skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree.

All companies have only a finite amount of time/money to spend on hiring, so they're often forced to use crude heuristics to filter out resumes, especially in companies that get a huge number of applicants every year, like Twitter. Maybe it's just me, but based on my experience, filtering candidates (as a first pass) based on school or previous role does yield many false positives and negatives, but it still works pretty damn well compared to other equally fast/cheap filtering methods.
No, few people are. But I've been there and, although probably not Gozo, I'm looking to move to Malta in a few months.
That looks pretty interesting but something sending electricity into my brain scares me just a tiny bit. I'm very curious to see what third party reviewers / researchers think of this.
Depending what you want to do,
there is also the OR1K Emulator running Linux - http://jor1k.com and a generic x86 emulator - v86 - https://github.com/copy/v86

you can check a small benchmark here: https://github.com/s-macke/jor1k/wiki/Benchmark-with-other-e...

via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10498305
Adding to your list:
http://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Programming
http://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Game%20Development
This reminds me of a Black Mirror episode where at some point in the future, fat shaming was brought to such an extreme, that everybody's job was just to pedal stationary bikes. And if you slacked, you got fat, and if you got fat, you got fired, and then you had to wear a bright yellow uniform and appear on fat shaming reality tv shows and clean up everybody's trash.
Observing where in the article this is in fact noted becomes a test of reading comprehension and comprehensiveness.
That's not really an issue. Most people stopped caring about technical illegalites a long time ago.
Engineering is actually more like an art than a science. It requires creativity, problem solving ability, lateral thinking and a strategic mindset. People who are purely book smart generally don't excel in these areas.

I think targeting top schools alone is a pretty misguided strategy.
If Google is returning under the same terms it exited, it could be a sign of 'shift in principles' for the search giant. It could mean Google is OK with censorship, as long as it is allowed to make money. This is a departure from Google's 'Do no evil' mantra and it could be a sign that the company is becoming more like any other standard company; aimed at maximizing shareholder value and nothing else. Maybe it already was, but there is no pretense anymore.
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A nice Yocto tutorial: http://free-electrons.com/doc/training/yocto/

A nice buildroot tutorial: http://free-electrons.com/doc/training/buildroot/
Yes they are at a disadvantage at providing services that cater to the entire world.

Which is why Chinese and Japanese sites for example have struggled to extend beyond their own borders.
Hooks and line have got to be the worst choices to throw overboard. I can't imagine it made much of a weight difference on a boat as long as two trucks. But then again he also smashed the engine when he got mad, so maybe it was just one in a series of poor choices.
That gets you only so far. A working prototype would instantly silence all critics and since they have a patent there is nothing that would stop them at this stage from demonstrating such a prototype. uBeam seeks the attention and they seem to be upset that some of that attention is skeptical in nature. That's the problem of trying to stir up a whole bunch of press for something that you can't show yet (or maybe even at all) for whatever reasons. Some people - rightly or wrongly - will question your assumptions going on their own knowledge and understanding of the limitations of the technology as it is presently understood. The explanations that uBeam gives are grounded in physics but only if you take on the extra qualifier 'within laboratory setting'. And that is where the whole thing derails, the critics are making claims about real world settings whereas uBeam is talking (mostly and as far as I understand it) about whether or not their technology could work in a theoretical manner.

I'm fairly sure that given a $10M budget you could create a working device in a controlled setup. Whether that same device could then be generalized to the point where you can slap it in a home or a coffee-shop and expect to power the vast majority of the devices present and all that without inconveniencing or endangering people and other creatures present is exactly the point of contention. And I don't think anything short of a working demo will be enough to convince the skeptics.

So uBeam should either put up or shut up, no amount of PR fluff will move the needle, unless of course the world at large is not actually the intended audience of these publications.
At this point the only way for PGP or really any user-based encryption to get widespread use, gmail, yahoo and microsoft need to adopt it and integrate it into their webmail client, possibly as a semi-mandatory feature that's opt-out instead of opt-in.

Anything less will fail as no one is interested in getting a new email address.

Anecdotally, I've tried three of four times to learn how to use PGP and integrate it into my workflow and failed each time, so it definitely needs work (at least if they want me on board :))
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I guess this is intended for learning of unknown startups, and it's a huge one, so I don't think this is what you're looking for, but...

Uber

I've been querying for HN/reddit submissions a lot. I'm fascinated by all its accomplishments and the issues it raises:

- Viability of work-as-you-want, surge-as-needed supply model

- Creating critical mass for carpooling and rides on demand to work (I don't think anyone believed it was possible to convince upper middle class people to carpool with strangers)

- Being one of the few major instances of coordinating a shift away from tipping

- The spotlight they've shone (yes that shine's past participle) on the taxi industry and the "unseen" improvements we were missing out on

- The issues related to the contractor/employee boundary

- The general logistics of on-demand infrastructure and things it enables at scale

Most of that applies to Lyft too of course, though they're in the news less.

(In case I sound like a propagandist, let me note that yes their ethical lapses do bother me and I know some people who would lose respect for me if I ever worked there, so yeah it's not all wine and roses.)
> There's a document at Twitter that lists the schools that Twitter wants to recruit from. ... It listed Cal, Stanford, CMU, Waterloo, MIT, typical schools like that.

> Never listed any state schools.

Err... Cal?
Technology never promises anything. People may have presumptions, projections, etc. But technology itself never makes promises. Some individuals may make some claims, but you can get all kids of claims from all kinds of people.
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Well as far as sites go, I think the biggest disadvantage is not focusing on English first rather than the local language.

But then there's companies like Nintendo and Sony that are globally successful in spite of their lack of diversity.
Does anyone else think it's actually difficult to use genius?

Also, the white text on black background makes it notoriously difficult to read & seems like a choice made by someone designing a geocities site. Not a great choice for something that's core feature is "readability"
Recruiting from a limited set of schools is widespread:

https://hbr.org/2015/10/firms-are-wasting-millions-recruitin...

Which leads to the practice turning into a self-reinforcing cycle:

http://www.economist.com/node/21640316

It's a symptom rather than a cause.
That's a great point. It's one thing to be able to program it yourself, and another to understand enough to ask the right questions about the code to learn how it works.

If they had the ability to QA the outsourced team's work at a semi-granular level, I'd imagine there would be a lot less disconnect between the work done and expectations.
There are plenty of studies correlating racial and gender diversity with better corporate financial performance, particularly in companies that score high in innovation-seeking behaviors. Whether diversity enables innovation or innovation enables diversity is an open question, but in either case it is statistically striking that diversity-valuing cultures are also performant cultures. Many controlled studies also show that diverse groups are more likely to be better problem-solvers and perform better on tests measuring ethical integrity -- in fact, the USMC study purporting to prove women are unfit for combat actually reinforced those findings for gender-mixed combat units.

Whether Twitter needs black engineers to secure its higher-than-average black userbase is, I think, at best dubious (as Gibson tells us, users find their own use for things), but it might want to reconsider its stance as Wall Street begins side-eying its valuation. Meanwhile, as Brian Brackeen of Kairos put it, the unicorns' failure means startups have a lot of potential talent to grab....
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Some devs sell APKs directly for users with devices without Play store. Samsung has their own app store. As does Amazon. And there is f-droid for open-source stuff. And I bet there are quite a few ones with regional importance.
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It's so common I start to think society is too dumb-smart and optimize for cure to idiotic problems rather refactoring itself.
I've been thinking along these lines combined with the better information that I (and others) have on myself, including things as simple as when/where I have meetings:
http://caseysoftware.com/blog/future-transportation-today
> It listed Cal, Stanford, CMU, Waterloo, MIT, typical schools like that. Never listed any state schools.

Berkeley is a state school. Also, Waterloo is a Canadian public...

Edit: Pulling up the US news rankings, 4 of the top 10 are public state schools. So a (pretty horrible) recruitment policy that only hits the top 10 schools from a mostly arbitrary ranking system will still get 40% public state schools.
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It's a little more nuanced. It seems that only Google Play is going into China - not Google search. Wouldn't Google make more money by allowing their search engine to be censored in China? Isn't this a continuing, if limited, example good-evil considerations in business?
I agree that there is something off putting about these companies in that, as a cynic, I think they are simply putting a nice whitelabel wrapper on someone else's work. That being said, it is hard to make the case that this is centralization and I have concluded that I believe these businesses are good because:

* Everyone is a private contractor, they are free to make their own choices and work (or not work) for a company.

* They can be flexible service providers and they can create their own reputation.

* Companies like airbnb/uber/sprig simply provide a platform . It is likely that many platforms will arise as for some of these businesses the barriers to entry are pretty low. The workers and producers can be on all platforms or go completely independent but Uber without driver's isn't a 50b company.

* If your options are make some money in the "sharing economy" or make no money in the "real economy" I think you would choose to hop in.

i see this as the new websearch model. Companies provide the best results and ratings, while offering ancillary support to users and charge them instead of showing adverts. the problem is if one gets really good, really powerful and effectively controls a lions share of virtually all of the search results routing all queries and related services through a single provider. lets hope that if that were to happen that not only would they not be evil but that they would good.
I guess this was because of the whole "right to be forgotten" fiasco. Afterwards, I image they said: "What the hell, we are already doing arbitrary censorship, lets go back to China"
Well unfortunately the implementation of AA is frequently to lower admission standards. This is extremely commonplace at universities. Then there's the flip side -- too many qualified candidates of a particular race (see, Asians in California universities) and said candidates are turned away. Is it any wonder AA gets a bad rap?
Not everyone is comfortable with selling their looks, so it’s not ironic for a good-looking person to ask for money.
That's an interesting angle, but if traced to the source that source would still be 100% on the hook for any and all fall-out from such an attack and I really wonder if any government entity would be willing to sign off on such a vaccination service.
Engineering != computer science, at least not all the time.

What you're thinking of is pretty different than engineering which is essentially applied math.
Cloudflare don't proxy mail though, which is ProtonMail's main business, so that wouldn't have done much for keeping their services up.

Additionally, I don't see ProtonMail as the kind of company that'll let other third parties terminate their SSL connections/proxy all their traffic.
Read an article about this a while ago, can't remember exactly where. This is location dependent. In places where there's tons of water cloth is better. Where there's little water, disposables are environmentally better.
Waterloo is also public...
And Waterloo. This guy is really not paying attention.
On the contrary, affirmative action is inherently about lowering standards.

If somebody from a disadvantaged group is hired based on having sufficient skill, talent and/or experience for a given job, then affirmative action was not involved. The person was hired based on merit.

But if affirmative action is used to justify the hiring of somebody, it inherently means that they did not have the sufficient skill, talent, and/or experience necessary for the job. The person was hired not based on merit, but based on some other, unrelated factor.

Hiring based on something other than merit automatically means that standards were lowered, or at best they were merely ignored.
You really are trying to be dense and I'm done wasting my time.
> Nintendo

Most of Nintendo's failings in the past can actually be traced to where they refused to innovate simply because they followed the Japanese business culture too strictly (where, if your boss tells you to do something, you do it. Otherwise, you don't. And so on). If they had a diversity of ideas, they would likely not be in so much trouble right now.

I am not defending AA, the racial/gender/whichever thing; I'm not talking about that right now. This is simply about the diversity of ideas.
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It does not work for me (US).
I know that there have been several vocal proponents of affirmative action in tech, but it always seems to me that the justifications are presented as self evident truths - with a strong smell of moral superiority. I say let the market decide, because the magic words: "Affirmative action", "diversified", "represents our community"... don't pay the bills. If it were such an advantage to have such a work force of everymen, then you wouldn't need to compel companies to act - through law or otherwise.
> One thing I don't get is what the demographics of the user base has to do with anything? If I buy a Nikon camera or Lenovo computer, should I believe they need to hire more Americans, or even Americans of my ethnicity?

Twitter's product design has much more of an editorial influence on what happens with the product than Lenovo's or Nikon's. A closer analogy might be a local newspaper: I absolutely would feel uncomfortable if the entire staff of my newspaper were outsiders to my community, choosing which articles to run and how to lay them out and how to seek writers, even if the writers themselves were people who lived in my community.

But since you brought up cameras, it is worth noting that the answer is yes. HP had an incident a few years ago where its webcams' face-tracking feature just could not track black people. (Competitors, like Dell, were fine.) If they had a nontrivial number of black people writing and testing these cameras in-house, they would probably have noticed this well before their customers did.

Google, a few weeks ago, had an incident where it literally auto-tagged photos of black people as "Gorillas." Again, presumably what happened is that the dogfood users were much more likely to train the algorithm with pictures of gorillas than with pictures of black people.

Twitter, like most consumer-facing software, has its product design influenced by its own developers. If everyone at the company uses Twitter, it's natural to prioritize features based on what they themselves use. (And it's because of this that consumer-facing software is generally plain better than enterprise software; the developers and PMs and testers care more.) Given how much of Twitter's userbase is people using it for protests, from Tahrir Square to #blacklivesmatter, and given how much "Black Twitter" is a thing, it only makes sense to make sure that at least some of their employees in decision-making positions care personally about these use cases of Twitter.
ics@kafka-mbp:~ ls -l ~/Projects | grep Ramanujan
drwxr-xr-x 3 ics staff 102 Nov 6 16:54 RamanujanManuscripts

Funny you should mention that... I haven't really dug in yet but I was looking for a good reason to brush up on LaTeX and have been on a math reading tear lately. I couldn't find any other attempts so if I make any progress I'll edit or comment on this with a link.
Mobile, ecosystems and the death of PCs
With one of these things going, one wonders how long your dog would continue to have hearing at 60Khz...
It's important to note that this is not a news article and the writer, Robin Sloan, is not a journalist. This is an opinion piece by a (very good!) novelist. He is free to articulate his opinion without "significant evidence" and you are free to think his opinion is baseless.
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It seems unlikely to me that future generations will be able to benefit from programming understanding and ability the way the programmers of today have. Economic value lies in scarcity, and as we are now pushing for everyone to have those skills, it will not be scarce anymore.

The programmers of today have been lucky because the thing they loved to do anyway just happened to explode as an industry in a short period of time, leaving only a small supply of labour ready to fill the ballooning demand. There is no reason to think that will hold for the future. As every good investor will tell you, when everyone starts looking in the same direction, it is time to run the other way.

Some suggest that programming is something that only a small group of people can innately do. Others suggest that it is a task that the majority of the population detest. If these are true, then perhaps it will remain a viable career as most cannot or refuse to do what work needs to be done. I'm not sure I agree with either point. Programming tools like Excel are widely used already by the general population, demonstrating that they can program, that they are willing to program in some capacity, and that it doesn't meaningfully improve their economic standing when outside of a very narrow spectrum of programming – specifically what we seem to call software engineering.

I, personally, think programming related work will eventually trend towards what we see in entertainment, agriculture, etc. A small group of people will do very well, more will do the work for practically nothing just to do what they love, and everyone else will have no direct opportunity whatsoever, with, at best, passing relevance in what they do end up doing.
I was under the impression it was really about China sponsoring hacking and espionage against Google and then turning around and giving the spoils of that to its competitors native to China. I imagine they now feel that they can successfully defend against attacks and compartmentalize Chinese operations. I wouldn't be surprised at all if they kept all "secret sauce" code out of China altogether.
Hey bsimpson, thanks for the feedback. Looks like most Nexus 5 users can't get it to work. Would you be able to debug using chrome://inspect if possible? I am trying to get hold of Nexus 5 meanwhile. Thanks!
There are relatively easy and cost effective ways to filter candidates from the supposedly less-than-stellar schools. Personal projects, open source projects contributions and programming contests are a good way to easily gauge candidates for a software engineering position.
He paints full Josephine in great color, but that's exactly what Airbnb is - connecting visitors with people want to host people in their homes. Airbnb doesn't dictate the experience beyond some guidelines, they don't hire hosts, etc.

But

We see Airbnb enabling bad actors on its platform, refusing to take action against them, posting ads all over san Francisco to sink prop f - acting like a mega Corp.

Josephine is not mega Corp, yet. But imagine if it became huge. I bet it'd look more like sprig, and all the other mega corps, than the author would like.

Pretty much the only wildly successful company I can think of that has not ended up acting like a mega Corp is craigslist.
There's also scmpuff a "minimalistic reinterpretation" by one of my coworkers. I use it every day:

https://github.com/mroth/scmpuff
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Make a todo list: "Hey, this thing sucks. I should solve it at some point."

Put it on the list at the bottom. Reprioritize the list once a week or every two weeks. Do it over a beer.
I don't understand this argument, unless you are making an assumption that a company has infinite open positions.

If I'm trying to staff a 10-person team, and I find 30 qualified candidates who are willing to take the job, there is zero sense in which I'm lowering standards to look at factors other than merit once I have already looked at merit. So if one-third of those candidates are from some minority demographic, and there's a company policy that encourages me to extend five offers to that one-third, I'm still keeping my standards right where they've always been.

In fact, it is precisely because there are more than enough candidates with technical merit that we have other measures like "culture fit".
Ugh, Old Persian? Lame

They should pay me the big bucks to translate tweets into Akkadian or Sumerian.
Sorry, when I said Apple, I meant iOS.

There is an app that allow for key combo config on Android. I'll edit post when I can recall it.
The market is remarkably inefficient. In particular, given the startup costs of making a new company, the network effects required to get users, the more different network effects required to get employees, the connections required to get venture capital, etc., it should be completely unsurprising that it's easier for a company to get started and get traction if it plays to the biases of the surrounding society.
Why does anyone think technology is something other than a force enabling centralization and consolidation? In a free market, more efficient organizations will win out over less efficient ones. Bigger organizations leverage economies of scale and win out over smaller ones. Organizations this keep getting bigger until diseconomies of scale balance economies of scale. Technology reduces diseconomies of scale, enabling organizations to keep getting more efficient at large sizes.

Hence, Amazon versus the mom and pop shop, Uber versus an independent cab company, Sprig versus the local Chinese delivery, etc. The future is megacorps and technology will enable them.