skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure about the UK, but here in North America, students attending post-secondary schools are predominantly female. The opposite was true a generation ago. Doctors and lawyers typically require a post-secondary degree. Could it be that the rise of women practicing as doctors and lawyers is a result of men not being able to, rather than more women taking interest in the profession?

What's interesting to me is that male dominated fields tend to be those that are a free-for-all, that require no special credentials or vetting. This is not limited to tech, but seen across a wide variety of industries. Does this simply mean that men are more likely to be found in these careers because those are the jobs they are able to do?

In a perfectly free market, where anyone was free to do whatever job they wanted, perhaps we would see an even distribution of genders? But in this very non-free labour marketplace we have, with many artificial barriers to entry, perhaps that is what has lead to this disparity not only in the careers with those barriers, but also those without, rather than any specific gender having a preference for certain types of work?
Would the analogy to gold IOUs then be the Lightning Network?
Patreon does enough volume to qualify for discounts - their Stripe rate is 1.9%, not 2.9%. (This used to be on https://patreon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/204606125-How-..., but it's gone now.)
Not true. Done this. Never have been found.
So more or less dynamic dispatch then?
Exactly. I could have used more positive phrasing: "they have an opportunity to demonstrate sincerity by taking substantive action to correct their decision making process," but I missed that opportunity.
More and more it is not only your suppliers that are in China/Asia but also your customers.
It has always costed money to to spend money and there are pros and cons to each method. All that stuff isn't free even if it isn't directly measurable most of the time.

Cash costs money too--you have to count it, handle it, deposit it, protect it from theft, verify it's authenticity, make sure you have enough change, spend time counting change, etc. As a consumer, if a merchant fucks you over you have little recourse besides suing. Cash takes no time to clear so you can spend it right after getting it, it is anonymous, it is hard to trace so you can skip on taxes, etc.

Checks can bounce, you have to deposit them, they take time to clear, they take forever to write, they can be fake, etc. However, it is hard for your cashiers to skim off the top, it uses exact amounts so no change to keep, it is a single slip of paper to carry around instead of a pocket of paper currency, as a consumer you can stop payment on a check if the merchant fucks you over, etc...

Credit cards are super quick to use at the register. They don't require any change (unless handing cash back). As a consumer, if a merchant fucks you over you can issue a chargeback. It is easy to track your spending as a consumer because all transactions are recorded electronically. As a merchant you don't have to handle change or cash, your cashiers can't easily skim off the top, etc...

It's all trade offs and I'll bet if you did an NPV on all the different methods taking into consideration all their pros and cons, they'd all wind up "costing" similar amounts.
It costs money because there are significant fixed and incremental costs to handle it: Fixed because of the labor and value of the technology, and incremental because of fraud. Much of the incremental cost is fraud insurance.
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Ya, they can always open up a few R&D centers in say china, or finance a non-American acquisition using overseas money. Microsoft has done this well (MS china, as well as a Skype and Nokia).
Define "applied." Researchers in economics and political science use it to understand all kinds of things, does that account? The Rand Corporation probably had an influence on real-world military policy during the cold war with it...
I am saying that substantive action is the criterion upon which to base your judgment of their contrition, not their words.
I agree. But working at a huge company I can honestly say they don't really want an immutable ledger. They want to fudge and change things.
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In your opinion what are the most important skills for young children to develop?

How would you go about teaching these?
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I think you meant:

> Apply to get started
I got so fed up with this that I quit my job a few months ago to work on this issue [1]. I've researched it quite a bit and have written about that (which I've been linking to where relevant in the comments here), and I'm gearing up to launch a non-profit to combat this in January. If you're interested, you can leave your email address at https://tinyletter.com/Flockademic

(And of course, any questions and remarks are welcome!)

[1] https://medium.com/flockademic/dear-scientists-help-me-help-...
I saw some tests, but WASM edge cases can get pretty complicated (especially around post-unreachable stack validation logic). I suggest "git-submoduling" the stuff from "core" at https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/tree/master/test. This is a pretty good test suite for both your parser and your interpreter and doesn't require too much work on the part of a harness to support.
"Hand-crafted" body welding is VERY different from hand-crafting a truck-sized battery pack that contains thousands of small cylindrical cells.

The Tesla battery design has used automated cell welding for many years now.
Or is it both?
They couldn't even do it with physical mail. You're paying the government every time you send a letter for the cost of that postage stamp. And the postal service in the US is pretty much constantly under-funded.

What makes you think we could do it digitally?
I am also not exactly sure what makes an apology from a company that much different than an apology from an individual; in both cases, they could either be sincere or lying, and there is no real way to tell from the words alone.

Individuals lie, just like companies do. The rate of lying might be different, but that doesn't really change much.
Wow, that's unfortunate. Are you sure no clients on your network aren't configured to use Google dns servers?
Vendors like WhiteOps, Integral Ad Science, Moat, Forensiq, DoubleVerify, etc. that are used to see if visitors to a website viewing the ads are actually people during normal browsing or whether they are bots or other fraudulent behavior.

None of them work well.
Not the whole 30%, they will get a credit for taxes paid overseas, though because different tax systems don’t match up very well, double taxation is inevitable without a decent treaty in place.
Patreon's docs until recently noted that they get charged 1.9% by Stripe, so there's more than $0.05 being skimmed there.
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> And of course electric vehicles avoid this tax entirely.

That's hardly true, most states have enacted an EV tax on registration that covers the same wear and tear from the gas tax.

When I last ran the numbers I paid more for the EV tax(which I'm happy to do in order to pay my fair share) then I did in gas.
So, it's actually largely kept, denominated in USDs, in US banks -- quite a lot of it in US Treasury bonds. So they can finance investment in US companies with it pretty easily right now.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-apple-profits/

Offshore has to do with ownership, not custody, currency, and obviously not control.
minus their likely bargain with Stripe. I doubt they pay as much as a small customer.
This thread reminds me that even on HN most comments on the internet are from people with very little understanding. I expected the "bubble", "tulip", "no value" arguments to come from the chicken littles on Forbes.

If you think Bitcoin is overvalued, fine. Pour yourself a stiff drink and accept some people might lose some money.

The sort of emotional hyperbole on here about "cryptocurrencies need to be banned by the loving, paternal, incorruptible government to save the world from ourselves" is not just getting old, its absurd.

Having a censorship-resistant, globally-accepted asset would grant an unparalleled financial opportunity. Even if Bitcoin falls short in practice – it’s closer to the mark than any non-crypto asset.

Being able to send money around the world with real-time market-based fees that are often lower than many alternatives is useful. Having a place to park value when banking is not available is also useful. The list goes on…

Do you trust the government and the financial institutions that much that you're willing to hand them back the reigns of your financial future?
It doesn't sound like you're talking about the same thing. Dan Luu's idea sounded more about adding coverage guidance to QuickCheck, which presently lacks it, not using fuzzing-like mutators.
This is incorrect, nobody was forced to land. He had a stopover in Russia (as he was flying Aeroflot).

Passport was not revoked mid-flight. It was supposed to be handled earlier, but it looks like a clerical error caused issues:

> Though the U.S. maintains it provided all the necessary facts, on Tuesday Hong Kong Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen told reporters that there was a discrepancy between U.S. and Hong Kong records over Snowden’s full name and that his department never received Snowden’s passport number, which it had requested.

(http://world.time.com/2013/06/25/snowdens-hong-kong-escape-w...)
Or maybe you got lucky. Not saying you did, but how would you tell the difference?
From what I understand, Game Theory is used in "mechanism design", or basically the design of auctions for things like the FCC spectrum auctions, or how facebook / google auction off ad slots.

Not a mathematician so I don't have any great references, but a couple bits in the press about it:

http://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2015/10/20/application-of-...

https://www.wired.com/2015/09/facebook-doesnt-make-much-mone...
Yet it describes the blockchain. It talks about blocks, it refers to them in a chain. While true that the word block-chain doesn’t exist, it isn’t relevant to OP’s point (since the paper clearly defines the blockchain concept now used so prevelantly).
This may sound like Ubuntu LTS, but in reality it's a guarantee of consistency mainly (also doesn't hurt that it's essentially jobs guarantee for the Congresscritter who has jurisdiction).

Governments don't necessarily want things to be as cheap as possible but do require consistent pricing and parts availability.

In no way does it guarantee "easily or cheaply serviceable" and hybridizing or electrifying the fleet would almost certainly make it cheaper to maintain it by any calculation.
I would, I in no way want to give that kind of power to government.

I would 100% opposes to a government run digital payment system, the government is too closing integrated to todays electronic systems as it is, I in no way want them to own and directly control it
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Have you worked with Microsoft China? There’s a serious quality and copyright issue with everything they produce.
https://engineered.at

Feed Aggregator with HN/Reddit style front end. Haven't put much time into it since deploying 6 months ago, hoping to do some work over the holidays. Next step is summaries/excerpts from each post, and automated hash tagging using some simple machine learning.
Where the people in charge of this decision replaced, retrained, or otherwise required to alter their behavior?
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On number 2, there's no need to "pull" the cash from overseas because the 14% is a deemed tax rate, i.e you have no choice in the matter. Going forward it changes to a territorial system so the US won't be taxing international profits.

Apple will likely still issue debt because they can take on a lot more leverage given their cash flow and interest payments will still be deductible up to 30% of EBITDA or EBIT (depending on whether the House or Senate wins out on that) so it will still lower their cost of capital.

This does give them more flexibility on financing decisions and it will increase GAAP profit because Apple has been conservative and has been booking deferred taxes until now.
Cool idea! I'd allow more options to customize - I didn't feel that the emoji accurately looked like me and wouldn't feel comfortable sending this to people. However some slight tweaks (manually changing the hair color, beard style, etc) would go a long way to giving me a sense of ownership over the emoji.
Exactly that, you can do secure financial transaction without the modern financial system. I would say that's incredibly valuable, and the vast majority of people who don't have equal access to the modern financial system would probably agree.
You're assuming that Patreon will issue all of those charges at once.

However, they talk about that problem in the article. What if a Patreon supporter pledges/makes a subscription on Day 1, then another on Day 2, and a third on Day 3, and so on?

In their original blog post [1], they spoke about how, ideally, they'd issue each of those charges to the supporter immediately; and then begin recurring billing 30 days later after that date. However, if those charges are made on different days, and the anniversaries occur on different days going forward, then they don't have the opportunity to condense them into a single transaction.

Patreon are looking for a solution where someone can create a subscription, be billed for it immediately (i.e. not wait for beginning of next month), and then continue from there with recurring monthly payments. With a naive system each subscription would have its own cadence, preventing transaction consolidation. They also talk about how, if they have a standard monthly billing period, then there are issues with waiting until the next period to make the first charge.

Perhaps they didn't explain this as well as they could have, but it made sense to me. It seems like a "Patreon Wallet" could indeed be a solution to a lot of these problems. Refill your wallet with a single large transaction, then draw funds from it when pledging to support creators.

[1] https://blog.patreon.com/updating-patreons-fee-structure/
I suppose maybe it depends on the organization. I’ve worked at companies that do want an immutable ledger. But probably not have it be public.
Binge on violated the letter of the law but not the spirit. No money changed hands and any legal video or audio content provider could be zero rated if they followed the guidelines. They didn't advertise it, but there was even a porn site that was zero rated.

If a new entrant came in, they would have been on a level playing field.
You can definitely blame Elsevier. Have at it.
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>For all their posturing, Russia just lacks the means to be as dangerous as the US is.

Probably the best one line summary of Russia one can make.
"Any profit comes from the efforts of a promoter or third party" this part.

As long as profit depends on someone else's work. (this third party is not other investors, or market appreciation, this is direct promotion or work)
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What about their message indicates that they won't repeat the same mistake in one year's time?
It's more than that. It's about socializing too. Now on breaks most kids just look into their phones, they don't teach themselves how to make social relations, how to communicate face to face with other members of society and how to coexist in group. This creates pathology which makes those kids socially handicapped in their future life.
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It's become clear that the Internet as we know it was too vulnerable in its current configuration. We need the Internet 2.0 that is designed to be neutral from the ground up.

No one has solved the last mile problem because everyone was content to pay the ISPs and now look what's happened.

We need alternatives and we need them fast.
It's good. Sounds bad, but it is good.
Ask HN: SaaS customer wants to own product?
A user posted on a forum asking for recommendations for a SaaS product that did not exist. She is an independent contractor and wanted to use such a product as an “add-on” to contract projects she does for her clients, to make more $

I emailed her, and then built a demo (she is not technical). She liked what she saw, we agreed to a joint test pilot next week.

She wants:
to “own the branding”, i.e. the product to be named / trademarked “[insert her company’s name] tool”
compensate me by “passing-through” revenue from her clients to me, if her clients ends up using the product as an add-on
me to continuously maintain the product and add features based on her clients’ feature requests
She does not want:
to outright buy all the software via a software contract, because she does not have the technical background (nor time, because she has her own business) to operate the software herself
me to sell the product to her competitors i.e. other contractors like her

I feel stuck, because
she has years of industry relationships with other big potential clients for the product,
but she wants to “own” the product without “buying” or “maintaining” it

Is affiliates-private-branding possible, where she re-sells a SaaS under her own brand? What would you do?
There's definitely an age where unsupervised access to the internet is bad. Not even talking about porn, but bullying, gore, pedophiles, etc...

What is that age? I don't know.
Maybe, but if you poke around Graphtreon for a while and just look at the dropoffs in terms of patron counts and revenue from the time of the announcement until today, they're noticeable but they're not "OMG our world is on fire." (It's useful to click "Start on Zero" when that option is there, so you have a better visual representation of the actual drop.) Patreon could certainly have afforded to wait and see what happened after the change rolled out.

This is certainly a business decision, but image is part of their business, and part of their image is, ostensibly, listening to creators.
Considering that all major [evergreen] browsers support it, what are the use cases for something like this?
Adding support to IE?
A starting point for polyfilling future versions of WASM?
A problem easily solved by requiring tolls on Interstates. Most states already operate scales. I don't see why this is hard. Next.
Here's an article on this that cites the same University of Illinois professor that the New Scientist article mentions in the couple of paragraphs outside its paywall:

https://babalublog.com/2017/12/13/sonic-attack-update-microw...

Here is the Daily Mail article that one quotes:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5174763/Myste...
Excellent apology. They are in a tough position.
What is the technical explanation of the invisible window mentioned? Do all browsers allow it? Will an ad blocker stop it?

"A user often has no idea this is happening in the background, and in some cases porn sites load the pop-under as an invisible window that can’t be seen."
Yeah this is the bit nobody seems to realise - the money isn’t outside the US at all. There’s an in-house ‘hedge fund’ managing it all in Delaware.

Edit: Reno
I'm currently a TA in a basic game theory for MSc students at a technical university. For the basic theoretical concepts we use as a course book Leyton-Brown & Shoham (2008) Essentials of Game Theory: A Concise, Multidisciplinary Introduction. This book is great because it is short and to the point, precise without diving deep into everything. Introduces most important concepts in less than 100 pages.
Just to add: A bit more about the type of auction design facebook was using at the time the article was written.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey%E2%80%93Clarke%E2%80%9...
Right. Encryption in transit within a building at line rate (and more importantly low latency) is hard. To my knowledge, none of the providers do this currently, otherwise they'd be talking about it. This is us saying it's time to talk about it :).

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
> They make the code harder to properly understand, because it's not readily apparent what will execute on the database. Some expressions will compile to SQL, some will execute in code, and some will execute in code and also force a bunch of other stuff that might have been compilable to SQL to execute in code instead.

I find statements like this statement are the crux differentiator of whether or not you find IQueryable<T> to be a useful abstraction or not. If you think LINQ is some unfathomable black box that magically, and with little observable difference, spits out SQL and/or executes code then of course you are going to have a bad time.

In my time doing LINQ performance work, I've had some ideas on how to make the tooling better (ToList() considered harmful, there could be stronger highlighting of "monad transitions" especially IQueryable<T> to (accidental) IEnumerable<T> and/or (intentional and mistaken) IList<T>), but all the information is already there in the tooling for the most part. It's not a black box, you can query a lot of information with tooltips alone.

LINQ really shines in places where you've got one "query" that runs on multiple databases and multiple types of databases, with no code change but a connection string or three.

Those transitions between monads can be a headache to an inexperienced developer and a delightful tool in experienced hands. There is a huge benefit that the "same query" can run on database with IQueryable<T> and also in memory with IEnumerable<T>, are interesting ways to take advantage of that, reusing code that can work both with fresh data directly on the database and with cached data already in memory as if it were the same data. There are amazing strengths to that abstraction.

There is also no doubt that it all has a steep learning curve.
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There is no watcher: threads get parked by the kernel as "not runnable" while they perform the I/O operation.

When the operation is finished, then they become runnable again so the kernel scheduler runs them--that is, it runs the code that comes after the I/O operation.

This code (from libuv) notifies the requester that the operation is complete.
Do browsers that support WASM support reading the text format?

If not, this could be useful to write WASM directly.

In the article, the links under "The parsing is available for the following formats:" are broken. Does anybody know where they should point to?

As soon as it is possible to write WASM directly and have it execute it by the browser, I would start trying it out. I hope somebody will come up with a better textual representation then the currently proposed one with all the parenthesis.
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Well according to wikipedia it means knowledge independent of experience not "dependent on logic". In this sense it is similar to saying that something is axiomatic. Besides I'm not at all sure there is a difference between knowledge gained from logic or from experience: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xO3Gw0zlmWM
This is really great! Being able to deploy without installing anything + having the pricing set per API call is exactly what I've been needing.