skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The potential use really clicked with me recently when I was browsing someone's site and came across a linked bitcoin address. One tap/click on that link followed by an amount and another button press, and I could pay that person money, directly: that's a very low barrier to payments. And with the same wallet, I can also scan a QR code on someone's phone and pay them money.

I think these benefits are tangible, but whilst the current block chain mechanism might demonstrate the utility, what we really need are the fee/transaction time problem to be resolved.

I really want someone far more intelligent than me to explain whether or not a zero-sum instantaneous transaction is formally, logically impossible (via a successor to block chain?) because that really is the killer app, imo.
feedback:

- annoying sound! Not motivational. Instead, have snooze option when detecting movement (but activate alarm again if no pushups). This also allows for some warmup.

- some feedback or countdown of pushups needed could be valuable (when I started, chunking and counting down helped go through them) see the 'seven' app for inspiration (also shows proper form)

- why limit to pushups? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU6PcBS1pWw motion tracking printable tags

- make it easy for me to setup a routine and challenge myself
I think the "preferences" part carries more weight. More men want to be engineers than women.
Not sure Gawker would agree with you.
Is the quote you pulled not saying the same thing as this from Damore's memo?

> I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.

Edit: ebbv beat me to it
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> 99% of government automation is of the "handle the easy stuff and dump the hard stuff to the operator to use their big fat brain" variety

Is that based on experience in the industry?

I think as politicos realize the power in controlling the software, they will use it as another way to exercise control outside the public eye.
The theory that a party that has consistently screamed bloody murder for the last 60 years about anything that even smells like toning down the war on drugs or carceral state is somehow playing 1000 dimensional political chess and cracking down on drugs because of their secret plan to legalize them is... well, how do I put this... wildly speculative?

Do you think your theory is really more likely than this being Sessions simply doing exactly what he's explicitly said he has wanted to do every single moment of his entire adult life, crack down on people who use pot?

Crushing states where pot is legal will lose them the most heavily blue seats that they would never win anyway, but why should they care? It will give their base what they say they want whenever you ask them, the thing that they want most, that drives them to the polls. It is an assault in a culture war against the smug, pot-smoking coastal elites and despised pot-smoking minorities, hippies, college kids. Perhaps they see the drug war for what it is, for how it was designed: not a war on drugs, but a war on the demographic groups of people who tend to use them. And that's why they support it.

At best, I'd see them allowing a vote on it then let their vulnerable reps in purple/blue states vote yes but make sure it fails anyway: "I'm on your side, I promise, see, I tried".
Digital music is digital whether it's being streamed from physical hard disk or memory. It's not comparable to vinyl, which has a distinct sound and interface compared to other methods of listening.
I'm not disagreeing with you but the small 1.8" HDD was kind of a stroke of luck. Rubinstein stumbled upon it visiting Toshiba, who didn't even know what they could use it for, but without it, there wouldn't be an iPod as we know it.
HLL intersections using MinSketch has been around for a while now, I remember writing a Go implementation a couple years back based on a AdRoll blog post (http://tech.adroll.com/blog/data/2013/07/10/hll-minhash.html). They also open sourced their library (https://github.com/AdRoll/cantor) as well.

Generally in the big data space, libraries like this usually come out for Java first.
Exactly, in my company's SaaS monitoring, I excluded db/external calls, and I saw a 1-2ms increase (on-top of 15ms), so yeah that's a 10% increase, but with external calls make the overall transaction 50+ms, so 1-2ms is trivial.

Similarly, the CPU on our Azure cloud box holding a half dozen dockerized Java apps I can't really see went up at all. Hovering around 10% CPU usage before and after patch.
Interesting hypothesis, but I'm not sure where you draw the line.

Should we break up Wikipedia so smaller knowledge archives can compete?
Hey neat, I've had a copy of this book on my shelf for a few years now, but I'd forgotten all about it. Very interesting to read about the background behind the text. Maybe I should print out the article and store it with the book for future readers.
We're not debating what you think, we're debating what he said, and he included abilities in there. He said what they claim he said, but people always appear to try to claim he didn't.
> preferences and abilities
Because their repugnancy/crappiness meters are calibrated in such a way that by their standards, it really wasn't.
Would you call "lack of interest" a handicap? Would you be likely to be suspicious about candidates coming from a group that you know to be "less interested" in a job you are offering?
Even the TL;DR on page 2 says it:

> Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don't have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership
@PeopleOfFinland, one of those Twitter accounts that is run by a different person every week, was ran by a Saami indigenous person native to Lapland last week and they had some criticism of this style of article where Lapland is portrayed as wilderness without reference to the Saami, who've lived there for 10k years.

https://twitter.com/PeopleOfFinland/status/95006224332396954...
Will watch this with interest AFAIK discriminating against conservative white men isn’t illegal. It’s not a protected class. There must be some twist here.
I believe ANA has bidet toilets set up in all their bathrooms, not just Business.
Nowhere in that quote is it stated that women are biologically less capable of engineering.
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> I’m not saying that all men differ from all women in the following ways or that these differences are “just.” I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.

Not if it is anything resembling a reasonable interpretation of the text.
I never really saw too much issue with what he wrote. It seemed a lot of people were mad at him for things he never said. It's been awhile since I read his document, but I remember expecting it to be so bad from all the uproar I was hearing, but after reading it I couldn't find much to be angry about. Can someone enlighten me - i'll admit, this may be a highly ignorant topic of mine.
What part of that quote is repugnant?
Gawker wasn't sued for libel.
In California, yes
I had a physician recommend VSL3 (the powder form). I believe you can buy it w/o a prescription, and it's available at most Costcos. My understanding is the powder is more bio-available than any pill form.
>Why do news outlets persistently misrepresent what he actually said?

Because this creates controversy, controversy creates engagement and engagement brings more ad revenue to the news outlets.
Streaming on the LTE Series 3 solves this problem. Haven’t checked but assume it works with iTunes Match for whatever obscurities you have.
Intel didn't disclose first, Google did (before the agreed upon embargo date). Its a great writeup: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privi...
Winamp 2 was the music player of choice of discretionary users who knew to seek out software on their own. Winamp 3 came out and it was so colossally awful that most people stayed on 2.

If you bought your computer in a store -- like most people in the US at the time -- instead of building your own, it came bundled with some other product: WMP at least, possibly MusicMatch, RealJukebox (eventually merged back into RealPlayer), which you were likely using. Getting your Nomad or iRiver, a comparable devices to the iPod, to work with that, was not as smooth as the iTunes-iPod combo.
IANAL, but I think so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misrepresentation
Relitigating this in a Hacker News sub-thread seems like a bad way to spend time.
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It's far too small of a sample size for something as complex as human diet and exercise. You'd need a much larger sample size with people of varying types of diet and exercise regimes.
On that different topic, real progress starts the moment it is not seen as AI.
The evidence required for these kinds of studies is far greater than it might initially seem. The sheer number of other variables (environmental factors) makes it very easy to assign causal relationships incorrectly. I mean to say that I’m willing to bet most individual studies involving “32” participants (or on that ballpark) are basically wrong. By individual studies I mean those where the evidence for the phenomena is almost just that study.

Some anecdotal evidence (lacking being able to share the resources that I’ve read in the past) is the “science” in (and media reporting of) the fields of nutrition, psychology, sociology and similar fields where the environment is impossible to fully control. They seems half-baked (or outright contradictory) because the media reports on findings that don’t have very strong evidence behind them (need further research) while making it seem like it is an established fact.
The memo is online, you can verify in 10 seconds that he used the phrase "preferences and abilities".
Also when you want to put package-main files in a library package directory, you need to put

// +build ignore

near the top of it.
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What is a "website" in this context?

Google Shopping, for instance, is a search system for product information. Is it a separate "website?" If so, why?
Factoid: Large areas of both Finland and Sweden has been historically called Lapland, I never know which one they write about when you see it in a headline.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sápmi
Why is suggesting the distribution of certain qualities in men and women are different “repugnant crap”? There is ample evidence that men and women have behavioral differences. This exists across all mammals. I don’t know whether that makes the average man or average woman[1] better at any particular task, but it’s not an absurd hypothesis. Surely it’s worth reasoned consideration, not moral outrage at the very thought.

[1] And averages are of course irrelevant when dealing with individuals, who should each be judged according to their own merit, not according to generalizations of the groups they belong to.
> Too Much is exactly what you have to do to succeed in academia

I won't dispute that statement with respect to his situation. Academia is very broad, and the expectations at Harvard are rather different from most of academia. At many academic institutions you can have a life and get tenure.
In California, workplace discrimination due to politics is illegal [1]

In USA, discrimination due to sex is illegal.

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
I'll just link to two separate comments I made:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16098498

https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=16098341

Southwest doesn't actually have a hub at every city they fly to. They just have a lot of hubs.

They do this by a regional strategy: Nearly every flight goes from a spoke to a hub or focus city (the distinction between the two is irrelevant to the passenger, but relevant to the airline), to another hub or focus city, then ends at a spoke. It's a strategy that has worked out well for them, as it gives them a huge direct flight network despite running what is essentially still a hub and spoke network, because focus cities don't have to have maintenance operations. It's a cool strategy, but only really works regionally because shorter flights mean that they can run multi-leg routes that stop at a full hub at some point. Because it only works regionally, it is completely irrelevant to the discussion in the widebody market.
Hacker news is every bit as full of misogynistic assholes as reddit/4chan, they all worship Paul Graham who basically has the same world view as Damore.
You really think the firm is taking an upfront fee or retainer for this? I assume they are expecting a settlement from Google/Alphabet so that the company can put an end to this PR nightmare once and for all, from which they will take a cut.
"The UAVs featured an engine taped to a wooden frame, which carried two "home-made mines", it added."

According to Russia military there were 13 UAVs like this capable of 100km range:

https://twitter.com/mod_russia/status/950389451884302336/pho...
I don't think anyone would dispute that statistically women differ from men in some abilities (e.g. ability to lift weights, and also some more mental capabilities such as 3d rotation), but it's a far fetch from this to "biologically less capable of engineering", which Damore did not say
I'm unfamiliar with any mass production of methanol as a fuel, and I shudder to think of how much more environmental damage we'd incur attempting to scale up ethanol production (which is already a net negative if you're using corn; there's really nowhere in the US that is conducive to growing sugar beats for production [unlike in South America]).

Electricity is the way forward.
A = distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women

B = biological causes

... A differs in part due to B ...

... reason why we don't see equal rep in tech/leadership.

Then he goes on to say maybe if we take A into consideration when designing tech and leadership roles, can we solve this dilemma.

He does not mention performance, just preference.
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True—but there are interesting feedback loops between the two.
Brace in for the brigading. I'm flagging this article because it always results in a bunch of trolling rather than any substantial discussion.
And if all Damore said was that he would still be at Google.
I don’t know about the US, but there is a California law against employer descrimination for expressing a political viewpoint
ability (noun)
1. possession of the means or skill to do something.
2. talent, skill, or proficiency in a particular area.
"When was the last time you used a paper map?"

"When was the last time you had to spend 15 minutes planning out where and when you would meet when because your group is splitting up when on a trip?"

I do these things all the time as many of my hobbies are outdoor activities. For example, at Arapahoe Basin, a ski area in Colorado near Denver, cell reception is non-existent. So you need to have a plan for people to meet up when we get on the mountain, where to meet for lunch, where at the end of the day. And even at ski resorts with cell coverage, it is far easier in a group to discuss how you are going to meet after the run because people will invariably get separated. E.g., if I'm at Vail, "Meet on the skier's left side of Northwoods, do not go all the way to the base."

I always bring paper maps when backpacking and hiking. Sometimes when you are going camping, you have to have this all planned ahead of time since once again cell coverage may be non-existent. And someone always knows where I am going and when I should be back in case I need a rescue. I also go caving as a hobby, and all of these things are especially important there.
And the poor in social capital have to, or at least can easily feel like they have to, jump at attention-devouring social networks because they need every visibility boost they can get.

People who already have a bunch of good connections can relax because they know they're embedded enough in the minds of their friends and colleagues that dropping off Twitter for a week won't be risking missing the one opportunity that they need to break into the next social class up.
Can you elaborate on what in your mind is the correct interpretation ? Because, reading his memo, I had the exact same takeaway as the Techcrunch quote you posted here.
Could you please provide more detail?
I honestly don't know where you're going with that argument.

My point was that if the central bank behind a currency goes away so does all of its utility, even if the currency is still physically or digitally there.

No one said anything about default. You can't default on a currency that isn't backed by anything.
From what I saw, it's not very easy to have a deployment with multiple applications on the swarm, is that wrong?

For example, I have ten applications, and each requires a database, a redis instance, a celery instance and two web workers. Dokku lets me deploy these independently of each other, but uses the same nginx instance and proxies them transparently.

As I understand it, Swarm has no notion of multiple projects. Each swarm is running a single deployment, where all containers are equal, is that correct?

Basically, Dokku is a self-hosted Heroku, which is what I need (I want to be able to easily create a project that I can run semi-independently of the others on the same server). My understanding is that, to do that with Swarm, I'd have to have a single termination container that would connect to every app, but apps wouldn't be any more segregated than that. Maybe I'm complicating things, though. Have you used Swarm for such a use case?

I tried the official tutorial, but couldn't get it to work, as the instructions appeared outdated and didn't work for single-host deployments, and were geared more towards Windows and Mac than Linux. Would you happen to have a good "getting started" document? All my apps are already using docker-compose.

EDIT: Also, a machine that's a manager doesn't want to join the swarm as a worker as well, that's why I'm saying that it doesn't appear good for single-server deployments:

> Error response from daemon: This node is already part of a swarm. Use "docker swarm leave" to leave this swarm and join another one.
I don't know, I'm pretty liberal and I find political discussions on HN to be overbearing at times.
Actual quote:

> the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes

From the article:

> women may not be equally represented in tech because they are biologically less capable of engineering

Do you not see the difference?
I have a friend who just quit his job on Friday to join a company that just laid off 2/3 of their staff to do a blockchain project. The company currently does nothing related to the blockchain and they do not have an idea for a product yet. It seems like such a weird thing to do.
There's a difference between "fewer women wind up having the skills for X" and "women are worse at X".
I just moved up and down and it detected that as a push up
Before I bought my first iPod I got a Sony Network Walkman NW-E3. It was about the size of a packet of gum, had 64MB of flash memory, and was so unrelentingly awful that I swore I would never buy another piece of Sony hardware. I don't remember ever feeling so furious about any other purchase I've made.

That the iPod dominated the industry really shouldn't be a surprise when Sony was producing junk like the NW-E3.
That is not even close to what he said. Regarding abilities - he didn't say anything about any gender having greater or lesser abilities - he said "different" abilities. He didn't say that biological differences explain the gender representation - he said it may explain the gender representation - which means it also may not. He said that there are differences in the distributions of preferences and abilities of women vs men - this is true - he made no claim of the primary driver of the distribution differences either.
Anything on BA is unpleasant though.

First class on the United 747 was a fairly pleasant experience. You could tell it was an old plane, but the seat comfort was amazing and the view (in rows 1/2) was even better. And also the quietest flight I've experienced (except for takeoff/landing since you're right over the nosewheel). Slightly small toilets for first class, but other than that an overall great experience.

The 787 and 777 suffer from airlines using terrible seats in economy, which the A330/340/350/380 generally don't suffer from, but if you're flying premium economy or better the A350/787 are equally good, and the other aircraft aren't far behind.
They aren't a federally protected group according to this list. This particular situation though is extra hairy because even if it was religious the offended parties could argue that a protection is not a license to advocate discrimination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group
I find this kind of funny...

The king of search finds it too hard to compile data.

http://fortune.com/2017/05/27/google-gender-wage-data-report...
When you're secretly so fearful it's true that you've got to use increasingly outrageous words to attack the idea
>preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes

I don't think this part is inherently wrong, and could be proven or disproven with well designed studies.
It's a little grating, to be honest. The tech world loves statistics and empirical research until it clashes with their world view.
Flag the trolls, not the article. It’s a perfectly reasonable article of information about the social state of the tech industry, regardless of how the media/workforce/HN feels about it. After all, isn’t the rash censorship of uncomfortable topics the central gist of the memo that got Damore in trouble in the first place?
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If you switch out words of gender with words of race, it may sound more offensive. That is what the Youtube CEO said and it immediately began to make sense.
I hope he does not settle as a matter of principle.
But now you're just placing an arbitrary bar on how much progress can be made without it being futuristic.
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christ what an asshole.
> It's the same plan that works so well for dealing with type-II diabetes. You cut back significantly, funding rather than calories, and force the military to economize.

You haven't established that there is significant waste or where; I don't even know what problem it solves, and the above has no basis. It's not good policy, it's a talking point.

I'd love to cut waste, but there needs to be a serious discussion, not wishful strategies based on wishful conceptions of the situation. I don't know about the parent, but often this argument is used by partisans who want to cut government no matter what, regardless of the consequences.

> I favor a far more coalitional approach where we don't have to lead nearly as often as we do now. I'd prefer our defense department focus more on actually defending us rather than defending US corporate interests overseas.

Again, this sounds like a nice theory, but do we have any reason to believe it works? AFAIK, history shows that in an anarchic situation like international relations, coalitions aren't stable; you need one actor. What I've read from international relations experts and practitioners is that coalitions don't work now: Effectively, very little happens in the international arena without the U.S. pushing it.

So before we take that plunge, we need to know. Mistakes are very, very costly.