skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One problem with this off grid in Kauai story is that he must have friends & family & when you live in the middle of the Pacific in Hawaii, that means friends & family flying 1/4 around the world to come & see you. That's going to sink any green savings for quite a while.
SICP is already available online for free.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
I'm not sure what you mean by "equality" programs. "Diversity" programs are by nature unfair- they provide explicit preferential treatments to specific groups in order to counteract presumed other factors that make those groups less likely to be present in the first place.

He clearly has beef with the unfair nature of those programs but they are still the best way I know of concretely responding to realities of a complicated world filled with prejudice and bias beyond any one organization's control. There's always room for improvement based on new data though.
How did you get to normative judgements from a positive assertion?

That is, how did you get from a description of what is, to inferring what the author thinks ought to be?

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
This is basically talking about the type+frequency of "flashing" imagery that triggers photosensitive epilepsy—but more subdued, yes?
I much prefer mdfind[1] to locate or find on macOS, it uses the same metadata Spotlight leverages.

1: https://ss64.com/osx/mdfind.html
"I could care less" is just as correct as "I couldn't care less". They mean exactly the same thing.

Yes, I know this is illogical: how could two phrases mean the same thing when their literal meanings are direct opposites?

But they are both idioms, and idioms do not follow that kind of strict logic.

Here are a number of articles that explain this better than I could:

https://www.google.com/search?q=i+could+care+less
If you want to interpret what Thiel says then you have to take into consideration everything that he says. So yeah, the quote being discussed does require this. That would be the case if you consider Thiel as some sort of libertarian intellectual. If he's just a whatIsaywheneverIsayitmeaningwhateverIwantittomeanwheneveritsuitsme-arian then I see your point.
Its been endlessly stated but naming it 'Perl 6' was a huge mistake. Perl 5 has an enduring reputation for crufty, unmaintainable code written by graybeard sysadmins. I wrote a lot myself that I wouldn't want to ever deal with again. I think they would have benefitted from a clean break from a marketing perspective, especially considering it's completely different.
They tried to use DMCA to censor non-copyright-able information such as this? Ridiculous.
I was wondering if these were viable in San Francisco, but it looks like they bore tunnels 20 ft in diameter [0] to fit their inefficiently large Muni Metro cars. Another example of SF overspending on things they didn't properly think through.

0: http://archives.sfmta.com/cms/apress/documents/CentralSubway...
I love streisand
MIT Press has published SICP online for free for years.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
I had such an arrangement for/in Germany. Our HR department found the contact. It needed to be in the same country. Only companies in Germany can pay those taxes because you need a (state?) tax id and it's too much hassle for any non-German company to set that up. Plus using a German MS Windows program to even file taxes, nevermind how many other German forms might have been needed for them to deal with the health insurance. You can contact me via https://geocoder.opencagedata.com/contact

Best is really to search for an accountant with specialized knowledge on cross-border income taxation. The big players like Earnest&Young are offering that service but you're probably a too small case.
Recruiters are there to:

1. Manage the inflow of candidates.

2. Screen candidates to protect engineer time.

3. Sell the company to the candidate.

4. Manage the ongoing candidate/company relationship until an offer/no-hire decision.

The recruiters I (as a candidate) appreciate most absolutely excel at #4.

The screening happens at #2, and should be just enough to avoid inviting obvious no-hires to speak to your engineers. As a web programmer this involves questions on the order of "How many HTTP methods can you name?".

Honestly, a resource-constrained recruiting department just can't review the entire github/stackoverflow account of every potential candidate. The very best headhunter emails I've ever gotten came from CTOs/dev leads who managed to write a sentence or two about a project on my github. Nice when it happens, but I really don't think it scales.
No, zero early startups as far as I know. Some young-ish companies though.

I'm not interested in working in a rapidly growing business or one where there is a single make or break product being created at an early stage.

Most of these are like "we make a product that compares car insurance so that [goes on to describe at lenght how awesome the product is]"

I mean it's cool if it's a great product (I guess) but again, tech matters (more).

Writing about tech, processes, team size etc doesn't necessarily exclude writing a long bit about the product either. My issue was that they are 100% product.
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I pay my bills with recruiting and I write alot of software. For example I wrote Bootrino: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJhxmVlR46c

In many cases I know more about the topic at hand than the job seeker.

My technical background is one of the key reasons my clients choose to work with me.

People hate on recruiters but truth is that it is incredibly hard to get people into jobs. Over the past ten years employers have become "better and better" at recruiting and constantly refined their selection process and raised their standards so high that it effectively becomes close to impossible to get people who can pass the selection process. Worse, these highly refined selection processes often IMO don't actually identify people who would make a great employee. In programming, all employers declare that they only hire "the best", but there's still no way in scientific terms to quantify who are "the best" developers - in the end it is always just a matter of opinion.
For anyone interested in finding out more about Dunkirk and the events leading up to the evacuation I can strongly recommend "Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man" by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore. It gives the British, French and German viewpoints and covers the incredible scale of the operation in a way that the movie couldn't really do.
It's a bit of a stretch to say that True Arithmetic can be "formulated" by human beings.
Many things can work; fewer things work at scale; even fewer things make financial sense at scale.

Your idea would be more likely work in a country with fewer or no safety regulations. In the United States and Europe there are rules like FMVSS and UNECE rules[0]. Components have to be carefully designed and verified, which would be harder with Mom and Pop shops.

Also, OEMs are able to buy parts at volume, with volume discounts, small shops wouldn't necessarily get those discounts.

0.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Motor_Vehicle_Safety_S...

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Forum_for_Harmonization_...

0. http://jalopnik.com/a-simple-explanation-why-america-doesnt-...
Git – just a simple guide for getting started with git. no deep shit
I think this is by design - it's a commission based non-skilled sales position. The people who get into it are the same selling automobiles, real-estate, fire extinguishers, etc, and can easily move between these industries based on how hot they are. It's cheap for the agencies to recruit just about anyone, and those who are truly skilled will rise to the top while the rest are naturally culled.

With the software recruiting industry the issue is somewhat made worse by the basic gender imbalance that exists... agencies try to capitalize on the environment of nerdy male engineers by having an unusually high number of attractive women to get a higher response. EDIT: unfortunately I'm not able to find any direct stats on the software recruitment industry itself please regard my comment as anecdotal.
> Inefficiency is the ultimate downfall of any individual effort to address climate change.

This is a great summary of the problem with homesteaders and people who want to live off grid. Efficiencies of scale are very real.

I've personally been living off the electric grid for about 2.5 months in my bus with solar and batteries. I've only had to plug into shore power for a few hours once due to a few days of rain. I don't have enough power to run AC 24/7 though which isn't great in 100+ F TX weather.
Not only Vietnamese but a lot of languages all over the world, if not most or all. Puns and wordplay exist in any language, and people who say "why English/German/Swahili/whatever is so great for Y" merely have no deeper understanding of linguistics aside folk etymologies and lists of "untranslated words" (which are a joke to people actually into linguistics) and things like that.

Japanese comedians can't go 10 minutes without making a pun, and a lay person could strongly agree that it is the language that uses them the most due to all common similar-sounding words, frequent games with kanji and their different meanings etc. It's common for even business names to be puns in Japan.
I upvoted you, because this rings true. But you are unfailry stereotyping "people".
Hmm, that's odd. Thinking in a language is like talking, only you're talking internally rather than externally. Presumably when you're talking out loud about a problem you don't have to think/talk slowly, no?
I've worked with some incredible recruiters who aren't programmers so, no.

The typical aloof recruiter is a byproduct of the companies and hiring managers they represent and the incentive structure created by them. The best recruiters I know are just like the best sales people I know in that they exist in spite of the environment they work in.
Should Google aim for 50/50 male to female ratio? Why? Do other jobs and work sectors do this?

I'm all for females in the workplace, I generally work better with women than I do men (because of my personality), but can anybody point to why we need this ratio to be 50/50? What about those attending college? Should that be 50/50? If women are overrepresented in a field should we deny them entrance to that field so that we can make sure it's 50/50? Why or why not?

I'm just asking this in general, not specifically of you, kristianc.
I know the break from Python 2 to 3 is also a mistake, but I don't know which one.

I learned Python 3 because it seemed that it was the new one, but to great confusion Python 2 is alive and default in Linux distributions.
Yes, you can't have the voices with the old graphics in MI1 Special Edition so you need the hack. Unfortunate oversight since I think many people would like to enjoy it that way. I believe they made it possible in the MI2 remaster but never changed this for the first one.
I think the NYT author implies that Damore thinks women have less "biological suitability" than men. There's a big difference between "biological suitability" and "biological inclination", at least when it comes to tone. One implies women can't do something and the other implies women generally don't care to do it. The latter is not controversial in the right context. Men aren't as inclined to watch period romance movies. That doesn't mean they can't watch them.

People, maybe fairly, have been criticizing Damore for his writing prowess. The same people should have a higher standard for a professional writer published in the NYT.
I have no idea how good any of these are, but it is a list of remote job boards I compiled at some point:

http://gigworks.blogspot.com/2017/01/remote-job-boards.html
Show HN: Behavioral analytics (funnel, retention) on top of your data
Funny you mentioning Geth... Perl 6's core devs use a bot named Geth to report new commits on IRC. And.... it's written in Perl 6 ( https://github.com/perl6/geth ) :)
> The observed effects include ptosis of the eyelids, relaxation, drowziness, the feeling of pressure at a centered spot on the lower edge of the brow, seeing moving patterns of dark purple and greenish yellow with the eyes closed, a tonic smile, a tense feeling in the stomach, __sudden loose stool__, and sexual excitement, depending on the precise frequency used, and the skin area to which the field is applied. The sharp frequency dependence suggests involvement of a __resonance mechanism__.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_note
The fourth level is just enjoying the joke as it is?
disposition -- prevailing tendency, mood, or inclination
b : temperamental makeup

Not sure where you get "suitability" out of that. And not sure where you get "suitability" out of either "tendency" or "preference". Unless maybe the most adversarial reading possible, and even then...not really.

> "there may be limits to how people-oriented certain roles" can be

Yes, and? In order for those who prefer more people-oriented roles to want/prefer/enjoy those roles. Incidentally: both men and women (larger overlaps, remember?)

> this isn't just a "preference" for people-oriented roles he's talking about.

That is exactly what he is talking about here.

> having to be this forensic with language

Not really. What is in the memo is fairly simple and obvious. It's the misrepresentations that twist themselves into interpretative pretzels.
A lack of diversity is among the least terrifying of Google's many evils.
@alpb Thank you for your helpful reply! The Kubernetes Service Catalog looks like an amazing project, I hope it will be released soon.
Subpar performance is a huge drawback of Perl 6.

I usually don't program in Perl, but occasionally use it instead of sed.

Compare, Perl 5 vs. Perl 6:

$ time yes | head -n1000000 | perl -pe 's/y/n/' >/dev/null

real	0m0.945s
user	0m0.944s
sys	0m0.016s
$ time yes | head -n1000000 | perl6 -pe 's/y/n/' >/dev/null

real	2m49.881s
user	2m44.892s
sys	0m2.184s

Spending several minutes to do what can be done in under 1 second is just unacceptable.
Is such a thing even possible?
> Statistically, my use case is 95% cat cat cat cat... (hundreds of them)

If you use a linked-list representation like you proposed, your performance would die a death by 1000 allocations. A simple string class backed by an exponentially growing contiguous memory buffer (i.e., what 99% of string classes do) sounds much better from a performance standpoint. Especially if you are able to know (or estimate) the size of your response, and allocate once upfront.
Given the quality issues Tesla cars still have, I'm sure the current players will survive. Since they will lose a good bit of after-sale-revenue (less spare parts and maintenance needed), they will have to make up for this in some other way. Maybe.. sell supercharger hardware for home use (Tesla can't cover it all)? Yearly hardware upgrades perhaps, or entertainment? (Stream HBO on a big screen and decent sound system while driving home autonomously)
There's actually talk about amending the name for next major language release ( https://rakudo.party/post/The-Hot-New-Language-Named-Rakudo ). Exactly for the reasons you state: it's a completely different language than Perl and so far it proved too confusing for everyone.
But with no verbs how would you do the gag from Monkey Island where the verbs change for the parrot?!

http://monkeyisland.wikia.com/wiki/Murderous_Winged_Devil?fi...

(I kid; the verbs are mostly superfluous, as "look" and "use" basically cover all the options, but I really do fondly remember the verb-changing gag above...)
Honestly, what is the point of tech recruiters? The tiny filtering they do for employers could be automated or done by a minimum wage worker. I don't see they have any value for candidates. Most of them just cruise the job boards doing keyword matches between applicants and jobs.

Why haven't they disappeared like other middlemen such as travel agents?

Is it just for protection against civil rights suits? I realize there's some highend headhunters that do real work, but the bulk of the industry seems worthless to me.
After visiting a family of friends of mine a few weeks ago and noticing how much they're active on FB, and sadly how many bullshit they take for true and discuss there, from chemtrails to infinite energy etc., I never regretted refusing to be a part of that human stupidity collector called Facebook. Not for me, definitely.
Huh, fun :)
How about:

Women are perfectly capable of choosing jobs they like.

That leaves a lot out, but it's the high order bit.
> IMHO a 6502 is too limited to be effectively programmed in C; even this part of the article gives all the limitations: https://nesdoug.com/2015/11/15/2-how-cc65-works/

In my not so humble opinion, almost all of those are limitations of a compiler, not of the CPU. Then yes, on a 8-bit CPU, you'd better avoid larger words unless you really have to or it will be slow.
You don't have to build special purpose software, though.

All you got to do is know the block number that it was published on.

Maybe you could even have the "speciality purpose software" published in the bitcoin blockchain itself.

It might still be "illegal", but the purpose is not to be 100% bullet proof.

The purpose is to make enforcement so expensive as to be impractical.

I am glad that you brought up bittorrent, though.

Bittorrent and torrents in general is a great example of how you can spend billions trying to enforce copyright law, and yet free Game of Thrones episodes are still a click away, for me.

Technical solutions to fighting DMCA have worked extraordinarily well.

The copyright lobby has massively failed to achieve its goals.
The only qualification you need for food blogging is to be good looking (most important) and to be young. I don't understand how these people have the guts to tell other people how to live.
> How did you get to normative judgements from a positive assertion?

The description of things a logically incompatible (“oxymoron”) means that support for one logically excludes support for the others. Thiel's description of capitalist democracy as oxymoronic in the presence of women voting excludes support for the combination.

(Though his other statements outside of the one in question suggests democracy, not women's suffrage within it, is the piece he has come to oppose in light of perceiving the incompatibility.)
The fifth level is becoming the joke.
That's the thing: there is no misrepresentation. A bunch of people here are trying to use smoke and mirrors to cry "repression" of their ideas, but when you boil it down to the basics the memo just says that: "we shouldn't do anything to increase diversity, because women are biologically different and hence they won't be interested."

The moment you point out that the same kind of argument was made about black people not long ago, most of the trolls just disappear.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15003333
> Knowing no facts, "George Soros and his Jewish sympathizers want to destabilize our government." is a straight-forward and polite way to state an opinion.

That sounds reasonable, but then why is the statement "Ivanka is arguably the most powerful Jewish woman in America today" considered doubly more toxic (25% vs 51%)?
That's correlation, not causation. Reporting an injury to a CEO does not reduce injuries, it just keeps the CEO informed.

In Alcoa's case, the safety record improved because the CEO made safety the number one priority over even profits, and this led to a culture shift that examined small inefficiencies and led to improved quality as well as improved safety practices.

Reducing harm requires actually implementing a harm reduction strategy. Informing the CEO of every single injury can tell them when the plan isn't working [as they receive each report], but it also fails to tell them it is working, because they don't necessarily know why they aren't hearing reports.

You don't need to personally receive these reports as a CEO. This is just Musk being a control freak. Usually, CEOs implement policies like "inform me immediately every time X happens" because they don't want to get caught off guard when something bad happens.

I dealt with a similar thing at a previous job, and it definitely instilled fear in a lot of people, but it never addressed the cause of the concern. Churning on injuries to reduce specific causes of specific injuries is not a culture shift, it's reactionary.
> Can the New York Times point...

This isn't an article by the NYT. It's an opinion piece by someone unrelated to the newspaper:

Jonathan Taplin is the director emeritus of the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Innovation Lab and the author of “Move Fast and Break Things: How Google, Facebook and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy.”
It would be neat if anyone could show this in a simplified example/simulation.
The patent holder appears to be an unidentified pseudonym: https://www.quora.com/Who-is-Hendricus-G-Loos

> “All devices are used for Mind Control projects run by CIA or other intelligence agencies. A group of researchers (under the name Dr H Loos) were actually a group of hired professionals for researching and inventing such devices which could be developed and used for mass mind control, PSYOPS, behaviour modification later by CIA.”
This isn't an article by the NYT. It's an opinion piece by someone unrelated to the newspaper:

Jonathan Taplin is the director emeritus of the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Innovation Lab and the author of “Move Fast and Break Things: How Google, Facebook and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy.”
> disposition -- prevailing tendency, mood, or inclination b : temperamental makeup

If someone has a prevailing tendency, and it's a prevailing tendency that they are born with (i.e. an innate prevailing tendency), and that tendency impacts their ability to carry out certain roles, then they are innately less suitable for those roles. The second half is you selecting one definition of disposition (the "preference" one), and basing your argument on that.
I could be mistaken, but I don't think that was either a haiku or a limerick.
Kind of like how the original memo was leaked and resulted in a huge number of threats towards the author? How it resulted in him being fired?

People hate it when the alt-right uses the tactics of the left.
> But I'd argue the NYT is too vague here.

This isn't an article by the NYT. It's an opinion piece by someone unrelated to the newspaper:

Jonathan Taplin is the director emeritus of the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Innovation Lab and the author of “Move Fast and Break Things: How Google, Facebook and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy.”
> Depends on context.

Exactly.
Please note that one does not have to prove anything in regards to the actual functionality claimed. The patent office is perfectly happy approving your anti-gravity device if it is novel. Keep this in mind (if you'll excuse the pun) when evaluating designs found there.
> I think the NYT author implies

> The same people should have a higher standard for a professional writer published in the NYT.

This isn't an article by the NYT. It's an opinion piece by someone unrelated to the newspaper:

Jonathan Taplin is the director emeritus of the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Innovation Lab and the author of “Move Fast and Break Things: How Google, Facebook and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy.”
He didn't say he didn't like it.

He just said it wasn't his game, in the sense that it wasn't his way of continuing the story, and that he'd like to pick off where he left of after MI2.