skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to believe that attitudes are changing and I do believe that more and more people are behind efforts to make it easier for people with a criminal history to find jobs. But I still think that most people are quite NIMBY about it. They'd love for it to be much easier for them to find jobs, but they're still uncomfortable being the ones actually working with them.

Don't get me wrong...I think what you're doing is great, but I think "ban the box" laws that allow criminal histories to be hidden from prospective employers are the thing that's really going to make a difference. Because hiring managers can always find fault with a candidate, either consciously or subconsciously, and playing it safe with hiring decisions is often in their personal interests, even if it's not the right thing to do.
"I promise I won't use it. Pinky promise."
Huh... can't say I ever anticipated running into someone who would seriously put forward the claim that slavery might be better than voluntarily working for pay...
Why should they pay the same, they aren't getting the same service. You aren't on site to consult with at any time of the day. You can't give feedback straight away.
LOL. Are you also a pizzagater?
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I don't think it's a terribly good idea for Krita, but you can make it work. GPL does not stop anyone from selling either the binaries or the source (you just have to supply the source if you supply the binaries). What theoretically brings the price to zero is that you don't have exclusive right to sell -- other people can undercut you.

However, in practice, you can actually sell the application because quite a few people don't care if they can get it for free. For an example check out TOME [0]. It's a GPL game that's also available on Steam. It has a kind of online mode and the author has stated that something like 70% of the people who play online have paid.

What I find even more interesting is that he has exclusive DLC for paying customers and it is also licensed under the GPL. You can only get the content from the author and only if you have paid. Now, nothing is legally stopping others from distributing that content, but nobody does as far as I can tell.

One other interesting thing is that while you can't stop people from undercutting your price, you can stop them from selling under your trademark. So if you were Krita, you could specify that only officially licensed versions could be called Krita, and you are free to distribute the code under a different name. Branding is worth something (strangely) and this can keep your customers.

Like I said, I don't think it's a good idea for Krita, but it's far from impossible.

[0] - https://te4.org/
Ahh, I don't think so. The _rate_ of CCD has decreased since last year. If we were "splitting up stronger hives into weaker hives", shouldn't CCD have stayed the same or increased?

> The number of hives lost to Colony Collapse Disorder, a phenomenon of disappearing bees that has raised concerns among farmers and scientists for a decade, was 84,430 in this year’s first quarter, down 27 percent from a year earlier. Year-over-year losses declined by the same percentage in April through June, the most recent data in the survey.

//edit: but idk, maybe I'm confused here too. At the very least, we've figured out a way to breed bees quickly so that we can outpace CCD?
Related—an exercise in the same area targeting the same age group (from the Computer Science Unplugged curriculum):

http://cs-unplugged.appspot.com/en-gb/topics/unplugged-progr...
I've realized that I have an even deeper problem with the whole notion of eugenics-for-"intelligence" here. It's mired in the better-living-through-[TECH THING] mentality.

I'll digress with an example from medicine: humanity made amazing, world-changing strides in health care on two important fronts: antibiotics and trauma surgery. These areas, the pill and the scalpel, then grew to encompass the vast part of the mindshare of modern Western-style medicine. But at some point the model fails to meet with the real world: pharmaceutical companies spend vast resources trying to create pills that alleviate symptoms, but don't address root causes. Surgeons invent surgeries we don't need, which have no effect on end outcomes. Here, the slowly growing field of "functional medicine" is seeking to move forward with rigorous, evidence-based approaches to diagnosing and addressing many previously intractable (or only superficially treated) conditions by tackling underlying root causes.

Back to the eugenics thing. It presumptively answers the question of "why, as a society, aren't we a whole lot smarter than we are?" with a generic "Better genetics FTW!" I have a counter-hypothesis: humanity is currently terrible at maximizing the potential of the members of society we have right now. I'd go so far as to say that the idea that eugenics-for-smarts is even useful is built on little more than a whole bunch of terrible classist, racist belief systems. Worse, it's like some junior dev ratholing for weeks optimizing the heck some function which uses .001% of the app's resources. There are bigger problems to solve, start with those.

A breadcrumb in that direction: we've now had multiple examples of fantastic high-school level math instructors who pop up, take an underserved student body that an "honors" class series wouldn't touch, and turns them into star math students, knocking down AP Calculus exams with aplomb. Yet the school districts they're in invariably end up fighting these teachers tooth-and-nail. We should be sending in people like field anthropologists to understand and document the personal, social, and pedagogical methods at play here, and figure out how to train teachers and build schools to make these wins fully replicable.
Can anyone who was at a seed stage startup 5 years ago provide some insight into what salary looked like? I moved here about 2 years ago and constantly here how crazy housing and salary have gotten in just the last few.
So was nursing, and really most(all?) fields. Of course going from nursing to veterinary work is not as huge a leap.

And in all cases, somebody has to be the first one; somebody has to show a path, often against institutionalized sexism. Once the door is open (especially when there are few doors) I can see careers tipping fast.

Of course computer science used to have a lot of women; especially when they were being used as human calculators(!), so I don't know what exactly changed that made it a boys' club.

Regardless of the cause, it has the perception, which makes it self perpetuating in some sense - women see articles about how tough it is to be a woman in tech, and are turned off by it, even if the higher pay is there and it's all just rumors.

I suppose though there is something of a reverse impact in some fields (in terms of labor force participation) - like nursing, which is so female dominated, there's actually negative pressure for men who try to enter it . But it also just isn't held up as high as medicine at the MD level.
Probably started by this http://hackingdistributed.com/2017/07/29/bitcoin-impending-a...

Published by another guy worth reading

> As one trader puts it Short 1 btc. Buy 1 btc. Get 1 bcc free :).
Are you kidding me? Do you have any proof for this claim or do you think 3 million people illegally voted because Trump's ego tweeted it one day?
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Is that a problem with whitespace or your test/qa/release process? A curly brace language isn't any less likely to lose user data to a bug just because it has curly braces.
From what I understand, it has a lot to do with age. People just outgrow being wild. The prison system is full of 60 year olds who committed crimes in their teens and 20s who are no longer a threat, yet they remain.

I'd say once a man hits 40 or so, they have better shit to do with their lives.
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The majority of images (and there are not many) seem to be black. The hero images, the About pages, all young black people. The only white person is the CEO (which show up predominately on the blog and about the team)

As others have mentioned, our prisons are not predominately filled with people of color (although, I'm sure many people would believe that to be). A bit more diversity would definitely be nice ;)
A ~1% popular advantage is not anywhere near what the committee's own polling data suggested (30-40% spread), nor that of any mainstream media outlet. They were closer to the edge of the scale than the actual number. That is to say, they were almost as wrong as numerically possible, without going the opposite direction.
The funny business is that people were creating a position guaranteed to pay out free money, assuming bitfinex actually followed their own policy.
Building a Stack Overflow Clone with Dgraph, and React
NVME over fabrics.. I guess, the general idea being to run NVME over FC, RCoE, or infiniband.

Given the existing install-base of FC, I'm guessing as people upgrade to the 32/128Gbit adapters they will start to purchase disk's that can support FC-NVME as well. Which will bootstrap the market there.

Although it could go to infiniband as well, if people buy into the converged infiniband/ethernet adapter route.

To soon to tell, but a lot of it will be dependent on which technology does a better job avoiding the "forklift" upgrade problem that FCoE required.
That's a common question right now. So is, "should I sell my BTC in case it fails, and assume I will still have BCH?" The market might help you make that decision when the exchanges open BCH withdrawals and deposits.
Stellar is centralized, so any tokens issued on it are at risk of one day being frozen through court/regulatory order.

Ethereum has the critical mass of supporting infrastructure (all the wallets and services that are compatible with ERC20 tokens) and liquidity to be the best choice for token sales.
Such a bunch of bullshit. Plenty of people are rich because they are doctors, surgeons, entrepreneurs who provided a service and created jobs.
According to Korean history, you actually had a millennia of much more peaceful time (along with relatively high literacy rates) back in the day. Lately your country has been embroiled in war, military coups, and political strife, with a society so hell-bent on improving itself that people are killing themselves more than almost anywhere else in the world.

You're right, people aren't starving to death. But suicide is a form of desperation that's on par with starving to death, if not worse. I pray that South Koreans realize they don't have to go along with what's expected of them.
forced, no.

But do they face strong institutional barriers and negative climates in some of the best paying professions (like engineering)? Yes.

The scale of it isn't like it was 50+ years ago, but let's not pretend like it's "All Better Now"
The article seemed to indicate a short squeeze condition without actually naming it that way, strangely enough. If so, it could get vicious for the short sellers. I am not invested in it, just thought to add my 2 cents
The point is, what's the threshold for "enough support"? Already for Bitcoin Cash, different exchanges have come to different conclusions on whether it's sufficiently supported to list on their exchange.
Can you really call it an air-gap if you're using a BLE radio? I mean, yes, technically the information is transferred over the air rather than through a wire, but you wouldn't call a cell-phone an air-gapped device because it has half a zillion radios inside, many of which you can't even reliably turn off.

Looking at the recent Broadcom wifi vulnerability -- just having a phone sitting there with the radio on is enough to let an attacker gain root on some devices.

I've generally seen the term "air-gap" used to mean "as isolated as possible" -- i.e. take apart a laptop and remove all networking hardware, microphones, speakers, fill all the ports with epoxy, and connect it to an isolated battery / power supply.

If an attacker can poke at your device by sending it custom BLE packets without your knowledge, I'd argue that it doesn't qualify.

From the video:

The firefly is receive only, so it cannot be remotely hacked.

Bullshit.
Very interesting link, thanks for sharing. I'm always eager to see developments in the Racket world.

> The problem is that it requires all of your functions to have a fixed arity I think, or at least a lower bound on the arity, or you use newlines as part of the syntax.

This was my initial thought as well.

However, in my latest batch of ETNs (the name I give to these types of lisps), I've found that a simple convention of putting any variadic argument last seems to work well.

An example may help. Here would be a language blueprint that defines 2 node types:

=+2
description Adds two numbers
pattern resultIdentifier number number
=+
description A variadic adder of unknown arity
pattern resultIdentifier number+

Here's a sample program in the language we partially defined above:

=+2 sum 2 5
print sum
# prints 7

=+ sum 1 2 4
print sum
# prints 7
Isn't this what pretty much every other country is doing anyway? I was looking at the whole "move to New Zealand" thing, and it doesn't look like it'd be possible unless I have a college degree and "desirable skills." Canada was the same way.
They're not re-inventing the wheel; they're building on top of xfs and lvm2, making enhancements to both, and tying them into a more unified administrative interface.
I built and launched a blazingly fast Stack Overflow clone with React, and a graph database called Dgraph. This article shows how I built it and how you can, too.
"secular" violations are always based on a shared moral code, no different than religions
Boston. Ah Boston. For an entertaining account of some of Boston's history of racial conflict, I recommend the 2-part Dollop podcast about the bussing conflict:

http://thedollop.libsyn.com/228-boston-busing-1974

http://thedollop.libsyn.com/229-boston-busing-1975

It sounds more like a bad disaster movie than recent American history.
Read the next sentence:

I was guilty.
we play robot turtles. we only use function frog as a jump at this stage but it's fun to see her describe mistakes in her drawings and other games as 'bugs'. we messing around with scratch jr as well but only when she wants to. odd squad is what it's all about at the moment ;-)
It's a proof of concept, and at least passively interesting. Of course, I didn't see a "decline" button, and without a power button it could be an issue.. btle could be sufficient with a screen sleep.

Also no idea how to add currency to the wallet... that could be another issue.
There seem to be a lot of loose ends in this article: how many of these patients will go on to develop Alzheimer's? On what basis are the current treatments for Alzheimer's considered to be effective, if we did not previously have a test to determine who has developed it? On what basis would the physicians whose patients were enrolled in this study change their care plans, and in what way?

At one point, the article says "A positive test for amyloid does not mean someone has Alzheimer’s... But a negative test definitively means a person does not have it". To me, there seems to be a hint of "these patients' condition does not fit the dictionary definition of Alzheimer's, so clearly it would be wrong to treat them as if they had it", yet the article seems to leave open the door to the possibility that it is the progression of Alzheimer's that is not fully understood. I hope an expert can chime in and set me straight.
Weak security enables credit card hacks
I have never heard of a felony falling off a background check. Can you elaborate?
You should take a look at a Minecraft mod called Computercraft.
Either the billionaires run it or the politicians owned by the billionaires. The fact anyone ever thought it was ruled by the people is kind of amusing.
I could see it having more implications than just measurement error reducing power. It's entirely plausible that a drug which has an effect on Alzheimers would come with side-effects that would damage those who just have senile dementia; imagine a drug which dissolves amyloid plaques while doing some moderate damage, in a trial with a mix of dementia and Alzheimers, the Alzheimers getting better is masked by the dementia ones getting worse, for a net average zero compared to the placebo group.
Ask HN: Anybody else EC2 issues on us-east-1?
Originally just us-east-1d was not reacting well, but now most EC2 instances don't do much anymore.
Not at all. As a parent I have limited choice in who my kids teachers are. Where I lived I didn't even get a choice of schools.

But the market is clearly there - plenty of people here pay $25-$30k/year for private school. With a small class size of 10-15 students that's $250k-$450k/year.

On top of that most people here pay maybe $10-$15k to schools via property tax. So that's another $100k-$150k.
> the current high price is artificial.

That's absolutely clear to me, and I was dying to find a way to short it. I just found out that plus500 allows that... I don't like that platform, but I just placed my shorts (even if now it's "only" $500)
Zuckerberg 2020

Trust Me, Dumb Fucks
As a group - in the exact same way that they is a wage gap, there is a taxes gap.

And women wouldn't have it any other way than to raise a child alone, but that entirely is besides the point.
I realize this is a long way off from production. I guess what I was saying is I think the notion that we may have a 24 Tbps tape drive in 10 years more interesting than the notion that we may have a 330 TB tape drive in 10 years. And I'm wondering if my logic for the bandwidth is faulty, or if that might actually be doable with this technology (eventually).
First, I consider centralization of power bad. I consider it generally a good thing if there's independent projects, and not single people get control over many major projects.

Now, let's consider this another person helpfully mentioned

> Freenode is registered as a "private company limited by guarantee without share capital" performing "activities of other membership organisations not elsewhere classified", with Christel and Andrew Lee (PIA's founder) as officers, and Andrew Lee having the majority of voting rights. Any profits are not to be distributed under their articles of association, making it a not-for-profit company.

Meaning that Andrew Lee alone has control over Freenode. And, looking by it, also Snoonet. And also indirect control over many open source projects. A single person having influence over major parts of the open source world and infrastructure.

I'm not sure if you consider this bad, but I do consider it bad if a single person starts buying up everything I use daily. And I will try to prevent this centralization of power. (For the same reason I dislike Google, which also concentrates far too much power in the hands of just two people).
Yes: https://status.aws.amazon.com/

us-east-1b seems to be affected for me.

4:36 PM PDT We are investigating network connectivity issues for some instances in a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 Region.
This is amazing news. I love the advances we're making as a society.

In that $3-5k cost of running a PET scan, I wonder how much of that is paying professional operators and physicians to interpret the results?

Could ML be applied to this problem to reduce the cost of a PET scan?
I see more situations where they list a high upper salary but also high (optional) requirements. People who don't meet the optional requirements don't get above average pay.

One interview I had people adding on expectations and requirements during the interview. She talked about how they were looking for someone who knew big data in a mobile job, which is not something normally expected. And that salary is lower for people who don't meet those expectations.
Are you sure they are bees and not wasps?
I think on HN, going by the monthly job ads, the desire for remote work gets people really excited that some of their normal critical thinking gets suspended....
Not exactly a balanced source there - there is definitely some bias from the author showing through. But the comments on that post - yikes! So much anti-EV FUD in certain communities.
everything wrong about free market capitalism is amplified to its logical extreme.

After visiting Samsung HQ for work back in 2009, I usually describe Korea as the worst aspects of Confucianism and capitalism combined.
>But that's not the case for nursing. So why do men get promoted over women?

Hard to say as I know very little about these fields. Presumably people in these fields are promoted because they show leadership or managerial qualities of some sort. Is there a reason to expect leadership or managerial qualities, or the interest in positions with those responsibilities to be unequally distributed among the sexes? Maybe. The differences in assertiveness is one potential explanation. Also the differences in status-seeking behavior. I'm not saying these differences explain it, but they're potential causes that can't be ruled out from the data alone.
"“If you are talking about California, the state is apparently relying on the illegal alien to tell the state they shouldn’t be registered. There is still an honor system,” said von Spakovsky, co-author of the book “Who's Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk.”"

"“We have an honor system, which is effective for people who are honorable, but is also an opportunity for people who are not honorable,” Bell said. “There is a gap in the system, and we don’t have administrative folks who will be aggressive about looking into that.”"

"One concern, said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the Washington D.C.-based Center for Immigration Studies, is that California issues driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, allowing them to automatically be registered to vote under the federal “motor-voter” laws. Since the AB60 law went into effect in 2015, 806,000 illegal immigrants have received a license."

"There is no driver’s license required to register to vote, and there are stiff penalties for illegally voting, the spokesman said."

"Even John Podesta, former chairman of the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, acknowledged in a leaked email that driver’s licenses do provide a loophole."

"Claude Arnold, who served as the former Special Agent in Charge for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations in Southern California, Nevada, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota, said he has witnessed voter fraud firsthand."

“Throughout my 27-year career with [Immigration and Naturalization Service] and ICE, I arrested hundreds of illegal criminal aliens who had voter registration cards,” Arnold said. “They would often admit they voted, but they were rarely prosecuted for illegally voting.”

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So basically, a humongous state like California, has an honor system. Be honest with yourself: On average, would you say people are honorable or try to exploit systems to their advantage?
Apple makes clear youtube app is for 18+, Android has similar req in fine print for youtube app in play store. I would remove youtube and install youtube app for kids.
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