skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author claims that "go ask your dad" about math questions happened in her family as well, and yet she herself is a counterexample showing that a young girl in that situation will still pursue math if she enjoys it.

When I grew up (also in Texas, like the author), "go ask your dad" didn't happen at all. My sister (who was good at math, btw) became a nurse because she likes taking care of people. I'm pursuing a PhD in CS because I like programming and teaching, and my brother (who may have had the least amount of mathematical preparation of us 3 children) works with numbers all day long as a insurance/investments salesman because he likes sales. We are all doing what we like to do.

I suppose that my frustration is that many times these articles seem to ignore the fact that people like to do what they like to do (a tautology, for sure), and seem to fixate on, rather, pushing people into roles that the observer wants them to fill. In essence, they are no better than the mindset that they are fighting against.

Why not just let people do what they enjoy?
Well; what these people have not learned is that the whole purpose of a "programming language" is NOT to tell the computer what to do. It's to tell your team mates what you've told the computer to do.

People who don't get this are really the worst to work with.
It's similar to not using gmail, but sending/receiving from gmail.
Have been reading and enjoying this for a few days so far, then I came to :

> And why pizza with ketchup and mayo is a Good Thing.

and as an Italian I ought to dissent.
The curious thing is that patent trolls exist at all because lawyers are so expensive. The reason almost no company can afford to fight patent trolls is because the legal costs are so expensive.

On a related note, I also find it incredible how people can make a living out of these kind of businesses and sleep well at night...
> issuing a SHA-1 certificate to a payment processor that failed to upgrade their systems in time

Its ok, its just a temp workaround... /s - https://tyro.com/blog/merchant-security-is-tyros-priority/

Tyro don't say when they got their SHA-1 cert from StartCom but say they needed this workaround because some of their customers still ran POS software on old operating systems such as Windows XPSP2 and that "internet security standards are moving faster than typical small merchants upgrade their systems."

> "We reached out in good faith to certificate authorities to provide a few months runway to resolve this big challenge in a way that had minimal impact on merchants."...

To me this would be ringing so many alarm bells, why would my current CA tell me they can not issue a SHA-1 cert but StartCom say they can? (I believe they got issued the SHA-1 cert after the cutoff because of the details in the document Mozilla have supplied and that we are no longer a few months into 2016 so their need for a "few months runway" was way off) Yes it would mean my customers POS systems would still function but I'm sure as hell would be asking questions about its issuance.

EDIT: Tyro have removed their StartCom SHA-1 cert from https://iclient.tyro.com/ and its now supplying a RapidSSL cert issued in May of this year but yesterday they were serving a StartCom SHA-1 cert on their iclient subdomain.
You need to provide more information about the services you provide.

How specialized are you, maybe if you're incredibly specialized and have the right crowd, you can start having premium accounts, in exchange for special features.

3k is pretty low, for a chat service (in general, maybe for extremely specialized services it isn't).

If possible, try to expand your userbase, advertising? Social sharing? Affiliate programs?

The possibilities are endless and you live and die by the specifics of your niche.

Decide if you want to aim for massive, or niche, ads, premium features, freemium?

If you want more specifics, I think you need to be more specific in your question, but then I'll gladly expand.
We're different people, but I think my friends are just not aware of how their rights are violated and how important privacy is in a digital world. Mainstream media also rarely publishes content related to this issue, so most people have no clue about what happens in this field. Pretty hard to make good judgements if you don't know the details.
Do you think you've ever had to do something as algorithmically complex as recursively walk a graph?

Sometimes these questions are used to probe the meta understanding of a candidate and using Graphs/Trees/DFS are universally understood concepts that make doing that easy.
What you describe sounds close to what you get from google maps using the arrow key navigation. Is that a reasonable starting place? It sounds like maybe you want the "avatar" to stay on streets instead of moving freely, which could be interesting.
To me it looks like you've hit the problem on the head. Not having the time to build a startup boils down to not having the time to vet the candidates for its workforce and not having time to create a company culture. Looking to outsource an entire team suggests not having a rollodex deep enough to bring in cofounders...or rather bring in obvious cofounders.

In the end, the problem is identifying people who are likely to build a successful company and in terms of maximizing the chance of success, broadening the potential investment beyond companies developing one's own ideas looks rational.

Good luck.
It's awesome that you made it this far, but to be honest 3k MAU just isn't enough. If you're making money through ads, you'll want more eyeballs on them so try getting more users! Depending on how far you want to take it, your username may unfortunately become very relevant.
Google might be, but not the phone manufacturers...except maybe Samsung but it's marginal compared to what share Apple gets.
Hope they continue to contribute to Leaflet, especially seen as Mourner is on the Mapbox team.
That's a brilliant idea. I wish I had that article years ago. I'd even consider writing it but I've never blogged and feel it would just be a murky mess. I'd happily collaborate though. =)
The difference is of course the network effect: If I'm not happy with the shoes I'm wearing, there is a huge range of shoes I can buy without any negative consequences for me.

Switching messengers or social networks can have the obvious consequences that you lose your network. That way, even if there are plenty of competitors in theory, the lock-in can be the same as with a monopoly.
I have also never seen a codebase that has used cout piping that was worth any salt.

But then why is it the first thing we shove into peoples faces when teaching them the language?
Thanks, I'm that person. :) I tried to write it as a "missing manual" for Couch/Pouch, and had a lot of fun in the process! It needs some updates for newer stuff, though: pouchdb-find, custom builds, Chrome DevTools storage UI improvements, etc.
(My current rate is an awful £300, and that was hard to find!)
Canonical releases commercially supported Kubernetes distribution
> Is there a better way to do it?

Who knows? Google used to tell people how to search. SEO arseholes ruined it for everyone, and now Google has an opaque mechanism.

If I don't kno much abotu something asking a full question seems to get useful introductory pages. If I know a bit about something keywords seems to work. I'm I know a lot about something I have to include "exact" words, and use the - to remove some not relevant terms.

Google went from being a precision tool to good enough most of the time.
FamilyInSafe 2.0 (your family app)
> we have this thing called the Blockchain now,

A “blockchain” is a type of distributed data structure, there's not just The Blockchain, unless you're specifically talking about Bitcoin, in which case I don't know why you wouldn't refer to it specifically.

> and it could do with some of Google's hardware to run on, instead of independent factions of people spending their pocket money on their own hardware.

You're either suggesting that Google run Bitcoin nodes in their datacentres (which defeats Bitcoin's decentralisation), or that Google should make hardware specifically for Bitcoin.

Given Google is all about centralised, non-anonymised data they can mine for ad targeting, what exactly would appeal to them about Bitcoin?

> It kind of makes me jealous and annoyed that so much could be spent for what effectively is sometimes just a data center for storing people's holiday snaps on Google Plus, when it could be used to host micro democracies and change the direction of finance.

Sure, there might be better uses for some of Google's servers, arguably, but why would “changing the direction of finance” require that? Aren't proposals like Bitcoin usually based on decentralisation?

> I suspect all that hardware will eventually be re-purposed many times throughout the course of the Google experiment and probably will eventually be given away at some point to the blockchainers who need it.

Why would Google give away free servers to Bitcoin enthusiasts? What possible business incentive could there be? If they're just being nice, then why to Bitcoiners, of all people? Bitcoin (and systems using the same proof-of-work chain design) is an extremely wasteful user of energy and would not put such systems to good use.

> I can picture the scene: dreadlocked decentralists rejoicing at their new hardware gift from Google, 25+ years from now. The ultimate redemption from their years of slavishly handing their personal information over to Google in exchange for a decent search experience. A true revenge for consumers of Google.

Much more likely that Google would simply close its online services on you without a token of gratitude to its users.

> Meanwhile Google would have entirely switched to SSDs and are probably using post-quantum chips, but at least we can host multiple different blockchains now without spending our pocket money on them. The blockchainers can start to get rich and blockchain can really flourish.

You're forgetting the astronomical energy requirements for Bitcoin mining.

> Also, Google needs to create services which are for a post Snowden world. Allo is cute, but entirely inferior to things like Signal which addresses the problem of encrypted private chat head on. Google needs to create things like its own VPN service, perhaps?

Post-Snowden, pro-privacy services are essentially the antithesis of Google's business model. If Google can't read your chats, they can't scan them for keywords.
I bought a monochrome HL series almost a decade ago (on sale for $50), and haven't yet needed to replace the drum. I buy toner refills for $15 once or twice a year, and it's always had Linux support. Total cost of ownership, paper excluded, has been around $20/yr.

I'm about to buy a new Brother color laser, as soon as they go on sale again. I'm strangely thrilled.

I was gifted a high end HPOJ Pro and a small mountain of cartridges (it takes 5 or 6 colors!) several years ago (my SO used it for school), and the cartridges once installed dried out or 'expired' long before they were ever depleted.

Now that she doesn't need it, it's going to electronic recycling sooner than later. If they hadn't thrown in the ink, I couldn't imagine shelling out $45-60 on it at regular intervals just to be able to print anything. It's practically a subscription fee shakedown just to use the damned thing.
I heared facebook installs a big "Delete my data" button made of granit on a main square in every german city. You have to double click it. With your head.
> It is not just in this century, execution has always been king, in fact many kings have been executed by future kings.

He certainly has a way with words, this made me laugh.
I am not sure there is really a large enough corpus of data out there that covers multiple facets of this system to really give us a strong predictive value. Just variant calls is probably not enough. There might be, if we can somehow consolidate and integrate disparate datasets from various publications and labs. But I don't think we are at that stage yet.

I am all for them trying though. I just don't think we are at a point where we can make a good diagnosis/conclusion yet.
So this is like alternative to Firebase? How different is their offering?
What’s up with Windows developer tools being written in perl?
While Germany is protecting their citizens from facebook's shady privacy policies, The US leaders argue about who has more stamina.

I'm very happy paying 1$ a year for privacy and security.

Whatsapp just re-iterated that they will say anything to fool its users and break their promise.

Facebook should definitely get a fine in billions and should be made to apologize publicly for breaching privacy.
Using Metromile data to determine a car's gear ratios
Common problem with programmers: when they learn a term means something, they associate that term absolutely with that meaning (common in other fields with people who are highly analytical, IME).

The HPC people are referring to a "job queue", rather than a "ADT queue". Those are distinct things, the ADT queue is a much more restrictive defintion, but it's not an exclusive one. HPC queues are more like priority queues with complex ranking functions (and queues of queues), just like real-life queues where people can cut by paying more money (first class airline ticket).
Not really... If all of my friends buy a Starbucks latte, I'm not forced to also buy a Starbucks latte just to interact with them. I could hang out with them at Starbucks drinking a Caribou latte, or not drink any coffee at all. If all my friends buy Jordans, I don't have to buy a pair of Jordans to join their game of pickup basketball. Heck I don't even need shoes (not recommended but to each his own).

If all of my friends choose to use WhatsApp messenger, my options are to not communicate with them at all (a non-starter), or to also use WhatsApp.
I live in the Sunset. We have plenty of small parks and the Sunset runs the entire length of the enormous Golden Gate park, which stretches across half the city.

There are plenty of restaurants and shops, most of which is not yet gentrified, and they just fit into the regular grid as mixed-use urban buildings (restaurant on the street level, apartments on the floor(s) above. There are no strip malls, big box stores, etc.

Like much of the city, developing it further would likely mean building "up", yes. There are also an enormous number of single family homes in the Sunset, some of which could be converted into multi family apartment buildings to increase density.

All that said, I'm not clear on how you'd actually accomplish the above. My family and I live here BECAUSE we wanted a single family home, a backyard, etc. SF obviously needs a vast increase in residential availability, but I'm certainly not the guy to ask about how to make it happen.
If you're logged into FB and there is a relationship between the site and FB, then why is it a surprise that the site is able to id you? And when I say "you" I don't mean "John Smith from sf working for company X" but a number with some generalized demographic data attached. There are strict pii guidelines that adtech has to follow, no one really knows who you are. FB and other adtech giants need to do a much better job educating the consumer about what actually happens to data and how ad targeting works.
I don't think that's really a fair comment. There's lots of reasons to want to monetize a project, including to pay for servers, fund future development, and fund future projects. All it takes is a few small sites/services that are making >= $500/m via ads or paid customers to be able to quit your job and focus your time on said projects.
Startup, Software Engineer (JavaScript), 2.5 years experience (Grad May '14), 38k, 12% bonus.
That strays into the eugenics region. Not there yet; the moral and legal 'obstacles' will be present for a long while.
Well, they could've actually started charging for the service. $1 a year was more than reasonable for me.
Mylan’s EpiPen Pretax Profits 60% Higher Than Number Told to Congress
I'm going to be a bit more charitable and say that those people find non-programming jobs in the field.

One person I interviewed stood out in my mind for having completed a Master's in CS, was able to classify the problem I posed her as belonging to a certain type and told me how it should be approached. She still couldn't even begin to write the (simple) code to solve it, however.

This person was obviously smart, and also quite obviously had no programming skill.
Hit 'M-x eww http://www.ndtv.com/blog/...' in emacs and off you go :-)
Can someone explain why use Realm, or CouchDB, over SQLite?
I'm using it in my React Native app. Pretty happy with it so far. Haven't tried anything else, as Realm looked like the best choice at when I was selecting the data store for the app.
Maximizing the Customer Experience for Training Organizations
But financial crimes are illegal. Could you point out a specific person/case?

Wells Fargo fired 5300 employees and paid a $185 million fine.
Non profits vary widely enough that you see places that can only take volunteer developer time and maybe provide some sort of tax benefit, maybe not, and places that pay something approaching market rate.

What's important is that you feel fairly compensated, and that you don't have to fight for that too hard, so that your income continues to grow.
I actually love MD, I hate how people focus more on the click-animation of the button (the "pulse" animation originating from where someone clicks/taps) and less about the rest of the guidelines.

Proper z-indexing, proper drop shadows, proper typography, proper colors, etc.

People typically use "flat colors" with "Material-esque animations" and call it Material Design...

For example, where does the blue come from? http://i.imgur.com/ZvzuEtf.png

https://material.google.com/style/color.html#color-color-pal...
Absolutely.

I'm on Android.
I agree change is not coming in the political front. Lobbying power defending the patent status quo is enormous, and reviewing Patent Law isn't in any political agendas.

Big tech companies take advantage of the system. Microsoft has made billions of dollars out of licensing Android related patents, Apple applied for a paper bag patent recently and Google has "patent parties" when (as I have been told by Google friends) they encourage engineers to work with attorneys in filing patents on anything they worked on that could be patentable.
Guy Sims Fitch, a Fake Writer Invented by the US Government
US election is going to be hot topic soon.

Surely you could do some novel visualizations using maps.
He didn't say anything about it not being Linux; he said it isn't GNU/Linux, which it isn't, the GNU parts are missing.
I don't believe that there is some place outside Earth that would make me happier than living on Earth. What is it that I could possibly be looking for that I could not find here on Earth?
I'm half with you. I think monetising 3k people on a generic chat site is going to be hard/impossible (what interests one may not interest the other). That said, monetising 3k people in a micro niche could potentially be absolutely worth it. For instance, if the 3k are chatting about poker - you may only need to convert a handful a month with the right offer to make it a nice bit of extra (semi) passive income.
Last week I made a comment that Mylan didn't seem to be up to anything fishy, as a 36% gross profit margin seemed reasonable. Looks like they are, in fact, up to something fishy. I've never heard of someone reporting EBIDA to congress. (Hint:They're missing the "T".)
Google Andromeda
By any objective measure, California is the most business-friendly state
Webinar about tech careers, working remote and technical assessments
New DJI Mavic drone – video leaked to YouTube hours before DJI live event
I have had great luck with Brother drivers on all the linux machines I've ever tried to use them with, so I would consider that a good option as well.
Or the realmode x86 emulator in Xorg server.
It's not preposterous within a certain income range. If your household income is $300,000 in SF (for a married couple), your net pay is about $14,800 per month. If it's $150,000 in Kansas City, MO, your net pay is about $8,600 per month. So you're talking about an $6,200 per month difference.

You can buy a 3BR, 2,000 square foot in Overland Park, a great school district, for $200-250k. You'll be about a 15-20 minute drive from your work downtown. What does a 3BR, 1,700-2,000 square foot house run you within 15-20 minutes of downtown Mountain View, in a good school district? It looks like $1.5 million+. That's the difference between a $7,200 per month mortgage and a $1,200 per month mortgage.[1]

So housing alone almost completely wipes out your extra income. Then you have other costs that scale with cost of living: house cleaning, after-school child care, etc. You'll pay more for gas, you'll pay almost double for a cocktail, etc.

Obviously, once you're up to $1 million per year, your're better off in San Francisco. But even in SF few programmers are earning that much. $300k is a solid household income in that area, and in that range you're not better off, materially, than you would be in Kansas City.

[1] A family making $300k in the Bay Area is getting close to not even being able to qualify for a mortgage big enough to buy a house close to work.
What it means to be a public representative
This I could get behind. Make legislation that forces a company to disclose the information they collect in an explicit way.

As a consumer I'd also like a way to force my data to be deleted, and be notified if my data is being sold or transferred by an acquisition or something, but I'm not sure how that would work.

What I don't want is not having the ability to "pay with data". I don't want to subscribe to everything out there, and paywalls threaten the web as we know it. Plus there are times where I want to be tracked. If a company has info on how I use the product, they can improve it for me.
On a side note, as for the CDN, MDB is there for you. You can also get it through NPM, Bower and from Github.

It's all here: http://mdbootstrap.com/getting-started/
So can I use this for the map in my game or should I look at something else?

EDIT: Looks like I can: http://leafletjs.com/examples/crs-simple/crs-simple.html

Is Leaflet the best option for this though? I just want to show an interactive map on the web of a really big PNG I have (much bigger than the one in that example).
> And oddly, Germany requires to to declare your religion to the government.

I trust my government with my data (well, mostly) because if it abuses that trust, I know that I and my fellow citizens can vote it out of power. We have no such control over FB.
The actual design and standard are designed to be multiplatform. You can see it in a lot APIs, like Environment.NewLine -- not needed if you only target Windows.

MS released Rotor as a proof of concept. It's just an argument over implementations, which were admittedly lacking. And the standard parts are smaller than the whole .net bits MS shipped.
Sorry, but they're already here in Pittsburgh
>> On a related note, I also find it incredible how people can make a living out of these kind of businesses and sleep well at night...

What we do is legal, therefore it is not unethical; if it were unethical, it would be illegal.