skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it didn't work. The idea of cutting the hours was that overall, there would be a savings because the nurses would take less sick leave and it would improve patient care.

While there was some improvement, it didn't actually save any money and now costs more money from the government and to hire more staff to cover the work that needs to be done.

Money is finite. They can't just get it out of thin air. If the goal was to save money and that didn't happen, they didn't reach their goal.
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...

Never female dominated (at least, in terms of degrees), but there was much less of a gap.

I couldn't find occupational statistics, only academic. I did find a lot of anecdotes about software being a stereotypically female activity, but I couldn't find actual data.
One example: 구리 (Roman : guli for player Gu Li), is translated to Copper (Literal Word meaning).

One area google translate could look at is the name identification from the context and using roman instead of literal translation.
I wouldn't give any credit to Google with regards to driver-less cars. Tesla actually has product and software out on the market and infrastructure to support their ambitions.
I'm not aware of any remote work policy, but there are the occasional remote people. Every big tech company will make exceptions for their top people and accommodate unusual arrangements, even Microsoft.

> massive refurbished warehouses

I wouldn't say "warehouses" --- the visual design is quite good, with a modernist bent. Frank Gehry designed the last few new offices.

But yes, the offices are very open. Fortunately, you don't have to be there in order to code.
Anyone know how many full-time workers are employed in battery factories currently? With that figure we could estimate the Gigafactory productivity multiplier for labor.
So, still more European than N/S American?
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I participated in a workshop where they made groups, and each group had to come up with a really, really awful idea (based on a topic, say restaurant experience), and then a different group had to put a positive spin on it and sell it :)

It was very fun trying to sell such awful stuff, and it did exercise creativity, which was the point :) .
This seems like a win for Go, at least to me.

I wrote a random sentence generator in Python several years ago. A bit later, I wrote my blog using Java EE. Early on, I had an idea: put that generator in Jython, and spit out a random sentence on every request. It's probably the one feature that I was OK to let go, should I switch platforms.

Since Oracle has only gotten more evil and Java more stagnant over the years (especially in light of TLS features), I've been thinking of possible alternatives. I've been intrigued by newer compiled languages, and it's come down to either Go or Rust, but I've yet to dig too far into them. I might have a winner.
And polls never indicated the UK would vote out of the EU until it did. So sure, perhaps Wilders won't get anywhere once again. But he's not getting less popular.

Political pressure in Europe is building and there doesn't seem to be much of a release valve: in a well functioning democracy you would see other politicians react to a popular upstart by co-opting some of their policies, but that doesn't seem to be happening much (except maybe in France a little bit?).
Facebook Implementing Payment Request API into an In-App Browser Experience
I'd add: Zero help in their forums.
> been very easy for some with Feynman's skills to get access to if they wanted

I thought Feynman was a physicist. What skills are you speaking of? Was he a spy in a former life or something?
The experiment was to find any positive benefits. If you look at it from that perspective (as a research project) it makes much more sense. Before we could guess what benefits would result, but now we know.
This pilot was actually not 6-hour workday, but 30 hour workweek. Yes, it is true that the politicians that decided it called it for 6-hour workday, but in reality is was 30 hour workweek and nothing else, because of how the facility works with scheduling and so on (regulations etc).

Nurses worked between 5 to 7 hours on day shifts resulting in a 30 hour workweek. Night shifts was 6 to 8 hours.

I think it is important to stress this fact that it was about workweek and not workday. Almost all media reporting on this (Swedish as well) misses this fact. You have to read the report to get that.

Personally I rather work more one day and less the other. It is the flexibility over a week that is more interesting than over a day.

report after 18 months 2016-10-11

https://sverigesradio.se/diverse/appdata/isidor/files/104/75...
Sure. And I'm not saying that's not a problem, but here's the basic thing you need to know about preference:

If your real valuation turns out to be lower than what you raised money at, preference will eat a bunch or all of your valuation.

And this shouldn't really surprise anyone. It's like some people at HN heard the old joke "How do you make a million in publishing? Start with ten million," and thought:

a. Yes, that seems valid.

b. Where's my share of the resulting million?
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Probably so the shifts could be organized better. If the nursing home runs 24 hours, it's easier to move from 8 hour shifts to 6 than to find a way for some people to be on 7 hour shifts.
Did you negotiate the 6-hour-day up front or just...uh...you know...work 6 hours, as it were?
I recently talked to a friend (who, yes is female) who took a required programming course. She is an English major, but she found python fun and she's planning to take another course on it next year.

While everyone here is discussing SJ vs not SJ[0], I think this article is another data point in my belief that a liberal arts education, or one that requires a number of pre-requisites across fields, is so beneficial. Being well rounded and schools requiring general ed's across the spectrum helps people discover interest in things they never thought they would be interested in.

I am on my way to a Physics Ph.D., but next to my undergraduate QM courses, I am most thankful for my undergraduate's German classes, philosophy, and a history course about the US Presidents (this one required us to read primary sources, letters, unedited tape transcripts, tedious for someone who had other commitments like studying for the Physics GRE, but it was super enlightening). At the time, I railed against general ed requirements and I considered them as a waste of my time, but they do well to expose you to more of the world and round you out as an educated person.

[0]"not SJ" is the only term I could come up with.
"ensure a revenue-share"

Such a nice word for such an ugly business practice....
To be clear, I'm not saying that everyone should use 300 ppi displays, or that everyone would benefit. But you need to remember this goes both ways. Not everybody cares about battery life. Some people want 5 hours, and everything above that is superfluous. Some people basically never even unplug their laptops. Not everybody cares about the performance difference; as long as it renders browsers and office apps, it's fine. Others want 4k because it's a pixel doubled 1080p, and they like gaming at 1080p. Some people never even use the built-in monitor. There is no single, homogeneous sweet spot.

I agree that there are other useful steps. OLED laptops are happening, though scaling slowly. 144hz, variable framerate laptops are happening, and are set to completely take over the gaming laptop segment. Touch screen happened. Power efficiency is improving, a recent step being IGZO. It's not like these other aspects are being ignored.
"shot and killed" is either accidental (negligent homicide, a form of murder in the U.S. legal system) or intentional (uncontroversially homicide).

in the case of intentional we can distinguish between self-defense shootings and aggravated shootings. self-defense shootings might not have been intended to kill, in which case it could be merely aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, resulting in accidental death (i.e. manslaughter). the legal system here allows for juries to find a shooter non-culpable of homicide if there is a clear case for self-defense. legal non-culpability is a technicality (i.e. no criminal conviction), it doesn't mean there was no homicide involved. the other guy is still dead by the actions of another human. murder.
Last I heard that 20% time thing was pretty dead in reality, or that it became 120% time, no?
Wonder when we will see AI tutors appear? Seems like there is a massive potential to train an AI super player then have it teach you. Does anyone know of such tools yet? Guess there are probably many AI augmented things we use all the time (Google Search) but just don't know it. Fascinating to think.
That sounds more like a Zorthian fact than a Feynman fact.
For those not familiar with the swedish currency: I don't know how they calculated but 12 million SEK is more like 1.07 million GBP.
CoreLogic US Home Price Report Shows Prices Up 7.1 Percent in November 2016
The language used in his comment has no place on Hacker News [1].

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I guess you could consider things like hiking, surfing, camping, playing video games, going to parties, having lunch with friends, driving up the PCH with my dog, etc. as work but that seems awfully depressing. Sure...viewed from a business lens it's putting hours into honing a craft or building a network...but is it really work if you're not expecting a payoff at some point?

There's no right answer to the question I just posed, but I feel healthier when I look at activities outside my 9-5 as leisure and outlets. It doesn't mean I can't be good at them, but I would feel that I was cheapening my enjoyment of these activities (maybe by putting any value on them at all?) if I thought of them "work".
"some arbitrary constructed criteria"

I think that's the problem. It seems most of these criteria go along gender, race or sexual preferences lines. Nobody talks about shy people, disabled people, people with the wrong accent, fat people, older people, ugly people and so on. These groups get discriminated a lot against but nobody seems to care.

My company is rated as one of the most diverse companies in the but the diversity ends at race and gender.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned a big selling point of a well-built SPA: cross platform portability. The architecture of an SPA forces you to clearly separate backend and frontend, so that frontend web is effectively an independent client querying a backend API, just like a mobile app. With frameworks like react native, you can build your web app at the same time you build your mobile apps, realistically achieving 80%+ code reuse across platforms. When you're a small team trying to launch quickly and broadly, cross platform portability is very valuable.
A very simple tutorial for new users who never saw a vector drawing program would definitely be nice.

You definitely have to understand the app's model of things; this applies to every app, including things like notepad.exe. Users just happen have some prior exposure to certain models.

Clicking on toolbar buttons and reading the menu items, plus a little experimentation, also helps.
The same is true of most modern android phones with Google Now AFAIK. E.g Moto X was one of the first phones with a low power dedicated ASIC for wakeup-word recognition to further make it sustainable on mobile devices.
Nobody works 6 hours/day. Most contracts will be 35h (7 hours/day) to 39h per week.

In engineering/programming/etc. you either have such a contract or often unlimited hours contract (so the only limit by law is something like 72h/week, IIRC), and, in practice, you generally do about 45 hours/week. It doesn't matter if you have an unlimited hours contract or a nice strict 35h contracts: you'll work 45 hours anyway and your 10 extra hours per week will not be paid. And when I say they are not paid, I don't mean they are just not paid more than the regular ones, I mean they are not paid at all.

Only in large traditional companies, the extra hours are counted and either paid or exchanged for extra vacation. But large companies have now outsourced most of the work to subcontractors, which use unlimited contracts or simply do not give a fuck about respecting the laws and are small enough so that there is no union. And anyway, go and try to unionise engineers/computer scientists...
I would think that medicare becomes a sort of single-payer system; you get the same Basic Income and the costs of the insurance come from the pool.

I do think that some aspects of our tax system could be reworked. Creating a wealth tax and removing income and other redundant taxes seems to be a popular idea[1]

[1](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/opinion/to-reduce-inequali...)
I don't care about becoming very wealthy. The odds of success are too low. Sam ignores the hard question, which is what is the likelihood that you will spend many years of your life on a "hard problem" (or multiple problems) that end fruitlessly? I suspect it is quite high, and the failures are underreported. I've decided to just settle for a regular five-figures job that lets me afford my hobbies, which I find much more invigorating than wealth or coding. I have a side-project, which is numerical weather prediction in mountainous regions (something unlikely to be highly profitable), but it's a tinkering project that I enjoy even if it doesn't work out.
If you want a critique of the code: it shows a clear lack of understanding of Typescript/JS modules. Your Typescript is compiled to a single mega file and outputs a giant global variable. The namespace keyword in Typescript is often considered bad form versus proper module organization. You even have a module loader installed (SystemJS) to use, but you aren't actually using it for module loading, its almost just a glorified <script> tag with the way you have the code architected. With a little more configuration you could get a lot more mileage out of SystemJS. (Furthermore, your code retains comments with mentions at failures to understand modules in general and a previous attempt with RequireJS specifically.)

I'm not sure why you would assume no one could find faults in the code when they even have comments right there about said faults.
That is my dream. I would love to share the wealth with my employees, nay that is in accurate, partners that show up 9-5pm who weather the ups and downs not funding some coke snorting gordon gekko wannabe fuckboy lifestyle who thinks $100,000 USD is pocket change.

I'd give my hard working employees a good chunk of the company over VC any fucking day. I'd love to see a PHP developer take home high six digit bonus checks, even after they leave if the stuff they build keeps making the company money, sort of like the million dollar royalty fees that were paid to developers of Tomb Raider II.
Okay tough guy. Show us your working 10nm process.
The reference [1] is a decent spec. It might not be as formally rigorous as an ISO standard, but it's probably as good as Go's [2], which also a "reference".

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/reference/index.html

[2] https://golang.org/ref/spec
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I've thought a lot about this and the key is not just technology, but the ability to quickly automate the markets for the sale of water. In many cases, water is plentiful, it's just very hard to get it somewhere. Infrastructure combined with a way to automate water rights exchanges is a really important part of this equation.
That is totally wrong. In fact the MiFiD II EU financial regulations that are coming into force in 2018 say that any country can essentially be passported into the block as long as they have an "equivalent" regulatory regime.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/07/theres-a-little-known-eu-rule...

So your statement that such companies "can't expect" is wrong - in fact they can expect that, because the EU already committed to it.

This is posing a big problem for the EU right now because obviously on the day of exit the UK would still have an "equivalent" regime, so there'd be no grounds to force bankers to relocate. The details of MiFiD II were handled by technocrats whose brief was just to make trade easier, so such rules make sense: if the two regimes are close enough, why insist on EU membership?

Nobody realistically expects the EU to stick to their own rules though. The EU never lets written law trump political demands. Just look at the Euro bailouts if you doubt that.
In the Window menu you can now select one-window interface. Works great.
10 million square foot laser tag game.
Is there some way I could use this for our private Github? Would be interesting to see those numbers.
any chance you guys have tested this with numba?

that would be awesome.
Exactly that has already been going on since 2010 :)

There's a livestream of bots facing off here: https://www.twitch.tv/certicky
Attrs (https://attrs.readthedocs.io/) replaced namedtuple for us (and many others). It's slightly more verbose but allows all class goodness such as methods, attribute validation, etc.
Why it is evolutionary impossible to herd cats
I think a lot is only possible when you aren't tying you own hands with re-using/preserving already built capital equipment.
it is the primary one but it doesn't seem to be taken into consideration at all. why is that? Certainly a better indicator of privilege than sex.

eg: 'Only 3.8 percent of American families make more than $200,000 per year. But at Harvard University, 45.6 percent of incoming freshman come from families making $200,000 or more. A mere 4 percent of Harvard students come from a family in the bottom quintile of US incomes, and only 17.8 percent come from the bottom three quintiles'[1].

1. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/10/immorality-...
An excellent point that context matters a lot. Have you seen the Guardians 'The Counted' database of people killed by police? You can click and read a synopsis of each death (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/...).

According to that 811 people were shot and killed by police in 2016 who had a weapon. So a significant % of those killed did indeed have a weapon. I clicked on a few stories of unarmed people shot and killed by police and in some cases it seems obviously justified eg they were driving a vehicle as a weapon or attacked an officer reaching for the officers weapon.

In other cases its less so, eg man killed on 12 December after neighbours mistook his crucifix for a gun or 22 November where a teenager was shot in the back for running from the police or 16 September where a mans car broke down in the road and was shot by police despite clearly complying with instructions.
In 2016, the tech industry forgot about people
A counter example would be the easiest way to disprove it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator's_Dilemma
Might as well just publish https://i.sli.mg/d3m2MD.jpg

More constructively, people should publish the projects they worked on, not how often they press save.
Seconding this, Google voice search (on my Nexus phone) is incredibly good. If you've spent the last 18 years expecting valid results from Google searches even when you dump a bunch of vaguely related words into the text box then Google's voice search gives you the same experience.
Windows Process Monitor shows all file and registry calls of processes
There's probably a broad range of people in the hn community.
Putting NDA'd code on github without permission would certainly violate it.
DM did terrible at Ms. Pac Man, let alone below the current world record is an understatement.

DM scored less than 30,000. Human record is over 900,000.
> Unless those workers will be putting in thousands of hours per week (impossible, I know), this implies some truly prodigious productivity statistics: that by using the best available manufacturing techniques, they can double the world's battery production on 260,000 hours/week of labor.

Tesla acquired a renowned German manufacturing automation firm [1]. I wouldn't be surprised if the Gigafactory is heavily automated as well.

[1] https://electrek.co/2016/11/08/tesla-acquires-german-enginee...
Can you elaborate on the change in teaching methods? I don't understand how CS101 could be gendered in a way that Math or Physics isn't.
I heard once anecdotally that google side projects are sometimes "supposed to be work related" so not quite as free as you'd imagine, FWIW...or perhaps they're not dunno never worked there.
You're overcomplicating things. In the ideal if we erased biases in education and staffing, we'd expect the various distributions we measure across tech companies to match a random sampling of the population at large. When we see large deviations from the population at large, it's a clear signal that something is going on.

This isn't that obscure, and we certainly don't need to engage in a false, hand wringing, semantic debate derailment along the lines of "but what IS diversity REALLY anyway?" Please. You know exactly what we're talking about here.

Your post is an exercise in identity politics as well. Welcome to same bowl the rest of us are in.
what about "most complex board game that is more than a few centuries old"?
They solved heads up poker in this manner recently. They claim that the chances anyone can beat this computer in the long run are now infinitesimal.

http://poker.srv.ualberta.ca/about
That's my main gripe. Treating people differently based on gender is simply wrong. The default should always be to treat people the same.

If you are going to commit sexism with the purpose of "reversing the patriarchy", you first have to prove and quantify the effects of the "patriarchy". Only then can you justify using sexism. Otherwise, you are committing a definite wrong, sexism, to reverse the possibility of sexism, which is something that could possibly (but hasn't been proven) to be wrong.

I have the same viewpoint about affirmative action in general. The default, preferred state is an absence of racial/gender based discrimiation, aka affirmative action, unless an imbalance is properly proven. Affirmative action is something that not only needs to be justified once but also continually and repeatedly justified throughout time. Simply disproving arguments for affirmative action should be enough to stop it.
>“Basically,” he said, “if you’re a jerk in real life, you’re going to be a jerk in any kind of social setting, and if you’re not, you’re not.”

That somehow undermines the point of roleplaying. Would he also suggest, that actors who play questionable or evil characters are supposed to be evil in real life? That's like some extreme form of Stanislavski's system in reverse.

> They found that video games that allowed players to play out their “ideal selves” (embodying roles that allow them to be, for example, braver, fairer, more generous, or more glorious) were not only the most intrinsically rewarding, but also had the greatest influence on our emotions.

And that's also considered the worst form of roleplaying. A classical Mary Sue is based on reflecting too much of your own image into the character while at the same time idealizing it.

So it's surely not the only reason to play games. Some actually like more elaborate roleplaying than creating Mary Sues.
Love Inkscape
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More likely, playing it in order commits to a certain approach too early, and makes that approach predictable. Starting from the middle leaves other options open.

Given that it trains against a copy of itself, with equivalent predictive powers, it makes sense that it would pick moves that have lots of branching possibilities because that would increase its effectiveness against itself.
One exemple of a possible answer:

"alexa, add a task saying blablabla"
"Ok Bob, the task has beeen created in your favorite todo app. Would you like me to transfer it to another app?"