skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very hard (if not impossible) to avoid being biased when reading resumes.

Personally I would strongly prefer that resume's I review were anonymized and all hints that might bias me were removed before any decisionmaker see's them or they are filtered. This could help more women and minorities get a foothold at that step in the process (I mean generally, not with me specifically).

However, while relatively simple censoring of resumes would remove some bias from review, such as race (can often be hinted at by the name or university attended), gender, etc, and it would prevent googling of the person's name, age is extremely hard to hide. You can see a person's job history, which is generally will tell you their age within +-5 years. One partial solution might be to only list job history for the previous 10 years and remove the year a degree was earned, but relative seniority at the beginning of that 10 year work history will still be a very effective proxy for determining age.

So, unfortunately I think we can't hide age in an effective way without removing critical information from a resume (removing everything else we can that can be removed should be removed or hidden), but I think it's interesting to speculate on why older workers will be filtered out. I suspect it is a belief (or intuition aka unconscious belief) that someone applying for junior or entry level positions when they are > 40yo is correlated with 'something being wrong', since if there is nothing wrong you would have expected them to have reached a point in their career that they no longer have to blindly submit resumes for these kinds of positions.

I wonder what would happen in a study like this if the resume's representing older hypothetical candidates included some kind of cover letter explaining the situation. For example, saying that they started out working at a bank for 15 years but they found a passion for cooking and that is why they only have 5 years of experience as a chef. My guess would be that not only would this undo the bias against them, but you would find a strong bias towards them (just a guess).
I'm still a little unsure about all the details in the UK, but I know that in at least some cases the process you describe isn't entirely accurate. I mostly use a card from Monzo (https://monzo.com) and I get a mobile push notification on every use – almost always within seconds of the transaction. This would seem to be a requirement for prepaid cards, at least, because otherwise overspends would be possible.

I seem to remember that there is a whole class of cards which are coded as 'online only', meaning that transactions will fail unless they're taken online. The only place I've frequently seen this happen is on trains, where the mobile equipment is sometimes not capable of online transactions, or doesn't have a signal.

Anyway, the point was that these transactions don't appear to be any slower than with any other card I've used, so I'm not totally sure that the speed really is down to not being online.
Good God no.

Americans are the test bed for modern media and political manipulation strategies. What you guys invented are being exported around the world.

Stop putting your political compatriots down, and please read your political history with some empathy.

Post the cold war, the triumph of rationalism seemed to be entirely in reach. "religion is the opiate of the masses" was a common enough refrain, and we seemed to be on the verge of beating out all sorts of old superstitions and ideologies.

And then came the combination of mass media, evangelicism, and politics.

Over time people saw that the media allowed religious folk to reach out to target markets which were hitherto blocked from their reach, by the structural systems, checks and balances imposed by the strictures inherited from the Enlightenment.

With the revelations pouring in from psychology, and the significant improvements in advertising and marketing techniques, it became possible to target, poll, and build markets.

Startups use these tools today, and all the time. Theres no reason that the psychology for marketing an app should somehow prevent the marketing of a regressive, progressive, or authoritarian idea.

Details aside - the creation of that system worked as a proof of concept.

Now people around the world realized that with a tv station, and the right kind of messaging, you too could beat back science and facts. You just needed to work on the right message.

Of course there were road blocks, but eventually America was able to create a strong conservative movement, and finally Fox news. "a place for the persecuted majority".

You can trace all your problems to this arrow, this realization that you could mass produce emotional agreement, curtail information, using TV and now social media.
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Until someone says "literally everyone uses ssh, you should donate" then watch the excuses fly.
+1 for Pi-Hole for this sort of thing. Comes with pre-built lists of sites, and has a nice admin ui to handle blocks/allows.
Perhaps it was a combination of low price (even lower since they got a re-used first stage) as well as the option to go rather soon (again, due to the re-used first stage). Don't know how full other launch providers' manifests are at this point.
VLC?
https://github.com/unixpickle/muniverse

https://github.com/unixpickle/demoverse
Because duplicate counting is not per URL, and and the announcement blog post (which has a link to the github, and the same kind of information as is on there) already was on HN.
Please. I used taxis before Uber. They all sucked ass and I did not "trust them" any more than I trust some random Uber driver. If it wasn't for Uber they wouldn't even have mobile apps, and the prices would be much higher. Car hailing is here to stay, whether it's done by Uber or by some other company. The reason is simple: it's just better in every way.
What's the problem? Academics and professionals get published by submitting their papers to publication venues. It's really not that difficult to get published as long as you've got something interesting to say.
Nasty assumption here, but have you only tried GUI programs?

I use foobar2000 on Windows and MOC[1] on Linux and I really do not miss either of them when I'm on the other platform.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_on_Console
How much do you know about wearable translator?
Mono-cultures aren't healthy, not for the individuals nor for the business itself.
Also, the kid and father could pihole the shait out of it. I know i really want to do it.

Q: About ad blocking dns projects in general, what's the downside ? (beside jeopardizing the future of the internets)
> The imagined threat is the level of quality in patches.

No, it often is a real threat.

> The false part being the absolute terms he uses about the character of the people that proposed the patches.

So feel free to disregard his opinions about the characters of other people, but don't be surprised that barely anyone treats you seriously when you suggest that the above somehow invalidates his technical analyses.

> Now that he is complaining about grsecurity I'm not inclined to listen

Which is fine because it's clearly not your job.
Then use a proof methodology that doesn't require exhaustive enumeration.

You may as well have said "then you use a magical tool that doesn't exist".

Strings also occupy a "large state space", but this
obviously doesn't prevent us from doing formal
verification on functions over strings.

What is your reason to think this is 'obviously' the case?
I just wish this would get the tiniest of UX improvements. It's quite unpleasant to use especially on a touch screen.
To be honest, I don't remember how that works so you're right I might not be entirely correct.

The point is though, when the pin pad says it's connecting, that usually means the transaction is taking longer than usual. It might also depend on the vendor, for instance, in the Waitrose I never see the connection message whereas in the news agent I always do.
Counterintuitive problem: Everyone in a room keeps giving $ to random others
Thiel ousted Musk from Paypal, and even though they don't seem to be antagonostic these days, I don't see them doing each other a lot of favors.
As someone else pointed out, Futhark can be compiled into a Python program or library that uses PyOpenCL. For some "ecosystem" uses of this, you can look for the 'futhark' tag on GitHub:

https://github.com/search?q=topic%3Afuthark&type=Repositorie...

(Disclaimer: Currently just my own silly projects, but hopefully more will follow.)
I agree. I wish there was a way of disabling internet on a per-app basis. The iPhone has this for mobile data, but not for wifi.

Even if it was a passive permission - i.e. you had to specifically go into settings and disable it, rather than being asked for each app - I'd be fine with that.
search play store for "no root firewall"

enjoy
Why is it moving?
I can bootstrap consulting, can't software.

On top of that consulting opens door, you get very valuable insight inside certain industries and get paid for it.

Also, I'm sure I'm not the only one who is not interested in the slightest in building a unicorn or dealing with investors/VCs.

Building software with no clients requires capital, I'd rather keep mine for my family rather than burn it in the wind into something that is most likely to fail.
You can land safely above maximum landing weight, although it might cause damage to the tires or in extreme cases to the landing gears. Overweight landings are performed frequently[1] in emergencies, especially when an emergency occurs on or right after take-off.

There may still have been other overriding reasons not to land at the closest airfield in this case. We just don't know enough yet.

[1] http://avherald.com/h?search_term=overweight+landing&opt=0&d...
I have a Skylake mobile CPU (i7-6700hq) and it pretty much rocks with Ubuntu 17. Also the system is stable and fast. Under heavy load, e.g. games the system is stable. Compiling a big(>10000 modules) C++ project via ninja/cmake under Qt Creator hangs the system resporducibly after ~15 minutes. I wonder now if this broken hyperthreading could be such sideffect.
Stealthily sledging Javascript in unrelated threads seems to be becoming a sport in these parts
I think they also purchase it from elsewhen. At the moment, the fluctuation in demand is probably mostly handled by gas powered plants (because they're the quickest and most efficient to adapt). I suspect that green energy providers just need to meet the total demand over time for green energy, and end up paying gas plants for taking care of the fluctuations (because they need to buy energy when its expensive and sell it back when it's cheap).

If the green power providers produce exactly as much over time as the demand from their customers, that would mean some of the customers'money would still go to the gas plants, so I suspect the green energy companies produce a bit more, so they have some extra to sell to make up the difference.

It's absolutely true that until large scale efficient energy storage is real, green electricity will continue to depend on gas plants. Of all the fossil fuels, those will be the last to go, but that's okay, because it's both the cleanest and apparently the cheapest of the fossil fuels. But as long as there are still coal plants, there's still every reason to move forward with more green energy production.
> The irony is that the author is a netpen person, which is sort of infamously the least demanding specialty in offensive security

I was curious as to what the "most" demanding specialities in offensive security were, but googling "offensive security" mainly returns results about the company that offers the OSCP certification

Are there any general resources online that interested readers could use as a starting point to get an overview of the field?
Just noting that they changed that for all apps, even truly free ones with no ads or purchases.
Is there any evidence that the Ross Anderson attack has happened in the wild? Someone using a stolen card and the bank just washing their hands of it because PIN?
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I often wonder if this kind of extreme parenting is more or less likely to result in the negative consequences the parents are trying to avoid.

One could hypothesize that, having never learned to enjoy a pleasure in moderation, a person might be more vulnerable to going off the rails with it later on.

Anecdotally, the friends I have that are most prone to binging on sugary things are the ones who were never allowed sugar as kids.
I had a serious obsession with Winamp skins back in my dial-up teenage years. As bad as hoarding MP3 files.
It's a real shame that MOC doesn't support Pulseaudio out of the box. I say this because I almost have to use Pulseaudio (Firefox has removed ALSA support) and thus if I want to play a Youtube video (or any audio in firefox) at the same time as listening to music, I can't, unless I either download and compile the Pulse-enabled fork for MOC, use a different browser, or use a different music player.

MPD comes close to MOC but it's too complex to use for me, and some clients don't actually list all of the files in my library.

I might just go back to Clementine, if it works. That's what I use on Windows.
It's simple but works perfectly; I don't understand why music players nowadays are such clunky monstrosities when the music should do all the talking.

Same here, I never understood why people were initially so enthousiastic about iTunes or other players after Winamp that tried to hide your audio files behind a convoluted GUI and that abstracted the files on disk into a crappy, opaque database.

For me a directory tree with well-named directories and files is still the least-worst solution and also has been, over time, the most dependable one. (On Android I use Music Folder Player due to this. iPhone I don't know, I don't have one.)
Designing state machines
> so much as the ability to execute a controlled landing of the first stage...

Pardon me if I am wrong here. But it seems to me that you are suggesting that most of the damage that a rocket sustains, that makes it not fit for reuse, does not happen during the launch and re-entry, but during landing and salt water?

But if that is so, why was this the case with space shuttles?

> Although the Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME) were reusable and going to be used on the SLS rocket, NASA doesn't plan to reuse them. The refurbishing and recertification costs make reuse more expensive than manufacturing new engines.

https://www.quora.com/Havent-other-space-companies-thought-o...
A long time ago I worked for a few years on a project that had a Lisp back end and a PostScript front end (in NeWS/HyperNeWS).

Recently I've been wondering about something that was Lisp like at the higher levels but that switches to a more Forth like style at lower levels...
That's extremely curious, if it's indeed the case, because older founders tend to succeed more often than their younger peers.
So this exchange is veering dangerously close to me going full on SpaceX shill mode, which I have no desire to do, one for the good of the HN community as I don't think that would be appreciated here, but also for the simple fact that I'm off the clock right now and Elon will need to increase my pay if he intents me to run PR on my off hours.

Thank you for clarifying your previous post as this is what I was thinking you meant, but I didn't want to say anything without being sure. With that being said, and at the risk of sounding overly defensive, I do find it somewhat unkind to call into question the ethics and professionalism of those who work at SpaceX based on a movie about a completely different set of organizations and corporations. This of course isn't to say that there aren't valuable lessons to be learned from those past events, or that we are somehow immune from making similar mistakes, but implying that if such an event befell a SpaceX launch it would immediately be due to a lack of people giving it their best seems somewhat premature.

I do have a well read and marked up copy of both the Rogers Commission Report as well as the CAIB report on my bookshelf, so I can assure you that I and many others do take the lessons learned from those events very seriously. Thanks for the movie recommendation, I'll add it to my to-watch list.
Their groundbreaking research was improvements that were directly derivative of work shipped with a license that said all derivative works must be provided under the same free license they received the work with.

Your tone seems to suggest that some obligation exists that some obligation exists to do more than share the source to any improvements.

This obligation is wholly and totally imaginary. Its as if someone gave another party an entire farm and in the contract specified that he could eat some of the food that grew from it and that someone threw a fit when the first party walked up and made a sandwich.

Seeing as there is no sane and legal way to require anyone to pay for said patches the reasonable way to fund such an effort is to get the community to voluntarily fund such an effort with whatever platform is most useful preferably in advance.

It seems that they have instead chosen to rely on a mixture of manufactured drama, illegal threats, and general unpleasantness to keep their efforts from being well integrated with mainstream. While this remains so they can offer definable value.

In the long run I predict bankruptcy and irrelevance for a company that few care about now and none will care about later.
Linux (powertop) and MacOS also have ways to measure and show this. Windows doesn't have that? Where's my surprised face.
Just to make sure no one gets the wrong impression: You should store your TOTP keys in a different KDBX file, locked with a different master password, and maybe even used on a different device/PC.

We all know that you shouldn't store your password along with TOTP secrets, or should I make a blog post explaining this?
No, this is quite common. They have ads now which are just webviews that open an HTML\JavaScript version of a small slice of a game, often Game of War or similar generic RTS\tower defense mobile trash. Apple actually does allow this app-within-an-app method of code downloading if it's just a webview. They actually force you to not just watch but actually play and progress in the game for about 20/30 seconds (i.e. add play one short round of tower defense or drop a few units on the ground and fire at enemies) before going back to the app.

I'm trying to find an example of a game with it so you can see for yourself (I would assume many Android games have the same thing), but it seems I've uninstalled them all out of frustration.
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In my observation, this puts the blame in the wrong place. It's simply that most software development is feature-driven, and efficiency is rarely held to be a feature by the business that's paying for them. That is, until it becomes a problem, at which point there are enough low-hanging fruit left by the constant scramble for user-facing shiny that making it not a problem again is relatively straightforward.
Can you open an issue on Github?
Probably fuctl was deemed undignified, and icntl unhelpful.
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You should store your TOTP keys in a different KDBX file, locked with a different master password, and maybe even used on a different device/PC.

We all know that you shouldn't store your password along with TOTP secrets, or should I make a blog post explaining this?
Can anyone verify how "good" it feels to play these games?
I can't fathom the idea of playing Mega Drive games without a physical controller, my experiences of touchscreen controls for games designed for a controller are not good.
Ask HN: How can I get better at bash?
I am interested mainly in bash helping me with the workflow of apps I run on the command line.
Head over to their GitHub page and post your issue. They're pretty responsive.
I'd also like to know if 78 is the fixed version.
I wonder if this local vpn trick would work on iOS.
Amazing :-D
It's fast in my country (EU member). Like no-more-than-five-seconds fast. Most of the time even faster. And it has nothing to do with batches, because if I check my balance in my banking app I can already see the transaction there right after checkout.
Maybe infrastructure connecting PoSes and banks sucks in US?
One of the reasons Fiat currency has value is because its the only currency that the U.S. Government accepts debt and tax payments in. That is tremendous power and authority behind the currency.
Once they get to know you and your work, looking frumpy or whatever becomes a much smaller factor in their opinion of you. But the first impression is often what determines whether they will get to know you or not.
Can this be sourced? Googling this takes me to, well, other Hacker News comments.
I don't agree that most consumer-facing roles should be able to discriminate in such a way. Does it matter if your wal-mart cashier is older or younger in the same manner that it does at Hooters - or any other establishment that is based on looking at people?

I'd argue not. Hooters - and modeling agencies, nudie bars, and so on - actually have a business based on how their employees look. Stores, offices, and so on? The truth is that it doesn't matter. Unlike Hooters, they wouldn't lose a large base of their customers.
Same here. I was hoping to run this completely headlessly but any attempt to run even `keepassxc --help` or `keepassxc --version` results in:

QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display
Aborted
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You can already select a char-set. Do you mean selecting only a few chars and use them to generate the password?
To pay in frustration the company would need to have a revenue model that could make money from your frustration.

As things stand, they have ads, which require your attention not your frustration. That means time paying attention to the ads in addition to the time spent playing the actual game.

And you keep referring to the price tag, but as everyone in software knows there are different meanings of 'free'. Not all of them refer to money, but all of them are important to understand.

In this case the argument is clearly about things like child-appropriate content; at which point there is a clearly valid need to distinguish between ad-supported and non-ad-supported apps. You can argue about what to call them if you like, but 'free' and 'ad-funded' wouldn't seem far from the mark.
Any support for Russia and Putin are orthogonal to her work with Sci-Hub.

But given that you brought it up, I gotta say that broad support for Putin is entirely understandable. Russia has been through hell. Millions killed during WWII. Bankrupted by the Cold War. Humiliated after the collapse of the Soviet Union. To many Russians, he is a hero.
Can you open an issue on Github? Thanks
There are cites in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11180762