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> There are hundreds of millions of people who would very much like to come to the United States.

They aren't prevented from coming to the United States by people having children, they are prevented from coming to the United States by US immigration law (either because they are individually undesirable, or because they exceed the hard total or per-country caps in various permitted categories.)

So, relevance here is missing.
the FYI book rents for $60 on amazon and sells for over $100. looks great though. thx.
> At this point, why do we keep acting like there's some mystery why people with choice (i.e., whose professional options aren't limited by the visa process) are avoiding this field? Why does President Obama nod gravely as he stands next to tech CEOs talking about severe shortages of tech workers at press releases?

At a guess, because the people who make that choice are generally not in a position to consider those factors or know about them firsthand. You have to be careful, or you'll wind up concluding that wet streets cause rain.
Not sure I'd want that thing sitting on my stove overnight.

If you turn the knobs on my stove too fast, it skips the piezo ignition and just starts spewing gas out.

Wouldn't surprise me if this safety issue has been what has kept other companies out of this space.

But congratulations on their one day goal achievement.

If I may suggest an improvement, how about a manual "off" switch so people can sleep more easily?

And maybe you could add a gas sensor to detect any problems, and try to turn the knob off? And a loud alarm if that failed?

That could turn the product from a liability into an asset.
Can't wait for this. It currently might be released as a final after PyCon 2015, meaning it could be here this month.

We've been waiting for this to replace our ancient ecartis manager (https://launchpad.net/ecartis). While the UI doesn't look extremely pretty, compared to ecartis it will be like moving from 1999 to 2008 or so.
What is the tool that produces this?
that's silly: HPC has been pinching pennies before big data was a thing. and the computer industry is biz: you get what you pay for. if you can live with Gb performance, you can drop around $2k (IB card, cables, switches) off your price. But it's not as if the hardware is any different, faster or more accessible.
Joshua Reeves' $560M Idea (ZenPayroll)
...and $3.60 on thriftbooks. Win to thriftbooks...
>I also feel there's a potential risk that those folks may not be sufficiently challenged in our organization.

I think Google is unconcerned with that option. They can get amazing candidates to do run-of-the-mill work by simply paying more and promising more than other companies. For them, keeping a great talent from joining a different company is potentially worth the increased compensation.
This is the exact opposite of an interview I used to run in my old biology lab. We used to sit down a new candidate in front of a microscope and ask them to do some cell transfers and counting. They had to finish the task.

We right away knew if they were persistent, skilled, problem solvers, and if they were meticulous.
I sympathize with SF parents, but one must understand the nature of the job and try to work with it. As a software engineer, I know I must work towards a path that allows me to prosper as a father and have time for my family.

SF/Wall Street/ Hollywood/... all have their own problems, which is a side effect of their excellence. Yes, WS analysts work 100h/week, but that's how the industry works. The key is to work with, not against, it.
I see, I was making some assumptions that turned out to be incorrect.
To be honest, I also find it difficult to really trust someone, because there are so many things that can go wrong.

I don't know any method of getting over this, I try to accept that I can be betrayed and that it's going to be painful. At the same time, I am pretty sure that I would survive and come out ok out of such a hurtful event. Not necessarily stronger, better or even the same, but ok.

But there are no certainties and no methods to make oneself invulnerable. At one point we maybe have to accept our humanity, that we hurt, we bleed and we die and sometimes we can't do anything to prevent those things, so we might as well enjoy life as we can.
RDMA doesn't really provide a flat memory model - all it's really doing is minimizing copies when you send a message. more like "put this 100K string into that node at <address>".
> A newbie to JavaScript will write that code, and be totally bewildered when nothing happens.

The above statement is applicable to a huge number of situations in JS. I'm surprised that so little has been done about it.
But your Big Data system is only good for Big Data. If I want to run a weather prediction model, it is not going to help.

My point is, the big data and the physics simulation people probably do not have a lot of common interests - besides using large amounts of computing power.
Yeah, I had to go back to google after failing to find it defined anywhere on the page. If you don't use something regularly yourself, you may remember the concept but forget the acronym. For want of a couple of sentences of context at the outset, the rest of the article was quite inaccessible. Maybe there's a lesson for the author here.
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> Why aren't the people who work in restaurants concerned about food allergies?

IME, they tend to be. If you let them know about them, they will let you know if various menu items contain the thing that is the subject of the allergy.

That doesn't mean that they will always modify menu items (especially things like "chef's choice") to account for them. And, while its nice if they would, I don't see why one should be surprised that they don't -- expecting people to order something they aren't allergic to from the menu doesn't seem unreasonable.
I recently dialed 9-1-1 due to shortness of breath. Eventually it subsided. My pulse, blood pressure and EKG were all completely normal. The emergency room doctor diagnosed it as anxiety, which I do get sometimes however at the time I wasn't actually anxious about anything. I was otherwise having a pretty good day.

"Looking for problems" is something I myself do quite a lot. It's hard ever to be satisfied with anything.

Though I work as a coder, my degree is in physics. I was puzzled at first at some of the research that physicists actually do, such as Caltech's numerical simulation of sand dunes based on the computational physics of sand particles.

Eventually I realized that most physicists go around looking for any kind of problem at all that they think they can solve. Most such problems, while perhaps interesting intellectually, aren't of much use however sometimes useful stuff falls out of them. Consider that the laser was at first regarded as "a solution looking for a problem".

As to how to answer your question: I don't know but I could use that answer myself.
Ah. Weird that I don't see it on hckrnews or on the front page anywhere...
Where, here in Brasil they are not called Correctional Facility!

In fact the only place where I saw "Correctional Facility" was in US-movies and series, I thought it was some fictional name or something like that.
I'm far from an Apple fan, but this statement is so intellectually lazy I have to counter it. The honest fact is that 30% of zero is zero. If having a webpage would be an option, it's overwhelmingly likely that the webpage would be free to access. And if an app is simply a more enabled replacement for the webpage, then the app is also overwhelmingly likely to be free.
What would be really awesome is to have the ability to fire up a cloud instance and do computations on the Internet Archive.
We have so many built-in mechanism designed to keep us alive that I find it strange a counter measure to extreme inflammation would be excluded. Pain sensors, fear, adrenaline, etc.
That's fairly neat. If I'm understanding it right, it's a mechanical dial-turner which clips onto a stove burner's control, and is combined with a digital thermometer which reports the current temperature in a dish on said burner; the dial-turner targets a temperature in a negative feedback loop.

(In retrospect, I'm surprised we don't have 'smart' stoves which pair up with dishes with thermometers built in to allow seamless temperature specification. Would work very well with induction stoves, I think, since they can adjust the heating on/off much faster than a regular gas/resistance-heating stove.)
The about page talks a bit about the sources. Everything comes from the latest 5-year American Community Survey (ACS), which is part of the Census Bureau's data collection. Data from that survey is in some sense an average over the years of the survey. They use that wide a window to get the error bars down on the various metrics.

The exception is the city block level data. The ACS does not publish on the block level, so we fall back on the 2010 census. This is why the individual blocks have way less data.

No, we don't have past data.
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How do you think this idea would combine with the Pinterest 7 year stock option idea? Both seem like good ideas that benefit the employees.

I assume that the Progressive equity would only be applicable to current employees of the startup.
dude.. that beer mug is awesome! beerMe();
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Do you guys know why this isn't on the front page or Hckrnews anymore?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9337265
Wonderful to see this new idea.

But Andrew: instead of inventing this new model, why not achieve the redistribution by changing the percentages of the well-understood system. So instead of, say:

50% founder, 35% investors, 15% option pool (i.e., all employees combined)

Something like:

20% founder, 35% investors, 45% option pool
The idea stealing myth originates from people (cubicle drones) who have so few ideas of their own, that when they finally have one, since it seems so scarce to them, it obviously must be valuable and thus worth "stealing". Unfortunately, this kind of people also lack the ideas necessary to realize the few "precious" ones they have.

Who does have a chance of realizing them, are people with lots of ideas, also about how to actually implement ideas. However, when you reach and surpass the "idea a day" treshold, while being able to implement maybe 1 or 10 each month, you get to discard hundreds of your own ideas each year, making them pretty much worthless.

So you should never be afraid of sharing your ideas; whoever you're telling them to, will either not care, or fail miserably trying to "steal" them. In each case you're safe. As for the monthly surplus ideas, if you're not implementing them, you risk nothing by sharing them either... except maybe feeling dumb in the off chance of seeing someone else successfully implementing an idea you thought was worthless.

PS: in the even rarer case of sharing an idea you're implementing, and someone else beating you to it... you suck, do something at what you suck less.
They require you to turn the stove ON first, and then take over from there, so it bypasses the ignition skipping and "auto on" concern.
A new, cheap battery that charges in a minute could be the future of cell phones
Hahaha is rsync's comment for real? Also, how meta can we get here?
Flying dude crosses the top of a mountain (and hit a flag) at 155mph (250kph)
Because all religious people are anti-gay? C'mon, the point of anti-discrimination laws is so you don't make snap judgments about a person based on the attributes of a group they belong to. Your comment is just as bigoted as those who say that a person's sexuality means they can't have a family.
So, say you wanted to write a weather model, or engineering fluid mechanics model. Which options (besides MPI) you would look at?
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This is the real world, in the USA, your particular city, in software engineering, software security.

Sure, it's still very commendable that you would do that, I can at the same time easily imagine other contexts where such actions would not have much of an effect and that's where the skepticism of the parent poster comes from.
The Docco ( http://jashkenas.github.io/docco/ ) family of tools.
Anyone that is happy to use GPL.
The structure of this article makes it difficult to read. It's a news article written as a story; endless lead-up and back story where there should have been thesis and defense of that thesis. Or at least summary and then summary with more detail and then full details.
I've spent quite some time in Germany and well I'm sorry to shatter your bubble but Germans do cross an empty street when the light is red. I've even seen people party in nightclubs and go outside to drink vodka or other drinks they bought in their car.

And to further tear your argument, Spanish who have a "reputation" in Europe of crossing by red light and of having a bit more of loose attitude towards rules have a similar murder rate. 0.9 for Spain, 0.86 for Germany.

I think the factors are external rather than internal. I don't know exactly what causes it though. The higher availability of guns in the US? The fact that the prison system in the US does not reform but punishes instead and convert first time convicts into hardened criminals? Other factors?

I don't know but having lived in all three countries, I don't see that many differences in term of people's character that could explain the difference in murder rate.
So an 18 year old kid gets busted for a drug offense. He gets thrown in jail for several years along with hardened and violent criminals. His "rehabilitation" consists of an immersion in a world of criminality, and when he is finally released, he has a record that will stay with him for the rest of his life and severely limit his choices moving forward.

Yes, he's been reformed. Just not in a good way. Not in a way that does anything to try to fit him back into society.
This is great, though one key practical challenge: in most cases only founders will really be "taxed" in a meaningful way, so it requires that founders want to and decide to do something that loses them some serious $$ (as noted in answer to the second FAQ).

While I believe the additional upside presented to employees will have a positive impact re: incentive alignment and motivation, it is TBD if the gains realized by the founders will exceed the cost to the founders - I think that will be required before massive adoption (probably the biggest challenge here is measurement of that impact).

Still, hopefully some just-plain-nice founders do this, and I hope it gets them a great team and great success.

Even without mass adoption, it would be awesome to see this get adopted by other companies who (like Detour) were started by already-exited founders who are on a second (or third/fourth/fifth) project - there are actually a lot of them, so hopefully enough are gracious enough to experiment with this AND achieve success so that there is a sound basis for adopting this more widely (of course the trade-off might not be in the progressive equity’s favor – and while I’m making caveats, serial entrepreneurs generally do better than the first time entrepreneur for a bunch of other reasons like experience/connections, so it will be hard to determine/quantify what portion of success can be attributed to progressive equity and not to other factors…still hope they give it a shot anyhow).
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Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9331102
This is my problem with everything I encounter when trying to learn about Haskell. I find almost everything I come across to be completely unapproachable. If I cant understand the problem you're solving in the blog post then the solution makes even less sense. I don't say this as a criticism of this author at all. It's just something I've noticed with Haskell.
Where is Seattle's next billion-dollar idea?
The four recognized purposes of punishment are: deterrence, incapacitation, rehabilitation, and retribution. Which is primary, or even whether they are all legitimate is a matter of fierce debate.
Interesting excerpt via Ilya Grigorik on Google+ (on page 22 of the report):

> It is interesting to note that while broadband adoption and
broadband speeds are generally steadily increasing across the
world, there is still a significant portion of the world population without Internet connectivity. A recent McKinsey & Company study finds that 4.4 billion people around the world do not go online, including over a billion people in India and over 700 million in China. Even in the United States, 50 million people—or roughly 16% of the population—are not connected to the Internet. The countries with the highest offline percentages are Myanmar, Ethiopia, and Tanzania, with 99.5%, 97.8%, and 95.4% of their respective populations unconnected.

Direct link: http://www.akamai.com/dl/content/q4-2014-soti-a4.pdf
Where is it written that returns should necessarily so heavily be tied to risk? Many enterprises are structured this way, but there's no law that says it must be so.
London's Metropolitan Police Service already have the same technology the US uses to track mobile phones (http://motherboard.vice.com/read/uk-police-wont-admit-theyre...) but refuses to comment on its use. Once we eventually uncover these programs and their use in full detail, programs such as the DHS's license plate reader will be used as the example of why it's totally OK to monitor the movements of innocent citizens and interfere with their communications.

The slippery slope isn't that we're being tracked, or that we are losing our privacy. Our movements as well as all our communications already are being tracked. The slippery slope is that one surveillance program justifies another until anything is fair game because otherwise nothing would be. In terms of 'intelligence', we are very rapidly moving towards a world where privacy will be illegal.
I think this wouldn't work for anecdotal comments that John is doing here which runs into paragraphs which would result in lot of whitespace on the right. I think an easier fix would be to highlight the current annotation in a different color while docking the comments to the right while keeping it free for user to move around.

I agree that clicking to go to next is annoying. Perhaps mouse over or scrolling should automatically show the annotation.
If you're a new or relatively new developer I highly recommend reading through things like this. All too often developers get in the habit of writing a lot of code without also reading what other more experienced developers have written.
Google is looking for people with interesting stories. They're big on diversity. A straight-laced bloke like me from a regular family hasn't a chance without that MIT/Stanford sheepskin. But if you were adopted into a trisexual human/Klingon line marriage... well, Google could use someone with your fresh perspective, even if you only went to clown school. Hell if you went to clown school you're a shoo-in.

Want to work at El Goog? Cultivate as much weirdness as you can without becoming a criminal or jeopardizing your competence.
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Nice idea but I wish more manufacturers had something like this built into their laptops. An old ASUS of mine came with a sliding piece of plastic that you could use to cover the webcam[1] when not in use.

[1]:http://imgur.com/90X6PHF
Not entirely. John Locke's take is that you agree to a rule of law by choosing to live in it, and that you can move to another government if you disagree.

Only Thomas Hobbe's take was based purely on force, because he viewed the nature of man as being vile and completely evil, which isn't surprising given the environment he lived in.
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I don't, but this thread might help: http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1407/23054.html
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9331102
When I started my bio PhD, people were looking at me in puzzlement when I started spending more time programming and doing math. Now that I am in the software industry, a lot of them are asking me how to get a job.

>From my point of view, research science was becoming a luxury/hobby profession of people whose spouses make a lot of money or who are independently wealthy.

Up through the 19th century, this was primarily the case. Of course back then there was a lot of low hanging fruit as compared to now.
By that standard, love, beauty, great products, and yes, money are all delusions too. So why are you even working? All I see are bits and bytes in a bank's computer system; why do you care so much about them?

I'd hope that we have the empathy to recognize that people should be able to indulge the things that are special to them. That's what celebrating individuality is about, right? As long as they're also productive in the things that matter to us, it harms nobody.
Out of interest, which specific labels are you seeking?
I don't think these interviewers expect quicksort verbatim (though they usually don't ask for a run-of-the-mill algorithm).

They want to see your thought process as you tackle an unfamiliar problem. Do you think about the input and the end-goals explicitly? Do you consider multiple different ways of solving it, and cover pros/cons? Do you consider where issues may occur, and attempt to mitigate them? That's what they want to see.
Do you think that because you and a colleague were held hostage ('kidnapped' is ridiculous, not even taken off-site) that it's worth each perpetrator getting about 30 years in prison? That that moment of fear is worth locking someone up for a generation and a half? That that moment of fear is even worth you paying taxes to keep that person locked up for that time?

30 years ago, the Cold War was still in full swing. Mutually Assured Destruction was still something people were afraid of. The world wide web was still about 10 years away. USA for Africa's "We Are The World" was just about to hit #1 in the charts. Big hair and legwarmers were fashionable. Half the people that use this site hadn't even been born yet. 30 years is an incredibly long time.
The worst part of this, IMO, is how the mistake was discovered. His former prosecutor was looking up his old cases on the state DOC's website, apparently to delight in the damage he had caused decades earlier. You would have to be a pretty depraved person to derive pleasure from unjustly taking away someone's life.
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What about people who joined early vs those who just joined?
Conversely, given that the whistle is not blown at most tech companies, team members aren't quitting, and job ads are not accompanied by catcalls, we can conclude that discrimination is rarely/never happening in the tech industry.

That's the probabilistic converse of your claim. Do you endorse it? If not, why not?
There is something that I have been working on:

https://vimeo.com/97711978#t=0m37s
It would be exponential if it was compounding, I stated "Linear growth of 5% a year on small base". As in, a 5% growth on a $100 base each year which would be $105, $110, $115. Contrasted with 5% compounded growth on $100 of $105, $110.25, $115.76.

Apologies, tricky wording.
In my opinion, as an under-30 developer myself, and I don't see neither SO nor Github replacing mailing lists for broader discussions; SO is very specifically about the nitty-gritty, and while Github issues can accommodate them to a degree, they're not as suited, in my opinion.

For those of you who don't use mailing lists, what do you use instead for these discussions?
There are a number of open source discussion lists I've been subscribed to over the past decade (usenet, then Google Groups) that have recently migrated to hosted Discourse boards because of Google's lack of spam fighting tools. Who cares about what the listservs UI looks like, the entire point is to receive and send email. Lets help build good spam fighting capabilities into mailman and others so all of our knowledge isn't locked into these walled-garden communities.