skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are spot on with this; after learning a second language (Arabic) in my 20's and a third (Hebrew) in my 40's though I do find it "easier" in the sense that I know how to learn a hard language a little better than at the first. Same with programming. I learned Fortran in my teens and then Java in my late 30's and of course there is much more to Java than Fortran but the background helped me learn Java much faster than if I started cold. They key though is desire, time and focus - if you can not get those things you will not be able to learn anything that takes a long time to master.
> Studies show gender & racially diverse teams perform better.

If they do then shouldn't we do exactly nothing and let the market sort it out?

If the companies with diverse teams are the most efficient then surely they will lead by example.
The design is very similar to a 2010 design of a Spanish designer.
https://twitter.com/vladsavov/status/832238720250179585
I had an interface electronics course back in the day that was like this.

Bandit Algorithms book is sort of like this. starts out simple and touches different methods
If some CBP knuckle-dragger wants me to unlock my phone so he can browse through it looking for whatever as I stand there watching while asking me insipid questions, that's not a huge deal.

The real problem here is downloading of data from the phone. Once that data is off-loaded, the government can make it a part of their "Seven-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon-Osama-Bin-Laden edition" game, stored forever, perpetually looking for "connections" no matter how remote. That's a scary and slippery slope to surveillance state hell. I don't think such practices are commonplace, not yet?

Has anyone here ever been in a situation where the CBP confiscated their phone/laptop or downloaded data electronically from it?
That's patently false. Good luck enforcing US business law in Norway.
Checkout this tweet from John Carmack, who approves this quote : https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/832215292180840448
I had a nightmare of an experience crossing into Canada and am never visiting again.
> Chad Fowler, author of The Passionate Programmer/former Living Social CTO ....

Also Co-author of the "Pickaxe Book" - a fantastic Ruby monograph.
I honestly don't think it matters. You're going to hit a salary ceiling at about the 8-10 year mark no matter when you start. So unless you're already at or near retirement age, it's not too late :)

I'm 36, started programming at about age 6 or 7 (thanks largely to my mother being a programmer and helping me learn the basics), and still spend a lot of my free time on personal projects. I actually didn't start programming for a living until age 26 (did a stint in the Army right after college).

I haven't had a significant raise in the last 4 years. In fact, I made a higher salary (albeit in a higher COL area) 5 years ago. Early in my career I was getting 20%+ pay bumps just for switching jobs. That doesn't happen anymore. More often than not I have to make my salary expectations clear from the first conversation with a potential employer lest I waste a lot my time only to receive an offer 30% lower than my current salary.

It's the point I'm thinking of leaving the field (I'll never stop programming in my free time, though) and finding something else with some actual upward mobility.
So maybe Facebook add a feature to "delete" your account, to later have it restored? Similar to erasing your phone and restoring it later?
Given the fact that, as others have noted, it's not like San Jose is a depressed area, the downtown--such as it is--is just sort of boring and run down in spots. I was at an open compute platform conference there for the first time in ages a couple of years back. (Many moons ago I used to attend Intel Developers Forums there regularly). On the one hand, the environment (restaurants, etc.) had improved somewhat but I was surprised that the overall downtown hadn't become more vibrant and interesting than it was.
https://duck.co/help/company/advertising-and-affiliates

I doubt you could get reliable revenue numbers
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This might answer your question on why people care: http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/how-team-of-pre-...

And while I agree technical tools such as TOR should be used to further assure privacy, they should not be the first and only safeguard - strong legislative and civic support is required, or you end up sliding further into repression, e.g. requiring people to give up passwords, requiring backdoors in software, etc.

Before you criticize this argument as slippery slope, know that it is only a fallacy in the absence of a cause why one should slide down this slope. I hope the ample history of legislative and technical erosion of privacy can serve as proof the danger is real.
You can also test those things out and gain some confidence in the game. Make a bunch of fake persons with similar skills, try many different ways to present them and see which ones get the most responses.
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It's a small startup I'm working on to curate the best deals around the event to save you time from KAYAK and gMaps
That means you just scored a touchdown! Congrats.
Because given a large enough mountain of data something to compromise anybody can be found.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704471504574438... (3 felones a day, paywalled, sorry)

Couple that with selective enforcement and you can put away anybody for any length of time.

So privacy matters, if only because you never know what the administration after the one you were still ok with will be up to. Case in point: the present.
>that's pretty demeaning.

sorry , Certainly not my intention. I am curious why you say this though.
Yah. Came off as a poorly worded retread of Jobs. Sad.
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USPS is most definitely marking things delivered to meet agreements, while delivering whenever they can. Most all of my Amazon purchases get delivered by USPS and ALL of them are delivered 1-3 days after I am notified of delivery.
Originally I thought it was due to USPS delivering at 8PM on my route (I live in an Apt), but a few months back they switched so packages are delivered mid day. Still getting packages days after delivery notifications.
Even worse when you consider what percentage of the US population lives within 100 miles of the border, which is where the 4th amendment apparently does not apply -- about 2/3rds of the US population!

https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone

It is indeed unacceptable.
>> they didn't compromise and instead waited it out

Genuinely hope that Apple or any other company does the same about VR tech.

Thanks for the detailed post, very informative reading.
I'd argue it's the reverse, you know when it's lacking.
Many stories on HN, for example:

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11984609

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6309618
They also value their prerogatives infinitely high which makes them a pain internally. Outside of the BSD case, I'm struggling to think of anything they've done right.
Thanks for the reply (and the subjectivity warning).
I agree that the hype, nano-managing, etc is offputting and all else being equal I probably would be very skeptical of such a person. That being said, he does seem to generate results, which makes me think of him as an anomaly that I can't categorize.

I have mixed feelings about the shades of nepotism. Hiring cousin Bob because he's your cousin irrespective of qualifications is definitely a bad idea; hiring cousin Stephanie who is qualified and you know you have a good relationship with where you can communicate and you can rely on them, is quite another. Disclosure: I've not read enough to have an opinion on if his family hires are Bobs or Stephanies - just playing devil's advocate.
In a world where thousands of people annually travel to some "freedom fighter" camps in order to get combat training, I very much agree that it is necessary to intensively screen travelers who return to their country of origin once they fit a certain heuristic.

As one single returnee who is not caught might actually cause dozens or hundreds of citizen deaths, there shouldn't be a screening exception for smartphones or computers.

We can all argue that the current heuristics / profiling methods are not good enough, but as an EU citizen I'd be glad if my government would actually be as straightforward about screening travellers as USCBP is. If travelers - citizens or not - want to return after learning to kill or taking part in some sort of criminal activities, or even announcing their support for such criminal activities in social media, they should be held accountable for their actions upon returning by strict border controls.
Studies also show that women are paid less than men for similar work.

Where are all the tech companies created by women, with mostly women as employees capitalizing on the market inefficiency giving them competitive advantage?
If your phone is logged in to email or Facebook, they can download the total contents and history of your accounts.
As I answered in another comment, I keep learning new stuff because the language is alive and evolving. IMHO it's getting safer and easier to use and understand.
> It's in the public domain.

With an additional license for countries, like Germany, where the public domain doesn’t exist (as copyright isn’t really a thing, but only "creator rights" and "usage rights")
Totally agree. People tend to confuse the issues of aptitude or ability with the results of dedication and practice.

I learned how to play pool and my skill level increased very rapidly. People thought I was just "a natural," when in fact I just deliberately practiced (not just played) a couple of thousand hours in a relatively short time period (a year or so).
Question: what would happen if you are asked to unlock your device and you refuse on the grounds that it contains classified material?

Presumably they wouldn't just shrug and say 'OK, then' - but neither could they (if the classifying authority was one they cared about - say, NATO) just say 'Tough luck, now unlock it!', right?
What does your CV look like? You're getting a lot of feedback about your website, but I doubt this is what hiring companies are getting hung up on. Using a website to showcase some of your work is great, but your CV is what's going to make or break the deal.
If your CV is written in a similar style, then I'd say that's your problem. Keep it short and professional; define your skill set by listing the tools you use and briefly describe where you've used them. Don't over design it, and keep the personal flair to a minimum.
> I'd be interested to know if any US cities have deeper tunnels

Some NYC subway stations and lines were built with boring as opposed to cut and cover. 90% of the new 2nd Avenue line, for example, is planned to be bored[1]. Here[2] is an article with more details about the tunnel boring machine used -- the comments also have a lot of good discussion. Also, Los Angeles has done some boring for its new subway lines[3].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Avenue_Subway#Construct...

2: http://secondavenuesagas.com/2010/05/14/down-the-rabbit-hole...

3: https://www.metro.net/projects/tunnel-boring-machine-tbm/
If you think Democrats are not guilty of trying to weaken encryption and/or expand anti-privacy capabilities, you are mistaken.
The biggest thing with projects is that they're 'finished'. Most young devs have 20 sloppy repos or apps/sites with incomplete functionality that sends the message that the person is not able to finish something.

Of course you can go back and refactor old code (which you probably will if you keep repos public as your career advances), but have at least a few completed and fully functional projects to show.
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Michael Hartl's Rails tutorial (https://www.railstutorial.org/) is a great example of this.

It'll run you through building a twitter clone and introduce you to git, heroku, a bit of CSS/HTML, and even goes into AJAX a bit.

I can't recommend it enough to people looking to get into rails.
As someone who does some technical recruiting, things that look good:

1) Work experience. Let's face it, this always looks good to everyone looking over your resume. We all know that people hiring for an office have a bias for work you do in an office. I'm as guilty of it as the next guy.

2) Side projects. For me at least, starting stuff from the ground up (no matter how silly or niche) shows me the kind of code you write in your free time, which is a much better measure of your ability (but possibly a less rigorous measure of your success) than what you do at work, where you're constrained by deadlines, code reviews, and "best practices".

3) Open source contributions. This one is trickier; usually when you contribute to Open Source projects, you're doing small pieces of the big work that needs doing, and there isn't much decision making/architecting going on. Speaking as someone who's currently trying (and failing....) to get into Linux kernel contributions, 90% of the issues you're going to come across that are within your abilities to fix are the kind of thing that a more experienced dev could do in 20 minutes, but doesn't have the patience to sit down and do it (due to being busy with more important/pressing work). So, the vast majority of the work you'll do (especially early in your career) is going to be bound in scope by your lack of experience, and won't be as impressive as engineering something from scratch.

In general, WRITE CODE. WRITE LOTS OF CODE. And show off whatever you can. And try to follow best practices, e.g. using CI/CD, writing good tests, using proper style, designing and documenting your architecture, etc.
Recognizing when people are lying is an important part of CBP's job. They're trained specifically to do it. It's unlikely that you're better at lying than they are at noticing that you're lie. Lying to them will end poorly.
Neither do I. As I said, it's a delicate balance to strike. Personally, I'd rather it tilted in favor of property owners than the other direction.

There's no denying, though, that it's a huge and increasing cost to public works projects.
You're right. We always have one container per pod so I didn't fully think about this.
If you're in Paris, go meet people from recruiting agencies like Mobiskill or Urban Linker. It's literally their job to know the market and find opportunities for you. In one or two emails you would be getting great advice about market positioning as well, as they know what's in demand and what's not.
Your meal plan demo doesn't work correctly, all of the tabs seem to do nothing. If that's intended, you should incorporate full functionality into the demo. The meal planning would be the selling point for me and I'd like to demo the whole thing.
When it comes to high volume stream processing there are various tradeoffs that result in incompatible design decisions. Thus it makes sense there are multiple stream processing projects.
PreScheme:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PreScheme

Only C in one of the implementations was an I/O shim for the C-based OS. That could be removed for purity but they were about pragmatism.
How is this not in violation of international law, especially the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights [1] article 17, which would apply to US citizens as well as non-US citizens?

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to unlawful attacks on his honour and reputation.

Maybe even article 9 if the law does not clearly establish what is allowable.

Everyone has the right to liberty and security of person. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest or detention. No one shall be deprived of his liberty except on such grounds and in accordance with such procedure as are established by law.

EDIT: Turns out the US did not really ratify this treaty. [2] So no human rights in the US, or at least not all of them enforceable in court. There may of course be similar rights from other laws or treaties.

[1] http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CCPR.aspx

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Covenant_on_Civi...
I've never had a nice experience returning to Canada (either by plane or car) after a trip to the US or Mexico. I get the full "random search" in a secluded room every single time.
Sure does, though my post was leaning towards leaving it at home so not resetting it (and thus not being able to login to at a kiosk).

But this also raises the question of them believing me that I can't login because I don't know my password.
I don't agree with the stance, but I suspect the answer would be something like - "This would allow the companies to make more money which grows the economy and shareholder value which is good for the general population."
Interesting to read this today. A couple weeks ago, I sent my nephew a new Rasp Pi, custom wood case, book, breadboard kit package for his birthday... and am just in the process of filing a claim on it.

Problem is, I was kind of coerced by the employee into using this specific shipping that gave me only $50 insurance on the package. I didn't realize I was so under-insured until after the package was confirmed as "lost".

I wonder if x-ray or something is making it easier for employees on the inside to target expensive electronics packages.
You could argue that webpages were never meant to host the kind of rich experiences and workflows native applications are known for. We just made it that way through years and years of momentum.
I was crossing into Canada and 3 agents demanded my phone and password (as well as my SO) under threat of detention. They took the phones in the back for 45 minutes before they came out. Asked questions about a conversation I had about marijuana with a friend months ago, basically accusing me of being a drug dealer when even in the most wild reading of that conversation, that cannot possibly be the case. Anyway, who knows what happened in that 45 minutes, probably our data is still sitting deep in some Canadian government server somewhere.
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USA, Australia, UK, Canada (other comment branch). Sounds like the Five Eyes?
What if one doesn't have a Facebook and is unwilling to give up email for work/NDA reasons?
Democracy?
I'm only 32. I live in a different city than I grew up in which was a different city than I went to school in. I don't use any social media sites (tried google+ but none of my close friends helped it so I left quickly). It's never been an issue. My friends from all three cities made it to my wedding and no one has an issue texting me when a group camping trip is being. planned. It's perfectly workable unless you feel the need to see what everyone is doing everyday, which never appealed to me.
Measuring accomplishments for OP isn't likely to be easy, but for more senior candidates that's the ideal situation.

You're correct about generalizing duties and skills. Bullet points on resumes that talk about non-specific day-to-day responsibilities are mostly filler.
10.000.000.000 hours are spent on Netflix, FB and YT every week
FormLabs if you have the cash and don't care too much about the strength of your parts; their laser/light resin system is amazingly accurate. Otherwise, you're often best served by buying a cheap-ish commodity printer (the one from Monoprice is surprisingly pretty good) and repairing or replacing it (to the tune of 400-500 dollars for a replacement). Unless you need both strength and super high print quality, the cheap printers are getting to be plenty good enough these days.
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San Jose is mostly just suburban sprawl. There needs to be more investment in the downtown area, and transit — hopefully BART coming to San Jose in the 2020s will help.
Living with your SO under a tourism visa isn't a crime as long as you leave before your visa expires...

And is it the role of CPB to prevent under the table employment? Surely there are better ways to address that issue if it's a concern. Building walls and inspecting social media seems like a political smoke screen for avoiding more effective enforcement measures - requiring farmers/factories/roofing companies to prove their labour is legally allowed to work in the US etc. Or we could acknowledge the reality of immigration (we need workers if we can't afford to pay Americans an adequate wage to pick fields etc).
I would say that's a pretty clear example of induced demand and the problems arising from it. You build the motorway, people build low density suburbs outside the city to drive and take the motorway to commute into the centre, that delivers hundreds of thousands of cars into the centre which crashes the road-space efficiency of the central area, which damages not just the people driving into the centre, but also the people who live close in, who are using much more efficient and scalable forms of transport. If the motorway was never built, people would live in apartments instead, they'd use buses or trains, and walk, and you could have more people working and living in the city while maintaining a functional transport system, and higher utility as a result.

It's not just a question of the motorway filling up, and maxing out an increase in utility, the motorway filling up means that more efficient uses of the roads in the centre are prevented. There is benefit balanced against detriment, and it's perfectly possible (depending on the exact circumstances) that the detriment will be higher than the benefit.
15GHz? Jesus.
I had read about it on HN multiple times during the Obama administration too. As well as heard about it from the ACLU and EFF, as well as other places.

A HN post from 2014, with 258 upvotes, linking to an ACLU notice from 2014. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6993995

That's just the first HN post I found, there were multiple other front-page HN posts over the past few years.

An EFF alert from 2013: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/unjustified-detention-...

A Mother Jones article from 2014: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/how-fourth-amend...

The Committee to Protect Journalists in 2014: https://cpj.org/blog/2014/10/for-journalists-coming-into-us-...

If you're trying to make the point that there are _some_ people that are Democratic Party partisans and ignore civil and human rights violations from Democrats -- yes, there are, I agree, and it can be infuriating. But it's not everyone, it's not the ACLU, it's not the EFF, and it's not even representative of what stories got posted to and upvoted on HN during the Obama administration. Many of us have been paying attention to this issue unhappily for years.

I am hoping the upsurge in resistance to Trump means that more people have been activated to oppose much the same things when a future Democratic or "more reasonable" Republican administration tries them too.