skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't.

If their employee racial ratios matched the US population, then they will get bashed like this.

If their employee racial ratios match the 'qualified candidate pool', then they'll get bashed for not hiring enough women and black people.

We haven't as a society agreed on the right way to deal with race, but there's certainly plenty of loud and angry people supporting their own points of view...
"But aren't we all? Sometimes I think yes, sometimes I think no."

Egads. Her article titles were truly horrendous. Like a flapper-era Buzzfeed (only seemingly with less actual journalism). It says she was a fan of Mencken; I wonder if Mencken was a fan of her?

Anyway, she seems kinda awesome as a person, but I don't get the impression I'd want to read her work.
>Desktop support

Chrome Web Browser support.
Interesting. So if I understood correctly, you dynamically analyze the build process (and that's why you use that term) instead of just parsing the build file, because you don't know exactly how the dependencies are going to be resolved from the package manager during the build process. How do you verify that a specific version of a library is used during the build and not some other version (you just do a hash lookup or have a way to generate signatures with small false positives) ? Also, what happens if the package manager is compromised (for example it informs you that she used version 2.0 but instead she used a vulnerable version) ? For the call graphs, do you find the relationships between each procedure for the whole project and if so, isn't that literally static analysis ? Sorry if my questions don't make sense or are trivial, I am just looking it from a research perspective, because I am working on somehow similar things.
I believe that doing this for procedural generated games along the lines of No Man's Sky is the true future of where we can go for randomly generated worlds. Since a lot of planetary formation patterns we observe here on earth follow fractal-esque patterns, this would be a great application for a powerful generator like this one.
Yeah, those damn Chinese and their idiot culture, not like us Americans with our highly refined sensibilities...

If you're interested in education, rather than having the Great White Hopes do it, perhaps you would consider that there are people there already fighting this fight, and that countries have their own reformers and don't need an injection of Western wisdom.

http://www.upworthy.com/thanks-to-yao-ming-killing-sharks-fo...
Morality aside, not every animal in the world can be bred and used for sport hunting. In fact, very few animals can even be domesticated, and the ones that are common now are in that exclusive club of those that are useful and can be domesticated.

People have tried for centuries to domesticate elephants and have failed. The best we can do now is train them.

Killing elephants for a small amount of ivory is extremely wasteful. If you could bio-engineer some kind of ivory-growing organism, or make some already domesticated animal grow ivory horns (e.g. cows, goats) then you might be able to boost supply to a degree that's meaningful.
Congress lies to us (the citizens) and expects us to do the same. Medical costs would skyrocket as our elderly oligarchy started having heart attacks caused by even mild truth-telling.

I might edit this comment later so that it properly represents my cynicism ... Right now I'm prepping for presidential debate watching by having a good pre-cry.
https://www.google.com/search?q=As+for+the+backdoor+in+Orang... (honestly, if it were invisible I wouldn't care. it's just sloppy. I also think all governments should collude and there should be like world peace ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - meanwhile they should fear for their people, and have to nominally follow constitutions. I guess I can keep dreaming though.)
I'm not talking about shooting captive elephants in zoos, but having legalized hunting in massive game reserves big enough for these animals to range in.

E.g. this Radiolab episode interviews a guy who paid to hunt a black rhino, it goes into how populations of wild animals have been boosted in certain parts of Africa by massive game reserves that are run for-profit for hunting purposes: http://www.radiolab.org/story/rhino-hunter/
I'm not an evolutionary biologist, but this article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_game_theory) mentions Hamilton's rule: A given altristic gene will propogate if "the genetic relatedness of the altruistic donor exceeds the cost-benefit ratio of the altruistic act itself". Is this not widely agreed upon?
i always lament these fractal visualations lack a real time coordinate system

even just bounds at the edges of the visualised space would help to illustrate the phenomenon.. also, the utilised color key would further illuminate
Has anyone tried shocking themselves? I feel like this pomodoro idea is ripe for creative disruption.
The same complaint is the basis of sexism in the tech industry. I haven't seen many resumes from women cross my desk. So it's not that I'M being sexist, but clearly there's a problem somewhere. And it could be the way I'm soliciting those resumes in the first place.
Bart usage would go down, not up. People use Bart because they live far away and need to commute into the city.

If there are X number of jobs in the city, and less than X apartments, people need to commute.

By building houses next to jobs, transportation usage goes massively down.
I don't think you recognize how big an area you have to patrol and how many threats you have to protect against.

Africa is huge and the area that elephant herds wander over is perhaps as large as continental USA. It's that big.

I doubt your approach would work in some place as contained as Texas. It might work in a place like Hawaii, if, say, raptor poaching at the local dinosaur exhibit was a problem.
Due to all the anti-poaching laws, it's probably illegal to own elephants at this point. Assuming someone is willing to farm these creatures, they need to have some seed stock in order to start breeding (even if it is on a large game-farm). Good lucky trying to get any government to sell you some elephants that you will be trying to breed.

Then again, you get yet another side that thinks it's perfectly OK to destroy the existing supply of confiscated goods. I.e. Burning large amounts of ivory, just because. Have a look here:

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/30/africa/kenya-ivory-burn/

They burned 105 tons of ivory in one day.
Check the kernels available too - often these pi-like boards only have 3.x version Android kernels available.
I believe "Texan Version" should be "Tax Inversion" :)
This is the time to whip out those executive decrees.
The largest line-item is likely IP licensing or co-development fees. The US entity will pay large licensing fees to foreign entities for the right to sell EpiPens in the US. Despite being located elsewhere, the foreign entity will own these rights. As pointed out elsewhere, these "earnings stripping" techniques can substantially reduce the income of the domestic affiliate. It has to maintain "routine returns" for its contributions, but this is nothing compared to the IP profits that flow elsewhere. There are laws explicitly blessing these sort of arrangements (IRC § 482), but the IRS and corporate taxpayers argue endlessly about precisely how much value should flow where.
The problem is that Chinese use Ivory figures as traditional gifts, and they will not ban them, just in the same way the Spanish won't ban bullfighting. This increases the cost of ivory, which places a high reward for elephant tusks, which translates into their death sentence.

Likewise high end pianos, billiard balls, and such, make use of ivory.

According to surveys, the majority Chinese believe that elephant tusks grow back in the same way nails do, and they do not know that elephants need to be killed in the process.

At least there are studies to make use of synthetic ivory. Now, the use of ivory itself doesn't respond to any actual need other than a cultural one. Many materials that are cheaper can replace ivory in most use cases.
It's my way of protesting the lack of a gender-neutral way of referring to a group of Senators and Representatives.
Also don't forget about minikube, which allows you to play around with a kubernetes cluster locally. You should really be working with this before even attempting to setup a cluster in the cloud.
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> In one example cited in the lawsuit, the Labor Department says Palantir hired 14 non-Asian applicants and 11 Asian applicants from a pool of more than 1,160 qualified people, 85% of whom were Asian. The likelihood of that happening from chance is one in 3.4 million, according to the lawsuit.

Wow. What position were they applying for? I wonder how their application and selection process works.
I made a pomodoro app for Linux based on taskwarrior. I have been using it for a while with free sync online ...
https://github.com/liloman/pomodoroTasks
What's your take on the Comodo trademark claim on Let's Encrypt, and all the BS that ensued?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11964583

I personally immediately replaced all of my and my company's comodo certificates with DigiCert ones.
This video is a great introduction to convolutions and pooling.

The other best resource, IMHO, is http://karpathy.github.io/neuralnets/.
1) Sure, it never hurts to ask for a raise. The range would depend on a bunch of factors, such as your location. Try looking up the salary of your position online, such as "technical manager salary" or "engineering manager salary" or something like that.

2) Assuming you will be managing individual contributors (and not managers), there are two basic types of first-line software managers:

2.1) Managers who need to still be individual contributors. These are the types where you will still be expected to do some of the former work you did before. It's a lot like being a technical lead, except you are suddenly now thrust into a world of people management. Most technology companies view first-line managers as having this kind of a responsibility, though larger corporations with more established hierarchies may not.

2.2) Managers who are not expected to be individual contributors anymore. This is a role where your responsibilities are managing the projects and people on your team. (If your company has project managers, then that aspect of the role won't be necessary.) In terms of people management, the responsibilities include managing the career growth of the individual contributors in your team, removing roadblocks from their paths (i.e. political, bureaucratic, etc), potentially moving them around from project to project to better allocate your resources to company priorities, recruit and retain people on your team, mentor and train junior employees, set and reinforce a team culture, and think strategically about how to make your entire team more productive.

3) If your company offers management training, take it. If you like to read, there are a ton of great management books out there. One of my personal favs is "Now, Discover Your Strengths", though you can find plenty of recommendations online if you search around. Talk to managers, senior managers, directors, and VPs that you admire; interview them and ask them how they do their jobs. HR or your manager will likely give you a bunch of information on how to do performance reviews for your team. The art of delivering constructive feedback can totally be learned, though if you are new to it, it may take some time to become comfortable doing it.

This is all just off the top of my head. I'm sure I'm missing a lot of other info, but this ought to be a good start.

Being a manager is not for everyone. Some call it "herding cats," which it may sometimes feel like. But it can also be a tremendously rewarding role, especially when you can set everyone up for success and can see them humming along efficiently and effectively.

Good luck!
I have had a similar problem - interviewed dozens of people with exactly that pattern and they were universally clueless. No idea how seemingly-good Masters programs bring in so many people with zero basic CS knowledge.
> How much work would be required ...

Can't speak to his NIC emulation (unless he borrowed it from jor1k), but otherwise it'd take roughly a flight from PDX to CHS for the NIC, plus another 2-3 hours for a dead simple virtual switch, plus a few days of watching the switch crash in various odd ways while HN, Reddit, and Slashdot beat it up.

Edit:
If anyone is keen to experiment around with v86, jor1k, or a similar project and you want plug-n-play network support, I maintain the websocket proxy used by jor1k (and probably used by v86 in some demo or another). As far as I'm concerned, please no commercial use (I've made it stupid easy to host your own for that), but otherwise as long as you're not doing stupid things with it that will cause me to lose my hosting account, go nuts! To use it just start sending/reading ethernet frames to/from wss://relay.widgetry.org/.

Also if you do use it, please flick me a message (e-mail is in my profile) to let me know what you're doing with it and how you're getting on.
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This might be news to you but it's pretty much an open secret that most of those ranges are barely distinguishable from poaching. They work hard to justify their kills, like they'll claim an animal needs to be put down anyway, or there's an unusually large concentration of them in one spot and it's not practical to relocate them, anything to meet the base legal requirement.

They give a thin veneer of legality to an otherwise illegal practice.
Yeah, that's pretty simplistic. There's no evidence at all that somehow removing DDOS protection for the payment part of blackmailers web presence will somehow make them go away.

Sure, chase down how they do payment. But ultimately a web front end isn't the thing that makes the payment happen.
Ask HN: What are some industries ripe for 'disruption'?
I hate to use a SV buzzword but I think you all get the drift.

Over the past few years we've seen so many industries undergo a massive shift due to a new player in the field who utilized software in an innovative way, and yet I'm sure there are tons of industries that still operate in a 20th century manner and could be drastically changed with the right idea, what are some of these industries?
Every section of government I've had the pleasure of dealing with is corrupt. Every branch, every service. Frankly, I think the entire American system is corrupt. Ergo, completely corrupt.
My experience with flexport has been nothing short of awful. Poor sourcing, unqualified staff, and high prices. Compared to established enterprises that are experienced shipping perishable goods reliably they are not a serious competitor. Flexport couldn't even tell me the dimensions of the crates, number of crates, or weight of the crates they were supposed to deliver. Innovation is not a pretty UI in the freight industry.
He really needs to talk to a lawyer to determine whether the company has a case against him. If they sue him and he doesn't have competent legal counsel, he'll be in very bad shape. Spending a few hundred dollars to get a lawyer to write a letter to the company might get them to back down.

Making public statements that disparage the company could expose him to a libel suit (whether justified or not), which could add more to his legal expenses than he can afford to pay.
Sounds like The White Tower in Thessaloniki is the street-level weed spot...
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Four thousand dollars to ride a single-wheeled skateboard, marketed as a hover board, for a total of 16 minutes, seems like a scam.

Shouldn't a hover-board, hover?

Having said that, with a small marketing and price adjustment (with a large impact), I could see it being a neat form of transportation.
>How would that help?

Demand will crumble.
Nah, what he underestimated was how much his colleagues would bastardize and twist his words to double down on the status quo.

Post-war Keynesianism would better be labeled Samuelsonianism, because Samuelson did the bulk work of "rewriting" Keynes into a form that fit with existing (classic) economic thinking.
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So what, your interactions with the government has been wonderful? You sound like you don't know what you're talking about.
I don't think this is a right analogy, because the code can't "go bad" on its own one day (as if some capacitor would go dry), unless you modify it to do so. Maybe when you don't have access to the source code and you want to see what is going on, use of debugger could make sense.
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It answered the question. Every facet of the government I've dealt with is corrupt. Full stop. Period.
I really love Telomere but he seems to be a relative unknown despite being around for several decades
Not to detract from Copy's work (it's really quite impressive), but if you're really hard up to have a browser running in your browser, have a look at http://www.jor1k.com
That subset of indians isn't a billion although...
Agree, especially with just a gentle vibrating reminder that turned itself off after a second. I've tried a few of these, and the problem they all suffer is obnoxiously intrusive notifications. It's not an alarm clock, if I miss one it's fine.
did obama's visit help or hurt the feudalism problem? it seems like he was pretty friendly with the whole bunch while he was there...
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Doesn’t this result just tell us that Palantir’s recruitment funnel is broken. If your funnel is attracting 73% Asians then fix the funnel at the top, not the bottom.
You didn't read the article. They're being sued due to their final hiring being grossly out of step vs the qualified candidate pool.

You also appear to be assuming that there's no way the qualified candidate pool could have as many women and black americans as the broader US population. That assumption is, and continues to be, the problem.
Yes, we've made economic progress. Look at the productivity-per-capita numbers.

Yes, we should still be able to afford raising a family of five with one wage earner.
I have a site that creates a subdomain for each new enterprise account and all subdomains relay on one StartCom wildcard cert. Ultimately, I can write a script to create a let's encrypt cert for each new subdomain but I've got plenty of other work on my plate at the moment.
While it's awesome, where is Beaglebone Blue?
Yeah. There is a part of the pomodoro technique where you capture extraneous thoughts to then offload it from your mind. You look over that stuff during the 5 minute period to see if it was really as urgent as you thought it was. It is structurally similar to the Noting practice from insight/vipassana. My own experience with both pomodoro and meditation is that the mind will try to play tricks on you to get you to avoid doing unpleasant things by bringing up something that is more pleasant. That capture technique is a good way to manage that kind of stuff.

I used to use a notebook (as described in the original Pomodoro pdf) and now I just use org-mode in Spacemacs.

I usually spend the 5 minute break time meditating or working through some empty hand forms. When I do all of that, it has been very effective for marathoning coding without using external stimulants like caffeine.

Added bonus: using the Wim Hof (Iceman) breathing method and cold shower during the 30 minute break to oxygenate the body and brain. I usually feel like I just woke up fresh from a good night sleep, ready to go for another series of pomodoro sessions.

Lastly: I am working (on and off) on taking the principles and View of classical (medieval) non-dual Shaiva Tantra and applying it to writing code. There are a lot of good insights there that are applicable to working in a modern job, and it goes beyond mindfulness. Tantra, in both it's Shaiva and later Buddhist/Vajrayana versions have practices involving creating art, form, aesthetics, and beauty that is often missing from the attitudes towards work and productivity here in America. Tantra requires a solid foundation in mindfulness (among other things).
No, I stated I took out entire classes of attacks by using a single duty browser like Lynx and a hardened version of Firefox with JS disabled. Rather than patch and forget, I addressed the larger problem head on. The last thing a browser vendor wants to hear is a user complaining that JavaScript is enabled by default. There is a vested interest in having JavaScript all pervasive in browsers now, and huge lobby groups campaigning for a JavaScript only web, and this is very counter productive. Of course I can exploit Chrome and those exploits do work. My issue is that even if I report them, another one will popup because the design of Chrome (and Firefox) is fundamentally flawed from the very outset. Complexity is the enemy of security, and the onus is on the user to mitigate, not always on the vendors, or the bug reporting ecosystem, or even the bug bounty programs.
mtgx mentioned this on the earlier thread, and I'm curious to know too (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12585597):

Have they said what are their long-term plans for the desktop app, now that Google has started deprecating Chrome apps?

https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.ht...
Stenography is wickedly hard. All is forgiven.
Take a chance on me: integrating the choices of others into our decision-making
Crypto community question - why is everybody so adamant about using Signal? Outside of work, I don't own a smart phone and refuse to, so signal is not an option. It's to the point where it's actually gotten in the way with getting in contact with at least three people I know.
1,160 qualified people? How do the Labor Department define qualified? Did Palantir interview all of them?
Not sure but I assume that the Octavo Systems OSD3358 uses the same parts as the BBB core processor/memory/misc. Which means at least you can load the same firmware as a BBB. Which leaves you with the same trust issues as a regular BBB. If that's not true then all bets are off.

Me I'd be more worried about the WiFi module, thought stopping to think, if the WiFi module driver isn't open source that's a worry too.
Looming? Men now make up barely more than 1/3rd of all college students:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/the-gender-fa...

The disaster is here, fam.
So, in a blog post titled "Introducing .NET Standard", it turns out .NET Standard already has 8 different versions?

Also, rereading the article, I notice "When we shipped .NET Core 1.0, we also introduced .NET Standard."

This text really could do with a good editor.
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While I can't comment on the DOL's methodology because I don't know what it is, I've seen many SV tech companies essentially define the qualified-applicant pool in a way to explain systemic biases. The most obvious one, is "Unless you attended school X, you're unqualified," which quite frankly, is utter bullshit.
1,160 qualified people? How do the Labor Department define qualified? Did Palantir interview all of them?
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I really like SVG and this was a great article that contained many things I didn't know.

That said, I _tried_ to use SVG for something as simple as displaying some multiline monospaced text with whitespace preserved, and found it's either really hard, or actually not possible (unless you position each glyph manually). Is that really the case?
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