skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being quite familiar with China, I second this. I don't know about India, but in China it was the combination of a cultural necessity to have a son and the one the child policy that lead to the current gender imbalance. In the bad-old-days, many girl babies were simply discarded and often died. The problem cannot be blamed on ultrasound tech.
I'm not trying to directly argue with you, so I may have missed the details of your post. I apologize for that.

Some of the points you make made me want to speak about the general perception and assumption that a disabled person:

1. Must have an interest/insight into accessibility work

2. Must have a lower productivity due to the disability

You even address the latter with:

> And since there is an implied assumption that a blind programmer will be less productive

and that "implied assumption" is what I want to talk about.

To me, that assumption is very close to racial stereotypes -- assumptions about someone based on their appearance. To keep it in the "disability" sphere, it would be like assuming Stephen Hawking (a clear outlier) is a complete vegetable and unproductive due to his disability. While his disability no doubt makes him less productive at specific tasks impacted by it, his overall productivity is made up for in other ways.

Many people want to put the onus on the disabled person to demonstrate that they're "normal" or "normally productive" in order to bust themselves out of a niche (accessibility work, a special team of "disabled people," a special reading level, etc.) rather than simply assuming that they are "normal" and waiting for a demonstration otherwise, as they would would with any other person.

To me, it's too close to saying "well, we'll see if this black guy is normally productive -- if he's not, we'll put him in the 'urban brainstorming division.'"

I'm speaking about this in an attempt to get a broader discussion on the idea as someone who's been pigeonholed exactly these ways in the past.
It's not a rare case at all, especially among male migrant workers.
You obviously feel very passionate about this subject, so there is no point in attempting to convincing you to change your opinion, other than to reiterate that it is not a commonly held opinion.

I did want to respond directly to one of your points that is dead wrong. With regard to this statement:

>Secondly, that information is used to influence you. Cambridge Analytica still proudly proclaims, on their home page, that they "[use] data to change audience behavior." Ads on Facebook are being used by different groups to inflame political tensions

There has been no scientific evidence that CA, the Russians, or anyone else was actually successful in their efforts to use Facebook to influence the election or "inflate political tensions". In fact, CA's own customers say that it didn't work [1]. This whole thing was a manufactured controversy.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/cambridge-analytica-facebook-...
I imagine divorces involving sperm and embryos would be a good source of material.

And those are situations where there is a relationship instead of anonymous posthumous donation.

I guess lots of people don't think it's weird to assert some right of control over their genetic material.
Good point.

a. Some of these hark back to the 90's so they were superseded than discontinued
b. Some are actually comparable to Google's discontinuations
Why didn't you link to the comic to allow Munroe to gain views/advertisement revenue/etc.?
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The opposite approach is to send RSS feeds to your email client, which can be done by rss2email (originally by Aaron Schwartz).

https://github.com/wking/rss2email

I've been using it for a few years and, while the command line interface is a bit awkward, it works fine. Since email clients have the same controls an RSS reader needs (read/unread, folders, etc.) it works fine.

Blogtrottr is a hosted service that does the same thing; I also used them for a few years and was happy with the service. Just moved off because self-hosting was in some ways simpler for me.

https://blogtrottr.com/
Rss2email
full30.com is angling to be that
> Every nation in history has dealt with this with minimal issues.

Well generally the oversupply of males at birth was resolved using centuries of non-voluntary conscription warfare and high rates of workplace death. So there probably were some issues for the guys who died, or worse.
Ultrasound is widely available in China, but it is illegal for a doctor to tell the parents the likely gender.
> Who is being harmed by a rent-controllee sub-leasing? Literally no one.

The owner is harmed, because otherwise they could have gotten a new tenant and raised the rent back up to market rate.
I think we can be quite sure that there exists a trend of increasing unequality in US regardless how you decide to measure it. We can also be quite sure that that trend will stop one day (if not before, when one person holds all wealth).

If I were ultra rich, I would be paranoidly obsessive about when, why and how this trend stops, and put significant resources into seeing that the trend stops peacefully. Why? If the trend takes too long, I would be almost surely dropped from the ultra rich category. And if the trend does stop early, but not peacefully, I run into very high risk of losing a lot (up to losing life).

Now, as most ultra rich do not seem to be obsessed about this, I consider this as quite strong evidence that majority of ultra rich share one thing with the majority of us mere mortals - i.e. being dumb as f#ck...
i think its double, and it ends up doing so little damage that you really don’t get the experience you want
A $12 RTL-SDR USB stick will 100% work for most GSM rx (won't hit the 1900+MHz bands without a downconverter, but that's why you want tx - you'll use it to force the phone onto the 800-900MHz bands anyway, the top half of the 915MHz ISM band in the US if you have a HAM licence and are trying to not break _too_ many laws at once).

This DefCon talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQSu9cBaojc

Gives a good overview of why you need tx to capture an IMSI - without forcing a handset into transmitting non-encrypted, you only get the TMSI (unless you can crack the crypto - and why bother, when a base station can instruct a handset to just not encrypt anything?)
My main problem with Qt is just that it doesn't feel native, it's as simple as that. This trumps all other problems like the fact that it's a bazillion exabytes and painful to set up etc.
I sincerely would like and use and pay for something like this, my problem is that I don't believe you have the right incentives to do your best job if I'm just paying you $59 or whatever.

I'm not saying you should charge more, that wouldn't solve anything.
Ford Foundation, Evangelical NGOs and World Bank Intellectual Yet Idiots are to be blamed here.

I remember in my childhood government ran this insane propaganda for vasectomy. Government claimed we all would die of hunger unless we stop producing babies. This propaganda was sponsored by people in USA who claimed population was a time bomb. Those fears were totally discredited with time.

Sadly good well off people bought the propaganda where as poor did not. Government even outright lied that vasectomies are easily reversible when in reality those procedures are more complex and not free.

That is why I caution current Indian government to simply ignore the first world problems like Global warming doomsday and instead focus on rapid growth so existing millions can afford to feed themselves and let USA and Europe play the global warming game.

Indian PM is smart and he used global warming scare to get billions from USA and Europe while doing only lip service to actual efforts. China is doing same and better.
Finger's got them all beat by a few decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol
The calorie density of a corn field is higher than Manhattan.

There's also more calories of beef in the US than people.
"Easement" isn't a magic word that let's the government use your property how it wants. (And no, the government can't just force you to run a public park on your property; governments have to buy the land they build parks on).

There is an easement here--it's the right of way that arises allowing the public to cross private property in order to get to the sea shore. If that was what the litigation was about, Khosla would definitely be in the wrong. But the state is going way beyond that--it's forcing him to keep open the parking lot, allow access to the beach above the mean high tide line, etc. That goes way beyond the easement that exists.

And the state admits that. There is no dispute in this case that the parking lot and sandy beach are not part of the easement. That's why the state had to go through a backdoor route: they're saying that he can't change the use of his undisputedly private property without getting a permit to do so.
is there really a big market thought for this? Alexa devices are at least 2 years old. How many real people do you know that really use alexa to control their livingroom? When I saw my boss repeatedly saying 'alexa turn the volume down' it made him look stupid, he could just grab the remote and turn it down. I understand it could be useful in kitchen if your hands are covered in food and you need basic things like set timer, change Pandora station or play a youtube recepy for whatever but using it to control the livingroom, for video calling etc. Sounds more like a gimmick that Siri became after Microsoft spent so much resources building Cortana. We have phones, tablets, smart tv and smart infotainment systems in our cars, we don't need another device to do things that we can get done through all of our other devices. May be I am wrong, bur just don't see it.
1) have decent experience
2) be decent at interviews

I've had more than one promising candidate that just blew the phone screen or interview for various reasons.

Speak up, don't mumble, don't take the call in a coffee shop or outside in the wind ffs.

You'd be surprised how much this affects my hiring decision (continue on the process and explain to my team/boss why I recommended a mumbler with a barking dog).
Challenges faced while training an AI to combat abuse
So cool that you built that!

Here's what Google says about cookies in incognito mode:
"If you use Chrome in incognito mode (or in guest mode on Chrome OS), it will not transmit any pre-existing cookies to sites that you visit. Sites may deposit new cookies on your system while you are in these modes; these cookies will only be temporarily stored and transmitted to sites while you remain in incognito / guest mode. They will be deleted when you close the browser, close all open incognito windows or exit guest mode."
Source: https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/privacy/archive/201408...

I first noticed that FB might be able to detect sites you visit while in incognito mode when I noticed that I was personally being retargeted by sites I visited in incognito mode while on Facebook. Here's an interesting quora thread I found while looking into it:
"Also the cookies act too important role here. Cookies during Incognito Mode are saved in temporary folder, and they get purged after session ends. But when browsing Facebook and Google in the same session, they both share same cookies folder and cookies help to send tailored ads to users."
https://www.quora.com/Im-using-Incognito-mode-for-Google-sea...

Curious for your take.
I personally think this is a good idea. It is better for the well being of the child if parents love him/her instead of having an unwanted child.

Female child is expensive in India and Indians are poor hence not all can afford the luxury of female child.

I absolutely hate the objectification of women as vaginas for our boys. All the discussion around the topic is "we need vaginas for our boys" who will produce babies if we kill all girls?
Unfortunately, that's unlikely. I mean it might happen in urban well-developed areas, but if history is any indicator then for most parts of the country women will likely be worse off, and you'll see things like an increase in kidnappings, forced marriages, and shared marriages with multiple men.

Bride kidnapping is already having somewhat of a resurgence in China - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_kidnapping#China
I have to be honest, I may be a bit biased here, because I am bit frustrated by this mentality that innovation needs to follow a specific path

Who said it has to? I didn't.

What I said was that Silicon-Valley-type people often display a certain amount of hubris in believing that nobody else has ever done what they're trying to do, and therefore disregard free knowledge that others obtained at great expense.

Musk is attempting the revolutionary, never-before-heard-of, herculean task of... building a factory to make cars. Strip away all the PR-speak from Musk's and Tesla's public announcements and statements, and that's what you find underneath. "Build a car factory" is not a new problem. We have over a century of prior art on things people have tried, what succeeded and what failed. It's the willful ignoring of this prior art that I'm complaining about; other companies have learned about the advantages and disadvantages of automation, for example, but the whole enterprise of Tesla is wrapped up in so much mythology around breaking new ground and being completely new that they were constitutionally incapable of admitting "yeah, this is a thing other people have done, too, maybe we should study how it went for them and learn from that".
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I don't think any two big countries can be friends instead of frenemies. Think about Soviet Union, China, U.S. back in last century.
Laszlo Bock, Google's former head of HR, covered this idea in his book "Work Rules" [1]. It's a good read.

(disclaimer: I work at Google, although I read the book before I joined. I remember initially thinking the book was just corporate PR, but later I had the opportunity to see firsthand how accurate it was)

[1] https://smile.amazon.com/Work-Rules-Insights-Inside-Transfor...
A company I can share a github repo and a description of a webpack config, and will get back the github repo with a working webpack config.

“Here’s this new middlemanapp project running scss through sprockets. Set it up to process scss through webpack, make sprite-based icons from images in this folder, compile es6 and vue modules or coffee script and cue modules, include lodash, set up the hot reload to work with middleman’s, and prep production and Dev environments.”

I’d pay for something like this.
pet owners have been doing that for years. [0]

[0]: https://www.neuticles.com/
Bribes help women get better husbands. Unlike USA marriages in India is about family ties and hence it is important that an uneducated unattractive women gets a good husband. She has to pay the premium of dowry to get a husband who otherwise will not marry her.

An educated engineer girl in India can easily marry a waiter without dowry but her inherent greed for wealth makes her seek someone who is even richer and she pays for that using dowry.

Dowry system is essentially greed of females and not males.
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Renting doesn't magically mean you have additional money to invest. The only opportunity cost to factor is the value of the down payment. But you also need to consider their cash flow as rents rose and their mortgage payment remained mostly the same or dropped as they refinanced plus now that they own their home outright.
Check out Azure Databricks
'Hard cases make bad law', as the saying go. We know they won't lead to a massive crime wave of false convictions because DNA databases generally aren't abused like that, and the effects on crime are enormous: "The effects of DNA databases on the deterrence and detection of offenders" http://jenniferdoleac.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/DNA_Den... , Anker et al 2017.
That says the world "at birth ratio" is 1.03, and the article says Dongguan has a ratio of 1.18. I haven't crunched the numbers, but after a quick glance at the other countries, I'd be willing to believe Dongguan is within the top percentile. Doesn't seem "overstated" to me.
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True. Our building watchman spends 6 months in Mumbai while his brother 'takes care' of his wife. He then goes back and brother comes on watchman duty. Better its my brother than neighbour he says.
This has reasonable parallels to the PSP "Pandora's Battery" exploit, which put the device into DFU mode using a battery that emulated the factory service mode jig, and then exploited an issue in the trust chain verification in the first-stage (mask-ROM) bootloader. Similarly fixable with hardware only, which came soon after the exploit.

This bootloader bug is much sillier (IMO) than Sony's, though. Sony's was a series of crypto mistakes in the trust chain verification: it decrypted blocks in place and there was an issue in the checksum code that left it vulnerable to a timing attack, so a very, very small valid-but-colliding block had to be constructed and the rest of the bootloader was then freely-injectable. This nVidia/Nintendo mistake is an even sillier basic protocol issue.

I think the main lesson here is not to put complex protocol code in your immutable first-stage mask ROM, and if you do, to limit the surface area as much as possible, ensure memory safety, and audit the hell out of it.
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Well, it's either the ideal auction or it isn't. The question is how likely is it that a coin auction running for two weeks would produce a curve like that. I can't find any others in crypto so far, though I am open to being proven wrong if someone can show these are common and rule out promoter action as being the cause.

Making purchasers in multiple lots isn't nefarious at all, it just disguises how many purchasers there are, which is a relevant consideration for the _Howey_ analysis. If (arguendo) 85% of the tokens are in the hands of 1 person, that would militate against a finding that Ethereum is like Bitcoin and lacks the necessary degree of organization to constitute a scheme in which any one person shoulders personal civil or criminal liability.

If, again for sake of argument, they find that the largest hodler only holds 1% of the tokens, then that tends to make it more difficult to identify a central promoter and parallel investors (think: LPs without a partnership deed) which is usually required to bring enforcement.

I'm not making normative claims here, just saying that those three factors (common fund, repo, likely centralization of Ether holdings in few hands) tends to suggest the scheme is in the "regulated" bucket rather than the "unregulated" bucket.
Google Dataproc - very good and very soon they will release kubernetes as the manager instead of yarn.
Only if you instantly revived them and never provided them with the details of why we have an income tax. They would also be shocked by the lack of tariffs and other taxes.
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You make a compelling case that Khosla is in the right here. If that is the case then why do you think he has been failing in court to date?
This is the first total penis transplant vs partial penis transplant. Previous transplants just attached to an existing "stub".
When I've been working in Go projects which required external helpers of some sort, I've always just written them as separate Go binaries because they're relatively simple and quick to get up and running.

I've started doing this for my Rust projects too because Rust is becoming a really nice language for writing these sorts of things, and having a separate binary as a Rust file in src/bin is convenient.

Often you want to use some logic from the main application in your tasks and using the same language streamlines that.
In all honesty this seems more a problem with Western Academia, and Indology departments than with "Hinduism" itself. It seems the West cannot free itself from the impulse to create divisions.

Perhaps a better analysis would be to learn from India and it's diversity of thought, rather than to set arbitrary boundaries, and create division between people which the West is so apt at doing. It seems though that the West is still incapable of comprehending, or learning from an infinitely variable world.
You could give AWS EMR a shot, it probably doesn't offer as much as databricks but should have consistent pricing.
A good default might be based on current browser behavior. Keep in mind http2 might make everything use one connection but allow 100 concurrent requests.
Population is a time bomb that is presently exploding. The rate of food production will not keep pace with population, and somewhere between 200-500 million people have died of starvation since the warnings about population in 1968 that likely inspired the programs you are talking about (not all in India and not due to total carrying capacity...)

Global warming impacts the poor disproportionately compared to the rich, because the rich will be able to afford food when it becomes more scarce. This disproportionate impact on the poor is one of the reasons the Pope has called on all of us (and the Wealthy in particular) to be concerned about and act on global warming.

From a self-centered perspective, “don’t divide the farm” — concentrate instead of dilute the wealth flowing to the next generation. I do not believe the poorest are net contributors to economic activity so increasing their number is not the path to national prosperity.
Someone transferred $99M in litecoin–and it only cost them $0.40 in fees.
Most things Tesla seem to come down to SpaceX and Mars. When I have a conversation about a car company and it ends up veering off to Mars, I realize that it was never really a conversation about cars to begin with. Having said that, I don’t know how to cut through the mythology, some of which seems deserved. I was one of the people who thought that SpaceX was probably going to fail years ago, and I was quite wrong. Some of what you’re saying was part of my reasoning too, insofar as building and launching rockets wasn’t a new thing, but really quite an old one.

Even still, I find it hard to see the future for Tesla that real fans seem to perceive. SpaceX has literally and figuratively taken off, but Tesla just seems stuck. I’m especially leery of how willing they seem to be to beta test software that can cause loss of life and limb. I also don’t see how existing Titans in the automotive space can’t just eat Tesla’s lunch, given that they can crank out a couple orders of magnitude more cars per year than Tesla. What is Tesla doing that they can’t copy, given that Tesla is still trying to figure out the assembly line?
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Well, there are plenty of big arteries in the pelvis the surgeon could anastamose with, and you can harvest the donor artery as far up as you want (it supplies nothing else), so I'm not sure the arterial supply is really the problem. Venous drainage could be a problem.

The other thing: they may actually plan to do those transplants down the line, but there's no sense in doing them if the scrotum fails to take.
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late 2014. I had around 120k saved up and it put my bidding capacity at around 550k.
Wow you're either a Google employee or huge fanboy. Every single one of your comments is pro-google/anti-apple.
I didn't even use a service like Google Reader, but when it died, I got caught up in the flood of alternatives, and am now a very happy Feedly user.

Didn't even know what I was missing!
I’m using an iPad Pro, using the ProCreate app—-I use ImageMagick for the animations
Check out AWS Glue: https://aws.amazon.com/glue/

Disclosure: I work on this service
Good. Less competition for me.
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