skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blind auditions. Do knowledge- and skills-based tests in such a way that the people administering them don't know the race, gender, or age of the candidate. Ditto for behavioral tests - you know, the trick questions and fake scenarios designed to ferret out whether you're honest, passionate, creative, etc. Have someone else evaluate experience and/or references.

Constructing the necessary exercises and evaluations is a lot more work than traditional interviewing, especially if you also want to avoid the "silly puzzle questions that only prove you read the same book" syndrome, but it is possible and would avoid most kinds of bias.
Have you seen the shape of California?

Did you know that Reno has been gerrymandered so far it's now west of Los Angeles? That has to be some kind of conspiracy. Otherwise it would just be impossible.
"The Reddit mod was simply transcribing sentences as Bill was saying them."

To clarify, it's widely accepted it was a Reddit admin, /u/808sandhotcakes, that was responsible for the original transcription of Bill's responses.

As has been pointed out in your child posts, the top level responses have since been edited and have improved drastically.

The Admin's username has also been removed from the OP.

To give a better idea, check this archive.is of before the edits. [1]

>Uh yes I know Tom, we called him co back then cause he was a hipster, I sent someone looking for Co looking for him years ago, this person found him and he was running for office, the person I sent was not someone your father wanted to be affiliated with while running a campaign, he was a funny guy if you're his kid you're probably funny too. Tell your Dad to lay low, his past is gonna catch up with him.

>Uh, yes, I know Tom. We called him "Co" back then, cause he was a hipster. I sent someone looking for Co looking for him years ago, this person found him, and he was running for office. The person I sent was not someone your father wanted to be affiliated with while running a campaign. He was a funny guy. If you're his kid, you're probably funny too. Tell your Dad to lay low, his past is gonna catch up with him.

The contrast between this AMA and his previous one is stark.(The previous one [2] handled by the well loved admin /u/chooter, who was recently fired.)

One should write in an audience appropriate way. The Bill Murray AMA was written by someone with no real understanding of written English.

[1] https://archive.is/yBqcH#selection-2809.0-2809.408

[2] https://www.reddit.com/comments/1vhjag
At this point it's getting complex enough that it defeats the purpose. There are ways of "fixing" that (e.g. by wrapping return values and overriding method_missing or similar instead), but most of the ones I can thing of that would look nice would perform worse than yours.

> Also, it shouldn't make any significant performance difference whether this was implemented as a syntactic sugar, an operator or a method (this doesn't mean it won't perform better than my example method).

It potentially would make a massive difference. Firstly there's a minimum of 5 method calls just in the success-path in your example, plus at least one object creation (constructing a new argument array in the final call), but potentially more. And that's not nearly all.

Method calls in MRI are expensive, even with caching.

Compare that to implementing the vm-level logic which can do the actual method calls and a nil check and branch.
Everyone forgets the flip side of the integration problem. The majority group needs to be welcoming of minority groups or else they will seek out their own. Interracial friendships, dating, etc are still not the norm. A lot of that is due to subtle exclusion of other groups.
Well, I wouldn't say that "social network analysis is a good product idea", no. But I would say "social network analysis is an amazingly useful technology, and some novel application of it could be a great product". The hard part, as you've probably noticed, is figuring out how to apply the technology to solving an interesting problem, or enabling something cool and new that people will pay for (or focus enough eyeballs on, so you can make money on advertising).

I think one thing to do is just keep the tech itself in a sort of mental queue, and as you walk around, see stuff, read, encounter people, etc., just constantly ask yourself "how could SNA be useful to somebody in this situation?" And probably, eventually, you'll have an "aha" moment and realize "Shit, I could build this cool thing to do X!"

I would say, watch a lot, listen a lot, read a lot and think a lot. Ask questions, be curious and don't be afraid to daydream ridiculous ideas that you wind up discarding. But do carry around a notepad, or a smartphone/tablet with a notetaking app, or something so you can record your ideas when they come to you. Not much would be worse than having that great idea and then forgetting it before you write it down. Also, sometimes, a "not so great" idea that you go back and revisit, may turn into the seed for a better idea. So go back and re-read your old notes occasionally.

FWIW, we're working on using SNA as part of one of our products. Our idea (which is not completely novel anyway) is to apply SNA to enterprise search and use the network links to help rank results. There's more to our product than just that, but it is one element (to be fair, one we haven't really started implementing yet).
So what does that say about the people we are supposedly droning, relative to our own moral standard? Seemingly we are equals.
John Goodenough, 93-year-old physicist regarded as father of lithium ion battery
Will their website not be taking orders as well? I love REI, but this is a pretty transparent marketing ploy.

Also relevant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day
But that's just stuff, the majority of which was probably insured and even if it wasn't, all of it can (theoretically) be replaced. People can't.
That's a much broader definition for the word market than I generally use. Thank you for the explanation.
Why stay in? The parks are empty! Personally, I go surfing.
If the price of everything increases 10% then the increased cost of living disproportionately affects the poor for the duration of time that it takes for the wages to match the increase. Compared to this the amount of debt held is basically trifling.

For example, if you are poor and are spending 80% of your income on living expenses, and 10% increase in prices drops your margin of survival from 20% to 12%, which is a 40% hit. If you are wealthy and spending 20% of your income, then your margin goes from 80% to 78% which is a 5% hit. If you were in the 'poor' case, would you rather have the 10% devaluation of your debt or would you rather have a 40% hit to your livable margin?

The converse is true in a system of deflation. If you are spending 80% of your income on living expenses, a 10% DECREASE in prices increases your margin of survival from 20% to 28%, which is a 40% increase, which you would almost certainly take over a 10% increase in real value of your debt.

Moreover the notion that the rich are not in debt is rediculous. A lot of things that the rich are able to partake in more easily (e.g. playing shorts on the short markets, options trade, margin trading, all currency FX trading) are debt-based instruments, so basically having secular inflation helps the rich play with money in innumerable ways.
"I gave a presentation in France and academics there flat out told me that academics shouldn’t write to express, they should write to impress."

Wow. That speaks volumes about French academics.
This is a fear mongering story with very little fact to back up opinion.

"The idea was, like Tesla, to be in control of the retail environment and give customers an upscale experience. They were all money pits."

"Stockholders may be clinging to the hope that the company's upcoming crossover will help put Tesla back on track, but there's little evidence to bolster that optimism. A big, expensive vehicle with a compromised structure to accommodate gullwing doors can hardly be a sales knockout."

0/10
At its peak of the Japanese Asset Bubble, the Imperial Palace of Japan was valued higher than the sum of all real estate in the state of California. Simply put, the Japanese Asset Bubble was the worst asset bubble in the history of asset bubbles.

In order to stabilize the collapse of the asset bubble, they have been playing loosey-goosey with interest rates for two decades now. But in order to stabilize the fall in asset prices using monetary policy (a blunt instrument if there ever was one), they essentially have been inflating everything else. So while they have nominally had deflation in aggregate, they have had inflation levels in consumables (which is about 70% of the cost of living) that are bordering, if not surpassed, what most economists would call HyperInflation.
It doesn't read at all like a command to vote a certain way to me. He first urges people to get out and vote (that's the only part I read as command-like).

He then later provides a list of recommendations.

The secret ballot process in the US precludes any repercussions for voting/not voting in any particular way.
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A taxi medallion, the artificially scarce license to operate in New York, cost $35,000 in 1976. In 2014 a medallion sold for $1.3m. In 2015 a medallion sold for $900,000, presumably as a result of Uber and Lyft.
> California, specifically Silicon Valley, is definitely a melting pot.

LOL, that's a good one. I always thought California was the engine behind this systematic racism since it's no longer politically correct to have racial bias in Federal Law to restricts citizens' behavior. The media is the only way to influence their mind.
I thought most of the heat nowadays is created by leakage. The rest by the semiconductor. Not sure how a superconductor would help here.
This doesn't even address the fundemantal design flaw with CSS: (paraphrased badly from a quote by Casey Muratori)

Layout is about the relationship between TWO THINGS. If you have a layout language that deals with only one thing at a time, then you have failed.
In a true deflationary atmosphere, firms will receive less money and eventually the equilibrium of the economy hits a 'tipping point' where wages will have to go down.

Switzerland isn't there, the price of domestic goods has actually gone up slightly, only the price of imported goods has gone down drastically.

And you're also right about the stickiness of wages - generally firms don't reduce wages, but lay off workers then re-hire at lower wages. Either way the effect at the macro level is the same.
No only that. Apparently, Sahrawi people don't have much interest in being part of Morocco. I guess that that counts too.
To my untrained eye, the Meissner effect appears to be the most obvious connection between the previous high-temperature superconductors and this finding.

If intense pressure causes superconduction, then perhaps the Meissner effect is a manifestation of the same phenomenon. If the Meissner effect expels magnetic fields from the material, then perhaps this effect also causes the material itself to be compressed physically in response, or something like that.

Disclaimer: I know nothing about superconducting physics, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Spent four years in Japan. Got stopped on a regular basis by cops in Tokyo to be inspected for drugs and weapons. Even twice within the span of a kilometer once. Anecdotal, but there you go.
So? It's in line with the brand, their employees aren't subjected to the terrors that come with Black Friday, and they still get sales. Everyone wins.
Hrm.

I decided to fact check just one claim. The $4000 figure. http://www.autoblog.com/2015/08/10/tesla-does-not-lose-4000-... explains where the figure comes from. It is one quarter's operating loss divided by the number of cars sold. However said quarter also had an unknown but large capital expenses for things like ramping up production for future models. So you can't actually get to the figure of how much Tesla is going to make per Model S sold. (Nor would Tesla want to release that figure.)

Other items I already knew to be disingenuous. I've been in a Tesla dealership. The capital expenses are nothing like the rest of the auto industry. Tesla doesn't have the capital risk of a bunch of inventory on hand. They just have a couple of demonstration models, and a browser where you can customize your order on your website. They only build the car after you buy it.

Indeed, the whole company is structured around reducing expenses. When batteries become cheap enough, Tesla will be perfectly positioned to sell mass consumer cars. Their challenge until then is to build their brand, distribution network, and capabilities so that they are positioned to capitalize on the opportunity.
I'm personally an Android user, so I see the analogy like this:

Some android users use homescreen widgets. Some don't.

Some people will use the watch, others won't.

People were dissapointed because unlike watches, everyone has a smart phone. I have a pebble and I love it. I realize others wouldn't care.

A dud, but maybe only to hype or expectations. Personally I find its value add worth any additional trouble, but its not a major part of my existence like my phone is.
Not exactly. The W3C spec stated the box model should work one way and everyone but Microsoft/IE did it that way. This is a new part of the spec which didn't exist back then.

However, since IE had 95% market share, everyone marked up their site according to Microsoft's model instead of the W3C. It's affectionately called "quirks mode" and really screwed people up, remnants of which I still see today.
CISA will almost certainly pass tomorrow. It already achieved cloture, typically the hardest part of getting a bill out of the Senate. It needed 60 votes and got 83. It just needs 50 for final passage, and I have a hard time seeing how 34 Senators would change their minds within a week.
I'm happy and hope it starts a trend, but REI doesn't seem like the kind of store that gets a ton of traffic on Black Friday. I'm sure they'll lose some business (hopefully offset by goodwill) but they don't seem like the typical retailer that really looks forward to Black Friday.
> In Europe it's not really the stuff of comedians anymore,

The BBC has plenty of comedy where racial stereotypes are commonplace. Even the great lefty Stephen Fry has them on his QI show, as he makes jokes about 'dagos' and Alan does his shitty Mexican "speedy gonzales" joke accents. Occasionally you'll see a Welsh celebrity arc up over the incessant sheep-shagging jokes as well. I can't speak for European standup per se (or continental fare), but I can speak to the BBC tv episodes that get shipped over here.

One thing that stood out for me was that I remember seeing John Oliver call out Dara O'Briain on Mock the Week for making racist French jokes (on the smelly/don't wash stereotype) and now Oliver has his own show in the US, he's constantly using racist stereotypes in his skits. Racial stereotypes seem to be pretty hard to get out of comedy, even amongst the more highbrow comedians...
That's why primary challenges are important. I doubt she'll be gone before she wants to be, but I was skeptical they could get Cantor also.
The important thing is to improve tools, and with a monolith you can't do that.

So build a distributed PaaS with hot-deploy, then a distributed HTTP database; then you can use microservices without any of the problems mentioned (complexity becomes a non problem since everything is using the same complexity and it very quickly becomes bug free, overhead is removed by PaaS)!

The important step with microSOA is that each developer can choose his tools. That trumps everything else.
One-hundred Shadow DOM Elements, each with 10 DOM elements and 10 CSS selectors.

vs

One-thousand `regular` DOM Elements with 1000 CSS selectors.

It's a simple math. 10 times faster.
What an excellent way to get and retain quality employees. Too bad REI can't suck all the good workers out of Walmart.
>I often can't relate with white people. What they worry about and enjoy do nothing for me. This started from a young age (what is allowance? what is getting grounded? hobbies?) and although I have many close white friends, on a whole they are the minority in my friend groups.

Interesting. Do you personally think that if a white person were to express similar sentiments, he would be guilty of racism?
Scientists devise new method to solve significant variables conundrum
Well, fist, US media does not seem to agree that "most IED attacks in Iraq were not terrorism because they were aimed at US troops".

Then, what's the difference? The fact that some people in an office at another country decided that a building has military relevance, instead of PR relevance?

Ok, some targets are clearly military. But lots of them aren't. And there's a huge amount of overlap between those "military, because we said so" targets and what most groups labeled as "terrorists" target.
It would be funny if REI employees ended up going outside to camp at electronic and department stores as a result...

It'd be nice to see their employees sharing stories as a result.

p.s check out http://www.hipcamp.com
Battlefy: How we move faster by using microservices
You say media companies should figure out the right business model but you yourself seem to be stuck thinking inside the old business model box. In the short term it is true all the new media sites seem to be crushing it with all the eyeballs they have since the dominant revenue model for our age is advertising, but things always change. Even this online ad model was laughed at a decade ago. And it is increasingly becoming less lucrative as more and more people can publish stuff online. The only way to ensure you survive is to make sure you create a unique value. And page view is not one of them.
These points seem rational but seem more and more superficial as I think about them.

- A 5% return on an investment coupled with 5% deflation is equivalent to about a 10.5% return. Economically ideal rational actors will continue to invest.

- The majority of purchases people make are not delayable: utility fees need to be paid if you wish to continue receiving them, food must be purchased, renting is money thrown in the garbage as is. Everything else that people have to save for, they will normally purchase the minute they are able because they feel the vacuum.

- Necessity of pay cuts doesn't follow from deflation but rather from depression. Unlike the other points you don't attempt to defend this premise.

- Repeat of prior point.

- The debt won't grow. The normal argument should be that your salary will decrease by 2% each year so effectively the original principle grows, but this is an effect of depression, not deflation.

The idea that deflation leads to depression is because people argue that it will lead to non-spending. However, my experience with real people, as opposed to theoretically idealized "rational" actors tells me that the minute they can afford to spend more, they will. The evidence on people winning the lottery is similar: most people do not invest, but rather spend quickly and emphatically.
Ask HN: Can/should I embed a browser (Electron, webkit) for a golang web app?
I've been working on an app using ReactJS to build a web UI for a toolset I've written in Go and am really happy with the workflow and overall architecture so far. At present I can run a binary which starts a http server, then access a bootstrap index page with a browser. I use React / JQuery to send REST calls to query the data model and build simple views, or send requests to trigger specific commands.

I've thought about building a separate standalone GUI version with an embedded browser like Atom editor. I've also heard of people embedding webkit for similar results. I'm new to application programming (server and cli util developer, with some web experience), so think this model fits my skillset and workflow better than learning a UI toolkit like Qt (comments suggesting otherwise are welcome).

Is there anything I need to be aware of working with an embedded browser vs what I'm doing now? Specifically, will React's virtual DOM be supported? (From what I understand, the JS engine would handle things like any other browser, right?) I don't need any JS integration with my app itself, I'm happy serving files and REST calls for the data bindings.

Any advice or suggestions is much appreciated, thanks hackers.
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Funny, H2S is a natural product of sewage. And on vessels sewage lines are frequently pressurized. Maybe not to your house, but maybe there are some limited uses.
It is strange because CNNs are so popular in image processing. Are there anymore papers besides that one?
Won't they all just go shopping?
As a web dev of 11 years, I don't find writing cross browser code a nightmare. And any web site that doesn't work cross browser is by amateurs at best.

I don't know what web sites you visit where you have such issues but I haven't seen them in years except for the occasional goofball site.
There's also this TED talk which is interesting

http://www.ted.com/talks/edith_widder_how_we_found_the_giant...
They will be taking orders but not be processing it till Saturday according to [1].
[1]http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/10/26/rei-closing-o...
Where I am, we have several local newspapers that got rid of ads completely except for small listings for like 50€ each "XYZ died" or "Selling ABC".

And it still works.

People are willing to pay enough for quality content or content about local news that it works.
> The majority group needs to be welcoming of minority groups

Can be hard when the minority group prefers to speak in a different language. It's give-and-take. Often minority groups are just fine balkanizing instead of making the effort to integrate. And the minorities are often walking a tightrope between their parents and the majority culture which makes it hard to bridge this gap. So they find it easier just finding people in the same situation. That's why integration often takes generations, and typically takes longer the larger the minority.
Quantum Hilbert Hotel
Absolutely, Hubble can see in the optical and near-UV, while James Webb will be limited to the infrared. "Limited" is one way of putting it, it'll be immensely valuable in finding astrophysical phenomena and also distant Solar System objects (Perhaps yet bigger Pluto's orbiting in the distance).

We also need specialized spacecraft in the vein of Terrestrial Planetary Finder and definitely a follow-on mission of Kepler, as well as ground-based planet-finding telescopes like Colossus: http://the-colossus.com/ .

We could also use a systematic search for solar systems similar to [KIC 8462852](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIC_8462852).
I'm curious why you would think that. REI stocks many things for outdoor recreation for the Winter season, including skis, snowboards, snowshoes, jacket of all varieties, wool socks, ice climbing gear/mountaineering gear in general... boots! - the list goes on.

The REI near me has a full-service bike shop and ski/snowboard tuning area. Then there's the people that need gear for taking off the winter going to South America.

Or, you're just stuck indoors, rockclimbing, which has it's own set of accessories, including rock shoes, harnesses, ropes, chalk, etc, etc, etc.

Yeah, REI does some business around this year, believe me.
What makes you say this? Have you ever lived in California?

I live in the San Gabriel valley, and while it's not perfect, "melting pot" is an apt description, certainly compared to places I've lived in other states.
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The idea is flawed.

Semantic Web expects people to do extra work, with no benefit. Create a benefit for those people, and you'll see it get done.