skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with all of this.

I have recruiters from 20 different local companies in my contact list. About 6 months before actively looking for a job, I reach out to them to get market information - both on skill set and salary range for my experience. I also unashamedly talk to former coworkers about salaries.

When it is time to start actively looking, I reach out to the same set of recruiters. They only send me jobs within the salary range I want and I know where my application is in the process. There are no black holes.

Usually within two to three weeks, I'm actively engaged (phone screen/in person interview/ waiting for an offer) with 15 - 20 companies.

Once I get 3-4 offers on the table. I'm tired of interviewing, stop the process and accept a job with the right combination of technology/money/commuting distance.

At most, I'm leaving $5000 on the table. Eventually, within two or three years, I will either be within market value range or change jobs.
> They let that sub appear on the homepage, yet they ban a lot of other similar subs that are on the other side of the spectrum.

Perhaps I'm not familiar with the situation. What similar subs have been banned?
This is sexist. No way around it. You could argue that it was not intentionally sexist, but the facts of the situation scream sexism.
But that just pushes the question one layer of abstraction deeper. Why would that person be willing to buy Snap shares from you at any price?

On a long enough timeline, you have to believe that Snap will either disburse dividends, be acquired by another company or find some other way to convert ownership into actual cash.
The key would be asking if their resultant hygiene or other important metrics are equivalent

I could save time in the bathroom by not washing my hands, but I'd rather not.
Since you seem to be quite familiar with the products, I'm interested to know -- can you estimate the difference between bulk and retail? Looks like ~$200 retail for the first jacket I clicked online.

Would be interesting to estimate what percentage of the total spend Uber were short-changing their female employees over.
Google Allo's desktop client is in the works
Reli-on Prime user here. When I discovered that I could buy the test strips over-the-counter for less than the deductible on the ones my doctor prescribed, I switched and never went back. $18 for 100.
>155 million Americans play video games, more than the number who voted in November’s presidential election. And they play them a lot: According to a variety of recent studies, more than 40 percent of Americans play at least three hours a week

I'm among them. I play a few hours a week, after my wife and child go to bed.

I barely talk about games with any of my fellow adult friends, because for some reason it is still too needing a world where discussing programming, star trek movies or settlers of Cataan is commonplace!
There are people right in this thread who seem to be arguing that it's a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

Edit: the definitive comedy sketch on the subject "Are we the bad guys?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU
I am pretty sure that is a subjective opinion, but you wouldn't be a productive member of the community anyway, no loss there.
Waymo is suing Otto and Uber for allegedly stealing the design of LiDAR circuit
Looks great... may be just what I have been looking for.
PS: The illustrations are awesome !
Could be a good topic for Ask HN?
Who can be relied upon to substantiate her claims (particularly if there is no lawsuit) ? Surely not Uber itself or its so called independent advisors.
Honestly I don't see the thirty something generation ever giving up video games. They've been a part of our entire lives at this point. Once we're old, it will be a case where no generation has ever been without video games in some capacity.
One must remember that individual managers have budgets much more stringent than the overall burn. That said, the manager didn't feel it necessary or acceptable to escalate what could clearly become an HR nightmare to ask for an expansion of budget. That such a request would expend enough political favor to make it a nonstarter, is indicative of an institutional problem.
5000 lines for a fresh install? That's... a lot. Is that on github somewhere?
Faker: Python package that generates fake data for you
And a surgeon needs to inspire confidence on both his patients and team
So many submissions, so few comments:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Mistakes+You+Apparently+Just+H...
Agreed - my first thought on reading the headline was "duh. what companies _aren't_ manipulating reddit?"
I just want to chime in and say that I've had a look and a quick play with mypost.io and think it looks awesome. Like many of the links on this HN thread, but with way more feature.

As you are allowing HTML entry, how are you protecting against Javascript inside user created pages?
I wouldn't recommend using SHA-2-512 for added security. Choosing SHA-3-256 would make more sense, as more knowledge has gone into the construction of SHA-3 than SHA-2, and the double bit length doesn't buy you anything if the fundamental construction is broken.
> Team members who believe in their leadership tend to be more effective. Patients who believe in their care have better recovery rates.

There may be other factors regarding recovery rates perhaps counter-intuitive with respect to the presence of leadership (or appearance of leadership). Somewhat related:

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/startling-benefit-cardiology-me...

"High-risk patients with certain acute heart conditions are more likely to survive than other similar patients if they are admitted to the hospital during national cardiology meetings, when many cardiologists are away from their regular practices."
Git calculates sha1(prefix+file), while the Google example was meant for sha1(file). However there is no difference in the attack. You could just as easily construct two files that have different sha1(file) but matching sha1(prefix+file).
Be a F***Ing Unicorn: What our journey at a startup accelerator taught us
That is an uncharitable reading of the comment because the person did not ask/demand that the software be open sourced. Instead it provided specific feedback as to why the software did not meet their business needs.

Those needs are not without historical precedent where a company has taken a dependency upon another company that later folded or changed direction or updated the product in incompatible ways or repriced it in ways that changed the value proposition. The decision to only use open source software looks like it was made based on client's best interests and professional experience.
I know plenty of women who use Lyft, for varying mixtures of of 1) exactly this reason, and 2) general friendliness of drivers in the Lyft app.
You're not gonna show me the syntax? Or how easy it is to extend?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If the candidate lied about their previous salary, that would be a perfectly valid reason to drop them. Someone willing to lie to their employer for personal gain won't stop with the one lie.
Protesting and rioting are not the same thing.
I'm pretty into this.
>But, I don't have the charisma of a director/VP/CEO of a large scale company.

Confidence might come after you get good at doing something. To be confident without any supporting experience that you will succeed is to be delusional. Plenty of successful people are not confident in what they do. It's just a feeling.

If you wait to feel confident about doing something before you do it, you're waiting when you could be doing.

Also, you may be cargo-culting personality traits of people that are in the position you want to be in. The causal relationship may point the other way. Their charisma is a result of their position of power, and their practice navigating it's use.
OK, this is quite a serious vulnerability in Subversion. SVN depends more on raw file SHA1 hashes than git because git prepends a header which prevents raw SHA1 collisions from translating directly into easy svn-style repository corruption.

The reason svn is broken is its "rep-sharing" feature, i.e. file content deduplication. It uses a SQLite database to share the representation of files based on their raw SHA1 checksum - for details see http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/...

You can mitigate this vulnerability by setting enable-rep-sharing = false in fsfs.conf - see documentation in that file or in the source at http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/trunk/subversion/lib...

This feature was introduced in svn 1.6 released 2009, and made more aggressive in svn 1.8 released 2013 https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/

SVN exposes the SHA1 checksum as part of its external API, but its deduplication could easily have been built on a more secure foundation. Their decision to double down on SHA1 in 2013 was foolish.
Email your customers, telling them to change their passwords, and link to some info about the leak. (in case they don't visit your website and miss seeing the security alert banner)

Advise them to change passwords for other services too, list sites possibly affected: https://github.com/pirate/sites-using-cloudflare/blob/master...
God save us from most decisions made because something is obvious (to someone).
Here's a question:

Would it be sexist if the women on the team were offered either the men's jacket, or an opportunity to purchase the women's jacket at a cost equal to the difference in cost between the two (i.e. Uber pays the same in both cases, but the women have to add a bit)?

Would it be acceptable to only be offered one of the two options, or would each woman have to be allowed to choose for themselves?

These questions also implicitly ask whether Uber should be considered to have given the men "a jacket", or "a value equal to the jacket".
Reddit's voting/karma system needs an overhaul. Karma does absolutely nothing on that site yet it's the only metric of value on that site (people do crazy things for meaningless reddit karma), that and having an ancient account but old accounts only matter to mods/admins for the most part.

Give an allowance of votes per day/week. More can be bought for very cheap, like 2 cents?

Votes are a commodity that can be accumulated and used to vote others. The more popular your posts are the more votes you have pooled to use on others. Votes are slowly dissipated over time to prevent hoarding.

You'd have to find a way to deal with shills/bots. No easy solution here, invite only will stifle growth. Collecting too much personal info will stifle growth. Maybe extreme blacklisting techniques for anyone found to be manipulating?

If you could pull it off then advertisers would actually have to pay to manipulate your site, not perfect but better than reddit's free accounts to manipulate thing they have going on now.
And how many secretaries are made obsolete by Word and Outlook
Trying to portray a message of transparency after few years ago being exposed by Snowden for running a non constitutional spying program on all US (and non US) citizens.
I thought the motive for positive publicity from the DoD since that happened would be pretty obvious.
I'm a woman, so no.
Good luck getting funding for a Crispr startup.
I don't think Google provides SGX on their cloud instances (SGX is extremely limited right now, since any code your placing in an enclave must be signed by Intel).
$1500 to get "your" source code, and $99 per month per app..

Plus, they gateway access to back-end services like logins or notifications, so limits apply and may be changed as time goes on.

It's unclear, but I suspect if you cancel your subscription, access to back-end services will stop working, but your app stays in the app store.

While it looks nice, the company is based in Poland so there's no recourse for most people if they go out of business or take your app and copy it.
Maybe because using Android is a bit like training your dog to guard your sausages without eating them :)
Then why teach grammar at all if we know kids pick it up naturally? There seems to be a threshold beyond grammer needs to be taught? Or was the hypothesis that there is no such thing.
I was only disputing this claim:

Travis convinced Kapor that, amongst other things, Uber was a platform for democratizing transportation, citing things like racism amongst taxi cabs to spin Uber as social good. So now you have a company that isn't actually what it pitched itself to be.

I did not make any "ends justify the means" arguments, or claim that what happened (if Fowler is to be believed) is acceptable.
Cineplex, Canadian theatre chain promotes poor security behaviour
An investigation remains an illusion, while mass surveillance continues
He's one of the best MySQL admins on the planet, for one.
Or, as Raymond Chen puts it (quoting Douglas Adams), "It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway."
Reddit is awesome for tons of small game communities, I hope whatever happens on those apparently more important subreddits won't ever affect that
Ask HN: Can CloudBleed Like Bugs Happen in Go, Rust or Java?
I am really curious, can CloudBleed like bugs happen memory safe/garbage collected languages like Go, Rust or Java? Especially if the program doesn't use any libraries which depend on the native code.

If not, then do you think that major infrastructure related projects written in C/C++ will be ever replaced by their counterparts which are written in memory safe languages? Or do you think the opposite argument also holds true to a great degree, if not memory related bugs like CloudBleed, then other types of critical bugs will arise from programs written in memory safe languages? For example, Java has had its share of critical security issues from time to time.

If you follow security then I am really interested in hearing from you about some of the bugs which had an impact as serious as CloudBleed or HeartBleed in a program written in a memory safe language.
I am not a doctor. May I refer you to the following paper?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6859052 "Vigorous supplementation of a hypocaloric diet prevents cardiac arrhythmias and mineral depletion."

I wrote a comment a few months ago on fasting supplementation you may find interesting. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12455415

Also seconding the recommendations to talk to a doctor before you do anything. I know that usually goes without saying, but it deserves emphasis given the article is about diabetes. As the current top comment points out, fasting can be very dangerous for diabetics.
Being a developer doesn't mean using the command line.
Surely not all librarians are socialists, but e.g. this one appears to be of the more fact-resistant kind, and comes up with repeatedly different and increasingly funny explanations for why the library shouldn't get a bestseller book. The latest one is "it's not fact-checked", as if the other books in the library (like the mentioned Mein Kampf) were.
I can't agree. Stackoverflow does some things well, but there are reasons that it hasn't caught on outside a certain cohort who were either there first, or who are very dedicated to cultivating their karma.

HN user jfc said it better here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7650975
> Again, I'm not saying there are no freak deaths in India. It is common in every corner of the world where there is more than one man. But, death by an individual in a public setting is not common and that too by a gun is almost impossible in India. That was my whole point.

Absolutely understandable observation. Factual even. I don't own a gun and have no financial interest in companies that manufacture or sell ammunition. However, I'm afraid the perception among readers might be that this is a problem we can solve by reducing or eliminating access to guns.

I'm not aware of the full details of what happened but I think we need to address the underlying issues as well.

There's clearly a lot of cognitive dissonance and leaps of faith even in this discussion because apparently the Klan's activities amount to terrorism but actions of a deranged lone wolf do not.

As much as we talk about us being civilized, conversations like this remind us that we are all fundamentally animals with a very limited capacity to care about issues that we don't see as directly affecting us.

I think the question I care about is how do we prevent these things from happening repeatedly? I'll be blunt. I have no interest in "justice" for the victim's family for the sake of "justice".

By the way, I wouldn't call what happens in India as "freak deaths".

http://m.hindustantimes.com/india/it-is-beef-says-lab-about-...

> Police maintained that the report was of no use in the investigation into the murder and assault.

Not trying to single out India. There are people who benefit from this bountiful harvest of fear and hatred everywhere. I'm just saying the issue is more than gun control.
With the convoluted situation that is Google's plethora of mildly supported or unsupported messaging apps, will this improve things or just make them worse? Based on track record, I feel that the latter is more likely. Yah, a desktop client for Allo will be nice, but there is no mention of SMS integration, which is what's lacking most with the app. sigh
> Titles are hidden so you can walk into a room and be talking to a Director and have no idea.

what does "Titles are hidden" mean exactly?
To see this coming from a novelty account is hilarious.
Yes, it would be sexist. If the company is doing their employees a courtesy, it's a courtesy to all or a courtesy to none.
Out of curiosity, was their username always "anon2264" or was it changed when it was banned? If changed, what did they do to get banned? Asking for a friend.
> The title is, of course, godawful. Remember that most story authors don't get to pick their titles.

The author of this piece is the editor-in-chief. (the title edit by the mods is indeed an improvement)
It's hard to tell but this was a legit email that went out today to Canadians customers of Cineplex. The email was also sent out unencrypted by "movio.co"
I don't think that justification applies when the "invention" is in every single one of our bodies and has been around for millions of years. They were just the first to look in the right place, but someone would have found it eventually, and sooner rather than later.
They use KVM, and considering that not even host support is available on mainline Linux, I doubt so.

It would also be mentioned in the article if it were.
Right. "The GPU is irrelevant to my day to day work," is actually saying that exploiting large amounts of embarrassingly parallel processing is irrelevant. It's more likely in the medium to long-term, that the relevance just hasn't been discovered yet.
No, that's just more work, because you have to write the required syscall interfaces for Brainfuck. There's nothing about Brainfuck that makes that impossible.

There's a difference between "impossible" and "really difficult giant waste of time" here when it comes to discussing Turing completeness.
Mind posting the algo question? I enjoy solving those :)
Too bad the thread never discusses Linus's response (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13719368). Who's right?
Do states not have a 'State ID'? I know we have them in the state I'm in. It's even easier to get than a driver's license and is used for all the same things except you obviously can't drive with it. They're also cheap.
According to the right, basic concepts like logic have leftist bias
Well, they tried, I guess?
Yeah, i noticed this a couple hours ago, but after the edit time had expired.
i think the article attempts to address this question by this hypothetical:

> Can you imagine what would have happened if Uber decided, because men gobble more food than women, that only women should get free catering in the company’s cafe, and men would have to reach into their wallets?
Usernames don't change. Reviewing their comment history, I believe 'sctb is referring to this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=anon2264
If you definitely need to use R, I'd say just learn R. R is different enough from most other languages that I don't think you'd get a lot of value from, say, learning Python first.

Why do I say that? First of all, R's syntax is quirky and different enough from (Python|Java|C|Ruby|etc.) that you might almost find it harder to learn R if you're already used to something else. Second, aside from the syntax the biggest thing to get used to with R is that it's very much vector oriented. Basically you're always working with vectors, even when you only have what you would otherwise think of as a single scalar value. You just put in a vector of length 1. Anyway, that whole paradigm is different enough from other programming languages, that you might as well just learn it that way from the beginning.

Now to be fair, there are libraries and things that let other languages act and feel a bit more like R, but I'm intentionally not considering those right now, as that would just be one more complication to deal with. And if you are locked in on using R for whatever reason, there's no need to complicate life.

The only other question I would have, is whether or not you absolutely must use R at all. If you have the option to choose your language, you can do pretty much anything that you can do in R, using Python, or Octave, or probably many other languages. If that's an option, then you just need to decide which would be easier / more useful for you. And while I won't take sides in general, I will say that Python may be a little bit easier to learn in general, but then you're back to using external libraries for more of the statistical / numerical stuff.

Just looking to see if I could learn R without knowing much else.

My guess is that you can. R has some quirks, but there's nothing especially scary about it. Depending on how much you already know about statistics, you may find that learning and understanding the math is more difficult than learning to use R.
Thanks, this makes the most sense to me. The problem more generally stated then for more fields is that how much abstraction do we carry innately and how much must be taught. Applies to math as well. It appears to me that ability to count is innate. But beyond that I don't know what else. Would be great to find out.
That doesn't sound right. Granted, severance is not mandatory for an employer and they can choose to give you nothing when letting you go. Although, asking about your new job and salary doesn't sound legal. All that said, if I were an employee, I wouldn't lie in any case. I'd like to keep my hand clean, which would save me if the crap hits the ceiling.
There are two options:

1. Everyone is lying about their experiences just for pageviews / attention

2. You haven't experienced the described culture first hand, and are rejecting something you haven't seen as "weird alternate reality".

Is it that implausible that a manager would not want to pay $200 for women's jackets when he is getting the the men's jackets for $100 (numbers made up obviously). That's not Tumblr novella cartoon evil, it's not even "evil", it's just stupidity.
There's a world of difference between

1) being captured by your neighbors, sold to some tribe of slave traders, then resold to ship-owning slave traders, then resold at auction on a different continent, and finally landing on a plantation where the intentional and systematic removal of your human dignity is completed over years in squalid conditions, and

2) not having your company buy you a leather jacket while you're being paid a salary that puts you somewhere in the top 2% of all of humanity.

It's this sort of hyperbole that makes the problem less likely to be solved, since it makes it all seem relatively trivial.
Seems to me like the headline is generated to convey a message without requiring clicks, not to get them. The article doesn't add anything because the headline is the content.
I can't speak for jackets but I do help run a convention that bulk orders t-shirts. If you want one custom t-shirt, it's $20+/shirt. If you bulk order, it's $3/shirt for 300. We also get t-shirts for our staff, those are $9/shirt for 20-40.