skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You are a single

Sorry

> guy

Ding!

> younger than 32

No

>who makes more than $52,000/year

One out of two is ... Better than zero! I went back to the drawing board with a similar prediction system after a series of spectacular failures. I expect it's a function of how the model was trained and tested; it seems that the weights given to any specific app may be over fit. But I'm not a mathematician or statistician or anything beyond a voracious learner with an interest in this kind of thing. It's piqued my curiosity, and I'm enjoying the responses you guys are adding here. Actually, it's already made me think about how my model for my pet project may be over fitting...

(Edited to clarify "single guy" into two features)
Typically for a Saas offering, there's always a free trial, an entry level low-price point plan, or a forever free plan - so the percentage of paying customers could be any where from 10% to 25%. The hope/try is to get the free customers convert to the paid tier as they derive more value from the product over time.
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Same thing here too, for the opposite reason — said no to almost everything. I have four pages of apps installed, but only three were even on that survey.
At one point I disabled the XTEST extension when I realized it could be used maliciously (sending clicks or keystrokes to applications, keylogging, etc.) XTEST is already disabled by default on some distros.

After reading this I see that "xinput test Keyboard0" can also be used as a keylogger on my machine. Anybody know of a simple way to disable that one?

[PS: please no trollish answers like "use a different windowing system" :P]
Non-profits are mission driven. Most people who work for non-profits are doing it at least in part because of belief in the mission (especially since non-profits typically pay less than market rate).

The problem with technology non-profits is that the world around them changes pretty rapidly, and with substantial discontinuities.

So if you're an employee and you've signed on to an org with an understanding of why your job and your project matters for The Mission, of course change can appear scary and confusing.

On the other hand, especially when there is rapid turn over, or the ground keeps shifting under the org, there's a strong incentive by execs to try and find new territory one can set up upon.

The tensions seem pretty obvious. This is the same issue that's come up with Wikipedia's search project too.
Good question, but I think market share is what buys you access to 'leadership positions' and enables 'advocacy'. If Firefox has 1% market-share, nobody cares what Mozilla says or does.
Hi Raphael,
I'm super interested in working on this project! I'm a SW who have delivered many products in medical device, embedded, android, and, a baby (twice!!). A perfect fit? I'll send you my resume in a separate email soon. I live in Seattle but am visiting San Francisco right now until next Tuesday. Just in case you want to meet, I can replan my schedule.
Best Regards,
Jingyu
I wonder if a for-profit corporation with zero shareholders similar to Mozilla can be made possible. I wonder what would happen if AT&T and Verizon can be run in a similar way (with better executives of course).
Gays are killed in many countries BY LAW. Believe me, many of those running the prop 8 campaign, Family research counsel, etc would like to see gays either imprisoned, committed, killed, or otherwise removed from society.

Regardless, the comparison was not meant to be quite so 1:1. It was to illustrate with a "clearer case" that CEOs that support divisive organizations affect the organization that they lead.
We can never optimize problems between the keyboard and the chair to 0%. The choice then becomes: create ways to help them, or accept that you will lose them.
Some folks might think that donating money to an abortion clinic amounts to something just as bad, so it's really all about political beliefs.

It's ridiculous to me that a group that is supposed to be against oppression, bigotry, and bullying, practices exactly this when it involves people with differing beliefs.

It only makes people like Trump even more popular.
You've interpreted a statistical claim about population means as a universal claim about all members of a group. That is incorrect, uncharitable, and unhelpful if your goal is discussion rather than browbeating.
An aside: Mozilla's approach to Firefox extensions is both 1) responsible (they require extensions to be reviewed and signed by Mozilla), 2) untenable for developers (mine took forever to be reviewed).

I published three Chrome extensions last year, and decided to port my more ambitious one to Firefox. (all at http://www.metafruit.com) Now I feel somewhat bad for complaining since I'm not an extension reviewer myself, and I feel they've taken on a tall order for the betterment of their community. But my Firefox port took four months to get to the front of the review process. Needless to say, my next extension is targeted only for Chrome.

Chrome's approach is easy for developers but almost reckless for end users.
Many people simply aren't willing to let single-issue hysteria drive our behavior, instead prefering to consider many aspects of a given situation. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this leads to better engineering output, but it is not exclusive to engineers.
Ugh I knew somebody would bring up generalisations. Yes yes I know not every single person in Russia hates and wants to kill gay people. Ask a gay person if they would go to Russia and be openly gay without worrying about it? I doubt you would find many who would be fine with doing that. I have been to Russia many times, it is an amazing place, but I have seen how anti-gay many places in Russia are so yeah I will generalise and say the majority seem to be against gays.
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I wonder if an easier way would be through accessing your camera roll and determining age and gender through the whichever face appears the most.
> ... current tech climate of monoculture....

and then a little later

> ... especially out of Russia and India....

So the monoculture is of a diverse "national" cultures but it needs to be replaced with a US centric progressive view monoculture?

You have to explain your reasoning here.

And I don't understand how the opposition to gay marriage is about separating families and is the equivalent of raging racists that lynch innocent people of colour. Can you explain that also?
callously harming existing and long-term users in the pursuit of some narcissistic ideological goal seems risky.
My wife was complaining about the performance of her computer. Shes running a MacBook Air, Chrome, Firefox and Quickbooks. Ran a system check and Firefox running 7 tabs (2 spreadsheets, 1 email, 1 pinterest and browising 3 ecom sites) was taking up over 1.4gb of ram. Seriously.

Killed Firefox and the system responsiveness was considerably better. Its amazing that the memory bloat in FF has been allowed to go on for so long. But hey, IoT!
Every fact about you is normally a tell and sometimes just random: the apps you use, the clothes you dress, the people you know, the travels you made, etc. A fine-tuned algorithm has an high probability to guess this.
There's a world of difference between opposing gay marriage and supporting a white supremacist terrorist organization. They're not even remotely comparable.

Specifically, it's entirely possible to oppose gay marriage on a number of grounds without being homophobic or bigoted; in my experience even as a young gay man in San Francisco, most of the people in my life who don't support gay marriage are perfectly reasonable, kind individuals who don't hate their gay friends. It's rather shallow to consider one's stance on LGBT issues through a single, limited lens, given that there are dozens of other issues (HIV, youth homelessness, alcoholism, depression) that affect the LGBT community.
I've been with Firefox since 3.0, my first browser, I recommended it to a lot of people for years... I'm sadly switching to Opera now.
In your example I doubt a giant portion of people would say "burn them alive." I don't think you understand race relations in the US.

Regardless, this was 2008, not 1950s. It also wasn't only Russia and India. Americans, Europeans, and others also came back with extremely intolerant views as well TO THEIR EMPLOYER AND COLLEAGUES!!
A tool whose goal is efficiency shouldn't have verbose syntax like "rash search --cwd . --include-pattern "test" --include-pattern "tox*". By the time I type that I could have found it via other means.

For example I have a one-letter alias that greps the history file. Typing "h tox" is much faster. Scrolling through a long list is easy.
Are you really equating "being against gay marriage" to "being a KKK supporter"? How are/were families separated due to not being able to get married?
I think that's the right thing to do from a privacy standpoint. I don't want people to be able to tell whether I've read their messages to me.
I'm thinking it doesn't have to be so complicated as web chat and SMS. Forester is kinda in the business of convincing companies to spend money on new fancy stuff.

Just respond to an email right away with a welcoming and well considered response. As soon as I know someone has reliable email support, I'm down.

Calling is fine too, but with email you give someone a chance to do a bit of research for you and not be on the spot.
http://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/technology/15-...
After this quiz I definitely feel old: never heard of like 28 out of 32 apps
Have you read the whole text of the SCOTUS? Because it clearly states that people in the US are entitled to think AND opine differently in this issue...
Also, its hard to see that same Foundation that is used to 300M checks being successful for very long after the revenue dries up.
Nothing wrong with him warning them, but then there's also nothing wrong with them disregarding his warning. It sounds like they did pretty well regardless.
The KKK was likewise once supported by a majority of voters and many politicians.
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They think diversity of race/gender is more important than diversity of opinion. I support marriage equality, but would not equate the opposition to the KKK - that's the kind of extremist thinking that arises in a monoculture bubble.
Nothing existing browsers could provide, but also something existing browsers do not provide... a way to block ads without short changing content creators.

For those unfamiliar with Brave, I can recommend this interview:

https://opensource.com/business/16/2/brave-browser-interview
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>I remember back when I was at Google in 2008. A survey on lgbt issues went around company wide.

What a stupid survey. I would refuse to answer any question if one of hundreds would be about political views. It's not employers matter what I think.

If you mentioned that "boycott Mozilla" thing started by OkCupid, let's don't forget that okcupid CEO did the same as Eich. http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/04/08/okcupid-ceo-once...
"You are a married guy older than 32 who makes more than $52,000/year", I am a guy, so... 1 out of 4 I guess.
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Because the differing belief has to do with delegitimizating someone else!!! If the believe was personal like I believe in this god, etc, then it doesn't actually affect someone else. What's not clear?
I don't know OP's situation, but there are companies out there that will upfront tell you expected hours for your salaried position being X. A few years ago, a recruiter told me 65 hours was expected for a role at their mega-tech company.
You are correct. Working on it, Thanks!
>They need a box for "I've never even heard of this app"

I would answer that for more than 80% of questions. Not sure how would that help.
> There's a world of difference between opposing gay marriage and supporting a white supremacist terrorist organization.

Not if you are gay and married. And, wow. You then go on to articulate positions that have, in fact, been used against racial minorities and to support miscegenation laws. Just wow. And you're not seeing that?
Every candidate has supported things I disagree strongly with. That doesn't change that they may have supported many more things that I agree even more strongly with. Donating to a campaign against marriage equality is very different than donating to a candidate who (among other things) is against marriage equality.
I think a better what to say this is the majority of Californian voters. Voter demographics tend to swing more conservative than the population at large on these issues.
> Ed is an incredible human being!

He was also at the center of a wage fixing scandal.

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/ed-catmull-on-wage-...
>Of course just clicking spam is far easier than trying to fix the problem

From your perspective, you have solved the problem. Gmail will no longer display emails from them.

The greater problem is also one step closer to being solved. The spammers, in this case Ubisoft, have been correctly identified as spam by you.

Even if you were an Ubisoft customer, if you couldn't get them to stop emailing you, that would be spam.
So long as he loved his mum
Isn't there a thing in the HN guidelines about "don't start predictable flamewars"?
> Mozilla has quickly been identified by a few as a way to make a quick buck

This is always, always so fascinating to me, to see how many people will never ever consider this, at least in public.

There's this most basic of basic incentives, money, a huge pile of money sitting around, and everybody piously pretends it doesn't matter to everybody who's in control of it.

So fascinating.
Reading from the comments - especially the 52k, they should at least add a geo location.

For m/f the phone name may help.

I understand this is out of scope, but the results seem pretty poor otherwise.
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Odd, no choices for ConnectBot or a full Debian install?
What happened to Eich was the digital and career equivalent to a lynching. Good views (equality) should not be supported by bad behavior (online lynch mobs).

But this is almost certainly not a useful subject to rehash when there are no doubt other interesting things to discuss about Mozilla.
Yep. My ideal scenario is to have an extensive FAQ or manual/guide with a functional search so I can look up potential fixes to all common and known issues. They can have a "common issues" splash page in front for the more common stuff that the average person might need but I'd like to be able to expand that to the full knowledge base or whatever they name it.

Calling should be reserved for issues that are either unknown or require something to be done on the company's end (resetting a flag on an account or some other option that I can't do on my end).

It's just a matter of convenience and access. Common and obvious issues have up front solutions listed. Less common or more technical issues have easily searchable details and solutions or potential fixes listed. Then only the "deepest" level of issues/fixes that require action from the company require a call.

It keeps their phone support costs lower, it keeps wait times shorter, and customer "friction" only goes up as much as it needs to relevant to the fix.
Yep, the same for me, looks like a random guess.
> How are/were families separated due to not being able to get married?

Many same-sex partners have been barred from hospital rooms, cut off from estates (in the event of their partner's deaths), and limited from access to their children after breakups. These all rely on the legal framework of marriage to navigate, and this was something that was not available to most of the gay population of the US until last year.
There's a bit of tension between "divisive is bad" and "we should have a diverse industry", unless "diverse" is redefined to mean "San Francisco liberals of all races, genders, etc."

"Divisive" is an interesting word, and one very, very useful if you're on the popular side of a monoculture. Anyone asking to be in your industry who you don't like is being divisive.
When the single issue is basic human rights, it's hardly hysterical.
>You have to explain your reasoning here.

This isn't exactly a new idea about open societies. See for example Karl Popper in 1945:

"Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

But it is much more colloquially known as "live and let live."

>And I don't understand how the opposition to gay marriage is about separating families and is the equivalent of raging racists that lynch innocent people of colour. Can you explain that also?

Also, somewhat tired ground by now, but the California proposition would separated families and deprived them of the legal rights that families have. Your "lynch" analogy is a strawman, the KKK doesn't really do that these days, but it still does vile things. The KKK of today is quite equivalent in effect and practice to California's prop 8.
> Was interesting to hear the entire perspective but the "marriage thing?" That wasn't exactly small. Imagine if gave money instead to the KKK... would that have been just "a racial heritage thing?"

As long as they operate within the law then that's not something someone should be fired for. Otherwise, would you fire someone for donating to e.g. the Republican party? If you can't express a legal political position without being fired then you don't have free speech[1] in any meaningful sense.

[1] Which does not just mean the first amendment, I don't understand the confusion that leads people to think this.
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Read up on suicides of gay Mormons. It's not a tolerant culture.
So we agree that UWP has good features. That's not under dispute.

The problem is that it creates an unfair competitive environment. Steam can't really use these features because it has to instruct each individual user on how to turn 'sideloading' on.
In the case of make, with missing dependencies, it can result in a file not being re-compiled when it should be. If you are compiling C, this can result in the definition of a function definition being different in two different compilation units. When one of those compilation units calls a function defined in the other, your program's behavior breaks. All due to a change in the build tool.
>> once you're running a malicious program, then it's game over

I don't think it's that simple, all or nothing. Security is not a boolean. Consider defense in depth [0].

edit: Security is just a price to hack you. You can increase it by adding additional problems to an adversary.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_in_depth_%28computing%...
Market share isn't a bad gauge. Their revenue streams are theoretically dependent on it. Those search deals are dependent on impressions.
Pro tip: cheap oil won't last forever. There will be future crashes in prices but the long-term trend is up.
'Never heard of this app' isn't actually discernable form the list of installed apps on your phone, which is at the core of the point they're making.
I think the title makes it very clear I'm strictly talking about the tech industry here, I can't say meritocracy is the best for all industries, let alone as a form of governance.

>In Young's original 1958 formulation

I'm using the modern/current idea of meritocracy, I know it meant other things in the past but bringing that out is like racists talking about some event in the past to say "certain people" should be kept aside in case they do it again.

>And yet, he would still be promoted under any modern notion of meritocracy, because he did have the critical skill of conning a bunch of folks into thinking he was actually worth following.

Not a fan of jobs but I think that what worked for him because he arrived at a company that had no future and so not a lot of people wanted to challenge him to be the captain of a sinking ship. And his success was the result of consumers who as always care little about who makes their products, not meritocracy.

Anyway, I hope you didn't write this from an apple product...

>all it takes is a person to appropriate the accomplishments of one other person, and suddenly they have access to more political capital

That is what we currently have, and its not a meritocracy
Because it's usually not meritocracy, but "you look like me".

As soon as you add bias-cancelling features you notice changes, which suggests that while merit played some part it wasn't the only, or most important, thing.

For years orchestras claimed to be meritocracies. As soon as they started binded auditions they saw more women being hired. We see similar results with people sending identical -apart from the name- resumes for job applications. The male names see more replies.
From the paper linked in TFA, scikit-learn's logistic regression model (a poorly named one, since it's used for classification rather than regression) is used as the classification model. Like with most machine learning endeavors, I've found that Johnny Five said it best: "More input!"
> it's pure rent extraction

And this is bad because ... ? Is there a more reasonable alternative for how to set the fee? Would that shift in value, which currently goes to Egypt, instead go to the public? And if so, how? Or will it go to the owners of the shipping companies?

Perhaps there should be some sort of Suez Canal authority, which follows a neutrality convention in regards to the national origin and type of shipping? In that way, it wouldn't have some of the crises which might occur with pure rent extraction. For example, a country might invade if its ships aren't allowed through, or face exorbitant fees compared to other countries.
Only works with a majority hashrate enforcing the new rules, and miners still need full bandwidth and storage like before. Then you really just create a secondary blocksize limit for the associated signature data. And old full nodes are silently converted into non-full nodes, SPV nodes.

But sure, it is a backwards compatible way to reduce overhead for old nodes. But if they want to remain full nodes then they must upgrade and take on larger storage and bandwidth requirements anyway.
Slightly off with my age but I'm guessing that's because I've recently deleted all but the essential apps from my phone. I'm sure if I still had Snapchat on my phone they could've predicted age better for example.
UI/UX.