skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have not and you're probably correct that it's not as bad as it used to be. That being said, this looks like a great case for learning new technologies/languages since the language you do know may change out from under you eventually anyway. For instance if a real type system shows up in PHP, prior experience with Haskell or Rust would allow a PHP developer to take advantage of it.

tl;dr: always be learning.
Yeah, the way the data was presented was not informative. The heat maps are interesting to look at, but don't really convey the information well - the colors are basically useless. You have to hover over everything, at which point it should be presented as a table or a better picture.

It is pretty clear from one of the plots that interviewers and interviewees grade on a different curve - the mean interviewee scores themselves lower than the mean interviewer does. But once you correct for this, it seems that people are actually pretty good judges of how well they did. I'm honestly surprised by how low the R-squared was, I wonder if they included an intercept?
Ah, the novel had missed my radar entirely until now, thank you!

Recently I've been enjoying films that cover little niches of the world, geographic or otherwise, that I know nothing about. Another good example is Premium Rush (2012). I don't know if there's a name for this genre, as on the surface the films look nothing alike, and can vary wildly in quality, but there's just something engrossing about them.
I wonder how monopolized publishing is these days. If you want to get the message out about something, how much are you at the mercy of a few distribution channels and how much do we have an open ecosystem that gives everybody equal rights? I am honestly not sure.

How important is it to be on Facebook? On Twitter? On Reddit? On HN? Indexed by Google? Have connections to the Huffington Post?

If you have something interesting to say, can those forces stop you? Or will it spread because it is interesting?

If you make great art, will it become popular just because it is great? Or does it depend on your marketing skills?

Could we have technology that makes interesting, helpful content spread no matter what?

Do we have to invent some kind of "internet voting" system to accomplish this? Can blockchain technology help with this?
Both the editor[0] and the server[1] are open source.

[0]: https://github.com/webshell/materia-designer

[1]: https://github.com/webshell/materia-server

Edit:

My bad, only the server is open source.
Those are almost certainly random mushroom chunks and not actual truffle. A lot of brands do that as a deception.
The argument that the market will fix discrimination and bigotry is refuted by history.
How do you like Austin? I've been looking for jobs there and am curious what it is like.
re: UK and Australian

Thanks, I'll followup, see what's what. I hate being wrong.

I would have bet money (or a beer) that both had universal voter registration.

Especially Australian, since I understood their voting is compulsory.
Totally get that. You've already got a great way to identify the meaningful problems - it doesn't come out of thin air, but out of your experience working with people, clients, etc...

That's the point of Step 1: Wanna know what problems a client is facing? Ask. If you don't ask, you'll never know what solution to build.

The quitting of the job can come later :)
I didn't posit an imaginary world, though. I posited an imaginary scenario, but according to the rules that actually apply in real world. The purpose of the exercise is to demonstrate that your vote does matter, even though the individual effect is really, really small.

I guess at some point it's really an ethical decision. If you don't vote, but other people do, then yes, your choice doesn't really affect things much... but you rely on those other people to vote for that. If they don't, things suddenly break down. So, is it ethical to implicitly depend upon others doing something, without doing it yourself when it's your responsibility at a particular moment?
That's a great response. Right next to some I know saying "I helped design and implement the protocols all your stuff runs on. Yeah, maybe I learned some network programming on the way."
> You can work for 5 years as a software engineer and save well over that amount.

How is number of years spent working as a software engineer a baseline for measuring wealth?
That may be true but I'm not worried about that, I worry more about getting comfortable doing useless work. If I got fired it would be so much easier to go back to school, as the dream of lots of money while learning on the side would evaporate.
Can you share your instructions for setting it up please?

I found it very unconvincing last time I tried - I had weird errors installing .net Core, weird errors setting up tools in VS code and found no definitive instructions. I expected it to work pretty much out of the box... but no.
VSCode is open source software. WebStorm isn't. I love JetBrains IDEs but I sure as hell prefer using tools that I can fix or modify myself.
In my experience:

* there were quite many who understood that engineering jobs would not be for them and who became teachers as their first job.

* another lot were those who had no interest in engineering, they only happened to end up in engineering schools because that was the place to be. Since their only goal was money, they moved to business/management before starting an engineering job. Some others started with engineering but noticed that they sucked at it or that it did not pay enough, so they moved to Technical Sales (which is a glorified name for just Sales, since they've always shown little interest and aptitude for technique beyond the buzzwords).

* then you have those who gave up after 10/15 years, fed up with the tech environment, the futility of the job, the insane hours, etc. 2 are bartenders, 1 shopkeeper, 1 sailing instructor, 1 gardener, 1 goat herder (caricatured but true), 1 musician, 1 'traveller', 2 unemployed.
I hope they never get the X-Men into the MCU, having the Mutants and the Avengers in the same universe benefits neither.
There's nothing imaginary about it. Discrimination in housing has been illegal since the 1970s.

Airbnb has found (accidentally) an unforeseen loophole in the law, where a practice that had only a marginal impact on the distribution of housing is on track to make a more significant impact. They know as well as anyone else that the law is going to catch up, unless they keep human nature from using Airbnb as a vector to re-segregate a big chunk of the housing market.
The more attention you draw on diversity, the less diversity you receive.

Yeah, they are doing it badly. But no one seems to have an actual good solution. You know the saying: Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.

You gotta start somewhere.
I feel like photo voter id reqs wouldn't be that controversial if there were a "free" (paid with taxes, obz) state-issued id that everyone had access to. You can get passports and state ids made, but they defs cost money.
You're probably right, I should have changed the headline here (I didn't write the story), but I found it so interesting and worth sharing that I totally not thought about it.
Also the link to "reverse culture shock" in the story added a reason for me to share it here (doesn't always have to be about tech, I personally enjoy non-tech stories on HN a lot, because my whole life is tech already :) )
I wish you weren't being down voted. You're asking reasonable, technical questions. Without getting into the politics of it all.
Hoppiness is partly a reaction to the variance in hops and a pride in "American beer". Cascade hops in particular are cheap, available, and have a strong and distinctive flavor; hence the popularity of IPAs on the west coast, and the presence of companies like Sierra Nevada in the hoppy vanguard.

Even as the Cascade trend has diminished, lots of people have 'reacted' by rediscovering other hop flavors and advertising things like Nobel hopped beers.

Having said that, it's all getting a bit played out (except on the west coast, perhaps) and I'm starting to see more experimentation with other stylings like wheat, fruit tones, and dark ales.
Actually, it's becoming a pretty big problem not just for kindergartens, but for K-12 teachers in general. K-12 is completely dominated by women, while colleges and universities are split between STEM (male professors) and liberal arts (female)
The compiler/interpreter will correct your syntax. Explain it once and show where the documentation is, then let kids loose. There's no need to do a worksheet with 100 "spot the syntax error" problems or to have to write it out by hand on a piece of paper to learn it. That kind of pain is only going to teach kids that programming is a boring game of "find the missing semi-colon".
It is not common sense to think that the amount of patience someone has for waiting in line on a particular day is a good heuristic for how informed they are.
Backdoor is a politically loaded term at this point. Backdoors (in privacy-related discourse) are vulnerabilities inserted intentionally by the manufacturer or government with supply-chain cooperation. The claim "Backdoor found in X's product" is roughly equivalent to the claim "Evidence found that X is a collaborator with the surveillance state" to many people, so we might want to be careful about throwing it around when we don't mean that.
Maybe you should start a Data Science & Engineering consultancy. The same people who would offer $150K to an employee often have bosses who would love to spend $500K for a person-year of (contract) work if it comes with a high probability of success.
Yes, I concluded from the title it's backdoor in OS X itself (which would be huge news), not merely a backdoor kit running on OS X (which is not really all that notable, absolutely no surprise that backdoor kits exist for OS X and this one is nothing special among them as it seems).
A very valid point, which will sadly be entirely ignored.
Thanks! I guess it's somewhat reassuring that it's hard to break into for everyone and I'm not just dumb :)
I'll keep kaggin'
Aeronaut is a great option for some new flavors. They do all-out hoppy IPAs, but if that's not your thing the other options are distinctive and tasty.
Well said, thanks for taking the time to put yourself in my shoes, and to also share with me how my comment hurts the community. I'll try harder to keep things on the up-and-up.
I think the most unconscious or perhaps completely conscious bias that I'm not sure I'm seeing mentioned with age is salary requirements and other various forms of compensation.

Older people are thought to have mortgages, families, etc. They often cost more money, and work less hours.

That's simply never thought as attractive to employers who want more work hours for less money.

Disclaimer: Not saying this is right - but I think that's a big part of it.
In May, Gregory Selden, who is African-American, filed a class-action discrimination suit against the company, saying that he had been denied a place to stay because of his race.

Well that's just ridiculous.

AirBnB is a facilitator. They don't make decisions like that. Can they encourage anti-discrimination? Sure. Is it their responsibility? No.
I love the updates the VSC team has been putting out, and I know this is related to Electron issues, but I really wish they would add High DPI support.

Without it, this weird situation exists where Microsoft's Visual Studio Code looks really blurry on Microsoft's Surface Pro, because Microsoft Software isn't using Microsoft's API.
How+to+Change+Windows+7+Product+Key
I came here to see a sophisticated backdoor. I left disappointed.
I'm already a freelancer, so I don't need to quit much, haha.

Point is, the people I work for see me as a tool. They pay me money for my time to solve the problems they identified themselves.
I want to be treated the same as everyone else.

Unless I am feeling uncomfortable, and then I want to be treated differently.
Cascade hops are super strong, and are grown out in the PNW/Colorado area, so that's a big chunk of the problem. Other hop varieties lend themselves much better to malty beers, or to darker options where the bitterness is more subtle.
I think it's totally ok to say, "Sorry if it didn't come across that way, but I'm really just interested in talking professionally." Many women have had previous bad experiences and react with that in mind. It's ok to clarify.
I just read somewhere that the only Whole Foods 365 evoo that is actually pure and unblended is their California one and not any of the other Mediterranean country ones. Super sketchy. This should be outlawed.
Perhaps a global perspective might help - from what I see in this international city the switch to wireless headphones and earplugs is well underway. I've been unwired for 2-3 years now.

AliExpress can deliver you a decent set of Bluetooth headphones for $50-$100, or earpieces for $12.
I wouldn't 100% base my acceptance of a job on an interview, but I would use it as one of many factors.

Were they on time to the interview? Did it seem like a good culture fit for me? Do they seem positive about working there? Was the interview full of poor communication? or confused looks?
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That reminds me of a joke:

Three men are talking: A programmer, a doctor, and a lawyer. The lawyer says, "Man, the only way is to have a mistress. With all these divorce suits, it's terrible. The only way is to have a mistress." The doctor says, "Are you kidding? With all the STDs out there, you want a wife and that's it." The programmer says, "You need both a wife and a mistress. Because when you're not with the mistress, she'll assume you're with your wife, and when you're not with your wife, she'll assume you're with your mistress, and THAT leaves you more time to be in the lab programming!"

(Found on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234075)
I joined the sysad.org diaspora pod and am enjoying it quite a bit.
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When I was at Code for America I redid their hiring process to optimize for interviewee experience rather than hiring manager experience.

One of the things that really struck me at the time was that traditional interview processes are built around a notion of worker surplus and job scarcity. They make very little sense when the opposite condition applies.

Even little things like contacting all applicants within 24 hours really wowed people.
Facebook removes post. The fact that other people believe this post should stay (for whatever reason) is immaterial. It's not their site.

Water is wet, news at 11.
o.0 Did you click the link? It goes to right when he starts explaining Earpods switching to lightning, with "digital audio" written in the slide, and reiterating "digital audio" multiple times.
> A company's bad interview process might have nothing at all to do with the rest of the company.

Everyone who works at a company, got there by passing through the] interview filter. A bad interview process has everything to do with the company, particularly in organizations that have grown a lot in the recent past.
> I disagree. Diversity is about hiring people based purely on merit, rather than letting prejudices about gender/age/race taint the hiring process.

What if that means you end up mostly with white males due to women and minorities being drastically underrepresented in the total tech employee pool?

Diversity is great until you hit the statistics wall.
I've got coworkers who have confided in me that they are felons: usually DUI / reckless driving of some sort but yeah, that sort of crap stays with you for life.

So I can understand how hard it is to find a job once you get a criminal record, even something "minor", but there's a lot more to life than that.

Failing to get a college degree because "I'm a bad fit for the current education system" is a weak-ass excuse. Anybody can get a degree if they work at it. I know dumbasses who work their ass off in college to pass tests. No, it isn't always easy, but work and practice to get that piece of paper really does make a difference.

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I do think that we as a country can do better to "forgive" those with a criminal record, or otherwise stereotype them less. But being unable to complete a degree (despite having the money and resources to actually go to college) with a weaksauce excuse is... kind of bad.
Seriously? It's theoretically impossible with a such small camera. When you shoot a portrait of someone at 1.5 meters from the camera, is the background blurred (if the background is let's say 4 meters behind the subject)?
I have covered this before:

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2014/01/oh-my-god-it...

So I assume you don't actually know me. Because, no, that isn't my position.
Love vs code for Go. I dropped sublime immediately.
It does matter if you're aware of the cost:benefit ratio involved in adopting it relative to the existing tech, or even more commonly, the cost:benefit ratio involved in adopting it relative to adapting or modifying existing tech. Maybe as an employee, it might not be the right thing to be pushing with an employer enamored of the new tech, but as an objective onlooker, it very well may be.

There's plenty of amazing innovation happening all the time, so I don't want to come across as a luddite or whatever, but hype does happen, and as you get older, you witness more of it and become more skeptical of it. You see the fads come and go--the faster they come, the faster they go--and the survivor bias. The problem is that it's there, and it feels sometimes like you face the choice of correctly pointing that out, or being labeled a cynic.
And I'm looking to learn how write a Windows editor in C...
Was looking for quick backend set up too.
And the fact is open source is great!

But what will be paying and when do we pay?
Excerpt from http://www.dagsavisen.no/verden/the-girl-in-the-picture-sadd...

“Kim is saddened by those who would focus on the nudity in the historic picture rather than the powerful message it conveys”, writes spokesperson Anne Bayin to Dagsavisen.

Kim Phuc says that it has been painful to see the picture, but that it represents an important moment in history.

“She fully supports the documentary image taken by Nick Ut as a moment of truth that captures the horror of war and its effects on innocent victims”, writes the Kim Phuc Foundation in a statement.
>Most of the issues, like crumbling infrastructure, would be better spent not by advocating for effective spending, but rather privatization

I think the hundreds of billions of tax dollars we've spent on privatizing the expansion of internet hardware/fiber is a iron-clad evidence to this being flat out wrong. It's been a complete and total failure with no accountability.

> letting people vote online on which firm to contract out to various public works

This is getting into an entirely different argument about direct democracy. How about just having an election and voting system that is better for voters and the public will, and actually being able to elect officials who are willing to implement a fair and balanced bidding system for government contracts?

Your next door neighbor Jim who listens to Rush Limbaugh 2 hours a day and watches mainstream news outlets another 2 hours every evening and makes his voting decisions based off television commercials is not the person I want selecting a government contractor. It will become a marketing contest and needlessly increase the cost to tax payers as a result.
> This is one of the primary gripes that I have with UBI. You've just described means testing!

There's no way to avoid means testing - the money has to come from somewhere, and this inherently means that some people pay more money into the system than they receive from it.

The point of UBI is to make this whole setup as transparent and low-overhead as possible.

The nice thing about it is that, in theory, because the redistribution is basically regulated by just two knobs (size of the UBI check, and how progressive the taxes are), adjusting them is politically easy, and adjustment range is pretty much unlimited. I'm hopeful that it would result in fewer situations like the ongoing ACA "debate", where right wing just wants to sink it altogether and replace it with something else entirely, because they can't get where they want by tuning it. If we can get this to work, UBI would always be there, but more left-leaning or more right-leaning governments would simply adjust the knobs more or less gradually depending on how much "freeloading" they're okay with.

And smooth adjustments are easier to adapt to, and cause less social upheaval (think of the shock to the society and the economy if Republicans somehow manage to repeal ACA, say, tomorrow...)
someone with liquid assets. I'll get my coat...
PC-BSD
Amazon.com has HSTS, you can't access it from HTTP.

If your website uses sessions at all, you need to use HTTPS just to protect from session hijacking. On every page. Better yet, mark that cookie as secure-only.
Or just pay MTurk workers to annotate texts with intonation cues.

I kinda doubt that would be profitable relative to just hiring readers, but in general you don't need to replace workers completely to cannibalize some of their wages/jobs.
Instantly awkward.
Are you making a point about AirBnB specifically or the U.S. generally? In case of the former, I can't tell which party (the renter or the tenant) is supposed to be in the position of relative power.
> "That and a little bit of wanting to support the underdog, and compete with the perceived front-runner."

Dude, I get it, I really do, and if that's what you want to spend your free time on you should feel good about aiming to do the right thing.

However, I can't help but feel we're missing out the 800-pound gorilla in the corner of the room.

If you want to compete with the perceived front runner, there's only one office suite that is fit to have that title, and it's name is not LibreOffice. You know exactly what I'm talking about.

The gap between the real front runner and the open source alternatives is pretty sizeable. If you're serious about wanting to compete with the perceived front runner, why not look at a AOO/LO merger? Are the project governance approaches really that different? Are the goals really that different? Why not accelerate the growth of open-source office suites rather than having two projects competing for developers? The OpenOffice name still has value, perhaps the ASF approach to project governance will be preferred too, why not bring everyone in under the same banner?

The whole situation reminds me of the Amiga vs Atari wars of the late 80s/early 90s, competing over the same home computing niche whilst the PC slowly ate their lunch. Please don't let history repeat itself. Look beyond the open source world, your main competitor does not live within it.
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Is it possible to use the "deep dream" methods with a network trained for audio such as this? I wonder what that would sound like, e.g., beginning with a speech signal and enhancing with a network trained for music or vice versa.
try both of them. beside some coloring, rest are bad. So I just return to rubymine :)

I do also some python and js, is quite amazing :)
The first half of your comment is basically where I was going when I said "[My vote] increases turnout, which probably increases confidence in our democracy." I probably should have rephrased that.

I actually agree that I should vote, and this is the primary reason why. But I'm more caught up on how I should vote.