skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"e: (1) the employee win rate amongst the cases was 21.4%, which is lower than employee win
rates reported in employment litigation trials; (2) in cases won by employees, the median award amount was
$36,500 and the mean was $109,858, both of which are substantially lower than award amounts reported in
employment litigation; "

These key findings are of course, completely irrelevant to whether this is the right outcome.
IE they are not good or bad in and of themselves.

" (6) the mean amount claimed was $844,814 and 75 percent
of all claims were greater than $36,000."

The likelihood that this amount claimed is sane seems low when viewed over a group of 1200 people, and particular, people who pretty much all make < 100k a year.

"The results also indicate the existence of a significant repeat employer-arbitrator pairing effect in which employees on average have lower win rates and receive smaller
damage awards where the same arbitrator is involved in more than one case with the same employer, a finding
supporting some of the fairness criticisms directed at mandatory employment arbitration"

The conclusion aout fairness does not follow from these facts of course, in any way. It may be the arbitrator now has a better perspective on the way various folks may be trying to game the system or whatever else.

You will also find very similar pairings in state vs federal venue win rates for employees and class action lawsuits.

Yet i don't see anyone here screaming that this is unfair
I find this response to be curious. Why not simply assume that the other person up there does include State Capitalism under the umbrella of "capitalism" when they say that capitalism and free markets don't always go together, rather than assume that they intend a definition of "capitalism" that automatically excludes the very thing they were saying?
I would tell myself about the Gale-Shapley matching algorithm and how it can be used to get the best out of life.

Essentially, just keep trying for #1 biggest goal, if that fails, go for #2 biggest goal and so on. Essentially you always shoot for the stars, and you will maximize what you get out of life.
Digital Forensics – Evidence Acquisition and EWF Mounting
The Crispr Quandary (gene editing)
The degree of "Engineer" does matter. Like the work and pay do ;)
"to have" here is such a weasel phrase.

Properly phrased title: "London Garden Bridge Trust will track mobile phone signals of bridge users"
Wow, I've never heard of this option before. What are the potential drawbacks?
The tip is made in advance, when placing the order.
I'm from Scandinavia, where this is the norm.

I've had 4 wisdom teeth removed with local anaesthetic. I felt absolutely nothing during the procedures, though the sound of my teeth being hammered into pieces (two were lodged horizontally and had to be manhandled) was certainly unnerving.

After it was done I got up and got home, no side effects. I have no idea why it's apparently so common for a general anaesthetic in the US. (On the other hand, without it we wouldn't have hundreds of YouTube videos featuring hilariously rambling, drugged-up teens.)
I would fund that project in a split second. Best of luck to you!
The Souls franchise became popular solely because it dared to provide complicated mechanics and harsh trial-by-fire instruction in a time where the vast majority of AAA games are dumbed-down handholdy themepark rides with all of their edges filed off. The kind of people that play games only for their stories would never have suffered through any Souls games if it weren't for the massive hype that the "mechanical gamers" generated around it.

Likewise, Starcraft had a story, as did Command & Conquer. But one of those games is played to this day, both in its original incarnation and its sequel, on a massive scale that makes people question their definitions of the word "sport." I don't think this author would have cared to write filler about the story of Command & Conquer today.
I had mine taken out while awake (all 4 at once). I was 28 at the time.

Surprisingly, it wasn't that bad of an experience. I was back at work briefly the next day and then fairly normal within 48 hours.

Personally the idea of going under seemed like an unnecessary risk given that being awake was an option. Price didn't have much to do with.
It is unfortunate, but traditional liberals will have to ally with some rather distasteful right-wingers to end the insanity.
not sarcastic at all.
I have started to experiment with it. Really awesome documentation and setup nstructions (using Ubuntu).
I would remove the DC metro area from your list - it may be traditionally part of 'the South' geographically, but cost of living is very high and the culture is much more similar to the northeast.
"Intolerance" has never meant "violence," and it's baffling that you suggest that we reserve the word for cases of threats of violence.

Nobody is suggesting that it's not free speech to call someone racist or demand their resignation. Free speech can express intolerance.
Mega-dosing vitamin C is fairly common among alternative medicine practitioners. The medical community recommends an upper limit of 2g per day for adults due to mild laxative effects around that dosage. There's a paucity of trials that experiment with dosages above that level, so long term effects are mostly unknown.
Most troubling is that no one stands up to these bullies. I saw this firsthand as a student at a similar institution in the last few years. The faculty, administration, student leaders, and even trustees at these schools are split between a minority who support the activists and a majority who dare not speak out, lest they become the next target. Instead of standing firm and true to the age-old academic principles of free expression, inquiry, and exchange of ideas, they try to appease these groups in hopes that they'll go away or move on to another target. But each extorted victory only emboldens them more.
Google Expands Its VR Program for Students to More U.S. Schools
See also my personal HN analyses, although they are atleast a year old but the overall trends are still unchanged.

Analyzing submissions: http://minimaxir.com/2014/02/hacking-hacker-news/

Analyzing comments: http://minimaxir.com/2014/10/hn-comments-about-comments/

More recently I made a few charts about upvote probability by time slot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9864254
> NULL breaks the type system. Now every pointer type is actually two types: the normal type, and the NULL type. You can dereference or call methods on one, but not the other, and only a runtime check will tell you what you're dealing with.

But option types do the same thing. The option type is actually two types. You can use one, but no the other, and only a runtime check will tell you what you're dealing with.

It may be more convenient than dealing with NULL, but it's doing the same thing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence#Non-physical
I disagree. By buying a property you're reducing your options drastically, due to the heavy debt on your shoulders, and by options I mean job opportunities in other places, exploring new areas, starting a business, etc.

For me having options is the most important thing in life, and it's what makes life exciting. Not being stuck to the same place for 20+ years until you finishing paying the mortgage.
While a large part of what you're saying is correct, I think the problem you're describing isn't cultural liberals (who are tolerant of dissenting views), but rather cultural authoritarians. These people are on the left, but they are not liberals.
In the U.S., checkups are primarily done by the (less-expensive) dental assistant doing the X-rays, the (moderately expensive) hygienist doing the cleaning, followed by a quick inspection of mouth and X-rays by the (expensive) dentist. I imagine that the predictability and minimal time use of the dentist would allow it to be quite profitable.

However, as teeth become drastically less susceptible to disease, people will feel much less need to have regular dentist visits...
You mean, like this?

http://paperswelove.org/
I had two wisdom teeth removed in one session and it took the dentist just a couple of minutes, with local anesthesia and I didn't feel that much. Not sure why anyone would want general anesthesia unless it's a complicated case. As always, try to find a good dentist who has a lot of practice pulling teeth.
It is quite surprising that some people really haven't caught on yet. I look back at some of the things I posted on superficially private forums in the late 90's that in retrospect, I'd never post today. I don't excuse my naivete but still, I think a lot of people (both young and old) hadn't quite wrapped their heads around the capacity for indexing and preservation of all that data. Sure, you didn't want your stuff showing up in a search engine but hey, you used a screen name!

Regardless, however misguided my ignorance may have been in 1998, I seriously don't understand how anyone would be OK posting things that could easily be incriminating (photos of their stash, videos of drunken behavior) on sites as public as Facebook.

As you mention with your quote, maybe it's a reaction to the idea that you'll never be able to curate the sober and responsible "persona" you'd like without unrealistic levels of precaution. So rather than spend your youth in constant fear and anxiety that someone will see your drunk pics, there's something liberating about just admitting that we're all human and many of us have our "responsible life" and our moments of cutting loose.

Still boggles my mind when people post blatantly illegal activity on Twitter or Facebook though. But other than that, I try to keep a balance. When I'm out drinking with friends, any photos or videos that get taken do not go on Facebook and if they are shared at all, it's only with the people who were involved and only via less public channels. And if the behavior in question is more potentially objectionable than some drunk karaoke, the cameras stay away.
I would tell my 20 year-old self to ignore any advice from my 30+ year-old self.
I would add to that, make sure your github account is listed on your LinkedIn or other profiles online.
They appeal to these groups because they bring money. I go to a Jesuit school and they appeal to these groups as well (even if they couldn't care less about Jesuit values) because well, they pay.
High availability is a no brainer: EC2 auto-recovery
Sweeping characterisation of college students as "liberals", especially in a thread where they're being accused of illiberalism.

It's the continuation of the US 'culture war'.
> It's regrettable, because employment history (gaps or no gaps) does not predict job performance.

Why don't you think that employment history predicts job performance? That seems to violate common sense for me.

Imagine that you can hire from a pool of hundreds of candidates who are 10 years out of college, and can be classified into two groups: members of Group A have worked full time for 10 years, and members of Group B worked full time for 5 years, and have not been employed for the last 5 years. (or were employed in an entirely unrelated profession).

Which group will have better average job performance? Group A of course, since its members have been working in that field for the last 5 years, instead of not working or doing an unrelated job, and also since they have double the years of work experience. They are more likely than Group B to be up to speed on latest industry knowledge.

It's clear that employment history will be predictive of job performance if you believe that "years of experience" has some predictive value, since employment history affects work experience. The smaller the gap, the less impact on performance, but there's still an effect. No gap is best.

I think you could also hypothesize that people with gaps in their employment history are more likely to have undesirable traits for an employer than those with no gaps. Insofar as we treat past history as predictive of future results, it seems reasonable to conclude that members of Group B are more likely to have gaps in their employment in the future than Group A. At least some members of Group B had gaps in their employment for reasons related to their own preferences, and their preferences will influence whether they work in the future, etc. Perhaps members of Group B like to travel the world, and after they save up for 5 more years, they'll travel the word for 5 years again, whereas members of Group A will work straight for another 10 more years. An employer will on average want to hire members of Group A since they represent a greater payoff on the investment of hiring them.

We can rarely act with perfect information about the world, and there does not exist a study on every topic about which we'd wish to have conclusions. I believe intuitively that more total work experience correlates with better performance, and that more recent work experience does too. People with gaps are at a disadvantage on one or both measures.
As far as I can tell, all the students in this outrage should be expelled. I doubt even a community college would want them; let them wallow in obscurity and reflect on their misdeeds.
> The intent of e.g. a drone strike is to kill the target. So even in terms of intent that is worse.

For you and me yes. For people who believe targets are "bad people" worth killing it's noble intent.
> You have to give a mobile phone number once to use the system.

I encountered this problem in Dublin airport a few years ago, before they switched to a different wifi provider.

The authentication code to join the wifi network would be sent by SMS. Which seems clever, until you realise that many people transiting Dublin won't have international roaming ( I didn't ) so can't receive the SMS.
That's not a definition, it's a modern attempt to hijack the emotions associated with violence into a non-physical setting.

Definitionally, violence is physical. Redefining it to include non-physical acts is pure politics, and I for one will not let it pass without calling it out for the bullshit it is.
Um, isn't getting one's teeth sealed a typical procedure done for all children once their permanent teeth are in?

This was SOP for me and my siblings, I assume for everyone else, no?
I am 37 and I consider myself a digital native. I did start out on super slow modems, but I have been hacking away at things since I was a young kid.
There are limits to algorithms. Stock prices are affected by human behaviour, which can't always be predicted.

Not to mention the various macro variables, like wars, weather, crime, etc... Plus, what time frame should the algorithms trade on? They're very good for predicting the very short term, I haven't seen much evidence that they're good for predicting longer time spans.

While algos eat up arbitrage and electronic brokers replace human ones, humans are still very good at other forms of trading... Not to mention, a large part of market activity isn't even trading - it's long term investing and collecting dividends.
That's a rather interesting choice of name for an encryption tool.
The Open Startup
I've waited to post a response on this because my knee-jerk reaction was "Of course I share your dilemma! I think that a majority of geeky developer-types share this same trait." I figured you'd get a lot of feedback.

But given the paucity of responses, now I am wondering if perhaps you and I are more rare than I thought.

I have ALWAYS felt the way you describe. I also share the same traits... I am reasonably normal/good looking, feel that I can speak somewhat intelligently, am passionate and knowledgeable about my craft. But if you put me in a social setting like a dinner party I am a reclusive wreck. I feel that I am an island in a sea of chatter. Although I find much of the discussion around me banal and pointless, at the same time I covet the ease with which everyone else 'seems' to be able to converse with complete strangers. And if I do try to strike up a conversation, I feel like a fool when I can't seem to keep pointless chatter going (like weather, sports, politics, whatever). However, once I know someone really well I can talk with them all day with relative ease.

Although self-diagnosed, I've always assumed this was what it meant to be an "introvert". Lately I've heard a new term which seems to fit my own personality much better: ambivert.

So here are some suggestions I've found helpful.

- Join a local geeky group that appeals to your interests (e.g. Programming, Astronomy, Brown Coats, Creative Writing, WHATEVER!) If you can't find a geeky group, create one!

- Develop a list of questions (and followups) to ask someone when you first meet them. If you can get someone else talking (and you truly listen to what they're saying) you will find it easier to create that initial conversation. Examples; What do you do in life? How did you get started on that path? How do you know the host? Are you working on on something you're passionate about? Tell me about it! What do you do for fun in [your city]? Read any great books lately that you'd recommend to someone you barely know? What was the worst job you've ever had?

If you create a good list of initial questions (and you LISTEN to what the other person is saying] you will be able to create conversations from thin air. And you'll likely make new friends!

You might also look up "Toastmasters". If there's a Toastmasters club near you that might be a very enlightening experience (www.toastmasters.org)
There are few mice variants that do not produce vitamin C
Must be a thing in German speaking countries? Last year i was asked if i wanted local anesthetic when the dentist was about to drill a back tooth for a crown in Zurich. I blinked with incomprehension - I couldn't believe anyone would NOT want anesthesia. But apparently I had understood correctly and according to the dentist quite a few ask to forego it.
One of my very first deployments was to Germany, where we guarded a hospital. People like the colonel's wife would park in the ER drivethrough for up to an hour at a time. Yes, blocking emergency access for any ambulance that might need to come through. I got very butthurt about this and the old sargeant of the guard on duty smiled real big and opened up the bottom drawer of his desk, dug way back in there, and extracted a stack of 8.5x11", bright neon orange, "impossible to remove without fucking up the car window" stickers that said nasty things about parking like an asshole (in German and English). They were very aggressive stickers. But imagine my delight when he told me to stick them on the cars parking in the ER drivethrough. My only rule was that I couldn't put them over the driver's side windshield and block their vision forward. So I started slapping these fat motherfuckers on the driver's side window. Adults wept and threw tantrums when they saw these stickers. The kind of reaction you would expect out of someone that parks where the ambulance needs to go at a hospital when bringing in someone that might be dying.

There are times when these stickers are used for the forces of good, you know.

Edit: I still have about half of that stack of stickers at home. I still only ever use them for the forces of good. :)
Tesla Model S owner turns on Autopilot mode and then chills in the backseat
No it doesn't. They want to leave. Let them face the consequences of their own stupid actions. A respectable institution (not saying Yale is or isn't) shouldn't have to deal with such ridiculous bullshit and should stand behind its professors, especially those who have given them decades of service.

What would you do? Fire the professor for standing up for the students? These students are so fucking stupid, they don't even realize the professor is standing up for them!
The original Soundblaster was a pretty noisy thing and was limited to 22.5 kHz, AFAIK. You could use noise dithering to improve the perceived quality, but it wouldn't be as effective at that sample rate.
I think it's rather a matter of being an unproductive line of discussion. One of the key points to take from this article is that throwing your toys out of the pram because you disagree with others' viewpoints is counter-productive at best and illiberal at worst.

I'm vehemently opposed to the kind of activism described here, but 'if you don't like it then fuck off' is exactly the wrong attitude and will not solve this problem.
Since the oil prices dropped, Russia has lost a third of its reserves. How do you think they are going to keep it together for as long as two more decades?
Yeah, let's fire the professor.
Yeah my first though reading this story was this won't happen in the US anytime soon. Reminds me of how Gordie Howe recently had a stroke and was days from dying before the family flew him to Mexico and to receive stem cell treatment.

Mr. Howe has recovered enough to walk and resume public speaking which, if you know anyone that's had a stroke (my mother and mother-in-law both recently died after strokes) this is not the norm.

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=751450
Interesting article, but the author often seems to be carried away. Like below:

> Quite honestly, I’d take things a step further. I would argue that well-designed streaming systems actually provide a strict superset of batch functionality.

At least seen from a computer science perspective, this is strictly wrong. In problems like bin-packing, it has been shown that there are cases where streaming is provably less optimal than batch processing. In the batch case you always have all data available, while in the streaming case need to make decisions before you have seen all the data, which may lead to suboptimal results. From this perspective it is the other way around. Batch processing is a strict superset of streaming.

The reason streaming often is preferred to batch processing is that you get the result sooner, and don't have to wait until all data are there before you have a result. Such answers are often much more valuable than the accurate answer you get in the end.
This is always the conundrum that people don't like to discuss but I think is worth discussing.

For very early-stage companies where the total employees (and potentially revenue) can be counted on one hand, all hires are critical.

So a single hire who goes on extended medical leave, or sends your insurance rates through the roof can literally kill your company. Is it the person's fault? Not at all, but you are still left dealing with the consequences.

I wonder how early-stage companies draw this line and deal with this type of decision assuming the reason is not related to any of the protected classes from a hiring standpoint.
He's ranking submitters and commenters, right? I almost never submit.
I'm not over 30 yet just 28 and I would have told myself to stay in school or just end it. If I could speak to my 18 year old self I would tell him to choose a different subject.