skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"more than half of Chrome desktop page loads now served over HTTPS"

This makes me happy to read.
This sounds a lot like the zero-day exploit used in the show Mr.Robot. Life imitating art.
Also, they're attacking whites only here. What if blacks wanted a black person. Or a Chinese person who only speaks Chinese and writes only in Mandarin wants the same. The left will give these people exceptions for "cutlural" reasons. They just want to regulate race and commerce on their unquestionable terms. This has nothing to do with equality. Its just a power-grab by political opportunists and misguided idealists. The same way you have campus "safe spaces" where men aren't allowed or affirmative action quotas.
Probably, but I was in over my head and the team evaporated within months. With hindsight I would have done many things differently, and my approach to interviewing that person is just one of many.
So when you talk about women in computing industry, you advice them to get a good professional headshot?
What is your point. The job market is not meant to cater to people's specific changes in work/life preferences.

This is almost analogous to complaining about construction being ageist against older people who don't keep in shape. Yeah guess what, you need to in order to do the work.
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Great point. It's easy for me to get caught in the engineer's perspective.
"Michael Peredo, a 55-year-old auto engineer dismissed from Mercedes-Benz in February 2015, says he had trouble giving up his bow ties for T-shirts, as some he met at ProMatch suggested. ‘I feel like myself wearing them,’ he says."

Yeah, you're going to have a really hard time getting a programming job in Silicon Valley if you show up in looking like a security guard in a tie, let alone looking like a waiter in a bowtie. It's the same story as showing up for an interview for an enterprise sales job in ripped jeans and a T-shirt — it undermines your credibility. It shouldn't — our meritocratic hacker values place no value on surface appearances, and we fail them when we are influenced by what people are wearing or their gender or skin color or age — but it absolutely does. Raymond Chen can get away with wearing a suit and tie all the time, but you probably can't.

The good news is that Peredo got a job immediately when he stopped wearing the bowtie to interviews. It's not gonna be as easy if you're black.
What's the evidence for the gluten-free lifestyle?
You're actually making 180k equivalent because you don't have time to spend the money.
because you can't check the keys to attempt to detect an MITM replacing the binary before you execute it. Often, the shell script then downloads additional binaries, which are installed and executed immediately, making it even harder to check.
That was released earlier this year. Nothing new there.
The Digital Nomad movement has a hidden dark side
Stop burning calories. A break from code for other science stuff
Is it me or he's using the doc strings incorrectly?
Is the potshot on jQuery and PHP really necessary? I know enough people where I live making six figures (low COL city) with PHP, SQL and jQuery that I don't think they're ready to sunset.
Would delete this post if I could. Was a request to fix a broken link. Now fixed.
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Why tonight’s launch of an asymmetric rocket is must-see TV
What would Cory do without Apple to hate on? I worry about the guy.

Nobody's forcing you to buy an iPhone 7. Nobody's taking away all your analog ports. It's like the NRA here getting all up in arms because someone had the audacity to declare a gun free zone in a school which impinges on their freedoms.

Seriously, get a grip Cory. You're free to criticize Apple's decisions but don't make it out like Apple's destroying the world.

It's never been easier to make your own phone. If Cory and the EFF were really interested in changing the world they'd go and make an open-source, open-hardware smart phone so they had something to point to when people are feeling cheated by companies like Apple.
I can think of one way AirBNB could attempt to persuade hosts: publish data showing that there is no correlation between any of [race, religion, national origin, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age] and the likelihood of a guest being a poor guest (ending in an insurance claim, or maybe just a very bad review).

If the data shows that there is no correlation, they can prove hosts have no reason to let their prejudices get in the way of making more money hosting more people.

If data does show a correlation, don't hosts have good reason to discriminate, just as insurers do (against say, age)?
You can enter whatever address you want but it is kind of erie to do it with your home address.
How active should men be in actually helping to solve the gender diversity problem vs sitting on the sidelines and sharing the work of women who are solving the problem?

I've been working on an initiative to encourage more of my male peers to do more to make their organisations more diverse and was recently criticised by a female software engineer who told me that I shouldn't "come into a feminist space" where "women are already organising, telling stories and advocating for themselves".

All views appreciated!
... and the medical field, and the law field, and the engineering field. Basically if you want to get premium dollars when trading your skills, you have to have premium skills.
Experience, architecture/design knowledge, and CS fundamentals are a lot harder to learn than the latest flavor of the month library.
But the warranty does cover the screen just exploding out of nowhere. The key difference is with a screen there has to be trauma to exclude it from warranty. With water, even laying it super-gently under one inch for thirty seconds is not covered, when it's supposed to be safe for thirty minutes at five feet.

Car crash standards are okay, because the car always crumples, and they don't make promises like "you can crash a car at up to X pressure and the crash will not penetrate and cause damage". If a company was parading third-party lab results showing an immunity to 10mph collisions vs. walls, their warranty has no place excluding 5mph collisions vs. walls.
A good company will hire people who are not just skilled, but are assets to the work environment. If a company believes after-hours beer pong adds significantly to the happiness and productivity of their employees, whatever. Good for them. I don't think it's unfair of them to not hire somebody who works a strict 9-5, nor do I think that makes the whole industry "shit".

Honestly -- more people work in the 9-5 environment than the Sillicon-Valley brouhaha. You just hear about the brouhaha more because it's a much sexier thing to market.
Cannot parse: "it is olive oil mixed with 2,4-dithiapentane, a compound that makes up part of the smell of truffles and is as associated with a laboratory as Californian food is associated with local and organic ingredients."

Synthetic 2,4-dithiapentane is associated with some laboratory somewhere, whereas "Californian food", whatever that is, isn't necessarily "local and organic". It's not local if I'm enjoying it in New York rather than in California, and it's not organic if it didn't come from an organic farm.
Everyone makes that claim.

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3309
Just as an example, out of many reasons:

https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-b...
I think most younger crowd associates wanting to spend time with family == not motivated to work. See this comment[1] for example( I've been guilty of this myself ).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12418289
Which ITT certificates are difficult to find at other schools?

(Like community colleges and so on)
A curated list of resources dedicated to recurrent neural networks
As long as we're wishing for changes in balloting, why not go whole hog and rank all the candidates in order of preference, including normalization entries for "Nobody (keep office vacant)", "Zero (I approve of everyone above this line, and no one below it)", and "Indifference (everyone below this line is ranked equally)"?

So I can vote {Nobody, Indifference, Zero, X, Y} if I think the office itself should be abolished. I can vote {Nobody, Zero, Indifference, X, Y} to say the office is stupid and that both the candidates for it suck. I can vote {Zero, Nobody, Indifference, X, Y} if I just don't like this crop of candidates. I can vote {Zero, X, Y, Nobody, Indifference} if I think X is the lesser of two evils, but either would be better than nothing. I can vote {X, Zero, Nobody, Y, Indifference} if I think X would be fine, but Y a bigger disaster than leaving the office empty. I can vote {Indifference, Nobody, X, Y, Zero} to say I don't care about this race at all.

If the default vote configuration starts at the "don't care" ordering, voters can drag the other entries up above the indifference line to indicate what they really care about.

...and then the politicians can more easily discern the will of the people that they can subsequently ignore completely, as usual.~
It's not possible to live cheaply in Manhattan.
Cisco copied Slack called it Spark
The Android phones that cost the same amount as an iPhone usually have superior hardware - higher quality components within them.
Nice for relatively low-security systems you want to share. Also, the Mr. Robot reference is adorable. But I wouldn't trust Darlene if I was Elliot. Even after [REDACTED].
It's not that they don't want to learn - they can and do.

When you end up with more commitments and some kids home isn't quite as conducive for learning, and spare time is often a distant memory.

I concede there is a (often reasonable in my view) reluctance to rush to learn the 249th new framework that is the future. Especially when it does all the same things as the 134th just with utterly different semantics and libraries. It'll be dead in 4 months and the 250th will be the new hotness.
Their OS has no DRM. Microsoft's is loaded down with license codes and activation rituals. Watch who you're blaming about loving DRM.
Seek help.
Excuse me, your code is bleeding
TL;DR TL;DR TL;DR We're doomed. Time to abandon ship.
As an host, I'll never discriminate on the basis of religion, sex orientation, color of skin, national origin or gender identity.

When it comes to disability, I might refuse someone whose disability would cause risk in using the apartment and might have an accident because the apartment is not safe for someone who's disabled (the building is 300 years old, there's no elevator, the stair in the duplex apartment doesn't have handrails)... It's a risk if the person then has an accident...

Similarly in term of age, I would not rent to couples with young children because it's too risky.

So, it's discrimination but it's mostly because this is not an hotel, it's an apartment in which I live part of the year and it's not adapted for disabled people or couples with young children because I'm not in those categories.

That said, as someone whose wife is asian, I fully understand the problem. It's annoying and painful when people discriminate based on race.

In our case, we show both my face and wife face on our Airbnb profile photo because we prefer to have a host refuse on the basis of wife's nationality than to give money or stay at the house of a racist host. I've had a bad experience before that with a host who was nice to me when I met him and then wasn't as nice 5 minutes later once my wife arrived... The fact that he earned money from our stay galls me...
Is 'backdoor' the correct term if the vulnerability does not originate from Apple?
Yes, this. And even worse, "I recognize that 'bleeding edge tech' as yet another rehash of something innovated in the 60s or 70s and therefore I'm not nearly as impressed as you by it."
The long-term solution to this, of course, is the Alternative Vote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE
In my experience older devs really fall into two categories with a pretty sharp division between them.

One group has continued to learn and keep up with their skills. These developers are extremely skilled and experienced and can in many cases be far more productive than younger developers with more shallow knowledge. What they lack in appetite for workaholism they make up for in ability to do more with less work and avoid fads and dead ends. They also tend to have a deep conceptual understanding of the entire stack all the way down to the metal, which younger developers often lack unless they're the super-prodigy type.

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. When coupled with higher salary demands and less time flexibility, this latter group really are at a huge disadvantage vs. younger developers in the labor market.

Here's the trouble and the source of a lot of the age bias IMHO.

The first group are seasoned black belts and are exactly the kind of devs you want if you are doing seriously deep ground-breaking stuff or if you want quality. In other words if you are really innovating. Ideally you'd probably want a mix of really experienced devs with a lifetime of experience and younger devs that might bring some new perspective, but you'd certainly want at least some of the former on the team to keep the latter from chasing fads and implementing badly thought out junk.

Problem is that most work isn't this. Most work is CRUD-slinging and prototyping and cobbling ready-made modules and services together. That kind of work does not require the deep experience or skill set of the first group.

In other words: seasoned "black belt" developers are over-qualified for most mainstream programming work.

Now throw in the fact that your over-35 developer wants a higher salary, likely has kids and actually wants to see them, etc.

It just makes sense for a lot of shops to recruit cheaper younger developers right out of school who have a lot of time on their hands and who know how to do standard types of work with the latest tools vs. older more expensive developers who know everything and can implement exotic algorithms and close to the metal stuff you probably don't need.
Every time this comes up someone writes a comment like yours. It's good that we have these discussions.

A major problem in North America is one of ISPs and Hotels injecting ads into HTTP requests.
Yes, I see what you mean. But surely, just adding Programming to the curriculum of businessmen, who I'm sure are quite intelligent or else they should be considering other occupations, does not equate to a person having to learn Another Occupation. Or do you think programmers, good ones, just know Programming?
> Felonies are reserved for very serious crimes.

This is true only in the tautological sense, in which designation of something as "felony" is held to designate it as a "very serious" crime.

Beyond that, no. In fact, this is expressly recognized many places in law, such as California's three-strikes law, where a "strike" is a "violent or serious" felony.
So 4 years to go. Not quite Perl 6 but it could be a bit late in the day considering the rate at which Ruby is losing mindshare.
Flying Around the World in a Solar Powered Plane
5 ways being a personal trainer has helped me as a software developer
I'm over 40 and haven't experienced any problems. I don't know if I'm lucky, good, both, or just average and only the outliers are the ones having difficulty.
I am so confused as to why this is a separate product from https://www.vote.org/.

Voteplz.org even instills less confidence—sounds like a single-serving website, glad they're communicating these ideas, but its conflict with the YC-funded project makes me believe both are more likely to fail because of split mindshare.
On the contrary, that's why so many are made.
Ouch man.... not all craft beer software is BS CRUD apps overbuilt on react.js by 22 year old hipsters deploying single function "micro-services" each in their own docker container...

Brewing beer is a form of manufacturing, and most manufacturing can be made better or more efficient though targeted software.

[0] commenting because I don't want "craft beer software" to become a joke. Some of us actually work in that industry.
If you vote for Candidate B just so that Candidate A doesn't get into office does that make me culpable for all of the bad things that Candidate B does in office?

Do I "lose my right" to complain about Candidate B's bad choices in the same way that it's claimed I lose my right to complain about Candidate A being a sociopath when they get elected if I don't "vote against" them?
I was reading a blog post by Dr Jason Fung that compared LCHF with IF. Conclusion was that LCHF is around 70% as effective as IF on insulin levels. You are still maintaining a low insulin level even on eating day, with a significant drop on fasting days. This should, by logic, have greater impact on insulin sensitivity due to long periods of low insulin levels.

His whole blog is quite interesting. His book, The Obesity Code, is a great and easy read.

https://intensivedietarymanagement.com/power-comparison-fast...
Contextualized and inline comments on a collaborative music score
Optimizing with persistent data structures [pdf]
With respect to (1), the cases I had in mind as "obviously invalid" is something that doesn't contain all of the required components of an email address. For example, if the user submits their email as "foo" or "foo@bar" or "foo@bar." I should have provided examples as the way I wrote it was definitely ambiguous.
That product is dead: https://www.resolversystems.com/
I wish. Can I get stock options for being optimistic?
This unfortunate obsession with new and shiny in the Valley is why we have to learn lessons like the benefits of relational databases over and over. Most of the new stuff isn't improved, it is simply different.
I get your point but that's not the best way to make it.
Data engineers are the janitors who keep your data clean and flowing.

In a boldface font, no less. The cockiness behind that language is really quite astounding.
> Its about removing the jack to make the phone slimmer or more aesthetic or more waterproof.

Other manufacturers seem to be able to achieve these ends without removing the headphone jack.
Or, maybe if we collectively push for a culture where employers who expect you to learn new technology pay you to learn said new technology, staying up to date won't feel so awfully one-sided.
My official title is "Data Scientist" although I'm closer to the "ML Engineer" someone else mentions in a child comment.

Frankly speaking, if your company doesn't need a data engineer, it won't hire one or move you into that role. They likely don't, either, if you're experiencing this pushback -- data engineers often develop ETL pipelines or data warehouses, both of which are very useful if your company has a data team and very useless if it does not.

That said, you may want to move closer to my role. There's actually a shortage of data-savvy people who can also write production software, and you would nicely complement a more research-inclined data scientist or analyst -- someone with far more experience with research/analysis than development.
Classic ASP with JScript always reminds me of node. How things cycle back around...
> but my experience has been that the majority of people I've spoken with simply do not care to understand the impact that one candidate being elected over another may have on their lives

Here's the impact. If you vote for my team everything will be super cool and awesome. Vote for the other team and democracy dies and the terrorists win.

This has been the political narrative since the beginning of time.

I'll go ahead and argue the unpopular opinion. The more dismissive the population is of politics the more empowered they are to take direct action and have a real impact of their livelihood.

Instead of binging on mainstream news for a hours a night, you could be broadening your horizons in terms of fitness, education and building on personal relationships.

In my experience people who are nuanced in mainstream national politics are divisive and generally unpleasant to be around because they think they know what's best for you. There's a reason it's socially unacceptable to bring up politics (and religion). It's polarizing and devoid of objectivity.
Even if he contributed, I think it's likely that InfluxDB helped they contributor more than he helped InfluxDB.
This argument comes up all the time on HN, but I don't think it means anything. It seems to me that the ability to fill an opening by offering more salary can't disprove a talent shortage, because it is always possible to do so.

Thought experiment: If 100 companies had openings for a skill set that only one person could deliver, all 100 companies could eventually fill their openings by sequentially outbidding each other for the services of that one person.

So how would we know if a talent shortage really exists for a certain job? I can think of a couple potential hints: if starting salaries are going up much faster than the national average, or if the unemployment rate for that job is much lower than the national unemployment rate. Either would seem to indicate that, relative to the job market as a whole, there was a greater demand than supply for that particular job.
Beware of biases in machine learning: One CTO explains why it happens
Duck sauce is a sauce you put on duck. Is truffle oil an oil you are supposed to put on truffles?
Backdoors can be installed after the fact. The vendor putting in a back door is only one way for it to be present.

This would be malware inserting a back door for further exploitation.
The big advantage that console gaming has over PC gaming is that I don't have to sit there and consciously think about system requirements. I can just put a disc in a slot, relax, and play my game at the end of the day 99.99% of the time with no major issues.

If I now have to try and decipher the difference between a bunch of different subtle variants of consoles, it starts to become complicated and stressful and less fun. It's certainly also more expensive to buy a console and then buy a subtle different version of it a few years later.

This seems like a very fine line for console makers to walk without alienating the mass market.
They tracked everyone, and measured success by the percentage that earned a PhD. So, while Mark and Lady GaGa were tracked, I don't think I saw any statistic that would have associated these two individuals with a positive outcome (except for the anecdotal line in the paper). I would argue that both Mark and Lady Gaga have probably had more influence than 99.9% of the tracked individuals in the study, and yet they are lowering the presented metric for success (percent that earned a PhD).
The utility of the audio port as a data jack is so minuscule compared to the impact and backlash of removing the 3.5mm port that I don’t think it is much of a factor at all.
Interestingly, the next-order analysis of the problem you're discussing is called "intersectionality"; i.e. what are the systemic implications of being >40 and female? Given the relative demographic sizes, one can argue for or against attacking one or another problem (ageism or sexism) first, given the expected improvement to the population at large (essentially, the utilitarian argument).

As much as techie types like to deride and dismiss sociological analytical techniques as being pseudoscience, there is a lot to be learned from them when attempting to intelligently discuss the (our) job market.
We're living in the SF movies of 50 years ago.