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This is why merit based evaluation is the only sane hiring practice. I'd love to see legal protection for companies that can provide evidence they strictly adhered to the merit based hires.

Maybe something like that could work if we ever figure out how to consistently and accurately measure productivity. Assuming that productivity is in fact how you intend to measure "merit".

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Also, from your link...

The project creators, lead developers, core team, constitute the managing members of the project and have final say in every decision of the project, technical or otherwise, including overruling previous decisions. There are no limitations to this decisional power.

Well, at least you're honest about being a dictatorship. :) OTOH, just saying doesn't make it so. Hostile forks are a thing, license changes without copyright assignment are not a thing, etc.

All members have the same opportunities to seek any challenge they want within the project.

Congratulations, you're biased in favor of people with more outgoing and assertive personalities. ;)

Authority or position in the project will be proportional to the accrued contribution. Seniority must be earned.

Proportional requires that contributions be quantifiable. I'm not aware of any accurate, objective way to do that. (If there was, it would also be a solution to the "how to measure productivity" problem.)

Software is evolutive: the better implementations must supersede lesser implementations. Technical advantage is the primary evaluation metric.

What does "technical advantage" include? Switching costs imposed on users? The level of skill required from contributors? IDE-computable code metrics?

This is a space for technical prowess; topics outside of the project will not be tolerated.

Non technical conflicts will be discussed in a separate space. Disruption of the project will not be allowed.

These sound like an excellent way to let the trees blind you to the forest.

Individual characteristics, including but not limited to, body, sex, sexual preference, race, language, religion, nationality, or political preferences are irrelevant in the scope of the project and will not be taken into account concerning your value or that of your contribution to the project.

So, there's no such thing as "reasonable accommodations"?

There is no room for ambiguity: Ambiguity will be met with questioning; further ambiguity will be met with silence. It is the responsibility of the originator to provide requested context.

Wow, working only on clearly-defined problems must be nice. What happens when the ambiguity is part of the problem space?
OK, I'll bite, why exactly do you believe women don't want the opportunity to work on oil rigs?

http://www.warrensiurek.com/blog/2015/04/5-women-claim-gende...

>The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a claim on behalf of five women against an oil drilling company in another state. According to the complaint, the women applied for jobs to work as floor hands on the oil rigs, but they were turned down. The women allegedly all had the proper qualifications to be able to perform the functions of the job.

>The women were allegedly told that females were not hired on the rig because it was populated by all men and that women would not fit into the company's "man camp" mentality. The women also claim they were turned down because they were too attractive. If they were hired, they were purportedly told they would be a distraction to the men, who would be unable to get their work done.
You missed the point. The 1% is not about wealth its about power over 99%. Even your random low level bureaucrat has more power than the 5% (wealth-wise).
Given that no "Muslim Registry" has ever been proposed or supported by anyone it is not the most pressing question.
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> Rust copied 'if let' from Swift (~2 years ago) despite having decent pattern matching; community consensus today is that it's highly worthwhile as a feature.

Rust copied 'if let' and made it far nicer and more capable by allowing arbitrary fallible pattern matches to be the condition. Then Swift 2 copied that improvement back with 'if case'.
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Don't you just create a new one and let the old go obsolete when the "users" switch?
This comment is kind of shitty. This is an engineering blog post by a team that very likely does not work on the mobile site. They probably read HN and a comment that completely dismisses their work probably isn't very encouraging. I don't think your criticism is incorrect, just misplaced. There are even a lot of ways to point out that the mobile site doesn't reflect those values while praising the backend team for espousing them or remaining neutral.

I'm probably overreacting but reading this really got to me. My apologies if I came off too aggressive or negative.
Feel free to link them to remind me of the arguments that I'm neglecting. :P
Who has the right to 700 acres of privacy? I don't care how rich you are, there should be reasonable limits on what you can deny the public access to. In Sweden and Norway (and other places, I'm sure), they have a law called allemansrätten, which states that anyone has the right to roam on and camp on all land, as long as you don't cause any damage and reasonably respect others privacy. If the US had such a law, he probably wouldn't be engaging in this lawsuit.
Presumably its more reliable than the Boston Robotics walkers in getting out for re-supply. I'll be interested to see if these things show up on UCAV decks. It seems that loading up an M249 equivalent on it with a remote operator station you could deploy flanking suppression fairly quickly in an amphibious assault.
It's definitly interesting to see them move. Google already has Google Analytics/Firebase Analytics which pretty much every app developer integrates given their generous free tier so the extra data seems to be diminishing returns for Google. Seems to be more of a loss for Twitter than Google's gain given now they won't have a GA like equivalent.

I don't think Fabric was ever used for Twitter ad targeting just by reading their TOS unlike the Google/FB world and their analytics products but I could be wrong. Seems like a case where Twitter didn't realize the full potential of Crashlytics and Answers.
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It doesn't have to work that way. You choose which domain you'd like to be responsible for holding your identity and address book, and then choose to authenticate with some domains and host some of your data on them. Those domains each get a different user id from your identity server, which knows all your user ids on each of those other domains. Now you have a bunch of ids in different communities but no one except the server you trust has to know what they are. Thanks to 3rd party cookie policies, you can't easily be tracked across domains either.

Only the people who you want to share your ids on other services with will know. Such as your friends. You might tell only a few people that you are CrackerJack on porn.com, but you might tell everyone that you are FooManChu22 on Instagram. It's all up to you. And it should be seamless and automatic – when you arrive at a new service, you should already have the ids of all your friends on that service who shared it with you by now. You send this list to the service in order to connect with those friends. And you can also get notifications when a friend joins a service.

This is truly decentralized, private, secure, and social. Here's a diagram: https://qbix.com/diagrams/groups.png

And if you want to learn more, go here: https://qbix.com/platform or email me.
No, the issue is identifying the owners, at Zuckerberg's own personal expense, most of whom seem to be completely unaware that they are partial owners.

The practical effect is some people get a windfall check in the mail that they weren't expecting at all.
I usually use this one: https://httpstatuses.com/
To expand, it's a play on:

"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." which seems to be attributed (without any sources) to John Kenneth Galbraith:

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/810.html

I've also seen it as "Under capitalism, man exploits man - under communism it's the other way around." I always assumed it was a translated Russian proverb, along the lines of: "No truth in the news and no news in the truth" (Major Soviet papers were "Pravda" (the truth) and "Izvestia" (the news).
I feel a lot of these quotes are true of, not just America, but many of its allies, such as here in Australia.

Aussies don't want to see themselves as poor, or in the lower socio-economic group. They all have aspirations of grandeur, and act as if pay day is just a great idea away. This is epitomised by the concept of the "little aussie battler" and the "Great Australian Dream".
Ramdisk maybe?
whatsapp still ain't got an api tho
This all may be true, but I think the more fundamental problem is the ignorance of the average American about how their government works. A former Supreme Court justice lays it out in this prescient video from 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWcVtWennr0. People are frustrated with their government but don't understand how to fix it.
1) You've carefully chosen two examples of jobs that depend highly on physical attributes with well-understood genetic causes (height, muscular development), and you've extrapolated this out to technical employees at Oracle, whose skills are hardly defined by such well-understood genetic markers. This is faulty logic.

2) Just so we're clear, you literally just compared affirmative action to Nazi Germany and the Spanish Inquisition. I would call this "false equivalence", but I suppose it's useless to try to "use words until the end of time" (unless, apparently, those words are "moral principle").
I am surprised by the number of people who claim this is rich bashing.

Indigenous people around the world have lived for centuries with widely different concepts of property ownership. In many cultures, once you reach a working age you build your house where land is available and do your bit (say farming, or crafts) towards a functioning society. There is no land ownership record, but rather it's based on trust. Once these lands become part of countries without adequete protection for indegenous cultures, they become susceptible to exploitation. Interpreting their culture through our legal system is one way to do this.

The indigenous people of Hawaii (and elsewhere in the world) are the true owners of that land. Even if you get legal rights from each one of the current owners, it still deprives the unborn children of their rights.

It's unfair at best. At best.
IANAL and IANA business/stocks person, so allow me to vomit nonsense, but how is this not unlike equity in a start-up? Or stocks in a public company? Especially in the latter case, one can have theoretically a 17/333,396 stake in a company.

I'd imagine it might be different though because companies are regulated and there are things like the FTC, and a company is an organization, so certain concepts like "liability" and "rights" to utilize the property are better defined than for a random parcel of land, but still, it's not like "ownership by many" is that foreign.
Skateboarding when you're up on a hard problem is the shit
Identifying one edge case doesn't really prove an argument. Net wealth is not a perfect metric, but is probably the best one we have.

You can be sure 95%+ of brain surgeons have paid off all their student debts and have a lot more wealth than a homeless guy, considering their median salary is $395k per year.
You would begin to qualify for long term capital gains which is taxed lower than the higher end of your income, presumably. You can sell your stock 6 months after it goes public so if by then you qualify for a long term capital gain (1 year holding an asset) you get taxed at this advantaged rate. If you will likely make a substantial amount of money (100k+) this could be a lot of money you save.

Of course you assume the risk of being an investor and you could lose money if it all goes south!
Not sure why you think it's so difficult to quit reddit cold turkey. I know several people who have done it already just because of the culture. I'm already visiting less frequently.

HN, hubski, voat, etc. are picking up the slack. I'm also trying to spend less time socializing and more working on stuff.
> It's a pain to get working, it sucks to program in, it requires so much thought, it's just a bloody fucking fuck.

It's too bad that you feel that way but lots of people like programming in Rust and don't like programming in Go. I have never before had to pay so much -- in terms of type annoyances, packaging workflow and boilerplate -- for so little.
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I wonder if the parent would take that as a challenge to create a startup around creating such an app for the US, since, well, apparently there is no compelling reason absent a pile of data to not think what works in one country won't work in another country .... That's not meant to be aggressive but I think it is a clear indictment of the reasoning used by many others rejecting what I think is a very obvious position.
Speaking of Russia (which is the only one of those countries/localities that I can speak for, since I grew up there), I will say that Putin is inarguably the best thing that happened to Russia in the past 100 years.
I'm a developer and devops guy. If I have to be physically present for anything, something is very wrong.
Do you really want your house to be as hassle free as your computer? The nightmarish accounts of these houses gone wrong is painful to read.
The cop who pulls me over on the highway has more power over me than my mayor does, or even my governor. Looking at the policies Trump talks about that I can actually analyze ("Make America Great Again" doesn't count), none of them will affect me to the tune of more than $1K / year at best/worst.

I am, of course, ignoring the prospect of truly insane shit like starting a nuclear war with Russia. That would affect me pretty dramatically. :) But low level bureaucrats don't have the power to start a war, thankfully.
Good to know. I was just going on their hiring page (linked to at end of blog) which said you'd have to relocate to DC.
Exactly.

The whole challenge is, "Can you remember that water should be horizontal to the horizon?" Remember that, and you pass.
Nice sales pitch :)

I might take a look a little later. Good info!
All patents in the 3rd URL seem to be the same patent.
> Also, you can't argue Chris isn't technical

Was ever there any question or doubt about Lattner's technical ability?
All 3 of those countries have experienced civil wars. I don't think that disproves GP's point.

Also, how does the west benefit from instability? This kind of thing is said by conspiracy theorists a lot but it's never made sense to me. Less oil, natural gas and other exports.
Indeed. I was about to write and suggest sentry for crash reporting plus extra features. I'm starting to use breadcrumbs now to test and see how they can be useful.
Your point is fair about trivializing the other party, even implicitly.

Docker and CoreOS are not really successful companies...it's hard to say if any of the companies in that space will be successful.
Being Hawaii though, I don't think he will get a private beach, though :)

http://seagrant.soest.hawaii.edu/coastal-access-hawaii

http://dlnr.hawaii.gov/occl/beach-access/
Ma makes a good point, but he's implicitly saying the China's authoritarian regime wouldn't have lost the money as "free" market actors did in the US.

Sure, fine, but most Chinese would trade that money for American political freedoms and economic opportunities in a heartbeat.
Funny thing is that they didn't talk about error bars after the "1998 hiatus"
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Serious question:

If it's against the law to have a disproportionate amount of a certain group employed (or paid a certain way), but it's also against the law to discriminate in the hiring process (and in the termination process), how is a company like this supposed to comply?

* Hire more of x group - it's illegal because you'd be discriminating against a group to meet the employment quota

* Fire x group to equalize the amount of people working - it's illegal because you're targeting a specific group of people to fire

There doesn't seem to be any way to meet these requirements without some form of discrimination at some step of the way.

Does the government have "legalized discrimination" policies to allow companies to become compliant?
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check out nuxt, it does exactly that. a full fledged vue cli starter. its eloquently made, just like vue.
Keto is the absolute worst you can do as an athlete since carbohydrates are required for fast recovery. No professional athlete would be on keto while training. The idea that an athlete should have even slightly over 1g/kg of protein intake per day is correct. However, over 2g/kg/day poses a risk of permanent kidney damage.

Moreover, losing 4 kgs or more of fat in a month increases the risk for cardiovascular disease: the blood cholesterol levels of the subjects may rise to unhealthy levels. Some are resistant to high cholesterol, but statistically it's a risk.
WeChat is on to something...it is like in the lord of the rings one ring to rule them all. One app to rule them all.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a phone from them in near future
I invite all of you that hold this position to travel across the country and do in-depth qualities one studies with interviews, surveys, actual population observations and see if these very simplistic ideas still hold true. How's that for data?
Stars are useful to gauge interest. At StackShare, we rank most everything by number of stacks- meaning usage (https://stackshare.io/javascript-ui-libraries). Worth noting that we just added GitHub stats to OSS pages (not our rankings), mostly because many new tools aren't actually being used in production yet, but there's a lot of interest in them.
My first example did not have a closure. Simplified further: https://play.golang.org/p/ttdmropzSu

It's literally about nothing but how the 'value' variable in go for loops is handled by the language.

To make it worse, a common solution is to do this: https://play.golang.org/p/BTRs_TCQdu

That code looks like line 10 shouldn't be needed, does nothing, and during someone elses refactoring it might be deleted and result in the code blowing up again. No warnings, just silent data corruption.

The second one is a bit complicated, yes, but again I've seen them in the wild. Again they wouldn't have compiled in rust.
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Unfortunately, the main dev has been saying that he'll be releasing a rewrite with Python 3 support "at the end of the month" for the past 2-3 years. There's actually a fork ("Fabric3") which fully supports both Python 2.7 and Python 3.4+, but the Fabric dev refuses to merge in any PRs that have been submitted to help with Python 3 support. It's somewhat infuriating.

https://github.com/fabric/fabric/pulls?q=is%3Apr+python+3
he paid for 700 acres already - and it's not enough?
> Another programmer finds myObject.doExplicitThingToWorld() far more expressive and easy to understand and is very familiar with the mocking tools/practices they need to test that.

Well hopefully said programmer knows their mocking/practices will not be nearly as exhaustive and fully understand the price they pay for a little initial gain in expressiveness.

Perhaps correctness is of low enough importance it doesn't matterin their case, but I would hope an honest analysis is done.
Are those real example questions? Cause I stackoverflow program a fair share, but those seem a little bit low level for any language, and if you google those for Rust, I end up with the docs for Vec and Iterator, which contain exactly the reverse and sum methods. And this isn't some case of "fuck you read the entire docs", the methods contain extensive built in examples (copypasted from their respective method docs):

let mut v = [1, 2, 3];
v.reverse();
assert!(v == [3, 2, 1]);

let a = [1, 2, 3];
let sum: i32 = a.iter().sum();
assert_eq!(sum, 6);

I'm not saying everything is simple, and there are hard parts of rust to learn. But as far as solving simple problems, I haven't ever had an easier time then with Rust.
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While the technological innovation here might not seem impressive, WeChat is extremely influential. I was just in China, and at least in the cities it seems like everyone uses WeChat for everything, all the time.
That's a question that has no easy answer.

In the U.S., the decision to go to war is made by civilians: the President and (ideally) Congress. Below the President, the top military decision-maker/administrator -- Secretary of Defense -- is also a civilian. All the people in the country could sign up and join the military and yet have no authority to actually go to war.

But I'm not naive: the decision to go to war is made easier when the commander-in-chief has a capable and willing army to command. I teach a programming class and I like to talk about "real world" algorithms, such as the Vietnam War draft and lottery [0], a tragicomical example of how hard it is to generate random numbers. But the algorithmic thinking is not just the details of the lottery, but why the lottery was the needed algorithm in the first place. The answer: because not enough people want to volunteer for war. And random selection seems to be the only way to raise an army without angering the citizenry.

Now that we have a volunteer army, there are new algorithms in play. Such as where to focus recruitment efforts based on demographic makeup of people who currently volunteer. This is all to say that as bad as the draft was, a volunteer army doesn't make things hunky dory. And why should we settle for anything less than the quip, "What if they gave a war and nobody came"?

So yeah, I see the rationale for not making the military easy to join. OTOH, I still think that the prospect of war -- and the use of military force in matters of diplomacy -- is a reality we have to live in. Making the military more smoothly administered does not necessarily correlate with an increase in horrors of war. If the military attracts good people, then that means there is the chance of having good people in the chain of command.

To go off on a tangent, better military technology hasn't always resulted in more war. The atomic bomb was used to wreak horror; on the other hand, the prospect of nuclear war seems to have stifled the kind of "great" wars we've had since Hiroshima.

So to answer your question: I think it's too simplistic to think of a better military as being a net negative, if we accept the realities of the current world.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_lottery_(1969)
I like how you are so sure that not even a single woman could possibly ever want to work on an oil rig that you bring it up in two comments without first attempting to Google it. Hint, they do want to work on oil rigs, they do work on oil rigs, and they have used legal action against those who wouldn't let them work on oil rigs because of their gender.

That made up example is especially bizarre because I can't think of a reason why women, as a group, wouldn't want to work on an oil rig, other than concern about possible sexual harassment.

Women want, and have fought (and won) to have equal opportunity in even combat positions.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/04/24/do-military-women-want-...

Your worldview does not match the facts.
Same thing for me here (and for most people who commute by bike every day). The increased blood flow must help or something like that. Physical activity is about so much more than losing weight.
What does it mean to finish a project?