skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anybody at all on HN think that pulling credit reports on candidates is a reasonable thing for hiring firms to do, outside of a very few roles and an even smaller set of companies (trading exchanges, for instance) with genuine and easily documented concerns about embezzlement or susceptibility to bribery? My point being: no, I don't think anyone here thinks widespread credit report pulling is reasonable.

Was anyone on HN unaware of the fact that some companies do request authorization to pull credit reports during the hiring process? I'd be surprised, but maybe there are.

Obviously, my subtext is: what is this post doing on HN?
I'm confused by this. Both the algorithms mentioned seem to give the wrong result when N is a power of 2.

For example, N=4. Set all the lower bits to 1, giving 7. Increment, giving 8, return 8. But the power of two no less than 4 is 4.

Am I missing something?

Also, the alleged faster solution is only faster for larger numbers (on a log scale). Sure, there are more of them, but what if your function is called more often for small numbers than large ones?
Well, Desktop on Linux has been shitty in the last 10 years, and it will be for the next 10 years, exactly because an attitude like that. 10 years ago, after faffing around for several years with Linux desktop environments, I simply decided to move on to OSX, and have been happy since then.

Downvote me as much as you want, but some developers will never learn how malicious their attitude is to all of the OSS community.
I tried something like that once. HNers were not fans of novilty accounts, even a useful one that added content like yours would.

Though, I'd be in favor of you trying and seeing the result. My test was limited and short lived so it may not be indicative of the full community.
Why does it matter that they're girls?

How would you respond if the headline were "East Palo Alto (minority group here) create app to clean up graffiti, trash"?

This is sexism, pure and simple.
Shoot, I should've waited a little before posting (it was just posted to r/scheme by the author, didn't realize it was so fresh).
Totally, I discussed this a bit in the article but probably should have stressed it more.

Nicole Sullivan (OOCSS creator) refers to this principle as "separating content from container".
Storing personally identifiable data about people is covered and controlled by EU Data Protection law. Broadly, you have to have a legitimate, legal, proportional reason for storing personal data on people. You probably need their consent.
> Obviously, my subtext is: what is this post doing on HN?

A large part of HN is about finding (or creating) employment.
So we'll just ignore that one gear in the box and the several that make up the open differential?
We've (very recently... in my lifetime) created a society in the US where it can be almost impossible to distance yourself from early mistakes. Or in the case of the guy here, something that isn't even a mistake you made really but a failing of our horrendous health care situation.

While there are sometimes systems in place to deal with this (eg. the 7 year window after which most things fall off credit reports), there's a nasty feedback loop that can't really be accounted for with statutes of limitations. "Ok, you don't have a $40,000 charged off medical bill due anymore, but why weren't you working for the past 7 years?"

It isn't just with credit either, I commented on something semi-related about a month ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5433720. While there are positive aspects to this permanence in some cases, there's a lot of negative too.
> you mention "epoll, signalfd, timerfd"

It wasn't me who mentioned it.
Damn!!, That is really cool. Now I want to spend next week drawing pictures on the computer. There is a special place in the next realm for folks who bring math to life for us simple folks.
Fantastic. Really nice to see students building things with an eye toward actual use.
Relevant: http://www.deceptology.com/2013/03/how-deception-gave-ball-p...
Shhh, you're not allowed to ask that.
Please don't hesitate. I am serious and I like talking to customers. Reactivating someone who already decided to trial or subscribe to a product is a fun sale.
What is the most optimal method to use instead of tables?

[Edit] Added to my original post.
Geoengineering: the progress of an experimental ocean restoration project
I think you're getting your terminology mixed up: the bash man page calls what you described command substitution. Launching a subshell is something different and in bash it is done with parenthesis.
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Good point. I think you would have to choose the number of depots carefully though.

If you only have a single very famous depot then you can perhaps count on it being remembered in legend, particularly if it is somewhere very unique (the south pole perhaps). More depots increase redundancy but could perhaps reduce the "interesting" factor. After a certain point though you could probably have enough depots that, since they are all over the place and constantly being discovered, they would stay in the minds of humanity.
Yes, American cities. Covering places with car parks usually only happen outside cities in Europe. In cities we have car park buildings or underground facilities, which are a lot harder to place. Do you drive around London, Paris or Berlin and see tonnes of car parks? No, you'd probably be bothered by the fact that there are too few!

Also, I think that of all the SimCity 5 problems (does this even count as one), I think this one bothers me the least. In fact, it doesn't at all. I wasn't expecting SimCity 5 to be a perfect simulation of cities, it's a game, it's an abstraction.

Geez, this article makes it sound like we should be bothered about this. I've also seen articles that says we should be bothered about the inflated population numbers, because they don't actually match the number of agents. What.
It really depends on what you are trying to do, I don't really know how to answer the question, it is too broad.

But like I said, I don't think tables are 'bad'. I think the main stigma against tables was that back in the old days they were used to layout pages that had column layouts, but I didn't program back then so I don't really know.
Before 1918, a lot of the flu pandemics were of equine origin, now thought to be extinct. The 1918 was avian and people did not have any prior immunity. All pandemics since have been a mutant of the 1918. A universal vaccine will be great since we don't know when something like bat flu will become a problem.

Compared to the exponential growth of say ecoli bacteria, any of the current egg solutions are vastly inferior for production speed and expense. This is especially important for poorer countries, aid, and health initiatives.

The secondary infection I am talking about was due to common respiratory flora.

See: http://www.nih.gov/news/health/aug2008/niaid-19.htm

or from wiki:
"One of the most striking of the complications was hemorrhage from mucous membranes, especially from the nose, stomach, and intestine. Bleeding from the ears and petechial hemorrhages in the skin also occurred."[30] The majority of deaths were from bacterial pneumonia, a secondary infection caused by influenza, but the virus also killed people directly, causing massive hemorrhages and edema in the lung.
A great idea. I absolutely despise graffiti, if this were expanded to other cities I would be sure to use this.
Windows 1.0 and the Applications of Tomorrow, by Charles Petzold (2005)
Or to increase the supply of something you aren't willing to pay market rate for.
> My fish are dead.

Everyone's fish are dead, but they keep going by pretending that they're still alive. The trick is to learn that the pretense isn't crucial to the fabrication of positive feelings. You can fabricate them out of nothing but memories of playing with your plastic horse as a child, if that's all you've got.
The best point in this article is that you need to take your CSS seriously and treat it as an equal to any other piece of code. A common practice in companies is to rigorously code review application code while basically giving CSS a pass.

Obviously your CSS might be less important than core business logic, but just ignoring any sort of practices will make developing new features take longer and less efficiently. It will also come back to haunt you at some point.

A key metric of any company is how fast you can develop new features while keeping quality, consistency and reliability. Following good CSS practices will only help out that cause.
He wrote the intro to the republished edition of The Brass Check believe it or not.

(But to address your other point, it may be. Chomsky's media criticism focusing heavily on this)
I find the way ZSH does completions for git kind of frustrating. It's a bit overzealous and so when you try to complete a remote branch lie:

"git co br<tab>"

It finishes with:

"git co origin/branch"

Whereas what I want is:

"git co branch"

because I have git set up to automatically create a local branch and set it up to push to the remote when I do that. Just a small annoyance. Overall I find ZSH has cool features that don't actually work that well, or at least they don't do all that much for me. Spell checking, for example, is rarely that useful since it tends to show up for commands that work fine. It really needs an option to say "never correct this" but it doesn't.

That said I still use it, don't see any reason not too. I mean, Powerline for ZSH looks gooood. Just not sure it's that much better than other shells.
Don't say "a functional language" when you mean "a member of the ML family, like OCaml or Haskell."
It helps to talk about it.

Even if we all agree the practice is malodorous, without public discussion of it, we are apt as individuals to concede to it as we believe we have no alternatives.

It's similar to the puzzle interviews which are controversial and many people here dislike. By talking about it, by raising it and discussing again and again their negatives, it helps raise awareness of strategies on how to avoid them, what to do when one is encountered, and can even raise awareness in people that do like them as to why they are problematic and encourage them to find alternatives within their company.

FWIW, I think credit pulls are obnoxious, and even so, yes, I have been asked to consent to them as well as background checks for jobs which should not need them at any time.

And it's Saturday.
class Color(Enum):
red, green, blue, *_ = range(2**128)

red_alias = red

Does that create a list of size 2^128-3 = 340282366920938463463374607431768211453 and assign it to Color._?
He uses mechanism that is inherent in GIF specification and can be used for animation, more than 256 color images or images that do not store image data for empty areas (or any combination). GIF stores sequence of rectangular blocks of image data each with its specified position in resulting image, own palette and optional delay before start of drawing (for animation). Browsers tend to assume that GIFs with multiple blocks with zero delay between them are broken animated GIFs (and enforce some minimum delay), because such files do exist and are certainly more common than GIFs with holes or large numbers of colors.
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"Facts are stubborn things", and I was quoting facts, not "studies" in the sense of the word as we've been using it. E.g. the fatality data comes from the CDC, and the sources are, per http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars/fatal/help/faq.htm#Where:

"Where does WISQARS get its data?

"Death data come from a national mortality database compiled by CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. This database contains information from death certificates filed in state vital-statistics offices and includes causes of death reported by attending physicians, medical examiners, and coroners. It also includes demographic information about decedents reported by funeral directors, who obtain that information from family members and other informants. Population data come from the Bureau of the Census. These data are based on information gathered in censuses and on estimation procedures conducted in non-census years."

Similarly, it is a hard fact, based on legislation enacted, that shall issue concealed carry has swept the nation 1987 (Florida) to 2011 (Wisconsin and Iowa).

That you dismiss these as "studies" is about as disturbing as you dismissing the rule of law, which after all is the only thing that stands between you and the barbarians....
Thanks for this link. I found the article to be fascinating (albeit the math got a bit over my head). I was particularly interested in the "The Bull" series by Picasso pictured mid-way through. I ducked around a bit, and found an interesting write up on the back story of these sketches. Check it out: http://drawingdownthevision.com/the-bull-how-picasso-practic...
Could please explain the difference between Sparkleshare and unison to me? They seem to be pretty similar.
In some states, like CA I believe, this might be in your contract, but if you live within the right constraints (e.g. use your own equipment, on your own time, away from your employers facilities, not competing with the employer), then your work is is your own. Of course you should verify with a lawyer if you're really going to pursue anything serious or if your side hobby suddenly promises to become profitable..

Nitpick PS: I think you meant "bide"
D'oh, sorry for the mixup. You were completely supporting that user so I didn't realize you were different people.

My comment remains essentially unchanged, though, with the same question as before:

What's this great portable API you're referring to?
one thing he should do: shut up
There's nothing wrong at all with using tables when your content is tabular data. The problem is mostly an historical one, dating to before the widespread adoption of CSS: Tables were once the only reliable way to get any sort of layout structure on a page, and so were hacked to accommodate all sorts of layouts through clever use of colspans and rowspans. This was terribly inefficient, but before we had positionable divs, they were the only game in town.
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Pretty convincing
He said it was a few weeks ago. Maybe he finished his work before posting this to HN.
Maybe because there is a lack of girls in engineering due to many reasons, including sexism?
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The same goes for most skills though. I mean programming nicely grips and intertwines with a lot of fields, but recognizing some problem with your guitars bridge and fixing it using your engineering skills is also very much value added work. If you follow this thought that skills multiply with each other in their overall output, you'll arrive at the idea of the renessaince man, one who knows everything well.
The back button didn't keep my text.

My original comment was only about hjkl vs motions: I didn't bring arrows in the discussion, the parent did. Also my claim was:

> hjkl are almost worthless compared to other means of navigation

and I stand by it. I didn't write "hjkl are useless" or advocate the use of arrows vs hjkl, IIRC.

hjkl are better than the arrows for short range movements but those short range movements (1-3 cols, 1-3 lines) make up such a small part of the movements we actually do all day long that focusing on hjkl is just absurd.

All the hjkl advocacy can be reduced to "Do whatever you'd do with arrows but with hjkl because it helps you save all those right hand movements… and home row." But char-by-car and line-by-line movement is just as slow and bad with hjkl as it is with arrows.

Saving a few slight translations of the right hand is so worthless compared to the thousands of hjkl or arrows you save with bBwWeEfFtT/?{}() and friends… unless we try to save our wrists but why make productivity claims, then?
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I wonder what next years clean up trash app will bring us.
Very nice explanation, except you are forgetting WinRT is actually an extension of COM.

This means each increment/decrement is a virtual method call with the corresponding invocation costs.

This is why the .NET runtime caches the WinRT objects, and even re-uses them instead of making a 1:1 use like C++/CX does.
Since it's not so easy to take it down to the shop to check it out, that's probably the only way they can find out what went wrong with it.
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Of course it isn't constructive. I'm just bitter that I've debated spending $500+ of my personal money for logos of my open source projects that do something genuinely original so that I can perhaps get above 100 stars on GitHub, while a scaffolding script (probably) got one for free and appears on the front page of Hacker News weekly. So yes, not constructive at all; this is plain old jealously.
Finishing things impossible. When do you know it's finished? When it's dead? It's not bad to start something and table it. The amount of time "that thing" comes back to you is probably the best filter for you get it moving. If it does not come back to you, it probably means it's not important to you, or not important to anyone else.
Just use pattern recognition to spend the right amount of time on the right idea.
Literally two lines into the article:

EPA Chica Squad places high in a global mobile-app
competition

Fourth paragraph:

Self-dubbed the "EPA Chica Squad," (...)
When I click the link, Norton is telling me that it's blocked an attack by "Web Attack: Fake Like Count Spam", FYI. Curiously, this is happening even when NoScript appears to be blocking scripts on the page.
I was actually responding just to the issue of predicting costs, not to the upthread issue of whether or not a free market is a good idea.

Predicting costs is a benefit regardless of whether or not we have a free market -- I was saying that nothing is completely unpredictable; estimating based on the average value of a treatment gets you much further than knowing nothing at all.

Claiming costs are inherently unpredictable is equivalent to calling B.S. on this report -- that the values in the report are meaningless. Clearly, they're quite meaningfull.

I never claimed estimation = "problem solved", I just said that it's a step forward that needs to happen. But you came along and just dismissed the idea because it wasn't a solution.

And my reply, which you thought was ignoring your comment, was that a step forward doesn't have to be a solution -- you can't just dismiss it because it doesn't stamp "Problem solved" on the bottom of the page.

Unless you or others are claiming that being given an estimate of costs HURTS anyone, I don't see how you can argue it's a bad idea. "Problem not solved" never solved any problem.
> Does anybody at all on HN think that pulling credit reports on candidates is a reasonable thing for hiring firms to do

That's not the pertinent question. Since it's already happening, the trend can only be reversed through confrontation, and confrontation only happens if people think that pulling credit reports is an unreasonable thing to do (as opposed to not having an opinion on the practice). Otherwise people are inclined to say nothing if it so happens that they have the ear of someone responsible for making the decision (or are such a person).

The default position propagates the bad practice, making it vitally important to force people to choose one side or the other before they unwittingly endorse the status quo.
No. Correlation is not causation.

1. There's no discussion of potential influencing variables and other inputs, like private tutoring and income that could affect scores. Also, note the sample: "The sample included 253 males and 67 females; 78% were Caucasian, 20% were Asian, and 2% were of other ethnicities." Why bother to add anything but white male at all?

2. since when do we take SAT at 13 Y/O?
3. Is the 1980's SAT even remotely similar to 2013? If not, so what?
4. "Top of their field" n=260 means we get sub samples of different industries around n= 3 to 16 or so (on graph). Please do 1 industry with n=31, and I might pay attention to a correlation.
5. Can we see the model output? Are the results significant, and the model sound?

Based on the data, it would seem more likely that the influence on successes here is more likely that the individual is MALE and WHITE and NOT SAT score. I'm not sure I understand what this model is getting at except trying to suggest other than how to achieve material "success" through SAT SCORES??!!

Read this one instead: http://www.businessinsider.com/grant-study-reveals-what-make...
I wonder if this is going to make it to OSX at some point, given the commonality between OSX and FreeBSD?
Works fine for me with that exact hardware and Chrome.
The quasi-Baptist Church http://www.highway.org has been heavily involved with the sponsoring institution Bayshore Christian Ministries in the past and I believe they still are. Along with other efforts such as the wells-for-African-villages they run out of the Red Rock Coffee Shop they own in Mountain View, this makes Highway a pretty interesting place.
That's strange, works fine on Chrome/4.2/Nexus 4. Could you define 'fails'?
Businesses don't use IQ tests in general because the tests have a racial bias.

Considering that income and debt to income ratio are racially skewed as well, wouldn't credit reports display the same bias, and require that companies prove that there is a legitimate business case in order to use them?
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Interesting article that summarizes quite well the criticism aimed at CSS you come across periodically on the web.

The way CSS is written amongst the web developers and designers depends on whether you have easy access to the HTML or not.

If I work on a Tumblr or WordPress theme, I can strip down my HTML structure to the minimal and work my way around with context selectors (for example having global styles for my .post-title, and add specific adjustments for #sidebar .post-title or #single .post-title).

But if I need to send HTML/CSS templates to a client's developers, I will need to turn my components into reusable and independent objects (like in a Bootstrap file), that will carry their style while being moved around to prevent them from being altered by the context in which they end up. I would also increase the density of my HTML to cover for all the possible cases, and give the developers some flexibility.

As a front-end developer only working on HTML and CSS, keeping content and style completely seperate is the goal I aim for everytime I start a new project. But maintaining such a division is hard when working with developers because they generally don't touch the CSS at all. So I need to provide styling directly into the HTML because that's what developers generate and have their hands on. I don't blame the working process for making me write a different kind of CSS. It's just how it has to be done. Neither type of CSS is better than the other: they are just suited for 2 different situations.

And that's why I don't believe there is a perfect way to write CSS. There are useful tricks and smart shortcuts but, although having been a dedicated front-ender for 4 years with no programming skills, I don't think CSS is meant to be discussed too thoroughly.
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Part of the problem is the internet has taken a lot of the money out of local news. They don't check things because they don't have time. Where I live all the local papers, which were going bankrupt, were bought by a conglomerate and 90% of the staff was laid off. They're more like stenographers than reporters, and it's not their fault, either. They simply do not have the time to do anything buy bounce from one story to the next, getting the facts mostly right. Nothing that's the slightest bit complex or subtle gets the treatment it would have a decade ago.
No, it is an hack.

Just read this document.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/Object...

You need to write code with lots of special cases to be able to have ARC active and not fall into strange compiler errors.