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If people are invalidating your hardships because of your privilege, they are wrong. But that doesn't mean the term isn't useful.

"Having Privilege Refers to Systematic Benefits for Your Identity (But the Same Identity Trait May Still Attract Incidents of Prejudice)"

http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/07/what-privilege-really-me...
The title of the post is Privilege and Inequality in Silicon Valley. But the post proves that there isn't. So at best, the title is terrible.
About the cost:

A $9 C.H.I.P. (virtually un-google-able name, btw, absolutely terrible for noobs) comes with a standard RCA video cable. It has built-in WiFi and 4GB of NAND storage.

You need peripherals. Using USB stuff means you'll need a powered USB adapter (<$10 on Amazon). You can also use bluetooth. I like the bluetooth keyboards with a built-in trackpad. That's $20 and great for ease of use and flexibility. You can pop the chip on an empty video input (because most other devices are using HDMI) and just keep the keyboard on the coffee table. No cables, no mess.

You'll need a USB power supply for the device itself. I find it hard to believe that most people can't scrounge one up from an old smartphone, or is able to find one at Goodwill, but let's call that $10.

For monitor, used is definitely the way to go. CRT displays are practically free, as well as older liquid crystals. If you really need a new device, you can definitely spend less than $50 as the resolution of the device is still going to be the limiting factor.

So, with shipping for the CHIP, that's $35 for the average person that does have a USB power supply and junky TV.
"How long do you say the sun had left?"

"...5 billion years."

"Whew, that's OK, I though you said 5 million!"
I had a similar experience starting life with opportunity debt. Single parent family whose mother had no high school education. Have ADD and dyslexia, moved around a lot with a good part my life in subsidized housing, and never graduated from high school. No one teaches you the basics, so that when you do start coming into your own and taking control of your own life you are so incredibly behind your peers socially, politically, and intellectually. I eventually went to community college as a mature student, eventually made my way to university, did a masters and then a PhD at Yale. Through it all I was always one or two steps behind and so many opportunities were missed because I didn't have money. Similarly, now as an entrepreneur I find myself being a little more conservative because you've been through a lot of bad times without a safety net.
Does that surprise you? As far as I know, they are underrepresented in medicine, finance, and law as well.

There is more mobility than most people realize, but it's not like employment approaches anything near a random distribution. Given the potential advantages of being born into a wealthier class (both hereditary and non-hereditary), I would expect to see underrepresentation.
> dismantling even the stars themselves

It's unclear whether that's actually feasible from an energy balance perspective. You'll need a lot of energy to re-arrange things on that scale. Each star is already sitting at the bottom of its own local energy well.

Maybe the far future will discover radically new ways to produce energy - but until then, this whole thing about the wave of computronium flooding the universe is pure speculation.
Compared to age of Galaxy, Life on this planet has been brief. Also, aren't something like 99.99% of all species extinct?
Liu Cixin's The Dark Forest, the second book in his 3-body problem trilogy, posits a similar philosophy: resources are limited so civilizations annihilate other civilizations. So if an alien civilization knew about earthlings, they will destroy earth ASAP if they are capable, lest the earthlings come after their resources.

This is also why some people believe we should not try to make contact with intelligent alien life. They believe broadcasting our location is dangerous.
Yes! The problem is, alternative implementations are also meta-programming tricks! Template meta-programming techniques like 'C++ Traits' and 'Curiously recurring template pattern'. Both are being used in the performance-critical places by the way (think Eigen library, etc).

Is there some other alternative that allows 'compile-time static overrides' with relatively clean syntax?
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I think getting into one of the big three accelerators is the best way to get founder friendly terms.
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> 5 billion years

The Sun will get significantly hotter over the next 1 billion years. Life on Earth will become impossible (unless artificially maintained) quite a while before the end of that 1 billion year interval.
Aliens jump sideways in - and out. Forget about distance.
Industrial civilization may not last very long. Industrial civilization on Earth is only about 200 years old. A useful starting point is the first time a railroad train carried paying passengers. There were earlier demos and prototypes, but think of that as the moment the Industrial Revolution got out of beta. Progress up to then was very slow. Progress after that was very fast.

About 75 years ago, progress reached the point that a substantial dent could be made in the planet's resources. Until then, human activity just wasn't large scale enough. Now, we can see the end in sight for many resources. On a scale of centuries, most mineral resources run out.

The high-power, heavy industry phase of life may have an expiration date that's closer in time than the founding of Oxford University.
I would say the balance should be a 10:1 where 10 is learning (books, articles, HN, docs, playing around...) and 1 is actually doing the work.
aka, "I have no idea what the word privilege means".

Just like every one of these god damn threads. You just flat out don't know what the word privilege means.

paulv's comment is better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10956283

I have privilege. I have a lot of it because I'm white, straight-appearing, and grew up with access to a computer at the age of 6.

I also lack privilege in some ways because I am gay. I actually have some minor privilege as being gay (I won't likely be accused of sexually or otherwise assaulting a female).

Privilege is not a zero sum game. It's not an accusation. It's not a bad thing, inherently. It's something to be aware of.

And then there are people like you get immediately get defensive. IM NOT A RACIST I DONT NEED THIS. It one, makes you look like you're projecting... and two, is completely missing the point.
It's the same way BackBlaze makes money yet sells unlimited backup for $5/mo. If everyone had 1TB backups, it wouldn't work, just like it wouldn't work if Ali only sold 3 cent buttons.
Bloviating presentation of anecdata. This problem may be getting worse, or better: there's no real evidence here, just scaremongery.
Then why the fuck do we keep killing ourselves?

Seriously, if we taught this level of intelligent-life appreciation to every born soul... the world would be a better place.

Rather than starting with the teachings we do for youngsters; why not just teach them how freaking rare and lucky they are to be a consciousness present to hear that fact and then know that they can then expand the known universe... but do this in a much more deliberate fashion than we are now?

We need to be much much more deterministic from a species if we will survive for eons.
Generally the rule is that you can't return the board to the position it was last in, but some rule sets extend it to any position it was ever in to avoid a few pathological scenarios. Without this infinite loops can exist.
This sounds very familiar.

When I was in University I didn't understand why some people didn't care about grades and partied so much.
When we left school and got into the real world I understood why: they had rich parents with contacts that could get them good jobs or seed capital for their own businesses.

I had lots of ideas and worked in a lot of startups for more than 10 years but now the following phrase from the article describes my situation very well:

"Most of the time, potential founders who share my background tend to work at lucrative jobs in finance or tech until they can take care of everyone in their families before they even dream about taking more risks — if they ever get there."
I hate to be cynical, but reading an article like this makes me chuckle to myself thinking about how much vitriol is still spewed at Java for its over-engineering dark ages.

I start to have flashbacks when an innocent sounding article like this has so much word soup that it has to be cross-referenced against half a dozen other technologies.

For Javascript's sake, I propose we skip the phase where we implement Enterprise JS Beans, and go straight to Spring JS so we can all finally get some work done.
Have traction. Accelerators, mentors, and good connections help too but traction is the #1 thing.

Traction is press/attention, user growth, and revenue growth in that order and with exponentially increasing importance in that order. Lots of good traction trumps college degrees, credentials, work history, connections, you name it, at least with knowledgeable and rational investors. You don't want stupid or irrational investors.

Also don't be afraid to say no if the terms are bad. When you're talking to investors you are interviewing them too. They're going to be partners. (I don't care what anyone says-- all non-trivial investors become partners though they vary in how hands-on they are. This is even more true at seed than later.) If the terms are bad or you can't work with these people walk away.
Ask HN: Are academic degrees the last refuge of a scoundrel?
I've worked in the Software industry for 10+ years and I've seen all types of Engineers. It seems to me that the more someone boasts about their school or major, the more the person is full of crap. Has anyone else had the same experience?
A lot of newbies get stuck in what I call a "tutorial loop": They finish some mediocre/hand-holding tutorial, but they don't feel like they can write anything yet, so they go to another one, and another one, etc. They never end up building anything because they preoccupied with being "ready" before doing anything.

I say, stop reading tutorials, hit up the documentation/IRC, and build something. Won't be easy but that's how you learn!
"Freemium?"
I completely disagree with your summarization. The emphasis is on understanding both the problem domain and, more importantly, the codebase. Understanding the problem domain may come from reading books, but it may come from asking senior members of your team, too. Understanding the code base will not come from an appreciation of the theoretical, however. Modifying code whose interactions you don't have a solid understand of is a recipe for disaster, but occurs all too often.
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There's one problem here:

..(my response is) "yeah, that is a problem"

Well, no, not always. There are two huge problems with the whole "you are privileged therefore.." argument, so much so that I question the value of even using it:

- They extrapolate the general to the individual, which is unfair for the same reason that all prejudice is unfair.

- It's used disgustingly often as a throwaway attack to silence people. (In essence: You're privileged, shaddap) - The same people would use this to attack the author of this article, based on what's immediately visible about him (white male), without knowing a damn thing about his struggle.

For a very good recent example of this, look at what happened at Missouri U in the news.

I think the hardest part is probably recognizing that when people talk about privilege, it's really not personal...

If only I could believe that. My experience on the greater internet in the last few years is that, perhaps nine times out of ten, anyone using the word intends it as an attack on a group (their intentions, however noble, are irrelevant), and the other time, it gets the serious, thoughtful treatment we see here.
Yes, you pay less in taxes because your expenses are higher and now have less profit to be taxed.
> "We have already more than once expressed our opinion, that the first duty of men of all parties, Democrats and Republicans, -- is to lay aside all their political differences and rally to the support of the Constitution and the Union, -- to insist that the Union shall be preserved, not as a matter of favor but of duty: -- and that when this result has been secured, it will be in order to consider what new guarantees or concessions are due to the South and essential to the public peace."

I love how different the writing is in old articles like this. The complexity of the sentences compared to today's news writing is crazy.
You'll be sad to know that Kronos continues to make life miserable for employees and managers in businesses around the world.
I didn't have to do migration, but there are aliases[0] for those who do. Again, I haven't used it so I'm kind of recommending something I haven't touched, but maybe it'll help you out.

[0]https://gohugo.io/extras/aliases/
Multi-threading is hard, let's go shopping![1] It'd be great if Google Play Store wasn't janky on a modest 1.5 GHz A53, even with eight cores on tap, but if even Google can't do it with their first party apps, what hope do mere mortal app developers have?

[1] And it'll stay that way so long as mobile platforms are based on JS/Obj-C/Java.
More tests.

* NIX

NIX*

NIX*

\NIX*

\\NIX*

(print (+ * (i "NIX")))

EDIT: Darn, I was almost sure the last one would activate one of pg's old routines here. Note that the asterisk disappeared when a backslash came first. Did get NIX italicized but couldn't get rid of the space. Let me try something...

EDIT 2: Didn't work. May not be possible due to formatting rule here. Be nice if they modified it to add an escape code or something to let us drop an arbitrary asterisk.
One guy made it up the mountain by walking instead of taking the gondola. So it must be easy! Inequality solved!
We could use ﹡these﹡ instead. U+FE61, small asterisk.

We could use ∗these∗ instead. U+2217, asterisk operator.

Interestingly, U+2731, heavy asterisk, is stripped by HN it seems.

But to be honest, none of them feel the same as the one true *. I looked at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_supersc... hoping there was a way to elevate and scale down a character by some special code to make it look like a regular asterisk but didn't see any. Also, with unusual code points, font support is generally lacking so to some readers of HN, the above mentioned variations will probably render as something such as just squares. Furthermore, one of those I used above mess with apparent line spacing for me.
You're right, that's a good example. Thanks!
Yes, it sounded like you were explaining it away, to turn it back into "X people got N jobs at $rate". For example, what entity is going to do this "tighter oversight" that you suggest? How is that going to work? And so until this entity that does tighter oversight comes along, why should companies get a pass on screwing their workers?

"Well, I would condemn them screwing their employees, but since there's no official entity to watch them, we can't make a moral judgement"?
Remember when people coming from the DOS/Windows world would say "reverse-backslash"?
What benefit is there to hiring someone that could retire pretty much at any minute? Or someone who didn't have the foresight to plan for their future in a manner that allowed them to retire at a reasonable age?
Where do you get the estimate of "once or twice per galaxy"? I can agree that it might be "rare," but I have no idea how you would pin down the rareness to that level of accuracy.
Couldn't hurt, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't really solve the problem.

The author was poor, but appeared to have a positive, if difficult home life. Mentoring would have helped the knowledge problem, but his problem was lack of resource above everything else.

Lack of resource leads to instability, and it taints literally everything you do, even mentally.

I know, I know, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. It's not me you have to convince.
Our view of life in the universe is subjective, we compare it with the only place we know it exists, earth, probably life exists in many forms not limited to how we know it or how we would expect it to evolve so probably not all life might be brief how earthers might think.

We are amazed how life exists in the most hostile places on earth and how it was able to adapt to very harsh conditions, probably life in universe is also full of surprises.
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I think there is a flipside to this too though. If you're not wealthy, you're less worried about living on start-up income. I think you particularly see this among immigrants who realize how incredibly wealthy even the poor in America are by internatiomal standards. People with this perspective are much more willing to drive an old beat up car and share a room relative to someone who feels pressure to keep up with their wealthy friends and family in the suburbs.

Edit: few people work in start-ups as well, so it is probably easy to run into confirmation bias looking at the people you know in your life
This makes me sad. Literally the whole point of 'strings' is for poking around in unknown files, and they managed to break even that.
Cruise (YC W14) is hiring software engineers to keep self-driving cars connected
author Yes, "PLATFORM" should be clearly marked with uppercase. Fixed. Thank you.

There have to be some kind of "-DPLATFORM=arm" definition, one have to tell to the compiler in some way what hardware we are running on...
Apple made more revenue from iPhone in a single quarter than Google ever (9to5mac.com)
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Than Google ever ... made from Android.

> [T]here are some qualifications which explain the huge discrepancies somewhat. Most notably, Google doesn’t really make or sell its own hardware. Almost all Android revenue is derived from the Google Play Store developer revenue share (like Apple, Google has a 70/30 split) or ads shown from Google's phones.
There's lots of evidence, and older engineers are very vulnerable. If you are an engineer over 55 who gets let go, you'd better have investments and rental income, or you'll lose everything.
I think its more likely the government was testing military equipment.
Sounds about right, when I left my last games gig I had to toss ~3mo of PTO because the company refused to pay it out(yay WA employment law) despite it being a specific benefit.

I never had a chance to use it since we were crunching so much that it just accrued until I left.
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That's true, and you're right. Just a shot in the dark. Maybe someday one of the trendier email clients will support markdown rendering natively in their editors.
The problem with this reasoning is that it considers this to be true: if intelligent life exists, we are gonna be able to understand its intelligence.

What if there exist an intelligent life, so intelligent that their level of intelligence compared to ours is like comparing ours with...cats. We all know small genetic mutations can have huge impact. So huge they might just be technically/biologically out of reach.

So maybe an intelligent life exists out there, but they are so ahead of us that we are not even capable of understanding how. Like a little cat watching a car thinking maybe it's an animal.
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Ng is an awesome lecturer, very easy to follow.
"but building and sustaining a company that is “designed to grow fast” is especially hard if you grew up desperately poor"

Most people don't have the money or resources to build a company like this, which is why we have VC. They know you are in a desperate situation and exchange the money that you need for a % of the company.

The better thing to do is choose a solid business idea that can be built slowly and at a certain point, put money you make from this venture into an idea that needs more capital to succeed.
A series of unproven theories as a basis for a new theory that further unproven theories can be based on. The cornerstone of modern science.

There really needs to be more documented, observable data before there can be any remotely credible theory about how abundant or desolate our universe is of life. Using such observable data (we know the name) we could only surmise that in 100% of solar systems with a similar sun, bearing a planet at an adequate distance from it's sun, will not only support life, but would have life.

Common sense[?] would dictate that's very unlikely, but there's no scientific basis yet to even theorize otherwise until we can find a way to get that data. To come up with absolutes about planets such distances away is foolish given we don't know half a shit about the planets right next to us.
> One PaaS with developers in mind is https://nodechef.com It would be interesting to see how they do.

Is this your product? All of your comments are about it.
Except that we have a very big moat. I liked David Brin's take on this in Existence, where anything sent such a long way is likely to resemble a virus.
Ha! I was looking for one of those in character map! Quit when one glitched me. The second one is pretty close. I agree that none look right compared to the real one.

"Furthermore, the ones I used above mess with apparent line spacing."

Yeah, yeah, that's the glitch I was talking about. Dropped 2-3 lines on me and I couldn't even see the character.

Note: We could use the second one in comments the way people use asterisks. Just to screw with people who will wonder why ours are showing. If they ask about it, just act like it looks fine on your end: all italics. Haha.
Ha! But it does solve the 'this rare event happened here on Earth but it is very unlikely to happen anywhere' because those little single cells came here from somewhere else. That source infected millions of planets.

It moves the problem of starting everywhere to starting in one place (more likely)
> Witnesses claim to have observed a huge V-shaped (several football field sized), coherently-moving dark UFO (stars would disappear behind the object and reappear as it passed by), producing no sound, and containing five spherical lights or possibly light-emitting engines

Do you really think the military has this kind of technology?
I made up the "Schumpeter curve" thing, so you're unlikely to find it, I'd think. Of course it refers to how long the product/company will be alive and relevant.

It wears on people, but guys in combat get used to other people in their outfit dying eventually. This is nothing compared to that.

I am extremely sympathetic with wanting it to work better, but again, that which cannot be easily measured does not exist.

An alternate strategy is to do this surreptitiously and present it as a fait accompli, but that has risks.
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