skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Downvoting and calling someone racist is not an argument.

And note there might be others who are not certain which side is correct, and might be persuaded by your arguments.

I'm aware. I actually receive a consistent flow of emails of the form "I'd never say this in public, but you made me rethink what I previously believed." That's because I'm willing to be called racist or whatever.

Most people aren't. It significantly hinders rational discussion.
The failure of articles like this is that they take a snapshot of a company at a point in time and assume that the company's business model and reach doesn't change. This is the same mistake that many analyst make on early stage companies.

Companies evolve over time and grow in terms of scale. Take a look at Facebook and Google as an example.
That's the thing, though, isn't it? Being on a vestry, for instance, is a leadership role, but it also reveals a lot about the candidate that isn't really relevant and may prejudice the hiring person's judgment.
The data points for my hypothesis just keep connecting.

edit: so I know, why does something this innocent get downvoted? I don't understand what I did wrong.
I'm aware, but that's perfectly legal code.

Every warning case I've described can result in bugs, but the problem is when you intended to do what you did, you can't get the compiler to shut up about it there.

For the warnings I disable, they're things I do all the time. I can't recall ever typing = when I meant ==; whereas I combine assign + test into a single statement very frequently.

The warnings I keep on are the ones where I'd never want to do those things, and it'd never be proper code. Those are great warnings to have in place.
That's no good. You're still sending your primary address, before the +. They can remove or modify anything after +, and you'll still receive the email.

I'm slowly transitioning for having a random 20 char generated alias email for every service/use and there's no chance anyone will hit a real mailbox by chance. If alias leaks, I can either abandon the service and block it, or change the registered email for the service to a new alias and block the old one.

In addition to that, I have a few easy to remember/type emails to give out to people, that I never use on the internet.

The result being no spam even without a spam blocker. (to the new addresses)
Paul Ryan has described the social safety net as a "hammock" that lures people who are completely able to work into not doing so because they'd rather be on welfare.
If an employer shouldn't be allowed
to discriminate by age, should they
be allowed to discriminate by class?

Maybe employers shouldn't ever be allowed to choose anything.

Maybe employers should just accept fate, and endure the burdens imposed on them by random chance and fate. With the first person that walks through the door, just give in and let it happen.

Small employers, large employers, all employers, one size fits all.
Haskell Concepts in One Sentence
I'd posit that young tech companies have similar problems, even if the particulars are different than law firms.
I worked in Singapore last April, a wonderful city/country. I can't speak to how much 'freedom' there is in Singapore, but I would go back to work there in a heartbeat if another good work opportunity occurs.

I noticed no poverty, everyone seemed busy and industrious. Anyway, I loved it there.
The Handmaid's Tale was made into a movie in 1990. It's an OK movie. The upcoming TV show is apparently a spinoff.
So what's the claim here? If an employer wants to hire only white men (and no hardscrabble backgrounds, please) regardless of qualifications that should just be allowed? That we should have a permanent underclass instead?
just in July of 2016, an unnamed hedge-fund was hiring architect/programmers.
After a brief review of my resume (I have been in sr management and sr architecture roles for 17 of 25 years, but also code at home) -- was asked to take an online coding test.

The coding test was 2 hours through a interview/code website (forgot the name). They monitored your keystrokes and report to the interviewer when open tabs on web-browser outside of their window.
(I can dig and recall what that website was if others are interested).

The coding problem was basically masqueraded Union Find graph problem. I knew that after about 2 minutes of 'browsing' (as I can translate a functional ask into an existing pattern that's already solved).

http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/union-find/

Still went ahead trying to implement this by hand.. and failed. So did not get a job.
The United States and International Affairs
Cracked LG Nexus 5x phone screen?
Show HN: E-Book Site for Classics
You misunderstand the point.
Thanks for the link. That's a good highlight.

The experimenter in me reads that article (and mind you it's very brief), and I actually get encouraged. They were attempting to measure it on a pure 1:1 basis, where all their other shows, as well as all the other shows on broadcast TV, were following the standard model. Educating advertisers is a challenging step in this process, and so it's no surprise they couldn't get the pricing right on the first go around.

Hopefully they decide to try again, test, iterate, and think outside the box.
Wealthfront has raised ~$100M and Betterment has raised ~$200M. If they are only burning $4M/year to grow as fast as they are, they are doing fantastically well. I suspect though that the author's burn rates are off by an order of magnitude.
Why Are There No Eggs in Indian Cakes?
> Is there a special way you organize your backlog board?

One list for each priority/case-type pair, so High-bug, Medium-bug, ... High-Feature, Medium-Feature, etc'

> ... external user request

If support made the card, they attach the case. No reporting on this though, it's mostly for followup -- when the card is moved to a Done, we can let the customer know what release it will be in.

> estimates

We do a very high-level estimate bucket. Mostly to size the release.
Despite the author's argument, for me at least, there are an order of a priori "hints" which argue why Mathematics ought to be seen in the natural sciences.

In the beginning of mathematics, it was likely, if not definitively created to enumerate similar objects in a particular given set. In order to enumerate an object two things must happen. The object must be turned into an object: this means it must be reduced into some abstract concept which holds certain properties to belong in a set. Second, it must be mapped with a further abstract ID, the number. The most significant consequence of this is that the enumerated ID's and objects now hold the property of logic, because in our world all objects seem to exhibit properties of logic (most of the time). This would have begun as simple arithmetic, an early model of a useful description of our world. From this it becomes evident that you can now map any integer to objects, and perform operations on those integers which map onto the real world as if you were performing the operation on those very real objects.

Later, mathematicians would then become less concerned with the objects mathematics served to represent but more on the relationships in between them. In the logical manipulations of these objects, mathematicians began really exploring the very logical relationships between objects (the creation of variables would coincide here over strict numbers). They once represented an object, yet still can be used again to represent an object. It follows, that these objects should now follow these logical relationships.

From these concerns, I reduce mathematics further as a nice description of logical relationships; a derivative of our own model of the universe.
If you want to be judged based on your ability rather than people's biases or your appearance, avoid "soft sill" professions. Just a word of advice.
I don't see Rust mentioned anywhere
A bad citizen in Pythonland
Advertorials/sponsored content work well all the time - you just happen to not notice or care as much.

The Cocainenomics article by the WSJ sponsored by Netflix is a great example. Affiliate sites like The Wire Cutter. Also pretty much every ad in popular podcasts that have hosts talk about companies they use, etc.

https://www.wsj.com/ad/cocainenomics
> It happens. Gain experience. Move on. I worked for a tyrant for $12/hr fixing bugs and adding new things to the program. Over a year and a half I did this. It was Visual Basic 6.0 and this job I had about 6 years ago.

That's not an argument. There is no reason for the op to accept being treated badly because you were. I was severely underpaid at my first job too, but I don't think it is right that others should be underpaid just because I was.
Not to mention grey market items, which are a commonplace in Amazon UK.

If you buy many items from Korea or Japan, expect to get some plain plastic bag without instructions or traces of original packaging.
The problem with niche content is that it doesn't bring a big audience and is very time intensive. There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Absolutely agreed and the kind of credibility Mercedes has in the market takes decades of excellent execution to accrue and a few years to fritter it away.

Given that the gap between Mercedes and run of the mill saloon has been closing in real terms rapidly (when I was a kid cars where serviced every 5-12,0000 miles, these days it's not unusual for service periods to be more than twice that with 7 year warranties and the generally higher build/reliability across the board) their brand of understated excellence is a key part of why they can still charge so much.
I find it unlikely to believe that they would lock down entire warehouses for any significant period. I think this is the equivalent of shutting down an entire port because of a (or a few) containers of cargo are counterfit.
I'm curious what you're thinking of specifically, because I can't imagine any remotely reasonable way to make egress fees work from a technical standpoint, let alone widespread acceptance and adoption. You browse to a site, you can read all the articles you want, but you can't load any other sites until you pay?
Amazon credits you when someone buys your item, but the item Amazon ships the buyer might not be yours, but an equal equivalent.

And, before you ask: Yes, this results in situations where 100% legitimate sellers on Amazon can sometimes ship (via Amazon/FBA) their buyers counterfeit goods. Shitty situation to be in as a seller.
Poverty is easy to clean up when being poor is a crime.
I think it's debunked in the saying itself.
Regardless of whether or not the Daily Mail's cover is lowbrow or inaccurate, this article's tone is disrespectful and borderline offensive. It genuinely oozes immaturity, a lack of empathy, and pride in the author's disconnect from those affected.
I left that article more confused than when I went in. I guess that's the logical conclusion of tabloid content.
Thanks, that's a good tip. :)
"cultural fit"
Renault Alpine A110, the Porsche Cayman Rival
That's Egypt today. Egypt is far more hostile to women than it was 30 years ago.
Also http://www.33mail.com/
I want something like mailhero combined with a paid email provider like proton mail. Everything sent to $name@$spamkey.$mydomain.$tld would act like a mailhero address and forward to my personal address.
Taleo's particular talent is in interfering with applications to other companies that use Taleo. Suppose you use Taleo to submit to Oracle. Great! But when you use Taleo to submit to Cisco, you need to use a different address because email addresses for oracle.taleo.net and cisco.taleo.net are in the same namespace. There are a couple of online systems that make me reconsider applying, and Taleo definitely leads the pack.
Depends on the HW manufacturer and SKU on what is bundled or not.. Even ROM code can be different per SKU.
For the reference of others, I opened the LA Times on my computer and left the front page open for 10 minutes, and in that time it downloaded 48.7 MB of data.
Was it "hate speech" it freedom of religious view? Serious question because the article doesn't go into enough detail.
You could spam them.

Anyways, it's a privacy violation. Apple shouldn't be handing out your email without your permission. Facebook has a setting allowing you to choose whether you want your email to be public or not.
Why mental toughness is essential
Read the Apple patent I cited above. Apple isn't exporting an API so don't expect much in the docs. But they do have to teach in the patent.
Excellent piece. Esp. this:

> There are a few simple patterns we can apply that make conditionals less intertwined. They include: ‘return early’,‘use ternaries’, ‘replace switch-statements with objects.’ These are not silver bullets, but rather, handy weapons for fighting complexity.
I really enjoyed it. It's quite a different way of doing things, but I just completely love the |> operator...

Also, the first time you completely replace a process and things just keep running perfectly - well, it's amazing!
This article was criticised the first time on HN. This part is particularly fanciful:

>an adversary could find a vulnerability in the LLVM backend to obtain remote code execution on Apple’s Bitcode compilation infrastructure to inject a compiler trojan that would affect every single app on the App Store that was submitted with Bitcode.

That seems like a very much "just so" failure scenario. There's no reason to think this would open up a huge, recommend exploitable attack surface. And even if it did, it seems highly unlikely it'd be limited to just apps submitted with Bitcode.

Same for the backdoor risk. Thinking suddenly Apple would be a target is silly. There may be good reasons against Bitcode but these security hysterics don't help the argument.
The clues may be less subtle and still affect employers decisions. I've read thousands of resumes and I always get frustrated when I can read more into the resume than may have been intended. Membership in the "hundred black men" or the "Aidan American student organization" provides me with information I would prefer not to know. Ideally when I review a resume I only want to know whether or not I think you might be qualified and worth wasting time on a phone call. Providing that information makes it harder for me to pretend that I am hiring blindly.

The idea that there are even more subtle clues is fascinating. When hiring engineers, such clues have remained entirely subliminal to me. There must be some but honestly it wouldn't have occurred to me that there is a class difference between those interested in sailing and those who like track and field. I would probably guess that a track athlete would get along better in my company. Perhaps we are just low class.
LOL! This is exactly why Wall St can't make early stage investments.

Clearly these are speculative bets on Wealthfront being as large as a mutual fund. The fact that the author doesn't see this means they're overvaluing a mutual fund manager and thinking that an algorithm can't come close to matching that performance. These startups have two major cost advantages over incumbents: 1) no researchers 2) no salespeople. They have higher profitability, so they'll be better equipped to spend on sales & marketing to achieve fast growth. This leads me to think that at least one of these companies is going to grow to the size of a large mutual fund and "WIN".
Yeah, like that one.
You should try to get some UX designers involved with the game's UI and controls. It's very confusing, nothing works like you'd expect from a Civilization-like game (left click to select a unit, right click to move? nope).

Also, the camera kind of got into "drunk mode" (slowly pivoting and rotating in arbitrary directions). It should be fixed at a constant angle, with the possibility to translate the camera with arrow keys (like in Sid Meier's Civilization).
It's cause the data caps are fairly high. For example whats 10MiB when you have a 300GiB data cap.

But if we change to a utility like model people will start caring about penny pinching their bills
That top header takes way too much space and there is no obvious was to minimize it :/ Bad form.
I also can't access this article -- would love to check it out, if/when it's back online.

No idea if this article mentions the book, "The Knowledge" by Lewis Dartnell (see above) -- however I would highly recommend the book if anyone is interested on the actual "knowledge" necessary to reboot a civilization. It goes into some depth on the actual chemical/mechanical processes involved in building modern technology, and more-or-less outlines the steps to go from "stone age" (or at least "post-apocalypse") tech back to something like "modern" technology. Really interesting read, that also is illuminating on how modern technology (and thus civilization) is so much more deeply complicated than most probably realize.
They do know you don't click on ads.

They just show you ads for people who are going for exposure rather than clicks, because you count as an impression even if you can't be used to generate clicks.
A Microsoft website requiring a Microsoft account to make comments? The horror!
I worked at a startup 25 years ago, and we had trouble getting group health insurance for our company of just over a dozen people because the accountant was over 50 years old, and it's not like we were going to fire him to get insurance. I imagine the problem is different today with ACA.
I just use ublock's advanced mode to block scripts. Nicer than having a separate extension to do it (on Safari and like to keep it light) and is more or less a permafix. If (when) it breaks the layout I just click that built-in reader mode thing.
I can understand that underprivileged people has to be educated in order to be able to compete. That's why I support quotas for them in universities. But, why is this needed at work? Shouldn't this be solved by the market? If a company only hires white men then you should be at a competitive disadvantage against another company that can chose the best workers from other backgrounds too. Or is this an admission that white men actually perform better than the rest? I don't think so, but maybe the ones who write the policies do.
Your comment is nothing if not an argument for home schooling.
Caching v cookies: Why should you be careful with caching variations on cookies?
Fake News! Companies never respond to you at all, even when prompted.
I take it you've never been to SG.

There are poor people and it isn't a crime to be poor.
Caught in a Trap, I Can’t Walk Out – Server Patching and Vertical Integration
Maniagnosis – Quicksort
There's another distribution of Vim which also claims to be inspired by Spacemacs and is called SpaceVim (not space-vim as in this case).

Homepage: http://spacevim.org/

Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13315845
Another 68 Things Every Programmer Should Know
I think their growth has slowed though. At least I remember them bragging about 3 billion under management a year ago.
For me it's not so much about seeing ads to help support a site, it's the fact that ad companies use all sorts of crazy black pattern ways of tracking you all over the web. It's just not safe to have any ads enabled.
After I've sent out an application I don't give it any more thought. I don't wonder if it's been read or if they'll ask for an interview or how long it will take them. I look for the next job to apply to.

As far as I am concerned, a rejection wastes both of our time. Unless they want an interview, why bother communicating any further?
Not exactly accurate.

There is eBay that is a big player and allows anyone to distribute products. These days 90% of sales are done by professional in fix price format (not an auction).

eBay has a proper reputation system, sellers are clearly identifiable and so is the location of the product.

Amazon doesn't do any of that on purpose.
Did you read the article you're commenting on? There are far fewer of these positions than there are applicants and if employers across the board just don't think kids with the "wrong" socioeconomic background are gonna fit in the market isn't going to fix the problem. It seems hard to argue that this is all about merit when the only difference between the hypothetical candidates in the study are class markers and gender.
Great study. I think this perfectly underscores the concept of what "privilege" is, in a scientifically robust way.

I have a worry about one of the implied conclusions, though. The high-status women were clearly discriminated against based solely on gender. However (and trying to tread carefully here), it is at least possible that a high status woman would be more likely to leave for family reasons than a high status man. That doesn't make the discrimination any better, but it also means the employers aren't necessarily acting economically irrationally (of course, there is also the chicken-and-egg problem, in that these high-status women might be more likely to take up a domestic role because they're being discriminated against in the first place). I say this not to give the employers a pass, but to suggest that any real, durable solution to the discrimination shouldn't automatically assume those social factors are imaginary.
This Copy of Windows Is Not Genuine – Permanent Fix (2017)
SG makes me wonder about my personal convictions regarding liberal democracy. I still personally believe liberal democracy is best for those of us in the West. Then again, we are hypocrites ourselves from funding Saudi Arabia to electing Trump based on promises of draconian anti-liberalism, so I'm not sure how well we can make the argument ourselves.

[0] I really hope this need not be said, but I mean liberalism not as in left politics, but liberalism as in liberal democracy.
In the article, it states that Chase is offering 0% funds, yet Betterment claims that their "All-in Actual Cost" for a 100k fund is better than Chase's due to cash drag and a lower expense ratio. (Found here: https://www.betterment.com/comparison/schwab-intelligent-por...)

This is confusing and hard to fact check. Who do I believe?
This is horrible, and abhorrent behaviour especially on the part of adults who should know better and recognise acheivement when it is shown rather than denigrating work based on the country of origin or genetic makeup of the workers.

I hope this is not common, or at least not becoming common.
While this could be a worry for some smaller companies, I think there are more significant costs involved with employees who are closer to retirement than not. This becomes more serious the older one gets. When retirement becomes a short-term prospect (within 5 years), it gets really bad.
In a lot of ways, that doesn't really hurt them hard enough. Unless you use a unique email address on every site, you're inherently leaking information about you.

[1] Advertisers can then use that data to cross-track you between sites more effectively.
[2] Marketers can re-target you without any sort of pixel tracking because facebook, google, twitter, etc., all can identify you by that email address you provided.
[3] None of us have a loud enough voice to dramatically damage a company in a meaningful way b/c they were a bad actor.

In my mind, by obfuscating the email address, we take away its power. It loses a lot of its value when it's randomized per site, per user. It now is truly only useful for sending you an email, and if you get fed up with how they use that email address, they're shutoff forever (and have no way of tracking you).
Gurley's post [1] (from 2014) gives one possible end goal: "Learning about Yu’e Bao gave us an epiphany that Jack Ma likely had years ago. If you want to truly disrupt the financial services industry, perhaps you need to stop attacking the transactional experience and launch a competitive product on the asset gathering side. Once you have the assets, all the disruptive things that Silicon Valley types want to do will be easy. The hardest part has been getting access to the funds."

[1]: http://abovethecrowd.com/2014/06/18/disrupting-finance-from-...