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The candidates don't file a complaint with the DoL. DoL already has information on ethnicity. All Govt. contractors are required to collect this information. The applicants of course can refuse to divulge that information I believe.

It is foolish to create one bucket called "asian" and throw in people from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia Philippines in addition to those from China, Japan and Korea. I personally do not think that the students have time to sit around and play the "race card". They've probably moved on to other things.

I've also noticed the lack of diversity in startups that is disproportionately affecting minorities. Software being what it is is usually a trade off between many solutions that actually work in the short term. So it is actually pretty easy to hire friends of friends and so on and if they can get something to work, you'll convince yourself that you've hired the right person for the job.

Friends being friends will easily pass the "culture fit" test.

Anyway I see a lot of direct and veiled comments against interview candidates from Asian countries with reference to their accents etc. I don't think HN should be the place for such comments. Having worked in the Bay Area, I can say that an accent is the last thing on anybody's mind once you've proved competence.
Isn't the difference here that you have the freedom to leave or not use Whatsapp if you wanted to?

Even the supposed FB shadow profiles would be hard pressed to reconstruct habit information.
> (from the article) While WhatsApp has framed the changes as a way to give people a better service, not everyone is convinced.

Need I remind everyone how another american company called IBM helped to collect information about people in Germany and how it ended, so it's not strange that germans are "not convinced".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II
The majority of Clojure's special syntax is for data structures, and while Clojure doesn't have reader macros, it does have data readers.
That's really good though. Similarly, Jim Butcher's "The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault" is great prose.
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Mars has no magnetic field so you get cooked with radiation.

Mars' soil contains tons of perchlorate at levels which are very toxic to humans.

TBH Venus seems like a better candidate for long term terraforming.

You can build floating complexes in it's upper atmosphere, and it has enough oxygen and water locked in it's atmosphere and we might be able to fix the rotation and the density of the atmosphere in one go by using the atmosphere to speed up the rotation of Venus.
While both of these are quite "far fetched" technically, as far as terraforming goes we aren't any closer to terraforming mars than Venus, and at least for Venus we don't need to figure out how to give it a magnetic field.
I didn't say it did.

I wasn't saying that new grads are, on average, better than experienced hires. I was just saying that experience is not everything.

An experienced hire will outperform a new grad on a "build this project in 3 hours" test. But the new grad might actually be a fundamentally better engineer - they might be smarter, more careful, etc. Given 3 - 6 months of training, the new grad might actually make better technical decisions.

Obviously, the reverse can also happen: the experienced hire might be not only more knowledgable, but also smarter, more careful, etc.

The problem with the "build a project in 3 hours" test is that it weights experience and knowledge so heavily that you end up eliminating people who could be great, with a little bit of training.

Again, a new grad could also be a fundamentally terrible software engineer (there are fundamentally terrible software engineers with experience and with no experience). And in 20 years, they'll be a terrible software engineer with 20 years of knowledge and experience. They might be able to build a 3-hour project better than some smart inexperienced coder but I'd still rather hire the smart inexperienced coder (assuming I have some time to train them).

Ultimately, ALL hiring processes are flawed.
Is anybody actually pretending that?
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Even if it's free, converting energy to thrust at say 1:0.95 mechanically you can go faster vs. 1:0.35 with a heat engine.
I'm actually appalled that so many people make comments just like you have and show an ignorance of basic economics and would also assume that everyone can _turn down_ work.

Were you never a teenager? In fact these laws have made it prohibitive to higher local teen agers. Eventually, the trouble of hiring will overcome the initial capital outlay for robots (which can now even do berry picking). You are going to chase people out of work.

Learn about the subjects you are discussing (farming and economics) before coming to wild conclusions.
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding the question, but the article clearly describes that they're using Hyper-V to launch a separate instance of the kernel and the browser in a "container" (which is later "discarded").
Civilization isn't the human species, it's a higher level and far more fragile thing.

If a small fraction of civilization survived a global disaster in bunkers, it's very possible they would regress during the aftermath and never achieve a global society like ours again.

A self sustaining civilization on Mars guarantees not just our survival in the Darwin sense, but our continued technological advancement and expansion.
In my experience over the past year, programmer interviews are almost all the way towards the "preparation" (learning to interview, not learning to do the job) end of the scale, with a unhealthy doses of sadism and elitism. I've rarely been asked anything that has something meaningful to do with my abilities as an engineer, only demeaning HackerRank style tests that check only for algorithmic academics knowledge, insulting take-home exams that ignore existing code and industry experience, and torturous whiteboard sessions that select for nothing except ability to withstand day-long in-person inquisitions.

HackerRank is a symptom of the terrible interview cult that is pervasive in our industry which is so extremely guarded against the fabled false positive hire. It is designed with absolute certainty that no one is qualified for any job unless they are some silly notion of a 10x engineer or "hacker" while claiming there is an engineering shortage. It allows us to opine about how terrible impostor syndrome is while simultaneously engendering it in others through these interview practices. It allows us to write off people with experience who are further out from college (and therefore older) or never even went under the guise of algorithmic knowledge requirements without admitting ageism.

As to other industries, I have little direct experience. I know that my friends and family (none of which are in tech) have been on interviews that are humane and conversational as opposed to the inquisition our industry supports. They have all been aghast at what I've been going through.
I have thought about creating a startup studio, but this doesn't really solve the problem just shifts it to a new location. Instead of not having the time to start a startup, I now have the problem of not having the time to start a startup studio :)
Instapaper is better for this:

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It seems that the missing piece here is that John does not know that Phone(Mary) = Phone(Bill), and thus he (or we) cannot draw the conclusion Knows(John, Phone(Bill)). In order words, inference of items under Knows(.) must use only items under Knows(.) .
I turned out to be a better investor than an entrepreneur (though somewhat to my surprise running YC is more about running a company than being an investor).

I think I've learned a lot from working closely with entrepreneurs that run massively successful companies that's worth sharing.

If you disagree, no one is making you watch this. You're free to hit the back button.
I'm not clear on what the link is supposed to be getting me. Phonetics and Phoenician are two different things. Right?
I had something similar-ish with a desktop PC: when I plugged headphones into my amp and that into motherboard sound output, I could hear all sorts of faint squelchy noises that seemed to correlate both with what is going on on the screen as well the CPU. Some things always sounded the exact same (like running a certain command etc.)... it was both very fascinating and annoying. If a program sometimes ran fine and sometimes crashed, I could tell by ear right when either happened, etc.
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The thing I don't like about whiteboard: A solid candidate that has a bug near the top of a function ends up looking sloppy because whiteboards don't have "insert". The same candidate making the same bug at the bottom of the function can just erase a closing brace and continue looking marvelous. It's very arbitrary I think.
They're in their 20s but yeah--we have a good time!
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Probably because the general internet population is conditioned to a "one place fits all" approach. Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, etc all are places where any content of any kind is welcome.

I personally think the Stack Exchange network is effective because it creates communities that specialize rather than a single generalized community. But new arriving users have a preconceived conception that all content is welcome.

I think a lot of that could be alleviated by binding together the "Stack Exchange Network" into a more cohesive single site though. Kind of how each subreddit can have its own rules, culture, and community, but it's still very clearly part of Reddit TM.

It would be neat if there was a single entry point into the Stack Exchange Network where you could post a question, with a dropdown for selecting which "network" you think is most appropriate.

They do appear to slowly be increasing this sort of cross-syndication between network sites, but it definitely has room for improvement.
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Not necessarily. I ran sysbench with InnoDB and manually switched off transactions, and it was a lot slower. I don't know why - didn't look into it.

upscaledb does use transactions. I.e. if you insert a row with a primary and a secondary index then upscaledb inserts two key/value pairs in two databases. All these operations are wrapped in Transactions. They are just not yet supported on SQL level.
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This video (wanderers) does not give a reason, but it sums up quite nicely the way I feel it: https://youtu.be/YH3c1QZzRK4
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I couldn't agree more. This past year my life goal was to relocate closer to family. When I graduated college I lavished at the taste of freedom and independence. After experiencing that for 5 years, that filial bond was something that was irreplaceable. Especially considering I have 0 drive to have children any time soon, it was hard to find any kind of replacement. I'm happily married but it's definitely a different feeling that my wife should never be expected to fill.
Luck is a massive, massive factor in many ways, but I generally think you should make decisions as if it weren't a factor.
Ugh, they should know better than to use CVE as a metric. Should we assume that Opera is the most secure browser then?
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By top 10 YC startup standards, Paul Graham's Viaweb success isn't all that interesting either.

But, of course: if the model they're building with YC works, this is the outcome you'd expect. YC wouldn't be very interesting if its outcomes were capped to Viaweb's and Loopt's.
These debates always end up with people talking past each other. One side will say that present living conditions are better than they ever were in the past. The other will say that past frontiers provided freedoms and opportunities that aren't available today. Both these things are true -- you are talking about different things.
Well, no time like the present to start working on it then! So maybe instead of sinking billions into a dead-end. We put billions into AGI.

I know that's what I'm doing.
Thanks, that's a solid resource that I wasn't aware of. It's interesting how you're generating Java stubs using your K Schema format.

I like the idea of using RDF as a universal data model. I buy the power of graphs in general, and RDF seems much more useful than a generic object-property graph thanks to built in support for namespaces and reasoners.

My hesitation about the concept comes from concerns around performance and implementation difficulty. It looks like you've built some solid tools to ease the initial modelling challenge, how are you addressing the performance challenges? That is, once you pull several data sources into a huge graph, how do you keep query speed up?
"A bad early semester with a C in physics and B- in calculus (not at all uncommon at places with less grade inflation) can spell the end of your CS major." Which is terrible because the amount of physics a software engineer will use is non-existent.
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How does repeating the same tasks every day for 20 years make someone a better software engineer?

There are better and worse candidates in either camp. I developed software professionally for about two years before graduated. Is it 20 years? Nope. Conversely, it's more experience than many college grads. Working with super talented individuals with an express focus of learning/improving also gave me a hell of a lot more than "a fresh recollection of algorithms."
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>in the lens of being an entrepreneur

This is a valid point, but the majority of the content in this video (and in this series) is to help entrepreneurs. As the President of YC, his entire life now is spent helping entrepreneurs and given his track record in helping companies becoming very serious brands out of quite literally nothing [1] is clearly important and something worth listening to.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Y_Combinator_startups
While the US has a more mobile population, most Americans still live within half an hour of where they grew up: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-fa...
Is your use of "armchair logic" a criticism of the theory that Io is volcanic largely because of tidal energy?

I often wonder about the results of planetary geology. Even the interior of the earth is still not very well understood, and most of the methods we use to understand it (e.g. seismometers) are not yet usable outside earth.
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That's a moot argument because every human transaction, whether money or messaging, has meta data tied to it that can be exploited by bad actors.
I read one in the series because of that good reputation. I can confirm that it wasn't good -- formulaic and kind of boring. In retrospect it almost felt like a parody of the genre. (I was reminded of the prolific fantasy author character in Neal Stephenson's REAMDE.)
That point is not in dispute. What I think would be better than spending the amount of effort and time to get to Mars, which I am unconvinced solves our long term problems in any way, would be to better pool those resources into solving the root issues that afflict humanity like aging, pathogens, degenerative diseases, the need for so much food, the pollution we create, and the resources we consume. Working towards changing the human into something better, whether it be through improving our own hardware(biology) or bringing us into a digital realm(cognition). If we don't do that sooner, we're more likely to continue to suffer from the problems we are inevitably facing and end up, as I said earlier, turning planets into mere storage compartments. We can certainly do multiple things at once, but resources are not infinite, and I don't think all avenues of spending those resources make sense.
I agree that the post is severely underspecified. I think the point is the last paragraph of the linked section:

> Phoenician had long-term effects on the social structures of the civilizations which came in contact with it. As mentioned above, the script was the first widespread phonetic script. Its simplicity not only allowed it to be used in multiple languages, but it also allowed the common people to learn how to write. This upset the long-standing status of writing systems only being learned and employed by members of the royal and religious hierarchies of society, who used writing as an instrument of power to control access to information by the larger population.[11] The appearance of Phoenician disintegrated many of these class divisions, although many Middle Eastern kingdoms such as Assyria, Babylonia and Adiabene would continue to use cuneiform for legal and liturgical matters well into the Common Era.

That is, Phoenician was the first wide-spread phonetic script. That, in turn, had major effects on civilizations as it was simple enough for commoners to learn. That being the rather tenuous link back to the original idea of teaching reading based on phonetics.

Of course, there is a bit of a gap here, in that English phonetics are notoriously unstandardized across the lexicon.
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> Unfortunately right now Telsa shares are being loaned out for around 100%, which is extraordinarily high. For reference, if you wanted to say short Google you would expect to pay around 0.35%, a third of a percent.

As someone who has never shorted a stock before:

Why is the cost of shorting so TSLA high? Is it high demand for shorts? Is there some reason that stockholders are unwilling to let others borrow their stock? Are there no institutional investors that are interested in going long on TSLA?
Dismissing a company because one engineer there is bad at interviewing seems potentially short-sighted.

One could swap "a company" and "one engineer there" and still have a perfectly valid argument.
Not just contacts, some users obsessively tag photos with full name even when they captured non-fb users in their photos. And often there is no way for non-users to find out about it other than by joining facebook.
What kind of users are they?
> mostly people that search chat sites like "free chat sites without registration" and those that click links on chat link pages.

Do they chat about everything or is there a theme or geographical niche?
> Dutch visitors, 99%. No theme, just a single chatbox, and another one for registered users. Mostly chatting about adult related stuff or searching for men/woman.

What kinds of ads are displaying through adsense?
> anything, I took the advice that popped up in google adsense.

How long did it take you to get to 3k users?
> took me a few years, but i spent just a few hours a week like half a year to get those monthly 3K.

Do you feel like it will be hard to get more?
>Just figuring that out now.

Why did you throw up adsense at such low traffic?
> Someone told me I could get $ for throwing adsense on my site and i was wondering how much that would be
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I'm pretty OK with electric cars making fake engine noises. The Prius owner in my neighborhood would be semi regularly creaming people if they didn't have any auditory indication that he was about to come cruising out of the alley without slowing down to check for pedestrians.

It doesn't have to be engine noises, it could be playing some sort of crazy "woop woop woop" sound for all I care, but I'm guessing the owner would prefer it be something a bit less embarrassing.
Let's plus one this fella, lads!

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Why does the Mars 24.5 hr day versus the Moons 28 day-day matter? What are the consequences of this big difference between Earth day and the moon/Mars day?
You're kind of talking out of your ass here, fyi. They have been introduced and they have been found. Don't underestimate Google's resources on chrome. Especially considering that many Google security folks were previously at MS.
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I don't understand this sentiment. It's so incredibly backwards.

What do you do for a living? Your profile says you work on DeployBot.com. Why? We have so many problems on why are you working on something to deploy code? Shouldn't you be working in medicine to help those in need? You shouldn't you be working on reducing CO2? You shouldn't be working on any code deployment tools until we solve healthcare. It's really irresponsible.

Do you see the issue here? There is no reason someone can't spend their money (or company's money) to pursue a goal they're passionate about.
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On French > English and English > Spanish it's almost indistinguishable from human translations. On the rest it still gets greater than half the distance between the previous best method and human quality translations. This is a massive step forward.
We have made our earth worse for habitat, in the name of doing "cool things" and "make life worth living". But still we can live here and find happiness, unlike Mars. Living in Mars and building cities there is wonderful. The project might even succeed completely. But people will find more "emptiness" in space than on earth.
> and is larger

I see this as a disadvantage; the major difficulty of space exploration is getting out of the Earth's gravity well. I don't think it's wise to fall back into another one.
This is correct.

But what's pointed out is that it only protects citizens. It clarifies, as there was a deadlock in the Senate over the issue before it, that non-citizens (other persons) or those no longer recognized as citizens (i.e. lost due to joining a foreign army or suspected of national security violations such as terrorism) do not have these protections.

The Constitution of course evaluates people as having these rights. It's a bit of a silly game to try to pretend that The Constitution is relevant today as it was written hundreds of years ago - but these differences are crucial. The placement of the boundary of habeus corpus - for all of the recent experimentation the United States has been doing with it - has been clarified by Lee-Feinstein as short of a protection for people and only a protection that extends to certain people under certain circumstances.
I thought the black was paint impregnated with tiny iron oxide balls to absorb radar energy?

edit: they say that farther down the page

"...and a radar-absorbing element was added to the paint."
Watching the presentation I don't see Elon saying that. Likely when we can terraform Mars we can also recapture CO2 and terraforming would be far away. Perhaps you should watch the presentation before commenting negatively on it?