skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't suggesting monetary ROI; rather, effectiveness at achieving whatever goal is in the department's charter to achieve, by whatever metric that goal is measured: QALYs for the surgeon general, victories for the army, average time-to-destination for the Department of Transportation, etc.

Currently, we seem to just think of the government as a machine that turns dollars into achieved consensus goals at some fixed (very low) efficiency. We never seem to say "what if we measured [metric] out per dollar in, and then tried to make that ratio increase?"
DFS == Depth First Search?
I really only skimmed this very quickly, but it seems as though they are using a RIMS system for their cavitation based approach and an infusion mash (or maybe step controlled??? I'm not familiar with the Braumeister setup and their website is ridiculously slow) for their traditional approach. RIMS is already known by homebrewers to be dramatically more efficient than most other approaches. As interesting as it looks, I'm taking this with a huge grain of malt.
>It's not obvious to everyone, that's why there is discussion/lawsuit.

It is obvious to Palantir. They are rightly recognising that talent is much more evenly spread despite attracting a disproportional number of Asian candidates at the top of the funnel. They are trying to fix a broken funnel by discriminating at the end of the process.

I don’t think anyone would think the appropriate solution is to just hire 73% people of Asian decent because that is what the funnel provided.
I know what you mean, but I disagree with "security experts". You don't need to be a security expert, just know the basics of how privileges work on your system. And if people don't, we just need to keep calling it out, because otherwise code like this ends up in production one day, where it actually matters.

Simpler bash equivalent for the record:

scp script_demo.py "$1"
ssh "$1" python script_demo.py
scp "$1":output/* ./output/
I call bullshit. Give me some numbers to back that up. I do 2-3 interviews a week and race is never a consideration. When an engineer is reviewing another engineer's code, I have never ever seen this be an issue.
CICO is incredibly helpful advice, and should be the main piece of advice given to anyone wanting to lose weight. I wish someone told me when I was starting out. Eating healthy and working out doesn't mean anything if you're not counting your calories and making sure CI < CO.

"You don't need to exercise, you don't even need to eat healthy. Eat less than your BMR and you WILL lose weight."

Your claims of a metabolism slowing down "to a crawl" if a person is hungry isn't helpful in the slightest; comments like this demoralise people. They work out, eat kale, make sure to never feel hungry lest they "slow down their metabolism to a crawl" and still aren't losing weight. "why bother?"
Well, considering the poachers' current strategy is already to kill as many animals as possible, I don't think that would be an effective move on their part. It's basically just the status quo, except now poachers are just wasting their time/ammo/money and not getting anything out of it.
Uggghhhh
I think Verner Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep describes a teleconferencing system based on avatar models combined with the receiving side's video image history of the sender. It really had nothing to do with the story, other than a technical detour about ship-to-ship communication. The novel also had a galaxy-spanning Usenet-like system that was part of the story. :)
I don't think the regulators have a case. The applicants failed the phone screens. Apparently U.S. regulators don't think Asians can fail to be qualified or that they are qualified simply for being Asian. They don't define what 'asian' even means, and they are trying to make this a "white" vs "asian" thing. Sounds like a lot of bullshit, maybe they just want to stop doing business with Palantir and need an excuse.
Yeah, given an acyclic graph print out each node's value. Passing candidates generally got it in five minutes.
Rich Code for Tiny Computers: A Simple Commodore 64 Game in C++17 [video]
> only a few congressional districts have airports

Really? I see about 450 "primary airports" in the list at

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

and there are only 435 Congressional districts. (Of course some districts have more than one primary airport.) I suspect most of these have TSA checkpoints; remember that there are much smaller airports than these, and all of these airports have scheduled commercial air carrier service! The smallest airports on this list that I've flown to, BLI, SBA, and CMI, all have TSA checkpoints.
It'll never catch on, Alta Vista has search sewn up.
They'd call that anecdotal evidence.

I don't have numbers to back up the original post, but I'm interested in seeing what he comes back with.
Federal money is a gravy train for contractors. They lobby congress to get it. The New York attack is a benefit for them, sadly.
It's not really a "patronage" job. Nobody gets their TSA gig because they know a member of Congress.
I totally agree.

This might have been the main reason for Canonical to develop - Unity & Mir, for stable development cycles.

I think Linux Desktop environments need to decouple the user applications from core desktop functionalities - window manager, themes, settings; everybody is doing their own thing.

Currently, every DE comes with its own solution for these functionalities.

1. Toolkits - GTK+, QT, EFL

2. Desktop - Gnome, KDE, XFCE, Enlightenment

3. Desktop/Systems Settings Control - Network / Disk / Display etc.

4. Applications - File Manager, Web Browser, Email Manager etc.

Gnome 2 forks brought more chaos into this argument.
Just use one of the for cores on a rpi2 locked to GPIO duty and you can run them as fast as you want...
Masters programs are run as a cash cows for many universities to be filled will anyone who can fog a mirror. As a former academic I can tell you that there are literally different marking criteria for overseas masters students than local undergraduates.
Personal bias potentially factors in the moment your evaluation of the solution goes beyond "works" or "doesn't work" and into subjective evaluation of the code quality.

Personal bias also potentially factors into how you describe it (so consider presenting it written, in the same format for everyone). E.g. let's say the interviewer goes into extra detail or ask for confirmation of understanding from candidates they favour.
Money money money moooooney... MONEY. There's nothing else that could inspire the sheer balls for an organization with such a crushing track record of failure (95% last tested, right?) to imagine that this is a good idea.
more like keep the asians accountable. everyone knows that indians/chinese are vastly more likely to go to great lengths to cheat/inflate resume
Big Lonely Doug
OCaml MOOC Starts Today
One more reason never to take public transport.
I have measured performance for my compute heavy use case.
Four cores with Neon are way higher performance.

(The Rpi1 was slower, but the BBBW is up against the Pi3, and previous ones against Pi2.)
I don't know if fake rhino horns will help. 90% of all horns on the market are already fake (either bison horns or wood carving), and demand hasn't stopped. Adding fake horns into the market just seems to legitimise it and increases the deman for the real thing. Just like diamonds, where synthetic but identical diamonds haven't stopped for real diamonds, I don't see how fake rhino horns can help.

I think what needs to be done is a massive and widespread campaign in Vietnam of education about rhino superstition and shaming of those who contribute to the extinction of the rhino.
I do not agree with the parent post, but given the laws in the United States, I would be surprised if any interviewer admitted that race [was] a consideration.
RIAA takes on stream-ripping in copyright lawsuit targeting YouTube-mp3
That's only if you use VPC networking. If you use external networking, you can deploy a networking Daemonset (Weave, Flannel, etc.) and there's no 50 node limit.
Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep features this, with some hilarity and a bit of foreshadowing.
CA?
Rich white people?

I resent that comment. There are white people that border each other that hate and kill each other. Russia and Ukraine comes to mind. The United States and Russia comes to mind as another example of two predominantly white countries.

Racism happens because people are ignorant. Has very little to do with "Rich white people" and very much with ignorance that exists in this world.

I will agree that racism seems to be especially prevelant against immigrants in this country. That's something I also attribute to ignorance.

Anyway, I don't want to get into preaching. However, I really wish you would see that your comments are just as inflammatory as the racism you are condemning. You won't solve racism with more ignorant racism.
If you have sox installed, simply

while true; do sleep 1800; play -n synth 0.15 sine 800; done
Are vector graphics a trivial problem? I can't say that they are.
You can use Route53 for just a subdomain even if your parent domain is not done through Route53, see https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/blob/master/docs/creating...
Had to scroll down pretty far to get to something about valuing the AR real estate here!

Grabbing mainstream users with integrated glasses/camera then moving up market seems like some weird but logical form of disruption.

Snapchat's flagship app has been similar -> come in the bottom and substitute for texting photos to one another -> become the primary form of social media (user generated content, consumption, time in app?) for a broad set of social media users.

Disclaimer: this coming from an avid snapchatter, hoping spectacles are a big hit.
Lycos is better
We're planning on doing an AppImage for Linux since we're using Electron Builder (https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder). Just haven't had time for it yet!
Meanwhile I accidentally left a switchblade in my bag and still managed to get through airport security twice.
Well, whether "for what purpose are we here" is useful depends on the answer to "by what means did we get here" or "what caused us to be here". If we are here merely because of chance occurrences, then of course there is no objective meaning or purpose. But if we are here because something or someone put us here, then it's a good question to ask why we were put here and for what purpose.
Next up - TSA securing entrances to your own buildings.
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I don't understand how a TSA-like organization is going to secure ground transportation. To get total safety, you'd have to secure every grade crossing, bridge, bike-path-near-the-tracks, and so on. Any idiot can be texting and stall their car at a grade crossing and kill way more people than most terrorists dream of. Happens quite often. What are some security guards looking for drugs in your luggage going to do about it?

Air travel is nice because there is basically one area that needs to be secured; once the plane is in the air, there's not much you can do to it. (Modulo 9/11!) I don't think the TSA does much (any airport employee can smuggle whatever they want into the secure area), but at least the task is theoretically possible. And, with air travel, the risks are higher; you can hijack the plane and use it as a missile. Trains run on tracks, so there is really no way the thing can take out the World Trade Center.

Anyway, this pattern of money grabs after botched terrorist attacks is depressing and distracts us from the real problems in New York City. Kids die every week walking to school because of people not driving carefully. Actual deaths. Kids. How do we react? By not filing charges, and by removing traffic calming devices because they interfere with parades. (http://gothamist.com/2016/08/29/nypd_safety_west_indian_para...) Are we going to address real problems, or are we going to waste our limited money on things that simply don't happen because the possibility scares us?
Epson WorkForce multi-function printers do not use signed firmware images
Who said anything about selling below cost?

But if you insist, there are many things sold slightly above cost for most but slightly below cost for a few, because the averages still work out and it serves to benefit the society as a whole. Insurance is one example. Maybe, again if you insist, bandwidth could be sold slightly below cost to a few, to facilitate investment in the future.
It doesn't even matter what Palantir's intentions are, the regulators argument doesn't pass the smell test. Under their standard 5 million foreign nationals could stuff the application box and US contractors would be forced to hire 95% of them, relocate them overseas, and grant them green cards simply because of their race. The government needs to decide what race ratio's they want so US businesses can pay to import those races.
Understanding the power balance
Well, by worshipping, I mean recognizing oneself as the arbiter of meaning, purpose, and morality. Essentially it means recognizing oneself as one's god.
Dunno why people think its unsexy. Shipping is a really complex problem. Its much sexier than selling ads. ;-)
It's the opposite way around. People that have cushy government jobs support members of Congress that maintain those jobs.
I've always wondered why many of the larger tech firms don't have anonymous interviewing. Wouldn't it be pretty trivial to implement?

You could just have the candidate go into a room with a computer with no internet access and type out answers to algorithmic questions. The instructions could be delivered via typed text. It would be incredibly impersonal, but it would be hard to discern personality given the industry's propensity to have trivia/algorithm questions.
There's a guy on my TV doing that right now, and he doesn't look Indian or Chinese
unconscious bias, conscious bias, outright discrimination. What a quagmire of human existence these topics drift into eh?

No secret, I'm a 51 year old black man living in America. I've been in "high tech" all my life (Commodore Pet). I've run my own company, and worked in and around others, and now reside at Microsoft. My current non-tech mission is the promotion of diversity in hiring in core tech jobs http://www.industryexplorers.com

These are complex issues in complex times. I can say one thing though, much of the current set of biases will slowly dissipate as our children get into positions of power. Ethnicity itself is starting to get very blended. My college aged daughter (who is mixed herself) has friends of all stripes. As they form companies, and hire people, they'll hire like themselves, which is to say an eclectic bunch of people.

The next frontier in bias might be economic stratus, or hair color, or which side of the egg you break open.

I think the best we can do is be as aware as possible, and simply strive to find and work with good people, while holding everyone in high esteem and with respect.
Pay attention: I said "... under the present circumstances, I cannot be an effective leader." (https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2014/04/faq-on-ceo-resignatio...).

I did not say "the staff doesn't respect me". That would have been a lie.

Why don't you comment on things that you know about directly, or even just on reliable testimony?
As in an automatic knife? If so, you might be lucky. Those aren't just forbidden on airplanes, they're illegal in many jurisdictions.
They are cash cows and can produce good results on paper at least. Also, they come from an education system which focuses on memorization, so memorizing a bunch of interview questions and answers is nothing to them.
The question is if the questions asked are really "FizzBuzz level" questions, or algorithm questions that are easy to consider of similar complexity when you know the expected algorithms.

When I studied CS, data structures and algorithms was the second CS course we were expected to take, right after "introduction to programming". It would usually be taken in the second semester.

That's the last time we were tested on a long range of algorithms, except indirectly if we happened to need a given algorithm to complete our work later. In the 22 years since, I've probably needed e.g. a depth first search once, and many of the algorithms I learned I've never touched on since.

So for many, it boils down to whether or not you cared about and liked that course. I happened to love it - I read the set texts the first weekend of the course, and spent a lot of time reading up on algorithms in the years before and after. But for a lot of my class mates it was a course they had to endure to get to more interesting stuff. Many of them would go on to do very well in other subjects.

If they can't figure out a problem like FizzBuzz given a complete description, then that's a deeper problem. But a lot of algorithm questions can sound like they are on that level because we expect people to know a catalogue of algorithms that most developers don't actually need through most of their careers.
> Any idiot can be texting and stall their car at a grade crossing and kill way more people than most terrorists dream of

how? other than the vehicle instantly exploding on impact, the only thing that's happening to the passengers is a small bump.
Thanks! I checked out urban dictionary and got the impression that perhaps you had expressed your love to your computer and it didn't return it in kind... same thing I guess.
Transit: an innovative serialization format that overcomes JSON limitations
It boggles my mind how certain countries are becoming safer day by day, yet people feel compelled to vote for pervasive surveillance and control. I think it is a mental disorder, a complete disconnect from reality, bordering on schizophrenia.
When the US decided to send men to space, lynchings were still a regular occurrence, poverty was widespread in many areas especially among minorities, etc.
People definitely use SQLite for tracking assets in the games they create. eg which resource file (bmp/snd/wav/jpg/etc) belongs to which objects, plus some string data (eg character description, stats), etc.

Saying that from seeing links to our site (sqlitebrowser.org) from game developers & users on Steam, and also people asking us questions about various database files they're trying to figure out (as an end user).

The various SQLite encryption options around seems to make a difference too, for game developers wanting a simple(-ish) way to "hide" the info from players. Embedding an encryption key isn't a fantastic approach, but it seems to be "good enough" sometimes.
I don't understand why this slide format is popular, but I believe you go down until the end of that column, then right, then down again, then right, and so on.
I remember when they wanted TSA to grope children at high school proms.
I think this story buries the lede - it is pretty clear that this is not about creating TSA checkpoints at train stations and bus depots:

"A bipartisan bill introduced Thursday by Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) would require the TSA to use a risk-based security model for these transport modes and to budget money based on those risks. It would require a wider use of the agency’s terrorist watch list by train operators and more detailed passenger manifests along with tighter screening of marine employees. The legislation also would increase the TSA’s canine use by as many as 70 dog-handler teams for surface transportation."

"Lest you begin hyperventilating, it’s virtually impossible to envision airport-style screening detectors or security queues snaked around America’s train and bus passenger depots. “This is very much not creating for bus or rail transportation the [security] model that exists for aviation,” said Frederick Hill, a spokesman for the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, which Thune chairs."
Exactly, not to mention the fact that trains can stop. Buses can stop. We have all the security in planes not because they move, but because they have to keep moving.
Derailment is a strong possibility.
N64 Emulator Glides onto Xbox One Marketplace
dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12585250
For this kind of suggestions, it's better to send an email to the mods at hn@ycombinator.com . Sometimes the mods don't see all the threads.
A Bayesian Framework for A/B Testing
Yeah, unless they happen to be driving a dump truck or something similar, there's a strong chance it won't disrupt the train.
Slowly, slowly we boil the frog.

We should be shutting down or dismantling the TSA, and yet this would increase funding and reach.
Is there any way to get support? I've been having problems trying to login or do anything since yesterday, but your support (or contact) email is bouncing...
There's a risk of derailment. Not a huge risk compared to the other things a malicious person could do to the rail network sure.
The coverage in Indian media has all been in praise of the ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation). You can check these links to get a flavour (please use adblock):

- http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pslv-launches-eight-sa...

- http://www.firstpost.com/india/isro-successfully-launches-ps...

- http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/web-edits/pslv-c35-...
It ... absolutely defies common sense that certificate resellers are a thing

I think that's the kind of thing you should expect in any market where the cost of serving a new customer is dominated by the marketing & sales costs in acquiring that customer.
I was under the impression that Austrian economics was mostly considered fringe, much like (human-caused) climate change deniers. I have no formal training in economics other than a "101" class in univ, just wondering what your background is and if you could fill me in more on it. Thanks!
BeagleBone Black Wireless SBC Taps Octavo SiP, Has “open” Design
Bullshit that doesn't help anyone but the govt and terrorists ruining society
Every country has its own problems and no one is perfect. Yes, its getting improved as people are getting educated and development of rural areas is happening
I wonder if this isn't some long lingering reverberation of the interment of Japanese Americans during WWII. Is this the influence of the institutional memory of the US government security community?

Alternatively, this could be the natural result of defensive measures against a concerted effort on the part of e.g. the Chinese government to place people inside of an organization that deals with a lot of secure data.

It's probably reasonable to assume the worst (naked racism), but you never know.
Well, yeah, but the mantissa alone on your numbers is going to get ridiculously long. That's going to take a bite out of your CPU even just for the ~1000x1000 pixels in the frame
A Teachable Moment on Race
Three times I have been in the situation where the interview candidate was not the one answering questions.

Twice we hired someone based on the phone interview and it was someone else who showed up.

The third time it was someone reading interview answers off a chat client window.

I'm mostly annoyed because it reduces the value of the phone screen and requires more face to face interviews.
They are in Canada or at least in my province they are the law states that any knife you can open with one hand is illegal.

Yet somehow a man managed to open a business in a strip mall selling just switchblade knives near a school and sold them to teenagers. He was caught and fined. Opened his store again and was caught selling them to teens again.
LMAO. I'm sorry but that's hilarious. How many years were you there?
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
Well considering Congress created TSA, it's unsurprising they're trying to feed us more of that shit sandwich.