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GPU Conference Keynote Speakers(Jeff Dean, Andrew Ng, Jen-Hsun Huang)
A few months ago, I went to a dentist in Palo Alto for the first time...by far the most hi-tech dentist office I've been in...though it's been awhile for me. I guess I was most impressed with the digital x-ray machine, in which they could snap shots, and we'd see them pop up right away in front of the flatscreen in front of me.

However, the experience was marred when I went upstairs from the xray room to the dentist's operating room. He couldn't find the digital files. The reason was, he told me, because over the past few days, the office was finally upgrading its system from Windows XP...to Windows 7. I wish I had taken notes overhearing him talk to the assistant and the totally random sounding hacks and procedures they had for just getting through the computer system, I'm surprised I didn't hear "Turn off the computer, wait at least 30 seconds, then turn it back on"...suffice to say, the mystery of the missing digital files was never really solved and took up about half an hour of the appointment time.

I'm surprised a Palantir-for-Doctors hasn't yet come up...a company that maybe doesn't build anything revolutionary but makes billions from an audience with a lot of money and very low standards.
Look for gluten free beer, many are (or can be) kosher for Passover.
What does "autism" even mean today? I've heard it used to describe everything from awkward introverts with technical interests, to kids who are nearly mute with speech disabilities. Do anti-vaxers think they're saving their kids from becoming software engineers?
You are correct, this is just a restyling of the manual. Just curious, what did you think 'redesign' meant? I have mostly a front end background and I thought I was using the word correctly. But I might have been wrong.
I use to joke a lot of the code I saw recently bears the distinctive mark of Adderall-induced creativity.

OTOH, lots of Lisp or Smalltalk code I saw earlier could be attributing to LSD or psilocybin.
The issue is that "failure of commission" is visible and punishable while "failure of omission" is not. Not providing the best care isn't directly punishable. Not obeying a heart rate alert is punishable.

There is also the moral hazard of "How many false negatives are allowed in return for how much benefit?" or, more colloquially, "That treatment will save 999 of 1000 lives, but reliably kill 1 out of 1000. Is that allowable? What are the numbers when it is allowable?"

Finally, people need to get over the sense that anything biological is 100% reliable. Biological systems are NOTORIOUSLY unreliable--it's why we need medicine. However, most people don't see it that way.
look at the movie of what's happening in the world, not the picture.
At The Climate Corporation we're making science based tools to push forward precision agriculture.

I quite like it, there are lots of hard technical problems. I realised that since I joined ~1 year ago, I haven't worked on any CRUD apps at all yet.

Here are some positions: http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?nl=1&k=JobL...

Reach out if you have questions: skhalsa@climate.com
I have been through a very similar situation. I would be cautious as if they are rushing you they may be trying to hide information from you. One thing I would spend a lot of time looking at is other employees that they have/had. Look at there work history and talk to them if you can.

From my experience (lesson learned the hard way), one thing to be 100% confident on is that what you are signing, the employment agreement, is solid. Pay the money for a good lawyer to look it over.

Let me know if you need a reference for a lawyer.

Also them saying, "who ever says 'yes' first gets the job" would make me very suspicious as they are not valuing your skills.
> that you are "doing work"

That's because work is not the correct translation. A better translation is "creative activity", i.e. creating things, like light.

God stopped creating the world on the Sabbath, so Jews also stop creating things (and there is a specific list of what is included).
I'm _I_ collecting the money when a third party (or automated process) deposits it on my bank account?

It would be the equivalent of delegating that responsibility to a non-jew. I don't know how would that be ruled, but I remember reading that it's allowed to let non-jew servants perform tasks on the sabbath, though I have no idea if it's accepted by the Hasidics.
> I don't follow youtube personalities, but I could see this being the kind of game that does really well for them

you are correct - especially the highly edited short-ish videos (ala, 10-15 minutes) of jump cuts to all the funny bits. Personally, i don't really like the game, as it seemed too gimmicky to play for more than a few minutes.
> Fun fact: the 3-D model for the actual goat in Goat Simulator cost $25 on TurboSquid. But it was on a 75% off sale, so we got a pretty good deal on it.

This had me cracking up.
Superoptimisation and the fastest program to compute a function
Yep, you got it. We actually started contacting them, but they were already doing private consulting + all the source code of LF is in german, impossible to understand. And the UX, well, it wasn't very usable.

But it was a great initiative that we researched 3 years ago when we began.
The Talmud specifically asks why God created sin and the answer is so that God can reward people.

Do you enjoy punishing people? Or do you enjoy doing nice things for people? Why would you think God would be worse?
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/hcp-dsm.html

http://www.autism.org.uk/labels
A ton of cheap food uses hydrogenated oils, which have been shown to have negative impact on your circulatory system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogenation#Health_implicatio...
Why is it garbage? It seems to me that most programmers who care about their craft would make a halfway decent UI by default.

I believe that interfaces end up the way they do for a reason. I'm curious what the reason is for healthcare -- is it a disconnect between stakeholders in the design stage? Lack of budget?

I'm hoping you can help me learn beyond the "design by committee" or other cliches. or at least understand those cliches in a medical setting.
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Thanks. Since you did all that work I'll upgrade your last three links to point to information on the fusion projects:

http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact-fusion.htm...

https://share.sandia.gov/news/resources/news_releases/mag_fu...

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/inside-the-dynomak-a...
Redesigning the GNU C Library would be, well, redesigning the GNU C Library.

What you've done is redesign the GNU C Library manual, HTML edition. Which you have done well, IMHO. It doesn't seem to involve refactoring C code.
Oh my God, that's horrible!

That looks like it was caused by not having any smoke detectors :(
from the phrasing i would have expected the code itself had been changed.
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There is a specific list of what counts as creative. You can't just randomly add others because it seems similar to you.
Another name for this technique is "partial application".
I am going to have to disagree with you. The whiteboard question does not always work. In fact, while I am generally able to do whiteboard questions without a problem, I had an experience 2 years ago where I completely blanked and was absolutely unable to write any code on a whiteboard. If they had handed me a computer (or if I had not been too flabergasted to ask for one), I would have been fine. In the end, the company in question lost out on my skills and I ended up at a different company. Not really so bad for me, as I have never been scarce of job offers, but it made the problem very obvious to me.

It is easy to dismiss something that you have never experienced yourself. Some people are good at whiteboard interviews and some are not. In my experience, the ability to be good at whiteboard interviews is mostly independent of how good the person will be at their job. The questions are either too difficult to avoid the stress-blanking issue, or too easy to weed out the barely-capable-but-not-someone-you-would-ideally-like-to-hire candidates.

We currently do pair-programming interviews with ping-pong. I write a test, you write the production code, then you write a test and I write the production code. We discuss programming issues as we go. This seems to work well for people who are familiar with TDD and real pair programming (as opposed to: one guy codes and the other guy watches them). It does not work so well for people who have never tried it, though. We actually do most of our work this way, so finding people with this experience is good. Unfortunately, I think we've almost certainly missed good talent just because they don't immediately grasp how this process works. We do some hand-holding at the interview, but then you are always wondering about the person's actual ability.

@jimbobimbo, if you don't mind some unsolicited advice, I would recommend that you revisit your stance on maintaining a few non-job projects. A portfolio that shows what you can do on your own is unbelievably valuable (in terms of real dollars) when you are looking for the next job. I have gotten good jobs in the past simply because someone stumbled across my portfolio and decided to hire me. The time required is not all that bad -- say an hour or so 3 times a week for the next year or two would give you a really excellent portfolio. It also allows you to experiment with techniques and tools that would be too risky to introduce into a project without some experience. Building that experience outside of work, also makes you much more valuable even if you don't switch jobs. I think you will find that while it is difficult to find the time, the pay off is excellent. Avoiding doing low priority overtime at work and replacing it by investing in yourself is a good way to start.

Having said that, my portfolio is currently a complete mess and I really need to spend some time on it ;-)
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I've found the people on http://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions respond well to polite questions. I've learnt a lot - mostly when I'm planning something to not worry about the rules and to just ask the person involved.
There is a leniency for indirectly causing things to happen. The details of when the leniency is permitted to be used are pretty complicated.
The EMR industry has a huge bureaucratic barrier to entry, which is why you don't see it technologically progressing at the rate of other industries.

The space is dominated by major players that have existed since the 1980's (Epic, Cerner, etc.), which also employ the technology of the same era (MUMPS, Caché, etc.).

If anyone is going to disrupt the EMR industry, it is going to be a bigger company that can sink the costs necessary to get up to speed for an entire HMO, and a couple HMO's willing to take the risk of piloting the software.
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Another name for currying is "partial application". See http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_application
That makes sense, I have changed the title. Thanks for pointing it out!
Don't take it (or at least treat it as an enormous red flag). Only companies in a position of weakness do this, which means there is something wrong with them. My first job I gave in to an exploding offer like that and it did not end well (though it taught me a ton because I got to be a rock star)

BUT - if you really think that you aren't a great programmer AND this job will give you the opportunity to level up your skills, then it could be worth it. (esp if your current job is not programming-related)

Otherwise, leave it in the dust - if you can get a job at 2 places (current job + this one), you can get a job at another place.
> 9% above average

There is no reasonable definition of average that would only allow for 9% above that (or 10% including the 1% you marked as brilliant). Average is usually considered as either the 50th percentile (in which case you would have ~50% above this) or some middle range (e.g. 25th - 75th percentile).

Since you said 60% are average we'll consider an appropriate range as average, the 20th - 80th percentile. That leaves you with 20% of applicants below average and 20% above. Your math falls apart real quick when we're dealing with distributions like 20%/60%/20% instead of 99.5%/0.5%.

[As an aside, the toxics and brilliants are outliers, they should be fairly obvious to a competent interviewer (and as someone who previously spent a decade in an industry where nobody conducts interviews without adequate training I'll be the first to say most interviewers in our industry are not competent)].
Not always, but quite commonly I do.

It upsets me that "We're Hiring" notices don't permit comments. Sometimes I don't really have a comment, I just want to ask a simple question, for example it's not always easy to find out where the company is located.
In general no. Non-Jews are not required to keep the Shabbat, but Jews can not ask them to do things for them.

There are two exceptions, one is in the case of urgency that is not life threatening (for example a cold baby in a house with the heat off). (If it was life threatening than you just do it yourself.)

The second is you can hint to the non-Jews. For example say: It's so dark in here. Then the non-Jew is doing it for himself and not for you, and it's permitted. However doing this is discouraged except when it's important.
I agree with this. I'm a reasonable example - I've spent the last year working on relatively internal applications that don't show up in github (only the most recent year is shown there for some reason). I've also contributed to Rails[1], Rubygems, and a bunch of other projects.

[1]: http://contributors.rubyonrails.org/contributors/justin-geor...
I've seen a few of these now over the years, and I've come to believe a successful implementation should combine argument mapping, consensus building, and a trust network. Just framing an issue and having a comments section isn't enough; that form is ubiquitous across the Internet yet hasn't proven a viable way on its own to actually make decisions.
IMO, having interviewed hundreds of candidates, whiteboard coding selects works very well for hiring a very specific type of fresh-out-of-CS-undergrad student, but it breaks down in almost every other scenario.

For more experienced candidates, we've swapped out most of the whiteboard questions for several other types of interviews, including in-depth technical discussion of one of their past projects, a discussion of how to architect a non-trivial system, and a more soft-skills interview on how they work with others, break down projects, and so on. This gives us a much rounder picture of a candidate, and allows candidates who are very good at something to shine a bit more.
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That site/app likes like satire to me, not a real app.
"Coke Adds Life" yields "'Coca-Cola', and a large part of his life and death."

I thought of Coke Adds Life because a marketing campaign in China led the locals to take it as "Coke brings your ancestors back from the dead".
So I reached out to them about this a few months back - some of their engineers have pitched it and done it internally.

Check this out: http://genius.com/3410852/Genius-engineering-jobs-at-genius/...
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No reputable employer would offer multiple people a single position simultaneously and give it to the first to say yes. That's a big red flag.
+1 for "Enterprise Edition Operational Process Development Pattern"
Are you hiring interns (for the fall)?
#1 An OS does different things, you might want DemocracyUI

#2 Its a technical term out of place that redefines what an OS does, as a member of the technical community feel a sense of ownership for a term that I routinely use. Its infuriating when you mess with something that is mine.
That is the number 1 reason for the interstate system. It's also why Germany built the autobahn.

The peacetime/domestic benefits were considered secondary.
My son has sensory processing disorder and, it turns out, so does my wife. She was never diagnosed as a child and even though it affects her every day, we never understood it until now. My son also has a host of behaviors that come directly from me. I was also never diagnosed with anything as a child.
In my experience early stage startups do want people to accept quickly because they are operating on compressed timelines (we have X days to show Y progress before money runs out).

That said, if they offered the position to multiple people... huge red flag. You should post the name of the company here so it shows up in Google results for them.
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$356 million or so (still an absurd sum, just not $1b absurd)

"... the Defense Department shut down production last year after spending $67.3 billion on just 188 planes"

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-advanced-fighter-woes-...
It's not a circumvention. It's exactly practicing it.
Could you get the sections to start out expanded by default?
> At some point today, there was a meeting in the offices of Github to discuss what to do about me and my joke.

Pathetic. Chris Eppstein, a core contributor to a competing project, gets faux "offended" by a cheap penis joke, and a company laughing all the way to the bank with its overpriced code hosting needs to have a meeting?
I share your frustration. Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, "on the spectrum" - these words and phrases all seem to mean precisely whatever the person saying them wishes them to mean, from a pseudo-sympathetic acknowledgement of someone's problems to a cutting dismissal of behaviour they find unpalatable or challenging; and all delivered, of course, without any clinical frame of reference.

I miss the days when people could just be shy or awkward or irritable or even narcissistic without it eliciting an armchair diagnosis.
I guess they do proper timezone detection?
Ask HN: Is it still relevant to send you website to DMOZ
I rarely if ever hear people suggesting dmoz.org anymore. It used to be the craze when I was getting started in web development and SEO

Did dmoz become irrelevant? Do you even go to dmoz ever? Are search engines not considering its weight anymore?
At the moment I'm afraid I can't offer an estimate of the user fees once out of the beta phase. The beta will among other things serve as a stress test, giving me an idea of the server resources necessary for the service. That will give me an idea of the costs associated with running the SaaS, which will help decide the user fees. For the moment I simply have too little data, sorry. I intend it to be very affordable, if it helps.

I understand you being worried that a service you use may disappear. But realistically that can happen with absolutely any SaaS. Being backed by a big company is no guarantee in this regard, as Google has shown with google reader and other services. My intention is to keep Feedbunch running for as long as possible, but I was also burned by the GReader shutdown so I understand your concern. The best I can offer is this: Feedbunch has an OPML export feature, so any user can take his subscriptions to any other feed reader that supports OPML whenever he wants. That's the best way to avoid vendor lock-in: to work with interoperable standards so that you can take your data elsewhere if necessary. And of course being opensource you can self-host it.

In case you're interested I originally built Feedbunch for myself when GReader closed down, because I was unhappy with the alternatives. I've been using it for my feed reading needs for some time. Offering it as a SaaS is an extension of that, but the project started as a way for me to have a reader I liked. I'm not aiming to catch the eye of a big company here, but to run a good service.

That was a bit all over the place but I hope I addressed your questions.
Have you thought about jumping into the world of Serious Games?My company is usually looking for experienced game developers with industry talent. The "Serious Games" side of the house is (to me) twice as rewarding as the other side. We don't live and die on the finicky sales cycle of the public and get to focus on delivering cool products that are already paid for by one customer.

If you want to chat more about it, hit me up. me (at) ericharrison.info
At JamKazam, we are trying to enable real-time play of music over the internet. While we can't magically make the internet better, we have spent a ton of time getting latency as low as we can in Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, and on custom hardware (still under development).

Just a week ago we released our 'distributed metronome', which lets musicians hear a synchronized metronome regardless of how much internet latency there might be.
Indeed: http://dougseven.com/2014/04/17/knightmare-a-devops-cautiona...
This is very inspiring stuff and very exciting that YC is backing it! A key thing that Pia said in her TED talk: technology is only a tool here, cultural change and reinvention is necessary. I haven't had a chance to play with DemocracyOS yet, but the focus does somewhat seem to be on "direct democracy" (as opposed to "representative"), and as others have pointed out, that's fraught with problems.

But I hope and believe this is just a first, experimental step. And I hope that next steps will be informed by the rich tradition of experimentation in "participatory, deliberative democracy". This includes things like citizen assemblies, citizen juries, participatory budgeting, wisdom councils, etc. What these approaches have in common is a blending of citizen participation with informed deliberation, often including a random sampling (of citizens).

As two superb examples of this, I would point to the Citizen's Assembly on Electoral Reform (British Columbia, Canada, 2004) and the Dialogue with the City (Perth, Australia, 2003). Some really useful books: Tao of Democracy (Tom Atlee), Deliberative Democracy Handbook (Gastil & Levine), Deliberative Democracy in America (Ethan Leib).
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Diagnostic Criteria for 299.00 Autism Spectrum Disorder

Persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts, as manifested by the following, currently or by history (examples are illustrative, not exhaustive; see text):

!.Deficits in social-emotional reciprocity, ranging, for example, from abnormal social approach and failure of normal back-and-forth conversation; to reduced sharing of interests, emotions, or affect; to failure to initiate or respond to social interactions.

2. Deficits in nonverbal communicative behaviors used for social interaction, ranging, for example, from poorly integrated verbal and nonverbal communication; to abnormalities in eye contact and body language or deficits in understanding and use of gestures; to a total lack of facial expressions and nonverbal communication.

3. Deficits in developing, maintaining, and understand relationships, ranging, for example, from difficulties adjusting behavior to suit various social contexts; to difficulties in sharing imaginative play or in making friends; to absence of interest in peers

I am 50yo, am a struggling recovering addict, and I totally suffer deeply from all 3 of these criteria and have for most of my life...

No one ever mentioned the word autism to me, and I've been to two high quality, long-term impatient treatment centers in my life.

I suffer from these to this day, and can't help but wonder how much of my addiction issues are directly related to them.

It feels to me, looking at the list through tear-clouded eyes, that almost all of them are.
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Don't forget this one : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde