skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another way to increase younger population is also to encourage immigration in that population group. However, for other reasons, this will never be acknowledged as a reasonable measure :)
I have to disagree. You don't want people like this around. Do you think this guy would stop if a family is crossing the street while he is trying to get away?

I have a problem with a single mother spending a night jail over an unpaid parking ticket.
CAUTION iamnop.com link plays quite loud music from start (for me).
No. It depends on what the means are.

In this case, "the means" are raising awareness to documented fact (that the NSA spies on its own citizens). If that causes fear, then so be it. It should cause fear, because it's scary. People should care about what their government does, and fear is one emotion that leads to caring.

If history has shown anything, it's that the American electorate doesn't get invested in purely intellectual debate. They need some skin in the game.
People that want to pursue careers in research should be allowed to get the necessary training.

Sure, but the argument is that we're training many more people for those sorts of careers than can realistically have them. Having the filter come at the beginning rather than the end is way better for people who are going to get screened out one way or the other.
But, unless you were being an ass to that interviewer, whether you got along or not is not a measure of your quality as an employee.

Presumably you were being polite and trying to develop a rapport.

That means you didn't get along because the interviewer brought their own baggage or narrow mindedness into the interview.

This is very common and shows the interview process was incompetent.

That may sound like a strong word, but if you were qualified and they didn't hire you because of what this guy said, then they are, by definition, incompetent.

Maybe arbitrary is a nicer word to use, but it's the same thing.
You're free-loading either way. You're just arguing about free-loading off parents in India versus the U.S.
My biggest problem is I have so many services linked to Facebook, so if I delete Facebook, I delete the other services as well (Spotify, and every other website where I lazily clicked "Sign up with Facebook").
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Interesting...you should definately consider a lawsuit.

My ex-wife was "let go" from a national home improvement chain when she was 8 months pregnant with my daughter and suffering a difficult pregnancy. It was obviously a move to simply save money by the scumbag management and put my ex-wife and my unborn daughters health in pretty serious jeopardy.

It was a comedy-of-errors (without the humor, of course) for the management, and they broke so many laws the lawyer we eventually retained told us it was the most open and shut case he had ever seen.

My ex eventually settled for a decent settlement 18 months later, although I basically begged her to take it trial and make as much noise as possible about it to put pressure on the corporation to never do it to anyone else.

In the end, of course, it was her decision and she took the money and moved on.

IMO, you have every right to be jaded, and hope you do what you feel is right for you to do.
I was a Life Sciences PhD student for 6 years and started a postdoc, but then jumped ship and became a software developer for a non-science company. My salary is more than 2x as high as what I was making as a postdoc, and 3x greater than what I had been living on as a grad student. The salary thing is huge. 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.

The only two solutions I see are either funding for NIH and basic sciences drastically increases (my preferred solution), or there is some breakthrough which makes biotech and life sciences industry more profitable and able to hire all the entry level PhDs.

Notice how the engineering and physics PhDs make up only a small fraction of the donut chart? That's because those folks graduate with skills that are desirable to industry because they can translate into profit. The biotech industry does not need smart and inexperienced idea people. The biotech industry prefers very senior level scientists with proven track records of profitability, and worker drones who have bachelors or masters degrees who are not on the scientist track.
Got 'em!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGWDw9ZGXEk

It's an inspirational perspective, thank you for the recommendation.

A side note:I'm reading Jacob Soll's history of accounting "The Reckoning" & renaissance Florence (+Venice) figures big there as well.
Absolutely agreed - I just had to click 40 times to read 40 comments when I had half a screen's worth of whitespace they could've just been sitting in...
My original point still stands, if the Twins hadn't disclosed the idea to him ... there might be no facebook today.
Actually, the string theory group at Rutgers rather impressed me. Given the extremely weak job market for string theorists, they decided to limit the number of students that they took on to the very few that they thought would have a chance at finding a permanent job eventually...
This is not a shortage of people, it's an unwillingness or inability to raise salaries to the point where your group is attracting the people it wants.

I appreciate that the ability to pay people enough to attract them is a problem that is very difficult for institutions and organizations to solve, but living on a sub-standard salary with no job security and few career prospects (how many tenure-track opportunities are expected to open up in the next five years for the people who would fill those positions?) is a difficult problem for highly skilled post-doctoral candidates to solve, too.
Children are the future. Companies and society as a whole invest in the next generation because they will need more workers and support for an aging population. A company without paid maternity leave is directly discouraging employees from having children. I think (most) companies, especially in SV profit more than enough to offer their employees paid maternity leave (and probably time for you to work on your art).
the end run is instead of going up against individuals they have separated us from our property and assigned it a whole different set of rights. Hence they no longer have to worry about many rights enshrined in law or the Constitution as they are charging things instead of individuals.
Well, I interviewed a couple of times for Google (2009 and 2012, they turned my back both times at different stages of the process), and it seems like their process is, obviously, tailored for their particular use case.

They have a TON of applications, so they are more worried in filtering and discarding people than reaching out candidates, or even encourage people to apply.
Their offer (prestige, great perks, great salary, etc...) is obvious to start with, so they are not bothering is going for you. You are the one that should prove worthy and eager to work for them.

I guess that's similar to places like Ivy league Universities, etc...

That's ok. It obviously works for them. It's just that I think it's not the most common case for all companies.
Employers who purposefully limit hiring of women and minorities out of fear of legal risk are acting unlawfully.
Please see the links at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9333611 and in my reply for a description of our experiments and longer-term intentions.
Are those people who actively conform to the recommendation (looking to say healthy) or passively conform somehow (via malnutrition or whatever)?

Another possible question: of those who conform, could many of them be conforming because they were told to do so by their doctor due to some condition, like hypertension? I.e. could it be that health problems cause conformance to sodium intake recommendations, rather than adherence to low sodium intake causing health problems?
The situation of fake/shit journals and career incentives to publish in them strikes me as similar to the issue of for-profit "universities" in the US. These are apparently popular among school teachers, who can often get union-assured raises by getting a new degree (the quality of the degree not being considered).

Nobody with much sense thinks that a degree from a for-profit "school" lends credibility, but they can nevertheless be used to further a career.
I would love to hear everyones thoughts.
Passphrases via shell pipeline
When I worked on a TPMS system around 2007, we couldn't get the VIN off a sensor. We could get the sensor id and maybe the tire id (depending on the type of TPMS system). We had access to the VIN in our flash, as well as access to it over the CAN bus from a number of sources. I'd expect that you would have a very difficult time measuring random vehicles sensor ids and readings if they're just driving by because of how low throughput the system was.
BBC Radio 4: Codes That Changed the World (Episode 1: Fortran)
Meet the entrepreneurs jetting off on co-working holidays
So, is your argument that, because tptacek has 200k+ karma that its comments and submissions are upvoted more?

I would argue that the content of submissions stands on its own compared to the total; I've not once checked a user's overall karma before voting.

And it's still not on point. The point is that for the people we really need to worry about, it's not about karma at all. Get rid of karma, I agree with you. It serves no real purpose.

But, the problem of gaming the system will still exist - it's all about money. I can drive views to my site or product without karma.
Maternity leave is not a vacation. And people generally don't have kids so they can take long paid vacations.

It's not a reward a company bestows upon an employee for having a child, nor is it a mechanism for discrimination towards those who don't have or choose not to have children.

It's a way for an employer to support an employee in an important life choice, and is one of many benefits that a company may provide to foster a nurturing and open office culture.

FWIW, most states don't even require employers to pay for maternity leave and are only bound by FMLA. Newly-minted parents usually take accrued PTO, sick days, and declare disability to take care of their newborns.

[EDIT] For context, the parent poster (whose comment is now deleted) wrote about feeling discriminated against when a company gives maternity leave to parents but got no vacation time for choosing not to have kids. As an aside, I am confused by why the poster felt discriminated against.
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Yes.

Kongregate always had decent-but-linear growth and very good retention (of registered users, not so good for guests). Worked for us: here's a graph of web sessions per day with the units taken off.

http://i.imgur.com/715wGwX.png

It flattened out as mobile took all the growth out of browser-based games. It took us a while to figure mobile out but now we're doing well as a publisher/marketer/funder of indie free-to-play games.

https://www.appannie.com/apps/ios/publisher/kongregate/
That is horrible. And I think that the people who keep upholding this system are even worse.
Are you sure? My understanding is that the $2,500 price tag is not just during the sunrise period, that is the fee for TMCH-listed domains. I was told by my registrar to budget $2,500 annually for each TMCH-listed domain, into perpetuity. (We declined.)

If a domain is not TMCH-listed, it will be $250 after the domain launches--unless you can prove you're an unaffiliated individual, and then you can access a special $10 registration. But for that price you can't run your own website--instead the domain must redirect to a web forum that the registrar will run (and no doubt put ads on).

It looks a lot like a shakedown to me...

edit: speling
Tl;dr generator
I'd like one please :).
I don't think "really fancy interconnects" makes a cluster not commodity, since the original post in this thread is about supercomputer processors. You can put Infiniband in any system with a PCI-e 3.0 bus.
There's likely some way to have Vim automatically fold and hide comments. Then, they're one line when not needed, and a `zo` away when you want to read them.
I think he misread it. I had to absorb the sentiment of the rest of the post and re-read your first line a few times to properly parse it.

For me, "the less you discourage" reads less clearly than "the more you encourage". I realise that the two aren't identical in meaning, but I would have chosen the latter because a compounded minimization ("the less you don't do x") is generally less immediately clear than a maximization ("the more you do x").

This is compounded by your opening of "Another side of this". This can mean "another aspect of the problem you describe which agrees with your point" but it can also mean "another aspect of how sentencing should work that comes to a different conclusion". For many, the latter is more intuitive ("two sides to every story" etc etc).

Not passing judgement on how you worded your post, just explaining why someone might misread it.
Good point, now we can get a (for me?) more interesting discussion:

- Was something illegal done here?
- If yes, why is it (seemingly) so easy to do this?
- How can this be changed?
- Should it be changed? (In my opinion: Yes, a law which is easily breakable is useless)

Note: I only raise questions of legality here, not morality. I will not even start to discuss the morality of this action, because in my opinion anyone who says anything besides "horrible, not tolerable" in his analysis of what happened here has such a fundamental different set of core values from myself that any discussion would be a complete waste of time.
They wore you down?

They tried to wear me down, to the point of contacting me multiple times a week, via every means of contact possible, for weeks on end, until I threatened to take them to court because they were harassing me after I asked them to stop contacting me.

Every single one of those contacts, by the way, was by a used-car-salesman type of "recruiter" who would blow smoke and not answer questions, etc.

There was no way I was going to ever work for google because of their lack of ethics... but this didn't matter to them. And their persistence despite being told that only confirmed the view.

Edit: Sorry my experience doesn't fit your desired view of Google. But if pointing out facts that don't fit someone's ideology gets me constantly downvoted here, what is the purpose of participating in this site? Is this only for circle jerks?
If that's the definition you're working off of, so be it. I mostly agree with you. I wasn't qualifying the fear as being "irrational".
You know -- I think we're on the same page wrt how the punishment really ought to fit the crime; I misread what you were saying :)

Maybe I should take it down -- initially I thought you were talking about discouraging crime w/ a big punishment, but in fact you were talking about discouraging a criminals restraint because they're already going to get nailed in a big way...

I think I'll take mine down and let your original post stand.

Edit: or I'll just leave it so the flow is preserved -- there's a thread here now that explains everything. Let the downvotes fit the crime though, please ;)
Offline for me, archive.org to the rescue!

http://web.archive.org/web/20141022015433/http://www.cs.umd....
First of a 5-part documentary series.

Full episode list: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05qqhqp/episodes/guide
Anyone else already find the XSS in genius.it?

Edit: wow, the whole thing is seriously broken. Emailing them now.

Edit 2: It's not as broken as I thought, and these guys are quick to reply and try to figure things out. To be clear, I haven't gotten it to run arbitrary JS, just include arbitrary HTML, which isn't as dangerous.
it's a dumb only because it failed. will you do it again if the conversion/reply rate was good?

If I were you, i'll probably setup a competition project repo, invite folks to contribute, only do the sales pitch after they are hooked.
Meh. IT unemployment has been about 2% for YEARS. I can get a good job on a team I'll enjoy working with in less than a week. If you're a top tier IT name then it might be worth jumping through hoops, but I will wind up at companies with the least hassle in the hiring department. 15 years in the industry has told me that there's no strong correlation between hiring practices and team quality.
Just turn off notifications from it and don't visit it. The problem isn't with having an account; the problem is with overuse.
This happened with Smalltalk.

I was a Smalltalk coder. I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. It has always been clear to me that Smalltalk is far superior to Java.

I left the company after a little while, to do C++ graphics. I later heard that my former employer rewrote their Smalltalk application in Java.

Now no one uses Smalltalk anymore. While Objective-C is based on Smalltalk, Smalltalk was far easier to use, however lots of people use Objective-C. No one uses Smalltalk.

How could it have been different? My friend Kurt Thames once said that "Smalltalk is the way object-oriented programming SHOULD be done." I have always agreed with that.

But when new methods (!) of OOP arose, all the Smalltalk crowd did was gripe about how Smalltalk was far better than Java or Objective-C.
Wait, what?

I understand that there is a stipend to working in a lab while as a student (akin to being a TA), but while obtaining a PhD in a top program, I highly doubt tuition is reimbursed, and that still doesn't cover living expenses in a major metropolitan area. I mean, if you can name a Top 25 university from each San Fran, Boston, New York, Atlanta, Baltimore, and Dallas that consistently provide PhD students tuition reimbursement and a stipend that enables a modestly reasonable quality of life, I'd really be interested. I'm a little tongue in cheek here but bear with my skepticism.
I see a lot of problems with our society or our economy generally, discussed only within the context of technology. I mean, what, is finance a wonderland for parents? Not that it excuses tech of course, but sheesh.
> I am fan of adding randomization. It was previously proposed: show few random new items on a front page in random places, maybe with a little threshold.

We tested this idea (though we didn't roll it out for everyone) and the results were terrible. The median story is too low in quality for randomness to add value here. You just end up planting junk on the front page and annoying people. From that we concluded that there needs to be additional filtering, be it by algorithms, humans, or a combination.
Oh so clever to make fun of FORTRAN.

This is how the modern FORTRAN Hello world looks like...

program hello
print *, "Hello World!"
end program hello
I'm really fascinated by your replies on this thread; seems you build a really solid process there.

I'm curious about the phone screens - how do you screen out the candidates that are grossly unqualified so that they don't progress to the interview stage?

In other words, how do you screen out candidates like those Joel describes here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePhoneScreen.html
I would support the "superdoc" idea--but I also think that in some fields, we need to allow graduate students (and postdocs) a certain amount of time for career development. If someone wants to do a PhD in physics because they love it, but wants to pick up some CS or finance courses along the way to hedge their bets, we should encourage that...
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Thanks for the FYI Dan. I didn't have the original come up when I posted it or I would have just left it and let the other poster accrue a karma point.
http://techmeme.com/river is my preference.

how this isnt the top answer every time, I will never know.
Running Symbolics Open Genera on Windows 8.1 (kinda)
Really, XMonad does not need much configuration to be quite useful when combined with Gnome/XFCE. Also, there are many, many examples you can copy and paste. I've been using it for 5+ years with minor adjustments - I wouldn't say I "know" Haskell. At all.

Further, "xmonad --recompile && xmonad --restart" is not that taxing on the rare occasion you change your configuration.
For me it was one more application that's constantly pinging my location has access to all my data, and is actively feeding it upstream. Though I did keep hangouts (google voice and sms integrations), after facebook messenger and seeing my battery not make it through a full day (morning until I plug in at night), I removed pretty much all the social apps from my phone.

When I looked at my battery usage stats, the top offenders were facebook and the like, despite not even being used for days at a time. Now I use facebook through the mobile-web interface, and haven't looked back. The only apps I regularly use on my phone are the browser, mail, maps and hangouts. I don't have many others even installed (lastpass, authy), and my phone now makes it a full 24hrs+ before power goes off. (just got a new phone yesterday, so that profile may be different now).

My fit wasn't separating messenger out... it was having another app soaking up cpu/battery usage.
That's what I said: harsh punishment for minor crimes reduces the deterrent effect of harsh punishment for major crimes.
Al battery can charge in 1 minute
Oh, I see. I was using "wireless" and "mesh" interchangeably, but you are correct in distinguishing between them. There are routing differences between "wireless," where one company owns all the wireless routers, and "mesh," where ownership is decentralized and therefore so is routing.

There could be some middleground we are not considering. A "federated" solution could be a good answer to this. Multiple companies/individuals provide the intermediate nodes and are responsible for their maintenance (and hopefully incentivized a la Torcoin). The trust issue is hard to solve, but variations of onion routing protocols exist that ensure only the exit node sees unencrypted traffic. At that point you are still trusting one entity, but trust is no worse than status quo of ISP's.

Also, your post seems to imply wireless ISP (buy uplink, route over wireless) is already a thing. Is this in the USA? I would love some examples.
It works very well for the other kinds of doctors (MDs) who have well paid, secure careers.
The main function of prisons is to keep the criminals away from law-abiding society

Really? I thought it was about correcting/reforming.
I think its easy to say that sitting in your chair from this side. I would imagine that if I was one of the people in the bank that was being robbed, and I were forced in to a room. I would feel that I was being kidnapped / held hostage.
Read that sentence/post again, because the two of you agree.
Sometimes you get applicants that literally don't know what a compiler is, don't know what a variable is. That sort of thing. That kind of person can probably be ruled out in the first 5 minutes for sure.

Of course I think everybody would agree that if such a person progressed to the interview stage, there was a failure somewhere.
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Don't know about you, but to me punishment is about first and foremost protecting the society from persons actions and about offering a chance for redemption/improvement.

Vengeance is never a good agenda. Eye for an eye is an universal sadist principle.