skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand companies are unwilling to give negative feedback to applicants for fear of legal repercussion. But often not getting any form of feedback is highly detrimental to an applicant who's invested days if not weeks of going through the process, only to receive a boilerplate "thank you for applying, please try again" response.

One wonders if it's possible to devise some sort of neutral, yet helpful, assessment that could be given to applicants without fear of legal retaliation. Or, if eventually an applicant will sue a company for not providing feedback after they were rejected.
It's the fact that the author paid in bitcoin that made this work. Most other online payment methods can be easily reversed with evidence of fraud.

We deal with this sort of stuff all the time running cardforcoin.com. Social evidence is a great fraud deterrent.

Edit: My mistake, I reversed the payment direction. All the author needed to do was call Apple to have the cards cleared and replaced.
> Objects well-suited to transfer would be shallow mutable structures with immutable data "underneath". Immutable data can be shared, so they'd be ignored by the transfer logic.

How often are data structures designed like this in Ruby?

> Another approach likely to be common would be not transferring objects at all, but sending proxy objects to other guilds which transparently marshal method invocations between those guilds and the object's home guild.

What if said “home guild” ends up overburdened with requests coming from all over the place?

> This is easy. You just run the transfer operation with the guild's mutex locked.

You mean both the sender and the receiver's mutexes? I'm worried about the receiver being able to observe partial transfers.
When i worked at iTunes they have a mega 'bad_words.txt' file.
It was fun to read when bored.
Thanks. This clarifies a lot of things.
All those so-called researchers in academia just have an axe to grind. Think tanks are definitely what you should bank on, intellectually. Especially the for-profit ones.
>I don't see where anyone is discarding integrity.

It takes integrity to defend a principle in lieu of doing the expedient thing of instilling a "zero tolerance" policy. One that you can define so broadly that you never have to suffer the PR backlash that will eventually result when someone takes advantage of these freedoms and does something abhorrent.

>Not all content is appropriate for all sites.

But I thought that all content is appropriate for all sites. Don't all people fit into size 36 jeans, like cheesecake, ride unicycles, and love to go hiking? I quite like your negate the absolutes game.

>Beyond that, while this is a famous picture, what most people think they know about it is wrong, so it's not really adding much to the public discourse.

That is a rather banal statement. It is obvious that the argument isn't about one particular picture, but about defending freedom of expression.

Nobody complains, nothing is likely to change, things stay the same. I'm on the side of complaining. You?
Oddly, this is how they fire people at my wife's workplace; take them out to coffee and drop the hammer.

I don't think this is professional advice. In fact, I think it's horibble advice. If I wanted to ask a female coworker how they were doing, I'd do it right in the office, as a professional to a professional.

I would never ask a female coworker out to coffee just to talk. I've had a female project manager ask me out for coffee, and I was too polite to refuse. I felt obligated to go. She asked me about my family and how-are-you-doing kind of things, but I still felt it was awkward. She was an awesome project manager, but I was new and didn't know her well enough to know her intentions.

Before I got married, this is how I would screen dates -- coffee or drinks. Small talk, and then if we clicked, another coffee until we were comfortable to go on a real date.

Contrary to popular opinion this is how most office affairs start, and I'm sure a fair bit of harrassment, not a dropped pencil in the copy room leading to spontaneous sex with disco music in the background.

I wonder if these issues would dissapear if Silicon Valley companies weren't so focused on hiring only 20-somethings, with a skewed sense of morality, and had a few crusty bastards with daughters lurking the halls.
Huh, that's interesting – thanks for sharing!
I know that, but I still think it's way too opinionated to be a base. My linter shouldn't annoy me by forcing me to do things that make my code less legible (like enforcing arrow-body-style) out of the box.
Not sure if you were asking me or daxfohl, but I've always been a saver. I got serious about it maybe 8-10 years ago. My savings rate has been trending upwards during that time, it's around 40-45% of my take-home pay now.

I spent a year in the Bay area, but moved back to Ohio for family reasons. That helped, because things are so much less expensive out here. (Bear in mind, though, you can work in the Bay Area and then retire somewhere cheaper ;)

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/ has some great articles on how to save money while still enjoying life.

My top piece of advice is: do not buy a brand new car. Don't buy any car if you can manage it, but if you must own one, get something that's a few years old and half as expensive. And even then, try to ride a bicycle when possible.
Tell his parents is precisely what you should do. That's what would lead to possible behavior change. Letting him get away with it validates the behavior and teaches that it's OK and he will be able to talk his way out of such things again.

It does everyone a disservice to not tell his parents.

The author got manipulated twice. First convinced to hand over his money and then convinced not to tell the parents.

The scammer player the author like a guitar. Right there is the psychopath's first big lesson - "people listen when I cry".

The genius of the scammer/budding psychopath being that the blogger thinks he "won".
Does it work on a local network, without internet connection?
Right. a "rootkit" was a kit of tools you deploy once you have obtained root (on someone else's server).
It seems like at least some of the groups you've sat down with had these things nailed down. At some point there are objective hazards in life, and I'm comfortable knowing that we can't possibly control them all. I've done some pretty irresponsible things to my brain (18-hour trips on alpha-methyltryptamine, that sort of thing) but in the end I am the one who pays (or will pay) the price for that.

Honest-to-god shamans that are the recipients of generations' worth of accumulated cultural traditions aren't my concern; I'm hardly fit to judge them. But that doesn't seem to be what's going on in some of these ceremonies. It's irresponsible (and kind of shitty) to act as a guide unless the guide is prepared to handle extremal behavior.

As far as judging others for taking hallucinogens, nah. People's brains react differently to different agents at different points in time, and that's something that you either learn to deal with or you stop taking hallucinogens.
Well one could argue that having a shell script invites people to review it, then the article's behaviour could change it. So people might trust it when they otherwise wouldn't have. But... they should just download it locally, verify, and run.

Whereas for a binary, they might go verify a signature or something more severe.
Yes - but its a framework meant for developers.
What percentage of their current revenue do you think comes from large, commercial operations (as opposed to single family homes ... maybe a side property being rented out)? No idea myself, but I would imagine comfortably under 50%....so it's hard to believe AirBnB aiming for this kind of pivot on the customer base, especially the one that got them to where they are today.
The Blockchain: Decentralized trust to unlock a decentralized future
I wonder what the engineers on the Google team that just released that is thinking?
my own :)
I'll put a sharper point on it: People must be governed.[1] People have an enormous capacity to be violent, racist, sexist, small minded, paranoid, greedy, and dishonest, and the whole point of government is to collectively overcome these failings.

Obviously government cannot stop discrimination just as it cannot stop murder, theft, etc. But it can dramatically reduce it by imposing the proper social norms.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Igooxb4D1c
It's too late to stop it, but greatly cutting CO2 emissions will make the damage much less severe. Climate change isn't a binary proposition, where we either get it or we don't. We're pretty much locked in to some degree of change at this point, but how much change we get still depends on how much more CO2 we dump into the atmosphere.
1) do you think there are more men in engineering exclusively as a result of men being prejudiced against women?

Definitely not. Humans are complicated beasts, so it'd be pretty impressive if there was an exclusive reason. I do think, however, that EVERYONE is prejudiced against feminine behavior (with "women" just being used as short hand), not just men. I actively am aware of my prejudice against feminine presenting women or men and when I interview people I go out of my way to mitigate my biases through objective assessments.

On the other hand, at the end of the day I want to work with people who will have the same values when it comes to the company culture and similar ideas as to what good code looks like. We're all looking for allies at work and it's impossible to know whether someone 100% fits your idea of a "good" co-worker, so we use shortcuts...like how similar they are to us. And gender is one variable of similarity, so I'm sure it plays an important role in hiring decisions.

2) do you think your male co-workers are less qualified to be engineers because they were hired for their gender?

Slightly. It's not about being hired "for their gender", it's about tendencies in terms of they represent their abilities. A woman says she can do something, she usually has the relevant background/skill-set. A man says he can do something and he's likely to mean "I can teach myself this though I don't know the language or the relevant framework. I may also not have set up my environment yet..."

So. That's an uncomfortable trend with new male hires.

3) one of the engineers in this article said she felt uncomfortable being aware of being the only female. Can anyone explain what causes the discomfort?

If I'm in an all male group that I haven't been in before or that I know sometimes wanders off into unacceptable behavior, I'm readying myself (which is uncomfortable). I'm readying myself to keep talking after being ignored, to call out someone who repeats one of my ideas as if it's their idea, to call out a sexist comment or a boorish joke (I swear to god the amount of men who think the words bitch, slut, whore, etc are just dandy every day insults is insane), to politely decline to go open the door/get coffee/leave the room to perform a menial task, etc. It's uncomfortable.

At my work, I don't feel this way; I'm the only female engineer but it's really borderline irrelevant at this point. I'd be hard to replace, and I established very early on what makes me uncomfortable and the cofounders police that behavior now so it's nearly non-existent. Which is wonderful; I don't want to be a kill joy, I don't want to mother anyone, I don't want to be lone person complaining as everyone mocks me behind their back (aka being established as "that" girl; the very idea behind the statement being YOU are the problem for wanting to be comfortable at work and treated respectfully) I just want people to act like adults in an professional environment and to treat me as an equal who deserves my spot at the table. And I get that. But it took time and effort and support from the leaders of the company.
Get on it. ;)
Ah yes, when they themselves are affected, suddenly there is a 230 page report.

Meanwhile you sure as hell can't, you know, get an actual post mortem when they bomb an Afghani hospital.
Wonder if there are any implications here for breaking (MitM) ZRTP protocol.

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

At some point to authenticate both parties verify a short message by reading it to each other.

However, NSA has already tried to MitM that about 10 years ago by using voice synthesis. It was deemed inadequate at the time. Wonder if TTS improvements like these, change that game and make it more plausable scenario.
On the context of these ancient libraries:
- everything was hand written / copied
- there was no punctuation, no real word spacing - information was primarily transferred via oration and this written form was a new fangled technology :)
- there were multiple differing character sets in use, sometimes even for the same language. Also some texts were written right left, or left to right, or even alternating back and forth (boustrophedon)

The history of the english alphabet (with miniscules and majiscules) is a rather interesting story, and if this sort of history interests you I recommend The 26 Letters by Ogg.
I wish they'd stop calling these expressions "regular".
"Additionally, fingerprint data of 5.6 million of these individuals was stolen."

They'll need to change their fingerprints immediately!
I have a similar feeling, when I pronounce a homonym/homophone. The word "mouth feel" resonates for me, although I suspect that sometimes it's just an awareness of the spelling of the word. Other times, I'll consciously choose to pronounce a word differently to try to disambiguate it. I'll say "aunt" as "ant"/"ont" (read those second as phonetically-spelled Californian American pronunciations) depending on the situation and flow of the sentence. "They're" is usually "They-er", "their" is sometimes "thur" (like "fur" with a /ð/), and "there" feels like it's pronounced the expected way. "To" might be "tə", but "two" and "too" never are.

Of course, that's all when I'm paying close attention to what I say. I'm sure there are times that I go against those. Also, sorry for the mix of layman phonetic spelling and IPA.
So how do you find work then? Are you a consultant?
Phil Schiller recommends the dock for iPhone 7 when wanting to listen and charge
Any chance you could add nerdtree like behavior for the directory tree? I sooooooo hate reaching for the mouse.
This is true. A good friend of mine works at Wells Fargo, and has moved up the ranks from banker up to regional manager.

I never understood the pressure he was under to open new accounts. Not new customers, just new accounts for existing customers. For example, a new savings account to split your savings up into long term, vacation, college fund, home improvement.

As a banker he was supposed to open 40 new accounts a week, bare minimum.

One theory I had is that if you spread your money around like this, you're more likely to go below the minimums required, so therefore more likely to incur fees.
Jet-brains products have a gigantic plugin ecosystem that allows you to add whatever functionality you want..
We SHOULD be outraged at entities that, because they are purely out to make money, end up shaping the world in ways we'd rather it not be. That's a perfectly natural thing to be outraged by; that they are in fact incentivized to do the thing we are outraged by is just another thing to be outraged by!
sure would be nice to have something better than a raster image of pages 2-231
Plus he's been educated about the dangers of scamming from interlinked accounts. If he does try this again it won't be as easy for the next victim to get their stuff back.
Bill Gates is trying to fund some of the research that might lead to break through technologies
Reading things like this [1] every couple of days it seems we are standing on the train tracks hearing the train is coming but we choose to cover our ears instead of stopping the train. There will come a time and we will need to pay the price for covering the ears, we just postpone it but train is coming closer and closer every day. Soon we will feel vibrations on the tracks but then I am afraid it will be already too late to stop the train.

[1] http://phys.org/news/2016-09-unprecedented-atmospheric-behav...
wasn't suggesting that you were dismissing all other concerns.

I just didn't see the point of stating your sexuality when that by itself really means nothing.

Not all women and men are created equal and other factors such as looks,weight,height,color can make all the differences on experiences.Even among same sexes.
To Launch a Nuclear Strike, Clinton or Trump Would Follow These Steps
I don't know if "suddenly" is the most accurate word. This attack originated in May 2014 and was identified sometime in mid 2015. https://www.opm.gov/cybersecurity/cybersecurity-incidents/
Wells Fargo policy sets quotas for bankers to open new accounts for customers.
تحميل برنامج تسجيل المكالمات للأندرويد وللأيفون Call Recorder
Show HN: WSL, a clean text format for relational data
Prediction markets are already public data:

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/773996014046998528?...
>Every single person who had rights on the sources for audio you used.

What if my 'AI' was a human who learned to speak by being trained with the voices of hundreds of people from dozens of other sources? What's the difference?

Those waters seem muddy. I think that'd be an interesting copyright case, don't think it's self evident.
They are talking about new accounts in the customers name. The banker isn't stealing the money for themselves. The bankers are doing it to meet quotas
Software Sins of Omission (John Cook, 2010)
My god, do you really want someone who cannot figure out how to use the mail exerting political power over you? Are you aware that anyone who wants employment in the US must present proof of employment eligibility, which in almost all circumstances will be sufficient to verify eligibility to vote ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-9_(form) )? Have you not seen the booths & volunteers at just about any public event near election day registering people to vote, gratis?

Exactly how deep into the bottom of the barrel do you want to scrape before you admit that for any reasonably participatory member of society, voting is actually pretty easy?
Something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx3by7ZaaZA ? ;)
PayPal is just as bad in my experience. I was sent pirated software. They ruled against me and let the scammer keep the money.
There are thousands of Men that are 'forced out' of technology jobs every day due to not making the cut during there interviews or leaving for a long list of reasons.

No one has shown that the general environment in technology focus businesses is more hostel to women then Men. It can be stressful and hostel to everyone equally. I believe that is the case. Woman have better options for careers in many professions with less stress and saner hours.
Notes from Interesting Things
I agree. Im just doubtful a full pull effect is as easy to pull off in most places as a good effort at pull along with gentle, steady pushes.
I think you don't see as many men "hounded out of our industry" because that's a property of how sensitive the person is and how much they're looking for drama, not really how many death threats they receive.

I have personally received death threats multiple times after making "controversial" changes to an open source project I work on (as in: good in the long term for the project, bad in the short term for users). And I stopped counting the number of times I've read I should "kill myself". But guess what, instead of writing long blog posts explaining I'll quit open source development because of death threats, I just ignore them and continue doing what's best for the project. So far I don't think I've died yet, so that seems to be working pretty well.

There's also the long tail of death threats you won't even find out unless you look for them specifically (like, going on 4chan to read users talking about your project there). I've seen some other contributors to similar projects getting personally insulted, called "greedy jews" because they asked for donations to buy research hardware, and also being heavily encouraged to kill themselves. They also don't make drama about it, and in fact they'd probably be quite unhappy that I'm even mentioning it publicly.

So yeah, if I were looking to create drama I'd have more than enough material to do so, and I also could probably get "hounded out of my industry" if I was willing to.
It's about time! They hid it then broke it, what, a decade ago? Back in the early days I could get online one night on a whim & fill an empty seat the next day for mutual benefit to me & the carrier... I presume, unsure how $150 + 200 lbs over 2000 miles in the air compares to flying with an empty seat. Last time I looked, ~2008, no matter how many options I checked or unchecked their counter-offer was never below the static prices of standard, < 30 days advance booking prices.
Relevant: http://www.theonion.com/article/horrible-facebook-algorithm-...

For those who don't understand why this is relevant: the important point is that Facebook was never, is not, and will never be meant for dispersing information and fostering meaningful discourse. Its only raison d'être is entertainment and generating revenue for its shareholders, so it's rather pointless to try to fight their arbitrary rules.

If you are trying to bring up meaningful discourse on Facebook, you're not getting the right audience, because Facebook is all about reinforcement of the user's existing believes and world views.

I have friends and ex-colleagues who hold different political views than me. I virtually never see their posts on Facebook, because algorithm and machine learning. And I'm aware of that fact when I use Facebook.

Afterposten is in the media business, they understand the unwritten rules. Call me a cynic, but I feel that the only point of their open letter is to sound righteous and generate publicity.
My own theory of language acquisition and music: http://whatismusic.info/blog/LanguageDisplacementAndTheState....

I don't assume any pre-existing "universal grammar".

What I do assume is a pre-existing classification of sounds into language and non-language. This hypothesis is somewhat confirmed by the recent results as described at http://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273%2815%2901071-... (and see http://whatismusic.info/blog/IPredictedTheExistenceOfCompone...).
In my opinion React support is progressing quickly but is not fully there yet (definitely more documentation is needed), so for the JSX part the pain is greater than the gain (especially given PropType checking already in React).

As an example, to see what I mean, try to figure out how to write a properly typed Higher Order Component function. Last time I looked at it, this had no direct mention in documentation and only workarounds on StackOverflow.
It will be extremely hard to get this right. You may up end in a desert or underwater. Or you may get blown away by a big hurricane.
Lock an "owner's closet" and have intention to return to the building as your permanent residence, and I believe you meet all needed aspects of 2 to have it apply.

Certainly if I rented part of a duplex where I lived in the other half, #2 applies. #2 continues to apply even while I'm at work, if I go out to dinner, or go on vacation.