skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps it's also got something to do with the fact that we don't have people shooting each other every other day around here, or the fact that we don't have people dying all around us for lack of public health treatment, or the fact that we can be sure that our kids will have a proper education.

See, we like regulation, we like for the people to be forced to contribute to a better society since we know that if we just let people be greedy, they WILL be greedy and we will end up with a de-humanizing society as you have in the USA.

If you don't like our rules, it's simple, just don't come here, we will and always have found an alternative even if it takes us a bit longer.
A healthy old age may trump immortality
Both "they work" and "they don't work" are unsupportably broad. Google has substantially reworked their interviewing process on at least one occasion, producing a big change in results. Story here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-b...

Meanwhile it's crucial and nigh-impossible to identify how much success is based on interview performance as opposed to selection effects in who interviews, and how interviewers see different candidates.
I find the articles on LW to be generally of high quality (setting aside the HN bias against Eliezer Yudkowsky).
I found the following cryptic snippet, from the Guardian's coverage of this topic:

"He had a featured post, twice a month, where he would take ads by escorts and highlight their literary qualities."

I have little idea what the above really means, but it almost sounds like advertising/marketing for prostitution. My best guess at the moment, is that Google considered the above to be a flagrant violation of its rules, and hence, shut down his page immediately.

I can understand if Google considers certain aspects of his page to be unacceptable, but I wish they had notified him of the reason for their decision, and given him a week's time to download all his data and transition to a different website. As someone who relies on gmail/drive very heavily for important documents/correspondence, reading something like this makes me feel quite uneasy.
Tell me where Tyrell is...
Cutler is a nerd-hero of mine.

Yeah, the NT kernel design is pretty frickin awesome. There is a great book about the run up to NT's release. He took on the job because he thought that writing operating systems would happen fewer and fewer times in the future. I think he actually said that he thought this might be one of the last times a commercial OS would be written from scratch.

The thing about operating systems is that everyone thinks they know everything there is to know, but wow are they off the mark.
Sure, to the extent that it's entirely local, local-scale regs would likely be appropriate. However, it looks like they're specifically looking at national-scale distortions in the market. While I haven't examined the data supporting that, I would not be surprised to see large-scale distortions from a system designed to produce large-scale effects.
I'm really not trying to say people below the poverty line can't function or move cities, what I'm saying is a lot of people can't do a lot for financial reasons and it's unhelpful advice to suggest things like the parent. A lot of people in this country are in financial situations they didn't put themselves in that keep them there implicitly.
The Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as Tutoring (1984) [pdf]
Ah, blaming the victim, always easy.

Turn it around, though: if Google feels like it's not responsible for anything it hosts, shouldn't it say so, loud and clear? Say, a banner that says, "Hey, we'll delete your stuff any time we feel like it," at the top of every Gmail page?

Google's users aren't parasites. There is both a relationship and an exchange of economic value. That's why Google has worked very hard to be trusted by everybody, to be seen as responsible stewards of vast amounts of often very personal information.

If Google doesn't want people to trust them, they should not work so hard to be seen as trustworthy. That the artist believed them is not an error on his part.
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Thank you for the babel reference, it looks interesting. From what I can tell, it's pretty similar. In a notebook I'm directly editing the code and seeing the results immediately, instead of switching back and forth between emacs and a browser window. That looks like a pretty big win for interactive development. Is there any babel feature that you think is missing in Jupyter?
I see. Curiously though I thought prototypes of that nature were to be treated as sensitive material. Thanks for clarifying.
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_Sigma_Problem
A broken ncurses text gui debugger with broken navigation and byzantine commands should somehow make us look more favorably upon gdb? We had better debuggers than this in the early 80s. Turbo pascal had a decent debugger and IDE that was right built in!

How come the open source world hasn't been able to create a debugger that's as good as the (still primitive) debugger in Visual Studio 6.0? It's astonishing to me how bad the state of the art is.
In our office, one of the best decisions we made is to move to google docs. I had to push it through because most employees were used to working with MS office and emailing docs and excel files to keep everyone in the loop. I know One Drive is a thing and you can do the same thing with MS Office product as you can with google docs. But it wasn't always the case and Google Docs had better usability and easier to understand in our team.
Adding my own[0] rule here:

Disks exists in two states: failed and failing.

[0]: please feel free to let me know if you know any previous references to this rule.
You could possibly find this information here: https://angel.co/nairobi
Curious if more of the "book" is available.
Click bait title?
It sounds more like satire to me.
Judging by the actions of Google's people in IETF, any feature that's used by paying mail customers seems to have management support. Management seems to like income, as far as I can tell.
OK. Now show me any study that accounts that the water in the atmosphere
(0.4% on global level, after Wikipedia, not 1% on the sea level) has ten times
higher concentration than methane (0.00018%) and CO2 (0.039%) combined, and almost twice as big
heat capacity (75 J/(mol * K)) as each of those (36 J/(mol * K) for methane,
37 J/(mol * K) for CO2). To sum up, heat capacity of atmospheric water being
twenty times bigger than CO2 and CH4.
thanks!

and Beaker Lab, a free hosted environment for running Beaker, was launched back in April: http://lab.BeakerNotebook.com
Just from using the app you can tell there are optimizations to be made that would dramatically save on battery life before even getting to the power draw from location services. Pokestops for example don't appear to locally cache their images and descriptions for long.
You must be deluding yourself. It's the most popular mobile game that's ever existed, and it's an ARG at that.
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Right- Office and Windows began talking to each other in 2011, when the consent decree ended. The silo structure at Microsoft was almost required by the government.
Since you're the second person who's asked on this thread. Here's a link to stats about STEM (including computer science) graduates in the US - http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind12/c2/c2s2.htm

Assuming everyone who graduated with a CS degree from the US was hired at an equivalent then one would expect something closer to 7%-8%.
I used this service a few years back and am pleased to see it's been successfully acquired.
These articles are pretty far from the ones describe in PG's post.
Cite RFC?
And the eyeball seems to be delivering ASCII in hex to you, The Martian-style.
If you're the co founder, how can I grab a datasheet on this chip? I'm getting into EE and this seems like a cool chip to mess with.
This is almost a daily annoyance for me. I have a WD Passport Ultra HDD at work, and any time I plug it into the USB3.0 ports on my Dell E6430, my mouse (Microsoft Wireless Mouse 4000) gets laggy.
Until the first world war there was no income tax in the US. Yet they still had a society and earned money.

Edit because I'm not allowed to reply anymore to below comment: I once lived in a Communist country. Never again. I'd rater die.
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That's the thing. There are many things that are really important that don't actually touch every single person on the planet.

One of the most widely used OS's ever is called Tron. Does that effect me? Not really. Is it important? I think so. I thought so at least enough to do some reading on the subject. Was it important from a CoSci standpoint? Maybe. NT is important from multiple angles, as well. Also, it's importance doesn't take away importance from the things that may actually touch your life. Such is the nature of things.
"I used to attend Clark Atlanta University which was what is called a Historically Black College or University (HBCU) or colloquially “black college”. I picked up quite early on that getting good internships was key to landing a good job on graduation. I also quickly learned that hiring managers for “good internships” don’t come to black colleges looking for interns regardless of how good the students are.
So I transferred to Georgia Tech, got that Microsoft internship 15 years ago and I’m still at the company today."

Average SAT scores at Clark Atlanta University: 850 ( that is substantially below average, around 26th percentile)

Average SAT scores at Virginia Tech: 1220 ( substantially above average, around 85th percentile)

How many of the thousands of obscure colleges with better average SAT scores than Clark Atlanta does Microsoft recruit at? For example, does it recruit at some place like Oakland City University in Indiana (average SAT's ~950)?

Seems to me like the tech companies are just recruiting where the most high smart/high SAT students are. One cannot infer racial bias from just looking at their failure to recruit at places like Clark Atlanta University. This might be unfortunate for the few high SAT smart kids at a college that is otherwise filled with mediocre students. But it would not be practical for Microsoft to recruit at every college. Conceivably, Microsoft or Google could give their own aptitude test directly, that would put applicants from any college or no college on the fast track for an interview -- but ironically, such a process would also be considered discriminatory -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.
Eric Holder’s Longtime Excuse for Not Prosecuting Banks Just Crashed and Burned
I'm a big fan of Dare's writing, but on this one, I think he missed the mark wildly, for exactly the reason you cite: Google's research says almost the exact opposite of what he's claiming in this post.

With that said, the large variation in ratios of disadvantaged minority employment at big tech companies does seem meaningful (and he cites that wide variation). I think intern and HR pipeline variation is likely very relevant to this difference.

The problem is with his implication that throwing darts to pick from a pool of moderately qualified people would yield a reasonable result.
Do more interviews. Jobs you're vaguely interested and qualified for, but aren't likely to switch for.

When everything isn't on the line, you can learn to relax and enjoy.

I try to never go more than a few months without a bit of practice, and now I'm head and shoulders above most people with my interview confidence.
> you expressly agree to all of the terms and conditions set forth in that code. If you do not understand or do not agree to those terms, you should not Create DAO tokens.

Now it seems to me that there are plenty of people who have neither understood nor agreed with the terms and conditions, and explicitly decided that the code was not the intent of the DAO. So, the question remains, what is the intent of the DAO? If the old code was not the intent, we have no reason to believe that any of the future versions would be either.
MSFT pgm. mgr.: Forced Win 10 updates are the price of a free consumer OS
I get that he's being clever at the beginning by poking fun at Windows but many of the shortcuts he talks about are available in Visual Studio and it has a much saner set of defaults and initial information. Ask anyone who did XBox and PS3 development which environment they preferred :).

The reverse debugging stuff is pretty cool though.
I don't use Product Hunt for that sole reason - it kills my browser!
true but the languages are siloed, each notebook runs just one language. with beaker the languages can communicate with each other. there's no easier way to combine python and javascript for d3, for example: https://pub.beakernotebook.com/publications/7fdcaaa6-fb83-11...

there are lot more differences in the UI as well.
Hell, most of the times I've flown between European countries, nobody even looked at my ID. If somebody did, it was usually check-in staff, so there would have been nothing preventing me from checking in under my own name and then handing my ticket to somebody else.
Main differences to my workflow:

- I'm using a taylored version of GTD [1]

- I use kanban (trello) only on projects that require collaboration. If not Evernote and/or a paper notebook are enough.

[1] https://github.com/galfarragem/hamster-gtd
It doesn't seem like it, but it's still pretty nice! Window hints is my favorite feature.
The quickest way to stop feeling uneasy is to back up your gmail and drive data immediately.
I think there's a bit of a selection bias at play here. US media likes to report on cases involving US companies. That's only natural.

But it means that you're not getting the full picture when it comes to the actions of EU competition authorities. How do you know whether or not US conglomerates are specifically targetted if you know next to nothing about their other rulings?

That said, I also think that competition policy is mostly misguided (and not just in Europe). It's ineffective and they often try to fix things that fix themselves over time anyway. Browser choice on Windows? Was that really something that needed regulators to step in? I don't think so.

But there are other areas where I think Europe is right to take a harder line. Privacy is one of those things. I actually want services that only work if they can spy on everyone completely unimpeded to be sub-standard.
Cached: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3sFdXb...
yea its hard to find a job these days without massive time investment. Coding exercises I've been doing are typically 4 hrs or more (example: https://mesosphere.com/careers/challenges/distributed-applic...), phone coding screen is 1-2 hrs, interviewstreet is 1 hr. So you are looking at 7-8 hrs for single application. Then comes 2-3 days time sink if you have to fly out to different city for onsite interview. I can't imagine people with kids/family/parents to take care of devoting this insane amout of time. Some of them like Amazon don't even respond to you with the results if you fail( assuming) their online quizzes.

I have like over a decade of experience and have 3 github code projects with over 1000 stars. But I have a feeling that companies are getting so many resumes that they don't even want to look at your resume before you have been screened. Its almost impossible to switch jobs these days without massive time investment, unless you are some sort of super star that can somehow short-circuit this process.
I've had my own domain for quite a while and have been meaning to start using an email address on that domain. The main reason I haven't is that I'm procrastinating the initial trouble of setting it up, but I'm also a bit scared from hearing stories of people who do this and then occasionally have email to them or from them bounce or disappear. (Maybe this is not as common a problem as I get the impression it is.)

Edit: I'm not even considering running my own email server; I know that's a full-time job. Just something like forwarding my custom email to my Gmail address, which is the type of thing I've heard the aforementioned scary stories about (though a quick web search isn't turning up many such stories).
Numerous reports over the past several years have elluded to the 'sixth' extinction. We with this paper, and others there seems to be a lot of evidence that many species are rapidly reaching extinction.

There is a well known species interaction principle, which basically summarizes to - the growth of species A is negatively correlated with the growth of species B. This is especially well defined in predator/prey relationships. But let's just take a simple growth pattern (logistic growth) - which is continous population growth in an environment where resources are limited:

dN/dt = rN[k-N/k]

r - rate of increase
N - population size
k - carrying capacity

'k' is my favority ecological parameter. It's the theoretical limit an environment can hold a certain population of a species. The idea is, when a species surpasses k, population growth will decrease and/or even become negative until resoures are abundant again (sort of like an asymptote).

I always felt that Humans are the only species that alter their environment's 'k' through technology. For example, houses, heating, energy, etc.. all allow us to live in environments that we might not have been able to. This allows us to expand our population size much higher.

So are we going to surpass 'k' so high, that when we finally run out of resources we drive ourselves and other species into mass extinction? And will the environment be able to recover quick enough for our species population to stablize and recover?
Still happy to upvote it as is creates healthy and useful discussions.

Oh, and to help him and more importantly everyone else who is hit by google service department.
Agreed about the youtube video. It is a bit frustrating not to be able to move forward, especially because the typing speed is quite slow :D

A few blog examples made with hubpress on the landing page would be great too.
They don't work everywhere (just give 'declined' when swiped which can be embarrassing) and they're definitely slower, as they contact the mother ship on every transaction.
It's also curious that everything that ever seems to be published on diversity - especially in technology - seems to focus either on the percentage of representation of black people or the percentage of representation of women. I guess this author focused on the percentage of representation of black people because he's black, and that impacts him, but just anecdotally based on the 25 years I've been doing this, I'd say that Indian people (men and women) are vastly overrepresented as a percentage of the tech workforce. Is that due to racial preferences for Indian people? Articles like this would seem to draw that conclusion - either the underrepresentation of black people is not due to racism or the overrepresentation of Indian people must be, correct? I also find it interesting that people are studying, say, the representation by gender and race but not, say, religion - how under/over represented are Jewish people or Muslim people in technology? Are there biases there?
It's also only 512MB of RAM. For a dev box, m4.large spot instances work really well price-wise too, especially if you stop them when you're not working.
Yeah. Going further, another part of "being serious" is training and a demonstration of commitment to the employees after they're hired.

Something like "Yes, this individual did not have a great education in youth because their local school district sucked. Nevertheless, this individual has potential. So we're committed to keeping this person on board and providing the necessary training. We will go to great lengths to make this person a useful and vital part of this company."
In Apple's 2014 EEO-1 they distinguish between professionals and technicians. Professionals are 1.7% black and technicians are 11.3% black. I assume both of these are lumped into a single "tech workforce" number.

https://www.apple.com/diversity/pdf/2014-EEO-1-Consolidated-...
>Unfortunately, the block size limit was set too large and this created outsized returns for large consolidations.

Can you clarify this statement?
Swift-App in the Android Play Store
Blizzard had very few issues with their largest launch in recent history.
Definitely. My dad, a now-retired programmer, was dealing with an error at his bank in the 80s. It was a bunch of work and frustration. At some point he asked why a thing happened and the rep said, "Oh, the computer just does that."

He didn't say anything to her, but he was still mad when he talked about at dinner that night. "Computers don't just do things! People make computers do things. Every thing a computer does is something humans are responsible for."

I get why a hapless bank clerk would just blame the computer. But it's deeply weird to me to see technology companies blaming "the computer", except now it's blaming "the algorithm". We glory in how "software is eating the world" and we take all the money that computers produce. But that sense of responsibility often evaporates when something bad happens.
But that was an easy call for Mac since no one really cared about OS9, windows on the other hand still cares about supporting old tech since the people who give them a bunch of money a year are still running it.
As an org-babeler myself, and someone who has also used RMarkdown and Jupyter notebooks, I feel like these newcomers are quite underpowered compared to Org. Not to mention that mixing languages in a single doc is not possible / cumbersome with the others.

I do recognize, however, that being tied to emacs (the only complete implementation of org-mode / org-Babel today) is a liability. I wonder if some smart person will figure out a portable implementation in something else. Of course, it won't match the flexibility or extensibility of emacs, but perhaps it can still surpass Jupyter / RMarkdown.

I mention RMarkdown together with Jupyter simply because org-mode / org-Babel nearly addresses both the dynamic notebook use case as well as the document publishing use case (including nice academic feature like cross-references, which aren't supported in Markdown).
They are the most valuable publically-traded company in the world.
> Just look at Google's hostility towards maintaining standardized IMAP/SMTP support for third party mail clients. Google Apps and Office 365 would drop IMAP access to their services in a heartbeat if they could.

But they cannot, at least not for a foreseeable future. Both are used in enterprise environments, who would flee the first platform in droves which would disable IMAP/POP3.

And even if they'd both disable IMAP, people would write adapters.
Note, however, that Grigori Perelman was very good at mathematical olympiads.
Brain activity on a hypersphere
The coolest thing about this show I discovered was that every hack depicted is actually tested to see if it would work, and the screenshots cut into the show are always shown in the correct order of execution. Amazing.

Wish there was a clip on YouTube but their tech consultant Kor Adana explains it in the "Hacking Robot" panel discussion they ran after the season premiere (around 8:50 tons of ads sorry): http://www.usanetwork.com/mrrobot/videos/hacking-robot-101
It's more the case that Gates left plenty of low hanging fruit to pick.

Almost the entire revenue growth was in repricing stuff that was widely adopted because it was cheap, and a few short lived "innovations" that people are already abandoning everywhere.