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does the survey check a few classes or a large sample?

Between folks still in graduate school, in their early careers, people who have left the workforce to have kids or pursue lower paying jobs because they have financial security, you might end up with a smaller group than you expect putting in all the hours to make top 1% income.

I have no reason to believe that there's any malice involved here.

I also think that incidents like this might become more common as the state of cyber warfare progresses. As engineers, we should take care to build secure software, especially when that software underlies important systems. We should impress upon non-technical management the importance of doing so, even if it may take a little more time or money in the short term.

the people displaced by the robots do, and more than ever.

I'm not sure why you don't consider stock in a public company that you can immediately sell every monthly vesting period liquid.

It's true that many tech workers are eventually affected by the contribution limit, but my understanding is that it's essentially always smart to contribute to tax-advantaged accounts while possible.

I wish I had done math. I got scared by 203.

the lower levels of optimizations are supposed to be more straightforward translations of the high-level language code. you can imagine this might be useful if you are debugging assembly.

When algorithms matter, you do get a lot of performance out of a better algorithm. But I actually recently wrote an admittedly not production ready trie extension in C and it was about five lines of SWIG to use it from python.

A lot of money to be sure, but he'd have an order of magnitude or two more if he were the last cofounder instead of the first employee.

The blog post is really excellent.

Logic is music production software.

One charity that I contribute to is GiveDirectly[1]. They are one of GiveWell's[2] highest rated charities and are quite transparent about the impact they have. GiveDirectly is also currently experimenting with basic income and have matching donations for that project.

[1] https://www.givedirectly.org/ [2] http://www.givewell.org/

I used Twilio to make a simple SMS wrapper around an app. It took maybe 30 minutes and I had never used it before. Very cool product.

Anyone can bake a cake. It's a lot harder to bake a billion cakes.

Is there a reason why nobody suggested the Rabin-Karp algorithm (modular hashing)? It is also no-backup and conveniently allows searching for multiple strings in the stream.

I believe it is not legal to use actual IQ tests in the U.S.

I definitely agree with this. It's very cool to see something you've built actually work more-or-less correctly. In science all I get are maybes.

posted behind a paywall on wired...

is the difference between a generator and the rest that generators are lazy?

this is a case of the programmer calling his function inside an assert macro, which disappears in the preprocessing step when you compile with -D NDEBUG

The folks here commenting about entrenched power structures should remember that Ed Felten (who put his name on the release) is not a career bureaucrat at all.

Can I use this with latex?

If there's one place where just about everyone I know has done job interviews, it's jane street. They cast a very wide net.

Arvind is one of my favorite profs. I look forward to reading it.