skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. The issue here isn't whether a fun culture is always a problem. Sometimes a foosball table is just a foosball table. The issue here is that victorhooi is totally oblivious to how sexism manifests itself in the workplace, and wpietri is responding to this obliviousness.

There is no nice or polite way to tell somebody "this is sexist, cut it out", because when sexism (or racism, ableism, other bigotry) is pointed out people tend to react in a really defensive manner. They deny, deflect, lash out, or just change the subject. When the core message is a personal criticism then softer language doesn't make it go down easier. When it comes to these subjects, when no feelings are hurt no minds are changed. Nobody should be unnecessarily rude, of course, but "unnecessarily" is the pivotal word here.

victorhooi turns the discussion towards his own experiences about alcohol, fun culture, ping pong, and extrapolates from there. The problem is that his experiences are not representative of what women in tech experience at all, and it's particularly clueless for a guy to respond in a thread asking for advice from women in tech about what _his_ experiences are and how everything is totally fine (for him). Every woman in tech has personally experienced or personally knows somebody who has faced sexual harassment or other gender based discrimination. Every woman in tech who changes jobs has to ensure that the new work environment is not a dumpster fire. And if you're unlucky your boss may still decide on hit on you 4 months after you've bought a house in the new city. This practically never happens to men, so when victorhoi repeatedly claims that "gender or alcohol [...] flows both ways" or that "it's just a matter of self-control" he seems totally unware of the gendered problems that are so prevalent. He dismisses it outright "you get the occasional stupid comment" (when you don't drink), as if that is the extent of the problem! He doesn't get that it's not about him. He doesn't get that his experiences are not representative for women in tech.
People are referring to free climbing this particular route, Freerider, which is 5.12d/5.13a. It gets done, but it is hard enough there are usually blurbs about it in magazines and in the climbing media when someone completes it without aid.
One major issue is that their ad unit is "Google/Bing shopping ads, but lower quality and at a comparable price."
"we flipped the problem (and the OBD-II port) inside out and found naked access to HS1, HS2, HS3 and MS. The solution was on the back of the OBD-II port where all those buses arrive to a device called the Gateway Module."

This seems like a critical hack. Is this normal of all (non-ford) cars as well?

I'm gonna guess Car mfg's are going to start encrypting the CAN bus [1].

[1]: http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1328081
> If they do WBI's then they probably do lots of other things which run counter to best practices.

And what are the best practices for interviewing? Whiteboard interviews are employed by plenty of successful software companies (Google, Facebook etc), "best practices" implies there is something clearly accepted as more effective that they should be using instead. What is it?
Reads are really slow. Thumbnail previews take ages to load.
I am suggesting that your concept of a visual language is just an enhanced presentation of one that is fundamentally textual.
We've been doing that experiment for decades... you are currently experiencing the results.
Standardized tests, while a great idea on principle, leads to extreme optimizing to simply pass exams with less regard for the material that's meant to be learned. And they can be cheated:

http://www.straitstimes.com/world/extreme-measures-to-crack-...

https://blogs.voanews.com/student-union/2017/02/27/sat-score...

https://www.quora.com/Do-Chinese-people-have-creativity/answ...
Rugby has remained Rugby, pretty much.

There's been various changes over the years, juggling points for tries and penalties, introducing sin bins, and so on, but it isn't really anything fundamental.

Where you do see changes has been in the physique of players, and to some extent it's cyclical. Teams adapt to circumstances, player sizes and types change, and then some outlier will come along and with a visionary coach shake things up again.

Wings used to be lighter sprinters, then Jonah Lomu came along and proved that wings could be big (at 6' 5" he towered over most players, average height for the time was 6' 1") and still fast.

People just didn't have the strength or weight to stop him, especially out on the wings. Players of sufficient size would typically be one of the forwards, the bigger players that dominate a scrum.

Teams adapted to the new paradigm though, wingers started getting bigger and stronger as tactics changed, and we've seen size and weight fluctuate back and forth a bit, sometimes internationals favour lighter faster, sometimes slightly slower but stronger.
Is this the explanation for your account name? ;-)
While I don't know what tag teaming is, I would need to develop an API first and foremost to let you actually do that. I'm planning to create an API in the coming weeks.
So he should not get wide publicity of this amazing accomplishment because some people are idiots, and we should cater to their idiocy?

Couldn't disagree more with this mindset.
Freeclimbing is when you're connected to a safety rope. Free soloing is when you're not connected to anything at all.
Sadly, nobody is pointing out how critical thinking is under constant attack in some western societies.

In a society based on entertainment and consumerism, emotions, desires and impulsive behaviors are [made] king. Nobody will try to sell you a car or some shoes by appealing to your rational side.

Analytical and level-headed people, e.g. academics, mathematicians, engineers are frequently depicted as uninteresting and boring in movies.
Of course I know what you meant, but I'm trying to give you some free branding advice that would substantially increase the likely uptake for your tool.I am not a marketing oriented person either, but successful businesses often spend about the same money/effort on marketing as they do on product development. That's certainly the magic formula in the film industry - 50% on the production and 50% on the ad campaign.
What I'm saying is there may have been other great climbers that we just don't know about because they happen to have one small slip early in life.
Author here. These are great points and I tend to agree. While the tech is interesting to me as a way to reconcile privacy and security, changing the incentive structure is a more straightforward initial response.

Perhaps this post is most useful as a counter-argument to any "privacy vs safety" arguments that might be used to justify unrestricted access to consumer data.
I've looking for something like this for years! Thanks!
Probably the largest (and most controversial) change in baseball was the adoption of the DH by the AL in the 70s.

For a full history of rule changes in baseball: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/rulechng.shtml
I think the most interesting thing about this is that it's essentially a souped up address book, so it could basically be turned into a vcard with a bunch of extra fields.
Why do they need parallel construction when The Intercept narrowed it to a single person (printed and lives in Augusta, GA)? I'm going to restrict my conversation on this topic to the reporting and sworn testimony.
I am more annoyed they pollute too many searches I make, there are a few sites which I would love to permanently exclude from searching and this is number one
Count me as one of the continuing users of this service. And it basically boils down to the fact that almost anything I want to see is available on disc, which is not the case for any legal streaming service. And the turnaround on the mailers tends to be pretty quick.
What added benefit did homehero add to justify their costs? Either way the majority of people who work in this industry do not get paid a lot for what they do. It is hard to argue that they should get paid less to support the middle men
Reading the research, it was based on an observational study of 42 adults across three segments of musical training: None, Little (1-3 years), and Moderate (4-14) and found that "A greater amount of music training early in life was associated with the most efficient auditory function decades after training stopped."

I wouldn't draw any conclusions from this.
You are correct about the difference between freeclimbing and free soloing. Honnold had nothing to save him if he fell. Caldwell and Jorgeson had a rope and gear and a belayer to catch them if they fell, but they climbed their whole route without pulling on gear to help them climb.

They climbed different routes. The Dawn Wall route had not previously been free climbed, it had only been aid climbed before (meaning climbers pulled on gear to help get through the most difficult sections). Honnold climbed a route called Freerider which is easier than the Dawn Wall but still very very very difficult.
Sure.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14017760
I don't get the hatred towards white boarding during interviews. That's exactly what I do when brainstorming design, general architecture, state machines, explaining data structures used etc. The use of white board in an interview also covers the same topics, when I'm interviewing candidates.

Now if you say whiteboard programming, and that the candidate has to pay attention to curly braces and semicolons and typos, then I agree its not a great process.

So for me, whiteboard interviewing is perfectly fine, whiteboard programming is not.
To anyone seriously considering this, I urge you to check out Syncthing. It's free. You install it on all your machines and it syncs the files to each. If you lose a computer all of your files are available from one of the other ones in your setup.
Well, that's basically what I said in the first place :-/
I find it funny that Apple is just now releasing an AR SDK as when the iPhone first came out there were a lot of AR apps available. Most of them were pretty boring, just games like shooting spaceships or POI explorers, but they didn't look that much more primitive than the apps demoed today. I wonder why they didn't jump on AR back then.
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I'm now curious to give macros a try. Thanks.
Back in the day when software was sold in boxes in retail stores, I guarantee those retail stores were taking well north of 30%.
> Clearly they don't give a shit about actual sexual harrassment, they just want to preserve whatever perceived image they have to the rest of the world

You may be right.

But I don't think policing peoples intentions is a good plan for us. It has all kinds of problems, the main one being intentions are generally pretty unknowable. The other one being intentions don't actually cause any harm, so by policing intentions you take away resources from policing harm.

I think a much better plan is to be very serious about what constitutes right action and wrong action for you, to reward right action and to punish wrong action.

Here's what I suspect the problem is for you: I'm going to guess (and this is just a guess, feel free to correct me) that you do a lot of harmful things, by virtue of your position in society, ecology, and the global economy, but that you've forgiven yourself for these things because you believe your intentions are good, and you're doing the best you can.

This is the dominant moral framework today, so I'm not judging you for it. But I have a different moral framework: I think you are responsible primarily for the harm you case, not your intentions. I would rather you be a harmless person with horrible intentions than a harmful person with good intentions.

But I think for you to transition to that worldview, you'd have to face up to your own ongoing unintentioned harm, which would be extremely painful. So there's a lot of pressure on you not to do that.

Apologies for all of the projection/presumption. I don't actually presume to know any of these things about you, I'm really talking about two versions of myself and just casually speculating about where you might fit into that dichotomy. Again, feel free to say "that ain't me".
I see a lot of naysayers for whiteboard, but pretty much no opinion on what they think is better than whiteboards.
You are right - what Alex did is called "free soloing" which means climbing with nothing attached to the wall. Freeclimbing means you climb while harnessed in so if you fall you (hopefully) don't die. Originally people "aid climbed" the wall where you drill bolts into the wall and hoist yourself up.

This also explains why Alex can climb it so much faster. No ropes to worry about on the way up.

Check out the movie valley uprising on Netflix if you want to learn more.
> So they can have a seriously deleterious effect on really very large numbers of children as a result of the power they wield.

I have a hard time seeing how anything they decide to do to change schooling is going to make it worse than it is.

Our current education system is largely still in a factory style, where students are all taught the same material, run on the same idiotic schedule, are taught aimed at tests, and generally have any genuine interest in learn crushed out of them by the second grade.

Classes teach generic material and completely fail to demonstrate useful applications. Useful things like critical thought, philosophy, personal finance, cooking, computing systems/programming - not taught. Students learn to focus on rote memorization and local application of principles - see the articles the problems of getting students to solve conceptual physics problems vs. mathematical ones - and then proceed to forget most of the material as soon as there's no test on the horizon.

And we've known how to do better for a long time. Montessori's analysis of children and how they learn, her experimentation with the classroom and materials - this sort of thing is a hundred years old at this point, but we don't apply it widely. Instead we largely have the same old ineffective crap that we pass for "teaching". There's a reason Khan Academy became a thing.

We already know that schools do a bad job of preparing students for the current economic landscape. There's no reason to look at this and say "but some of these things might not work! Think of the children!" The children will be fine (or at a minimum, no worse off). We've already seen this where school districts have blown millions of dollars on new tech, to no useful effect. Zuckerberg threw a hundred million at some school district on the east coast, to zero benefit. But stuff like that isn't going to make things any worse. And on the flip side, they won't get better without action like this and without experimentation.

Better education is, imo, the best way to put this country on a strong footing for the coming decades. The government isn't going to do it. The private market isn't going to do it at scale. The average PTA isn't going to do it, and really, what the hell do most parents know about education, other than what they experienced? Committees and groups are the kind of thing that get bogged down in details, have no clear direction, and take forever to decide anything. At least a random billionaire can have the money and direction to get things done, even if not all of their ideas pan out.

One last thing - I feel these days schools are much less important than in the past, in so far as learning. The internet provides tremendous access to information; sites like Khan and other education material has improved over traditional textbooks by leaps and bounds; Stack Overflow and similar provide places to ask questions and find answers/explanations to specific problems or concepts; and so on. Fifty years ago, if a billionaire decided to bulldoze some schools and leave a bunch of children with no place to learn, that would have been a dire problem. Today, it's much less of an issue.
The original nat geo story of which this seems to be a summary covers more of the details (I know next to nothing about climbing as well it just seemed to answer some of these questions)

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/features/athlete...
I've worked in K-12 schools all my life and the answer is so incredibly clear, yet there is so much incentive riding in never saying it: Students and learning are secondary in the business of education.

True, meaningful educational impact happens when you can deliver authentic instruction -- instruction that creates a really tight feedback loop between the learner, the instructor, and the subject. We have tried with technology to mimick that at scale. Khan Academy and online quizzes is not a new idea; B.F. Skinner had a device doing this since at least the 60s. It works to stuff CEOs' pockets with money, feed the ever-larger administrative behemoth that schools are becoming, etc. Results, not so much.

There is no greater evidence than the fact that schools are probably the only sector which has literally gotten less efficient over the past decades; we literally spend more money per pupil for worse outcomes. The incentives in public education are absolutely abysmal, and we've seemingly done everything in the book to strip the voice of students and families in this sector.

As schools, our feedback loop between our own quality is practically nonexistent. No wonder we don't do right by these kids. Lots of money to be made selling software, though.
Your assumption in the very first paragraph is that they are a good way to independently evaluate people's abilities.

It makes perfect sense to look for a way to evaluate people before we hire them. It's a real problem, and we must do something, but do we have any basis to say that the whiteboard interviews correlate with good performance. Otherwise, we go back to the classic "syllogism" to justify policy proposals

1. This is an important problem, and we must do something.
2. X is something.
3. Therefore, we must do this.

I've been developing professionally for over 15 years, and I am quite good at whiteboard interviews: 100% offer rate. That said, Many of the best developers I've worked with are not any good at whiteboard interviews, often because they lack the composure under pressure, or like to take some time to think everything through, which are correlated with scoring badly in those interviews. Therefore, no matter how good their code is, they'll have a lot of trouble getting into a company that does whiteboarding interviewing, or even practical interviews under time pressure.

I also have found that, in my list of things on what makes an effective member of a programming team, being able to come up with a DFS algorithm under pressure is nowhere near the top of the list. An attitude towards trying to learn what others bring to the table, instead of discounting them immediately because they aren't good at some specific CS shibboleth, is far closer to the top though. We just test for random algorithm questions for this because it's easy to measure, not because it's really all that helpful, and that's pretty unfortunate IMO.
Unfortunately the development has stalled :-(
While free climbing, you also need to wait for your partner to climb the same section. Which effectively almost doubles the time.
You don't have that limitation while going solo.
> I suppose if people apply multiple times and are accepted later and then go on to do well on the job, you can count them as false negative in the first interview.

Isn't it more likely that they were correctly rejected multiple times and just got lucky enough to squeak through one time?
> I see them the same way as standardized tests: without them, there's no good way to independently evaluate people's abilities

How about straight up pay them to solve a real problem with you? If they're clearly incompetent, cut it short fast (under an hour). If they're competent, you know that they're competent at the job, not at a whiteboard interview. Yes, I've seen this work at small-medium outfits.

> I personally wouldn't want to work with someone who can't extract a path from a DFS

What if this person hacks blockchain merkle trees for breakfast, but can't be bothered to regurgitate tangential runtimes of whatever algo you decided to ask about, which they memorized and forgot 10 years ago? I've seen this to be a nontrivial intersection of skills.
But none of those other behaviors happened at Uber. It was literally someone asking another adult if they want to have sex. How childish are we to get upset over this?

I can understand that feeling uncomfortable is not good. Lots of things make lots of people uncomfortable. Maybe the issue is that Americans become uncomfortable too easily? Or do not know how to handle feeling uncomfortable?
Well, readdir() in ZFS does not produce outputs in any order, since directories are just plain hash tables.

And the n-i string comparison function produces a boolean if I remember correctly, not a trinary. So it doesn't define a collation. But it could define a collation, that's true.

The problem with moving sorting into the kernel is that you now need to have the collations there (English? French? something else? "Unicode" is not enough), and user-land needs to tell the kernel what collation to use for any given process or thread or system call. That's ETOOMUCHWORK for everyone, so it doesn't happen.
India’s bees are dying out and only its farmers know why
If it is normal to not know the difference, then they need class on it. No reason to have random girls be harassed cause duses are too emotional to know difference. However, they are both well aware and in enough of emotional control.

Seriously, if your emotions are that out of control, you are not suitable to live independently. I might be fine to use taxes to pay you counselling through.
I don't have MySQL handy, but this query doesn't even look like it should work. It groups by "activities.activity_type_id" but then includes "activity_types.*" in the select list.

Unless MySQL is smart enough to do something like "implicit grouping" where if you group on the primary key it knows that all other columns of that table could also be included in the group... in which case I really should give MySQL another chance!
I've been out of college for 10 years, writing software professionally... it's so rare to have to calculate the big-O of an algorithm, or use a data structure much fancier than an array or a hash table, or implement my own search algorithm. And if I had to do any of those things, I would look it up and leverage this collaborative thing we've created called the internet.

So why should I be expected to regurgitate trivia at a whiteboard to get your job?
The people a few years back climbed a different (way harder) route.
Well this is kinda flat round, and it casts a negative outlook on the company.
It wasn't just for sexual harrassment. It was for an conduct that they deemed inappropriate, like bullying, harrassment, etc.
No, he should not get wide publicity of this amazing accomplishment because HE is an idiot. The fact that he succeeded (survived) just means that he is still an idiot.
Yep, whiteboard programming - not good . Whiteboard interviews is too generic a name to use for that.
> cheap labor

Let's call it what it is - slave labor. Text of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
The question is not whether the test can be gamed, but whether WBI have sufficient predictive power to be used as an interview tool.

I think this is absolutely the case at large companies which need to screen hundreds of thousands of candidates per year, perhaps less so at smaller companies.
Why do we have shell commands called `cp` and `mv` instead of just `copy` and `move`?
I'm not shielding The Intercept from criticism. But the reporting is based on what the DOJ wanted released and I do not share your trust in what they say.