skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're probably not going to get a job in a Wall Street investment bank with a degree from Directional State University, much less with no degree at all.

If true, that tells us that they already have more people then they could ever hope to choose from. After all, they'd be desperate enough to look outside that box otherwise.

So what is credentialing another person really going to add?
The last line of the article is something that has been blazing out to me since the first few negative media articles started appearing about Uber's work practises.

For all the continual PR damage control that the CEO utters, the problem is the CEO and the board. All the bad business practises that are leaking out aren't 'oversights', a generic 'management/process' problem, or actions of an isolated 'bad apple' - it's ingrained culture established by what the CEO allows explicitly or implicitly (through omission of action).

The problem is at the very top of Uber.
I suspect as a follow-on from the days of "Bush 43", in which case it made at least a little sense to say Bush 41 and Bush 43, and not leave the listener wondering whether he had missed an "H.".
>> you want a surgeon who doesn't think twice about huge terrible bloody trauma, people freaking out and intense pressure. You want a surgeon who will be bold, roll the dice and do what needs to be done.

Essentially, a sociopath. I think this sheds some light on the paradox of Ben Carson.
Heartbleed is possibly in go, rust, java... pretty much any usable language. The bug wasn't in the language used it was in the human using it.

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/heartbleed-in-rust
S2N: An implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols
Most of the ISA may be implemented in microcode, but the parts that matter are certainly not microcoded!

For example the TLB access and the fast path of the TLB miss are not microcoded. You only get to microcode if you have to set an accessed bit or a dirty bit, or if there is a page fault.
Ask HN: What do people use for cheap, low-traffic WordPress hosting these days?
I'm currently hosting a low-traffic personal blog on Bluehost for $3.95/mo, but it's up for renewal. They initially tried to make me pay $10.99/mo, but were easily talked down to $6.95/mo. Given that a VPS is about $5/mo, this is still a ripoff. What do people use these days for cheap Wordpress hosting?

Note: I would rather not switch away from Wordpress, since I don't want to break existing links.
I do not want a bold surgeon.

I want a surgeon who is well-trained, well-rested, aware of and working within her circle of competence, working with a communicative support team, and using a clear defense-in-depth strategy against error. In such an environment, doing what needs to be done is more certain.
Amazon guts affiliate program, cuts fees for electronics in half
She claims to have screenshots of everything, so she could substantiate them. But you've pointed out the impossible position Uber is in... what if her claims are false, or exaggerated? How would the company disprove a negative? How could they show that she was never propositioned for sex, if in fact she wasn't? What if federal and state laws, and/or internal privacy policies, prevent the company from publicly releasing communication that would clarify things?
What if you went to a restaurant for a Friday lunch (on the company's dime), and everyone orders a sandwich, except one individual (who may be of different race, sex, or size) that orders a steak and lobster meal? Could you discriminate by denying the request, or asking them to pay out of pocket? Does coming up with a rule ahead of time remedy the potential discrimination?
Or, if you had sufficient budget, not even completely unreasonable for a nation-state that presumably could use a very large cluster for other purposes, generate a collision in an hour or two. That would be an interesting exercise - how much hardware/kwH would it take to generate a SHA-1 collision in 60 minutes.
FCC weakens net neutrality rule in a prelude to larger rollbacks
Supply chains being valued over product quality?

This fits the "operations guy running the company" narrative.
That has not been banned (yet)
Hachoir is a Python library to view and edit a binary stream field by field
I'm reading all of your comments here (not just yours) and I'm wondering. Do you spend that much time in OS alone?

I use MacOS, Windows, and Linux each and every day interchangeably. What I do is I start my productivity application(s) and spend time in that. I see OS when I'm copying files or when I'm in shell doing shit. Even when in shell, with baboon on Windows it's more or less the same experience across.

Only thing I want in all of OS' that is only in MacOS is preview. That thing is damn awesome. Everything else is invisible to me.
It depends on how desperate I was, but I would wrap up the conversation in a situation like that. If you can't be amicable before hiring me, you definitely won't be after.
"Things are also confounded by the fact.."

Which facts? What do you base this belief on? Any sources to any studies?

Swedens tiny population of 10 million can't handle immigration of tens of thousands? That's laughabale, it's been doing exactly that for decades now. Iraq, Iran, Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Iraq again, Ukraine, Syria. Only recently has a resistance to these policies been seriously challenged...

Upwards mobility will happen, even during the worst conditions, like the slavery in US, did they manage to break free. This is not about when but how, true solidarity or true civil war and tragedy..
Tensorflow implementation of fast neural style transfer
I am not sure this was an issue on Linux ever, but I run a 3+ year old Arch installation, no problem here.
It's the sense of belonging... employees didn't get jackets because they were cold and asked the company to buy one for them...
Drones can steal data from infected PCs by spying on blinking LEDs
Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
It is a good story, but I find it a truly disquieting thought that it was precisely this class of bug (race condition with an unwitting human) in the control software of Therac-25 that led to the deaths of several people. As I discovered, it's a tricky one to catch in the act because one tends to be slow and methodical when bughunting.
I disagree. That link shows no formulas whatsoever, just a generalized explanation of what they do. Without a hard set of rules to follow, it's useless. Also, looking into the X-13 ARIMA software documentation, it looks similar to other statistical software packages like Eviews, which I have used in the past. This methodology they follow still highly subjective based on the parameters used in the model.

This is very much like what my employer does for publishing public documents for financial compliance. We are required to publish a public methodology/rulebook for our products so that investors can, in theory, replicate everything we are doing on our side. In practice, though, forget it. No one can replicate it. The document serves to explain the concepts behind the product and the general guidelines, but no one can fully know the granular details that make all the difference.

It sounds like the same thing is going on here. No one can realistically be expected to take the same gigantic set of data, individually set a dozen or more parameters and run it through software and get the same result. And that's not even counting data sets that the "clean" by discarding certain outliers before running the model.
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Most garment companies have differing 'styles' depending on gender, as they use different 'patterns' (shapes) for cutting the materials.
Well, if you work for a state college/uni/other entity like I do, then the salary information is public. Former employers can say or do what they like, they rarely do anything other than verify dates of employment, confirm a few facts, out of a perceived fear of a civil suit, (I guess). Credit reporting agencies OTOH, and other similar companies use all sorts of information to build profiles about you / your habits / other demographic data, and I'd be surprised if there weren't some of these companies who would sell either predicted (and perhaps erroneous) salary range for you, or a factual (if partial) salary history mined from various sources.

>I wonder if you could just counter the request by saying you signed a NDA that forbid sharing that information.

Seems reasonable, or some version of "No thanks, I'd rather not."
No. Neither of those is acceptable, either.

Do those who got a large or XL or XXL jacket have to pay the difference between that and a small?
The point of the article is that the managers at Uber were very aware of what they were doing. And that it is a symptom of the culture there.
I just took a quick glance at it and it doesn't seem to be similar. Here's an item from its from page.

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5vx3af/ (NSFW)

I don't think I've ever seen anything like that on the politics subreddit.
A Golang pattern for graceful shutdown
Would it be useful if someone started a company that offered support for virtually any OSS? Like, you contact them, say "I need support for X", and they research it, figure out how much expertise they need to support it, and quote you a figure.

Perhaps this organization would also sign up to monitor for security vulnerabilities affecting the software, on your behalf, and would be responsible for getting you information about the patch.
Personally, I think that type of transparency is important, especially when you're asking for donations and you're publicly pressuring the USPS to do something. Why wait 9 days?
That you believe a majority are religious fundementalist is bias
Analysis of Trump's persuasion and power style
I've done surgery on svn repos to unhose things a few times over the years, usually due to PEBCAK rather than svn shitting itself. It's actually pretty doable, up to and including the equivalent of interactive rebase.

I much prefer that git's designed to let me do such things and provides tools for doing so, but you can totally rewire svn repos with vi and a bunch of swearing if necessary.

(and I was using svk for a merge tool at the time so I did have the option to burn it down and rebuild from scratch; unhosing svn repos wasn't quite unpleasant enough for me to want to do so)

Then again, I started off doing more ops than dev and have also happily hand-edited mysql replication logs to unfuck things after a partial failover, so I may have more of a masochistic streak than you do :)
E3 does support ECC RAM.
I'm running a Haswell Xeon E3-1225 with 16GB ECC RAM as my workstation.
Spot on. It's like going to a vegetarian restaurant and being upset there's no meat on the menu.

I don't understand all these people complaining that reddit does not have enough differing opinions. What the hell? Do you expect users of a site to conform to your beliefs?

Why don't you go find a different site that reflects your beliefs.

I don't go on HN and complain there's not enough discussion about camping.
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You probably think you're being clever by coming up with all of these "But... but what if!" scenarios, but you're not. You're just looking like you're trying to excuse their behavior.
I find it hard to believe people will complete captchas or give up anonymity in order to vote.

The bot vs captcha arms race will continue, but I would be very surprised if the captchas started winning.
That's not true.

The 2016 13" MBPs have between 49.2 and 54.5 watt-hours.

The XPS 13 9360 has 59 watt hours, for one.
Playing games is rad and cool, and there are many studies demonstrating various cognitive benefits. One of my favorite was on the elderly playing Rise of Nations, a critically-acclaimed RTS that's a sort of blend between Civilization and Age of Empires: https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/206094

> The researchers found that training on the video game did improve the participants' performance on a number of these tests. As a group, the gamers became significantly better - and faster - at switching between tasks compared with the comparison group. Their working memory, as reflected in the tests, also was significantly improved. Their reasoning ability was enhanced. To a lesser extent, their short-term memory of visual cues was better than that of their peers, as was their ability to identify rotated objects.
I can do all of that with Python, Ruby, Powershell, AppleScript,.....

No need for UNIX CLI for it.
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> They say former employers can only verify dates of employment

I don't know who "they" is, but this isn't true at all. Many large-scale employers are only willing to verify dates of employment, because they're scared of being pulled into a defamation lawsuit. But that's just an overabundance of caution from them. There's nothing to stop your former employer from responding to requests with "southphillyman typically visits the toilet every day between 11:20 and 11:40".
I'm aware of this theorem and it has nothing to do with scientific method, it only gives us an idea of possible results of research and it does not tell us that you cannot formalize life sciences or chemistry. Indeed, there are theories that cannot be proven, but they are itself subject to formalization and research.
Seems to me that, if you can afford to offer free catering but not for people who eat too much, that you can't actually afford to offer free catering. If the extra cost for the few is too much, you can't afford the whole.

Same way with the jackets. If you can't spring for the extra $ for the womens's jackets, you really probably shouldn't be buying jackets for everyone at this time...
I've been semi-hooked on counter-strike for the past few years. I started getting into it again after I got sick, and now some of my long distance high school and college friends jumped on the bandwagon again and we play regularly. Its a great way to stay in touch and socialize, as well as just have fun playing the game. Its also SUPER competitive which has its upsides and downsides. It makes the game dynamic, you constantly need to stay on top of the 'meta' to be good, but at the same time its tiresome, so its not a casual game at higher levels. As with anything, it does come at a real life expense - I have 700 hours on the game, and I need to remind myself when to cut the cord or to take a week off. I usually play 0-2 hrs a day now. Overall, spending a nice weekend outside with friends and family is a lot better than spending it playing video games.
I was responding to: "If you're a game dev obviously this is different, but most people aren't." A GPU may not be relevant to you specifically, but it's relevant to far more people than just game devs.
Heh, I know you don't want to talk about Azure, but perhaps others can share -- what's so bad about it?

It's superior for running Windows at least, right?
Hahaha. Meanwhile I've been running 2 machines with Skylake and a combined 24 cores/48 threads, 256GB DDR4, 6x512G SSDs, unmetered 1Gbit/s public and 2,5Gbit/s internal for over half a year for a combined $150 total, in complete privacy and in full control of my hosts.. go dedicated, people.
You could make that same argument about literally any illegal thing an employer can do to its employees. Tip jars are not somehow extra-risky.
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A much more insidious spam but very common are fly-by-night 'news' sites that copy paste content from reputable sources and then get up-voted to the top of popular subreddits, generating adsense revenue for the webmasters. Adsense is such a pox on the internet. I know companies need to make money but it also gives rise to soooo much spam.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13725529
> Give an allowance of upvotes per day/week. More can be bought for very cheap, like 2 cents?

Every time a "what would kill off Reddit" thread comes up limiting up/downvotes and paying for more comes up. I feel it would kill off Reddit. (But I'm not a Reddit fan so I wouldn't stand in their way if they wish to add it).
A serious Gomoku board game AI written in C++
And if Python: 2 or 3?

(I'm kinda decided and want to do a bit of statistcics, but also have one general purpose language I know a bit better)
it's another problem but related: for me it's much more difficult to find an employer i'd even really like to work for regardless salary. _that's_ hard.
Posting like this is a way to get banned from HN. We've warned you about breaking the site guidelines before.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13720467 and marked it off-topic.
You can say that. But I guarantee you if they do that, other people will think they should ban other sites too.

Really the only way to avoid the problem is to not play the game, and so that's what CloudFlare does. It's pretty much the only defensible stance to take.
How much of a boon is that, though? Isn't Kubernetes built to be self-managing on any platform?
I am confused why the jackets would be different in the first place. And the discount argument makes zero sense. If anything, this is a reason to find a different supplier, it's not like there is only one company making jackets.
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Indeed, and it's pretty annoying having my site in that list despite not using CloudFlare's reverse proxy service. If my website handled user logins or sensitive data no doubt I'd have customers contacting me or shying away from my site now. This list needs more vetting.
> Sounds like a company run by a bunch of privileged entitled amateurs with zero consequences for their actions.

Yep. That's at least 90% of all startups.

Not that they're all sexist specifically, but when you have an entire economic sector based on "these kids say they can write a program that will revolutionize industry X, let's give them $10 million," you're gonna wind up with what you said.
Anecdotally, it reduced the rewards I could receive for posting an early snarky comment on potential front page submissions. Not that I did not work hard enough crafting my snark to deserve upvotes.
J.C. Penney to close 130 to 140 stores, sales dip
No, you absolutely can not.
Trading pennies for pennies is just not something a mature, reasonable person does. "Buy everyone a jacket" is as far as the thinking needs to go. If someone wants to debate the costs of jackets on the basis of sex (rather than, say, size) then they're being sexist about it.

Equality isn't about balancing the checkbook. It's about making sure everyone has the ability to make equally good decisions. Which means giving your team the support they need to be cohesive ("everyone gets a jacket") and allowing them to focus on being an effective member of that team rather than petty and superficial issues ("don't worry about insignificant cost differences.")
Or they could license the OS and review the products from licensees(?) before they ship out. Make a test balloon and license to 5 or 10 hardware manufacturers, offer them a reference design and review and run with it.
Undiagnosed what?
DDoS attack protection is just one of the services CloudFlare offers. Saying it's the whole reason the service exists suggests that you haven't actually looked at what they do.
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I highly recommend a documentary called Born Rich[1] to anyone interested in this sort of thing. It was made by one of the heirs of the Johnson and Johnson fortune, who interviews and follows the lives of many of his friends who were also, as the title says, born in to ultra wealthy families.

It's pretty interesting to see how differently they react to their privileged position, some of them embracing and others rejecting it. It was also interesting to see how the parents of these kids reacted to the documentary itself. Many of them were strongly against revealing anything to the public about themselves or their wealth.

The director of this movie also went on to make a follow-up documentary called The One Percent[2], which was not nearly as good.

[1] - https://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Born-Rich/70008257

[2] - https://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/The-One-Percent/70092779
Is it not true that once upon a time a certain b1tch3z who like ac1d stole cloudflare user db?
The consumer Skylakes are not even in the same league as what we're announcing today. The easiest analogy is comparing a laptop to a beefy two-socket server.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and of course want you to pay us to use Skylake)
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They would pay the same price Microsoft does to support random hardware. More importantly, it also wouldn't gain much. As others pointed out, the high-end workstation is barely a business for Apple.

Sure they are losing customer, but compared to the hoards of students buying Apple laptops or iPhone customers, it not really an issue.
For Tokyo that's twice the average household income.
Uber seems like a really trashcan company from her post.
Reddit has a lot of features to stop vote spam..they implemented an overhaul in late 2015 I know. Until then, newly made accounts could affect rankings..now they don't. . Mods are also pretty good at deleting spam, unless they are being paid off. The mods of major subs have enormous power, so it would not surprise me if this is going on still
I think its entirely reasonable that if the company said ahead of time, we are covering cost X, anything outside cost X is on the employee. (thats obviously not what happened)

Who wants to work for someone that cheap?
> but the facts of the situation

The facts of the situation are that this is still a he said she said situation, without any direct evidence one way or another.

That's something we should all keep in mind.
I remember going through that thread and seeing all these people refusing to accept the data.

On what they call a "leftist" site, they question how an extremely toxic alt-right subreddit could be so heavily blocked.

It's ironic that in a `dataisbeautiful` subreddit, people ignore the data.
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Totally sucking at something is the first step on the road to being pretty okay at something.
It doesn't really matter whether the defendant is guilty. Even someone who 100% admits their own guilt and has been found guilty beyond a doubt still has rights and considerations of due process -- this is what we've all agreed to as a civilized society -- and the public defender exists to ensure that even if a defendant has no financial means or connections, SOMEBODY knowledgeable is working to ensure that those rights and considerations are respected.

It's a critically vital function in preserving the rule of law.
Thanks for the elaborate answer.
Knowing things is hard
That's pretty impressive hardware for under $150
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As far as HIPAA compliance goes, though, AWS EC2 requires dedicated tenancy, whereas GCE allows HIPAA workloads on any VM, including preemptible VMs.
renting used servers? any pointers would be helpful - $150/yr sounds cool

How much technical (DevOps-y) do you have to be keep it secure & available?
It's kind of sad that Grand Central is such a beautiful building, while Penn Station has been relegated to a literal basement, with a sometimes-dangerous track layout that dates to the early 1900s.
Imho, the comment visibility and ordering plays a critical role in this.

It's pretty obvious first comments on HN that are generally upvotable tend to accumulate views, votes, and thereby become undisplacable from the top of the sort. In addition to drowning out lower comments as threads aren't collapsed.

From a pure game perspective, not reading the article / skimming and posting a comment as quickly as possible strictly dominates reading the article, if you're optimizing for karma.