skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it isn't discriminating directly or indirectly against age...

That's just it, it clearly discriminates against junior applicants who may have only a year or two of professional experience as a direct result of their age.
you could always volunteer at a soup kitchen, or work the compost at a community garden.
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Pretty awesome:)

Can't save the Thumbnail in Chrome 27.0.1448.0 dev-m though. It only allows me to copy the image and paste it somewhere (which is enough) but I thought I'd mention it in case it's a bug in Silk and not in Chrome Dev.
I've said it before but in my opinion retargetting is a win-win-win situation for advertisers, publishers and visitors. Being retargetted has improved my online experience a lot since I only get ads I actually care about.
There's an old saying that goes "Don't piss on me and tell me it's raining." that seems applicable here. The ad industry is crying foul that a browser comes with it's own umbrella against their torrent of waste.
You're right, those lines (and a few others in that file) aren't good. For the ones you cited, that run-on if really is too far out. If I was writing them today, I'd break it up into an if..else.
That's not a very relevant argument against remarketing.
That doesn't make it any less egregious. GCHQ (of all organisations!) have failed to carry out even a minimum standard of due diligence in selecting a supplier that handles sensitive personal information of prospective employees.
You can enable this in Firefox today, by going to about:config

and setting the network.cookie.cookieBehavior value to 1 (0 is the default)

You can also try setting network.cookie.thirdparty.sessionOnly to 1 to allow third party cookies during the session, but then delete them afterwards

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Cookies_Preferences_in...
Well, there will be new ways to embed ads. Like ads between related articles or when you scroll through results and one of them has 6pt "Ad" in the corner but looks exactly like the real search results.

They will find a way to make it really hard to block that stuff based on generic rules or by blocking the servers that serve the ads.
>Banks have been far more evil but they are rarely referred to as such.

What? For the past few years I haven't heard "bank" spoken without severe negative undertones and usually "evil" explicitly thrown in.
What's The 'Hippest' Occupation Out There?
What's The 'Hippest' Occupation Out There?
How is this new? We've been using Braintree for months.
How about:

- Ability to lead a group of experienced java developers

Unless you can prove that X year is a lot better than X/2 or X/4 years and someone with X/2 years couldn't possibly do the job.

And if you want to wean out those that only read Java 101. Simply state that you require "work experience with java", or "leadership experience with java developers" or "java certification".
To be fair, I doubt that the GCHQ website is developed by the same people who are doing cyber intelligence work or whatever it is they do.

More likely it was just developed by whichever company was picked off a list of government contractors. I'm sure that whatever internal systems they have are completely separate from the website.

GCHQ probably consider arguing with a contractor about the password hashing on the jobs section of their website as a waste of their time.
It's not obvious that they are storing them in plain text (they could easily be encrypting them), but what they aren't doing is using a one way hash.
It makes perfect sense, they've got some technology out of it, some people who understand mobile, and a nice big headline.

Worth $30m of my money? Probably not. Worth $30m of Yahoo's money? Maybe, they're not likely to have decided to spend that much on an acquihire without board approval really are they. Unless they Zuckerberg'd it and thought it was better to seek forgiveness.
I could play "Master of Puppets" on my guitar when I was 17. But just the rhythm guitar part. That was a big accomplishment. Seeing this, I now feel like a failure.
Ah, yeah, I just figured that out after trying to piece together why it was such a weird dimension. Standard sizes would definitely be helpful, especially since doesn't seem to take into account retina/HiDPI displays. MacBook Pro set to "Best for retina" produces a 1440x900 image.
the former is safe to put into my pocket

The spring is the difference. A switchblade (and "assisted opening" is just an obvious circumvention of those being banned) can be easily carried concealed and is a very deadly weapon in fights. That's why they are outlawed - legislation has decided that their potential utility (takes a second less to open?) doesn't outweigh their general danger to the public.

Note that all kinds of easy to carry knifes are not illegal, like hunting knifes or swiss army knifes.
hmmm nice though and this is the mainly reason of Phishing page because when we make a Phishing page then we have to use this step to change the URL when victim click on that.... that's why phishing is happening ...

so read this news carefully and be aware for futue...
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What about programs that write programs that divide by zero?
Actually, it's worse than that: once a word becomes generic, you _lose trademark protection_.
Firefox should enable AdBlock plus by default in the next update.
See http://golang.org/doc/go1compat.html for details on compatibility.
I can't neither. Codepad and Ideone are both able of doing that.

Ideone is something more than a pastebin; it's an online compiler and debugging tool which allows
to compile and run code online in more than 40 programming languages.

http://ideone.com/
The irony in your comment is that YouTube exists because of advertising.
But unfortunately it's for a "good" [1] reason, most companies use recruitment agencies to find their employees, and most recruitment agencies are about as technically capable as my nan.

They don't know how to judge the capabilities of an applicant, that is the real issue here, if recruiters were able to competently tell the difference between someone who was capable of doing the job, but had no proven track record, and someone with a proven and documented history in that position, then this wouldn't even be a requirement.

Rather than using legislation to attack the companies, it's about time someone started a decent technology literate recruitment agency.

[1] In their eyes
Don't forget to add Service Stack to this list: http://servicestack.net/
Apple Maps proves HTML5 sucks
How cellphones destroyed pictures of live events – How Google Glass will fix it
Chrome has an option to enable the Do-Not-Track request and to block all 3rd party cookies already. In the settings dialog that is, not in the chrome:// tweaks.
Once a trademark is genericized, the original owner loses trademark protection for the brand, and anyone can use it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark

Things that were once trademarks: Aspirin, Adrenalin, Escalator, Heroin, Kerosene, Laundromat, Linoleum, Mimeograph, Thermos, Touch-tone, Videotape, Zipper.
Earlier you could not sign up online.
Språkrådet doesn't regulate the language. The dictionary that they publish is purely describing the general usage. That is, if it is a word that is in common use it should be in the dictionary with the common definition.
Just saw this story on german TV... These guys sure know how to create some hype...
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As far as I can tell you would only have to show that you weren't basing your hiring on stereotypes. So in the example given, asking for someone who has held a driving license for 10 years to filter out younger drivers.

That has a subtle difference to asking for X years of Java experience or whatever. Whether this is a good metric is a separate issue, but I am somewhat doubtful that this is illegal.
Do you mean is it worth $30 million or do you mean does it cost that much? I don't know the economics behind it but I imagine if there were enough consumers using it, it could conceivably be worth that much.

As far as taking that much to build a system like that, definitely. It's a natural language problem. The computer not only has to process natural language, which is a hard enough problem on it's own, but then decide what parts are "important" or not. And then this has to be scaled up to process hundreds or thousands of articles simultaneously, each within a few seconds or less.
Cool! I'll definitely read up on this.
> I can't take Go seriously, or bring myself to use it

But you can criticize its aesthetic nevertheless? Maybe if you could bring yourself to use it you might appreciate the elegance of the Communicating Sequential Processes implementation. Or maybe the clean OOP practices derived from using interfaces. Or the beauty of coroutines mapped unto multiple OS threads.

tl;dr: learn it properly before complaining it's not like mom's cooking
Instead of asking for 2 years of commercial experience, it'd be better to ask for demonstrable proof of experience with the kinds of situations you'd find after 2 years of working commercially.

Knowing how to rebase in git would spring to mind as a useful skill. Or knowing how to run a code review session.

It's an entirely valid point. I know some devs who are 10 years younger than me, and far better in terms of their rails skills.
Eh? Why the downvote? Above is correct - http://perldoc.perl.org/perlpolicy.html#MAINTENANCE-AND-SUPP...
To be honest, the targeted ads look even more like spam to me. I see ads for FreeAgent (a UK online accounting system) everywhere I go, whether to american sites or european ones. The irony is, I'm already a FreeAgent customer. But I think I searched for "Xero" once (one of FreeAgent's competitors) and so somehow now I'm being hounded by the retargeting systems FreeAgent is using.

Untargeted ads would be a bit less... boring...
I have to disagree. Our job board only hosts direct employer vacancies. We don't allow any recruitment agency listings and yet most of the jobs posted on our board have that stipulation in the spec so it's certainly not the fault of agency recruiters (for a change).

it's about time someone started a decent technology literate recruitment agency

There are a few of those floating around London and ultimately they make little to no difference. The main issue I'm highlighting in the post is the fact that the vast majority of people/companies have no idea that stipulating X number of years experience is detrimental for a number of reasons.
The summarization tech isn't owned by Summly. It's owned by SRI International and was licensed to Summly. Maybe a large chunk of the reported $30 million was actually used to acquire that technology from SRI?
I've never heard of Achoo, but the LinkedIn user experience has gone down hill recently. There must be room for competitors.
Also, consider setting

network.http.sendRefererHeader 1

as per discussion from yesterday on cross-domain referrer headers. See [0] for details.

[0] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.sendRefererHeader
http://www.ucas.ac.uk/

Another website which stores passwords in cleartext - just raising awareness.

We have received a reminder request for your login details.

Please use the details exactly as written below to access the UCAS Apply 2013 service:

Password: ThisWasMyClearTextPassword
There is nothing that I can see on Summly's site to suggest that they own their technology. That is, the piece of technology that creates a summary of an article does appear to be licensed from SRI.com
"The facts are that [Firefox users] will get more ads, not less, and those ads will not be tailored to their interests" he said. "They'll see untargeted ads..."

OH THE HORROR!
I think it used to be called 'Towards 2000', I remember it, and then they had to change the name. Great show.
Maybe it's on purpose and it's question #1 of the interview, "what did you think of our recruitment website?"
And that would probably increase their market share..
Very cool. Now we just need a service on top that will filter it out for just the libraries we care about! Will be perfect for staying up to date with all the libraries!
You are right but I had rather they stored the passwords in cleartext than send them over e-mail to the users (because then the e-mail provider has a copy of the password)...

Being able to automatically reproduce them is almost equivalent to storing them in cleartext.
I agree. Who cares about the "solo engineering kid aspect" of this. More impressed about the ability to build a company around this.
...probably, yeah.
This is great but I still cannot get over how horribly bad screen keyboards are - I hate them. I guess I am just old.

Look how hard that person is typing at that keyboard, you'd type three times as much on a real keyboard with that much effort.
What's it for? If you can think of a reason to have it, then you should keep it.
More appropriate example:

Developer A - Works for BigCorporate as a ruby dev, left university 5 years ago

Developer B - Works for the same BigCorporate as a ruby dev, left university 4 years ago

If BigCorporate decided to advertise a new ruby role that specified a minimum of 5 years experience, would Developer B be less capable of fulfilling the role? Technically Developer B is under-qualified as a direct result of their age.
Python shoot itself in the foot by breaking compatibility in version 3 and not even providing automated transition tools (like Go does). Look beyond the propaganda and notice the interval between the launch of Python3 and major libraries being ported to it.
I like ads relevant to the site I'm visiting. I don't like ads that try to connect to something I was doing previously. Those break my concentration, and seem somewhat trollish. E.g. I'm trying to book tickets for a trip, then I need to switch to researching something else and am blocking out the trip from my mind for a bit. It's not helpful to have your own little troll Clippy following you around the internet asking around every corner, "I notice you're trying to get work done, but what about that trip you haven't booked yet?", even when you're visiting sites completely unrelated to travel. Yeah, I know about that trip, I'm just not working on it right now, because I have other things to do, and I don't need to be reminded about it on every goddamn page I visit.

It seems like the explicit purpose of those retargeting ads is to distract me from what I'm currently trying to concentrate on, by reminding me of something I was doing previously. That's not something I want, and in fact I find it quite intrusive.
I think "levelling the playing field" is a very dangerous assumption. You're not levelling the playing field - the person you are thinking about fighting is a criminal. He will have much less restraint in using force than you will, so he'll be at a massive advantage. On top of that, given that robbing people might be his full time occupation, he'll try to be armed better than you are, so you don't put up resistance (he has no interest in being killed or killing you, after all).

So essentially you're triggering an arms race, the results of which can be seen in the US.

The European (or possible "every other developed country") approach is to not even try to fight criminals (again, you have little chance anyway, they are professionals after all) but rely on the police, where the police has such overwhelming force that no reasonable person would try to fight them.

Given crime statistics, the European approach appears to result in a lot less crime and violence.
Yea, and it seems the old URLs of the drawings aren't working anymore :(.
Remember Kiko?
Also free advertising. The BBC had "teenage entrepreneur sells amazing app to yahoo" plastered all over it yesterday.
I suppose Yahoo will have to answer to their shareholders, just not yet. It seems to me that they have invested in the talent and the current customer base. If Yahoo really do make an impact on the mobile news market I'm sure $30m will seem like buttons.

I do agree that many other development teams would have jumped at an acquisition offer of a lot less money but they were either unknown to Yahoo or deemed not suitable for Yahoo.
The one thing that irritates me most about them is they aren't smart enough to STOP.

Say I google "laser pen". Suddenly, I get ads about lasers! Cool!

Then I buy one of these laser pens. The ads have done their job. Lucky them.

But now that I've bought a laser pen, I no longer need to be shown ads for them - I won't buy another one, so for God's sake, stop showing me ads for them! Learn to know when an ad has served its purpose and move on.

I did a search for "injury lawyer" a while ago, I swear it was six months before I stopped seeing ambulance-chaser adverts on every damn website I visited...
"; we will lose the opportunity to monitor and protect our privacy; "

I laughed so hard at this one.

Great move by the Firefox team. It made me donate for their cause.
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Interesting post Steve. Do you know of any examples in which charges have been bought against people doing this? As you say:

"The majority of roles on our site (and pretty much every other IT job board in the UK) have that stipulation somewhere in the job spec."

I'd certainly be interested to read more about any cases in this area if you know of any.
Well sure, if you're going to take it literally, the foundation of the internet has more to do with software and Linux and TCP than advertising.

The fact is though, and I'm surprised to find that I must be the only HN regular who finds himself working in the world of marketing and advertising, that a hell of a lot of the internet and people working on making it better, not just worse, is paid for by advertising money.

The vitriol that's on display from everybody on this thread is, in a big way, as myopic and ignorant and full of self-righteousness as the guy they're calling names (who I agree is all of the above, yes).
When you become your own parody, that's ... success?
Thanks for explaining my comment to me (?)
It's a different feature.

The gist of this new behavior is a change from Allow All Cookies to Allow Cookies Only From Visited Domains. This is unlike Block All Third-Party Cookies option that existed in both Firefox and Chrome in the way that third party cookie is still accepted but only if user ever visited that "third-party" website before.

The behavior may be less strict than Block All Third-Party Cookies option and probably won't make much difference for Facebook or Google's tracking cookies (if you use them). But being the new default option means smaller players going to take a direct hit. Which is good.
> send a unique image ... with a long expiry time

For any given mechanism, if it has different behavior between an ephemeral session and a regular, persistent one, it should trigger the warning bar. Browser caching with distant Expires is definitely one of those. In this case, disallowing the persistence would make all the retrieved resources instead have session-length cache expiry.

Think of the full effect of the warning bar + "Disallow" button as going back and pretending you had opened the page in an Incognito/Private Browsing mode tab from the start--and then making that also happen automatically for any further pages from that domain. It session-isolates caching, cookies, and basically any other form of persistence except explicit bookmarking.
A bit of history of WombatDialer (with furry picture)
Ironically, job adverts for lawyers often specify PQE (Post-Qualified Experience) - I think this is less to do with actual legal requirements for certain roles [although there are some things where this is true] and more to do with the very strong "up or out" culture that exists in many law firms.

http://www.ten-percent.co.uk/what-does-pqe-stand-for-and-how...
So, uhm, people working at Google should die?
"What we have now is the best, because everything gets better all the time. Therefore old technology is not interesting."

Not so sure we do (non-expert here). I suspect certain choices were made in the past, often as a result of hardware limitations, which have now become too hard to change.

The only examples I can come up with right now are music related; midi encoding implies a discrete pitch class system with semitone spacing. Work-rounds are needed for micro-pitches. CD format reflects the limitations of video tape in the early digital recording era.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/44,100_Hz

http://support.ircam.fr/docs/om/om6-manual/co/Microintervals...
When I had formal HR training, I was told to never use the phrase "ability to" in job descriptions... rather we should use the term "experience with".

Anyone can assert that they have the ability to lead, but fewer can demonstrate that they have experience with leading.

I know it sounds silly, but a few words can make a large difference.
Hmmm.

From oxford dic: a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing

Now let us apply the definition.

Particular type of person: experienced person

oversimplified idea: 10 years is a minimum to be experienced

False if you can find 1 person with 9 years who would also be considered an experienced person or if you can find 1 person with 11 years that would not be considered experienced.
Well surely you are in an advantageous position to do something about this?

There are adverts on your website which have these minimum requirements on them [1] - why not match against this criteria and pop up a little warning about the supposed illegality of the situation or "This practice is highly detrimental to ..."

It seems to me like if any company is in a position to start a trend here, yours is a pretty good place to start.

[1] http://www.hackerjobs.co.uk/jobs/2013/3/25/dxi-limited-php-d...