jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Not hiring because somebody because they're not a cultural fit is fine (if for some reason you like monoculture).

Determining they're not a cultural fit because they're black, is most definitely not.

"..article published Tuesday said three Black applicants were rejected from jobs at Facebook despite having met all the qualifications."

I presume Facebook mainly interviews people who've met their stated qualifications, rejects more than they accept, so I'm really not sure what the point here is.

"one HR expert said "culture fit" is subjective and indicates the hiring decision is largely not based "on the candidate's ability to deliver results."

Yes, cultural fit is subjective - but so are interviews.
If you're using interviews to assess the candidates ability to deliver, then it all gets a bit recursive as you're only testing them on their ability to be interviewed (and you'd hope the best people, don't have much practice at taking interviews)

Now I'm not for one moment saying that Facebook doesn't run regular KKK meetings around the ping-pong table - but I'm just getting a bit tired of contentless content.
If you enjoy reading any of Machiavelli's books or letters, I highly recommend Frederick the Great book called "Anti-Machiavel" (as well as his other books), for a different POV

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Machiavel

https://archive.org/details/AntiMachiavelFriedericktheGreat/...
Unfortunately, the people that I care about mostly want to talk about what they're outraged about.
The closest modern equivalent is probably a paravirtualized unikernel.
I think it's opportunity cost and interest/emergency. If you had some woodworking tools, wood, basic skills and a project, you might do nothing with it. If your brother suddenly said " i prepurchased 3 hen, they are coming to you on your bday in two month", I'm sure you would react the same way I did and make a henhouse and improve your woodworking skills. And maybe learn basic electronic skills and automate the door if you're lazy.
Previously on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26719964

Dataset: https://github.com/fwd/security/blob/master/blacklist.txt

Not very big, as it's a start. Looking for folks to help me expand it!!

Keep in mind this is for NodeJS applications. Where there are not .PHP and .CGI files, etc. This dataset would not work for other applications, for obvious reasons.
Shame upon me?

Why?

Because I like matrix?

I scarcely used it in the past year. And I haven't really used Element at all. ...what's wrong with considering doing so?
Meditate on our webpage while reading thousands of words of 'Terms of Use' and 'Privacy' pages. Calming!
So, the record, while incomplete, is pretty good.

Do you have any evidence of this claim? Specifically, do you know where I can find the formula used to calculate the global temperature and the constituent temperature readings, locations and time/dates?

Common sense says that such readings would be spotty at best and also that they would be incomparable between 1880 and 2014 but since they are comparing them I'm very curious of their methodology.

EDIT OK I found what claims to be the source code of the software that massages the numbers here: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/sources/

EDIT2 OK I found the underlying data here: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/station_data/

It's exactly what I thought. Hardly any of the stations go back to 1880 and the ones that do are unbelievably spotty with sometimes two years or more of missing data. Oh and they're apparently not even measurements - they're "reconstructions". And apparently they re-adjust these reconstructions all the time. (see http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/09/nasas_rubber_rul...)

The environment would be much better off if we stopped pretending we know things we don't and just agree that it is stupid to squander a finite resource like fossil fuels and start conserving it.
A radio and network interface that comes up before the bootloader? Sounds like awesome fun!
I allow Google to show me its own ads, which are strongly graphically constrained compared to regular web advertising. But video ads are just insufferably obnoxious.
I don't think I'm underestimating it at all. Immersive learning works best when you are almost ready to learn the material already; in this case you can achieve a lot in a few days if you are motivated, but there are limits. You can't compress years or months into days, and you can only get so far before you have to slow down and synthesize.

I wouldn't hire someone just because they'd graduated from a decent CS program either, it's just a reasonable proxy for some of the skills (but not others) they will need to become a developer over time.
Do TVs these days come with high current USB ports? 500mA probably isn't enough.
"The "1 month of battery life" is such bullshit"

Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and call BS on that too.
Here's the info about standby time you can find for iPhone6:"
"Up to 16 days (384 hours)"

I'm interested in knowing if anyone even got half of that. And if you actually start using your phone it'd go down a lot more (which you probably would want to, since you know... you bought it to have as a phone)
I probably wasn't sufficiently explicit, but that was actually my point: that IoT would divorce itself from wearable computing -- with the latter being a fizzling fad but the former being a profound change in nearly every industrial activity (in my opinion). For example, GE has a bunch of interesting things going on in this space[1] -- stuff that I think is much more real and much more profound than wearable computing (at least in 2015).

[1] http://www.fastcompany.com/3031272/can-jeff-immelt-really-ma...
I want to go head to head with someone in match play.
"How about a third option: they use a method of communication that wont get them killed. You're presenting a false dichotomy."

Got any suggestions? Because I know the millions of Chinese who attempt to circumvent China's firewall daily would love to hear about it.

The point is that probably 90% of the time, these people aren't using anything better than bare encryption (if that), and they're drawing attention to themselves anyway. If they're going to do that anyway, I think it makes much more sense to hide the communication via stego.

But if you've got a better idea, let's hear it.
It's obviously not a given that you get programmers together and they create value. There's a lot more to a business than coding.

What I was arguing is not that bubbles don't pop but rather that you can't call everything a bubble because that implies that it's going to go down.

Maybe it's because I'm a programmer myself and therefore I'm too biased but I see very few jobs right now that are in such high demand and whose demand is only going to rise even more in the near term.

Basically I was saying it's not a bubble, it's a normal market correction. We had the dot-com bust that devalued programmers massively because of completely artificial conditions and this "white hot" we're currently in really should be the norm.
Yep, nothing but love for SQLAlchemy, Jinja, Routes and Beaker. But even given those components, it's still a hard sell.

Reminds me of this blogpost from a while back: http://www.hindsightlabs.com/blog/2010/03/15/jinja2-and-djan...

"In the beginning, there was Django, and it was good. But gradually we began to find its paradigms counterintuitive: we disliked the idea of apps and considered the built-in template language pretty crippled. More importantly, we prefer the epically powerful SQLAlchemy to Django’s ORM of Doom, so with the evidence before us, we switched to Pylons and the haven of SQLAlchemy/Jinja, only to discover we had switched from a shitty apartment in Brooklyn to a tent in the desert. No cockroaches, true, but no running water, either. Who really wants to write a thumbnail library? (Apologies to anyone who has actually written a thumbnail library)"
Wish I could up vote this a hundred times. I also wonder what happened in the 70s. A big cultural change in 'white' America that was copied/amplified in 'Black' America? I can't put my finger on it either, but there really is something concrete about 'family values' that expresses itself for generations.
The issue with the way this site approaches twitter, and many other sites fall into this flawed design pattern too, is that in order to participate I have to oAuth my twitter account and allow the site to tweet something.

Once you get over, say 1000 users, you become mindful of spamming your followers. I'm fortunate to have a fair more than 1000 and my partner has a degree of magnitude worth of followers again - if you were doing this all the time it would effect ones twitter followers.

Some of the streaming sites like Justin.TV and UStream encourage users to participate in a chat room via twitter and it totally ignores that all of this will be spam to 99% of the followers. It's a design pattern that should stop.
Factoring out race is the easiest way to factor out culture. Would you not agree?
Great work! I would add that you should turn off auto-capitalization for tablet/mobile devices, to preserve the shell aesthetic.

<input type="text" autocapitalize="off />
But also thankfully it seems that drivers being independent contractors doesn't absolve Uber of following the ADA.
> In the case of organs there's an inherently limited supply, since people have to donate voluntarily and all sorts of other conditions have to be met.

Yes, and charity spending on one person necessarily takes away from spending on another too. To support someone whose choice of behavior impacted them means you can't support someone who was injured entirely through 'acts of god'.

> It's not as if we're throwing away livers rather than give them to alcoholics.

No, but but they do go to the back of the line. Especially if they still drink.

> I'm sure you must be aware that we do treat all kinds of obesity-related conditions – and at great expense.

Sure. But thankfully we prioritize them to below children with heart defects, and non-obese adults with the same conditions.

> Are you in favor of conditionally refusing treatment to HIV patients depending on the manner in which they contracted the virus?

No more than I am for prioritizing treatment downward for everyone whose injuries were self-inflicted. That's only fair for the people whose were not.
It's a balance. Suppose you add this proof requirement. What happens then? It's not as simple as lots of legitimate amateur content producers facing additional friction. Most will make the explicit decision not to have their legal name and address associated with pornographic content. Others will upload their content anyway, without doing an audit of the different platforms' security postures or being aware of the likelihood of and outcomes from breaches.

What happens in a breach? Now, you're probably thinking, just require the platforms to be secure! But you can't simply will that into existence, and I guarantee you it's impossible. So ultimately you've made people vulnerable when they weren't before, and you're setting up a situation where it's pretty much inevitable that they'll be exposed and threatened by stalkers, deranged fans, and ideological zealots.

Let's suppose you bite the bullet, and say turning all the porn platforms into outlets for major porn production companies is the way to go. At least we've eliminated revenge porn, right? No. Large masses of people really hate that kind of mass produced porn, so they jump to foreign platforms that don't require complicated ID verification. These sites end up with the large majority of amateur porn content, along with the revenge porn. But they're now out of the reach of US law enforcement, so the victims of revenge porn would then be in a worse position than they are today.

Now we're getting to even more extreme measures. Maybe the US needs to build a national firewall to prevent the foreign criminals from penetrating our great nation and undermining our morals with porn that's unapproved by the Feds? China is way ahead of the game on this, in that pornography is outright illegal, and it has sophisticated internet security measures that are exceptional in breadth and depth by Western standards. How's its war on porn going? Spoiler alert: it's lost it. Perhaps it could be a moment to build cross-cultural empathy, as Chinese netizens exchange tips with Americans on how to use Shadowsocks to avoid the censors and access amateur porn.

Requiring ID verification is one of those things that sounds good and moral on its face, but has so many unintended downstream consequences that exacerbate the original problem while making things generally worse.
Thomas aggressively refuses to recuse himself from cases that other justices consider an obvious conflict of interest.

But they have no authority to enforce their opinion, and Thomas absolutely doesn't care. He didn't become a judge to rule on things he has no opinion on. For him, conflicting interest makes it that much more important to keep his hands in.
the other way is to build up a github and speaking portfolio. not only will this get you almost any job, but it makes it so obvious that you're good, that you get the upper hand in negotiating.
Picasso twice completed copying the entire series of Bargue drawings, a set of 70 lithographs sold all over Europe in the 19th century as a course in academic drawing. His copies are excellent; he'd certainly mastered the academic realist techniques.

He failed to produce great realist work because he found those techniques boring, repetitive, and mechanical, and thus didn't try to work in that mode. He moved on to keep pace with the many radical departures from the French Academy that surrounded him. He had the skills, he just didn't use them.
Worth noting: there is no such thing as a 'perfect store of value'.

We are psychologically caught up in the idea that 'gold' or 'property' has some 'intrinsic value'. Like if there were a nuclear war, it would all be cool, our 'Billions' would be protected!

But no, we can only hold on to stuff that others might find valuable some day.

In other words: currency, even 'stores of value' is a social contract within the system you operate.

If the system fails, well, both currency and stores of value are probably going to not be worth a lot.

Yes - Gold is nice because it's a default currency you can use anywhere. Property tends to hold value as long as there are people there who want to use it - and the legal system that recognizes ownership exist.

But otherwise, there is no way around it: you cannot magically store value in your pocket independent of a bunch of other complex systems being in place.

BTC is reminiscent of the 'Drain the Swamp' ideas, that somehow all the politicos and bureaucracy are useless and irrelevant. Well yes, shenanigans abound and does inefficiency, but that doesn't meant it's worse than nothing (!) our systems are made by smart people. The only way forward is 'doing something better' and BTC is probably not that.
1.9 is next big feature being worked on. The multiverse branch has the start of it, and speed is going to pick up on it in the new year.
That's simply a truism. There is no piece of software for which this isn't true. Everything, to a first approximation, violates some patent somewhere. Until somebody cowboys up and actually sues for infringement, this is purely scaremongering. That's one of the greatest evils of patents - their use as a weapon of terror.
bows Idiocy accepted, sir.

(Tired of the same old "Hungary for Turkey" non-jokes? Or just bitter about that whole Ottoman occupation thing?)
Not true. I have health benefits (incl. dental and vision), FSA, free lunch, coffee, snacks, soda, etc.
Human body has a great capability for adaptation. So change in what you eat is just another form of adaptation. A couple of months with a new diet and you won't miss the "old stuff". (let's forget about obsessive patterns for the sake of the argument)
>...economic impact of this advertising is worth more than the cost for Google to send a CR-48 to be blended.

I know what it is called - but it is still clearly waste.

I was not referring to the economic impact but rather the environmental.

Sure, we can all say "who cares" -- I do, which is why I ask.

Have you seen the garbage problems we have? The toxic waste dumps that are china and other places.

I am not trying to be some tree hugging hippy here - I just dont see the need/value of such advertising.

If they want to advertise - why not go give the things to even more people who want/need it?

How about give one to every student in a school of their choice?

This is utter stupidity on the part of the advertising industry and proves how little value they provide society other than more and more thought pollution on top of the actual pollution they produce.
Every time I read about netflix's culture, I'm reminded of the old saying about the Model T: "you can get it in any color you want as long as it's black". The impression I get about Netflix seems to have an underlying theme of: "we give you unlimited freedom as long as you're doing the things we want you to do".
It's refreshing to take polls on community-driven technology news sites that don't always have Cowboy Neal as an option.
There is nothing inherently poisonous about doing company-wide ranking (though it is infeasible to do precisely since objective measures of "goodness" are non-existent and you can't do subjective ranking of everyone in all but the smallest environments; whether or not good-enough approximations exist is debatable).

However, doing it on a per-team basis is stupid. It guarantees that some teams will have bottom-performers, since a team without bottom-performers will fire or scare away the lowest in the team. Furthermore you incentivize sabotaging your teammates and--even if nobody does it--that makes everyone suspicious of their teammates.

If there were a magical wand I could wave to nearly perfectly rank all the employees at a company I were running, I would do it and base compensation off of it. Doing so on a per-team basis is stupid.
A public company called Replicel (https://replicel.com/) has been working on it for years.

I wonder if they will be the ones to license that research and bring the product to market.
oh yes, we will release a native integration soon, in the meantime here is how to add a google font in your site: https://www.loom.com/share/6d2156f99f024362a4286f648d255c7b
When I was in my early 20s, I saw the writing on the wall w.r.t hair loss. I decided then, if I'm going to be bald, I'm at least going to be jacked. And so I got jacked.

10+ years later, I buzz my head with a 1 guard once every week or so. Hair is just a thing I don't think about. It's like `gofmt` or `prettier` for your head.
Amazing project! Thank you for sharing. I will be following for progress/updates. How do you like the 7.8 not-ereader. I've contemplated getting their 103 model.
No, they just have it in gold, stocks, real estate, art, etc... all of which probably doesn't gather much dust--maybe the gold, but if you can afford art, you can probably afford someone to clean it.

I also agree that they have debt for that as well. No reason not to use debt to gain real assets when the fiat debt loses value regularly.
I wonder if that also means that they are going to cut funding to the astroturfers who show up in every thread in every forum on every post singing the praises of the F-35 now.
I think it's a jab at how AROS's site doesn't offer HTTPS. Personally I don't understand why some people are so bothered by this, but I guess conversely it's really easy to add letsencrypt to about anything nowadays...
I'm in my 50's and have a full head of luxurious hair, with almost no gray. I don't say this to brag, but rather the opposite, it has never helped me in any way to attract women. In fact, if I let it grow out it looks terrible because I just look like an old man with young man's hair. Very disconcerting in the mirror. I guess my message is...hair doesn't matter as much as people are led to believe.

Teeth on the other hand...if they can grow me back a set of pearly whites instead of the tea/soda-infused yellow ones I have, I'll give them all my money.
Yeah me too! I had the occasional swimming lesson once per week or something but other than that, if the weather was good, you'd find me and all the neighborhood kids running around playing tag or riding our bikes everywhere. I grew up at a co-op so all of the houses were close together and there were a lot of families and other kids my age.

I think the number one thing you can do for your kid is to live in a neighborhood with lots of other kids.
And probably aerial attacks against the United States are even less practical during a hurricane.
> It's not about not allowing access to people--it's about provably being the person named "owner" of a given good.

Like this? https://lunarland.com/
I don't understand what you're trying to say. Are you saying this isn't really a scam? It obviously is, because what the scammers are advertising isn't what they're actually shipping.

Or are you saying that Route Werks has nothing to complain about because the scammers are shipping bags that obviously do not resemble the Route Werks bag? Because there's still the problem that the scammers are using the Route Werks product images to advertise.
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That video was where I learned about this paper and the impetus for submitting this story.
Handlebar bags are not a big seller by any stretch of the imagination. I have spent years in the bicycle trade and have probably bought more handlebar bags for myself than I have sold to customers. This is not much of an exaggeration. Then the ones I do own are just for the grand tour rather than daily usage. That bracket on my handlebars is invariably not holding anything and there is invariably a bag on my back.

As much as I adore the handlebar barbag as a product and will gladly try and sell it to customers, truth be told is that it is niche. Baskets for shopper bikes outsell bar bags 100 to 1.

To get £45 out of a UK customer for a high quality handlebar bag is hard work. I can't imagine trying to get 179 dollars out of them for a handlebar bag. I wouldn't even pay that myself even though I like this product.

The unique selling points are interesting. So it goes with gravel bikes. You can mount your phone and lights to it.

The top isn't designed to hold a map which was 1970s USP.

Let's look at what other manufacturers offer. Nowadays that top map pocket is for putting your phone in. Brackets for lights are not so common but I have LED lights on both of mine, albeit with brackets that are less than ideal.

This 179 dollar bag lacks reflective strips which is weird. I also prefer standard Klickfix brackets as I can mount my handlebar bag behind the seat on my commuting bike, thereby getting better aero and handling.

I don't think that fake pages trying to sell knock off versions of products are uncommon. Using such tales to hype your product is something else.

Admittedly it is a curious story. Common sense would tell you that the cycling world needs this product. But try selling any handlebar bag to any customer on a busy Saturday in a wealthy area where customers happily spend 350 on cycling shoes. The handlebar bag is a hard sell.
We should all remember why we do what we do.
I think the word "job" comes from the old mainframe days. Each program was encapsulated in a "job". There was even a language on some systems (aptly named "Job Control Language", or JCL) to specify the different aspects of the job.
If you're in Tucson, the Pima Air and Space Museum next to the Boneyard is worth a visit.
I have friends from high school who got bio degrees and wound up being travelling sales reps for pharma companies. It seems like a terrible spot to be in, because you're stuck between the experts who created the drug and the experts who will be prescribing the drug, both of whom know far more about the drug and its interaction with the human body than you probably do. I'm not sure that having a bio degree really helps all that much in the field, except to add some sense of legitimacy to the pitch. '

I hear it pays well though.