skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm almost 50 and I don't share your opinion, so that's probably not it...

She's not falsely advertising herself; she clearly states "junior" developer. And she's looking for a place with some idea of what mentorship means - a concept and practice that, I might add, is commonplace in traditional engineering fields. It has even been formalized into the licensing process in those that require licensing (subsets of civil engineering mostly). Yet in software it's surprisingly common to refuse to acknowledge that mentoring has any place or role. Is this wishful thinking on the part of introverted devs who would rather not do it? Then we wonder where all these cowboy coders came from. Well, they taught themselves, like you wanted!

The truth is though, you're right - mentorship is not a startup kind of thing. The author would find it easier to get what she needs by working a few years for a BigCorp. They can offer more mentoring because they can afford it, they take a longer-term view, and the people hiring might even be more than just one or two years more experienced than the candidate. Whereas a startup is likely to be young, fast, and ainobodygot time fadat.

Edit to add: Author didn't major in CS yet somehow learned JS, so it seems like she can indeed teach herself.
This is true and I read a book based off of this study. However, how does this prove that a female is less capable of being a good software engineer?
It's a fun idea. I'm not sure if there is any reason to think that quantum entanglement actually indicates this. I haven't heard anything like that before, and it doesn't seem like a small leap of logic, so I would guess not. But I'm also not a physicist.
I really think this has more to do with the size of a pull up resistor on chip than anything else. I'm not an IC designer, but I do know that the way you make a resistor on chip for an analog circuit is a snake like structure in silicon, much bigger than a transistor for digital logic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit
If you, like me, read this as some part of a space shuttle flying through space and landing on the rover, no. This is just about some piece of technology that was re-used. Deceivious headline...
We used this in my Logic and Computation college class. I've been thinking recently about if people could take this and use it to make a safer language for things like contracts in crypto (looking to you Ethereum) so people don't end up writing million dollar bugs so easily.
Obviously, I meant debt/GDP ratio.
I liked the Gedit from Gnome 2 and what shipped with Ubuntu 12, and 14. The Ubuntu 16/17 and Gnome 3 Gedit is crap. I hate the UI change. The removal of the menu, the ugly hamburger menu with few entries. Gnome 3 is like KDE 4/5 a trainwreck - instead of create a cheap ripoff UI, why not stay with what worked - Gnome 2 and KDE 3 were perfect, had a good UI, just slap a modern theme over. And the newer worse incarnation aren't even touch friendly, well like Win10 - ugly, slow - Win7 is the better one. Only Apple with macOS and Google with Android get it right, iOS6, iOS11, Android 7 all look great and modern, and the UI doesn't suck.

I will install "Ubuntu Mate", it comes with Gnome 2 shell built with gtk3.
"passing a first class function into another function as a parameter is not that far off from passing the result of that function as a parameter"

Not that far off unless you want to do partial application, currying, lazy evaluation, analyze, or change the code of the function before actually using it.
I find that to be quite a weak argument. Avoid conflicting with known standard structures such as "bin" ans "etc" if necessary (which it isn't—you could theoretically run all applications in a filesystem namespace mimicking their expected structure), but that should be the only concern. Non-standard structures might clash anyway (capitalized folders in root does unfortunately occur).
"Why would a high stakes startup engage a liability like you?"

Thats fair. But if that is the company's opinion, then they shouldn't waste anyone's time by reaching out to her and interviewing her.

Sometimes things are not a good fit, and that is ok. But it is disrespectful to waste people's time when you are clearly so not interested in them.

This is not about "She deserves a job". This is about "she deserves respect as a candidate". Basic stuff like not sending follow up emails for weeks to a candidate, no matter who the candidate is, tells me that a company cares very little about respecting anyone and should be avoided.
How can one automatically translate any Haskell containing unbounded recursion into Coq?
This sort of language doesn't make for a good HN comment.
I love Agile and Scrum for solving my own problems. Nothing is better than being able to iterate on an idea to determine if it's right or not.

However, I mostly witness selfish, political, or misinformed ideas being dictated as "requirements". I learned really fast that stakeholders do not like their ideas being questioned with data points from a scrum research spike.

So who enjoys wasting time when your professional viewpoint won't be heard?

If management or stakeholders are unwilling to listen to the team that solves problems for a living, why should I/we waste energy on Agile or Scrum?
Why would you need encryption on this site?
Empathy is unmaintained? I think of it as being practically brand new. The ongoing deaths of the legacy chat clients and protocols have clearly taken a toll on enthusiasm.
The main issue I have with this design is that it doesn't account for the cost of implementing the proposed changes.

For paper boarding passes, it's prohibitively expensive to upgrade the printers and self-check-in kiosks to support new-fangled boarding pass layouts. Plus, you have to do it at every airport around the world.

It would be far cheaper to have some professionally printed full-color paper templates to feed into the printers (see, for example, Virgin America boarding passes issued at SFO).

Plus, iPhone Passbook tickets are uniformly designed, and have the key information (seat number, boarding time) in slightly bigger bold font at the top. It would be far cheaper to get an airline to install eTicket readers (aka QR code scanners) at the few small airports that don't have them, and then to upgrade their mobile apps to support generating Apple Passbook boarding passes for the remaining ticket types that don't work (e.g. group fares).
My favorite: http://web.archive.org/web/20130719195617/https://news.ycomb...
Yeah, after I got it working I came to the same conclusion. I started to create a new spec for an easier-to-understand format but never got around to implementing it.

https://github.com/jotux/fangle/wiki/Format-ideas
Agile often allows no time for doing it right, leading to high levels of technical debt. In the end it leads to Rube Goldberg machines and the "big ball of mud." It's suitable for prototyping but often fails for producing quality software.

The nastiest balls of glued together snot I have ever seen were almost all from textbook Scrum shops. The rest were from lowest bidder outsourcers that probably use similar management methods to try to get code from bad or underpaid/unmotivated coders.

The problem is that deep conceptual thought about a design and deep refactoring are hard to capture as a ticket item. Quality is something that perfuses all deliverables but is not itself a deliverable.

Agile is also totally unsuited for innovation. You will never get a Xerox Parc or SRI with agile. You can only make what you already know to make with agile.
"Dropping the ball on follow ups"... well yea, I too find a company losing interest to be a substantial barrier to starting work there.
I have recently discovered that on HN, you can either downvote or reply, but not both.

What? Sure you can do both.
Ask HN: Is changing career at age 30 right choice?
I am 30 and working in a call center. I am not earning good salary. And I think there is no future in call center. I want to learn coding and make better living.

Is learning coding right decision?
Where should I start?
What are trends in coding?
I like that we are integrating more and more well designed products and utilities in our day to day life; beautiful, easy to use objects are no longer a luxury. That by itself is a glorious win.

People, however, tend to forget the old but gold adage: "Form follows Functionality". I mean, this talented designer ventured into poking fun of the work of other people without even taking the time to understand the problem, the proposed solution, and the constraints that were/are in place.

Yes, his design is infinitely more good looking. But did the designer took into consideration how applicable is it in the real world, with real logistics and real business scenarios? No. Of course he didn't.

The reason I'm saying this is because I suffer those atrocities every day in my work, were I'm tasked with the coordination between journalists and designers for a business magazine.

Where I work, we believe that infographics' main mission is to help readers wrap their heads around things they wouldn't if we presented them as text or tables. That's the point of them being there in the first place. Making them pretty is just a way to make people look at them, and be happy while they learn something new. It is so satisfying to create such pieces.

Designers, however, seem to discard all of that, caring only about how trendy the damn gradient is. I was even called ignorant and 'noob' by a designer, one that I fought to recruit a week earlier, because I suggested making numbers readable, something he deemed old-fashioned and would ruin his master-fucking-piece.

I really hope that people will be more aware that design is not a goal by itself; it's a tool to make people care, learn and be more happy.

Edit: OMGrammar!
That's not a negotiating tactic. That's called being an ass.

There are more professional and polite ways of saying "we are able to offer you a junior-level salary".
I agree that the Mt Gox failure was much worse than what's described here. But as a possible sign of things to come it gave me the same feeling this does. (The feeling that a lot of people are in way over their heads.)

To anyone who's been involved in normal financial markets, Mt Gox had pretty clearly gone belly up months before the Bitcoin community seemed to accept that seriously as a possibility.

I'm not saying Bitcoin dies. I'm saying possibly there are a lot of Bitcoin enthusiasts who have no idea how tough the 'safe' real world of regulated markets is. Let alone this kind of thing.
Secretary of Defense letter on ethics
Physical stuff: Make sure you get enough exercise and sleep, check your diet is balanced and reduce caffeine and alcohol.
Mental: Try to work out what is distracting you and get it done or eliminate it.
Technology: It's yours to use sometimes it feels like we are its slave.
Time out: Go on a back to basic holiday trekking or cycling , camping etc with a bare minimum of stuff (particularly tech) - find this puts things in perspective
Artificial intelligence: Reinforcement Learning in python
Depends entirely on the niche and traffic source. I have abandoned some niches because even with automated, realtime suspension of campaigns/referrers, there were so many bots (more than 50%) that I couldn't make the niche profitable. There are two primary sources for bots that click on PPC ads: competitors looking to drain budgets, and site owners looking to profit by having bots click on their ads. The latter is the easiest to defend against, since you can simply blacklist their site(s), plus any other sites that are likely on the same server (fortunately, most criminals are pretty lazy/cheap in this regard). I know one marketer that auto-blacklists all domains that have private Whois information after 1 click, and he has done very well with that.

To answer your question, based on my personal experience, I'd say on average, for display campaigns (specifically not referring to Google search ads, which tend to have a lower percentage of bot traffic - while Bing is the Wild Wild West)...I'd say overall it's somewhere in the 30% neighborhood. Not all of those have malicious intent, but in PPC, every non-human click on your ads is malicious.

Regardless of niche, realtime bot mitigation is probably the best competitive advantage that one can have in the PPC arena.
Hmm, I see "Unknown or expired link" when I visit that. Is this a joke I didn't get?
So "every single person you know has had their power cable for their iPhone and/or Macbook fray after a year" is some kind of legitimate sample set? Let me answer that - no.

I find comments from folks like you ignorant and of low quality. I'm sorry you and your friends have had issue - I can just as easily say that me and my friends have never had any issues with their Apple cables (which is true by the way). What does that mean? Nothing.

If you're going to make 50 million of something then your quantity of scale in production is UNIQUE and you can't compare the product of that production to other people that can a) source much lower quantities b) produce them slower and c) have less distribution and support issue.

As for your repair comment you think Apple takes defective motherboards and reworks them? Haha. Even back in the 80's when I was an Apple Certified Repair tech and went down to the North Carolina Level 3 center for repairs the folks there loved to show us the "motherboard" closet - a room with hundreds of motherboards waiting for rework "if they have time". Even then it was cheaper to make a new motherboard than take the time to diagnose and rework an old one.

If consumers want reliable and cheap (yes cheap) technology then manufacturers are going to choose those qualities over repair-ability. I for one would choose cheaper over more repairable considering the methods for mass producing electronics go hand in hand with more rugged electronics.

You'll need to prove this statement - "They're artificially restricting the supply of parts so others can't repair it" but you can't so I'm going to ignore it.
Would you be willing to chat more about this one on one for research (non-commercial) purposes?
> Stop ramming your stuff down other people's throats.

Pointing out your preferred language addresses one of the hardest problems in another language qualifies as "ramming your stuff down other people's throats"?

I find that hard to believe.
I'm not sure that developers dislike those they work with so much as they dislike being managed - the fun part of the job is exploratory programming and chasing technical curiosities. Having a manager and customers means we actually have to create something that works and generally includes more "drudge work".

If developers dislike agile, you'd expect them to be happy with BDUF (waterfall) and I never hear people saying they're happy with book-sized specification documents.

Isn't this really the difference between computer science and software engineering? As developers we have to straddle the fence.
I do this for my own code but 20 years of persuasion has failed to convince any of my colleagues.
We store our sponge vertically in a glass with slanted sides. The sponge stops about 1-1/2" before the bottom. The sponge drips dry after every use, depriving bacteria of the "wet" they need to thrive. It surely doesn't kill all bacteria but it takes about 2 months before the sponge gets into the ewww zone, which from my standards, greatly extends sponge life over storing them flat.
Tree of Knowledge System
Co-signed. This is essentially what I did - I worked in startups a few years but realized I wanted more mentoring, so I went to a BigCorp and got it! If she finds a startup that could give her that, more power to her.
From everything I heard about Friendster, the idea was great but their technical architecture couldn't scale. Amazon wouldn't have had that issue.

Most of what I know about Friendster comes from listening to the Startup podcast.

https://gimletmedia.com/episode/friendster-part-1-season-5-e...
It would indeed be interesting if somebody would write a nice layman's description, but I haven't found one. Here are the official rules:

http://www.ifac.org/system/files/publications/files/B5%20IPS...
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Non-locality doesn't allow FTL communication. Our universe seems to obey the same laws of physics everywhere. We can speculate all day about other universes, but there's no evidence we'd ever reach them even if they do exist. If you want to figure out what things are likely you have to start with what's possible.
Live Music Industry to Get Its Own Cryptocurrency
> I'm glad she was able to be picky

I'm not sure she was that picky. She doesn't explicitly say the reasons were all her reasons. For example, one of the main things that stopped me from working at Facebook is that they declined to make me an offer.
Yeah, it was nostalgia. Expiring links used to be something of a plague. Made me chuckle a bit to see it again.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070716155904/http://news.ycombi... is a good rebuttal to the FB criticism though.
Uber's search for female CEO results in male finalists
>You need a sideways dimension of movement to avoid this problem.

you mean like the elevator system being discussed here?
Would I be able to submit a patch to uninstall the Intel True Key bloatware that comes with Flash? Nobody is able to remove this piece of sh.. https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2126934
What about tor.
Try to attract interesting parties and make them approach you first by doing projects which are interesting to you. Keep those projects production-ready.

Then the parties who value your work will naturally approach you, and by default value your work and give you more decision power in whatever the two of you will want to pursue together.

Sounds twisted, but that's how life works.

Oh, and making the program is not a goal in itself, solving the problem is.
The lack of science in business blows me away given the money involved.
Systemd is not good. It tries to solve too many things and tries to extend and replace more and more core functionality. So many security holes. In a year or two, we will look back and say it was a very bad timeframe and several bad decisions. Unfortunately both Debian and Redhat switched to systemd, meaning all distros based on them as well. Only a few distros are left, let's hope some sane people revert that hype.
Interesting article! This is pretty timely for me as someone hiring engineers right now. I've been in her shoes before, and know both sides of the table. For those reading this and identifying with the situation, allow me to challenge in good faith the commentary in this post.

I'd summarize the overall tone of the post as this:

"I'm working hard to grow my career. I want to find the best place and role to help me do that. Please approach your side of the conversation as prepared and excited as I am, otherwise don't waste my time in getting there."

For a young engineer, this is simple and to the point. It's also wrong.

First, it attempts to minimize exposure to failure based on perceived value. The thing with failure is that you can choose to learn from it or ignore it. Trying to determine what failures are valuable beforehand is folly. Soak it up and become knowledgeable. I learned things early that frustrated the hell out of me, and figured out the lesson much later.

Second, hiring decisions include lots of legal situations. Here's the truth: you'll never really know why someone really didn't want to hire you. When you hear lots of glowing things but you're not hired....there's a big issue somewhere. If you want feedback to be useful, you must look for trends, which means multiple attempts (and failures.)

Third, don't take the title literally as "startups". These are all personal interactions, and organization size or makeup isn't a useful filter here. I doubt the author intended this post to be limited to just small companies, though.
I dislike his redesign, because most of what he does is fix the fact that it's ugly. Large-printing the numbers is pointless when the labels are still teeny-tiny and the layout of the tearable stub doesn't match so it's non-obvious that it contains the same info.

Imho, the tearaway should clearly repeat the layout of the big one so the reader can see "this is the same".

I'd sort the data in order. Putting the zone at the end is wrong because you don't use it after the seat. First you need flight number and time, then you gate days where to go, then your zone says where to go, then your seat says where to go. It seems obvious to sort the data like that.
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Where did OP say anything about looking to NC as a cultural role model? S/he was making a point that people in SF are intolerant, not that people in NC are tolerant.
I think you and Moto7451 are both correct; i.e. doing either of those things would fulfill the source distribution requirement. What GPL does not allow is shipping binaries without source while honoring source code requests exclusively from your own customers. It's either providing them together to customers or providing source separately to anyone who asks.
Of course it's anecdotal but since it's anti Apple it's immediately accepted as truth since who wants to be pro Apple.

I can replay with equal validity that I've NEVER had an Apple cable fail either power or data and that goes back to my Newton 2100 which is still working with original cables.

Plus add to that I work in a public library and we loan out cables and MacBook Airs and we've never had any cables fail. Plenty stolen but that's another story. 8-(

I've seen PLENTY of people treat their cables without a thought to protecting them from poor treatment. People that pull out the cable using the wire, retrieve their dropped phones and PCs buy reeling up on the cable.

There's no cables that can survive that and be cost effective in the quantities that Apple needs to produce. Sure a 3rd party cable maker can but their scale of production is minuscule compared to Apple's.
I remember reading this exact story in college thinking, I'll happily move to a place where he had a million and don't feel rich... I'd still have a million.

And more or less, it's worked out. You still live vastly better here with a million than many other parts of the world without a million.
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Mind sharing your recommendations for your friend? I have a friend in a similar position that asked me for help but I'm a bit at lost on what to recommend her.

I've been a professional developer for over 20 years. I honestly don't remember what it is not to know what a for loop is and can't find any decent paths from 'non-developer' to 'junior developer' in an easy to follow manner.
Pricing on these services is pretty high. They charge $404 + filing fees, but at least in New Mexico, one of the states that permits anonymous LLCs, you can form one yourself in about 30 minutes of effort and $100 or so in fees plus $100 or so to hire a registered agent. Hard to justify the $404 on top of fees...
According to the convergence criteria, yes. Those criteria pretty much ensure the inability of the Euro to function properly though [1]

Domestically, not really. Internationally, it depends on a number of factors. [2]

[1] https://www.lrb.co.uk/v14/n19/wynne-godley/maastricht-and-al...

[2] https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2017/07/18/the-balanced-budg...
I'm seeing 66 right now. Poking around it looks like maybe the threshold is asked within the past 7 days + at least 1 comment?
Basecamp.
... which rule would be obeyed only by legitimate, robots.txt-honoring crawlers. This reminds me of the anti-piracy messages shown (solely) to viewers of legally-purchased media. Similar "logic", similar (counter-productive) "effectiveness".
Where is the actual manifesto? How can there be any judgement without the primary source?