skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there’s probably an argument in there that those services are so curated by their algorithms that it’s not so easy as people filtering what they read, especially users not so well educated in how those platforms shape the window they look through.

Funny thing is, it’s likely the people who never went looking for Jones saw less of him than the people who did.

Maybe the people looking for his kind of messaging were just waiting for a note like “ready your guns”.

And again maybe the real danger lies in the ones who are on the edge of that and start getting hints of it and what’s more, increasingly fall prey to it and so seek it out more and their curated window is all the more filled with it. Suddenly you have large swathes of people believing that the end is nigh, Obama is a reptile, men are under attack, and it’s time to ready their rifles against their neighbour.

More should probably be questioned about the curation process those companies employ.
I refuse to go to USA as a tourist, because demanding a visa is outrageous to me. If you want me off your country by default, fine. I go to Europe instead :D

And the practicalities are also a problem: going through this visa process again with wife and kid, is the stuff nightmares are made of.

(The UK-style visa, which just took a couple questions at Heathrow, is ok. It is almost the anti-visa: you get a free pass for 6 months, and the "visa" line was no longer than Brazilian passport check upon return!)

I lost two full days on USA visa because the photo was taken at a different place to "speed up" things. I got my visa at Recife, said to be less crowded than São Paulo embassy (which was the nearest for me, "just" 600km), so I scheduled the visa interview in a business trip to a place "nearby" Recife (300km...).

I got the visa because my employer paid the ancilliary expenses back then and there was an expectation to go to USA, in the end I didn't go, and hopefully the visa renewal does not need me to go to an embassy.
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> About this story--was it that they prejudiced all the women they interviewed as quiet, or did they just happen to interview a bunch of women who happened to be quiet because that's what our culture expects of women?

I'm not sure that either scenario really paints a rosy picture. More on that below.

> And yeah, if they interviewed a loud, well-spoken woman, and then rejected her because she was too "aggressive", that would definitely hint at bias to me.

I'm sure you can find plenty of outspoken women to whom that's happened.

> These are some hard problems, and assuming bad faith isn't the be-all end-all of talking about it.

I think this is actually why this conversation rubs people the wrong way: I'm not assuming bad faith at all, even though I'm calling "culture fit" out as a bad metric used to discriminate against people.

A relatively modern view of gender/racial relations is that it's not exclusively people acting in bad faith - that is, a minority of people are being overtly racist or sexist (though they obviously dominate the headlines). Rather, there's a lot of subtle and unspoken biases that creep into society and result in discrimination even if that wasn't the intended purpose or goal.

To go back to your own example, if our culture "expects women to be quiet", and then discriminates against quiet people for jobs, that kinda sucks doesn't it? What are women supposed to do in that scenario? Are they really forced to choose between gainful employment and acting in a societally-approved way?
>Organic labelled produce cant, it is subject to greater restrictions of pesticide use than general international farming regulations.

is that a feature of some organic certification programs, or just some?
How do you assess how someone attacks problems?

How do you assess communication and collaboration?

How do you assess handling of "rainy-day scenarios"?

How do you assess learning and growth ability? Just how long does your interview take?

How do you assess teaching and mentoring ability?

How do you assess whether someone thrives in your work environment?

Everybody says they assess for these things, push comes to shove. But most of the time, they're really covering for the fact that their final decisions are based on a collective gut-feel assessment.
I'm not talking about email. I'm talking about this board.
>The reality is that private companies like Google, Twitter, etc. have more power than the government to restrict speech.

Is that a bad thing?

The worst a company can do is drop your account - they can't even stop you from moving your content elsewhere. Governments can have you killed. Governments should be more restricted than the common citizen or even corporation.
Calling "secure elections" a solved problem made me laugh.
A workaround is to hide the posts you don't care about and reload.
Anyone else here use the noprocrast setting built in to HN? Surprise not to see it mentioned

I have my HN set up so that I need 3 hours between each 20m visit.
The stubbornness to avoid articulating your “culture fit” screams discriminatory hiring practices.

“Whether a person will get along with our team, and will interact appropriately” sounds like a great thing to hire for, if you have a broad definition of “appropriate”. Why not just use this language?

“Culture fit” strongly suggests you’re limiting yourself to comfortable heuristics that can be the gateway to discriminatory hiring practices.

Things like politeness, courtesy, ability to effectively communicate are just simply not a cultural concern. Why are you using that term?

How would you differentiate your “culture fit” ideals from the “mono-cultural” standards promoted by alt-right groups? Their articulations of what they mean have nothing to do with visible characteristics like skin color. Granted, it all sounds pretty racist to me, but their explanations sound like they have a lot of overlap with your hiring. agenda. All you need to do here is be specific and there shouldn’t be any problem discerning between the two, right?

So, can you explain why I should believe you’re not exercising discriminatory hiring practices?
just for peoples FYI, there are multiple ways to consume HN, quite a few people have built various tools for getting the best out of HN, I've been tryin to keep track of various ones here https://github.com/keithn/HackerNewsCommunity ( also updated with ones linked to in the comments here )
You sound a bit defensive about this so I'm going to stop responding, but I'll leave you with a thought that I responded to a sibling comment with:

> I think this is actually why this conversation rubs people the wrong way: I'm not assuming bad faith at all, even though I'm calling "culture fit" out as a bad metric used to discriminate against people.

> A relatively modern view of gender/racial relations is that it's not exclusively people acting in bad faith - that is, a minority of people are being overtly racist or sexist (though they obviously dominate the headlines). Rather, there's a lot of subtle and unspoken biases that creep into society and result in discrimination even if that wasn't the intended purpose or goal.

> To go back to your own example, if our culture "expects women to be quiet", and then discriminates against quiet people for jobs, that kinda sucks doesn't it? What are women supposed to do in that scenario? Are they really forced to choose between gainful employment and acting in a societally-approved way?
And they all went through hassles and spent a lot of money to resume a normal life.
Water-at-height is a bit of a different creature.

Steel suitable for pipes, and long-distance water pipes, really did not exist before the 1860s, and mostly arose for and from the Pennsylvania oil industry. The earlier options were generally ceramic pipe (OK for horizontal flows, but prone to breakage), and open acqueducts (dating to Roman times), with wood or bamboo used for some shorter runs (tens to 100s of meters generally).

I don't know much about skyscraper plumbing at all, though I doubt it's just scaled-up 1-4 storey kit.

And by 1931, the Empire State Building was 102 storeys tall (443m).

For more on multi-storey plumbing considerations:

http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/hygiene/plumbing1...
first off, I agree that file-based content management is the way to go. thank you for working to make better tools for it.

> we wanted something 1) faster and 2) easier

1) a) why didn't you write a new library using the same spec? b) do you have speed tests to show your libraries are better than existing ones?

2) how is this spec easier? (like a basic rundown)
> The teen – who is said to be well-known in the hacking community – used VPNs and other tools to try to avoid being traced, but Apple’s systems logged the serial numbers of the MacBooks used to carry out the attacks.

How could Apple have managed to log the serial numbers?
Context is very important here. Alex Jones was punished for "he tweeted out a link to a video in which he calls for his supporters to get their "battle rifles" ready for the media and others." which is not really trying to incite actual violence.

Some locations on earth the ability to communicate the need to stop violence is necessary. Ethnic cleansing being done by your government? Do you want the people to unite and stop that?

I really dont have a good answer and can see both sides, personally Id err on the side of letting people speak.
right, that sounds like a great rule of thumb!
Clarify this: "The difference between zero servers and one server is much larger than the difference between 100 servers and 101 servers"

The person you're talking to is likely thinking of the "100=>101" case, not the "0=>1" case.
"Yes, I am indeed arguing for speech that's free from consequences"

Which boils down to you arguing that no one else should have free speech.

"According to modern liberals, she should have faced the "consequences" (your word, not mine), no matter how horrific, since they weren't coming from the government."

When you imply that I am advocating violence like that, then you have proven that you are not discussing in good faith. You are not trying to have a discussion, you are just trying to be "right".
If this claim was exercised for you by your parents prior to turning 18, and you have never travelled on your foreign passport, and you are willing to renounce your foreign citizenship, your eligibility will be maintained.

Otherwise it's highly unlikely.
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> The issue is, there are relatively few people that can run a data center well compared to the number of people who need servers to run thier business.

I don't think that's true, other than as a result of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

> The cost of hiring people to manage local servers is higher.

That, there, is the falsehood at the root of the prophecy. I keep reading comments on HN of the form "and then we'll have to hire 5 sysadmins for those 200 physical servers" but they're invariably from people who have done nothing of the sort.

From personal experience, the incremental effort for dealing with the physical part takes up around a quarter of a full-time Ops person's time at that scale [1]. Even at high salaries, that's less than any cloud premium. Perhaps more importantly, the vast majority of those skills aren't difficult and could easily be imparted onto a lower-cost employee. Of course, the idea of providing mentorship or career paths for junior employees is anathema in today's environment, especially in smaller companies.

None of the other Ops labor costs go away, and, judging by salary ranges in SFBA job postings, AWS-expert Ops folks are 10-15% more expensive.

> Also, you don't spend as much up front.

I routinely hear and read this argument, as well, but, given the huge price premium of AWS [2], it doesn't withstand scrutiny.

If the price premium is 6x [3], that means paying the equivalent of the "up front" cost to AWS in 6 months. It might just feel emotionally easier to have it spread out over half a year rather than having to write a big check all at once.

All that said, I wouldn't advocate an early startup (or other small company) doing anything but cloud or VPS.

> Your expenses on AWS should scale a lot slower than your revenue.

The issue is, there are relatively few people that can run AWS well compared to the number of people who use AWS to run their business.

[1] and tends to scale very sub-linearly, often logarithmically if there's low diversity in model/configuration, with number of servers

[2] GCP has slightly better pricing and some VPS providers are remarkably better, but I posit cost (up front or not) is never a real consideration and so these aren't even brought up in conversation

[3] For various workloads, my analyses have fallen in the range 2x-10x, assuming 3 year contracts, 3 years of use out of the hardware, and zero residual value. Yes, that's all-inclusive, even of my own labor. 6x for just the hardware (up front) portion is about right for typical workloads.
Seems like this requires you to click on a link before it fades out, while OP's extension doesn't.
Do you have any media coverage on Fiona Wilson from outside Australia? The lack of information makes it very difficult to work out what's going on.
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Something not often mentioned is that some countries (UK, Spain and France come to mind) require a visa to transit through their airports.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2012/09/20/askpatents-com-a-stack... might be what you’re looking for.
Sorry if I shouldn't ask this on a public forum, but I'm pretty confused as to 'How does an international guy start a startup in USA?' I've even asked a question here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17770245

Can you please reply?
You only get away from compatibility problems if either:

1. No-one uses it

2. There is only 1 implementation, and it is never updated
I think you are right about Chromebooks and the connectivity will be tempting. Microsoft with the approx. 40% x86 emulation penalty will be a couple of years later.
VR game recreates the experience of playing games in the 80s
Best trivia question ever: What is a scutoid?
I think a way around this is: everyone gets randomly generated keys every election, like how everyone gets randomly numbered paper ballots. Currently, you can check if your numbered ballot was counted after you voted, but you can't verify the ballot wasn't tampered with.

With keys, you can verify your vote was counted and not tampered with. If you don't want people to know how you voted, destroy your key.

I'll admit that this still has the some of the same flaws as paper ballots: government doesn't track which key/ballot is assigned to you, and effectively centralized issuing of keys/ballots. But the advantage is: it's harder to forge or tamper with a ballot
Paper ballots are fine for infrequent elections. But not for things a bit more ... liquid[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegative_democracy
Another fun attack vector that I don't think has been well explored yet involves the use of C++ sized deallocation functions. If a base class is missing a virtual destructor, or if an array allocated with new[] is deallocated with delete (instead of delete[]), then the allocation can be freed with an incorrect size parameter. If this happens, you can trigger some of the same sorts of state corruption issues that a double-free would cause (you set a random bitmap bit to "free" in the metadata, since you're calculating offsets from the start of a slab incorrectly).

Valgrind won't ever catch this, and Address Sanitizer won't always (it depends on both the exact type of bug, and the sanitization settings).
(Co)homological methods in data science fall under the umbrella of topological data analysis, which is quite a new approach relative to more standard ones. In particular, persistent (co)homology is the applicable theory here, because it computes homology at varying spatial resolutions.

> so while a short glimpse at your digit arithmetic gives me fun

The fun is the point of it :) It's easy to get discouraged by very abstract, very powerful mathematical ideas, so having fun little toy examples is nice.
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In my case, I took a full-time job overseas between my JR and SR year making 100k+ in the field I wanted to study. It was an easy answer for my admissions officer who then recommended I be admitted to a MS program.

There's a lot of reasons why you wouldn't finish a degree that are valid. Have you considered asking rather than assuming? What if someone had serious depression or social anxiety? You're making a lot of assumptions on being "serious" and it's honestly pretty naive and silly, borderline offensive, and very common in academia.
He didn't infect him, he variolated him. Variolation normally causes a very mild form of smallpox -- but results in a person becoming immune to the disease. Variolation is the predecessor of vaccination.
Claiming that I am arguing that "no one else should have free speech" and that I am "not discussing in good faith" in the same breath? Well, I don't know how to respond to that...
"The domain of privacy partially overlaps security (confidentiality), which can include the concepts of appropriate use, as well as protection of information." [1] It does not, however, implicitly provide security.

If I send and receive e-mails with a reporter off the record, we are communicating privately. But the communication may not be strictly confidential, nor secure, unless I take additional steps to ensure it.

If I keep files in my home directory, on my own hard disk, with permissions so only my user can access the files, then my files are private. They are not, however, implicitly secure. Another example: an SSH private key. Without a password on the key, the key is private, but not secure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy
Voting is meaningful if you are aware of the candidates stances on such policies. If you would like to know more about a US candidate's stance on privacy, internet freedom, etc. then visit _decidethefuture.org_ to see what grade your local representative is getting.
The difficulty level will vary based on how much paperwork you have already (for proving citizenship during your jus sanguinis claim).

I had to submit FOIA requests for records going back to the 1950's, as well as retaining a lawyer. The process took three trips to the German embassy, 18 months, and roughly $2000.

However, once the initial process was completed for myself, processing it for my children took a single trip, no lawyer, and roughly $100 apiece for application fees.
I like guns. I think conspiracy theories are fun (just not Alex Jones's presentation of them), even when they're false, as they almost always are. I hate the censorship these platforms are engaged in.

That said, these bans were righteous. Anyone getting on any platform and encouraging, iirc, people to act "legally... and illegally" with "battle rifles" to resist an unseen army of government oppressors, is saying civilization has broken down and the only thing left is civil war and revolution.

The fact that there has been no Jones-inspired violence means that there are literally zero people in his audience who take him seriously. Which is good.

That raises an interesting side issue, though. Granted, someone advocating violence like that needs to be de-platformed. However, since clearly none of his viewers take him seriously, maybe the main narrative about Infowars is wrong. Maybe his entire persona, and Infowars, are an undeclared comedy act that give people, mostly conservatives, an outlet for their frustrations without requiring them to agree with, or act on, any of the extreme shit he says, even if they might parrot it in conversation from time to time.

If this is a comedy act, I don't know where the line is between comedy and incitement to violence. These platforms probably don't (and can't afford to) have as nuanced a view of it, but if they did, they would still probably not want to take that chance. I think attempts to incite others to violence is a serious enough thing that if he is running a comedy show, he should still tone down direct incitement to violence. What if just the right kind of mentally unhinged person watches his videos? That could turn out badly, and there's no reason to take that risk. The impact to freedom of speech of prohibiting, even in comedy, incitement to violence, is minimal. I have a feeling if it were a government agency doing the censoring, the courts would find approximately the same thing: This kind of speech can properly be censored, even under strict scrutiny.
I find that impossible to believe :)
I'm glad that situation worked out well. Could you not have done exactly the same even if you'd had a gun though? And that way had he not responded to your excellent de-escalation technique, and had instead attacked you with a bottle, the deterrent of the weapon might have saved you from injury.

I feel the need to again emphasize that in general I am in support of gun control and that I don't personally own guns; I can see how a person might want to though.
I don't get why this is such a big thing. I'm not taking any sides here, but what's surprising to me is that I never saw any mention of Microsoft in the comments over the last couple days, when stories about google going into China again hit HN. Nobody seems to care what kind of deals they have with the chinese govt to offer bing, hotmail or plain old windows in China. Have we all just accepted that Microsoft is pure evil and would do anything to make a buck or two? This is in stark contrast with how whenever a google related story hit HN before, everyone was giving them shit in the comments about invading everyone's privacy, collecting data like crazy, closing down every service they ever bought up, improperly implement protocols or create new standards hurting the competition. It sounds like the full "old Microsoft" experience, but now everyone is super surprised and disappointed how they could possibly do this move. I don't get it.
It should make sense if you realize "transparent" means "no visible difference".
Not good enough with C and C++, bored with VB for Excel and lua.
> The downside of this is that you're expected to do a perfect job 100% of the time and have to bite every minute that you lose to yak shaving or other problems, whereas if you work for an employer, they are more understanding if it takes a day to solve some stupid Java XML configuration issue.

The usual solution to this is to charge more. :)
Yup same here in Germany, you can ask for something against the pain, but that will usually only get you a prescription for Ibuprofen 600/800 mg.

Took those way to long over jaw issues until I got stomach problems, asked the dentist for something else and he prescribed metamizole drops.

Didn't use many of those as they sometimes give me kidney pains.
Database leakage/SQL injection detection through poison records
>Elections should also not allow someone to verify how they voted after the fact.

Why not? I'd like to know that my ballot was counted properly.

And that everyone whose vote was counted was a valid voter.

And that everyone whose vote was counted, was counted how they intended (but not the content).

You're right if you mean that some of those desirable properties might be irreconcilable, but that's not the same as saying I shouldn't be able to validate correct counting outright; that's exactly what allows votes to be changed after the fact.

IIRC, it is possible to use homomorphic encryption to get all of that and have an end-to-end auditable system that maintains differential privacy (impossibility of detecting a change in the outcome by removing one vote). But I don't know the details of such a system.