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I'm ready to take the hit for asking a very stupid question: why are dice considered contraband?

Wouldn't it make more sense to allow inmates access to dice and real spinners? They're human beings with brains. Wouldn't correction officers prefer that they spent their time playing games instead of thinking of ways to escape or "cause trouble"?
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I've had similar issues in Ontario (packaged internet + tv being cheaper than just internet) - Is there a reason why this is so?
+1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16486185
Can one have a misplaced faith in evidence? Once there is evidence for something, it is not merely faith - faith is conviction without evidence. The whole point of the scientific process is to re-evaluate conclusions when new evidence is presented. I suppose historians may look back and find that some of our scientific beliefs were held in spite of evidence to the contrary, or that evidence was not sought out to disprove those beliefs, but I do not see how a full discrediting of data and statistics would one day happen.
That was the same reason I ended up doing it, as a test of myself. And I was curious what was out there. I definitely enjoyed the process.
I'm fairly anti-Facebook but this is actually a great idea. A big reason for unemployment is the inefficiencies it takes to take all the steps from motivating yourself in finding a job to getting hired. A lot of unemployed sometimes need a kick in the butt because it's hard to constantly be on the lookout for opportunities (been there), so this partly eliminates the first step of making the decision to get you stuff together and look for jobs by making it come directly to you. Good job Facebook!
"Enlightenment Now" is an arrogant title? It sounds remarkably generic to me.

Anyways, that cuts both ways. If I believed that the book was going to be overwrought twaddle and then saw this review while deciding if it was worth my time, I'd be just as likely to dismiss them both as haughty wankers not worth listening to.
> It's not ok to take a picture of everyone that walks in front of your house, timestamped and on top of that you search their picture on Facebook (supposing you could do that) and keep all that info forever

False, that's perfectly OK.
Are they abandoning the process or being rejected based on the quiz?
https://www.codetriage.com/ has a list
I'm honestly starting to believe that Google's fleet of chat products is the most elaborate / expensive April fool's joke they've ever pulled.
Yea this is maddening. “We can’t pay you anymore because The Book [1] says we can only pay people at your level from $X to $Y and you’re at Y. We can’t promote you because you are at the highest individual contributor level. And we cant make you a manager because you’re on a 2 person team and there is nobody to manage.”

“OK So I guess I need to leave.”

“Why oh why can’t we retain our talent????”

So ridiculous. You need an IC career track that is rewarding and achievable.

1: yes, they actually pointed to a physical book that described some industry standard of what software engineers must be paid.
> That is not asking for help.

Say what now? Mentioning you are blocked, in a stand-up, multiple times is a cry for help. What is the point of having stand-ups if you're not assisting blocked team members?
I use Android.
Using a laptop, unfortunately I can only control its screen via the OS.
Yes, coins -- all forms of currency, actually -- are banned.
Help me understand: this CEO has 20k private certificates he obviously should never have seen, yet alone stored.

How is this not related to "the big distrust"? Unreal.
> There is nothing beneath the Windows UI interface.

To clarify, beneath the GUI interface is the actual code that implements that interface.

> Something working so well that it becomes an appliance isn't a bad thing.

Not at all. I don't attempt to call or think my phone as an computer. Window's users, on the other hand, still call their PC computers. I guess that is ok if computers are appliances. It is just that there are still a big camp of people who use a computer as computer. That causes some confusions in the communication between.
I'm glad you put in the work to write down your experiences, and I'm glad that HN is rewarding this.

Promotion at Google is a process filled with selfishness and dishonesty and I think hackers need to know about this. The promotion committees are a joke. They typically have no idea about your product, your team, your quality of contribution and whether what you're telling them in the promo package is true or a lie.

The way promotion works at Google is actually a direct consequence of their desire to "empower" the engineers and keep managers in a rather passive, supervisory role. The assumption behind it (completely misguided IMO) is that engineers will "figure it out" on their own and "handle things among themselves" just fine.

The big problem with this is that it strongly incentivizes the kind of anti-social behavior that's normally associated with Wall Street: dishonesty, short-term thinking, greed, narcissism.

To the promotion committee, my teammate’s project was the big, important work that demanded coordination from multiple developers. If they hornswoggled me into helping them, it’s evidence of their strong leadership qualities.

That's exactly right. Manipulating your coworkers to your own advantage is the fastest route to promotion at Google. Lying about your contribution to things would be the runner-up. This is simply because there's a lack of authorities who could see, recognize and penalize such behavior.

I never understood why Google favored this over a good old proven management model where your boss would handle things.

I know I may be the exception but I actually value having a boss who's got things under control and looks after the team, as opposed to a lord-of-the-flies type situation where the promotion goes to the biggest liars and manipulators.

Source: I worked at Google as a SWE
Hey Harj, congrats! Any plans to launch TripleByte in India, or for engineers from India who want to interview with Bay Area companies?
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Whenever I sense politics is more important to promotion that great job, I am leaving. I went into this field idealistic, driven for creating technology that can change lives for the better, and way too often artificial red tape is put everywhere by clueless or outright evil managers in order to drive their agenda and increase their chances for promotions and more $ into their pockets. It's literally negation of every single value I stand for and often have no choice but to leave and work on my own projects. Even the best companies like author mentioned aren't immune to human nature and have many blind spots.
I think an example of "misplaced faith in evidence" would be along the lines of equating correlation with causation based on evidence.
There is one gotcha that you need to think about that hasn't been mentioned. If you back up your password database online, and your master file is lost in a fire, you need to be able to access the online backup service without requiring your password manager.

You either need to remember the password for the online backup service, or you need to have another copy of the file in a remote location that you can access physically, like on your work PC if you don't work from home, or at a family/friend's.
My university's CS department resorted to having adjunct faculty or part time lecturers come in, and this was after dealing with not having enough of them with time to teach more than one or two section of a course. It was so incredibly bad with a lack of instructors and/or time they could spend on multiple sections that there would be waitlists for students to get into courses at least two times as full as the section allowed. This wasn't just a matter of elective type courses being incredibly popular, but quite literally even regular core requirements simply not having enough lecturers/professors.
Whereas on my FB, I've unfollowed almost every individual and my feed is 90%+ "groups". Facebook is absolutely superb for associating with random interest groups, I've found, now that Usenet is next to useless. Pages, though? Meh.
The Java type system is pretty solid, and the languages that followed (C#, Kotlin, Swift) improved only marginally over what Java had already done in that area.

I think it's a great middle ground between no type system and what Haskell and ML offer.
Just FYI, "ham" isn't an acronym and shouldn't be capitalized. It comes from the pejorative "ham-fisted", which professional telegraph operators used to describe radio amateurs back when the only option was morse code. (Source: I have a general license, like trivia, and am a pedant for better or worse.)
Look at kqr's comment, which shows why this is not an equivalent problem, and also points out that questioning it is quite right in this case.
>Can one have a misplaced faith in evidence?

That's a semantic quibble which isn't really relevant to the point that Harrison is making in the rest of the quoted paragraph.

But yes, you can have misplaced faith in e.g. null hypothesis significance testing and other methods of data collection and analysis common in some of the social sciences.
Why do we still shame adults who live with their parents?
It would be nice to have some sort of metric for this. I haven't experienced any.

As a former manager, the closest I came was making a point to observe who was helping who within the team. And following up by asking people during their 1 on 1s if they felt anyone was being especially helpful to them, explained things well or not, etc.

People who helped their teammates very much got a boost in their prestige in my view, and that was good for additional job security or additional pay. If they struggled with a couple tasks, but had helped some teammates when they DID understand what to do, that very much increased my willingness to help them or give them extra time to figure things out.
Because gambling is a moral failing, and prison is supposed to give inmates time to reflect on their moral failings.
I had a great experience, even as someone primarily working in embedded development. They only targeted SF & NY when I went through their process, which wound up unexpectedly being a dealbreaker for me, but if it weren't for that I absolutely would've taken one of their offers.
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At the end of the article:

> Illustrations by Loraine Yow

which links to https://www.linkedin.com/in/lolo-ology/

I wondered if anyone would have not read to the end of the article and, like we both did, assume that the author had created the cartoons.
The article is under the 'religion' section so it seems reasonable that the author (A religious scholar) would have some issues with a worldview based on empirical and provable evidence.
That's a neat idea, Greyson. Currently, supporters can quickly click one of those preset counts (1, 3, 5) to buy more coffees and it seems to be working really well. More than half of the donations are more than one coffee.

Welcome to BMC! :)
Yeah, and the caveat is still "fiber in certain areas," although that area is expanding and much larger than the previous near-downtown services. For example, I live about 7 miles from the downtown core and have "gigabit" service available over fiber. (Centurylink uses a bunch of splitters for downstream traffic, which is multiplexed, so you're effectively limited to about 600 mbps down.)
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"I'm certainly not going to become a cash millionaire"

don't be so sure. invest 10-20% wisely and you may be one sooner than you think ;)
The prisons want to ban gambling and currency counters (coins, chips, etc) in order to disrupt the rise of debt-based gang activity.

"The house always wins" turns a prison into an organized structure of debtors and owners fairly rapidly, I'd imagine. And you can't fault the far fewer security guards from wanting to avoid a face-off with a unified enemy.
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If learning to use Process Explorer can aid you in performing your job duties, then I feel it would definitely be more meaningful and efficient than just staring out the window. I can't judge OP's situation because I don't know all the details, but I think there is something to be said for being willing to dive in and "unblock yourself" like some people have said. There's obviously a gradient between being helpless and the situation being genuinely out of your hands, though.
You also invite competition by selling/advertising your product. For any product, it's most probably one of the customers that'll go "I can make something better than this!" Also, if your income depends on absence of competition, that means that your product needs a bit of improving and that your business is fragile.
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In a world of rewarded p-hacking, unrepeatable cancer research, of wild contentions being pulled from the loosest of correlations, you think faith in these things isn't a problem?

Keep in mind faith has a specific meaning as a belief in something you yourself can't prove. IE, you aren't repeating these experiments, thus you take it on faith they are correct - a critique of science originally put forth by Richard Feynman the Nobel Prize winning physicist.
> Most people will either stand in shock or think that someone else is on it.

The bystander effect is real, but I wouldn't expect to see it in organisations with explicit hierarchies. Can you imagine this happening in the armed forces? If this happens under your watch as a leader, you're not good at leading.
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Aren't dice and coins banned because they can be sharpened into a shiv? That would explain why cards are allowed.
> But the biggest problem is this: academics are afraid of anyone who hasn't demonstrated commitment to their system by earning a Ph.D, writing a thesis, and accepting terrible wages and living conditions for a number of years as junior or adjunct faculty. So the number of 50 year old software engineers who decide to semi-retire and take up an academic position is effectively zero.

A few thoughts:

1. Many schools who are willing to give up on the "traditional" job candidate profile are still have a very hard time hiring. I know this from many, many conversations with department and search committee chairs and lower-ranked places.

2. Hiring non-phds isn't always an option for higher-ranked (and especially mid-ranked) institutions. It'd be great if Google only used the data they collect in ways that enhance their users' experience. But it's unreasonable to expect an ad company to not use their data assets to sell ads. There's something analogous going on with hiring non-phd faculty to teach -- institutions involved in a rankings war should only care about maximizing educational outcomes, but we live in the real world and metrics do matter.

3. Most importantly, maybe these places are right to be skeptical! Engineering isn't teaching, and many of those who can do, cannot teach. I've seen a lot of situations where semi-retired industry folks don't take teaching seriously. The permeated anecdotes from industry are valuable, but not valuable enough to compensate for poorly structured courses or failing to explain tree rotations in an intelligible way. It doesn't help that teaching loads demand a 40 hour week, but teaching salaries only pay for 15-20 hours of even semi-retired engineering time.
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The subtitle is "the case for reason, science, humanism and progress".

>If I believed that the book was going to be overwrought twaddle and then saw this review while deciding if it was worth my time, I'd be just as likely to dismiss them both as haughty wankers not worth listening to.

I guess you're not as big a fan of reason as Pinker is, then. It's the content of the review you need to look at if you want to figure out whether the book's any good or not.

In any case, the style of the review is pretty much par for the course in academia. You can easily find similarly snarky articles by Pinker himself.
I'll bite: Isn't using scientific methods in HR similar to stock trading? I.e. you need to predict how well a given person would fit within a company; you can't really capture significant soft abilities like who-knows-whom, which might have significantly bigger impact on profitability of the project than any individual/technical contribution if you purely optimize for profit. You also need to take into account company's strategy, environment that is changing etc.
"With a thunderous roar, the colossal red dragon envelops the party in a cruel wave of fire! You each take 24d10 damage, but while I'm sitting here flipping this coin six hundred times please do let me know if you make your reflex save for half..."
My intuitive explanation when I was tutoring statistics was the following. (This works better while drawing I find.)

Assume you pick one door. It's the right door with a chance (1/3) and the wrong door with a chance (2/3).

Now if you could pick both other doors (2/3) you would choose those. And this is exactly what you're doing when you switch after the reveal.

The other two doors always have one wrong one, which can be revealed. So switching after the reveal is the same as having the chance to pick two doors before the reveal.
Do you have a framework for prioritizing different options?
Google says there are 3,500,000 software engineers in the USA. If they are doing 5,000 a month, that means they are interviewing about 2% of all the engineers in the US each year. That's not totally accurate because it doesn't account for those breaking into the field or if international candidates are going through the process. Either way, that's a lot of candidates.
It's not direct, as in Haskell, but it's there and used. Java has Streams, Kotlin has sequences, Scale has Seq, Rust has iter, etc. Lazyness is useful for iteration so languages with reasonable modernization make it readily availible in that context.
On plan 9, you'd do something like:

ctlfd = open("/mnt/sql/ctl", OREAD|OWRITE);
write(fd, "your query");
read(fd, resultpath);

resultfd = open(resultpath, OREAD);
read(fd, result);
close(resultfd);

This is similar to the patterns used to open network connections or create new windows.
The customers still dictate your work. If you don't build the features they want, you won't have a business. Essentially you're still working for them.
I have no real evidence to back this, but I think that many of these publishers simply would never have existed/gained traction without Facebook. Facebook made it (comparatively) very, very easy to get eyes on their articles, especially time-wasting "fluff" articles as opposed to articles that would have been search driven because of their search-worthy content.
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I've been visiting your website for years and never realized it was an actual business. Have you written or presented about it somewhere? I'd love to learn your process.
You still do an on-site with the hiring company, which in my experience is the best place to evaluate soft skills anyway.
If you offered them a service and they are in the EU then it is covered. There is no location exemption that this clause only applies when the service was offered when they are in the EU unlike the monitoring clause. Why do you think they broke this out into two separate clauses?

If you get a request from someone in the EU to remove their data you have to comply no matter where or when the data about them was acquired. The clause is quite clear on this point and it why it is written differently to the clause about monitoring.
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Things like this don't even have to be someone's concious evil plan. The system simply selects prisons that do this over the long term because they will tend to be more profitable and more likely to survive and be able to build more jails and lobby more politicians for contracts.
This is insane. I guess Trustico emailed the private keys because Digicert was acting reluctant to revoke them? Pretty bold move.

Hopefully the fact that revocation is largely broken doesn't make this worse...
I think that's a cynical view on their reasoning -- if anything prisoners not being bored is in their best interest in terms of keeping guards safe.

My guess is that a lot of problems stem from gambling debts -- you can allow cards and stem gambling a bit by preventing chips from being introduced (in whatever form). With DnD tracking across the game is important so it's not as easy to prevent a ledger from forming.
While it's certainly not common, there are some school that offer tenure track positions for lectures. The University of Toronto is the only one that immediately comes to mind, but I know there are others.
The writer spends half the article getting offended at Pinker calling religion irrational.
Thank you!

Yeah the idea is to replace our customers' current data collection and report writing process with our software. Could you elaborate more on what you mean by "Nobody wants to change "how" they fit the data collection piece into the rest of their processes"?

The automation comes in at the report writing stage. Instead of coming back to the office with a stack of notes and manually entering the data into a report template, the inspector will be able to automatically generate a completed inspection form from the data collected with the mobile application.

Thanks for the suggestion regarding document management functionality, it sounds interesting. Currently users can view previous inspections of a specific structure and all inspections performed by a specific user.
If they operate as any other CA does, there's no reason to assume that they would have had any way to have the private keys which would only ever be on customer systems.

This implies that Trustico was sent the keys (or recieved them somehow) from a third party who had compromised them.

20k certs implies a tremendous number of clients; seems tome it's more likely one of Trustico's intermediate CA certs got compromised and these 20k are newly issues ones against that compromised CA cert.
Tiny core is such a fantastic small distribution. I really do think that it is best in class.
Hmm strange. Thanks for the heads up!
Groups are the only thing that keep my account active. I miss the Groups app for iOS though.
(I'm a Googler, opinions are my own. I don't work on chat apps).

Hangouts Chat will sync with classic Hangouts, as called out on this page[0]. Copy/paste of that text here:

>How will this interact with the older version of Hangouts, the one that lives in my Gmail?

>To help make your chat experience seamless, all your Chat conversations will sync with your classic Hangouts experience.

Though to be clear, it's 1-to-1 chats that sync between the 2. So migration for existing companies will be much easier.

[0] https://gsuite.google.com/products/chat/
I wonder if Marissa will bring this company down into abyss like she did with Yahoo
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There is nothing in the regulations that talk about citizenship, just residency.
Well obviously dice are sinful, because they're made from platonic solids and that Plato guy was a pagan. Maybe those cylindrical ones are ok, though.

This brought to mind the fact that in Japan, cards were considered to be the more pernicious influence on gambling, which eventually led to a card deck that was pessimized for gambling[0]. Of course, people can gamble on anything they can play, so it didn't exactly work.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanafuda