skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Bandwidth is $0.090 per GB. (You mixed it up with the storage price that is $0.023/GB)."

Correct, my fault there. I was somehow looking at the wrong chart.

"Let's say the site is 1MB to deliver"

I think your estimate of the size of a typical blog post is considerably at variance with the norm. 2-3K would be more like it. Maybe 100K with logo.
Replacing 'might be' with 'are' is a significant difference.
I think for a lot of people that really is their experience of the job market.
There's an interesting coincidence on the front page of the Mercury News today.
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/25/bay-area-tech-executiv...

That's a new type of H1-B visa fraud that I had never heard of as far as I can tell from the article.
If the idea is that men are trying to hire women they can marry then you should probably take into account the fact that cross-class marriages have become very uncommon.
Yeah, I'd say the majority of people I deal with have been there for 5+ years. The company promotes from within, so a lot of the vets are in some form of management or research by now. That was one clue that this was the company I wanted to work for. The other was just how real and truly comfortable everyone was working there.
A family friend had a wonderful little parrot, and in a family of four that all loved this bird, he got 3+ hours of play every day. I've never met a happier bird, chattering all of the time, always gently grooming and never nipping. Big, big brains on that little guy, he definitely got to know people and had favorites, and developed some pretty complex behaviors.

I'd just add that in addition to your excellent advice, that some parrots can be a lifetime investment too (or even beyond, i.e. you need to provide for them in your will!).
"Subtle class cues can backfire" seems like a factual assessment of the finding that being a lower-class man or upper-class woman hurts your chances of being called back.
I think algebraic data types and not having nil would be a huge improvement to Go. I would agree with you about generics if Go had a good macro or templating system. Having to generate code feels a bit silly.
Amazing work. I daresay it would be even more capturing with a voice over commentary.
Betterment weights more heavily towards international allocations, so my returns have been lower than a fund more US-centric. That's not why I moved though; Betterment just raised their fees, which were somewhat acceptable before (0.15% of assets under management) but are now out of line with the value they provide (0.25%).

Those fees were on top of the ETF fees for the funds they assembled your portfolio with.
What are the key differences between ReactNative and NativeScript? (2016)
If the average duration of tech employment is less than five years, how is that relevant?
If corporations want to be prejudiced (because it serves their rational economic interests), you can't just stand there and say "well, they shouldn't want that then!" and expect the world to change. You've got to come up with a system or context in which being prejudiced isn't useful, so that (as rational actors) corporations stop wanting to be prejudiced.

And to do that, we first have to come to agreement, in the clear light of day, whether corporations do want that (potentially unacceptable) thing or not. Which seems to be a large problem in discussions like this: trying to talk about the way the world is butts up against people who want to talk only about the way the world should be, and don't want to acknowledge that you have to talk about both "before" and "after" if you want to get from one to the other.
You just provided a subtle clue about your gender.
Narrative aside, there is some amazing footage from the 70s and 80s just seeing those clips made the whole thing worth it.

Taken as a whole it comes off as a conspiracy theory and I think that was intentional, but the individual parts contained a ton of interesting factually correct history tidbits paired with said footage.
The differences in callback rates were not statistically different between the women and the lower class men. The only statistically significant different was higher class men and everyone else.
> ... you could easily argue that the service is purchased in the United States...

I could support that view, as long as they then pay taxes on that income in the US. I don't personally like the idea of shifting the money like that; I think eliminating such tactics would do a lot to fix tax havens. But at the same time I also recognize it as a pretty common and typically legal tactic for tax purposes.

The EU, for instance, closed that hole with the law that VAT taxes will be paid based on the customer's location. If such a law existed in Canada, then Uber wouldn't be able to argue that the purchase was made in the US.

> It seems like a lot of people have already decided whether or not Uber should be paying taxes, and now are retroactively applying logic to justify their original decision.

I agree, though I hope you weren't applying that to me. I was taking Uber's view as a given, but to me it still seemed that taxes would be owed for services rendered. Just that it would be services rendered to the drivers, not to the riders.
Maybe the interviewers bias resume selection to their own profiles. Because most people come from elite families, mostly people from elite families get interviewed.
> Love graph algorithms have coded many myself in JavaScript to prep for interviews.

...but have you coded any in JavaScript after the interview as part of the job? I suspect for most people the answer is no. It has always seemed strange to me to ask a topic that you're never going to encounter during your day to day work (yes, I know for some roles this isn't true).
Yeah, no kidding. The obvious one, which has a precedent, is making companies subject to legal penalties for discrimination.
The modeling chapter is really fun (for those with some clojure chops already looking for a fun random place to assess the work).
It's normal for drivers to fail to yield legally. A human driver would respond by letting the other car go. If Uber tech can't handle this completely standard situation and results in a high-speed collision when another driver makes a minor error then Uber tech is not ready for prime time.
Nope ;) try again. It's similar but in a different silo.
British teenager points out major error in the data NASA collects from the ISS
Federal check for secret/top secret or a state check for someone with access to certain public safety stuff. It's painful enough that many police agencies find it easier and cheaper to train cops.

They validate your references and ask references for other references. Takes a lot of time.
This makes total sense. If you're high class, you're going to yield more business for the firm if for no other reasons than deep social connections to people who can afford to buy the firm's product.

If you're a woman, statistically you're more likely to work for the firm for a brief time before you retiring to being a wife in your late 20’s or early 30’s - a huge sunk cost for an elite firm that invests heavily in its employees.

If the firms were outright discriminating against someone unjustly due to some kind of shadowy and insidious patriarchy or class hierarchy preservation desire, they would get crushed in the free market for making systematically wrong decisions. But given that they're the top 5% law firms, it looks like their heuristics are correct - high class males are more often than not going to make them a ton more money than other groups.
A full day of those kind of questions is pretty much the standard for the usual suspects (FB, Apple, Google, etc). Sometimes you might get a more generic design question thrown in.
I think maybe you're reading too much into it. I made no mention of "guilt". I merely stated that I was willing to trade seeing ads (not explicitly taking time to look at them or click them) for free access to content...when those ads were much less intrusive and privacy-invading and bandwidth intensive than they are now. Ad networks have since convinced me that was a mistake, but I feel no guilt about using an ad blocker.
CIG, ACG, RCE .. I thought DEP and ASLR was supposed to have already cured RCE. Lets face it, when are they going to admit that the Windows memory model running on Intel hardware is defective. Lets see how long this comment stays up before modded into oblivion.
Fastmail has a feature where if your email is bob@example.com you can create any email address of the pattern randomsite@bob.example.com and it will deliver it to you. It's very convenient for things like this.
Do you have any data/studies besides an anecdote to show that this kind of observation does not hold in real life? All the data I've seen show that women do work part-time more often, work fewer hours (for example, for doctors: http://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/compensation/2016...), take more vacations (http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2013/04/25/vacation-tra...), and take more sick days (http://www.hrzone.com/lead/culture/why-do-women-take-more-si...).
I store aliases (+ info about the service I provided them to) in the database and use simple PHP script to manipulate the db from the web.

On the mail server side, I have postfix set up to read the database and deliver everything for a valid address to a single mailbox.

It should be workable with any service that will allow you to setup aliases for a single mailbox. If they allow to set it using API, that would allow for automation.

On the sending side, given that I haven't yet found a need to communicate too frequently with any of the services I use via email, I have a simple PHP form to send email with the specified alias address set as From on the envelope and inside the email.
You're missing the gist of the logic.

Integrity of a company is almost entirely instigated by hiring those who represent the ideals of the founder(s), and iff those ideals are centered on profit, then it's logical to the rich to presume that their wealthy peers are more well suited to creating wealth in their respective roles.

Unfotunately for whomever published this study, and for those that agree with the findings, advancement within markets is not solely promulgated by a singular mindset, but instead by a collection of contrasting views that accommodate many, many perspectives and thereby glean an aggregate position on how to act in varying circumstances. If Bob, Bill, and Brian are all in the same yacht club, and all come from similar backgrounds, have similar motivations, and similar perspectives, then they will miss opportunities that someone from a 'hardscrabble' upbringing would recognize more instinctually due to having to deal with much more stressful environs.

To make this a bit more technically obvious: if I write an AI algorithm and it's too greedy in only choosing the most optimum components when evolving a solution, then it won't ever accommodate circumstances that require an instrument that can negotiate around, or through, moments of volatility that the 'rich boy' set has never had to endure.

I find it laughable that people think they are so enlightened that they understand the potential of another being enough to judge them unworthy while simultaneously giving themselves plaudits for being so capable. If someone is truly that great of a manager, then why aren't they confident enough in their ability to manage, or even work with, someone of lower class?

Surely the dichotomy is apparent.

Why isn't it acknowledged that it's less(!) good to discriminate via class than it is to be capable enough to accommodate someone you find 'beneath' your standards? It's like people who have that mindset are so happy to pat themselves on the back for being great at what they do, but cannot fathom working with someone who comes from a household that wasn't as supportive.

The f nerve of it is, well, unnerving. Companies have to learn to grow culture via inclusivity, not by being exclusive. All for one, one for all, that kind of thing. Otherwise you get cronyism, and if you read a little history you'll see numerous examples of how that strategy turns out. Ask George II and see what he says.
That's not the case for partner-track positions at white shoe law firms.
Hadoop didn't fail us. We failed Hadoop.

The decline of Hadoop as a software category is Software Product Marketing 101: it did not identify pervasive killer use cases critical to running . Yes, it's true that Hadoop was a revolutionary way to store and process massive datasets on commodity hardware, but what's the use case for that? If you are Visa/AMEX (fraud detection), Facebook/Google (various ML-based data products) and a few other types of companies with obvious applications of massive data processing, yes, Hadoop has been great.

But here's the thing: beyond a few such corner cases, it never found a use case that enterprise data warehouse couldn't handle.

Then came Redshift, then BigQuery, and now Snowflake (as a BigQuery on AWS, really). While there are some key technical differences between Redshift and BigQuery/Snowflake, they are all _much_ cheaper than the previous generation of data warehouses (Vertica, Netezza, Greenplum, etc.) The lower price meant greater access, and developers who previously couldn't imagine using data warehouses could finally spin one up with a credit card swipe.

Hadoop, too, took a lot of collateral damage because many developers realized that they didn't need much of Hadoop beyond SQL-on-Hadoop.

Redshift was a beautiful feat of product strategy and marketing: They just took what used to cost a lot and offered it for much less in an environment where developers already had a lot of data (AWS). This was much simpler to execute than what Hadoop had to do: introduce new technology, identify use cases, and finally compete with incumbent solutions.

We failed Hadoop (as you can see from www.cloudera.com, even Cloudera, the Hadoop company, hardly mentions Hadoop on its top page). Not the other way around.
if you're willing to handle the allocation yourself, you can just see what vanguard is putting into their 20xx fund, and buy the corresponding funds as ETFs (or their admiral shares funds if you've got enough money in there) and get even lower expense ratios.

as a general note, anyone interested in this should take a look at the bogleheads site, starting with their wiki: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page
Perhaps if it's the blues-based, sad country music, things are not so bad. Listening to party-n-fishin' nu-country is a hard no.
Umm

Can you use text to move a slider?
I tried out these services, and it just freaks me out too much having $50,000 sitting in an iPhone app. I get that they are insured and legit, but it's just too much money for me to hand over to a startup.
I'd guess it's more of a security clearance thing where, amongst other things, they send people out to interview your family/friends/employers/etc.
Let ISIS fire manpads at far cheaper drones.

The SDB2 costs quarter million a pop, and the F-35 is still 5 years away from being able to field one. If used in standoff mode the F-35 is a poor choice, not only can drones deliver the SBD2, B1 can carry more than 20x more of them and loiter far longer. If used in the other modes the A-10 could be adapted to carry twice as many, deliver them just as effectively and with its huge big gun and ability to safely loiter close offers a much better follow up punch.
Hi Mos- That's basically what getcovert is meant to be. I forward all of your email along to your singular email address (so no multi-mailbox), but the site never sees your real email.
Unless your applicants become your prospects or customers. At that point, it's going to be incredibly hard to get over any negative sentiment. The hiring process is as much a communication and marketing process as anything else and needs to be treated as such.
I very much agree. A few years ago I was searching for a new job and there was this one place specifically that had an opening that sounded like a perfect fit for my skill set. They had an extremely long application process that involved "Pre-Employment Testing" (something called Criteria?). Anyway, I spent hours working on this application only to never hear back.

Funny enough, after landing an even better gig, I randomly got contacted by one of their recruiters on LinkedIn asking if I would be interested in the opportunity they were still hiring for. No mention of the fact that I had already applied and never heard back.
Don't you have a broker, or a 401k?
Yes, I have Vanguard but decided to give Betterment a try when they first launched.
I expect that Amazon will now start lobbying for a federal law to enforce this on all retailers, as I have shifted a lot of dollars from Amazon to B&H because Amazon now collects CA tax.
Senate Moves to Permanently Kill the FCC's Broadband Privacy Rules
When is this code from?!

I haven't seen someone use the Java servlet API "raw" (outside of examples) in nearly 20 years.
I didn't do the stats on it, but just looking at the graph in the article 5 times as many lower class women received callbacks than lower class men. What was the p-value on that?
Care to explain? Aside from garbage collection, C++ has basically always had all Java language features. If anything, I would argue that C++ is mostly a superset of Java, since it includes strictly more -- for example, much better support for type-generic programming.
The cited paper is available at http://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/facbios/file/RiveraTilcsik.p...
Supreme Court Printer Cartridge Case Could Be the Citizens United of Products
Make money online and work from home
I think these definitions of being a sociopath are demonstrably very silly. You can easily think of people who "disregard legal and moral standards" whom no one would ever describe as a sociopath.

When you call someone a sociopath you are absolutely making a judgement about their internal mental state. I don't see how anyone can reasonably argue otherwise and I don't find any of your arguments convincing.
I have a question

Methane (CH4) is said to be 30-105x more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas.

But burning it produces energy and CO2 as a byproduct.

So wouldn't it make sense to use it and burn it at these lakes instead of letting it escape? Even if you do not harness the energy.
Net revenue is what Uber makes after paying the drivers. IOW, any losses Uber has accrued in that quarter is based upon costs outside of the rides themselves.
Yeah, but military Keynesianism also involves a lot of the taxpayer dollars lining the pockets of arms manufacturers and contributes to belligerent foreign policy. It's worth asking whether the same money could be used to employ people to do something other than building more F-35s.
Why Infinity Is No Ordinary Number
How flowers conquered the world (2014)
> To what end?

To show the company they were wrong?
Summary points:

> The lakes are a type of thermokarst lake, which form when thawing permafrost causes the surface to collapse and fill in with meltwater. These ones are bright blue and bubbling, because of methane that's leaking into them before escaping into the atmosphere.

> Researchers announced that they're also monitoring around 7,000 gas bubbles or 'pingos', which have formed in Siberia and are at risk of exploding to form huge craters. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13941923

> Methane is roughly 30 times more potent than CO2 as a heat-trapping gas.

> By 2100, up to 205 billion T of carbon emissions will be released by permafrost if climate change continues to intensify.

> Previous research had suggested that a global temperature rise of 1.5°C (2.7°F) would be enough to start the melting of Siberia's permafrost, and scientists are concerned that these lakes and pingos are a sign it's already happening.

> What's interesting is that the satellite data suggests the leaks are happening year-round in these regions, even at temperatures close to 0°C (32°F).
Sites will use the disguise of "Native Ads" to make these links look like standard web page links, and they'll do every attempt to avoid being blocked or hidden.

Using base64 images, websocket/blob: injections, third-party scripts, natively hosting the images on the site and using also webRTC to also inject.

Its a long fight of countering/re-countering, and until website developers listen to its users these type of ads aren't acceptable.

/Fanboy from Easylist here
Six months and $30,000 sounds about right or maybe even a little low for a US secret clearance. There's a reason they're estimated to be worth about $10,000 a year. Insanely expensive and time consuming to get.

(OP has mentioned in another thread that this was not a secret clearance, but very similar.)
I think it's generally better to propose hypotheses if you're not backing up your assertions with data.
Well, they're protected because pretty much all lawmakers are over 40. And over 40s have great lobbyists.

They shouldn't be discriminated against because of their age, but neither should anyone else. Hiring young people because they're cheaper or easier to overwork is pretty messed up across the board.
What about competition like HPCC[1]?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPCC
If you moved your money to Vanguard and invested in the same funds Betterment currently invests in for you, and you rebalanced as often as necessary, you would get a slightly higher ROI at Vanguard because Vanguard has lower fees.

However, all of the things Betterment does for you now would be your responsibility, including asset selection, rebalancing, thinking about how to manage taxes, etc.

The bottom line is that you can do this yourself for less money, but you have to do it all yourself. Betterment offers more convenience for a higher fee.
https://www.findlectures.com/
I've been so thoroughly broken by naming schemes like "Gravity" or "Flaming Biscuit" or whatever, that I've basically trained myself (at least here) to read things like "Black Hole" as a project name. Imagine my brief consternation when I thought, "Who in their right mind would name a resume hosting service 'Black Hole'?!"... then saw the source and felt incredibly stupid.

Beyond that, let me just add my voice to the multitude shouting, "Holy shit, yes, and it's terrible!"
I live in an area popular with walkers & bicyclists due to the winding, undulating roads. They often travel against traffic on one-ways in the heart of town(roundabouts and one-way streets) and on the shoulderless two lanes.

Anecdote related to TFA:, a couple months back an SUV stopped at a marked crosswalk with ped traffic. I stopped in right lane next to it. When peds cleared it began rolling before I did, and once I commenced it braked hard. I braked, looking for unseen peds and noticed it's nav gear & small uber decal. No additional peds were in crosswalk. There were dozens og people on either sidewalk for an art fair. I wonder if human intervention caused the hard braking or the large amount of data points on the periphery.
Lots would if it weren't so inconvenient.

I am not really sure about that. About 10 % of all Internet users are currently using an ad blocker. So 90 % are okay with ads or don't care or whatever. Further I would estimate that users would have to pay between $5 and $10 per month to pay for the content they consume to provide an income for sites comparable to that of ads. Maybe 1 % of the ad blocker users - number pulled out of thin air - would be willing to replace their ad blocker with a monthly payment of $10 if this would would work frictionless, if you could magically convince the entire Internet to create some Netflix equivalent.

In the end that would be 0.1 % of the Internet users which seems not really a huge incentive to bring such a Netflix equivalent into existence.
Seriously. All it takes is a form letter, and then you know for certain.

Dear Applicant,
We're sorry but we have decided not to go forward with your application at the present time. We will keep your CV on file for 6 months in case our needs change. Best of luck in your future endeavors.