skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a woman participating on HN and trying to develop an adequate income, this is actually something I wrestle with a lot, but speak about a lot less because I know it's a difficult subject that has a lot of potential pitfalls.

My experience has been that most men who talk to me are doing so to hit on me. It's a very serious problem for trying to network. Even if I hit it off with a guy, it doesn't do anything at all for my career.

I've read at least one article by one successful woman that openly admitted to "playing the woman card." In other words, she knew she got attention because of her gender and she was willing to use that fact to her benefit professionally, even though she realized a professional connection was not why her gender got such attention.

I'm aware my gender closes doors for me. I find that frustrating, but I'm not interested in using my gender to nominally open doors because my experience has been that it doesn't actually work. It doesn't get me access to the same sorts of things it gets men access to.

I think this undermines a standard of excellence. I think it's a factor in why the Theranos debacle want so crazy far. It was a lot of hot air valued at $10 Billion one day and $zero the next.

I don't think you would see that with a male owned company. I think the usual checks and balances were not there in part because the face of the company was a pretty young woman.

I don't know how to solve this because it's a legitimate complaint that race, sex, etc closes doors on a lot of people unfairly. It's also a legitimate complaint that work done by someone of low status gets valued differently than similar work done by someone of high status. This has been widely documented.

But when a cishet white male gets access to "the old boys club," he gets a combination of opportunities and constructive feedback. People tell him he needs to fix X.

This is not necessarily the case if a woman or person of color gets opportunities. It is socially harder to arrange constructive feedback that you can trust is not really prejudice and hostility talking.

So people may hesitate to give it for fear of being misinterpreted. Those receiving it may not take it seriously because it feels like prejudice talking or because it's a combination of legitimate feedback and prejudice mixed together and difficult or impossible to sort out. It's all too easy to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
But who is making these loans to companies that will be obviously unable to meet their payments? I never saw that part in the PE-sinks-companies story properly explained.
Oh, so we can just throw up paid guides and sell them on Hacker News now? I know it's a Sunday, but how did this get up here?
Not of myself, but here's an example of the inward K snare (the most common, there are other inward hits such as a snare roll) https://youtu.be/DRk5QkDit2c

It's just a matter of practice to make a K sound the same inward as outward. Then you can manage your air seamlessly, like circular breathing.
Thank you! As you can guess, I never have seen the show.
It's downright ridiculous to equate expressions of dissatisfaction with the current state of tax law (allowing wealthy entities to exploit all sorts of loopholes clearly not in the spirit of paying your taxes) with some straw-man "complaining" about such activity despite the fact that these entities are probably behaving mostly within the bounds of the law "just like everybody else".

Guess what: laws change, and some people think these laws should be changed so that these entities can no longer dodge the tax burden one might naively expect them to face if no loopholes existed. That's what people are talking about when these topics come up. Reducing that to "complain about [...] perfectly legal" is either disingenuous or ignorant on your part.
Sweeping generalization is sweeping. Not even 50 here.
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The company I work for definitely hires people who are not a "culture fit" and our company is better for it. People who bring different perspective make your products stronger.
Puh, I'm not a tax consultant, ask yours how and why that is. But you don't put VAT on off-EU invoices (not even within different EU countries I think). It's just net.

I think the reasoning is that a VAT - value _added tax_ - requires that the other party also pays VAT (you only pay the difference, the "value add"). Which simply doesn't happen if you are outside your own country. In "regular" cases this is compensated by tariffs, but there are none for consulting/dev AFAIK.

But again: ask you tax consultant :-)
Shame. The article seems a bit weak - nothing on the actual costs and margins involved.

Homejoy is the poster child of why these "middle man for the gig-working class" type businesses are going to struggle (in general) with perhaps the occasional winner takes all. If borrowing money becomes more expensive most of these kind of businesses will die as funding dries up.
Agree. I built it in React. If I have some validation that the product is good, I will probably rewrite it in React Native Web, sharing one codebase for all three platforms
> even at say a low number of prints.

at some point the smaller the print run the less economical it becomes to print. The litho plates and other press setup costs will become a higher and higher proportion of the cost of each copy.
As a German, I think Fukushima was a turning point because a lot of people believed the utilities when they insisted that "Our reactors are safe! Chernobyl was just the result of bad Soviet-era quality/safety standards." Then Fukushima showed a highly-developed industrialized nation standing in front of a cataclysmic dumpster fire of a reactor, going through increasingly desparate attempts at putting out the fire. Sort of like with Deepwater Horizon, but this one hit closer to home because Germany already had this collective angst about nuclear reactors in the back of their heads from the 80s, albeit shoved into the subconscious in the meantime.
Significant, but two small blips in a sea of front page stories about rude remarks or other tabloid style drivel.
The best part:

> Under EU data protection law, therefore, a European retailer and the US platform are jointly responsible for gathering the data

I really hope this means that Facebook and all those stats/ads providers can be held responsible if they don't take adequate measures to ensure that only data from users who have given valid consent is sent.

Going after individual site operators is a fight against windmills. It would be much more effective if they could go after a company that provides an Ad SDK to hundreds of thousands of apps, but just tells the app developers in the fine print "by using this SDK you confirm that you have gotten consent from your users" - and as a result, knowingly accepts that nobody will care and data from non-consenting users will be collected.
>But that one’s for my book, [...] which you can pre-order here.

Well that was an impressively elaborate sales pitch
Where are these places where politicians have neither money nor power?
You don't have to drill tunnels. The North Shore line isn't on tunnels for the most part, but it also never goes anywhere near the shore.

I guess it's true that now you might need tunnels (especially for the eastern suburbs). But these lines could have been built many decades ago.
in a recent set of math-related dot-so performance benchmarks on Linux, the following was included:

for more consistant testing results, test-app builds here assume the x86_64 environment and explicitly enable Intel AVX support

CXXFLAGS -march=sandybridge -mtune=sandybridge

see AVX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions
Except that you forgot profit.

Also once the device is built and certified subsequent devices are at the cost of materials, support and production (and some profit) ... which I suspect is a bit a bit less than 8000.
The parent didn’t create a straw man; you did.

The article is not criticizing the laws. The article is criticizing Activision for following the law, exactly what the parent stated.

Maybe you read a different article focused on the law, not a single actor?
> if PE didn't burden them by taking out loans against the company's assets

if this were the true problem, i.e. if there were a profitable business that just wasn't making enough income to service its debt, then the enterprise would continue to exist after restructuring the cap table.

adding debt to the company just changes the cap table, it doesn't change the profitability of the underlying company.
That would be a civil case prosecuted by the other companies, not a criminal case.
What is "FoC"?
> there were so many red flags that I got outta there as soon as I could

Instead of joining the bashing party and lieu of making a broad statement why don't you detail what some of those red flags were?
Yah, sorry about that. I replied before checking my memory of what I had written.

I thought I caught the error and deleted the erroneous response in time. But I didn't.
It can be, but I've seen very valid uses of it. Some cultures value openness more than others, top-down vs. bottom-up, well-defined roles vs. flexibility, big company vs. small.
You can't remove all the bad videos any more than you can remove all the cholera from the river. Do you know how we protect populations from cholera?

* isolate the source and provide supportive care (infected people).

* make sure the source is downstream of the population (livestock).

* On inland waterways where multiple cities depend on the same river, you filter the water until your sampling demonstrates it is below the limit of infectivity.

It took a while to figure out the limit of infectivity for cholera. You still do the work. It's going to take a while to figure out the limit of infectivity for videos, github, etc.

Also, you really have to let go of this base rate fallacy bit. The methods I describe are entirely general.

Also, since you keep talking about the base rate fallacy, please understand I live in the realm of diagnostics. I understand the problem. So, since you brought it up:

The difference between the Bering strait and the Mississippi river (not far from where I grew up) is trivial on the scale of cholera. Flow rate of Bering strait: ~ 2.1e4 m3/s. Flow rate of Mississippi: ~ 1.7e4 m3/s. Volume of a V. cholera: 1.17e-19 m3. In either case, the difference is 21 orders of magnitude. If the Bering strait was the lifestream of all 8 billion humans alive today, finding a vibrio in the flow would be equivalent to finding a single person generating half a picosecond of violent video.

The point is not finding all of them. The point is sampling well enough that you can calculate the limit of infectivity. Once you can do that, you can start engineering solutions at social scale, e.g. move the village, move the cattle, install filtration. Maybe even fund development of new filtration systems.
You might want to clarify in the readme that the red X means non-goal. Until I read this comment I thought it was a goal that had not yet been implemented.
That's pretty disingenuous. The native arrays aren't designed for immutability at all. Of course an immutable data structure would be faster than copying the entire array every single operation.
The theory is wrong.

Perhaps you can do it for pension funds, although most pensions are government backed anyway.

But investors are taking a known risk. These are all sophisticated adults. If a bank wants to sign a contract that they will lose money if the company goes under, who is Warren to say they shouldn't? They're getting well paid for that risk, they know it's a risk.

If you ban debt-funded PE, you'll just have banks in-house the PE firms or any number of other structures that have the same result - people buying companies with other people's money and only sharing in the upside. Because that's a structure that benefits both sides (the banks and the PE companies) and they both want it to work.
But I want to hire mediocre developers and get expert results. Sometimes that's fantasy but that's why people want error resistant patterns.
Is this true if you manage to extract some of the capital leaving the debt?
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I'm a long time Lisper and Hy makes Python just tolerable enough to use as a data scientist. It can't or doesn't want to solve Python's worst problems, but its a big improvement.
What should we know about AWS Security? (Part 1)
Doesn't he know there are parental control apps?

(Although my 10 year old figured out how to bypass those in a matter of days each time I closed the previous bypass-hole... and that was using a rooted OS I could SSH into. So maybe not so effective.)
I don't see how you decided that DI requires some kind of special fixtures that are more complex than mocks.

Mocks are generalized fixtures—just a reusable way to create them. And you can use them with DI. Only the method of delivery is changed, from an implicit backdoor to an explicit argument.

DI puts new requirements on production code and tests that aren't related to a specific mock, that much is true. At least if there's no automatic way to create ‘default’ dependencies.
Huh, what would you say your company's culture is and why don't the people fit?
I don't think the GDPR separates apps or websites, but the difference is that with apps you often agree to their terms by downloading/buying it whereas with websites you really can't agree until after you open it.
Me too. I'm interested to know when this was because I am reading between the lines and believe little has changed on the questions between when you did it and I.

At my time I was told that all interviews at a certain exit off I-95 in Maryland were done by FBI.

I expect several people reading your note might also have gone through this process and failed. Interested to hear if anyone has successfully retrieved transcripts using a FOIA request.
Marty’s entire existence is meant as a sort of due diligence to prevent (or allow his boss to argue that he tried hard to prevent) slip-and-fall lawsuits.
39, never used WhatsApp.
It's not about the application of morally correct decryption of messages by a third-party, but about the immoral decryption (whatever that is); an algorithm or system cannot tell the difference in the intent of the decryptor.

If there exists a technical method by which to decrypt arbitrary messages, it will be abused. Claiming you can keep this method secret whilst the world searches in earnest for that secret is unrealistic. Saying that only certain types of communication should be subject to vulnerable encryption infers that the encryption algorithm can tell the difference between those types of communication: is it OK to encrypt banking transactional communications with unbreakable encryption, but internet chat communications must be encrypted with breakable encryption? How can you tell the difference? How can you ensure that someone isn't sending communications that are evidence of criminal activities over the banking communications channels? The Algorithm doesn't know or care what kind of communication it is, and once encrypted, an outside observer can't tell anyway.

You could say "well, chat program providers are only allowed to use breakable encryption, but bankers are allowed to use the unbreakable kind". So, now you have created a protected class of people, who are allowed privacy, and another who are not. Bankers commit crimes too, but the evidence of their crimes won't be available to be decrypted. So maybe you could make it illegal for people to communicate plans of criminal activity over unbreakable encryption, but that won't stop criminals from doing it. You could ban encryption entirely, but then whole, legitimate industries, such as online banking; international banking; stock exchanges; online commerce; "cloud computing"; and managed service providers would be untenable, and wither and die.
Polygraphs can be "inconclusive" many times. Especially if you the kind of person that is uncomfortable sitting still and breathing in the same rhythm for an extended period.
https://gist.github.com/epixoip/a83d38f412b4737e99bbef804a27...

Looking at phpass (one of the md5 algorithms), a high-end GPU can do 7M hashes per sec.
Hard to say. Voting behavior on here can be downright paradoxical at times. Downvoting is also easy to do accidentally due to the UI.

The sentiment behind the downvotes might be something like, "The first rule of libgen is you don't talk about libgen."

If I ran HN, I'd require a brief comment to be associated with each downvote, but then I'd do a lot of stuff differently.
I think its "family of companies" which StockX is a part of.

https://www.quickenloans.com/about/partner-company "
Any kind of "fit" should be a two-way street but it usually isn't (or maybe it's nine lane super highway one-direction and pitted gravel road in the other direction). They have lots of money that they might spend on your arguably good skill set. You have a bit of money you might use to hold out until one better fit comes along.

They (for a sad portion of "they") can afford crappy "fits" in terms of competence if it flatters them in one or another fashions or a person shows a willingness to throw umpteen hours into the cause. What can you afford?
> Cuture fit is a blank check to fail a person's interview just because you didn't like them in the first 30 seconds.

I hear this all the time. Yeah, that might be true in some cases, but it's also valid in quite a lot of instances (like the example you provided).

> it is categorically impossible to establish in a 45 minute interview whether a person is actually a "fit" or not

I've run/sat in on several trainwreck interviews over the years (for ad account manager roles and logistical analyst roles mostly). Here are a few examples of candidates that were perfect in every way until the interview based on culture fit:

* The guy that mentioned he only traveled to Thailand because ladyboys do it better.

* The guy that mentioned he wouldn't work with anyone that drank alcohol because it's "the retardant of the masses". Fair enough opinion. About 20% of our ad sales came from alcohol-related businesses. I asked if he would have a problem dealing with liquor businesses. He explained that wouldn't be a problem as long as they didn't ask if he drank.

* I was sitting in on an interview with the Marketing Director for an account management gig on a Monday morning. We asked the candidate if she did anything noteworthy over the weekend. She told us she went dancing with her friend "Molly" at a music festival and laughed.

* The analyst that mentioned he scrapes NSFW subreddits in his spare time and links throwaway accounts to main accounts based on comment history, similar subreddit crossover, posting times, and vernacular (his tool was pretty impressive -- it sent him an email whenever it had a hit with over 50% accuracy or something which he received during the interview).
(FWIW, I'm in VC, but I know very little about how PE works.) As a general observation, businesses like PE usually don't exist unless somewhere down the line they create some value. So if a PE firm makes a buyout offer to a CEO and the CEO takes it, then presumably that buyout offer was better than the CEO's alternatives (like other offers, or staying private, or etc). The problem here is not the PE firm, but the lack of better alternatives.

One could make similar observations about the payday loan industry: most of the firms are predatory and their offers suck, but 1) because of high default rates, the loan offers will necessarily be poor, and 2) creating more alternatives to payday loans would be great. But banning payday loans would be a net negative, because the choice of "very high interest rate loan or nothing" is better than having "nothing" as the only option.
“Basic income and open borders are a match made in heaven. The first country to embrace this powerful combination will lead the way in ushering humanity into a new age of global peace and prosperity.”

Is this supposed to be satire? I can’t even.
Hyper threading is Intel's marketing term, simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) is the general one (the article uses both in the same section).
This makes sense but will be downvoted.
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And into a television series on SyFy.
> As "observable state goes from a to b"

You might also notice that this is equivalent to a function that accepts a and returns b. Which lets one use equivalence partitioning to plan the tests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_partitioning

Except that with singletons, ‘context objects’ or similar quasi-global state, the effect might be non-isolated, and effects may be silently introduced that the calling code doesn't know about.
I know it's a bold claim. But PIs that dominate a field employ predatory tactics that are very similar to those used by big corporations. It's just economics.

I have witnessed this in some groups I have been a member of. Very unethical behaviors. As I said above blocking papers in peer review, or even rejecting them, and simultaneously sharing key bits from said papers with postdocs is a routine practice.

Knowing journal editors and reaching publication agreements before papers are even written is also very common, and hardly surprising to someone that has been in the field for some time.
> hashed with MD5, might as well be considered to have been stored in plaintext.

Somewhere I used to work (now-defunct) stored DES-encrypted passwords with the key one column over in the database.
Blizzard's programmers develop a game in the US. It's hosted on US servers. It has an in-game currency system/DLC system, also hosted in the US, and processes card transactions in the US.

However, at the same time, they claim that the entity that runs the DLC purchase system is in Malta, where Blizzard has no employees, but uses an outside legal and accounting firm.

They claim all the value is in Malta.

I tend to disagree.
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First Ever Unmotivated Removal from a C++ Draft Standard [pdf]
User profile spam is one of the most famous forms of link spam. That is, make a lot of fake user profiles with links pointing to your own sites. One advantage is that you aren't rubbing the spam in people's faces the way you would if you were posting fake comments on blogs.

Worried that crawlers won't find your fake profile pages? Well, just point some more fake links at your fake profile pages...
How is "altering a symbol table" different than "creating a new variable"? Imports have to create a new variable of some sort: their entire point is to provide a name that you can use.

"import mod" defines mod, which didn't exist in your module before.

"from mod import val" defines val, which didn't exist in your module before.