skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
William J Beaty's video on Traffic Waves (linked in the article) is an enjoyable summary of some of these ideas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGFqfTCL2fs
Then I'd posit that they're probably wasting their time unless they're VERY specific in the requirements they publish in their job ads. CS is too big for anybody to be an expert in everything. If you want a graph specialist, or a machine learning specialist, or a filesystem specialist, then sure, go really deep. But my feeling is that most of the time, these companies aren't hiring for highly specialized roles and there's no point probing "is this candidate at an advanced level on graph algorithms" when the answer might be "no, but she's an expert on optimization algorithms and numerical computing" instead.
>Study after study demonstrates that women are paid less than men in the United States.

I wish some of these studies are cited because if you are telling me that I could hypothetically be able to hire someone who is able to do the same job, for less money (like the fabled 79%), I would gladly take them up on the offer. Unfortunately it doesn't exist except in delusional minds. This is the free market, not some global male conspiracy.
The UK has some free condom services, and these will be available to teens.

http://www.nhs.uk/Service-Search/Free%20condoms/LocationSear...

Teens could get a range of contraception, for free, often without their parent's knowledge.

The rules about whether a child has capacity to make their own decisions around medical procedures - Gillick Competency - is named after Victoria Gillick, who didn't children to be prescribe contraceptive pill without the parent's knowledge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Gillick
I understand you're pro patent and your revenue might even depend on that. You also make useful tools which might be worthy of patents unlike many that the anti-software patent side fight. Yet, it's really, really biased to base your whole claim on how much patent holders are suing away competition & innovation based on some site I've never heard of that acts like only a handful of suits have happened.

Intellectual Ventures alone has pulled in hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of its investors... pro-patent, mostly-software firms... through a high volume of threats to other companies and lawsuits done with shell companies. They've contributed nothing to the market of value but sucked lots of money out of innovators. There's IPNav that sued at least 1,638 companies on behalf of its clients that largely aren't a blip on anyone's radar in market or straight-up failed in it. There's a number that are publicly traded specializing in nothing but patent collection and lawsuits to generate revenue w/ returns ranging from 8.59% to 71.41%. They're listed under RMBS, VRNG, PRKR, ASUR, NTIP, and UPIP.

These companies are collectively raking in billions off of firms making actual software and hardware. They often rip off the patent inventors, too, by given them pittances for these patents they later make big bucks off of. So, EFF is defending our liberties by saying something (patent law) designed to get actual inventions to the public while benefiting the little guy is being used as an extortion racket by one set of predators and to suppress competition from little guys by another set of predators. Most evidence is in our favor, esp with companies I listed.

Now, given Intellectual Ventures, IPNav, and the large public firms, are you still on the position that no threat exists to innovators from patent system and no reform is necessary to limit that?

http://www.businessinsider.com/revealed-how-giant-patent-tro...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/business/has-patent-will-s...

http://patentvue.com/2014/05/02/stock-performance-publicly-t...
Well those look exactly like IFTTT recipes. What can this offer that IFTTT doesn't?
Because I'm sure it's the behavior I want to use 99% of the time, and rest 1% is same behavior just with some warning, not breaking execution flow. I'm not asking it to be default, just flag. Thanks for moving discussion out of my question...
You are right. The Higgs boson is a particular resonance in the Higgs field itself.
facts do not matter. facts have a well understood cis-white-male bias. facts are oppression. only through doublethink can we have True Equality and a liberation from the factual.
I have some advice for the author.

Go back and edit this; remove the big middle finger image and tidy this up to be more professional. It's ok to write it (kind of), but seriously you made a "fuck you" logo?

Would not hire, or interview, or want to be associated with professionally.
Computer Science is a three year degree at least - you can't spend an hour talking about it?

Sure, you could spend all day or all week talking about it. But the question is, do you need to, and is it a useful thing to do in a job interview setting. But I'm biased here, because I'm generally not a fan of day long job interviews. I don't think they're necessary or practical, at least for most roles.
What we really need is a hardware extension for ARM/Intel that traps on under/overflow: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1154
A relevant podcast from sysk that aired recently: http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/how-the-gender-pa...

(not affiliated with them. Just a listener)

They go into exactly the point you make and talk about how gender gap still does exists (although no so extreme).
"A compiler is a computer program (or a set of programs) that transforms source code written in a programming language (the source language) into another computer language (the target language)" [0]

Haxe does everything a typical compiler does, right up until the very last step. Not much point in correcting people about the use of the term.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler
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One-command deploy for Nodejs and MongoDB apps
>>just like evaporation as one end of a pump for plants on Earth is clearly no comparison to any motorized pump for volume

But what if we need/want volumes? The way we can't (or don't want to) use trees/plants for pumping water in time-efficient manner, we may not (want to) use the gravity brute force based stars as energy sources and we may invent more time-efficient fusion reactors.
That's pretty interesting. I think most people feel that animals only have a simple subset of human emotions they can feel but maybe there are emotions they have that we do not. I imagine dogs, with a strong sense of social belonging to a pack, experience emotions related to social structure that are difficult for us to understand.
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Dunning-Kruger is about competence, as in competence at the job you will be doing. Competence in CS does not translate into competence in software engineering. People who are employed to write REST APIs or most other software should not regularly write novel implementations of basic data structures like hash tables, it's an incredible code smell.

Thinking that CS makes you competent as a software engineer and that you will regularly be implementing red-black trees is a typical fresh-out-of-college mistake.
I used a Node library to make a trivial SMTP server that just sends everything it gets to a Slack channel.

If you're interested I can publish the repo, all you need is Node or Docker and a Slack webhook URL, and preferably a domain name for your server. (The A record is fine, you don't need to setup an MX.)
The pay gap of 77c/$ still matters. Not only does the gap persist to a lower extent when you control for everything, "controlling for everything" is not actually a clarifying approach when discussing the gender gap issue.

see: "The problem with controlling for 'all other factors' when looking at pay discrimination" (https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/49k23i/the_pr...)
That's absurd. Ignoring the sheer scale of the loan, there's no path for repayment. People don't tend to make loans when they don't expect to get the money back (with interest). Assuming someone lined up to loan Bezos $250 billion and gave him a ridiculously-generous 1% APR and 30-year term, the quarterly payments would be over 2.4 billion, or nearly 5 times as much as they just posted in their best profit ever.

So who exactly do you think has pockets deep enough to fund this 250 billion loan and accountants so terrible they can't see how badly it's going to go?
At my company, we do 2 phone interviews, then we do a 4 hour on site paid coding interview where we ask the candidate to code real world problems on a real computer, with an OS/toolset list that we ask them to provide for us. We let them know explicitly what we're looking for (getting it working, getting it right or getting it fast, etc).

This is about as 'real world' as we can make it, and it's generally worked out well. It's still problematic since it requires a physical block of time, and that eliminates some candidates who are currently working, but it's the best we've found so far.
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I guess people care less when Google uses google.com because, it's actually a good search engine =)
I prefer to think of it as clock hands that move in a specific direction, one that is mostly uncorrelated with the direction everyone else's clock hands move, but sometimes it reaches the destination everyone else arrives at first, sometimes it is just trolling you.
Mindcrime isn't saying CS isn't required, they're saying it doesn't require a full hour to judge whether they're competent or not

Yes, exactly.

That said, I should add the disclaimer that I'm referring to fairly general roles. If you're genuinely hiring for a highly specialized role that requires more specific knowledge, then that might change the equation a bit. I should have been more explicit about that earlier.
Productivity gains are usually driven by business investment. ZIRP (zero interest rates) and large accumulation of debt in strange parts of the economy and caused businesses to be reluctant to invest. Without that capital investment productivity tends to stagnate and growth mediates around 1-2% which is precisely where we are.
Great observations. For the purposes of this exploration, I am entirely assuming arbitrary precision integers (and the math geek in me is really enjoying your use of the adjective "junk", above).

Bigger picture, I want to rewrite "sum(reverse(x))" without explicitly saying so. How do we optimize that expression using the definitions of sum and reverse? Note that in my discussion of this in my second example, I am inconsistent here: I expand the definition of reverse() but treat sum() as a primitive. That said, I am pretty sure that the example still works if you substitute the appropriate definition of sum as "reduce(add,x)"; the derivation is just longer.
Except the miners don't gain value from discovering a protein fit, so they have no incentive to mine the wrong chain.

Even then, as long as the coin value is larger you will have a consensus with the miners to to mine the latest block. Any sidechains will be neglected, which is why this "no value or nothing" attitude doesn't fit a blockchain network.
I don't expect a candidate to have STAR response out of the box at all.

I would ask each part of STAR, directly to the candidate.

The goal is to actually understand what the candidate did, less what "we" did.

- Tell me about a time there was a production outage?

- What was your role in the team? Were you on call?

- [ questions about what happened ]

- How was it fixed? What was your part in this?

- What did your team change afterwards?

- How do you think about production outages now based on this one?
I've had a lot of luck throwing something together in Bootstrap or similar, and then when a designer gets involved with the project, they approach it as more of a redesign: they can get familiar with the app, understand what it's trying to do, and then go from there. Paper, in my experience, doesn't adequately communicate some things (for instance, more complicated UI interactions are somewhat hard to model in a reasonable way on paper).
Yes, I know. But more operators is the solution, it removes all that ambiguity with multiple intents and simplifies a lot of things.
Anyone who has worked with animals knows they are far smarter than we give them credit for. Cows and octopi learn how to escape from their pens, crows use tools, grey parrots can ask existential questions.
Thank you for sharing this. My wife works with autistic patients regularly (pediatric dentist) and one of the main things I have learned is that what is popularly thought of as Autism can be far removed from reality. Which isn't a judgement of any kind on people with Autism but (as I suspect your post intends) to concur that if people want to discuss / share opinions on Autism, learning a bit more about what Autism really means would be a good next step.
That's because if it was valuable to you as a miner it would incentivize you to mine the wrong chain.

Network value is different from individual value.
We have been doing something very similar over at Gyroscope!

Check this out! https://gyrosco.pe/myusuf3/2016/4/26/
What is the argument for AMT on ISO's? The Uber employees would own an asset which is not liquid, but a tax on them as if they were. And, if investors are buying preferred shares and not common stock which the employees own, how is the fair market value of the ISO's determined?

Just curious if someone can make an argument on the positives of AMT holistically.
ZeroHedge has a lot of shady things, and if you didn't know better you'd think the world was falling apart.

That being said, their bearish view is pretty important when it gets confirmed by huge people. For instance, ZH has been beating the drums on high yield debt since summer of last year, then Icahn steps in and make similar comments and takes to task BlackRock CEO about their HY ETF being shady and the underlying market being illiquid. There hasn't been a high yield implosion, but a lot of people are betting there will be sometime in the near future. But maybe there won't be? Everything is a gamble, I've lost plenty of money being too early or too late.

You can get decent trade ideas from ZH, but like you said, 95% of their items have to be taken with a grain of salt. The odd part is that most traders, professional traders, and some hedge fund managers frequent ZH and mostly agree on some of their doom scenarios; but the central banks pump the markets with so much money it's impossible to bet against the S&P. "Don't fight the Fed" is a slogan for a reason.
Ask HN: What Deep Learning Libraries are you using?
There have been a large number of Deep Learning Libraries that have been released recently.

TensorFlow is getting a lot of buzz. Theano and Torch are often spoken about. Berkeley has Caffe and Microsoft has released CNTK. Nvidia has cuDNN and Keras looks very nice. What have you used? What do you like about the library? What are your pain points?
Until we have a deep theory of how minds work and how conscious, subjective experience relates to that, the lines we draw in interpreting the experiences of other entities are bound to be somewhat arbitrary.
Awesome. Now if only I could decide between the 100 million services that do this.
What do you mean? My son setup his sea monkey set nearly a year ago, and it's still in my office going strong, with only the slightest maintenance.
It is fun to imagine how you could set up a price structure that incentivizes the right things to prevent traffic jams.

For example:

* A small per-second fee that is inversely related to the distance between your vehicle and the vehicle in front or behind you, whichever is closer. Maybe the distance scale would be dynamic based on speed, maybe measured in "estimated stopping time", such as (just as one wild example) a certain fee for being at 100% of safe estimated minimum stopping distance, a smaller one for 200%, a higher one for 50%, negligible or no fee for more than 1000%,

* A penalty fee for changing lanes. In dense or stop and go traffic, changing lanes imposes a pretty large cost on nearby traffic, as both lanes are stopped for a bit. Grass-is-greener temptation causes many drivers to change lanes, which quickly eliminates any sought advantage, but makes traffic worse as drivers essentially take up double space.

* etc?

Then dynamically tune the fees to get the desired result. Watch as frugal drivers economize by

* avoiding tailgating and unnecessary lane changing

* (because of the "minimum of distances" rule) learn to, in denser traffic, balance their available space between front and rear neighbors.

* are loathe to go too slow without making it easier for faster traffic to pass (if you want to enforce speed limits, maybe the distance-to-rear-neighbor cost should only be enforced when travelling below the speed limit?)

* Per-second instead of per-mile fees encourage drivers to avoid already jammed areas

As for hardware -- I guess the kind of hardware needed for adaptive cruise control / lane maintenance/merge assist now found on fancier vehicles is sufficient to measure and operate this (as long as few people successfully hack their toll measurement system, which I honestly think is realistic).
Some game apps are truly frustrating, specially those with plenty of ads. It seems that market has devoted to 'candy-crush' or 'dress your pony' games. But then you can stumble upon games like 'Monument Valley' or simply '2048'.

I create html5 puzzles and I am truly interested in what kind of games people are interested (in puzzle genre). When it comes to monetization, I'm trying with rewarded-donation with patreon, but it seems there is no good solution, even with free to play games!
Amazon's fundamental source of competitive advantage is rarely talked about, but I think this is a great example of what that is -- they have built a company that succeeds in very low margin businesses.

So they started in online retail with < 10% gross margin. With AWS with its ~40% GM they have INCREASED the GM of the company. Contrast this with Microsoft and Google which sell software at 80%+ GM. When they do Azure or GCE, they have to decrease their GM. This is hard! FedEx runs around 60% GM. So just think about what this will do for Amazon ...
'The site's core Austrian philosophy is at odds with the forefront of economic evidence.'

Which evidence are you referring to? Would you mind sharing some of it?
Oh, ok. So, logically, it must just be that women-associated occupations tend to be lower payed than men, women tend to be slotted into lower positions than men, women aren't encouraged into or supported in higher education the same way as men, women do not receive job tenure as easily as men, and/or gendered pressures cause women to work less hours per week (on careers rather than, e.g., a disproportionate share of domestic responsibilities) than men, resulting in women being paid on average 23% less than men. I guess that's alright, then.
When people say IFTTT, are they referring to the company or to the verbs which they actually represent? (just curious) I feel like the 'If This Then That' paradigm has been around for a long time, while the company which adopted the phrase has not been around so long.
I think it's because no one can agree on a price, tax and international payments is too expensive, and there's a tit-for-tat understanding.

First, the price. The last paper I reviewed took me about 10 hours. I charge $200/hour. Should I charge $2000 for my time? If I'm paid by the hour, who tells me when to stop? If I'm paid a flat fee, how much is that fee?

I have seen a reviewer write something like "I read the paper twice. It seems good. Publish it." Does that get the same as someone who spends 10 hours for a detailed critique?

Second, does payment constitute work-for-hire? Does the publisher and/or reviewer need to pay taxes? Might some reviewers have a contract which prevents them from taking on part-time work? What if the reviewer is overseas? Do tax agencies from two different countries need to be involved?

Third, most people expect to publish, and get their papers reviewed. If a single author has three reviewers, then that author should expect to do about three reviews. This is an imperfect system which rewards publishing rather than reviewers, but there are also some compensations to the reviewer.

Moreover, I recall one story - I don't know the validity of it, but it has a ring of truth - where a daycare got annoyed with parents who picked up the children late. They decided to fine parents should that happen. As a result, children were picked up late more often because the fine was interpreted as a fee for extra daycare, and no longer social chastisement.

I suspect that reviewers are in a similar boat. I'll feel different about it if I get paid a pittance than if I were to do it for free, so long as others do the same for me in the future.
You were advised badly then. Imagine, if you will, that the other party drank a Tourtell beer. That's hardly going to do anything, the beer has 0.4% ABV!
PT said that in context of Google which is a search monopoly but pretends to me a media company where it might seem like just another fish in the pond.

That analogy is not applicable here because PT is referring to businesses who capture market by innovation and growth and become monopolies. I am reasonably sure PT is not referring to monopolies like USPS/AT&T/COMCAST/Cable Companies who have become monopolies using government's coercive power.

If you are running a business where your only customer is government and you are a monopoly I don't think anyone cares about innovation much. I would love to see counter examples if you have any.
Well funny enough, at that same time, Google blocked WP access to Google Maps, even through the browser. They claimed Google Maps only works properly in Webkit, even though it worked just fine in IE if you could get around their block. Couple that with the fact that, even after Google blocked WP's YouTube app, Google and Microsoft worked together to make a new app on HTML5 (proving wrong your claims that WP's HTML5 support wasn't good enough to support YouTube, the problem was WP plays HTML5 video through the built-in system media player and Google didn't want that), and after their collaboratively developed app was released, Google blocked it again. At the same time, Google wasn't enforcing iOS apps to be built purely with the HTML5 APIs, so literally only Microsoft had to follow these restrictions. The end result was, YouTube was only accessible through the browser and not through an app. Google then followed up these two things almost immediately with an announcement that they were dropping support for syncing Google calendars with Windows Phone.

I'm sorry, but there's no way to be on Google's side during that fight. It was a purely anti-competitive pissing contest. You don't have to be on Microsoft's side, but there is no legitimate way to say that Google wasn't abusing their dominant position over a competitor when it came to how they behaved in the early days of Windows Phone. There was a pattern of outright hostility. Google even said "we know where our users are, and they're not on Windows Phone". Since I was a Windows Phone user, I took the hint and stopped using all Google services. It's petty nonsense, and we all got enough of that in the 90s.
Is Airmule the AirBnB of shipping?
Imagine you were interviewing a candidate, and you asked him what approach he'd take to a problem.

Would you take his word when he said he felt that his approach had been quite effective?

Hiring 15 people doesn't mean that your hiring process is effective.
The quoted economists found an 8% gap adjusting for those factors.
Yes. PT was talking totally different context there and I think he has been quoted out of context.