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Ask HN: Finishing up internship, what next?
Hi All,

I am going into my last year of college after finishing up an SWE internship at a big company (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc.) and I realized it's really not for me (don't really feel like my work matters / want more breadth). I even took myself out of the interview process about halfway through with two of other big tech companies. It was always my goal to work at "one of the best" tech companies and now that I've done it and found out I don't like it, I feel a little lost on what to do next (I know, maybe not the best goal). My work wasn't exciting and I didn't enjoy going to work (even with fancy perks) as I didn't really want to solve the problems I was working on. I love solving problems and have worked on numerous side projects (small to bigger, some generating small revenue), but I don't think I want to work on any much more than I have. I think a smaller company might be better as I think that the mission of the whole company is very important. I don't really care very much about job security or work hours, I just want to work on a product I care about with people who are just as passionate.

Question I have:
How can I figure out all the companies that are out there that might be working on things I find exciting?
What does the day to day look like of small startup employee (<10) vs. venture backed (50 - 500) vs. non-startup startups venture backed (500 - 5000)?
Also would love to hear advice from anyone who has been in my position.

Thanks
Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class [0] explains this best as a leftover modern desire by the gentry to emulate the nobility by engaging in conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure. (A massively inadequate summary of the argument, to be sure.) [1]

Veblen specifically talks in detail about the practice of maintaining manicured lawns. I read it thirty years ago, but remember it as being hilarious. He's one of my favorite Norwegians (admittedly a short list).

[0] http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/833

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Clas...
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No sheep? What bothers me is that a lawn was meant for food for sheep. Without sheep or other ruminants, there is no purpose. Man was never meant to mow.
I don't see your point. If the Oz banks are way ahead, why do they need to form a cartel? Your argument implies that Apple will fail to displace them. Maybe so. But then they are being silly acting threatened...

None of the banks need to sign up at all. No existing customers need to use Apple Pay. All this is entirely opt in. So why any fuss at all? Hmmm...
According to the link, it seems the banks just want to be able to use the NFC chip in their own apps.
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> simplified memory architecture (no cache?)

No automatic cache hierarchy. There is local memory, which you manage explicitly. More info here:

https://www.nervanasys.com/nervana-engine-delivers-deep-lear...
Wow, mind = blown a bit.

What a great thesis project, I hope something good comes of it. It's incredible both how much resolve people can have to change their circumstances and how detached I am from parts of the world and society sitting here in my kitchen on my MacBook.
It's rent-seeking because they are using their control of the phone to force out their competitors in an orthogonal market.

They are providing a useful service, no question - but they should allow competition. If they are providing the best service, it won't matter anyway.
Especially considering some of these coins came from a lot seized from the FBI agents (Carl Force was one) who tried to pocket it during the Ross Ulricht case. ;) The risk of something unethical happening here isn't just high... it's already happened to this exact merchandise.
What PeCaN is driving at, is that saying something like you "have no doubt that it will revolutionize the entire field," is simply hyperbole that is not supported. We'll see. Nervana didn't really gain that much traction, which is why it's being acquired. Intel hasn't had much of a deep learning presence so far, which is why they are acquiring.
Well, yes. Horses are interesting even when ridden by people wearing silly costumes.
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Wouldn't your results show as being dramatically lower than your purchased speeds, then?
That would backfire in a hurry :)
Looking forward to the days I can compile code with a "-Oe" to optimize for energy efficiency. ;-)
Sealed bids are kinda beneficial here incase they only have one serious bidder.
In government and other large bureaucracies, it's difficult to get into trouble because even a half witted person can deflect blame around to make it difficult to actually censure anyone.

With stuff like this or filling out time sheets/expense reports, it's really clear cut. Employee X signed the form to declassify document Y.

Since people in charge of bureaucracies like to figuratively torture and execute bearers of bad news, it's easier to err on the side of inaction.
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I am no lover of Trump or Clinton.

This is just more of the same-same of the incest between politics and business. I don't understand why more US citizens don't vote third party, even if they think it only affects the two standing parties. So what, Trump wins if you vote third party, or Hillary wins. To me they are not really different when you realize the changes they can actually affect when in office. What they say is very different, but in the end, they change little.

The pragmatism of voting for the lesser evil, is congruent with the colloquial definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over, and yet, expecting different results.

I would have voted for Bernie Sander even though I am more of a capitalist than socialist. I have many friends who have voted third party, or independent, due to the lack of choice in their and my opinion.
Slightly off-topic, how did this get picked by Yahoo? Do they get enough editorial freedom to publish something that doesn't favour their CEO? I'm pleasantly surprised for one.

Could this also mean the editorial team believes this to be true?
> None of the banks have the expertise to safely implement NFC on my phone. They deploy equipment built by others, using transaction models designed by others, and simply collect money for making sure the systems are functioning.

This is an important point worth re-emphasizing. This isn't a case of Apple vs Banks, it's a case of Apple vs Various Technology Integrators With Multiple Layers Of Subcontractors.
I have a large backyard lawn in Northern California. The water bill in summer months crosses $200 (and that doesn't count the gardeners), but it's worth every penny. The lawn is the centerpiece of the house. People play on it, camp on it, picnic on it, and lounge on it all the time. As far as I'm concerned, it's a gorgeous backyard with an afterthought of a house attached. Sometimes my wife and I sleep in a tent overnight just for fun.

I find articles like this somewhat offensive. Different people are motivated by different things; who is the author to make such far-reaching claims? I'm sympathetic to people who want to replace their lawns, but I also respect people who prefer to enjoy theirs. Why does this need to become a moral crusade?
So you're saying that a 91 year old (I'm being conservative in assuming your hypothetical agent was at least one years old at the time of their mission) is a good reason to maintain the classification of state secrets that have most assuredly out-lived anyone else involved?
That story was awesome! Thank you for sharing it. I read the whole thing over cups of Vietnamese coffee in between bouts of zipping round HCMC on a motorcycle, which felt strangely appropriate.

I kind of love the idea of hacker tourism, and I wish I could find more journalism of this type. A character somewhere between enthusiast/gonzo/reporter on a seemingly obscure quest that leads to unexpectedly deep reflections on the world we inhabit.
>> I simply cannot imagine picking an unidentified piece of fruit from the ground and eating it.

I absolutely share your astonishment. It seems reckless beyond all justification, especially given that this incident occurred in a land foreign to the author. I'd like to give the author props for having the courage to write about it, but something about the "warning to the world" tone at the end makes me suspicious that he or she doesn't know most people wouldn't do this.
I wonder if there is like some kind of natural force that would help people find the right-sized lawn to live on?

9 billion gallons per day sure sounds like a lot though!
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Does this mean their toolbars and stuff will stop being installed on people's PCs without their permission, since they're no longer serving free "customers"?
Is 2.4ghz gear typically used for this? I live in NJ, but have clear line of sight to midtown (I can see from ~30th to 86th st out of my window, I can easily pick up most of the city on 2m and 70cm bands with my yagi ( http://paste.click/tnHdWr
), even crappy handheld radios). However it's around 7-8 miles so even with a highly directional antenna, standard 2.4ghz gear would probably be a stretch. Does anyone run 800mhz gear? I feel like that would be a lot more useful as the effective range is a LOT further and it can actually go through walls to an extent.
You want rent-seeking? Look at the excessive merchant fees on credit transactions. It's nothing more than a shakedown on merchants so banks can bribe their customers with points and perks.

Apple allow competition. It's called Android and it's available everywhere.
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Funny, it's smooth as butter in Firefox on my Nexus 5X.
Where I work the IDE does indeed present this information prominently, if you consider raw cpu usage to be a decent approximation for energy consumption. A function using more than a certain amount of cpu in production is annotated with a little mark and if someone changes it the change review system brings the cost of the code to the attention of the reviewer so they have efficiency in mind when reading proposed changes.
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To be fair, the internet has always been a fantastic vector for malware.
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I becomes a moral crusade for exactly the same reason you get offended.
"Man was never meant" to do the vast majority of what they do.
And that's not going to happen. Apple have tied their NFC chip closely to their secure enclave; there's no freaking way Apple are going to let a bunch of third rate subcontractors go anywhere near it.
Most of these cities already have gigabit fiber through AT&T.
GCE does not have an Australian data centre.
> Death and Life of Great American Cities is now town planning 101.

And we're already feeling some of the big problems from that now. Likely more will occur in the next 10-20 years.

Jane Jacobs isn't a magical perfect bible for cities -- her ideas (as practiced in every major US city today) are in part responsible for generating an explosion in housing costs, a decrease in the quality of urban transportation, and some major gentrification + displacement of residents.

I don't fault her for this -- her ideas were great and relevant for decades -- but urban planners today are blindly following her every word as if it's gospel, and ignoring the many bad side effects her ideas, when left unchecked for so long, are now causing.

http://www.governing.com/topics/economic-dev/is-it-time-to-r...
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They're also a tremendous waste of water and many are a significant source of herbicide exposure and fertilizer runoff.

Most states need a heavy tax on excess water consumption, especially California and the southwest.
That 91 year old also likely had family, colleagues and other acquaintances who are still alive today. People at some distance from the 91 year old would be okay, but closer would be under suspicion, could have their lives disrupted, be deported etc.
You are right that interesting knot theory does exist in higher dimensions. It is appropriately called higher dimensional knot theory. It considers spheres of dimension m embedded in n-dimensional space. When m = 1, you get a 1-dimensional sphere, which is a circle. There are restrictions on which m and n yield interesting math. Intuitively, if the dimension of the sphere is too small compared to the ambient space (i.e. m is much smaller than n), then there will be so much wiggle room, that any knot can be "untied" without crossing itself (i.e. every knot is the trivial unknot). If the dimension of m is too big compared to n, then there is not enough room to twist things around, and so again nothing can get knotted.

It's been a while since I've studied this, but I believe it's the case that the only time you get nontrivial knots is when n = m + 2. The most well known case, of course, is when m = 1 and n = 3. But for every value of m >= 1, there are nontrivial knots in dimension m + 2. I believe it is indeed a rich area of research.
How ironic that, 25 years later, accessing this particular "link to information" requires running a Turing-complete language interpreter in a vastly complex piece of software consuming many orders of magnitude more resources than an entire personal computer would have at the time it was originally created. Yet the content remains the same plain text.

These alternative links should work for those using more... period-appropriate browsers:

http://groups.google.com/d/topic/alt.hypertext/eCTkkOoWTAY

http://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.hypertext/eCTkkOoWTAY/bJG...
If the methods were still in use, they might be, even if the agents were not. For example, that secret ink they give as an example might still be in use.

That said, there's plenty of reason to believe that some of the things they're still withholding are nonsense.
The article isn't saying that you're evil for enjoying your lawn. It's merely saying that most people don't really benefit from them and that they'd be better off without them. As far as I can tell, that's true, and it's not contradicted by your relatively unusual enjoyment of yours.

It's a moral crusade because millions of people are sold on the idea of lawns and end up not benefitting from them, causing wasted resources and environmental damage along the way.
Chances are you are not running native IPv6. Most customers who "have access to IPv6" are running through IPv4 -> IPv6 conversion which adds immense overhead and is not a real indication of IPv6 to come. For all such customers, their pseudo-IPv6 will always be slower than IPv4. Most ISPs do not run any form of native IPv6 yet.
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Yes. In a face-to-face interaction, if the other party is sneezing and coughing and spraying mucus on your face, it is not unethical to wear a surgical mask. There is no moral or ethical requirement to inhale someone else's possibly virus-laden mucus just because you want to have a conversation.
It is sad that even in India, which is chronically short of water, people maintain lawns in 45+ degree Celsius (113 F) temperatures in the summer.
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This link from that 1991 thread is still available 25 years later: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

I'd guess it hasn't been continuously available, but certainly must be one of the oldest web links working today.
Actually not so much surprisingly - the key exceptions being if you are working in very cold climates where the body has to generate more heat to keep you alive or you're training competitively for very physically sports.

It turns out that about 70-80℅ of what most people consume goes into simply keeping them alive (research basal metabolic rate & daily calorific requirement) and the impact of "work you do" is only a small variation - with the above exceptions.

Also interestingly (unable to search the paper reference on phone) there is research that shows that dramatically different lifestyles like Namib desert nomadic hunter-gatherer vs. typical urban don't actually differ on metabolic rates (accounting for non-fat weight)
I fear that when it doesn't shows to be working they would make their own browser and make it obligatory.
I wonder if it's a chain of secrets which leads to the present day? It would seem unlikely there'd be that long a continuity, but I don't know.
False. If HN has taught me anything it's that we should all be living in energy neutral cube farms while drinking soylent. Any free time should be spent learning how to code. Your lawn is frivolous.
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Well, that's either a (relatively) short-term constraint, or we are no longer advancing. When talking in the context of Dyson spheres, I think that naturally puts the time frame at multiple orders of magnitude longer than any constraint should hold us back, unless we are actually regressing rather than advancing.

Put another way, when talking about tens to hundreds of thousands of years in the future, I'm not sure even a thousand years from now to get even the most rudimentary of interstellar ships registers as more than a blip.
You laugh. Between servers and mobile that option is long overdue.
Depending on the climate where you live (and the tolerance of your neighbors), you can scale way back on maintenance, and still have a lawn that's good enough for kids and pets. My family lives in central Wisconsin, and our neighbors are OK with us having a crappy lawn. We don't fertilize or water it. (Fertilizer increases the water demand, water increases the need for mowing).

It's full of weeds. Kids can run around on weeds. It only requires a handful of mowings every year, then it goes dormant unless there are unusual amounts of rain (like this year). By late July, the grass has stopped growing, and it's only weeds, which I can control with a manual "weed whip." For better or worse, the weeds are drought resistant.

So I doubt the contention that my lawn requires water, fertilizer, or even weekly mowing. As the kids have gotten older, the need for an extensive backyard has diminished, and I'm gradually turning more of it over to the vegetable garden every year.
How many of those 40 million acres of lawn regularly have children playing on them?
> You want rent-seeking? Look at the excessive merchant fees on credit transactions. It's nothing more than a shakedown on merchants so banks can bribe their customers with points and perks.

I don't disagree, but what's your point? The fact that other, arguably worse rent-seeking exists does not change anything about the present circumstance.

> Apple allow competition. It's called Android and it's available everywhere.

Sure, that's true, and that's why anti-competitive laws have not been applied to behaviors like this on Apple's part. But you should recognize that if Android were to do something like this it would be illegal, because of their dominant position in the market place.

This is exactly what Microsoft got stung on Antitrust for: Using dominance in one market to force out competitors in another.

This behavior is objectively and unequivocally anti-competitive and, in general, bad for consumers. It circumscribes choice and it does so in a particularly pernicious way: by preventing the competitors from ever existing in the first place.
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She advocates working nearly 20 hours a day and her track record doesn't seem to line up with her mantra. I think that might be causing some issues with some people.

You can probably do a bunch of high-level stuff like she's been doing, but you simply can't program that many hours, do customer service, marketing and more effectively without a sane schedule and no PEDs. Most people will burn out, esp. if they are pre-revenue and/or investors are breathing down their necks.

It's definitely a little arrogant. She says she can predict without knowing what they do. Also, Bill Gross and others with more experience across a wide variety of successful startups believe timing is the most important factor to predict success. [1]

However I do agree that some companies may win due to working excessively if they're in highly competitive spaces and VC funding is required. That extra effort can relate to timing which relates to funding and eventually an exit.

I think too often - these types like Mayer talk about building companies and startups as if VC funding and big exits are the only companies that should exist in our country and that there's only one way to do it.

I agree that they get built based on hard work, but a lot of people are in on weekends and putting in crazy hours because they are overbuilding their product, not talking to users, have no hobbies, etc.

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gross_the_single_biggest_reaso...
It would be trivial to create an API for the secure enclave and the NFC chip that sandboxed apps to prevent them from manipulating each other's data. Apple is simply choosing not to do it.
Exactly. The computer will fail such a test where such tests can only be passed if and only if the agent under test experiences subjective states. Since humans can always craft this class of tests, and the computer cannot pass it, it will always fail the "Turing Test".
Part of the pitch is it will also work with an Apple Watch, if the consumer has one, and will likely wear it while running.
The statement is that that person could have also subverted other methods currently in use, not that that particular person would be impacted.
At the top of the page, right under the headline? With the big "play" button in the middle?
I have never seen a American-style lawn in India. Where are you seeing these lawns? Most people just keep a garden with potted plants (commonly known as a veranda).
It's quite a common use-case to embed binary data into binaries, so I wonder why more languages don't directly support it with some sort of directive in source code.

Interestingly the X Window System took the opposite approach for its images. Rather than making C accommodate their images, they made their images accommodate C! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_BitMap and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_PixMap are both image formats that consist of C code.
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I've had great experiences with optional static typing from tools like flow[1] and mypy. I've found you can gain most of the bug catching and readability benefits of static typing, while having the power of dynamic typing when come across a truly dynamic problem.
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A lot of people have cited the APL Life example, but I found this J example of somebody exploring Ulam's spiral as a great way that J is used to approach a mathematical concept [1]. Very easy to follow along in J open next to YouTube, and it still amazes me how quickly you can visualize from the REPL with 'viewmat'.

The Jupyter notebooks, are modern kin to this, and are still trying to catch Mathematica, which for me, really shines for toying around with the curated data and one-liners.

[1] VIDEO - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBC5vnwf6Zw
Man that must be one shell of a cipher.