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DoorDash in particular is exorbitantly expensive. Absolutely terrible markup and horrible experiences ordering through them. They're on my list of personal trade embargoed companies along with Dell and Domino's. Hmm. All three are "D" companies (and also their names start with the letter "D").
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It isn't as decentralised as Monero. 5 pools control 60% hashrate for BCH, the top 5 XMR pools control 13% (Yuge difference). Also, Monero has a dynamic block size, so it is somewhat future proofed while BCH has another hardfork if it is successful. And fungible means that each unit of the currency is indistinguishable from another unit. BCH and Bitcoin both leave trails, therefore, are not fungible.
This happens all the time in recruiting. Companies leave candidates hanging indefinitely. Hell, I've had it happen to me even for an internal position at a company I've worked for.
I’d be willing to bet it was a “test”. Like what we saw with the mirai botnet against Kreb’s blog.
Data science isn't yet as stratified as software engineering, so there's less room for those without those "unicorn" skills. 10 years ago, there was no room at all. 10 years from now, there will probably be plenty of undergrads hired as junior data scientists.
I read more than once on diversity related posts or comments that East-Asian are considered privileged or even... white.

That shows the real motive is not the one stated. This diversity stuff is a power game used by some minorities go get some advantages for themselves. They do not care about the minorities that can achieve things by themselves, with education and hard work.
Can't point to a study or anything, but the behavior of real estate agents in the wild would seem to contradict you.
Note that $25 is nowhere hear the average for Americans' copay for primary healthcare visit. You've just got really excellent insurance and are assuming everyone else does as well. We've got average insurance in our state, and copay is around $60.
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Absolutely, with the caveat that the service this link describes is different than the one they provide for me.

I have an engineering background building machine learning/NLP services (think ad servers, chatbots, search engines etc), including at a few startups and on an ads quality team at Google (linkedin.com/in/sbrother). I had taken a few consulting gigs throughout my career, but I finally quit to pursue full time software consulting two years ago. At that point I signed up with 10x management in an effort to bring in leads to supplement those from my own network.

They have a loose network of ~100 similar freelancers, running the whole gamut of software development niches. They do their best to match clients (that's us) with customers, but will send leads out over an email list if not sure. They'll set up the first meeting, and if that goes well they'll help with rate negotiation and later on billing. For all this they take 15% of each invoice. From my perspective it is a fantastic deal -- they helped negotiate my standard rate up by 75% and have brought in some very large contracts for me. Their business has helped me scale mine to the point I've been able to hire an employee and take some time off for "paternity leave" without losing my entire income stream. I highly recommend working with them if their services look useful to you.
I think we're agreeing past one another here. I'm merely encouraging looking at these different behaviors, which of course warrant different responses, from a broader perspective. That keeps us in mind of why we're engaging with them differently — to guide how we do that.

Maybe that's implicit in what you're saying, but I think it's likely to be more effective when considered consciously. It frames how we think about the interaction.
Anyone have a good response or just typical HN downvotes when challenged?
I did not know that, and that brings a whole new dimension to my understanding of this issue. Thanks.
Where's the meter? Average citizen should be able to "know when to call 911". What would be the training to recognize "when to call 911" beyond that?

And very specifically, if you're talking about wanting to "recognize acute medical emergencies", the half the EMT course I'd be looking at would be exactly the opposite half you mentioned, and more things like "symptoms of acute coronary syndrome", "respiratory distress" and the like. Yes, a non-urgent transport would likely have no need of A&P, etc.
I wish I hadn’t called it accurately, but yeah, the pattern once seen is hard to unsee. Taken individually it can be mistaken for sincerity gone awry, but in an ensemble over time, boom. The system here works really well for a lot of things; spam is often DOA for example! The mods though, can’t change the character of the people themselves.

I try to tell myself that a lot of the predictable, negative outcomes amount to blowback in the face of real and inevitable change though. I hope I’m right about that too.
My frustration was with that, and then they were very eager to say "Hey, it's going to cost you this, how about we start looking at a new Mac?", a very used car sales vibe.
Yes, thanks for putting it more succinctly than I could. I got the impression the author set out to understand 'cd' (which I would love to read about) then didn't, and I don't think we can tell from her article how much she got out of it. I quoted the part about higher-level languages because it's been my experience that a lot of those libraries are ultimately implemented in C somewhere down at the bottom as well.

I will say I did learn about some shell along the way and the bit about processes was interesting and starting to get at the core of 'cd'. It just seems like there are many other pieces of the puzzle, and I encourage the author to keep researching and keep writing about them.
You still end up with all the biases in the pipeline.
No company ever got trounced because they followed the prevailing political winds. Let's face it: the top tech companies have sufficient applicants, so they can choose whoever they want, and most jobs are drone jobs.
Yes, it's not marketed much, but then again it's a very specialized project that isn't relevant for many people.

It is pretty good though and used by plenty of other Apache projects like Apex, Drill, Flink, Hive, Storm, etc: https://calcite.apache.org/docs/powered_by.html
Was it AutoCAD? https://www.flickr.com/photos/btl/1601785146
She should file a lawsuit alleging gender discrimination by Apple. The irony would be palpable.
I believe that you also don't need the space when you specify a path:

cd\foo\x

The cmd parser in Windows is the most bizarre piece of software in common use. I don't believe there is a single person that actually understands how it works completely.
Maybe he was actually onto an unhealthy culture within the company, and trying to help it from the inside.
I can see the Buzzfeed story now: “White Tech Bro Rudely Interrupts Women To Mansplain Something”. There is absolutely a chilling effect. I mean, do you want men to approach you when you’re having a conversation or do you want them to stay away from your space? At this point, it’s easiest to just retreat and not talk to people. At least then you don’t risk becoming a hashtag.
My question is what sorts of shorthands do you develop? In assuming you don't build up the full syntax?
Would relocation be offered for the right candidate?

Within Australia in my case.
It used to be that this was just not done. However, the Bay Area and Silicon Valley seem to have adopted much degraded standards. When I was young, a company that did such things would have been marking itself as being comprised of immoral rubes.
Black people are severally underrepresented among swimmers in general, not just among competitive swimmers. The BBC had an interesting article about this a few years ago [1].

This is a serious problem, leading to unnecessary deaths of black children. Here's an article by the founder of an organization trying to address this called "Black Kids Swim" [2].

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-11172054

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-stereotype-is-k...
I'm sorry to hear that. Did you try the mailing list?

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Hang out for a while until you become familiar with processes and people.

Thoroughly research an issue when you request a change, and provide the results of your research in an easy to digest, easy to verify format. Don't expect people to take your word for things, but provide relevant links. Provide sample commandline statements you think may work for resolving a particular task if possible. At a minimum, always RTFM!

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that's just sick (the power amp). drools
> studies and research in general has shown this to not be the case

Not really. It can still be true that this white/asian discrimination is happening in tech, whereas the listed papers appear to test non-technical job fields. Ideally, racial profiling shouldn't happen anywhere! But be careful in applying those specific findings to the entire field of hiring/jobs.
From lightyears away, probably nothing except maybe a slight drop in the sun's output if the Earth happens to pass in front of it and a periodic wobble of the sun's location as the sun and Earth orbit the center of gravity of the sun-Earth system.

The Earth is pretty small and far from the sun compared to the kinds of exoplanets we've been able to detect, so the wobble (which might be detectable via doppler shift of light from certain elements in the sun) would be slight and probably hard to detect without some pretty sophisticated instruments.

It might be possible to detect something the size of the Earth from several light years away with a good enough telescope, but I'm not sure what the limit of that is.
There is a difference between the CPE (what you use to get the service) and what SpaceX uses to sink your traffic into the global internet. And in fact there is exactly zero incentive for somebody other than SpaceX to run the ground stations.

On the other hand it is completely possible that SpaceX's ground stations will use HW that is similar to their CPE box and thus they can build ridiculous amount of such ground stations (ie. at every IXP or so, althought the "lightweith non-IP transport" proclamation somehow precludes doing that)
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This is a question I have as well. The trends currently seem to heavily favor white males right now.

Maybe part of the issue has to do with the early education system? I'll admit this idea is not originally mine, but I like it. For some reason is sounds right?
I don't know about Cobra, but I would say Nim has first class support for unit tests. If you check out the "Testable documentaion examples" section of the article, it shows they've even added support for testing sample code in inline function documentation. This is a really interesting approach. I don't use Nim myself (not a "systems" programmer - what a silly term that is, we all make "systems" but I guess that boat has sailed) but I'm interested in applying a similar approach in other languages.
I used to shop waaaay too much on Amazon, but I’ve largely stopped and almost entirely as a result of counterfeits. If I wanted the experience of shopping in an open air market, I’d hoof it to one. I also really feel for people like the OP who do nothing wrong, but have a good idea and market it successfully.

Amazon, I’d be back in a heartbeat if you fixed this. Sellers and buyers deserve better, and this kind of thing, along with bullshit reviews are a cancer in your business. If you wait for the first frank signs of disease to register, you’ll already be in terminal decline.
Isn't that what generation ships are for? Or sleeper ships?

In practical terms we'll need a warp drive. And the whole new type of mathematics and physics to support it.
I learned something from you today, thanks. It's like putting on the glasses in They Live.

I commented on the other thread to give you props. For what it's worth.
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I would normally agree with you, but that seems subjective.
This goes beyond a lazy fix. According to another HN commenter here:

> under Title VII, the federal antidiscrimination law, employers aren’t allowed to make hiring decisions based on race and gender among other protected classes.

The former veteran Google recruiters behind this suit are claiming they were 'instructed to cancel interviews with applicants who weren’t female, black or Hispanic, and to “purge entirely” the applications of people who didn’t fit those categories.'
It solves a little bit of the issue. But software development in general has been far from a 100% merit-focused occupation; networking and having people that can get a foot in the door for you is often far more important than your explicit skill level.

That entire process amplifies both unconscious biases and discrepancies of economic status. People without economic means to network, made worse by prejudices and expectations.
I guess "dynamic programming" must really bother you. That field was named completely arbitrarily, to secure funding.

The more you look around, the more you find science concepts are named for marketing purposes.

Heck, "data scientist" is a bit of nonsense.
Sadly that's my assumption too.
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By which minorities and to achieve what?
You shouldn’t complain about being down voted.

To answer your question the issue of discrimination is solved by not discriminating. If women and others are being discriminated against then stop doing this, rather than just start discriminating against other people.
What happens if you are 1/2 white and 1/2 Hispanic? Who is in charge determining race?
Patent trolls are shaking us down for $35k for selling rubies in Clicker Heroes
My understanding is that you can't legally have any sort of explicit quota or scoring system, but that you can sort-of factor in race, ethnicity, or gender to meet diversity goals.

Is this correct? And isn't it kind of inconsistent?

Whatever sort of decision-making process a recruiter goes through, one could imagine a mathematical formulation of it that matches up to some tolerance. Would such a formulation be illegal, since it must assign a weight to race at some point, even if the recruiter's vague sense of "I kind of want more diverse hires" is legal?

In fact, doesn't disallowing any sort of numbers-based approach increase the likelihood of human bias creeping in, which is a lot of what diversity hiring is trying to correct for in the first place?

Why should a practice only be illegal if you put explicit numbers around it?
I think the biggest missing feature for home/casual use in XFS right now is shrinking. Currently, it's impossible to reduce an XFS filesystem (partition) in size, so you have to commit to your disk layout once you've set it up. Whether it's to install another OS side-by-side, grow a swap partition, experiment with or gradually migrate to another filesystem, none are currently possible without adding additional physical storage or using loop devices.

The same applies to ZFS (it's not possible to shrink a ZFS pool), which is why I'm currently using btrfs (with all its pain points) on my machines.
I agree that's possible, but I don't think it's reasonable to read this piece in a "post-Damore Google" context.
would you not expect your hypothesized (theoretical) ML expert to understand boosting, which is generally explained in terms of PAC learning, which draws on computational complexity?

that said, i'd also expect a phd in statistics to be able to figure out boosting without taking an undergrad course that worked up from automata. so the halting problem test, while it does capture something, may not be quite right.
People like to say this is a major problem, and I don’t know of any quantification of the effect one way or the other, but I am skeptical. Annecdotally I do know my mother was told (by coworkers and her boss) she was a quota hire in 1975 and it was still the start to a successful 42 year career in sales. She was only with that first company about 4 years. I imagine many other people overcome the stigma associated with getting an “undeserved” opportunity or being told they were hired thanks to a lower standard due to their race or gender.

I personally try not to hold it against my fellow white male entrepreneurs from prestigious schools and affluent backgrounds that I know we had an easier time raising capital and hiring people because of our race, gender, and social connections.
What I'd really love a company to do is offer a service where I can pay them to look for a job for me - I work 50+ hour weeks now, I dont have the time to go job hunting, I'd be nice if I could find a recruitment firm, who would work for me.
“Pride should be reserved for something you achieve or obtain on your own, not something that happens by accident of birth. Being Irish isn't a skill... it's a fscking genetic accident. You wouldn't say I'm proud to be 5'11"; I'm proud to have a pre-disposition for colon cancer.”

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>I'm just saying in today's world you can identify as whatever the hell you want

That’s pretty flippant and insensitive to the struggles that trans people go through.
Some people (especially those from outside the USA) may not know the reference:

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It’s funny you say that because my workplace is EXACTLY the dumpster fire known as Twitter. No, I don’t work there. Rather, all issues of “diversity” are pretty much the same ridiculous identity politics stuff you find on Twitter. The straight, white men at the office regularly post content that is denigrating to those very same groups (usually in the form of pithy memes; it isn’t even intellectual content). I don’t know how common this is in SV or elsewhere, but it’s certainly prevelant where I am now. And I don’t care how someone feels about “cishet white boys”: that kind of thing is not appropriate for work. Ever. At all.
Here's some advice from a fellow beginner.
After many failed attempts to make it stick, what worked for me was a combination of two things:

- Reading about meditation in general just to learn more about it out of curiosity, not necessarily looking for instructions. This helped create a mental model of what it entailed, what to expect, what to look for. I read different books over the years, but I really like how Sam Harris describes his experience with it in his podcast.

- This app: https://insighttimer.com/ I've tried multiple apps but this one really made the difference for me. There are thousands of meditations to choose from, you can filter by duration, and there's a bit of gamification too. Another important thing, there's no "meditation course" to follow - you just search a meditation session that looks right for your mood and the time you have and that's it. These features combined removed all the friction I always found as a beginner. At first I started with only 5 to 10 minutes every morning, guided meditation with breathing exercises. As time went by, I felt I was improving in gaining control of the experience and started doing longer sessions with just soft music as background. Make it a daily routine, start small, do your best but don't be too hard on yourself.
> The sales guys are at the top. They are generally competent. Proof = they sold a massive deal.

I do understand what you meant here, and it's mostly right. But there are also obvious exceptions.

You can often make a sale by promising more than your competitors. If your competitors' bids are calibrated by what's actually possible, and yours isn't, then you'll win the bid... and then, years later, be unable to deliver what was specified, and have to renegotiate. But hey, you won the bid!

I guess that, if the market doesn't keep track of these renegotiations and failures-to-deliver, this is the optimum strategy over the short- and even medium-term. But it gets your company known to devs as a company that chews up and spits out talent. Devs that get stuck on projects trying to do the (literally) impossible, slogging forward each day with the knowledge that all of this is going to be ripped out when the deadlines pass and the renegotiation hits, don't tend to recommend to their friends the companies where they had to do that. So, over the long-term, this is a recipe for a talent shortage.

But, like you said, there's always contractors: fresh pools of devs who never signed up to work for something like IBM, headed by either unscrupulous or just plain naive management willing to take on such jobs with literally-impossible specs.
No company ever got trounced because they followed the prevailing political winds.

Many companies have failed due in part to internal politics. Also, weren't many of the companies involved in the financial crisis going along with the prevailing political winds, just before everything changed?
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