skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked as a systems/software engineer at Linotype-Paul in Cheltenham UK, which is where the 202 was designed and built. I worked on tbe hyphenation programs on ut, and wrote a large part of the application used on the Linoscreen 7000 book pagination terminal that was used to drive paginated books into a 202. Tbe Linoscreen 7000 was a derivative of the Datek 7000, aquired (including myself) from Datek systems in Wembly North London. Mergenthaller was our US AGent. I used to have my own 202 taking up a full third of my office. They where incredably reliable, so this story here is an unusual tale. A definate lemon machine.
The one thing that he never explains is exactly what "diversity" he is looking for at Twitter. It seems that the only thing that matters to him is the color of the person's skin. In other words, an African-American MIT CS grad that grew up in Iowa is somehow going to come at problems differently than a white guy from the same town and school and with the same background. I wouldn't really call that diversity, that's just racism in that one man's view on a technical matter is somehow different because of his race.

What they should look to do is recruit people who got to programming or designing through paths other than MIT or Stanford. Hire the guy that was a painter and then started building website UIs when he saw how those skills transferred. Hire the guy that graduated from the small state school and spent all of his free time web programming. That - at least to me - is the kind of diversity that comes at problems from various angles.

The VP idea with names was stupid, but if I walked away from a job every time one guy had a stupid idea i'd be locked in a closet somewhere howling at the world's stupidity.

My 2 cents. I got to get back in my closet.
So they basically reinvented this?

https://github.com/codahale/sneaker
Your fork description is pretty close to what Confidant is. You should give it a try if you're in AWS!
Based on my own cursory observations of the population flux in the Bay Area, I believe your analysis and thus conclusion is based on a false premise.

That analysis assumes that the hiring base is predominately drawn from local people. Speaking anecdotally, I know many people who graduated from college and headed to the Bay Area to look for a job. I myself moved to Mountain View for a job, then later moved away.

A more complete analysis along the lines you took would look at where people in engineering and product management were, say, 1 or 5 years previous. That are would likely better characterize the relevant population statistics.

As an obviously contrived example, suppose people in engineering and product management are only in the Bay Area for 4 years, burn out, and leave, and suppose the companies offer free relocation from anywhere in the US. Then it doesn't make sense to look at the local demographics.

As a more real-world case, consider a place like Los Alamos National Labs, which has a large number of people from around the world working there, with a relatively high turnover rate partially due to interns, post-docs, and visiting professors. Los Alamos county was carved out for the lab, so the demographics of the county reflect the lab, but most of the people working at the lab are not from Los Alamos.

I do not have access to these sorts of numbers, merely pointing out how it's not easy to interpret the numbers you gave, or the certainty of your conclusion that it's a "not unexpected" result. I suspect the uncertainty is actually very high, and a shot-in-the-dark/back-of-the-envelope estimate isn't likely to be useful.
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Those comments raise an interesting question: why aren't the police just locking the cars?
Because not all of the development teams, often run by volunteers, are vendors.
"Brooke Hammerling, a tech start-up publicist based in New York, recently paid $113 to Postmates for three orders of cheeseburgers and fries on a rainy day.

It turned out, after Postmates investigated the order, that the courier had punched in the incorrect price for the food, which should have been $39.78. The company issued a refund for the difference.

“I should’ve known they weren’t showing the actual prices,” Ms. Hammerling said. "

That pretty much summarizes the customers of these apps.
ISO 20/40 containers are not optimal for long haul over the road trucking -- you generally want something bigger (53') and lighter. You can rail those on their own flatbeds, but that's also not optimal. Intermodal ISO containers make a lot more sense for sea and (sort of) rail; some sense for trucking, especially final delivery, but not OTR; very little sense for air freight (although I've seen a bunch of specially configured equipment shelter 20' containers shipped in cargo aircraft, it's not done for general cargo because the tare weight is in the tons when you're paying $1-20+/pound; they also don't work well with aircraft cargo handling, and can't fit as standardized ULD or loose cargo in passenger aircraft.)

Repacking your cargo from one container to another sucks for a lot of reasons: cost, time, theft, damage, etc.

There's also a latency and performance improvement if you can go door to door with a truck, vs. do intermodal with a train in the middle. Unless you're moving a bulk commodity to a high-volume location, it's unlikely they have rail directly to the destination. (Coal power plants do; lots of modern light industrial manufacturing sites do not.)

Optimizing air vs. truck vs. rail vs. ship across your whole supply chain is an interesting problem.

Another fun thing: with robo drivers, you could go essentially non-stop (except for fueling) door to door. Otherwise, you need a team driver or relay concept (usually you carry 2-3 drivers and swap them enroute; you could also do something with depots where you swap out drivers while retaining the vehicle, which I think is done for some high security convoy operations.) That makes the truck vs. rail advantage even greater.
What are you worried about in the client app that would require it to be open source? Should they also open source their backend systems and give you access to them?
Ok, didn't know of states offering 401(k)s, either. Learn something new every day.

Did you also get to opt out of Social Security with this position? That's a common thing when states offer pensions. With choosing your option (401(k) and no pension) did that force you to pay into social security?
Possible.

Personally i was thinking along the lines of: Maybe the real problem is whichever property of the area they are headquartered in prevents higher amounts of black people from living there. Which may, among others, turn out to be: Companies there are biased against black people, so they're relocated less often. However without looking at the situation closely, any conclusions drawn are premature.
Counter-point: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.en.html#Vendor
I think it was really because of frustration that this VP was so willfully ignorant about the issue; the author talks about how they kept focusing on the hiring pipeline even after the data clearly showed that the problem is that diverse candidates are never even entering the pipeline.
Never heard of MMM before,

Looks like Sergei is persistant with these pyramid schemes;

In January 2011, Mavrodi launched another pyramid scheme
called MMM-2011, asking investors to buy so-called Mavro
currency units. He frankly described it as a pyramid,
adding "It is a naked scheme, nothing more ... People
interact with each other and give each other money. For
no reason!"[13] Mavrodi said that his goal with MMM-2011
is to destroy the current financial system, which he
considers unfair, which would allow something new to take
its place. MMM-2011 was able to function openly as Ponzi
schemes and financial pyramids are not illegal under
Russian law.[14] In May 2012 he froze the operation and
announced that there would be no more payouts.[15]

In 2011 he launched a similar scheme in India, called MMM
India, again stating clearly that the vehicle is a
pyramid.[16] He has also launched MMM in China.[17] He
was reported to be trying to expand his operations into
Western Europe, Canada, and Latin America.[14] As of
September 2015 it had spread rapidly in South Africa with
a claimed 1% per day or 30% per month interest rate
scheme and warnings from both the South African and
Russian Communist Parties for people not to participate
in it.[18]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMM-2011

Active thread talking about Sergei's current scheme:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3p4kuf/mmm_global_...
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This is a really big thing. If you look at, say, a 10-port USB3 hub on Amazon, you will see the exact same thing, down to the boards (to say nothing of the casing), being sold under three or four different brands.
"confiscating goods that are invitations to thieves is one of the six exceptions in Connecticut law to the requirement for a search warrant"

they can just do this (unfortunately)
Not to mention how unfriendly to the environment these apps/services/companies are.

I get it, they are offering a convenience for those people who can't be bothered to properly manage their lives. But every time someone has to go out and buy items individually for you, like this woman's cat food, it uses resources. It uses someone's time, and often involves delivery of an item that could involve having someone use their car.

What I don't understand, is why don't these people make a shopping list like everyone has been doing for years, and replenish said items once a week or at whatever schedule? Make the effort. Go to the store yourself.

It irritates me that people think their time is so valuable they are unwilling to do life's most basic tasks, and to properly manage their lives so they aren't constantly in instant-need all the time and reaching for their phones to provide them a solution to their own sloth.
First, a containment structure[1] is a key feature in any reactor[2]. These are massively over-engineered specifically to contain even unlikely problems. We learned that this was important after the SL-1 accident[3]. As you suggest, this is a feature designed to fail safely - the containment should keep the rest of us outside the building safe, and doesn't say anything about what happens to the stuff in side.

> meltdown

This term is thrown around a lot, and while solid fuel melting in a traditional reactor is a serious event, a lot of people seem to think that "meltdown" is some kind of terrible or damaging event. The reason people in the nuclear industry panic over a possible meltdown has little to do with safety; up until that point you could - in theory - still reasonably believe that the reactor could be fixed and (eventually) restarted. After a meltdown, you have to assume the core is trashed and is now a financial liability instead of your main source of revenue.

Meltdowns are a terrible event financially. The actual melting of the fuel involves the passive-safety, which are usually designed to drain that fuel into (multiple) areas where it can cool down without criticality risk.

All of this is still discussing very old features. This is like worrying about today's computers because vacuum tubes are fragile and need to be replaced when they burn out. Modern reactor design is very different, because we learned form the problems that happened in the original designs, just like any other technology. Unfortunately, propaganda based on radiophobia has been a serious roadblock. Ironically, this means we're stuck using older designs that should have been replaced decades ago with modern reactors that emphasis passive safety.

If you're interested in a brief overview of these problems (and why some of us believe thorium breeder reactors are the answer for many of these problems), I recommend watching "Th"[4]. Just remember it's an overview, and they skip over some of the details to keep it short.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containment_building

[2] a feature that was missing at Chernobyl, which is one of many reasons that accident affected such a large area

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOt7xDKxmCM

[4] http://thoriumremix.com/th/
This article is so contrived.

> "Instacart states upfront that it has markups for some stores, including Costco. But the app neglects to show the actual retail cost of each item compared to the markup, making it tough to assess just how much more you’re paying for the service."

If I'm buying something to be delivered to me, I don't really care what the price is, as long as the total is not outrageous. I'm paying for convenience, full stop. If I care about price, I will go to Costco and get the damn dental floss myself.
Yeah, and what happens to those of us who own VW? Car has been incredibly reliable, zero problems. What happens with the value of the car or the cost of repairs/OEM parts if they crater?
=)

I'm the technical head for our cloud business so I've got some pretty specific ideas on how to make this more useful from a day to day operational standpoint (multi-tenant infra support has lots of interesting use cases).

Feel free to ask if you want more input.
This is the first time I've seen a nicely documented requirements.txt and I like! https://github.com/lyft/confidant/blob/master/requirements.t...
It can read and see everything you do on your computer...

...until you close it for grinding too much cpu.
Yes, they absolutely should open source their backend systems. Is the value of Dropbox really in their source code? I doubt it. They want my files, all of them, but they won't tell me what they're doing with the files or how their code works?

Everything about this should be open source, and I won't ever use it until it is. Also they should make a lot more effort towards promising privacy and security. As it stands right now, they seem intent on handing your file access to governments and building systems that are insecure by design. No thanks. Open source and then we'll talk.
I did express the thought of "normalized to an appropiate" metric badly. I don't know what that metric is, and don't presume to know. Local demographics were just one example to me. I'll correct the post.
Wait, what?

If car is unlocked and laptop is visible - they take the laptop and lock the car. Try to contact owner.

If car is locked and laptop is visible - nothing?
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Yep, thanks for clarifying. We're using the figures quoted by gene synthesis firms to get the 10%. That makes sense because we're buying 100Mbp of gene synthesis:) We buy lots more DNA in other forms (chip-synthesized oligos etc.).
>How do you figure? I don't follow.

You dismissed the idea that forceful redistribution of capital is a problem at all because force already exists throughout society. By extension you must be perfectly fine with the other forms of force enumerated.

>Suppose you have a lot of money and I want some. So I hack your bank account and take it, except you don't let me because you call the police who arrest me, or maybe just the threat of arrest deters me. Either way, you are using force to restrict my freedom to take the money lying there in the bank. Now, if you say that you didn't give your consent to my taking the money, and it was I that used force when taking it, then we will get into a very long discussion about what consent means, and I will say that consent or coercion are not binary but a spectrum and a person is almost never at either extreme (as various psychological experiments have shown).

In other words you've perverted the definitions of otherwise very clear words as to make this discussion entirely worthless.

>For ownership to be effective it must be enforced by violence or the threat of violence towards those who want to violate it, hence -- it requires force, and is therefore a restriction on freedom.

I think I understand what you're getting at but I still fail to see how it's relevant. Yes, if I own something and I protect it from theft, I will use violence. But when I previously mentioned force, it was not the reactionary use of violence I was referring to. In theory, I have no problem with the use of violence in reaction to an offense on person or property.

I'm not sure what your comments on restrictions of freedom have to do with the conversation as I have not called for unbridled "freedom."
Someone did an article a while back about where you can use the reading comprehension level of reviewers to weight the Amazon star system.
This looks crazy and way more complicated than I would ever want.
Definitely possible, though the ratio of upvotes vs flags is interesting nevertheless - opinions must be extremely polarized for that to be the case.
I just had to deal with a defective Anker Cable after 5 months.
And in a nutshell, that's why people buy stuff from apple. imo, their brand is "here's a good thing, and we promise it will work". Amazon's is "you're on your own, but it's really fucking cheap!" That's not to say amazon doesn't have good customer service, but the whole thing is still shit. I just wanted a [cable|dongle|hdmi adapter|battery|plant spray|charger] that was what it claimed to be and worked correctly the first fucking time. The fact that you have a good return policy doesn't fix the fact that I still don't have X.
Turning csysdig into a control panel for processes, connections and containers
I still pay into Social Security, I wasn't offered the ability to opt out.
huge WTF...you can't call that WAF...At least try adding some more rules.
Or pretty much anything on amazon has that happen.

Most recently a "good ol' American made" can opener turned out to be a cheap China counterfeit: https://www.amazon.com/review/R3MJPDPNRM9HXR
The implication is that thieves will break the windows and snatch whatever they can. Since the police can't break the windows and "hold the contents for safekeeping" they have to skip the locked cars.
There was serious concern with some evidence a few years back that the Dropbox client was touching files in folders that weren't shared. Not sure if that is what OP's concern is. But I agree with your point, the client is only one small piece of the puzzle and won't reveal much.
You're probably thinking of AmazonBasics. They make a variety of products including USB cables, USB chargers, backpacks, monitor stands, and a bunch of other general stuff. I have several of their cables, chargers, and one of their backpacks. They are all fairly good.
Truly a kick ass product.
So much this.

We always said to use "the right tool for the right job", isn't it? There are a lot of apps for which virtualized infrastructure is just not a good fit from a technical standpoint. When these end up in the cloud because suits decided OpEx is sweeter than CapEx, they suffer horribly; the customer ends up paying more (because prolonged I/O spikes in the cloud can be hugely expensive), the application runs slower than it did 5 years ago on commodity hardware, and nobody is happy.

Still, suits decided cloud it must be, so cloud it will be. Sometimes the IT sector is depressing.
From the announcement:

Complete Emacs-compatible Elisp implementation

Thanks to the work of BT Templeton, Guile's Elisp implementation is now
fully Emacs-compatible, implementing all of Elisp's features and quirks
in the same way as the editor we know and love.

So where's my guile-based emacs build? Not holding my breath, but it certainly would be a very nice christmas present (not sure about the year though)!

(yeah, I know emacs is a lot more than just it's elisp implementation...)
As someone else replied, contacts, friends and old colleagues. I got my first remote job by going to the local Ruby user group and getting to know people.

You might also check https://weworkremotely.com/ (full disclosure, company I work for runs the site).
because thieves would smash the windows instead! which of course begs the question, why bother with unlocked cars if any car is equally a target?

(rolling probable cause is why)
Hipchat – Third Day of degraded service
API failures, delayed message sending, messages not sending.

https://status.hipchat.com/
Or, "UPS driver threw package over fence, and it sat in the birdbath for 2 weeks before I found it. Didn't work when I plugged it in. One star."

People should have to take an IQ test before being allowed to post reviews.
You aren't obligated to be a customer of Dropbox. There are plenty of other services, either self-run or not, that caters to people that value baseless paranoia over functionality and usability.
IF I care about price, I'll use Google Express, and get convenience and the same price as I'd get direct from Costco. (Instacart charges a premium for Costco not for the convenience of delivery, but for the "convenience" of not having to buy a Costco membership; Google Express just lets you enter your Costco membership info and use it.)
Light Fields Are Dead. Long Live Holography
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Sure could you also randomly enter my house to make sure I didn't leave the stove on? Thanks but no thanks.
So far they've been exceeding when it comes to QuickCharge 2.0 devices.
I don't think Amazon worries about bad reviews, as long as they don't see only bad reviews. Bad reviews create trust in the reviews: Seeing bad reviews makes me reasonably certain that products with problems will get called out most of the time.

And often I end up buying products with bad reviews in preference to those with perfect reviews because bad reviews gives me faith a product has been reviewed "enough" by real people, and often the issues brought up are not important to me.

I'd say that for Amazon, these reviews are fantastic: Next time I want a type C cable, I'll check his reviews and buy one of the ones he gives good reviews - probably at Amazon. This is like popping into that store where you trust the staff because they talk shit about "their" own products when they're no good even if it means steering you to less profitable products.
We wrote Confidant in the beginning of 2015, so it's not a reinvention of sneaker. That said, sneaker is very similar in design, as is credstash: https://github.com/fugue/credstash

Both of those are really great projects and I recommend them if they fit your use-case.

One of the reasons we originally avoided S3 was because it can occasionally be very eventually consistent, which we wanted to avoid. We also wanted to avoid fanning out secrets to services when the secret needed to be shared between multiple services.

We also wanted to have a UI that was simple and easy to use for everyone.
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The problem is, the request still hits Apache, so you can still get DDOSed.

A proper WAF will drop requests before they hit the web server software, or even better, before hitting the server at all.
At least for me, the Google name adds zero credibility (nobody can tell if you are a dog, or unemployed, on the Internet). The detail of his reviews, and their high rating, is what sells it for me. That there is a plausible explanation for why he's doing it is just icing on the cake.
Corporate profits are left overseas and not taxed/taxed at a very low level. You see this with Apple, Google, Medtronic etc.

Taxation of dividends is double taxed if you could once to the corporation and once to the individual.

Avoidance of taxation of dividends (which only a subset of companies do) is not why these corporations go to such lengths to avoid paying taxes. They do it because they don't want their profits taxed. That's my beef.
That's a risk. But for the millions of people who successfully use $2 cables every single day, many of whom can't afford $20 cables, they're pretty glad $2 cables exist.
What, and if I break confidence and name names from the Rice faculty that would somehow be better?

Being forced to rewrite entirely at a defense by the rest of one's committee is a BFD, it absolutely impacts his credibility.