skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me assuage your fears a bit. Having contracted with a number of large automotive factories in the US and Mexico, I've seen a similar - but not identical - disparity at dozens of locations. And it's not a decision motivated by bigotry, as far as I can tell.

There's a very common practice to separate the offices/engineering from production/maintenance. Two reasons are given: there's sensitive, valuable pre-production/financial/proprietary data in the offices, and there's dangerous equipment on the plant floor, requiring safety glasses/steel toes/hard hats. It goes unstated that the plant floor and coverall-clad workers are dirty in comparison to the cubicles, carpet, and dress clothes in the offices.

And the bathrooms for the laborers are filthy, even with multiple daily cleanings, while the bathrooms for the office would still be nice even if it was only the office staff themselves that kept them clean.

The tasks in the office are cerebral, while the tasks on the plant floor may require manhandling (a sexist term?) a 9" angle grinder all day. This results in an age, gender, and (in conditions where people of ethnic minorities are cheaply available for entry-level labor) ethnic disparity.

It's by no means absolute - there are women on the plant floor, and young ethnic men get promoted into management all the time. The DOL report [1] is careful to call out B&H's error only as "This hiring disparity ... remains after adjusting for differences in legitimate hiring factors".

There's nothing wrong with hiring mostly young men to shoulder heavy boxes all day, but if a strong woman or wiry old man willing and able to do the work comes in, you'd ought to hire her or him as readily as an equally qualified and capable young man, discarding your bias that you've previously hired mostly young men. And if someone comes in for office work, and has the necessary credentials, but is of the same age/ethnicity/gender as the production personell, you'd ought to hire him for office work as well, dispite the fact that you usually hire older, or that young men usually work on the plant floor.

[1] https://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/ofccp/OFCCP20160384.pdf
We at NetIn take a different approach, we look at open source languages you've written your code in and what skills other engineers at your organization are known for before we rank you for a given skill.
My understanding was that GCC was better in more scenarios most of the time, but now it seems like Clang has caught up. and Maybe Clang 4.0 is even faster in more.

Here are some recent benchmarks from phoronix: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=gcc7-clan...
Not necessarily. My backpack, for example, has a laptop compartment that folds out flat. I don't have to remove my laptop, just send my backpack through.
This was a fixed prefix collision attack. That means they can make two documents (P | A | anything) and (P | B | anything) for a fixed P, and they can find A, B, such that A and B are different but

SHA1(P | A | anything) = SHA1(P | B anything)

The Merkle-Damgård construction (used in MD4, MD5, SHA1 and SHA2 but not in SHA3 and some other modern hashes) invariably means length extension is possible, if you can collide two documents then you can add a suffix to both and also get a collision.

This is how there's already a web site where you feed it images and it makes a "different" colliding PDF, it's just using Google's result with a different suffix after the 128-byte collision near the start.
See Youtube red.
Taking for granted most of the other answers here ('make sure she has tried and likes coding' et c.): Have her look up reviews of the program on https://www.coursereport.com/ and www.switchup.org. Have her visit local meetups and conferences, there will surely be students/grads there that she can talk to and can get eyewitness reports from. Have her ask around to disinterested third parties that have had contact with the program and see what their appraisal of the program is. Have her contact the program and see if they will provide contacts to grads that she can talk to (while they may be biased, a 'yes' is much better that a 'no'). (Full disclosure: I went to a bootcamp and got a good job very soon afterwards which I have had for a year. True, some programs are shady, but these seem to shut down quickly. A bit of research seems like all that needs to be done to make a decision and if it works for her there is no reason to worry.)
The UI definitely encourages mindless tagging. I'm endorsed for parallel algorithms by the manager of a very low-end car maintenance shop. Plural of anecodate, yada yada yada, but most of my endorsements are from people who really have no experience in that programming language or concept AT ALL.
What's the goal? If it's to promote having children, then you should just subsidize having children. If for some reason you really want to subsidize children through marriage, then you should stop subsidizing marriages involving people who can't or won't have children.

If there's some perceived benefit in legal recognition of a romantic union, then there's no reason to exclude same-sex unions.

Basically, there are a few consistent positions:

1. Children are important. Outcome: either incentivize children, or incentivize fertile couples.

2. Romantic unions are important. Outcome: legally recognize all of them, including same-sex couples.

3. Freedom and small government is important. Outcome: stop recognizing marriage and let people handle it privately.

4. Religion is important. Outcome: legally recognize marriage under something like the rules of your religion.

We can argue for and against the merits of these individual possibilities, but what I can't understand is when someone uses an argument for #1 (as the other commenter here is) or #2 (as the site being discussed is) but somehow ends up with the outcome from #4.
Well no not really. I've used vim throughout college and still do use it on occasion. But I have found it to not be as important to programming as a lot of people claim. If vim is that much more superior than other editors, by all means. I have not found that to be the case at all.
If everyone is a bandwagoner, how does the bandwagon start? Without pmarca, would VC grind to a halt?
> I didn't hear of "#deleteshopify" until I read this post, and I expect I won't hear about it again.

This was a rather amusing bit of irony. It's sort of meta to find out about a boycott from a post talking about how boycotts can backfire due to the Streisand effect.
So it does; thanks! I didn't see any indication that existed on the various NZ government sites about travelling. That would've made for an unfortunate arrival.
Hmm. Doesn't seem to be very useful on an iOS device. ;(
I think there are many reasons for writing, only some of which are success/financially motivated.

Personally, I wanted to write a story about Lisp machines, Bostrom-inspired Artificial Intelligences, and a journey of discovery/adventure in the vein of my favorite stories (www.zhubert.com/reading). Not everyone gets excited about Lisp machines, so I'm not expecting a mainstream market.

That said, marketing was out of scope of my original article and quite a challenging problem, I agree.
I have never heard of either of those, do you have any benchmarks?

EDIT, Nevermind Felix compiles to C++ and Pony looks like an academic project. If you want to provide benchmarks or try to change my mind, I am open to it, but it would require significant evidence.
No, it still requires you to create additional passwords for Pocket.
We are talking here about reading a book, not the teacher's words, i assume that children are not that stupid as to not see it. I guess you are in favor also to cover statues/paintings penises and tits in art books and to rewrite Tintin in Congo and many other books because they are not politically correct.
Uber's SVP of engineering is out
Humans who run red lights don't have PR firms proclaiming they're disrupting driving and changing the world. That stance sets you up for bad press when your technology fails.
>If it is business as usual, that kind of makes it worse.

Welcome to the world of business where participants are required to do everything with a sufficiently positive risk/reward ratio whether legal or not.

It's just business, as per this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13744390
A manager of a low end car maintenance shop with whom you've done no work for, correct?

If you have done work for him, I'd argue the tag at least means he liked the work. If not, then yeah, useless data.
I could be wrong here, but the thunderbird thing is basically that it was way too much work for little gain -- the way Thunderbird is designed was that it was a kind-of-fork of Firefox, and too many resources were being wasted just keeping the "fork" up to date from changes to internal Firefox APIs.

I'm also not sure of this, but that vision thing you link to is focused on the goals of the Foundation proper (excluding MoCo), which is not all of Mozilla, and many of the decisions fall out of that scope.
Ugh, there goes getting laptops sales tax free here. Thanks for the heads up.

Logical move on their part though, the Satmars also have a huge presence in Lakewood and it's way cheaper to plop a warehouse in NJ than Brooklyn.
I'm confused. What does this have to do with the apparent battery failure that OP experienced?
I Pocket a lot of stuff that I don't read, but in the end, I end up reading more stuff thanks to Pocket anyway.
I found the lecture notes that made this claim on internet archive https://web.archive.org/web/20031127062932/http://www.august...
It doesn't give any sources unfortunately.
It wasn't the formatting actually. Change tracking of the proposed edits from the copyeditor was greatly expedited through Word's toolset. While I could have copied them all over by hand, I figured I'd likely introduce other errors in the process. Clicking accept/reject was worth the peace of mind.
> I'd say you were getting religious if you tried to represent the mind as anything other than an emergent physical phenomenon.

A similar argument could be made from the opposite perspective. The mind is not part of nature, of reality. It's an artificial philosophical construct, arising from observations of behavior, and on that basis extrapolating the existence of something for which there's no direct evidence. Not unlike God in that respect.

By definition, an emergent physical phenomenon would be something that ultimately emerged in physical form. The mind cannot do that. I think you're speaking of behavior, which does meet the definition.
My immediate reaction to this web page was EEEEEK!!! SPIDERS!!!!
spacemacs is a pretty well integrated, community sourced configuration of emacs that has a lot of sane defaults out of the box. add a few layers for your favorite languages and you are off and running. magit and org mode are both excellent reasons to use emacs. the vim bindings are some of the best i have seen in an emulator as well.
I wonder how valuable the written recommendations are? Anyone have data on that?
> I have trouble fathoming a position of skepticism around the benefits of self-driving vehicles.

I don't have trouble being skeptical, in fact. I don't believe it will ever work for city streets.

Here's why:

The computer would have to be 99.99999% reliable to do that, and we don't have computers that reliable.

The numbers:

The accident rate is around 74 per 100 million miles (and fatalities is 1.13).

It's unclear exactly how to turn that into a percentage, but no matter how you do it it's quite high.

Say an accident takes 5 minutes, and people drive 30 miles/hour. Then that works out to 99.999% for humans. If you use the numbers for fatalities then it's 99.99999%.

I.e. 99.99999% of the time, as whole across all [US] humans, people drive in a way that does not cause a fatality.

That's the bar computers have to cross in order to save any lives at all.
>>That might be true, though I haven't seen any evidence to suggest that.

Libertarian paradises aren't always theoretical. See early bitcoin, and the commonly cited Somalia. On the opposite end, known authoritarian-tightass state China currently has the most efficient capitalist economy the planet has yet seen.
Similar thing happened to my retina external display the other week and I had to unplug my monitor and run it out to my balcony while I could see flames in the display (though I assume the root of the problem was different as there is no battery). Luckily it suffocated itself pretty quickly.
Serious question. Given all the difficulties with impact of microgravity on human beings and in this case plant cultivation, why isn't there more serious research/testing of generating artificial gravity through rotation? We only seem to see that in science fiction, never in real life.
Amazon’s Twitch will begin selling games alongside live video
Without trying to blow my own horn too hard here, I've never really taken these all that seriously and have strongly thought that people who have more (serious) recommendations are often the most useless people.

Screenshot: http://m.imgur.com/uyXXEPl

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjohnmcgrath/ [my recommendations]
> The original Etak units always had the map oriented with north at the top. That was the way sailors used maps. Honey said they'd discovered that about 20% of the population could not cope with a map that wasn't aligned with the direction they were going, which is why they started rotating the map based on vehicle travel.

I am the opposite, I cannot deal with a map that does not have north on top and it's constantly moving. Modern mapping software sometimes makes it frustratingly hard to keep north on top.
Show HN: A curated boutique that finds the best coffee products on Amazon
Important note from article: "To be clear, Singhal’s dispute with Google has nothing to do with that situation [Susan's Fowler's article] or the recent lawsuit that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has waged against Uber’s Otto division."
>Uber just does it at a much larger scale.

I disagree. This is a corporation speaking with one voice to attempt to continue to run cars which have just demonstrated an inability to detect a crucial traffic signal. Think of it this way, in one example I run a red light and lie about it. In the other I make arguments in the public sphere to allow the legally blind to drive because it will benefit me financially. That's not scale, that's fundamentally different.
Awesome, thanks! For my major edit, I went through The Story Grid approach by Coyne. Very helpful and appealed to my techie brain.
That's a fair answer. Your target audience is interested in prediction rather than inferring parameters.

I do think the confidence intervals/prediction intervals should be accessible and should probably be adjustable (e.g. 99%, 95%, 80%).
wallabag is an alternative that's self-hostable
There are some theories on variable cosmological constants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_speed_of_light
Interesting quote: "In microgravity, your taste sensation is dulled." I haven't heard that before: anyone know why that is?
Solving for the Last Mile of Transportation
Anyone else catch the Obama quote?

>There has to be, I think, some sort of way in which we can sort through information that passes some basic truthiness tests and those that we have to discard

> truthiness refers to the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true.
Actually I think this self-learning approach is a great example of what it takes to be a great developer regardless of background (or formal training).

http://signaltower.co/jennifer-dewalt/

She built one project each day for 180 days learning a bit more each day. She chronicled her mistakes and successes. HN had a post on it at the time and the majority of developers that responded were very supportive.
The 2011 MBP I had given to mother had a similar issue. It's battery suddenly became swollen and just before that happened the computer shut down too, so yes I think there's some amount of protection. Luckily, there was no smoke or fire, just the battery being swollen and deforming the mbp.
How does Mozilla earn money?
>Does Gumroad have a solution for VAT?

Not the person you asked, and haven't tried the feature out myself, but saw this a while ago:

How We’re Handling VAT at Gumroad:
http://blog.gumroad.com/post/110080508463/vat

Here is an excerpt from that page:

[ We’ve talked a lot in the past about how we approach building Gumroad: We ask ourselves what creators are spending time on that isn’t making things, and then we figure out how to do those things for them.

We are tackling VAT in the same way. Going forward, this is what creators on Gumroad need to do to properly handle VAT for their digital products:

Go back to making awesome stuff.

In other words, we’re on it. Gumroad will collect VAT as required and remit it to the EU. You won’t need to fill out any forms, register for anything, or send anything out. Your (EU-based) customers, will see (and pay) the added VAT on their purchases. ]

:)
Thunderbird doesn't make money.
Pocket makes money.

That Mozilla is a Corp owned by a not-for-profit isn't the real thing anymore (ie not what people may believe, not that they have any obligation beside following the rule of law) - it just frees the Corp from having to report to random share holders - instead, the Corp and the Org self-select a Board of directors that they report to.

At the end of the day, it's otherwise now similar to many corporations.
Mozilla is actively working to diversify its sources of funding; the greatest step in that was when we switched from a global default of Google search to smaller, regional deals with Yahoo, Google, Yandex, and Baidu toward the end of 2014.
HillaryClinton.com subdomain is pointing to my server
#1

I have been using pathogen since I started using vim, I can recommend it. (copy paste directions to install: https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen) And this is where you can find vim plug-ins: http://vimawesome.com/

After installing pathogen, to install a plug-in:

cd ~/.vim/bundle

git clone <url>

and you are done in most cases, some require adding a few lines on ~/.vimrc.

#2

There are multiple ways to work with multiple files. There are tabs in vim, split screens, files in buffer etc, these are all without plug-ins.
Teleopathy in the Oil Industry
There have been a number of stories about laptops and mobile phones exploding due to issues with batteries. Fortunately the author here managed to get the Mac into a reasonably safe place just before it really exploded and he got away with only blistered fingers.

What I'm curious about is, are companies like Tesla able to put some sort of safety precautions into their cars and their PowerWall to prevent this from happening and to alert the user that something in their battery is horribly wrong? An electric car battery is way bigger than a Mac's battery, but at least the car owner has the chance to get out of the car and get away from it. But a Powerwall? If it's going to blow up is it going to burn your house down in the process?
Hmm everything I try is unavailable. Tried on firefox and chromium. Is the site overloaded or is it something on my end?
Youtube Red is not available in most of the world:

> available in the United States, Australia, Mexico, New Zealand and South Korea.
That's a paid service. Youtube-DL is free and open source.
A lesson in "Tone is everything" perhaps? You make excellent points and taught me a bunch (thanks!), but just because the author admits he doesn't understand hash tables inside and out does not make calling his work "amateurish" or "clowntown" okay.
LinkedIn is highly focused on metrics of user engagement. Endorsements motivate a lot of engagement by providing a low-effort way for users to articulate generally positive information about each other. Although skill endorsements could be shaped into something more rigorous and useful, that conflicts with engagement/virality goals which call for easy ways to quickly message dozens of contacts.

In other words, no kidding endorsements are useless. That isn't the point.
does anyone know how they download this data ?
> Self-driving cars won't start out safer than humans.

All data that I've seen so far supports the conclusion that self-driving cars are already much, much safer than humans.

http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/googles-self-driving-car-is-
ridiculously-safe

> When Tesla or any other company can prove to me that their cars are safer than human-driven vehicles, I won't oppose them on my roads.

How can they be expected to prove their safety record to you without driving hundreds of millions of miles on public roads? They're already provably safer than humans in artificial "test course" scenarios.
Right, sure. I'm all for covering up Michelangelo's David. Thanks for being so charitable with my words.
Rewrite! Your expertise is valued here =). Rewrites always come out better anyway.
> Python uses the identity function for number hashes, because if you're inserting mostly sequential numbers into a dict this gives you better cache performance.

That's a good idea when you control both the hash function and the hashtable implementation, as in the Python interpreter, so you can make assumptions on both sides.
My point was that when using composable templates, as in the STL, the hash function should not make any assumptions about the hash table, and vice versa.
Having previously spent 8 years as a technical recruiter, and now working as a Sr. Software Engineer, I can say generally speaking that dev resume should be general enough that anyone in the recruitment pipeline should be able to look at it, and make enough sense of the information that they could make a reasonable decision about whether interviewing you for a given position would feel like a good use of time.

I'd hope a resume coach would help work towards selling yourself to all parties involved in considering you for a position you'd actually want.
Search engine deals, and now pocket
>FWIW, the MBP in question did shut itself off abruptly right before this happened. The author then immediately turned it on again and it proceeded to meltdown.

How is merely turning off a warning?

How would the user tell it from a random glitch with power, battery disconnect, etc?
Your analysis is extremely flawed.

I really appreciate your sharing the data with us and I like your service. But, this is a poorly done and a far from subtle plug of your business at the cost of LinkedIn.

1) Technical ability vs # of endorsements

Jesus. Hiding stats that you don't like through aggregations? And please read up on Simspons Paradox, which is clearly the case here just by looking at your plot. Try a basic t-test, or rather some statistical rigor, the next time you try to make conclusions from data.

2) Most endorsed vs Language of Choice

As pointed out, this is not the way to frame your problem. By obfuscating what's happening in your histogram (which isn't technically constructued right either) you are again hiding what you dont like through aggregation. By the way, language matters greatly here, and you'd have benefitted by standardization.

3) Your conclusion

"After running some significance testing, though" and not posting your results or methodology, which is at best questionable after reading your analysis.

Again, I enjoy your service, but blog posts on technical ability that are ironically lacking in technical ability don't really make me want to come back.

PS: A little birdie told me that endorsements are quite strong in predictive power for jobs :)