skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some great points here about citizenship/security clearance being part of the issue.

But I'd also ask the government regulators to define "asians". Including East Indians? I'm not sure how the government breaks down their racial statistics but certainly East Indians are Asians. They might not be East Asians but they're Asians.

Not only that but Native Americans and most Latin Americans are to some degree of Asiatic origin as well. So they'd have to define recent, or historical Asian origin?

Further, we'd need clarification on whites vs Europeans. Europeans presently live in Eurasia, which technically is the same landmass as Asia. Beyond that, all Europeans and their white descendants alive today share the same ancestors as the Native Americans[0], which are of clear Asiatic origins. That also begs the question about my Saudi friends from college: they were adamant that they were Asians as they were indeed from the same continent.

So, which "asians" are we talking about here? I think this whole type of thing is a mess and so anti-scientific that it's entirely political. The government and their racial censuses are awfully convoluted. Which should be abolished, as Mexico has been our leader here and already abolished racial censuses long ago- if the US government is truly against racism. Change should always start at the top, leading by good example!

In sum, there's only 5 heavily-populated major landmasses in the world and 4 of those 5 are occupied by a majority with folks of wholly Asian or at minimum, mixed-Asian descent. With Africa being the only real exception. So our government need to get its act together and if they're going to use racial terminology and policy, to do it in a little bit more scientific manner.

[0]http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29213892
You may be thinking of the ODROID-C2.

http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php
I read a Tweet where he claimed Affinity Designer had cleaner SVG then Illustrator . . can anyone confirm this.
No, because Rust uses LLVM instead of monopolistic Intel compilers. And it sounds like the problem is in the Linux kernel, not Rust.
I have a dedi from SYS, a reseller of OVH with 32 GB RAM for about $50/month. It's a great value for what you can get and haven't really had an significant issues for the past 2 years that we've had it.
Google/honggfuzz general-purpose fuzzer with interesting analysis options
CAs need irreproachable reputations, anything less is absurd, like trusting your bank manager even though you know they have a gambling problem and owe money to Fat Tony. Having sympathy for their commercial corcerns is absurd.

The better solution would be to alert on all of their certs as being 'low trust'. A first step towards explicit trust belief, where reputations build slowly over time and can be severly damaged by bad behavior.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on how AI will transform his company
It's not equivalent, because those are traditionally oppressed groups. Whereas Asians are not oppressed and are fantastically successful relative to their tiny portion of the general population. Based on the report above, they were hiring between 20%-40% asians, which is 5-9 times their rate in the general population! You could make an equally strong case that they are disparately impacting whites!
Coincidence: I was checking out your product the other day and it seemed quite interesting.

There was just one huge issue: Where is the price tag?
They won't pay for it and we have to eat.
There isn't really a place where underground habitation is feasible, even places where you can build down. New York has a well developed underground world, but a basement apartment is still a basement apartment, dark and dank.
> The interesting question to me is how does discriminating against asians help palantir's bottom line ?

It quite possibly doesn't; discrimination is often done (even when it is done deliberately and overtly) because it serves non-financial interests of the people choosing to do it, not because it is an efficient means of maximizing profits.
Of course China is a factor. Since Mao killed all of the intellectuals during the Cultural Revolution, China has lost morality and knows only the ethics of greed and material wealth. With globalization they gained money, and unrestrained by ethics black markets flourish in China, fueled by the nouveau riche.
I always increase font size. Either I am getting old, or font sizes are way to small in most places.
Funny you mentioned "keyword stuffing"... Came across a related sub-thread on reddit earlier today [1], where a bunch of folks were trash-talking one of the top answerers in the [java] tags for his efforts in marking duplicates and removing irrelevant tags.

There is an insane amount of hostility directed toward anyone trying to minimize the noise Stack Overflow generates, I'm afraid. Folks feel entitled to spam the whole site - indeed, the whole Internet - with their questions, and take umbrage at anyone who might stand in their way.

So a lot of folks are left feeling that their choice is between trying to help and getting blasted with vitriol, or just walking away and letting entropy win. I find it hard to blame those who opt for the latter route.

We do try to combat this to a degree by deleting unanswered or poorly-received questions after some nominal period of time; of course, given search engines' fascination with boosting the rank of recent content, this can only help so much - there are several thousand new questions a day in the most popular (and thus crowded) tags, where you can imagine the inherent motivation on the part of each author is to optimize for views rather than specificity or clarity.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/54f62f/the_dec...
> Standards can change when necessary

When they are mandated by law, they can't. At least not easily and not without giving lawmaking powers to a group of private entities.
AirTrain fare is $5, not $8. If you're referring to the $7.75 amount listed on their web site, that's including $2.75 subway fare since it assumes you're coming from midtown.

If you use a pay-per-ride metrocard, this can be used for AirTrain. It's only the monthly unlimited that does not.

The E train isn't the only option; the A train connects to AirTrain, as does the J/Z. But personally I take the LIRR -- it's more expensive but much faster and more pleasant. At rush hour it's typically faster than a cab, and more reliable / less variance in travel time.

Yes, you're technically correct that there's no one-seat ride to your terminal. But this is the case in some other cities as well.
You can reference a style sheet from or include it directly in the image itself.
Android and Chrome = Andromeda; merged OS reportedly coming to the Pixel 3
In Visual Studio for the same thing you have to use the clunky "Watches" feature.

VS has the 'immediate window' which allows you to execute (almost) any statement within the context of the local scope, including intellisense and autocomplete.
A recent combination of Apache and OpenSSL has support for certificate switching based on key algorithm. You can serve an ECDSA+SHA2 certificate to clients that support ECDSA, and an RSA+SHA1 certificate to clients that don't. I'm pretty sure that all clients that reject SHA1 support ECDSA, so this should work.
To save the lazy people a google search:

"The current territories of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka form the countries of South Asia."
A good friend of mine recently was able to purchase a home in the Bay Area (we're in our late 20's). It has been absolutely fascinating the last few months watching his views towards housing supply do a complete 180 from "We need to build more housing" to "If they can't afford it maybe living here isn't for them".
> The PATRIOT Act itself was written by Sen Joe Biden ffs.

This is pretty misleading. The Patriot Act was written by Jim Sensenbrenner, a Republican from Wisconsin (which makes sense since the R's had majority control of the House in 2001).

Joe Biden wrote an anti-terrorism bill in 1995 in the wake of the Oklahoma City Bombing that had many similar provisions regarding Federal jurisdiction over acts of terrorism, financial controls, etc. In one of Joe's wonderful bits of rhetorical flourish while debating the Patriot Act in 2001, he said that Ashcroft basically sent up his bill. So you could say that he wrote a precursor to the Patriot Act, but he's also voted against expanded wiretaps and the Habeas violations at Guantanamo so it's not like he's a neocon.
A student and an economics professor are walking across the quad.

"Look, a $20 bill!", says the student. "Someone must have dropped it."

"Nonsense!", replies the economics professor. "If there were a $20 on the ground, someone would have picked it up!"
I have chefs in my family and worked at kitchen staff one summer and can relate. Everytime we meet they tell me I'm lucky to work in tech.
I'm fairly sure you can set any affine transformation in SVG, just as in canvas. If need be by directly supplying the matrix.
Geiser is looking for a maintainer for its Racket support, IIRC.
Yes, the Alto's video is interlaced. I took the photos with my phone (which used 1/60 second speed), which would explain why scan lines are missing. I'll use a real camera next time and see if that helps.
$10,000 profit and $40,000 expenses is not a 20% profit margin, it's a 25% profit margin.

Is it just me or has there been a recent uptick in miscalculations like this on the part of professional journalists?
I'm asian, and I honestly believe the DOL has bigger, more real fights to fight than Palantair - which most likely isn't discriminating at all.
I understand that, thanks. The problem of course is that it bears no relation to actual reality. It may be the case that, for a pipefitter, every human body with Pipefitter Certification 409B can do the job identically to his fellow 409Ber. But there are very few jobs like that–trending to zero.

Result of this case: lawyers make a few million bucks. Government gets a few million bucks. Palantir has a few million bucks fewer with which to grow and produce new value. Fewer people get hired. No one wins. Administrative overreach: it's a thing.[1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Administrative-Law-Unlawful-Philip-Ha...
There's alot of cheating and other shady nonsense.

Bodyshop contractors will do anything. I've seen cases where those companies send shill candidates to interview, claim that candidates have more experience in reality (in one case a 22 year old with a decade of Oracle Financials experience) and submitting fake resumes.
Passengers in Uber's self-driving cars waived right to sue for injury or death
For others (including me) high density is itself one of the key attractors. I enjoy the big city lifestyle, with subways and museums and economies of scale and millions of potential new friends.
I have been using https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/deluminate/iebboop... to invert webpages colors (as they are often very bright), it has worked mostly well.
He likely means the "green card" as in the green card.

Datacenters are sensitive facilities. It's not surprising that they block entrance to many people.

From what I've seen in Europe, I can remember a couple of places in military, datacenters and national research centers where it's clearly written "European Only" on the jobs.
They're considering .Net Framework 4.6.x to be the guideline for Standard 1.x, And that when Core 1.0 hits, it will support .Net Standard 2.0.

My guess is jumping to 2.0 for future implementation base is to avoid conflicts with .Net Core 1.0 (though may exacerbate the issue)
Processes don't imply sandboxing, but once you have things split up into multiple processes there are powerful process-sandboxing tools that are available for Firefox to use in the coming future.
rent-extractors going bankrupt is a net-positive for the economy. There will be losers, sure, but we're better off overall if the Bay Area has three times as many people at the current levels of productivity/salary.
That's a very interesting ethical question. Maybe the better solution is to poison all the horns, but mark them as well.
Yeah, I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that you haven't really looked into your ideas for these attacks, and if you did you'd discover they weren't actually exploitable.
You think running an Uber competitor is easier than running an airline? I've got a great investment for you...

If a barrier to entry is just financial, it's no barrier at all.

Let's think through the dynamics of the situation you describe. You say Uber is doomed because competition is too fierce. Yet you say the competitors are also doomed. Somebody will go bankrupt first. That will reduce competition and profits will go up. Maybe another competitor shows up and it's back to doomed. But then they go out of business, too. Eventually, people will stop entering this doomed industry and if Uber is still around, it'll start turning a profit. Every industry goes through times of competition and times of consolidation.
I recently visited a family member who lives south of SF and we spent a couple of days in the city. I've been to lots of cities, but was really surprised how miserable SF was to get around in. Chicago, Washington D.C., New York and Minneapolis all have either decent traffic management or a public transit system that got you there with some semblance of speed. I don't think I spent less than an hour getting anywhere in San Fransisco either by transit or car. And damn, was it confusing. How many systems do they have squeezed into that place?
Does the RPi3 still require an SSD Card for the file system?

Edit: A warning about the TPS65217C on the BBB. The power supply needs to come up in (I think 50ms) or it'll fail to boot.
Good point. The wikipedia definition is my understanding as well. Analyzing during build time is what scan-build does. They call it the Clang Static Analyzer.
There are a bunch of running Altos, so we're not exactly in uncharted territory. Fortunately people with Alto experience are willing to help out, for example Al Kossow giving us a disk interface card when we found ours was the wrong type. The Living Computer Museum is probably the best bet if you want to see one in operation.
Has any other major tech company released numbers on what their hiring demographics look like compared to their qualified application pool? I've seen the demographics for employees in diversity reports, but not qualified-applicant pool numbers.

Because, sure, perhaps many of the Asian applicants are poor enough at English that it outweighs whatever got them into the qualified-pool. But I would guess that would be a problem for every SV tech company. So how does Palantir's stats compare to theirs such that it warrants the DoL to file a lawsuit?
It's a lot more than electric bits. Banks and other financial institutions allocate capital in the economy. By efficiently and effectively injecting capital into the right companies/sectors, the economy and standard of living will be drastically improved. It is in our best interest that it is the smartest and brightest making these decisions. Of course they should be compensated for these incredibly important services they provide.
Thanks for the link. I'm a little surprised that there isn't any info in the press release indicating how individuals can share their experiences with the DOL. Perhaps they figure they have 90% of the info already, and that's good enough?
Stop talking to us. Lawyer up. Don't post any more information that can be recognized.

My layman opinion is that he will have to prove his claims, and is probably trying to scare you into giving him your client list.
"In a statement issued to 9to5Google, the company revealed that the traffic light was green for at least six seconds before the vehicle entered the intersection"
I feel like that may be a problem everywhere in the country except for Silicon Valley.
Only if property taxes remain constant (which I guess may be true in parts of the country.)
Fire safety is a bigger issue with underground construction. Above-ground, you have an easy alternative access - out the window, and down a fire escape if you're above the ground floor.
They aren't cracking down because of the ratio, they cracking down because of allegations of systematic elimination of qualified Asian applications from consideration at various stages in the hiring process. The applicant:hired ratios are among the pieces of evidence supporting the conclusion that discrimination was happening, but aren't the subjects of targets.
Going with something like sqlite is not always better -- if what it provides is not needed, it's complexity for complexity's sake. PHP arrays are perfectly fine (until you reach a certain size), particularly when using a direct key access scheme. Loading/saving the data is pretty much a file_get_contents|file_put_contents affair, with some inline filters such as serialize & gzip. Couldn't be simpler, and it sounds like it doesn't need to be more complex than that.
Many browsers throttle javascript performance (particularly looping timers) when the tab doesn't have focus. My guess is the "color bomb" is just a side effect of the JS performance returning to a normal level when focus returns to the tab.
this is going to bomb. most Plex users pirate their content and aren't going to be too keen on uploading it all to Amazon's servers. I love Plex and use it daily but this wasn't a well thought out idea.
I think of POSIX as the actual C runtime.
There are downsides to repairability. It means more fasteners to come loose, and more connectors to give trouble. It means more bulky devices; you can't cram everything in as tightly if it has to come out later.

I restore old Teletype machines, which were designed to be 100% repairable. You can take them apart down to the individual parts and put them back together. Everything is attached with screws and lockwashers. Restoring an 80-year old machine is routine.

They are not low-maintenance. Each machine has over 600 lubrication points. There are hundreds of things to be adjusted. You need a sizable tool kit and two suitcases of parts for normal maintenance. And you have to study up on how to do all this. Few people want to bother with that level of detail any more.
Caveat to the use of lambdas... Where, ironically the last time I used .Net was what I needed to inspect the most were subsets of collections or the results of other queries... I always used the function methods for linq over the language extension.
Isn't this correct though? That the probability of picking only four asians (if you chose at random) is just over one in a hundred million
I'm still not sure I agree about Austin. Going from low to medium density by Austin outskirts standard may just be too different from going from 15,000 residents mi to 30,000+ to say it poses the same problem within the context of understanding political opposition. If we're going to say that SF residents are uniquely politically opposed to growth, we'd need something at least reasonably comparable. Pointing out that people haven't objected on the outskirts of Austin suggests to me that people have different political reactions to different things.

Your DC example is fairly compelling, though. DC (according to wikipedia) has density of about 11,000 on a land area of 68 sq mi. That's close enough for useful analogies.

We're looking at 17% growth in the last 15 years within that region (any links for that?) I'll try to find some data for SF, but do you have a comparable link for increase in residential units in SF in that time?

Keep in mind also that SF experienced a massive slowdown in construction after the housing bust, that may now be ramping up. So you do need to make sure you aren't measuring and projecting velocity without considering acceleration.
How do you define The Unix Philosophy as applied to a country? Software doesn't come close to the complexity of an entire country so your analogy could possibly be fundamentally mismatched...
I believe you could have moved most of the filesystem to another device but recently they announced a load of new ways to boot too. https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
The serial port is also slow as molasses. If we want a full download, Marc will run it over the serial port overnight. We haven't tried NFS.
How would that help? No one would know it was poisoned until the rhino was dead. The poachers wouldn't even find out until people stopped buying rhino horn because it was killing uneducated, superstitious people thousands of miles away - which is to say, far far too late.

The loss of the rhino and the elephant would be tragic, but those people who consume it do not deserve to die - they don't understand what they're doing or what they're causing, and they are worth more than rhinos.

Edit, since I can't respond to your comment: There is already an information battle to convince people that traffic in and using rhino horn is not possibly good for them. If they will not believe scientists telling them that, they won't believe it's poisoned. Nothing short of a mass market and culture shift is likely to change their beliefs. Telling them it's poisoned would certainly have too many misses and too little reach to be acceptable.
Poachers don't have to kill the animals just to save themselves time in the future. If you mark the horns, you leave yourself wide open to poachers killing the animals to get you to stop doing that.
Every time Flexport is hiring on HN, it goes front page. I always wondered why...

Are they gaming the system? Has PG a way to pump them up since he is an investor? Or is shipping sexy to the HN crowd?
Along the subject of ethics... what about poisoning all the horns... but not marking them?
This is exactly why I want people to be able to build a studio apartment in SF for $50k - people can now be paid $450k per studio apartment in order to alleviate the housing shortage.

It's really easy to get what you want when you pay people lots of money for it. The problem is that we're not willing to shovel money at the people who can fix the problem.
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I don’t have a very in-depth understanding of dynamic analysis myself, so this may be somewhat of a simplistic question: Why not just resolve to the latest version of each library/module present on the system during the first pass through the list of dependencies?
People overreact. When I saw that, I sighed and went on with my day. I consider unsolicited advertisements an unconditional negative, and for Mozilla to say that they included them because they think I'd like to see them is mildly offensive. I've got some similes in mind, but they all seem too over-dramatic.

Mozilla's done a few other things that I mildly dislike, and they tend to clump together in my mind. Nothing that's a big deal, but enough that I usually keep a copy of Pale Moon on the machines I use most often.
Honestly, with it supporting only 2.4 ghz, its uses are limited.