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Survivorship bias. The history of Google's non-attempt to replace managers is almost comically bad. They announced in an all-hands meeting that going forward, all engineers would report directly to Larry Page and all project managers (present at the meeting) were out of a job. In other words, Google thought that managers were effectively useless, fired them publicly in front of the whole company, and didn't try to replace them with any manner of alternative.[1]

Long story short, it's not difficult to "sell" managers when the alternative is anarchy.

I think managers are toxic in an engineering organization, and a disincentive toward expertise; Rational intelligent engineers would be foolish not to abandon their expertise for a more rewarding (financially, politically, effort-wise) management track. That said, I consider it even more foolish to have nothing in their place. Managers serve a variety of roles that will be filled, implicitly or explicitly in any tribe/organization. Further, they resolve the matter of hierarchy and eliminate political position jockeying (while exacerbating other forms of politics).

If you pay attention, you'll see that modern software organizations are straining on the verge of breaking with current management styles. No viable alternative has reached mainstream (except maybe holocracy), but in the coming decade, one will.

In my company, we're replacing the classic management hierarchy with something closer to a federated republic where the various roles of management are broken into separate roles for separate individuals, with the goal of placing engineers on top with multiple peer-based support roles. Something close to this will be the software organizational hierarchy of the future.

[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/04/25/googl...
You've never managed engineers before have you.
> Interracial marriage only works as a "solution" if there were an inverse imbalance in other racial communities to supply the men needed to fulfil the shortfall.

There is:
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2003/03/14/Interracial-marriage-...

"Asian women had white husbands 3.08 times more often than Asian men had white wives. [...] Oddly enough, the 1990 ratios for black-white and white-Asian marriages were mirror images of each other."
Historically this was solved by polygamy. (The cause of the missing men back then was usually war and travel danger on business expeditions.)

Polygamy is still occurring, except without the official status of wife.

Makes me wonder if the benefits of outlawing polygamy in the US might not outweigh the harm - especially because it happens anyway.
It's interesting that ARM32 has conditional execution and I like them a lot for writing readable assembly code. Short jumps that result from a simple if can be encoded in three successive instructions, no branches.

However, it's now falling out of favor (mostly gone from ARM 64) and apparently it's due to the relative cost of putting conditional execution on the die vs. relying on smarter compilers.
The article itself contains no real information. Although it mentions Java specifically, it doesn't call out .Net (which I'm assuming this will support), or node.js (which MS has invested a lot of time making work in Azure).

There also doesn't seem to be a link to MS, as to how this is any different from Azure Cloud Services, other than probably only privately available to one's virtual network.
The one child policy has not always and everywhere been enforce with full power. You get a certain buffer effect from men getting a younger female companion: measured in person years, you'll have more single-men-years than single-women-years this way.
Sorry to be the voice of Bill Cosby but my read of this is that black men are killing each other and then going to prison for it (drug charges are responsible for maybe 20% of people in prison - ie stats would still be largely same without the drug war).

And somehow that's everybody else's fault?
Thinking about it, I wonder if any MUD codebases have WebSockets support. It'd be interesting to see a full-featured client as a single web page.
Giant mysterious empty hole found in universe
A MUD thread!!

~~~Time for my yearly MUD mystery call-out!~~~

MUD fans, possibly only in the NW in the late 90s - did you ever play a MUD that had a replica of Garfield High School in Seattle in it, complete with teachers, rooms, etc? I am desperately hoping it is archived somewhere!
> women are arguably less war-prone than men

I don't think are actually any studies that support this, unfortunately. War simply isn't a consequence of gender, it is a consequence of ideology and fear.
100% guilty of this...

I had 1 - and I was happy. It was nice. It was my favorite thing.

Then I got a 2nd one. Suddenly, I needed more. I needed them all. It felt like Pokemon.

Now I have over 160 of them.
Oh god help me...

Knowing not to own 2 of things to avoid collecting more things is nice. It's strange that it seems to only require 2 of some 'thing' to create an urge for a collection. I'll need to start throwing more things out. Pick my favorite of the two and give the other away.
My goal here is to be as transparent as possible. Hopefully the nontraditional pricing page will help people predict the future.
Link Bait: "We won’t always be free"
I think it depends where you are and how much of an effort you make, how friendly you are. I speak French fluently and even in Paris (where people have a reputation for being gallophillic and anglophobic in the extreme) I've had lovely conversations in English, both with locals and with visitors from other parts of the country.

I've also seen people "close ranks" when confronted by the "ugly American" who speaks not a word of French and shouts to make themselves understood. I've even joined those ranks until the person became far too annoying, at which point I offered a brusque and factual, pithy translation, delivered as if talking to a spoiled child.

It felt quite good. I'm not proud of that, but it did.

My experience in Paris is consistent with all of my travels: Make an effort, be interested, be nice, get warmth and welcome in return. Be a douche, get douched right back.
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Your offense is of no concern to me.

The stats back up that people prefer to date within their own race when they can. Ultimately I am just arguing that people's choice is important to the whole topic, if black women would prefer to date black men, pointing out that they could date white or asian men won't help the situation.
For those wanting to just look at a list of MUDs in a nice clean format, check out: http://mudstats.com

It can be filtered by genre, players on now, max within last 30 days, etc. At this moment it says "There are currently 832 active MUDs listed."

It uses the Mud Server Status Protocol (MSSP) to get its information, which was created because: "MUD listings are often out dated and lack accurate information. Verifying that the one submitting a new MUD is a member of the MUD's administration can be quite tedious as well."

Also the sidebar at http://www.reddit.com/r/mud has a lot of other MUD related links.
in places with a lot more men than women both men and women converge on wanting a long term relationship, but in places with a lot more women than men

There's also the narrative that places where men outnumber women, men become increasingly competitive and violent towards women and each other. An example is any blue collar "boom" town like North Dakota's fracking industry.
I am working on this: http://www.fillburt.com. A tool to fill out job apps faster. I am in the process of validating it. Any feedback is welcome.
My understanding is that there is a up to date Browser. The browser app has always been built with a WebView and the latest WebView is pointing to almost the tip of the development tree of Chromium.
Probably the only ongoing issue I have with the node ecosystem (other than the general poor taste of JS developers, which is forgivable) is everything around versioning.

I don't understand how npm ended up the way it has--Bundler got it right, other people got it right...why isn't this a solved problem?

I know they're making it better, but then they go and do something like making a for-profit company out of it and I get nervous again.

Hell, package management in Elixir (http://hex.pm) works great.
WHO Launches Open Access to the Global Medicines Safety Database
I know this is treading off-topic, but interestingly, "lefty wacko uber-progressive" Seattle (I put that in quotes as it's not my thoughts, but some of the commenters found on The Seattle Times would likely describe it as such) has the highest percentage of nuclear families in the 50 largest cities in the U.S.

Source: http://blogs.seattletimes.com/fyi-guy/2014/12/28/end-of-the-...
I'm pretty sure no geo-political reasons cause many middle eastern societies to treat woman lower than dogs and cats.

Those my friend, are religious and cultural norms put in place by their own people. No amount of external pressure has ceased the ungodly treatment of woman, homosexuals and other "miscreants" as they are deemed in much of the middle east.
Yeah, it sounds great and definitely would fill a need. I know a lot of non-devs who are trying to do their own thing using Wordpress and its just non-stop pain and frustration, so they ask me to help out sometimes. I will keep an eye on your progress.
World’s Biggest Wealth Fund Seeks One Dark Pool to Cut Costs
Except there were real crimes committed in Whitewater, with 3 going to jail including a sitting governor. And the investigation was public and above board, with the accused being allowed to retain lawyers.

No dead of night police raids of vast swaths of the institutional Left, you will go to jail if you talk to anyone about them, including a lawyer, and all about alleged campaign process ("finance") violations, i.e. for this dark period the 1st Amendment was null and void for conservatives/Republicans in Wisconsin.

Democrats/the Left should really think twice about their attempts to deny us access to the soap and ballet boxes.
Scandinavians have a very low rate of marriage and a high divorce rate, and yet are as stable and wholesome as you can imagine.
Neat! Really wish I could try it on my dump of the PGP public keyserver network. A visual map of the web of trust would be cool. Alas, it's just a volunteer project, so no funds :(

https://keyserver-elasticsearch.daylightpirates.org/keyserve...
Sliding-scale fines (higher penalties for higher earners) is a good working model of this. E.g. if you make more money your speeding tickets cost more. I was suggesting that it could proven that white collar crimes are committed by higher earners, and therefore should carry heavier penalties.
> There is a pretty obvious solution to this problem which has been legal since 1967.

The fact that it isn't illegal doesn't mean that there aren't strong cultural forces working against it on both sides in many cases.

Centuries of slavery, followed by a century of overt de jure discrimination and segregation, followed by decades with a common overt racism and discrimination in both official and unofficial contexts even with notional legal equality were not produced by a white society which sees blacks as real equals, and have not produced a black society which sees whites as genuine partners.

There are exceptional segments of both black and white society, and norms against interracial marriage are certainly weaker now than they were when it first became legal, but they are still a real thing that is deeply ingrained in who very many people are. So, its not a simple solution with real people, even if it is in abstract theory.
You're really sweeping under the rug a lot of people who would be impacted by having $10 taken away.

I am certain >0 people would have checks bounce, payments declined, fees imposed on them. For many people $10 can be the difference between being able to afford rent, payment of utilities or other items that could cascade into affecting their life significantly. The poor are really susceptible to these type of accidents

Also, about 60 million of the US population are below the age of 14 (which given you got 3 bln dollars from $10, I'm assuming you're taking the whole ~318 million population), that means many minors just lost $10 that to them would likely be more money than they ever had or be a significant amount of money.

And that doesn't even go into other aspects of the theft, like the effects nationwide on everyone having money taken away from them. The erosion of confidence in the safety of their money.

I posit to you a likely scenario of what you described. Imagine if everyone citizen in the US were issued a government mandated ID with an associated federally insured bank account. Now, the whole scenario becomes viable, where a hacker could steal $10 from every citizen in the U.S.

Now, that would first create a huge debacle. It would most likely cause an immediate loss of trust in the online marketplace, cost probably billions of dollars in getting it fixed. It would end many people's careers, most likely lead to companies getting fined, economic stagnation depending on a cascade effect from a loss of confidence in markets. It's hardly a victimless crime.

Sure, we could keep diminishing the amount to something ridiculous till we're maybe talking about stealing 1 cent. Which would still be a fairly juicy pay off of 3 million, and that would erase away many of my points or at least reduce their incidence significantly. I'm sure some people would miss payments or have other inconveniences affect them. Likewise, the theft would have repercussions on many people's lives.

Even if I were to take the magical scenario of someone who magically made 1 cent disappear from everyone's wallet/bank account. That would still cause great impact and damage. "Are there more people like him with such magical powers?"

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you have to look at the final magnitude not just the token value of the damage done per capita. And also look at the damage done by having affected so many people simultaneously.
1 in 4 likely means you are on call 24 hours a day for 1 week out of each 4 weeks. The support is then shared between 4 people. That's a fairly typical arrangement in largish companies.
Ask HN: Should I accept an internship at Google or pursue my own startup?
Help me HN,

I am a freshman at a local university enrolled in CS, over the past year my abilities have become somewhat infamous on campus, reaching professors and eventually landing me an an internship at Google, which starts next month. Along side, I have been pursing a startup idea which in the past few weeks has gained a LOT of traction to the point where I need to decide. I have applied to YC and unfortunately didn't get in, however I was able to secure a better seed-round from local angels, I'm supposed to make a final decision in the next few weeks.

I am feeling pressured to take up the Google position (plus, how would I break it to them that "sorry guys, I've got a better position") because it is basically a guaranteed win at life later on (employment-wise) and seems pretty low-risk, however the potential rewards from the startup are not to be dismissed either -- plus, I always wanted to do something like that.

This has been stressing me out a lot, making me unable to sleep at night as I realise I'm a day closer to make a life changing decision and I still have no idea...

What should I do?
> It also completely ignores the fact that people in the black communities may not wish to date people from other races.

I think it's more the other way around.

My observation, and I believe this is backed up by research, is that black women are more willing to date outside their race than other races are willing to date black women.

But yeah, people generally date within their race.
>many middle eastern countries

I'd be careful of generalizing across such a diverse region. Isn't it actually a fairly small minority of countries in the Middle East that "generate [lots] of young angry jihadists"?
Black women are unapproachable. Not sure why is that. Are white males not attractive in black women eyes?

The effect is the reverse with white women as they tend to flirt with black man, hence the interracial children are mostly from black males and white females. I don't have a study to support this, but I do have personal experience.
Agreed. You need the people to take the risks.

Now, please excuse me while I fashion coconut husks into headphones and wait for my planes to land.
At least for me the issue isn't Objc or Swift. I like Objc and have known it a long time; Swift seems a bit half-baked currently but still I like some of the ideas there. I find this attractive because of React-style programming (setting state renders UI components), the ability to easily style widgets, and the short feedback loop, while retaining the ability to write a native app. OK, I'll admit I prefer to write JS than those other languages, but it's not the biggest part.

I have concerns about wrapping native widgets/objects to use in JS-land, I wonder what limitations that will incur. But overall I think there is a lot to be said for this idea and I find it pretty exciting.
You don't need an inverse imbalance (although I'm told one exists). If black women all dated outside their race, then an imbalance of 20% within the black community (assuming blacks make up 10% of the nation) and 0% elsewhere would become a 2% imbalance for Americans as a whole.

I'm well aware people have choices and preferences - I personally prefer to date black and Indian women (and I even have subpreferences). But I'd probably go months without getting laid if I made black/Indian/34C or larger a hard requirement, and I don't think the NYT would portray me as a victim of anything other than my own choices.
Whenever I ready “Sorry to ____, but...” I wonder to myself:

1. Is the speaker truly appalled at saying the thing that follows, but it's a radical, earth-shattering insight will cut through the Gordian Knot, e.g. “I’m really sorry to question the Bible, but maybe the Earth actually is older than 6,000 years?”

Or:

2. Someone’s warning detection is working, but the connection to the brake has been severed, and the speaker wants to charge ahead and say it without any real concern for tone.

If what follows the disclaimer needs to be said, just say it. If you get backlash, deal with it. The faux-pology up front undermines your sincerity rather than reinforcing it.
We fixed this with installing npm proxy mirror. So each install happen from this proxy and if something missing it will be downloaded and saved for later from central.

In this case we always have the same dependencies that we have locally. But of cause this means you need own box with proxy.

(in our case it is nexus)
No, I wasn't even including the general infrastructure stuff. I guess my view was warped by working in an ad-centric office.
Key point:

I think the right way is to start with the sentence: “We do not have any hard evidence of the forces leading to the following evolutionary change.” There has to be a prelude to the discussion of evolutionary change to make it clear that although the theory of natural selection is very important and happens lots, there are other forces, or other mechanisms, that lead to change and we are not obliged by being Darwinians and being evolutionists to invent adaptive explanations for all changes. I think that’s where you have to start. Then, as either a philosopher or biologist, ask in a particular case what is the direct evidence, besides the desire that we want to find something, that a particular story is true or not true. Most of the time we’re going to have to say that this happened in the Eocene or the Paleocene and we haven’t the foggiest notion of why it happened. I think the admission of necessary ignorance of historically remote things is the first rule of intellectual honesty in evolution.

This was an interesting interview. The take-away, I think, is that speculating on origins and "just so stories" is a fine way to think about things, but it isn't science and should be prefaced by a frank admission that there is no evidence to support those speculations. When chin-stroking "what if..." theories, however interesting, become conflated in public discussion (and in scholarly circles) with evidence-based theories, science suffers.
Asian males and black females are the losers?
Several friends complain about the arcane nature of verilog and vhdl and like the idea of better languages written by actual language designers. But since the steps of FPGA compiling first converts the HDL language into a netlist which is used for all other operations, once a tool chain exists we can just replace the verilog compiler with a VHDL or bluespec compiler and everything will still work.
Gentrification gets a bad name because when landlords realize that yuppies are willing to pay very high rents (double, triple, quadruple, quintuple) to rent apartments in old buildings, they jack up the rents of people who have been living there for decades or even do illegal things to force them out of their homes.

Gentrification would be wonderful if people owned their homes, because they would get the benefit of rising property values. Instead, the landlords get that, and most people have to face the costs of uprooting from their home.

It may be worth mentioning also that many urban neighborhoods were formed in the mid-20th century when many African Americans were excluded from home ownership and suburbanization by explicitly racist laws and practices, such as redlining, blockbusting, restrictive deed covenants, and other practices now illegal and unconstitutional. TNC lays part of this out in the first part of this article http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/the-case...
x86 branch predictors are not 60% correct... Any decent branch predictor is over 90% correct and I believe modern ones are over 96% correct.
"Our study suggests that chin prominence is unrelated to function," Holton says, "and probably has more to do with spatial dynamics during development."

Just as a sidenote on this theme, it's interesting how according to studies chin prominence correlates with perceptions of leadership ability, confidence and sexual attractiveness in men. Apparently chin implants are as popular as breast augmentations these days:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/03/us-chinimplants-id...
I think Osama Bin Laden had so many life-stabilizers i.e. women throughout his lifetime and yet he pursued the terrorist career with vengeance till the last breath.
> Is this basically a mini-browser that looks like an "app"?

No? I don't understand why you're abstractly positing something that a web browser does so that you can compare this to a browser.

Browsers also display text & images, is UIKit a web browser? No, it isn't.
agreed. it has been over 15 years since I graduated from a pretty good CS program in an engineering school, and we definitely had math professors teaching many core courses that were math focused (e.g. http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs2800/2015sp/). and professors from other engineering disciplines taught courses across (e.g. OR/IE profs doing stats).

this might have been possible at my school and not possible elsewhere based on how the different departments are focused / rewarded / isolated. more math profs might have been interested in getting CS experience back then.
In what way would you say those terroritories do not belong to China, or any other country in the region? Or better yet, what makes even places like Canton, Shanghai even belong to China? (Keep in mind I'm not saying these lands do or do not actually belong to China, but I'm merely asking under what grouds do you make these claims)
Gay suicide due probably to social pressures. Hopefully gay rights will lessen these problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_among_LGBT_youth
Pen-tester banned from flights?