skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps highway engineers simply have other methods for achieving these two goals, and don't find it convenient to rely on porosity

In terms of noise reduction, there are other things you can do to the roadway (basically different forms of grinding/milling the surface to create different rolling textures) to reduce noise, but these methods a) only provide minor (a couple dB) reduction in noise and b) can negatively affect surface friction which increases longer stopping distances, etc. Concrete (by which I mean portland-cement concrete) is also problematic in northern climates, which is why you don't see it used extensively in northern states. I'm not a water quality/watershed expert so I won't speak to that.

One solution I have seen to address clogged pores is to use vacuum trucks to suck up the grit, but I've seen enough presentations by highway engineers to know that this is not considered to be a viable long-term solution.
You underestimate the problem.

Look at just chrome for example, which I've posted my rationale for here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6035091

Not a chance in hell.
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consider it in any other situation where a political prisoner who is in hiding

Mr. Correa has pointed to the case of two brothers, William and Roberto Isaias, who ran a bank at the center of a huge Ecuadorean financial scandal in the 1990s. They were convicted in absentia of financial wrongdoing in an Ecuadorean court. They now live in the United States, but repeated requests for extradition have been unsuccessful.

And Venezuela has demanded the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles, a former C.I.A. operative accused here of masterminding the bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people in the 1970s. He escaped from a Venezuelan prison in the 1980s and went to live in the United States.

“The first thing you need to do to have the moral standing to ask for the extradition of this youth Snowden, whose only act is to reveal the crimes that you committed, is to turn over Luis Posada Carriles, who you are protecting,” Mr. Maduro said this month.
Oh! Thanks for pointing that out. That means the numbers are more in line with what I've seen elsewhere. Sorry for the tangent!
Years ago I was doing summer temp work at an office. Myself and a small group of other temps/interns were given several tall stacks of records to alphabetize by title. I shudder to think how long that would have taken if I hadn't convinced everyone to do a meat-space parallel merge sort.
Full Disclosure of Security Vulnerabilities a 'Damned Good Idea'
> So what?

Why don't you ask robomartin that? It was his generic worries about lithium-ion batteries in everything, not simply planes, that I was replying to.

> In short, because it works safely in the small doesn't mean it's easy to implement safely at scale.

And just because one bloated monopolistic behemoth was criminally negligent doesn't mean it's hard to do correctly what they screwed up.
photos aren't terribly relevant now, since you can just google the person's name and find a pic of them in most cases
Ha ha. To be fair, every time you hit reply, somebody dies within 3 seconds.
Interesting read, thanks. I wonder why he suggests two atoms per bit? Seems wasteful?
I wasn't talking about 'people', I was talking about men. That's important because the benefits to be achieved are not for society, but rather for the men making the decisions, and the outcome isn't just single-sex workplaces, it's single-sex professions.
Note comment above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6033418
Since there were only 5 comments, I was hoping to get in before my fellow white people began the search for every possible explanation other than the obvious one. Alas, no.

Her experience is exactly in line with previous studies on this. E.g.:

http://www.nber.org/digest/sep03/w9873.html

And plenty of other people have stories like this to tell. For example, this white guy with a gender-ambiguous name who suddenly got a lot more attention when he added "Mr" to his resume:

http://qz.com/103453/i-understood-gender-discrimination-afte...

And it's not just resumes. Bias also happens in real-world auditions:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/A94/90/73G00/

The truth is that most of us are unconsciously biased against and for all sorts of people. I sure am. I didn't used to admit that, even to myself, but then I took some of the Project Implicit tests:

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

The question isn't whether white people have some sort of in-group bias. People have all sorts of in-group biases, and white people are people.

The question is what we do about them. More specifically, the question for you is what you, as a human, are doing about your biases. And the question for me is what I'm doing about mine.
So if you burn your hand on a stove element, do you keep your hand there until you've derived a theory of how the element might be burning it from first principles, all the while chanting your mantra?
I think we missed the key point that he implied he was a women with kids.

Some set of hiring managers assumed a mother with kids would likely focus more on family then career. That assumption may or may not be dumb. It's certainly correctable if there is serious statistical evidence it is wrong (unlike someone just being a bigot).

That wouldn't help this case though, because the inclusion of kids in the resume was an intentional signal that mangers were meant to interpret as such. Since the applicants gender was misread, the signal was read as they wanted flexible hours, not that they were stable. Sure, dad's could ask for flexible hours, but that is on the whole a less frequent occurrence.

This is an even stronger single because asking if I have kids in an interview is in fact not legal in most places in the US, so including it your self is making a huge point.

Oh, there's also the fact that if you did interview them and not hire, the fact that it was in their resume might give the grounds for sueing you for gender discrimination.
In the sciences, almost everyone - domestic or international is paid a stipend. It's more accurate to think of PhDs are paid researchers rather than students. Taking classes is not the point of doing a PhD so it's not education in the sense that doing a Bachelors or Masters is education

For Masters, everyone pays tuition - unless one can find a research assistanship where the professor is willing to fund part or all of the cost, scholarship, etc.
> Why is it inconsistent?

Because it isn't internally consistent.

> It's consistent with techno-anarchy: scarcity is a solved problem.

You seem to think that I was using "inconsistent" to mean "inconsistent with some external expectations" or "inconsistent with my expectations of what is plausible", but I was referring to internal consistency, not consistency with external expectations.

> Without finite resources there is no longer any point to capitalism, a system which allocates finite resources.

Neither the absence of finite resources nor the absence of capitalism are consistent features of the economy in Star Trek.

> So people are left to live life how ever they see fit.

This is rather emphatically not a consistent feature of the economy of Star Trek.
It's not just Bing.

"DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of "about 50" sources, including Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wikipedia, Wolfram Alpha, Bing, its own Web crawler, the DuckDuckBot, and others."[1]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duckduckgo#Features
Very misleading. In fact, the author of this study is a behavioral neurologist, hence studying human behavior relating to diet drinks rather than diet drinks themselves. Drink as much diet soda as you like, if the rest of your diet is healthy then you're fine. This article is just typical fear-mongering against artificial sweeteners, I'm surprised it got up voted here.
The NoScript man is used to this and his fitted tinfoil hat. If he's more lenient he uses Ghostery to block all 3rd party addons and various cookie blockers to keep out the cruft, but keeps the actual site unperturbed.
It's not possible to build the app you're proposing for the iPhone.
You do realize that HR doesn't actually hire people (except for HR roles of course), department managers make the hiring decisions. HR is there to support the process.
Wow, I'd say that was terrible. 16 years and one crash for me I don't consider myself better than average at all.
>"The students are resilient"

translation: These are the TA's we can afford.
compile-time metaprogramming is far more tractable, yes.
Perhaps the recruiters have some negative real-life information that discounts your actual profile but no such negative information against your fake one. Your evidence doesn't show sex discrimination.
Route53 can do a lot of that localization redirection for you, though not exactly at the geoip level. Other localization redirects can easy be done from JS.
The other caveat is that, although a number of bigger companies have gotten on board the anti-troll train lately (particular props to Newegg and Rackspace), the most popular of services from the largest of companies already have substantial legal teams. They run a higher risk (e.g. Amazon losing sales) for a problem they have already "solved" for themselves, albeit with an equally-expensive solution of a legal team.
This has been studied more formally as well, here is one paper from 2004: http://scholar.harvard.edu/mullainathan/files/emilygreg.pdf

They found only a 50% increase in call-backs for "white sounding" names, still I think this story is quite credible.
I understand discrimination is real and I wasn't implying otherwise. But I also worked in the past for a monster competitor and I can say that at least at the company I worked for "new" candidates were promoted much more than existing candidates.

Hiring managers would much rather see an email titled "20 new candidates for your XYZ position!" than "20 people who haven't updated their profile in 2 years for your XYZ position".

Creating two profiles at the same time would eliminate this issue, although employers might then wonder why 2 candidates have the exact same profiles...
I strongly disagree. Not everybody knows that racism exists, and not everybody agrees that it is a significant barrier to hiring.

Further, it is not a solved problem, so it is well worth talking about it so we can solve it. Even if you don't believe that it should be solved as a societal problem (I do), this is a sign to hiring managers that they can do especially well by looking for the sorts of people that many companies tend to miss.
Right: it's my fault for not learning Mandarin to take calculus.

And by the same logic, it's my fault for not figuring out how to cheat on all my exams.

Schools are for learning, not hazing. This kind of neglect can't be excused as some kafka-esque "character building" exercise.
You've now contaminated your experimental results.
>It's "shallowly interesting" because it doesn't teach us anything except "some companies are racist sometimes", which everyone already knows.

I think you got it wrong. It doesn't have to teach you anything new. It's not here to amuse you. It's here to enrage you and get you to do something about it.

Now, if you are white, you might not find it amusing or interesting at all. But if you are black, you can see into it something that fucks you chances, and that's not funny at all, even if it's not novel or "everyone already knows".

>That hasn't been new information since, well, ever. Even if you went back to 1900, everyone would already know this, it's just that most people would agree with it, instead of objecting like modern-day people would.

Yes, and in 2050 they might say:

"Even if you went back to 2013, everyone would already know this, it's just that most people would not care, because it was not novel or interesting, instead of getting enraged and trying to fix this as a modern-day people would."

I mean, to me it's not very unlike reading about lynchings in 1910, and saying: "Well, OK, this is not news, such things happen for two centuries. Next news item please".
Diet soda isn't mean to help weight loss.. it's meant to decrease weight gain compared to non diet. Common sense.. or maybe not so much.
The project to do this (Electrolysis) turned out to be a lot more effort than I think people anticipated, and was paused for a while last year to allow some other changes to happen. It resumed this year, and you can follow development from https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis which includes links to meeting notes and the experimental branch if you want to try it out.
Correlation is correlated with causation. Which makes it worth paying attention to.
Well, standard cell ASIC vs. full custom ASIC is a rather pedantic distinction IMHO :)

By the way, someone has already developped a full custom ASIC for Bitcoin mining: http://3.14.by/en/read/bitfury-bitcoin-mining-chip
http://xkcd.com/552/

See the mouseover text.
Google unveils futuristic new NASA Campus
Thanks! I actually use google apps for domains, so it shows the company domain. But I definitely need a more robust e-mail campaign service as I always seem to be hitting the limits.
Or the resume wasn't thrown out by the HR person. It was passed along to the department hiring manager, which is what actually happens 100% of the times where the resume fits the job description, and it was the department hiring manager who then threw it out.

But I can see your point, let's just assume it was the HR person that threw out the resume. And since we're in assumption land, let's assume the HR person was a woman.
You should check out the personalized medicine research being performed by MetaMed-http://www.metamed.com/missionoverview. They've got a team of computer scientists, mathematicians, and biomedical researchers that sort through this kind of problem for patients and physicians.
Jailbreakers didn't have to wait for a mod to fix this; there's an existing free tool that bypasses common types of jailbreak checks (xCon), and it worked for this.
A barebones, 1992 quality, text edit field, with some formatting thrown in.

Nothing like a "rich text editing widget".
Shameless plug for Google Web Toolkit. Since core design principle is dynamic site generation client side from permutations (i.e. locales and languages) created at compile time, you can deploy the entire thing as static files to S3. That's what I do :)

The only trick is to leave a foo XHR response in your R53 failover so that a running instance of your app can realize the server is tits up and degrade gracefully. For even better caching throw in webapp manifest files too!
Click the heart image in the top right corner of a page and switch to "Teen Girl Mode."
Yes exactly and this is why we need to read these kind of things. It seems one of the more challenging aspects of racism today is that is so subtle that most people with racial bias are not even really aware of it themselves.
Ask HN: What do you guys *most* need in a simple HR system for startups? 
I have been thinking on tools I may need once I go live with a startup. I believe some of the HR pain points for SMBs are:
- Manage Time off requests
- Travel expenses requests
- Employee directory/profile & Agenda
- Performance Reviews<p>This is something I see all the time on spreadsheets and documents.<p>1. Any other HR use cases you have in mind ?
2. Do you know any SaaS that does it aside of doing it in spreadsheets ?<p>Thanks
> countries run by South American dictators

"Nearly all Latin American elections now are free and fair"
http://www.economist.com/node/16964145
I'm assuming you mean "better" from a user standpoint, so that's what my comment will address. YouTube is a great site for sharing videos, but there are still some barriers to upload. Forcing you to create account (and now all of this "real name" stuff that Google keeps trying to push) or log in is not an insignificant barrier to uploading.

Imagine a site where the focus was purely on sharing videos as effortlessly as possible. Basically, an imgur for videos. No login or account signup necessary. Drag and drop uploading. Simple user interface. YouTube has the market cornered for videos you want to share with a lot of people, but for a quick-and-dirty project video you just want to share with some friends, or something silly you may not necessarily want associated with an account that you post more serious videos on, there is definitely room for an alternative.
I was afraid of some kind of technical restriction that would get in the way.

What would be a simple, $300-to-code alternative way to schedule the phone's ringer, preferably based on existing calendar appointments?

Otherwise I'd have to nix that platform & lessen the price of the job by $300.
Well, dismissing her experience based on a "freshness rating" hypothesis wouldn't be justified, but she does say that she had "used [Monster] in the past and...been successful in obtaining jobs through it."
Interesting, but I'd like to see a more rigorous experimental methodology.
The code injected into every page could be for some interaction with Amazon affiliates code...
And a lot of contractors in the UK refer to agents as "pimps"
On DDG you can add !g to the start or end of a query and it will do the search on Google.
There's a lot of outrage about this -- a lot of frustrated consumers.

I think its naive to assume that Square-Enix didn't have data that said "Money lost to pirates > Money to be gained from legitimate purchasers on jailbroken devices."

That being said, pirates always seem to win the DRM-escalation arms race -- and the PR blowback from this will probably outweigh the extra purchases they snag.
> A unified bar in FF would make it the perfect browser.

The thing is there are people like me who prefer a separate search bar. I don't want google search results showing up when I'm just trying to look through my history or bookmarks.

It also is a privacy issue -- if the URL bar tries to autocomplete search results, then it necessarily sends every URL you type to google/etc.
Sure, but the purpose of HN is specifically to teach people things, and not to create rage. The site guidelines make that pretty clear.

Also, is our problem really that people don't get outraged enough about race? We've had a number of days-long, city-wide street riots about race. That's an awful lot of rage we have already.
And even the mean, if I am not mistaken, can be totally misleading. E.g you get a room with 51 millionaires and 49 homeless people. The mean value would be millions, but it's not exactly representative.
I see! All security apparatuses exist to serve security interests of their states, except KGB, which is the devils manifestation organization, dedicated purely to bringing suffering to mankind and killing kittens. If you know anyone who has touched KGB, you're probably already dead from polonium poisoning.
Does non-use mean they are safe? Or does that depend on whether they are charged or not?
First, what is the tool? (This is an honest question.)

Second, my complaint wasn't that it had no data, my complaint was that it was essentially just data, and that this data was much noisier than some good, widely available data. Wrapping crappy data in an engaging story that stick in the mind of the reader, when better data exists, is doing the reader a disservice.
>There is no reason to believe that someone who goes through the Federal civilian criminal justice system will be inevitably subject to torture.

Who will deny that the threat of prison rape is understood by most of us?
That's really very interesting, and quite concerning. I saw that talk was only presented in May. Any new info since then?
"only" a 50% increase?
> "It's here to enrage you"

HN submissions are supposed to "gratif[y] one's intellectual curiosity".
1/3 of Kenyans use M-Pesa, a mobile money transferring platform. M-Pesa recently added support for bitcoin. So while 1/3 of Kenyans have a bitcoin wallet, most of them may not even be aware of this fact.
I wonder why this was downvoted? It's presented as a factual anecdote about a real experience. I can only imagine 2 reasons to downvote this:

1.) You have evidence that burntsushi is lying and that the story is untrue.

2.) You don't want what burntsushi is saying to be true (you disagree with the lifestyle choices of burntsushi's friends).

Do we really downvote people for #2 on Hacker News? Or is their proof for #1?
Well... all engineering is simply "implementations based on choices and decisions made by an individual or a team"... What do you think inventions should be, if not that?

At least your take on it is more in tune with reality than the common misconception that patents cover "abstract ideas". The law views abstraction differently than we do(and really, even the Supreme Court doesn't know how to define it other than "we know it when we see it."

However, I'd like to know: what exactly is it that you think this patent covers, and what about it do you find "unbelieveable"? Not that this is a stellar patent, but from most of the comments on this thread, it is amply clear most here don't know how patents work.
I want to see results of an experiment like this done in the UK for a standard call centre/restaurant/shop/etc. kind of job. All those places have Equal Opportunities Policies, which some say, means they will prioritise anybody over healthy, straight, white, British, non-religious males.

I want to know if it's true.
>Four months ago (sometime in January, 2013) I started building my first real SaaS business. Rakasheets was a realtime, cloud based inventory management app that had a ton of great benefits. Or so I thought. At the time I was starry eyed, dreaming of a future of fat bank accounts. Rakasheets was my ticket to success! The tool that would make my dreams come true.

Or you kidding me? He wrote that "fourth months" after starting building his first business? And it was a failure because it hadn't made him rich in 4 months? Talk about perserverance...
If we're using strictly logic jargon, the statement "correlation does not imply causation" is true.

If we're using the normal English definition of "imply," then the statement is very often false.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_cau...

The counter assumption, that correlation proves causation, is considered a questionable cause logical fallacy in that two events occurring together are taken to have a cause-and-effect relationship.

This fallacy is also known as cum hoc ergo propter hoc, Latin for "with this, therefore because of this", and "false cause".

A similar fallacy, that an event that follows another was necessarily a consequence of the first event, is sometimes described as post hoc ergo propter hoc (Latin for "after this, therefore because of this").
This may come as a shock to you, but women are not cars.
Maybe it would be better if the women stayed home and did whatever it is that they do there?

Unfortunately, the economy over the last 40 years has demonstrated that that option is sub-optimal.

Or did you mean by "time under the PC microscope" and "garden variety politically incorrectness" that you are ok if other people are uncomfortable, as long as you aren't?
Think Cloud means Elasticity? You're doing it wrong
Not sure why this user gets downvoted, while the parent comment gets upvoted. Maybe this related to the belief of meritocracy that many have in Silicon Valley.
There are plenty of gems in her work. Here goes the last hour of work...

http://jessicahische.is/rememberingherlisafranktrapperkeeper

http://jessicahische.is/anaaaaarrrrrrrrtist

http://jessicahische.is/illustratingpenguinsinbathingsuits

http://jessicahische.is/eatingcornflakesforbreakfast