skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does this feel unfair in some sense? Yeah. But would it be less unfair to artificially punish the person who didn't take time off? Questionable...

It's not even about punishment. Calling it discrimination is like saying that hiring based on years of experience discriminates against younger people. It's the wrong point at which to solve the problem.

We know that taking a year off impacts employment prospects. If we want to compensate for it, what should we do?

The implied solution is to force employers to hire less experienced workers. But that has all kinds of known problems. The quality of their work will be lower. It creates an incentive for businesses to cheat and benefits the ones that do. The cost is not uniformly distributed, which creates risk and surprise for smaller businesses that may not be able to absorb the sudden cost.

What problem are we trying to solve here? We want to encourage parenting and help parents, so do that. Have a social insurance program for parental leave equivalent to unemployment insurance. Have a generous tax deduction for dependent children that compensates for the resulting lower salary. Do things, in general, that spreads the risk across all taxpayers rather than creating asymmetric costs for the employers who happen to employ parents, so that we avoid giving employers a perverse incentive to find ways to offset the cost.

It's not a problem if you make $5000/year less in salary if you also pay $5000/year less in taxes. Or $10,000/year less in taxes.
The HBR article's discussion of incentives is not really quite what I was thinking of when I wrote my comment. Specifically, the article you cite refers to the well-known phenomenon of how introducing extrinsic rewards via positive reinforcement is counterproductive in the long run. I've often noticed this form of "incentive" / reward being offered in the gamification of open science, such as via the Mozilla Open Science Badges [0], which in my opinion are a waste of time, effort, and money that do little to address systemic problems with scientific publishing.

With regard to the issue of grad students being unwilling to come forward and report mistakes, incentives wouldn't be added, but rather positive punishment [1] would be removed, which would then allow rewards for intrinsically motivated [2] actions.

[0] https://cos.io/our-services/open-science-badges/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punishment_(psychology)

[2] https://msu.edu/~dwong/StudentWorkArchive/CEP900F01-RIP/Webb...
FWIW, this is based on SpiNNaker, which is a system with a million CPU cores and a custom low-power multicast network backplane. It's possible to do simpler neural models with much less power than we do (and some of our competitors do just that) but it's not at all clear that those simple models are actually sufficiently biologically relevant to produce enough of the phenomena that we care about. Having a system flexible enough to support a dynamic research agenda is vital, but does increase the energy cost per neuron and per synapse.
can't you technically modify block chain in the same way, rollback and fork or something? i feel like this was done for bitcoin at one point
>You need concrete proof to draw a conclusion

I think we found a point we can agree upon!
An Original Fourth Amendment Based on Property, Not Privacy
Looks good, and I really appreciate the "single player mode"! (My friends don't need to know that I'm socially inept enough to need an app like this...)

I alos love the name, assuming it's from the Hindi word for "meet"?
All major browsers can sync their passwords across their desktop and mobile versions. I use Firefox Sync on two laptops, one desktop and an Android phone.
For women it makes a big difference as there is generally a choice to make between 25-35 as
To whether they’d like to further their career or take time out to have a child.

Most women also reasonably choose to prioritize family over career when their children are very young further inhibiting them from advancing their career during that time.
> Attention : If your intent is different from the contents of your message, your offer will be rejected and the seller won't see it.

> All messages are manually approved before the seller is notified

So you're screening our messages with the seller? I'm not sure I'm comfortable using this service.
So how big is the download the first time, and how big will the (weekly) updates be?
It's funny how, for the Obama election, which used the same tricks and ads as Trump, he's celebrated as 'modern', 'innovative'... and when it's Trump who's doing it, it's a threat on democracy...
I don't think "bad" code could do much more than phishing or crashing a browser, but to be safe, the API only loads code snippets posted (and unedited) before I launched this. So, there's no way to target this with an attack via Stack Overflow.
You've discovered a new unit test.
I'd also say in a healthy society you should be seeing a larger spectrum of ideas and more things you disagree with.
I think a problem is there is a constant influx of XKCD readers. These will find XKCD novel and feel a need to educate everyone else. XKCD is on its way to become a real cultural thing.
That's very similar to Schopenhauer's view: "Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills."
> How would you measure something like nobility?

In game theory (such as prisoner's dilemma) there is a concept of cooperation and betrayal. When an agent interacts with another agent, she has to decide whether it is in her best interest to cooperate or exploit the other. Depending on the social environment and the existence or future interactions with the same agent, the choice can change. A noble human would be one who does not betray the larger good for its own limited gain. Thus nobility emerges from the cooperation/betrayal strategy in a multi-agent game.
Truth is what lets you predict the future state of the world. The better the predictions, the closer you are to "the truth". Physicists are very careful to understand the uncertainties in what they know and only say its "true" and publish the results when those uncertainties 5 or 6 or 7 sigma. Their predictions work almost always but are limited to a very small slice of reality. Other sciences move farther from this ideal and are less likely to be stating "the truth".
Oh, I'm sure it's not random. I bet there's a rationale for almost every change in every piece of software UI. These are not bullies making changes just to annoy me; I know that. I can even understand why they stopped supporting the old look & feel after a grace period. I'm a software dev too, after all.

But from the point of view of a random user (me), it seems bizarre. The Gmail team changed things for no apparent gain. I don't care about Material Design -- I don't even know what that is! All I know is that the immediately previous incarnation of Gmail looked less cluttered and felt snappier. I know it's not accurate, but sometimes it feels they make UI changes just to show the app is not abandoned, whether this changes make sense or not.
I vouched this thread. While I realize it may be upsetting to many, it is still an important discussion to have. Freedom of speech has always been controversial - the ACLU famously defended white supremacists in National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie (1977).

When you restrict freedom of speech for a group you don’t agree with, it leads to a toxic society that only tolerates viewpoints on the whims of the majority of society. This is clearly not what the Founding Fathers intended.
Agreed. To arbitrarily rule against someone who took time off is very short-sighted. So please don't think that I'm exactly defending that mindset or the practice. Just trying to point out how (some|many|???) prospective employers might view the situation.
I wish programmers were treated more like designers with a portfolio review. I’ve implemented so many cool things, yet somehow I’m judged based on some esoteric programming problem. It’s like I’m an interchangeable cog who is being evaluated on how well I can be a cog....heck, HR and often even interviewers often don’t bother looking at your CV. Dammit, I do compilers, not chatbots!

The really great jobs I’ve had didn’t really require interviews at all, they knew who I was and knew what I’ve done and what I could do, and that was good enough.
There's a lot of evidence that the gender felt by a trans person is biological, fyi.

If they could just change it, I assure you so many people that suffer dysphoria would snap their fingers and cure themselves.

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And it's gender roles that are a social construct, not gender identity. It's unfortunate that both those terms are referred to as "gender", but please try not to spread the confusion.
I feel like we have a misunderstanding. for me:

Autonomy = the level of freedom of choosing your own actions , under the constraint that your goal must be met.

Meaning = knowing your work has some positive value, which means you can tell yourself(maybe subconsciously) that you are useful, which increases your motivation.

Example : a doctor that is forced to use an expert-system to guide him, would feel a lot less autonomy,even though he may understand that he's more useful to his patients - i.e. ,a lot of meaning.
I think the rat race is a symptom, not a cause
No. They couldn't. Rotating randomly is just about the most frustrating thing you can do to a user. Also forcing your users to use an unfamiliar search engine.

Remember, we're talking about people that Google "Facebook" to go to Facebook.
Thank you, that really helps! The original article alone is pretty confusing.
Considering the rat epidemic in Paris right now, a rat would have been more fitting.
Its still indirect discrimination and is there really much difference between a woman with nine years and a man with ten.
Github hasn't always used a seperate domain for user sites [0].
They do now to directly address the GP's concerns.

http://homakov.blogspot.com/2013/03/hacking-github-with-webk...
Strongly prefer the take-home project as long as it is confined to less than 4 hours. The gun-to-head aspect of the other choices significantly dominates other concerns in my experience.
Many people have posited that a shrinking population will have a more deleterious effect than a booming one.

We’ll see in Japan in the next two decades. Europe is next.
Clearly a fair use situation.

"the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright."
It's an open problem, and I'm not sure if there are official tallies, but I think that currently most people think that the explanation is decoherence instead of consciousness. From the same Wikipedia page:

> Erich Joos and Heinz-Dieter Zeh claim that the phenomenon of quantum decoherence, which was put on firm ground in the 1980s, resolves the problem. The idea is that the environment causes the classical appearance of macroscopic objects.
Whether you work there or not, I'm afraid you are misinformed.

Three of my friends (all similar backgrounds) interviewing at Google this year have had completely different interviewing experiences. One even bypassed the phone screen and was flown to Mountain View for an IRL technical screening/interview. These are all for the same role.

How does your data reconcile that?
Free speech for me but not for thee.
I've been trying to give them the benefit of the doubt for the same reason, but I too am unconvinced.

As one example/anecdotal aside: replacing a link to all mail from/to a contact on mouseover of their name with....links to Google Keep, Hangouts, etc. There's no way the use case data led to a change like this. I mean, how could it?
Years ago, I had the rare experience of being told why I didn't get an offer from a big Valley tech company. (Not FAANG, but perceived similarly.) It was for an internship, and I suspect they wanted to keep candidates interested for full time applications.

The relevant interview was a "find the palindrome" question for which the desired answer was Rabin-Karp. The rejection was explicitly "your solution to the whiteboard algorithm question worked but wasn't optimal, so study your algorithms harder and try again in the future".

At the time, I thought it was pretty stupid that they tried to judge skill by requiring candidates to either have one random thing memorized or reinvent a publication-worthy algorithm in 30 minutes. But given the advice I got, it seems like the core motivation was "we want people who are willing to devote a bunch of free time solely to impressing us". And for that, asking impractical questions and demanding optimal answers works perfectly.
Seems fitting that this was on Forbes just yesterday -
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alizalicht/2018/11/04/how-to-st...
You can get that in Java as well.

Just create a static class without member fields where the class plays the role of a poor man's ML module, with all static functions only interacting with their parameters.

Then static import it into the client package.
Since it really doesn't look like you're going to follow the guidelines, we've banned this account. We're happy to unban accounts if you email hn@ycombinator.com and we believe you'll start using the site as intended.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Are you referring to the bird songs from Raymond Smullyan's "To Mock a Mockingbird?"

I found this breakdown after a cursory search http://dkeenan.com/Lambda/
> But the insistence of smart people to use them as such, when (trust me here) they have heard arguments against that practice myriad times, points at the fact that such proxies are needed, and that none better have yet emerged.

No. It points to a coordination/collective action problem. Everyone knows that they should switch away from Elsevier, and if everyone did, we'd be better off, but every single author, by switching, would incur only the costs, and no benefits. Your argument above neglects this.

It is tempting to say that the status quo is optimal, because otherwise it would not be the status quo, but it doesn't fly here. And I find Elsevier etc. above-market returns on equity, and capturing more than 1% of public science expenditure, without adding much, quite scandalous.

EDIT to add: Sometimes, the coordination problem can be solved. For example, in 2003, nestor of CS Don Knuth managed to pull everyone from Elsevier's Journal of Algorithms over to a new journal, after writing a bitter letter complaining about their pricing:

> In 2003, the entire editorial board of the Journal of Algorithms resigned to start ACM Transactions on Algorithms with a different, lower-priced, not-for-profit publisher, at the suggestion of Journal of Algorithms founder Donald Knuth. The Journal of Algorithms continued under Elsevier with a new editorial board until October 2009, when it was discontinued.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier#Resignation_of_editor...

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/joalet.pdf
I have other autoimmune disorders and I've looked into getting stem cell treatments outside the U.S because of limitations of what American doctors are willing to do. I found a center in Panama with American trained physicians where you pay out of pocket for treatment (~$25k+ for a week of treatment of umbilical cord stem cells). https://www.cellmedicine.com/ You can apply for treatment on their website and if the doctors believe they can help they will let you know.

When I talked about the tradeoffs of this treatment with traditional American physicians they said they are concerned about stem cells multiplying into the wrong thing. They claim they need more studies showing safety and effectiveness.

I'm undecided if I will go this route, mainly because of cost. In the meantime I'm focusing on dialing in my diet (Wahl's protocol has been mentioned here), meditating (hypnosis has been mentioned here), and intermittent fasting (which has been shown to help improve one's own stem cell generation).
I use hoxy[1] for a lot of similar use cases, e.g. integration testing third party code.

[1] https://github.com/greim/hoxy
It seems to me that using a few isolated incidents to push for widespread censorship and financial excommunication is exactly missing the forest for the trees.

Furthermore, even if you think this is a principled stand, how does that justify censoring the discussion itself?

Appealing to an axiomatic consensus that this is a "bad post" and a "bad look" is just populism in disguise. There is no doubt that freedom necessarily increases suffering too, as it provides more opportunity for abuse, but we generally accept this, the same way we accept that having a Justice system opens the door to malicious prosecution or perps walking free.

It takes a special kind of arrogance to think you can judge adequately what the second and third order effects of a policy will be, and even more arrogance that you know better than centuries of enlightenment values.
CodeDraw, my live-code-drawing + GraphViz tool stores its source in the PDF. Also found a place to stash it in PNGs.

But you can treat a PDF very much like a big zip with some special purpose features. If you want to.
> I think the goal of the T2 is to block Hackintosh and also to block hardware upgrades.

Although there's no way for us to really know, I don't really think that's their priority. Sounds more like a side-effect. Consumers capable of assembling, installing and updating a Hackintosh are probably less than 0.1% of the entire Apple user-base. They are peanuts, from a merely commercial point of view.

They also don't really need to prevent hardware upgrades with an enforcing chip. They are already preventing hardware upgrades by releasing hardware that physically cannot be upgraded. Just think about their laptops released in the last 5 years, with RAM blocks and SSDs soldered to the motherboard...
If you're getting X% merit increases every year and miss one, it will look forever as if you're underpaid relative to your peers. So people who take a long parental leave will have a permanent "pay gap" unless either the company pro-actively bumps them up (pay for the absent time as if they were present) or the employee overachieves to catch up (in which case they still have a pay gap relative to their overachieving peers).

Of course, there's also ramp-down and ramp-up time on each side of the leave. I'd expect a leave of 12 months is probably closer to a total productivity loss of 18 month, which will drag pay down further if there's a reduction to a second merit increase. If you take years off, as many do, staying home until the kid enters kindergarten, then you're probably looking at a massive relative gap when you start back.

But yeah, taking a year for parental leave is not a death knell for most professionals' careers. It will realistically result in a long-term salary depression relative to peers, though.
They are lucky to have you, but how does "work smarter, not harder" work for competitors who aren't as smart as you?

If you can't compete with others at school, in the workplace, or as a business based on intellectual superiority the gap has to be made up somewhere. Usually that leads to hard work and then a vicious cycle.
Urdu/Hindi, yes!
App Development Horror Stories [pdf]
How Optimizely uses Multi-Armed Bandits to quicken discovery and increase impact
This, of course, is only true if you don't have to pay the cost of failure. Both businesses and sports coaches are really only concerned about picking out the very best. The washouts are on their own. An externality.

This is a problem with Navy SEAL training. They've had a substantial number of people injured for life in BUD/S training because they wouldn't quit.[1] This may be worth it for the elite military, but it's not appropriate for people who are just going to be working in ordinary businesses.

Students at MIT who are like that are called "tools". Comments from MIT people would be appreciated. (Stanford was not as hard-core.)

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/1-dead-4-nearly-drown-d...
Why should celebrate some people being underpaid for their efforts?
I moved out of town where demand is likely to pick up when the tech 30 somethings discover they don't want to raise kids in the city. I watched the city get decimated of artists, great restaurants, and interesting architecture in the 2000 boom and again recently. The number of people who have to commute in just to support the lifestyle of higher incomes and the neighborhood color they squeeze out is part of what got me to leave. People who grew up there, love the city, and want to contribute to making it better deserve a chance to stay rather than getting gentrified out. I also hate the empty buildings on Prop13 valuations waiting for prices to go up even more.

https://www.salon.com/2018/11/04/despite-thorough-debunking-...

YIMBY won't reduce the homeless population, make housing more affordable, or the city more livable... it's not a simple market and pretending it is won't solve the problems.
How Machine Learning Could Detect Medicare Fraud
Too bad I cant experience this in browser. That's a huge chunk of lost marketshare.
This is what caught me off guard - I also share this view on journalism and would not have been surprised, but this piece is published by the Uni of Manchester itself.
New species of dinosaur discovered in Argentina
I think the reason that this situation exists, in the face of a lot of online rebuke, is that they're heading towards a free-to-use version of Windows which will be entirely supported with un-removable crapware and telemetry, and they are testing the market.
This is very good - I used it to decompress the streams in a PDF
https://mupdf.com/docs/manual-mutool-clean.html
Elon Musk on working 120 hours a week: You'll go 'bonkers'
> it would be very odd for an LP to veto an investment.

Yeah but you usually want to give them the option to soft veto stuff (even if it's not required) by letting them say things like, "I'm skeptical that this is a good idea, but go for it if you think it makes sense." Otherwise at the end of the fund, even if you've posted good returns you don't have any way to show your LPs that you're managing their money differently than how they would have managed it themselves.

Managing money is one of those jobs that everyone thinks they can do a good job at themselves (like how everyone wants to be head of product), so no one is willing to pay a premium for it unless you create opportunities to memorialize how you're doing it differently than what they would have done themselves.
This is actually pretty cool. I'v been working in an accounting company and i'v been thinking about such thing a lot lately. Is Factur-X used in practice in Germany and France? Do you know about some other similar things?
You could argue that women are less like to die young from risky activities and should be preferred. I know a director level guy who had to agree to give up his sports bike as a condition of promotion to director level.

Even having less time off from sports activities - broken legs from five a side foot ball cost a surprising number of days off.
To the amount of wealth they are generating for the place they work perhaps?
I don't understand your product.

> I think that it would be tablet in taxis.

It's a small screen in the taxi with adds, like the small screen in airplanes?

Is it some ad printed outside/over the taxi?

Do you have a (posible fake) photo of the product?