skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My comments are far from an attack; an attack would have been more than summarizing his comments in 2 lines and then pointing out there was a discrepancy.

I don't know where you got the idea that I was suggesting anyone should 'just drill anywhere' from ?

As an old person or a disabled person, looking on AirBnB, I can see what the apartment has and how it is laid out (provided good pictures and description are provided).

Being old or disabled does not stop me being mentally competent to decide for myself whether I'm capable of climbing stairs or negotiating the apartment. It is actually a very offensive and discriminatory thing to suggest either of these personal attributes make me mentally incompetent and this is the core of what makes such discrimination offensive - and illegal - in many jurisdictions around the world.

If there is a legal requirement to have safety rails on stairs (or any other regulation), saying the building is X years old is not an excuse for failure to comply. If you're worried about damage being caused in trying to fit them yourself, you hire a professional to do it instead and then it's their job to ensure the building is still sound after the installation. You're operating what is essentially a business, so costs like that are reasonable business expenses to offset against your profits and the result is you get an improved, safer, house for you and guests and essentially get the guests to pay for it, making you ahead.

I don't understand why you're so upset.
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One of the other groups is pursuing this (and electronic voting). I think that's the right long term solution!
Are we allowed to ask them Engineering questions?
I would draw the opposite conclusion from that data. The mode difference was 0, and 91% of people were within 1 star of the interviewer.

Without knowing what the interviewer's bar is for any particular star level, I don't see how the interviewees could do any better. Rounding to 1-star increments amplifies relatively small changes -- if the interviewer rounds up 3.6 to 4 and you round 3.4 down to 3.
Sadly killing is so easy, and arguably also so "human".
Backdoor is probably the correct term, I guess we just got used to vendor placed backdoors.

Although I also assumed at first that it was vendor placed, even though I was familiar with backdoors from the past (Back Orifice, Sub7 etc)
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> The prerequisite being "people feeling fundamentally / by-default at ease in something as primitively simple as just one anothers' company". I don't know why societies lose this and when.

This really resonates with me. I've traveled to the Netherlands twice in the past 3 years, spending most of my time outside of Amsterdam. This small, homogeneous place, to me, truly feels different. And I think the default "at-ease" is a big part of it.

It didn't feel strange at all that I made 3 Facebook friends from random strangers over there.
Yeah there are lots of dominance dynamics among men. But I guess we (men) are more used to it, from growing up with it since childhood.
Now I want a game based on this.
There is a difference between "water cooler/coffee" as compared to going to a "coffee shop". When I read the article I thought "water cooler/coffee".

I'm regularly asked to "go get a cup of coffee" which is a two-minute walk down the hall to the Keurig machine and we end up talking about family, sports, etc. If another colleague were present, I would have no problem asking a female colleague if they wanted to "get a coffee" with us. For me it would be socially awkward if it were 1-on-1. And I wouldn't dare ask a female colleague to a coffee shop.
Some 'Official' Stats

Source: http://www.bls.gov/cps/demographics.htm

I would put some relevant comment on the meaning of these figures but I have to put my kids to bed, sort out their school packed lunch, get scolded by my wife - all before I work on my side projects.

I'll leave it to the youngsters.
Quick sidenote, anyone know where the databases / distributed systems engineering jobs are at? E.g. if one wanted to not use these tools but also go help build these tools?

I can think of Facebook, Google, Microsoft, IBM (which locations and groups within these companies / where?). I can also think of Confluent, CitusDB, Databricks, etc.
I have had a reservation cancelled in the last moment (in the Bay Area) without a valid reason. Also about half of the hosts do not even reply to the initial queries.
It is not hard to speculate that me being a 20-something brown guy has something to do with it.
Because any aspect of the human condition as experienced by women, or minorities, or anyone really, is a problem unique to that sub-group. Apparently. And needs to be explicitly called out as a problem.

I don't get it. I mean, as a middle-aged white guy in an affluent society with social welfare and healthcare I've never experienced anything uncomfortable, of course. Never experienced anything unpleasant.
The second group decided at some point that they knew all they needed to know, and they've gotten really rusty and out of date.

How do you know this? Have you been in a good position to evaluate the performance of many older devs? If so, how much diversity in languages/environments is in your sample?

Most of the negative attention I've gotten from younger devs in work settings has been in the form of constant interruptions for me to use keyboard shortcuts. 1) It's very disruptive to the discussion at hand. 2) It's never been an actual problem. 3) It's always couched in impatient and negative emotional tones. 4) It makes it harder for others to follow what you are doing, if you are always concentrating so hard at going fast. 5) It's always seemed like a pointless attempt by young people to seem like fake hackers on TV.

Chris Granger famously observed that programmers who said "I never use the mouse" use it about 50% of the time they're actively programming.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10995235
Your statement is both right and wrong.

1> Wrong, because "something new" is often ill-defined and often not _really_ new. For example, in the area of 'DevOps' (itself ill-defined) there are numerous tools and frameworks. But what you really need to deliver as a Sysadmin/SRE/Devops person, is a strong understanding of exactly _3_ skills: Operating Systems, Networking & Programming.

Because people & companies do not understand this, we end up in situations where they reject a candidate because they don't know Ansible, but the candidate knows a lot about Python, Linux, SSH and so on (ie things that Ansible is actually built on).

Many folks don't need to learn "new" things to stay relevant.

2> Right, because its not easy to actually gauge a candidate and determine that a person will _learn_ and deliver on Ansible simply because they have such good Python, Linux & OS skills. They don't even know that if the candidate doesn't know Ansible, I need to quiz them in other ways. That is often because the interviewer is not up to the par either.

This wrongly places the burden on the candidate to reply that "I'm an expert in Ansible", and "learn" something they don't really need to.

Coupled with the fact that many candidates themselves flat out lie and are incompetent etc.. you get the market situation for 'aged' people today.
> you can have this entire conversation without bringing up that they're a woman

Exactly! Talk to them like they're a person. It's not that hard.

You'd be surprised how refreshing women find it when you talk to them like they're a person, not a "woman". At least based on what they've told me when I took that approach. Maybe they lied
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The idea is that you treat them like people, not like a bag of stereotypes.
“Ask a Female Engineer”

Why leave other important engineering characteristics out? Are you fat,skinny,tall,short,ugly,pretty , white,or black?

I really don't see the importance of sex in relations to engineering.

Nor understand the desire to get more fat,skinny,tall,short,ugly,pretty , white, black , male or females involved in engineering.
There are plenty of hotels which are "adults only" for any number of reasons and I have not heard a complaint that these are discrimination.

Even under the US ADA, only hotels built after 1993 are required to provide compliant facilities. That means there are actual 100% for-profit hotels which are out of compliance. Perhaps frustration is more appropriately directed at them, or the provisions of the ADA than an individual trying to share his personal residence in a practical manner?
How would you distinguish talent from experience?
An update on the Airbnb anti-discrimination review (July 20, 2016)
It's mad that people aren't aware enough to realize what's going on with them. WikiLeaks must be good at putting out noise.
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Cloudfront is slightly cheaper than S3, you'd want to look at non-AWS CDNs to get near 1-5 cents/GB for outbound (Cloudflare, Cachefly, etc).
I'm an excellent manager[1]. Alas, what I see is that startups start out with a CTO (the guy who actually built the thing) and there aren't a lot of manager jobs advertised.

The few that were, I got discriminated against because of my age.

Doh!

[1] They tell me. I can't get too far from the code or its no fun, but I prefer to build teams and work at a high level than to be constantly coding all the time.
Being equal doesn't mean being the same.

I assume that the intend is to acknowledge differences and educate people about that these arent signals for the actual work.

Don't really like to judge/opinonate about this topic b/c i have never been on the negative spectrum of this problem but to reply to your point and why my above comment relates to it.

The sexist thoughts imo in the end come from the fact that we aren't exposed to alternatives, build our value systems with this skewed reality and judge with this biased value system.

As in: I have never seen a successful female XYZ => I am looking for the patterns i saw in the successful (male) ones => I judge the candidate based on the patterns i saw => I created another skewed reality/example for the next person to build their value system
It is an interpreter and that's absolutely correct. They could've even said "A vm in Python" because that is a VM, just without JIT etc. The compiler includes a parser usually, but interpreters in the purest sense of the word interpret the semantics of some structure corresponding to the code.
If it were a bot, why would they include the `alert`? That would freeze up the UI, and provide no more useful information than `console.log`.

I'm guessing a human, who uses that password to see which websites are poorly coded.
Exactly. Older folks whose kids are self-sufficient are able to focus their time and energy into their work - even more so than twenty-somethings who are still wrapped-up in life's dramas associated with being young. And they have a lot of experience to boot.
I know that it can feel intractable, because change for the better is way slower then I'd like it to be, compared to technological progress.

Discrimination may never be eliminated completely, but it can be reduced so that there are less incidents and a lower impact. And while some issues will be harder to prevent, others may be low hanging fruit.

It's like software bugs. We may never be free of them, but we can and do build better and better systems, tools, patterns and mentalities for increasing awareness and reducing bugs.

Nextdoor was able to reduce racial profiling with some software changes that increased awareness of possible racial bias and asked for additional details beyond race when people reported incidents.

If software is eating the world, I bet it can take a fair chunk out of racial discrimination rates (or any discrimination) if correctly applied.

At the end of the day, you can try to make a difference, or you can refuse to.
Making communications digital doesn't mean that they necessarily rely on the Internet. For local dependencies, you can just as well use a local intranet, which could even be a decentralized mesh network - and the use of common protocols like TCP would allow for something like http://www.broadband-hamnet.org/ to be nearly a drop-in replacement for the whole stack above.

And for dependencies that aren't local to begin with, mail doesn't offer any advantages in terms of cascade failure - you're still relying on some centralized infrastructure that can't really be maintained just locally, and if it goes, your connectivity breaks down all the same.
> If you see someone riding a horse buggy on a freeway, it's not unreasonable to ask why they're doing that.

Surely it must work for them I'd be thinking. If you use a tool that still works and has worked, changing for the sake of it seems unnecessary.
Oh, sure, but I'm not referring to that. It is more likely bullshit from upper management, from even older people...who lost touch with reality long ago.
Yep. It's a myth that Nader lost Gore the election. In Florida, 10x as many registered Democrats voted for Bush as voted for Nader.

The main argument for voting for a guaranteed-to-lose third-party candidate is that it gives the parties a clear, quantitative signal about how many voters their base-unfriendly policies are losing them.

And also the down-ticket races, of course, though many of them are so gerrymandered here that your votes don't matter in them, either.
Janitors? They are certainly more than janitors! More like plumbers... getting your data safely from point a to point b without plugging things up while passing through [process] boundary's. How much does a plumber cost? $140 / hr? Sounds about right.
Only one (the first) of the four quotes you've chosen restrict market forces in the way you are envisioning, i.e. white workers don't want black competition. I'd be interested in what the next sentence was, and wouldn't be surprised if it was "no white barber shall serve as a barber to colored women". (Aside: it seems like lots of these snippets are floating around the internet with little by way of attribution.)

The remaining three are "separate but equal". We return to the question: what about these laws required that the "separate" facilities be of lesser quality? Nothing about "separate but equal" immediately screams "discrimination", but as we know from history, it can end in discriminatory practice. The de facto ramifications of the laws were that black populations suffered (economically/educationally/etc.) at the hands of white populations: the market forces were not strong enough to encourage a lifting of the laws, or genuinely equal facilities, as Frondo suggests. Similarly, market forces may not be strong enough to encourage Airbnb hosts to serve all potential customers equally.

Your causation is backwards: people created the laws (under guise of equality) because they wanted to discriminate (and, if you want to boil everything down to some ahistorical economic gesture, it resulted in market forces tilting in their favor). To say that the laws stemmed from the economic implications is a stretch, especially post Plessy.
As was Gmail, I seem to remember.
So you suggest that we hire old people that haven't kept their skills relevant out of pity?
> Men are not usually referred to as “males”.

citation needed, i guess. perhaps it's a background thing, as i've heard and used the terms "male" and "female" more frequently than "men" and "women" in my adult life. the latter set seems marginally "less serious" to me personally, though otherwise identical.
DANE doesn't quite double down, it reduces the attack surface to your TLD, instead of all CAs. It sucks as a replacement to CAs.
However, when it comes to pinning, it is an alternative to HPKP that avoids the costs mentioned at the article, giving up power to the TLD as the price.

In any case, I wouldn't mind if the USG was one of the parties that get to vouch for my key. Many attackers don't have control over the USG. Obviously, that requires multiple other parties that also vouch for my key.

I'm also quite interested in what you think the decentralized trust model looks like. Specifically, the out-of-the-box experience.
> As in: I have never seen a successful female XYZ => I am looking for the patterns i saw in the successful (male) ones => I judge the candidate based on the patterns i saw => I created another skewed reality/example for the next person to build their value system

"I have never seen a successful female XYZ" <-- why does 'female' or gender even need to be in that sentence? That's what I can't figure out. People are purposefully inserting gender considerations where they plainly do not belong. That's what needs to stop. Because WTF does being man or woman have anything to do with computers? Assuming one knows how to talk to computers, they don't care.... why should we?
I don't think its a throwaway vote, but here's my logic.

So, multiple states are probably going to go one way or the other without much likelihood of change. I'm in ND and it will go Trump and MN will go Clinton. There are certain states that might shift (the so called battle ground states) and partial split electoral votes (ME & NE).

If you are in a battleground or split state, then they will miss your vote. If you're like me, they won't, but you really aren't voting for the win. You're voting for the next election. If a third party can get a decent percentage (like Perot in 1992), then they can get on the stage the election cycle and that will make a difference. You might actually get your better option.
and what would he use the money for :)?
If they needed water to prime the last pump on earth?
Much less time in an office or behind a keyboard and clear emphasis on tangible things and skills. Two became tree surgeons (opposite ends of the country and they don't know each other). Those two probably wreck statistical validity. :)

Of the rest two are in environmental sector that fitted their views well, one in light engineering. So it goes on. Most haven't moved to other intellectual pursuits.

If I paraphrase Feynman, only a little, I think it might nail the underlying:

"It gives somebody, individually, pleasure. You can make something that somebody likes so much that they’re depressed, or they’re happy, on account of that damn thing you made! In IT, it’s sort of general and large" and ephemeral.

He was talking about his art, but it seems to fit.
Looks to me like your run-of-the-mill malware. A rootkit is typically something that uses OS hooks to hide itself from the list of running processes for instance.
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Some type of backup is undeniably useful, but why does it have to be paper? The problem with paper vs electronic is that they're largely incompatible, requiring manual labor for interoperability. A backup system should be as drop-in as possible, so for digital systems, it should be another digital system.
Well I think the show depicted something like this before it became public knowledge. But point taken, they were inspired by similar exploits.
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I've purchased a number of Pi's across the years. In most cases they have been used for projects or given to people that have a need for them. But in full disclosure, there are three Zeros and three Pi-3's waiting for their turn on the bench. Oh and a hoard of 64Gb SD cards from a really amazing after Christmas sale.

In my lab there are five of them that do a variety of tasks from adblock, media servers, file servers (and it's sister that does the offsite backups at a friends), ham radio stuff, etc.

I'm pretty excited about the new Pi Bakery software http://www.pibakery.org/ that makes it easy peasy to spin new ones up.
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Floppies were NOT durable, and I just bought a box of 10 8GB USB sticks for under $20 - that's similar to the cost of the 1.44MB floppies we used to buy.
But the post says that the malware checks if any of those folders exists, only then writing the necessary plist. By your reasoning, one of these folders should have been created in advance by another process. So this "backdoor" is even incomplete...
On the flip side, do you really want to stay with a host who would otherwise be discriminatory towards you. I certainly wouldn't. It might be more interesting if you provided your discriminating characteristics and then you could publicly see a host's bias.
The 1992 election was most definitely altered by a third-party candidate. Without Perot, its unlikely Clinton would have been elected.
Maybe I'm missing something, but why isn't the implication going the other direction?

In my experience, the problem is that interviewers have no idea how to correctly value a candidate's performance. Maybe the candidates are closer to being well-calibrated, but their self-assessments don't match up with the interviewers' because the interviewers don't know how to gauge what they are looking for?

Making the assumption that an interviewer knows how to measure the response of a candidate, even in cases of extremely quantitative questions with well-defined answers, is highly suspect to me. I think virtually no one knows how to do that effectively.
rootkit comes from unix, it was a tool helping to restore admin privileges even after the admin found that the host was hacked (that's where the name comes from root = admin on unix). Its goal was to be invisible.

The sony rootkit was named somewhat incorrectly, because it also tried to hide itself and no other existing malware names fit it.
I remember Starbucks was doing it for their mobile app about two years ago, sacrificing security for a "better"/faster UX. It's one of those things that you think "No one would be dumb enough to do this", only to be surprised by the fact that a big player has been doing it for a while.
It's really neat. Very much needed for our analytics platform Rakam and I already started implementing it.
EDIT as promised downthread:

Oh, nevermind
Add me to the list that would like to hear more about the boat monitor and AIS systems.
Binary checksums are usually not very helpful for identifying malware. The fact that the binary they were looking at was called "unpacked" suggests that there would be packed versions out there, and they would have a different checksum.
Weird, I don't see this administrative action happening very often. Any statistics on this?
But I'm not trying to 'balance' anything out. Equality means equal regardless of gender.

So if one can have "Ask a female athlete", why not "Ask a male athlete". Your example is valid too.

This is a genuine question. How would it be unequal for males to start such a forum for anything they want?
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> Once I was representing my company at a career fair with a male engineer. He and I were standing next to each other ready to take resumes and answer questions, but all the candidates lined up in front of him. I tried writing “SOFTWARE ENGINEER” in big letters on my name tag, but even then had to continuously tell people in line “I’m an engineer and can answer your questions too!”

Having been in a few career fairs, there _is_ a tendency for females to be HR, and males to be engineers. That's kind of sad, but the only way to reverse that trend is to have more male HR reps and more female engineers, so please continue going!
Also those women might not want to diffuse their personal brand.

Eg. I imagine it to be quite hard to be primarily known for engineering work and not for "example for female in engineering"