skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We contract a blind accessibility consultant to help us evaluate all of our websites (and we have a lot...) and educate us on best practices for making our sites easier to navigate.

One of the best choices that we ever made. We spend a lot of time on getting it right in our sites and have spent many hours in NVDA & VoiceOver with our eyes closed.

It's unfortunate how poor the experience still is on most websites and I wish our industry would spend a little more time trying to get this right. If you aren't using Semantic markup and ARIA, please start now.

You can't imagine how much worse the user experience is on mobile vs a computer.
Los Angeles. Santa Monica and West Hollywood kept theirs. Guess which neighborhoods have the highest rents?
Couple of things about H1B: 1. While H1B workers are cheaper, they are also pretty much stuck with their employer. Not 100% but much less mobility than citizen. Sorry, this reeks just a wee bit of indentured servitude. 2. If you take Corp. Execs at their word, and that rising H1B caps is good for country, then would be good for a journalist to probe: what about a 10M worker cap? Or 1.5 billion worker cap? That would make america even stronger, no?
Build it, market it.
Axl Rose demands Google take down photos of him looking fat
I'm not convinced that the injury is significantly different. The mechanics certainly are: rather than the the brain trauma being caused by the brain bouncing off the skull, it's because the whole system is hit by a wave of pressure, but the end result is likely quite similar, though perhaps magnified when subject to an explosion (a holistic TBI, if you will).

The difference, I suspect, is that rather than the injury being confined to a specific place that has a lesion in the brain, it's rather the entire brain that gets affected.

I was in a car accident ~7 years ago that effectively erased 5 days of my life from my memory, and took me 6 months to fully recover from (though I suspect I'm still not quite the same as I was before the accident, but as far as anyone else can tell I am). The only physical remnant from that accident is a small scar on my scalp.

One of the things I learned from the doctors that attempted to assess the damage to my brain is that the number of TBIs caused by IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan very much informed and changed the way that doctors treat TBIs here in the states.

Also, always wear a seat belt, whatever the circumstances. I'd be dead if I hadn't been wearing one.
All contracts have remedies for breach of contract. Note that jail is not a valid remedy. I've signed non-disparagement contracts, where the remedy was I had to pay back the money. Seems quite reasonable to me, and not a violation of my rights.
Couple of things about H1B: 1. While H1B workers are cheaper, they are also pretty much stuck with their employer. Not 100% but much less mobility than citizen. Sorry, this reeks just a wee bit of indentured servitude. 2. If you take Corp. Execs at their word, and that rising H1B caps is good for country, then would be good for a journalist to probe: what about a 10M worker cap? Or 1.5 billion worker cap? That would make america even stronger, no? It wouldn't take much dexterity for a reporter to untangle Corp america's public arguments from it's goals: H1B program helps THEM, and not the country. Come on, business press, do your jobs.
Depending on length means that the type of the longest argument is the type of the return.

So this works:

(clojure.set/union #{1 2 3} [2 3])

But this does not.

(clojure.set/union [1 2 3] #{2 3})

In these two cases, the ordering of arguments does not matter.
State can take from citizen with just compensation via eminent domain, so people really do not have rights to real estate. They have rights to market value of property.
I don't understand your point. The condition of employment at many places, not just celebrities, is that you don't talk about it outside of work. You get well paid for this discretion. Do you think that is a violation of your rights? I don't, the moment you accept the money.

How about NDAs? Should they be unenforceable?

How about Secret Service agents protecting the President. Should they not have to zip their lips about what they see and hear about what goes on in the White House? Is that a violation of their rights to accept such conditions of employment?

Many disputes are settled with the terms being non-disclosed. Should those be unenforceable, too?
Oh, I think we've decades or years rather than centuries. We always underestimate exponential growth. That's OK, at least it'll make for an interesting existence.
Did they pay for the flight to Canada and accommodation for the interview, or did you?
The N+1 issue is one that everyone ends up learning and understanding on the job fairly quickly. It doesn't require anything abstract to understand- "You're constantly hitting it over and over instead of doing things in one or two passes."

Modern programming generally has you approaching any obscure issues like this the same way: You profile your code, figure out where something is going horribly wrong, then try to look up answers for why. If I noticed that my string concatenation was taking an inordinate amount of time, it'd probably take me under 5 minutes to figure out why via Google alone.

Hell, I'd significantly wonder what someone was doing if they were concatenating strings enough to cause performance issues. I can't imagine any business need, for anyone, that could be brought together by that.
Did you read the study you are talking about? For Asians, n=219. Second, the number you are citing isn't ratio of variance, it's ratio above the 99'th percentile. That ratio looks like 105 men and 114 women. So we've got a deviation from what's expected of about 18 people.

Note that the article didn't do any statistical test on this number (with or without a degree-of-freedom correction). That's unsurprising, given the small sample size.

tl;dr; the subgroups are not large enough and the observed differences are not wide enough. Feel free to run a statistical test to prove me wrong.
> Comparing Wake on LAN to a BMC is like comparing a text editor to an IDE.

That's the point. If all you need is the ability to power on the machine, why are you exposing any more than that to the network?

> Most platforms don't have a way to change BIOS or firmware settings, and if they do, it's via the BMC anyways.

And the party in control of that is Intel, so they could provide that API instead of IME.
For those of you saying, "just use EC2 like any other VPS, it's not that complicated," you're missing the point. You can find better-performing VPS offerings for the same money at other providers. AWS isn't the best option if that's all you're looking for.

For those of you saying, "it makes getting started dead simple and gives you room to grow," you're also missing the point. Something like Heroku or LSQ is probably a better option for 90% of such use cases.

For those of you saying, "oh, just use Amazon ABC for x feature, DEF for y, GHI for z, etc. and tie it all together with Amazon foo," you're also missing the point. Yes, that's the proper way to use AWS, but it requires very specific (i.e. not common Linux sysadmin) knowledge that early-stage startups may not possess and may not have the resources to acquire. This is the main takeaway from the article that I'm not sure many folks actually read...
Not only did they not block them, they've added more free standalone courses alongside their paid "Nanodegree" courses.
If you do the bare minimum work and you're spending a lot of time on your own company, at my university, you will almost certainly get a pink slip. Doesn't matter if you have tenure. We are not allowed to work more than one day a week on such things, and that requires approval, which probably won't happen if we're not publishing, have terrible teaching evaluations, and aren't doing a full share of service and advising.
I think we're talking about two different things. BMCs run separately from the rest of the system and are active even when the machine is halted. They provide remote mouse/keyboard/monitor, power control, remote device mounting, bios settings, hardware sensors and monitoring, etc. These have been in servers for ages, do the same thing as IME, and are way less secure. None of it has any relevance to software updaters or software at all really since a lot of these boxes are shipped without an OS or even hard drives.
That's fair, and a totally valid way of going about it. But if I'd been devving for a few years and hadn't heard the term "linked list", and the interviewer scoffed at having to answer the question of what it was, I get uninterested real fast.
This is what I've done too (I use Dvorak on split keyboards and QWERTY on non-split keyboards) and it's done a good job of keeping my QWERTY speed up. I do have to look at the keys if I'm trying to type QWERTY with a split keyboard, but that doesn't happen to me very often, and it's not really much of a problem when it does.

I occasionally get a few keypresses wrong when I first start typing after I've been using the mouse, but once I'm going I'm fairly accurate.
The kind of things he talks about here are the same kind of things that made me leave reddit, never to return.
I haven't found issue with twitter really, but I guess when you get to that kind of renown things must get harder to avoid.
SF home prices declined in two of the last three months
Even if this wasn't bullshit it would be an empty threat. Facebook/Google never delete anything. Ever.
It happens very rarely, and when it does, it's a scandal and a total "man bites dog" story: http://48hills.org/2014/09/08/sf-planners-decide-just-fine-d...

Gabriel Ng & Architechs Inc. wants to build two new structures on the large corner lot at 26th and Clement. Each building would have three units, with three-bedrooms each. The project sponsor argued that there’s a need for family housing in the city, and that six new units, which most likely would be sold as condos, would help the crisis.

But to make room for one of the buildings, the project calls for the demolition of an existing apartment building with two smaller rent-controlled units. And that’s something the city isn’t supposed to allow. In fact, when the mayor with great fanfare issued his housing directive in 2013, he made it clear that demolishing existing rental housing should only be allowed in unusual circumstances.

[T]he 4-3 vote in favor was directly in defiance of city policy and the mayor’s directive regarding the preservation of existing rent-controlled housing.

In the past year, the Planning Department has repeatedly refused to approve projects that involve a loss of rental units [...] The mayor has directed the Department to adopt policies which encourage the preservation of existing housing stock [as] the city’s highest priority.
> "exploited" is a matter of perspective.

Yes, of course. But that doesn't change the fact that companies are systematically exploiting their life context in order to pay them below a fair market wage (in many cases), and in doing so is also exploiting the rest of the workforce to pay them less. Just because someone is happy doesn't mean they aren't being taken advantage of in a systematic, identifiable, and preventable way.
yea I agree that remote is a big part of the solution. Despite all the talk about how easy it is to "work from anywhere" remote still has a lot of pain points. Where I work we can do it one day a week but it sucks when people are dialing in to a meeting. Remote Desktop and ssh aren't really that great. I'm thinking we need fiber to the curb and VR fueled telepresence that is able to convey nuance and emotion when interacting with co-workers.
I am not suggesting that the terms not be enforceable, which probably won't happen anyway.
Any other big buyer of compute not mentioned.... No Such Agency?
You should look at the Snowden leaks sometime. They had cooperation, including backdoors, in a large number of companies' products and networks. RSA cost them about $30 mil to risk whole market. For carriers, usually around $100 mil or so.

Also, remember that it's easier to do if you disguise it as a coding flaw. It wasn't a backdoor: just one among many flaws accidentally hitting our systems. Wouldn't cost any market share.
Build it!

If you have no technical skills, then there is still a lot you can contribute. Every non technical person who comes to me with a "great idea" gets told the same thing by me:

"That sounds great, the best starting point for you is to go build some wireframes for us to look at. There are tons of wire frame tools out there, that you can check out, or even a note book and pen will do because we can scan them in."

Some people ask me what a wire frame is, I have a few places I can point them.

No one has ever sent me a wire frame.

If you are technical, then start with wire frames. It shows people that you are serious, that you have thought this out. If a picture is worth a 1000 words, then a page of wireframes is worth 1000 lines of code.
that's awesome, great work!!
Right. Who need power plants when the power is coming out of the wall plug.

See the problem? Someone has to build the fab in the first place so you can use it.
Look up AMD Semi-Custom Design. Should get some news articles on where they got this started in x86. Became big business that Intel got into, too.
I also don't see how NYT allowed him to post this. I'd assume there is a review process before something like this goes live. I mean, did nobody think that it might actually help trolls see that what they're doing is working?
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eric_Vermetten/publicat...

> Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a common disorder associated with emotional dysregulation and other
symptoms that have been hypothesized to be related to dysfunction of limbic brain areas including hippocampus and
amygdala. The purpose ofthis study was to measure hippocampal and amygdala volumes in BPD. Hippocampal and
amygdala volumes were measured with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in 10 patients with BPD and 23 control
subjects. Patients with BPD had a 21.9% smaller mean amygdala volume and a 13.1% smaller hippocampal volume,
compared to controls. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that alterations in the hippocampus and
amygdala are associated with BPD.

Here they see changes in the structure of the brain.
consider: age discrimination; or an otherwise very talented person is tied to some location (eg. home, or a rural town, due to dependents, or disability), or has the same name as someone "bad" in the news and thus look scary when googled (eg. "I'm John Tillman the nice Portland engineer not John Tillman the NY rapist!" (name is random contrived example)), or once made an un-PC undeletable post in a public forum, or is non-English-speaking, or simply bad with social skills but otherwise great engineer, etc. Also, much of the modern recruiting/hiring culture is still very oriented towards erring on the side of false negative/rejection, and riddled with irrationality and institutionalized jerky behavior.

If an engineer is Famous (due to several public accomplishments), like yourself, you may not have to encounter any of this. "Who cares where he lives or what he's said or how much money he wants, or age... it's Walter Bright!"
>"exploited" is a matter of perspective.

No, not really. If the bosses and investors are taking the surplus value, defined as the gap between wages+capital costs and actual revenues, then the worker is exploited.
> You could probably be stateless if you absolutely wanted

In many cases that isn't true anymore, since modern law generally disfavors statelessness. In many countries, you can't renounce your citizenship unless you have another citizenship. Alternatively, they may accept the renunciation but with legal effect conditional on receipt of a replacement citizenship.

Countries who've ratified the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness agree to that explicitly:

Laws for the renunciation of a nationality shall be conditional upon a person's acquisition or possession of another nationality. (Exceptions: not to frustrate freedom of movement of nationals within a country, not to frustrate return of nationals to their country, not to frustrate a person's ability to seek asylum.)
> Disappointed by Udacity (they positioned for free MOOCs and now they are taking everything back they offered).

Nonsense. Udacity now have paid "Nanodegree" courses alongside their free ones. They haven't removed their free courses, and in fact continue to release new free ones.

Also, their paid courses come with grading and code feedback from humans, so it's not like it was scalable as a free option.

Further, they guarantee you'll get a job based on the Nanodegree courses or you get your money back.
Dynamic languages don't really have any choice in the matter -- it's always going to be possible to pass an unanticipated type to a function, whose results may or may not be surprising or sensible
I have to wonder if the prices will be stagnant or falling by the time they put a ceiling in place. I don't see tech industry investment, or Chinese property purchases as likely to continue at the levels we've seen recently.
Yes, but BMCs do more than just power machines on and off, and are used for more than powering machines on and off. Automatic hardware provisioning fully depends on BMCs.

Intel is the party in control, and Dell, and Supermicro, and HP, and....

IPMI is the API you're looking for, you can always just shut off the networking. But again, it's still done through the BMC. SOMETHING has to do it, and that something needs access independent of the OS and the rest of the system due to the nature of the settings you can change.

Also how is IME any different than providing an API? The api has to actually do something, how exactly do you propose to do that without something like IME?
There's something to be said for being in close proximity with a lot of other people working in the same profession. I came from working in tech for 8 years before moving to Silicon Valley and it's a world of difference.

In other words, Country Music will always exist outside of Nashville, but if you make Country music, Nashville is the place to be.
I work for []. They've had various offshored positions for years, working as outside contractors. For the last several years, they've been opening foreign offices and hiring direct employees of the corporation. Last year across some US-based offices, they split the employees into three groups, each roughly 1/3 of the office. Group 1 had their last day of work that day. Group 2 was told that they'd be training their replacements for the next 3-12 months, with large bonuses (60% of their wages for the time) if they stayed as long as the company wanted. Group 3 still works there (except the smarter ones who have bailed).

After* that day, they increased hiring in certain foreign countries known for having lower wages. I've been watching coworkers doing "Transfers Of Information" to the people replacing them.

If we could live in my area on wages similar to what is reasonable in the foreign workers' hometowns, maybe we could compete for the positions.
This is why as a tall person I'm not fond of 'world' cars. Americans on whole /are/ tall.
I work remotely in SF. I live here because I like not owning a car, walking and biking most places, and non-tech things to do. I'm just lucky I can afford it. The solution is to build more good US cities that aren't car centric. I'm not aware of any. Build a from scratch city with a target of at least 250k residents on the California coast and I'll move.

I don't know how many people think similarly, but there's still a lot of non-tech people in SF.
Well it kind of depends, doesn't it? Linked Lists are a good introduction to the types of structures you'll use in any sort of graph-related problems. If the work you're interviewing for is going to involve a lot of manipulations of node trees and graphs and lists, then you'd want someone who either knows that stuff or seems capable of understanding it.

Certainly not knowing it doesn't disqualify you from being "a real programmer" or whatever. If you never use one, then there's no shame in not knowing it. (Though it's good to learn things you haven't used because maybe there are better ways to do what you're doing.) But it's not a flaw of the interviewer to ask questions related to the work the candidate will be expected to do, either.
What's wrong with making San Francisco more like Tokyo? Do you know how much economic productivity is lost because zoning regulations prevent further densification that is otherwise desired?
> H1Bs allocated via a typical auction, would not do much good. Except mean that companies with the most money, could buy them and then under pay their employees.

Well the idea is that the auction "bid" isn't for a fee to the state, it's for the actual salary. Companies would then compete to pay their immigrant laborers more.
evening all to be honest I lost patience with the freemen movement over the rainbow arc debacle its all pseudo legal rubbish based on a misreading of reality, logic goes like this a table has 4 legs therefore this dog is a table as it has 4 legs, but maybe I am being cynical, they wasted a year of my life arguing black was white until squashed in the high court.
Yup.

Moreover, it's possible, and in fact quite likely, to have both.

Having an IED go off near you might result in blast injury to your brain, which produces one set of symptoms. But it's also pretty likely to cause PTSD as well. That sort of thing is a harrowing experience, more so if you witnessed someone you cared about getting killed or injured in the blast as well, that's an easy candidate for setting you up for PTSD. But the symptoms you experience afterward will end up being a mix of both conditions.

I find it interesting that people seemed to have figured out "shell shock" fairly early on simply intuitively. But whereas early treatments focused on it as an almost mechanical thing, and something to be overcome so that soldiers could be put back into the fight, it took a greater sensitivity to psychological issues to realize that PTSD was also a factor though in so doing there was a tendency to attribute all symptoms to PTSD. Now we've rediscovered shell-shock, but I hope we don't forget that PTSD is real and important as well. And we don't view shell-shock as simply a hurdle to overcome so we can get the greatest battlefield efficiency out of wounded soldiers. We've come a long way since WWI in how we treat soldiers, and I hope we don't regress.
Oh of course there needs to be fabs, but plenty of them exist. All I was saying is that if you want to make a chip, you don't need to take on Intel's capex.
I don't think he is asking about backdoored functions, but more about specific compute features requested for extremely specific workloads in their datacentres.
Supply and demand explains all.

When more people want something than there are available, prices increase - until the price increases enough to ration the available supply to the highest bidders.

For those calling for rent control, they are advocating a different method of rationing the available apartments... leaving multiple interested people for one apartment. Why is the non-price way of rationing better than rationing based on who is willing to pay the most? Some people still won't be able to live where they want to live, it just won't be because they can't afford to.
Ask HN: How do you identify potential in a software developer?
Is it possible to see if someone is going to be a great developer in the future? In sports it is possible so, I was just wondering if it is in the tech world.

What are signs to look out for?
>under tight management by the Chinese ?

I didn't see much Chinese influence when I was there and it's hundreds of miles from China.