skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating. It mostly seems you're company is taking a poor approach to diversity, and doing even worse at communicating and gaining buy-in from existing employees. With the exception of #1, it seems all of these strategies are aimed at eliminating signals that skew heavily toward elite-educated men so that the top of your funnel is more diverse. So perhaps the real issue is that the hiring process allows for "many engineers who are barely competent at their job." And perhaps there aren't enough resources to improve said process and handle a greater volume of potentially unqualified applicants. But by your own admission, the bar is already low enough to admit false positives so I think you're conflating issues here. On a side note: holding your argument to be true, could the existence of barely competent engineers lead your article to a different title: "How my company is lowering the bar to accommodate privilege." I don't have that data, but could be an interesting followup!
Most of the problems are systemic. Most people are probably not "clearly inept". You probably make dozens of mistakes in a week but, just by the nature of your job, nobody dies. Procedures, policies, and even technology should exist to prevent and mitigate mistakes because humans are deeply flawed.

Unfortunately the fact that the situation is life-and-death with huge liabilities that there really isn't significant effort to improve things. It's legally safer to continue practices that mostly work but are already standard than try something new.
I heard a rumor that the touch screens are all on something like velcro, and can quickly be removed and old-school mechanical switches are underneath. No idea if it's true, but I guess that's the sort of middle ground you're talking about?
You could store the electricity through H2O electrolysis, directly burn for heat or reclaim through a fuel cell for electricity.
How long do we have to wait until other GUI based PGP tools are using this in the backend?
Not being held monetarily liable for damages doesn't necessarily mean you still have a job.
Investing in specific companies rather than indexes (which I assume is what everyone means by "fun investing"?) isn't very much like gambling in Vegas. With gambling in vegas you have a negative expected return with a high variance. With stock picking you have a positive expected return with a high variance (where do index funds fit in? positive expected return with low-ish variance).

Although picking stocks is still not rational if your only concern is your long run wealth, it's not irrational for the same reason as gambling. It's bad because you have the same expected return as low cost index funds, and you exert effort or pay fees for the privilege. That doesn't mean I look down on everyone who actively invests though-- they may have good reason to think they are special and can pick stocks better than average or they may just enjoy it, as the person to whom you responded said he did. And then it would be rational to actively invest at least some of the time.
Make sure your partner knows it up front.

This will sound like a goofy analogy but my wife and I have been together for twenty years and its more important that we agree on the theory of boundaries than on the actual boundaries themselves. Although when we cooperate by having at least a minimal understanding of each other, things do go much better than working separately. Thinking back on observations of divorced people, the signals started very early with arguments about the very concept of boys night out or the only correct way (LOL) to organize household finances. May have been a divorce immediately after someone slept with someone else, or whatever, but the problem didn't initiate when the third party magically appeared in bed one night.

Anyway the analogy is obviously two founders will go further the more they can productively cooperate, but disaster is absolutely certain if they can't even agree on what level to cooperate at. And inflexibility there is going to limit the possible matching talent pool.
It's a bit painful, but set up Calibre with the right plugins and you can strip the DRM easily enough. It's the only thing that keeps me buying Kindle books - the DRM goes of a few minutes after I've bought it. The moment I meet resistance in doing so will be the moment I stop buying stuff at the Kindle store.
That's just an overcapacity problem (in this case, overcapacity on generation, not storage). In another post here, I proposed that we build a smart grid that supports pricing arbitrage on generation/storage in order to maximize generation utilization, and then let the market sort out storage requirements with a more distributed, fine-grained storage model - car batteries, for example.
Yeah, but because of that, it increases time to market for Android apps.
Also, DRM doesn't have to be infallible to be worthwhile.

Sure you can get MS Office on pirate bay, but 1) most people don't know how to use torrents and 2) can't install the cracked version (or worse authenticate with that fake sever).

But if MS didn't have DRM on the DVD version people would just pass it around to their friends and familes.
> Steam, Netflix, Spotify, etc show that DRM can work properly when users are given the easy access to the media/content

How does it "work properly"? All it does is hindering those who pay for such services, since pirates aren't affected by it in any way and get the same content DRM-free.

> And, no, none of those sites using DRM are "a danger to our rights and our security" as the article breathlessly claims.

DRM is always a threat to privacy and security, when it runs some blob code on your machine with intention to police you assuming you are a criminal by default.
This can be attenuated with variable pricing, like in France[1] which has 80% on nuclear—which doesn't ramp up/down very fast. One could call that free-market pricing: more expensive power during high demand, cheaper when supply is high.

Industries and homes find innovative ways to adapt to market pricing. All the appliances there have options to use power at night (when it is cheaper there). For solar, the times may be different but the same idea remains. Commercial power is priced at a premium when the grid is overloaded (typically winter months).

[1] http://residential.edf.com/energy-at-home/offers/electricity...
Everybody makes serious errors from time to time. At least me and everybody I know. You should be able to admit them without losing your career or being ruined. Obviously if somebody makes a lot more errors than others he should lose his job.

My point is that the current system encourages denial and cover up. It doesn't encourage improvement.
Dualism is a crock of, anyway. If there is any kind of interaction between the physical and the "nonphysical" world, then per definition this influence must be measurable in the physical world. But dualists want to eat the pie, and have it too: "It's nonphysical, that explains why you can't find any physical evidence! But it still influences you!".
Every time someone in the medical field tells me about how dangerous motorcycles are, I remind them of the woman I knew (world-class rider in some aspects of the sport) who was in a motorcycle crash. The crash didn't kill her, the people giving her the wrong drugs did.

Years later I read _The Checklist Manifesto_, only to be horrified that not only did medical personnel need to be told to use checklists, many resisted the idea. It's one thing to kill people because of a mistake, we all make them and thankfully the ones I make usually don't get anyone hurt. But it's quite another to kill someone because your industry is one step ahead of using leeches. I mean, suppose I make a commit that rolls into production and takes out production data. Someone asks, "did you follow the checklist?" If I say, "yes", it's unlikely that heads will roll and we'll update the list when we find out what went wrong. But if my answer is, "no. In fact, I don't even have a checklist/documented procedure, I just make sure my commit message is informative and hope I remembered everything", I'm likely to get fired. A doctor does it, shrugs it off with "we did everything we could", and a lot of time we all just go on about our day.
I've actually been given the same advice on HN regarding "not looking for a portfolio" since it excludes women.

I think it's pretty disparaging to say women don't have the time for writing some code outside of work because of childcare commitments (for everyone involved - including the father of the child who's immediately and implicitly branded as off-scene or not pulling his weight).

"Cultural fit" in my experience has been equated to "is this person someone I can see five days a week, 8 hours a day without driving me potty". That seems fairly legitimate to me - and completely inclusive of everyone.
1.4 billion Android users? Or 1.4 billion Android devices sold?
Given that the Rust team is committed to introducing non-lexical lifetimes backwards-compatibly, by definition that means that no code that compiles today will be invalidated by the feature's addition. Which means that the only instances of concern being raised here are programs which are already invalid in today's Rust, which is to say that any workarounds for these theoretical problems are already mandatory. There's nothing "breaking" here that isn't already broken. It's a strict reduction in the number of programs that will be rejected by the borrow checker.
Yes, it could be more clear. As that interpretation seemed illogical and unrelated to the topic, I assumed that wasn't the intended meaning, however.
Or just ask your designer to work @1x in a vector app like Sketch, and export PDF vector images for import into the asset catalog (Scale Factor - Vector Asset).

http://useyourloaf.com/blog/creating-scaled-images-with-pdf-...

-- A designer
Facebook Ads are much more targeted than Adwords. When it comes to targeting, Adwords is actually really bad bad. Outside of Search they can't compete, and even for Search ads you can't do proper gender and age targeting with your ads. Don't even get me started on Mobile.
As someone who took the replacement 6.01 Intro to EECS, I would have much rather taken 6.001 SICP.

I'm sorry to say, but I feel very strongly about 6.01 being the least useful course I took at MIT.
Reminds me of what geohot says about academia: "We get it, you can't do anything."
Are you honestly going to try to tell me that you get a lot of homeless applicants? If I get a homeless applicant, they're getting an interview.
Was hoping for good read on economics, found guy whining about his parents' views.
Reflection: 3 Lessons About Running a Startup
A major aspect is miscommunication. According to the Joint Commission: "Ineffective hand-off communication is recognized as a critical patient safety problem in health care; in fact, an estimated 80% of serious medical errors involve miscommunication between caregivers during the transfer of patients." [1]

I co-founded Care Thread [2] to help address the communication problems I saw working in hospitals. Electronic medical records systems weren't designed around real-time communication, and mobile secure messaging systems tend to replicate the original alpha pager workflow, without directing the improved technology at improving collaboration.

The project involves removing points of communication friction, keeping track of the patient's care team, injecting relevant EMR data into the communications stream and pushing it to the right care team members as soon as it's available, and keeping everything visible to the interested parties.

If you're interested in something like this, I'd love to talk. Please contact me through my profile or on our web site.

[1] http://www.jointcommission.org/assets/1/6/tst_hoc_persp_08_1...
[2] http://www.carethread.com
I don't disagree at all. There might be some gains to be had from stacking things high in 3D (reducing the physical distances a little). And there's clearly some room for improvement on the compute power per watt front, but even if (for example) the Mill CPU pans out, my impression is that there's not a huge amount of territory left in that direction either (at least on silicon), and the impact on max single-core performance would be limited.

So yeah, the party's definitely over and it's down to more efficient software at this point until we get optical computing or rod logic or something crazy like that.
Thanks for the response.

It works pretty well, but probably not in 100% of cases, so it could use a little tweaking from someone more knowledgeable of the codebase. It doesn't break anything else though for sure.

Really liked working on this though, want to continue development, and don't want to get a bad reputation with the creator by flubbing things on my first pull.
I'm not sure if this is normal or expected, but my two-year-old can count to 20. I'm not trying to brag-- maybe just seeing if maybe I should start bragging? ;)
Maybe one day Springer, the publisher who owns Nature, will also stop suppressing scientific research.
> If the only reason you work is to make money, I don’t call that work ethic at all. I call it a fear of being broke. It’s like saying the only reason you don’t rape and murder is for fear of going to prison.

So free money doesn't kill a person's work ethic, it merely removes a person's motivation to work. I don't see how that alters the argument against free money (basic income).

If I could afford to retire from my job today, I would. I could stay busy the rest of my life, no problem.
No it isn't. A Canadian bulk train 3km long and massing 20 000 tonne at an elevation of 1000m has a potential energy of 20M kg * 9.8 m/s^2 * 1000 m = 196GJ = 54MW-hour. In the winter my house uses about 50kW-hour per day so that will keep about a thousand such houses running for one day. (130m^2, 1950's house, Norway). yes I know my house is not very energy efficient.

A reservoir 10m deep and 45m square at the same elevation has the same potential energy. If you can find a convenient 1000m plateau I think it would probably be cheaper to build a reservoir on top than to build the tracks and trains.
Thanks for the 'fantastic'!. We’re always trying to enable our users to integrate with more services/tools. I would love to have your input on this specific topic at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/support-forum/issues/695
> The government was sensitive about the misrepresentation of science, not about the science.

What, it was worried that the scientist would misrepresent their own research? That's ridiculous!

In a scientific paper, a theory is hypothesised, an experiment designed, data and observations conducted and a conclusion is formed. That conclusion, based on the observations and data collected by the scientist, is analysis.

What you are saying is that the scientist will misrepresent their own conclusions.

Let's put that another way: you are saying that the scientist will misrepresent science by contradicting their own conclusions.

Another way of putting it, just to be clear: the scientist will publish their conclusions in a paper, then tell the media the exact opposite of their conclusions. Either by mistake or because they are lying.

You seem to be surprised by the incredulity your post is generating. There's why!
I don't know dude, where I lived (New Jersey), some of the hospitals have insanely high c-section rates - much, much higher than could be justified by mothers having complications. Here's 2015:

Hospital Name	City	State	Rate
-----------------------------------------------------------
Hackensack Medical Center	Hackensack	NJ	41.8%
HackensackUMC Mountainside	Montclair	NJ	29.8%
Holy Name Medical Center	Teaneck	NJ	16.1%
Morristown Medical Center	Morristown	NJ	30.1%

Source: http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/15/10/07/effort-to-reduce...
As usual, science and data should come to the rescue here, with the optimization goal of "mother and child both survive and are healthy post-birth"

Given that criteria, the current medical system seems to be doing OK, as others have stated.

If (for example) midwifing was superior, then the data would show that, period.
The term "Scheduled c-sections" can also be referred as "planned c-sections" or "elective c-sections". Meaning they are not medically necessary, but chosen voluntarily.

Obviously c-sections that are not planned are needed
Its not directly to hurt google, but it is a play to make themselves a consumer electronics company rather than an ad company, and as a consumer I'm much more likely to stick with a company that has those incentives rather than google who's bottom line would improve if all privacy would be destroyed.
You make a great argument, but I fear that until we have no global population of have-nots, even an educated society can fall victim to manipulatiors who need not believe their own rhetoric.

I doubt Trump truly believes what he says about Mexicans and Muslims, but he sees clearly that they are effective scapegoats, and frustrated people are easy to placate with blame on someone else.
OT: This is very nice code. It reads very well.
"That sounds like utter garbage" - this will surely be a rational discourse...

"These scientists are employees of the university." - Ignoring that the relationship of university professors and so on are the result of a long process of give and take, that sample is irrelevant.

The government's concern are media reports quoting Government of Canada scientists. These tend to have more authority. And indeed the media was free to contact any other author of the Science research, and they could talk to industry scientists, and university professors. Exactly as I said (not sure how you think what I said is a "hole" in my own argument). But they didn't want anyone representing the government, with the weight of the government, being misrepresented.

"Some guy at some university says we're all going to die!" is decidedly less convincing, to most, than "Government of Canada environmental scientist says we're all going to die!".

And to your other comment, no one is saying the scientist will misrepresent their own work. But, and this may surprise you if you have utterly no knowledge of how media works, the media will if you aren't extremely careful with your statements and responses. The mainstream media has a surprising ability to misrepresent findings and research, and they just love to attach an authoritative name to it.

This whole discussion is exactly why it's impossible to touch anything remotely "political" on HN. No one has offered a single fact or counterpoint, but instead I've been attacked repeatedly, every benign comment is rapidly moderated down. Get a grip, partisans, and if you find it impossible to discuss something on your partisan talking radar without emotionally gravitating to a side, grow up.
Not quite true. Handling WiFi changed in 5, and changed again in 6 (really only relevant if your app deals with changing the Wifi state, admittedly). 6 introduced Doze, which can require different implementations of things. There were a number of graphical things in 5 which, if you wanted them on earlier versions (and your Design department does, and you're going to do it, dammit), require fairly different implementations.
I had someone tell me that they were able to get it working on El Capitan by disabling some security settings, but I've resorted to running services (https://github.com/CamHenlin/iMessageBot specifically) on a VM with a genuine Apple device SN running Yosemite, and that works very nicely.
So painfully true. This is one of the very first things I try to determine when I'm interviewing someone: do they have the capacity to actually figure out how things work, or are they doing something rote that they picked up along the way and will just blindly change code until "it works" when they hit a serious obstacle?

And I've also worked with plenty of very senior engineers who will blow smoke up your ass when you're really down in the weeds and you want to do "root cause" analysis.
A refresher on http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EZG9NQQ/ref=dp-kindle-re... is in order.
I wonder if Amazon ends up being the biggest existential threat to Ad-driven revenue for FB and Google. One could certainly picture a world where Amazon is so efficient at hovering up a large enough market share of the online retail world to dry up the mom and pop end of the market who buy cpc ads.
Same here. I'm forced to use hangouts, due to having Project FI. But google hangouts drops calls, and also does annoying little things like compressing images sent via SMS.
I think this is being kind of pedantic. I don't think DRM should be banned and I don't think most people do. I just don't think it should be facilitated on the web or legally protected against tampering. It's one thing to say 'DRM should be legal', quite another to say 'DRM is a good practice'. In the end, let the consumer decide whether it's a good practice or not, aka don't touch it legally. So I'll agree with you there, certainly don't give it any protections against the consumer.

However, I can still say, as a consumer, DRM is a bad practice and I would always take a DRM-free alternative to it.

A lot of bad things are artsy and clever. The demise of DRM should be more of a consumer advocacy thing than a legal battle anyway, IMHO.
Given that this always results in a clear compilation error, it'd be more accurate to call this "inaction-at-a-distance". :P
I don't disagree. I met most "candidates" at meetups on the East Coast, and via cofounderslab. Maybe these are not the best ways to find serious co-founders.
“If we gave free money to everyone, no one would have any motivation to work.”

Your definition of "money" is horrible.
[ducks and covers]
I'm curious - since this is very close to Semantic UI, why not use that? It's much more feature complete.
Thus Goodwin's Law has been proven to be true once again.
What it comes down to is that Wirth has always understood the difference between simple and jury-rigged in a way that Pike and the Unix crew never have.
Link to their blog post: http://blog.triplebyte.com/triplebyte-engineer-genome-projec...
A few years when MIT switched from SICP/Scheme to Python, Sussman had this to say:

"I asked him whether he thought that the shift in the nature of a typical programmer’s world minimizes the relevancy of the themes and principles embodied in scheme. His response was an emphatic ‘no’; in the general case, those core ideas and principles that scheme and SICP have helped to spread for so many years are just as important as they ever were"

From: https://cemerick.com/2009/03/24/why-mit-now-uses-python-inst...

If anything, I would think Sussman is more practical, and understands what the world needs/expects(now).

Literally any programmer who hasn't read SICP before will benefit from it. I think the principles still apply.
Personally I'd as soon have a root canal without anesthesia as give birth without an epidural. Modern medicine is a net good.
Cancelling the long form census for starters. It didn't even save any money, it just made it more difficult to make informed policy decisions.
Yes, the moderation is literally Hitler here.
There are, but again, we're talking in averages, and we're looking only at transactions where Google makes money. If a VP at a bank buys some financial software for $10M, it's great for the vendor, but Google still only makes about $10-20. If an engineer at the bank searches for software to make their job easier and clicks on the link, Google still makes that $10-20, but no sale happens (immediately). The financial software vendor has folded the costs of those clicks by non-decision makers into the lead-gen cost of their product, and I would bet that there are 100x more clicks from engineers, managers, and salespeople interested in the product than there are from VP decision makers (or people interested in working at that firm, for that matter).
So you get five year worth of money for lifetime impairment? Sounds fair.