"Hack Clubs are high school clubs where students learn to code and build amazing things together." - hackclub.com

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. Finder serves as a way for clubs to discover other clubs in their area and have them hack together.

Finder also helps newly-formed clubs find existing clubs near them, so they can connect to those clubs for support guidance.

If you don't see a Hack Club in your area, be the first to start one! Apply at https://hackclub.com/apply!
What do you mean by "conservatives"?

I've occasionally advocated online policies that were taken from Ronald Reagan or the first President Bush or from their leading cabinet members and advisors and not run into any problems in liberal forums online.

I got banned from /r/republican for advocating such policies.

Conservatism today has been largely taken over by the extreme right. Conservative political leaders thought they could court the extremists like white supremacists, anti-immigration fear mongers, religious bigots, conspiracy theorists, and just plain nutcases and the like for their votes but would be able to keep them under control. They were wrong.
If the outcome of the plea bargain is about what the defendant would expect after conviction on reasonable charges, plea bargaining would be fine. But that's fantasyland.

The problem is the incentives are set up such that the charges will not be reasonable. They can't be reasonable, since the state can't possibly afford to take more than a tiny percentage of cases to trial. Which sets up another incentive - the state must make an example out of people who demand a trial to encourage everyone else to take the plea.
> While it is an interesting story

Hello!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> What to Submit

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
White paper: Optimising data lakes for financial services
Some things I noticed:

1 - There seem to be some electric-powered vehicles, such as the trams at 3'25" and 5'09".

2 - There are no obviously visible homeless or mentally unstable people, though a film of the sidewalks might have been more revealing on this point.

3 - Mutton chop mustaches seem to be popular with portly gentlemen.

4 - The cars have license plates -- 4 digit ones, even. So the number of cars in the US, at least, was probably far less than 10,000.
This is how the forests of California dealt with fires before humans started fighting them.

As humans fought fires, there was a buildup of flammable material in the forests, making each successive fire incrementally worse.
I'm not a people person and keep to myself in public but I will act if I see someone kidnap or harass a minor. Its common decency and I'm sure Americans still have that?
Why would a capitalist care about where the capital comes from? If the terms are favorable, all is good.
My girlfriend and I have our fingerprints on each other's phones and it is super useful.

She can change the music on my phone while driving, look up stuff for me to enter into maps, and do everything else with it.
Learning how to find what you will think are "great books", I think, is more important than the raw number of books. Having people that know you well and are good readers themselves can be a great resource. Also, the ability to abandon a long book after an hour of reading can be difficult for some but quite useful if you find your reading time limited.
Sorry, I meant "an extremely rare situation won't always be handled well by a human either."
(After others here said userContent.css was working for them, I fiddled a bit more. Found an earlier rule in the file that I had somehow mangled and it seems that somehow affected the parsing of the file. Removed the earlier lines, everything works great. So yeah, my fault, not Firefox's.)
Except that I'm not equally ignorant, given that we know the defenses argument, and it's ridiculous.
There's an old saying (IIRC, attributed to Seneca) that luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. I like that way of looking at things because it neither minimizes the work and insight that someone put into their success nor refuses to acknowledge that factors outside their control also contributed.
Open letter to Google DeepMind