skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe one day people are going to learn to not treat "the other" as a homogenous invariant being. Your comment blindly factors out for example the possibility that the social class the science and tech folk originate from is different from a more ample and lower class suffering more gender-related inequalities which when factored in skews the picture dramatically. Many of the regions you refer have largely multifaceted and mostly multi-ethnical demograpic structures.
Sadly I find that most of the "products" posted are extremely shallow and meta.
If you find it exploitative, you are free to create and use your own crypto instrument without these properties that you take offense to. All of the code is available for you to modify as you see fit, as it is open source. If you believe it has value, all you need to do is to convince others of the superior nature of your implementation, and surely they will adopt your solution for their crypto needs.
Point is, they are pretending they are pro-net neutrality, while in essence they are completely against it. It's their usual smokescreen tactic, to fool those who would fall for such weasel talk.

Saying they are fine with NN regulation, but only when it's actually not doing anything to protect NN, is fallacy.

So let's be clear - they are simply lying through their teeth.
There's a couple of other problems there too - the "manufacturer" is often some unknown and unfindable usually Chinese contract electronics assembly firm, who had little to do with the design or software. The company who contracted them to do it often no longer exists a few years down the track. The place it gets sold can easily be somewhere like Ebay, AliExpress, or Kickstarter - where the vendor really isn't going to care once your payment has cleared.

(Source: I was the platform security guy for an IoT startup in 2013/14, for a company who no longer exists and who's only product run is still out there somewhere no longer getting security updates...)
This is pretty much spot-on. Almost all of the 'value' that Bitcoin currently has is hype and insane over-inflation. I weep for those that won't be able to cash out on the exchanges when the price crashes, and they lose all their money.
This guy knows he's in trouble for what he's done and decides to rewrite history to make himself out to be a "good criminal". Re-framed bragging about his criminal exploits and hilarious (in his mind) escapes from detection ensue.

Frame it as ISP "conditioning" or as "criminal attack", fact of the matter is he committed crimes and now he's feeling the heat so he's putting out re-framed confessions to get the jump on his accusers and try to save his skin.

Then again, people can be more complicated than I give them credit for, and he might actually be a good hacker. It has happened before. I don't know. Let the investigators find out the truth. We have no reason to trust him.
Which is a shame, because even though it makes sense, I am not sure it is true because it isn't debated.
That sounds similar to the plot for The Day the Earth Stood Still (in particular the original 1951 version), except that it wasn't a secret message.

I seem to remember reading a story that was more similar to what you were describing, but can't remember the name or much about it.
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Read the chapter “Economic Outpatient Care” in Thomas Stanley’s The Millionaire Next Door to learn how poorly on average American millionaires pass to their children the skills necessary to build wealth.
The bigger point here is that if you have people self select and report visual illusions it would be amazing if you didn't hear about something inexplicable.

So all this stuff about UFO sightings means about zero.
How does the stock market go up? In a straight line? No, it moves up and down, but mostly up. That's why index funds are better, no?

How do we move forward? Do we go straight ahead? Well, dictatorship is always moving straight ahead, because they can easily define what is progressive and what is regressive, by looking at the dictator. If progressiveness and regressiveness is so easy to define, what do we even need democracy for? Let's just find the most progressive person and appoint him our president/prime minister/chariman/king/chieftain, and let him lead us forward.
You can say it as much as you want. That won't make you any less wrong, of course.
Then you would ignore 98% of the territory of the Republic of Maldives.
I'm a tweetotaller. Perhaps one of you twitterers can take it up.
There can be few things HN users would like worse than being interrogated.
How then is it possible that some four in five American millionaires inherited no more than ten thousand dollars, according to The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley?
ECOS Spark Integration
ECOS is a solver for second order conic programs and we showed the Spark integration at 2014 Spark Summit https://spark-summit.org/2014/quadratic-programing-solver-for-non-negative-matrix-factorization/. Right now the examples show how to reformulate matrix factorization as a SOCP and solve each alternating steps with ECOS:

https://github.com/embotech/ecos-java-scala

For distributed optimization, I expect it will be useful where for each primary row key (sensor, car, robot :-) we are fitting a constrained quadratic / cone program.

Please try it out and let me know the feedbacks.
> You keep doing this in all the arguments you have in this thread: you ask a question, and then when you get a response you reframe the question. You are being either dishonest or a zealot.

Or maybe I'm trying to consider the whole context of a nuanced and complex topic before reaching a conclusion. Dishonest, idiot me for not taking every discrete input as an absolute determinant in order to keep the argument "simple" for your benefit.

> Also Damore's argument is that google is propping the numbers in a way akin to quotas, by jigging the selection process.

Damore does not provide proof of anything like that happening. His biggest gripe is that Google is proactively reaching out to minority groups in order to try to get more candidates from that pool. He also mentions a "high priority queue for diversity hires", but I haven't found any evidence of that and he doesn't provide any.

> (Well, I heard people say that, i haven't read the essay).

So, let me get this straight: you are criticizing my analysis of a manifesto you haven't read (I have), written by someone working at the same company I used to work for (Google) on a topic I have researched quite a bit on my spare time (causes of gender disparity in Tech and other STEM industries). Your criticism is not based on published statistics, academic studies or any other kind of hard evidence, but rather hearsay and anecdata. Wow. That has to be the most Argentine behavior I've seen in a while. La Argentinidad al palo.

> Now you are reframing the question as in a constitutional matter

No I'm not. You cited things that are perfectly legal as examples of "extremist behavior". Damore's behavior was legal too, it was just stupid.

> Man-only corporate events dont exist, and if you called it one, there would also be public outrage. Women-only is actively discriminatory.

It's kind of bizarre that you are trying to paint males as some form of oppressed minority. Have you ever stopped to think why some of these events might want to avoid having males take the spotlight from people trying to discuss something? Maybe it's because they deal with that every day?

> So if a feminist had written the essay, you would agree with it and would find it enlightening? Its a simple ad-hominem.

You attack my supposed ad-hominem, by offering an ad-hominem based on a completely baseless assumption. Meanwhile you complain about me being dishonest. Again... wow.
Funny thing: only today I saw a link to an article (my apologies, it's from infowars, but it is quoting some other source - a report by a Danish bank: https://www.infowars.com/russia-china-will-engineer-bitcoin-...) that argued that Russia will crack down on cryptocurrencies in 2018.
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Confluence is good. I will say I hated it at first, but it’s
one of those kinds of software that you need to adapt to instead of the other way around.

It has a lot of good, the-way-it-should-be-done processes that if you force yourself to follow, can be very rewarding.

Some positives:

1. Great mobile app.

2. Lots of security. Audit trails, granular access to specific pages, 2FA.

3. Can sync users with Google Cloud Suite, nice to only have 1 set of users.

4. Very rich and detailed page design options.

5. Has other apps that bolt on. So much sensitive data can be stored in a wik, it’s nice to be able to securely share it into Jira (like Github) or Stride (like Slack).

6. Is only $10 for up to 10 users. Can also bring in on-premise (much more expensive though). This is good for HIPAA stuff.
You keep on saying some version of this but aren't giving any reason to actually believe this.

What would you expect to see differently in a world in which they wanted Congress to pass clear NN rules?
I used to be of the mind that ideas within the conspiracy theory realm were most likely utter nonsense. After Snowden and the DNC scandal, I've opened up the possibility for a lot more critical thought.

If you take a look at the conspiracy sub on reddit, which became popular after the DNC Scandal, while there is some nonsense, the most-upvoted stuff are often quite interesting. In fact, I find the userbase there in some ways more sane and rational than your typical political online forum, often being even quite the opposite of the identity politics seen in those places, ie the #3 most upvoted post this year is exactly that.(1)

1 - https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/6twr5k/the_only...
This is where a new startup isp needs to pair with Artemis networks can create a next gen wireless network that puts these big telecoms to shame.
> non-ad-driven web ecosystem that I somehow missed?

Yes there is. Patreon and similar systems.
Sure. I never said they'd be good. There's also no proof they exist, so there's that.
It is definitely possible that it is just confounding variables, I don't know I haven't really looked into it. One thing I know is that if the correlation went the other way, it would be a good data point that the gender gap is cultural.
It's basic economics. Baidu is a monopoly in China's poorly regulated search market. Google before quitting had a market share of 33%. People would at least have had different results to check against Baidu's had Google stayed. Baidu's aggressive and dishonest false ads are closely--if not directly--connected to Google's quitting.
When I was stationed in Germany in my twenties as an American military wife, the Berlin Wall came down and the Two Germanies reunited. An East German aunt went to visit West German relatives, then visited relatives who had immigrated to the US. She said that "Compared to East Germany, everyone in West Germany looks rich. Then you go to the US and everyone looks like on (the nighttime soap) Dallas."

My maternal grandmother came from a low level German noble family that sold the family title when they fell on hard times. Given my aunt's assessment of wealth distribution in relation to nationality, I guess mom made the right decision coming here.

(Edited to clarify my nationality in response to a question. I did not realize I left that out. Oops.)
Yes, I was puzzled at first, reading the article. Because I don't think of India as a paragon of sexual equality. But then, I realized that the author is probably upper-class.
Because people would rather believe that terrible things happen because of unhappy accidents, as opposed to deliberate, willful, secret misbehavior. They'd rather trust, and not verify.
Sorry about that, I thought it was committed. A comparable patch was committed to LLVM version 5, though. [0] is the macro-op fusion pass for x86.

[0] https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/lib/Target/X...
A certain Indian MP tried to play the female president card with me. I pointed out that the election of Barack Obama had hardly heralded the end of racism in my own country.
I have upvoted you to cancel the downvotes, since it is right that we see the counter-view about safe-spaces.

But in case you are wondering about the downvotes, it is because you have done the opposite of convince anyone. The tone of your comment seems like over-reaction and is just going to confirm the priors of anyone who doesn't see things your way.
Notice the keywords are "some" and "might". Damore makes a lot of very lofty, all-encompassing claims.
I'm not sure if it is an illusion of safety, because the infrastructure around Bitcoin (which itself seems safe) is remarkably better now than it was 5 or 6 years ago. This is nothing like how wild it was then, so in comparison, it seems like it is almost regulated.
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Sadly this is not. I'm surprised people don't get the basic economics at work here. More market=more freedom. That's why we're freer than the Mao-era without having the right to vote for anybody. It's the same logic.
> What would you expect to see differently in a world in which they wanted Congress to pass clear NN rules?

They should stop lying and admit they are simply against net neutrality to begin with. But I don't expect them to, naturally, since they are professional lairs.

Anyway, my point was that the public should be aware about this sneaky attack on net neutrality, veiled as "support" for it.
He is elected by EP (which is directly elected) and the European Council (members of which are directly or indirectly elected in their countries) so he is only twice and thrice removed from the voters, which is the same or closer than most of the actual "bureaucracy" (and that's not a dirty word and voting process in itself is very bureaucratic too) that governs people lives in nations is (which is not a problem or sign of 'deficit of democracy' or whatever to anyone who uses these arguments against the EU).

Luxembourg also (article) continues/doubles down it's tax deal policy despite him not being their prime minister anymore so these deals are not bad enough to burn whoever defends them to the point of being unelectable, the commission is now on that case and he as the President of the Commissioner answers to EU structures so if he does prove inadequate in his role and other countries' representatives care enough then he is toast (and if they all don't then who/what is supposed to take care of him and on whose democratic mandate?) but if he doesn't then there is no reason for him to get removed even if Luxembourg hates him for it, support of home country is clearly not formally or practically required, i.e. Tusk stayed where he is (Council President) without Polish support because other country heads kept him there.
The War, maybe.. or perhaps the social-democratic policies that followed in many countries after the great depression and the war.
> What boggles my mind is after decades and decades of truly scummy, bottom of the barrel activity (not only in this case, but in the torture they inflicted on prisoners, assassinations, drug running, overthrows of governments, etc), the CIA still manages to recruit people.

The KGB never had a shortage of willing applicants. Money, power, being part of a secret society, and SERVING THEIR COUNTRY are things that a lot of men and women find incredibly appealing.
If an infowars article is quoting another source, why the hell are you not linking the other source instead of the infowars article?

https://www.home.saxo/campaigns/outrageous-predictions-2018?...
Install Linux on them and they'll become working computers again.
I’d say our assumption that the big stuff should be done by the government cripples our thinking and stops us from encouraging more innovative private projects. I’ve lost faith in government in a way that goes beyond candidates and parties - I think the structure is broken. I do not want to wish any more power in to the hands of thieves. That is - Congress and those who buy the congress people.
You aren't answering the question. You've given zero reason to think they're lying except asserting it over and over.
I almost hope that B.O. was intentional. That makes it comical. :)
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Let's hope so. There has to be a reckoning... Income inequality HAS to be a bubble... the rich getting richer at everyone else's expense has to end someday right?

Let's hope it's amicably via someone like Bernie Sanders as President rather than through a war that the poorest have no chance of winning. Numbers don't matter when it's pitchforks verses tanks.
The same thing happens with a Motorola RAZR V3 GSM quad-band cell phone (a flip phone). I have that on video as well though I didn't upload it. I haven't tested any other phones.
If your loss function is an actual financial $ loss (or revenue), then arithmetic-mean times n gives the best estimate of total/long-run expected loss.

If the distribution of losses is skewed or has outliers then estimates other than the mean (median, trimmed means etc) often under-estimate total losses.

Under-estimating total losses in the long run could be very bad for business.
Why is the fact that arbitrage is harder with btc a disadvantage? And the fact that the "price" reflects recent sales rather than future sales seems, well, obvious, and identical to other securities/commodities.
Perhaps 'interrogated' is the wrong word? How about 'discuss'. Since HN is a discussion forum, presumably users are open to discussing their flags and reasons for flagging. If not, just like any other type of discussion, we don't have to give their flag any credence.
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Dear Mallika, Many thanks for writing this article! Totally echoes my thoughts.

fwiw, as an Indian male engineer in US, I initially was very enthusiastically thinking "lets go out of our way to support the pink elephants" and later was surprised when some of my peers (female engineers from India in US or of Indian origin) showed utter disinterest in being part of many of these women centric meetups/conferences.

They were more enthusiastic to go to conferences that successfully enforced a 'No Asshole Rule' on attendees, followed by attending conferences without 'all male' speakers, than conferences of any other type. (I thought the feedback I received was an outlier, but it is good to know I'm not alone).

Hope such articles bring positive changes to improve diversity organically and address the pink elephant syndrome.

This article reminded me of this video "Modern Educayshun" (by an Aussie Comedian of Indian origin) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKcWu0tsiZM . Feels like the video makes a similar point.
The tail end. Every successful drive is alike, but every accident occurs in its own way.

It's why 'autopilot' Teslas drive into the side of semi-trucks and rear-end delivery vans pulled over on the shoulder. And we're not even talking about snowy conditions.
Or was it the social-democratic politics that follow war, sickness and starvation?

Or if you're right-leaning maybe you would argue that it was the high growth that was a great equalizer.

Or perhaps a mix of these. I don't see social-liberalism going away in Europe. And while growth might not be same as it used to be, technology is likely to keep disrupting established businesses.
Don’t all of the complaints about exchange rate and market cap apply to virtually any other item that is traded? Spread exists in forex and stock markets. Market cap is extremely commonly cited for stock markets.

Sure, the effects may be stronger in Bitcoin due to its higher volatility, lower volume, etc., but that should be the author’s argument, instead of “if you don’t know the basic Finance 101 definitions of some common terms, then you might get confused.”
> When will people learn that industrial control systems can't ever be safely connected to the internet.

When a disaster happens.

Politics as usual, and it's not the politicians fault (who are mostly limited by the whims of public opinion), but that there won't be enough political momentum for action until there's a disaster. The fault, like most things in politics, is of human nature.

It's unnatural for large groups of people to be motivated to take serious preventive action against something that has never happened before and has been up to then only a theoretical concern for experts.
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Clothing item. I received a really cheap item by the same manufacturer, with a tag jammed into it identifying it as the higher-priced item.
If you like that, you have to read this (in 13 parts): http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-ban...
Capacity would be a huge problem though, even with 5000 satellites, if you wanted to rival fixed-line or cellular wireless networks for a significant part of the world's population...

To put that in perspective, in Australia we have 13,400 cellular towers [1], with an extra 9,000 proposed to be built, to cover just 26.3 million subscribers [2]. This is to deliver 2.8% of the data downloaded over the last year (97.2% having been delivered over fixed line) [2].

So, with an LEO constallation, you might have a few dozen satellites over the populated parts of Australia at any one time, each of which has a finite amount of capacity (both uplink/downlink spectrum and capacity back to the ground station) shared between all the users.

I think this network could see a massive benefit for rural areas, developing countries, maritime markets, etc. but to think that the network would have the capacity to deliver anything rivalling cellular networks in metro/suburban areas to most subscribers is very far fetched.

1. https://oztowers.com.au/Statistics
2. http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/8153.0
Thanks. Hadn't seen that section
From the linked document:

> Deutsche Telekom Mirai disruption in late November 2016. My hastily assembled initial TR069/64 payload only performed a 'route del default' [...]

AFAIK this is not what happened. Deutsche Telekom had one major incident on November 27th 2016, but that incident was caused by a denial of service attack [1]. Given that the routers in question don't even run Linux, 'route del default' is not really an option anyways, making the first claim of the story likely to be fabricated.

This seems to be a good fictitious story, but nothing else.

[1] https://comsecuris.com/blog/posts/were_900k_deutsche_telekom...
Except that it didn't happen.
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Seriously this. My wife talks about a very free range early 70s childhood, with the punchline "Of course, one person was molested, and another was killed by a car while free-ranging". We have a Chinese friend who talked about all of kids teaching each other to swim without adult instruction in a (pretty polluted-sounding river). When we made impressed noises, she said "well, of course several children died per year".
I’m guessing by the domain and HN username that the author and OP are the same person.
Don't waste your time on generic cover letters. If you're going to bother, write a custom letter. Generic rewordings of your resume just waste everyone's time.

In my experience, odds are good your cover letter won't get read or even make it to the right person. So I don't spend too much time writing them. However, a well written cover letter will help you and could be the difference in getting a callback.

My recipe for a cover letter; rewrite their job description with your work experience. Take each bullet point and tie it to something you've done. It shows how your skills fit their needs in a way resumes don't. Bonus if you do some research on the company (something not mentioned in the job description) and also match that to your skills or interest. Also, keep it to less than 1 page.