skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not the role of every single worker to deal with how the customer interfaces with the product.

It is, if you work at a company that values your input. (As Google does). The point is not that everybody gives input all the time - the point is that if something goes wrong that affects subgroup ${X}, there's a member from that subgroup who can speak out and provide feedback.

That doesn't work if you're in a company that believes in centralized control and top-down management. Google is not that company :)

And yes, if you disagree with that approach because you want top-down, you do believe there's a certain group that's better suited to make all decisions - they're the managers.
Conservative doesn't necessarily equal Republican. Not all conservatives are Republicans and not all Republicans are conservative.

Certainly if taken at the true meaning of the word - value of traditions and institutions and opposed to change for changes sake - proper conservatives of different stripes can have something to offer for young graduates.
Now this is real hard nosed science, rarely done today. I spent 6 years studying chemistry and decided to switch to programming because computers seemed unlikely to explode in my face. But I miss messing with liquid gases at cold temperatures.
Linux users can be trusted to work things out for themselves?
If I were to wager a non-crazy, Occam's Razor-compatible bet, I'd say the author had a bad day, saw one too many digs at the quality of their decade-long work, got pissy, and decided to call it quits. I love popcorn-munching news as much as anyone, but this probably isn't it.
For as long as I can remember[0] the DoD and all DoD contractors have required those with cellular phones to leave them outside of secured areas. Phones have not been and continue to not be permitted inside secured areas for any reason, even if they are powered down.

It might just be that the DoD is paranoid, but I'm not so sure about that.

[0] That is, since long before smartphones and phones with local audio recording ability were commercially available.
Here's what my on-the-street perspective is telling me: Over time the shelf space for ready-to-go protein shakes at the local convenience store chains(Walgreens, CVS, etc.) has gradually crept up. Some of these shakes still do the "joke's on you, this 'healthy' shake has as much sugar as Coca-Cola" thing. But there is a generation of them, led primarily by the Muscle Milk brand, which has stuck pretty strictly to pulling in good nutritional-facts numbers and working on taste second.

I'm a buyer of these shakes because for me, the consumption experience is mediated by before-and-after aspects as well as what the product tastes like. "Will I feel good an hour after I have this?" I tell myself. And while I have to pay a little more for the privilege of that, it's worth it for me.

Will it be a fad? I don't know. The trend has been upward so far and I think Soylent could easily ride it.
I was afraid that this would be a tacky post hinging around hiring a guy solely because of his disability (i.e., charity) and instead it's a really thoughtful, insightful post about what it's like as a father of a young man with a disability and how hard it can be for people with disabilities to get hired.

One thing I wonder (and I don't know if the author comes here): is there no Office of Vocational Rehabilitation or something similar? The author mentions Penn State and I know Pennsylvania has an OVR, even though it can be very hard to communicate with them sometimes.

I had this problem when I was younger and had just gotten a cochlear implant. I always fretted about whether or not I would be able to get a job somewhere since I couldn't hear in moderately noisy environments (think fast food, movie theaters), couldn't use the telephone, and sometimes had difficulty understanding people I'd never met before. It was really scary thinking that I would have to live with my mother for the rest of my life, unable to get a job.

Being rejected from all of the entry-level jobs I applied to at the time only made my fears worse.

I found some good jobs and have a great one now, but I feel for this young man.
Well, what else could there be? People behaving better at all times and never doing anything they'll regret being known later?

Not what I am thinking of. There are even better solutions than this, like people researching things properly.
I would consider Milton Friedman very intellectual. I would also classify him as on the conservative side of the ledger. Some might even call him right wing. He certainly would have made a good commencement speaker.

There is a danger of groupthink that anyone who doesn't follow the du-jour trends of college life must be an anti-intellectual. Young people should be aware of this as they leave college and enter the real world. Few things are as insufferable as a young person who plasters their political views into a workplace without respect for the people they work with.
At least for PhantomJS, there are 236 outstanding prs/issues since their last release Jan-26 with only 19 commits mostly dealing with Travis.

Also the development update Twitter stream @PhantomJS is not very active.
You are aware that every country has "race" distinctions, even if they aren't the same as the US. E.g. in Tel Aviv, it would be interesting to know how many Palestinians are employed, or in Latin America, how many Africans and natives, in China, how many Tibetans and Uighurs?

Upstream is important, but we should still make an effort.
Are there any worse sorting algorithms than Bogosort?
I recently got Bose QuietComfort 20i for my trip from Europe to Australia. It was expensive, but so worth it. That constant humming noise on the plane usually makes me incapable of doing anything. With these earphones—you flip the switch and the magic happens. Especially on the flight from Singapore to Perth which was very smooth (no turbulence) it felt like just sitting in a room and listening to music. Watching movies on the plane also became much more enjoyable, with headphones offered by airline you need to turn volume almost to the max. You need an adaptor for airline headphones jack though.
Globalist neo-conservatives are conservative in name only: they are typically socially indifferent, contemptuous of decentralization and tradition, and radically progressivist in international relations.

Russell Kirk was a conservative. Condi Rice is not.
this site is pretty cool. i'd do it if it didn't cost almost 3x as much as pandora per year.
You'd need to eat 20 lbs of kale to get the nutrients you've outlined.

(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kale , 28 calories per 100g, 2500 calories would be 8,928g or 19.6829 lbs.)
I believe this is skewed to young people in urban areas, but I think this has always been the case. I lived in Chicago when I was a "young person" 25 years ago and I did own a car because I moved there with it. I soon wanted to get rid of it and had I stayed there longer I would have. In that setting it just wasn't worth the hassle and expense.
Because troops want more variety not less, and because meal replacement drinks have existed for years. The only major difference with Soylent is their target market.
Do agencies like the NSA/FBI/etc have the power to make a company publicly lie against their will?
Paul Graham is not the typical VC and that's why I like him. Or at least he doesn't act like most. He's not a speculator either. Or at least he hides it very well.

There's no honest speculation when you think about it. In order for a speculator to profit, somebody else needs to lose or profit less. Speculation changes the natural demand-supply dynamics of a marketplace for personal parasitic profit. In Bitcoin, this is destructive. It makes Bitoin worse than the status quo.

Just one example, because I mentioned honesty... The pitch just recently was that Bitcoin gives you independence from the Fed, Wall St, the greedy banks, etc. Now, the same people, who hold a few bitcoins, and are waiting for one to be worth a million dollar before they sell, get so excited and retweet every piece of news about those who they were supposed to be saving the world from. Same people curse the Chinese when they sell off, but get overly excited when same Chinese drive a rally. Anyway...
This is currently my favorite theory, for lack of a better word. It's also potentially pretty disturbing news. I saw another user mention the term warrant canary. I'd call it a warrant canary for the cautious/well informed. Unless there is some serious action on the horizon, no one well informed will ever use a truecrypt release past 7.2 ever again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary

My very first thought upon hearing this news was that just maybe the trucrypt devs are secretly cheering for others to come and replace the hole they fill in this world. Maybe this is the best possible thing they could do to inspire the next generation of truecrypt. They've laid a good foundation but they know they can't win the war for free information security on their own. So what better good could they do than to inspire the mother of invention; necessity.
A quota implies there are limited spots. There are not. Google will hire as many qualified people as it can. These initiatives are about getting more diverse candidates in the recruiting pipeline. We are not turning away any qualified white dudes!
Huh. Ed Helms gave the commencement speech at Cornell in 2014. This was presumably based on him having played a character who went to that particular Ivy League school.

I'll tell you what: No serious person gives a damn who their commencement speaker is. Sure, if Obama or Conan O'Brian shows up, that's worth a headline. But the only people who join the Commencement Planning Committee to decide between Jerry Seinfeld and Kermit the Frog, are unserious people. College kids tend to be more liberal, sure, but you can't really put that sentence together without the word "kids" in it. College "adults", if any, wouldn't pay 25 dollars to rent a mortarboard in the first place.
Why is this comment downvoted, look at the top comment, this is why i hardly set foot on HN any more, the top comment is some guy talking about a 1991 fight but its the top comment. Sigh!
As a Google employee, the reason I'd like to improve the diversity of my work place is so I can work with more than just a bunch of white dudes. I mean, white dudes are great and all, but I really value diversity of opinion and experience in my life.
Can state governments play a positive role in fostering innovation?
Please do show me these strawmen supporters of forced diversity.

> then you are saying that genders are not equal
No, you're saying that their life experience is not equal. There's no inequality in terms of ability, but in terms of what you know.

> I'd like to see stats regarding people looking for work who are successful

Closest proxy I can find is a study of success rate for MBAs by gender.[1] No surprise whatsoever, women experience lower salaries and career satisfaction. Also, women have less upward mobility into management positions.

> If a woman wants to stay at home, can we not accept her choice?
The issue is not wanting to stay at home.

> If a man wants to stay at home while the woman is breadwinner, is this not okay too?

Of course it is. To make that possible, we need to close the salary gap and address glass ceiling issues.

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/29182...
And Google wouldn't hire you just because you're a minority.

The article specifically discusses Google's attempts to lure people of diverse backgrounds into computer science earlier, so that there is more diversity among the qualified candidates applying at Google.

Nobody at Google got hired to fill a diversity quota.
Binaries could have code that will activate in future.
IE implementing HTTP/2, ES6 Promises, arrow functions, more
Not much commercial game development goes on on github, which IIRC is the only way to use the github client. (Where I work we have a local gitlab.)
Spell Up with Google
> Between the lines they are indeed hinting towards "soft quotas".

No, they're not. They're talking about increasing the number of qualified candidates in the recruiting pipeline. I've said it before in this thread and I'll repeat it here: Google wants to hire _as many qualified candidates as possible_. We've got a huge pile of money but not enough people!
Small companies may be capital constrained, but the constraints come from friction more than from limitations on capital supply. If DD on the proposal for Joe's Diner is going to cost more than the pre-DD profit expectation, it doesn't matter how much capital is in the pool, Joe won't be getting funded.

There's a nifty way around this: if Joe self-funds, he need not worry about his own principal agent problem. What kind of economies encourage self-funding? Those that provide employment opportunities sufficient for the purposes of saving and serving as a safety-net. NOT economies that systematically de-leverage the bulk of the working population.
I'm not sure the author of the article is referring exclusively to social conservatism. There's also fiscal conservatism, which Republicans are associated with.
I was impressed that even with all this translation and Java compatibility going on, the sample code still shows some situations where the nice clean, concise nature of Ruby is still up and running. E.g.:

> @paths.each { |path, paint| canvas.drawPath(path, paint) } if @paths

From:
https://github.com/HipByte/RubyMotionSamples/blob/master/and...

And:
@activity.handler.post -> { @activity.updateTimer }

From:
https://github.com/HipByte/RubyMotionSamples/blob/master/and...

These things take a lot of lines in Java for Android where we don't have lambdas and function references yet and often have to define anonymous classes just to pass a method in to a handle to be run later.
> I would hypothesize that this is false

Citation required.

And if women are less interested overall in CS and/or have less ability on non-verbal tasks overall then you would expect that the RHS tail of the distribution of women would be lower than the RHS tail of the distribution of men. This is just basic statistics.

The same applies with African Americans. Blacks in the US have far lower IQs than whites - this is not in dispute though there is a certain amount of dispute about the reason, with some people attributing it to environment. As such the normal distribution will ensure that a much lower percentage of blacks will be at the high end of the scale (135IQ+) where google gets their recruits.

So the fact that google is close to the averages suggests they are already making a lot of effort to bring in women (and non-asian) minorities. Asians are highly over-represented at google versus their fraction of the population.
Walmart and Amazon sell products at the lowest price possible.

That's what they do. If you aren't willing to sell at the lowest price possible, you need to be in a different market.

Neither they nor their customers owe you a certain profit margin.
That's how Linux abstract sockets work. They're documented in unix(7).
RARE OPPORTUNITY to have massive impact for a Lead Software Engineer
Sure, but that rarely matters here, as artists are working on the assets.
PHP Composer VS NPM – Fight
Fish oil, rice protein, gum arabic, and other things I've noticed just from scanning their blog, which has a bit more information on sources: http://blog.soylent.me/
Bookmarked to listen to later. listened to the first few minutes and it sounds great. I did my Eagle Scout Project to honor the Veterans at my church. It ended up being more or less a book with a 1 page general biography of each veteran (unit, rank, commendations, notable events etc). I really wanted to do some more in depth personal interviews and recorded narratives with each veteran but they did not really care to talk much about it. The ones that did, was off the record. I had quite a few wonderful conversations that I wish I could have captured doing it. The sad thing is most of those guys are not around any more.
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> it is their responsibility to fix it.

This seems to contain two embedded and unexamined assumptions.

1. That this is a problem. If women prefer not to go into sciency fields (other than biology) why is that inherently a problem? Do you think women are too dumb to make their own choices?

2. That it can reasonably be "fixed". Spending more money on education must be the most commonly employed and most universally failed intervention in social policy.

I would also question the premise of the posting, that "diversity" in terms of race and sex is a highly desirable thing. The evidence for this is very thin, and indeed more ethnically diverse communities tend to have lower levels of trust and social capital.

There is some evidence that diversity in terms of viewpoint and skills is useful but just eg having more white women in the office may not be the great boon people assume.
Google will be unable to centrally coordinate the transportation needs of everybody in any way approaching the ability of individuals to autonomously manage their own needs. What would actually happen in this scenario is persistent shortages of cars in times of high demand and long waits.
Studied economics in college. The two books we read on information economics were Rethinking the Network Economy by S J Liebowitz and Information Rules by Varian and Shapiro.

I found Information Rules to be the superior text. They are both around 10 years old however, something more current may be more desirable.
Sorry, that's not true, unless you're talking about behemoths like Barnes & Noble and Borders. Indy bookstores have been on the rise for several years now, after decades of decline.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/05/27/membership-ri...

It is widely believed that Amazon's curb-stomping of Borders and B&N is what's opened up the opportunity for the indies to come back. Yes, they compete with Amazon, but not nearly as head-to-head as they were competing with Borders and B&N.

"To dismiss the fact that it is openly abusing that position to pressure major publishers to conform to its business needs"

How are they "abusing" the publisher and why should we care if they are? Publishers have been abusing authors for a couple of centuries now, so they get little sympathy from me. They're not quite as scummy as record companies and movie studios, but just barely.

Edit for typo: "studies" -> "studios".
Where I work (game company with about 20 people) we solve this by versioning unimported assets separately (in svn, because that's what we used before git).

We bring them into the git repo after running them through our asset pipeline, which means that there are really never any merge conflicts for them and every checkout is a playable version of the game with art.

This reduces the load on git by a lot, though we still tend to have .git folders measured in the tens of gigabytes, which is getting up there.
If I take this message at face value and decide to switch to BitLocker, can someone answer this.

Dropbox + Truecrypt take full advantage of block sync & block encryption i.e. if a tiny piece of data is modified inside an encrypted container, only the relevant blocks are synced on update. Dropbox does not need to sync the entire container each time. This is a very useful feature. I know Google Drive & OneDrive aren't that smart.

Will bitlocker + Dropbox work the same way?
Yeah, eating that much Kale would make Soylent very pleasurable in comparison :)

I mention that it's a lot of Kale and allude that it's not practical to eat that much ("Obviously I'm not recommending people eat 74.6 cups of Kale each day"). The parent said there exists no combination of plants that could match the Soylent nutrients, and I showed that just using a single plant and a single supplement you could get almost there on all the nutrients for which I had data, so it's plausible there does exist some combination that gets there (except for B12, and possibly some of the other nutrients for which I don't have data if they do not exist in any plants).
Milton Friedman would be considered a liberal by modern conservatives, really. Accepting that monetary policy can be effective is heresy to the conservatives who currently wield power.

But yes, Milton Friedman would be an excellent commencement speaker. I'm sure there are more great academic conservatives who would be equally good, but very few of them are well-known enough to be considered even if the students wanted a conservative.
That is exactly what created the situation.

They could start up their own stores right now (and even get their stuff delivered to Kindles) if they abandoned their child-like faith in DRM.

Baen has been delivering straight to Kindle for years now. Of course, Baen has never been clueless enough to use DRM.
They probably are working on their own GPU anyway. They don't need Imagination for that.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/05/31/apples-graphics-ch...
I worked with mentally handicapped kids a lot as an educator when I was younger (albeit in a different country). This wonderful article captures perfectly how, in the right environment, children with Down Syndrome can blossom, but how hard it can be for them as adults once society & red tape & bureaucracy all come into play. (I also worked with children who had Down Syndrome and had not grown up in the right environment- think abusive/dead/incarcerated/etc. parents. That got very depressing very fast, and I'm not sure I could do it again).

I think this also highlights how the increasingly geographically fragmented familial unit is problematic: in a culture where several generations of the same family lives under the same roof, the situation wouldn't be as dire. However, in our culture it is typical to have only small portions of a family living together, and for children to move away and live on their own, potentially hundreds of miles away. No situation is perfect, of course - but it's still something to ponder (and it affects other social groups as well, for instance the elderly).

There was a wonderful American Life a while back on a similar topic, about a mother dealing with her adult son who had a mental disability (can't remember if it was autism or Down), and fearing for what would happen once she passed away. Can't find it right now; will edit this post if I do.
OT: I had this in mind when the character on House of Cards complained that she'd feel like a token Asian minority if she worked at Google.

Writer research failure.
I've accepted and merged a fair number of patches. It's a matter of getting the right reviewers and working with the people involved in each of the areas to come up with a reasonable patch if it's anything other than a small bugfix.

That being said, it does depend on the area (some are totally in AOSP, some move fast internally and only get AOSP drops occasionally), and bug fixes are a far easier than features to get merged.