skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're looking at it purely as an interchange format for pretty documents, no. However, once you think about actually using it, the tooling for the format is fantastically more powerful. A small selection of some of the standouts:

Emacs' better understanding of the structure gives you much better editing; I have chords for operations like "move this item up/down" and "promote/demote this item", plus excellent folding, jumping, and a measure of intellisense-like functionality.

org-babel can do anything that even looks like literate programming. I make regular use of both its notebook functionality (like ipython) and its more traditional features (compile to a documentation part and a code part), and its integration with emacs lets you do things like pop out to edit a code block in its native mode as if it were a little tiny file.

org-agenda and org-todo use the format's support for rich semantic metadata to do anything you could want from a calendar, bug tracker, organizer, note-taker, or list manager. You can tag your items with indexed keywords, arbitrary and even simultaneous to-do workflows, and arbitrary (and I do mean arbitrary, it's emacs and everything can be an elisp snippet) to-do deadlines and recurrences. And all that data isn't just a wash; a wealth of options exist for slicing and dicing your data in any number of ways, high-level overview or detailed statistics.

And on top of all that, you can render org-mode documents to nearly any markup under the sun! I regularly compose documents in org, using all of this power, and export to markdown or html to publish.
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Not really sure what you mean by free time. Everyone inherently has 24 hours of "free time", we just chose to fill it with what we do day to day.

So I would continue doing what I already do day to day
Great suggestion! I have opened a ticket here: https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine/issues/21
This is not org-mode if it can't do folding. Folding is main purpose of every outliner.

Another fundamental thing is narrow to subtree (C-x n s/w in org-mode or just click in workflowy)

So this is just .org syntax highliter with some snippets and shortcuts.

.org markup language is much less common than markdown, and this is bad. Nobody wants to learn 2 similar languages with conflicting syntax.
It's kind of funny when 99% of the games are optimised for PS4 or maybe xbox, and both run the Jaguar cpu and 1.8 tflops cpu (xbox slightly lower)

My i7 4770k with a gtx 670 is still running all the games i throw at it, even if i might have to go down from ultra high effects in some.

However I have to admit I play mostly on PS4/switch now a days.
Org mode is slightly older than Markdown, and certainly older than Markdown's status as a default way to mark up text.

More than that, it doesn't make sense to think that Markdown is the best solution, or at least the best solution for all use cases. People should continue to try and innovate, at least if they're aiming for something bigger than trivial improvements on the status quo.
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To hell with actionability, affability, etc. I would much rather know that "Request failed. Error code 0xa34cc9." than "Oops, that's embarrassing! Tacocat is all out of tacos. Please try again later."
Or, the correct perspective: "we realized we were contributing to the problem of inadequately motivating women to re-enter the programming workforce¹ through our selection of candidates from schools which likewise perpetuated the problem, so we switched to hiring from institutions which were also investing towards balancing the talent pool, with the goal of creating a positive feedback loop motivating more corporations to do the same, and therefore motivating more schools to aim to diversify their software engineering recruitment efforts."

¹ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/computer-programmi...
That's great and all, but why go to the trouble of finding a politics-oriented candidate pool, instead of a performance-oriented one if removing identifying information and automating the first prescreening task (among other things) are the meat of the operation? It seems like they sorta quickly move past the questionable candidate selection process to talk about the stuff they can be more proud of.
What about living things that don't have a brain you can "zap to verify" ?
The duolingo CEO must be so bad in statisics..
> For the purpose of this post, we are referring to male and female genders, although we recognize that many other genders exist. https://apath.org/63-genders/

It's a good thing that there are even more fuzzy feelings in the future: whopping 63 genders to hire equally!
Hm... I wonder what the influence of that process was. I.e. how does the outgoing percentages (50:50) compare with the incoming percentages? The article doesn't say, but unless it's also 50:50, their process is still biased / sexist, possibly even more than at companies that don't achieve a 50:50 outcome.
For anyone who thinks infinitely nested lists sounds like a good way to organize things, but would prefer an online, less editor-centric (but still keyboard friendly) tool, I recommend workflowy.com (or their more recent competitor dynalist.io who add more rich content support if that is your thing).

I've been using Workflowy for years to organize my work, both for tasks and for mental maps and note-taking. I've found that it maps extremely well to the recursive nature of my mental map of an application and it subcomponents, tasks and subtasks, and so on. And overall I find that collapsible nested lists have all the benefits of a classic 'mind map' but without the constraints and 'easier to read than edit' nature of a bubble visualization.
Probably nothing. I make money writing code mostly just so that I can do pretty much nothing once I'm done with it every day.
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Besides several other differences between a Make build and a Python script, which your reply ignores, I do much prefer writing in Python over shell scripts.
The regex-equivalent for "anything" is usually "<dot><asterisk>" where the dot is for "any character" and the asterisk is for "any number of times (including zero)". fd does necessarily pattern-match at the beginning of the file name, so there is no need for an asterisk at the beginning and at the end of the pattern. Your example would be:

fd 'any.*thing'
My thoughts are a shell is usually installed by default. Make may not be. This is only a guess. I'm not sure myself.
Go on a trip OR if staying around the house

Exercise: Hike, Bike, Yoga, Stretch/Mobility exercises;
Learn to cook some new vegetable recipes;
Meditate daily;
Read books and give myself some time away from the computer;
Probably binge watch some series on Netflix or HBO :)
I'm curious, why is it impossible? I don't know much about mining.
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Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/1172/

I am so glad to hear they are fixing this in wayland and there will be only one clipboard by default going forward.
Because they're not declining candidates because of their gender. They're hiring from talent pools where both genders are more properly represented.

None of this stops a candidate from applying to duolingo directly. There's no discrimination going on against humans, and discriminating against a school is totally fine so long as there's no suspect reason to do so (e.g. discriminating against Howard because they've got primarily African-descended students).

Not a lawyer. Would welcome a legal opinion.
I would have contributed my time for open source projects. Maybe tried to contribute to React.
Just thought I'd mention my open source Workflowy clone, https://github.com/NickBusey/BulletNotes

It's definitely not done yet, but I've been using it as an effective replacement for Workflowy for almost a year now.
> The value of doing nothing can far outweigh the value of doing something.

This might be the most profound thing I have ever read on HN :)
You are right that both examples don‘t really contain actionable advise, but there is a huge difference between the two.

The way your app „speaks“ to the user influences how people perceive it; and it may make the difference between a user deleting the app in anger, or contacting customer support to ask for help.

We‘re all human beings, and we react to the tone of the message.
I just don't see any real value to the elimination of this entire sector of work: people you get to know (because you shop for food more often than anything else), who you can chat with, smile at, and be a human. When I become king for a day, I will ban check-out automation.
> Unfortunately, due to the lack of female engineers, this will be impossible to implement everywhere.

Correct. But the goal here I suspect is to get enough corporations onboard such that schools (k-12 and undergraduate/graduate) are now motivated to select for and encourage balanced talent pool participation for fear of missing out on "hip" companies.
> likewise perpetuated the problem

I think before you say that the highest performing schools "perpetuated the problem", you're going to need to substantiate that.

> https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/computer-programmi... .

I haven't thought about this topic for a while, but an analysis I heard goes a bit like this: Typist used to be a "woman's job" as well. My understanding is that the job was split. What you would call programmers today were typically called "architects" or similar. Lumping them all together you obviously get a serious skew toward women because considerably more technicians/programmers (where the ratio favours women, but not exclusively) were required for computers of the time (trailing off through the '80s as stored program computers became the hotness) than architects/designers (where the ratio favours men, but not exclusively).
I agree with aspects of what you said; in particular the observation that his would be impossible to implement everywhere due to the numbers imbalance of the talent pool. Although I think in general having more women in tech will encourage more women to enter the field (as I assume occurred in medicine and biology), so in the long run it could well be feasible.

I definitely think you could have left out the “holding the door for feminists” part though.
This seems to be some double speak.
I don't see why you're being downvoted. They literally say

> We secured the best new graduates for software engineering roles, but we noticed something: they were all male.

So they did decide to look pass candidate performance.

The problem is that they are bragging about simply hiring more females, anyone can do that. How the company will perform as result of that is what matters and they didn't address that at all.
Wow you have a Porsche?
That's nice. Now that we have successfully defeated gender discrimination in tech, can we proceed to defeat age discrimination?
Why not hire remotely, if you care about diversity soo much?
* Feed cats

* Make cat food

* Eat

* Shower

* Watch dumb shows or work on personal projects

* Read in bed as I fall asleep.
Nah, they are just admitting they are not hiring the best possible candidate for the job but the ones that fulfill their political posturing the best. I'd really feel bad working at Duolingo knowing that I'm just a "diversity hire".
It’s not a language, it’s a framework. You can take any experienced JS developer and make them proficient in either Ember or any framework mentioned in the article within days.

People overexaggerate how difficult each framework is. They’re all front end frameworks made to do one job. Yes, each of them have their own nuances, but nothing that cannot be understood spending few days coding, reading docs and speaking with someone experienced in this particular framework.
I'm calling Bullshit.

"Not really sure what you mean by free time".

Give me a break, you understand the question just fine.

The worst part is that you didn't contribute to the question at all. Why did you comment?
I'm coming from a similar background and mindset but over the past few months I've been doing a lot of prototyping and some production using Vue without the build tools. I just include vue.js and use x/template scripts for the templates. It's definitley saved me hundreds of hours already.
For me the whole point of org-mode is that the stuff in it is to valuable to trust with a vendor that stores it in a proprietary format that cant be extracted in a meaningful way if the service/company folds.
> I think before you say that the highest performing schools "perpetuated the problem", you're going to need to substantiate that.

I don't actually believe so given that the source link did so for me. The problem was substantiated in Duolingo's own metrics and reasoning for switching, the problem in this case being that their traditional college talent pools were overly biased towards men -- well, colleges select their own students. :)
For one, other markdowns haven't really stuck to a standard, so there are many slightly varied markdown variants and it gets annoying keeping up with them.

Another reason I prefer orgmode is the built in exporting functions are second to none. Customize the css and export to html, or my favorite is to export to latex+pdf, because everyone knows latex makes the most beautiful documents.

As an aspiring data scientist (transitioning senior sysadmin), the code snippets function and the ability to evaluate and execute code makes it the ideal data science notebook.

The power of lisp stands on its own.

Org mode task tracking, todo, GTD functions are also very awesome functions just markdown doesn't have.

That's just a few reasons, but orgmode isn't orgmode if it's in visual studio EEE version or whatever the duck new bullshit ms is doing imnsho.
We believe we understand a lot about it, but we're not - yet? - absolutely certain.

That is, once we get to the end, then and only then will we be certain of what it took to get there.

Yes, no idea isn't accurate. We've got ideas. We just can't say the ideas are correct.
The author didn't mention it, but another stupid example of this in the US is the Hollywood Sign. You can't shoot pictures or video of the sign without permission.

This video by Tom Scott goes into detail: https://youtu.be/KUdQ7gxU6Rg
This is OT, but workflowy has a really bad website. No information at all as to what it is, just a sign up page. How did you find out about it?
Dynalist.io is a related/similar app and really awesome.
Interesting. What didn't you understand?
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So one more note here, my open source Workflowy clone backs up all your data to a .txt file in your Dropbox every night. If my hosted service goes away, you can just run it locally, import the .txt file, and you're good to go. https://github.com/NickBusey/BulletNotes

A large part of the reason I made it was for exactly the scenario you described. I run my entire life out of it and wasn't comfortable relying on one company for it.
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> Not a lawyer. Would welcome a legal opinion.

I would highly recommend reading at least the Wikipedia article on "Disparate Impact."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact
It's translated so you can't draw that conclusion from the text. But I think it is likely that it only protects the emblem, or the name when used in conjunction with the emblem.
How does a simple and valid question get a down vote?
But that's like a 3 minute delay, max.
That’s what Ember was made exactly for. Stability without stagnation. LTS versions. Strict semver.
> so we ignored our best indications of candidate performance

Judging from the number of "tech hiring process is broken" posts I see on HN, it seems pretty dubious to claim that existing indicators of candidate performance are actually measuring what they claim to be. So, if you look at the situation from that point of view, then there's no reason to elevate existing metrics to anything higher than "meh, maybe it's measuring something."
This is no small deal. Thank you for your work in this space.

It is exceedingly hard to find people w/ a decade's worth of biotech experience looking to move into viable software for the space.

Rooting you on from the sidelines mate!
> The problem is that they are bragging about simply hiring more females, anyone can do that. How the company will perform as result of that is what matters and they didn't address that at all.

The other rather interesting thing is that they seem to have introduced all of these measures at the same time; so they won't actually be able to analyze or compare the performance outcomes for a given year. The people who like the policies will say they're working great, but the year just didn't produce as many hires which turned out well (except perhaps through candidates from the schools which they did not remove from the list).
Finally, a thing that I was using before it made it to the top of HN.
Work on a budding open source project...
At least in that area of the world - could I not write a fiction (or non-fiction) book about the state/city without permission?
It'll be interesting to see in five or ten years if all of this effort bears results.

Being willing, and taking satisfaction from beating your head against a computer to get it to do what you want it to do is something I just don't observe as being wide-spread in any population group. But we need as many of those people as we can find, wherever they happen to be and whatever they look like.
These are exactly the same reasons that I think React is the best. Vue looks like it's going backwards compared to React.
Furthermore, you get native mobile apps for free with React Native.
Also, React has a much, much bigger community and bigger companies supporting it.
Can it be made to run locally on your machine ?
If you want strong static typing on par with haskell, check out reasonml.
> Seniors are making $200k to $500k in remote positions

Finally, a framework feature that's truly compelling. :)
Can it be possible that there are more relevant skills to software engineering than pure coding ability? The best people I have worked with in my career were not the few “rockstar” geniuses, but the rank and file developers with good communication skills and work ethic who strive to make everyone else’s lives easier.
> you basically just guarantee women get a job in Tech. Regardless of skill set

But how do you know they weren't hired for their skill set? Like, if you have two equally good apples in flavor, but you want to balance the profile of varieties, choose the one you're most lacking?
FDA approvals are increasing.

FDA has policy dynamicism which creates a moat.

Many foreign countries co-opt the FDA process as their own. That's how performant our FDA happens to be, despite criticisms from a lot of people in web tech.
You misunderstand. I'm saying you just restated something illegal in a way that might make it seem less illegal when it fact it's not.
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This strategy implicitly assumes that reverse discrimination is an effective policy, i.e. that achieving 50:50 in your own organisation will somehow push the population-wide 18:82 ratio in a different direction.

This isn't justified anywhere, it's just taken as an assumption. It would be good if these implicit positions were justified rather than imposed. The Ys getting discriminated against, will understandly be angry about it, especially since only a small percentage of the Ys actually benefitted from historical discrimination against Xs, yet all of them are now eligible to be reverse-discriminated against.
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> So they did decide to look pass candidate performance.

Not quite. Your quote is missing context: they hired the best candidates from the schools they visited. That’s not the set of all schools, though!

They tried to correct this by visiting schools whose CS demographics more closely match the general population.
what is the holdup? how are we not just throwing government dollars at this industry??
Oh come on, if order books were generally accessible I could just see where stuff is traded right now and sell there by myself. It's just that market data for stocks is so heavily gated that HFT guys already have an edge by just buying data from all the excahnges for huge piles of cash.

If this was such a great service why is IEX becoming so big?

HFT is a nightmare from a CSR view. Those companies provide no real value to society (not by any standard) and even worse: By hiring all those talented young people with degrees in various fields they actually hurt society. Give those people real problems to work on, instead of wasting them on optimizing those HFT systems.
Implicit in your comment is that it's unlikely to hire a woman or member of another under represented population who is the best.

Aside from that, nobody hires the absolute best possible candidate for every job, or even most jobs. Most jobs have a sufficient number of candidates that there are multiple "bests" from the choices, with different strengths and weaknesses. It isn't at all unimaginable that one of these bests in every set of candidates is from an under represented population.
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Who is sending the "notification" phishing emails? Who gave them the toolkit? Every day I get a few of these, supposedly from LinkedIn, Fedex, Apple and so on. Their pitch changes a little over time, but I notice the same grammatical and typographical errors in batches. I have done some reversing - they all have similar simple JS redirects. Sometimes the final destination is just a commercial website. Other times the destination is harder to discover, because the remote script is somewhat smart (seems to at least check the client type of the get request). Who is sending these, and where did they get the obviously widely shared toolkit?
You just listed all the reasons why people moved from Angular 1 to React.
Absolutely. It's one `npm start` away.
These are fun questions to ask. If you take away everything in the thought experiment except a single hydrogen ion, what can it rotate about? What does rotation mean in a universe without anything except a single atom? What does inertia mean without respect to something else? Can such a particle have a velocity?
This is true for, as you said, large hft shops. But there are thousands of quant trading firms that are not on this scale and will not be an exchange member. You can see all the NYSE exhchange members here [0], and it's a very small portion of all quant funds.

Managing margin and leverage between prime brokers is an important job for the backoffice at the fund I work for. These numbers are watched very closely, and we have strong, multiyear relationships with the people who work at these PBs.

[0] https://www.nyse.com/markets/nyse-arca/membership#directory
> For the purpose of this post, we are referring to male and female genders, although we recognize that many other genders exist

Yes, your dogma is not even internally consistent.
That made me think of being adrift at sea with no drinking water, you’re very likely going to be tempted to drink some of that is available around you, except sea water will dehydrate you even faster.
Facebook seems to make lonely people feel lonelier, the sad thing is, if making people feel lonelier makes them use the platform more then there’s an incentive to keep making people feel that way. So even if that’s not Facebook’s intention and the only thing they do is follow metrics then you can picture an evolutionary path that reinforces the same problems Facebook was initially trying to improve.
- Get a bunch of books and ready them

- Practice playing an instrument (guitar, in my case)

- Meet friends and family I didn't see in a while, especially if it involves traveling