skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not an HR lawyer, but I believe that as long as you weren't exclusively hiring through here, using a site like this as part of your hiring strategy could in fact be used to demonstrate that you are seeking out candidates from a broad range of backgrounds. If you only advertise a role in youth-oriented venues that might itself be grounds for being accused of discriminatory hiring practices, so also considering candidates through a channel like this would help defend against that accusation.
Getting older doesn't guarantee that you will grow out of your social awkwardness
Something doesn't add up. There's usually one or two jerks in a group. They have to be dealt with. When it's the whole group systematically harassing you about your race and gender.. well, you're probably a blogger on Medium.

> As a woman and minority in tech, I have also often felt like a lone barometer in gauging the importance of a lot of issues around gender, race and culture.

Starting the article about how you've always been a victim

> One day, one of my supervisors jumped to my defense at a team event, in an awkward display of sexism. The gesture was unnecessary, so I was taken aback

Your manager sees you floundering and tries to help you out

> However, a group of other male coworkers who resented the attention I received

Whaaaat??? Is this middle school? Okay, let's start dropping names.

> I started having major sleep disturbances, endocrine issues, and depressive symptoms (crying spells, anger outbursts, chronic fatigue, gastrointestinal problems)

This sounds extreme and possibly symptomatic of other psychological factors at play.
Bayesian optimization, I am familiar with, but Q-learning, not so much. If anyone has good references on or introductions to Q-learning I would appreciate it.
Dunno if you're joking but one wouldn't refer to a group of women that way nowadays. Sort of has negative connotations.
Would be a nice gesture of Obama on his way out. Just to soften the broken promise of not being able to close Guantanamo.
If you haven't seen Citizenfour, watch it when you have a chance. I already respected what Edward Snowden did, but I came away with even more respect after watching him bring Glenn Greenwald up to speed with what's been going on. His deliberate decision to share this story with the world was amazing, and watching his commitment to that decision was inspiring and motivating.

https://citizenfourfilm.com/
> How to train

Even if you train, it costs too much to classify per 1000 examples afterwards. For example, a small news classifier would have costed me $1000-10K/month but instead I did it for free with Vowpal Wabbit. I prefer to set up my own ML stack, much cheaper, thus better for personal projects.

But if you're a company it's ok to pay Google, or maybe I just don't understand Google's offer.
I suspect that is changing. Rather than threaten individual politicians, I think they now use their media outlets to directly alter the public narative irrespective of politicians.
Everybody wins!
> What's the justification for allowing the use of hyphens/dashes in reference names, when underscores would seemingly provide the same purpose?

Hyphens commonly are used to join words into compoubds in English, underscores are not; the latter are used in many programming languages as a result of the fact that not allowing hyphens to serve that role when they also serve as an operator in other contexts simplifies automated parsing (and allows syntax that supports more compact expressions, and there was a time when bytes of source code had a greater cost than they do now.)
The difference is in the usual practical constraints of time and space.
He only agreed to it for the good of the country and constitution. Anyone can see that the NSA and other clandestine "intelligence" organization were flagrantly attacking the constitution and abusing powers granted by the country.
Facebook admits, for the 4th time, that it messed up its measurement metrics
To expand, since I can no longer edit:

People here really should read up on what "relationship triangles" are. Most people a) can't recognize them when they occur, and b) don't realize how toxic and dysfunctional this relationship dynamic is. This must not become the new norm in the workplace, as there will be, as with any type of dysfunction, large human costs.

In an ideal world, people would assert themselves respectfully to the people causing undesired behavior (which OP admits she didn't do) and coworkers should empathically listen and adjust their behavior (which according to her also didn't happen). Both of those things should have happened; there are two reasons they didn't:

1) Most people are simply not mature enough to communicate like this. People don't get taught how to resolve conflict among each other and how to assert themselves respectfully. Most people don't know how to assert themselves, and instead blame, generalize ("you always do this"), and attack. And most people also can't empathically listen, and adapt their behavior, they might just refuse to change, or even feel slighted and seek "revenge". This is a complex problem, and the people treating it as a "women's issue" are presenting an almost pathetically oversimplified view.

2) Even if people dared assert themselves, they're afraid that the company would punish them for it. This also should be fixed, but it doesn't undermine the existence of the first point.

The real problem is that the vast majority of people have pretty poor communication skills, and nobody is willing to address this, instead opting to play political partisan games. Schools and the culture at large should teach effective communication, assertion and problem-solving skills, if we want to make any progress.
How to download videos from YouTube
The Challenges of EFS
That would be a good point as a question but as an idea it's naive. Unless they increase their popularity by several times they never displace any of the current top search results.
Dijkstra was wrong about Fortran at that time. The standard describing arrays with arbitrary bounds is dated 1978.

Why do people make the fuss about indexing and not about column-major arrays?
Microsoft wasn't the first to do a single one of those things. Copying Apple and Google isn't innovative in my opinion nor Websters.
There are those of us, of a certain age, for whom the "web" was at best a novelty while we were in school. Even through the original .com bubble, becoming a web programmer wasn't the same as "CS". EE and CS were disciplines for which you got hired at Microsoft (gold standard at the time), Oracle, Western Digital, HP (on the decline), etc. It wasn't that cool.

Then Google happened. Google elevated the Web into a real software engineering platform, and suddenly this novelty thing we were doing was taken over by the hardcore CS graduates.

Our friends and family were like "why don't you go work for Google" and we had to explain how what Google does and what we do are different.

I think that for some people, especially those who have worked in Web their whole careers, the desire to work in that kind of product environment is very appealing. So I would say this person is probably legit in their desire to work at Google.

I have no opinion on whether working at Google is worth it or not. But even if you end up not liking it, I suspect just being there opens a ton of future doors. It's a win-win if this guy is successful.
I can see a reasonable argument being made for pardoning Snowden for revealing the domestic dragnet programs. But how can he possibly be pardoned for revealing the details of our foreign intelligence operations? Spying on foreigners is the raison d'être of intelligence agencies.
Once installed, fiber optic lines become long term infrastructure, and will be used for decades. With those time scales in mind, the line installation cost is reasonable even after accounting for market penetration and occupancy rates.
> What is the best way to explain the concept that can be quickly understood by those that are non-technical?

Your electric bill.

Should your electric company be allowed to charge you or the manufacturer of <insert favorite device> more money to power <insert favorite device>?
I'll take the prank war over the bar fight. Though you may eventually find the prank way escalates to being nastier than the bar fight.
Reminds me of Operation Barmaid where a UK nuclear submarine used cutters to steal a towed array from a Warsaw-pact vessel:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9602103/HMS-C...
They're also dumping hundreds of billions of usa bonds
Read the transcripts of the Yahoo court case where they challenged the FISA court order. Then tell me they weren't asking for 3 hops...

Further proof:

> 50 U.S.C. § 1861 (b)(2)(C).
These call detail orders cannot last longer than 180 days. Additionally, in an application for call records “two hops” from target—call records from people in contact with the identified target—the government must base its request on “session-identifying information or a telephone calling card number identified by the specific selection term” used in its first request. In December of 2015, the FISC ruled that USA Freedom does not require the government to show that these “two hops” call records are relevant to an ongoing investigation.

The only development Ive found has been that they promised to use 2 hops instead of 3. Which is good. But I'm not convinced the 2, previously 3, hops is limited to simply metadata.

Additionally this whole discussion of FISA warrants and limitations are strictly for Americans. They can collect full content and metadata of every foreign traffic they passively intercept.

The issue with metadata that was debated is primarily because they had unlimited warrantless access to American metadata since it's basically public data in their view. No one cared about non-americans. The FISA orders are for granting analysts access to full content on Americans (most likely they already have most of this data, they just aren't allowed to query it without a warrant.

They don't need warrants to collect metadata.
I don't get it. I tried reading this New Yorker story when it came out and thought it was terrible and has little to do with Snowden. Now it's on the front page of HN? Did anyone understand the story itself?
They might not be a huge contender in the smart phone market, but are tablets not considered "mobile"? I agree, it might've been more appropriate to not generalize with saying they solved mobile and instead point out a particular mobile offering that is excelling or something.
Mobile means more than just phones.
Took me too long to realize this was fiction
And a traitor.
stealing classified information is different from whistleblowing
> > I don't think it requires some great intellect to get it

> yeah, exactly, it doesn't. which makes lisp elitism very awkward.

The thing is, people sometimes use elitism as a synonym for chauvinism, which it isn't.

"Lisp is easy, everyone should use it for everything" doesn't, by itself, meet the definition elitism because it doesn't refer to some small elite group being somehow better than others.
This service should be superfluous due to enforcement of discrimination laws. If companies are specifically not hiring older people then there's surely some way to find out.

And the idea that an "oldster" is a thing should not be legitimised by people in the tech industry. Talk about turkeys voting for Christmas.
It's a weird experience if you're a clever youngster. I liken it to speed vs torque. I have to rely on being fast and being able to scan a problem as fast as I can to understand it. But an older engineer will just know the lay of the land. I had this happen a lot with an older electrical engineer. He seemed slow and I looked to run circles around everyone, but he could point to things as a root cause before I even understood the problem. I would have to spend time to decompress his observations to backtrack how he figured it out, and you start to realize that his shortcuts and heuristics are just so much better than mine. I wish all young engineers to have the opportunity to be whooped by the tortoise.

Sometimes I would spot something he didn't, but it was frequently because I was approaching from a position of ignorance. It worried me that someday I'll lose that edge, but I guess it's why a good team will be diverse and balanced.
All government workers must swear an oath to uphold the constitution. Snowden is an inspiration in that he did just that.
Let's look at some real live x265 benchmarks, because you skipped the part where they did it on a beefy dual socket server.
Let's take: http://x265.ru/en/x265-hd-benchmark, that benchmark is 1080P, let's assume you're correct with your simplicity and it might be closer to reality.

The fastest listed system there does a blazing 33fps (well that's a broadwell, the 2015 dual socket server is probably atleast the xeon equivalent of it).

And we haven't even looked at the image quality/compression artifacts.

I disagree with your assessment.

Rivvr is apparently a spinoff of Sixa, the appropriate techcrunch article https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/09/sixa-secures-3-5m-as-it-la... repeats the 11ms latency. Maybe it's the same technology? The comments to the techchrunch article do not sound convincing either.
No, in Portugal.

We were eventually acquired by a company doing helpdesk and CRM software.
I think what scoreponok is trying to say is at the end of the day, it's just a job.

There is a lot of suffering and trauma in the world. Even though I don't want to try and quantify either of those for different events, there's probably a difference between say being affected by a natural disaster and issues at work. After all, work != life.

Note that this obviously don't mean the issue is to be trivialised. After all, we can't do anything about natural disasters, but we can do something about racism or sexism, etc. and we should.

Edit: I picked natural disasters, because the quote "This strife has shattered all of our lives like nothing else before" could also apply to such an event. Other examples I can think of include illness, stalking, and war/PTSD. To be honest, I find it hard to think of working for Apple and going to war having the same effect. Although if the article is accurate, the comparison might be, too - worth thinking about.
The text editor I pulled from being sold a long while back. Now I maintain it and have a new version I am contemplating putting out for sale again.

The games are way better :-)
you consider this real journalism?
I actually agree about the (mis)labeling - I was not consciously doing it, if it makes a difference. It is something I will be cognizant of in the future. My point was to simply say that there is more to managing harassment than is presently being addressed. I have to work with men all my life, and I cannot do that if I start making them uncomfortable now ! This is the problem with this situation to begin with - it is so fraught with conflict even if everyone has the best of intentions.
I don't either. I think it's about obnoxious intellectuals but that might just be me projecting my own opinion of the characters.
This was an impressive HN experiment, at the very least. 14 comments now and only one person even glanced at the article.
256-bit SSL ;)
Yep, some of our guys went to work for them in projects across the Iberian Penisula.
My strange, joyful year of sleeping on the floor instead of the bed
Felix Dennis talked about this type of management behaviour (petty abuse of power) in his book How To Get Rich. He said sick days in a department were a good indicator that a manager was doing this and had to be fired.
Don't know what country the OP is from, but my guess is the phrase he's referring to is the Spanish "Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo" (which translates to what he wrote above). It's a common saying in Spain at least, and presumably in Latin America as well.
This is just rude. Reading these threads a lot of people have made very specific, good arguments as to why this feature was useful to them _for years_. No matter what you think of that feature, you can't just condescend people because you are not accepting reasonable and logical arguments. I too found this feature useful for _years_. Please be respectful of other peoples' opinions. Surely you can tell a lot of people use this feature for _a_ reason.
A little ironic that the video shows people actually being extremely physically active and then concludes with those same people heads down on a phone game at the end
TLDR: Collects your timeline and compares it with other peoples' to see what news you're being fed vs. others?
I agree that it takes two to tango; it seems that after Obama's first two years in office, when he ignored the Republicans, the latter were very spiteful.

It is possible that the Republicans would have obstructed President Obama regardless, but I am unsure of what the counter-factual would look like.
The lines between 'took', 'let go' and 'gave' are blurred. I wouldn't take and story abour the loss of an intelegence asset at face value.
Really? I thought they were asking for Snowden to be forgiven, usually phrased in the language of him doing a public service by leaking. sure, they're not simultaneously, asking for the people who made this surveillance happen to be punished, but that's like asking for $10, getting turned down, and then someone telling you that you should have asked for $100. One thing at a time, especially since a pardon can help shape public perceptions of NSA surveillance and its legality.
You misread what I wrote, but I never said "mixing of any kind = hate". I said specifically "Any country where you see some mixing, you'll see the same hate." The hate you see in the US is not any more or any less than you will see in France, especially in Paris where it is completely overt against Muslims.
That's your moral compass? A dumb piece of paper over the interests of the public against corrupt and tyrannically clandestine pockets of govt? I don't care if the Constitution itself allowed genocide and rape and merciless tortures. Would you ignorantly carry out such acts on its behalf? Is your psychological hangup so bad that you can't even see 10 feet in front of your face enough to stand on your own two feet and think for yourself?
If you take a survey of hiring managers they will point to three primary reasons that candidates 40 - 60 have a harder time finding jobs:

1) They are typically more expensive than "market" for the same role a younger person can fulfill at acceptable tradeoff of competency - higher salaries, higher related costs like healthcare for a family, expectations around retirement programs, etc.

2) They are less flexible - they are less willing to relocate, they have kids to pick up instead of "beer hour bonding", unwilling to run the same 60 hour gauntlet that a 25 year old can etc.

3) They have less primary & secondary education relevant to today's enterprise issues. In the specific case of "marketers" - like TryOldster is pitching - the best people will learn anything, but anybody over 50 years old spent their professional training + formative 20s thinking about television, radio, and print - not paid search, mobile advertising, and social.

That we're at the top of HN again with another "hire older people" post (recently we saw OldGeekJobs) demonstrates there's a huge unmet need within this cohort.

I don't think a job-board is the right solution to this problem because the pitch on TryOldster does nothing to alleviate the three principal concerns.

My unasked, probably asinine business advice would be to turn this flow of traffic into a training / education platform where you can VALIDATE and address the very real, foundational concerns of hiring managers around this cohort, and suddenly you've got a machine that can get motivated people trained and placed.
I agree. But it can also develop over a period of time. And there is a difference between being friendly and being hostile - this was the latter.
Looks like the bigrss feed is working normally in Feedly. The regular rss feed still isn't updating but bigrss will work for now. Thanks for the link!
How can you say that? Google gives an expensive Christmas gift every year!
The US needs to adopt a generally sane immigration system for skilled workers or investors much more like what, say, Canada has.

Skilled talent with some savings, job prospects, and decent French or English language skills have little problem getting into Canada to work, and it does great things for the economy overall.

However, many people in fact use Canada as a 'staging area' to make a move to the the US eventually.
Clickbait title. It's broadly, if not totally, irrelevant to the piece.
Specialized audit companies have to get paid. They claim to be neutral parties, but they have an inherent conflict of interest.

When one company is making a sale to another company, not always, but sometimes, the sale is made by exploiting an inside political conflict. Sometimes the purchase is a prize in a proxy battle between two factions. Sometimes, it is to get some independence for one group from another. Sometimes, software is used to enforce the will of one group on another.

The outside firm, knowing who buttered their bread, fished around for clues on how the report was supposed to land.

The market has spoken.
Using Java 8? Please Avoid Functional Vomit
My point is that "soonness" is not just a matter of intelligence; no matter how smart you are it still takes time.

Let's take your typical HN'er who probably thinks of themselves as very smart indeed and put them in this scenario. Then they will quickly learn that in order to make Angular.js, you must first locate a supply of clean drinking water and make a fire and last the first night...
Battery Health from Mac App Store is very nice, shows a lot of information:

http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple20/v4/db/ec/d0/dbecd0c9-...
I look forward to seeing what's in store for Build 2017. It's going to be tough to outdo Reinvent.

Basically early in 2016 I gravitated towards MS mainly due to the tight integration with VS + Streamlined Azure Portal UI....but the overwhelming amount of new C# ASP.NET stuff I was now encouraged to use...was a tough sell.

tl;dr: Build 2016 convinced me to switch to Azure but now I'm back on AWS post Reinvent 2016
It's a piece of fiction. Writers writing what they know, which means writing about writers thinking about writing.

The content of the petition is irrelevant to the story; the actual content is all about a) the feelings the author has about Liz and her relationship with the petition-writers, and b) the credibility of artists trying to make their political action "artistic".
This was my conclusion.
Old age and treachery will beat youth and skill every time.

I love that line. It's featured in a neat writeup by ridiculousfish:

http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/old-age-and-treachery.h...
What he mentioned was :

> But here's the gripe: the software to talk to it is only available on a mobile device. ONLY.

talk is ambiguous
That case raises the more general issue of banning suspects or convicted criminals from the internet.

Courts commonly impose it. When such sentences first arose, the internet was marginal enough that it wasn't vital. And most judges now could probably live a tolerably normal life with an internet ban.

But if anyone on HN got banned from the internet, that would be tantamount to "banned from work", and much else.

I haven't seen much discussion about overuse of these order though.
Oh, I'm just asking whether you never say "ads" at all? (Just like a programmer wouldn't use the term, say, "Electronic computer program." Like a programmer wouldn't say to another programmer, "I just have to write a quick electronic computer program".) You guys didn't use "ads" at all? Or did you use them interchangeably?
Reviewing Aquila's first full-scale test flight
I've benefited quite a bit from Oldster mentors in my career who had Been There, Done That but still wanted to be in the game. Combining hungry smart 20somethings with Wise Oldsters is a potent combo.