skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not entirely clear on the scenarios in which this type of research would be beneficial (I'm a physician):

- AFAIK research on vaccines does not require altering an organism to make it more lethal. You would want to cover as broad a spectrum of serotypes/serovars of the existing organism as possible. I can see how someone might argue that you could pre-empt a more malignant variant but surely this is outweighed by the likelihood of creating systemic risk.

- What exactly would we learn form creating new, highly virulent organisms that can't be learned using the same technology on non-virulent organisms?

- It bothers me that this is a push to create more biological weapons from the military complex (especially terrifying considering the infantile intellects we currently have in congress).
Using your examples, there is nothing stopping people from the opposite political leaning from reading that certain newspaper (and many people do read newspapers covering both sides).

Same with 6am radio - there is nothing stopping under 35s listening (and indeed there will be many that do).

With FB adverts, it is a complete 100% filter if you are outside the demographic range. You have no choice in the matter as to whether you see that material or not.
If you can show they deliberately excluded demographics by choice of radio timeslots. Yeah, illegal. Why would facebook be different?
As analogs to the examples you give, advertisers could buy placement on Facebook during certain times of day, or on certain Pages. In those cases, demographic targeting is indirect but still effective.

I have no insight or opinion on the ethical or legal considerations of targeting on demographic data directly, except to say that platforms should give you the option to conceal that data (and all data) from advertisers.
The problem is that if facebook decides that I am black, I will never be able to see facebook ads targeted towards white people, I will never know they exist, and even if I want to see them, I will be unable to, thus I am excluded from them.

BUT if I am black, I am able to buy a magazine targeted towards white people, peruse the classified ads, and apply to any jobs that interest me.

The other issue is that political leanings are not a protected class. The bar for protected classes is, rightfully, set pretty high, to things that are usually out of one's control (race, age, sexual orientation, gender, etc). I think its entirely fine to segment these ads based on things that aren't protected, the problem is using age which is protected.
Excel have been dethroned in every bank by bespoke software, unless you are talking about a tiny scale.
I access them over a public library wifi or starbucks connection and tunnel that through a vpn, and randomize my mac each time I connect.
oVirt 4.2 just came out and it looks great! (OpenSource of RedHat Enterprise Virtualization)
Inside a Russian crypto-currency mine (90 second video)
It's also available for system automation [1], which is a highly underrated (IMHO) part of the Mac system.

For my application (URL in bio), I wrote a shell script that (mostly) automatically generates the screenshots for the Mac App Store. It uses osascript(1) with some JS to set the system colors/wallpaper/language to a particular style, position the app window where I want it, take a screenshot, block out my menubar extras, crop it to the requested size, etc.

OSA scripting is actually pretty powerful, but sadly the documentation is awful. Try:

osascript -l JavaScript -e 'Application("System Events").appearancePreferences.appearance = "graphite"'

(or "blue")

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript#JavaScript_for_Aut...
The problem is that this process drags aside the two parties to the point where moderate voters in each are further away from each other than they are from extremists in their own party. More specifically, the other party becomes less acceptable - e.g. most people who voted for Moore in Alabama didn't really like him, but they couldn't fathom voting for his opponent, because of his position on one or the other wedge issue (e.g. abortion).
Eating this for lunch everyday could stop memory loss
Despite significantly increasing its total number of users since 2014, Facebook has many fewer users in the 13-17 and 18-24 brackets. The 13-17s dropped 40% in three years.

https://isl.co/2017/02/2017-facebook-demographic-report-adul...
Yeah, I'm sure you can build a half-trillion dollar company by selling phones in the same form factor as a Donkey Kong game.

If the market wanted such a thing, then guess what... the market would get it.
I've also previously used jenkins for cron to pretty good effect (I like to call it "jcron"). The ability to define jobs in yaml and have it be driven from your scm is really awesome.

However, k8s does more than just scheduling where pods run. It also ensures that they run with the correct security and availability constraints. When you add in things like affinity (don't run this job on the same machine as that job, or, only run jobs for this tenant on nodes assigned to that tenant), storage management (connect this job to this volume), networking (only let this pod talk to this service and the monitoring layer, don't let anyone connect to the pods running the job), and much, much more.

Yeah, you can do that with jenkins, or like, just cron. I know, because I did it for 18 years before I had ever heard of Kubernetes.

But, just like I can reach for Django or Rails or whatever it is that Java programmers use these days to build my web application, I can lean on Kubernetes to build my infrastructure.

I estimate that leveraging GKE has saved me in the range of $400k in direct employee costs, not to mention time-to-market advantages. As we grow, I expect that number to go higher.
1) If I was interested in a job in that field I might subscribe to one of those newspapers to see job ads.

2) Newspaper subscribers are not a protected class. Job seekers over the age of 40 are.
What makes the Russians different is that they are also building their own mining machines onsite. Theoretically that could lower their costs and make them more competitive.
People. Unfortunately, I have to say it is definitely people-but possibly less professionally of me I have to say specifically one person. Who, due to situations that had the outcome of our engineering organization no longer having a manager-has aggressively usurped a 'leadership' role-purely due to seniority-and has displayed a shocking unwillingness to entertain ideas that do not originate from him.

It hasn't been without it's own outcomes.

Like multiple engineers leaving and refusing to work with him any longer, and those who remain saying quite frankly in back channels how the feel about this individual.

More disastrously, though, his behavior has resulted in multiple client facing outage.

So yeah, people. Which is the shame because I love dearly everyone else I work with.

My resignation is already typed up.
Hmm. There is a valid use case for microtargeting: show potential candidates different perks. Young people will be lured by stuff like free food/beer, while older age brackets will be more interested in health benefits or "family friendly" work environment.

The way to get it done legally would be to group the ads for different age groups and have them either all shown/approved or none at all.
This strikes me as whataboutism... Just because there is a continuum from obviously illegal to obviously legal does not mean it's all tainted by subjectivity and nothing can ever be illegal.

Intent matters, and judges and juries, while not perfect, do a reasonable job of assessing it. One factor that usually works in the favour of justice is that lawsuits usually target the companies, and there are always at least some employees who do the calculation and decide not to perjure themselves for the financial benefit of their employer.
Frankendrones combine the low cost of toy drone with DIY upgrades
(I work for GCP)

For 95% of people, I'd say going with the managed version is the right choice.

However there are some reasons why you wouldn't use a managed service. If you need a custom build, custom drivers, etc.
I think that is perfectly legal, ethical and acceptable.

Those companies pay per impression, so they want to maximize the effect of the ad, and reach as many candidates as possible per each $ they pay FB.

This is just an ad. No one can stop you from applying to a job directly with the company, irregardless of your age, or any other demographics.

Just another sensational headline.
Totally.

We had a tech lead and senior engineer involved in an escalating prank war. The engineer eventually won with a 3 month long annoy-a-tron session.

He even managed to send in home in the lead's backpack and pick it out the next day. We were all in on the gig so whenever it went off during a meeting we denied hearing anything.

At one point he started pulling apart the HVAC system in his office. He moved all computer equipment and UPSes out into the hallway for a day. Do. Not. Underestimate. how effective these things are.
No newspaper would run such a thing (key words: editorial control), but if the poster was using coded language, perhaps? I think that's the closest analog here.

With that example in mind, that puts someone running the ad in a weird place, since literally every ad network in 2017 does demographic targeting.

I don't think it's feasible to vet every ad that runs to ensure that the poster is complying with the law.

All that being said, this smells like Facebook, much like any other popular virtual public square, hiding behind the "We're an open platform!" defense when convenient to avoid legal action, and hiding behind the "We're a private company!" defense when convenient to disclaim accusations of poor or inconsistent moderation. They should not get to have it both ways. Either they exercise editorial control and can be liable for what their users post, or they can keep their hands off and push that liability back to the poster.

Rant aside, I'm more interested in the general case of demographic targeting when it comes to certain ads.
LMDB is a faster BDB
Any chance someone could point to a good explanation as to the argument for how this doesn't fall afoul of the Equal Protection Clause? I found a couple references to Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia, but the circumstances there seem different enough that the reasoning wouldn't directly translate.
The downvotes seem weird to me. Maybe it felt off topic?

Dr. Francis S. Collins is in several of the videos, and the third video is all about this particular controversy of dangerous experiments at the dawn of genetic engineering(for example one guy wanted to splice a cancer causing gene in e. coli bacterium).

It seemed relevant to me. It is what the article is talking about afterall.
As much as I dislike the subject, providing a monitorable outlet is better than a full prohibition. Prohibition denies important signals to things that will occur anyway.
It doesn't make sense to me to discriminate against people with more experience. Can someone explain it to me?

I have heard that companies like recent grads because they are (1) more malleable and (2) can be paid less. But neither of those reasons seem to me strong enough. I'm talking completely about the company's own interests.

Let's address the first reason: malleability. A recent grad presumably will adopt the company's culture faster, complain less, and in general pick up things sooner. Well, the hardest, meanest coworkers I've ever had were late twenties, early thirties. I've worked with people in their sixties, and they're sweet people. Even the grumpy old sysadmin had only a thin layer of spikes. After just a few days I could see through most of it, and he was 10 times more helpful than my other sysadmins. Not only was he softer (at least deep down) but he was smarter, having done it for decades. Even when he met a new problem, his keenly developed taste made him more likely to choose something that would be more maintainable long term.

Now let's address the second reason: salary. I am 10 times better than I was when I started. I know, because I still work with some of my code from back then, and I desperately want to rewrite it all. How much more does a senior developer make than a new hire? 50% more? Seems worth it to me. 100% more? 200% more? Still maybe worth it. And if some old fella can't get work at all, maybe he would settle for something between 50% and 100% more. I mean, why not at least make an offer?

It just don't make no sense. Other fields reward grayhairs. You see some sixty-year-old painter or architect or carpenter, you think he's probably pretty good. You see some straight-out-of-college twenty-something in . . . any other field, you think, "I sure hope he knows what he's doing."
I never even remotely implied that. My point is that if you see other how non-US countries do it, you'll likely change your mind on how good it can be, and you'll realize how bad the US does it.
I'm a grad student at an elite American university. Several weeks ago, some other students and I attended a recruiting presentation put on by a large multinational company I won't name. The woman who gave the presentation services her company's contract with a tech company, that, let's just say, has a big share of the search engine market.

She emphasized that she was looking for diversity, because, as she said, "the type of people on the other side of the table from us are different than they used to be, and they don't want to be dealing with a bunch of 65-year-old white guys. So those aren't the type of people we're looking for." That's pretty much a direct quote.

I was at a small company before I went to grad school. The company began working with a guy in his sixties who'd been laid off for a while and couldn't find work, even though he had a ton of experience. We brought him in on a contract basis, and his role gradually expanded as it became clear that he had both excellent technical knowledge and great people skills. He became a mentor to me and helped me out a ton. He's objectively better at our profession than I am in multiple dimensions, but right now I could find a new job ten times more easily than he could.

I'd like to start a business in 3 or 4 years, and I'm seriously considering going out of my way to target people like him. It'll be my competitive advantage.
Must watch recollection of the history of Mach and NeXT and Apple by Avie Tevanian. Long but great.

1/2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwCdKU9uYnE (early days)

2/2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtpIFrOGTHk (around Apple acquisition and beyond)
Building a Todo App with Laravel, Vue.js, and Tailwind CSS Part II
How is it legal to discriminate against young people?
Facebook is real, these are advertisements for jobs. It's not a game. Laws still apply. Discrimination still isn't legal. Just because you read it on a computer screen instead of on a dead tree carcass does not change the rules.
See actordb
It’s just as likely that they originally hoped their model would result in enough conversion to paying customers that they could keep funding development but that things didn’t work out as they’d expected. I would never assume the ‘bait and switch’ tactic unless it was a Microsoft or Oracle product.
Jenkins also has a notion of hosts and tags to decide where jobs are assigned.
Very few games bothered with mode X. Most used the much easier to program mode 13h.
Precisely. Lacking that goodwill, any potential user would be ill advised to begin using the free version. Current free users would be ill advised to continue with no guarantee of bug & security fixes, because near as I can tell these changes weren't obvious from prior product roadmaps.
In the writings of Arthur & Marilouise Kroker I see references to an alleged secret pact between the United States and the Soviet Union that if aliens were to invade, the countries would agree to join forces to defend Earth. Is this true?
And most importantly, to use across multiple clouds!
Actually it might be illegal. Read below regarding recruitment.

https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/practices/

Recruitment

It is also illegal for an employer to recruit new employees in a way that discriminates against them because of their race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.

For example, an employer's reliance on word-of-mouth recruitment by its mostly Hispanic work force may violate the law if the result is that almost all new hires are Hispanic.
Isn't that against tos and potentially a cfaa violation? You are interfering with their platforms ad targeting.
Who said it was a game or laws don't apply? Please reply to what I actually wrote in its entirety, not what you want me to have written.

If you were seizing on "real world", I think it's pretty clear I meant "physical" rather than "virtual" since we're comparing newspapers to online ads, but I updated the post to clarify.
> “Sometimes when we do an etcd failover, the API server starts timing out requests until we restart it.”

This is likely related a set of Kubernetes bugs [1][2] (and grpc[3]) that CoreOS is working diligently to get fixed. The first set of these, the endpoint reconciler[4], has landed in 1.9.

More work is pending on the etcd client in Kubernetes. The good news is that the client is used everywhere, so one fix and all components will benefit.

[1]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/pull/939
[2]: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/22609
[3]: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/47131
[4]: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51698
People are constantly complaining that Facebook allows you to target ads at certain people.

Ads have operated this way since their inception, yet critics are finding new ways to make it seem like Facebook is ruining everything by doing exactly what any sensible person would do if they ran Facebook.

I am not a huge fan of Facebook. But I feel like this is the same trope as was hauled out in the "Facebook didn't tell me about my dead friend" post.

I don't respect the downvote I received for this comment. Please argue with me instead of dismiss me.
That's very odd, and unusual for Google - outlier. The place I grew up, Fawn Lake, British Columbia, has had three or four revisions to its satellite pictures since 2008. I watch my mother do construction on her property, and by how many outbuildings there are, I can see that it has been updated in at least the last 2 years. Population about 250 (generous estimate) in the 200 square miles around Fawn Lake.
It’s stuff like this that makes me so incredibly happy to be gay.
Facebook is predatory. It is the Harvey Weinstein of social media.
Selling access for attention of people that fit specific characteristics has been done for decades and its fully legal; that's why bingo shows aimed to old people get Viagra ads, that's why the Seventeen magazine gets acne treatment ads; sure there are some non-teenagers buying the Seventeen magazine but its such a tiny minority that its irrelevant.
It's a race to the bottom. You could pay more for better work that gets done more slowly (fewer hours as people have families, etc,) or you could pay less for worse work that gets done more quickly.

Well, iOS11 needs to ship on its annual schedule, non-negotiable. And the SVP will really complain if I ask for more money this quarter. So, cheap it is.

If a bridge falls down, it's really obvious and people die. If billions of computers become vulnerable to malicious actors and a few hundred or thousand people suffer dramatic personal damages, well that's a nice and quiet problem which will be quickly forgotten in the 24-hour news cycle.
This form of discrimination is illegal. Do you think Facebook is above the law? The pricing structure does not change the applicability of anti-discrimination laws.
> This bash shell does far less, though, not interacting with the rest of the system...

If you mean WSL, then it actually does (the name "Bash for Windows" is really a misnomer). Not only you get full access to the filesystem, but you can e.g. pipe output of a Win32 binary into a Unix one. It's really much more powerful than WSU.
I've never really understood this. Some restaurants, or clothing stores, have wait staff that are all women. In a massage place you can pick the gender of your masseuse - so surely a massage place that was already well staffed with one gender would be justified in gender discrimination. If I'm hiring a baby sitter for my daughter, I'm not going to hire a male person, and I'm sure there are many similar examples. I get that many times there is no justification for hiring preferences based on gender, but surely sometimes there is.
>I did say you might want to not spread ideas you disagree with.

Well, I can imagine one would do this in abscence of any proper argument against said ideas. Maybe you should revisit whether these ideas have some merit to them or not?
Closest they've come that I'm aware of is this -

"...we do not believe it is safe to allow support for Bitcoin Gold at this time. If the blockchain proves to be secure and valuable, GDAX may choose to support it and at that point credit your account with an amount of Bitcoin Gold equal to your Bitcoin (BTC) balance at the time of the fork."

https://blog.gdax.com/timeline-and-support-bitcoin-segwit2x-...
Your decisions are your own. But trying to suggest that donating for CA's prop-8 was in fact a pro-LGBT act is simply not going work well here. Please stop insulting our collective intelligence suggesting this.

If you've changed your mind, or have reasons, or whatever? Great. But trying to suggest that in fact you were a better advocate and steward of LGBT rights while (perhaps unintentionally, perhaps deliberately) suggesting everyone else was wrong in what they wanted? No.

You could also just say, "I have changed my mind" or "I have decided this issue is less important to me now" or even maybe, "I thought I was doing the right thing, but in hindsight I chose a bad strategy." A million other phrases that own your actions and don't project onto others.
Hard to say. Maybe the lack of a link? I agree it otherwise looks it would be relevant.
This post is about illegal discrimination, not an undesirable result of a ranking algorithm.
For those who want a TL;DR, these are the features that are going to be removed from the free edition:

- Dynamic Memory Control

- Xen Storage Motion

- Active Directory Integration

- Role Based Access Control

- High Availability

- GPU Pass-Through

- Site Recovery Manager (Disaster Recovery)

- XenCenter Rolling Pool Upgrade Wizard

- Maximum Pool Size Restricted To 3 Hosts (existing larger pools will continue to work, but no new host joins will be permitted)

That's quite a list.
Its also illegal to carry lobsters of a certain size between states, its doesn't make it important.

Being highly paid shows you that there is much competition for labor, which means some might discriminate and some might not.

If people don't want to hire older people they wont, no amount of law will change that, but it will make it more expensive to hire in general.
I think is because of the culture of the company itself, it’s all about creating worlds and leaping towards the next big contract with the user. Those things won’t happen for an Excel user that just want Excel in 3D. Haptic feedback, virtual characters etc. are more gamer friendly
Just a note that Ripple and Mt. Gox founder Jed McCaleb left the Ripple project to form Stellar Lumens which is technologically superior and I expect XLM to surpass XRP in the "cheap transactions and marketable to banks" space.