skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One of the "rules" is that nobody is allowed to talk about how he won.

If the goal of this thought experiment is to convince people that an AI can't be contained in a box, why keep his method secret?

And if only he, his friends, and supporters can verify that he has won, that's not a very strong claim.
The social pressure is a cop out. There's social pressure to drink alcohol, eat fast food, keep up with celebrities, etc. and there are plenty of people that don't do it. I think it's derogatory to women that we treat them like they can't think and act for themselves.

Half my team are women and they make more money on average then the guys because they don't take shit from anyone.

It doesn't matter if you are a man or a woman. You will never get what you don't ask for. It's in the best interest of every company to pay as little as the employee will take so every employee has to stand up for themselves.

We can't keep blaming "society" for things we need to do as individuals for ourselves.
At my first "adult" job, I was actually offered more than I asked for, because the employer used this thing where all employees should fit within limits of a median for any given position (they were ranked somehow so many positions shared same rank).
Thinkpad retro might a thing to look forward to:

http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog/retro-thinkpad-time-machine/
The issue is your employer has all the information on this. You are negotiating salaries at a disadvantage.

I find the idea that sharing salaries will cause drama highly suspect. Causing some to go and ask for equivalent pay is probably a good thing, managers don't have to go out and give you raises all the time, it's usually on you to push for it. With this information you can have a better idea of what to ask for and make negotiation more efficient.
I am struggling with the response to this. My questions are

1. Does the spreadsheet really cover 5% or so of google employees? If so it has pretty decent statistical validity despite selection bias etc?

2. Is the spreadsheet accurate, or at least will the reporting differences cancel out?

3. Assuming the above two are correct, and it seems fair to say yes, then whether she used Twitter, or is grinding an ace is totally irrelevant - Google has a fair pay problem, and really needs to deal with it.

On a personal note, a company is not a market. Class's theory of the firm says it eschews market discipline to achieve more efficient allocation of hard to judge resources. and as such I do not believe that saying "negotiate better" is a valid option for a company of this size. It's bad for everyone but the good negotiators.
wireless updates are cheaper than recalls.
Starving a Troll
3. sue Google
4 $$$
Even if this is true, this doesn't magically make it not a gender issue. What if women are generally given less leverage by default in negotiations? What if implicit gender biases have a chilling effect on women's expectations when they go to negotiate? What if women are discouraged from negotiating at all?

I think, given what I've seen so far, women are given less leverage to start with, they are subject to the chilling effects of gender biases, and they are discouraged from negotiating more often than not.

Sure, a woman can overcome these obstacles, but she shouldn't have these extra obstacles in the first place. The "pay gap" is almost certainly not due to managers thinking "oo I'll pay her less because she's a woman," but it is still indicative of some (more complex) gender inequality.
What happened to Sakai? When I was starting undergrad my university had just switched to it and it was supposed to be the next big thing.
Remote start I can see the reasoning for, but remote stop just seems to be asking for trouble.
You just have to get out there. You could try going to some meetups. You could go to probably any of the co working spaces and ask.
I've worked with Angular in the past few months and now I've started with React, I kind of like it till now.

Also I want to get more on the backend side so I've done some small projects with Node but I'm going to start to learn PHP and Symfony2 since there are no Node jobs where I'm from.

And generally I'm trying to improve the quality of my code, so I'm working slowly through Code Complete 2.
I like https://github.com/milkbikis/powerline-shell a lot too. In special my Bazaar-enabled fork: https://github.com/rbanffy/powerline-shell
I understand that this is the problem posited by this and many other articles. But right now we are almost certainly not even considering asking these questions of a self-driving car.

It doesn't have remotely the situational awareness and data to make an informed decision, let alone the capacity. I would be surprised if any of the first several generations do anything beyond trying to avoid a collision. Including lowering velocity much below what a human might in adverse conditions.

After that I expect that mitigating collision impact on the vehicles will be the next problem, since that is an engineering one. Such as optimal crash angles, etc.

We are a long way from our cars making deliberate life-or-death moral decisions. Before we get there we have many decisions they can make very effectively that have no moral component. Once their decisions begin taking into account morality, society will no doubt legislate, but let's worry about that then.
>"Don't you know what could happen?"

>Nothing. It's illegal to retaliate against employees for sharing salaries.

This answer in fantastic and I wish more technical people learned with this.

As a programmer, some managers assume(often rightly so) that you have no clue about laws, finance and business in general.
I've done this! You can see them with the naked eye quite easily. Just shine a light diagonally at the surface. I wouldn't bother reading them by hand though. You could take a photo of it with a digital camera then post-process it and stick it through mathematica or something.

However you might as well just use a card reader.

I used to hack stored value phone cards back in the very early 1990s. First they had an optical system which was easily circumventable with a torch a knife and some epoxy glue. Then there were the smart card ones which were easy to hack by scratching off the programming voltage pad on the card.

I got to the later mag strip cards like this and couldn't be bothered any more.
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You can use http://refract.mkelly.me/ to install Slack as a standalone web app (in Firefox and Chrome). I've done this to many service which I use frequently: Trello, IRCCloud, Messenger, Inbox, etc. and it works really well. The added benefit is that I don't need to be logged into these services on my main profile.
It is a negotiating problem, and I think that that is an issue (be it gender-related or not). It rewards competitive thinking over cooperative thinking - people who'd rather work in a fair and equal environment are more likely to accept the same salary they perceive others will get - i.e. usually the proposed salary. Competitive minds have less qualms about claiming higher rewards.

Mechanisms like publishing salaries allows for a fairer salary whether you are cooperative or competitive. If you earn more, you probably can justify it in front of colleagues and bosses.

Some say cooperation over competition is a 'female' trait, but personally, I feel the same. I am successful at negotiation, but I'd rather know that my colleagues earn the same when they work the same, which is why I try to encourage talk about salaries.
Perhaps it was too direct a rebuttal... in my perspective I view any proclivity to "vice" as intrinsic to the nature of societies & human curiosity. This is, thus far, corroborated by the behavioral sciences.

In that model there are two essential approaches (aside from negligence) one can take: enforcement or empathy. The former says "it is in the greater good for this to be restricted," without paying much mind to the individual. The latter focuses instead on the individual or condition and says "how can I help this individual transition from a destructive state to a healthy one and/or integrate them into society?"

I think we see the enforcement approach fail when banned activities can't be clearly demonstrated to cause acute harm. It's easy to stand behind a law designed to restrict a deadly substance, reduce drunk driving, et al. -- that gets harder when you start restricting abstract behaviors that don't have graphic or clearly-definable consequences (e.g. a drunk individual behind the wheel of a car is a simple and acute danger; I challenge you to quantify the impact of a generalized, individual "gambler" on society).

Regardless of your own value associations, we as humans are dynamic creatures and "laws" are static values -- that is to say they exist on a spectrum of opposing force that occasionally shifts dramatically in one direction. I think we're seeing that shift now through the lens of the failed "war on drugs," in how innate these behaviors are to our biology. You may feel better banning an activity that you feel is destructive, but you shouldn't be so naive as to assume your ban will have any effect on individual human motivation when dopamine is involved--it's deferring the problem, and distracting from the factors that predispose an individual to "destructive behavior" in the first place.

I do think enforcement is necessary (re: balance, the key to everything in society), but it's hard to argue that the "war on drugs" (as an example) has done anything other than establish a black market global economy, the supply chains of which bring instability and violence to much of South/Central America... not to mention the egregious legal precedents toward non-violent offenders we have set in our own country under the guise of reform and in the interest of subsidizing for-profit prisons.

If we're really interested in improving our quality of life as a society, maybe we shouldn't regulate "activities" so much as how we respond to them in terms of statute and precedent...
Not that it matters and it was already said elsewhere, but peer bonus can be awarded only once for one thing. And it makes sense in a 50k+ company, where some social interaction happens and a single person can become peer-bonus-celebrity easily. It's not a good thing to incentivize :) Also if I were a manager sifting through some kind of peer bonus app I'd too be tempted to mark all as rejected after a while.

There was a book recently, Work rules! by Laszlo Bock who happens to be a head of people operations. He describes exactly those inequality patterns. It's nothing unusual, some of it is accepted (some people earn more for their higher value) and some not (woman not asking for a raise so easily). Seriously, just go and read a book, not some stream of contextless tweets gathered together.
This is like telling me that water is wet. Water is wet. Assholes are assholes. Companies stretching or breaking the law with respect to retaliation are companies stretching or breaking the law with respect to retaliation. Smug HN commentators are smug HN commentators.

None of this actually says anything about whether she acted correctly, or incorrectly, or whether the company behaved with propriety, or whether information wants to be free, or anything else that--to borrow a phrase from the original HN guidelines--“piques one’s intellectual curiosity."

Here’s my contribution to “she got exactly what she should expect:” Americans got exactly what they should expect when they refused to pay taxes to the King.

What happened next? Why did things turn out that way. What might have happened instead? What could have been done to prevent it from happening? What could have been done to make it happen with less bloodshed?

Those are the interesting questions to ponder.
In charge of truth? Google considers ranking sites on facts, not popularity
All the articles submitted seemed to be falling off the "new" page with 4 or 5 points and seemed to be the only things on "new" getting upvotes.
adding the sort option to ls may help you there:
$ ls -hS
Free Monoids
I would agree but I think there is something about a person who believes in themselves enough to negotiate that can be a differentiator. For instance, my coworker is a total slacker, comes in late and leaves early. I come in early and leave late and take on extra work. Someone who is determined enough to feel they are worth more money will probably statistically work harder. I know it isn't the same for all people, but I would bet that the majority of people who ask for more money work harder.
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Oh yeah, my only minor grumblings against it are lack of one or two clients, I think with Slack's case I'd like to see them make an official client, with $160m in funding I'm sure there is leeway to get an official linux client in the works. Thanks for the slk link, gonna check it out! :)
If your employer said to your colleague 'look bronxcoder asked for and received a raise and you both work equally hard so you will get the raise too' - would you be annoyed or happy ?

I think is much more ethical to treat people like this but maybe your colleague isn't doing such a good job as you.
the powerline thing looks awesome, i gotta try that!
No they aren't. Plenty of people here know someone who works at Google.
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UPDATE 21/07/2015:

Hi all. I wanted to post a quick update based on some of your fantastic feedback.

As of today, I have released a new update (you should get it automatically without needing to update the app). This update includes the following:

- Ability to delete your account from the settings screen

- Improvements to the way measurements are saved (server side)

- Ability to save measurements in cm or inches (more to come on this, including an account settings preference for metrics)

I am aiming to change the login screen background this week along with a couple of other minor tweaks before I go away for a long weekend.

Thanks again
Tom
>My first thought was "Try describing the internet to someone 100 years ago - your claim that there is going to be an interconnected global network of electricity-powered adding machines that transport pictures of moving sex by pretending they are made of numbers is going to sound stupid."

Because you're limiting yourself to a single sentence. How about this: "The internet is essentially an expansion of the concept of a telegraph - it is already possible to pass any type of information between two distant people almost instantly. The internet combines this system of information transfer with machines that know how to respond to messages without human intervention - under the condition that the messages follow a certain set of rules. By defining these rules in advance, the telegraph system, which up to now only transferred individual letters, can be co-opted to send things such as pictures and films. The machine can tell who is speaking with it, and perform tasks for that particular person upon request."

This does not sound stupid - it might take some explaining, but anyone with a brain between their ears can understand the basic concept of fast information transfer. They might not think of all of the possible uses of such an invention right away, but I bet that they would easily understand the uses if they were explained in terms of things these people already know.
What happens is that your spreadsheet won't be properly adjusted for all factors, people will look for bias, claim discrimination, and get a big bully to fine your company (and look caring and compassionate while doing it)
What do you mean, grad level math analysis? Much of probability theory can be learned with basic multivariate calculus. (Perhaps there's a terminology misunderstanding here - when I see "grad level" I think "grad school," ie masters/phd). Certainly basic probability theory is a plus.
There's a book called Theory of Poker that covers all of this. Gets into all of the math involved, how it changes throughout the game, how it changes in different games, etc.

Basically it boils down to a solid system in limit poker where raises are controlled. One huge raise in a no limit game skews the pot odds so badly that mathematically it almost always means you should fold and that makes no limit a great game for the WSOP.
More green energy is being produced as a result of this project. How is that a bad thing or waste of money? People save a little money and help create clean energy. More companies like Yeloha, the better.

The main issue with your first point is that big utilities in the states lack incentive to push for renewables. So yes, all of the actual power will still come from the grid but that's how the entire industry is structured. Federal and state incentives that help make commercial and residential solar affordable demand that energy flow onto the grid. This company sounds like they've got a nice angle on increasing the adoption of solar and there's nothing wrong about that.
> - Many of the best poker players in the world have bankrupted or have had to take deep loans to continue playing.'

That's because it turned out that those players weren't actually the best players in the world. Poker saw a huge birth of statistical analysis from 2002-2008 when Online Poker was legal/legal enough in the US. People who only played live (in person at a casino) their entire career might only play 50k-200k hands. When online poker came about you could play 200k hands in a month. It turns out these so called "best in the world players" were just on a really good run. It also turns out it takes millions upon millions of hands to really find out if you're truly a winner or just benefitting from the good side of variance.

This affect gets even worse because the so-called "Best players in the world" were MTT players and MTTs have the highest statistical variance of all. I have friends who are still poker pros. Next to Asian businessman, the only other player they would rather have at their tables are "Television Pros."
She shouldn't have been reprimanded for creating the spreadsheet. Upper management is always terrified of information they don't control.
And those stories are.. also completely unverifiable?
That's so cute. I bet you also have a link that says union-busting is illegal, too.

I'm not making a normative statement about the way things "ought to be", I'm making a positive statement about the way things "actually are" across most of the world (http://beta.tutor2u.net/economics/reference/positive-and-nor...). Shoot the messenger if you like.
I admit I'm not a researcher but this is seems shotty. First, the abstract does a better job - http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/07/08/1505063112.shor....

Second, as some other have pointed out, what exactly is self control? What exactly do you do with that self control? This seems to me a little like saying that workers who take 10min breaks from work all have shorter life spans. Only to forget those 10min breaks are to smoke cigarettes. (I believe this contrived example is from Naked Statistics).

What's next, "Diet and exercise forecast better physical outcomes but faster epigenetic aging in low-SES youth"?

The results are interesting, sure, but warrant a lot more research before an article like this makes any sense.

Thoughts?
You can only buck the IT dept requests for so long. Eventually you run out of enlightened and powerful users to sell to and you start having to cross all the t's and dot all the i's the all-powerful IT dept wants. In so many large institutions (edu, healthcare, enterprises) it is IT and not the end users that have final say.
> you can't blame them or accuse them of being hypocrite when they do what they believe makes sense for them

Well, the whole definition of being a hypocrite is to subscribe to a belief for others while doing something entirely for yourself.
The same shift to focus on security is happening with medical devices and the FDA. Maybe that's one place to look for success and failure.
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The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky is the SICP of poker.
A kidnapping led to every car trunk getting an escape release
Ask HN: How do I become more productive as a programmer?
I'm a mediocre programmer in my early 30's with 10+ years of web development under my belt and a senior title. When I was younger and more junior, my rate of development was never a problem. As I get older, I've noticed that the rate at which I spit out code has slowed down. I think through tasks a bit more thoroughly now and do more prep work before coding. I believe the solutions I come up with are better, faster and easier to maintain than anything I came up with in my youth. But, all management sees is that it takes me longer to finish an equivalent task than the rest of my peers.

Is this something I need to work on to be competitive in my field? Or is this a case of companies trying to squeeze more value out of their employees? And if I do need to increase my rate of development, what's the best way to do that?
>>> people are gonna keep thinking the modern web sucks

Yeah, people who are too old to learn new things and/or hipsters. Use curl to browse the web as far as I'm concerned.

Meanwhile, Google search does instant results, Facebook comments don't trigger a page refresh and Youtube is an SPA. Seriously, the web has evolved, there's no point to these complaints. What exactly is the complaint again?
Blackboard is also known for harassing and suing its competitors based on frivolous patents, and for fixing prices. A mobile app and a UX redesign are nice, but hardly sufficient, when they're funded by those kinds of practices.
I believe the comment about improper journalism is about wired's take on the topic
I want to travel to Thailand and India and Japan. If churning didn't exist id be buying tickets in coach.

So I am going to travel anyways, there just happens to be a way that's both cheaper and more comfortable.
Really? According to what study? I don't think I've ever discussed the topic of salary negotiation socially in my entire life.
I spoke to my manager about our pay gap a while ago and he said that I showed much more initiative during the interview process than my coworker did. I have more polished side projects than he has, scored better on the entrance test, etc.

He told me that I was worth the extra money but if I hadn't asked for it, he wouldn't have given it to me extra money.
I agree, and I actually think a better word for `bind` is `then`.

For anyone unfamiliar, the `then` of Promises corresponds to the monadic `bind` or `flatMap` (if the given function returns a Promise) or the functorial `map` (if the given function returns a plain value).

A monad then is just the interface shared between Promises (`then` and `resolve`, collections (`flatMap` and `wrap`), etc.

The hard part for me was visualising the pattern for more complicated types like parsers (functions from strings to results) and continuations.
Good point about the quality and price of hotels varying according to the city. Guess Airbnb business will be more successful in places like London than Berlin or Lisabon (Lisboa?).
Then i did not get the point.

Yes, I also follow the free ways, but in case of things, traveling and other stuff. It's good to save some money. But THIS my friend is called stealing and it should not be supported.
I think a basic idea should be: panic stops disconnect all wireless access.

Which will probably result in lots of calls from people after they avoid hitting a dog. But still.
We don’t say “plane accident.” We shouldn’t say “car accident” either
That's really nice. Dan Cremer is impressive.

Here's a great Laboratory on Amazon ML for Human Activity Recognition (w/ Python). https://cloudacademy.com/amazon-web-services/labs/aws-machin...

Totally worth a look.
theres a second page where she says it explicitly