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If you haven't been working as a software developer long and you don't have a background in CS, it's going to be difficult.

I'm about halfway through and many of the classes assume that you have the equivalent of an undergrad CS degree. It's not intended to replace an undergrad degree.

That doesn't mean you can't do it, but your going to spend a lot of time catching up. From what I've seen, the students without a CS degree, even those with significant industry experience, have had a much harder time with the more theoretical classes.

It's also a graduate program, and the classes are pretty rigorous compared to what I did in my undergrad CS degree.

Also keep in mind that admission is fairly competitive. And admission is only probationary. You have to complete 2 foundational classes with a B to be fully accepted.
Federal Trade Commission Smacks Uber for Misrepresenting Its Privacy Safeguards
Show HN: A lightweight tool for managers to get insights and build team trust
Hey HN,

Humble Dot (https://humbledot.com) is a platform that helps managers get insights from team members and build trust through positive reinforcement.

Our mission is to foster stronger teams. We believe that the team is the building block of the modern company, not the individual. Thus, it follows that strong teams are the key to productivity and success. We hope to fulfill our mission by building a platform that will enable teams to cultivate trust and feedback, better delegate resources, and improve planning.

The current product offers a weekly lightweight check-in that surveys team trust, value, acknowledgement, conflict resolution, and prioritization of team results over individual gain. It also lets team members give public praise of their teammates via shout-outs. You can take a look at a demo of the check-in right here: https://humbledot.com/check-in/demo.

We have had a lot of interest in this product from directors, managers and direct reports. Could you see your team using this? We would love to hear some techniques that your teams are using to build trust and chemistry.

We would also be happy to answer any questions as well as hear any feedback you might have!
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Very cool. It's amazing how complex the combustion engine seems, especially compared to an electric motor. No wonder cars have a limited lifetime of typically some 150-200k miles.

It's going to be really interesting to our purchasing and maintenance patterns for EVs.
Probably because github is closed source.
Is it a national chain? Or does your local independent pizza joint have online
lol! Epic. Thanks for this comment. This was a Sarahah moment.
I think the parent was being sarcastic as they were replying to a post which was saying that higher ticket prices keeps out the "rude" people. The implication then is that poorer people are rude.
This is basically one individual's musing on the topic of naming things in a UI. I don't know the author at all, so he might have tons of insight or he might just be making stuff up, I have no idea.

But at this point in time, why aren't we reading about studies rather than an individual's musings? I'd much rather read that x% of individuals didn't immediately make the connection between "my computer" and their workstation in testing at MS.

One reason Code Complete has always been my favorite programming book is that he backed up his suggestions with real numbers from serious studies. I'd love to see similar types of writings in the design field.
> The system is run by two companies, Alibaba and Tencent, which run all the social networks in China and therefore have access to a vast amount of data about people’s social ties and activities and what they say.

obviously not true, Alibaba tried numerous times to gain some market share in social media, but all their attempts failed.
I'm about 70% of the way through Charlatan by Pope Brock, a non-fiction book that tells the astonishing story of a dangerous medical quack in the depression era who transcends medical quackery to infiltrate entertainment, politics, and more. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1851568.Charlatan

I found it through the excellent Reply All episode on the same subject. https://gimletmedia.com/episode/86-man-of-the-people/ The episode is great, but it naturally has to leave out a lot of details and subplots that really come to life in the book. I would gladly read anything else written by Pope Brock. I think his writing is amazing.
> Saying "I know I am probably biased, so I will act on the margins to try to correct that" is in no way irresponsible.

Whether this is true depends on your methods of correction. That's what this whole conversation is about. If you don't KNOW you are biased (you don't), but suspect you are, and further, if you are, but don't know the extent to which you are biased or what the outcome would have been if you weren't biased (you don't; shit, the outcome may have even been the same), adding explicit discrimination that you do know is happening is stupid, unethical, and unjust.

Now, if you solution is instead to, say, "I'll do blind resume reviews, score candidates based on those, then do separate scores based on interviews, and compare them after a few dozen hires. If I see a significant and meaningful drop in acceptance rates for ANY group moving from blind resume reviews to in-person interviews, I'll do further review to see if there is good reason to believe the cause is, in fact, discrimination, rather than some benign issue like candidates of specific groups being legitimately worse at things that only come out in interviews. Then, if I don't find clear evidence of non-benign cause, I won't change anything, but if I do, I will attack those specific causes - even if we happen to find that it's actually white men that are being discriminated against, however unintuitive that is." then you'd be fine.

The response to the suspicion of injustice is key, here. Simply assuming your suspicions are correct and attacking perceived symptoms by doing exactly what you're trying to prevent, while qualifying as "trying to correct that," is not okay.
I'm not sure I agree that is a logical conclusion.

I think it's just as possible that not all facts were available on Saturday afternoon. Once the facts were available on Monday, the President made a definitive statement.

Also, since when did days become inclusive? I count 2 days (48 hours) between noon Saturday and noon Monday. Another media concoction.
I'm the original author. I did mention that there may be health benefits to caffeine. You make a good point that it may be coffee and not caffeine that people find beneficial. Nevertheless, as I mentioned in the post, I'm skeptical of reports of the benefits of consuming something as most such reports come from entities trying to sell you something or people who want to rationalize their own consumption. I'll try to update the post later to clarify.
There are rules about what you can do with the money once it is in a charitable foundation. You can't for example buy a picture of yourself and hang it in your house. Oh wait...
Well, the headaches were annoying, but it seems so much simpler to just go cold turkey.
Article doesn't mention this, but a big selling point is painless returns. Just drop stuff off and get your money back.

IMO that makes them a much more attractive option for items like clothes that might not fit.

EDIT: I might be wrong here, I assumed it was talking about Amazon locations like the one that recently opened up in my hometown, but that's "Pickup Point", this is "Instant Pickup".

Pickup Points do 1-day delivery and easy returns, I don't think you even need a Prime membership.

Not clear from the article if Instant Pickup locations offer those services too or if they're only for stocking common items with fast availability.
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> Thanks. It still doesn't work fine for me.

Sucks for you, you should probably talk to apple about it since it's probably a bug.

> Yes, it is.

No it isn't, and it has been shown numerous times. You have probably experienced it yourself with a parent or someone else needing your help because they were trying to do change their wallpaper on their windows pc and now their internet is not working anymore. More options equals more complexity which isn't good if you need your phone to work for as many people as possible.

iOS even has had its fair share of problems with this for example with its third-party keyboards with people installing them from the App Store and coming back later and having no idea how they did turn them on, or that they even did so, they just did what the app told them to do while they thought they were installing some game and now they can't hit the keys any more because it's all different, and they don't remember what happened nor how to get things back to normal.

> That's a ridiculously absurd notion and it couldn't be further from the truth. I'm not even going to ask you because you've got no evidence for this whatsoever.

No it isn't, and a very famous and popular book was even written about it by Barry Schwartz called The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less which spiked a lot of research on the topic. You should read it.

> It equates exactly to "Choices are bad". Perhaps that is true for marketing purposes but not for solving actual real-life problems. I guess we have our answer now though because "more marketing and less functionality" fits precisely within Apple's modus-operandi.

Yes it is. It might not be optimal for you specifically, but if they made a phone that worked perfectly for you, it possibly wouldn't work perfectly for me, and surely not for my grandmother. Why? Because we need very different things from our phones. If you introduce all the features all 700+ million of active iPhone users need/want, the phone would be a complete cluster fuck. Even if you took the features of a few 100 select but very different people, that would be the case.

I would say that Android phones is a perfect example of why more (choices) is less (good). I can't remember when I last had to help someone with a problem with their iOS devices, but every time I am with a family member that uses android, they have a bunch of problems piled up for me they need help with. Of course, it's not only android but just as much the terrible apps that is on the android platform, but low quality apps is something the android platform enables, so it's kinda it's fault too.

The solution is not to put every single option into iOS. It's to have a wider range of operating systems that are tailored for different groups of people, like hacker types, the "I only call, text and facebook" type, and so on, but that costs a lot more money and takes a lot more time than making a single device that everybody buys.
Empirical consequentialism does not have a monopoly on "reason", "science", or "logical arguments". In fact, computational complexity theory and modern mathematical logic provide, IMO, some of the most compelling arguments against the idea that we can make good rational decisions without value systems and moral codes (aka heuristics for an otherwise intractable problem).
Sorry, I don't play the game of false equivalence by comparing opposing groups.

Especially in today's political and social climate.
There isn't anything special about Pizza delivery that makes it cheaper to do than UberEats or Instacart. The only difference is the margins. Pizza companies can make a $15 pizza for ~$3, and that means they don't lose money even if they spend up to $12 delivering it.

Instacart, on the other hand, likely doesn't have any margins to play with at all, considering the fact that they are paying people to shop and check out at grocery stores. And the stores already have low margins (~1%) which means they likely don't have much in the way of sweetheart deals with the stores. They are likely in the red before the goods even leave the store.

Some restaurant foods might come close to breaking even, but few restaurants approach the margins of pizza-making at high volumes.

But don't worry. There isn't any indication that VC's have figured out math yet, so we aren't in any danger of these services going away.
Don't you need a dough mixer as the amount of kneeding necessary to get the right consistency is a hassle?
At current job we use a "standup" Slack channel in my group, works well enough.
I'm using "mastery" as a shorthand for what he actually said, not literally quoting the man. It's normal human communication that normal humans do every single day and there is no reason I should need to explain that.

You know what? I don't think this is going anywhere.
Make.girls.moe creates anime characters with A.I. font-end boot by WebAssembly
I eat out a lot because I do a lot of business travel. I don't get food delivery at home because I don't really have any options I like. But I do pickup takeout sometimes. It can just be nice to relax at home rather than eating at a restaurant.
Bezos reacted! That was fast!! :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ_DyimkS54
Perhaps if the lady had rephrased her question and not called China "an authoritarian country" they might have been able to get a better response. Even if it's true it is insulting to prideful nationalists and insults shut down rapport
For some amount of time, sure. But at some point you have to pay off the loan, presumably by selling the collateral, at which point your taxes still come due and you've also paid a bunch of interest. This only makes sense if you believe the stock will increase in value enough to exceed the interest paid.

If you're actually donating the stock (or the full proceeds from the sale), I'm not sure what the tax implications are anyway. You get a write off for the value of the donation, which will by necessity exceed the value being taxed. I think you actually come out ahead. But I'm no tax expert.
“The more we understand our fans, the more we can target them.”
It's already possible and easy to grow psychedelic mushrooms at home from growkits.
I've been following the price of Bitcoin on GDAX and it is interesting to see the 12 period EMA and 26 period EMA overlays. From what I've seen (and I don't have historical data, just what is on the chart for any time I look) when there is a crossover that has been a decent time to sell (when the 12 period crosses below the 26 period) or buy (when the 12 period crosses above the 26 period). Now I will say I'm not a professional trader but know just enough to make myself think I am one and lose all my money but that has been how I've been timing my entrances and exits into bitcoin (I'm not making much money because I'm not using much, I'm putting as much as I feel comfortable losing in).
Well yes, but that's true right now as well. There's definitely things that Haskell's better than Rust at, but OP was arguing that it was going to be better in _all_ cases. Instead, the choice in five years time is going to be pretty similar to what it is now.
Ask HN: Employment contract falls short of offer letter terms
Hello HN

I have agreed a new job offer in principal based on the following high level terms. I have also resigned from my current position in good faith. This is a UK based employment contract and I am not directly seeking legal advice just opinion without warranty.

* Offer of base salary (in offer letter)
* Offer of share options (in offer letter)
* Recruiter on phone said shares vest over 3 years

My contract has arrived and there is no mention of share options and the contract also stipulates that any previous documents including offer letter are not valid upon signing of the contract.

I emailed my potential employer about these concerns and they seem to be fobbing me off, telling me that the offer letter is binding and that they are in the process of raising new money. Because of the new funding round they have changed their Articles of Association and Shareholder Agreements for some institutional investors. They say they can then post round, issue the new EMI options for the team. Employer also said the shares vest over 4 years among a few other confusing details.

How big a deal is this and would it raise a red flag for you? Obviously I need to request all of this be put into the employment contract. If they push back on this, then it is my attitude that the company has made me an offer they are not in a position to be able to formalise. If that is the case, I will withdraw my acceptance of the offer in principle.

There are also a few other things that I do not like and I am wondering how much I can/should push back on. For example, in the first two years they need only give me 4 weeks notice if they want to let me go (+1 week for subsequent years). My notice period, shall I want to leave is static at 3 months. I don't like this.

What should I do? Would this type of treatment be a red flag for you? Would you continue to want to join? I am getting concerned now and my gut is starting to feel like it's telling me something.

Thanks
You definitley don't need to graduate within 36 months after you started.

You have up to 6 years to complete it.
Jocko has a wonderful podcast where he reads exerts from various historical military auto/biographies. He really focuses on the extreme realities and hardships of war, and how good leadership is often the key ingredient that can keep a unit operating and keep their soldiers alive.

it is most definitely worth a listen or three
Well HT is generally crap. In most cases if you go up to a random server, it is going to have HT. So cores / 2 will get you ballpark. You really should go in the bios and shut down HT if you are into latency at all. Then you can just do core or core - 2 threads.

So once you are there, the next step is to busy spin at a Thread Per Core (TPC). You have 10 cores, you find 10 (or more realistically 8-9 to leave the OS some spare cores to muck with) threads, and busy spin them at 100% doing work. You never let the linux scheduler touch them.

If this stuff interests you, there are some cool papers by lmax and the disruptor and gil tene that talk about this stuff..

The amount of work you can do with a single 10-20 core CPU is amazing.
True but misleading. The deaths caused by communism were not a direct result of communism, they were the result of a corrupt Communist Party exerting will. Similarly, the vast majority of death caused by Religion was due to corrupt religious figures exerting their power, not a core function of the religion.

Nazis, on the other hand, carried the ideals that led to the holocaust as a core component of the ideology, i.e. the purity of race and country. You wouldn't have the holocaust without the Nazis.
Clearly the Chinese authorities don't want to talk about it and done want anyone else talking about it, it is pretty much a state secret. But on the other hand it's so pervasive, blatant and intrusive that most of what they do is quite evident. We occasionally also hear senior officials praising the effectiveness of astroturfing and censorship campaigns, or calling for more of them on certain topics. The specifics might be considered sensitive, but the basic principle of censorship, information manipulation and suppression of dissent is totally uncontroversial and explicit among the political elite.

But bear in mind Shen isn't 'they'. He has no political role or cover. There's literally nothing he can say on the subject that couldn't get him in trouble and frankly he may not actually know all that much officially anyway.
I've seen some theaters that show Sherlock and other high-production TV, and they seem to do quite well with it. I haven't heard about GoT, though.

As an side - what would the legality be if a group of people "booked" a theater to air a TV show? Would the theater or viewers be liable for holding a commercial screening using a private copy of the thing?
I'm afraid you then might have missed my point by a little bit. Let me try and clarify.

I think new technologies are awesome. But I think you shouldn't look at a technology and ask "which problems should I solve with this?", but rather at the problems you have and then consider "which technologies should I use to solve this problem?".

The last one does mean you have to become good at identifying problems in your company or product offering, which is much harder than finding technologies. But I think that is a very worthwhile goal.
The software routing 260,000 grocery deliveries a week
Just because the Democrats altered their message doesn't mean that the Republicans had to have changed in response.
A cogent thought, by which I assume you mean, it's all ultimately bit manipulation.

But in this view can't all the world's languages be seen as multiple alphabets that express and manipulate quantum fluctuations?

Or do different human languages create different underlying realities?
I don't think that talking with groups on a regular basis is a bad idea.

I just think, if such things have to happen synchronously every day, something is going wrong.
Who are your target users?
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> Feeney is known for his frugality, living in a rented apartment

Seems like renting isn't that frugal in the long-term though... it's unlikely cheaper long-term than owning a condo or small home, ie. you're either paying your own mortgage or someone else's mortgage + rental profits.
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As someone who is socially awkward and struggles with the nuances of interpersonal communication, this has a certain appeal. I don't know if I could go whole hog the way the coach in the story does, but removing some of the annoying everyday white lies sounds nice.
Wow, they put the beetles in a planetarium? Nice
In war, often if you win a battle people on your team die.

and yet both war and tech leadership is the same: driving a group of humans to work together towards a common goal.
These next-generation space suits could allow astronauts to explore Mars
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It stresses me out, I imagine being left with a few dozen spare pieces at the end.
It's interesting to see a lot of recent innovations from Amazon are going back to brick and mortar (Whole Foods, Amazon Go, Amazon Bookstore, etc).
probably the money is more wisely spent by the private institution than the government.
That's classic whataboutism and incorrect as well. There's been plenty of media coverage about the Chicago gang violence (and other inner city gang violence) over the years. Political protests, as well as terrorist acts, do tend to receive more intense coverage than ongoing systematic violence.

I don't know about this Twitter account, but I do personally consider it racist when reporting or discussions are angled to only report ethnic group targets (or other tribes) negatively. Whataboutism like this is also a signal to me.
Absolutely incorrect. No brakes, and he sped up. This was an intentional attack.

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/896433978810519552/pu/p...
Don't forget Cineville.
Yeah, after they move on he has no problem answering, pretty much text book case of silence that was deafening.
Very nice; and playful. How some of it is done is not obvious, like the pistons "taking off" out of the cylinders without the support mechanism for taking the shots being obvious.

Nice tip of the hat to Luxo Jr. at the end there.