skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's still not clear what you would have a hiring manager do today. I usually have several positions open at any given time; I don't even recall the last black applicant we've seen.

I have talented co-workers of many different races (specifically including black), but even without visiting our office, you could guess the percentage breakdown and you wouldn't be far off.

I can't hire applicants that don't exist and I can't hire applicants that aren't qualified.
Linus: "You can disagree with me as much as you want, but during this talk, by definition, anybody who disagrees is stupid and ugly."

Just a cheeky cherry-picked quote :).
How Customer Experience Correlates to Future Purchase Intentions
Third party doctrine is irrelevant here. That says 4th amendment doesn't apply to stuff that isn't private because it has been shared with other people. Here we are talking about the FBI searching phones pursuant to a warrant. There is no way to spin that as a violation of the 4th amendment.
> What is wrong with the statement "We won't lower the bar"?

The implicit assumption in that statement is that the current hiring process is not discriminatory, therefore the only way to hire more people of <group X> would be to lower hiring standards. Many people believe the hiring process is discriminatory - and, indeed, there are studies which support that claim.

Leaving aside the issue of discrimination, though, what's curious is that it's widely accepted that hiring in tech is broken. Companies complain that it's extremely difficult to identify talent. Larger companies are willing to risk turning away many qualified candidates if it reduces their risk of a poor hire. It turns out that it's very difficult to reliably identify who is above "the bar" and who is not. There are startups out there trying to solve this problem right now. It's a problem that effects everyone in the industry, too, not just individuals from <group X>.

So, if we lack a reliable way to determine if someone's above "the bar," how on Earth can we say that the reason we don't have more employees in <group X> is because there aren't enough applicants from <group X> who are above the bar? We can't.
Would you want them to bash in a window instead?
Hurricane LTE-U: Don’t Let Wi-Fi Get Blown Away
Not possible for it to be otherwise. Also, not desirable.

The law is not like an OS that society runs on, that's a very dangerous but sadly pervasive idea. The law is a tool that society uses for its own betterment, hopefully in the service of justice and liberty.
"received documents i had to sign after termination saying it was voided"

Why did you have to sign any documents after termination? What did you stand to gain by signing those documents (or stand to lose, by not signing them)?

It's usual to sign a contract only if both sides get something out of it (whether money, a promise to do (or not do) something, ...). In many jurisdictions, a contract is void if this isn't the case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consideration
[looks at his Android phone] hmmm...
"Linux is a cancer" Microsoft's CEO, 2001 (Steve Ballmer)

Source: http://slashdot.org/story/01/06/01/1658258/ballmer-calls-lin...
Yes, absolutely. We do a rolling deployment of new app instances, requests are not dropped.
Arg paywall! Clicking through from this link goes under it to full story: http://www.techmeme.com/151104/p16#a151104p16
Someone should find out the bitcoin addresses the MMM victims are sending their funds to, it may help to give an indication of the size of the problem. I'm tempted to sign up to MMM to get one of the addresses they use. Of course it depends whether they are smart enough to use a different address for each user.
In this case she saw the $113 charge for three orders of cheeseburgers and fries and didn't think twice about it. To her that price seemed logical.
Is systemd an NSA attempt?
In the case of SSL certificates, the SHA-1 or SHA-256 hash algorithm is being used to verify the integrity of the certificate. It assures that the information in the "To be signed" certificate sequence (e.g. domain name, organization, country, etc.) matches what the CA signed.

While the motivation to move to SHA-256 is motivated by SHA-1's susceptibility to collisions, the concern for many is that legacy systems may not support SHA-256, meaning older clients won't be able to connect to sites using SHA-256 signed certificates. In general as long as a client is on Windows XP SP3+ or OS X 10.5+ they'll be all set [1].

While this isn't a feature of X.509 certs, if you were to implement "Dual Hashes" (using SHA1/SHA2 as an example), you'd have a scenario where older operating systems may not be able to validate the newer hash and only the older, now insecure hash essentially defeating the purpose.

Changing a cert from SHA-1 to SHA-256 in most cases is a matter of reissuing or re-keying your certificate with your CA. Most CAs offer this for free, though some may charge.

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Side note: In the case of document signatures, there is an XML signature standard called XAdES. There are different levels of XAdES signatures, the strongest being XAdES-A [2] where the -A is for "Archive". When you place a signature on a document, to make it valid long term (beyond the expiration date of your certificate) you can add a 3rd party timestamp and embed revocation data into the signature. But what happens when the hash algorithm used by the timestamp server is considered insecure? XAdES allows you to go back and add additional timestamps with newer hash algorithms to make this "future proof". Similar, but not quite the same as what you were suggesting.

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[1] SHA-256 Compatibility: https://support.globalsign.com/customer/en/portal/articles/1...

[2] XAdES-A: http://www.w3.org/TR/XAdES/#Syntax_for_XAdES-A_form
From the information you presented, I did learn that heroin has minimal danger of causing neurotxicity, which is great. Thanks for that.

Sincerely, I apologize for being so non-collaborative in our search for answers.
> Here in New Zealand essentially every start-up uses Xero - a SaaS accounting system that works extremely well and now has over 600k paying customers. It means one set of data, permanently in my butt, and a host of integrations to other players.

Not everyone thinks it's a good thing. For instance, with Ledger, you don't have to be a customer. It's available for free. Anything that works good without SaaS is better done without SaaS.
There isn't that much difference between 1435 mm and 4 ft 8½
It recommends the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica for me XD
Double-entry refers to the number of accounts related to a transaction, rather than the process of entering it twice.

When you think about it, all transactions have naturally (at least) a from and a to account. In the simplest example, I move $100 from one checking account to another. This is a pain to model in a spreadsheet, where I literally create two entries, but very easy to model in an electronic dual-entry system where I create a single transaction with a from and a to end point, and an amount.

Consider if I decide to buy a stock from my checking account. The from is my checking account, and then there are two "to" accounts - an account which models the value of the stock, and an account for the vendor's charges for the purchase. I might decide to aggregate all such bank charges to a single virtual account for this purpose. In this case, that virtual account would be the same as a "category" in a spreadsheet based model.

It can also make budgeting and cash-flow visualization easier. I have a virtual account called "Holiday Budget", which makes a transaction to another virtual account called "Spent on Holidays" of $x every month. Whenever I spend money on a holiday item from my checking account, the "from" is my checking account, and the "to" is my "Holiday Budget". This keeps my net-worth and budgeting reports very simple - they say I spend the same $x on holidays every month - while accounting for some very lumpy spending. I can easily see if I'm over or under budget by looking at the value of the virtual account "Holiday Budget" at any point.

It makes recording the value of unconventional assets easier. When I buy a laptop, I create a new account for the laptop, and transfer the money from my checking account to the virtual account that represents the value of the laptop. Every month, I draw down money from the laptop account in to an account called "depreciation". This helps me keep my budget reports insulated from lumpy spending too.

A big use-case as well for me is the purchase of expensive refundable plane tickets - essentially, I buy personal futures in plane tickets when I see a good price. The virtual accounts that dual-entry allows means that when I buy a refundable ticket, I treat it as an asset in a virtual account until it's used. Again, this helps me track my spending and budgetting more effectively.
Whether Gore or Bush actually won the election is inconsequential at this point, save for the lasting damage. Almost 100% of the American people want fair elections which means that all votes are counted. If the American people can't even get fair elections, something almost 100% of them undoubtedly want, then they certainly can't get anything else passed. So no, we won't stop bringing this up as it's a very real issue that we're still suffering the consequences of and a great counterexample to the post I replied to.
Between 2008 and 2013 when I had an iPhone, their USB cables would regularly break down on me. The problem was the white casing around the wire would break down and start to thread. So I think the rule of Apple promising high quality is true a lot of the time, it baffles me that they sold that low quality cable for so long. Ever since I switched to decives that support Micro-USB, cheap cables have yet once to break.
Web Cruft: NY Times Homepage takes 3.5 seconds to load, 322 requests
Probably because they want to "raise awareness" and also on the off chance that the owner's keys are inside the car and if they will be locked out the Police might turn out to be liable.
How would socioeconomic class be highly correlated with gender?

Is there some strange biologic selection mechanism at play?
I'm curious - wouldn't it be cheaper to check in with a sat phone daily, rather than having a bush pilot do a flyover?
Meet the 26 Year Old Female Founder Who Started Her Own VC Fund
This is very interesting, especially the part about the keynote. That said, I disagree with this point:

> It's actually obscene that we were paying over $100k per year to HomeAway for platinum listings and then users on a basic listing were being ranked higher than us because they had "Book in Now" enabled on their properties. This is all because transparently, they need the bookings to be processed through their system to prove they are a valuable purchase for Expedia. (It's been no secret that everyone has known it's going to be Expedia buying HA).

Having used HomeAway / VRBO before, this seems like the sensible approach. Instant booking provides a much better experience for the user - I don't want to have to email a bunch of places to determine which are available. They definitely should be ranking these higher than other listings.
Blue Soliders
Lol Nothing Matters: A Defense of the Internet’s Absence of Meaning
Linus is honest and doesn't try to deceive or paint anyone in bad light. He will however use strong language; which could be very easily avoided, making his comments example worthy.

Currently I think the community consensus is to not take the comments too seriously, which diminishes their effect, the opposite of what Linus is trying to do with his strong language. If only he did, he would avoid the negative online press, which preys on clicks, and the target audience could focus on the arguments made in the comments.
You need to be shown it. It's the same as with people doing only Java hearing about REPL. It's weird at first, but once you get it, you don't want to go back.
The harm Exxon Mobil has done
Whilst you're completely right, it's also worth mentioning that in Norway, quite a few (a dozen? two dozen?) of old wooden stave churches were (tragically) burned down in the 80s and 90s by, amongst others, arsonist members of the black metal scene.
There was an article about haskell vs C where, haskell would appear slow at first because its string type was unicode while C was ascii. When using unicode the c code suddenly was a bit slower than haskell's. Details matter.
Also, where are they spending this much on marketing, they've got almost no marketing presence imo?
I got 1.2s, 327 requests , 2.7MB, Dallas origin
It looks like most of that could be generated. Now I want a tool that looks up that info and outputs annotated requirements file.
All votes were counted. What Gore wanted was a recount of certain areas, but without uniform standards, it clearly viotlated Equal Protections, as well as not being possible to complete before the deadline. To be clear, that portion of the Supreme Court opinion was unanimous; the remedy was where the split was.
Without any paywall - http://pastebin.com/17fwFaut
There are some number of people who admire the good things ESR has done in a narrow specialization, and carry that over to granting him some authority in areas like conspiracy theorizing where he has not accomplished anything of note.

There are some number of people predisposed to believe these things regardless of who says them, because, well, they already believe this happens, so it's just confirmation of their world-view.

There isn't anything more presented to us than "Eric Raymond says that someone told him, apparently with no substantiation, that 'multiple runs' of this sort of bizarre entrapment had occurred," but that doesn't mean that members of either of those sets of people will dismiss it outright.

Meanwhile, Mr. Raymond's track record on non-Unix subjects like race, guns, foreign policy, and white identity politics are on the Internet for everyone to review and either applaud or boo as they see fit.
So that is something npm does, AFAIK.
Isn't it even possible to have multiple different versions of a sub package in the dependency tree of one project?
And to put in terms of real-life - in Shenzhen, China I've seen people selling whole spools of "QC PASS" stickers, as well as any logo or guarantee label you want.
Not all thieves will break a window, especially if it's in daylight in an open parking lot / or street parking, more likely they might just go around looking for unlocked cars especially in places where people tend to run errands mid day in which case they might leave the car unlocked if they only pop out for 5min.

A guy taking something out of the back/front seat isn't as suspicious as some on going around with a crawbar smashing windows.

I've seen individuals going around a parking lot actively looking for unlocked cars couple of times in my life usually a blow of a horn scares them off.
It's crazy that every scientist for decades has been banging the drum of 'this is going to be bad', meanwhile we do as close to nothing to address the issue as possible.
Frankly I have trouble believing the evil mastermind conspiracy theories that are so prevalent every time Murdoch, Soros or whoever buys something. People forget that it's not a personal plaything like a sports team, but a business investment. Sure, it's possible Rupert Murdoch personally structured a deal to buy this company, then gave strict orders to fire anyone who didn't watch Fox News.

I find it far easier to believe that News Corp, as a publicly traded company, wants to increase its own equity value by allocating capital well. And that the executives who work there have shown skill at identifying big-brand media companies who have been mismanaged and are in terminal decline, and purchasing them for a price which makes it easy to streamline the operation, cut dead wood and make a profit on the transaction.

The alternative is that the name and brand dissappears below the waterline forever and becomes something that people used to talk about.
I honestly want a list of Jet.com's newest investors so I can remember to never do business with them. This is the most obvious tire fire of an investment I've ever seen in my life (I missed seeing the late 90s dot-com bubble in person).

The brand is completely irrelevant, they only have sales because they're losing money on each unit, they're losing $50 million per month and plan to keep losing that much ... what exactly is supposed to be good about this model/company?
Abstractly, a noun as defined is a tree and trees don't have cycles. So there! :-)

You shouldn't require the reader to make this inference. The 2nd order implications are far less obvious to the reader than to the writer. A good writer should never assume the reader will get it on the 1st mention. In fact, I'd hazard a guess that most of the time, when you've made such inferences while reading, that an author has subtly primed you to do so beforehand.
We detached this flamewar from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10494651 and marked it off-topic.
Ancient DNA dispute raises questions about wheat trade in prehistoric Britain
But any critical updates should be API compatible and promoted ASAP. Sure, they need to be verified, but if someone breaks their API with a critical update, that's a separate issue with their release model. If that happens, system packages sometimes fix such incompatibilities (you'll get a new package with patched version instead of a completely new release)
prior study called into question:
http://www.nature.com/news/ancient-dna-reveals-how-wheat-cam...
The ones on Amazon are all $15-$20 and even monoprice is $10

Since Google isn't the manufacturer they are not making a ridiculous profit margin.

Whole dollars on a $500 phone is more likely to be Google's entire profit margin, though. The profit margins on phones is razor thin unless you're Apple.
Sprint faces backlash for adding MDM to devices without permission
I had never heard of them until now. I don't think this is going to have a happy ending.
Come again? http://bgr.com/2014/06/13/iphone-charger-recall-europe/
I don't generally disagree with your comment, but I don't think Amazon had other sources in its earlier days (at least not AWS).
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/jet/investors

There's some pretty big guys in there.
What you're saying -- actually every sentence of your comment -- was my existing impression.

tdaltonc said "No one gets fired for using Scikit." Maybe I read too much into this comment, but it seemed to have a negative tone. So I got the impression that tdaltonc might have more to say about it. Maybe not though!
Also ran RemoteAccess on OS/2. The sound of Sweet Child o' Mine being rendered by a PC speaker has forever been imprinted upon my psyche...
The problem is that it was only a suitable replacement for "NT OS/2", not OS/2 2.x. And Win9x has it's own problems (my favorite is how its dependence on DOS allowed Caldera to continue its lawsuit).
The difference in the popular vote in the 2000 election was about 500,000, out of over 100 million votes cast, or about 0.5%. Did you see the part where I said, "The screwed-upness does add some amount of bias, so if it was, say, 51% against and 49% in favor, it might well keep going"? Or did you not even bother to read my comment, and just see an opportunity for a cheap shot?
1) Is this tool the same as Docker Swarm?

2) Has the code been security-audited?

3) Can I use this as a combination of Puppet/Chef + Swarm?

Lastly, who is this tool for? The guy running his 1 VPS or the startup running their 50 AWS medium instances?
Client Access is probably the single piece of software that has caused the most alcohol to be consumed.
I put in an order when Jet launched. No joke, from the best I can tell, they sent someone to a physical Walmart, where they purchased the product at full retail, for more than they charged me, packaged it up, and shipped it to me with free two-day delivery.

But they'll make it up on volume, right?

Smart people have said, "do things that don't scale." I guess Jet took that at face value.
exactly. it should accept a street address, or if they don't want to use external mapping services, latitude and longitude.
A spreadsheet used like this is almost always a database in disguise, but it's way too easy to delete a row or cell by mistake. Also double-entry bookkeeping does not lend itself well to a spreadsheet model. And as others said: open source, version control, and extreme ease. For someone like me who types a lot and lives on the command line, it's infinitely quicker than firing up a spreadsheet program.
In the US and Canada, there are 7 major railroads: BNSF, Union Pacific, CSX, Norfolk Southern, Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, and Kansas City Southern (there's also Via Rail and Amtrak, the passenger trains of Canada and the US, but they are generally excluded).

In effect, there are basically three separate market duopolies: in the west, you have a choice between UP and BNSF; in the east, NS and CSX; and in the north, CN and CP. On top of this, there's a few hundred smaller railroads that are much more local in scope.
I ordered a wireless router from Jet. They filled my order by ordering it on Newegg and having it shipped to me. If they don't have stock of something on their website, they'll buy it somewhere else rather than lose the sale.
Possibly a silly question: did you consider using the complex integers (either as a + bi, or as (r, 2*pi/T)) instead of the natural numbers as the basis for Nock?
They spend over $100k a month just on paid advertising.
Yes, the break pattern of a windshield is consistent with annealed glass. If it were tempered, the entire window could become an opaque white whenever it was damaged by a rock and that just wouldn't be safe. Not that the 'spiderweb' pattern is easy to see through, but it's better than being fully opaque.

I'm not familiar with any tempered laminates as we never made such, but a chemical process sounds more reasonable than trying to get laminated glass through a tempering furnace or laminate two tempered lites.
Tesla Gigafactory ahead of schedule, already producing products
Jet.com is going to flame out so quickly, and fairly predictably as well to a lot of outsiders. I wonder what the Jet.com investors were smoking, must have been some good stuff.
A different answer: because someone was willing to pay $3.9b for it.
I've quite literally never had a major problem with AirBnB, and I've used it 20 times over the last 3.5 years. With HomeAway / VRBO, the booking process is a nightmare, and I've had a cancelation with three days notice for a 15 person house booked two months in advance.

What did I do? I found a place on AirBnB and was able to book it no problem. So I have a hard time seeing how the HomeAway / VRBO experience could come even close.
Per the article, their advertising budget is $300 million for the first year, and they spent $25 million on marketing last month.
GA is a totally different world, to be sure. I don't see that it's shameful, though. It's just not that important overall, so there's not much money in it. Medevac helicopters and things like that are pretty nice, but stuff like small Cessnas have few practical uses. And I say this as a hobby pilot who flies things with absolutely zero practical use.

I'm curious about your solution. How do you fit 8 electric motors to a GA aircraft? Where do they all go? Do they share props, or do they each have their own?