Hacker News: rando289

New comment by rando289 in "Tech Companies and Diversity Hiring"

rando289 — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 15:01:02 +0000

I can't remember a story like this without horrible data: numbers without much context from which no good conclusions can be drawn.

New comment by rando289 in "Tech Companies and Diversity Hiring"

rando289 — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 14:42:13 +0000

> it's not enough to just look within the 'hire' cohort.

Enough for what? Why not? They specifically have a "score", not just a hire / no hire decision. Sure it would be better, but you don't make any convincing argument why their analysis is not valuable.

> designed to be a Classifier, typically tuned with an emphasis on having a low false positive rate.

classifier of what? Why is classifier capitalized? I don't think so.

New comment by rando289 in "Tech Companies and Diversity Hiring"

rando289 — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 14:35:09 +0000

How do you check that? I've found reporting on race in tech to just be absolutely horrible with numbers. Whole stories where the only number is "Google repots X percent of Y race." It tells me absolutely nothing without comparing that to demographics of where google has offices, and what the demographics of cs students are, among other things, and I've never seen that info.

New comment by rando289 in "More Common Than You Think: An In-Depth Study of Casual Contributors [pdf]"

rando289 — Sun, 26 Jun 2016 01:39:23 +0000

Your 48% is very wrong. From the abstract:

"Our results showed that although casual contributors are rather common (48.98% of the whole population of contributors in the projects analyzed), they are responsible for only 1.73% of the total number of commits."

New comment by rando289 in "How Hired Hackers Got “Complete Control” of Palantir"

rando289 — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 04:14:44 +0000

I didn't say they were clueless. I said their pr is clueless. Some pr person said "there is no risk" relating to it security of a large organization. That is obviously false, and clueless.

New comment by rando289 in "How Hired Hackers Got “Complete Control” of Palantir"

rando289 — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 00:49:04 +0000

"Our systems and our customers’ information were never at risk.", their pr team is clueless. Security is not binary.

New comment by rando289 in "Stockfighter's Jailbreak CTF trainer is live"

rando289 — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 06:39:16 +0000

So it's proprietary?

New comment by rando289 in "TeamViewer users are being hacked in bulk, and we still don’t know how"

rando289 — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 11:14:27 +0000

"we still don't know how." No one is stating the obvious: we would know more if we had the source code.

New comment by rando289 in "I created Godwin's Law in 1990 as a warning"

rando289 — Sat, 28 May 2016 21:14:13 +0000

Ahh, thank you so much. I read it as "are kind of forgetting" instead of "are a kind of forgetting.", even looking back a few times.

New comment by rando289 in "I created Godwin's Law in 1990 as a warning"

rando289 — Sat, 28 May 2016 20:46:10 +0000

What does forgetting mean here? Is it like forgettable? Google failed me.

New comment by rando289 in "Campaign demands telecoms unlock the FM radio found in many smartphones"

rando289 — Mon, 16 May 2016 04:05:51 +0000

My 12 year old ipod has fm radio, I think a smartphone could do it.

New comment by rando289 in "Campaign demands telecoms unlock the FM radio found in many smartphones"

rando289 — Mon, 16 May 2016 04:02:44 +0000

Few months ago got an LG G4: the "unlocked international" version had a locked bootloader so you couldn't change the software, but the europe and t-mobile versions didn't. So, sometimes it can be the reverse.

New comment by rando289 in "Real World Microservices: When Services Stop Playing Well and Start Getting Real"

rando289 — Sun, 08 May 2016 00:39:21 +0000

> Topics and queues with different segmentation features are much more powerful and fine-grained in control compared to a service that's tied to HTTP transport than, say, a REST or SOAP API.

"than" and beyond is an illogical statement. Like Y is Z than X.

New comment by rando289 in "Use AWS Lambda to self-host the comments for your blog"

rando289 — Fri, 06 May 2016 17:05:43 +0000

Use a hosted service to self-host? Come on. Does it also have more cloud in it?

New comment by rando289 in "3 months and 1M SSH attempts later"

rando289 — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 05:07:51 +0000

what is a CN computer?

New comment by rando289 in "Ontario announces that it will begin a basic income trial in 2016"

rando289 — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 06:27:38 +0000

It was, just formatted poorly into paragraphs. A paragraph is supposed to have some feet to stand on it's own.

New comment by rando289 in "Ontario announces that it will begin a basic income trial in 2016"

rando289 — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 05:43:03 +0000

> At least here in the US, money problems are (mostly) a money-management problem.

I don't think so.

New comment by rando289 in "Ontario announces that it will begin a basic income trial in 2016"

rando289 — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 05:41:49 +0000

> The biggest problem I see is giving people cash. Why not instead give each adult a voucher for housing (just barely adequate for cheap housing) and each person $5/day food stamps (or something similar), regardless of income.

You haven't explained whatsoever what the "problem" is. Like saying "there is a big problem with nuclear energy. Why aren't we just using windmills." So... whats the problem?

New comment by rando289 in "FBI Director Comments on San Bernardino Matter"

rando289 — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 05:36:29 +0000

Yes, it's a false dichotomy. Either we have a police state, or the terrorists win, take your choice! Don't forget the children, and the .0001 % chance of horribly brutally muderdered by terrorists!

New comment by rando289 in "FBI Director Comments on San Bernardino Matter"

rando289 — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 05:31:38 +0000

This comment will never be a reply to any other comment. However, if I wrote it because the fbi told me to, why wouldn't I reply to absolutely any other comment the fbi told me to?