skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And what if feminine-coded job descriptions are a turn-off for men of under-represented backgrounds? Or non gender binary persons?

By trying this hard to become "inclusive" for women they are potentially discriminating against others.
> It leads me to think Circle CI has unfair prejudices against men and masculinity in general.

This response leads me to believe that you lack basic logic skills, and that you're also a thin-skinned little snowflake who will whine about bigotry against males anytime you don't get a promotion.

So, your response works perfectly. CircleCI loses a poorly-qualified (bad logic, temperamental, problematic, high-drama) employee; and you can try to find someplace else to work. Someplace you can sit with your weak little man-friends and pretend that you're all just victims of modern society. Everybody wins.

Especially CircleCI.
Isn't it just a product of many people applying to few positions? CircleCI is a strong brand, not all companies can afford to be so choosy.
More than you get paid for HN posts I guess
No problem. Provided the bigger most important things have been solved. When first world science is "forced" to focus on self-inflicted first world problems, __and__ that focus is accepted, if not encouraged, then something is seriously wrong.
My grandparents also lived through the depression. And how did they cope with it? Joined a labor union, joined the socialist party. Maybe not such a bad idea?
> the VietCong had home court advantage

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't an American insurgency have the same thing going for it?

Do you really believe that the entire military would just follow orders and obliterate their countrymen? It didn't exactly play out like that 150 years ago.

Also, ignoring the whole rogue tyrannical government turning on its citizens thing for a moment, does a person not have the inalienable right to appropriate means to defend oneself?

The criminals will continue to have guns no matter what laws get passed to "just do something about gun violence" and law enforcement proved that they cannot be relied upon to protect us from this villainy.
Seems like classic, prudent, avoiding of single points of failure. Sounds reasonable, especially since computerization in cars was still pretty new back then.

For something like ABS, or emergency braking, we have established algorithms for this already, so why be in a hurry to offload that to a machine-learning black box? Is the math behind "we need to stop this car" so complex that AI is needed?
Sorry, what are the "obvious" reasons? Why should my phone supplier care to stop me using my phone abroad, say?
In America, politics is the new religion
https://hitfilm.com/express may offer enough polish.

I often use ffmpeg to do this, but I don't think it meets any of the requirements.

Alternatives: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15235466#15236794 (2017)
Obviously, once Megaupload was taken down, the subsequent jump in the injured parties revenues would indicate how much they were losing before. Oh wait, are you telling me there wasn’t a jump? /s
Undoubtedly there are many more than that. But they have the luxury of having 1000 people apply when they're only looking to hire 3. There might be 100 good devs, but that doesn't mean they want to or are able to hire that many.

Past a certain level of skill, it really does come down to specific experience, priorities, communication styles, etc. There are many worthwhile devs that simply have a less ideal package for that specific role, at that specific company, at that specific time.
> Which I find quite disturbing. That a seller (even on Amazon) could import cheaper "china" only phones and sell it to me as the EU/US version. (it's basically incorrectly labeled)

The bigger problem here is the fact that the device had Gapps preloaded as system private apps, which have special privileges and can do things which normal apps can't. They also get permissions granted automatically.

That's usually not a problem with Google sofware, but whoever preloaded Gapps could preload pretty much any kind of app which would have full system privileges and ability to hide itself.
I do understand the reason for wanting to vent on a bad product, but I do encourage you to write positive reviews for products that wowed you.
We already made fraud and racial discrimination illegal, where will it end??
It's an 80 q multiple choice exam FFS id expect more rigor and a viva for getting your CE as well as several years documented experience.
Rates do not matter unless they are over big time scales. You have conveniently picked a year just past the banking crisis...

Does the absolute inflation and purchasing power adjusted value even match 90s?
A lot of end credits _are_ very stylized.

I think the reasoning your suggestions wouldn't work is because it takes people out of the "magic". I love learning more about behind-the-scenes stuff, but I don't think I'd like it 10 seconds after the movie ends. I obviously know movies are fake, but I don't necessarily want to be reminded of that... I want music and some graphics, while I absorb what I just watched.

There's two exceptions I can think of: Pixar's bloopers (which are obviously all fake) keep you immersed in the "world" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCBLywCKZmM), and real/actor pictures after a story based on true events.
Shotcut: Free, open source, cross-platform video editor https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16280788 (2018)
The trouble with this is that to have an exam to be an fooist, you have to have an agreed canonical body knowledge that constitutes the craft of fooing.

Mechanical engineering has that because it's been going on for a very long time, and has had time to converge on such a canon, as have many other professional disciplines. But programming hasn't.

This is why the few successful certifications in our industry are issued by a body which controls a specific canon - Cisco can certify you as a network associate on its switches, Microsoft can certify you as a solutions expert on its development platform, etc.
I think the majority of the candidates are capable, and a lot of them are probably quite excellent. But when you have that many candidates for so few positions, you have the luxury of really trying to go for the best people.
If someone sells me a car, and I paint it pink, and they're mad after the fact because they hate pink, did I fail to adequately convey the consequences of their agreeing to sell me the car? I don't think so; they agreed to sell me the car and that should be enough.
Lining up arguments across multiple lines sometimes involves non-multiples of tabs.
Only a fraction of those 1000 get interviewed, if I am reading it correctly, and not every employee at CircleCI is an engineer.
MMM isn't millennial money man, it's Mister Money Mustache.
The price is going to keep going down until the shady exchanges with fake volume and price manipulation get shut down by regulators and we get genuine price discovery.
Keep in mind that only 1/4 of those thousand passed an initial screen, which isn't even an interview step, but rather glossing over their resume to see if it fits the position. From there, only 117 passed a quick phone screen.

It still seems high, but I can imagine these average numbers being inflated by some important 'Lead Engineer' type of position, for which the extreme vetting is reasonable.
The specific example you bring up seems to be a result of increased liability on the employer for employees. Hotels etc would rather contractors carry those liabilities, especially I imagine when it comes to possibly illegal immigrants.
Per the announcement on the linked page, NCEES will no longer be offering the Software Engineering exam after the final run in April 2019. It's been available for 5 years and looks like only 100 or so people are ever going to take it.

https://ncees.org/ncees-discontinuing-pe-software-engineerin...
What is your reason for "five years"? And yes, Android ROM folks kinda shock me with how often they fiddle with their phones, and I also don't have time for that kind of business.

I suspect there'd be bursts of burning multiple in a single day, for what it's worth. People flashing a phone, realizing something isn't working after they set up their registration again, and having to flash again.
Ah that makes sense. In all my time on HN I haven't seen that occur before.
What exactly is the flaw in the system described in the book 'Sex At Dawn' that likely flourished prior to the introduction of agriculture? In a modern incarnation it would basically boil down to shared parenting of children and fluid relationship statuses. The point of monogamy was to establish certainty over bloodline in a situation where a male would be significantly disadvantaged by expending resources raising another mans child. That's irrelevant now. We're not bouncing from famine to famine, racked with plagues and wars, etc. Things are quite a bit better than they were at the advent of agriculture (which nearly ended the species but also brought many advances - monogamy among the former rather than latter).
Tip: Tilt your wide screen so you get more vertical real estate.
On what legal basis would you recommend breaking them up?
I think GP does have a point while missing the bigger picture. Yes, low to average income people can today afford more stuff to make their life a bit better. But they also can‘t afford an apartment close to work (loosing anywhere from 2 to 5 hours of their day they cannot spend e.g. with their kids) and they cannot afford college tuition. That‘s what‘s creating perpetual poverty, i.e. low social mobility, which is IMO one of the most important aspects of a fully developed nation.
Undoubtedly because that takes more time and money, for relatively little upside for the company, and often, relatively little upside for the candidate.
My blog was on top of HN multiple times in the last years. I had an article that reached past a TB by itself.

It's not the javascript but the medias that are expensive. Pictures, drawings, schemas. God forbids if you have a gif or a video.
It will never happen, the Facebook stocks decreased mostly because the NASDAQ decreased, about the issue with leaking of users data, nobody cares except HN
Water from a stone at this point.

If I can't consolidate micro deposit hashes without spending 100x more in transaction fees than the total amount deposited, then the whole currency is bullshit.

And at this point, the market is so flooded with speculators that nobody will accept bitcoin as anything but a gamble.
Waivers aren't legally binding. The company gets nothing by providing feedback, and even if there's a small chance of a lawsuit, why take the risk?
> Is there any chance of Android gaining a "Secure Boot" logic—not in the sense of desktop PCs, but in the sense of ChromeOS devices? (i.e. not that you can't boot custom ROMs, but that you'd get a click-through warning each boot from the hardware boot loader that the OS signature check has failed.)

Android has that already. Vendors just patch over that as well. As do many custom rom users, I’ve patched the unlocked warning out on my devices as well.
Ok a couple of things.

1) This is awesome.

2) /s/vanilla doesn't work on .stream but does on .io

3) in the live text "To share your sandbox for real time collaboration you need to be a CodeSandbox Patron." you don't specify if all collaborators need to be patrons or not. I assume not, but best to make that clear.

4) I retrofitted the default React template into my standard first project when I teach JavaScript. https://codesandbox.stream/s/xvw9p3z0k4 It works on every second reload. Also, can I turn off the react voodoo live update thing? [edit: found the last bit in sandbox.config.json]
My grandmother couldn't afford a chair. Most people today have reasonably furnished apartments, smartphones, some kind of vaguely functional computer with (low speed) internet access, and probably a car.

Food went from being very expensive (people actually died of starvation not that long ago!) to being so cheap that obesity is a major epidemic among the poor.

Since 1940, the percent of the US with a high school degree went from < 50% to over 80%. The percent of the US population with a college degree went from < 10% to over 20%.

What is your argument that the economy is in decline? That you don't magically get a two story house with a yard, a new car, and the ability to support a family of four? That has never once been the case in US history. It's a great myth in the past that the 1950s were somehow a magical time when everyone had a house and the income for a family, but it's that - a myth.
It can ban them from operating in the EU unless they break up. The U.S. can also just break them up without a threat of banning them to get there. But certainly the EU have plenty of leverage.
In that last case, you can often redirect those queries if they are standard DNS requests on your router. That's how my local network is configured -- all DNS requests are sent to my Pi-hole instance, except those coming from the Pi-hole itself. Even something like:

nslookup google-analytics.com 8.8.8.8

will return a local IP:

Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address: 8.8.8.8

Name: google-analytics.com
Addresses: 192.168.1.2
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git is-it-in: Find whether a commit has been merged into a branch
Really? I never had it take that long.
I thought there were suggestions that the LIDAR was turned off for testing.
> but in the sense of ChromeOS devices?

You can fairly easily flash a custom ROM onto a ChromeOS device and remove the boot-up warning. It does require taking apart the device quite significantly, and then flashing different u-boot firmware using a firmware flasher. But it's definitely possible. The problem with ChromeOS devices' "secure boot" is that it is disabled if you want to boot something not trusted in the firmware, so if you have a custom OS you have to disable one of the main security features of the device (unless you flash different firmware onto the device).

Oh, and Android already has this feature. But as with ChromeOS you can disable the warning if you re-lock the bootloader. However, each time you unlock (or relock in the case of Pixel devices) the bootloader, the device will be reset to factory defaults.
People in Sudan have too. An older smartphone can be had for very little nowadays. As can be a budget model.
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If you get 1000 applicants and only make 3 of them offers, those better be some very good offers.
Land owners in SF benefit massively from the infrastructure that society has created, yet don't pay for it.

A Land Value Tax would ensure that people monopolizing a limited resource that owes it's value to the society that has been built in San Francisco actually pay their fair share.
I’m humbled that you read our post! We love your work, and heavily use Redis at Intercom. Thank you :)

The DynamoDB move is certainly a tradeoff, but for us it really makes sense. Moving to it will allow us to:

- scale out this storage layer trivially easily

- shed a ton of operational responsibility

- save lots of money

There are certainly downsides to moving to a proprietary database run by a single proivider, but we’re happy to make that tradeoff.

Also, we’re absolutely not recommending that people move from MongoDB to DynamoDB as some general rule. It just made sense for us at this time.
ah, well that link was one of the ones referenced in the article.
I’ve gone through 60 in one day when trying to work on a ROM, rebuilding, reflashing, and setting it back up again and again.

So, yes, people absolutely do.
> If the Golang team has had enough time to cherry pick the best ideas and lessons learned to build a language they've had enough time to do so for dependency management.

Most of Go's features are those that proved their value over 40 years. There are no dependency management schemes that have that kind of reputation. Good ideas take time and misfeatures are expensive.
> Zuckerberg et al are dissembling and attempting what appears to be an incompetently-executed public cover-up

I agree that execs probably took too long to make a statement, but out of curiosity, do you have any thoughts on what execs should've done instead, or are you of the opinion that there's really nothing they could've done differently?
This is a pretty pedestrian article. Very little background. That might make sense for the average WSJ reader, but I would guess most HN viewers are already aware of the tiny amount of data shared in this piece.

If you are interested in actually learning more than surface-level details about this topic, I highly suggest starting with Kim Mai-Cutler's excellent "How Burrowing Owls Lead to Vomiting Anarchists":

https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/
No, if you actually read about what actually happened in 1930s in Germany, the government disfunction led to people demanding more powers will be given to the government, to fix things finally and to end the instability and the economic woes. And the careful stoking of hostility between political tribes and fear of each other made people to seek the government as the ultimate arbiter and protector. Which proved to be spectacularly bad idea when it turned out the guy who ended up being appointed as the head of the government, in charge of fixing things, was Hitler, and instead used them to consolidate the power in his own and his party's hands and end the Weimar republic. People weren't passive or avoiding the politics. They just thought the right politics is to elect the right people to the government and give them all the powers. Which has a very spectacularly awful failure mode if after the powers were given turns out those people are not exactly right, but you can't take the powers back anymore.
How much longer until I can buy a graphics card again?
"If you would like to discuss this video I recommend you make a post"

Whereupon it will promptly be buried. So went Digg, so goes HN.
It's interesting- I'm convinced there's at least some evidence that Bitcoin is being used in non trivial amounts for genuine use cases these days, be it as a gold substitute, circumventing monetary controls (or drug markets too I suppose)

I'm basing this opinion on the fact that Bitcoin price used to be highly correlated with news a few years ago, but is now more uncorrelated with positive/negative news- This suggests to me that price run-ups in the last couple of years have had a cause independent of speculation, at least in part.

The problem is that it is unclear whether these "genuine use cases" are responsible for 5%, 20%, or 60% of the current Bitcoin price... though recent market behavior suggest this number is still on the low side.
Pedantic point: It would need mass or travel at the speed of light to have momentum. Saying it accelerates merely implies it has velocity which is quantifiable over time. If velocity= change of price over unit time, then it is accelerating.
Secure Messaging? More Like a Secure Mess
Nobody's denying that the world has improved. The relevant question is "where are we relative to where we could be, given all that we have to work with?" One answer, in the opinion of many informed people, is that we (Americans) haven't done nearly as much with what we have as we could have potentially done.
"The economy is doing great, all you need to do to flourish is work a second job in addition to your first one!"
No, I don't think you're underestimating their strength - I think it's more that you're vastly underestimating how expensive it can be to make a bad hire and how difficult it can be to fire someone in California, even at the individual contributor level.

A few companies do manage to do it, but as far as I can tell you have to set up your corporate culture, HR department etc. from the outset to be prepared and ready for firing people frequently, and that's not something many startups (other than maybe Netflix?) were/are really well prepared for...
If you feel the need to specify in a comment that the code does some potentially unexpected thing or that the way it does what it does has certain consequences, that's fine. And obviously the comment/doc of a function/class/whatever should say what it does if it's not 100% obvious and unambiguous from the name. I don't think this kind of rule is really helpful. Just comment if you feel a comment is needed, and if other people who interact with your code think you have too many or too few comments then you can adjust from there.
FastMail has this feature. You don't need a service.
If markets were perfect, no market would have momentum because an asset's value would be based on present reality rather than past prices. But markets involve trade by humans and humans use past prices as a substitute for rational deductions. Thus any market can have (metaphorical) momentum, especially one where the objective value is difficult to determine and bitcoin certainly to be in this latter category.
I was operating under the assumption that they are continuously hiring, but I guess it’s possible that they aren’t quite big enough for that yet.
This would explain why Amazon refuses to add support for chromecast to their streaming service.
> The people who do care are not a majority and not even a significant statistic

I hear this from my friends in technology. It is not supported by the data: Facebook’s net favourability is down 28 points [1].

> Shareholders know this

Facebook trades 20% down from its highs and lower, to trend, than its peers [2].

[1] https://www.axios.com/exclusive-poll-facebook-favorability-p...

[2] https://m.nasdaq.com/symbol/fb/real-time
Living in Eastern Europe, I was able to witness the streamlined shift to a Western consumerist lifestyle in a mere 15 to 20 years. There was a saying in communist Bulgaria, "having money doesn't mean that there is anything you can spend it on". This encouraged people to save and have longer-term goals. Fast forward to today, everyday spending opportunities are beyond every corner, and people prove that they are successful in life with outward and vulgar consumerism which was probably a 70s thing in the West.
How would that be a lesson to society about entrusting personal data to corporations?
Recently, I try to follow the idea of three elements of motivation at work: autonomy, mastery, and purpose [0].

So my questions would cover those elements:

What is the decision making process at the team, how empowered are engineers to make their own technical decisions?

Are they learning anything new at work? Do they have challenges? Trying new things? Learning budget, learning groups?

Do they see the big picture? How is their everyday’s tasks contribute to the company’s mission? Are they proud of their work?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive:_The_Surprising_Truth_...
As cited in the study, a common reason to not apply if under-qualified is 'to avoid wasting the time of the interviewer', and I think this is a likely reason.

The trade-off of less aggressive language resulting in both more applicants but also a higher percentage of under-qualified applicants will eventually reach some inflection point where it becomes unproductive, as you're almost certain to already have a well-qualified fit in the batch of interviewees.
Yes. This is all over HN and Reddit, but when I try to introduce my friends to Signal (or encryption in general), they shrug and say they have nothing to hide.

Hate to say it, but the general public needs Kim Kardashian or some tastemaker to make privacy and security "cool".
AirBnB: founders ran out of ideas and [were] drowning in credit card debt