skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it qualifies as universal voter registration. The voter roll is a separate thing is what I meant. There are forms for registering, but it can be updated automatically by other government data sources. The important thing is updating your primary residence.

No photo id is required to actually vote.
Why the iPhone 7 Has to Simulate a Shallow Depth of Field
Redlining is an explicit government policy, started by the HOLC (a government sponsored corporation created by FDR as part of the New Deal).

Here's one of their maps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining#/media/File:Home_Own...

Separating whites from colored was also explicit government policy. It was called Jim Crow. We never tried "this kind of thing".

http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/links/misclink/examples/homepa...

The law was actually far more intrusive back then than it is today. For example, you might be shocked to discover that Jim Crow laws actually mandated discrimination in sexual relationships!

The closest we've come to trying this kind of thing is the present day, where at least sexual relationships have been deregulated. (This one is a biggie for me, I discriminate pretty strongly against white women and think the government should not restrict my freedom in that way.)
I agree with you, but here's the thing. If the vast majority of companies are running like that and succeeding, does that not suggest that there really is a workeer surplus and job scarcity, and that impressions to the contrary are self-imposed?
Why wouldn't the government just require AirBnB to provide transaction data in response to a report of discrimination?
There is significant advance in sentiment analysis too. Trading bots use sentiment analysis as some of the input for their time series prediction algorithms. I would not say 10 years.
Forget the condo. Just dump your money in a Vanguard fund and leave it there until you're 40+
That's changed drastically with more recent class D designs. At least in the pro audio world at least.
As a guy myself, I am in favor of guys being active. Men, after all, embody most of the problem; leaving it to women to solve is putting a burden on people who are already getting a raw deal.

But yes, guys should be aware that their common instinct to come in and dominate a thing will often not be well received. Partly because dudes pushing to dominate is how the problem was created and is maintained. Partly because as men we are less likely to actually understand a problem that we don't experience and therefore have thought less about. And partly because there are plenty of women who have been traumatized by men acting like that in the past, and so reasonably see it as a danger signal.

So I encourage guys who want to solve this problem to spend a very large amount of time listening and learning. To always be seeking to defer to the people who are actual experts and/or who are already working on it. To pick up the work that is the least showy, the least glory-filled, the least status-gaining. In short, to approach the work with a deep humility, a high level of respect for the people who have lived at the sharp end of this problem for years.
I have not tried it, but honestly, I wouldn't want to. Creating a playlist would be extremely tedious navigating through dozens of albums with such an interface.
I really do not mean to be confrontational, as I understand that this is a charged topic on all sides, but I'd like to ask why making tech more diverse (in terms of race or gender) is preferable.

My first instinct would be to say that if it's more diverse, women or racial minorities are more likely to come into tech because they might feel more comfortable there. But then we're back at square one: why do we want them to come?

Please make no mistake, I'm not saying that diversity is bad, but I don't see why it's good either, and further why it must be pursued.
Sometimes you just have a brain dump list. Sure, this is curated in the absolute sense, but not in the sense where real value is added.

That is, I think the idea is when things claim to be curated, the implication is that they are curated "by an expert".
> #1 Peer pressure
Things like vote.org will help if they close the loop by showing to your peers (bragging rights) that you've voted.

Yeah, I defs remember remember reading about a group that sent out a list of everyone in your neighborhood who voted in past elections with an add-on like, "Make sure you're on this list next year", and they got a whole lot of people registered. I also heard Facebook's "I voted" status-maker increased turnout last time around
Jobs' open letter on DRM came out seven months before Amazon even started selling MP3 files.
Do we have DNA for Tasmanian tigers?

I wonder if it would be valuable to have a biologist or forest ranger collecting fur samples that rub off on trees in the area where there's been some sightings.
The first to do semantic style transfer on audio gets a cookie!
One can't live one's whole life worried about this. When I (female) ask male colleagues etc for informational interviews, work coffee, other meetings, I face the same problem. All you can do is be clear in the first place and exit gracefully if misunderstanding persists.

"Hey, I'm really interested in your experience teaching kids how to create GUIs using tkinter. Could I ask you about that over coffee?" If there's a persistent misunderstanding that this is a romantic conversation, you just gotta leave it -- nothing else to do.
Well, the discussion is about the docs recently available online, so you finding a python book helpful in the times when no python shell autocompleted is a bit outside the topic at hand.
>Pergamon Go

Visions of young millennials crowding ruins trying to catch harpies, sphinxes, and minotaurs only to awaken the dormant odious spirits lying in wait beneath those ancient stones
الحل الأكيد لمشكلة هذا الاصدار لا يتوافق مع جهازك – هذا العنصر غير متاح في بلدك
Or, offer the comparably-compensated part-time job that an academic physicist would accept in parallel with continuing to work in academia.

Source: Am physicist who'd love to find sustainable part-time work at market rates.
Am I the only one getting a 404 for the image in question?
The Right Thing™, of course, would be to accept that if you own a domain you own all subdomains, and delegate the authority to certify subdomains to you, the owner.

Why can't you issue certificates for your subdomains? Running OpenSSL is as easy for you as it is for a CA.
Chrome is moving to mark HTTP sites sending passwords etc as insecure
Dang, I'm really happy you made this (event supports remapping 'esc' to 'jj' which is a must for me), but now I'm so waist deep in the atom environment that the switching costs are pretty steep. At this point the only reason I would switch is speed, and Atom is not slow enough to outweigh the switching costs for me. Great work and initiative though, maybe one day I'll switch because of this.
How (and Why) I switched from JIRA to Clubhouse
Yeah have had this too.

Still stick with the 3.5mm jack over Bluetooth for quality.
I've actually recommended that strategy to a lot of young people recently. I see victims of age discrimination all the time who were displaced by younger, less-capable, cheaper and easier-to-fool workers. These younger people have a good chance of being in same position. So, best to either avoid debt or have it all paid off in 10-15 years.
I run a GNU Social install for local hackers. Feels good to run my own shit.
I don't see the difference between "an imaginary world" and "an imaginary scenario, but according to the rules that actually apply in real world". If I were in that scenario, I would behave as you suggest I ought to, but I am not and will not be in that scenario. I never disputed that my vote matters, just precisely how much, and for what reasons.

I agree that it's really an ethical decision, which is why I closed with "How is a consequentialist to vote?"--my philosophical stance being consequentialist in nature. Whether it is "ethical to implicitly depend upon others doing something, without doing it yourself when it's your responsibility at a particular moment?" Calling it "my responsibility" seems to beg the question. Furthermore I wouldn't say I "depend" on others doing something, but rather that I "act according to" others doing something, that I empirically expect them to do. Many schools of philosophy would object to my framing here, but I have found these objections unpersuasive.
Well that's funny. I cannot find the picture anywhere. I even tried disabling uBlock and then was promptly reminded of why I use it.
> I don't know if this is really a tractable problem.

You don't need a perfect solution in order to do something. They can improve the situation. And also it's important that they make clear it's unacceptable and take action: It's like bullying; people passively watching send the message that the behavior is socially permitted. People are hard wired to follow social norms.

> they're going to have significant discrimination problems as long as people are discriminatory, i.e., basically forever.

Discrimination isn't forever. Protestants and Catholics, not to mention Irish and Italians, and many others used to riot against each other in the U.S. When John F Kennedy, a Catholic, was elected President it was actually a big deal. Now nobody even notices when a Mormon runs. Look at discrimination against women, Jews, LGBTQ, and many others. It takes too long, but the history is very optimistic.

I even hear that most American voters voted for a black man - twice - only a generation after he wouldn't have been allowed to even sleep in a hotel in much of the country. (Could he get an Airbnb room now, if he weren't recognized? I sure don't want to go back to those days.)
Hey, author and one of the co-founders here, michael taylor. Thanks for checking us out and taking the time to comment! We definitely are standing on shoulders of giants here; I sleep with Lean Startup under my pillow. We just saw this blowing up on HN and I'm personally pretty excited because it's the first time I've had anything on here. Didn't even expect it as a marketer, so that's awesome.

We've actually just hired our 15th person and for the past 2 years we've worked with 70+ startups and spent around $2m. That's not counting one client who spends about $40k a day on FB ads. Before that I worked at Efficient Frontier (now part of Adobe), Travelzoo and ShopStyle. In each place I managed or optimized multi-million dollar budgets; the learnings from which I applied whilst building our playbook, and I apply every time I write a post.

ROI for our playbook is calculated based on the average of the experiments we've run. Looking at the numbers we've averaged about 2 concluded tests per tactic, but those numbers are highly skewed; there are some that have run 10+ times, others that have never 'run' (just things I've tried before but don't have conclusive data to hand, or things I've read about in blog posts). Either way, this data should be taken with a pinch of salt and used directionally; while eventually we dream of being able to build a recommendation engine that auto-prioritizes these tactics, the reality is that we'll need a lot more people using the system (hence the incessant blogging). :-)

Hope that helps explain where we're coming from?
It's often a shitty environment for men, too. Now the question is: Is it really that much more shitty for women, are there other factors at play for them leaving (or not joining in the first place), or a combination of both.

I'd say the latter: The environment is a bit shittier on average for a women and therefore should be improve to be equally shitty for all, but there are other factors at play here too.
Similar situation with Saddam or Gaddafi really. I don't understand why people were so upset with them.
Sir, it depends entirely on how widely used the compound word in question is. Hyphenated compounds that become sufficiently familiar lose their hyphen.
Haha thanks – I totally didn't pick up on that reference.
This has been a deepening mystery throughout my career. I see most companies are utterly uninterested in improving their recruitment processes, and are at the same time frustrated that most projects fail or don't quite deliver.
Meanwhile, the best engineers I know have to look for a really long time to find suitable jobs.
He meant it's solid as KitKat was, before they shipped shitty Lollipop which started a myriad of issues.
Adultery is a felony in Michigan, though it's obviously not really enforced.
Substeps-framework, r1.0.2 released
Thanks for the tidbit
>I think I'd almost prefer interviewees being judged based on the schools they attended and companies they worked at.

I'd be surprised if you're saying this as somebody who doesn't have a track record of working at big name companies who went to a big name school, but you probably are so.
It's my home and I do what I want. If you're black and I don't like you, I have every right not to let you into my house, no matter your history. You cannot debate this statement.
I was thinking of exactly the same website.

That's a very fast page, that actually does something.
A very important person reason?

Also, I think the actual problem isn't these corporations, it's ultimately the governments of the world.

Even if the major social networks allow something highly controversial to remain, sooner or later they may be required by the government to take it down. Even someone as big as Apple will have trouble standing their ground, as was shown recently.

The government and the law is what's supposed to protect people's right to information and free speech, yet they are also the ultimate source of censorship.
Cool - thank you! Good luck!
Takeaway: Be wealthy. Don't be unwealthy.
I don't know if I follow your point. They probably had some equipment that was ideal for printing and shipping cards. They were able to leverage that equipment to make money.

Specifically stated, there is money they would not have been able to make, had they not also printed some playing cards. Do you think it would have made sense to just abandon that money?
No love so far
This feels a lot like how everyone complained about the iPad when it came out, but then it turned out to be no big deal.
Every time something comes up on HN about a talent shortage in a field related to software engineering, it hurts. I have been unsuccessfully looking for a full time position since my last start up (I was not a founder) folded six months ago. I have been on over 25 in person interviews and gone through untold degrading whiteboard interviews, code tests, trick questions, and take home projects; all have ended in rejection. This industry has a need to torture candidates because we are all considered to be liars by default. Much is said about combating impostor syndrome in ourselves but we are too eager to engender it in others.

It seems people in this industry refuse to understand that some people are not perfect. I never graduated college because I hated it with the very fiber of my being, so I am not particularly great at white boarding answers to algorithm questions off the top of my head in a high pressure environment. If I need them during my job, I look up answers and learn from people who are much smarter than I am.

My personal identity has been shattered, as I thought my ~5-10 year history of success in the industry indicated I was in demand and talented. I saw posts like this and thought that if the worst happened I'd still be able to find a job. The idea that there is a talent shortage is a lie, or candidates like me wouldn't be treated as I have been. I'm not asking for a free job, or a handout. I have had a successful career so far and am capable of doing good work. But I'm not a specialist in Big Data Machine Learning Neural Networks.

I have struggled with bipolar disorder and suicidal ideation most of my life. I've dealt with the death of my beloved grandmother and my father who was instrumental in my choosing to be an engineer with only minor lapses in control. Nothing has caused me to consider taking my own life as much as the past 6 months. It seems there is no future for me in the only career I have any skill in and which is a huge part of my identity. And to constantly be told that there is such a shortage of engineers only salts the wound.
I don't think the point is to convert racists as much as it is to prove to non-racists that the general actuarial tables don't apply specifically to AirBnB's renters.
Not disagreeing but I got all I needed with Atom + atom-ternjs

And I don't even have to introduce typescript to my codebase to get surprisingly good hinting and autocomplete.
Nazism is in many ways protected. Cities cannot deny permits to neo-Nazi groups to assemble, for instance.

The comparison between Nazism and discrimination against black people is pretty creepy, though.

The experience of black people on Airbnb is: "Here is an amazing looking listing. I'm psyched to see if it's available for my trip. Click. Oh! It is available! How excellent. I'll plan accordingly." Then, a few hours later, when the owner has noticed the applicant's African American sounding name, the reservation is rescinded. It happens repeatedly, and there's nothing the renter can do about it.

The experience of the neo-Nazi is roughly the same, except the first time it happens they take the swastika out of their profile picture and from then on everything works peachy for them.
If there was a viable path forward to a (re)-merger of AOO and LO, I'd be totally fine with it. But I've heard enough rhetoric from both sides that I've essentially quit believing such a thing could ever happen. But hey, miracles do happen now and again.

In the mean-time, MS Office isn't even part of my consciousness. But I'm a pretty rabid FOSS ideologue who has used Linux and FOSS office suites as his primary desktop environment since about 2002. So I'm a little out of the mainstream, you could say...
Closer to an aspiring data engineer, though I've done my fair share of ETL, cleaning, database building / rebuilding, admin. Prior jobs have been database engineer, probably closer to DBA.

I just enjoy working with raw data and raw code more than I enjoy writing something that launches a graphic. I enjoy writing a script that finds a bad piece of data, or a script that fixes up everything, or writing something that was once unable to run at all get converted to something that runs in 500ms. Perhaps it is that journey of constant discovery, and seeing that every situation is a unique little puzzle. It is seeing the world as it is with no one reinterpreting what the data means for me. I can explore it and discover what it really means. It is hollow truth, a mess of ideas converted to sets of ideas layered on sets of ideas, and when it is finally drawn down, converted, and passing all tests, it is self-evident and self-reflecting, and true. Hard to explain, but I suppose I like all the things people hate about it.

The tools matter about as much as it matters what CSS framework you are using. You have the ability to logic through UI and UX, whereas I do not. I have zero hope of ever doing well at what you do, since I simply don't have the foundation, but if it matters, I know most jobs I've applied to and worked at tend to be more ad hoc, using PL, Python, Ruby, etc.
I installed Dropbox, fully knowing that it embedded itself into the OS. But I assumed that it was using a proper API to do so.

I need to rethink that soon. If macOS Sierra's (to be released next week?) similar replication features work properly, doesn't Dropbox become expendable for customers playing exclusively within Apple's ecosystem?
Would creating large applications in WebStorm break things if I wanted to use VSCode in the future or alongside?
There seem to be a problem with the analysis. It seems to assume that everybody uses qwerty keyboards! What about qwertz, azerty, dvorak or even colemak... We need to recalculate with data aggregated and weighted by world-wide populations! :-D
I don't know if I agree with the outrage at Facebook. They are out to make money. They can make more money if they avoid controversy and keep their site a place that brands like to be associated with. It results in corporate censorship for sure, but is it Facebook's responsibility to provide a censorship free platform?

I fully agree with people taking note and becoming aware that Facebook is simply a business providing them a service and not a benevolent social network uniting the world.

But until people are willing to get upset enough about issues like this to leave Facebook, they really have no incentive to change. It's a reflection on society more than on one company. Like it or not, we use Facebook because we like it, it provides a service we're happy to consume. If we're happy and the advertisers are happy why would they care about these sorts of things?
I wonder what the solution to this is. From what I know about reviewing reports about content, it's basically a case of someone reporting the post, then the report being farmed to reviewers, then the reviewers can check the post and I optionally the context to either kill the post or leave it alone.

That means your post is one of hundreds this person sees that day and their guidance is likely "no genitalia, no nipples, and definitely never any naked children". So they act accordingly.

So what's the ideal path from here? Do you educate them about art? What's the line after that? Is this photo ok? What about the famous album cover? What about private party pictures? Etc. Can we even describe a reasonable line? Do we expect them to reverse image search every single photo for context? (Not many people could recognise that photo on its own) How many more people would be needed for clarification? What's the incentive to get them?
Who Stole My 'Star Trek'?
I disagree. Aside from an entry level position, you want someone with previous experience.

Google wouldn't hire someone to manage their datacenter with no previous experience managing anything like it.
Ah, my bad. I just saw the link, I probably should've taken 30 seconds to check out the repository contents.
>At this point, isn't it generally accepted that all tech interviewing sucks, and companies would do better throwing darts at resumes?

Except I've had good interview experiences. So, no, there are better and worse kinds of interviews. Just because it is an overwhelmingly neglected aspect of the industry is neither here nor there.
I thought it was instructive to see that in A1 mode the cell formula magically changed as it was copied, while in R1C1 mode it did not; it was good circumstantial evidence that R1C1 is what Excel uses internally. But then I tried an experiment, deleting a column that was referenced by a formula - the formula was replaced with =#REF! indicating that there's still magical changes being applied.
It also makes you sound cynical.

Good, because my cynicism was hard-won, pity should it go to waste.

Whether or not a piece of tech is a rehash does matter, because last time we decided RDBMSs are old, in with the new open schema whatever, I learned where the sharp edges were at. There has been no magic tech in the mean time that makes MongoDB less likely to cut you up in horrible ways. As just one example.
I agree. I enjoyed doing it the first couple times, but people would often complain why I wasn't done sooner and didn't appreciate the level of complexity that went in to doing it. Once the appreciation was gone, I believe that's when it turned into a mind-numbing task for me. I don't mean to be little the job, I think I have just become sour to it because of the lack of appreciation.
That's not true when it comes to iOS though... can't run unsigned OS.
Hi Ryan. I'm fairly confident that amazon.com is in the preload list in Chrome and Firefox, but if a given domain isn't, then the very first request from a browser may be to http which then includes the HSTS header and _then_ any subsequent request can only be over HTTPS.