skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As newmana mentions, there are issues with that study:

http://othersociologist.com/2015/04/16/myth-about-women-in-s...

And there are other studies I find more persuasive. E.g.:

http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474.abstract

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/unofficial-prognosis/stu...

In particular, I think the "switch the names" sort of study under realistic conditions makes it clear that bias is an issue. And it certainly matches widespread anecdotal opinions of nondominant groups in STEM fields.
I think you misunderstood the comment.

"£15k less salary than advertised in the offer"

Means the salary was X but he was paid (X - 15k).
I don't understand. If recruiters are leeches, why do employers work with them ? perhaps, it's because they provide a service, no?
>I'm going to read what I want to read, when I want to read it, on my Kindle, whether Amazon wants me to or considers me to have a license or not. Basically: I don't care what the EULA states for my Kindle. It's the same attitude I have around pirating movies or shows: if a movie company won't let me pay them to let me watch a movie/TV show via Steam, Netflix, or even from their own site, then I'll just watch it on Popcorn Time and it's their loss.

Then again, if this lands you in jail, or without internet access for downloading pirated material ("tree strikes laws" etc) then you'd do care.

So, not caring might be a short-term option, but it's not a long term political stance.

Not just because of the off-chance of being hit with a lawsuit as mentioned, but mainly because this leads to even more powerful DRM (it's not impossible: there are programs that are considered virtually "uncrackable" and indeed haven't been cracked for 5-6 years, despite popular demand, usually constly pro applications using some dongle or internet based security scheme), more restrictions for legitimate users (who, for example, won't jailbreak their devices), etc.
He is spot on, even with your conditions.
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The World's Most Inspirational Iceberg Is a Fake
Or as someone described above, the recruiters go back to bartending when the market sinks. The issue is not getting too many nice, well-though-out proposals from credible recruiters who can spell and use grammar properly.
It will be interesting to see how much cost companies will bear before they give up on Europe.
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Yeah, I get the feeling that many many government (and healthcare?) job advertisements are only posted to meet regulations and there's already someone lined up internally.
Wow. I always wonder how an app I have never heard of can have 1000s of employees.

I am certainly not a huge restaurant goer but I have a fair to middling interest in technology and having never heard of this app I wonder how other people have, enough other people to support 3000 staff?!
Don't write on the whiteboard
I don't think "real" and "new" are opposites -- if someone only realizes that she wants X after hearing about X, why does it make her need any less real?
Looks interesting. Can it be installed on a Gaggia Classic?
The paradox does not take into account the rigidity of a roadway user's route. If your current route to work takes x minutes amount of time to drive and a new roadway is about to be opened that will reduce the drive time by ten minutes (x-10). News announces the new route, ribbons are cut, and signage is put in place announcing the new roadway.

* The user is aware of the new roadway and utilizes the roadway.

* The user knows that the old route was 10 minutes more and was the current ideal.

* Other users utilize the route under the same 10 minute saving condition, driving up the amount of traffic over time, even when the new route ends up adding travel time to the original time.

* Users do not consider going back to the old route, even though it may be better now as the system builders had declared this route to be the best. There is also an internal feeling that if the new route was like this, what will the old route look like.

* When talking to people who drive, once a known route has been established, it takes a lot to get them to change. That is why accepting Waze provides such a great opportunity for balancing traffic and utilizing roadway capacity.
Google Wins Appeals Court Approval of Book-Scanning Project
Short version: the photograph is only the second verified image of Billy the Kid. Verification of it required an in-depth analysis, including finding where the picture was taken.
I assume they're trying to create a new product category - certainly from their bluster, that's true! To be charitable, I think there's definitely a smallish market for portable desktop devices that can be used on the go. Currently, the closest we have is a laptop + dock, which is ok, but this product - this new category, at least - has the advantage that it's much more portable and neater, whilst doubling up as an input device. That last point is its best innovation, IMO. True, such a device won't be as useful on-the-go as a full-blown laptop, but for basic email, web-browsing, etc. (i.e. tablet functions) it could be OK.
I'm hoping for a future where recommendation systems and collaborative filtering get so good that they render marketing and advertising useless.

How can you recommend something you've never heard of?
The Plinkett reviews, on Red Letter Media?

http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/
http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-trek/
http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/other-movies/
On the other hand, if laws are to be effective without requiring excessive resources or undesirable technological measures (e.g. DRM) for enforcement, then breaking laws shouldn't be something we do lightly or merely for personal pleasure. Civil disobedience should probably be something that one does only after much soul searching -- something that keeps one up at night.
Luckily various foreign intelligence services have free rein in Germany thanks to post-WW2 agreements. So it's not like our intelligence services would have much to do.

Gives them more time to turn a blind eye to neo-nazis and stalk left-wing "suspects", I guess.
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And quite a few absentees in the opposition. Not that it really matters, but still...
Awesome places to get DRM free ebooks:

Baen has their entire catalog online, DRM free: http://www.webscription.net/ They also include CDs with some p-books that have the complete collection of a given series, which you can download for free here: http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/ (Check out the Miles Vorkosigan series and the Honorverse series, if you're looking for some good reading.)

All Tor/Macmillan ebooks are available DRM free from Google, Amazon, and everywhere else they are sold.

Where are your favorite sources of DRM free books?
I think the $23k was a pound to dollar conversion of the amount less than advertised.
I've been fine with recruiters until i came to berlin and somehow let my phone number slip to the uk recruiters. Now, I'm trying to figure out how to block all uk numbers, nothing I can say will make them stop cold calling me, and they're so aggressive it's hard to escape a call without being rude. I really don't get why uk recruiters in particular are so awful, the German ones are fine.
> or sex workers in Southeast Asia

OT, but you don't have exploited sex workers where you live?
It's funny to read complaints about rent-seeking and someone taking a percentage off the top on a tech forum, where that is the business model of a large portion of tech companies themselves. When authors complain about Amazon being rent-seekers "stealing" a percentage of authors' income, they don't tend to get a lot of sympathy here.
I honestly didn't get that your post was parody/sarcasm without the photo.
...and pursuing that line of argument right to the end, "intent to permanently deprive the owner...of that property". Clearly that part means, ideas are exempt from the possibility of theft, under the law?
I guess I'll chime in here as someone who's had a different experience. Actually quite a pleasant experience. They weren't spamming
me, they wrote to me once but something about the way they wrote to me caused me to remember this one particularly six months later.
Probably because they weren't spamming job postings, just saying "hi there, I'm a recruiter, if you ever find yourself looking for
a job I can help you find one." They had me four different interviews the next week and weren't embellishing my qualifications.
One of the interviews quickly lead to a job offer in a position I actually wanted to have. They're taking a cut but it's because
they made my transition process fast and easy, instead of spending what could have been a month or two unemployed and starting
to worry, and to me that's worth something.
My theory is probably wrong, but it is possible that this article is a way for the author to signal his skills/worth/value. Someone with low skills and who's desperate to find a job is highly unlikely to publicly complain about the amount of attention he gets from recruiters, so by actually doing it, he signals that he has high value.

But I do believe the more likely explanation remains that this guy got angry after getting harassed repeatedly by recruiters and decided to do something about it.
Sure, just take the moral high ground while people needlessly die. I'd rather the insider make money nefariously than tsk-tsk about what he should have done if it means preventing attacks.
You know what else has the same effect on the seller? Buying a $thing and having friends over to view it, or lending it to them.

That has the "same practical effect", yet the folks who like to moralize about copyright don't seem to have as much of an issue with that. (Though I'm sure the content industry would find a way to charge for this completely legitimate use if they could)

You still don't have a right to the content.

I place precisely zero value on your opinion on this matter because you lost most of this fight the moment the copy command was invented, and the idiocy behind the content industry lost the rest. This includes greatly exaggerated "losses", suing of computer-illiterate elderly people and network printers, perversion of the copyright system from something beneficial for the arts to a means of cultural control and profit above all else.

We're people, we can change the law however we see fit. I suggest it's time that we push this pendulum back in the other direction, and then snap it off.
Wow, what's with all the spammy replies to this comment?
If you're using Ansible for orchestration, you could try using the cloud's orchestration service instead. e.g. Rackspace Cloud Orchestration, AWS Cloudformation etc. In this specific case, you can use the orchestration api to spin up and manage the servers, and use ansible to manage the software (although there is a way to manage software as well [0]; I'm just not familiar enough with it to suggest it)

Disclaimer: I work in the Cloud Orchestration team at Rackspace.

[0]: https://github.com/openstack/heat-templates/tree/master/hot/...
I think "regardless regardless of what positive effects it might have had otherwise" is generally the foil in accepting the full FSF position on political topics.

When one's philosophy is that the Four Freedoms strictly trump any convenience in any context, you're missing out on the collective benefits that make the current transition to shared, administered, cloud-based technologies so powerful for the users that adopt them. Users are willing to accept a massive spike in convenience and utility for the drastically-less-than-1% chance that Amazon kills their favorite book from their device, without their consent, with a refund. That's not evil; it's the nature of progress (along the same lines as accepting that you might have to pay taxes---in essence, give up your own hard-earned possessions to a collective over which you have minimal power to decree how those possessions will be used---to live in a place where you don't have to arm yourself against bandits or maintain your own roads, etc.). Hell, if you don't like the way Amazon is administering its chunk of the cloud, it's a lot easier to leave Amazon than to leave a country.
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Is WARF a patent troll?
The TPP is not a EULA, it is a set of laws which allow devices (like cellphones) to be inspected and seized at borders, destroyed by court order, among many other implications, http://boingboing.net/2015/10/13/tpp-requires-countries-to-s...
Thanks. Yes it can, we already acquired a Classic and will produce a manual and video for it. But we can guide you through by email.

The meCoffee can be installed in practically every espresso machine which has no electronics of it's own. It is Faston(tm) connectors all the way down...
The same stands for the real estate industry. Or worse. Most real estate agents add nothing just take money away from both tenants and landlords.
Something was missing from this video, so I fixed it:
http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yout...
Essentially how the first tech stock bubble played out
The NFL's army of lobbyists and attorneys will insure that some form of legalized digital sports betting is available mostly-nationwide. It might be called "Fantasy Sports" or it might be called something else, but it will be widely-advertised and very profitable.

The cat's out of the bag and they'll make sure it's never going back in.
Although more complicated and expensive, another interesting amplifier project is the open source O2 amp:

http://nwavguy.blogspot.com/2011/07/o2-headphone-amp.html
I once (early 2000s) discovered during the interview the recruiter had edited the CV I sent. I showed my own copy and the interviewer and I ended up putting them next to each other and identifying the differences.

It's better if you only hand out a pdf version.
Why I don’t answer most phone calls
You limited the definition of theft to only include when one's mental state intends to deprive someone.

As a lawyer, I'm surprised you are not familiar with the Dowling case, which is where that definition comes from. It wasn't pulled out of GP's ass.
This is common practice in London. I stopped answering calls with the reception ID as they are normally just recruiters doing what you mention.
The problem is that somehow they get my mobile number and stealing contacts as they themselves move between recruitment agencies is also common practice.
My comment isn't intended to be anti-anything. I spend 10-15 hours per week studying philosophy, history, economics, ontology, physics (a little), and biology, even if it is largely via Wikipedia. I'm certainly not anti-intellectual.

By assuming that watching "hipster movies" makes you intellectual, you've illustrated exactly my point, that (some) people watch these movies because they think it somehow makes them into intellectuals, which fits the definition of pretentious quite well.

Also note, pertaining to pretentiousness, that pretending to be an "intellectual" by category or style doesn't change one's IQ by even a little.
Theranos dials back Lab tests at FDA's behest
Ratings from http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=1835732 might illuminate some of the back-story. Lots of unhappy reviews in there:

>He went off on so many tangents, nitpicked on random things and when it came down to it, taught the material rather poorly. I took his class with prior calculus knowledge so it was alright but for those that never had calc, it would've been so awful.

>Tries to teach math in a confusing essay format, and marks you down when you don't use his method correctly. Extremely arrogant and set on proving how his principles in teaching are the best. Class was very disorganized and grading until the very end of the course. Avoid taking a class with him if possible.

>Doesn't give homework, doesn't have a syllabus. Exams are a bunch of meaningless boring calculations. He's a genius but not a good teacher.

>He is a nice person, but not a good teacher. Instead of math, he spends most of the lecture telling you how to be a good person: he starts with telling you 'not to give up', and then discusses a mathematical problem(which is not tough) and gets stuck. For the rest the lecture, he will actually show you what 'not to give up' means.

There are also many positive reviews in there (more than negative ones), but they often focus on his charisma and dedication:

>Coward is an inspiration- he deeply cares about his students' learning and believes that you must be infatuated with your education. He really cares for his students and always asks the class if he's being clear.

> I have never had a Math professor who I truly admire - he changed that. The level of interest he takes in the class is unmatched and he really wants his students to do well. Rebellious, fun, helpful and unimaginably intellectual. Best class at Cal so far.
You'll catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Spitting venom is only going to drive a wedge between people, not help them see eye to eye.
It's ineffectual at completly stopping copying, but it's far from completely ineffectual. The average person doesn't have a good tracker and doesn't know how to use calibre. They could learn / be taught but it's a pain. Easier to just pay. It's not all or nothing.

If you prevent 70% of copying, that's a huge win.

I'm not sure drm is actually worth it, music has shown its not needed in that industry. But that industry had piracy catch on in a way that no other had. My mom can't pirate anything except for mp3s. The napster legacy.
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Compatibility in this case is referring to published APIs and not changing documented behaviour. There are a large family of changes that are bug fixes that don't change correct use of an API - many security fixes for example.
SPDX: boosting the signal
He's not commenting on the in-house recruiting staffs at the major corporations, he's commenting on the third-party (usually contract) recruitment industry. They're not the same; the lack of knowledge and perverse incentives are much less an issue with direct recruitment.

It's my experience that the third-party recruiting business is almost as terrible in the US as the author describes in the UK, though sans the oddball Brit dialect. There also doesn't seem to be as much of the third-party contract scam going; if the recruiter is a contracting agency, they'll tell you that up front. But the incoherent and misspelled emails, the rampant spam, the lack of knowledge of the roles they're recruiting for, yes that all rings true in the US too.
Sounds like a good lawsuit against the recruiter.
> you're accessing a consumable good without paying the requisite cost

"Consumable" would imply that the good is "Consumed". The traditional definition of consumption is that the good can't be consumed more than once. This definition has been altered in the digital age, but I think that's where the confusion arises.

A digital, infinitely copy-able good isn't really "consumed", as the copying doesn't actually reduce the original in any way, shape or form.

Perhaps "Observed" would be a better term?
If they were focusing in that part, I think the revenue sharing + cloud combo could open totally new opportunities that would also justify the investment in a custom OS.

I'm thinking of something like a return to the Unix philosophy. Piping together stuff from grep to cat to whatever is pretty great, but mostly only useful if you're dealing with text-ish files. We don't have much in the way of small tools that would be similarly designed for being chained together, but which would work well for say video files. In part because you'd want better OS-level support for that kind of information sharing (though maybe on 'nix you could just pipe stuff from one application to another?), but also to a large part because you'd need to have people making tools that didn't do much by their own and then convince users to download them and build stuff out of them. And telling people to "download this program which doesn't do much by itself, but which is useful if you download some other programs and then combine them" is hard. People want to minimize the amount of hassle, so mostly people bundle lots of different features into a single application that you can just download once.

On the other hand, if you had a platform where everything ran in the cloud, and there was no need to separately buy, install, or download things... if any application could call any other application made for the platform, then you could just start making your little specialized programs and making them available for anyone else to use. Any user might chain several of them together, or a programmer making their own application could use them as part of their application, maybe as easily as calling a library. That could open up huge possibilities. With the revenue sharing, there would even be a financial incentive for people to make small tools that were maximally useful for everyone, even if they mostly remained invisible for normal end-users.

That said, I'm seeing nothing in Solu's public presentation suggesting that they'd have thought of this angle, or would be invested in it. Which is a pity.
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Solid state batteries in your next vacuum?
>We are entitled to content we paid for, but are not entitled to content just because it exists.

To play the devil's advocate. Why not though? The "because it's illegal" I can understand.

But if one's to argue it's also "immoral", then this pressuposses a whole complicated ethics based on a human invention like "copyright", which I'm not sure why people need to respect.
> The title and major thrust of the article is that ebooks are generally bad.

Which is not wrong either given ebooks are generally from a DRM-using company (namely Amazon which has the vast majority of ebooks market share)
Which, in fairness are also a magnet for false positives...
It wouldn't have been nearly as enjoyable to read, for one.
I wonder how much F5 paid for that mention in the "why Ansible" section. Maybe I shouldn't, maybe it was a genuinely spontaneous example, but product positioning has become so ubiquitous that I can't help it.
The business model (spotify for apps) is quite scary privacy wise, there is a lot of ways to mess up with something that should monitor users activity so closely. And I guess the code won't be open source and auditable.

And except that there is nothing new about this product (but that has already been pointed out in many comments already).
Super cool! I'm tempted to up my Silvia's game (I've a v2 from ~2003), but the lack of iOS app has me less likely to go there -- although I know you're just getting off the ground and things take time. Nice work all around!
System that replaces human intuition with algorithms outperforms human teams
If you are able to produce anything or contribute at all you are getting rolled. Find a new job.
Fcc vs. wifi lockdown issue
What are the risks and benefits of going on double dates?
The probabilistic chance that Amazon will do something untoward with your purchased content is completely irrelevant.

The fact that they have that ability in the first place is. That is not a thing that they should have the ability to do. Full stop, end of story.
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Some here are listing good and bad experiences. I'm considering finding one to help find jobs for my particular interests in another area.

Any tips for picking one?
He didn't say that was the salary. He said the final salary was that much _less_ than what the recruiter said it would be.