skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether people are upset by price discrimination or not depends on how it is perceived. For example, no one seems upset at discounts for seniors, students, or military, despite this being a form of price discrimination.

To your second point, customers often do try to fool vendors into thinking they are in the consumer group that is offered lower prices. As an example, non-students use their old student IDs all the time.

Re: correlation with a legally protected class, this can be solved with marketing. Price discrimination based directly on gender would be illegal. But if you put one product in a blue box in the "men's" section and one in a pink box in the "women's" section, consumers will self-select. This is very common with razors, soap, and other such products.

Lastly regarding your edit, if a consumer pays his or her reservation price they are left with zero surplus. But that doesn't mean the transaction was pointless. The consumer gets the consumption value of the product. I'm willing to pay at most $2 for a bottle of Coke. That's my reservation price. If I'm offered a Coke for $2, and no vendor offering a lower price is available, I will pay that price and enjoy the Coke.
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I don't think anything says that it isn't plausible. The issue is that $450M appearing with no third party audit in a relatively short time period with no fanfare (e.g., Tether: "We just secured a new deal with a bank and have issued more tethers as a result!") is a bit odd to look at from a normal perspective. If Tether were 10 years old and had established chains of successful audits, this would be less of a big deal (but still a deal).
It gets better! From their terms of service:

"There is no contractual right or other right or legal claim against us to redeem or exchange your Tethers for money. We do not guarantee any right of redemption or exchange of Tethers by us for money. There is no guarantee against losses when you buy, trade, sell, or redeem Tethers."

Apparently they changed this text earlier this month to make it sound less like a total scam but the original text is still available on archive.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20171224172135/https://tether.to...
90% of technical videos I watch are udemy courses.

Usually I play videos at 1.25-1.5 speed. I just watch the lecture, pause, switch into the editor to follow instructions and write down some code, switch back to paused player(that has the code I need) if I forget what I need, sometimes rewind if I've missed something. Then I resume watching.
What I would be interested in is how many people look for images of Valerie Aurora that would not look for images if the article would be from a male author.

+1 if you did look but wouldn't in case of a male author, -1 otherwise.
The defining characteristic of containers are constrained processes (constrained by one or more of memory, cpu, access controls..); isolated namespaces (your own tmp, root, users, process list) plus some (possibly limited) additional isolation from the rest of the hosts files and hardware.

Docker adds to this
1. a packaging that lets you define what goes into a container (Dockerfile) and format (docker image) - which can be downloaded, extracted, manipulated and uploaded.
2. a way to stop (freeze) and start (thaw) a container
3. tools for controlling network capabilities within a container and between the host and container or other containers on other hosts.

Those are the essentials.

Kubernetes (and other tools) expand on this in terms of orchestration -- especially the internetworking aspect but also failover and load balancing.
Whoa, RONJA - that's a blast from the past!
First sentence: True - and neglected in our time, but not, I think by the originator of the concept. He did set a lot of store by "animal spirits," and these very strongly affect "the money supply" in the following ways:

The usual multiplier of funds in a bank assumes that the depositors will regard their banked money as still theirs and available. But note that this is actually the OPPOSITE of the thinking of my grandparents, who lived through the great depression. To them, the largest single reason to put money in a bank was precisely to forget about it; and to piously treat it as now beyond their reach and ability to spend because it was now part of a sacred reserve. A very deflationary logic since it brings down the effective banking multiplier of the money supply (reflected by spending) sharply. And this is indeed what happens after a recession, and a kind of thinking that's still with us, post 2008.

Of course, changes in sexual selection are also a large part of this. Young women and men shifted from being very interested in free spenders of the opposite sex (as a proof of money) before 2008 to being much less interested in being married to a free spender, thanks. Where I live, I was woken by revelers in the early morning leaving the fanciest downtown bars blocks away until 2008 at least a couple of times a week, for years. In all the years since that crisis, those extreme revelers have only very rarely been heard from by me. Despite my being a much less sound sleeper, now. Here too, sexual selection shifts post-crisis to a logic that's closer to bank-it-and-don't-think-about-it. (Debt accumulation, say on credit cards, may contradict me by now, however.)
Sci-hub link to the actual paper[0]

[0] http://sci-hub.tw/10.1037/apl0000221
I dont see the list of 20 HQ2 candidates. Does anyone know?
I don't know how to explain this but I'll try my best:

Categorized/Binary controls: Things like clapping to turn on/off lights, or a hand gesture to navigate to home in a car.

Continuous controls: Changing temperature, modulating a note (Theramin), controlling a quadcopter as in this article.

Binary/categorized controls are kind of ok. Hand gestures for continuous controls are not ok.
I think the difference is that when a man does want to be a nurse, he isn't treated like shit by female nurses to the point where he wants to leave the profession.

The main reason for the lack of men in nursing is because it's viewed by most men as not being a masculine profession, not because of discrimination.
Thank you for the second half of this comment.
So then is AAPL stock a shitcoin because it was 100% pre-mined (the founders started with 100% of the equity)? That logic make no sense.
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I've noticed this argument a few times. It's based on the legal concept of due process. However, when non-lawyers use the term, they do so colloquially, and instead are discussing a much less formal thing. This is generally understood by most people, and it's mainly constitutional law experts who bring up the argument.

Like the trolley problem, outside of a limited group of aficionados, most people don't care about this kind of argument because it's excessively technical and irrelevant to what people care about.
Ironic that you'd be interested in anything other than an instrument that can only count upwards.
Not just for dev. I went to NIPS last year (and am in DS at startups in SF) and about 80% of the time as you introduce yourself the other person just stares at your affiliation on your tag. I went to a company (nameless) afterparty where the host DS literally stared at my tag for 2 seconds with a look of some serious disgust of how did I happen to get in without Google/FB/Apple/etc. or MIT/Stanford affiliation.
Bitcoin's market cap is $194B in the same way Basecamp is a $100B company. https://m.signalvnoise.com/press-release-basecamp-valuation-...
> "That's the whole point, let me refine it further: the bad aspects that mentioned in the article are not unique to tech: the world is full of overboard marketing ..."

I would rephrase this to "tech is not exempt from the bad aspects mentioned in the article."

> So is the message of the article "bad things in tech were bad and that's why I left"? OK, it's nice to know, not exactly anything new but everybody has the right for one's own biography. Is there any insight there beyond that? One that pertains specifically to tech world?

If my house and my neighbors house are on fire, should I still not get out of the house?
i feel like i'm having a stroke trying to read this title
That bothered me as well (pronouncing rather than defining)
This article and comment thread was about Uber specifically? Oh, well, then, yeah, no, I didn't come here to say anything in specific about them. I've never worked there, so I obviously can't speak to it, and the rumors don't sound great either.
It's true, every coin (without innovation) is a ponzi scheme
do you know something we do not?
You present this as a dichotomy: Muslim Ban / Rendition flights, but that is a false dichotomy. People outside the country have no implicit right to enter it, but people inside the country have the constitution apply to them, including prohibition against torture and imprisonment without a charge.
Why not? I mean, if they can't get people to work for less wages, they have to offer higher ones.
Let me propose an alternative to "non-zero subset of reasonable people": "any people you want to work with."

This shifts from the pseudo-objective, nebulous standard of "reasonable" to a much more clearer standard of what you personally want to support and what you personally don't. For instance, there are people I would easily call "reasonable" who hold religious views that I myself have held in the past but which I now believe are incompatible with the society I want to see. I don't want to work with these people. I am not actively opposed to working with them - I suspect I'm coworkers with lots of such people right now - but I have no particular desire to help those people make money. If they want to start their own business with like-minded folks, great; I support their freedom to do so.

However, I do want to work with good engineers of various demographics underrepresented in my industry, because I want to work with the best engineers my company can hire (a secondary goal to "I want society to work in certain ways," so the desires in the previous paragraph would override this desire, but hopefully that happens rarely). If someone from one of those groups says, this behavior bothers me so much that I'll leave over it, then yes, absolutely, I'm going to trust them and what they say they care about.

(And if you say "Actually, I don't particularly want to work with people of this demographic?" That's fine, in the sense that it's a free country. But you would fall into the group of people that I no longer want to work with because I think that politically/financially empowering you would not build the society I want to see; I would much rather compete with you.)
I think you're confusing my position, and the contents of my comments, with something else.
Very meta query, but if you feel you need to disable flags to keep a potentially interesting story on the front page, doesn't that imply that there's something broken with the way the current flag model gets used?
I saw the interview yesterday, and my first reaction was similar to most, I found it infuriating.

After thinking about it, I'm glad she aligned herself with Peterson's most vitriolic critics, because it gave him a chance to address that vitriol head-on, and he did so successfully. Hopefully it served to draw some of those with polarized or ill-informed impressions of Peterson towards moderation.

I'm skeptical the host was actually as vicious as she made herself to be, that may have simply been a role she adopted for the interview.
Is warp just "railgun" rebranded? That worked well for my company, when it worked.
It's weird to compare this ruthless aproach with, for example, chefs who spend a lot of time developing talent and training juniors.
> has there been any factory floor, farm, private or government office where things have been different?

If anything, then the concern would be "out of the frying pan and into the fire", i.e., leaving tech because of real problems in the industry, but then finding it just as bad or worse in other fields.

Does anyone know of anecdotes where someone says "I left tech because of discrimination, but it was way worse in this other industry, so I returned?"

And yes - I agree that parts of the tech industry are quite progressive. It sounds like (not just from this article) that other parts are quite not.
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That is the flagship cliché of offtopicness for this argument. We've been through it countless times, and nothing new ever comes of it. Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents.
> If you serve a certain rate of medicare patients, you get additional funding. It's set up this way for 'political' reasons. Like most of us politics, it's a mess.

That's not an incentive for hospitals to serve Medicare patients; it's compensation for the fact that the hospital sees so many Medicare patients (and therefore so few privately-insured patients, by portion) that it can't make up the difference solely from overcharging private insurers.
Just changing IPs is not enough if the new allocation is publicly linked to your company. It may help to get IP space through a third party or shell company to anonymize it a little more, and make sure it is never publicly identifiable as yours, either in paperwork or through scans.
A US public company can do the same thing in terms of their authorized stock vs their shares outstanding. You can print money without it being backed. This means increasing your 'authorized' as you see fit. Just get approval from the SEC/Finra and your buddies and you're good to go. Now lets talk about other organizations printing money that's not backed by anything e.g. the Fed, QE 1-4, countries with inflationary problems. Cryptocurrency offers far more transparency (as we can see here) and has true global reach. This FUD needs to stop and more effort needs to put into understanding financial engineering and it's importance and relation to software engineering.
I've also tried to naively improve a node build process and given up after realizing that, for the particular project I was working on, splitting up the build into multiple processes actually slowed things down compared to the single threaded build process

Node's single threaded event loop works well for some use cases but makes it hard to parallelize build process.

I would absolutely use a module bundler developed in a better suited language and distributed on npm as a binary like flow.
I always assumed it would be CVS that got into the game. There are are probably a dozen or so drugs that account for the majority of consumption. Flu vaccines, blood pressure, cholesterol, thyroid, insulin, asthma, progesterone, beta-blockers, gerd, etc. Providing these at minimum cost, as well as community public health services. Could be enormously cost effective. And extend general wellness and productivity many times over.

>>> "the trick will be in selecting the right third-party manufacturer to ensure good quality"

Obvious subtext here is outsourcing mass market generics to be produced in India, China and other emerging markets. "Pharma-security" might be a popular way to phrase it today. Quality is undoubtedly reflected in price. And there is enormous opportunity in exponentially reducing R&D costs and finding efficiencies.
"We are backed by US dollars."

"Can I redeem my Tether for them?"

"No."

"Can I get some proof?"

"No."

"Uhm..yeah..hmm..ehhhhh"
What's wrong with ABIA?

It's a reclaimed airforce base with new facilities and better service ratings than LAX or JFK.
and if you have someone else on call, Friday evenings are perfectly fine

:p
It's actually the same issue - the way the contracts are structured, insurers agree to pay X% of what Medicare charges, where X is typically something like 200% or 300%.
I've felt for a while that the main thing to ask yourself wrt crypto speculation is when does a pessimistic narrative dominate an optimistic narrative. I've argued that crypto, being software based, is inherently optimistic since any present day deficiencies can arguably fixed with "more code." This doesn't have to be true it just needs to be convincing enough to generate enough demand for the next wave of speculators.

In the limit, either the concept is fundamentally flawed or it will inductively work after many iterations and rollovers to new models/coins/etc. But if it's flawed that could be a long time before the market collectively throws its hands up and says "there is no hope for this ever working" and drives the price to literally zero -- I mean, what would the catalyst be? In short term periods, market momentum can drive sentiment, but in longer periods there needs to be some kind of pure capitulation event that causes the market to resolve that crypto is doomed. Your guess is as good as mine as to what that is -- the long term trend seems to be that the last generation of holders cash out, causing a price drop, and new optimists pile in, driving the price higher than previous highs, sometimes in the form of new systems like ether or ICOs. It's hard to imagine what will break this cycle. Maybe the crypto engineering community tries a bunch of stuff and "these X problems cannot be solved in less than Y" years enters the crypto engineering zeiguist?
There is an attempt to write JS module bundler in OCaml
https://github.com/fastpack/fastpack
I'd say no. The system has a lot of noise in it, so we're never going to get precise results. At a coarse-grained level, my impression is that it's reasonably well balanced, just messy, and it would be a mistake to try for finer-grained control than that. The way we get the latter is by occasionally manually intervening.

I know it disappoints some of the systematizers here, but IMO there's no substitute for human judgment being in the mix. HN functions best as a complex system with many feedback loops between community, software, and moderation.

(We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16182520 and marked it off-topic.)
Or do not do that but use your tech knowledge to make money from the market in a non scammy way. Past 1.5 month including the 'crash' of the past days were a party without scamming people. That is a quick buck.
Perhaps you could say there is a specific instantiation of this problem in tech.
I think it's safe to assume any cryptocoin is a pump-and-dump scheme without evidence it's somehow resistant to that.
You've been lucky, then, or just haven't worked at too many companies.

I've been in SV for 15 years, and one (out of four) companies has been incredibly cult-like. The exec team, and CEO in particular, often espoused how we were going to change the world of $INDUSTRY forever. Any talk of existential problems was met with accusations of disloyalty. People who were even thinking about leaving or interviewing elsewhere were viewed as disloyal and got "the talk" from the CEO or CTO.
There’s a classic piece of wisdom about such situations: “the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”
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I tried out Parcel this past weekend and I was really impressed with how easy it was compared to when I tried using Webpack for the first time. Just import what you need and it find it all and you're good to go.
I used a 'Dakota hole' camping with Troop 246 back in the 80s. (Thanks to Scoutmaster Cliff Pederson, who taught us this and many other tricks.)

They really work!
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Von Mises, which is notoriously anti-empirical (which is close to, but not quite the same as, anti-intellectualism).
Without any irony, at my workplace, we've spun up a docker swarm with headless browsers and a simply RESTful api that takes screen shots of websites and serves them back to the employee's browser so that our employees can surf the web without even the possibility of exposing themselves to malicious software garbage. It's not required, but it's an available corporate service. Another guy built a version that returns PDFs with working links so they can even click links.

It's completely fucking stupid that we have to come up with this nonsense.
This second premise, that Google hires under qualified candidates of they're diverse, is also incorrect. He claimed that Google made the false negative rate higher for non-diverse candidates. Here's the relevant quote:

> "Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for 'diversity' candidates by decreasing the false negative rate.

In other words the bar was only lowered in the sense that diverse candidates didn't need to be as lucky as non diverse ones, with nothing to do with skill or ability. Many media outlets omitted the italicized part, so this misconception is common.

Also you're omitting the most plausible explanation in your last paragraph: the negative and often exaggerated media coverage on the memo. Remember the memo was circulated for a month without repression. This indicates that it was the media coverage, not the memo itself, that caused Damore's firing.
He’s a Fool that cannot conceal his Wisdom.
— Benjamin Franklin

> Related: 'George W. Bush is smarter than you'.

While it may be in vogue to flaunt intelligence in certain professional circles, many, including Bill Gates define "smart" as "an elusive concept. There’s a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To walk into a situation, have something explained to you and immediately say, 'Well, what about this?' To ask an insightful question. To absorb it in real time. A capacity to remember. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective."

https://www.thejournal.ie/bill-gates-top-quotes-690230-Dec20...

According to many intelligence officials and former advisors, Bush perfectly fits Bill Gates definition of being incredibly intelligent. The reality is, just because a leader hasn't convinced you of their abilities, that in no way detracts from them.
Then you should consider fastpack. It’s written in OCaml and use Flow parser. Also, it should be distributed as a binary

Fastpack: https://github.com/fastpack/fastpack
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I'm white male, 46, and last time I switched jobs (14 months ago) I had 3 offers to choose from. My stack is enterprise java. My peers are mid thirties and up.
It's nice to see her mentioned here. If you've had any architectural education you got to read Jacobs. It's also amazing that we need to rediscover her 60 years later.
So, I work in Silicon Valley, I'm pretty open minded, well educated, etc, etc. Over the past 5 years, much of Silicon Valley has been invaded by this kind of behavior. There has long been a bit of it (I went to a liberal arts university, UCSC, about 25 years ago), but it's really exploded.

Seeing this kind of misleading behavior, and the excessive message telegraphing, is a commonplace occurrence now. If you dare question it, you risk being fired.

The good news is, the last few months, I've started to see more moderate coworkers finally stand up to this type of person and say: "No. You can't keep dominating the social conversation. You're not the majority, your ideas are just one of many, experts are authorities for a reason, and yes, there are systemic problems, but using clickbait to whine about it isn't solving problems".