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Tech companies rightly or wrongly (the article doesn't make that strong of a case against) are just outsourcing part of their recruiting to elite universities.

Figuring how much investment flows from tech companies (through the companies and the employees as alumni donators) to these elite universities, it may be a worthwhile investment.

It probably is one of the few reliable signals at scale. Sure, you can pluck out a few smart people from your local podunk uni who for various reasons really are that smart but, didn't get into an elite school but, if you need to hire 200 really smart, really capable engineers this year to feed your growth pipeline Stanford, Harvard, et al isn't that bad.

Additionally, it looks good for VCs to say that I have someone from Harvard or Stanford or etc on the team.
The things you mentioned (besides possibly AI) are not CS, a common misconception. CS is data structures, algorithms, compilers, logic, etc.
Treasures from Alan Kay and friends can be found here: http://www.vpri.org

Do check the STEPS project: a complete system in 10_000 readable LOC.

Really exceptional.

Bret Victor can be found here: http://worrydream.com

Friends can be found here: https://harc.ycr.org/member/

Make sure to check Alan Kay's answers on Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/Alan-Kay-11
Any work area change makes a difference. Depending on my mood it can be a couch, cafe, kitchen table, office desk, etc... Regardless of locale, having my things organized and laid out comfortably is always important, and if a bigger desk helps you accomplish that, you'll be more productive.
I also find that my brain wrongly pattern-matches words that form a different word when reading the letters in reverse.

So, I for example often misread "was" as "saw" or "on" as "no".
Are you interpreting the speed up as due to less contention for the NameNode's resources?
>--Lee Atwater, 54th Chairman of the Republican National Committee

I highly recommend you listen to that entire interview to understand why it's important. He said it while he was a campaign strategist for Reagan and was talking about historical campaign strategies of the 50s and 60s.
I think you missed my point too... I'm not talking about Thiel. I addressed him and changed topics.

What you're describing is a jungle. Niches with dominant players that share in a diverse resilient economy. Bees and hummingbirds compete for the same resources but they are not copycats.

A monopoly is a farm, an established entity that's taken control of the local system to suppress disrupters.
> The only downside being that it reclines enough to nap in.

Sounds like a feature, not a bug. :)
Not much of a straw man, since we are nearly certain about the fact that mean temperatures are rising as we are about the color of the sun.

Whether or not the changing climate is anthropogenic is somewhat less certain, (and more politically contentious), but we ought to be able to discuss the effects of these absent the cause without calling a report partisan.
There are, but quantum computers won't have the ability to solve these problems for many years to come (because error correction is required). Quantum supremacy will happen sooner because it can choose from more esoteric problems that are easier to sample.
I have been using unofficial addons for a while like Todoist and Trello and love the fact that they are making a step in the right direction. More integrations, more love.

On the other hand, I really hate their blog design. The reading space is less than half the screen. https://cl.ly/0h2z471o0v2W
quick question for the Coda folks - How is it different from quip.com?
Might be off track, Is there anyone who used interviewing.io and landed a job?

How was the experience using interviewing.io?

I tried signing up some 2 years ago, it said they are in a private beta and they have been there ever since.
We have 2 pools: a practice pool and then a pool where you get guaranteed interviews with employers. If you do well in practice, you can book real interviews with any number of top companies who've come to trust in the quality of our users.

This goes for both senior engineers, and more recently, students.
Unless one train one's mind to see the constant renewing freshness of contact with objects of perception from moment to moment.

It was an everlasting beginning. Boehme
The author performed all of this during a three year period, I believe.

If ego was the only driving focus, wouldn't he have revealed himself earlier? Especially during the rise of alt-right micro-celebrities? How can you be a mere narcissist with a Hollywood background and completely avoid intentionally giving yourself the limelight?

This strikes me as something far more methodical.
I went by what the article claims. I didn't independently verify those claims. Presumably OP also didn't talk to either party to know who is right or wrong, either.
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I found it surprisingly easy to read the mirrored examples in the article. I think it may be more comfortable -- after a while, at least -- to read the mirrored letters; because we don't read letter-by-letter anyway and the "word image" is intact (just mirrored).

Here's the example image (with mirrored letters): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon#/media/File:Bous...

And here's a non-mirrored version:

THIS EXAMPLE OF BOUSTROPHEDON TEXT WAS
AIDEPIKIW EHT ROF YLLACIFICEPS NETTIRW
ARTICLE ON THIS OX TURNING METHOD OF
TNEICNA NI TXET HTIW LLAW A GNIREVOC
GREECE AND ELSEWHERE
Well then it's doomed to fail, frankly, because 1) it's an extra limitation on the behavior of people in their target market of "free thinking, creative individuals" (who will not appreciate arbitrary constraints on their behavior that are not based on secular ethical established facts), and 2) there is no rational evidence that living that way is somehow superior to something like secular humanism, in fact the evidence seems to indicate the opposite

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-secular-life/201410...

But I was not here to argue that. If this new "nation" wishes to be forward-thinking and open-mind-inviting, it needs to shake off the religion requirement.
I find it interesting that you measure your desk in mm and not cm. Is that common in metric countries? For me, here in the States, I would say I moved from a 24in to 36in desk (which incidentally is also 2 feet to 3 feet, but I wouldn't use feet).
Yep! It then becomes a "which one is right" situation. Luckily I moved teams and don't have to deal with that anymore. I was close to quitting partly because of having to deal with that too.
"stringent requirements"

like "oh, one of your parents was a student here? here, you're in".

Harvard is one-third legacy[1].

> at five Ivy League schools, Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, Penn and Brown, as well as 33 other colleges, there are more students from families in the top one percent than from the entire bottom 60 percent.

stringent requirements, sure, but certainly not the right kind.

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/06/harvards-incoming-class-is-o...
The GAO is not associated with a political party. It meets that definition. In particular:

> in most cases, nonpartisan refers specifically to political party connections rather than being the strict antonym of "partisan".
What if I don't care about "diversity" as measured by the number of "underrepresented" minorities, and instead care about the fiduciary responsibility I have to maximize value for stock holders?
You are building a CRUD application. You need him or her being +7 on 0 to +100 scale. You are saying that you only start at those who are +70.
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Someday, people will realize that diversity on its own doesn't solve anything and that people are people. Some are capable problem solvers and some aren't. Some have great technical or leadership skills and some don't.

Hitting some kind of magic ratio won't on its own create better outcomes. If it did, you could just fire your entire company, hire based on gender and ethnicity ratios and performance would improve.

It turns out that companies aren't taking that approach...
Sounds a lot like Gmail Labs, which was discontinued. I've learned to expect most Google products to be killed off, so I don't even bother starting to use them anymore.
You can get some pretty impressive dynamic range out of the new silicon photomultiplier detectors that companies like SensL, Hamamatsu, and Ketek have been putting out.

Despite the name, they aren't related to old-school photomultipliers - they're basically large arrays of very tiny Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes on a single chip. This solves the low dynamic range issues from traditional large-area avalanche photodiodes. Traditional APDs have a long recovery time, whereas an array of small APDs has both a shorter recovery time per cell as well as a greater overall dynamic range due to the ability of multiple cells to be struck at once by incident photons.

SensL actually has a bunch of videos of their products in use for a LIDAR application: http://sensl.com/applications/lidar1/
"Socialism" and "capitalism" are not switches you turn either on or off, they're a set of policies and practices you can apply to varying degrees and extremes.

The military is quite socialist as when you enlist you're given food, housing, equipment, medical care, and other things to perform your job, but it's also part of a large capitalist system where equipment and supplies are provisioned from a (theoretically) competitive marketplace.

What we need to do is find the right balance between dog-eat-dog individualism and insufferable collectivisim.
I really just need a good chair. A comfortable chair allows me to focus on whatever I am working on. Stuff on the desk in the way? Put it on the ground. A big desk is good, but when I want to get something done I'll work on that one thing very hard --- for that, I need maximum comfort.
I think the next successful spreadsheet might be compatible with xlsx and support a handful of fundamental clean data / database concepts. Things like enforcing keys, tabular structure, NAs instead of blank fields, types. These are simple enough you can teach them to average white collar workers and powerful enough that they would dramatically improve data quality.
I see so many people here saying that their performance in older iPhones has declined with iOS 11.

I would like to point out that most (if not all) the lag issues and other performance related issues can be reproduced on a current iPhone 8. I have one. The flashlight has a noticeable delay when turning it on, the calculator is broken as described, the UI gets stuck a lot, apps crash a lot etc.

This is not a money grabbing scheme by apple. iOS 11 is just really bad software. Not the calculator though, this problem is older and has been there in iOS 10 aswell.
Wouldn’t this mean dieting would be impossible?
lol

If you are "someone who has only ever worked on IT-focused Java development" that apparently we don't want at Apple, my email is in my profile.
"The story of Firefox and Firebug is synonymous with the rise of the web. We fought the good fight and changed how developers inspect HTML and debug JS in the browser. Firebug ushered in the Web 2.0 era. "

I love, used and appreciate firebug as much as the next guy but this is a bit much. Its a great product that helped alot of people it's not an ideal to fight for nor "ushered" in web 2.0.
In my experience, major companies are aware of this problem, and would love to find a solution.

Frankly, the problem is that, ultimately, they want to hire the best people. Most of the time, the best people are sourced from the top-tier schools.

On the other hand, in my experience, they pride themselves on finding great people from outside of that small circle. When they do find such a person, it's not uncommon for he or she to excel.
edit: wldcordeiro pointed to a UI that looks nothing like what I have as a UI (in Firefox 56)... removing my comment until I can figure out why.

edit edit: Apparently the last time I tried to install Firebug it instead asked me to just make Developer Tools look like Firebug, which is definitely a bad idea.
It looks like you are not meant to live off of Fresubin. Just 2 bottles, or 800 calories is certainly not enough.

> 2 x 200ml bottles per day will provide 40g protein, 800kcal and meets the average adult recommended daily requirements for vitamins and trace-elements# (DOH 1991).

You would need to drink 5 bottles to meet average calorie requirements. I don't know if there are health risks to consuming 2.5x above the daily requirements, but it was clearly not designed to be a total meal replacement.
The GAO is obviously political, but that doesn't make it partisan. A non-political GAO would be rather odd, since it exists specifically to inform congress as to the impact of policies.
An observation on how data gets used: someone decides what they want to do then dig out or fund getting the data that supports the plan. How do you avoid that?
Theyre OK, but I find the dev tools on chrome have a much better UX.

I particularly dislike the console in FF which is just one tiny input at the bottom of the window. Overall ff devtools also seem slower to open and clunkier.
Ah, you're right, it was the client that LL open sourced.
He means that most of the translations aren't yet completed and that the Drift popup is in french
If jobs were screened entirely by competency and personality/fit, with interviews/resumes somehow conveying those aspects of a candidate without any other identifying information revealed about the applicants (no school, age, sex, name, ethnicity, etc), how different would the end result of hiring be? That would make for an interesting study in a variety of industries and fields, if one hasn't been done already.
> And they attribute their revenue to the membership fees.

No, their profit is largely attributes to membership fees; their revenue is almost entirely sales (for the 53-week “year” in their most recent 10-K, $126+ billion in net sales, less than $3 billion in membership fees.)

Basically, Costco uses a giant near-zero-profit sales operation as a the key benefit to sell memberships, which are its profit-making business.
Shoot me an email, and I'll gladly get you an account. aline@interviewing.io
That's like saying because "O" and "0" have the same shape that we can't solve OCR without general AI.

A modern statistical speech recognition system has no trouble determining that "they're unhappy, ness" is a dramatically less likely word sequence than "their unhappiness".

edit: I read your example backwards, but still, a statistical system can easily incorporate contextual words without actually understanding what they mean. Names from the speaker's contacts in particular are widely used in ASR systems for this reason.
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This is a very personal thing. In my case, it's the complete opposite. I find that when I'm productive, I focus less on my environment and more on the work itself. From a purely aesthetic viewpoint, I obviously prefer a clean desk over a dirty one, but in my experience, my desk is messiest when I'm doing my best work.
I suspect path dependence (and price for quantrix) more than anything is what keeps Excel in charge.

I mean even beyond just switching costs: Excel is for instance the only format for getting data from http://www.earthchem.org/petdb/ or, to keep harping on geologists, people that keep implementing models in excel: which you then have to use because nobody trusts code you wrote yourself.

and it only gets worse with time.
Much better, although check the navbar you translated "princing" instead of "pricing" ;)
Well, if you don't want to contribute to the country in which you live, you have to be prepared to live surrounded by high walls and bodyguards.
Tell me more about this "neoliberal hellhole in the heart of Saudi Arabia"
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you can run a redis cluster.
I'm pretty sure that there is almost no difference in terms of talent between someone who graduated from MIT vs someone who graduated from any other decent university around the world. They share more or less the same curriculum. The main difference is that MIT has more reputable professors and the children have richer parents.

Reputable professors are not necessarily the best teachers... Especially at the undergrad level.
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A good CS education teaches common core concepts, and more importantly how to learn and adapt to new frameworks/environments quickly.

Apple just doesn't want to deal with 2-4 months of ramp-up when they can have someone with expertise in a specific subject. Wealthy institutions see that, and teach certain frameworks as part of their graduates' education. Why else would you see core courses in languages like Objective C?

Any graduate can learn it fairly quickly, but a common theme among employers these days is that they will invest nothing in employees.
Early writing wasn't as standardised as it is now, and most reading would be done aloud in more or less formal circumstances, so the maximum efficiency we strive for today was probably not a consideration.

And since writing on stone is a pretty cumbersome activity it was probably natural to continue writing next to where you just finished a symbol.

Note that cuneiform (which of course predates Greek by a wide margin), written on clay with a reed, was not written boustrophedon.

On the other hand, Egyptian hieroglyphics, though carved in stone, weren't either - instead they were very flexible on writing direction.

I suppose my only real point is that the Ancients didn't see a great need for a fixed writing direction.
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Huh, well never knew about this. Thanks!
> They just don't understand that some people like me, who can get into the (mostly private) elite schools choose to go to a "long tail" school for a variety of reasons (financial, family obligations, etc).

Agreed--I was accepted everywhere I applied save one and I ended up going to the University of Maine. I've never hurt for work and I paid off my student loans by the age of 25. Google sniffs around now (aside: recruiters, even if it's Google maybe you shouldn't assume I want to talk to you and tell me to sign up for a phone call to talk to your sainted ass?) and I have no interest, but the first time I interviewed, when a guy at Google gave me noticeable shade for my filthy state school degree? They could've made a decent bit of money off of me and now that door is likely closed.
I don't think it's quite so gloomy. A lot of cool add-on functionality relies on semantic markup in the email itself [0]. These are open standards by necessity -- any email provider can add support for them. For example, here's the standard for flight reservations [1].

I'm not sure how widely adopted they are, but Microsoft supports at least event discovery [2].

[0] https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/

[1] http://schema.org/FlightReservation

[2] https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Automatically-add-t...

edit: formatting
At WalMart, yes. Also JC Penny, Victoria's Secret, K-Mart, and Starbucks have all used prison labor. There's also prison call centers, such as those used by American Airlines and Avis.
So, I started using inbox a while ago when it was announced and I love it. Really.

What's the state of development of it? Doesn't seems to be moving much and a lot of features from gmail are still missing, and I continue to see dev happening on gmail and not on inbox.

Should I be moving back to inbox?
Damn I got a buzzword bingo on your second paragraph, holy crap man. Do you think a toll-road operator couldn't also describe all the benefits of a toll-road? Does that make it not rent-seeking? Look, we're on a (at least mildly) technical forum, we can be honest here - SaaS has been great for providers and sometimes great for customers. And I'm not talking about off-the-shelf vs built-in-house, I'm talking about billing method.
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Not a hadoop expert, but that seems to be the case, more decentralized caching due to the way IPFS works.
Depends, which version of libertarian do you believe in? The ultra-right libertarians that align with Christian conservatism and the prepper ethos or...uh...the ones who are big on Porcupines. I think the first group far outweighs the second group as a voting block. If the former I'd say the U.S. is right what Ted Cruz and the Tea Party crowd want right now. Environmental regulations, social safety nets, and public institutions are getting rolled back so that taxes can go down. Texas seems to be a hotbed for this. If you're for the latter, New Hampshire is probably okay, but you'll still get quite a few of the former.
It won't. You will just have educated people that now have to move away to get jobs. It's a simple easy answer until you think about step #2, getting a job in rural America.
You can teach your iPhone to know your son's name:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/10/19/how-to-teach-siri-...

You'd need to create a contact if he doesn't already have one.
Ask HN: Need an engineering analogy for my book.
Hi everyone - I'm writing a book on B2B startups. In it I describe the changing roles of leaders over time, from seed stage to IPO and beyond. So, as an example, a sales leader goes from being Davy Crockett, out on his own in the wilderness, to Braveheart, leading a small band of guerrilla fighters, to Eisenhower, administering a complex machine. I'd like to find a similarly relatable analogy for Engineering leaders. I think it relates to what they build and how they build it, but I'm open to alternatives.
> And I've yet to see regulation under what situations autonomous vehicles can and cannot operate.

It wouldn't be implausible in the future for an insurance company to deny a claim based on the fact that the owner knew the autonomous system didn't work in snow, but drove anyway.
It's the most widely useful online service I know of, but building in it means vendor lockin and privacy problems. Collaborative spreadsheets seem like a building block of networked organizations and it would be great to have that under control (free as in freedom).
If that's the case you really should concentrate on hiring under-represented folks for your CRUD ... excuse me... SaaS company: they tend to be cheaper.
We had an alum make a recruiting trip for Google to our large, not particularly well ranked state school when I was in my last year there.
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Siri reminds me of that every time I attempt to use it.
What I've always wanted are widgets that show up in your inbox as if they're emails, but aren't actually emails.

So rather than your calendar sending you an email reminder, it inserts a calendar "app" item that's opened when you click the subject of the non-email.

Or a todo list that lives in your inbox, but directly opens a todo document rather links to a todo document. Would replace the never-sent draft I currently use for the same.
Yeah, inbox seems vastly superior to me, with the exception that it runs like absolute shit on Firefox which I can only interpret as intentional, considering I find FF faster than Chrome for a lot of other stuff these days.
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Labs were experimental features developed by Google itself. These are stable features developed by third-parties. They both extend Gmail, but that's about it.
Well it does seem to say something about the lack of actual mathematical progress -- or at least the lack of actual mathematical completion.