skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume you are saying that Blacks and Hispanics will not meet the educational standards. Asians will and they are under represented.

The level of the problem doesn't matter. Working at Google is an elite job. We could go a level lower to Stanford. Asians are under represented at Stanford. We could go down a level to an elite California High School. Asians are still under represented. Blacks and Hispanics are really under represented at this level. It only gets worse for them the lower you go at elite institutions.

I use the general population because that is where the workers are coming from. If the pool of qualified applicants does not match the general population, then somewhere the qualification process failed.
The web browsers are so much more secure than what we had before (just accepting executable binaries from other people), so I look at this as a way forward.
I'm unclear as to how this would work in practice. Chrome supports U2F out of the box, so getting a big weird pop-up asking to access your USB device, you'd at least be suspicious.

Upon registration, the server also collects a nonce, which is used for verification[0]. The attackers would need to get that nonce from the site. Hopefully, the site disables CORS so a phishing site cannot request a challenge.

Lastly, on Linux (I know, a minority), you need to make an entry in rules.d[1] to even allow Chromium to access USB devices.

I can see how this potentially maybe could catch someone, but I don't see it as much of a risk.

[0]: https://blog.fastmail.com/2016/07/23/how-u2f-security-keys-w...
[1]: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/03/access-usb...
Is strange the US being such a litigious country that they let "civilians" with apparently no training interview people.

I worked for a FTSE 100 company and unless you had passed a hard 3 day residential course you could not interview anyone.
Chrome Music Lab – Song Maker
What's the problem with full body MRI scans for healthy people? They don't cause any harm, just cost money.
To clarify, you are modifying and recompiling a Mozilla browser from source?
Rationing medical care because the underlining system is broken makes no sense. People in the US already don't use enough medical services.

"For example, Americans average 4 doctor visits a year compared to 7 in France and Canada, countries with better health outcomes than ours."
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2014/january/americans-underuse-hea...
I've actually slowed down a bit in recent years, however the main driver is that the work is fun. During the day I do the necessary (but not necessarily fun) work. After hours, I work on stuff that is mentally challenging and needs concentration, but only if I find it fun to work on. I do this instead of watching TV for example. As long as I get in enough time for other activities (hiking / bicycling, woodworking, designing my own creations, time with family) then hopefully I have a balance. But I have always had a slightly unhealthy fixation on sitting in front of a computer screen and creating (whether I'm doing it for work, or personal projects).
> "Despite a hefty price tag of more than $33 million paid by Norwegian taxpayers, the Norwegian Intelligence Service has kept the operations at the site beyond public scrutiny"

They wouldn't be much of an intelligence agency if they didn't.
It's not hard - if in this escalation the company would have facepalmed and fired the manager, than that would be the case of one weird manager; but if the company fires the recruiter and keeps the manager, then obviously that's the company culture they intentionally want to have.
> you call to schedule your annual physical.

Annual physicals cause harm. You should avoid them unless you meet a reasonably narrow range of criteria.

> They're typically booked solid for a few months in advance.

Even in our underfunded NHS I can get a same-day GP appointment (if it's an emergency) or within 48 hours (if it isn't an emergency). And that's within a range of provision: pharmacy for general advice; 111 telephone service for advice and triage; GP for general stuff; MIU for minor injuries; A&E and 999 for life threatening injury.
>Not an original thought but its fascinating how much extra information Amazon has in these acquisitions than a normal company. When such a big part of Ring's sales are through amazon they can figure out things like

Same can be said of any vertical integration
After U.S.-Based Reporters Exposed Abuses, China Seized Their Relatives
Good catch. I've made an edit.
It seems counterfactuals can be known (according to the downvotes). It must be clear how truth-values can be obtained.

I must have missed the news about A/B testing reality. Silly me.
No, that's not what was meant. By "was ever used" they mean "if you, the policyholder, ever used this vehicle for ride sharing while insured by the company"

If you buy a vehicle used for Uber/Lyft but you don't drive for Uber/Lyft then there won't be a problem.
My experience in a big metro area has been that almost every Uber driver does this full-time, and their vehicle is for the sole purpose of Uber. I guess it depends on where you are.
I'm potentially interested in moving to Malta with my wife, possible to email you about the realities? My email is in my profile
I found this shocking. How did this come to be? Don't places like Google reward people based on merit. Isn't it the hallowed ground for egalitarianism? I read an article about the hiring practices at Google that spoke highly about it.
That article doesn't seem to exist at the moment. For the sake of discussion, let's imagine there was some DB schema somewhere that kept two separate WOMEN and MEN tables. Can we not agree that was always wrong? Gay marriage cannot possibly be the first situation in which that sort of decision caused extra work or inconvenience.
People being upset is a poor sign that things are actually wrong, or that they could change.

I'm upset when natural disasters occur, but I don't blame anyone for them. I'm upset when it's too cold outside, but I don't blame anyone for that.

The problem is that, when it comes to the economy, people for some reason think that it's nothing like a force of nature - they (sometimes subconsciously) assume that if one person is rich, that means another person is poor. Or even, that if someone is rich, than that has something to do with whether she "deserves" it. That's close[1] to being as nonsensical as asking if someone "deserved" to die in a hurricane.

[1] I write "close", because this only applies in a good capitalist economy. There are of course ways to cheat, whether by directly stealing money from other people (in which case you'd go to jail in a well functioning society), or by changing the laws to benefit yourself (which is a subversion of the capitalist system, but it can happen. It's not what people are usually complaining about though).
Thanks for sharing this. I hadn’t heard this specific perspective before.
/r/politics is just as much the other way.

EDIT: Not sure if the downvotes are because you feel I support Trump (I'm a Brit, I have no allegiances) or something else. But you can't deny that /r/politics and the other subreddits like esist etc cause just as much drama. There's no nuanced debate anymore. Just pick a a team and fight to the death.
It doesn't stop them using Linux - it does make it more of a pain though.
> Use i2P, Luke!

Even zzz himself (the current lead developer of I2P) says that Tor is the way to go for browsing the clearnet

> zzz: First of all I want to say that I have a tremendous amount of respect for Tor, Roger Dingledine and the other Tor developers, and what they have accomplished. I2P and Tor started at about the same time and have a lot of similarities.

> Tor has benefitted greatly from funding, academic analysis, and a large user base. We are exchanging ideas with Tor and I expect that both projects will benefit from that as well.

> The fundamental difference is that Tor is designed for "exit traffic" to the regular internet. I2P is designed for in-network traffic - what Tor calls "hidden services". Tor has 1000 "exit nodes". I2P has only one. Exiting from an anonymous network to the regular internet has serious potential vulnerabilities.

> As Roger Dingledine said in his talk at 25C3 (Dec. 29 2008), "Tor does not magically encrypt the internet". Neither does I2P. Accessing standard services through exit nodes can be done safely, but it takes great care. Snooping or worse by exit nodes, and blocking of exit nodes is problematic. That said, if your primary goal is anonymous access to the regular internet, Tor is the better solution.

I2P is great for torrenting and other such uses, there's no doubt about that.

[1] : https://www.gulli.com/news/2913-i2p-an-anonymous-network-int...
TD Bank Group | Toronto, ON, Canada | DevOps Engineer, Full Stack Engineer | Full Time | ONSITE

Downtown Toronto. Great work-life balance. Full TD benefits. https://jobs.td.com/en-CA/why-choose-us/benefits/

I have multiple software engineering openings on my team at all seniority levels. We're looking for highly-technical, hands-on software engineers who can wear multiple hats in a new agile team within our Enterprise Information Management group. We're focusing on DevOps & Internal tools to better manage our Big Data Lake and move to a PaaS model. We do back-end microservices, job orchestration, promotion workflows, web front-ends. We run a cluster with thousands of cores, petabytes of data and terabytes of RAM.

We have a backlog of interesting work that requires critical thinking and creativity. We're all about improving the way we work, leading by example and reducing friction.

Qualities

* Self-starter, Go-getter

* Constantly finds ways to optimize processes

* Always automates

* Great communication skills

Experience

* Solid experience with Linux, Java and the JVM

* Python

* Cloudera stack

* Hadoop / Cloudera security

* Structured and unstructured data

* Designing / consuming APIs within an SoA

* Test automation tools and techniques

* Configuration management

* DevOps practices

* CI/CD

* TDD

* Setting up VMs, environments, docker

* Worked in an agile team

* Front-end angular skills an asset

To reply, use the email address in my profile.
Spot vs. Iridium in emergency situation
> It would be one thing to set quotas that favor a group, it's another to exclude any group at all.

Both of those are illegal.
Or disable webusb
Nassim Taleb is great at providing backward looking advice. My back got better, therefore I was right to ignore the expert advice. He has predicted about ten of the last two financial crises. I wouldn't take medical advice from a financial pundit who can't seem to go more than a day without picking a fight on twitter.
If Facebook is used then reddit could have been used too, no big deal there. Facebook at least would take money to show ads, I don’t think they would have taken out ads on reddit though. I wouldn’t be surprised if r/the_donald is full of Russian trolls riling people up.
When I wrote the comment there were no such notice. Also SSH has shown operational all along.
Good point, but even getting this far is better than dismissing it out of hand because of a sponsors list. I do agree that the lack of actual paper does not instill confidence.
(2016) How Mickey Mouse Evades the Public Domain
Not that I'm defending these companies, but do remember that many people need flexible hours that most minimum-wage employers are actively hostile to.
OnionShare has some exciting new features
Look what happened in India. The brahmin were once the richest group and at the top of socio-economic ladder. Today, they are the poorest ones, at least in the state of Maharashtra. A major reason being that brahmins don't get job/education reservation or caste based scholarships as many others do.
Mostly in the context of full body MRI scans for healthy people

Full body MRI scan? That seems completely weird.

I had a number of MRIs and believe it can be a god send. When I see the results it always feels like borderline magic and depending on the diagnosis it can be very, very useful.

It's very much my impression that MRIs are prescribed for very local issues. A bum knee, a broken toe which doesn't heal and where the doc needs a 3d view (to rule out splinters, which are not visible on x-rays) or for parts of the spine.

A full body scan doesn't only sound extremely invasive (how long do you have to lie absolutely still while the scan progesses?) it also sounds totally useless.

Edit: spello
The presidential election showed conclusively who the real propagandists in America are, and it’s not Russia. I’ll admit that I didn’t read the article, and this comment may not even be relevant, but I can’t take the Russian propaganda meme at all seriously, either in this lifetime or the next or the one after that. This meme is just more deflection and misdirection by the American media.

Feel free to downvote/remove this comment.
In my opinion, and only my opinion :

Google has for a while been toxic to the technology ecosystem. I don't think their halo is deserved, certainly not on the basis of the "free" trinkets they release to the public (like, say, Kubernetes). More often than not they are corrosive to innovation, and I don't take them at their word when they swear that your/mine/everybody's data is safe in their hands.

It comes as no major surprise that their actual workplace is as toxic as their role in the market, even with all the creature comforts they dangle in front of their employee.
Again you are trying to broad brush the argument as the parent comment has already stated.

How do we get better nuclear technology? we iterate on it. SMR are an iteration to solve flaws in the previous versions. A quick wiki search indicates that they are designed to create less waste because of their higher burn-up rates. So yes, technology is on the horizon. Consider changing your assessment.

Nuclear waste? Some SMRs are also breeder reactors which convert fissionable materials into usable fuels. Consider changing your assessment.

The security issue is another board brush attempt to continue to scare people away from nuclear power. SMR inputs and output are not desired for weapons production because they are consider low-enrichment. And once fuel has been irradiated, it requires special handling for safety. So you'll probably die before you'll make your dirty bomb. Consider changing your assessment.

If you really wanted to attack SMRs, you really should say that, SMRs are "small" so they don't generate a lot of energy and have to be placed in many locations. This can multiply problems that exist. But that doesn't mean they won't have significant security, that is an (incorrect) assumption on your part. Consider changing your assessment.

Look, I don't expect to change your assessment, but I wanted to thank you for bringing me to read about SMRs. I learned a lot and had fun. I think SMRs are interesting and try to solve real problems with previous generations of nuclear energy. The addition of SMRs just add to what I believe will the best future for humanity, having a diverse and varied options of generating energy.
There are places where solar makes sense and places where it doesn't. When I lived in Utah, entire neighborhoods were covering their roofs with solar. Now I'm a lot farther North, almost Canada. Between the clouds and short daylight hours, solar doesn't make any sense at all for at least 6 months out of the year. I've been watching the percentage of sun received over the winter. Many days you can add all the hours of the day and not come up with as much energy as a single summer hour.

To see Canada look to nuclear isn't a surprise.
The notion that Reddit is not "mainstream" expired a while ago.
Maintenance and repairs are much more mileage-based than time-based though. If I drive 2X the number of miles in a year because I'm driving for Uber/Lyft, my maintenance/repairs on average are going to be about 2X what they would have been otherwise.

It's hard to tease apart fixed and variable costs in car ownership and it varies based on factors like climate. But, overall, car costs are significantly more about the number of miles than the number of years given relatively typical driving patterns.
Maybe you two should compare where you work and what you do; Google's a big company with over 72.000 employees, it's highly unlikely everyone has the same experience worldwide.
Interesting. The lawsuit only has a couple of screenshots of emails which relate to one manager, but no screenshots of emails which relate to the wider organisational allegations.

The factual allegations in the lawsuit mention several times that management asked people to delete emails that related to the policies and targets. This might mean that there's no proof of these emails any more, or it might mean that the allegations are false. I think in these cases, the plaintiff has to prove things.
Link is broken (404). Does it offer visa sponsorship?
> But if you have something that could just go away naturally,

isn't that the case for most diseases?
I am disappointed beyond words. If they indeed surveiled Norwegian citizens I except all responsible will be severely punished and that examples are made. These days I feel examples are made of people that did much less to impact personal freedom and democracy. Obviously the Rechtsstaat has cumbled already... I believed Norway to be above such dystopian practices. </rage>
Discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16501731
While searching on github for more user.js privacy and security hardening modifications (https://github.com/search?q=%22user.js%22&type=Repositories ) i've added https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CHEF-KOCH/NSABlocklist/mas... to uBlock. take that NSA!

Also check out https://www.privacy-handbuch.de/handbuch_21.htm for more interesting firefox modifications (german site).
Apart from the fact that it costs a lot of money. What do you want to achieve with a full body MRI scan?
It could be because we're in a thread discussing a court case about possible discrimination at Google...
Queryparser,+an+Open+Source+Tool+for+Parsing+and+Analyzing+SQL
It's more like before I was thinking of promotions as a way to move up the job ladder and making more money, but my view changed to spending the minimal amount of time working, not caring about promotions (which get you extra 15% money with a lot of problems and more than 15% extra work), but getting out of fiat currencies.

I don't think my investments were pure luck as I read a lot about the long term pricing of commodities. Right now my net worth is mainly Bitcoin (I still believe it's highly undervalued), and I didn't change it, but I didn't want to sound like an average Bitcoin promoter, as that's not what I wanted this comment to be about.

Also I quit my job as I don't need to work anymore in my life (that's why I made this account as a throwaway)
>>> the research and data that have accumulated over the past 5 years.

Any pointers ?
Can you tell me more about this? I have interviewed at google 2 times now. The first interview I bombed -- and I knew it. It was my first interview in near 10 years. The second interview I thought I aced. There was not a single answer I could not answer expect one about obscure hardware that nobody uses any more -- which I think was a test on how I handle not knowing something -- I ended up learning something neat.

The process took a long time -- much longer than the first interview or any of my other friends. And every time I talked to the recruiter I could tell something was up. At the end the recruiter confessed there was issues at the hiring committee and a unusual event of a manager getting involved. They seemed to indicate there was a fight about me being accepted. I have a unique skill set and am very qualified to work at google. I have over 15 years working the full stack. I write drivers for Linux, and design big cloud deployments -- I have the history and the background, so I would not be a gamble on any front. So I thought it odd that there would be an issue at this level, it was only later that I figured I was not diverse enough when a intern I helped train -- who happens to be diverse did get into google.

Anyways, with all the politics going on I am wondering if it is even worth responding to a current recurrent request.

My questions for you xxcode are the folllowing --

It sucks, but are there teams I can try and get on that would not suck? Somebody at google has to be doing good things and just be excited about working on the project they are working on.

I have a good job in Texas. It pays me $150k a year. I sometimes get bonuses and have a fairly good thing going with stock (not options, but stock). Is the money good enough at google to make it worth while?

Will living in CA/MV negate any gains in pay and benefits?

Is there any way to work at this company and avoid the entire diversity thing? I just want to write code and build awesome software that people enjoy using. Diversity -- while I care about it -- is not something I want to actively take cycles out of my life to solve -- there are fare more passionate people who are better equipped to think about these issues, I would rather write software.

Please don't think I am a horrible person. We here on this planet once, and writing code what I want to do with my life -- not everybody has to be a warrior for social justice.
And yet we're all wound up about so-called assault weapons and the NRA.

Not meaning to take this on a political tangent, just using that as a current-events example of things we worry about and spend political capital on, that have really very little statistical impact. Compare the much, much larger number of deaths due to medical error, automobile accidents, etc.
Also, is 30 million really a hefty price tag? I know I shouldn't judge based on American intelligence spending, but 30 million is what it cost to build my counties vocational tech school.
Getting pwned via plain C++-induced memory-unsafety bugs can also lead to privacy trouble, so recommending turning off security updates or recommending forks that aren't staffed well enough to fully track Gecko security patches is not great advice.
Go tell the Texas legislature about it.

In any case, I was talking about places that advertise themselves as urgent care and do care in the style of a basic office visit, not about facilities licensed as freestanding emergency rooms.

Actual urgent care facilities are a fine option if you don't have a PCP or can't get an appointment.
both things being true is possible.
hmm. I assumed U2F does not protect you from phishing. It just adds a second layer of protection to your account. Protecting you from credential theft.
U2F antiphishing stuff implemented by chrome is just a neat little extra. Is this behaviour of checking the origin in the spec?
Another interesting thing there is that it's only L3's, which (it seems) are juniors / new people; you could argue that that too is discriminatory and it enables the "white male" stereotype to remain in leading positions while the "grunt work" is done by underrepresented groups.
>> But only one of those camps is actually correct.
> Yes, currently.

To clarify, then, is the "Right now" part of this wrong?

"Right now both of the camps will be able to say that they are discriminated by the other one."
MRIs should be safe. It's the unnecessary CT scans you want to avoid. Those blast you with x-rays and increase your risk of cancer by a non-negligible amount.
a business model based on the lack of mathematical and financial skills of the participants.
I have nothing but loathing for performance evaluation metrics... which is partly why I’m a solo dev right now
I think it's maybe worded a bit confusingly.

It's more likely that if you are trying to claim on your insurance, they will ask you "have you driven for a ride-share service at any point since the start of your policy" and deny your claim if you have. And presumably it's fraud if you lie on the claim.
Agreed, and it's a failing of humanity that we lump people together based on their appearances. That ironically includes the people who try and "fix" discrimination.