skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microwave ovens can and often do leak quite a bit of radiation during operation. If you want proof, set up your wireless router near the microwave, turn the microwave on and watch as your wireless signal just vanishes.
Are you kidding me? This is a very common requirement and one of the reasons larger institutions are building out their own clouds. It's not a requirement for everyone of course, but it's certainly a common theme.
The thing is that when you're looking at job candidates, you typically have far more reliable indicators of employability than race. So it is not justifiable to make race a significant factor in your decision. These sorts of biases tend to show up even when race is absolutely demonstrably non-informative. (E.g., when reviewing journal articles.)
It may seem obvious, but check the proxy's logs. Perhaps you're not the only one connecting.
Preparing Digital Assets for Your Eventual Death
The best way to nab your dream job out of college? Be born rich
Regarding minority populations: it's not equivalent. But it is often the case. Think Texas, New York City, Los Angeles, or Chicago.

People talk shit or joke about the French, Italians, Germans too, but French and German people are considered white. Same with Poles and Italians.

Those stats you gave did not consider people of Italian or German descent as non-White.
The placeholder was chosen in the context of a relatively personal, informal group blog:

http://thepoetryquestion.com/about/

If you think your sexist, racist, white male privileged, fat shaming thoughts are important to voice, I don't see why you would worry about them offending someone.

The motions of political correctness can go too far, but the basic thought, to consider what words might mean to someone else, is a reasonable thing to do if a person wants to communicate effectively.
We can’t make this deal public because if the American people saw what was in it, they would be opposed to it.

At what point does working against the interests of your country and its people become treason?
> It is absolutely unreasonable. When you say it "works out more often than not" I would ask "For whom?" Many snap judgments based on race lead to the death of unarmed black men and women.

So your solution is to rewire the brain so that it doesn't generalize? Is this what contemporary discussions of prejudice attempt? Guilting people for aspects of cognition?

No, I think it's better to at least admit that this sort of subconscious bias is a problem and that we don't know now to fix it yet.
Yanis Varoufakis Critiques Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century
> In other words, if you're actually black, then you can't escape racism just by changing your name.

no shit sherlock. but changing your name to a neutral sounding one, no matter what your race, will get you in the door at a much higher rate, where you are actually able to present yourself and your abilities instead of having your resume, application, submission, or email summarily tossed in the trash for no reason other than prejudice.

small advantages like this compound over time. small disadvantages also compound.

it's an optimization, and a highly effective one at that, but nothing more, nothing less than that.
VHX, a Netflix for the everyman, wants you to make money from your videos
I keep my downvotes for two things: off-topic, obnoxious comments and comments that say, in summary, "This content should not be on HN front page". That being said, let me say that posts from people serving political functions (congress, senate, mayor, etc.) should not be posted, if possible. Did the person who submitted this feel that this was the only coverage of this topic on the Internet? Well, http://lmgtfy.com/?q=tpp+trade+deal.

I also flagged this story, for whatever that's worth.
Could you send me a link to the issue? I can hopefully get that fixed.
The Tesla Battery Heralds the Beginning of the End for Fossil Fuels
I did not expect that perspective, however a great article that brings to light the reliance people have on their smartphones.
Hayek: Cryptocurrency backed by gold
Pass an economics test? How many economist could pass a simple common sense test on finances? From what I have seen they simply construct models with lose to no ties to reality. It seems to me they act much like the clergy in days gone by; privileged, empowered, completely based on faith, and questioning them is heresy!
I was just yesterday considering how secure Wordpress is and whether to run it as a blog separately from the main website (in a chroot/vm or on a totally different hardware).

It is known that most recent vulnerabilities were in third-party plug-ins and Wordpress has become much more secure than in it's early days. However, I am still hesitated to run one piece of open-sourced software which can work out as most likely the only remotely exploitable way to get in. Apache2 is the second one, but I can't recall it having remotely exploitable bugs in the last decade with it's default configuration.
Research 9th and 10th had a /cs pretty much identical to Plan 9's /net. I doubt with any of that user-level control, though. IIRC Research's fmount(2) would've allowed people to run their own (unrestricted) copy of tcpmgr and mount it on by themselves.
I suggest not pursuing "data science" as a career.
That makes me wonder, what does it mean to be a NATO officer, and is that how he would describe himself? Or would he be an officer of country X who is assigned to NATO duties at the time? Like, does he wear a NATO uniform? Or the uniform of his nationality? Are you in your countries military org chart and NATO's, or just NATO's? Or does NATO even have an independent org chart or officer hierarchy? Are there units permanently dedicated to NATO service, or is it just mapped on to national units in an ad hoc manner when needed?
As a long time virgin media customer and a security industry professional, let me put this stupid twitter storm to bed right now. Virgin DO NOT store your passwords for ANY of your routers/email accounts/web services or frankly ANY services you get from them in plaintext AT ALL. This whole story is a storm in a teacup brewed up over the fact that in order to speak to a customer service representative over the phone, you have a pre-agreed password which you provide them at the beginning of your contract and which they ask you to confirm when you speak to them over the phone. This DOESN'T give them access to your email, your pornstash, your hearthstone account or whatever else other crap you might be worried about. Jeez... people there's enough real issues out there to be worried about without blatently getting it wrong on simple shit like this.
Version control? That's, like, not the hard part.
"You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables." -Samuel Johnson
"We are blind to our blindness." Where do the generalizations stop?
This is interesting. I've had success in the past at running Hy [1] (a Lisp running on Python) on a Raspberry Pi as well. This could be a nice, speedier alternative, however you lose the Python ecosystem.

[1] http://hylang.org
No, no, no!!!

Pyjamas was based on GWT, right? So, a Java Framework translated to Python. It's as nice as running a pack of deer on a road with a truck.

Awful
The problem here is you spend a majority of your waking hours working. How can it not affect your quality of life? I get up at 6. Eat and then go to the gym until about 9. Work from 9:30 to about anywhere from 6:30-10. Go to bed. Rinse. Repeat. Thus is the life of a consultant.

How do people have time for social activities and things? I mean on weekends I usually work around the house to catch up on things I missed during the week. It takes me 5 hours to cut grass so that doesn't help. Maybe once every 2 months or something I will go out with my wife.
People getting side tracked is a symptom of a bad daily stand up. These meetings should be quick and painless and primarily used to escalate issues.
Designing a State Machine without conditionals
I think it's permanent.

pg defended it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6060954&utm_source=dlvr...

(I'm not a moderator here, though I was in another high-profile site) In particular, jbob2000 made several low-quality or sarcastic comments, not very in line with what HN wants.

The one that probably triggered the hellban:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9382992

was a sarcastic:

"Oh no! Giving something away for free! The travesty!"

but he had others like:

"Foursquare? What is this, 2009?"

which don't contribute that much.
Engineering has always been a brutal profession as well. Historically, it's a cyclical, feast or famine profession.
I did now know about this 'Best' feature. Personally I use http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ and http://www.daemonology.net/hn-weekly-ask/ for a list of the highest-ranked articles.
Lua 5.1 (2006) has lexical scoping, tail calls, multiple return vales with assignment lists, semicolons are actually optional & most importantly: coroutines. ES6 adds some of these features.

Lua 5.3 has both integer and floating-point types.
It's asking much to not generalize, generally. Like, are you going to ask why you go on green and stop on red every time you come to a light? Not all red lights mean stop.

I think we can artificially not think of ethnicity when hearing names, but simultaneously realize people can choose non ethnic names or ethnic, not withstanding new immigrants. And, it's not clear that when people do internalize ethnicity and name associations that it results in negative outcomes. There was a recent study which contradicted previous studies when they controlled for other factors.

In any event, people make all kinds of assumptions and are often wrong, but we don't call them out because we have not become 'conscious' of them, till someone points them out.
I think you missed the point that the studies actually found that black-sounding names got more callbacks despite having the same credentials, e.g., degree, GPA, etc.
In theory, with DX12 timed for a 2015 release it could ease the burden enough to make the PC upgrade easier. From what I've gathered DX12 will be significant in terms of efficiency, so new games which support it may be viable.

It's also worth considering whether new games that come out will take VR into account in terms of graphical complexity. If it's clear VR is a viable marketing strat for a game or it gets to a point where big games are expected to support it, it could mean a developer will compromise scene complexity for it. I'm okay with that.
EMC Partners with Canonical, Mirantis, and Red Hat for OpenStack
> Have you looked at the article?

Well, yes briefly (it lead to the question by saying it was clojure inspired), but I didn't have time to delve fully into the minutiae, as am at work and for some reason they keep expecting me to do stuff /shrugs/
Paper Moons
I'm 51 and was a programmer for most of my career, 20 years at a small company and moving from BCPL to C to VB to .Net
At 40ish with family grown up I looked for a change and moved to being a tester - and then just before I was 50 moved from the UK to the US for a job.
I've been active and made my name known in the testing community and there is a demand for good exploratory testers. Still learning ( mobile was a big learning curve ) and showing I can add value for all sorts of projects and at different parts of the s/w lifecycle
Yup. Hacker News is full of silly "programming exceptionalism", but programming is not all that fundamentally different from any other vocation. Go to a site for, say, doctors, and find people singing many of the same paeans to medicine that are here presented as specific to software engineering. People in many lines of work think that their field is the one thing truly worth doing.
Data-Tech Open House 2015- PR
Hm. My wife (Italian descent) reports differently. During her southwest upbringing she was treated as anything but white. I guess it depends upon your environment.
Nope, that is not Grooveshark. Some of the music I created has only been uploaded to Grooveshark, and this false flag website can't find those tracks.
In India there are billboards and TV advertisements advertising 'whitening' creams to bleach your skin to a whiter tone.

Whereas a lot of pasty white folk want tanned skin :)
E.g. the average person has one testicle and one ovary.
Changing your name might help, though it's sad that anyone should have to do this.

I was replying because you (a) seemed to be missing the OP's point and (b) were coming close to blaming victims of racial discrimination for not changing their names.
There is, but maybe not in the direction you think. Almost every independent consultant I've ever hired or had hired into a company I was working at was, at the earliest, late thirties, most late forties/early fifties. On the other hand, as I'm starting an independent consulting business at 27, I'm finding it a little hard to be taken seriously (comments about age, "possible" experience, etc.). I'm getting there, but it's a process.
How Enormous Dominoes Can Help You Rethink Saving for Retirement
It has become my main source of search entry to be honest.
Well, it depends entirely on your fidelity of course.

For example, just last night I played a game of Supreme Commander. That was one of the first games I know of that supported dual monitors, and it does it well. But I digress- the point is that I had it maxed out on two 1080p monitors and it was running at 60fps the whole time.

So yes, you will need a big beefy expensive graphics card to play the newest AAA games maxed out at 60fps. But you could always just turn the settings down, or play older games. I'm also willing to bet that when the VR market takes off later this year/early next year, that the indie scene will heartily embrace it. And typically most of those games run fine on "normal" hardware.
No, Schneier's blog is not the source.

Instead, it points to the NYT article as the source.
Most doctors build/join a practice, take on partners and hire PAs and Nurse Practitioners. They build a book of business and referral network and when it's time to retire have a bag of money and business equity.

That's changing now, and my guess would be that twenty years from now, we'll hear the laments of employee doctors in a similar situation.
Wasn't meaning ethics, just the risk of looking silly over time.

If you tend to make a lot of assumptions about someone just from their name before encountering them, then you are pretty much guaranteeing that you are going to get burnt a lot over time, unless you don't meet many people, as it simply isn't that good a guide.
Getting Started with Bourbon, Bitters, and Neat
The Marvelous, Bad Ideas That Are Worth $Billions (2013)
Hi Mr. Economist. Lots of fancy terms there. Would you care to provide proof that mainstream economics is a Science? What predictions does it make that are falsifiable? How can we test and reproduce what it says about the world? For instance, before we started QE it was thought to be a good idea. Now they're changing their mind. Were they wrong before? If so, what was it that we learned now about it so we won't make that mistake again? Are we really accumulating knowledge in this "Science" or are we winging it as we go along?

Also answer me this. Physics students can make all sorts of computer simulations that simulate some aspect of reality, like the center of a tornado, or fluid dynamics, or galaxy collisions, etc. And physics students barely have any money! Now my question: Bankers, with all their money, have never been able to get a single simulation of a country going. Where is the computer simulation where we mess with interest rates, minimum wage, QE, etc, and see what happens? Where is it? Where's proof of this great "Science"?
HoloLens is a better candidate for that. If I'm going to seriously work in a virtual space all around me I rather it be an "open" (AR vs VR) environment.
It's not age, it's what you know (what value you deliver!). Some older people around me are pushing themselves as hard as when they were undergrads, attending online seminars, trying out new software platforms and tools. They're doing fine and still leading the conversation ahead of other people. The people getting replaced are the ones who aren't developing their skills.

There's also a wage ceiling for software developers, even with the newest skills. This shouldn't be surprising though, all employment has a wage ceiling.
Is there something in your comment regarding bigtable?
Too bad the "worst areas" list didn't include the UI. I cannot recall the number of times I've spent looking through the docs, which flag was it again? -s? -S? -q? Every. Single. Time.

But it's a minor annoyance. Great great tool.
Successful SpaceX Pad Abort Test [video]
Check out the key roles; you can split up writing and deleting archives, so - for example - a hacked machine can't delete the archives. This is nice.
I feel like comparing eugenics to economics is an unfair and disgusting comparison.

Sure, eugenics is bad, but not that bad.
Hi, I'm 26 but I've had my thoughts on the matter. Mainly panic. In my country one usually have to plan from he is 18 how to save the funds for his pension and I'm concerned about the past 50 mileage.

After reading about 50% of the comments here I feel such relief. Thank for all the commenters!
The reward were the after-work forklift races. Lol, spending that 15 minutes moving those crates from one place to another was torture. Good game though
"if you did propose a better model, you'd still have to understand the outdated models in order to prove that they are worse than the model you're proposing."

Maybe not. If the new model has better predictive qualities, that in itself might be a good signal :)
You should really upgrade to SSD. Makes a huge difference (easily 5-10X speed-up for many tasks).
Thank you for bringing sense into this discussion.

I wouldn't say extreme, but fundamental. I referenced the Nuremberg Principles because they are so fundamental and I genuinely don't know a better example.

Several people in the community misuse down-votes. They down-vote on-topic, constructive and serious discussions which disagree with their opinion instead of simply articulating their criticism.
Why upgrade now? 10 months is a long time in the world of graphics cards. At least wait a month or two to see if the new AMD cards like the 380 are any good -- even if they aren't nVidia may reduce prices to compete.
I thought brackets ( eg '[' or ']' ) are Clojure syntactic sugar. I don't recall much use of them in Common Lisp (or Scheme), though I'm happy to be shown the error of my ways.
And the Soviet Union also had a wonderful constitution that enshrined legal protections for bodily integrity, religious practice, freedom of speech and thought...
Oh right, forgot about that one.
I'm 58 and have been continuously employed as a software engineer since my 20's. Even now I can find new jobs. I have watched friends & colleagues wind up in the situation of being unemployed (e.g. due to being laid off and being unable to find new work). Generally this was due to them getting complacent, staying at one place too long, and not keeping skills current. I've consciously avoided falling into this trap by continuously learning, changing jobs when no longer growing in my current job, and preferring start-ups (which tend to be new development using new technology). While this has kept me employed over the years, it does exact a toll. Sometimes I think if I had gone into another field (medicine, law, academia) I'd be coasting toward retirement now instead of working burn-out hours at a software start-up. The question in my mind is increasingly not "can I keep my career going?", but instead "is it worth it?". Sigh. Not sure what advice to give anyone, but the above is my experience FWIW.
Oops I didn't catch that change.
You guys ever heard of desert bus? Actual game. Possibly the most realistic "work" game ever made.

"The goal of Desert Bus was to, quite simply, drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada; a very very boring drive, as those of us who have done it know. There were a couple catches, though: in the game, your bus could not go over 45 miles per hour. Also, it veered to the right, just ever so slightly, so you could not simply tape down the accelerator button on your Genesis pad and leave the game alone; you had to man the wheel at all times. Oh, and did we mention the trip takes eight hours, in real time?"

“You saw nothing. It was just desert stuff going by, And there was a little green tree hanging from the rear-view mirror, one of those things that makes your car smell better? And it would just kind of drift in slowly to one corner of the screen. And you couldn’t take your hands off the controller, and if you did…it didn’t have a spectacular crash, it just slowly went into the sand, and then overheated and stopped, and then the game was you being towed backwards all the way back to Tucson.”

“And when you went from Tucson to Vegas and did the full 8 hours, you had bus stops, and the bus stops…you could stop and open the door, but no one got on. No one’s ever waiting for you. And if you went by them you weren’t punished at all, because nobody was there. It meant nothing. And a bug hit your windshield five times during the eight hours, and that was the only animation. It was just road after road after road. Eight hours of desert bus. And then when you got in - and I love this - when you got into Vegas and pulled in and stopped, the counter - which was five zeros - went to 1. You got 1 point for an eight hour shift, and then a guy came in and said, ‘Do you want to pull a double shift, Mac?’ And then you could drive back to Tucson for another eight hours for another point.”
That's roughly right in a moral sense, but in a Bayesian sense I don't think it's unreasonable. If race (or background or country of origin, etc.) and some attribute (education, wealth, etc.) are correlated, and names and race are correlated, it's intuitive that names and that attribute are likely correlated.

It's a huge problem when you reverse the process and say, "Despite evidence of having X attribute, I'm going to treat you as though you don't because you belong to a set where X attribute is less common." So overlooking someone's resume because of their race/class/background/etc. is absolutely racist and unreasonable. Having a biased expectation a priori, however, is not necessarily unreasonable. However it may be morally wrong because having and acting on those expectations reduces the opportunities given to members of those groups who are outside the norm, which in turn reduces the group's ability to change those correlations and expectations.
Networking is a disaster. Kernel level networking is nice, but that requires access to the kernel which you can't provide in a container. Doing so means containers no longer contain.

IPV6 was supposed to solve a lot of this by having an address space so huge you could easily give every vm host a few billion IPs. But nobody uses it.
I took Phil's class (6.171 - Web Development Lab) in college. It was a ridiculous experience, regularly had to put 40hrs/week just on this class and I'm not exaggerating.

Story time: As part of the class we were working with real clients to develop a web project for them. One day during class, he talked to us about the "technical sidekick", typically a friend of the client's that is somewhat technical and is behind-the-scenes advising the client and typically contradicting all your architectular choices as a developer. Well, to noone's surprise, a few weeks later, our client rolled into a meeting all of a sudden knowledgable as to why .NET was inferior, SQL Server bad, etc. We later found out that he took the time outside class, to take the client out for dinner and act like an adversarial technical sidekick just to teach us that lesson. I was pissed off at the time but now deeply appreciate that lesson
Would it be possible to make the whole dataset available via torrent?