skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I followed my wife though the whole process from college to practicing physician and even made an interview video about residency:
https://vimeo.com/97738071

I actually agree with the premise of the article, but it paints an inaccurate picture in a lot of places:

"Nurses, by contrast, can start making real salaries of around $50,000 when they’re 22. Doctors can’t start making real money until they’re at least 29, and often not until they’re much older."

Residents start making $50k salaries right out of medical school. It's only a 4 year delay from nurses.

It's not about money. It's about quality of life. Medical school is really hard. Residency is brutal. Constant unrelenting pressure. No sleep. No personal time. That alone is the reason why becoming a doctor isn't worth it for most people.

Watch the part in the video starting at 3:08 where they're half way through residency. They look like they're going to cry. I'm so glad I did those interviews because it really captures the personal sacrifices you have to make.

Here's the thing that the article failed to grasp, though. If you need to be the one doing the cutting in surgery or the one pushing medicine forward with research, you have to get that MD. Some people need to be in control and call the shots.

If that's you, do it. Make the sacrifices, because you won't be happy doing anything else.

If you can live a fulfilled life as a nurse or PA, though, it's a much better choice for most people.
You are completely right. But doing more requires more time, and that I only can promise One Day™.
> Don't get me wrong though, I know why people do this and I respect their choice. It's a bit mercenary and the corporate world is a mercenary place. Personally, I just place a higher emphasis on teamwork.

You seem to be assuming that candidates somehow know that you are not going to attempt to fleece them, unlike every other prospective employer.

If candidates don't know any better, and it's fair for them to assume that you are the same as all the others, then I don't think you can draw any conclusions about "trust" and "teamwork" from them refusing to state a figure.

> More often than not that lack of trust shows up in their work and their effectiveness as part of the team. Not always but more than 50/50.

I think you're probably just seeing a correlation with the sort of people who either negotiate well already, or have read up or received advice on what to do.

But if you still choose not to make an offer on this basis, I suppose it's win-win - the candidates you turn down probably wouldn't want to work for you anyway.
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i saw a 6 year old play Temple Run on an iPad and i was amazed! Someone jokingly said that he doesn't trust kids; they pretend not to know how to speak, then they make transactions and build empires on their iPad.
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I found it remarkable that my father came back from England raving about the food, and I always found it to be barely edible. Our budgets were different by at least an order of magnitude though (I like to keep lunch under £5).

Living in Ireland, it's much the same. To give credit where it's due, though, one can get a somewhat respectable burrito in Dublin, while the London ones I tried were all unmitigated disasters.

I still miss Roberto's and Lucha Libre, though.
Check out the "In the News" column on the home page of Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

For a few pages of quick summaries of all the big political, international, and business news, check out the opening pages of The Economist.
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This is a great post.

Harvard in particular is about building leaders. If you want great front-line employees it would seem there are other hundreds of other schools that can do that.

When it comes to having great leaders, race matters. I wish it didn't, but its naïve to think otherwise. That said, simply awarding points for race (if that's what is actually done -- or if they have just regressed it to show the differential) seems inefficient.

You want people with great upside to make a positive change in the world. Being around some of the highest SAT/GPA people in the world for my life has shown that most end up having good, but mundane careers. And what I find surprising is that I probably could have predicted which of my cohort, colleagues, and associates would go on to have outsized impacts -- and it was rarely (or more like never) a product of their SAT score.

Sports is one of the better professions where performance trumps almost everything. If you talk to NFL scouts you'll find that they look numbers, but they realize that the numbers come with very strong context. Incredible passing numbers in the SEC are different than from a DIII school. They want to know if you've peaked in college, or if you have upside in the NFL.

The NFL also does something similar to college -- they have later rounds in the draft, because they have a large enough roster to take some risks (and practice squads). These later rounds are where they often take riskier players. This is where Seattle takes a slower cornerback named Richard Sherman or a shorter QB named Russell Wilson. Based on the tape, neither of these players should be in the NFL, much less excelling. But the upside potential was huge on them -- so Seattle picked them.

I'm sure Harvard could have found someone with better numbers than Barack Obama, but the upside on him was huge.

Given the ridiculous importance our society puts on race, I'm not against using race a metric. I'm just not sure we're efficient about it.
NYTimes

CBC News

Guardian

just about covers it for me
News is an entertainment show. News editors edit actual events into an engaging narrative in the same way that reality TV shows edit the events that occur in their show's domain into a narrative. There is plenty of raw material to work with. On any given day there are wars, injustices, political in-fighting, dishonest or fraudulent behaviour, and amusing stories about dogs on skateboards (or whatever). They're just editing it together.

Those in positions of power are so good at manipulating the news agenda too. Everyone from the government to the British Royal Family to Beyoncé to ISIS are at it; essentially pitching stories to news editors in the hope they get picked up.

Personally, I try to avoid it. I find news uses fear and outrage too much as a way to keep you watching, and it engenders a sense of hopelessness. Come election time I do some research and vote accordingly, the rest of the time I avoid it.
The article and the person you are replying to are specifically talking about disadvantages faced by Asian Americans, and they have an SAT penalty of 50 points, according to the article and the paper it references: http://www.princeton.edu/~tje/files/files/webAdmission%20Pre...

Without making a judgment one way or the other on the core issue - given that this paper is looking at "highly selective private research universities" with average SAT scores of over 1300, a 50 point difference is not very big and probably within each individual student's margin of error. When you are in that scoring range, each incorrect answer has a magnified score penalty to maintain the normal distribution.
The rust community is very helpful overall.
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I'm curious what your evidence is that "universities have formal policies" discriminating against Asian Americans. Because you realize, I hope, that the study being cited only made inferences about "bonus points" on the assumption that SAT score is the only worthwhile factor to be considered in admissions decisions. There is no evidence that I see that Asian Americans are being discriminated against by policy due to their race.
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It is described as a minor, marginal policy, but all players understand that abandoning the formal racial discrimination policies would cause instantaneous hits to enrollment of favored racial minorities of roughly 50% or more, as has indeed happened when particular formal racial discrimination policies were found illegal.

It's marginal for the majority population. Not for the minority group. Its like handicapped parking. If you were to remove them, your parking situation only sees a marginal improvement, but for the handicap it's probably a big deal.
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The mod explanation for the Neural Net question is revealing:

"This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet"
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That's a canned response. When users vote to close a question they have to pick from a list. When a question is closed the most popular reason for closing is automatically shown.

I guess it tells us that people will vote to close even if a question doesn't fit into any of the close reasons, and that a previously "too broad" question would be closed as "too narrow" if you tighten it up.
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Dress appropriately for the organisation. I once wore a suit to an interview at a hipster place in east London -- mistake (though I got the job in the end). You want to be just a bit better dressed than the norm for the people interviewing you. So if it's a jeans and t-shirt place, rock jeans and a shirt. If it's a shirt place, wear a jacket. etc.
Describe the company, even vaguely, would be helpful.
We were going to launch on the 28th, then we realized it was a Saturday. Whoops! So we're launching Monday.

Just drop your email in the field and we'll send out an email tomorrow that you're in.
I'm going to treat this objection in good faith.

Quoting from their most-recent-of-several amici briefs on the matter:

Brown University, University of Chicago, Columbia
University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College,
Duke University, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins
University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University,
Stanford University, Vanderbilt University, and Yale
University submit this brief as amici curiae in support
of respondents. [[Amici have long used admissions policies
similar to the Harvard Plan that Justice Powell approved
in Regents of University of California v. Bakke]],
438 U.S. 265 (1978), and the University of Michigan
Law School plan this Court upheld in Grutter v. Bollinger,
539 U.S. 306 (2003). [[Amici accordingly have substantial
experience with admissions policies that consider
all aspects of an applicant’s background and experience,
including in some circumstances the applicant’s
racial or ethnic background.]]

They go on:

[[Amici accordingly urge the Court]] to interpret
the Constitution, consistent with Bakke and Grutter, to
continue to [[allow educational institutions to structure
admissions programs that take account of race and ethnicity]]
as single factors within a highly individualized,
holistic review process.

I have taken the liberty of using [[double brackets] to direct your attention to the really salient bits.

There's the whose-who of American universities saying, in pretty clear language, to the Supreme Court, that they would find it very inconvenient if the Supreme Court were to illegalize their racial discrimination programs.

Are you still unconvinced that American universities operate racial discrimination programs?

If your objection is the more narrow "I agree that American universities often operate racial discrimination programs, but disagree that those racial discrimination programs disfavor Asians", I'd be more than happy to find you citations of of which groups particular formal racial discrimination policies discriminate in favor of. This will, inevitably, fail to find Asians on that list. If you disagree with me on this prediction, please name three representative universities and I'll happily do the legwork on finding their written statement of which races are favored by their formal racial discrimination programs.
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Java Backend Engineer - Omniata, Helsinki, Finland - visa, full time

Founded by a team of former Digital Chocolate and EA data leads, Omniata (http://www.omniata.com) integrates analytics, CRM, user engagement and A/B testing platforms into one solution. The company is well funded (http://www.creandum.com/why-creandum-invested-omniata/) & headquartered in SF. The bulk of R&D will be done in the Helsinki office which at the moment only has a small team, so this is a great opportunity to get in early and grow with the company.

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To apply, drop a one line email with a link to your LinkedIn and GitHub profile to careers-hl@omniata.com.

If you're not interested in doing Java, but are interested in Helsinki as a place to move to, I'd be happy to introduce you to other startups I know in the area. Here's a video to give you an idea as to what it's like around here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl7PDE7Xbds
Hmm, not sure how to feel about this. I've always liked that Arduino was made in Italy and so it feels like a more ethical purchase than most electronics.
It's good practice to do both.
For those still about to try, use incognito mode.
I'm just saying SO is not a site designed for this purpose, so he shouldn't get offended when his request for code is downvoted.