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I'm a hiring manager. There are a number of connections on LinkedIn that I would happily interview if they expressed interest. There are also a small number of connections I would love to interview me for a role at their company. The current model does nothing to allow me to differentiate.
I wish the author would "do the math": of the 42% female freshman class of 2004 entering in 2000 (which at CMU for this major requires a direct application for one of 135 (last time I checked) seats), 29% failed to graduate in the major within 4 years.

Now, that might be partly an artifact of the dot com crash convincing a subset to transfer to another major, but it otherwise looks very bad; if that happened at MIT for any reason other than transferring out (which I can check on if desired, the department did lose more than half its enrollment during this period as measured by freshman declaring a major), there would be serious hell to pay.
If everybody in a neighborhood is dealing marijuana and then you show up and starting dealing heroin, a sudden increase in police activity and interest should not be surprising.
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After thinking about it, turn based RPG games sound like they would work well. My main problem with touch is for any kind of real time game that isn't a 1 to 1 swipe game like bejeweled. The problem is the lack of constant dedicated controls are simply not responsive enough, and you inherently cover up the screen while using the controls. Mario, Zelda, Metroid. Almost all top tier Nintendo games need dedicated controls.
Totally get the strategy, though I was writing PHP apps 10 years ago... I would be hard pressed to go back, especially after having touched YII last year. PHP is legacy today, right or wrong.

My point is twofold: First, it's very important to nail a trending language and framework. Right now that is a short list of Go, pure-JavaScript (firebase + angular), node, and maybe django. You are going after mindshare of hackers. You have to pick the trendy environments. The whole reason people left PHP to rails was the YouTube video where the guy typed "rails server" and magically stuff just worked. You need to do the same for the short list above.

Second, you have to show the benefit of your product. Seeing is believing. Nothing else will substitute.

While this is the anonymous Internet and you know nothing about me, at least do some gut checks with the current uni kids. Best of luck!
we asked and they hinted a few months ago.
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This is pretty cool! I think the usability is better than mathbin, and I like the list of easily findable/clickable examples. Could even be useful for learning math formatting with LaTeX.
The idea is firstly to take the pain out of hosting, rethink a lot of things (how people collaborate, and use it - think forking and merging like Git.

The idea is to help be people's tech partner as they innovate and create, taking some of the pain away and giving them more time.

I hope I explained it better? :)
You just haven't been reading the right press? eg: http://fansided.com/2013/08/06/nfl-eyes-stricter-dui-penalti...
overview: https://www.google.com/search?q=nfl+drunk+driving+-uber
eh, that's not so bad really.

If I were writing something, and I really wanted to make it clear that I was testing a boolean to be true, I might write that. Then I can be absolutely certain the person reading it in 5 years won't misread it.

Actually, the more I think about it, the more I'd be inclined to do that in the false case ( ie if(aBoolean == false)... rather than if(!aBoolean).. ) because I worry that it's too easy to skip over the '!' - and I personally read that as "not aBoolean" rather than "aBoolean is false"...

I'll bet it complies to the same thing anyway, so it's just about readability at this point.
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Well, I'm more or less a programming language nerd and these kind of things just hurt =).

Just try to pass a 'map' or a 'struct' to an other function. The 'map'
behaves like passed by reference and the 'struct' behaves like passed by
value. If you want to pass a 'struct' by reference than you have to use a
pointer to a 'struct'.

Seriously? What kind of ad hoc programming language design is this?
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Do they have non-limo options and how expensive is this service? I wouldn't call arriving within 30 minutes exactly fast. You can get a cab or Uber within minutes.
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Not if you install the (excellent) GoSublime plugin in Sublime, it will run gofmt on every save.
Does "Set of Reference PCBs" mean four for $32.00?

edit: nevermind, I scrolled down far enough to find it.
What you're really giving up on is conceptual integrity. Some developers find it very distasteful to have an application that is only partially composed of a newer architecture, programming paradigm, whatever.

A few years ago I stopped an impending complete code re-write and a fellow developer was aghast at the very idea of supporting an application that was "only half MVC".
It is somewhat legacy, and I personally don't use a ton of it. But the designer world loves it - new frameworks are constantly still coming out on PHP.

I stopped using PHP so much for that very video. It's very like DHH's video, that's what we're aiming to do.

Appreciate it.
The genesis in the US Navy is not so relevant as the current and regular funding that the project gets from the us government.

I don't think it's paranoid at all to greet that with healthy skepticism...
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Its the reason why I prefer tactile keyboards and gaming mice over these finger pads that apple seems to be trying to force on everyone. You get a more personal feel, rather than a numb rubbing sensation.
I think these are outsized reactions to the problems described. I also don't believe there aren't any photos of their child online. As a new parent I can't imagine not using the Internet to share updates with my family whether it's via tumblr or something less public like email or an Apple Photo Stream. Most of these services have facial recognition.

Finding a balance between privacy and ease of sharing is something parents are going to wrestle with from now on. And, In the event you trade in your privacy to Facebook, you don't even get a worthwhile service. Facebook albums aren't designed with children in mind -- they don't care about a child's growth, they makes no notes on a child's milestones.

I've started trying to solve this problem with some fellow parents. At the very least I hope we can give people one less thing to worry about. If you'd like to chat about the possibilities and challenges in this space or what my research has uncovered so far, please find me on Twitter:
@conceptualitis
See what I just posted, 29% of the class of 2004 women failed to graduate in the major within 4 years. Continuing my thoughts on the effect of the dot com crash, if the attrition was mostly transfers we'll likely never know the reason(s), especially since the one your positing is impossibly un-PC.

Worse, if you're right, recent women graduates of the program could have the affirmative action stigma. Or the failure rate could reflect a common disconnect between the admissions office and the faculty, except in this case it's all in the department, and a lot of the faculty didn't buy into the program to the extent of lowering standards "too much".
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It's not the money, it's the principle. Including a free ebook with physical book purchases should have been established as a standard practice a long time ago.
Many have plugins in their browsers that automatically try to get the https version of any website.
Yeah. "We don't want any information about our kid online, that's why we are writing articles about her pooping habits on Slate."
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> I never seen the point of growing additional muscle tissue

There are multiple answers to this:

- look at the two pictures he puts in the article and ask yourself which one would your partner prefer?

- working out with weights(steriods asid) has been shown to have numerous health benefits, increased mental competence, longer life span, ability to eat more( if you like eating ), better sleep, etc.

> What's more, if your lifestyle and diet doesn't match your newly grown muscle tissue the body will adjust and all your effort to grow it will be gone in few weeks/months.

This is true, unfortunately its true for every single facet of life.

- I was an engineer in school, I've since forgot most of my thermodynamics course because I no longer use that information. However, I don't regret learning that information

- I used to be able to run a marathon but since having kids I no longer run for hours at a time, and hence, I"m not longer able to run a marathon. However, I don't regret running one.

In short, I don't really see the statement, if you don't use it you loose it as being a valid criticism of weigh lifting as it applies to many other facets of life.
I imagine it being pretty funny and old fashioned thinking when she is presented with the envelope.

"Ya, rite M&P. I'll get rite on this and... whatever..." rolling her eyes as her attention returns to the table top augmented reality reality show where she virtually lives with all her favorite Disney, Nickelodeon, Fox, ESPN, Democrat, Republican, Tea Party, and Occupy celebrities.
I knew a music major who was a better coder than most of the CompSci grads.

At one job, I judged coding ability by the number of times your SQL woke me up due to huge I/O usage[1]. Many a CS graduate cannot read a query plan.

1) if it looked like a reasonable query and it was just Sybase's crap optimizer, I gave them a pass. Although, after a while, you learned to force the indexes.
I didn't call anyone a fanboy, I was quoting epo during the only time I mentioned that word. What I brought up was the reality distortion field. What you're describing is Apple doing the same thing as Android but with the only difference being developers have to use the equivalent of SyncAdapter. That's not wildly different, that's literally been baked into Android since long before Apple decided to adopt that model as well. Apple's contribution is subtle refinement to make it fit Apple's model better.

Apple has a great method of taking existing ideas, refining them until they shine, and putting them into a beautiful product. I have nothing against that, it's helped the industry immensely. I hope Apple keeps making improvements year over year and pushing the market along. What I take offense with is Apple's audience pretending these features never existed before, or that they were bad ideas then but great ideas now. That's exactly what I'm seeing you and others in this thread doing.
But with SSL your root certificates change rarely and you can control them, as well as freeze certificates for specific websites. With Javascript code you don't have that kind of control and if you did it would require a massive change in the approach of creating a webapp in order to be managable.

It's not an insurmountable problem though, I would like to see an attempt at solving it (a browser extension would be required, but arguably you could have much greater transparency in updates than even most package managed apps if you used readable JS).
I don't have any stats, but I know that very few of those who submit are selected. My wife and I received a long form write-up (just under 700 words). The process started with our submission on the website, but then we got a call from a writer a few weeks later. Between talking to us, our parents, and our minister, I'd say he put at least 10 hours into researching and writing.

A day or two before the wedding, he told us that he wrote both a long form piece and a shorter, more typical piece. He wasn't sure which would get published, but he was obviously pushing for the longer piece to get in. It did.

Oddly enough, our write-up isn't included in the Rap Genius dataset. Maybe it's too recent or the longer write-ups aren't included.
I think the main issue is that the kids are not given any choice about appearing online when you post their pictures there. They should have at least some choice in the matter, it seems.
Does anyone know what are the 'serious consequences' we face if there aren't as many women studying computer science as men?

The male-domination unfortunately persisted since 2000 but the industry has still grown leaps and bounds beyond anyone's imagination. So what seems to be the problem?
"This makes it possible to rigorously test our intuitions about trends like."

let me fix that for you

"This makes it possible to put numbers on our preconceived notions and play around with them."

It may be entertaining, but rigorous? I don't think so.
100% agree. Especially if the location you are at is very loud (ie bar/club), making a phone call is much more difficult than using an app.
Not to take an entertaining post too seriously, but when your graph scale ranges from 0 - 0.02% the statistical significance is dubious.
The data-set includes only the announcements, not the stories published under the "Vows" column.
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So, you changed a somewhat reproducible bug into one that has about a four billion times lower chance of occurring?

Good luck to the poor chap who will have to figure out what happened when that bug hits.

Also, you introduced a new error condition: a corrupt packet that should set a value of 1, but arrives as a value of 2 will not initiate the landing routine.

The right thing to do, IMO, is to prevent corrupt data packets from doing such stuff. Checksum the packets or, better yet, checksum and encrypt them. That prevents the enemy from taking over your plane.

Finally, I do not see how 'no proper bool' is relevant here. If the packet contained a single bit indicating the value of the flag, it still could get corrupted.
thank you for that very interesting link!
You're presupposing that whatever admissions standard existed before was "neutral" and any deviation from that involves discrimination. But consider the specific changes made:

"In the past, admissions gave preference to people with lots of previous programming experience. The new criteria focused on potential by targeting students who showed science and math aptitude as well as non-academic strengths like leadership. The department made it explicit that no prior experience was required."

None of these measures seem to me to discriminate against men. Also, the enrollment gender ratio of 40-60 isn't that far off from the representation of women and men among high school students who score 750 on the SAT Math (CMU's interquartiles for SAT Math are 690-790), which is roughly 35-65.

MIT's experience evening out its gender ratio is illustrative. Unfortunately I can't find the link right now, but MIT found sometime in the 1990's that women were outperforming their admission predictors, based heavily on SAT scores, relative to men. So they rebalanced their admissions process to put less emphasis on SAT scores and more emphasis on high school GPAs.

Also, "equality" here is a more complex issue than you're making it out to be. Social conventions are self-perpetuating. You can't just remove the overt discrimination and assume things will shift back to a healthy equilibrium. Once you have bent a metal beam outside the elastic region you can't just remove the external force and wait for it to straighten itself out! Illustrative here is the legal industry's experience with fairly aggressive affirmative action for women in the 1970's and 1980's. Law firms went from being 95% men to being almost even, and that new equilibrium was self-perpetuating. The ratio stayed roughly equal even after the measures were phased out.
Android does this as well, so I guess like the guy you are responding to, i don't see a real difference.
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Doing what everyone else is doing lowers social friction. We're discussing the idea of doing something while a child is young (posting about them online) that could haunt them later in life. If everyone is doing this, the social friction in the future will be less about having your childhood online.

In this case, the social friction itself is what would be possibly causing issues in the future, so lowering it would be improving the situation.

If you want to reference the Nazis, then it's the same thing. Doing what everyone was doing had lower social friction in Nazi Germany.
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This. I would ship every bookcase in the house tomorrow if someone gave me credit toward the corresponding e-books.

The files go into my Box account, and I never lose another book.
Don't worry, HN is about to tell you how apple has magically solved this problem in exactly the same way android did, but how it's different because apple did it!
It's not just sunlight. A building that widens as it goes up will also focus wind. The effects are a bit more 'wave' than 'particle' - no beams, just constructive interference - but the principle is the same.

This reminds me so much of University of Illinois at Chicago. Most of the humanities are housed in this gigantic concrete monolith that widens as it went up, supposedly to represent the 'city of broad shoulders'. But ironically, it better captured the 'windy city' -- we'd fight yard-long patches of gale-force wind that would appear out of nowhere and steal your papers. "The architecture ate my homework" was a not unheard-of excuse -- and one that as a TA I actually honored on one occasion.
Ask HN: Leaving a startup and joining a BigCo. Need some advice.
All,

The majority of my work experience has been at startups (both post and pre IPO) – the only time I worked at a few BigCOs was as an intern.

Recently, I decided to join a BigCo because they are offering decent $$, a role with a lot of impact, and I just wanted a less stressful life and not work 12 hours a day for the next few years. I'm pretty excited and really looking forward to this journey!

Since many of you have worked at BigCos before doing/joining a startup or already work at a BigCo, I'd love to get some advice on getting things done quickly at a BigCo without getting labeled as as an "arrogant, ex-startup guy."

Questions:

- What did you do to get your products shipped on-time? How did you move things fast?

- How did you win over people? BigCos tend to have more stakeholders/product.

- Did you aggressively network with others in the company? If so, how?

- How was/is your relationship with manager different? How did you make sure he/she is always on your side?

- How did you get noticed by higher-ups/execs?

- If you were/are a team lead, how did you manage a team with a lot of engineers or designers or PMs?

Any input on the above would be really appreciated. Thanks!
We used a high-end wedding planner, and when we asked her what to do for the NY Times announcement, she told us to submit via the form on the website. Maybe she pulled some strings behind the scenes, but it seemed to us that she had no pull whatsoever on that front.
Its not like I had to shut off the old site while I worked on the new codebase... The old codebase was running perfectly fine, up until I shut it off and replaced it with the new code.
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Thanks! Yeah, I'm going to be blogging a lot more now that the book is released.

Would love to chat about devops - feel free to email me anytime: matt@nanobeep.com
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The new historical perspective on this is very interesting. The code rewrite killed the company, but it gave birth to mozilla, which came back to topple IE from its throne and help bring through a new renaissance of browser development. If they hadn't rewritten their code how would have history changed? Would we be where we are today? How many years behind would that setback have put us? The release of Firefox was instrumental at disrupting and evolving the web. With a poor code base could they have done that as effectively as they did?

A company may be transient, and killed by choices that hurt them in the short run, but will support them in the long run. But good open source code is eternal. The quality speaks for itself. Their decision may have killed their company but it was astronomical for the web. From a higher level perspective, they did the right thing, and it shows that good code is so powerful, it can even outlive the company that made it.
Always a text annotation platform? That's a bit revisionist from what I've read.

Fred Wilson initially told them "I think lyrics is a very crowded space and almost entirely reliant on Google for traffic" and they admitted "our pitch back then was a bit too lyrics-focused.."

http://news.rapgenius.com/Lemon-how-rap-genius-raised-s18m-i...

You can find those quotes in an annotation in the above link (which makes me realize the problem with annotations is you can't ctrl-f them).
I don't think that is what it means. They aren't letting in 'less qualified' women. What they are doing is realizing that their previous admission process was not doing a very good job of selecting the best possible candidates. They were choosing people who had previous programming experience; there are a lot of people who would do very well in programming but just haven't been exposed to it yet. It turns out, a lot of those people who would do well but haven't been exposed yet are women.

Imagine you are trying to select people to join your music school as clarinet students, and you have two candidates. One is slightly better on the clarinet than the other, but the currently better student has played for years while the other has barely started. The one who barely started has much more room to grow, and in many ways it would make sense to pick them for your school.

If you only select the people that already have training in the field your school is teaching, you aren't going to get the best bang for your buck.
One of Elon's criticisms was that the CA HSR would need to acquire 1100 parcels of land.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/15/could-the-hyperloop...

Can you post where you got your numbers?
However MIT didn't achieve its current ratio without significantly watering down the core requirements everyone has to pass. This started before the '80s, and it didn't ruin the Institute's reputation, but it had some clear effects.

On the other hand, there is only one MIT, and the intense self-selection that occurs before anyone applies has allowed it to get away with all sorts of stupid admissions tricks going back many decades. E.g. for a long time it didn't have a professional running the office.