skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>they can maintain the impression that Google engineers are the best of the best

This is not true for everyone. I see it as more of a failure on Google's behalf to create a good selection process. The flawed assumption you're making is that, since they have a noticeable false positive rate (i.e. good people getting rejected), they don't have false negatives (i.e. unqualified candidates getting offers). There is no guaranteed correlation between false negatives and false positives.

To carry this a little further, I would argue that it's very likely that some bad engineers get into Google because, by definition, their selection process is not correctly picking good engineers - just a rough approximation of what they think makes a good engineer.
Google's interview process in short is laser-focused. Whether this is good or bad is up to them and their goals (and clearly something is working), but personally I find it incredibly narrow-minded and inhuman. Wouldn't want to work there.
Imposter syndrome disagrees.
They're resting on posts. It's quite close to the ground, but I'm sure that the site grading allows for that.

It's interesting that when you're dealing with this high of insulation, the earth would act as a thermal bridge instead of an insulator.
> What distinguishes American science, and why is this distinction important?

this isn't one of the article's complaints, but one distinguishing characteristics of american science funding -- indeed, of the u.s. govt's entire budget -- is disproportionate spending on the military. see the chart at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_policy_of_the_United_St...

anyway, i agree with most of the other comments as i don't see anything seriously wrong with private investment in science. perhaps the fact that these are individuals rather than committees is what the author finds most loathsome, but my perspective is probably biased b/c the first thing that came to mind on reading the title was the allen institute for brain science, that's the first example in the article, and i think it's doing interesting and important research.
it was some years ago [actually, a lot of years ago now..], but when i got interviewed for an SRE google interview i certainly wasn't given any indicator of what to prepare for ;-)

I also think many of the recruitment questions were above the skills of the employees asking the questions. they just had a checklist and basic understanding.

Now i would probably do smth similar if i was google and a got a lot of applicants, but it felt weird.

I think what was the weirdest tho, was how they made me feel like the SRE job was very stressing and more of a throw away tool used so that, luckily, i could switch to another position after 13month (1 cycle).

That sealed the deal the wrong way for me. I just told the guy we should stop the process now so that nobody wastes their time and went home.
Well, you laugh but yesterday I googled something and it was down. First time it happened to me.. I tried twitter, facebook, both up. Tried again google and it was down. So well I tried bing and got my answer ;-)
Their success is on the backs of people who do the real work. They are also on the backs of the American people who contribute significant amount of money through government sponsorship. The tech we use today is based on government investment that the private industry coudn't stomach.

So no, I do not celebrate their success and I will judge them sharply for profiting so handsomely from public investment.

And don't give me crap about how we benefit too. If our economy was working as a free market that the same billionaires feel it should, they coudn't be billionaires.

Profit has no space in "real" free markets.
While I agree with the writer that sometimes mating behavior can be observed in office settings, that's not actually the main problem in the tech industry.

The problem in the tech industry is that there are a lot of misogynist assholes who are put into positions of power and encourage that behavior in their businesses.

The average techie is a male who has spent a lot more time interacting with his computer than he has interacting with women. He does not understand women, he fears women, and what he fears, he hates.
This looks pretty interesting: http://www.ecovativedesign.com
Look: this is very impressive. And not to be a dick about it but – I have to point out that the original “flying toasters“ did not overlap; they were all on the same isometric-looking z-index, as it were. Instead of overlapping, a faster-moving toaster would slide straight down slowly behind a slow-moving toaster or toast ahead of it. Really I am sorry for even pointing this out but half the reason I clicked this link was to see how this specific object-detection aspect of “flying toasters“ might be done in CSS.
Heck i'd be worried if your real issues were the stuff solved on stackoverflow :P
not that stackoverflow is bad, but the stuff there is generally a basic/quick reference.
Being rejected at an interview at Google means you have a one year cool down period. You can try again then (or they might call you back themselves).
the event horizon accelerates in all nearby inertial frame

No, it doesn't. The event horizon is an outgoing null geodesic; it has zero proper acceleration. It is certainly not anything like the surface of the Earth.

The horizon forms a hyperbola in any such inertial frame

No, it doesn't. The horizon is an outgoing lightlike surface, so in any local inertial frame that contains it, it will be a straight line moving up and to the right at 45 degrees. (See my post in response to fargolime upthread for a more detailed description.)

in relativity, test particles moving with constant acceleration can be "uncatchable" even though they never reach c. See Rindler coordinates for more.

It's true that the Rindler horizon gives a good flat spacetime analogy for many key features of the event horizon of a black hole. But you appear to have things backwards: the object moving at constant acceleration is not the Rindler horizon; it is "uncatchable" by the Rindler horizon! In other words, the Rindler horizon is a light ray moving in the same direction as the accelerating object, but which never quite catches up with it (because the test object has just enough of a head start).

This illustrates why an outgoing test particle cannot cross the event horizon.

No, it doesn't. The reason an outgoing test particle inside the horizon can't cross it is simple: the horizon is moving outward at the speed of light, and nothing can go faster than light.

There are no inertial frames that cross the horizon

This is not correct; there are, just as Taylor and Wheeler say. There are plenty of wrong statements in the blog post, but this is not one of them.
Good job!

I won't point out the bugs/differences that've been mentioned. I dug it, either way.

What really hit me, playing this version, is how much relatively small changes in a really simple game can dramatically alter the strategy and difficulty of the experience

Dug it either way though
At least in the US, land is too cheap. We should be encouraging density as much as possible.
Fucking rad.
Look up "SIPS" for more info on this building technique. They're surprisingly robust.
Did you read the article, or just assume that it says what you hate?

The article is about the balance of funding -- how much of it is private, and how much of it is public. Nobody is claiming that rich people shouldn't be allowed to fund vanity science projects.
What does make a good first commit? I ask because I'm just starting to try to work on open source. The first commit I made on the one project I've already started getting involved with was adding more content (especially where there was a "TODO: more of this" comment), and correcting spellings. I wouldn't know how to start on something less content-based, though.
yeah they are. people will tell you that this doesn't qualify as a test.. its wrong. its not a technical test.

but if they don't feel comfortable with you at lunch, or you come out as a jerk/asshole for anything, you're not taken. it makes sense.

its not a hard test but its a test.
This is awesome, and makes me want to try building something similar. On a related note, can anyone recommend a good source for learning about PCB design?
Unless that PSE allows water vapor, this house can't breathe. Even in a dry climate, it will eventually get mold and mildew building up inside.
>I've had two men in 4? tech events with men attending just sit down next to me without asking if they could do so and try to talk to me

I have always been under the impression that tech events are just as much about networking and socializing as it is about the speakers themselves (otherwise we would all just be on a Google Hangout).

If you go to a social event knowing you will get upset if people try to socialize with you, you're going to have a bad time.
Apoptosome: The Seven-Spoked Death Machine
Not really, the internet points to this doc: http://www.multicians.org/shell.html Where Louis Pouzin of Multics claims to have coined it.

Ken Thompson describes it here http://v6shell.org/history/unix/unix.pdf

Looking around, this seems more interesting (implying it is a metaphorical name of a prophet's shell listening):
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/14934/why-was-the-wo...
http://i.imgur.com/ZafTI5T.png

This has got to be a new record.

Used the random move setTimeout method with 4 directions, and strategically pausing to merge pieces.

EDIT 1: http://i.imgur.com/Rt3V5kb.png - Just reached 4 million.

EDIT 2: http://i.imgur.com/QyrW3QK.png - 22 million: When do I stop?
The kind of sexism you describe in your first paragraph is incredibly easy to see. It's the kind of sexism you'd see in a movie, and it does happen. But I think we have come far enough to know that if someone said "you should be making babies" seriously to someone else, it wouldn't be tolerated. In short, I think your experience is definitely "limited and man-centric". Talk to your female friends more and see if they agree with your experience.

I'm not a woman, but intuitively I would bet that the awkward gray zone stuff is a much larger part of what makes women uncomfortable in an office setting. In fact, I have seen the gray zone affect my girlfriends and close friends who are women. It's a much bigger problem than the few true misogynists out there.
Bury them deep underground. An deep abandoned mine would be good. They are not so radioactive you need serious security, but they do need to leave the environment for a while.
Michele raises a very good point. This is a problem.

The only successful way I've found to deal with it is rude honesty. "Sorry, I wasn't interested in writing a paper with you, I wanted to touch your boobies." "We can totally work together, but lets be realistic - under other circumstances we'd totally be doing it."

Now it's all out in the open, and can continue in the relationship under whatever circumstances are desired. Or perhaps not continue, in the case that I want to make out and she wants me to prove theorems. Everyone's feelings might be a little hurt ("she doesn't think I'm hot?", "he doesn't think I'm smart?") but that can be solved by growing a pair.

Unfortunately, in the hypersensitive PC world that feminists are pushing on the bigger players in the tech world, you simply can't do that. Too much of a power imbalance - the woman can ruin your reputation with a few tweets. Since there are so few women, the marginal cost to avoiding close relationships with women is also fairly low.

No amount of moral posturing will change the incentives.
I'll just say the only thing that occurs to me...

This is remarkably mature, and astute, and human. It touches at the reality of the situation when you assume most of the players have good intentions. It avoids sinking to the platitudes and trivialities that cloud this discussion.

It's enormously complex, beyond this. But this is a truth I haven't heard yet, and it's part of the kernel of the problem.
> when you grow up

I'm of the opinion that some boys need to be taught how to treat women right, because it doesn't come naturally to them. I'm not sure how we're going to fix this, though, because integrating it into the church doesn't work, and it's too much of a political hot potato to integrate into the traditional school system.

I imagine that some people have to "grow up" too fast if their start-up becomes successful, and it wouldn't surprise me if some of the skills that they should acquire (like learning how to treat women in a professional but friendly manner) end up left by the wayside in the rush to grow the company. (I recall when Mark Zuckerburg had to do lots of public speaking training three or four years ago; he had just made a fool of himself on a late-night talk show and The Social Network was just coming out. Not a perfect analogy, but I can see the parallels of having training in this department, too.)
If you're okay with PHP, Drupal 8 looks really promising.
Yeha, its on development, but i was very anxius and need to publish it!, thanks for the feedback!
Really? Public money got us to the moon in 10 years but couldn't get us to mars in 30? I think it is more about a lack of will than a lack of resources. Driving down costs isn't an issue. Imagine if we had the will to go to mars and spent the one trillion dollars we spent to go to Iraq on a mars project instead.

Driving down costs isn't the issue...
It doesn't take any energy to create virtual particles; virtual particle pairs are constantly being created and destroyed everywhere, according to Quantum Field Theory, but when they're created, on average, they have zero net energy: one has positive energy and one has negative energy. (Note that this is a heuristic description and not every quantum field theorist would agree with it. The only really unambiguous way to describe the process is using math; but translating math into everyday language is often difficult because our intuitions don't really match up with what the math is telling us. I'm doing the best I can.)

However, if a virtual particle pair happens to be created just outside a black hole's horizon, the hole's tidal gravity can pull the negative energy particle inside the horizon before it can be annihilated by the positive energy particle. The positive energy particle can then escape. Effectively, this means the positive energy particle's energy is taken from the hole's mass, so the hole's mass decreases slightly.
Private markdown files should be accessible from a tokenized raw.github.com link. So it'd be neat if https://gitprint.com/josh/secret/master/REAMDE.md?token=123 worked.
> How are renewable and environmentally friendly power sources* MUCH worse?

Because you need enormous quantities of the machinery used to harvest the power. Hundreds if not thousands of times as much as you would need in a nuclear reactor.
'Why should we let people whose only qualification is money try to decide what's important?'. Let! Gosh, lovely implications. What constraints do you have in mind to fetter the lawful activities of very rich people? Who is the 'we' and how will you define 'important'? But it's the 'let' that worries me.
How can you believe or not believe without any information at all (that applies to both sides here)?

Sometimes our society recognizes a problem. It becomes a sensitive, emotional topic. Racism, sexism, all real problems.

And when a society is in this sensitive state, some formerly (or even currently) oppressed people take advantage. The oppressors become the oppressed and the oppressed become the oppressors. It's a real thing, and it's quite natural, if undesired.

You don't know what the situation is here. I don't. No one commenting from aside knows.
I have no particular connection to the site. I just posted it because a friend sent it to me, so it might be.
I would say we don't have accurate enough measurements or an accurate enough theoretical understanding to know how many micro-black-holes we should expect to see from cosmic ray collisions, on the assumption that none of them ever evaporate, or to be able to measure how many there actually are, so as to be able to compare the two numbers to see if there's a significant difference. In principle this would certainly be a good experimental test for the existence of black hole evaporation; I just don't think it's a test we can make with any confidence now or in the near future.
I find this interesting because it hooks into the obsession many gamers have with constantly increasing (large) numbers in games like diablo or other RPGs in order to feel accomplishment. The original game was significantly more clever, but had an end, and would turn off a lot of people due to it appearing difficult.

The question is if you wrapped this up as an RPG instead of a puzzle game, would people play it?
US Scentists expected to announce detection of gravitational waves on Monday
The article was pretty nauseating. Openly worrying that the government isn't taking more control of human endeavour.
I agree, which is why I submitted it to HN. I don't know her personally, but I think Michelle should be commended for bringing something actually interesting and useful to this discussion.
If so, what say you to the Fundamental Physics Prize -- funded by Yuri Milner?

https://fundamentalphysicsprize.org/

Or the Nobel Prize before that, funded based on inventions in explosives (used for mining, construction, and armament), and to a lesser extent through Alfred's father's and brothers innovations in plywood, the torpedo, oil refining and international finance / business.
Here's what I don't understand. I pay Netflix $8/month to stream movies and TV shows in HD. From that $8 Netflix has to pay their hosting expenses, maintain a profit margin, and pay licensing fees to Hollywood.

Now a technology comes along that in several ways delivers a better service than Netflix to consumers, for absolutely no cost to Hollywood. Is there any reason Hollywood shouldn't just release content to torrents, and sell an unlimited license for $8, $16, $24, or ?? a month to consumers living in countries which respect intellectual property?

I would gladly pay some amount of money to the content creators if it would buy me Popcorn-time service in a legal manner. I would say the vast majority of Americans are in this boat. They want the service that Popcorn Time used to provide, and they'll pay a price for it. It makes absolutely no sense to me that Hollywood hasn't figured out how to make an absolute killing off of this free infrastructure by merely selling legal amnesty in the form of bittorrent-streaming licenses.
I'm not sure I agree totally with you. I've talked about this a lot with my women friends and in 2014 consistent complaints I hear are people using diminutive or sexist language towards women in professional contexts. It's just that blatant and it's totally tolerated, across government, academia and industry. It takes a lot of effort to stick your head up and say "I'm sorry, I don't want that to happen" and some friends of mine have just stopped trying and go with it because fighting it and working professionally is just too hard.

I'd be interested in seeing if the gray zone exists in an office that's absent toxic attitudes towards women but in ten years of working I haven't seen such an office. The women are uncomfortable because John leers at them when they walk past his office, or everyone keeps asking Mary to take notes at the meeting and fetch coffee, or Joe keeps talking about porn on his lunch break. You should read Nancy Hauge's "Consulting Adult" series about life working at Sun - it was depressing how little had changed in a corporate setting with regards to the treatment of women! In my experience at least...
I think there's pretty general agreement among physicists that we will eventually confirm that black holes emit Hawking radiation. However, that by itself doesn't help us to choose between all the various proposed resolutions of the information paradox.
> The only successful way I've found to deal with it is rude honesty.

This is entirely hearsay, but the way that people around Waterloo talk about pg, I feel like he does operate this way. But he does so with everyone, not just women.

> Unfortunately, in the hypersensitive PC world that feminists are pushing on the bigger players in the tech world, you simply can't do that.

IIRC there was a study that said people would let you cut in line if you had a reason, even if that reason was nonsense (say, "Please let me cut in line because I need to make copies").

I usually explain my rude honesty as a side-effect of having Asperger Syndrome, although it's actually deliberate coping strategy as opposed to my default behaviour.

On the other hand, if everyone dealt with this through rude honesty, it would still result in inequity, because women would have to deal with all the guys saying they were hot, whereas few guys would have to deal with this. (If you look at the behaviour on dating websites -- the OKCupid blog was good for this before they got bought out by Match.com -- or in an undergraduate Engineering classroom, you'll readily see this.)
This is even a game that Twitch would actually be GOOD at!
> If more people are brave enough to speak out about harassment I wouldn’t argue that it’s inconceivable for harassers to be more careful.

Sure, but there are shades here. Overtly sexual stuff needs to be wiped out. But what about promotions and support?

Jeri Ellsworth had a problem at Valve, but it didn't seem to be related to her gender. It was that she was outside the entrenched power structure which is a problem for both men and women at Valve.

However, there is collateral damage. If this kind of problem can sink your company and you have to be too careful, you can avoid the problem by not hiring women. Oops ... unintended consequence.
OpenHatch tries to solve this problem - help people find a good project, and in general, make it easier for new people to get into OSS.

http://openhatch.org/
This looks so great. I just looked at the current print.css styles today on a README and they look really awful comparatively.

There might be some JS hacks that could be done on github.com itself to render a more stylized view when ⌘+P is pressed. Avoiding the need for a special "print this page" button.
All that styrofoam makes me wonder if it would float.
So You Think You Know VIM?
What you say is true, but... if it is a critical[1] task / area for you, you're better off reimplementing it anyway. Most existing work isn't so deep that concerted effort on your behalf won't improve on it - but only if you have the time to spend on it.

[1] I mean this in the sustainable competitive advantage sense
I've been thinking about using attic when I get my NAS.

Though I remember reading somewhere that the archive format is largely undocumented.
This is not true - there definitely are 2 SRE tracks[1] and one is more code focused and one is more operational focused. They do not tell you this while you are being screened but it is absolutely the case.

1: http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/11/22/caste/
Network agnostic SIM cards in Netherlands
Based on comments from the 2048 thread, I'm running a deterministic variant of this which just cycles Left, Down, Right, Down.

After an hour or so, the largest tile is 524288, 2^19: http://i.imgur.com/Yk758sx.png

While I was writing this comment, it collapsed down to the next largest tile, 1048576, 2^20: http://i.imgur.com/PVPCvUC.png
The following link says that the newer HP pavilions use dynamic partitions. The guy says to create a basic partition (as opposed to dynamic) and it should work. I guess your problem is finding a partitioning tool to do this. Good luck!

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Other-Notebook-PC-Questions/Una...
> If more people are brave enough to speak out about harassment I wouldn’t argue that it’s inconceivable for harassers to be more careful.

Why can't you see that this doesn't fix the problem?

Laws and social approbation can stop someone from grabbing your ass. However, they can't make someone respect you as a colleague.