skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lean towards the former, although a more charitable interpretation would be, it's under attack by people who have different values (i.e. they value diversity/proportional representation/equality of outcome more than they value meritocracy).
Same trend for producthunt.com. Probably an issue of measurement, not actual traffic. Most likely due to ad blockers and the like.
No, it's not the same academy. The peace prize is awarded by a Norwegian committee [0], the science prizes by Swedes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize
Great response. It's uncomfortable doing an honest self-evaluation.
There exists several python web environments.

https://www.pythonanywhere.com/try-ipython/

https://repl.it/

https://trinket.io/python
You're 100% wrong about Getting Over It. The graphics of that game are extremely intentional, as are the controls. Bennett Foddy is a veteran who knows exactly what he's doing, and it's no accident that that game hit.
Interesting, but I think this flirts a little too close to the fallacy that this goes both ways equally. In your examples of nursing, education, and psychology I would suggest that a man in each of those fields is actually advantaged compared to his female peers, even if he is outnumbered significantly. The same is not true for women in many of the well-paying fields in which they are underrpresented.

So, just from a very high level consideration of what is the most important thing to focus on, I still think shitty behavior is it. There is no better use of time than reading and reflecting on what shitty behavior is and then building up the bravery to call it out daily. That is hard, critical, adult work.
" And I think people should learn to spend more time alone and, most important, undistracted. It looks like many are afraid ot the silence, or the voices from within they'd hear if they are alone and in silence."

I am totally guilty of this. I really just can't sit in a silent environment without going crazy. At least need music. My GF and I broke up after a 2yr long relationship, having shared an apartment. She left and moved to a different city, coming home to an empty place after a long day at work was a bit too much sometimes, especially during the weekends. So when the contract ended I actually moved into a house share, where I like the company, there is usually someone always around.

I am 35 and have never ever lived in a place by myself, apart from when I was in a relationship or something.
The holiday differential is likely enough that the employer will not allow the employee to work any longer than is strictly necessary, and only if the workplace absolutely must stay open during a holiday. Most people will not even have the option to work. For those that do, the shifts will be offered to the most senior workers first.

Some states might even allow absentee ballots for those who will be present in the state, but are essential personnel who have been scheduled to work on election day. That's not something that can be established federally, though.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4858461/

>India is the only country where medical seats are officially sold, therefore, acknowledging the importance of money power over merit (6). In private medical colleges significant numbers of seats are paid seats at undergraduate and post graduate levels, which are beyond the payment capacity of a common person.
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It's very common in the UK and known as a "Cardholder Not Present" transaction. The merchant needs explicit permission from their payment provider to be able to process these transactions either via their handheld terminal or an equivalent "terminal" running on their PC or payment provider website.

There are strict rules about not writing down cardholder details etc as well. You're correct, these are riskier transactions and the cost per transaction can be higher for the merchant to be able to accept payments this way.
That is correct. Nokia/Withings Steel HR on my hand contains a small, surprisingly fast e-ink display (although low res).

They also have small, barely noticeable LED lights lighting the screen to be visible during night. Much more pleasant way of checking the time during the night than looking at a phone. And its battery lasts 2-3 weeks and charges in two hours.

The screen isn't always on though, and only activates on a click from the side.
I'd love to agree with you, but the science provides us[1] with a clear trend: the freer the women and the more equal they are culturally and legally, the lower their participation in STEM. That doesn't agree too well with the "shitty behavior" scenario, putting me in a "we need a better explanation with more predictive power" camp for now.

[1] off of the top of Google: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...
> "Product: Everhour. HQ: Minsk, Belarus"
If this was true why is there rampant ageism in SV?
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Depends on where you are located. If its a US Based company, obviously not enough revenue to sustain 7 employees.

The company is based in Belarus where salaries are lower than US:
https://blogs.elenasmodels.com/en/average-monthly-salary-in-...
No special tricks. Firstly, it's cheaper and we try to emphasize this in our interface, and secondly, some do not want to receive an invoice each month, they want to pay only once.
If you accept climate change is real, and accept we need to tackle the problem, the simplest and most powerful solution would be coordinated action. However, we are stuck in a prisoners dilemma, because people with your attitude will not stop, will not change, and if that is say 1/100 people then it becomes unbearable for the other 99, socially and economically, to commit to the plan.
Fantastic work. Hope it finds its niche and grows
I don't need caffeine or other stimulants for it to take me way more than 15 minutes...
I could learn COBOL; I've had to take classes in my undergrad and one of my careers involved it. There's a couple of reasons why I dont:

* Putting my career on a trajectory where I am using a dying technology. Unless it paid 3x-5x what I could make using a JVM language (my current career path), the risk/reward isn't there. So market forces will need to drive the cost of salaries up even farther before I consider a jump.

* Outdated development methodologies. My experience with COBOL so far is a lot of entrenched practices that we later learned are inefficient. Both tools and management have been extraordinarily reluctant to improvement and change. I'm not willing to undertake the additional stress to deal with PITA, so until the management over these ares is forced into retirement, companies will endure a shortage of fresh talent.
It's freaky because the "conscious" state of a Boltzmann brain might last a nanosecond, and could mimic what you are thinking right now, or could be psychotic. Imagine if shifting charges in piezoelectric materials in the dirt could generate Boltzmann brains, so when you take a walk, your footsteps create a string of thoughts in the ground. Maybe those thoughts resemble words, in the language of dirt, and maybe they rhyme, so they're a kind of poetry. Maybe star fusion leads to Boltzmann brains, so our sun sings to itself, or works out mathematics, or occasionally imagines that it is a dog. Such possibilities are freaky, I'd say, but feel free to remain unimpressed. I get your point, but the possibilities strike me as weird and wonderful. I'd be glad to learn that Boltzmann brains exist.
Generally, because "something some guy said" is not a fact, and the article makes the very same mistake three times. For example, "95% of climate scientists agree" is not a fact about global warming. It's a fact about climate scientists, and at best a rumor about climate change.

What would be a fact? The GISS raw data would come close. But James Hansen doesn't release it. No, the data has to first be "cleaned", lest people misinterpret it. That reduces a fact to "James Hansen said", and I might simply conclude that Hansen is a moron and discard the rumor.

In short, to convince someone, it isn't enough to tell them what you think, you also have to give them the means to verify those claims. You can verify that particular claim by reading E. T. Jaynes: "Probability Theory---The Logic Of Science".
It used to be that buying from the likes of Cisco, IBM, hp, etc was simply referred to as buying the worlds largest diaper so that when the proverbial shite hit the fan, you could simply ask the vendor to take the blame... This isn't true as much anymore and if it's still applicable in your firm, you may want to re-evaluate if this really where you want stay and grow.
> Netflix already lets series run on too long

Says who ? I mean, you do realize their goal isn't and shouldn't be to make the best content possible, but to make the content that the most people would want to watch and be willing to keep their subscription active for ?

If they let their series run that long, it's because it makes sense for them.

Most people have a few thing we like where, when it turned to crap quality wise, we're still following along because we love it too much to let go. How many people have kept reading the Dune sequels when they were published despite the clear fall of quality and lack of focus compared to the original book ? It isn't different.

(not that I'm not answering with your two other phrases, with which I agree, but to that one only)
Why not link to the source of information (with summary, explanation and illustrations to for common people):

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2018/prize-announ...
Ah, true. I use Encrypt.me on a public Wifi. Perfectly legitimate use, and I get blocked. Oh well.
I looked it up. "Cobol Cowboys" is a thing. http://cobolcowboys.com
"Not their first rodeo" -- hilarious.
I'm guessing prof Strumia could use some mandatory people skills training, with approval or his firing being decided by a panel of minority and female coworkers.
It's 2018, it's not acceptable to be a cunt to large tracts of humanity anymore.
Giving the keys to the show to the fans is definitely a double edged sword. I would not want some randos voting on how to end a show (it would always be a character named showy mcshowface killing everyone)

But this seems more like "we made A and B endings, and you can pick which one you watch!". If you've ever seen the movie Clue, I would imagine it's like that with all their alternate endings.
"The early embryo is a hotbed of activity for endogenous retroviruses, recent studies have shown. To understand why embryonic cells make viral proteins, scientists have run experiments to see what happens when viral genes are silenced.

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From the op article.

I'm am not an expert in this at all, these are just my thoughts on the matter, take them or leave them.

Regarding regulatory networks binding together elements so as to orchestrate changes in morphology - I had not thought about this, of course you are correct. Where you say that the viruses are too simple to drive sufficiently complex changes to the regulatory networks, I would counter by saying that chance mutations are sufficient to drive these changes.
The answer depends on the continent.
It's not really accurate to call it a conspiracy theory. It's really just an attempt to name a group of ideas.

The "conspiracy theory" charge is just push back because it's easier to criticize ideas if you can name them.
But now we're circling back to - what does "used it" mean?
any data engineering books?
Outrage and censure and ritual calls for apology at any divergence from the party line. If this trend goes unchecked - which nothing suggests it won't - I shudder, literally, to think what will become of us in twenty years. Unspeakable things will happen after closing time in the gardens of the West.
We don't offer a discount except for volume. If the client has 50+ employees, then we negotiate.
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obviously?

Not every employee must be a high paid engineer. And there are certainly non SV based engineers that are totally fine with less than 100k $ per year?

Being based in Germany, I calculate around 100k€ revenue per employee myself, maybe a bit more.
If you are in B2B segment, try offering annual plans (or even multi year plans) without any discount. It is very tough to get approval for spending any amount of money on products in corporate setting. But the amount in the approval request is not something any one cares about.
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I wonder how long it will take for CRISPR to be recognized.
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I agree with all your points up to the anecdote about India. Personally I have a big problem with the Indian caste system already, so yes, I am biased here. Without further details, especially the overall picture, in the last paragraph I get the impression that you are loathing someone of perceived lower standing to get things easier than you and maybe having more already. Not sure how I should understand that, either you are against castes and for treat people based on merit (not preferring the already rich) or you want to be treated based on some perceived social superiority. I cannot judge.
I'm almost positive they would if they could, but the companies making these machines keep and iron grip on them. And sometimes they do so with the threat of very serious criminal charges.

It's just another reason why voting machines (or vote counting machines) are so dangerous. Even if the public had the ability to audit and verify the machines are working correctly, they aren't allowed to.
Slightly off topic, but does anyone know the artist of the article? Loved the graphics.
ProTip: not likely to be very high.
“Interactive”, not delayed “everyone gets what the mob decides”

Edit: just my understanding, this is not a part of N that I have particular knowledge of..
How a HN comment turned into a NYT opinion piece
I don't have any specific data here, just a gut feel.

> Do they improve accuracy?

I think they pretty clearly would increase accuracy, modulo any potential tampering. Some of this is structural -- each ballot has multiple elections, some in which the same candidate can be featured multiple times under different party affiliations. Tallying this by hand seems intrinsically error-prone. It's arguable that simplifying the ballot could help both tallying and voting, but given the current design optical scanning seems like a huge increase in accuracy.

> do they save a significant amount of money?

Once again, I suspect yes -- tallying the votes by hand takes a lot of time and a lot of people. Poll workers aren't well-compensated by any means, but there's still a cost.

> Do they increase the speed that things are tallied, and does that make a significant difference or improvement anywhere (because unless i'm missing something, getting results a few hours earlier is not a good reason to lessen the security of an election)?

I think yes to the first and a matter of opinion on the second. I'm with you that speed of results is either a non-goal or an anti-goal -- states that release precinct-level results when voting is still open elsewhere in the country are implicitly engaging in electioneering in my mind, and should be explicitly forbidden from doing so.

An automated system combined with random manual tallies seems pretty good to me from a security standpoint. As an aside, in addition to the random tallies I believe there is a process where any party can request a certain number of explicit audits if they feel that the results seem questionable from a given precinct, and an additional layer of election supervisors who can make a non-partisan request if there are inconsistencies from previous election cycles) seems like

In New York I would prefer that the focus be on distributing voter information earlier and more widely would be a much better use of time than further changing the actual voting. When I lived in Washington state, you got a voter information guide with all the candidates and ballot measures, statements for and against, and an explicit statement as to what is being voted on, well in advance of the election. In New York, half the time I have to really dig to even find out what is going to be on my ballot, and finding the full text of ballot measures is an exercise in futility as you try to navigate through the NY Department of State to try to find the information. Third-party sources like local newspapers actually do a significantly better job than the state does here.
I was struggling with the same dilemma. I'm dutch, fluent in english, and cannot think of one insulting phrase specific to the English.

Of course: if one's superior and winning, one has no need for mocking.

;-)
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Wouldn't the exact same arguments work for C++ too? Modern C++ is just as safe as Rust.
google algo changes have been happening as well
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It's awesome people are working on this. Their progress is unfortunately is pretty hard to follow or even support.

Their low-tech process steps: https://github.com/libresilicon/process/raw/master/process_s...

Lightning talk during the 34c3: https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9256-lightning_talks_day_2#t=178...

For an idea of how you could build transistors in your (admittedly pretty large) basement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrmqZ0hgAXk

HN thread with article about a home-made litographically-fabricated IC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16955549
They're different use-cases and segments. I'm not on Facebook because I don't need racist screeds from friends of friends (or sometimes soon-to-be-former friends). I am on Instagram because I like dank memes and pictures of food. I'm not trying to stick it to the man, I'm just valuing a different type of content and enjoying the different medium more.
Another issue with COBOL (Apart from being unsexy and verbose) is simply getting access to a proper mainframe environment. You could pick up COBBOL using something like GNU Cobol or similar but it's working in the z/OS environment that is needed and understanding the various system facilities and how they interact. MTM is pretty much one of the only ways to get access to a recent version of z/OS to test on (the other being shelling out 2K/yr for IBM LMS access).

In a age when most things come with snazzy oneliners and docker images trying to learn COBOL is an esoteric endevour. The language has its warts and quirks, but it's nothing too crazy. Same with TSO and learning JCL, it's orthogonal to the current landscape.

(Not saying I wouldn't love to be doing in here in Canada)

Fun fact: The current version of IBM Cobol has JSON GENERATE and JSON PARSE, so you can whip up endpoints that interact directly with a mainframe (as long as your convert the code page at the network boundary). Never thought I'd be able to use React and Cobol backed by DB2 in 2018.
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>>For example, "95% of climate scientists agree" is not a fact about global warming. It's a fact about climate scientists, and at best a rumor about climate change.

If 95% of climate scientists agree that something is a fact, that is not "at best a rumor" about climate change.
Whatsapp serves a different purpose (chat) than Fb/Insta.

Potentially viable alternatives (Telegram, Signal, etc) are emerging for Whatsapp compared to none for the other two.
> AWS is definitely already happening.

Can confirm, I live in the capital city of an Eastern European country and I've been approached by a AWS recruiter a couple of months ago, she told me they were about to open a big new office in here. I think they were quite desperate to get their share of hirings because they had approached me even though there was no mention on my LinkedIn profile of C++ or Java, which was a major part of the job requirements.

> I expect the market to soon be flooded by Python outsourcers,

Fortunately or not there aren't that many Python programmers out here to speak of (I'm talking about Eastern Europe, maybe things in India and South-East Asia are different). I should know, because I've been programming Python for a living for 13 years now and the market for Python programmers isn't a large one. Yeah, I did ok, as in there are small shops that pay decent money for Python programmers, and from time to time there's even a big outsourcing company desperate to hire Python programmers because a new foreign client has arrived with a Python project on their doorsteps, but more often than not Python is still looked as a "scripting language" and as a "programming language for non-important and non-enterprisey stuff".

Just recently a friend of mine that used to work for a major outsourcer based in this area (they have big Western clients, you probably interact with some of their code each day) told me that their company puts people like Python programmers that they intend to hire on a special list (and probably Ruby programmers, too), as in they're not seen as long-term employees, more like project-based (see the part above about Python projects coming from foreign clients), as the focus is mostly on Java and probably some C# and C++, but mostly Java.
>For what it's worth, the person with that piece of paper might be a millionaire, and their parents more educated than mine, and it doesn't matter, they get ahead of me with lower score.

So what is a better solution in your opinion in a country where you say the corruption is very high?
Poor people can't afford tutoring with the "right" professor, buying books from the same "right" professor or buying the exams questions for the same professors, or later buying the exams and paying for poor people to write theyr projects and thesis. I this corrupt environment I assume a rich medical student will obviously have the bigger grades and grab the "money making jobs"
Absolutely!

But that still took two extra years and loads more money and people.
If whites were the subject of longstanding past discrimination, then sure, and I'd support such measures. I think it's irrational to assume that you can remedy past discrimination without affirmative action. It's like bending a paperclip and assuming that it'll return to its original shape so long as you leave it alone.
I think this was a serious abuse of the commerce clause. It seems you could effectively argue that anything affects interstate commerce and extend this type of reasoning in a way that circumvents the idea of commerce within the confines of the state border.

This type of abuse of the commerce clause should be rolled back to something more sane that reflects the original intent. The courts seem to bend the words of the constitution to increase central authority. Our freedoms suffer as a consequence in my opinion.