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Yes, this is how it should be done. Actually, if I ran a company, I would go further. There would be no affirmative action or quota nonsense. Best person for the job, that is all. I care only about ability, work ethic, and whether they are a fit for the team/company. Anyone whose resume was being forwarded would have the name and any other gender/age/race info removed by HR before sending. And for anyone who came in for an interview but we passed on I would require the written, documented reason just to have for record-keeping. That way, HR could periodically go in and retroactively analyze to see if there was any sort of bias (intentional or not) or other funny business going on.

That's how you maximize your productivity and efficiency and, by extension, profit. It also motivates people because they know they are much closer to a true meritocracy.
This. I just don't understand the thinness obsession. I was given an iPhone by my work recently and I am amazed how impractical it is. It's slippery to hold, difficult to pick up and just incredibly fragile. I was recommended to buy a case for it ASAP. There's basically no chance it will survive a drop. Personally I think the design is awful. It's the "emperor's new clothes".
Apple tries to keep developers and their users as separate as possible. Developers only get aggregate stats from Apple, they get no personal information on the individuals, and there's no way to send a message through Apple either. The only way to communicate something to your whole user base is to put it in an update's release notes and hope everybody reads it. And of course that doesn't work if you've been banned from the store!
They weren't linked in the UI. They were "linked" in Apple's backend system according to secret heuristics. The dev had no idea they were linked, so I hate seeing people stating "the accounts were linked" as if that's something he should have known or anticipated.

How many random devs and accounts have been secretly "linked" to my account? I have no idea.
I've been using the Shrinkpack tool ( https://github.com/JamieMason/shrinkpack ) to do that with NPM, and am trying to figure out how to do the same thing with Yarn (per my request at https://twitter.com/acemarke/status/785886788493553664 ).

Definitely looking forward to that blog post from the Yarn team, but I'd definitely be interested in your own comments on how to use that "checked-in tarballs" approach.
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That can be problematic for reasons other than size. Usually minified files will not contain any newlines, meaning that not only is the file rather large, it is effectively all on a single line.

I've seen things like vim have problems with files like that, I think mostly from trying to syntax highlight the visible region.
Can you just contribute as you instead of as your company?
I think I grok that some simplifications are more useful and teachable than others, and that it's possible to accomplish useful things by simplifying (and also by misleading). But I don't think you have to be a hardcore logical positivist to think these are distinct notions from "validity". My impression is that you have psychological or statistical training, so when you used the word in your original comment I assume you know what it meant.
It would have been nice if the article spent a paragraph or two on what constituted a trapdoor prime. The only thing I saw was that trapdoors were close to a power of two.

All tease, no delivery.
Very cool stuff! Some boards, like the beaglebone, have specialized hw like PRUs or I2C pins. Is it possible to access these with Docker containers? Also, what is the minimum memory footprint? i.e. how many containers can I fit within say 1 GB.
Ironically, Mobile IPv6 uses spoofing for route optimization.
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There's an important distinction between "regulating" as in setting prices, and "regulating" as in setting the rules of the competitive marketplace.

For example: You can't sell phones that explode. You can sell phones that are cheaper than the competition.
There is an important difference in that they don't act like neonazis typically do. Nevertheless I think it's even more important to keep in mind that despite what names people may assign to them, ideologically there is no notable distinction.

These are people who don't value freedom or equality. They are driven by hatred of anyone different from themselves and accept as moral only what confirms that hatred, sometimes bastardizing religion in the process.

They're not special. They are no different than the people so many have fought throughout human history to get the freedom and the approximation of equality we have reached today.

The only noteworthy thing about them is that they've shown that many people are too comfortable in their human rights. Those rights aren't natural and they aren't self-evident only our belief in them is. Human rights do require work not just to acquire but to maintain, wherever and whenever you are.
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"Note: Our fees below do not include charges that your bank or intermediate banks involved in SWIFT transfers may levy."

This could be tricky for US banks. Make sure you ask your bank about SWIFT charges before sending money otherwise you could end up paying additional for a SWIFT transfer.
Just an update. Hourly rate high $$ to $$$.
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Nor Ubuntu, nor Debian produce nVidia drivers.
As a person that owns both a Samsung Washer & Dryer (they just did a recall on top load washers I believe), a Samsung Refrigerator, and at one point a Samsung television, I can assure you all of their products (that I have owned or currently own) are poorly designed, and more so, poorly manufactured garbage. I will never knowingly buy a Samsung product again. I replaced the TV after it came out about their efforts to track user behavior, etc.. The TV and its apps were garbage anyhow. Stay away from Samsung.

OTOH, the Galaxy S3 wasnt too bad, but perhaps that's b/c I have been conditioned to bad phones since every phone I've owned since the Motorola flip & the Razr has been complete shit.
I think that is actually a document version, nothing to do with tracking.
It sounds like you're making a pretty good argument for "push users to update and they will".
The author (Mark Handley)'s other publications:

http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/M.Handley/papers/

Some very good reading.
I thought the "new resume" was Stack Overflow Careers, which I spent USD$29 for back in the day. To SO's credit at the time, they offered a full refund if one was ever not satisfied. I never took them up on it, though I should have considering that it was a waste of $29 for all the value I got out of it. I spent a fair bit of time sprucing up that profile, got very few hits, and the quality of the leads was no better or worse than what I'd get off LinkedIn. IOW, random recruiters spamming.

So when the recent email hit my inbox, it was with a healthy dose of skepticism that I just immediately deleted it.
I guess i got the alternate impression because i read the original Swedish article text...
To be fair there it's likely that there's a bit of victimization there as well if it's harder to go into one field vs. another due to social norms. You get it from both sides, too! "You're a man, why do you want to be a nurse??". Going back to tech, if you were a borderline woman candidate that wanted to get in it seems that you would statistically be less likely to follow that dream.

I like to step back and just say that it's not something that has to be fixed if a cadre of people appear to "collectively decide" based on individual decisions. It sucks that if you are in the cadre and have to fight the perception that you should(n't) be doing something. But I think (as I suspect you do as well) that saying that your individual decision should be different simply because you share an identifying trait with others is broken.

Ideas that men or women are some collective that needs to be pushed one way or another are difficult. You can generalize based on the apparent preferences of the group, but then judging an individual based on those preferences is where it starts to get troublesome.
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I personally use both macOS and Arch Linux and am much happier with the Linux experience:

- GNOME 3.22 has pretty great HiDPI and most GTK apps work very well with it + it looks great with the Arc theme + Numix icons

- A small virtual machine for Lightroom may be easier than Wine, or try a commercial, supported fork like Crossover

- The system is just soo much lighter and more responsive than macOS, no constant locks or spin wheels in 1/3rd of the CPU+RAM usage of a Mac.

- A package manager like pacman runs circles around Homebrew and the whole UNIX CLI toolset feels much more like a first class citizen

- Bugs are visible and traceable in the open and patches are often provided within a couple of days.

- WiFi on my 2015 15" MBP constantly drops for me, never happened to me under Linux (Arch specifically)

- The kernel can be compiled with only your specific modules, allowing for even faster, leaner system

- systemd is amazing and makes managing the system super easy

- Greater choice of file systems to fit your needs, most of which are not 30 year old and do not operate on a single file at a time.

- Even if the GUI freezes, it's super easy to switch to a tty and restart the display server, avoiding a hard reset

- Hardware with proper GPU available, allowing you to play over 2000 games on Steam, including some which are not on Mac at all

- Vulkan support/more likely to support future games

- Runs cooler and quieter

- Not subject to one company's whims and control

- I also have an iPhone, apart from iOS dev, why is this a concern for you under Linux?

- Rolling release if you want it, (contrary to popular opinion, very stable, I had the same install for 3 years without issues and that involved swapping the entire init system)

- Free as in freedom software, passionate people and community, generally much more of a developer/like minded individual type of crowd if you care about that
With it comes a sense that you're contributing to something having real impact out there.
Sometimes there isn't a TL;DR. Like explaining cancer or quantum physics in 30 seconds misses most of the important details.
Sorry, I had the impression from the GP that you were trying to replicate a CPU-based task on a GPU.
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This also does not help: https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/3926
Very glad to hear. Its this sentiment exactly that led us to get this started. We all have 100s of valuable tricks and gotchas we learn over the years, but 99% of the time fail to write down and share them helpfully. Do join us on Slack/GitHub and help us get your tips included, too.
Near where my parents live, coyotes have returned. They have been killing a lot of outdoor cats. I wonder if a reintroduction of coyotes to some areas would control cat populations naturally.
You can bypass the "request an invite" to play by directly visiting these links:

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Resumes are extremely easy to exaggerate or fabricate. I haven't seen fake github profiles yet (and I suspect they would be more trouble than they are worth).

I am often brought in on the hiring process to vet peoples technical skills. I used to just try to ask questions in the hour or two I got with the person, this seemed no better than flipping a coin. Even if the person was honest and we were both talking about the same skill, but how do I know that their experience with that skill is applicable? Now I insist on seeing a portfolio of some kind for coders. A Github, Bitbucket, Sourceforge or any other publicly viewable body of source will do.

15 minutes with someones code is a much better predictor of skill than even several hours of discussion. It costs a lot less too.
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> Now in my opinion that is a fair request and if I were in his shoes I would of done just that because I can see how Apple could of tied the two accounts together.

He did do that though. He wrote a [blog post draft][1] that mentioned the "linked account" and sent it in to them for review.

Rather than respond to or approve his blog post draft email, Apple went behind his back to the press with statements that omitted all of the "linked account" circumstances and painted him as a legit scammer.

[1]: https://kapeli.com/apple_draft
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> Then someone said that open offices offer substantial collaboration for employees.

> From the other side, I get management types telling me to keep my voice down, because I'm disturbing the collaborators.

> But cubicles are somehow terrible.

As someone who grew up in the Eastern Bloc, I find this kind of Doublethink almost... nostalgic? Ahhh, the good old days, when we were all following Dear Leader's flawless directives!
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Good point. I should have been more specific. I agree that the Enneagram is useful personally in business, but I'd caution against HR departments attempting to categorize their employees based on type and draw judgments from the results. (Again, this could be different at the executive level, where companies may be seeking a certain type or "flavor" of leadership.)
IMHO yes.

It is probably an easy local maxima with relatively fast convergence

Far harder are

a. "planning" - finding the optimal path through sequential turns

b. generalizing the learned experience to a new, unseen situation

Would love the get feedback from the author on this
Also not forgetting Twitter's history of selling user's data for hard cash:

http://blog.datasift.com/2012/02/28/twitter-historic-data/

http://www.acxiom.com/acxiom-data-matching-globally-availabl...
What? No: you cannot "counter" an experience with a non-experience. Users often directly experience the pain of upgrading. This teaches them to avoid upgrading. Users cannot directly experience the pain of not upgrading: that isn't a thing they can experience. At some time fundamentally uncorrelated to their decision to not upgrade an event which may or may not have been prevented if they upgraded happens to them (and that's assuming they even understand what is going on! usually this manifests as "computer is running slower").

This is like trying to teach someone to take extreme safety precautions around the magic glowing green rock that you insist will make them get sick and die thirty years later if they don't follow some exacting procedure that involves wearing a suit with a mask that actively hurts to wear: one with sharp edges which cuts their face and has even on multiple times left them with a scar.

Sure: maybe you can try to spend a bunch of time teaching this person about radiation, but there are billions of them and they don't care. You can force them to wear the suit and make their lives painful and shitty. Or maybe you can admit to yourself that "maybe I am part of the problem" and make the suit not actively hurt to wear. You can't get rid of the suit, but we can at least decrease the attrition as much as possible.

As far as I am concerned, Apple (and I am not neccessarily saying they are unique: only that I only can explicity state at them as I have been so centrally in their ecosystem for the past decade) actively scorns their "uneducated" users, refusing to accept any blame for the people who don't upgrade, and this is whether you are examining at their actual engineering practices, consuming their marketing messages ("be courageous"), or you talk to them in person (my favorite so far being someone who told me they are proud to work there as Apple is willing to tell our users that they are just afraid of the future and will need to adjust).

And again: even looking past this problem (that you really can't "counter" experience with non-experience), providing "stable" upgrades as the default that do not push people to do major upgrades with totally-unrelated massive user interface changes or gratuitously incompatible architecture breakages. Does this take time and thought? Yes. But if you aren't doing this, you--not the user!--are directly responsible for any loss of life or property that results from users not upgrading.

(FWIW, this is actually related in an interesting way to how people in my country, America, do not trust scientists. Rather than attempting to increase trust in science among the general population, which is the reason why countries that have high vaccination rates are where they are, people would prefer to blame the uneducated masses--end users who are constantly being jerked around by popular science reporting who are probably just sick of being told about stuff that never happens or being told to do first one thing and then the opposite next year--and legislate them into forced compliance :/.)
True, but they could just show google the same thing they show users who are not logged in. They just choose not to.
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Can you elaborate on "when under attack, not very predictable"?
You know what kind of responses you are asking for without adding: /s ? :)
Fantastic guide! The cost management part with spot and network usage is extremely helpful and practical. Thanks for pushing this out!
Yes, that. On macOS, that was indeed a pain, on day 1 in 2012. Four years later, I can't even remember the last time I used an application that didn't support HiDPI properly.
Meh, my experience was the opposite - S2 died quickly, S3 was slow and with bloated software, Note 4 was and still is great. But anecdotes about one or two people's experience don't prove anything.
I'd love to go to Antarctica.
Not having predictive power means it is not better than chance at predicting any X.

There are results that show MBTI has no predictive power against job performance. It has not been tested against any other measure.

That said, MBTI shows bad orthogonality in the factors in its response. This suggests the factors are ill defined.
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I'd suspect both.

Women in tech are more closely scrutinized out of the sheer virtual of being a novel demographic within a company.

Upon close scrutiny it is discovered that these women are actually amazing practitioners, because all the women who were on the wrong side of the bell curve dropped out under their close scrutiny experienced in high school or university.

Thus women are promoted faster.

It's survivor bias.

Most people have a 'spotlight effect' in that they believe they are noticed more than they really are, but for a woman in tech it might actually be true.
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I'm not too worried. I'm sure the feminists are going to condemn these companies and call for the resignations of the executives and stage protests over this blatant inequity. And the media will plaster this all over the news to spread awareness. And these companies will take heat from clients, end users, and advertisers, right?
> RC jet planes

Holy JC on a bicycle, I didn't even think of that.

Yeah, good point. Forgot about those.
Instead of us filling the thread with invite requests, could you post your email?
Ask HN: Any direct experience using QA services
We're a startup building consumer website (mobile and desktop). We're too small to test different device types, screen sizes, etc., and have noticed som QA as a service type companies.

Does anyone have any direct experiences with these services?
I must admit that spending time on NH is like spending time on usenet of old. You never know who will show up to discuss a topic.
> There are a lot of worthless measures we use out there. Body Mass Index (BMI) is another one. This scale was developed in the mid 1800s and you can do a simple search to find tons of criticism on it. If you're overweight/obese, you will have a high BMI, but not everyone with high BMI is overweight (especially if you're very tall or very short).

The metric system was developed in the 1800s and you can do a simple search to find tons of criticism on it.

Being tall or short is accounted for by BMI, as it's a component of BMI. So that is not a problem.

The actual problem with BMI is that it attempts to measure body composition, but it assumes that fat is the only variable component of body composition. It's not--muscle can also vary. So people with a lot of muscle mass can have a very high BMI even if they have very little fat.

However, in practice this isn't a problem--nobody looks at a body builder and says they're fat because they have a high BMI. It's obvious when a high BMI is caused by fat and when it's caused by muscle.

BMI is a pragmatic way to measure body composition, which is effective for estimating body composition when body composition isn't obvious, such as in the case of a body builder. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either misinformed, or has political reasons for saying otherwise.

This is not to disagree with your overall point--industry does grasp into measurements and make business models out of them. But in the case of BMI, political interests have become invested in discrediting the BMI measurement, not in overcrediting it.
Two countries close to Antarctica, Chile and Argentina, are not signatories to the Antarctic Treaty and have territorial claims. Both of these countries already have a decent amount of natural resource extraction (especially Chile), so one would reason that if it is worth mining, they would be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_Antarctica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_Antarctic_Territory

One could also look at the interior of Greenland, which is Danish territory. No serious development of any kind occurs there - it's all along the coasts.
1. Fixing the first step is important and necessary.
2. Exposure at the next level will normalize the idea that women and non-whites should be given serious consideration in hiring.
I thought the MBTI was fun because it made me feel better about myself.

It didn't actually solve anything though.
Alternatives are not cheaper if you count the labor and the cost of the machines.
Nobody says the first mission to Mars will be humans. We will absolutely have to deliver some machines and materials first. Which is perfect for testing the rockets.
Agreed this is just awful