skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For as long as those two have been around, I would expect that they have had to adjust their system based on the changes in nutritional science and to better balance their scoring systems (much like video games often do).

Abusive victim blaming? Really? You mean people don't like being told they're fat. That the only reason they aren't losing weight is because they aren't staying true to their diet. Don't get me wrong, some people are downright abusive, but that falls on the individual not the diet system. On the other hand if you're a repeat customer to something like this, it really shows you aren't learning how to control your diet on your own (which should be the ultimate goal of these programs, I don't know).

I don't put any stock in blogs that dedicate themselves to finding these stories to share (I consider them something akin to conspiracy websites, very different from, say, Yelp). A program so focused on customer abuse should have closed up shop long ago from a lack of customers.
No.

Just register for a free credit monitoring service like Credit Karma/Sesame or a non-free one like Amex CreditSecure.

That's all you need.
And if ratio hired matched ratio applied, then 73% of those hired would have been Asian and they could be accused of discrimination the other way.

If the ratio of those hired matches the ratio of applicants how does anyone make a complaint of discrimination?
I guess it depends on what you are using them for. If I want a smartphone, yeah use the RPi, if you need something that can do reliable precise timing, no amount of extra ARM cores can replace the PRUs in the BB.
In regards to "value" for food, let's consider beyond a certain universal unit of sustenance. For example, imagine two pieces of fish that are identical in size, nutrition etc... However, one was simply grilled by a fisherman, while another was "expertly" prepared by a specialized chef. The latter costs 10 times as much. This extra cost is the social value that is being added to the food.

Basically, the value associated with the fundamental nutritional benefit of food is objective and is something everyone can agree on. If this value is the only thing we cared about, the world would not be organized in the capitalist structure that it is today. Everyone would fish and equally distribute the produce. However, we as a species are hardwired to compete, to be "better". All capital is derived from "social-value-signaling".
> it's annoying for customers, but they just have to subscribe to a new CA and install the new cert

Well I would be a little more embarrassed than that, because Wosign/Starcom were the only ones offering free SSL certificates for international domain names.

So there's no way I would pay for SSL certificates for my various personal projects and websites, but then I just couldn't get valid certificates for them anymore. Let's Encrypt might start offering them in the future, but nothing's official yet.
Agreed - what I meant was, in the long run, I expect that systemd will prove harmful to GNU/Linux in general, strategically.

Also FWIW, I like ESR a lot :) I'm mildly concerned about thread drift, but... why do you dislike him so?
That is insane. How is it possible to zoom in that far? Looks like it would have to use some kind of big number library and then parallelize the heck out of it.

I like how the rest of the page seemed to zoom out when I glanced outside the video after watching a few minutes or so.
Labor Department sues Palantir for discrimination against Asian job candidates
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It helps with TDD, automation and Scaling.. it also keeps your dependencies separately... you can upgrade your platform for one app, without having to upgrade for all apps.

Server utilization for one-off apps is a lot better too as you can use a single windows server and have multiple containers... also checkout Application Request Routing extension for IIS, which is helpful for this kind of setup, it acts as a reverse-proxy option for IIS.

What will probably come next will be more automation tooling... It should now be possible to crate something like dokku, but using windows containers and powershell.

-- edit: s/not/now above.
> but not the per-capita mean

The interesting thing about the per capita mean in the US is that it's completely meaningless. So few have so much, that it doesn't tell us anything about how much money regular folks on the street actually have to spend on stuff.
> Does anyone know how affected applicants are supposed to participate in this lawsuit?

They aren't.

> That is, the remedies include remuneration for these applicants, but it doesn't look like there's a clear way for people to indicate that they think they were affected by this bias.

Hiring, not remuneration, of some from the "affected class list", is one of the remedies sought. Since the government has through the compliance audits which identified these issues all the hiring records for the positions at issue, including the information on the unsuccessful applicants, they don't really need people to reach out to them to identify that they think they were affected. If there is an remedy issued that would require identifying affected individuals, they already know who is involved.
Without actually doing the math, I believe it means that the odds that, if 21 names were pulled out of a hat with 130 names of "qualified applicants," and 73% were Asian, the probability that only 4 names (or less, I assume) are Asian is 1:1,000,000,000.
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This is a rant. You might want to tell me this is user error, but you won't dissuade me from thinking I'm a smart person with a reasonable goal.

GOAL: Take notes that I can access easily given an Internet connection. I'm using an iPhone.

STEPS SO FAR:

Start Evernote

Edit note, edit field scrolls wildly and unpredictability

Edit title, Evernote crashes

Retry, crashes

Try to access Evernote web

Password fails, try others, look in 1Password, finally reset password

Evernote web doesn't support mobile, but doesn't say this anywhere. It's just silently hidden.

Log into OneNote. App recommended

Try to download app, over 100MB, can't download on 6GB LTE

Try web interface, fails silently

Try chrome, sign in again, fails silently again

Look for 100MB limit workarounds, none work

Go to HN to complain and get criticized

Start typing title, accidentally hit Go, posts anyway without text

Delete, start again

BEST PART:

I was able to complete 80% of this post with predictive text only. Amazing.
I've been eagerly waiting for this, as it will allow me to finally use Signal as my main messenger app.
What about top universities discriminating against Asian applicants? In many states, affirmative action is legally denying opportunities for Asian Americans.
Any scheme like this results in poachers killing the elephant so they don't wind up wasting time tracking it again later.

I think this was discovered when they poisoned rhino horns (ground rhino horn is a traditional oral medicine) and marked them with bright color to identify them as poisoned. Poachers killed the marked rhinos and left the horns.
This looks cool. You may want to include the 'about' link in the header (not just footer) since you have essentially infinite scroll, and as a first-time visitor I want some more context.
I'm in Norway - Trondheim. And it is fairly compact in some areas.

Public transportation is only part of the solution here. Some of the zoning is really and truly different. In the center of town, the ground level are stores and above that are offices and apartments. Grocery stores are scattered throughout the city. It isn't a problem to stop on the way home or walk a little past the bus stop to get to the grocery store. Shopping centers are scattered through town as well. Not all has every store, but you can get what you need during the week. Things like this make the compact areas much better.
Would they do this out of spite? StartCom is essentially done for and has little to lose, so out of bitterness they could try to turn their customers against the browser vendors.
The BeagleBone Black has better Linux support out of the box, doesn't require non-free firmware to boot, and is itself an Open Source Hardware design.
I have no idea, but just a random guess:

If you try to sell a lot of secret spying services to the government (which I think Palantir does?), they probably think it helps if your employees don't look/sound Chinese, seeing as the government might be afraid of China's espionage efforts.

I also don't know how much trouble they have getting clearance for someone that grew up in China compared to other countries.

(again: I have no idea, that's just a random guess)
You are racist against Whites. There are literally millions of whites (Central + Eastern Europe) that have it way worse than your beloved black,asian immigrants in the West ?
What entitles your Sandeep to earn more doing the same job just because he moved his ass and immigrated to Germany and my mother did not ? Because she loves her country and does not want to move elsewhere but her own country is eaten by corruption and can't compete with West's unfair practices ? THE solution is not for everyone to move somewhere else.

LIFE IS NOT FAIR. Get over it. Stop feeling ashamed and stop spitting on your own race.
What kind of OS do you typically use with the BB? I know the RPI has noobs/rasbian, but is there something comparable for the BB?
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> Who cares?

The government, because its a violation of an executive order that applies to all government contracting, and Palantir is a government contractor. (Hence why one of the proposed remedies is cancelling all of Palantir's government contracts and subcontracts, and banning them from future contracting.)

> If the Asians are equally qualified as whites then they are only hurting themselves by excluding them.

If they are only equally (and not more) qualified, and they have to narrow the pool anyway to get a manageable pool for later stages of the hiring process, then they actually aren't hurting themselves, before considering the consequences of enforcement actions like this one.
Do we know that the non-Asians also didn't require visas?

Also, I find it interesting how national average always seems to justify discrimination against Asians when it comes to jobs/college acceptance but then if someone brings up how Asians can be under-represented in things like media representation or politics, some people will say it's because there aren't many Asians who go into acting/modeling/politics.
> If I ran a CA, I'd be much more nervous about this than I would be about them zapping the CA and all its customers.

Exactly. If they insta-revoked the whole CA, it'd hurt a pile of customers (many of which might decide that HTTPS isn't worth the hassle for them). And bigger CAs would say "eh, they can't do that to us, they'd break half the web".

Showing that they're willing to say "no new certs from this CA" means they can use that sanction against any arbitrarily large and popular CA.
You can also use Vega or Vega-Lite and let d3 be the low-level architecture:

http://vega.github.io/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Fp9z-9DWc

https://vimeo.com/177767802

I especially like how they handle interaction (event streams/signals; about six, seven minutes into the youtube video).

Supposedly there's a big update coming late fall, that upgrades vega and vega-lite to the latest version of D3. It also (finally) introduces the interactive bits to vega-lite.
How much is is worth? Assuming every "fixer" is competing with some industry robots somewhere, what is the ceiling on the fixer salary?
My hope is they at least get LSW (Linux Subsystem for Windows) at least to the point where Linux containers can build/run in windows. When I tried it a couple months ago, I was very disappointed in the weirdness with filesystem access from the GUI.

It should be good enough for docker usage, and am excited about that option.
> I can tell you never lived in a poor country.

On the contrary, I spent 2 years in Central and South America (almost lived in Argentina) and I'm now making my way down the West Coast of Africa.

That aside, I wasn't really talking about "poor" countries, I was talking about the pricing of stuff like cars, TVs, laptops among developed countries.

People from Europe/Australia are continually staggered when I tell them how little I paid for a 4x4, or an Apple Laptop in the USA.
I kind of figured that would be a pushback, but I wanted to use a reproducible source (nerdwallet is more aggressive than Zillow and comes up with a higher number). And per realtor.com ~$1800/mo is about right for all-in (insurance, tax, etc.) in the Atlanta area in that price range.

All that said, in Atlanta, 3 BR/2 BA houses are abundant in the under-$150k range. Or under $100k. It's really not approaching necessary to earn 2x the median income in cities like Atlanta to buy a house with a yard.

The point is the OP's math assumes one lives in a high-cost area, which is not the reality where most Americans live.
The problem is before vacuums people didn't spend an hour a week cleaning their rugs by hand, they took them out a couple times a year to beat clean. People used to wear clothes more often between cleanings when it was more laborious to launder them. We began to shower every day. You can say these are Positional Goods and all about status, but unlike having a fancy car these are things you can't really opt out of. If you smell like the average person smelt in the 1930s you'll have a hard time fitting in at an office now.
One side effect of building for repairability is that objects will be bigger and clunkier, which will use more materials and cost more (and burn more fuel) to transport.

I'm all for repairability, and even better, building things that will last 25 years, not 25 months. But that will come at a different price than perhaps many expect, and in some cases, it actually won't make sense.

Money is how we measure and gate access to scarce resources. If it costs more to build repairable items, and then repair them, then it is likely the case that those repairs actually waste more resources! However, insofaras the resource being wasted is human work time, there is of course a trade-off to be made.
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When was the last time U.S. regulators reviewed the percentage of 'asians' in companies like Infosys and WiPro? And who exactly qualifies as an 'Asian' applicant? Does a person born, say, in Israel qualifies as one?
I'll do what I can!

I am trying something very unusual with respect to the roof that no Tiny Houser has done before, which is to use a metal mansard roof.

They look elegant in metal if done correctly. My TH is following a Georgian design so it suits the time period. Also mansards were invented to avoid taxes so it is also about heritage and continuing tradition. Gambrel would also work since I'm going > 10ft wide, that is plan B.

Am having difficulty finding good information on this subject but at least I have the Prince of Wales as my spirit animal:

"You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe," Charles told the Corporation of London Planning and Communication Committee's annual dinner at Mansion House. "When it knocked down our buildings, it didn't replace them with anything more offensive than rubble."

This is the basic problem with being reactionary, everybody cool is totally dead and then the living are like 'why don't you build a flat roof brah, everybody's doing it'.

Never!
Are DHL and Expeditors the main competitors for this going forward, or is it more likely competition will come from companies within the nations with a significant physical export volume and growing IIoT industries (read: China right now, maybe India or Indonesia in the future)?
talking about the home size is disingenuous, you might want to look at the lot size, not the home size, for example. Or do you think you would be able to have a 'serious vegetable garden' on today's postage stamp lots?

Schooling costs are also way, way, way higher than they were in the 50s, and there are no well paying manufacturing jobs to do if you aren't inclined to go to college.

I really doubt that you would be able to raise a family on a single income these days with the same standard of living you could have back then.
Palantir is a government contractor. In this case there's a whole Compliance department that can be involved in audits of hiring practices.

https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/aboutof.html

In this case I'd assume based on resumes.
> Sometimes, if you just can't seem to communicate some policy concept to your target audience, it's a problem with the policy, not the communication.

I agree 100%. If you were to claim that the "on topic" policy for Stack Overflow is too narrow, I would respectfully disagree.
Removal sounds a little invasive but various schemes for sabotaging elephant tusk and rhino born have been proposed over the years.

https://www.savetherhino.org/rhino_info/thorny_issues/dyeing...
OT, I'm interested in this field as well. Are all these pictures USA cars or international?

Do you mind disclose where you got them?

Thanks!
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...
You can achieve something like that by setting the color of the containing element and then referring to currentColor within the styles for the SVG. If you use :hover and friends to change the color of the containing element, this does mean you can have the SVG change things like text or fill colours accordingly.

This technique is quite limited, though, as unfortunately it only allows passing of a single colour as a “parameter” to the SVG. In some cases, currentColor is redundant, as often if you just draw something in the SVG without specifying any colour explicitly, it will inherit the colour by default anyway.

Beyond that, you’re probably into scripting the SVG and all the vaguely-documented, non-portable, security-nightmarish possibilities that offers. For example, suppose you embed an SVG in your HTML like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>SVG Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<object data="svgtest.svg" type="image/svg+xml" data-test-color="green" />
</body>
</html>

Then suppose the SVG file itself says something like this:

<svg width="200" height="100" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1">
<rect x="0" y="0" width="200" height="100" rx="5" ry="5" fill="blue" />
<script type="text/javascript"><![CDATA[
console.log(window.frameElement.getAttribute("data-test-color"));
]]></script>
</svg>

In theory, this should log "green" to your console, assuming you load both the HTML and SVG from compatible origins. This is because window.frameElement should refer to the <object> element and thus should allow access to its attributes, containing HTML document, and so on. (Note that this only works with embedding; using <img> to load the SVG should block the scripting.)

In practice, having just tried it in Chrome, Firefox and IE11, and loading from both a local disk and over HTTP, Firefox works in both cases, Chrome works over HTTP but blocks locally, and IE11 blocks in both cases (with window.frameElement being set to null in the blocked cases here). So sadly although this might be quite a useful technique if you can control your environment, it’s definitely not portable to all major browsers.
This is _awesome_. Would love to be able to hook this up to our Kafka queues. Please open source it!
Ask HN: Former Employer Threatening Lawsuit
Greetings,

My former employer is threatening me with a lawsuit for; 1) stealing their customer list and marketing to them, and 2) stealing their software and IP.

Neither of these are true, and I am not responding to their shakedown letter.

Would anybody like to offer sage advice, anecdotes, or pro bono advice to cheer me up?
Why do you think that the government should pay for the externalities of discarded products? Shouldn't that be on the original manufacturer?
Well, on the other hand, while debugging, if I recall correctly, in Eclipse you can select an (almost) arbitrary section of code and evaluate it. In Visual Studio for the same thing you have to use the clunky "Watches" feature. So even VS can improve.
Also, unlike many "Show HN"s, it should probably be noted that this is not some random side project - the CEO is Jason Calacanis
> Also, the baseline for comparing a crippled product is not necessarily the same but uncrippled product.

Conversely, the baseline for the lower priced product is not necessarily lower than the existing product. If the full version is currently $50, the profit-maximizing strategy could be to sell a crippled version for $50 and the full version for $500, leading to more profit for the seller but less surplus overall.

> Microeconomic theory can be subtle, and whether something is good or bad depends very much in the specific case.

That's what I'm saying. Your argument was that price discrimination generally helps the poor. But it only does when the specific method of price discrimination happens to do that entirely by accident -- if it happens it's because the seller set the price of the lower cost version at less than they actually needed to, or didn't cripple it as much as they could have which would have increased sales of the more expensive version.

The one thing price discrimination is designed to do is convert consumer surplus into producer surplus. Which in general is not good for the consumer.
That's why the article spends so much time on the huge amounts you could pay for land while still building cheap living space. At those prices, you will not 'run out' of space.
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For as long as those two have been around I'd expect they'd have solved weight loss entirely if it was truly as simple as CICO. I'd assume they would have worked themselves out of a business model. They are both for-profit companies and their revenues rely as much on that fact that they don't actually solve the problem as they do on revamping the system every few years to score new customers or returning old customers.
Individuals? This sounds like a systemic organizational issue. I'm sure we can drum up a few scapegoats, but I'm not sure if that'll be terribly effective in fixing the incentives.

Putting everyone involved out of a job and destroying whatever investments in the company they may have had, on the other hand, puts pressure on everyone involved to not fuck up next time.
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> I bet it's more subtle than overt (not an excuse if it's happening, of course, merely a possible explanation)... probably managers hiring unaware they're hiring people whom look like them

Actually, from the government filing, it sounds like they are saying a big part of it is very active, through the heavy reliance on an employee referral program.
Its not the Uranium content that matters, it's the ability to extract U235 from U238.
One person's greed is another person's "just trying to cover the mortgage".
This is my point - I use multiple storyboards to break up the app and use storyboard references where appropriate. But loading up individual storyboards, waiting for them to render (which takes far longer now with @IBDesignable), etc is such a drain in productivity.