skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm starting to get that. They don't seem to want a company cultural. It really seems like they want a posse or fraternity. When you look at it that way, of course anyone outside a very narrow demographic is unacceptable.

Why does the image of a party of wizards that forgot to bring the fighters, clerics, and rogues come to my head?
I am really not sure this is true. In my opinion classes force an premature taxonomy almost all the time. I like that you can simply attach methods to structs when you decide you want object like behavior.
If you're unable to articulate any arguments to support your position other than "experience", I can't blame them.

On the other hand, if you did but they were unable to understand or unwilling to listen, then I cannot fault you.
What could we possibly do to prepare/handle something like this?
For large companies there are legal problems there. If you can't give every single candidate the same exact experience / ability to succeed in an interview, you are open to lawsuits. If candidate A got a laptop, but candidate B didn't have the option, B can sue. So if you can't guarantee you will have a laptop at 100% of interviews for a given position, you can't offer it at all.

That said I feel like interviewing is important enough that a large company with (presumably) large resources ought to be able to make sure a laptop is always there. But it isn't as simple as "just bring a laptop", you'd have to have an enforced process.
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Something Not Rotten in Denmark
How would you be able to sue someone who said that they saw a lot of people crying at their desk? How could you prove that didn't happen?
In Copenhagen it's become semi-standard that motorized wheelchairs / mobility scooters go in the bike lane instead of on sidewalks, which means it's reasonable for them to go at a higher speed [1]. This obviously wouldn't work until you have a citywide infrastructure of fairly wide bike lanes, though.

[1] http://www.copenhagenize.com/2008/02/elderly-mobility-in-cop...
'They discovered that there were lesions apparent in both groups of males, such as the bony attachment site for the biceps muscle, meaning regardless of whether the man was an archer or not, he had well-developed upper forearm muscles. “These common alterations refer to an activity that was widespread among the whole male population,” Tihanyi and colleagues write, although they do not know exactly what that activity was.'

Aside from the humorous implication of this paragraph, I wonder what activity it was. Sword-swinging? Some kind of repetitive work?

Bioarchaeology is so cool.
I'm guessing this is downvoted because it's no longer a viable solution. Microcode generates multiple µops with a single instruction, but the decoded µop cache is large enough (and efficient enough) that the decoding is almost never the bottleneck.

Worse, for anything in a loop it often actually slows things down by preventing the usual caching mechanisms from working.
The instructions/µops are already where they need to be, but data dependencies prevent them from being executed in a timely manner.

What's needed instead are changes to the algorithms that allow for more instruction level parallelism. We need to overcome latency by creating assembly lines within the core rather than having each core do piece work.
Convox Rack 0.7: Papertrail and SSL
If you're hiring in tech right now, you have to REALLY love Amazon for doing this. Basically, what they are saying is, if you speak out about the emotional hell of working for them, they will attempt to publicly humiliate you to make themselves look better.

You're going to go through hell working for them, and you're going to go through hell if you speak out after you leave. Now, they might think this is a winning strategy for them, but in fact the logical conclusion for potential hires is -- stay away from Amazon, because you'll hate it, and then they will ruin your reputation if you speak out. Which is really helpful for everyone else who's hiring right now, because intelligent people paranoid about their reputation will steer clear of any potential Amazon interviews.

Their PR guy doesn't understand that he just cost his employer an entire generation of talented engineers. Oh well, this is great for everyone else.
Interesting article, but the first sentence bothers me. The "Byzantine Empire" was the same thing as the Eastern Roman Empire (the latter being its more proper name anyhow). The 9th and 10th Centuries were actually some of the Empire's more stable years.
Pairwise summation is definitely a useful technique, depending on your situation. However, it does have the key limitation that you need to have all your data beforehand. There are quite a few cases in practice where you have streaming data, and Kahan summation handles this just fine. In addition, if your data is really unbalanced in it's magnitudes, pairwise summation can still lose a fair amount of precision compared to Kahan summation. There are definitely cases where you'd want to use one, and cases where you'd want to use the other.
The Washington Post ranks it left-leaning up there with Al Jeezera which is so far left I can't stand to read it.

>A lot of us live in places where NYT would be seen as quite right wing.

Sweden? Half joking, but the "standing so far left that even the left looks right" is something I mentioned in another reply. I don't think being an extreme-left makes slight-left any less left. I don't feel it is a Fox News "Liberal in name only" scenario. Even I can see the conservative slants on talking points in Fox news.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/10/21/le...
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Articles questioning the benefits float around all the time (eg, http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/flu-vaccine-paradox-adds-to-public-health-debate-1.2912790). Did anybody look into the latest research on this?
On the fence
fit the culture is just pc phrasing to dodge hiring issues. its a cover, nothing more. some people saying it may believe it to be a true concern but its just code for "we don't want your type"
> but there is a problem of sexism where a man will talk over women. If those women assert themselves they're often not seen as assertive or powerful, but pushy and bitchy and shrill

I don't think that's a problem with sexism, but with how a person does it. If you're used to talking over others, you usually do it in a "smooth" way, when other people make pauses, or you say something very relevant. On the other hand, when someone gets annoyed that they can't finish, them being annoyed is off-putting, and they also often say things like "let me finish first" when you already know what they will say, so they come off as struggling to gain power and influence.

Edit: I think, on the other hand, that making people communicate faster and dynamically search for the optimal speaker makes communication more efficient and is better for everyone. No shouting needed.
> Journalists lying to support a narrative is an extremely damaging trend

"Trend" implies a kind of special currency for which I see no evidence; its a "trend" as old as journalism itself. But, yes, its a bad thing.

> that has taken hold on the left

I see no evidence that this is particularly true such that claiming it is a trait of the left, rather than a common feature not especially associated with the left, is anything but a dishonest distortion to support a narrative.

> This of course happens on the right

Indeed.

> but it is not moralized or justified in the same way.

The claim that there is some significant difference here that is worthy of attention desperately could use some support.
Minimum viable product is still a product. Okay?
Has anyone found a good workaround for this? The best I can do is move the select content menu after it's loaded, but this looks ugly and is really, really distracting. Nothing else that I've tried works.
I'm not really seeing what this adds to the conversation. It's old news that VC's are lemmings.
It would be great if someone on HN is in law enforcment and could explain that perspective. I think it is hard for outsiders, seeing something like this, to understand how people in law enforcment view their relationship with the law.

To be clear: Personally I'm not interested in speculation by people with no expertise; we have had more than enough of that.
From CrunchBase, Gone had only raised $1.12M in seed capital, which makes me wonder what capital they actually used to acquire Yardsale. (Or, more likely, it's an acquihire.)
I've heard comments from a dozen ex-Amazon employees on HN, in this thread and in the one back on the original NY Times article. The large majority of them said the anecdotes described by the article were unrepresentative of their time at Amazon.

Shouldn't that point to a problem of the HN crowd being homogeneous/type-A personalities and not representative of what most people see at Amazon?
And for that subset, it might be better (healthwise) than a regular electric wheelchair, since it keeps more muscles working. Smaller market than "everyone in a wheelchair", but I think (?) it addresses that market well.
If that's not cool enough, GNU Octave is available for Android devices.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gnuroot.oc...
It's not fair that you have to do this; yet I'm glad you have found a way to mitigate the cost of unfair treatment, and I hope people will curtail their biases in future.

About the not-blinking, though --- that seems like staring, which I would guess would get lumped in with the body language that gets called aggressive. (I'd guess that blinking more makes you look surprised and wounded, which is the effect you are going for in this scenario)
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The use of the word "disappeared" is completely inappropriate. This is where people were held for a few hours, not shoved off to a Stalin-esque gulag or summarily executed.

I also don't understand the race baiting conclusion at the end. What percentage of Chicagoans perform crime? Blacks are the poorest group by far and the largest ethnic group in the city, recently pushing out non-Latino whites from number one. If there's a conspiracy to let Whites perform crime without arrest, I'd like some proof other than "wink, wink, nod, nod" race baiting "stats." I pass as White and live in Chicago and the cops have never given me or my friends or family a free pass on anything.

Also Homan Square isn't a "secret black site." The CPD openly acknowledges it. Hell, its where one of the evidence lockers are and they tell people to come on by and pick up their stuff when its no longer needed. What kind of black-site is listed on google maps? It also houses a SWAT group and a ballistics lab. You can pull up into the parking lot anytime you like and walk right in. The CPD just doesn't advertise it explicitly with signs:

"the base of operations for officers working undercover assignments. These men and women dress in plain clothes and work to disrupt gang activity and clear drug markets out of neighborhoods. Advertising their base of operations could put their lives at risk, which is why Homan Square features little signage."

http://abc7chicago.com/news/cpd-releases-fact-sheet-on-homan...

From what I can tell there's been one death there and the CPD claims it was from a heroin overdose. If the CPD was constantly "disappearing" people there would be a lot more evidence than one guy who died who was a known addict. What's the use of setting up a torture and murder center when after decades of use you just get one kill? Its pretty clear the tinfoil and anti-cop crowd control the narrative here.

I'm sure its an unpleasant experience for arrested gang members, but any worse than being in another other facility or city seems questionable. In Illinois you can be held without charges for 48-72 hours, depending on what case law you're looking at. Nor do I see any law about notifying anyone during this period. The credible Homan stories fit this legal framework.
A relatively well known 60+ dev would agree with you: http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2014/06/20/MyLawn.html
Awesome! I love how Squire has support for setting text direction (ltr/rtl). This has always been a huge beef for me with web-based rich text editors!
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The rise and fall of the next big thing
Meh... it would be hard to compare in practice, given how VCs tend to chase trends in general, funding lots and lots of copycats in the hope that they will fund the last successful player in the field. Or maybe I'm just bitter about the state of fundraising in the valley. ;)
I don't think there's a lot of harm to having additional follow-up posts show up on the front page, especially for stories as big as this one is. With 30 items per page, and items not taking up a lot of real estate, it's not that annoying to skim past the headline if you're not interested.
It is exactly crying wolf because AFAIK, okay, cert expiration - you don't have to rekey when you go get a new one, you just get a new one. The benefit seems to be commercial, rather than technical.

Name doesn't match: I've encountered a legitimate (as opposed to an obvious misconfiguration) error along these lines precisely zero times in well over a decade.

CA untrusted: CA trust is worthless - the browser doesnt differentiate between "the person who holds the cert had control of the domain when we generated it" and "we made sure this person exists and checked their identity". (Unless you jump into the total scam that is EV certs...)

Would you kindly stop banging on about "As good as plain text?". because as has been explained to you ad nauseum, in the worst case it becomes you vs one attacker who holds the key to the bogus cert, instead of you vs anyone on the local wifi network. The number of attackers is unbounded in the latter case, QED, it is strictly a better security posture.

SSL as it exists today is fine for keeping a hacker out of your connection. It was not designed nor implemented for a post-Snowden world.
Can you explain to me what racist perceptions that were, and why you got what you wanted? I don't have experience that would help me decode that situation...
I feel like it's always going to be a cycle as with the markets. As long as there is demand and money available the prices go up and when some other economic factors lead to a downturn people want their money and as money is pulled out prices go down.

If the VCs are willing to pay the price, they're willing to accept the risks.
Do you have a link to the response? That seems like a pretty serious allegation to drop. Also, how would the reporter know? Are they just trusting the Olsen guy?
It's incredible to think how far the technology has come since then. It makes me wonder what the modern medical technology we have today will look like compared to what will be developed 70 years in the future.

This video made me cringe terribly- I cannot imagine having the eyeball mold made, even with anesthetic!
What is your definition of culture fit then? Be specific about traits which are indicative of a good or bad culture fit for your team/company in particular.
Yes, you really need to read it in context "The Apple Software" here is a reference to earlier and is meant to be an apple operating system in this case El Capitan, although they extend it a bit.

The quote was shortened by me for brevity.

If you want a bit more context here's the slightly longer version of the quote:

.....you are granted a limited, non-transferable, nonexclusive license:

(i) to download, install, use and run for personal, non-commercial use, one (1) copy of the Apple Software directly on each Apple-branded computer running OS X Yosemite, OS X Mavericks, OS X Mountain Lion, OS X Lion or OS X Snow Leopard (“Mac Computer”) that you own or control;

(ii) If you are a commercial enterprise or educational institution, to download, install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software for use either: (a) by a single individual on each of the Mac Computer(s) that you own or control, or (b) by multiple individuals on a single shared Mac Computer that you own or control. For example, a single employee may use the Apple Software on both the employee’s desktop Mac Computer and laptop Mac Computer, or multiple students may serially use the Apple Software on a single Mac Computer located at a resource center or library; and

(iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software, for purposes of: (a) software development; (b) testing during software development; (c) using OS X Server; or (d) personal, noncommercial use.
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That is what I was thinking the whole article. Seem like not only would that be simpler it would also be faster. I assume that there is a reason for employing this, but I couldn't find it. Looking at the paper A Comparison of Method For accurate Summation by McNamee[1], double precision beats Kahan summation, both in speed and reduction in errors.

Moving to double precision of course only holds if your variables were previously only single precision. If your variables are already double precision, I could see the reason for implementing more exotic methods.

[1] http://www.sigsam.org/bulletin/articles/147/sumnums.pdf
UI/UX Design Inspiration for the Smart Home
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. Someone once said...
He's saying that your detour into politics is damaging to your narrative.
Not among my friends born in that time frame. The whole prequels put me in the "fool me once" category, plus its J.J. Abrams who already destroyed the Star Trek we grew up with. If it gets good reviews, I will see it, but I don't know anyone who is stoked to see it.
I agree with you, and here is one more concern: a lot of hardware can't be shared at the hardware level. Think of the soundcard for example. A lot of PCs have simple Intel-HDA audio controllers that don't have hardware-level separate streams. You need a software defined mixer that will share the resource with several applications. For years and years on Linux the situation was that you do get direct hardware access and it sucked balls. Either your card has hardware mixing and you can play like 8 sounds at once, or it doesn't and you can't. In that time, at least 3 different userspace mixers appeared, all incompatible with each other, which of course means that your choice of Gnome vs KDE also dictates which music players you can use.

The OS absolutely needs to define standard usage APIs so we don't end up in the situation where everybody rolls their own. Yes, giving applications bare-metal access is good. But that's a minority of applications in a minority of usage cases. Give people a good simple API for the average case, and THEN let them take exclusive low-level control when they need it.
"we promoted Bob because he makes good decisions and motivates others to follow him. We didn't promote Ann because she's trying to enforce her suboptimal decisions by using her authority"
Even when summing using doubles, you can lose precision. In general, Kahan summation allows you to double the intermediary precision of your sums, so if you're losing precision even with 64-bit doubles, Kahan summation can give you 128-bits of intermediary precision, without going to software floating point solutions.
I think this proposal is ridiculous. There is no need to register individual drones. If you want to require drone pilot licenses to fly a drone where potential pilots need to learn the rules that seems much more reasonable to me but having to register each individual drone seems like overkill.
I actually wanted to upvote you because of a few points but for some reason I can resist. I didn't downvote either but your final remark paints a target on your commentts
Putting the item exactly back in place, is that to increase the clerk's suspicion of shoplifting, or defend against accusations of it?
Using Vaporware to Validate a Product Idea and Generate Demand for Your Startup
The only modern usage of "suffer" in this sense is the phrase "to suffer fools gladly", as in "he doesn't suffer fools gladly", which means "he won't put up with fools."
And, from the looks of it, you would have been downvoted into oblivion for your trouble.

So there was a zerg rush of negative ad hominem on the article and then it was flag killed despite being a reasonable technical topic to discuss. Good times, good times.
I can believe that the information security is atrocious for folks unwilling or unable to adopt agency policies, but how stupid do you have to be to poke the head of the CIA in public?
Drones Now Need to Be Registered with U.S Government, Says F.A.A and D.O.T
The problem with controversial topics (not just this one) is that people who disagree with you are much more likely to down-vote you than the crowd who agrees with you to up-vote you.
Great idea but I would worry about stability - I'd like to see what happens if people bump into you - can the user get pushed off the seat?
In an argument, a common technique when someone yells at you is to lower your own voice. It makes the other person angrier and look stupider.
Facebook Should Reword Confusing Hack Warning About “State-Sponsored Actors”
Brad Fitzpatrick, a prominent Go developer and Google engineer actually gave a talk covering some of this at GoCon Tokyo last year: http://talks.golang.org/2014/gocon-tokyo.slide

Skip to slide 32 for examples of different tasks for which Go is proving to be efficient.
Slightly OT, but The Guardian moved quickly from a place of eminent respect for me (Snowden, etc) to join the majority of the media on the "do not trust" pile for things like you just mentioned. Race baiting, blatant moralizing and pontificating, weasel words and clickbait headlines (people being "disappeared?" get real) in hard news articles, etc.

Fucking report the facts rather than feeding people a narrative. Apparently that's asking too much nowadays.
That's amazing. They were able to MITM the chip-and-pin chip by taking it out and attaching it to another hobbyist chip that's capable of spoofing the response, and the whole thing when put back in the card was only a slight bulge bigger than the original.

They say nearly 600k Euros were charged, but given the sophistication of the attack, I wouldn't be surprised if we hear later that it was in use at different locations as well, and we just aren't hearing about it because they haven't caught those people yet. They only caught these ones because they kept going back to the same locations.
Ask HN: Define “Cultural Fit”
In the "How Can We Achieve Age Diversity in Silicon Valley?" [1] thread, the term "cultural fit" ended up coming up as one potential source of age discrimination, and the thought occured to me: What do we mean exactly when we say "cultural fit"?

If I asked you out of the blue to define as carefully as you can what you mean by "cultural fit", in the context of hiring, what would you say?

[1]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10412284 , for posterity
I have zero problem with a company releasing info pertaining the character of an employee.

I'm not sure what you are arguing for. That if a person complains about a company that company can instead of replying to the issue just bring up things it thinks are wrong with the character of an employee? I'm not sure how that makes anything healthier.