skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Satya Nadella was born in India. I am 100% sure this policy is not going to apply to Microsoft's nine offices in India which are 100% one race. If you don't think this is about anything other than using race politics for corporate power, ask why diversity isn't important in Microsoft's other locations.
The tendency to write Matlab that's several orders of magnitude slower than equivalent Fortran isn't the only reason to try to keep it off HPC systems. There are crazy (and inconsistent) licensing conditions applying to running on clusters for one.
There has been misinformation on the internet ever since the internet first started. And before that National Enquirer at check out stands throughout America.

It's a problem now why? Maybe because people didn't do what major media wanted and this is alarming?

The fact there is a such an outcry about "fake news" lately bothers me a lot more than the existence of fake news.
Wow I guess this is why I'm not a biochemist; I wouldn't have thought that was possible. This might be something to look for at the feed store in another decade or so...
Maybe "Red China" realised it was on the same planet as the rest of us, and needed it in good health for its own survival?
Reasonable hiring is based on solely upon whether the candidate is both willing and able to fill the role.

All the factors you listed are equivalent to or surrogates of that fundamental requirement. Or, in the case of leadership skill, are excess to requirements unless the role involves leadership.

All races and sexes being equal on average does not mean that all candidates are equal on average. If they were, we wouldn't have interviews.

Almost always, one candidate will be better. Necessary, that candidate will be a member of one race or sex. If any of the other candidates is a member of another race or sex, and that race or sex is one which the hirer is incentivized to hire people for, a less-suitable candidate will be hired if the hirer follows his incentives.
>My wife has seen this, being one of the hires made to fill a quota while working at EA.

Can you elaborate on this? I'm very curious how far companies go to fill quotas and how much weight is put into race/gender.
> does that make it a bad idea to more highly weight diverse candidates

It doesn't, but you can't weight in favor of candidates which aren't there. If I have 10 positions to fill, 30 qualified white males, and 1 qualified female, is it better to go out and spend more money attracting females, or fill the jobs with the best candidates and move on?

> What's the solution to the small pipeline?

As with my other response to you, I believe it's cultural. You can't force women who are interested in writing novels or nursing to go into engineering. Find where the cultural issues are, accept that you'll never get to a clean split between the races and genders (for any position), and the symptoms of few diverse candidates will clear itself up.
Actually proof of stake can by hybrid one:
You will need both mining power and staking.
By having 2x coins you will have 4x voting power.

That way you will reduce waste on mining while still having security coming from it.
How Bad Would It Have Smelled In A Medieval City?
Even if you can find the money, I'm told by people who support Matlab on our systems that it isn't very effective and doesn't fit well with HPC resource management.
True, that is not really covered in this scenario. Except Blogger gives you an option of whether or not to list your blog on search engines. I have a privat blog from before the FB era that is not listed, and does not show up on Google searches for my name. Although of course, I would not put any confidential information on there.
The best exercise, for myself, for the "RSI" (tendinosis most likely) in my right forearm is archery with recurve and longbow in particular, not so much with compound.

Any pain I have in it is halved, and it feels much looser and stretched out. And as a bonus my medium distance vision also gets a workout.

I bought a power tower for chinups and pullups earlier this year but unfortunately it contributed to aggravating both my elbows and forearm.
Beyond Nokia: A love story
that's a good point: fairness is neither here nor there. the point is to get a better deal for workers.
We're witnessing history as part of a larger Hegelian dialectic. We're not going back to the isolated nation state (that ship sailed a long time ago). However, it's clear that unfettered globalization will give way to something akin to regional spheres of influence.

Thesis: Globalism

Antithesis: Nationalism

Synthesis: Regional Globalization
I suspect your own thing probably wouldn't have the same visibility as twitter and that's partly the appeal of something like twitter.
Technically the statement is accurate, but I understood that you disagreed with the hypothetical.

That said, there is a lot of evidence and history that supports the notion that OPEC only managed to keep oil prices high by threatening member states with retaliation if they under cut the "standard" price. And at the same time, people who were in a position to undercut that price (Venezuela, Russia, Brazil) did so in order to get more foreign currency faster.

It is always a balance of incentives. The market clearly will buy oil at lower prices if given the opportunity.

So one could imagine an act of economic warfare where the oil and gas reserves were developed as quickly as possible and shipped to Europe at a steep discount to cut into the revenues Russia makes selling oil and gas. Thus putting a huge crimp in their economy which makes their military spending cut into their social programs more deeply causing internal unrest and dissatisfaction.

That certainly would not be in the best interests of the companies pulling the oil out of the ground, but it could be in the best interests of the US policy makers.

My original point was that the $900B number was specious, you cannot take the 'estimate of reserves in barrels' x 'the spot price of oil' and call it the 'value'. The quantity is material to the commodity price on the market and so moving it through the market will change the net value.
This is her favorite "token female" story. Basically, for a temp QA position she was given a test to test a short section of a videogame. Her goal was to identify all the bugs she possibly could. When I took the same test, I had identified about 15, and I missed a lot of them. She identified 0. She was hired. She was also given a "most improved" award at the end of the testing cycle, and got a copy of Fifa for the Game Boy Color as her prize.

Put another way, she had no past experience, displayed no aptitude for the position, and she was hired. She was, the manager admitted to her later, also the only woman to apply.
Support for proprietary winmail.dat files in Helpmonks
Blogspam. Original: http://www.biggreenit.com/blog/microsoft-office-365-encrypti...
Today we have politicians coming out and declaring every single major natural disaster was because of man-made climate change. Does anyone feel that this helps convince skeptics?
Florida Keys Approves Trial of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes to Fight Zika
Judging by the insane smog in their major cities, I'd say they have been pretty short-sighted in what is good for their health.
As a teenager, I'm worried about the increasing magnitude of the climate problem that my generation will be forced to solve. I'm saddened to think of the long-term damage this upcoming administration will likely prolong further.
I don't plan to at my own company, and I certainly wouldn't have done it anywhere until recently, but am currently setting up docker for CI/CD and production for a side client whose previous development was a total trainwreck India outsource jobbie with zero oversight and four years of extreme technical debt.

I am not sold on docker per-se, but it is a reasonably easy choice for a container system available to demand foreign developers on arbitrary platforms standardize on testing with. Containers are auto-generated by the CI/CD system, based on git commits. We're also using gitlab-ce for this.
You think that sounds like a research paper? What field are you reading research papers in?!

For what it's worth, the author of the article has written multiple best-selling books for popular audiences.
It's a problem because "major media says X" doesn't imply that there's some big corrupt cabal of conspirators that would unfairly benefit from X, but a huge number of people seem to think that's exactly what it means.
Well, of course it should allow my friends to search my blogs
. Just not the rest of the world.

But I guess that if Blogger would be "open", so that other search engines could also index those blogs, then this whole scenario would not work (malignant search engines could expose everything to everybody). So my suspicion is that it would actually be quite hard (or at least require more research) to make an "open" version of facebook.
While a bit more political and divisive than I would have gone with, I think you hit the nail on the head.

Those that would benefit most in theory from unions generally have the most experience "in the trenches" with them. This experience shows them that unions more or less became places to protect the lowest common denominator with zero regard for any value they bring to the table.

Show me a union that functions like a "guild" where it polices it's membership extremely well, and people strive to be skillful enough to join - then I will both support that union as a member, and hire those members when possible.

If all you exist to do is keep the lowest performers employed at the expense of your most productive members you can see why most hard working folks tend to have a complicated relationship at best with unions as they are implemented today.
I'm making an AI to recommend articles so you can check it once a day or get email alerts for ones you want to comment on. Downside is you have to train it.
> The fact there is a such an outcry about "fake news" lately bothers me a lot more than the existence of fake news.

It's a clever tactic, tainted only by the fact that it's obviously driven by fear of the upcoming Trump presidency. Nobody's buying it, though. It was already used as an excuse to delist valid right wing sites from the internet. The public outcry forced them to reverse the decision in less than a day. This will blow over in another week, replaced by the next fear-driven tactic to regain power over the populace.
It's not always that simple.

I know of someone who did that with one workplace. Massive taxpayer fraud going on, millions taken from public funding and redirected to business bank accounts. Evidence provided included where and when to look, amounts stolen, that kind of thing.

What they didn't know at the time was the person who was signing the checks was an ex-employee who had moved up the rung into regulatory, and was responsible for receiving the letter. No investigation, in fact they got a big increase in the level of funding. The fraud still goes on.

Nobody there knows who sent the letter, because if they did the author would have received a visit from some associates and probably be in a care facility somewhere, or possibly even dead.
I'm not who you were replying to, but he wasn't necessarily making an assumption. There is a philosophical theory named "effective altruism" which includes tenets such as cause prioritization, cost effectiveness and comparative wealth to (hopefully) allow the most good to be done the most efficiently.

In amongst those tenets is the precept of comparative wealth, quoted here:

> Many effective altruists believe that, as formulated by Peter Singer, "if it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it".[18] Anyone with an income of above $52,000 PPP is in the 1% richest people globally.[19] Therefore, many effective altruists donate a significant portion of their income to highly effective charities, since doing so would not cause them to give up important purchases.

In short, if you're making six figures in tech, it is generally more charitable to keep doing the tech that you're doing and donate more, and if the tech work you're doing isn't a net negative, you'll be doing more good by donating your tech largesse to a seaweed farmer instead.
Bad news, the film is unwatchable if you know the plot. At least it was for me.
And what if what you really wanted to share was a photo, or a comment, or an article from NYT or Vogue, and not a long piece of writing? Isn't that what most of Facebook is used for?
What you're describing removes the ability of government employees to use privacy. This just incentivizes them when privacy is helpful (like in sensitive negotiations) to do that private work away from the office in their private lives.

Likewise, if you expect privacy in your personal life, but you work for the government and are forced to be transparent there, then using big data techniques and the many services tracking private individuals (uber, facebook, google, twitter, HN posts, others' cell phone captures, etc), you can suss out just about everything you need to know about their supposedly private lives, whether or not you know how to use Tor, can tolerate the dogshit Tor bandwidth and latencies, and assuming your Tor exit relays haven't been compromised.

When you create zones of privacy and transparency, what you're doing is making the private zone more powerful than the transparent zone, and you're making the transparent zone a liability to the private zone.

This is exactly the opposite of what you want to motivate. You want to generally motivate people to be transparent and to protect them for being transparent. Broadly speaking, that's the only way we're going to get more transparency. Right now in the US, transparency is generally equivalent to liability. It's all punishment, little reward.
That's the weakest argument in favor of censorship I've ever seen.
This article reads very much like me, a non-drinker, telling you why you shouldn't drink. I've never tried alcohol, but I've heard plenty of bad things about it, and here's a list of them! It's addictive, you know! Messes with the dopamine system!

I do consider social media addictive. But adults can usually handle addictive substances. We just have to know our limits, and cut ourselves off if needed. There's really no need for 21st-century temperance activists preaching its evils.
Say what you want about China's system of government, but 80% of top leadership there have engineering or science degrees, instead of law degrees. [1] [2]

[1] http://www.economist.com/node/13496638

[2] http://singularityhub.com/2011/05/17/eight-out-of-chinas-top...
GNU social didn't fail. It still has a growing community. Check out mastodon.social to see a newborn server (with it's own implementation of everything, in Ruby) for example. It was featured here some weeks ago.
ISIS has killed hundreds of thousands, and has ruined the lives of tens of millions. Muslims in other countries are an extremely serious problem due to the multitude of terrorist attacks they mount. I don't know what more you want. People like you will be the death of the free world, by virtue of the loss of all its freedoms.

To some extent, I can control and even prevent afflictions like accidents, cancers, and heart disease. I'm applying the same preventative logic to the jihadist disease carried by Muslims.

Would you intentionally let in an immigrant with ebola? No. It's like that...
Thanks for sharing. This paper speaks to wages... not benefits, which Walmart avoids by classifying employees as part-time.
IMO distraction from your work where how interesting your task at hand vs immediate facebook check.I would relax and get to see what I am doing and how its interesting/fullfilling/fun/silly etc and lets the grip of immersion take over you. So to reiterate is I don't think social media is distracting but rather working lives of most office workers aren't as exciting(like friends windsurfing) and social media can be a demotivational poison at that point. I am guilty of letting social media reign over me on bad days, but on really good days it is the task at hand has control of my attention and rest of facebook/tv/movies/games noise has selfish demanting and yet weak overtones...
USCIS Proposes Better Rules for Skilled Immigrant Non-Immigrant Visa Holders
Ask HN: Why do companies use recruiters to narrow down potential candidates?
I was wondering why software companies let recruiters decide which candidate is good or bad for a given role?

I'm talking about the very first selection. I've interviewed a lot of candidates and usually we (engineer/hiring manager) get a very narrowed list of 2-3 candidates max for a role.

Let's say I don't have a specific keyword in my Resume. Does a recruiter know I can do the job still based on my experience? For instance, I put "Oracle, XML, Data bases" and the hiring manager said to look for people who know SQL. Well, guess what, the d*mb recruiter don't know anything about Data bases so he/she will pass.

And that's the easy part, skills... it gets worse when it comes you professional experience. For example "I built a Web Server from scratch on top of Apache" and the recruiter said to look for someone who's familiar with the HTTP protocol.

If I never wrote "H T T P - P R O T O C O L E" in my Resume I'm screwed...
Mozilla has been gradually restricting what add-ons can do in Firefox precisely because of problems with malware. This is another step in that process.
Who IP address ranges are given to is not any secret (arin, ripe and so on had databases on this) and there is nothing special to block a block of IPs instead of just one.
"In a capitalist economy, the market rewards things that are rare and valuable. Social media use is decidedly not rare or valuable. "

This sounds such a short-sighted argument. Do people greet others because they expect some sort of rewards? It's a basic courtesy. Yes, some people overdo it but using a social media moderately could be a good norm. Again, the balance is the key, and we'll still need a bit more time to figure out the right amount of dose for each, but rejecting them outright is equally misguided.
Could you elaborate on this? Aren't auto-generated docs produced from comments written by humans? What exactly is wrong with that?
> At the end of the day is the managerial class.

No Sir, it isn't. I was a manager for years, then a contractor, and nowadays run my own show. Never once did I acquiesce to a request that I had the slightest concern about. Not to falsify data, not to take operational shortcuts, not to infringe the privacy of employees (my own or my client's) or third parties.

When such things are brought up, I do three things:
1. Say no.
2. Tell the other party that it is not a good idea: at worst will get them into a lot of trouble, at best they will lose any trust and respect they may have or hope to have one day.
3. Ask them what the real problem is, and try to help them find a real solution. It's surprising how often people go for the worst idea first without even considering other options.

In all fairness, I do come from a regulated profession background (two of them, actually), where if I screw up I respond with my licence, but I also learned the ropes at a company that were very strict with this sort of thing.
Can you elaborate? Not my native language. What are you trying to say?

My cynical grumpy core wants to parse this as "It's going to be weird to look at <Non-US> for leadership". But ask first, complain later. :)
> Unless you have some way to also blame the management responsible for deciding such a design should be implemented.

Their name is on it as well, with text describing what they approved.
On Facebook, one at least has some protection against outsiders searching for their name and finding one's "silly" (careless) postings. If all posts were open, no such protection would exist. I think this could be a real barrier for widespread adoption of this approach.
I actually think that quote is interesting for a different reason. First he says:

> I’ve never had a social media account.

Then:

>I think many more people should follow my lead and quit these services

You can't quit something if you never started using it.
"Russophobic" people are afraid of countries that invade and occupy other countries (bonus points if it's a dictatorship). This is not irrational.
I use the Panda extension for Chrome in part to keep track of what's trending on HN each day. If something piques my interest I'll usually check it out when I want to take a short break from work. This is a simple rule that helps limit how frequently I click through and I've found it to be very effective.
Ah wait, thats possible - i thought it can mount sd card in one of sim slots like my honor 6 plus could.
> I've recently been finding it really hard to concentrate on my work and I genuinely think this might be the reason. I find myself compulsively opening twitter and tumblr and scrolling through for ages before realising that literally none of it is interesting. I'm just scrolling past brightly coloured images and auto-playing videos while completely distracted and detached from the real world.

I recently solved this problem, yes 'solved' and it worked from day one. Thanks to Cal Newport's ideas.

The trick was this (YMMV, but I believe you sound exactly like me):

Imagine your mind like your desk. Every morning it's empty. (Usually) You wake up you load it up with all sorts of crap to entertain yourself, social media, Reddit, hacker news etc, etc.

By the time you get to work, there is no place to put work stuff on that desk. You try to put work stuff on it, but pretty much the whole desk is filled with Twitter/Tumblr/Facebook shit. So even if you make some space for the work stuff, sooner or later you focus on Tumblr again. Work stuff gets pushed out.

Generally in my case, by 2PM I manage to clear out all the distracting stuff and get focused.

The solution was this: BORE YOURSELF at every available opportunity.

When I start my morning, I refused to pick up my phone and check out social media (usually I would take a 45 minute dump just catching up on stuff posted last night). Sure my morning chores became a bit boring, but I also became more efficient (I started getting to work sooner).

Basically, by the time I get to my desk, I am so bored that the most interesting thing I can do is work. And my work (programming) is a very interesting task, it used to keep me engaged for hours and hours, it's just that Social Media defeated it.

I do check social media. I check it around 2PM after my standup. That 'impulsive' desire to constantly check it is gone. I catch up on all the social media in the evening or at night (but it doesn't create that compulsive pattern anymore.

End result: My productivity has gone up by 5-6 times. I have a performance enhancement story to work on and I managed to fix 6-7 bugs I found during my work, and it turns out that it was a whole team's sprint's work.
And mom and pops avoid because most ACA requirements don't apply to employers with fewer than 50 full time employees.

There's simply no evidence that Walmart is a drag on wages compared to retailers it replaces. Quite the opposite actually.