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Technical tests are a double-edged sword. For candidates with little to no prior work experience (fresh out of uni for example), it makes sense. Unless serious question marks arose during the prior interviews, I find it disrespectful to play the "stump the candidate" game with candidates who come in with 10, 20+ years of experience. I'm not aware of any other industry that deploys a barrage of obscure technical tests on their candidates the way some companies do in IT.
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I was looking in the whole state (~25 miles from providence) which covers basically all of RI. I didn't expect much, but I figured between Brown, RISD, PC, RIC etc. there would be a few people coding.

I live in the SE corner of RI in a tiny rural community. I think I am going to have to look in Boston. Good luck with your move, RI is a great place to be.
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- Sure the software industry is more than that, but that still doesn't mean it reflects the needs of society.

- As for it producing what it thinks it can make a profit on, that only explains why it doesn't reflect the needs of society, it doesn't refute that the claim.

- Is it really "much"? How many production-quality web servers do we have, really? How many operating systems? They are certainly extremely important, but represent little of the actual effort and investment expended.

- I don't think complain is the correct term for what she's doing, and besides she didn't exactly write the article herself, so it wasn't her decision to specify anything.
I always use an in-between system. My configuration library allows me to set a default, if the parameter is not found in the config file. I always set a reasonable default, and then only override if necessary. This keeps the configuration files small, keeps the default value with the code, but allows you maximum flexibility, just in case.
Cultural fit can be a legitimate concern. However, companies that discriminate will often choose to use "cultural fit" (or simply "not a fit") as the reason for rejection, which complicates things.
That's really the crux of the problem, isn't it? If the organizer of a conference decides not to give a platform to neofascists who want to end democracy, they MUST also bar women who are being harassed by *chan trolls.

There's simply no way that a conference organizer could possibly handle those situations differently without being a hypocrite.
There arent any good answers at the moment, since the UI world seems to be in a flux.
Corporations are no different from people in this regard; people often break the law when the penalty is light.

The problem is that the penalties for "corporate crime" are so low.

If the penalty for bank robbery was only 50% of the profit, no bank in America would be safe.
I lost trust in anything Binney says when I saw that he did an interview with Alex Jones on Infowars. You need to completely separate yourself from that garbage if you want people to take you seriously.
I find it extremely fascinating that public or college libraries can have such a vast collection of items that something of this significance could go unnoticed for almost 15 years (article says that it may have been put in the library in the late 90s). I can't remember now but I've read a couple other articles that have the same premise, students or employees go in the archives to find something and end up stumbling upon something truly unique. I'd love to be someone who just goes through old books and manuscripts and sorts them, maybe in another life.
Not if the money is earmarked - you're making an unstated assumption that, say, if 5M is going into education, and a lottery starts up and brings in 5M more for a total of 10M, that the original 5M must be repurposed elsewhere.

That's not necessarily true in the first place, and what's more it depends on the appropriations rules in the jurisdiction.
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I'm assuming the government gets the interest payments in this case. Or else this "loan" is really just a subsidy for the banks.
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My friend was considering dropping out of school. In the US, you have to get your parent's permission to drop out at 16, and he asked his dad.

His dad said, "Well, son, you can make a living as a dropout. It's not easy, but it's doable. My brother dropped out of high school. Tell you what - if you work with him for a week and decide that you still want to drop out, I'll sign the paper."

My friend's uncle was a furniture mover in Boston. Boston has lots of old apartment buildings. His job was to help move couches, dressers, tables, and all sorts of other stuff up and down stairs.

He made it two days and said, "Alright, Dad, I'll stay in school."
> And to you my friends, smell the flowers while you can.

I'm 35, and I've already lost at least 4 friends. Causes of death: Drunk driving, Suicide, Murder, and bacterial infection/dropped dead.

The friend with the infection was a super-healthy woman who was opening a fitness studio, one of those people that you would expect to grow old, not catch a random bug and die.
Very much so! David Graeber's Debt, the First 5000 Years deals a lot with how the language of debt and morality are intertwined, and what the consequences of that are, especially when different peoples' debts aren't treated the same way. There's a really good summary at Two Friars and a Fool: http://twofriarsandafool.com/2013/09/debt-on-the-experience-...
Unidirectional dataflow is nice, but how do you figure out what parts need updating? And is all the bookkeeping necessary to figure that out not expensive?
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Probably means I accidentally typed "warranty" somewhere to find I have no warranty.
> EDIT: I do think we'll solve for 200 - 300 mph in 20 - 25 years. But insert 150 - 200 mph.

Honestly, averaging 150-200mph is still hopeless for conventional infrastructure and cars. Hell, 100mph averages are probably out for conventional cars due to fuel efficiency. You could imagine an improvement from co-ordinated drafting (don't try this at home) but that's too marginal to make up the difference.

I'd love to hear your reasoning behind thinking that we'll solve 200-300mph in the next three decades on conventional roads. What kind of vehical are you thinking of?
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Yes, let's beat him down become of a decision he made at 17 because other adults promoted this plan of action.

I don't buy the idea of "you signed a contract" so end of story, especially when the risk is so unbalanced between the two parties. Isn't his mother (adult) more responsible for this loan then him (minor). Yes?
Anyone else notice that it ranks the terms of service for the chrome add on page as a C? Thought that was funny...
Of course they aren't going to listen to it. It's only there to stop them from getting married until they are mature enough to make serious life decisions without relying on advice from older people. The full, implied text would be, "Boys, don't get married, ever, [until you are mature enough to ignore this advice]."

And as in my observation, girls mature emotionally on a much more reliable schedule than boys, my advice to them is mostly to ward off the disaster that comes from trying to re-forge a boyfriend into a husband when he is clearly not ready for that yet. When he finally is ready, now he may need to get divorced before getting married. The implied advice is thus "Girls, don't get married before 22 [because it is extremely unlikely that any of the eligible men you have ever met before that time would be ready for the responsibility]."

It's very US-centric advice. And if your first language isn't English, you'll have a bit of difficulty following it anyway.
I'm making that assumption because I saw exactly that happen in New York. The lottery money is earmarked, sure, but it simply replaces money that otherwise would have been allocated from the general fund. You could just as well earmark the lottery money for sanitation, cut the sanitation budget, and then put the money towards schools or other uses.
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Haha, she was at least clever enough to avoid the is-ought trap.
Yes. At the BBC project I've talked about before (µservices to monolith, 100x - 1000x faster), I also removed all external configuration files. This turned out great, and it made "deployment" as trivial as possible. Copy jar file to directory, start (maybe with a command line argument, don't remember 100%).

Why no config files? Very simple: a change to config file was just as "expensive" in terms of deployment as a code change, so around a day overhead. Compared to that overhead, the recompile was not measurable, so there was no benefit to config files.

On the other hand, apart from making everything simpler, configurations could now be coded as Java classes, with all the subclassing/abstraction/composition goodness.
How about charging money for your product? You could either charge the providers of the services or the customers.

If you're looking for other models, I wrote descriptions of a baker's dozen of them here: http://taprun.com/revenue
Thanks for the answer! It was really just idle curiosity.
It takes a fair amount of man power to buy hundreds of thousands dollars of lottery tickets. Especially if you have to fill out forms and submit them to a cashier. I've heard of consortiums hiring people to do such.
I find the tone of the article, which I would characterize as righteous indignation that the group was able to partially unrig a mostly rigged game to their favor, baffling.

The fact that everyone involved apparently got what they wanted[1] out of the situation makes that posture even more absurd.

[1] viz. per the article, the MIT group got a 15-20% return, the Lottery profited from the tickets the MIT group bought, and the normal lottery winners, presumably got a mildly lower EV, but were never completely deprived of their shot at the jackpot (which is the only thing they apparently care about, since if they were sensitive to EV, they wouldn't be playing the lottery without a strategy like the MIT group's).
This is what I keep thinking. I'm excited about the tech that will be developed to make it work!

I live in Texas. I can't give a flying tube torpedo about whether CA gets a fancy speedy train thing. But I would love to have some very large-scale vacuum tube tech developed that can safely launch people. There's all kinds of great innovation that will come out of it.
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1000 doesn't change the meaning at all - it's still retrying a block of code some finite number of times. 0 does change it a bit, but only in that the code is not being executed, not that there is suddenly no retry logic which exists in the code.
I don't think the problem is filtering by cultural fit itself, but rather, the overbroad use of the term for widely different scenarios to the point where it conveys no information at best, or hides bad reasons at worst.

The term can mean a legitimate work compatibility issue like "people feel awkward around him when they try to crack innocent jokes to ease the stress", but can also mean "he insists on picking up his kid every day rather than going out drinking".
Beyond Wolfram's example, prime numbers have been generated by Conway's Game of Life:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68nEX5CEmZE
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Dave Jones can be a little dramatic during videos like this. I wish he spent more time talking about ways you could actually achieve the claims of the product and less time just cutting down the designers. It's easy to point out all the things you see wrong with something, but it's much harder to try to answer the question, "how could we make it work anyway?".
Do boys tinker because they're socialized to tinker, or is the socialization process built around natural tendencies of boys to tinker?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2583786/
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There is a crucial difference between the lottery and startup investments. Presumably the latter have positive expected payout, whereas the lottery has negative expected payout. If the $5 makes zero difference to your life then the expected payout of $3 makes even less than zero difference to you life, so it's still not rational to play the lottery. Certainly there are contrived circumstances when it's rational to play the lottery, such as you have $5 in your bank account but you need $500,000 for a medical operation otherwise you die, but for most people that does not apply.
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This is not a critique of HN.

Just the realisation that there exist some sub community in the computer world where you can be "one of the most powerful people in coding" without any history of contributing to open source projects whatsoever. https://github.com/lindaliukas
So I guess the lesson is that if you want to have a bigger impact when you blow the whistle, you need hard documentation and evidence. You can't just tell the world there is a bad thing happening. You need to show them the paper that proves it.
Appears to be only related to the write path, i.e. pre-write and post-write. Doesn't do anything for read, delete, rename, search. Also seems to be largely focused on validation. Thank you for pointing this out though.
Moldbug's fundamental definition of Left and Right is that the most purely Left organisation makes everything political, because everything is effected by persuasion, and the most purely Right organisation makes nothing political, because everything is by compulsion.

This is becoming a pretty fruitful way for me to analyse sentences along the lines of "the code is political." The interpretation is that if you 'accept' the code in some fashion, you are implicitly persuaded of some political proposition. This is a complete funhouse way of looking at what Yarvin might actually be doing: providing a structure that you can choose to execute, and that will instantiate certain unbreakable rules under which you must (are compelled to) operate. There's no subtext, it's right there in front of you in the most immediate manner possible. You either run it or you do something else.

Two branching lines of thought from here are that a) even as people like Klabnik try to separate the 'acceptable' political thought from the unacceptable residue of racism etc., they are constantly attacking at a political level, and b) looking at a rigorously defined computational system and trying to work out what the deep hidden politics of it are, is rather like the beginning meditator's mistake of thinking that mindfulness involves access to some distant source of knowledge. Rather, mindfulness involves noticing literally the most immediate possible thing, the activity of your own mind, which is with you every moment of your waking life.
Agreed. But we know that won't happen...not in a long time, anyway.
Identical story here. Nothing like carrying lumber around and dragging shingles up a roof all day in 100F degree weather to convince one to go learn an "office" skill.
Pretending that your definition of morality is the only legitimate one is naive.

Is it moral for the mafia to use the threat of force to take a percentage of a business's income? I'd submit that it's not and I suspect that you agree with that.(I'll concede that I don't know you and can't speak for you)

Why does that same behavior become moral if/when a government does it?

Yet, one of those entities can do it legally.
Not saying you're wrong, but this is quintessentially an American statement. The rest of the world regards morality, and not law, as sacrosanct. So even if you can make money legally by exploiting someone (e.g. hedge fund extorting money from the Congo), you ought not to do it. [Yes, I know that these guys weren't exploiting anyone, just answering your question.]
Seems like it would make an amazing GPL Mirror's Edge clone.
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Zenefits sent us an email on Friday which seems to have attracted no attention.

When you originally set up Zenefits, you created an Zenefits admin user in your ADP RUN payroll account to let Zenefits manage your payroll—set up new employees, manage deductions, remove departing employees—on your behalf.

Yesterday, without your permission, ADP systematically deactivated these accounts—accounts that you set up, in your payroll system, to allow Zenefits to work on your behalf. The reason for this is that ADP believes it can one day build software to compete with Zenefits, and in the meantime they would like to do anything they can to impede Zenefits.

ADP is claiming that they are taking this action for "security" reasons—but this is clearly not true. For years, ADP has let customers add third parties—a bookkeeper or an accounting firm, for example—to their payroll system to manage payroll on a company's behalf. What Zenefits does is no different. In fact, even today, ADP will let you add a third-party administrator to your payroll system unless they have a Zenefits.com email address.

To avoid the Intuit upsell quagmire, we're hoping to switch to ZenPayroll for Q3. But the Zenefits automatic quote builder doesn't seem to know that ZenPayroll is nationwide now, so down the support rabbit hole I go. Payroll sucks.
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> do your best without giving into to grueling whiteboard interviews, and take a chance on someone who seems smart.

Um, what does that mean in practice? "do your best" is pretty much meaningless. "Someone who seems smart" seems to invite hiring by stereotypes.
I was super negative when it started because I expected the initial release that they pulled an all-nighter for (according to his Twitter feed) to have been more than just like a sketch of an idea typed in Word.

Now that things are moving forward, my opinion has radically changed. That, and in the meantime his car won the Consumer Report's Best Buy, SpaceX darn near landed a rocket vertically in the ocean, and ground has been broken on their spaceport.
Even if the penalty was 200% of the profit, that would be the case.
Do you agree with the proposition that "the software industry doesn’t reflect the needs of society as a whole"?

If so, in what way does it not reflect those needs? What are those needs? How could the industry reflect them?
The author of this piece is self-rightous. But the bigger problem isn't his inability or his relent to honor the student loan debt. The bigger problem is the detachment of the value of education, and prospective students' understanding of which.

When students enter university, they understand that it is a place that will challenge their intellects, but what they don't understand is the amount of financial value it will provide after they graduate. Unless they go into a lucrative field, the return on investment in liberal arts (not picking on this specific major) is not worth it.

Unless you're going into a top program in a top university (Engineering at Ivy League, CS at Stanford, MIT, CalTech, etc), it's better to enroll into an STEM program at a reputable in-state college. Otherwise it's almost not worth it.
Sure, as the article states:

"We offer the hypothesis that toy preferences reflect hormonally influenced behavioral and cognitive biases which are sculpted by social processes into the sex differences seen in monkeys and humans."

So yes, there may be some biological/neurological biases, but that they are then socially reinforced, which is exactly my point.

And last I checked, one of the things that makes humans humans is our ability to grow beyond our basic wired-in instincts. So I fail to see how that article can be seen as a pass for what is clearly a cultured gender bias.
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If they successfully stole guns, then they were correct to break in. Guns are one of the most valuable items for burglars to steal. Why the hell were they left in an abandoned house?

Abandoned premises are a whole other thing. If the burglar has no worry that the occupants will return, they may try for more ambitious scores, such as removing the copper water pipes or condenser coils, or ripping up floors, walls, and ceilings looking for hidden caches.
This is great. It's a chapter from Bob Stanley's Yeah Yeah Yeah, a comprehensive history of pop music that I'm reading right now. Anyone with too many vinyl records needs to get a copy and read it.
Where are you looking for these data? The longest link in France is probably Brussels-Montpellier, which is about 850 km. Paris-Nice might be longer than that, though it's very slow after Marseille.

There used to be a slow Quimper-Vintimille journey that was more than 1000 km, but it's been significantly shortened since then.

Your numbers show you have no conception of the distances involved in Europe. Thinking that the longest train link in France, a country that's 1000 km wide and 1000 km high, is 100 km long is completely ridiculous.
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No. Not paying these outrageous rates, going to a cheaper school for a legit degree is what will drive down the costs. Supply and demand.

Defaulting on the loans will likely just lead to another government bailout, and sky high tuition will continue.
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Interesting point.

I wonder if one reason for the difference in language is that chemotherapy is so brutal that it ends up feeling like a "battle". Plus maybe that there's a chance of "winning", which isn't there with Alzheimer's or with ALS.

(I'm not justifying the correctness of the word, just speculating on the cause.)
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The Wright Brothers were also just trying to fly. They weren't trying to compete against well-established technology (such as trains that have already been built).

The Wright Brothers also weren't asking for $5 Billion+ for a test flight. They mostly self-funded IIRC.
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I'm curious to know what sort of optimizations they have made for the phones and infrastructure being used in these locations.
> On the nuclear side, molten salt reactors and factory-produced modular reactors have the potential to reduce costs quite a bit, if we can get the regulators up to speed.

MSRs, even module, require at least a decade of approval through the NRC. You won't see a new reactor online, modular or not, for at least 15-20 years, by which point solar, wind, and utility scale battery storage will have slaughtered nuclear.

How do you compete against a tech that can be deployed in weeks or months? And that has no licensing time? Nor requires $1-2 billion just to start.
The suburban version, the one most people think of when you say "disco".

(I and probably Bob Stanley would concur with you; he writes at considerable length about disco and its antecedents in the book.)
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The book has an excellent chapter on ABBA.