skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a student (undergrad and postgrad) I liked the constant judgement and competition. It can be quite addictive if you're good at it. Even the subjective assessments where half the game is figuring out and playing to the lecturer's biases, which I imagine is quite a bit like the academic review process.

In the end though I do prefer working commercially, in a field where I can get intrinsic satisfaction from solving real-world problems instead of just having my name at the top of a list or being judged worthy by my peers.

(P.S. Not wanting to be too critical, but this page is almost impossible to read on mobile due to all of the pop-overs coming from different directions.)
There was a lot of news about creating academic "safe spaces" last year. This article seems to want to ride on the same bandwagon. I found it onesided and useless
Happy to see Webkit at 98% ES6 completion. Hopefully, all of these updates are flowing into Safari

http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/#webkit
I've got monitors daisy chained using displayport on Debian, in mixed portrait and landscape modes. This is using an NVIDIA card and GNOME. It was plug-and-play.
Can you observe the truth of the statement:

"Truth from observation is the only truth that matters."

Where can I also observe this?
On the plus, Rails won't be such a pain to install on Windows now.
That's my point; the post I replied to was suggesting that it's not a concern anymore. I'm not saying it was some kind of terrible burden for me.
To set a precedent. They had the ability, but wanted to gain access to any phone for any case without having to dip into their budget. Even ones that don't threaten national security.
I'm screening them to eliminate the garbage? I'm not sure I understand your point here. We don't choose the applicants we want to apply, the applicants choose which companies to apply for.

The problems with companies that you mention above have nothing to do with the coding test, it's the company itself. Those are perfectly valid reasons not to continue the application process. But eliminating a company because they apply a coding test as a basic level of applicant screening still strikes me as an arbitrary move that does nothing but rule out perfectly valid job opportunities.
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You are racist iff you believe races exist or should exist. If you are using the word race to denote cluster even though you know better, you are being irresponsible on purpose and I consider you a racist in the "races should exist" sense. Moldbug knows better, he's not a stupid cookie.

A good environment and good genetics are necessary for high IQ. You can't meaningfully measure the contribution of genetics in the absence of a good environment. We may as well debate AGW.

I don't have a problem with identifying genetic clusters (descendants of people from Africa), I don't have a problem with the existence of stereotypes (African Americans a.k.a. blacks do poorly on IQ tests), I just have a problem with people knowingly jumping to conclusions on the basis of science that isn't there (the black race has a genetically lower IQ and that's why they fundamentally make good slaves). Moldbug isn't insidious because he's wrong, he's insidious because he knows he's wrong. Perhaps more accurately, he knows that he can't prove that he's right but he hides it.

The Eulering article was interesting, cheers. I think the anthropologists probably have a lot to say about all this, filed under ethnocentrism.

P.S. Just as an aside, I think you need to consider that genes dilute fairly rapidly into a gene pool, that humans have been migrating forever, and that there are no real purebreeds or biracial people from a population biology perspective. That said, this isn't a denial of clustering.

P.P.S. It's probably just as intellectually lazy to claim that all population groups have the same level of genetic intelligence, it's just a lot less offensive.
That's actually intentional, this is not supposed to carry over the current Safari configuration.

If you want that, you might as well keep using WebKit Nightly, which reuses your Safari stuff.
The peer review process of publishing academic papers is basically a process full of criticism. And this is the heart of academia
> And if anyone spills the beans they may just get disappeared into a special holding facility.

That's a pretty bold claim to make without evidence that such things have already happened. 'May' doesn't cut it. Anything 'may' happen.
OK, I'll be considering using this for LibreOffice development.

Microsoft finally got their mojo back? They are getting amazing.
Some employers do not care much at all about your experience. For example, Google interviews really don't consider this at all beyond the initial screen whether you will get your interview or not. After that it's all hours of testing your responses to problems, etc.

And in reality most industry experience is of little use at Google anyways.

Google does care about school and GPAs, etc. tho. More than most.
Bigger firms yeah, smaller firms care more about passion and knowledge. Both of which are usually attained outside of your degree (if you even have one). Degrees are good more for providing baseline mathematics and theoretical background for jobs that need more of that.

That said I think a degree is probably the least relevant aspect of hiring for 99% of developers.
Yet another piece of free firmware that isn't under the GPLv3. sigh The only reason we can use UEFI laptops is because Microsoft was feeling kind one day. If TianoCore was GPLv3, we could use both ARM and x86 UEFI devices in freedom. I'm sticking with LibreBoot, thanks.
I believe San Bernardino County was the owner of the iPhone so resetting the password would have gone through the standard process of sending a password reset request and then capturing the email at the server.

Apple may have assisted in providing the iCloud data in a more digestible form than what's available in the public web interface but that's more a matter of convenience than access.
Yeah, I wonder if they're counting job recs that say "or equivalent experience". That's what I see the most.
> What are the averages? It I'm sifting through dozens of resumes for an initial cull, guess what? I'm using heuristics. "Has a degree" is one (of many) of them.

You'd have a much better experience if you threw out that heuristic, and also stopped looking at resumes. Resumes are generally packed full of bullshit and lies anyway, ignore them. Create a simple test problem and require candidates to submit code solutions to the problem. That immediately filters out all the bullshitters who can't code because they won't bother applying for a job that demands code as a resume. What you'll be left with is just a few submissions from people who can actually code, and most of the them will be shitty but functional solutions to the problem. A small few will submit great code to your sample problem, you'll see it right away, you hire those people.

A computer science degree doesn't tell you anything at all about how well a person can program; computer science and software engineering are quite frankly vastly different things and little if any actual computer science is needed by most software engineers. Filtering by it as a heuristic does nothing positive for you, you're just filtering out a bunch of great programmers; it's a terrible heuristic.
Why does your blog intentionally crash browsers that it thinks are Safari?
That's part of the reason I think there should be an informal forum-of-science or wiki-of-science where scientists are allowed to submit less rigorous/developed ideas. Where people can say things like "this paper isn't as famous or well done as some others, but I really think the authors are on to something!" or "This paper isn't really that novel, but it sure does have the best explanation of the topic out there!"
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I think it builds it on the system since they have you install g++ and gdb probably for debugging. That's the impression I get, not entirely sure though. So it probably transfers your code via SSH and then runs it.
this is a crucial point, new domains mean setting up new circuits, which is the real delay here.

Its like the http blocking load RTT problem magnified by 10.
Yeah. Perhaps my comment was not clear. They made it sound like you were in grave danger if you merely rode in the car of someone with insufficient automotive insurance, to which my answer is "make sure you have health insurance." Actually, that's my answer to many things.
IIRC (it's been a while), the native NT API does _not_ accept backslashes; win32 converts forward slashes to backslashes when passing along filenames to NT. The distinction doesn't matter very much, though, since very few people use the NT native API.
I would assume the parent comment's idea is based off of an assumption of some sort of ISRU (in-situ resource utilization). Which, to be fair, is tricky.
I lusted after the Psion. Well done.
I think when it comes to cognitive ability of animals versus humans we are at the same stage as biology before Darwin - assuming hard boundaries that don't really exist.
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What does this mean for PowerShell?
That's because it is nearly the same as WebKit Nightly but with a few things included that WebKit Nightly can't include such as iCloud sync. Apple already explained on the same page as the OP link:

> You may already be familiar with the WebKit Nightly, which serves a purpose similar to that of Safari Technology Preview. For most people, we think Safari Technology Preview is a more convenient and stable way to live on recent WebKit changes. Unlike the nightlies, Safari Technology Preview supports the full set of iCloud-based Safari features, including iCloud History and iCloud Tabs. And we’ll use the time between Safari Technology Preview releases to curate and test updates to a point where we think developers will find it practical to use as their primary browser.
I did exaggerate, sorry. There is some credible possibility of this happen, but our current models don't predict it. [1] I think it is fair to say that climate change could be very disruptive to civilization. Eg, it could cause famines, refugee crises, collapse of some societies, etc.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/426608/how-likely-is-a-ru...
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Sorry to be obstinate, but then I'm not going to use it. Too much hassle. If it turns out that the Tech Preview is too buggy, I can't easily migrate back.
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I would note that the graph does not show what the headline indicates.

The graph BNEF prepared shows carbon emissions ~tripling from 2012 to 2040, due to substantial growth in non-OECD coal & gas consumption, which swamps the drop in these categories for OECD countries.
This is where fake it till you make can really come into effect. My first paying programming gig was a gambling system for a really cheap dominican/canadian outfit. Pulled it off, made some really good design decision and then bailed when it was obvious the owners were trying to rip off their investors.

It still gave me experience and I used that experience and stories for the next 2 jobs. Hopefully it keeps working because I am way better than I was on that casino job.

I don't think you can become a great programmer until you overcome The Fear. And you won't be able to do that until you have the stress of doing it professionally for someone else. And being able to successfully come out the other side of the project.
Where do you live that your insurance company charges the same rate no matter how likely it is that they'll eventually need to pay out?
I say use secure templating because you need highly contextual encoding. As this article points out, escapes for HTML will not work in Javascript

I just wanted to reinforce this comment because I work in infosec (mostly web app security) and many of our clients make mistakes in this area. If you don't encode depending on context, you're going to have a bad time.

Most developers are aware of URL encoding and HTML encoding but then you also need to consider other encoding techniques for contexts such as JavaScript and CSS. As an example the single quote when:

URL encoded is %27

HTML encoded is &#x27;

JS encoded is \x27

CSS encoded is \000027

It gets way too difficult and cumbersome to manually write encoding code for all these different contexts and deal with the endless number of edge cases. Don’t go hunting for single quotes or angled brackets and then replace them what what you think it should be. Rather, you should rely on encoding libraries available in your framework. As an example, in .NET you can import the AntiXSS package and then you have a number of library functions such as CSSEncode(), HTMLEncode() and JavascriptEncode() at your disposal. Similar libraries exist for other major development frameworks.
What does energy have to do with fossil fuels?
I believe that has changed.

Q. Other insights from the data you’ve gathered about Google employees?

A. One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless — no correlation at all except for brand-new college grads, where there’s a slight correlation. Google famously used to ask everyone for a transcript and G.P.A.’s and test scores, but we don’t anymore, unless you’re just a few years out of school. We found that they don’t predict anything.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-b...

Also, I doubt that external industry experience means little to Google -- for two reasons:

1. Good engineering practices are good engineering practices. You can pick those up by working at a good firm

2. Though they hold God-like stature, Google is like any other company. They mostly use the same technology and a lot of the same tools as everybody else.
It's not super clear but I think that step is actually installing g++, etc. on the Linux host (and in reality they probably mean you should apt-get install build-essential and not just g++, gdb, etc. individually). It's having you install openssh-server which wouldn't really make sense on the client/development PC. Also for ARM you'd need a gcc cross compiler installed and I didn't see any mention of that.
I don't see how pre-mine suggests greed. It's just a statement of fact. I'm not interested in using politically correct terminology in any field, especially tech and business.

You are reflecting your own biases in assuming I meant anything negative with my comment.
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Odd, I hadn't heard of that until now, and I spend every day in a room with ~20 people all on various windows 10 machines.
I suppose it would be like Katrina (New Orleans) or Sandy (New York), which of course un-flooded after the storm, but each time it floods, with the base sea level being higher than last time, it gets progressively worse until you just give up spending the money to reclaim the land and protect it from the next storm.

Maybe look into whatever it is they do in the Netherlands. A very large fraction of the entire country is just barely above sea level (or even below it in places).
I'm looking at the paper. I don't understand the domain well enough to find the constants to which you're referring—do you have an example and why you find it weird?
It's ok I'm about to get my philosophy degree.
I'm on this team, and wrote the post. I'd love to hear how this works out for you.

And yes, it's all mojo all the time around here these days. :)
I'm not the project manager, but I believe it's been very useful. During our stand-up we mostly just go through the "ice box" as well as current tasks.
9% is unfortunately underestimate.

http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.HTM

Here's an 18% estimate while transportation is 13%.

Here's a 51% estimate, trumping everything else.

http://www.worldwatch.org/node/6294

Some hypothesise that the footprint is even larger.

Given the fact that we have to produce food for around 100 billion animals yearly (where a significant amount of these animals weighs more than 250lbs it's not surprising it takes a lot of energy to do that.

Machines like cars, planes are on the other hand pretty efficient. Unlike animal bodies.
... while getting better at interviewing and saving your own time, money and career in the process.

No reason to feel bad about it especially if it is a big corp. These days employers throw careers under the bus at the whim of asshole mba's. And, no, employer's won't agree to "informational interviews" any more.

In any case no one has to know except the interviewee.
Does anyone know if there's an opposite analog of this? I would very much like to run a parallel language like VHDL or Verilog on the GPU since:

1) OpenCL/CUDA have an OpenGL-inspired syntax with a steep learning curve and limited generalizability

2) FPGAs don't seem to be gaining the economies of scale of GPUs

I simply want to be able to emulate thousands of CPUs (millions of gates) for physics, AI, big data etc, in a way that's accessible, affordable and won't catch fire. I'm thinking MATLAB or Octave but with near-ideal speedup for embarrassingly parallel problems.
No, this really is a subsidy to the fossil fuel industry: the amount they pay to obtain fossil fuels is less than the actual cost, which means they can sell them for prices which would be unprofitable if they paid for the environmental costs and for applications where they'd otherwise be replaced by other more environmentally-friendly options. The consumers definitely aren't the ones who are being subsidised here - they don't care where their energy is coming from, so the actual consumer benefit is only the difference between the cost of fossil fuels and the cost of the cheapest option if fossil fuel producers had to pay the full environmental price, minus the environmental harms to the consumers. (Which may well actually not be a net benefit to consumers at all.)
It wasn't clear to me either. Unfortunately, the extension seems to have a dependency on the Android NDK which I don't plan to install:

Today we do have a dependency on the Android Tools for Visual Studio
I always wondered if Linus' name hadn't been part of the OS name (even though Linus supposedly wasn't the one who decided to call it Linux) whether Stallman would have gone on such a crusade. Probably not.
> I've seen people with PhDs from top schools who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag.

I've seen PhDs in Electrical Engineering who couldn't repair a television. Somehow they missed that class.
How would you do this to "fix" the Find/Replace module? Would I have to maintain my own fork of it for it to work?
Oh weird, huh this must be more fallout from the canceling of Astoria that they're spinning off into a standalone thing.
Some say the company was causing corruption rather than merely bowing to it:

> The Unaoil emails don’t show corrupt third-world kleptocracies shaking down helpless Western corporations. They show the opposite: Unaoil, working for Western companies, is seen slowly corrupting foreign officials, starting off with small gifts and shopping sprees and eventually hooking them on major graft.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/unaoil-bribery-scanda...
I'm pretty sure that our local hiring committee at my site definitely considers your level of degree and what school.

I don't know anybody else in my office without a degree. A very high % have masters or phds.
The real favor is to deny tenure for your fuckin ass, cause a loser is a loser!

I drove here in a 2014 Subaru, you rode here on a bike, THAT'S my name!

EDIT: btw for everyone downvoting me- tech industry is bullshit, funding down, layoffs coming, and you are worried about DOWNVOTING quality comedic content??

You think this site still has a purpose?! LOL!
Building sea walls is not a very good solution, we need to find a way to move melt water to the deserts instead. There is a very large amount of dry land that could consume a large portion of ice sheets as groundwater.
Hey guys we haven't gone small enough. We really need to just write operations as micro services. Because really all we are doing is fitting puzzle pieces together and we don't need to worry about the gritty details of the operations themselves.
Is there a lisp variant that switches from prefix notation to infix when you indent blocks by multiples of 4 instead of 2?

Did its maintainers not see fit to document it? Do they pooh-pooh you when you report the issue?

If so, I'm sure I'm not alone in never wanting anything to do with it.
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> Corruption has existed as long as lying - since forever.

I think rather as long as power over other people. Corruption only exists if some people can decide about other peoples money (resources in general).
Yep, economists largely agree that a carbon tax is an effective strategy

A couple polls of economists (nearly unanimous)

http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel/poll-re...
http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel/poll-re...
Raft requires both a stable leader and a majority of replicas to be reachable in order to advance the consensus protocol. I'd like to be able to lose more than a majority of replicas and require no leaders because I don't care about consistency.

I care that as long as even one node in the system is alive, it will accept writes, and those writes will eventually propagate and converge on the union set of all writes ever observed, without obliterating any ACK'd observed writes, as the system as a whole moves toward a less degraded state.

I'd want topics themselves to be able to be basically "free" to create, and the write latency to remain stable over arbitrarily large datasets. Write rate isn't really much of a consideration since it's almost embarrassingly low (hundreds per second).
Academia has the most severe hierarchical system out there. There is also an insane amount of unjustified credentialism. Unjustified because so much depends on luck that things like "swoon that researcher published in PNAS" are misguided. I actually heard someone doing basic science in an elite school say this, "That guy's research is garbage, he publishes in Nature Scientific Reports, which is a junk journal compared to Nature and Science where we publish."

Then there's basic science people shitting on engineering, which is probably one of the dumbest forms of elitism I've encountered.

And, there is the most significant hierarchy of all: which university you are affiliated with. Academics who hit it big in the tenure track job hunt quickly forget the role of luck in deciding which university hires them and shit on folks from lower ranked universities.

Frankly, the capitalist structure of industry discourages these kinds of hierarchies with egalitarian targets like revenue (and schmoozing) deciding your worth than other things.
We should really just start calling it software implementing..
A little late, but is this any worse than humanity going out in a blaze of hedonistic glory?
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At first, I thought this was something similar to CSS Modules (which, btw solved mostly all my grievances with packaging CSS in a large application), but this is something much more akin to Bootstrap or Foundation.
that's the point, genius.
There is also a native Vim, compiled with Visual Studio: http://tuxproject.de/projects/vim
Thanks for posting this clip; it is surprisingly universal and applies to a lot of things outside of acting.