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Re:Ask HN: Why does most hiring happen through referrals? on Saturday September 13, 2014 @02:53AM (#8311792)
No, this is not about classes.

This is about organisations exhibiting qualities that none of the individuals who make up those organisations exhibit.

Re:Ask HN: Why does most hiring happen through referrals? on Friday September 12, 2014 @02:04PM (#8309435)
If you're disadvantaged because of your race, then it's racism.

It's important to be clear: the outcome is racist even when no individual is being racist. You can't be reductionist about this, you can't decompose the company into its individual employees and give any of them individually the blame for racist hiring outcomes. It's an emergent phenomenon: it is the company as a whole that is racist and the company as a whole that is at fault.

Re:Ask HN: Why does most hiring happen through referrals? on Friday September 12, 2014 @08:17AM (#8307594)
There is relevant data, but I don't know where it is, sorry.

I am under the impression that this sort of under-the-radar hiring occurs enough to be a significant cause of institutional racism in hiring. (If your existing employees are disproportionately white, and their friends and acquaintances are disproportionately white, then new employees who fill a position before it is publicly advertised will be disproportionately white; and this is without anyone being overtly or consciously racist, and without non-whites being discouraged in any way from applying.)

Re:Ask HN: Why does most hiring happen through referrals? on Friday September 12, 2014 @06:08AM (#8307325)
If you have connections, you can land the job before it is advertised publicly; therefore the job won't be advertised publicly.

If you don't have connections, you can't land a job that isn't advertised publicly.

Publicly advertising a job is tedious.

Re:Ask HN: Do you get paid an annual salary? on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @06:12AM (#8295820)
Of course it makes a difference.

If I am paid annually in arrears, I must live off savings or credit for the first year. I pay off the loans and rebuild my savings at the end of the first year, but must dip into them again to get me through the second year. And so on.

And I run the risk that my employer goes bust just before paying my salary and I lose out on a year's wages (if paid monthly, I only risk a month's wages).

Meanwhile, if I'm paid annually in advance, this will surely cause my employer cashflow issues, leading them to only be able to afford paying a lower salary; but I can't effectively use a paid-annually income, because most of my expenses are monthly. And if/when I move jobs, I will probably have to repay salary.

Re:Ask HN: Do you get paid an annual salary? on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @05:20AM (#8295674)
I am paid monthly in arrears. If I was paid annually in arrears, I would have cashflow issues, would have a greater need of short term loans, and would want a larger salary to compensate me for this.

Most of my expenses (credit card, utility bills, mortgage, ...) are monthly; annual and ad hoc expenses combined are less than this. So it makes sense for my salary to come in monthly as well.

Re:The Apple Watch on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @02:29AM (#8295195)
Re haptic feedback:

I'm forever feeling my phone vibrate in my pocket when it isn't vibrating... and still manage not to notice when it does vibrate.

Perhaps I would perceive the signal more accurately if it was on my wrist instead of my thigh.

Re:Blocking web ads is 'as bad as Napster' on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @07:11AM (#8289547)
Personally, I find tv and radio ads extremely annoying. But everyone who's experienced it finds my habit of muting the tv during ad breaks to be very strange.

So I can easily believe that I am in a small minority on this.

On the other hand, I generally don't object to adverts in newspapers and magazines.

Re:Ask HN: Looking for Country/TimeZone/Currency Database on Wednesday September 03, 2014 @08:22AM (#8262591)
For location-timezone, try http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database

For country-currency, scrape Wikipedia?

Re:Ask HN: What's your greatest gripes with web advertisement on Saturday August 30, 2014 @03:03PM (#8247272)
Adverts opening the App Store without permission.
Windows/MS-DOS had file extensions (which it inherited from CP/M) before it had directories and directory separators.

Did CP/M and Unix independently come up with file extensions with a dot separator, or did they acquire it from the same source? I'm dimly aware of other operating systems that use(d) a different character (AS/400?), but it's outside my ken.

Re:Suggest Best Open Source Software to Create Website on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @04:20AM (#8231231)
That depends on the website you want to create.
Re:SSH shortcuts through Bash aliases on Ubuntu on Monday August 25, 2014 @07:45AM (#8221350)
1. Add an entry to ~/.ssh/config instead of adding a bash alias: it works with scp/sftp as well as ssh.

e.g.

  Host dev
  Port 22222
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/icantreadwhatyourprivatekeyfilescalled
  User dev
  HostName dev.web3box.com
--- then ssh dev logs you into your dev box.

Read man ssh_config.

2. Why in the world are you running sudo? Even if you are logging in as root on the remote server, sudo only has an affect on the local machine.

Re:Ask HN: What's your preferred method of online payment? on Monday August 18, 2014 @05:11AM (#8191913)
Credit card, ideally in GBP, with the caveat that I don't want to be forced to care who is processing the payment. e.g. I prefer not to pay by credit card via Paypal, because then I have to go through the hassle of resetting my Paypal password before I am allowed to pay.
It reminds me of websites that insert live stock quotes into their stories.

- generally the information / buy it now link isn't of interest to readers

- more useful generally would be a link to an internal encyclopaedia page: give the reader more information about the company/book, and include stock quotes / buy it now links on that page

- if it's truly useful enough to include inline in the article, the journalist will put it there manually

- a middle ground would be to pull stock quotes / buy it now links out of the main text into the margin

Re:TCP Stealth on Friday August 15, 2014 @01:17PM (#8183137)
What's the advantage of this over hiding your service behind spiped?
Re:The Internet's Original Sin on Friday August 15, 2014 @03:20AM (#8181276)
#10 on the front page, 125 point, 64 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8177063

Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or why does Docker suck so much? on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @11:52AM (#8168294)
Are you trying to say that their service is implemented using Docker?
Re:Mobile Operators Demanding A Cut From Chat Apps on Monday August 11, 2014 @09:01AM (#8163054)
The page crashed the tab after I swiped onto the third slide.

Does it name any particular mobile operators at any point, or is it just FUD?

Re:Poll: I disagree with you, is it ok to downvote you? on Thursday August 07, 2014 @02:48PM (#8149395)
If a comment really is factually incorrect then a downvote is appropriate, but some comments that at first glance appear to be factually incorrect are really just opinions.
Re:Ask HN: What could go wrong with a hacker news with Bitcoin? on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @03:24AM (#8141430)
1. How much money would the site be paying out?

2. Where would that money come from?

Re:Turning USB peripherals into BadUSB on Thursday July 31, 2014 @01:31PM (#8115588)
Why are USB controllers reprogrammable?

Is it in the standard? (Why?)

Or is it cheaper somehow?

Re:What happened to Apple? on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @05:18PM (#8071611)
What happened to IBM?
Re:DigitalOcean NYC2 Down on Monday July 21, 2014 @06:29PM (#8066393)
My droplet is still up (Amsterdam).

Is it just NYC 2 that's down? https://status.digitalocean.com

Re:Packed Pixels – An extra monitor for your laptop on Sunday July 20, 2014 @10:58AM (#8060446)
9.7" is a small display.
Re:Is C dead? on Sunday July 20, 2014 @07:32AM (#8060075)
No.

Why do you think C might be dead?

Step 1: buy a Mac :-/
Re:Show HN: Is country X in its office hours (9am to 5pm)? on Thursday July 17, 2014 @07:04AM (#8046841)
Bug report: all cities appear as black text on a white background, regardless of the local time. Safari on iOS.
Re:Bistro: The Smart Feeder That Recognizes Your Cat's Face on Thursday July 17, 2014 @05:32AM (#8046617)
My cats don't wear collars either, but they've still been chipped.
Re:Bistro: The Smart Feeder That Recognizes Your Cat's Face on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @04:46AM (#8041135)
Why does it need face recognition?

Why can't it detect your cat's chip? Wouldn't that be simpler?

Do cats not get chipped in America?

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