skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hard to know if the 'cost is too high' or not since regulation makes it impossible for companies to compete. Know what cost is too high? State enforced monopolies.
Why would I ask the question if I thought that they certainly didn't have those private keys?

It is an interesting question regardless - can anyone at my ISP read these error reports, too?
Practice.

I used to be able to draw but then I got into photography but just briefly because along came computers. Although I had been drawing a lot and well since before school-age (5 years old) or so my mom says.

Now having been lazy I haven't drawn anything in almost two decades. If I had it and lost it I'm sure I, or anyone, could practice to learn again or as beginner to learn.

It's very zen to do you can't rush it's something you have to slow down to do and learn to love it. It's the only thing where I could really concentrate to the point I'd come out of it (trance?) hours later.
FWIW, the original article has nothing to say at all about Google. The data are interesting, but it is not at all framed the way the HN title suggests.

(Should the title get edited, it was originally: 'Quit putting down Google: "The myth of the overqualified worker"'.)
To be honest, I didn't realize we were arguing until it turned into this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y&t=1m18s

Before that I thought I was just sharing a personal story with you to illustrate someone else's point.
The developers have sent out this survey with emacs 24.4 requesting that users provide some information about vanilla packages. This might also be of interest to people looking for fun extensions to play with.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FrequentlyEnabledPackages_Ema...
Interesting. Harvard had that, but dismantled it in the 90s (they still have Houses, but they transitioned from "bidding" to a "randomization" process assign houses), as part of an anti-elitism homogenization movement.
A: Great article

B: what does his have to do with Google? That they hire people like Peter Norvig once in awhile?

edit: Maybe Google is mentioned on the second page? The OP is from 2010 and so the rest of the content (if any, hard to tell with how it ends) is behind a paywall. But what's shown is still a good read.

However, this was written in 2010. What research has been done since then? I imagine that the situation has not changed much since 2010, and may have become worse in terms of the bias. Would love to see more up-to-date or more comprehensive research and findings on this topic.

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This fear of over-qualification speaks a sad truth about the nature of institutions. When asked to think about it, I think most reasonable people would agree with the statement "You should hire the best qualified person and the company should adapt to that person's initiative and ideas"

But that's not how things work. At a very selfish level, people don't want to be shown up. It would take a very altruistic middle manager to hire someone who could push the ship in the right direction, if that pushing threatened the manager's job (as many reorganizations tend to do). Really, the only person who can hire the best without feeling threatened is the CEO, but in bigger companies, they usually aren't involved. And it's the CEO who would have unilateral power to let the overachievers grow, rather than be stifled by the constraints of their department.
Current status seems to be summarized here.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs
That book is wonderful. I only did the first major exercise, but I produced a drawing I had no idea I was capable of. I do not have any "artistic talent". Here's the original, and what I drew:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z893vyv5qdj3k93/original.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/elfqn6ll64du1u3/my%20version.jpg

What was the secret? The book said to hold the drawing upside down and copy what I saw. I produced that copy with literally no training, other than observation of the page.

Let me assure you this was not due to talent. My prior attempts at drawing were horrid. That book is highly recommended.
That surprises me - my Electrical/Computer Engineering classes had a substantial proportion of Asian students (primarily Chinese).

My friends and classmates of Asian background seemed to have families who were delighted and supportive that they were studying something technical and 'practical'.
The utility market used to be competitive, then municipalities began "licensing" them, which eventually led to the current state of affairs.[1] Even lighthouses, which have large externalities, can be built and operated without government intervention, as they did for a very long time.[2]

[1]http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/ElectricityandItsRegulati...

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lighthouse_in_Economics
So then why don't startups hire based on the results of IQ tests, isn't this a meritocracy? You actually made my overall point stronger, because you demonstrated that this community clearly doesn't define "merit" to be "raw intelligence". It is a much, much more nuanced concept and it includes, I suspect, a large number of characteristics that are heavily influenced by gender, culture, and class. When we say "merit" we do not simply mean "how smart are you?", if we did, then according to your evidence, more companies would use IQ tests for screening potential employees.
Likely nobody would even realize. It's not like the telcos would block sites. Instead, suddenly Netflix loads a lot slower than Comcast. Blame Netflix and move on.
The fashion world has massively outreached to men in recent couple of decades. Axe and chest shaving and all that other metrosexual stuff.

The fashion world sees men as a target market. Doesn't mean that they are doing outreach or trying to improve the pipeline of men in to the industry.
Wow, NerdyData seems like it can be very useful sometimes, thanks for sharing!
I always liked Deming's Red Bead experiment.. http://maaw.info/DemingsRedbeads.htm

The red bead experiment is deceptively simple because it provides a powerful message that is difficult for many to grasp. In summary, the misconception that workers can be meaningfully ranked is based on two faulty assumptions. The first assumption is that each worker can control his or her performance. Deming (1986, 315) estimated that 94 percent of the variation in any system is attributable to the system, not to the people working in the system. The second assumption is that any system variation will be equally distributed across workers. Deming (1986, 353) taught that there is no basis for this assumption in real life experiences. The source of the confusion comes from statistical (probability) theory where random numbers are used to obtain samples from a known population. When random numbers are used in an experiment, there is only one source of variation, so the randomness tends to be equally distributed. This is because samples based on random numbers are not influenced by such things as the characteristics of the inputs and tools (e.g., size of the beads and depressions in the paddles) and other real world phenomena. However, in real life experiences, there are many identifiable causes of variation, as well as a great many others that are unknown. The interaction of these forces will produce unbelievably large differences between people (Deming 1986, 110) and there is no logical basis for assuming that these differences will be equally distributed.2
We'll work on product quality just after we make our numbers for the quarter. Honest.
So you want people who need grants to buy your service. Instead of convincing Google that your website is the best place for grants, you write a bunch of (good!) articles about grants and then place house ads for your paid service.

Observations:
1. As a product search experience, that is still horribly broken.

2. It is still good for the web, incentivizing you to create quality content.
^ from someone who's never tried it...
I'm not saying that MIDI or DAWs aren't useful tools for making music, just that they aren't ideal for making music collaboratively. And if we're getting into the ages of these technologies, MIDI is in its 30s.

More and more young people are starting to code, so I don't think that code-based composition growing outside of the niche you say it lives in is too far-fetched, or far away.
A few good books. I like Python as a first language, but to each their own.

https://github.com/karan/Projects has a good set of first projects, ranging from straight algorithm practice to actual app and full project work. My younger brother is following something very similar, and it's working quite well so far.
That's a good book.

Brief history of TPS: http://www.sae.org/manufacturing/lean/column/leanjun01.htm
Wow, I never knew that the male-female Math gap was so robust. Look at the tables in the last three pages you linked. Except for Israel, nearly every country has a male-biased Math score gap on standardized tests.
I know that reality is always more complicated than theories attempting to simplify things, but Germany was officially an empire, with an emperor who had the power to declare war and appoint the chancellor. The Reichstag had no power to dismiss the government.

The Austro-Hungarian empire was also ruled by a hereditary monarch who was in charge of war and foreign policy.

I admit it's all a bit hand-wavy, but wasn't there a huge difference in nature between the likes of UK and France vs Germany, Austia-Hungary, and the Ottomans?
It's cute to see kids complain about old folks using slang that the kids didn't know they inherited from the old folks.
That really reads like the journalistic "View from Nowhere".
I read it differently. I read:

Targets of the order have no recourse to challenge the collection because they don't have legally acceptable evidence that the collection exists.

Altough, the fact that the evicende osn't acceptable isn't in your quote.
At the end of the day it's all about interfaces and we should, as much as possible, decouple the interfaces from the house and from the appliances.

What I would love to see insofar as wall outlets is an adjustment of the current standard wall box and outlet+plate so that you could quickly replace the entire wall place in one go very quickly. With that innovation I would love to see the same on the appliance end where it is trivial to replace the entire code on an appliance. This already exists with IEC320, but if would be nice if everything used IEC320.

Then every 5-10 years the industry innovates to dramatically improve one end and then 5-10 years later works to dramatically improve the other end. This would give a very reasonabe 10-20 years between completely replacing all the appliances (or using adapters or switching neither), and 10-20 years between replacing all the wall plates. You wouldn't even necessarily have to upgrade every 10-20. If an appliance is working fine on an old appliance to cord standard or a cord to wall standard, you can leave things alone.

It was this interface approach that allowed Apple to have one dock connector for the longest time but many different shaped devices, since all that had to be done is replace the plastic dock insert [0].

This approach wouldn't work for cellphones and laptops, but should work swimmingly for 120v mains since space isn't at a premium except in the appliance.

[0] http://km.support.apple.com/library/APPLE/APPLECARE_ALLGEOS/...
Eh? Confirmation bias-much? People have been against war, and pro-pot for decades, and most of them have not been libertarians, unless you want to claim the hippies were libertarian.
And we are ruled by space lizards.
"Other people were also right" is not an argument against libertarians being right about things.

And isn't that the point? We should be celebrating and expanding on the opposition that exists, not dismissing it for lack of "our label".
I plan on doing this. I'm actually excited for the day when I get to nail Verizon for discriminating against my business.

(I wish I were youtube.)

Here's what I plan to do, and please tell me what you would think if you saw this:

"Hi, Verizon customer! We've detected that Verizon is hurting your speeds to reach us, while favoring access to _____ (competitor). Click on this link to see some other internet service providers in your area. If you'd like to file a complaint with the FCC, click here. If you'd like to get a refund, this link has instructions. If you'd like to join a class action suit, a discussion is occuring at this link."

We'll of course not list competitors where there are none.

Proportional to your popularity, it might even be possible to hurt Verizon's bottom line.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/why-yo... says you may have Net Neutrality issues already if you are subscribed to:

• Verizon

• Comcast

• Time Warner Cable

• Deutsche Telecom, Orange, Telefónica
Actually being used by the laymen, facebook demographic, bitcoin is more of a speculative commodity right now. If you check out /r/dogecoin it shows a lot of promise.
Mostly the same predictions as her article for 2013. Also, don't hover your mouse over an image while taking a screenshot.
Well, even if there was blackmail, there is no reason to assume it involved entire branches of your governement.

What do you think the NSA collects every kind of dirt from everybody in the US for?
No, but it is an argument that libertarianism is incidental to them holding a few views that happen to be popular.

Lots of people value freedom, and many of them are pro-pot and anti-war because they believe the alternative to be oppressive.

Libertarians are a narrow subset of this who subscribe to an absolutist philosophy that they believe will maximize freedom. Many people who value freedom strongly disagree with libertarianism as a means to achieving it, even though they sympathize with the desire.
As an Israeli company, I'm sure that they won't be making inroads in the middle eastern markets.
Here's a slightly better-looking version using the Parchment interpreter (same game):

http://iplayif.com/?story=https://github.com/downloads/dunca...
Apologies to anyone who felt distracted or incited. I assure you that wasn't my intention.
Marvin, the author of the Wired.com opinion piece, is a smart fellow. But what he ignores is that Congress never handed the FCC the authority to impose Net neutrality regulations on the Internet. Such legislation actually came up for a vote in Congress, and it came close to passage: it was reported favorably out of a Senate committee but was defeated in a House floor vote in 2006: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1028_3-6081882.html

Even if you adore the principle of Net neutrality, it's reasonable to demand that federal regulatory agencies stick to what Congress authorized them to do. Otherwise you have illegal regulations and bureaucratic turf-grabbing that will not treat the Internet well. Remember Hollywood's successful efforts to lobby the FCC to impose "broadcast flags" on computers by bureaucratic fiat? A federal appeals court correctly struck it down as exceeding the agency's legal authority, as I wrote here in 2005: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1030_3-5697719.html

That same appeals court is currently considering the FCC's Net neutrality regulations. BTW, it's also the same court that slapped down the FCC's first attempt to impose Net neutrality regulations without legal authority in 2010: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20001825-38.html

If Net neutrality violations become an actual problem, there's no shortage of publicity-hungry politicians in Congress (hi, Ed Markey!) who will hold hearings and push legislation forward. Obama will happily sign it. Until then, other government debacles including NSA domestic surveillance and Obamacare should make us wary of federal agencies exceeding their legal authority -- especially after Congress considered and rejected a law that would have given it to them in the first place.
property law is definitely a form of regulation. go to a country without regulation, like afghanistan, and you'll see no property law :)
there's an entire semester in law school on the intricacies of property law, including fee simple, easements, etc., because property law doesn't come from heaven, it's made by men to regulate our affairs.
beyond that, of course, there's regulation of restaurants, securities regulation, regulation of wireless spectrum regarding interference, regulation of satellite orbital slots, regulation of food safety, of drugs, of the legal profession, of the medical profession, etc. often for safety, often because of factors like information asymmetries or high transaction costs. Joseph Stiglitz's writings might interest you on the topic, the stuff he won a Nobel for.
Watching you clutch your pearls is fucking hilarious, so I've set up a weekly donation of a fair chunk of change to Shanley's Gittip account.

Keep up the good work.
I highly suggest "The Master Switch" by Tim Wu to this entire thread. There seems to be a bunch of people here who don't understand common carrier services and why they are important.
As well as girlswhocode there are also many non-gender-specific organizations aimed at helping young people into computer science.

Instead of asking whether gender-specific orgs for young people exist in the fashion or teaching world, you should also be asking whether non-gender-specific orgs exist in those fields as well.

The possible lack of "Young Male Teachers" organizations doesn't make much of a point if there's also a lack of "Young Teachers" organizations.
Fair enough, but isn't it just a matter of granularity at that point? How many things do I want to be voting on every day? 1 thing? 10 things? 100?
While a well-intentioned article, i believe this author overlooks a few points that should be pointed out.

As a consumer, i would obviously be a proponent of my current ISP giving non-discriminatory access to all sites. However, aside from voicing my opinion in the form of purchasing the services of a specific ISP, i do not believe we should have the power to do much else in dictating how these companies should run their business through the passing of laws. The author points out that the loss of net neutrality would hurt small-scale ventures - yet ignores the fact that these ISPs he wishes to regulate were once the same small start-ups that he wants to protect. Was the success of these businesses the single factor that moves them from protected status to regulatory target?

The size of these dominant ISPs means that a great deal of the population relies on their services - but our "need" for these services does not give us the right to dictate how they should run their business. If enough of us feel that none of the dominant ISPs are adequate, then our need goes unserved, and sooner or later another ISP will arrive to serve these customers.

Again - i am strongly in favor of net neutrality. But if we resort to regulatory means to get what we want, it will lead to vastly negative consequences down the road. Why start a business if this is the reward for success?
According to someone familiar with current specops / USAF rules-of-engagement, the rule is that an officer always had to be present to authorize a kill by a UAV. Period. If JSOC or others were/are doing something different, this could be grounds for court-martial.
Out of curiosity, do you ever give pause when looking to hire people with that type of background? If they are hired, are some projects off-limits to them?

I know those sound like loaded questions, but they seem relevant if you have clients that are adverse to being targeted by the NSA. These days, mainstream companies like Google and Yahoo would arguably qualify.

On the other hand, I imagine employees with that type of background would be very beneficial in context of government and defense industry contracts.
Google has a reputation for hiring people with stellar qualifications, and putting them in fairly mundane jobs for which they appear overqualified. See here, for example: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employees-confess-the-...

(Norvig is most certainly not one of these, BTW; he's doing research similar to what he'd be doing in academia, with more resources.)
I'm using the standard definition of 'store of value' (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Store_of_value). The only requirement to have a store of value (aside from ability to store and retrieve) is that there exist a floor; i.e., that an entity 'merely have economic value that is not known to disappear even in the worst situation' or in other words 'be predictably useful when retrieved'.

Of course, we can easily imagine scenarios where Bitcoin loses all value but I think a sufficient imagination can produce scenarios for the other stores of value listed on that page as well. So, this is obviously a bit subjective territory (i.e., different people can assign different probabilities to each of the circumstantial propositions) but there is a strong argument from consistency for the designation of Bitcoin as a 'store of value'.

I personally think that mathematically-interesting (and rare) numbers do have an intrinsic value (even if only as a novelty or perhaps antique/collectible).
Filthy Lucre
> (let's not forget who funds elections)

Defence contractors? Telcos? Hollywood? Pharmaceutical companies?

The big tech companies most of us talk about here are in the minority when it comes to lobbying, from what I understand.
This was my concern as well when I first read about this.
What disappoints me most is that I actually sympathize with feminism. I just wish they were less McCarthyist about it. Which is an apt analogy as I also sympathize with anti-communists.
http://www.lscp.net/persons/ramus/fr/GDP1/papers/spencer99.p...

“Characterizing the test as insensitive to gender differences was enough to totally eliminate women’s underperformance in this experiment. Yet when the same test was characterized as sensitive to gender differences, women signiﬁcantly underperformed in relation to equally qualiﬁed men.”

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15298868.2012.68...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19487665
I think that's an issue with services based businesses like SaaS/PaaS/cloud providers. You're also making an assumption that national affiliation matters in a global company.

With hardware companies, I doubt there's much of a difference. Getting a mole placed in a foreign company is totally achievable, just a different set of motivators for the mole. Actually, you don't need to compromise an OEM computer or network manufacturer. Just pay off a contractor in the supply chain who manufactures key parts.

Even in the case of services/cloud, I doubt it matters. If the NSA hacked the chancellor of Germany's personal phone, what makes you think that they haven't compromised German cloud providers as well?
I'm guessing it had something to do with some of the recent episodes in Dilbert:

http://dilbert.com/fast/2013-12-27/

http://dilbert.com/fast/2013-12-28/
Dinorwig power station in North Wales does this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_Power_Station.

For a consumer though, a single KW (3.6MJ) of power would be generated by moving 10m^3 (i.e. 10KL) of water 36m (approximating gravity at 10ms^-2). You can tweak those numbers but you end up needing two sizable water tanks quite far apart. Great if you have loads of land but not much use for consumer storage.

Feel free to correct any flaws in the calculations, I'd be much happier if I were off by an order of 10 or more.
> The history and evolution of this instruction has quite an interesting story from a CPU architecture perspective.

I'd love to read about that if you have any references. I've used the MOVS instructions a million times without really thinking about them much.