skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the Laborer's International Union just got sued under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for an email & voicemail campaign against a company that they felt had unfair labor practices. After the district court threw it out as not applicable, the 6th Circuit appeals court found that there was sufficient cause for a suit.[0] If an email/telephone campaign to protest a company's actions can be called computer fraud or abuse, thinking that a broad definition of terrorism can be applied to protests of various sorts is quite likely.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulte_Homes,_Inc._v._Laborers%...
This allows for a future email, but doesn't allow for recurring emails... say every Tuesday at 9 AM. Also, my email list can change between when I issue that call and when the email actually goes out; there is not callback.
All looks very reasonable; but I have some partial doubts on the #3, Improve Job Descriptions, more specifically on picking words that women prefer to see. It may be the case that women on average prefer job descriptions mentioning (quoting the link) "sociable" and "responsible" to "independent" and "analytical", but these are not entirely meaningless characteristics. There definitely are people, both men and women, who would be turned off by the former and attracted by the latter, and perhaps they would have been a better fit for the job, given the original description?
Q1-2016?

Are you from the future?

And for comparison, the original XBox sold $300M.

In the first 3 weeks.
For low values of "earth temperature". Apparently, when hydrogen sulfide gas is compressed to very high pressures and cooled to -70C, it becomes a superconductor. That's an interesting physical phenomenon, but lots of materials have unusual physical properties under extreme pressures. Chemicals can be forced into a crystal lattice even when they don't stably bond that way.

Still, it's a new data point. Maybe someone will find something that's both stable under standard conditions and superconductiong.
I know it's taboo to talk about the TRS-80 and its descendants in C64 company, but did anyone else have a CoCo3? Loved that thing to death.
Neatest feature about it was that it had the OS in ROM, but dumped it to RAM. So you could just use the OS designated RAM for your own flavor. Like getting the third-party ADOS and going through the commented code to tweak your OS to your liking, changing disk read times, etc.
It was a lot of fun.

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Looks like it's the same guy, @enjalot. At the very least, he's at the top of tributary's most active users list.
Macros in Lux
Not if that includes the geographical location of the query...
The 6 Challengers Taking on Uber in London
> I have a hard time reading that as a good-faith question.

Well it was. I don't understand why you censored my OP. I clarified my point about the GP before you censored the thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10447015. I've further clarified post-censorship https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10453441.

> Based on the data I see, I'm pretty sure that's false. But any user with specific concerns about astroturfing or shilling should email hn@ycombinator.com with links. When we get an email like that we look for evidence, and when we find evidence we act on it.

This is in effect a non-policy. This is pseudonymous forum. Users don't have any evidence other than heuristics (i.e. what the poster actually writes). Given that you don't accept that as evidence they have no possibility to raise serious questions unless there is blaringly obvious mistake on the shill's part.

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Would the downvoter like to pitch in and actually contribute?
I would guess for a start-up to be successful it is not necessarily to have a market, a good idea, a product etc. But to find a investor dumber than they are to bankroll them.

NSA name sounds important, cool, and carries powerful connotations. I bet even if he said he is making flux capacitors, he'll find some investors to throw a few millions his way.
How is the parent part of the problem?
You'd think the people part of the problems are those who discriminate. Many people being pointed out of being "part of the problem" when in reality they aren't will just alienate them.

With that fucked up world-view Vivek Wadhwa is a misogynist woman hater suddenly out of the blue.

You need to take a step back and realise that there might be some different views and solutions to the same problems instead of painting PEOPLE as problems.
Agreed, gotta start early like parents used to do with boys. Need to show things are accessible regardless of gender.
> You can upvote it to bookmark it

...

> You can upvote it to say "Yes, I would like to see more of this on HN."

I'd do a lot more of the latter if not for the former. Because HN uses the same mechanism for both I tend to avoid up-voting stories unless they are stories I want to bookmark for later reference. If they are just interesting but not something I think I'll need to refer to later I avoid up-voting so as to not clutter up my bookmarks.

I wish HN separated up-voting from bookmarking, like Reddit does.
Sharing, Gifting, and the Moral Evolution of the Social Web
I could bug Marcy for an answer. I will do totally inadequate job of defending her analysis compared to her.

It seems relatively simple to read this passage in the following way:

Let's say a major car company decided to leave open a port with a remote code execution vulnerability on their cars.

Let's say this car company discovered this port was being exploited and informs the NSA of affected vehicles IMEI numbers, IP addresses etc.

Now let's say FTC/NTSB wanted to put together a case for punishing the car manufacturer for their poor security operations.

It seems perfectly reasonable for a lawyer to read the passage from CISA and claim the court couldn't use any disclosure to the government under like the number of affected vehicles(easily calculated from the threat information previously shared) in any determination of liability.
We had expanded to a new country and decided to open an office there. Since we didn't know the market rates for developers over there the founder proposed to pay whatever people ask for plus 10%. We ended up hiring a light skinned person and a dark skinned person. The latter was more experienced and skilled than the former and had asked for 40% less salary. I only found out after we had hired them and spent a lot of goodwill convincing the founder to increase his salary to the same level. It was crazy we were going to pay one person more for less skills because the color of his skin made him have higher salary expectations! There was also the other issue of him acting as if he knew more than everyone when he didn't but I'm digressing...
Thanks, interesting read.
Real-Life 'Jurassic World' Dinos May Be 10 Years Off, Scientist Says
Alias often used commands, I have g = git, sl = ls (common typo).

Git: set up aliases. I can type "g co = git checkout", "g st = git status".
Git configuration: pull.ff only (then "git pull" does not cause an accidental merge), fetch.prune (then "git pull" = "git pull -p").

Chrome: Ctrl+L for URL bar, Ctrl+T new tab, Ctrl+Shift+T to reopen closed window, Ctrl+W to close tab

Bash: use Alt+. for last argument (e.g. type "vim x.py"; then "python " and press Alt+. to get "x.py"), Ctrl+R to search last commands. "cd -" = undo last "cd"

Gmail: use keyboard shortcuts (enable in settings). ? to see help, most important: "c" compose, "r" reply, "a" reply all, "f" forward

Use a password manager such as keepass, remember only a few passwords.
Stefan Esser's laptop was apparently tampered with in a hotel
>My point was that "I have no other options available to me" is only ever true for poor people.

And my point was if you have no other options the military probably won't take you either.
Nice! Thanks for that! If you only knew how much I've looked for something like this, and, not to brag or anything, my internet-search-skills are prettttttty sharp.

For others information (from wikipedia): "Evince used to obey the DRM restrictions of PDF files, which may prevent copying, printing, or converting some PDF files, however this has been made optional, and turned off by default[...]"
That's a useful insight. It's also worth noting that if you do that, you've also given your product an API. Programs can easily manipulate such interfaces.
There should be a corollary to that guideline of "if you have to repeatedly deny that you're turning into something... you're turning into it".

I mean... seriously. It's been a problem SINCE 2010-2011 so I'm not surprised. You're right tho - it DID get better. So did the quality of Reddit for a white - then it got a lot... LOT worse.

> people are quick to downvote comments saying HN is becoming Reddit for this very reason

Well no, mostly it's just the false sense of superiorly that this place has actively cultivated over Reddit for many years. Got to maintain that.
| Advocacy organizations are not journalists. They don't need to cite their sourcing before making claims they believe are true.

Tell me where you find these journalists today.
I was comparing importing Web Components using HTML imports vs. static inlining the web component code within initial markup sent to browser.

Putting it another way - whats the advantage of HTML imports over server side imports?

Server side imports may increase the initial payload, but that will still be quicker compared to extra fetch requests for the web component.

@nostrademons is right that http2 will level the playing field for this battle... so definitely keeping an eye out for it!
This is not an issue you have with WebComponents specifically but the direction the web has been taking for the last 10 years.
This is the reason why I don't fill in a ballot for her whenever her seat comes up. I know it's not going to do much, and I am not really sure I want a Republican in that seat (if that were even possible) since I doubt it would be any better than her positions.

All I see with her about this is the hypocrisy of it all. She is totally fine with the NSA intervening in our lives, but threw a huge fit when the CIA was found to be spying on members of Congress. Yes, spying on the people is OK, but spying on Congress by the CIA is a "violation of separation of powers" and shouldn't be tolerated?
So, is a "one time referral fee" business model the key to success?

This is effectively the yellow pages model, where cleaners pay for leads via advertising placements, and own the long-term relationship with the customer.
Couldn't one collect logs of all things, under the auspices of collecting logs that (may) contain "recon activity" and "exploits"? It seems on a surface reading that one could collect all those under the umbrella of collecting Indicators, and then also use it also for things like selling-to-advertisers or other business-related things.

Of course, our terms of use on most sites already say they can collect + monetize such things, so maybe this is moot.
People interested in the Cuban Missile Crisis may like to read this:

http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=...

It's an extremely well written and thoroughly researched what-if of what might happen in a Cuban Missile Crisis gone horribly wrong --- and quite thoroughly chilling.
Interesting! I saw Lava briefly and understood it as basically a DSL to describe logic; additional abstractions to build pipelines on top of that would be very cool. Looking forward to seeing what comes out of your work!

And yup, there's been a lot of past work on auto-pipelining, but my understanding of what's been done before is that it handles splitting logic into stages, but doesn't necessarily encapsulate more complex patterns -- e.g. no one has built a tool that understands stall logic or bypass networks or clears/restarts in a pipeline and can synthesize those patterns flexibly.

So you could see autopiper's main contribution as the "lowering" of a conventional SSA-based IR into pipelined logic, along with the primitives necessary to describe the actual semantic intent behind design patterns (ask/provide for bypass, killyounger and CFG backedges for pipeline restarts), and the insight that macros can use those primitives to build things like speculation.

If you know of any other past work I'd be really interested to see it!
Who didn't have a policy of destabilizing Syria? Besides the Great and perhaps the Little Satan, many Sunni entities, right? With the Kurds and Turks as an additional wildcard.

At the very least, Assad's only allies right now are Russia and various Shia groups willing to work with the Alawites, specifically Hezbollah, various Iraqi Shia, and Iran....
Another problem with the configuration reloading is that all the backend/service metrics counters that HAProxy exposes on its metrics endpoint get reset on every reload. That makes for really noisy metrics gathering in situations where you have rapid successive changes to the config, such as gradually scaling up hundreds of instances of a new version of a microservice and then scaling down the old version. When you then scrape the metrics via Prometheus using an bridge like HAProxy Exporter (https://github.com/prometheus/haproxy_exporter), you lose a lot of counter increments due to the frequent resets, so you get lower and noisy rates for that time period.
The ShadowDOM spec has been in development since at least a couple of years before React was announced.
The evidence supports his cartoon: http://ngcproject.org/statistics
This looks like something a lot of people would want to believe, but is imo rather disingenuous -- I admittedly haven't followed the discussions too closely; but from what I've seen, a lot of women talking about these things are in fact employed, or formerly employed, in technical fields. One may or may not agree with what some of them say, I often don't, but this is really not the way to address the issue.

Also, what's up with the changing hair color?
No, most people just give up on arguing with repeatedly debunked conspiracy theorists.

You're being treated like 911 Truth people. Rightfully ignored. Just because you're too dumb to work it out you're claiming victory.
In an office of around 40 employees, there are 0 women. I would very much like to see the ratio of men to women equalise. (I'm an asexual male - this has nothing to do with getting my rocks off).
There are (ahem) literally zero "women's studies" experts referenced in the linked article, which is about a bunch of people in the tech industry. Your snark and comic link adds, ahem, literally nothing to this discussion.
>In the HTTP2 world, extra requests don't add any additional latency.

They don't add any additional TCP connection latency, sure. I think it's a bit unrealistic to claim there won't be any congestion of the multiplexed stream which causes additional latency.

>I think I'd heard that it even uses a common compression dictionary for all requests, which means that boilerplate code that's duplicated between components will get compressed away.

I may be misremembering, but I thought that was just for request headers?
But don't worry, all the people in charge of our nuclear missiles now are constantly caught cheating at their tests.

I believe I read recently the way the military solved this huge scandal is by making the tests easier and simply pass/fail.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/30/22508088-92-nucle...

http://www.defenseone.com/management/2014/04/after-cheating-...
No, I hate Jezebel but the kind of BS that is present in that comic (and the attitude it pushes) IS exactly the reason why Tech has a exclusion problem.

It's one step away from unironically using the term "SJW".
You're going to like the NYT article[1,2] about the state of nutritional research... It speaks directly to your point _and_ rayiner's, in that the definitive research is limited, and the mass-media interpretation of said research is overblown.

[1] NYT Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/upshot/surprising-honey-st...
[2] HN Submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10453401
Again: they can't be prosecuted for sharing, for monitoring, or for receipt of information. This is statutory language and the words matter.

If there's an authority under which Chrysler can be prosecuted for having vulnerabilities (spoiler: I don't believe there is), CISA doesn't change any of that. Certainly, there's no clear linkage between CISA sharing and a private actor's ability to sue Chrysler for torts emerging from vulnerabilities.

I don't even think there's a stretch reading of the statute that gets you where this blog post lands.
Testosterone?
The biggest danger I see is not of doctors or nurses intentionally shortchanging other patients, but of being less immediately available when something unexpected happens. Seconds can count. If somebody is on that luxury top floor answering extra questions for a VIP patient, and has to hustle downstairs to handle an emerging crisis, they haven't exactly done anything wrong but the difference in outcomes might still be huge.
> You'd think the people part of the problems are those who discriminate.

The fact that you don't see that that is exactly what posting that comic does is mind-numbingly myopic.

> You need to take a step back and realise that there might be some different views and solutions to the same problems

Right back at you good buddy.
My friend had a disk doubler - I was so jealous: Every once-in-a-while I'd borrow it to try and clean up the messes I'd made with my regular old hole-punch.
I'm not sure I see the part of CISA that allows you to sell your logs to advertisers. I do see lots of places in the bill that allow sharing to other private entities or to the USG for cybersecurity purposes.
I'm very new to Windows development. How does this compare to something like babun?
Nit, but many also do the job because it typically has relatively flexible hours and it allows them to manage their families as well as make some money. Or at least that's been my experience with our best housekeepers. Not just were they trying to collect a premium from these really hard working folks but the concept of "being late" is almost completely artificial for many of them (just so long as it gets done on the specified day.)

Anyways, who picks up their phone and fires up an app to demand that someone comes over and cleans up their house, right f-ing now!

I also suspect that the "on boarding" process of learning to clean probably didn't filter out the candidates that were really passionate about the business so much as it found the ones that would put up with just about anything. I don't know too many top tier developers that would do that. I do value the concept that everyone should understand the dirty work but this particular case might be outside the useful realm of that.
Yes. Preventing SQL injection attacks is very, very easy. To have something like that in your code in 2015 is inexcusable.
https://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Ear...

In case you weren't aware, Microsoft released their 2016-Q1 earnings recently.
(9) solar+wind+storage is orders of magnitude simpler, can be incrementally financed, and is nearly on parity in many markets.

The middle point -- ability to be incrementally financed -- cannot be overstated.
Why is it that so many people (such as this author) use participation rates as an indicator of equity? I understand gender equity to refer to equal TREATMENT of different genders, which is quite different from having equal NUMBERS of both genders in the workplace. Some differences in participation rates MAY be due to gender inequity, but some may also be due to other factors such as innate differences between genders (a crude example: perceptions about the meaning of prerequisites as mentioned in the article).

The first proposed "solution" merely promotes participation rates as a measure of gender equity, and the 2nd proposal "Provide female entrepreneurs with..." just adds another form of inequity. Only the 4th proposal seems truly gender neutral and constructive.
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lol I know right, just enough knowledge to be dangerous...

that may come off as mean/rude towards the author, but I don't mean it so. I do shit like this all the time because I don't know every little trick with the languages/frameworks I'm using, it's impossible to know it all unfortunately.
Mises anyone?
So they're less risk averse even if they're less competent. Probably right. Though I think there's also something intellectually liberating about having no risk constraints, which might allow for attack vectors that are unconventional.
American Egg Board May Have Used Public Funds to Conspire Against Hampton Creek
I might get downvoted for sharing the following anecdote.

I've a niece whom I absolutely adore. I try to steer her now and then to software development as a career. She's 14 so I don't expect much focus out of her, but her curiosity for it just doesn't seem to be there. Her brother is 11, and it couldn't be more obvious to me that he is much more adept at tinkering, even though I've never broached the subject with him. My niece will usually agree with me so I'll stop talking, then go on facebook or netflix or look up kardashian news (not a stereotype, this is 100% what happens). I'm still trying to figure out a way to reach her, but so far every effort has been met with active disinterest. She says she likes the perks that I seem to get (flexible hours, work from home, decent pay, etc.), so at least there's hope she could still be drawn to that eventually
Well articulated article
Most of the ads I see want specific tech skills. If men or women don't have those they are not going to apply.
That distorts the incentives by encouraging everyone to use the full exempt size. Why not just give everyone a fixed amount of money to spend as they wish? That way people who want a substantial house can spend it on their land tax, and people who have better uses for it can spend it on those instead.
Making security badges more friendly to women's clothing would go a long way.
Great post Sam!
I just checked. My Inbox is has no mail in it (in the part I have open anyway, which is the... inbox). It is using 1.01GB of memory, 858.4MB compressed.

Double-u. Tee. Eff.

Docs.google.com, with a spreadsheet open? 617/585MB. Still entirely unacceptable, but lower than an empty Inbox. The difference between the two should be more than enough to run both, even with a comically generous bloat allowance.

(I'd written then deleted something snarky about Google notoriously rigorous hiring practices really shines when we look at software that results, but seriously, all those smart people and this is what comes out? All their web software is embarrassingly bloated. Chrome's battery drain versus Safari? Android, which seems to take Do the Worst Thing that could Possibly Work as its guiding principle? What is going on in there? Is it some sort of organizational problem?)
No one care about race. Studies have shown gender >> race for companies. Check out Lauren Rivera's Pedigree.
Even the mob takes lottery ticket money up front. That's not really an issue unless you're borrowing from them to play. But if you're borrowing to play you could just as easily be borrowing for the state lottery.
Couldn't agree more. If you write something for one time use and it works how could it really be bad?
The evidence you are linking refers to women being less likely to go into those fields; but I don't think that is the point of the cartoon at all. It is trying to dismiss those who argue for trying to address the imbalance as having no field experience, and I don't think it's the case at all.
People with expensive paintings have them valued all the time for insurance purposes. I'm sure a truly dedicated fraudster would find a way, but it raises the cost of tax evasion even if it doesn't eliminate it entirely.
"If someone is naive enough to believe that boys and girls have innately different interests, then so be it."

Its been shown that male monkeys prefer boys toys while females prefer girls toys. No cultural conditioning required.

http://animalwise.org/2012/01/26/born-this-way-gender-based-...