skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The linked image you shared is one I've seen before that was a Louisiana state voter literacy test used for voter suppression. It was disproportionately administered to black voters[1]

I'm not saying that IQ tests are useful measures of ability to do a job. I just wasn't aware there was actual law or precedent forbidding their use.

> If there is any sort of "test" given as a condition of employment, it must be relevant, standardized, non-biased, reviewed by specialists and approved, etc.

Wouldn't this disqualify a lot of whiteboard interviews too? Most startups don't have a standard question bank reviewed by experts or grade on a standard rubric.

1. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/06/28/voting_right...
The killer feature of slack is that alerts are highly configurable and work properly across devices - it lets you eliminate unnecessary and duplicated alerts
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Indeed, Voyager 1 and 2 combined cost slightly more than half of an iPhone X.
It's obviously a question of power and antenna gains, but a very important role is played by the encoding: Pioneer before, and Voyager after introduced concatenated codes [0], which consist of a viterbi decoded convolutional code inside an outer Reed Solomon code.

Curiously, those codes are now superseded by other, more modern approaches, for example Turbo Codes [1] which are used not only in deep space probes, but also in cellular communications and other applications that we consider normal these days.

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It wouldn't surprise me if they've been reducing the data rate as the signal strength weakens.
An IQ test can be used during the hiring process but the employer has to be able to defend its use as directly relevant to the work at hand. So most employers aren't willing to spend the legal fees related to defending the use of a direct IQ test... Possibly because the college degree is a good enough litmus test for IQ to satisfy their needs.
Never edit a method, always rewrite it?
Hmm...either I haven't found it or...it means "Kimchi" but you didn't originally know what Kimchi was (seems unlikely..)
Sullivan in August told Reuters that his security team totaled around 500 employees.

Google says Uber has more than 12,000 employees. Uber is not a typical company, but how do other tech companies compare?
I like how an artist of no insignificant consequence makes his entire catalog available, and then some, and the only comment on the submitted page is (succinctly paraphrased) "yeah but the website sucks and they should feel bad".

The cynic in me reads that like an on target torpedo fired from the inside.

Regardless, nice move from Mr. Neil Young.. Fantastic move.
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Why not write an anonymous post, better for
others to know.
JavaScript: Executing chained methods in any order
> Corporations are people after all, aren't they?

This was an effort to protect the economy from being ground to a halt by destructive litigious action and make courts more efficient. Not to increase liability and accountability within the corporation. Which is why nearly every western country has done the same... it wasn't a conspiracy to protect wealthy people from being punished.

Like many regulations that fail to affect idealistic change, it was done with good intentions and there hasn't been a strong enough support for an alternative to solve this issue... or, less likely, maybe no rational alternatives really do exist.

The simple fact is shit rolls down hill in all big organizations and I'm not convinced it won't happen if corporations weren't singular legal entities. Top tier executives have a way of protecting themselves, while the lower staff tend not to have such protections.

Removing this 'corporations = people' legal structure would incentivize internal deflection to lower levels as a legal strategy instead of the company uniformly fighting back against allegations - making it risky to be a low-level manager and highly disincentivizing employees from taking any real responsibility that would involve legal exposure (aka a huge percentage of management and entrepreneurial jobs).

Ultimately, the tough reality is that it might actually make sense to treat the company as a singular whole, as potentially there are hundreds of people involved in any major corporate incident. Which would be a nightmare in the bureaucratic mess that is the modern justice system.

That said, I'm not 100% convinced that courts can't use common sense to figure out direct liability and involvement within the company, at an individual level. But common sense has never been something the courts or government policy have been known for, at least in the last half-century. The modern justice system has entirely been modeled around the lowest common denominator. Which is very apparent if you've ever tried to challenge something as simple as a traffic ticket in court.

Given that legal/regulatory environment which it currently exists within I could see such a change being abused and being massively inefficient. Especially considering how difficult it is to prove a single persons involvement in a normal crime, let alone trying to sue a company then figuring out 100 individuals culpability...
Ah okay. So PLM systems would be used to store and manage the requirements, the requirement documents are going to be, at least in my corner of the world... Word and/or Excel templates.
To put the s3 bucket under another domain. Such as static.example.com instead of abcdef01123451523245.s3.amazon.com (or whatever it is).
I never really understood the hype around Slack. I keep reading articles like this one, I constantly hear people saying "zomg we transitioned to Slack and are having such an awesome time, it's way better then [insert messaging app]!".

I'm probably getting old, but I've been using it for about 3-4 years now (because work) and it seems just like a polished IRC client tied to a proprietary service to me.
Am I crazy to think that generalists are the best-suited engineers to making the managerial move? You can keep a good broad knowledge base sufficient to be useful in early directional discussions, and sufficient to sniff out a lot of (not all) BS artists and identify which specialists to listen to/loop in, in less time than it would take a specialist to do the same in terms of juggling things across team, due to the nature of the generalism skill.

I think otherwise trying to be a "senior generalist" or "staff generalist" is going to be very hard, but for logical reasons.
1. ICO founders are getting a quick education in the fact that "anyone can sue anyone at any time" -- no matter what paperwork you have folks sign.

2. What are the damages if they just give the money/coins back? That's the easiest solution for these ICOs: a 100 days buy back/escrow period?

3. Another easy solution is to have these ICOs hold the proceeds in escrow and release of funds quarterly for five years to the startups/projects and giving the investors the ability to refund half or 75% of their remaining commitment (i.e. a 25-50% penalty for leaving the project early).

had the founder on recently https://youtu.be/rdRSUJkvmxM -- seems like people who invested knew what they were doing going in.
> It’s a bit like the way everyone gravitates towards the kitchen at a house party.

I've solved this problem by dimming or turning off the lights in all the rooms I don't want people to hang out in and having brighter lighting in the room I want people to stay in. It works wonders.
I’m happy with my choice, and I shall toot it as loudly as I damned well please. Because if you think the two choices are equivalent, then we have little to discuss. Beside, that of which you complain about T-Mobile happened after I’d already switched.

Tell ya what, though, were my mind not already made up on NN, your sanctimonious, self-righteous post would drive me right to the arms of those you oppose. You will feel that you have righted that egregious wrong on the Internet, but you will have changed no minds.
LA office of the ICE claims DJI drones are spying for China
That's some nice snark, but it is self-defeating: we should not be having the death penalty for people, because of its history of abuse against minorities, and the poor standards of evidence. A death penalty on powerful corporations makes more sense because these entities have the means to defend themselves. It is because they are not people that a death penalty is allowable.
Yes, they do. If they do sell the cars, it will probably be for the reasons I pointed.

I'm not saying they will sell them. But the ROI one is a likely possibility.
What about the original "challenge" website?

http://www.pythonchallenge.com/
It's funny that when considering the current dire and dispiriting geopolitical situation, it's stories like this that bolster my faith in mankind.
> In my understanding it is just a Bitcoin copy that has a voting feature to decide protocol changes.

That's the main value, yes. It sounds kind of minor but let's not forget that's actually a huge step in the right direction and would solve a lot of problems we've seen in other blockchains. Even if thier's never really materializes, it is a great idea that should live on in future blockchains.
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IMO that's a problem of hiring the wrong specialists, or BS artists in specialist hats (see the article's point about "the tech industry is not serious about hiring" :) ).
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I decided not to publicize it without giving them several chances to fix things. They did eventually fix it, and for reasons I won't disclose (because disclosing would make identification much easier), publicizing what happened to me would no longer be terribly helpful.
He said that ('slow data rate').
Entirely agreed, though it is true that intentionally-private messaging apps have, traditionally, not kept logs. That's a tradition worth keeping!
So...

Are you saying this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act doesn't apply?
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That puts it in perspective. Space really is huge.
>"The three managers who resigned were Pooja Ashok, chief of staff for Sullivan ..."

C-level execs have "Chiefs of Staff" at Uber? How bloated is that organization?

They were literally Chief of Staff to the Chief of Security.

EDIT: changed to gender-neutral pronoun.
Another way to see the statements as non-contradictory is: since companies cannot hire people like this, they structure themselves such that such people are not required. Then, when one does happen along, the company has no place for him.
Definitely thought about it at several points. We aren't technically covered by a nondisclosure agreement, but at this time I'm not writing it up. Many people (from my cohort and beyond) are aware of what happened, so if people reach out to them when they are doing diligence on the VC, they may find out that way.
When you're far enough from the sun to avoid thermal cycles, in the vacuum of space, what forces will cause things to deteriorate? If I wanted something to last forever, deep space would be the perfect place for it.
I just bought a LWN subscription for the first time ever in an attempt to prevent the same thing from happening to them.
As a liberal Republican, I completely disagree with your conflation of those terms. I would suggest picking up a dictionary or reading about Adam Smith, the original liberal.
i agree but even a nice thing and a more innovative application of slack is making the anti social become social.

If you dont like seeing people face to face and you still need to communicate with team members slack has the ability to be flexible enough to communicate many different ideas very accurately. With bots and file sharing slack is the one stop collaboration board (along with google docs for co file editing)

and for people that are social or non technical slack has that friendly feeling ... its has taken exactly what we have been hoping from the internet , efficient communication and sharing and made it be homey instead of cold.

Slack is just another message board for tech guys but to the rest of the people tech guys have to communicate with (and would want to make this communication as fast and accurate as possible) slack is a world of difference from other chat services.

They took good tech and added the human touch.
Haha. Yeah everyone is a bit bilingual growing up in Scotland.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15827799
This is a really good idea - kind of an inverse version of dogfooding. Reminds me of a period where every SE in our company had to ride a tech support phone for 8 hours, it's good to get exposure to other sides of the business.
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Depending on the content of your communication, you might be legally required to commit it to writing, be in the presence of someone transcribing it, etc. This is not exactly unheard of, especially wherever lawyers tread, such as the world of business.
Sure, but there are still two major problems IMHO. Firstly, there's no practical and intentional workflow to postpone things (an equivalent of "mark as unread"). Secondly, because a majority of people responds to notifications immediately, it becomes socially unacceptable to not do it in a timely manner.
GameCube
Remote work is extremely difficult to get. There are few remote positions available.
ZFS for Linux How to - FUSE, DKMS and Antergos
I agree with all of those assertions except the one about sanctuary cities because I am an actual liberal (now known in the US as a classical liberal).
True. I think it's easier said than done to find the cream of the crop with a limited talent pool for many specialized areas.
"The need for humans to code will gradually disappear for all but the most specialized situations. Platforms will enable humans to describe in natural spoken or written language what they’d like computers to accomplish. The coding will occur behind the computational scenes. We won’t code so much as direct and request. Ultimately, coding isn’t the point. The objective is to define and communicate what we want computational systems to do."

This is such bullshit. Anyone who has spent time with business users trying to figure out exactly what they need (not necessarily the same as what they want) and then followed that up with actually engineering and building the software knows that this process is incredibly complex, full of need to make assumptions for the business user, and full of an incredible number of decisions necessary on the part of the devs to come up with quality code that does the job.

AI will certainly play a greater part in our lives in the future, but it's not going to replace coders in any significant way in my lifetime. And as the owner of a custom software development firm, I'm literally betting my financial future on this and not losing ANY sleep over AI's encroachment into this space.
They might prepare you for an intro-level job in software development though, if you actually continue learning things and honing your skills after completing them.
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Linux Journal actually helps me every time, every month. I have been a subscriber for a long time.
Is there any product that doesn't fit this pattern?