skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I interviewed for Palantir in 2010 for a QA position. They flew me in from East Coast, and took good care of me. I didn't accepted the offer as I went on to accept a SW position in a different company. I didn't felt like I was biased against.

I'm not sure about Palantir's bias against Asians, but the tone of comments here are surely negative and partially racist. Let me think, if I really meant "racist". May be it is the fear of competition, usually shown by below par individuals, or may be just signs of arrogance.

Either ways, I am N.E.V.E.R. going to apply to companies like Palantir, Theranos, Snap, Reddit, Path, etc. Damage is done. Congrats.

p.s. Throwaway account.
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I think it's a relevant and useful measurement from the perspective of, imagine how much better free software would be if the cost spent per user were e.g. 1/2 (arbitrary) that of the Windows ecosystem cost spent per user. No doubt it's a lot less for free software, and that's fine. But that cost should be higher via companies and governments in particular, contributing more dollars voluntary, with donations and development for free software. Not merely free no cost, but libre free, as in repurposable.
The government isn't a corporation.
That is funny. When I toured the supernap data center in Las Vegas (Blekko was thinking about locating a cluster there) they had a very elaborate security theatre sort of thing going on. Presumably they wanted to impress me at how secure it was. Clearly it was amusing as one of the sysadmins from a company there pulled me aside and said not to worry, once you had a contract it was a lot simpler to go in and out.
SVG is vector, not raster, and in one way of thinking, is embedding instructions on how to present and manipulate an image or set of graphics directives.

How close it is to Turing complete I'm not sure -- I've played with them a tad, enough to find them quite adaptable and useful, but have also seen stuff, much of it from David Daley (https://ello.co/ddailey) which boggles my poor little brain.
Makes me wonder why they don't embed Tor into signal as an alternative (or fallback) way of connecting to the network.

It could be very useful in countries that routinely censor the web (including apps like signal).
Really great read. Guy sounds like he lived a crazy life and went out in his own way. I have a hard time accepting that logic, but then again I'm a young healthy person. Perhaps he saw his strength and individualism dwindling with his age and decided that he'd rather go down at sea than lay in a bed for a year and pass away 'gently'.
How do you know why those minority employees were hired?
OP here - interesting to see not only how many developers on HN use the Pomodoro Technique but also how many have built their own app!
That seems more than a little unfair. If you're in the middle of a protect nature preserve in the African bush, with the tools of your trade, you're not a victim. This isn't a case of mistaken identity, or just being in the wrong place, or pissing off the wrong people.
We solved this issue by using a rendering engine that has rich tooling, strong profiling and inspection capabilities, and is centered around predictability - React.

D3 v4 provides all of its goodness in loosely coupled modules with clear boundaries, so you can use it for all heavy lifting that it's amazing at (layouts, animations, shapes), then setState() all over the place to reflect the results in the DOM. Performance wise, the only limits we are hitting are native SVG limits on the number of nodes.

Our visualisations are complex (science and finance, to an expert and expertly distracted audience), but no more complex than the rest of the app. React paradigm is predictable, well known, and has a deep user base to lean on. Performance and inspection tools are solid. And the only difference is that the render method has a <g> instead of a <div>.
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I don't think it's explicit discrimination. From what I've heard they're very "culture fit" biased in their hiring.

"Culture fit" is a notorious discrimination problem in startup-land, but it often just comes from wanting to hire people who share similar interests and socio-economic factors rather than race -- but it can have the same effect. For example, if somebody started a company that hired people overwhelmingly on their music preference, and that preference was Blue Grass, the employee pool would probably not well represent the racial makeup at large.
Jason, I've been a big fan of your work ever since Mahalo days. Love what you and Lon are doing with Inside.com. Ping me if you ever want to discuss tech strategy, I think your format is uniquely well-suited to a machine learning approach with a couple modifications.
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The PC had no RTC, so DOS would ask you the date and time every time you booted it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PC_DOS_1.10_screenshot.pn...

...and if you accepted the default, as many people at the time did, it would be 1980-01-01 00:00:00. DOS and the PC actually had no Y2K problem, storing the number of years since 1980 in a single byte --- which will overflow after 2235. It is notable that there is no year 2038 problem either.

I'm not sure what the Alto's RTC capabilities are. Hopefully a bit better than the PC's?
The WiFi module is also a TI chipset, so same trust issues as the AM3358.

The wifi driver is open source, however with a binary blob for WiFi and Bluetooth firmware.
If the DNC was as neutral during the primaries as they should have been, do you think Hillary would still be the nominee? Maybe, but there is a much better chance Bernie would have made it through. I say this as a person who has voted in the past 4 presidential elections, but never for a Dem or Repub.
The majority of the remote jobs are in the US and for US citizens only. For 3 reasons: 1) contracts 2) time zone 3) English. However, some US companies accepts Canadians, some companies accepts candidates from the whole American continent, and finally some companies accept candidates from everywhere.

Outside of the US, remote jobs don't seem existing. I don't know a single company in my country (France) who allows remote workers officially. I don't see remote jobs get democratized here before at least 10 years. Most companies here just start to use SCRUM and agile methods. I talked with some CTO and managers from small and middle companies and they just don't think that remote jobs work. It was almost impossible to discuss about it.
Was that before or after you wrote this response? Because you seem to still be doing it, and still not making any coherent arguments.
If being president/CEO of a large organization is your qualifying factor, then you surely must be supporting Trump right now.
At this time, I am fighting with a Samsung Syncmaster 2333SW Plus. It started fading to white every time blue was displayed, then it would overflow back to a normal image and fade to white.

I'm told this is a fault in the t-con (timing controller) board - some people have noted it's just a bad solder connection, so I'm going to have a look before I replace the board.

I have a donor screen that I got apart (the 2333HD) in about four hours, but the 2333SW Plus... I've been trying for at least 12 hours to get that thing apart. (I've sanitized this post.) The sides of the casing are free, but the top and bottom edges just won't let go, and I can't afford to break the internal clips.

I honestly can't decide between RageGuy and Samir's rage at the printer not printing properly.
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Stop that. Stop that shit right now.

You are not an investor. You are not a consumer of services. This is not a business, and we don't need a CEO.

You're a CITIZEN of one of the most powerful nations on the planet, and don't you dare forget it.
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"What came out of this was a realization that we were really building large air conditioners, that we were not in the IT business but in the industrial air conditioning business when you build a facility like this."

This was one of the big secrets that Google learned early on. Every bit of air you cool that isn't going into a computer is wasted. The issue is that co-location facilities have to be ready for any kind of user equipment, but if you own the entire data center and all the equipment inside you can design it differently and much more efficiently. It stops being computers in a building and starts being a building sized computer.
File a bug against mdbook, we'll see what the maintainer says :)

https://github.com/azerupi/mdBook
If only we cared about this a thousandth as much as we care about the "war" on drugs, it might actually be a tractable issue.
It will probably be at the YCombinator office for a while but we haven't figured out a long-term plan. Any suggestions?
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On my very old laptop with Via graphics chipset and Debian, Firefox works much smoother, but it might just be that CPU is too old for Chrome.
It counted because we had enough raw uranium to, indeed, separate one bomb's worth of U-235 in time, but more importantly to fuel the natural uranium reactors in which we bred plutonium, which got into high gear faster than the former.

By comparison, in the link I included is the statement that "To illustrate the uniqueness of Sengier’s stockpile, after the war the MED and the AEC considered ore containing three-tenths of 1 percent as a good find.", which comports with my memory.
Or here's an idea: I can watch it live and read the analysis afterwards? No wait, that would make me a "fool".
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Yeah, but will the students stay? Or will they take their free training and go elsewhere?
As always, this isn't a "will to get there" issue, it's a, "How are we going to get people there without killing or abandoning them?" issue. Microgravity, radiation, micrometeorite impacts... these issues are just not solved. My concern is that the usual course of events is to not solve them, but send people anyway.

That's our history.
its purpose
A simpler, focused protocol framework and reference implementation with only necessary, useful options... something like that needs actual security people, users in embedded, enterprise, client/server apps would need to agree on it without falling into the trap of being hijacked by special interests, vague edge-cases and feature-creep. The issue would be that it's yet another/different standard, and TLS has most of the de-facto "market-share." That aside, OpenSSL and TLS are terrible because they're so poorly-managed, poorly-tested, poorly-validated, arbitrarily-featured and unplanned.

If SSL/TLS is a kitchen-sink, OpenSSL is Home Depot.
I remember seeing seemingly endless fractal zoom animations like these as long as 20 years ago. Basically, you're not calculating the entire original field of view to anything near the final level of depth. At any given frame, you're essentially doing the calculations only for what's in the current frame and only to the level of detail to support the current pixel count.
If you went back 40 years, you'd probably find people saying accountancy was a dying profession, that it was only a matter of time before their function is entirely carried out by computers. And indeed we have software for probably every accountancy task, just as people imagined back then. We've had it for years. We still have accountants.

People are willing to pay to have someone shield them from the complexity, the diligence, and the organizational effort behind everyday endeavors. That's not going to change.

Also, automation's track record is incredibly overrated. It seems to only work in situations with exquisitely controlled conditions, like assembly lines. People bring up super-market check-outs, but this only works because the customer does all the physical work themselves. The bridge between automation and complexity is intelligence... and we're nowhere even remotely close to having AGI technology.
I'm confused, those are the docs that are renedered and visible on kubernetes.io.
I would assert that its not a higher standard, but a less-informed one. If I have people I trust sharing their knowledge with me, its not immoral to leverage their judgment.

And that's part of the problem with government doing things. It does not handle intangible considerations very well.
Just so you know and hopefully are encouraged--learning C is really hard, too. Most people just never actually learn it.

Rust makes you come to grips immediately with the things that will bite you in C later.

Keep at it. It's a continuing process regardless of language.
Yes. On the other hand, there isn't a strong overlap with machine learning experts and security experts(I'm sure there will be in coming years though, as security experts start using NNs to detect anomalous/dangerous behavior).
cabal has a `cabal freeze` command which produces frozen constraints similar to Gemfile.lock in ruby. However, current Haskell projects tend to use stack for this purpose, see:
https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2015/06/why-is-stack-not-cab...

(you could think of stack as analogous to ruby's Gemfile.lock plus rbenv, or python's virtualenv - it makes the whole build reproducible)
He was discussing endpoint security so I believe he intended to say his own personal use is restricted to an iOS device.
No. What you should have said is:

"The US is in the top (as in good) decile worldwide when measuring perceived corruption[.]"

This is not the same as lacking corruption.
Palantir Sued Over Alleged Hiring Discrimination
I can't think of anywhere that blocks Signal but doesn't block Tor.

I think the OWS developers would probably be more interested in a system that can conceal metadata from the Signal server rather than pure network surveillance.
This is very impressive, I love it when code has minimal (or no) dependencies, you really see what's going on under the hood. Could have used some more comments in the code itself though (there are basically none but the code is clean). I first thought the code would render into a window using OpenGL. But this is a plain software renderer with no hardware acceleration/OpenGL at all and it simply stores the rendered image into a picture file. There is no window or stuff like that.

EDIT: The lessons in the wiki explain things so well that comments in the code really aren't necessary at all.
I really don't get the title of this. Why is it "beyond Clojure"? Maybe if we can see the actual talk it will be more clear.
One of the things that AMD broke in x86-64, and after that, both AMD and Intel decided to develop a new virtualisation mechanism completely incompatible both with V86 and each other (VT-x, AMD-V)... I think V86 mode was definitely far less appreciated than it should've been.

On the other hand, I couldn't get a working command prompt in the Win98 demo, so it seems V86 does not emulate V86 quite right. ;-)
The disk seek problem didn't mysteriously disappear. You need to bust out some some contact cleaner and clean those header strip connections, both sides.
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Ask HN: With DNN These Ways, Why Is Weather Forecast So Unreliable?
I'm not talking about predictions up to 10 days ahead or anything, but predictions for next day for example. No matter which provider I check, it's usually massively inaccurate and they only seem to get things right 50% of the time. What kind of models are they using and why can't they seem to get better ?
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They seem more friendly and open than the Signal guys. They're using similar encryption, go check out their GitHub for more info. It doesn't require a phone number and has multi-device encryption with desktop support. It has audio, video, pictures, sketching, likes, editing, deleting, groups, and more. Signal feels like a joke in comparison. Try it.
Sadly unlike Michelin restaurants, you are not guaranteed to get a good game even if it has good reviews. Too much corruption going on.
I don't think most new engineers intuitively grasp the ramifications of Amdahl's Law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law

It really doesn't matter if you can make an individual task 1000x faster if your program only spends 1% of its time doing that task.
Yes. Years ago I learned OCaml (and I really didn't care for it. Seemed like a big mess of random stuff). I haven't touched it in years though. I used to learn a new language about every other year. My resume even used to be written in hand coded PostScript.
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yes, use rel=noopener. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=168988
agree, it is total discrimination. the narrative is that it is normal there is no Asian at all, as long as there is more than one Asian, Asians are overrepresented. so no matter what, screwing asians is the safe bet.
Haskell and OCaml are both great. I've had a fair amount of experience with both of them as well as Racket and, while I rather liked Racket, I would definitely order them Haskell > OCaml > Racket. (I did 61A in Scheme too, coincidentally.)

I'm using Haskell professionally now and, while there are still a few things I miss from Racket and even OCaml, Haskell delivers the best overall programming experience I've encountered.
The problem is they are not attracting enough non-Asians at the top of the funnel - something about their criteria is either driving away others, or is too attractive to Asians.

Unless you believe that talent is disproportionally concentrated in Asian candidates (which they obviously don’t given who they actually hire), then it is telling you that the funnel is broken. The funny thing is if they did hire 73% Asians they would rightly be criticised for discriminating against non-Asians.
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The money is going from some Americans to other Americans. There's also an ROI issue if we're all paying equally, but the recipients are chosen in a biased manner.
The living computer museum is an amazing place. Highly recommend visiting if you ever come to Seattle.
Not disagreeing, but I think both randomness and primality testing both have the problem that it's so easy to do them poorly. Generating random primes of these sizes isn't all that difficult, and even proofs can be done in reasonable time frames (e.g. under 10 seconds for 1024-bit inputs). There are also a couple random proven prime algorithms which run pretty fast. Getting software to correctly implement everything .... that seems to be hard.
Back in the old days, we saw crosstalk at at 4Mhz. I think circuits absent a pullup can be susceptible. But in general, I agree, you're more likely to break something removing and reinstalling the probes.

Which reminds me, one time back at my first job, the hardware guys were working on a new design, and it only worked with the logic analyzer probes attached to the CPU. They later discovered a missing connection between a pullup or pulldown resistor and the appropriate +Vcc or GND supply.
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The NPR Podcast Planet Money did a really good episode on this:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/07/24/426017148/episo...

Fun points - Keynes was a rich man who didn't have to work but who effectively worked himself to death.

The descendants of his siblings work heaps despite also being fairly well off as well.
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I played with it. It was as amazing as I had hoped.
Curious, what do you use for mysql -> kafka?
Hand-written SVG, treated as elements of the markup (rather than an external black-box object or image), usually works well. It's easily* styled, scripted, and has good clean structure and values. There are, however, a couple of problems.

Hand-writing a complex graphic is difficult! (ex: editing coastlines on a map) Unfortunately, current WYSIWYG editors produce bloated, illogical output full of bizarre measurement schemes, unnecessary translations, and incompatible proprietary garbage - sort of like the bad old days of Frontpage and Dreamweaver.

*There are also some quirks in both styling and scripting them (as others have mentioned, height is one, another is having to use NS versions of DOM functions instead of normal ones - but only sometimes).

Maybe by the time SVG turns 21, those things will be mostly sorted out. It's still in its awkward teenage years.
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After New York Attack, Congress Wants TSA to Secure Amtrak, Buses
I agree w/all the confusion regarding terminology. It's still static if you're not executing the code.

But, back to the premise: it would be really helpful if you [the author] could illustrate security defects which can be detected using "dynamic analysis" which cannot be detected with "static analysis." Legitimate, actually exploited/able vulnerabilities would be ideal.
They left out what I think is the most important info - when will it ship? They listed a lot of libraries that aren't yet in .Net Core, but they say that those will be added to .Net Core to bring it into compliance with .Net Standard.
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These things come about because people learn the simple way to solve all permission problems is just do everything as su (or root) and chmod everything to 777. The problem is it does solve all problems (well sweep them under the rug) - I guess when the only tool you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
An MITech-review article:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602464/this-technology-is...
Don't wear shoes in the house and you won't have to vacuum weekly. The Japanese figured this out centuries ago.
> And why do you think that is? Diagnosing the symptom is far easier than understanding the cause. You're doing the former.

When you're talking about emergent behavior of extremely complex systems, "why" is incredibly hard to answer accurately and incredibly easy to answer inaccurately. I honestly have no clue why women en mass (apparently) don't care for pockets. All I can say is that would seem to be their aggregate preference. Can you honestly tell me that anyone can say more?

For example, I also can't tell you why I exist. I'm aware that there are many groups who claim to know why (god), but in my opinion their explanations are wrong. I'm satisfied to simply #include evolution, and note that my female ancestors and male ancestors probably liked each other, at least on average.

I also can't really tell you why I checked a bug into the project I'm working on yesterday. I can tell you what the bug was, and what the fix is... but why? I'm not sure. Maybe human brains just have a non-zero failure rate? I really didn't want to code it wrong, but it happened anyway. All I'm really sure about with respect to my bug is that the answer probably isn't because there's a historical trend toward bugs.

Circling back, there are many areas in modern life where women have deviated strongly from their historical conditions. You might even say that deviation from historical trends is itself a historical trend. But you can't say that without giving up on historical trends as a useful explanation :p