skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like you were trying to correct for an assumed subconscious bias of "deep down, we really want to hire men." In my experience, though, decent people like you don't have that bias. What they do have is a subconscious idea that "good candidates will look like X," where X is a mental image of a male candidate. Both women and men are subject to this bias, and it's a lot harder to correct for. Simply asking the same set of questions to all candidates won't fix it, if the questions themselves have the effect of weeding out women.
There is no hope. Simple as that.

There's a surprising connection between the reasons for people's ignorance of privacy and the complete and utter inability of an untrained person's mind to spend even just 15 minutes with itself.

Think about that.
Is the anti-trust monitoring still ongoing at Microsoft? This seems like something they'd be interested in.
:D
https://support.cuvva.co/hc/en-gb/articles/201826632-Do-I-ne...
It helps to have a discussion when affirmative action and the Rooney Rule aren't conflated.

We have a tendency to assume type A is qualified and type B isn't. That is a natural bias based on evidence. We must actively subdue our biases if we want to overcome them, sometimes with rules.

I think we sometimes forget that the goal isn't to get a qualified employee but a successful employee. Qualifications generally leads to success but not always, so we should constantly question our qualification criteria.

White males have benefited from discrimination for a long time.
White males have been discriminated against sometimes.

This article isn't about discrimination or affirmative action.
It's about setting a goal to be more diverse, not by lowering the bar, or forced hiring, but through awareness, inclusion, and an opportunity to interview.

BTW, everyone's been given a chance they didn't deserve.
Bubble Yum is made out of spider eggs.
Yep, that's a good way to minimize both the number of denominations offered and the number of bills/coins needed to make change for a given amount of money.

The USD is close, too. Bills are in 1, 2, 5, although the $2 bill is rare. For some reason our coins are irregular, although people in my experience find all coins a bother.

The "ideal" set of 3 denominations would be 1, 2.15, and 4.64.
What if that default browser was IE and they're obviously trying to get people off of that because it's now legacy?

Should they only change the default browser to edge if it was IE before?

Doesn't seem fair to them...
How do you explain PRISM and similar revelations about surveilance and spying ?

The corporation itself might behave like an angel, but there are agencies which can force it to open or install backdoors.
Given that the number of such requests is relatively small, the probability of it being detected is low and even if the victim does notice it, then the corp can always say - "they twisted our hands".
Some drunkard using a barrel as a toilet is hardly the same phenomenon as kids cracking open a hydrant to spray themselves.
Don't disable, Windows needs seeders!
Smosh's Next Step: What Comes After Internet Fame?
>Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Anyplace and bite-sized learning, even before personalizing it to a commute or using other data, seems totally green field. Most corporate training is just videos. Pretty exciting.
Very cool -- I work in an industrial environment and this would be wonderful to not have to fly in experts from across the country for a highly specialized problem. Just in the last week it would have saved me at least $5k. Though I cannot use it now because most of our experts are external vendors so there's the chicken-egg problem, which is why they're focusing on bigger companies with in-house experts.
African American here. Many of us have not trusted the police for a very long time. We've known that these things happen since forever, but it's the advent of the cell phone and body camera that let's the rest of the country see it. I think that the loss of trust in police forces is a good thing, however. It's the first step in the country at large realizing that there is a real problem there, and that something needs to be done about it.
Hi there. Good product, clearly addresses a market-need gap. Q1 how is different from sites like rocketlawyer.com? Q2. What about potential liabilities? Do you get involved ?

Thoughts: you might have this already, but have you thought about offering discounted time with a lawyer or perhaps even group legal packages?
I'm happy with OpsGenie [0] - not so expensive, fully-featured, and now - safer compared to the overpriced PagerDuty. OpsGenie first implemented push notifications while PagerDuty was relying on people not knowing the competitive landscape and had a web-based Android app with SMS for years. OpsGenie innovates now and PagerDuty follows. Research and don't go with the flow!

[0] http://opsgenie.com/
Indexing video with users descriptions
I had an idea.
Somebody should create a service that let users adding tags or descriptions on videos. In this way we help computers in an area in which they don't perform well. Extrapolating informations like humans is not something that computers are able to do for now and when the two spheres of the human mind and the computer efficiency collides, we can harness the best of both worlds at our benefit.
In this way we make videos indexable and make them a content that can be searched through a descriptive approach: there is a video with a cat playing with a ball and a laser and one user add the keytags:"ball laser cat". Searching ball laser cat I can easily find the content. It would be best to have this feature integrated in YouTube, the largest service of its kind, and let the user get involved with a reward system. My current condition doesn't allow me to materialize this idea so I'm posting it here in the hope that somebody will turn it into reality.
My secret: optimize for writing, not for reading/finding. Write now, organize later, and use search to find stuff.

My setup is on OneNote, which does a really great job of indexing everything you throw into it.

- Start with one notebook, call it "Work" or "Main" or whatever. Put it on OneDrive or some other web-accessible location if you want (or don't - OneNote may be proprietary, but it's file-driven and you own your data). Create a section in it called "Unfiled". Create another section called "Unfiled Archive."

- Customize the system notification icon to create a new quick note when you click it.

- In OneNote Options > Save and Backup, set the Quick Notes Section to the Unfiled section you just created.

Need to jot something down? Click the notification area icon and you get a new note. Most of your day-to-day can live in the Unfiled section until you get a little down time, which you can use to organically sort and organize as you see fit. If something's old and you're not sure if you need it, drag it to the archive section. Over the years I have grown one huge notebook called "Learning" with tons of sections on every conceivable subject. My main "Work" notebook primarily consists of the Unfiled section plus a few others that have some long-lived stuff in them.

A few other OneNote-specific tips:

- Win+Shift+S freezes the display and lets you draw a bounding box to take a screenshot. I configure this to send the screenshot to the clipboard; super handy.

- OneNote has a printer driver. I print stuff to OneNote all the time.

- Interesting web pages have a habit of disappearing. Use IE's "Send to OneNote" or the OneNote printer driver to capture them. Bonus: the entire text of the page gets put into the OneNote full-text index.
Thanks for the heads up, badges should be fixed now
Actually, I dont have a problem with that. Otherwise that milk would go to waste.

I have a cast iron stomach, the only time I have ever gotten really serious food poisoning was from the Apple Computer employee lunchroom.
Hey Emerongi, CEO here and great question.

SRS systems are a good start, however they typically only utilize flashcards and treat all information the same. Where we are starting is looking at the type of knowledge that's trying to be retained and building a solution for each one.

Without giving to much away, a SRS flashcard is quite good at helping you remember a vocabulary word, or a single fact. These systems break down quickly if you have a multistep process (like closing a sale) or a tree of conditional steps. We have solutions for each of these and we're learning a lot of interesting things from our early customers.

The entire system is built around creating information that is highly memorable, so from first view to latest review we're optimizing the learning path.
Engineering Post-it art
"Flash(and upcoming AIR) was at the time a true contender for becoming the cross platform desktop/native type application interface. Once Apple banned Flash, companies moved away from the platform and it withered."

Simply not true. Flash continued to be made available for Android, and Adobe boasted of the number of installs it would have (200m by the end of 2011, it claimed [1]). Apple had, and has, a small share of the mobile and desktop market. But nobody could get Flash to work well on mobile. That is why it died.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2011/feb/14/mobil... (disclosure: by me. I was there.)
One of the issues faced in super computing isn't just raw horsepower or more cpu's, it's latency. It's not enough to just connect a ton of machines via ethernet, you need specialized hardware to provide high-throughput sharing of data.
I like the idea of Ethereum but it does not solve distributed application needs IMO. I fear it is not able to solve large-scale app problems considering it only has the computation power of a "1999 phone", requires every to store (or at least know about) all state, and requires everyone up to date to run EVERY computation. For instance, take a distributed Reddit where posts can be mappings, even by deferring the costs to the viewers in terms of small amounts of wei per view, it surely wouldn't be enough to cover the expense of centralized permanent store (I understand Whisper is coming but it isn't permanent enough).

I see a couple of Ehtereum frameworks out there using things IPFS for storage. Are there any plans for Ethereum to solve concerns about forcing everyone to run all calculations or should it always be seen as a small DHT that you only want to use when you have real auditability concerns?
Security for later stage web apps
Hadley Wickham: Impact the world by being useful
Propositions as Types [pdf]
Maybe you don't remember what a huge deal it was that Microsoft leveraged its desktop monopoly to gain market share for its internet browser. Bill Gates declaring that the browser is 'part of the OS' and can't be removed. The anti-trust trial in the US, the changes demanded by the EU...

The "Default Programs" control has very few settings; very few settings that need to be imported, but somehow Microsoft ignored the settings that just happen to give them an advantage. Mozilla is spot on here.
Stay tuned. :-)
I'm actually not free to not use it. I have to test our product on these systems and therefore I will need at least a virtual machine instance of it. I have no option not to use a Microsoft account because the majority of the functionality has shifted to behind the privacy wall.

Actually I installed it to test our desktop windows product against it as well as our web application in Edge.

This was a decider for us: do we move it to Windows Runtime or move it to Qt/JavaFX, to the web or something else?

We're evaluating Qt and JavaFX going forwards.

As I said I've been using Windows since 1993 as my primary operating system. I've used Unix (Solaris, HPUX, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD) over the years but never in a desktop capacity.

Also one of our clients, a big financial company has rolled out RHEL6 as a desktop platform instead of windows 8/10. They are not trend-setters either.
>to me this is clearly about trying to capture the users who stopped using IE over the years.

But those users never used Edge ;) A cynical person could say preserving the previous choice is just Firefox's fear that once a user tests the new Microsoft browser they won't jump back to Firefox.

It also shows that Firefox doesn't have the greatest opinion of their users if it thinks all it takes for them to stop using Firefox is for it to require twice the number of mouse clicks to set it to default.
I thought the same. Their wording is a bit misleading. There's nothing like a private cloud here. In my eyes it's like bitnami [0], "cloud hosting" (or a convenient way to deploy apps in few clicks).

[0] https://bitnami.com/
California “Rain Debt” Equal to Average Full Year of Precipitation
Just because you're stuck with PagerDuty and has not say to change vendors, it doesn't mean you have to downvote me!
In theory law is super diverse, in practice there is a huge pool of startups that never do anything but "the standard documents" and they shouldn't be paying what they do for that.
> I find it hard to really expect an OS upgrade to carry over every user setting

Why? Everything should always be carried over. Someone purposefully setup their environment and now because you upgrade their software they now have to re-setup N number of things?

No thanks. You need to eliminate as much friction as possible in all of the experiences you create. Even installations / upgrades / rollbacks.
Making the most of JavaScript’s “future” today with Babel
Online Bootcamp to Train Your Business People in SQL
Congrats on the launch Jason & Cai!
It's interesting that despite the phrase "...the face that stared back was as Negroid as my own.." in one of his short stories, it didn't occur to me that he was black until reading it in some interview or something. If I gave the line any thought at all, I probably dismissed it as poetic license or something.
I know. Companies, and the media, are just recently starting to talk about it. It's not that it's new, it's just in vogue.
Except that Apple makes its money off hardware sales, and Google makes money off data mining ... for both, the operating system is just a means to an end, a cost center required to support the separate profit centers. Microsoft is, however, has the OS as its primary product.
I just installed IE, I clicked on a URL in an email, I was asked which browser I wanted to use.

IE was on top, but I do not remember what my previous default was. I was however asked to choose.

I am not sure what other user experiences exist around this.
> Should they only change the default browser to edge if it was IE before?

There is a plausible argument for doing so in that case if Edge is a same-vendor, intended-replacement for IE.

> Doesn't seem fair to them...

How is it not fair to them that they should only their own bundled software as a replacement for bundled software from earlier versions of Windows, and not for third-party software that the user had to deliberately choose to replace their bundled software with? What possible conception of fairness could their be where this claim even makes sense?
Probably zero in terms of cash, but high in terms of knowing sympathetic people in high places more-or-less everywhere in Silicon Valley.
> These changes aren’t unsettling to us because we’re the organization that makes Firefox.

I'm not sure I believe you.
Does this support multivariate testing?
Hi all, I am one of the founders of Chaldal. Happy to answer any questions here -- about Bangladesh or Chaldal. :)
I was pretty surprised when I installed Windows 10 and it changed to another default for my web browser. Even worse was it didn't reset the "do you want me as the default" in all of the other web browsers so I had to go and manually change settings.

Microsoft Edge is pretty nice especially compared to IE but this default to Edge should have only occurred if your current default is IE.
Somebody really needs to add aquifers and watersheds to the California public school curriculum. The amount of Californians that don't seem to understand these basic concepts is honestly staggering.

I've had Californians accuse me of contributing to their drought by leaving the sink running while washing my dishes in Seattle. Seriously California, not everyone has to share your misery.
> Why can't you use someone else's server under their (reasonable and clearly communicated) terms?

Well, for one, clearly communicated to who, and when? Before I ever receive the first request, I cannot a priori know of any terms. Even afterwards, you're assuming that a person has read and comprehended the information, which is often not true. I suppose you'd say that's alright, but that when or if the terms are even comprehended, from that point forward they should be obeyed. I would still disagree, however. The crucial difference from your bowl of candy is that sending an HTTP request is a kind of speech act. Having those kind of terms on a web site fundamentally violates my right to apply whichever voltages across wires I own. A better analogy would be a company that sets up an automated mail-receiving machine that automatically sends a piece of candy--along with a printed ad, let's say--back to the originator. It wouldn't be right for such a company to demand that I open their reply in a certain way--for example, by requiring that I look at the ad that came along with the candy--because at that point, the candy and ad are mine, and if I wish to construct a candy-extracting machine that prevents me from seeing the ads, then that's my right.
> True. However that default browser/file extension handlers preferences should be a priority to carry forward.

Especially when you've previously been in antitrust lawsuits over abusing your position as the OS developer to take over the browser market.

> It may be easy to set your new default browser, but it's one more thing I have to do to personalize my computer, instead of using my computer to do the tasks at hand.

They moved it into the settings app, so this is no longer just "Open Firefox, click 'set as default'" anymore. Changing it in the Settings app is easy for us, but incomprehensible to less proficient users. I understand why they changed that, but it makes forcing Edge as default a huge dick move on MS's part.
If you'd like some instant feedback, or a test user to help with dev feel free to shoot me an email:

james -at- royalholdings.net
"The 401k is tied to dozens of Vanguard index funds"

Would be great if someone would offer self-directed 401k plans. In theory, they exist, but in practice, they're nowhere to be found.
When I upgraded my default changed from Chrome to Edge. When I clicked on my first URL, also in an email, it did not give me any choices which was kinda frustrating. Opening Chrome also didn't give me the whole "Chrome is not your default; do you want it to be?" dialog.
1. It would be more prone to 51% attacks, unless they use a different mining algorithm than the more popular chain

2. The usefulness of contracts involving money is directly proportional to the stability and aggregate value of the base currency, and a copycat will not be able to match the official net on this measure.

3. The grim trigger equillibrium would doom such a blockchain if it becomes successful (look up on wikipedia)

4. There would be no dev team to support ongoing development if it overtakes the main net.

5. Network effects
I take your point - I have no hard and fast cap on this adsl broadband over copper connection. Reminds me in a way of the annoyance with faxed adverts we used to have decades ago - that might be a useful analogy if you are dealing with PHBs.
> Am I reading this right that the problem is that during an OS upgrade the default browser is reset back to the default OS settings?

No, while that's part of the problem, the main problem is that the facility for changing the setting has been made less convenient, takes more steps, and is more cumbersome, which is clearly a design choice focused on frustrating those who attempt to switch and discouraging switching.
Man, those STIGs are both a blessing and a curse for defense contractors.

A blessing, 'cause if your system is configured as per the STIG, there's not a damn thing the auditors can say when they roll through.

A curse for many folks deploying a Linux system, 'cause if your particular variant of Linux doesn't have a STIG, -regardless of how similar it is to one that does- IME there's next to nothing you can do to get an auditor to approve the hardening work you've done.
this seems like a very narrow operating space? if i understand correctly.. if you are NOT a DE C-Corp in CA, then everything needs to be reviewed again based on a different structure.

do you plan to offer base templates that better fit companies not following your DE/CA method of incorporation. i would venture to guess most startups don't have the capital nor legal advice to go this route. in fact my CA attorney told me to skip the DE C-Corp in the beginning.
It's especially bothersome when their choices make it impossible for the rest of us to (e.g.) buy a toilet that actually flushes.
I picked Dhalgren out of a bag of used books randomly. I'd never never read any of Delany before, but I'd read a fair amount of SF and general fiction. I can't say it was my favorite book, but it certainly wasn't impenetrable.
Consultancy... Go work for a big consultancy firm. Good pay, good guidance, big clients and not too much programming.
I cannot speak for Captain401 but employers (the plan sponsor) can transfer their fiduciary duty to their investment advisor by electing 3(38) services rather than the standard 3(21) services. That doesn't remove all of the obligations of a sponsor but does remove their fiduciary duty on investment selection and monitoring. The advisor usually does charge an extra fee for this but I think it is going to be a standard thing very soon as employers prefer to offload that liability.

Finally a topic on HN that I can speak about!
This looks like very nice, lightweight interface, great work! Hopefully it will get browser support as per https://github.com/devgeeks/Encryptr/issues/169
Yes. Most people and companies have to justify their extensive time and boat loads of money spent. He wants to grow his business and he's willing to invest to do it. If Coca Cola built roads to villages to sell their products, you would also be unhappy?
I just tried an experiment turning my various blockers off - I've got uBlock, Ghostery and Flashcontrol and had 26 tabs open with random stuff in Chrome. Doing nothing user cpu was about 4 point something percent with them off vs 1 point something with them on.
I tried to figure out what this app is doing for a few minutes, my understanding after reading a title was that it reminds me about e.g. my keys or wallet before leaving the house :-) It would carry so much more information if you phrased it in a way that mentions learning.