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I'd think that it would be fairly easy to measure, honestly: do a longitudinal study of new hires at several top companies, and come back 5 years later and see who's still in the industry and what their level of promotion is if so. You know both their educational history, their demographics, and their standardized test scores (a close-enough proxy for g), and you can see how well they predict success.

There will be biases (in the scientific sense) in the data because of how the interview process selects for successful candidates, which is going to be correlated with these three and probably many other things. But I think the study would still be sound.

(Also, it occurs to me that I've been making about one assumption that is likely to be untrue: that people who do better at top software engineering companies are actually better software engineers. It is entirely possible that software engineering companies are systematically failing to hire and promote the best software engineers, because their interview and review processes are broken. In fact, that is what the pervasive-sexism-in-tech hypothesis implies: that individuals are so sexist that they would prefer to hire a man over a more qualified women, possibly because they're subconsciously failing to realize that the man is actually less qualified. If we want to test this hypothesis seriously, we need to separate "actually a good dev" and "recognized as a good dev". I could easily believe that being in the top percentile of g is correlated with hiring and promotion, because it's easy to measure, but less tightly correlated with actually being good at your job.)
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My comment ended with a question. The point was to gain an understanding of why this process is common and/or useful.

I'm interested because I work in a related field and I may eventually try to become a developer. I was just curious why this is viewed as useful when it seems so easy to me, a person that isn't ready to be a developer.

Another reason I'm curious is because it's hard for someone learning to program to determine what the barrier to entry is. As in, how much do I need to know before I apply for a junior role? I don't like wasting people's' time.
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I take your point about the fetishization of voting in the modern West. It is sometimes taken to silly extremes. And I agree that voting is not sufficient for democracy. But I still maintain voting is necessary. Democracy is government of the people.

Late Latin from Greek dēmokratia, from dēmos ‘the people’ + -kratia ‘power, rule.’

I don't know of any mechanism other than voting for gleaning the popular will.

> my opinion is that if you haven't lived under some form of dictatorship, you don't know what you're talking about.

I cam't agree with that. Your experiences make you special, as do mine me. But if you really believe what you wrote, no further discourse from you can enlighten me or others until we too have lived under despotism.
Yeah, and there was a whole site based around finding local people willing to meet you in a parking lot or coffeehouse, you give them the money, they give you the coins, drug deal style. That was just about the only other way to get it at the time.
Every now and then I think it's important to get reminded of other important things in life. I read this post every year on the anniversary of his death, which was yesterday.
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> Do you think such an organization could exist in the light?

I think it could but it would need good legal support and PR support to prevent its actions from being mischaracterized.

> Bootstrapping myself to have great opsec seems like a really tough task

I think it would be incredibly difficult if not impossible in today's world. So I think that an "in the light" approach is much less vulnerable.
And adjusting for Americans as ~5% of global call volume = 0.0041 * 20 = ~0.081% which may or may not pass a sanity check of one phone call per 2 Americans per year. Assuming say 1 / 2 calls per person per day * 365 * 2 people ~= .07%.
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Yes, and when Blizzard notice that exact same source code you have conveniently appeared on the internet a few months later from an anonymous source, I'm confident they won't inform the police and sue me to fuck.
Silly though it may be, Decree appraisals in space through puppet theatres sounds like fun. So does Use your cat to grow the galaxy, though I'm not sure my cat would enjoy it.
I was too young at the time to understand it then, but based on history its a good thing that the ill-planned scheme did not become law.
> That is, everyone switched from SMS to whatsapp, criminals just did what everyone did.

How are you so confident that this was what happened? Do you have some concrete data and/or stats to back this statement? What if most criminals are using something like Signal? Besides, I personally wouldn't trust WhatsApp if I were partaking in illicit activities.
Only on apps that target Android 6 however. They couldn't retroactively apply it. Just build your app targeting Lollipop and you get all the permissions you want. Plus their app store isn't as strongly vetted, so apps can refuse to work if you don't grant a bullshit tracking permission.
The unethical variant would be using it.

Ethics of disclosure is a long and nuanced debate
Because the longer a senator is in power, the more power they get (committee positions), and she's ostensibly a democrat.
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if you cant sell it, you dont own it

citizens cannot sell their shares of citizenship, they are not like shareholders
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Remote jobs certainly are more popular these days. I've been full time remote for the last 3 years and I've interviewed and resume screened a lot of candidates.

I'd be more than happy to check out your resume and give you some feedback if you wanted? You can DM me via Twitter (link in bio) or if you don't have it just let me know and we'll sort out an email.
This was one of many such killings/assassinations which ultimately crushed the momentum of the civil rights and anti-war movement of the 60's and 70's, and with it went the dream of a real democracy.
> The cost of copying is not related to value.

Then what is ?
Oh, ok. I see the point, thanks for explaining.

That's funny because fairness was exactly what I had in mind to _allow_ insider trading, but using the point of view of fairness between investors and workers, rather than fairness between investors.

What would you think about allowing insider trading, but only once during career at company and only if you're not an executive? Or maybe just allowing it for a moderate amount of money?
>>We do not hear anyone suggesting restricting civil liberties to reduce gang violence.

We hear about it all the time. It's just so pervasive we no longer see how extreme is the intrusion!

Civil asset forfeiture, stop & frisk, the near endless litany of TSA/Homeland Security abuses, "VIPER" teams hassling Greyhound bus riders, states such as Hawaii where the 2nd Amendment is ignored, the SWAT teams that have taken over every small-town police department, the banking secrecy acts that report you if you move more than $4000 at a time or in an undefined "suspicious" way (also see "structuring"), the aggressive+confrontational transformation of law enforcement into domestic military, the involvement of military at WACO... need I continue?
> I have asked that question to all the programmers that I've worked with (with various levels of skill) and all of them can write it.

Then you now understand the standard of person that gets filtered out by fizzbuzz.
You're absolutely right. Encryption is either strong for everyone all of the time, or it isn't.
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It depends, if you're delivering stand alone SVGs (as opposed to inlined in some html) then browsers may not render the graphic properly without it.
A lot of people here are probably above average in intelligence (or consider themselves so), so may have trouble relating to people who are discriminated against based on their perceived intelligence, though some are no doubt minorities and can relate on at least at some level.

Many probably also believe that being more intelligent means you're superior and more deserving than someone who's less intelligent. There's also a lot of anti-immigrant, "defend the homeland from the foreign hordes" sentiment around the world these days.

I'd wonder how these people would react to the idea of having even native-born people have to take a citizenship test that included some IQ test when they turned 18, and if the failed they'd lose their citizenship. I bet many elites would be ok with that because they'd expect themselves and their children to pass, but I'm not so sure about the rest. They'd probably feel they were entitled to citizenship just because they had a lucky birth.
It happens. Interviewed somebody for my company and asked them to write a little bit of code that would print a Fibonacci sequence, one of the other old chestnuts. It didn't go well, and neither did his employment when my boss hired him anyway...
> It's not the same thing.

Oh but it is! Read the link!
It really doesn't matter. If they go to the police and say "we believe that to be stolen property, he's refusing to give it back", they're going to come and this whole argument will be rather specious.
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I recognized the name Veblen and saw Thorstein was the uncle to Oswald Veblen, one of the founders of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton.
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It seems odd to excuse those low on the totem pole in what was essentially a scam.

There's this odd part of American culture that considers marketers and other 'influencers' immune from criticisms. I don't agree with it and stinks of the long debunked "just following orders" excuse. This allows lower-tiered scammers to play up a "but I just work here, go after my rich boss not me," narrative which co-opts class warfare rhetoric to make themselves immune from any criticism or consequences.

>I'm left wondering if the only reason they are being litigated against is that they deceived the wealthy.

Legal fees are expensive. I don't have $250,000 laying around for legal fees but the wealthy do. The same way Hulk Hogan's wealth and connections weren't enough to take on Gawker, so Thiel stepped in. In both cases the wealthy took on the moral position. Its odd that you're suggesting that because the wealthy are involved and not 'regular joes' that they must be taking an immoral position.
That's what's cool about a ponzi scheme. The end doesn't matter as long as there's enough bumps on the ride to bring in fresh suckers.
>Check any reasonable site from youtube to amazon, they download ~ 1MB gzipped data on load and do just fine.

For users with high-speed connections on computers or newer phones. In normal first-world conditions. Your users are not everyone else's users.
What makes a jigsaw puzzle any worse of a test than anything else. Genius
Linus hasn't pulled it yet. (And it's doubtful whether he will.) It's just David Howells has requested him to do so.
This happened in the popular tv show silicon valley but it's much more likely that your idea wouldn't result in something worth stealing. For example, I know of a successful start-up that migrates cemetary data into a modern database and then sets up a site with it that allows users to view plots of land as well as buy them.

Is Google going to hear about this and take over the funeral management business? It's extremely unlikely. Instead, what could happen is that the start-up one day grows very large and is acquired by a company, which then may have competition from Google or FB, if it turns out the market is so large that it's worth competing over.

I would recommend that you pursue your ideas because generally you won't make the next Instagram. And even then, you'll probably be acquired before you have to compete with Google.
My experience confirms that. I've done a lot of riding on the road with cars but the only time I was hit by a car was when I was riding on the sidewalk and crossing the road.
At first I got this confused with mincss [1], which is my go-to for quick and dirty sites. This looks like it could be a good option too!

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Have you ever wondered how other businesses get featured in the news?
I think he came to the belief that there was legal justification for conducting mass surveillance in secret... in other words that the AG didn't need to sign off on it for it to be an appropriate tool.

If the AG had signed for it, then we'd have probably seen the supreme court weigh in on it. But since he didn't, the program continued behind closed doors and grew massively. I believe now there is a rolling 60 day archive of nearly all worldwide communications and metadata (and longer rolling archives for select subsets). It's incredibly impressive tech but quite scary.
Even if it is a good idea, it may not be relevant to a large company. For example, a business that makes $5 million/revenue a year is far too small for Facebook to care about, it's just a blip for them.

Empirically Facebook is not starting 100s of tiny businesses a year, even though they have the personnel for it.
I'm talking about the phone receiving a broadcast. The app has to be designed efficiently such that it minimizes network activity and doesn't hog the input audio stream. You also have the issue of trying to maximize the probability that a device in proximity to a beacon will pick up the full message. So you need some redundancy, which obviously increases overhead.

NTP sounds like it would work. As you kindly noted, just make sure the beacons broadcast at a agreed upon time and in fixed increments.
> There's remarkably little evidence that terrorists are making routine use of strong encryption.

Even if they were, we Americans have a fundamental right to strong encryption, protected under the Second, Ninth & Tenth Amendments to the Constitution. I'd go further still, and argue that everyone in the world (who's not a prisoner or otherwise unfree) has a right to strong encryption.
I can second this. I used to selfhost mail and it was a lot of work to keep up. Nowadays I am also quite happy with protonmail but since I got cloudron installed for other services, I just enabled mail there and will see how that goes over the next few months, so far so good. Hopefully I can go back to email selfhosting through that in the long run.

Also I agree, the privacy implications when using a VPS is still something worth taken into account.
I'm a German, I spend a lot of time in the US. My US friends here seem to analyze what I do often based on my nationality ('Oh you cook, must be a German thing'). Analyzing/Interpreting people's behavior based on nationality must be an American thing.
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Someone has to prove the market. Why would they care if you take all the risk of getting initial traction and they can just buy you for 30M-1B. As fast as facebook is they usually offered to by people out. if your not already on their road map you've got a long way to go before you have to worry about it.

http://mashable.com/2014/01/06/snapchat-facebook-acquisition...
Do you have a link to that announcement? I tried to look it up to gather more information without bothering the mods.
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I'm definitely buying this.

I've got a yearly pass to Kennedy Space Center, but I don't even live in the US. Still, I've been there more than four times just this year, and even watched a rocket launch from the LC-39 gantry. I've been to the Apollo/Saturn V center a number of times and the sheer size of the rocket gets me every time. I watch rocket launches all the time on the web, and am constantly awed by what engineers can accomplish, not least with SpaceX landing rockets like parking a car these days. I'm a total space nerd.

This package is epic, even down to the number of pieces. I need it.
> the presented evidences so far have been circumstantial

...and that's what makes all Uber/Lev's avoidance look as damning as it is. If the stuff they're not saying cleared them, they'd present more of it - enough to make their case.
The ole e-commerce metric. Does anyone else hate when they have tunnel vision for years and are made aware of a really amazing opportunity they should have noticed earlier?

Many crypto tokens are dividend producing assets, just like most separate corporate bonds have yields.

Sure there may be somebody wishing the dutch east india company's bonds were successful in underpinning global finance for 500 years, but the reality is that it pioneered a high yielding asset class.

In crypto, there are investible assets, and many people want them as they can gain decent yield from them. Those networks don't require mass transactions per block to be valuable. But you can also create applications on those networks to make them even more valuable.
Is this the "no true communism" argument?
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Is it too much regulation, or not acting on the trust busting regulations we already have that prevents newcomers? In the case of telecoms, it is hard to imagine a startup being able to pay the entry costs of building infrastructure, which are extremely substantial, and then offer lower prices. Granted, the situation also suffers from telecoms striking monopoly deals with municipalities, so if that could be prevented it would help too.
> But I think it's clear that when you drop the price for a product to zero, there's no longer an argument that you are attempting to fairly compete in that market. The only rational reason is to drive your competitors out of business.

This statement is far too rigid. You probably don't mean it exactly as written. To illustrate, this would imply that Robinhood was not attempting to fairly compete in the brokerage market when it first launched.
2 and 20. His scenario is a little contrived though
But lower volumes would limit the range.
Or, use Haskell and have the type system protect your precious moolah :)
Direct link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2uW7A7aAWp6Um9xNWtYeUVpaFE...

To submit a direct link, leave the |text| box empty on the submission page. There's no need to use "interesting" in the title because anything that meets the Hacker News guidelines is intellectually interesting by default (or should be to at least the person posting).

It is not uncommon for Hacker News links to dropbox to exceed allowed views if a story gets popular. Might be better to link to the source.
Definitely super great to dismiss any appeal to morals or decency as "virtue signaling." Definitely not the sort of nihilism that corrodes and destroys civil society.
I guess that's sort of my point though isn't it? A, SVMs, etc. aren't really called AI because they're not. Because AI carries a connotation and once you understand A it's obvious that it's not really AI. Won't the same be true of today's neural networks? Granted they've been given a name which should add some longevity but when a layperson thinks "AI" they think a robot which acts like a human, they think AGI. If someone had an AI algorithm which could start to demonstrate more AGI leanings I bet the AI effect wouldn't apply.
Wow, way to make me feel old (reality sucks). But you are right, took your suggestion. Thanks.
I recall a motorcycle which people thought was nice and cheap, but had this major problem where the motor was baked into a single block in such a way that you could not repair most things in it.

Are most motorcyclists also mechanics? No. Do most motorcyclists care about the minor details of the inner parts of the motor, or scientific methods used within? No. Most just want a motorcycle that is cheap, function properly, and yet this specific motorcycle was strongly disliked and viewed as a trap. You could not repair it when it broke and you could not recover the investment by reselling it.

So say you are a non-developer and buying a e-reader with a bunch of DRM. The publisher go busts and you want to recover your investment. At that point you do care that you own a brick rather than some general purpose computer, but its to late. You are stuck in the trap.
Future demand, known supply.

Actually lower supply, with payment channels taking litecoin off the market.

These trade like commodities, not stocks. Commodities with an extremely transparent supply.
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1. Does the drone attempts to automatically land in case of loss of connectivity ?

2. Do you plan selling the drone with ready-to-use sims ?

3. Is it possible to set up the drone not to fly too far away from the controller position ?
On the other hand, we're stuck with the dubs who were lucky enough to be born in this country, and there's more than enough of them already. We don't need to import more low-functioning people, rather the opposite.

It's idiotic the way we gate the top end of people trying to immigrate here legally, but were opening the floodgates on the low end. If someone is talented enough to get an H1B visa, or graduate from a top university, those are the people I'd roll out the red carpet for, rather than shackling them in pseudo indentured servitude or kicking them back to their home countries when their student visas expire.
This I never understood. Couldn't they just supply the app with empty lists and black pixels for restricted APIs until the user approved the permission? iOS managed to do this retroactively just fine.
besides you have a much bigger problem building something enough users care about to be worth stealing.

Also, If your business has network effects it's hard to start from scratch and compete.
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AMDs Naples should have 128 Pcie 3.0 lanes, so that should happily feed 8 x16 GPUs or 16 x8 GPUs (I don't see most workloads being that bandwidth starved that it's actually an issue).
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> Check any reasonable site from youtube to amazon, they download ~ 1MB gzipped data on load and do just fine.

What's important is how much you need to download to be able to do the first meaningful interaction. Downloading 5mb of JavaScript and CSS for your cool dashboard graph might be fine, but you should not need to download that much just to get some reasonable layout or have a look at the possible menu alternatives.
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Wrong. A borrower who defauls is more attractive than a tightwad who never borrows. There is a chance of making money on the former.
People going into foreclosure get innudated with loan offers.
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