skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These sound like great techniques, but I am not convinced that they can overcome the start-of-interview confirmation bias. I use the same questions for every candidate, yet I often find myself rooting for some of them more than others. There is also the 'good team fit' metric, which is automatically going to bias you toward people who remind you of yourself, which is largely those of the same gender/race/background.
>who in industry has ever heard of Chapel

Chapel's made by Cray. If what you're saying is true then Cray's not done a very good job of advertising Chapel. God knows they have the capability to advertise properly.
This is certainly true; the optimal method for finding a cycle in a linked list is unlikely to be a solution you'll stumble on during an interview.
Thanks for sharing.

Here is one interesting domain from that list: AfricalBurialGround.gov

Any idea as to the reasons behind the registration and subsequent deletion of this domain name?
I have finished my 5 year postdoc in bioinformatics, writing mainly 10K lines of C/C++, setting up big-data servers with commodity hardware, for two projects. 1 got published in Nature Methods, one in Nucleic Acids Res. I have no intention to continue in this system in a deeply financially distressed state and am looking for good ideas going forward. Opening a lab and writing grants is out of question for me.
... also acting unlawfully.
If it's supposed to be an ad for Genius, it's a pretty lousy one, in my opinion. Half of the time I click on a highlighted line, it opens the annotation and then scrolls away, so I can't see it. It's pretty frustrating. And the "view on Genius" link redirects to the top-level Genius.com page, which just makes me sigh and close the window.
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Yes, from what I've read about previous batches, invites and rejections are sent at the same time. ~6pm PST.
Out of curiosity, do you know of any other ubiquitous projects that have had a similar treatment?
god, you're an idiot. following A SUSPECT of A CRIME is not the same as following EVERYONE. it's not a yes or no question... it's a you're dumb question... and the answer is you're dumb.
Yeah, I know. It's just that I like programming in an old-school way for fun. I briefly considered not using structured programming at all, but that's kinda too much.
I hope that people turn on the post to list feature in the web viewer.

(because there really are lot of mailing lists where the desire of the core users to stick with their own mail setup is understandable but at odds with making it easy to capture more casual contributions)
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This is a dumb question but ...

Why doesn't Netflix or Hulu or other content providers use this technology to play their content on users browsers. Wouldn't this relieve the bottleneck of two many people trying to stream the same content?
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The movie stands out for the actoring duel between Pacino and DeNiro, as well as (IIRC) sound.
Since I had something to do with the exploit mitigation chatter, I feel I should note that there's something of difference between fuzzing and exploit mitigation. I'll also happily concede that Address Sanitizer could be a more effective exploit mitigator than omalloc.
> Doesn't this incentivize people who are unhappy and want to leave to stay?

So does any other kind of "golden handcuff" stock option or time-vested stock grant.
> Having looked at every one of them is not a necessary criterion for having proof that no religions have helpful teachings for enlightening yourself.

Agreed, analytical proofs are possible without exhaustive examination. But you haven't provided one.

> My claim about the reality of religions is due to the fact that there is a fundamental disagreement between religious teachings and teachings from a real enlightened being.

The fundamental flaw -- well, at least a fundamental flaw, its not the only one -- in this argument is that it is about "teachings from a real enlightened being" but provides no justification for applying that to "helpful teachings for enlightening yourself."

It may be the case (though you have done very little to establish it) that no religion contains "teachings from a real enlightened being", but even if one assumes that is the case, it provides little support for your claim that no religions has "helpful teachings for enlightening yourself".

> However, Gautama warned people about religions for a reason.

But this warning has been transmitted -- through religions. And clearly this warning is a teaching that must be viewed as useful for enlightenment.

> That's why I'm quite certain that no religions properly transmit teachings that can enlighten people.

A stronger form of this -- that the things that must be understood for enlightenment cannot be properly transmitted -- is also a religious teaching. (see, e.g., the opening of the Tao Te Ching.)

> That's why anyone who can recognize what religions really are would never want to be tied to them and would never recommend the possibility that they can enlighten people.

There is a difference between arguing that religions enlighten people (an argument many active in religions I have known would oppose) and arguing that religions transmit teachings that, however imperfect, can be useful in the process of a person attaining enlightenment.
Hired is doing the same. I got almost 10 emails from Hired since they started spamming me.

My approach is just deleting the emails. I have some powerful Gmail filters that tag emails based on their content so every know and then I go to the tag I created for those emails and quickly review all of them (mostly based on title) and then delete all.
Sounds not unlike the non-insured experience at any hospital - you get charged with insane amounts of stuff so they can negotiate discounted reasonable rates with insurance companies.

If you don't have representation you basically get shafted.
I worked for a talent agency for four years, and the problem in that world is that promotions were a possibility, yet rarely given. The agency would generally hire junior agents from outside the company rather than just promoting those who had 'paid their dues.'
Relatively unheard of is an understatement. I have been at Google for a few years and had no idea this was available externally.
Exactly. The real world.

I have posted in the comments here about Reddit's hiring policy where they now weed out people who don't embrace diversity and gender-balanced teams: http://archive.today/y6PJD#selection-1567.0-1570.0

Since no candidate with a functioning brain cell would ever admit to not liking a certain race, religion or gender, it's a stupid HR policy and the only way you could weed somebody out would be to resort to dirty tricks e.g. drinks after work to socialize with the candidate, deliberately let slip a few misplaced comments and see what the candidate says.
She was born in Germany in 1933, came to Britain as a child aboard the kindertransport Jewish refuge trains; she went on to become an early example of a programmer selling the software that she wrote. She changed her name to Steve so that she could do business, and her company was doing affirmative action (her company mostly employed women) until the 1970s Sexual Discrimination Act made it illegal.

This radio programme is not a technical interview but it's interesting.

> As a young woman, Stephanie Shirley worked at the Dollis Hill Research Station building computers from scratch: but she told young admirers that she worked for the Post Office, hoping they would think she sold stamps. In the early 60s she changed her name to Steve and started selling computer programmes to companies who had no idea what they were or what they could do, employing only mothers who worked from home writing code by hand with pen and pencil and then posted it to her. By the mid-80s her software company employed eight thousand people, still mainly women with children. She made an absolute fortune but these days Stephanie thinks less about making money and much more about how best to give it away.

Here's her Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Shirley
when are the "down cycles" and "up cycles" ?
I've read a lot of articles with this general tone and theme over the last year or so, and they always bother me, for a number of reasons. They tend to paint the overall industry with a very broad brush, and are, in my experience, often caricatures (this one certainly isn't the worst). This article is based mostly on anonymous anecdotes and is peppered with weasel words, for example: "More broadly, some economists say..." "Workers with children say..." The one piece of data I saw, the number of women in the workforce, has a truncated Y scale.

I've lived and worked in Silicon Valley at tech companies for the last 17 years at many small and large high tech companies, including Apple. My wife also has been working in tech for longer than that, and she enjoys it. I have two young children. When I read these articles, I feel like I'm reading about another universe, as it is so vastly different than my experience. Of course, I can only offer my own anecdotes in response, but here are a few of mine:

- My wife interviewed at a small startup when she was pregnant with our first son. During the interviews, she informed them she was pregnant and wasn't sure how much time she wanted to take off after the baby was born. They were totally cool about it and said they'd be happy to have her for as long as they could. She ended up working there and loved it.

- I'm 40 years old. The people who work with me are a mix of ages. I've rarely been the oldest, and I certainly don't feel like I'm outnumbered by people much younger than me. I've interviewed at a number of companies with young founders, and never felt discriminated against. I still get pinged by plenty of recruiters, so I'm not seeing the ageism that is supposedly so rampant here. I have plenty of friends and acquaintances who are close to my age, and I'm not hearing these complaints from them either.

Honestly, I think this is sloppy journalism, designed to provoke an emotional reaction. I don't want to deny the very real problems in this industry that we should be working on, but I don't think articles like this are helping. If anything, they are scaring women and minorities away from the industry and making the diversity problem worse.
It's really cool but please to not link to the "real time" tab? It almost hung my browser :) (FF37, shitty old netbook)
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> I don't get why employers should be forced to pay for someone's choice to have children

Discussions about the social obligations of "businesses" would benefit to have distinctions made between the different kinds of businesses.

A large profitable corporation with thousands of employees can probably provide paid maternity leave whereas paid maternity leave would put most small businesses and early stage startups out of business.

I'm sympathetic to both sides of the argument. My mom lost a few years of seniority working at the phone company (GTE) in the 80s due to pregnancy, and as a result was often outbid on higher paying jobs for the rest of her working life. On the other hand, my current startup would have instantly folded if we had to cut paychecks for a non-working employee.

I'm guessing the majority (by number) of businesses just cannot afford to offer paid maternity leave, and this needs to be acknowledged. There aren't simply "two sides" to this discussion.
I think that's sort of the idea behind the comparison. Even a country with a bar so low for punishment is far outpaced by our own judicial system.
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Except we're not making the same kind of thing over and over. Programming's not a craft. It's an abnormally non-routine form of engineering. By all means, teach the college students about doping, logic circuits and binary assembly. But skip C. Skip C++. It's not cool, it's not hardcore, it's just sad.
I guess what he is saying is that lenovo running windows will consume the battery slower than a MB running windows (either in parallels or directly booted up)

btw, is there a comparative study anywhere about how long the battery will last for a MB running windows (in parallels or botted) vs MB running latest apple OS?
> Do you think progressive equity would raise concerns from your typical series A/B VC?

I don't have any experience with VCs, but from the FAQ at the bottom:

> ...it's designed so investors remain unaffected, but you're welcome to try and get them to opt-in.

So I don't see why VCs should be concerned given that they will be unaffected by this system. I could be missing something, though.
If this doubles the chance of a unicorn, then everyone involved comes out ahead. Nice system
in High Performance Computing, there is (1) 3-dimensional simulations (weather, fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, all kinds of physics simulations, like magnetic storms in space or nuclear reactors etc.) and then there is (2) everything else, like data mining, machine learning, genomics etc.

Some of the sparse matrix computations in structural mechanics and in some machine learning algorithms have some overlap. But mostly, group 2 has little reason to be interested in what group 1 is doing.

Now, group 2 obviously has more modern tools than the 3d-simulation community, because machine learning came to common use much later that numerical fluid mechanics.

But do 3d-simulation people also have much reason to be interested in what the machine learning people are doing?

The "machine learning / big data" people are probably not doing anything that makes a weather prediction model to run faster? Or are they?
I am not sure about modernizing. I am all for developing core applications like mailman, but I fail to see great value in this piece of execution.

Post voting is bad for fact oriented discussions, popularity is a poor indicator for the value of a post. The user interface is cramped, and hides too much of valuable information I would expect to see instantly. Also, the looks are from previous decade (looks like sf.net clone to me) and not very aesthetic.

Sure, this might be a step forward nevertheless, but it is a really small one.
True, however Palantir started with finance/wall street.
Slightly off topic, but why is there no high level roadmap for changes like this? It would be nice to see a gantt type chart showing releases and major changes like this that would affect user experience.

I asked this question on superuser but got no replies.
http://superuser.com/questions/885625/is-there-a-high-level-...
STEM is a grouping that doesn't make sense.

Technology, Engineering, Math--- yes, there's a shortage.

Sciences like physics and chemistry (especially petrochemistry!) are definitely still needed.

Sciences like biology and life sciences have far too many graduates. Graduates like me (B.S. in Biochem) and I'm now doing webdev!!!
Bellard's TCC had a similar feature - it could be used to JIT scripts written in C, and libtcc was its library for dynamic code generation. Being much simpler it does nowhere near as much optimisation as GCC, but that also means it can compile much faster:

http://bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html

TCCBOOT is only 138 KB big (uncompressed code) and it can compile and run a typical Linux kernel in less than 15 seconds on a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4.

It'd be interesting to see someone try a similar experiment with libgccjit.
Sorry, I couldn't resist. Look on that 'user' table! Does anyone have a copy of lists.mozilla.org? hehe
Not sure what hulu does. Netflix has been delivering boxes with lots of drives to ISPs to cache video content closer to the users.

http://gizmodo.com/this-box-can-hold-an-entire-netflix-15925...

I do think something like this client would be beneficial for them.
> as opposed to, y'know, making a principled stand against unjust minimum sentencing requirements.

While occasionally highly effective, it should be remembered that falling on your sword is not generally an effective way to make a significant difference in a large system.

What do you think the judge should have done, bearing in mind that resigning in protest would almost certainly have resulted in little but his replacement?
One societal and corporate response to such laws could be to encourage supportive work environments for various subgroups. In that scenario, the interviewer would pre-emptively advertise employee benefits which are relevant to all candidate subgroups, obviating the need for candidates to ask identifying questions. It's therefore in poor societal taste to "force" your candidate into asking questions which are specific to one subgroup.
5% a year isn't linear growth. It's exponential growth, but with small factor. $1,000,000 a year or 1000 customers a month are linear growth. I'm not sure what exactly OP meant but I've definitely seen cases where there was definitely a non-compounding ROI for marketing efforts, e.g. if the company spent $100K on ads they might get $200K of sales (or $50K :(), but as soon as they stopped the advertising there was no lasting boost to growth. This can lead to really unhealthy investment cycles where money is poured into the company, it's spent on promotion and generates corresponding growth, but as soon as the money is used up growth trails off and another round of investment is needed.
The bar is lower or higher for MS/Amazon?
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It seems relatively easy to rob or murder someone. Does that make the laws against such activities useless?
> Despite what people may think of Google here or there, at least all of my projects have had good shutdown plans

Ironically, I think there is a connection between the first part and the last part: Google usually has well-announced shutdowns with good shutdown plans with long migration-out periods, which results in Google shutdowns spending a lot of time in the public eye (when they are first announced, when various milestones hit, and as they are in their final period), which magnifies the attention around Google product shutdowns and the impression of their significance.

OTOH, its also one of the reasons I'm very comfortable using Google products -- any product can get shutdown if its not doing well enough (and a company that won't voluntarily shutdown products that aren't contributing will find itself shutting down along with its products), but at least Google usually does a good job of handling shut downs.
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Honestly, Shog9 is the single biggest reason why my participation in Stack Exchange has dwindled to prettymuch nothing. It's as if he wakes up one morning and decides "I know! I'll make a huge change to Stack Overflow that will piss thousands of users off! ^-^"

What's just as annoying is that as far as I'm aware, he has never admitted that he's been wrong about anything. Ever.
The main difference between Genius-style annotation and code comments, which I think is important to note (and valuable) is that code comments annotate a point or position in the source, while genius annotations are referring to a span or range in the source.
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You seem to have an incredible grasp on what went on in that interview, along with how common it is.
"private prison operators need to make money"

Public unions in many states (California being the major example) lobby for longer sentences all the time. Many spend more money than private companies. It's a humans acting selfishly problem, not a corporate problem.

The profit incentive we use for prisons (occupancy number) is the wrong profit incentive. We should pay on capacity and recidivism numbers (bonus after some number of years).
Current status: up cycle

The next down cycle: You'll know it when you see it
Have some invites as well, shoot me an email if you want some.
What I always puzzled over was the following: if our main goal in life is, in fact, to survive/live (and insure the existence of our species through procreation), why would our body, in the case of an allergenic reaction, mount a defense mechanism that could kill us? If your body swelled up to the extent of restricting your ability to breath, why wouldn't your body recognize this as a threat to your existence and counteract the measure? Even if your system made a mistake reacting to the allergen, wouldn't the act of killing itself (your body) trigger another prioritized reaction to take measures to save itself?
That book was published four years ago; that's plenty of time for things to change, and there have been news stories that Google is putting less weight on academic performance because the data shows it doesn't matter that much. (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/opinion/sunday/friedman-ho...)
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Unless you were around between 2007 and 2010, you probably wouldn't :)
I think negative reviews are hard to interpret, especially algorithmically. My favorite example is Arthur Kornbergs JBC papers on polymerase in 1957 [1] where the reviewers recommended rejection with amongst others the comment “It is very doubtful that the authors are entitled to speak of the enzymatic synthesis of DNA”. Just two years later he received the Nobel prize in medicine for that work.

[1] http://m.jbc.org/content/280/49/e46.full
This can be solved with code reviews, in which a developer who is experienced in the language can teach the new developer the right way of doing things. Of course, you shouldn't wait until the new developer has written thousands of lines of incomprehensible code before doing a review.
Groups must persist; therefore a group must sacrifice to ensure that the actual next generation is created and cared for. Schools, parental leave, etc, are all required. Any society that neglects these would seem to be self-limiting.
You get hired into the C suite at your next job.
I can't imagine that'd be true for someone who has been around the block. I'm pushing 40, I sincerely doubt they'd care about where I did my undergrad.

There are all sorts of reasons why they wouldn't take me, but there's no way that's one.
Indeed, that side-by-side annotated style is great. For those who would like to create similar pages, the original program is Docco[0], a Javascript project. However it's been ported over to many other languages and can be found in these projects:

- Pycco[1] Python

- Rocco[2] Ruby

- Shocco[3] POSIX Shell

- Many more, as found here[4]

Note each of these projects support highlighting different languages. For example, the Pycco[1] project uses the Pygments library for language handling, and thus supports many different languages. Others, like Shocco[3] only support one language (Shell in the case of Shocco).

[0] - http://jashkenas.github.io/docco/

[1] - https://github.com/fitzgen/pycco

[2] - http://rtomayko.github.io/rocco/rocco.html

[3] - http://rtomayko.github.io/shocco/

[4] - http://jashkenas.github.io/docco/#partners-in-crime-
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You seriously need to get in touch ASAP with EEOC.

My wife was let go from her position for being pregnant and although it took 2.5 years - she won a case against them and got a big settlement.

Many of the typical settlements (depending on the size of the company) are in the several hundreds of thousands range. Google typical settlements for this...
Are there websites like this for Java and JS?
Why do you think that?

single line filter evasion text here
interesting +1
Children are the future of any society and part of the natural order of life itself.

They will be the ones paying your way when you are old and frail.