skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Work may have been around for thousands of years in one form or another, but I don't think it'd be unfair to say the nature of work has changed with the industrial revolution.

Further, just because something's been "endurable" for thousands of years doesn't necessarily make it good, or invalidate attempts to change it. And "honorable" is all about cultural values.
The H1-B=>GC route to immigration does require a degree - 4 yr one is preferred but in some cases 3yr + ton of experience gets you buy. It's not guaranteed though.
Silicon Valley does have a lack of diversity. It is very hard for anyone to break into Silicon Valley because of the different culture there.

They'd rather hire locals than people from Ohio. They'd rather hire college students from California universities than from Ohio.

Even if you get hired, I've had friends who got hired in SV, and got eaten up and spit out and then returned back to St. Louis Missouri to look for a job here because it isn't as hard as SV to look for a job. Even if you get a job it will be stressful and you'll be under a lot of pressure.

But it also depends on the culture of the company that is doing the hiring.
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That sounds intuitively reasonable, but does an interview actually have significant accuracy in filtering out people who will do badly on those criteria? As far as I know, such data as is available says human intuition is completely wrong about this and an interview is not significantly more accurate than flipping a coin.
Sounds more like a bad employee.
Yes, that seems to be the original approach, similar to a PLL design. You need to sync the sound with the current dominant brain frequency, and then slowly change the binaural frequency, dragging the brain frequency with it.

Whether this actually happens is open to research.
Raleigh is great. Lots of educated people. Two hours to the beach. Good jobs. Cheap labor.
Because it's more rewarding than what almost any of us do at work. And in some ways raising a child with your values is a vote for the future direction of the world.

(Father of two very young children.)
The level of work required to "not be a strain on others" is far less than the level of work expected these days, I believe.
If you have an audible subscription (which I highly recommend), you can get a course on the Greek classics, and then you can read along if you wish: http://www.audible.com/pd/Classics/Masterpieces-of-Ancient-G...
Don't worry, there will be the inevitable benchmarks, graphs, etc. :) Benchmarking is definitely an important component. The demo actually filled with animations (the water) and I have a color palette cycling animation generator which runs at tilesheet load, and just considering the way the system is built to use subsurfaces of a master tilesheet, and to use cached animations (so that tile x becomes animated when referred to), I don't think I'm too worried. So, so far so good! It runs on my computer pretty well: http://www.microcenter.com/product/429997/vivopc_vm40b_deskt...

I should really try making an absurdly detailed and animated, large map. :)

Thank you for some really awesome questions! I'd love it if you were to tinker with it yourself. :) I'm really glad you got a kick out of it. Thank you for your time and thoughtful questions.

EDIT: Oh, just to clear something up, you know that Pygame is a Python wrapper SDL plus some other low level libraries, right? http://www.pygame.org/wiki/about reads:

"Uses optimized C, and Assembly code for core functions. C code is often 10-20 times faster than python code, and assembly code can easily be 100x or more times faster than python code."
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"Or, get this — I was also told my experience made me overqualified for the position and they were afraid I’d get bored."

This happened to me and most my friends. We are all different races. Were you applying for a low-level job (IE: trying to get anything)? You probably would have used it as a stepping-stone for a better job and the employer didn't want to spend resources training you.

"The formula was largely the same. Most I didn’t hear back from at all. With a few, I had an in-person or Skype interview with the team."

Once again, completely normal.

"Yeah, a company in Utah is doing more for diversity than many in Silicon Valley — get over your biases of where you believe real change is championed."

The truth is that you just don't have any real-world work experience.

"One of the ways my company encourages diversity is by providing fair pay and benefits for all; which includes reimbursement for relocation, the opportunity to work remotely, a generous family leave policy, and flexible scheduling for personal needs"

Now you are just sounding entitled. You aren't entitled to any of those things and there are plenty of people in Silicon Valley that are qualified and willing to take the job (which is why you had trouble). If you want to compete with them, you will need to move there.

I know lots of different people that made the move and found jobs. You can too.

This article has nothing to do with 'diversity' or 'race'. It's just plain silly.
> move over, find another love,

I agree, I wanted to go to US from India but realized that its not going to happen so I went to Australia. Aus immigration is fairly simple process if you have tech background.
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Is Disney going to pay the new 200 employees the same wages, and work them the same? Are the new employees going to ask for the same pay, and ask for the same treatment? Do they even have an empowered position to ask for that?
I remember watching this on TV 20-25 years ago; the scene with Tsiolkovsky jettisoning the oars (7:25 or so) was very memorable.
Can someone summarize or translate (for non-Britons) the paragraph dealing with the educational background of Classics students?
Talk about throwing the baby with the bathwater.

You will always have some bad apples.
Some are not as lucky. One time CIC was so overwhelmed with a backlog of PR applications, they literally simply said, "screw it" and cancelled 300K (?) applications that have been sitting on their shelves waiting to be processed for years already.
http://canadianimmigrant.ca/slider/300000-skilled-worker-app...
I didn't say "no one". Any company big enough will have open positions for pretty much any imaginable language or technology out there.

But picking Haskell as a start up is suicidal.
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You have not lost your ability to replace your wifi card. The difference here is only monetary and the entire cost to you would be negated if the initial price was $100 cheaper. A year or two after your purchase, the price of laptops will have fallen enough that the cost of a laptop + an extra official wifi card is less than the cost of a laptop today. So I find your theory of harm quite dubious.
What's your blog theme?
So cool and minimalistic.
I don't love my daughter because [...]

My first sentence professed that "This is going to be a touchy subject as people have children for many different reasons" - I don't pretend to know why anyone here had kids.

But your overly intellectuallized and snobbish categorization misses the main reasons.

Here's some big ones I missed: working the farm and supporting the parents or for dowry. Entirely valid reasons to have kids depending on circumstance.

My point was that kids shouldn't be sold as a solution to existential problems. My best friend did just that and his relationship with his partner has disintegrated because it wasn't a realistic way of dealing with the issues that he has. He'll make a good dad and partner when he figures out what's burning inside him.
error 403?
Perhaps not. The Red Sox are (almost) not OTA for instance
Yes! There are certain countries that deal with these matters in a way that's alien to the rest of us. It appears that Japan has an interesting way, too.

As a side note, speaking of governement.. as a teenager, one of the books that were laying around was "The American Challenge" (Le Défi Américain) by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. It was a parallel between European countries and the U.S.A. It also addressed the Japanese and Swedish models, the technology gap (he warned that if Europe let the U.S. get ahead, there will be a time where the gap is simply too big to cross).

It is a very interesting book.
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SPAM is still SPAM even if it's about technology
If you find my email address and hit me with SPAM being defined as we don't have a business relationship; it's still SPAM even if it's about technology.
The cat's eye effect only works when the light source and the viewer are in roughly the same place. In a car, light from the headlights is reflected back at the driver. It wouldn't work for the Dawn probe because there is no light source on the spacecraft.
Large expanses of unused land with plenty of sunlight. Even a 5th grader can figure that one out.

What I want to know is, if oil is so cheap there, why isn't there more manufacturing of petroleum based products there?
Demonstrate competency first. Solve the main problem you were brought there for. Solve it right, solve it fast, employ all the ideas you wish to see, documentation, testing, monitoring, dev server, peer reviews. Earn their trust and respect, you are 2 weeks in. Focus on the job at hand, and in 2-3 months, you will know who can be your allies and you can then start figuring out how to get these changes out.
The difference is the amount of cognition involved in the process of eliciting that reaction. When my daughter was little I'd feed her a bottle and snuggle her to sleep. My wife noted that when I did that I looked stoned.
Obligatory link to Manna by Marshall Brain - http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm (different chapters explore different possible outcomes)
That's a tremendous idea! I'll definitely consider targeting the browser, what a fun thing to think about! I'll mull that over. :)

Also, I'm really happy you like the concept and I'm even happier that you enjoyed the non-programmer manual I wrote. <3 It feels really good to give back, full circle, with a game engine which can be used by nonprogrammers, after all, OHRRPGCE got me into programming. :)
If it dragged dominant EEG frequencies, that would suggest that the effect either alters thalamic pacemaking or otherwise takes over. This audio beat frequency may exist as an analog somewhere locally as changes in average postsynaptic potentials in the auditory cortex, but it would be surprising if the effect grew to a larger sphere of influence. Healthy brains are pretty good at attenuating that kind of insidious network effect.
Is anyone else extremely annoyed by the album art animation? The animation zooms in so far that you can only see half of the album, which defeats the purpose.
On balance, life is what we all force it to be by our collective efforts. We should make it wonderful.
Australian immigration is fairly simple if you have tech background and all your papers are in order.

I moved from India to Aus on PR visa.
Didn't work the first time either. But visiting the site a second time revealed the article.
If you don't mind sharing some details, I'd love to hear what you switched from and to!
What percent of the traffic is actually flowing through the ipv6 ones compared to v4 -- <10% I'd guess (just curious)?
Hey, my neighborhood was in the East River!

Unfortunately, I think that has implications for how flood-prone the neighborhood is too.
There are a lot of lazy scare tactics that pension opponents use. The parent commenter's use of "pyramid scheme" means that he or she is trotting out some variation of the argument that current benefits for retirees are paid by current employees, that in 1940 there were 30 workers for every one retiree but it'll someday be 2:1, etc. etc.

"Productivity growth" is my admittedly lazy shorthand for "You cannot ignore the effects that improved productivity has on pensions, especially when by necessity we're talking decade-or-century long timeframes. Even historically modest productivity growth means that if a worker is supporting 1 retiree this year, then next year he can support 1.015 retirees and in 60 years the average worker can support 2.4 retirees. Without mentioning why you (the parent commenter) think that productivity won't continue to grow at at least a very low level over the next several decades, then we can't really have a good discussion about pensions being pyramid schemes."

And that's before we even touch on other topics like the retiree population shrinking as baby boomers start dying over the next 30 years, the double-standard of treating purchases of U.S. Treasury bills by current workers (for U.S. Social Security) as different than, say, a hedge fund buying them, etc.

Bottom line is that pensions are complicated and can't be treated simply as if they were just a regular investment fund or savings account, and it's a waste of time to argue with somebody who just wants to handwave away the differences.
And VoxCDN.

There used to be a domain for imgur like imgur.voxcdn.com to help people get around WebSense.
I find it incredibly hilarious that you say Silicon Valley isn't diverse compared to Ohio. I just moved from Cleveland, where I worked at a company where almost all the developers and management were white guys from Ohio. (We had a few women and a few asians, but it was pretty un-diverse.)

By contrast Silicon Valley is incredibly diverse. It's a bit of a culture shock, honestly, but in a good way. It feels much more like grad school.
First read this as "Why we should all learn ancient Greek" :)
I've asked this repeatedly at reddit and have still yet to ever receive an answer and I think it goes to the core of many of the concerns the reddit community has over the new direction.

Why is /r/TwoXChromosomes the only default subreddit to allow political advocacy?

Not a single default would have accepted kn0thing's first post in todays reddit.

Reddit as a political soapbox died around the time of Occupy Wall Street. It's as neutered as Facebook now.
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Well you could run a registry but that decision is orthogonal to the task of verifying what you're installing, or of signing something that might be installed somewhere else.
"Again, an employer can sponsor an employee's green card, but the employer must again bear the costs, which can run to the tens of thousands of dollars, and again the employee cannot offer to pay the cost."

Why don't you just reimburse the employer the costs?
Being born in and still a citizen of a Commonwealth nation should make it easier for OP to emigrate to Canada.

(is it still called emigrate if it's from a country not your own to another?)
The real voice of Siri explains the art of voiceover
That diagram is quite pretty, did you just hand code it?
"these tests allow the company to burn a lot of a candidate's time, but not the other way around "

Oh yes the other way around. At a previous employer, two of us took 3 full time months to review over 100 qualified candidates (i.e. that returned the task) to make 10 offers.

We made an offer to anybody who met our standards - whilst management initially restricted our headcount, they allowed us to expand the team as great people got in touch and the main restriction ended up being the maximum salary we were allowed to offer (which had us have to give up on half a dozen candidates). (We offered people the chance to show us their FOSS contributions to skip the task, but even those with big reputation couldn't resist tackling the problem.)

That's 3 full time months of not doing ANY work, no output, just full time recruiting, for two people who were probably in the top 10% of the company in terms of compensation.

It's not just expensive in time but also politically, as the team has no output to show for the period.

Where McDowell is correct is in the context of a large company whose hiring needs are very different. But I think that if you are building a small team where every member counts, you have no alternative.
I'm really sorry, but I stopped reading when it was implied that the "good" engineers are the ones at Facebook/Google that went to MIT. If that's your idea of a necessary condition for "good" engineers, I think you deserve what you get.
For this purpose, it shouldn't be too hard. You don't need the evaluation results for deciding raises or promotions, and you don't need to compare employees to each other. You just need to determine if the hiring decision was correct. We can do it with a binary score:

0. Oops, shouldn't have hired.

1. AAA would hire again.

I suppose you could make finer distinctions (need to fire this person/we regret hiring but will work on it/meets expectations/exceeds expectations), but my point is that the golden standard for evaluating hiring decisions is whether the hire is adequate or not for the job. I mean, if someone gave you an oracle or a time machine that allowed you to evaluate the employee on the job for a while before hiring them, all your hiring problems would be solved. Now, if you cannot evaluate if someone is good enough for the job, then you have a bigger problem.
It's sad that this is a good way to fund fundamental research. Why is it that finance make more than what seems to be more important and useful like math or science!?
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Thanks! You know I still play my Game Boy Color? I've been beating Oracle of Ages/Seasons for the billionth time lately.
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Anyone happen to have a transcript or alternative site to view the video from? I'm stuck behind the GFW without a VPN, and I'd love to watch this now as opposed to waiting until I get back to the States.
Sure, but again, I think that's a consequence of absurd sentencing laws --- laws that are not in fact even reflective of how offenders are sentenced, but leave prosecutors with wildly inflated sentencing parameters to use as negotiating leverage.
>Much simpler type systems already have more than enough benefits to be worthwhile.

If that's your opinion, why did you ignore the fact that I addressed this in my original post? You accuse me of having a straw man argument, and yet you can't even engage with what I've written?

Anyway, you're right that neither of us is likely to convince the other, but I have really seen arguments that go like the one I described, and you're really doing me a disservice by ignoring the details of what I posted.
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Interesting. But this is probably an example of copyrighted content that isn't technically legal for youtube to host? (I do wish we didn't keep extending copyright, but we do...).
Proper metaphysics is very limited and has nothing to do with the supernatural. When physicists do their work they rely on such concepts as existence, identity, causality, the relation of consciousness to these. That's metaphysics.

To state that "the physical world came first" is to assert the primacy of existence in opposition to the primacy of consciousness (e.g. Descartes) -- that's correct and that's metaphysics.
Not fast enough!
This reminds me a lot of one of my favorite parts in any book:

It was a movie about American bombers in the Second World War and the gallant men who flew them. Seen backwards by Billy, the story went like this:
American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France a few German fighter planes flew at them backwards, sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. They did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground, and those planes flew up backwards to join the formation.

The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks. The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own, which were long steel tubes. They used them to suck more fragments from the crewmen and planes. But there were still a few wounded Americans, though, and some of the bombers were in bad repair. Over France, though, German fighters came up again, made everything and everybody good as new.
When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly so they would never hurt anybody ever again.

The American fliers turned in their uniforms, became high school kids. And Hitler turned into a baby, Billy Pilgrim supposed. That wasn't in the movie. Billy was extrapolating. Everybody turned into a baby, and all humanity, without exception, conspired biologically to produce two perfect people named Adam and Eve, he supposed.

(Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut)
Sometimes x << 3 is more readable than x * 8. It depends on why you are doing the shift/multiply.
This isn't how the law works, a court would most likely not treat this any different than directly violating the law
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The citizenship-stripping issue is obviously off topic, although I don't disagree that it's a bad law.
Are there really that many cases of startups saying "oh man, had we only picked tool x instead of tool y, we wouldn't have been dead by now" ?
Simons specifically talks about a) in the video, and how this limits them to a niche.
Why is this shocking? Most countries will do this. Look at all the former Nazi's who had their citizenship revoked in Canada and the US.

That's why they ask (at least in the US citizenship application) "Have you ever been a member of a terrorist organization?". If you answer "no" and turn out to be one, they say you lied on your application and your citizenship is revoked.
Also engaged in one of the most ridiculous tax dodges of all time. Uses a "derivative" with his brokers that allows a bunch of short term trades to be taxed at long term capital gains rates.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-07-01/simons-str...
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'cabal sandbox' came out like, a year ago? That was a huge improvement for my Haskell development experience, allowing local isolated environments like you get from npm or virtualenv.
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Ironically, the last time I complained about this practice on hacker news for exactly the reasons you described, somebody weighed into defend the practice, and an job applicant at his company weighed in to say "my application to your company was not even rejected, it was just ignored for months":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9437516
It's almost trivially easy to get to Australia as long as you work in an "in demand" sector: STEM, nursing, etc.

Source: I did it.
Does she have existing samples of writing that she can point to, not locked up under copyright?

If so, then I would point to those samples and suggest those should be relevant data for assessment and I'd like to get further in the process before putting in extra work for this.

If they're prepared to discuss the matter, great.

If they just give a blank 'sorry, this is our policy,' then walk away. Why? Because if they're not willing to have a discussion with you, that means they don't care about you. It means they think they have a hefty surplus of candidates. Which means you are very unlikely to be the chosen one, and you would probably just waste a lot of your time.