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haha everyone says "just train your employees more!". I do like the the "get them to level up" mentality.

BUT... it won't work. We're all on a spectrum of ability. Maybe more so, we're all on a spectrum of ability spectrums. Training, education, these aren't the answer to "my devs aren't as good as that one". You take the ability you have, your team has, and you manage and apply it the best way you can. Most often, that doesn't mean having your top developer spend her time training everyone else.

It means you give that top developer the protection and time she needs to get her shit done. If she happens to be the type that gets energy from training and helping others, THEN you have her train others.

In computer engineering terms, you have to balance your control path as well as your data path.
Even if it were true that "these kinds of stories are what people are looking for", that doesn't mean it's not "evidence of sexism".
It's also interesting to reflect that getting a car to 100,000 miles used to be considered a sufficient outlier that it wasn't worth spending a few more cents to design odometers that handled that case.
Treat your interview as a two-way street. You should interview the company as much as they are interviewing you.

Ask questions about their testing approach. Remember, no company is perfect. Often, small startups decide it's in their best interest to rely on manual testing and accept that their products are buggy. This can be an opportunity if you're able to clean things up, though.

If a company is honest, and takes the time to answer your questions, then it's probably a good sign. If the company thinks you should be grateful for a job and grovel for whatever crumbs they drop, RUN!

Remember, though, no company is perfect. It's better to work for a company that has an imperfect TDD then one that treats you like dirt.
I think your story example is a bit forced. After all, there are few stories about what the princess is doing in the castle while waiting for the brave knight to rescue her.

We like stories where the characters we follow have agency. A story about a brave woman who saves her boyfriend after undergoing hardship - that certainly has the potential to be interesting.
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There was this variable name I misspelled once ;)
So your cable broadband service has been stagnant for a decade? Mine has gotten about 10x faster for roughly the same cost.
Agree. I support any measure that keeps money moving. Including cashectomies for windfall profits.

But why, in the name of fairness, isn't the surplus shared with all the stakeholders?

We wouldn't be in this pickle to begin with if profit sharing was the norm. Like when I was kid.
Brains are not general purpose computers though. You could probably train lumps of brain tissue do to certain tasks, but putting any kinds of FLOP/s numbers on the label is like stating horse power for levers.
They have their email and their ID, added with the knowledge they are compromised. That's enough to build a spoof password reset email and get them to type in an old/new email.
I felt the same way. But it can be anything. "I sped up the page load on the site", "I redesigned the front-end to work on mobile", etc.
> and I know for a fact 90% of the sites I personally sign up to online also follow that same process.

This is a totally legit response. After all if something goes wrong they must have followed "best practices". No reasonable person would expect them to do more.

And it's true (if you only consider the needs of the business). This is a solid strategy for getting lawsuits dismissed. I've seen it in physical security too [+]. It only took one investment bank to put badge-checking turnstiles in place and then they all had to do it. That stuck with banks only for a while until one more conventional business did it...and now I was at Twitch the other day and they have it.

Of course who's missing here is the customer. But the customer's needs aren't paramount: the business's are -- and more specifically the manager who has to spend the money on security. If they have put in just enough that they won't get fired when it fucks up, and if they saved money and effort in the process: WIN!

[+] my favorite physical security story is old, so at the end: when leaving Intel's Santa Clara fab in the 1990s you would have to hand over your briefcase for inspection to make sure you weren't leaving with any Intel documents. They didn't care if you had floppy disks. Why? Because this was a defense against shareholder lawsuits and "what else could the guards do?" This is where I learned the explanation above: once anyone in the industry increased plant security they all would have to, which nobody wanted. So LCD was the name of the game.
Makes sense.

I drive a Jeep, and the speedometer on it is off by 12% due to the larger-than-stock tires that are on it. The odometer reads 160k, but I would assume that it was 170-180k on it in reality, depending on when the tires were originally installed.
Try living in Miami for a while.
Thank dog someone is making a cable that reduces virus noises. I just don't know what I've done all this time without one.
Right now I am using the RgbQuant library (https://www.npmjs.com/package/rgbquant), but I've been experimenting with neuqant-js as well. The Chrome extension you've mentioned before is really great!
The title should mention it's a 2012 article.
Ask HN: Which company is the 4th of the Big-4?
We've all heard of the "Big 4", in reference to the most praised companies in Tech. Apple, Google, Facebook, ?? Which one is the 4th one? Just curious.
Agreed. And I think the comparison with a jet ski or other recreational vehicle is apt: this is for fun and show, for extreme sports, and perhaps some military or rescue applications. But pretty sweet nonetheless.

(Jet ski not the perfect analogy as jet skis are fairly safe and it's not unheard of for people who live on islands to use them for errands, etc, but yeah most people seem to use them for fun.)

You could extend the range and flight time by using a wingsuit, allowing up to a glide ratio of 3 or 4 without using structures other than the human body. But wingsuit flying and this iron man suit thing require immense strength, so physical exhaustion is probably even more of a constraint in this situation than fuel consumption.
That's a weird conclusion to draw.

Much of this reflects reality. Murder in general is committed more by men. Most reported battery and assault (beat) is committed by men. Murder by poisoning is almost exclusively committed by women. First responders or soldiers who are "saving" people trend male, etc.

When you're looking at 100k fiction works, many of them are going to be romance, mystery and other dramatic type stories that reinforce these concepts.
Information bias - most people understand what revenue is and hence use this metric to judge a company. And mind you, I am not saying that revenue is irrelevant to evaluating a company. It has its place in "the bigger picture". But it is easier to boast with revenue than it is with free cash flow. Look at the recent example of Intel [0] - the company likes to push positive indicators like revenue and profitability in this case; but those "positive" developments happened because they increased prices. Which generally is not a good sign, because this usually means that demand did not grow, only that the market is willing to pay a higher price for the same good.

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/0e327b06-0149-3868-acbc-e27e8a15b...
I would imagine the exact opposite.

Shit life vs a (sentient) life that never begins? Sign me up for the latter.
Anyone else notice the surge in "stealthing" stories in MSM? How convenient that this is exactly what Assange is accused of in Sweden and the Administration is gearing up to go after him. Removing condom w/o partner's consent is a shitty practice, granted, but why all the hyperfocus all of the sudden? It may not be Fake News©, but it appears to be conveniently timed, possibly even weaponized, news.

Or, perhaps my tinfoil hat is too tight.
how about giving purchase orders a guid and then requiring the guid for invoices?
Where do you get the data from? real time via twitter's api?
Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook
Wow, that might be the worst I've ever seen.

Does anyone here buy from auction sites often? Those are a nightmare, they let the sellers do pretty much anything and very few accept paypal (they're THAT stingy) - sellers on liveauction.com routinely ask buyers to provide credit card info over email. It looks like a lot of sellers are flocking to these because ebay is too strict, wait, I mean "sane".
This reminded me of a cool paper I came across recently, Spatial Transformer Networks [1], a good example of how knowledge of geometry helps frame the problem more effectively, allowing the network to learn how to e.g rotate objects into a canonical orientation before identifying them.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02025
Meh, this is just ridiculous moral posturing.

Which laws are scared and which aren't?

Are you telling me that you never violated copyright, or say helped a friend install torrenting software ("technically clueless people who will attempt to use you and your skills as tools to commit some crime").

"Just say no" was the famous anti-drug slogan, we all know how that War On Drugs attitude ended up afflicting american society.

Finally even Supreme Court justices find this type of hard-line attitude ridiculous.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/us/politics/supreme-court...
My constitutional law professor Ron Rotunda got himself entwined in those torture memos, at least as far as being mentioned in connection with their authoring. What exactly his role is remains unclear but that shook me pretty deeply:

https://www.emptywheel.net/2010/03/09/ronald-rotunda-yoo-sen...
Nope. Just refreshes back to the same page. Sorry, forgot to mention that the logout button doesn't actually DO anything except redirect to the Login page. Auth cookies are still intact.

This guy is special.
The thing to follow is that you shouldn't build a tower of babel abstraction stack but a limited number of clearly defined abstractions. It's ok if you go deeper than 4 in some cases but these things should then already be pretty low level.

Too deep a stack will lead to code "scavenger hunts" when you want to figure out what something does.
If it interferes with his productivity or the productivity of others, then no.

But they really can't be understood as "office hours" if he's not working for you, right?
I'd welcome side projects as a mental diversion, but only for a brief while. I don't expect my team to be always on, and I expect them to be distracted partially. I just want them to get the right solution within a reasonable amount of time. It's easy to tell when someone gets sucked in to something they aren't supposed to be doing, versus just taking a much needed mental break without going so far as to take a vacation.
Play 2048 in vim
If anyone here is a Feedly user, I keep a list of around 300 software engineering blogs in a shared collection: http://feedly.com/karllhughes/Engineering%20Blogs

A lot of the blogs in this thread are in there.
Is a $500k market cap scam even worth discussing? What about all the ethereum projects raising 6-7 figures with little more than a whitepaper? And often even with heavy criticism about a broken security model.

There is no latest scam in cryptocurrency. By the time you've finished writing the article another has already popped up.

If anything you are helping these guys by giving them visibility.
Perhaps I wasn't clear about it. I don't want to use react or angular, just jquery and other small libraries or components
By your own argument there is good regulation.

So, now rather than simply saying less you have to defend what's specifically wrong with each regulation as there are some you want to keep.
Not if her boyfriend is weak and helpless before, during, and after the story.
Interesting that the possibility of training a computer to replace parts of your job has existed for a while. There is an excellent, thought-provoking paper by Robin Dawes that shows that a linear regression trained on human decisions will soon beat the decisions of the human, because it will pick up the trend and follow it with less variance in the future. He refers to this idea as "bootstrapping."[0] (obviously not the same bootstrapping statisticians are used to).

The takeaway was that experts should make decisions about which variables should go in the regression and the signs they should have. The model should produce the forecasts.

Real world application: doctors should figure out which tests to run, models should say whether the patient has the disease conditional on the test results.

[0] http://www.niaoren.info/pdf/Beauty/9.pdf
That's why I said "OPS" instead of FLOPS. The kind of operations that brains are good at are orthogonal to the kinds that computers are good at, so a hybrid approach is probably a good idea. Again, I'm primarily thinking about this for AI type applications, not like fluid dynamics or other applications requiring high precision.

EDIT:And technically brains are general computing devices. Just really inefficient ones. Emulating logic in wetware is highly inefficient (and usually requires an external memory device, like pen and paper, though pure wetware memory also works in some especially skilled individuals, although still with severe capacity limitations). Of course, emulating wetware in logic isn't terribly efficient, either.
You can ask them to pay you in cash as long as you don't accept the offer before hand. They're legally required to compensate you with cash if you ask.
The differences between man and machine are narrowing. If you grow a smart enough brain, does it (she?) have rights?
It's pretty bad if you're the kind of person who picks up a new side project each month.
Also, older vehicles have shorter odometers that roll over back to zero automatically.
I believe the author’s post is a little condescending and ignores the nuances of such situations. Sure, it's easy enough to "just say no" if you're already pretty successful and have a lot to lose by engaging in illegal activity. But what about the talented hacker who has failed career wise and is going through a really tough phase financially. It might seem that there's everything to gain and nothing to lose.

If you have a choice of being able feed your family or “just say no” to modifying an odometer, what would you choose?
Title is an exaggeration, all they found was structures that looked similar to structures in our brains. They have no idea what these structures actually do, and even said there is huge amount of variability in the structures.

As an aside, this:

"They first froze the mini-brains and cut them into ultra-thin sections, which they mounted onto glass slides. They then labeled the sections with different combinations of colored fluorescent tags that are specific to certain cell types, and imaged the sections using an automated scanner."

Shows just how immature the neurobiology field is. I imagine that slicing, and then manually re connecting the slices in a 3d program, must be a pretty painstaking process. Not to mention you are left with no idea how data traveled round the structure. A code analogy would be having a huge codebase handed to you in little chunks, and you have to connect up the pieces by hand. And at the end of it, not even being able to debug it and see if things even work as expected.
According to the article, 4% of planes are overbooked. And if they are, <5 will usually be re-booked. Which is a low single-digit percentage of passengers. So your chance of being denied boarding is probably <0.1%. Wouldn't say that all tickets are standbye.

It's rather that thanks to the internet we know of stories like these. 10 years ago no one would've known.
I find it's best to avoid being dogmatic about any particular approach. Process doesn't ship software.

That being said, I really like my automated tests.
Depends on what you mean by sexism.

If you mean unfair discrimination against women, then that's not an evidence for it.

If you mean natural difference between men and women that are implicitly understood by people, then yea you can call it sexism but it's not necessarily a bad thing.
It seems like you disagree with me. Can you please state your argument without the sarcasm?
I feel like you could have made all the bad guys in You're Next women without harming the film's effectiveness, so probably yes?
I think the idea is that if you have random obfuscation rules, a human can generalize almost immediately to read it. Like, you could string together paragraphs of different obfuscation rules and your brain would be able to switch between rules fairly quickly.

The ML goal would be to be able to do the same thing.
put a neural net in those
All recreational chemicals have people waxing evangelical notions of them. Heck, even that humble cup of coffee was originally associated with Sufi mystics (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22190802).

LSD is nothing more than a serotonin receptor agonist (although LSD has a bit more dopaminergic response than other serotonergic psychedelics). It produces certain effects in the body. That's it.

The evidence of long-term harm for careful use seems low to me. (There may be a potential risk of schizophrenia / paranoia disorders and similar, though from what I can Google there is nothing conclusive yet. So if anything, that's what you monitor for. Even in the worst case, I would doubt that a single use would trigger this.)

That certain kinds of psychedelics (serotongerics in particular, but also NMDA receptor agonists, such as the naturally occurring ibogaine... and maybe a few others) seem really prone to produce this sort of almost spiritual response actually fascinates me, for exactly that reason alone. I wouldn't call this "spiritual nonsense" "fake" per se. Maybe these molecules in reality are clues to the actual mechanism behind the emotion, right?
Unless those "stalls" are actually separate rooms with locking doors, I don't see how that's legal, in light of repiret's post here citing US code that specifically forbids it.

Honestly, I have a hard time seeing such bathrooms ever being commonplace; it seems like the people who design and build buildings just love having stalls with crappy little partitions that end 12 inches above the floor so you can peek into the neighboring stalls. You can't have that in a multi-sex bathroom for obvious reasons.
Parent comment (mine) did not say they have no brick and mortar stores. But for all intents and purposes, they have 0 stores.
I think that it depends on what the projects are. If they are literally building your competition, then yes, boot them asap, especially if they didn't sign a NDA/non-compete or if your legal team isn't strong enough to enforce it.

If they are just working on non-work stuff, then I would treat it as if they were spending that time on Facebook and reddit (since these are effectively the same): tell them that they aren't productive, then follow formal action if problem doesn't get fixed within some period of time.

The tricky thing is that the smaller the team, the bigger impact their non-productivity has, so that period of time might need to be shorter than usual. If that person is truly entrepreneurial, they will probably just say "fine," work their minimum and crank up their after-hours contributions instead until they can either go somewhere that will support their 20% non work time or decide to go 100% on their side projects
> Or do I learn what I need to learn to get through it, fail once or twice and iterate?

There's a difference between trying to _learn_ to get through and cramming as much "knowledge" as possible just to spit it out in the interview, and what usually happens is the second case, specially regarding algorithms.
Organizing the world of fonts with AI
Perhaps the author bought her(his?)self some Torcoin before publishing?
Unless you've simply decided this isn't important to you, changing the speedometer gear on a Jeep to an appropriate size for your tires is generally a several minute job with minimal tools.
I'm not an experienced Haskell programmer, but I've never seen someone use different names for the type and the type constructor, as in:

data IntAndChar = MkIntAndChar Int Char

They belong to different namespaces, so you can use the same name:

data IntAndChar = IntAndChar Int Char

Indeed, I believe this is preferred as it reduces the programmer's cognitive load.
man, whoever is left holding the bag on these is going to be seriously screwed after the tulips run their course
I read Kent Beck's book on the topic a long time ago and concluded, at the time, that it was bullshit. It just seemed ridiculous.

(I got to tell him this anecdote about a year ago. He was amused).

Much later I joined Pivotal Labs, hoping to see what the fuss was about, and got taught TDD by sitting next to people who are good at it. People who will go to enormous lengths to create automated testing from the outside in. It felt uncomfortable and unnatural at first. But now it seems obvious.

My advice is: seek out a mentor. Anyone who can sit with you for a few hours.
Interesting tech but it's not clear to me what problem this solves. As is touched on at the end of the article, it's not like there is a lack of sensors that could be used to detect intruders. The main issue for a lot of people is that, in order to take useful action when you're not at home, you need some sort of security service which is a monthly fee and can get expensive.
If the apps you are using for your job, store or communicate data in the cloud, you are unwittingly training your replacement. These massive troves of data that map problems to solutions are being used to train ML models that will replace or augment those tasks. On its own, I don't have a problem with the auto-macroisation of tasks. But those teachers will be invariably thrown to the wolves. I wouldn't be surprised to see startup pitch decks outlining domain specific tooling explicitly designed to capture expert-level worker knowledge.
Severance payouts
That depends on what the 'side project' is.

There are lot of people in the web development world who regularly practice interview coding/algo/ds questions in office hours. They have to because the same company at which they are working expects candidates to have extraordinary levels of skills in competitive programming, which by the way is not possible without day-to-day practice.

Does this qualify as a 'side project'?
Agreed, we may be doing interesting work horizontally, reimplementing things that have already been solved. (Maybe this is natural in the evolution of things, searching for a breakthrough.)
> If you have a choice of being able feed your family or “just say no” to modifying an odometer, what would you choose?

Let me generalize that for you: If you have a choice of being able to feed your family or "just say no" to commit a crime, what would you choose?
Have you considered the possibility that she kept herself occupied as a way to avoid uncomfortable dilemmas like the one I posed above? As virtuous as hard work may be, vain work is not. Dealing with difficult questions is the only way to know whether or not the life we lead is as full as it can be. We can certainly close ourselves off to difficult questions and enjoy what we have, but why would we intentionally waste the opportunity to rise above that if we can?