skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pressure is a fine motivator (we all know people who do their best work when under a tight deadline), but only if you are capable of being realistic about the consequences of failure (and attribution of blame).

If you raise the stakes enough for almost anyone (or they are of a mindset to ratchet those stakes up for themselves) it can be paralyzing, unless the consequences of not making a decision are somehow worse.

In some ways, SV-style celebration of failure is great, but if you're fixated on a "Unicorn or Bust" (or even an "FU money or Bust") career path, well, having a few "busts" in a row (which is a fairly likely outcome, even if you have both a good idea and execution) might just kill you.

In this sense, choosing a cause to have a sense of purpose may be a terrible option for some folks to pursue, since the consequences of not solving it completely are still dire - eg. don't choose to work on solving the World Hunger Problem if, having eliminated 90% of the problem in five years, you are going to blame yourself for the less tractable remaining 10% that still die of malnutrition and hunger.
Your comment has been downvoted, probably because of the hyperbolic "the Internet has been weaponized", but you bring up a good point. I've long thought it absolutely insane that governments all over the world blithely allow Facebook, and by extension the USG[1], to collect a comprehensive social graph of their entire citizenry. Who's friends with who, who talks to who, how often and about what, who works where, who goes where and when. This level of information about another country's citizens sounds like the wildest dream of an intelligence agency. It literally sounds like the onion: http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatic...

Why did these other governments let FB & friends in? I think they just didn't see it coming, and by the time they realised the cat was out of the bag. Well, China saw it coming, and closed the door before it was too late. I'm not surprised China is doing that - I'm surprised other countries don't do it.

[1] Does anyone seriously believe that at least parts of the USG do not have access to facebook's data?
While it's nice to think that people with no background can succeed in Data Science, I'm not sure it is true. There are a lot of hacks who never did "science" coming out of the woodwork lately. It's a bit ugly.
> Acquiesce or move are not adequate options.

Hong Kong is an amazing city, international and self-governing, competitive and self-funding-- in almost every way, it seems like a glimpse of the future; Tomorrowland.

However, its leverage to fight for its own sovereignty (or the rest of the world's leverage to fight on its behest), is extremely weak, and unable to grow. I fear that Hong Kong is a lost cause, which is extremely sad.

...In any case, I hope the idea of Hong Kong lives on, and we see more cities like this as we progress. One city isn't worth fighting a war over, especially because the lessons Hong Kong taught us show that we can make more Hong Kongs in the future.

Preserving emigration rights for HK citizens seems the most practical way to keep people safe.
most operating systems, deep learning frameworks, computer graphics systems are in c++.

the hottest 3 areas in tech, vr, deep learning/ai and self-driving cars, need c++ intensively.

c++ programmers are at the tip of the programmer pyramid.
Introducing Messenger Platform 1.3
60% of food and petrol (gas) is priced in dollars
It's a perfectly valid response for denial.

Yes, it's happening. Get over it.
> If only 10% of those users are developers

They are not. That would mean that more than 10% of the people sitting on chairs in companies are doing software development. That would fail to take into account jobs that don't have a chair, every PC outside an office and even non technical jobs in sw development companies.

Let's check some facts.

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/s...

Number of jobs: 1,114,000

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001

All employees, end of 2014: 140,402,000

It's less than 1%, still much more than I would bet on. However I think that this figure is lower globally and Windows is sold globally. Hence, much less than 1% of PC users are software developers (Windows, Mac, Linux, anything) and having Windows the larger share its stats are close to the global figure.
A public statement. So, to be charitable to the person you're replying to, that would be filed under "whining". The fact that we have no real moral authority with which to whine doesn't help either.
> This is a strategy copied from China. They did same in 1970-80's.

Citation needed.
Just wanted to say thanks for this. Was feeling a little down, and this was just the ray of light I needed.
I think you are missing the point of the water analogies. It is what made electricity make sense to me as well. But don't take it too literally, it's an analogy, not an identity.

If you start with things like "a motor is like a turbine, a generator is like a pump, a battery is like an elevated tank", a lot of things can fall into place. The point is you can visualize it.
> 95% prisoners are there on plea bargain

It could be because the people who know they are guilty take the bargain and save themselves some years, while the innocent go to court and prove their innocence.
That doesn't mean that there is no defined behavior to achieve the same thing, though. Platform portability just requires a jump through a few more hoops and then some.
No. You're not going to go to jail or be fined for possession of these notes. They're just going to be valueless.
The author opens on a note so obviously and completely wrong that I had trouble even following their train of thought. It would be like me opening a blog post on dating by saying, "One of the most important things I have learned from (whatever) is: there are no single women, aged 18-44, and the sooner you accept this, the sooner you can (whatever)."

This is obviously so completely wrong that it really made me think, why would the author write this?

This is what I'm talking about:

>One of the most important things I learned from running a startup is that on a macro scale the innovation market is efficient. If the market conditions allow for a startup to arise, it’s overwhelmingly probable that multiple startups already exist in that market. The converse is also true — if there are no startups in a given market, it’s overwhelmingly probable that market conditions are not hospitable and startups cannot arise.

>In this sense startups are similar to biological life. Wherever the conditions are hospitable, life already exists. The difference is that startups live in an economic rather than a biological environment.

I can't even put into words how wrong this seems to me. Well, let's start with the biological example: there are LOTS of examples of invasive species, where someone brought a species over (on a ship etc) and then that species invaded the whole continent. So, by the author's analogy, the "wherever the conditions are hospitable, life already exists" -- so wherever the conditions were hospitable to the invasive species, it already existed. But this is counterfactual. It's simply not true.

So biologically the author is simply wrong. Okay, so in the analogy the new species, is like "an idea" - so when you bring it somewhere, the author is saying it must have already existed, but that's plainly false.

Next I re-read their intro very very carefully "If the market conditions allow for a startup to arise, it’s overwhelmingly probable that multiple startups already exist in that market".

Could it mean that they simply mean something very different by "market" from what I meant?

The only thing that I can think of is that the author is talking about well-defined markets with a lot of existing action. So that when you talk with a VC, they've already heard of five other startups are that are doing the same thign. When you do an addressable market analysis, you already have five other competitors who are moving products, and you can use their sales figures as proxies.

In that sense, "market" makes sense.

So the conclusion I have come to (I didn't read further I'm afraid) is that this author must be talking about entrepreneurs with no innovation, creativity, or the creation of anything new - who are simply picking something from what's "out there" to work on.

Is this fair? What are your thoughts here?
way easier than others...wickr etc
And they'll be introducing a new Rs. 2000 note, worth about $30
>I learned quickly, eventually got good at interviews, and ultimately got a job at bloomberg, which is fairly difficult to get past their interiew process.

Bloomberg, where it's just one giant open noisy room? Doesn't sound like much of a reward to me.

Personally, I wish I had never gone into programming. I wanted a profession where I could sit in peace and quiet and work on interesting intellectual problems on my own. Little did I know that programming would not be like that after the year 2010. If I had known this, I would have chosen a different profession, probably something involving medicine, since at least there's lots of women in those workplaces.
During the Presidential election most of the online chatters were Twitter Bots
> how do we get more people to use it?

For me the missing link is a good, native Linux client. Signal would have "got" me the last time I was shopping around for a communication app if it had that.
Then again, I probably represent maybe 0.01% of the audience you are trying to reach...
I probably just translated them wrong from German.

But as I said, since I didn't understand it, I probably don't recall correctly what they told me.

I just remember that the "particles" I had in mind somehow stopped being "the thing" and now it was all abount strange fields that worked without a physical medium and formed waves by being aligned in a specific way.
So far all of these just look like population maps of the US, skewed by time zone.

Basically if it's a heavily populated area that is awake, then the dots are big.

Maybe as the day goes on it will level out to more interesting insights?
Yes (and no). Asymmetric which is based on key pairs (generally one public and one private) allow you to pass around a key that can be intercepted without compromising your ability to communicate securely using the key your didn't pass around. That said, it is always important to be attuned to whether or not those keys can be compromised by "brute force" or through a weakness.

So the vendor who is thinking about it, would have told me about their public key system which is used in the initial transfer to protect the secrets. Then they would have described how they can upgrade and change keys over time as attackers gain the upper hand on various bit lengths, and how the elements of their system that depend on randomness, do so without being susceptible to a birthday attack or an algorithm attack on their PRNG.

When they do that, I know they've been thinking seriously about how such systems are built and deployed and there is some hope that doing the do diligence "deep dive" will show me a solid system.
"Also, it seems disingenuous to call out Hillary for this and not Donald Trump (and many more republicans) who only want to nominate SCOTUS justices who will strike down Roe v. Wade."

Every election, the boogeyman of a Republican-stacked SCOTUS tearing down Roe v. Wade is brought up. There have been five Republicans in office following the ruling (Nixon [in office at the time], Ford, Reagan, Bush 41 and Bush 43) and it has yet to happen, under far more conservative atmospheres.

I don't buy the fearmongering on this front.
Don't know if this is the best study, but it contains an overview of many studies that show that excel calcs tend to have huge error rates.

http://panko.shidler.hawaii.edu/SSR/Mypapers/whatknow.htm

Of course that raises the question would any other software environment have a lower error rate?
My comment is intended for people who want to become ML Engineers, not software engineers curious about ML.
It's obvious to me that Apple won't lock down the Mac OS at this time for the reasons that you and `belorn` mentioned.

That doesn't mean that Apple wouldn't jump at the chance if things changed though. They most certainly would. That's because the primary goal is to lock customers into their ecosystem.

Some Apple fans won't acknowledge that goal and they seem to take offense at that very notion or they start telling you that you're "being disingenuous" for even suggesting it.
Excel is incredibly useful and powerful. This type of comment screams "I've never used Excel a day in my life for anything other than creating a table." It can handle very complex formulas, that are easy to follow, and the data manipulation and efficiency is amazing. Your argument for moving away from Excel is the same as those who don't develop and say everything should be done through a WYSIWG editor.
Data Science is an esoteric field. I'm not sure there is a guaranteed way to become adept at it anymore than there is a good way to become an excellent software developer except to do and continuously learn and evaluate yourself. It's not a bootcamp kind of thing.
He was three, and was mostly just being a toddler: he would get grumpy, get frustrated and yell when he couldn't do things, was making us tell him stuff dozens of times, over and over.

My responses felt reasonable at the time. Why wouldn't I get angry at him when he yelled at me? Oh, right, he's a toddler and I'm an adult. I've been in the saddle with respect to my emotions for decades. This could, no fooling, only be the 200th time he's ever been truly angry. I'm the responsible one here. Realizing I lost sight of that perspective was what took me by surprise and scared me a little.
My career has mostly been spent building and growing business around people who are programmers, and while I'm relatively technical, I'm not a proficient software developer. In part because of dyscalculia. I went to art school.
The reality is that most people, whether they say it or not, start a company because they want to start a company.

They want that kind of status, and envision a chance at making a lot of money.

They rationalize it afterwards because that doesn't make a good story and why not?

But these explanations only aggrandize the startup creator and offers the wrong way to think about how to start one's own company.
That would be poor design. Are you saying that the Signal team would not be capable of implementing a more effective path? Other applications have followed this approach before; it's not rocket science.
I have read I can get it by upgrading to the very latest version of BT Home Hub (I am using 5). I ordered it yesterday. But my current Home Hub 5 is compatible, and I still don't have IPv6.
I think since India only has notes in {5,10,50,100,500,1000} denominations there might not be enough legal tender with just {5,10,50,100} to convert all {500,1000} notes, thus by introducing a new notes (bills) which look completely different than older 500 Rs, and 2000 Rs which are completely new, they can ensure that enough notes/bills are available.
That was a detailed, yet engaging experience. It is always hard to try new things and visual/low code development is a change in paradigm.
I've got an old Dyson Animal vacuum, and I'm always impressed with how full of dirt the canister gets. So I've got high hopes for a robotic Dyson.

That said, the reviews trickling into Amazon kind of deflate those hopes: suction is great, but otherwise it seems to have all the kinds of problems that all the robot vacuums have.

Definitely not something I'd be willing to plunk down a thousand dollars for. Here's to hoping the next version is a marked improvement.
Yes. He is saying as you become more competent using excel, the efficiency increases exponentially.

Probably true for smallish values of competency, but it must be logarithmic after that.
Well, people won't be stupid enough to keep accepting it. They need to pay tax at the end of the day. They need to move along with the economy. Unless you can mobilize 1.2 billion people to not accept this, which probably breaks down the whole economy itself.
This is the big key. A few short VBA macro's can give you regex's and cell swapping. Now you can conditionally swap the programs in other cells, via the contents of other cells.

You have a Turing Complete spread sheet.
You should be equally comfortable with both C and C++.
> "but the Rs 1000 note was just worth $15USD"

So, I think he agrees with you and is just pointing out without the 500 or 1000 note's the 100 is only worth $1.5USD.
When will Verizon FiOS enable IPv6?
No clue about LinkedIn as I don't use or like the platform, but mails aren't really hidden on GH. Most people display one on their profiles (or in their commits). I do the first, and recruiters still spam different addresses of mine as well. Why make this any easier?
I agree, but most of the things you mentioned are done by big companies like google, most startups labeled with deep learning/ai are using python or javascript.
Regardless of how this might help with "black money" (which seems to be a bit of an overhyped political bogeyman), any attempt to decrease the value or purview of cash is bad news for human rights. When all legal money is in government-controlled banks, you open up the door to all sorts of nastiness including political account freezes, government theft of funds, forced negative interest rates, etc. I personally have had my account frozen and had money taken by lien due to a paperwork mistake at the state comptroller's office. It took a few days for them to fix, and Wells Fargo charged me "legal fees" I never got back, so I have a dim view of any government action that makes the use of cash less convenient, less liquid, or less legal. In light of this news, I imagine many Indians will stop trusting Rupees as much and might just start preferring to transact in USD or something.
The big ticket black money is in swiss accounts,real estate and gold.
Python Mocking, You Are a Tricksy Beast
That's true, most of the time I only say that "I'm good with computers". Nobody understands.

But sometimes, it slips out inevitably.

Regaining your image or just being able to hold your head high requires great effort.
I think it means the efficiency gain is exponential (assuming the learning curve is anything less than exponential).
Keep in mind that many companies will hire you even if you don't know the language they code in, on the assumption you'll easily learn new languages.

I've mostly done Python in past, and C++ long ago, but at current job I've also been writing Java, Javascript, Ruby and Kotlin.
I've met a couple of founders who started by searching various "segments" of the "on demand" economy and looking for a niche with little existing (highly visible) competing startups. Seriously these folks had zero experience in the industry and the solution they crafted was certainly not based on some personal experience. In one case they have been pretty successful :)

To be fair, I do feel like there is a certain population disingenuous founders who weave a backstory around the genesis of their startup...but the population, by my estimation is small.
People use whatever lets thdm quickly put together applications. Most that know C++ probably dont hear much on C++ frameworks for web. Knowing about those could help. Here's one Ive seen a few times in comments although not tried:

http://cppcms.com/wikipp/en/page/main
Here in Russia we have a term "последнее китайское предупреждение" ("last Chinesee warning") which means a statement with possibly treatening nature which does not and will not entail any real action or inaction.

What you suggest for a good start is a last chinese warning of a sort.

I find this ironic.
Someone's project to learn COBOL. Nothing interesting here.
"If they fail, only their investors lose"

You realize that isn't actually how a capital market based economy works, right? Investors are the "command" part of the economy, responsible for allocating resources. If they decide to only invest in ridiculous, worthless ideas then we all definitely lose. So far that hasn't happened, but never forget that it is very important for us all where investors put their money.
Do you or somebody else have an idea on where I could explore this idea further, in terms of books, websites etc…? Having semi-recently graduated University and moved out on my own, I am having quite a few personal issues related to an achievement-obsession that I have been socialized into but which is holding me back from much day-to-day happiness.
As mentioned in the article, referring to "electricity" is kinf of vague. Ionized hydrogen floating about is a plasma; a collection of particle with a positive net charge. Therefore if some H+ ions move in a particular direction, that will be a flow of charge: an electric current.

Similarly H+ ions in aqueous solution can carry a current, as in electrolysis.
I have it clinically as well. My experience went with Primary Care -> Psych Eval -> Psych Specialist. When you ask for the referral from your PC, I suggest requesting an office with a group of specialists that can bounce you to a better provider after your eval.
The article says minimalism is in reality about consuming more, but I don't see it explaining why. Did I miss something?

Also, minimalist lifestyle and minimalist aesthetics are certainly different things.

I have been into minimalism (the lifestyle) for about a year or so, reading a lot about it, so here is my summary of it: it is an optimization tool among others, kind of like code refactoring.

In my case it helped me focus on what's important (family, passions), have more energy and more time. And believe me, when you have a young child, you need as much time and energy as possible.

Less stuff is less useless stuff, all fun, meaningful or useful stuff is still there, I just spend less time and energy making decisions about what to wear, cleaning and tidying stuff, etc.

Less distractions is less meaningless distractions, by all means I have more fun spending time with my family than playing video games.

Knowing from experience that my family and me don't need much to be happy is extremely important and gives me confidence to face the future. Our financial situation is not so good, but I know that we can still do great whatever happens.

On the same topic, if you know you can do well with not so much, you are less afraid to take risks, for example starting a business.
Heh. The mention of HPMOR makes me recall this quote from its author, which I am quoting only slightly out of context: "Be careful of this sort of argument, any time you find yourself defining the 'winner' as someone other than the agent who is currently smiling from on top of a giant heap of utility."

I see neither the author of HPMOR nor the author of this blog post smiling from on top of a giant heap of utility. A moderate heap, sure, but it's doubtful it's any larger than the one I have from a non-world-changing but well-paying sysadmin job.
Citation needed! I've never heard anyone use the "half past" meaning. The quarter thing is confusing, though. While I have never heard of anyone parsing "viertel vier" as 15:45 or 16:15, many people are confused as it's somewhat uncommon here.

Not sure why you feel the need to imply people using "half" are somehow impaired (as the attribute "rural" is often used to imply backwardness). The "half" notation is ubiquitous in the south.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uhrzeit#Sprechweise_im_Deutsch...
Vox: explaining it all to you
I come from the other side. I hire programers for my side projects and i have seen it all. As an entrepreneur the only thing i care about is that i have a working software. Some programers think they should be paid a lot of money but have very poor skills. If you are good at what you do, people will recognize that and you will be paid a higher wage. Just be good at your job and everything will workout.