skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could this turn into something interesting if people just started posting fake data into their profiles? Pollute the waters so to speak?

Bonus is that some of your friends and family will wonder if you really did take that expensive trip to Australia.
Now we see the violence inherent in the system... Elp! Elp! I'm being repressed!
More wisdom from the "Talent Management Secrets of Joseph Kony."
You'd need a custom DSL to tell the system how to reproduce the bug; at this point, I'm already bored, and I don't even have a bug to submit.
The preliminary flagging process is done through an automated system that compares your return with others in your income bracket, as well as other characteristics that suggest errors or ommisions. I assume this would be one of many signals that are included. Besides, having your return flagged doesn't mean you will be audited, it just means a human will likely review it and make a determination.

There is no way I could imagine social network posts would be used as the sole or even as a major indicator for an audit. If it was, the audit success rate would be terrible, anyway.
This has been possible for decades in California under a later proposition. People over age 55 (iirc) can transfer their assessment to a property of same or less value within or between participating counties. Not all counties participate but several populous counties do (including Alameda).
The founder/author is a woman. There appears to be confusion with pronouns in most comments here.
Apparently to enlightened members of society like editor John Cook, it's ok to discriminate against white guys.
> "The easy way to get people riled up about taxes? Remove withholding from paychecks and force people to write that big check every April. Then you'll get an uproar since most people have no idea how much in taxes they pay. But that's likely not the point you're trying to make."

This would have the desired effect, but also others. Mostly that the IRS would suddenly have a lot of individuals who owed money to the government but couldn't pay it. I agree with this in principle, but the current system has trained (intentionally, I would argue) people to not think about what they pay in taxes or what it gets used for. Suddenly reverting to a system that demands financial planning and responsibility from individuals isn't workable. It takes time.
> I can see how brutal this approach is, but this way, the number of bugs is kept to a minimum.

Right, this is the problem I see here. Some people will just drop off entirely in this case, which may or may not be what your project wants. And some people give great reproducible steps, even if they aren't already automated: "Run 'rails new foo', then add this controller <code>, then hit the page and you'll see 1 instead of 2." The system would reject that, even though it has instructions to reproduce.
I saw this at CES and it was one of the very few products I saw the entire event that made me say, "I want to invest in this company." I wanted to take one home!

Coverage I helped write: http://www.thinkcomputers.org/finsix-shrinks-laptop-power-br...
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First Look hires white male editor to hire anyone but white male reporters. LOL
In theory it could be a pull request with a failing test.
I understand why Mint stores these usernames and passwords, but this is one of the biggest reasons that we do not at Knox Payments. I remember explaining to investors that yes SSL is safe to transfer the information and yes we could do an excellent job at securely storing them, but god damn you just never know and I don't want that responsibility if we don't need it. Low and behold, SSL itself (well, the common implementation of it at least) was failing us for our entire existence and we (and almost everybody else) didn't know.
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It has been looked at and the figures used might even include tapering. One thing is sure though, even with tapering it is not possible today for a earth space elevator.
Most people's taxes are pretty basic and this is likely the typical audit response. The one thing I would have expected though is we want $63 more plus a $100 fine for making a typo.

One thing that always bugs me, is that if the gov. has enough information to know you owed $63 more dollars they had enough information to tell you exactly what you owed up front and you could have skipped doing taxes and paying turbo tax or whoever in the first place.
I'd say extendable not hackable.
Good they're thinking about the regulatory needs

But I doubt they'll make do without the ferrite core.

The smaller the device is, it usually means more interference being generated, and the higher frequencies make it more complicated.
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It is not. Tax evasion is an actual crime. The IRS using public signals from social media to determine if somebody is cheating on their taxes is not the same as the NSA tracking your GPS location via your cell phone at all times.
Any resource in how made a debugger? This is a step where I can't find a simple explanation (ie: for a self-made language: how make a debugger for it?)
It's a bit pricey, too.
But hasn't CPU speed peaked? Moors law? Meaning that future performance is going to come from concurrency?

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Did they edit this? I don't see that in the link...
> Isn't it true that "liking" a page on Facebook gives the owner of that page information about your profile? It seems like the two calls to action for this article are contradictory.

No more information than what's already public.
I can confirm. Comodo, at least, reissues certs with unchanged "notBefore" dates.
Which Apple patent is this? The Magsafe thing for the end that attaches to the computer?
Seems like a good move. It sends a signal that it's ok for faculty to work in industry. Probably a net benefit to the school, but perhaps may have some unintended consequences of faculty leaving too.

Doesn't CMU also have a campus or program in Silicon Valley?
Thanks for the advice. I think I may need to talk to someone.
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This article isn't about growing plants :-(
IMO, Amazon gets 'DevOps' right. It's mostly just called 'ownership' over in Amazon. (source: I used to work in Amazon as a systems engineer)

You still have specializations - SDE's, systems engineers, DBA's, etc. However, if you write code and it ends up in production, you are responsible for the proper function of that code in production. As a friend of mine put it in terms of developers who don't want to be on-call: 'what, you don't trust the quality of your code?'

DevOps is simply a nicer way of just saying, "own your damn code." The corollary to this is that the organization must help you in getting to that state where you can effectively own your code - this means collaboration (so that you build maintainable systems) and building tools that enable fairly frictionless code ownership.
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Lol I am glad I am not along on that, the suspense is crazy :)
Hackable would be if it was OS IMO like the other Trello clones which are completely OS like tyto being able to host your own and tweak everything to your needs.
It was pointed out already: A firm started by Glenn Greenwald and edited by "John Cook" who I am assuming is as white as snow, putting discriminatory standards as their lead qualifiers.
The John Cook comment at 14 Apr 2014 at 12:34 pm
Nick Manes 14 Apr 2014 at 12:20 pm
Are there particulars attributes or beats you’re looking to fill for as you staff up with reporters?

John Cook 14 Apr 2014 at 12:34 pm
Not white. Not male. Fast. Interested in reporting as a live, iterative process that plays out on the internet as well as one where you go away for six weeks and come back with 4,000 words. Eager to make a name for themselves. Beat-wise, intelligence and national security are obviously important to us at the initial stages, but I’m more interested in good capable people who can apply their skills to all manner of stories than subject-area experts.
Wanted to download playboy album from Facebook and ended up developing WebApp
Charge more.

Your most expensive plan is for a team of 40-100 people. For the sake of simplicity, you are talking about a team that is costing a company a minimum of say $1,200,000 a year (assuming $15/hr FTE's) and you are asking them to pay you $300 a year for a tool they are supposed to use throughout the day.

Why have you built such a low value tool?

Take your prices and multiply by 10 and you are probably at a more correct pricing strategy if you are selling to businesses.
Maybe they want to go down the occulus rift approach, use kickstarter to gauge whether theirs a market, use this buzz as a platform to attract VC, then sell to one of the big players in a few years time?
Google X is about generating good PR for the company.
I see, in the comments. Thanks.
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The link is to a specific comment that the author replies to.

Someone asks:

"Are there particulars attributes or beats you’re looking to fill for as you staff up with reporters?"

and he replies:

"Not white. Not male. Fast. Interested in reporting as a live, iterative process that plays out on the internet as well as one where you go away for six weeks and come back with 4,000 words. Eager to make a name for themselves. Beat-wise, intelligence and national security are obviously important to us at the initial stages, but I’m more interested in good capable people who can apply their skills to all manner of stories than subject-area experts."
This happened in Sweden recently if I recall correctly.
You are condemned to a future of uncertainty anyways. That's the nature of living - you don't know what your income would be in the future, your health, your expenses. You can make some preparations - but you'd never be certain.

If you want the services the city provides, you have to pay for them. They are paid from property taxes. As those raise, so does the rent - after all, you live in the city, so you consume those services, so why don't you have to pay for them? That's your return - getting city services. If you don't like taxes being linked to property value - enact fixed taxes, but then you'd have to rein in city budget costs, including salaries, pensions, benefits, entitlements, etc. Somebody has to pay for all that. If not people living in the city, then who? If you want to stop paying for it, then you need to either stop consuming them, or find some other way to pay - what that would be?
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Illusion of security is worse than being insecure.

I hate seeing a green lock sign next to the url in my browser.
I am amazed Snowden didn't leak anything about root CAs.
> the smell of the air

best described as "an open sewer"
This does not mean what most people are going to interpret it to mean. Here was the question:

"Are there particulars attributes or beats you’re looking to fill"

The way I interpret this is that given that they already hired a lot of white males, they are looking to hire more people who are not white males.

But I'm sure plenty of people will use this mostly white male work place as an example of "reverse racism," somehow...
not sure how using a better switching regulator is "patentable" but then again...

main reason for chargers to be bulky is costs (nobody "cares" when they buy the laptop, they only realize later..), not technology.

other than that it's dearly needed for many.
Galaxy S5′s fingerprint scanner has already been hacked
Another person without domain knowledge nor technical skillset to write the software needed. Maybe the person in question does sales.

But nothing warrants death marches.
Wondering why big project, backed by a real company that makes money don't pay someone to keep gardening?

it could help some student pay the rent and definitely will help the project...
I get what he meant ("we're looking to create a diverse team") but the way he phrased it is just all kinds of wrong.

Keeping a terse style doesn't justify saying silly things which I assume weren't meant literally.
I know this is Hacker News and we love startups, but I think this would have been a better licensing play. It just doesn't seem like its a good business model to try and create all these adapters for old and new laptops. That compatibility list looks really annoying from a consumer standpoint. Its just not something I want to look up every time I'm in the market for a new laptop.
But.. but.. Canada and Mexico use the same socket/voltage, we have to buy the global edition anyway?
obligatory reference to affirmative actions in Undercover Brother.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/an-EJKebbn24hbmtn/undercover_b...
* Subscribe to http://www.hndigest.com/

* Eat healthy.

* Expose yourself to a lot of sunlight.

* Use F.lux and wear blue light blocking safety glasses after sunset to prevent melatonin secretion suppression.

* Meet people at least every other day.

* Get a treadmill and a standing desk ($300 + $300).

* Get a sitting ball ($20).

* Have two monitors connected to your computer so that you can quickly switch between treadmill and sitting ball.

* Always have a notepad and a pen on your desk to be able to quickly postpone thoughts and tasks.

* Never write down TODOs that take less than 3 mintues, do them right away.

* Only do one thing at a time.
Please explain to me how this team of mostly white males is discriminating against white males?

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/staff/
Not only that. It also shows that a project needs to invite help.

A helper who wants to do something like like this does not necessarily need to code a lot (even though it is of course necessary to have basic programming knowledge to triage bugs). But he needs extensive rights in the issue tracker, so that he can tag and close and comment with authority, and the other developers need to respect that work. Something like that won't appear out of thin air, something like that needs a process, the possibility to build up trust, and an invitation.
One of the comments: "I mean we all get you, and I agree with a strong approach to diversity, but that is just wrong."

How does anyone think they're going to achieve diversity without diversity hiring?
Sure but here at HN hiring for diversity is discrimination. Totally makes sense.
From the article (which note is published on the Howard Jarvis Tax Association website): "Howard Jarvis told the story of watching an elderly lady suffering a heart attack while visiting the Los Angeles assessor's office when she couldn't convince the authorities to change her tax bill." Doesn't mention the woman dying, just that she had a heart attack.

Also, the anecdote comes from Howard Jarvis himself. Was he lying to further his agenda? This source casts doubt on his story: http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blog/happy-birthday... - from that source: "White notes that “even though the age of the deceased woman varied as Jarvis repeatedly told this story, the feelings it generated resonated with the public.”" Smells fishy to me...
It is not a spam, I can assure you. I found that article and thought it was interesting just because of the subject of it. I thought the trend of functional programming becoming popular in banks would be interesting to other HN readers, too, that's the only reason I've submitted the link. I'm a programmer, not a recruiter, and I'm not affiliated with Oxford Knights or any other recruitment agency.
Btw do the teams that don't get invited an email at all?
Kids are "little people" only the in the sense that they are immature examples of H. sapiens. Letting them be kids is very good advice precisely because it doesn't suggest we should expect them to be like adults.
Why not write an article about that yourself? :)
Best of luck to the Gnip guys -- they're a great group of people.
It's a fair answer to a fair question. "What would you like to see?" is different from "What are your hiring criteria?"

HN should be filled with outrage at the "discrimination" of job postings demanding 10 years of experience with Go or Rust.
This is pretty contradictory to 1. my motivations as a maintainer, 2. how to solve (imo) the barriers in having people contribute to OSS

1. As a maintainer I want my project to work, if a reporter only wants to give a brief description then I am both happy and have the context in order to read it, attempt to understand it and ask the relevant follow up questions. Ideally someone turns up with a test case and patch and I will make that as easy as I can, but its not a requirement for being able to contribute.

2. I did a questionnaire on what prevents people contributing to open source, by far the biggest barriers I found were things that were solved by asking a quick question to a maintainer, people get stuck on what to fix, or how to set stuff up and they want to ask a person and not a mailing list or a chat room, and certainly not a robot policing their filed bugs
Agreed. In my experience a senior sysadmin can work as a above-passable developer. But a senior developer can rarely function as a sysadmin.

As to DBA; I can't help but feeling that the OP hasn't worked with "real" DBA's. That's a whole different ballpark and I've yet to meet a sysadmin or developer who can make even a passable DBA.

I've always thought the hierarchy goes: DBA -> Ops -> Developers. With the last two really about equals.
I don't know what happened to my comment, but I posted something along these lines.

You are kidding right?

Where would firstlook be without Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden? Affirmative action is great, but this is absolutely ridiculous.

To clarify, there's nothing wrong with having a strong policy to counter-act "normal" discrimination. What is wrong is explicitly discriminating against a group of people, regardless of who they are.

This reminds me of some radical feminist fractions who say most books are not worth reading because they are written by dead, white, males [no citation]. It's absolutely true that white males are unfairly dominating the classics section, but the way to combat this is not to blacklist them. That's a recipe for disaster, and I'm quite certain Simone de Beauvoir would agree with me.

EDIT: Since this will be part of the discussion, it's important to understand what affirmative action is. Here's the definition from Wikipedia: policy of providing special opportunities for, and favoring members of, a disadvantaged group who suffer from discrimination.

It's about positive discrimination of disadvantaged groups, not elimination of advantaged groups.

EDIT 2: This topic has been flagged already, but I'm writing this for future reference. What this seems to imply is that if a new Greenwald or Snowden comes along, they are explicitly not welcome. This is not affirmative action at all, it's just an unreflected usage of it, without understanding the true
meaning or function of affirmative action.

An organization with such an attitude will eventually die. I hope this was just a poorly worded reply from an individual that doesn't reflect how firstlook actually deals with these things.
Can we just agree that evaluating anonymized work samples the way orchestras evaluate blind auditions would make things simpler and easier?

http://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/oct/14/b...
John Cook has a bit of a cowboy/male bravado writing style which I don't think really fits stylistically with First Look/the Intercept but he also did interesting things at Gawker
And if you want to run C++ with someone else, in realtime: https://coderpad.io/
I am left wondering what's novel/patent-worthy about a VHF power converter. It sounds like an incremental improvement on current systems (which typically operate in the 100kHz-1MHz range), and the link in the Kickstarter doesn't have much substance to it. Anyone know what I am missing?
Unless you call "wealthy" anybody who owns 20% of a house, not really.
Re: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7593249 (software to formalize user better-URL recommendations)

An idea along those lines: every item (submission/comment) should have a separate set of children that are 'meta/correction/derailing'. (That is, there's 'reply' and 'reply-meta'.)

Users would have to choose (or earn?) 'showmeta'. (So, no clutter for those who don't want to see that level. But perhaps even people without 'showmeta' see the meta subthreads on their own authored items, and a count of unseen metas-in-reply-to-them.)

Minor editorial nits like typos/headline-improvements/URL-improvements ought to be raised in 'meta' replies... and normal replies can be moved to 'meta' if appropriate, even beyond the normal edit-grace-period - especially if their point become obsolete by parent/admin editorial action.

Perhaps meta-items even have a one-tick way for the parent/admin to acknowledge they've been seen, mark as agreed, or mark as addressed.

All in the spririt of subtle-behind-the-scenes work to keep the "foreground" that most see on-point and high-quality.
Gauss is an obvious counterpoint though, he made important discoveries well into his 70's:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss#Later_years_and_death_.2...

Relevant comic with a list of old scientists: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1833#comic
How secretive is something that Google trots whenever they want some goodwill? I think I've seen an "article" about Google X every six months for the last 3 years.
I totally agree. I spent about 6 hours today trying to sort through federal, state, AND city forms--3 levels of hell, really, with city being the worst. For city, I was denied the ability to e-file after going through a long sign-up process spanning many pages and questions. They asked for my SSN at least 5 times. At the end, with a simple 3-question form, they determined I wasn't eligible to e-file. Maybe they should have put that first.

The rules shouldn't be so convoluted that we have to pay private companies to untangle the mess for us. The government had a choice in the matter; they could have gone with simplicity instead of the Gordion knot. I guess I'm not surprised, since we're forced to deal with their system. We can't vote with our dollars, only votes at the ballot box, and last time I checked, simplifying the tax code wasn't on the agenda.
Thanks! Very clear now.

As for leftlanenews.com, their original content is so heavily focused on car news that I doubt much of it will be good HN content.
For anything that can undergo that kind of acceleration, sure. Unfortunately most of the things we need to send into space kinda get squishy when that happens.
This is what affirmative action is. They are not outright saying NO to white males, they are specifically looking for people who are not white males though, considering they already hired mostly white males. Read the comment he replied to. They did not say that they will not hire white males, because that would be ridiculous, considering that they are already mostly white males.
Since Elm is a system for creating interactive, visual things that run on javascript... the author probably doesn't care about the blind or those who choose not to execute arbitrary code in this case. Why would he? They wouldn't be able to use Elm anyway.
If you lurk on #clojure, Datomic questions seem to pop up more weekly than monthly - so I'd say it's definitely a thing.

Furthermore I am not aware of any involvement of the author in Cognitect, so I assume genuine excitement for Datomic if you think there is any.
What it actually means is subject to much debate.
Wikipedia surprisingly has reasonable coverage of this.

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

See tiered scrutiny.
> Yes but at the same time, your capital isn't trapped in the place that you're living in.

It probably varies by person, but I don't see that the same. If i was paying $2400/mo in rent, then i bought a house for $2400/mo mortgage, the capital in the house is not part of the capital i would have if i had been renting. That would just be gone.
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