skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Decide whether coding is a good fit for you. If you are one of these things:

* You love learning.

* You love to build (legos, woodwork, pillow fort, etc)

* You prefer efficiency (you like to do it easier, you find shortcuts)

* You are patient (you can do repetitive tasks without complaints)

* You like math (you don't need calculus, and you don't hate math)

With 0 experience, I would start by pursing QA (Quality Assurance) and user testing. It will help you better understand how things are made without actually making them.

https://www.usertesting.com/

Try to be good at it, and start doing freelance QA work (there's plenty of jobs).

Once you feel comfortable how it works, then you can pursue whichever direction you want. Let it be iOS, web, Android, whatever.
No suggestions unfortunately, but I'm curious to know the motivation behind trying to find non-digital toys. Is there something we could do to bring the benefits of non-digital toys into digital ones or are the differences fundamentally irreconcilable?
Also related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling
At the end of the day, not a single answer. Good.
Connection Machine
Posts still have to get upvoted to be seen, however they are submitted.
It crazy how much flak someone can get from stating the obvious.
That's why I tried to identify precisely which equality I meant to avoid that issue.

By the way, Harrison Bergeron was a critical satire of the position you're describing.
Kapla (wood blocks)
Lego taught me many things including how and why to plan ahead. Every child who grew up with Lego has experienced an off by one brick error. :)
Why does them being from a different place allow you to discount the value they derive?
For problem solving / strategy (and fun of course!)
Marble run, Geomag, Monopoly, Canasta (2 or 4 player)

Also the games by thinkfun.com (Rush Hour etc) are very good
Isn't Ubiquiti supposed to be he high-quality "do one thing really really well" prosumer brand?

Thats terrible to hear their crap blows up. Everybody says to upgrade away from D-Link and Asus to the Ubiquiti stuff to get rock-solid pro-quality home network.

Sounds like I'm just as bad off with the consumer stuff.
They also had less historical precedent for bombs going off preceding an armed terrorist attack, or a larger "double tap" follow-up explosion.

Additionally, the low explosive gunpowder used in these bombs is considerably less powerful than what you'd encounter in a modern day terrorist attack using high explosives (e.g. TATP, PETN or RDX). Even compared to other deflagrating low explosives, regular gunpowder is pretty mild compared to e.g. flash powder[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tgFKibzY3s
I think the above poster means what you experienced in Italy on a global scale. That is, yes it already in a form in Italy, but now you can do that almost anywhere.
Here on HN you'll be banned if you're not careful too.
The comment obviously refers to std::map, which it mentions explicitly and which guarantees ordering.
Scrabble is great for vocabulary, although as you get better you'll learn strategic words and probably disregard their meaning (for example, I frequently use qi, qat, suq, qua but I can't define them)
I'm the same about sports, which I generally don't follow, but that often puts me at a serious disadvantage in group converstations, which (among men) seem to focus on sports pretty reliably.
> By the way, Harrison Bergeron was a critical satire of the position you're describing.

Of equality-by-outcome? Yes, that was exactly why I cited it.
It's interesting that the media was so much more willing (than ours) to keep the bombings secret, at least early on. I wonder if that was a side effect of the war as well, in the sense that they might have become accustomed to suppressing sensitive information during wartime.
The Mystery of Sylvia Plath's Lost Novel
Just in case you were reading Gizmodo's version, http://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-div..., please note that the original document has been edited specifically to remove data and references.

> The text of the post is reproduced in full below, with some minor formatting modifications. Two charts and several hyperlinks are also omitted.
75% of Bachelors degrees in Psychology are awarded to women, and almost 70% of active working Psychologists are female. Does it follow that Psychology is sexist against men?

Is is possible that two things are true? That (1) there is sexism in tech that must be addressed, and (2) even if women felt welcome in tech, the composition of tech could be <50% women?
Agreed with Aphextron. This is old, stale news. Until someone gets one of these "promising technologies" into production, I'm not going to read about "new batteries." Information, like this, has been circulating for a decade. I've still yet to see any of the nanotech in a battery.... yawn.
If someone's not enjoying programming, suggesting to study CS doesn't seem ideal.

Whilst CS != programming, there is a lot of overlap.
>1. You can just invent a trait.

Of course you can, though it will probably be a useless invention.

>2. You don't have to define a trait, measure it or distinguish it from other traits or use it to predict the important ways that people vary.

Naturally, if you're going to invent a trait you should distinguish it from other traits as well as show it has predictive power. Measuring it however is the tricky part, but not being able to currently measure it does not mean it doesn't exist.

>3. EQ is a psychometrically valid concept.
>4. It isn't the Big Five trait agreeableness

Don't know - didn't major in psychology.

>5. EQ measures shouldn't all measure THE SAME THING

Yes they should, once EQ measures are well defined and standardized, which they are not.

I admit that What rubbed me the wrong way about the answer was the elitist vibe I got from it - if I'd have listened to predictors about me in my youth, I wouldn't never have reached anything I've achieved. Hubris is dangerous thing, and this is the feeling I got. I'm open to the possibility that it may well be a wrong interpretation on my part though.
You are very lucky that you are only 20. Look at other areas in tech. You don't have to stay there but at least explore it. Try marketing and sales. Companies are always looking for people that can expand their sales. This will not change. I can almost guarantee that you'll hate it to start but as you gain some skills you'll like it better. You might not stay with it but you'll gain skills that will always be useful to you. Such as the ability to interact with people in ways that advance what you want to accomplish. If you think about it a big percent of the time at work is sales. You sell your ideas to your coworkers and management.

Product manager is also a possibility but you'll need to work your way to it. There is not one path to get there. But there is satisfaction in supporting a successful product.

Your best bet is to try different things to help you decide. If you can, volunteer in areas that you want to test out.

Since you are at it. Make a career and life plan. Start thinking now about where you want your career and life to be 5, 10 years from now. The advantage is that you'll be looking for opportunities to execute your plan. You'll be happy you did. The last thing you want is to end up in a place you don't want to be in in the future.
I've read that he'd wanted to just use Scheme, but that they needed the language to have "Java" in the name, as well as curly braces. So, we got Javascript.

Also, given that DSSSL was an early contender against CSS (and a great deal more powerful), we could have basically had Scheme there too. https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-languages-which-almost-becam...

Lastly, because S-expressions can represent everything that is representable in SGML/XML/(X)HTML, but more succinctly, we could have basically had Scheme instead of HTML.

Imagine if, instead of JS/HTML/CSS, we had... Scheme. I'm pretty sure that the alter universes where this happened also all have peace, warp drives, and working cold fusion.
Surprised to see no mention of Fallout references in the comments here sofar.

I wonder is anyone in this company involved in this purchase a gamer.
There is this brilliant card game Set (https://www.setgame.com/set), which is a load of fun and also teaches visual reasoning skills.
CHIP-8 in Common Lisp
As I said it is already the law+. See MDL, Article 1, Sections 4-7, 4-8.

If that means that it no longer makes sense for you to buy an apartment then you probably shouldn't buy an apartment. I certainly wouldn't hold my breath on it being repealed. The law was recently amended to make advertising an illegal apartment rental itself illegal and subject to a fine.

+There is an exception if you are renting out only part of an apartment and you or a long term tenant will be present. Also, the situation for buildings with three or fewer units is more complicated.
Tempat Daftar Dan Login Ahliqq Paling Aman – Judi Poker99
What kind of pathways have you seen that lead in to product management?

I'm yet to see a job listing for a PM that doesn't require experience as a PM.
It seems like storing your backups using two cloud providers is much more reliable than using just one cloud provider + local NAS.
The future of decentralized exchanges
Which brings up another interesting question: Why haven't states taken a hard stance against the federal government on this? What would happen if Colorado state troopers stood up to federal DEA agents and said no, you have no authority here. I seriously doubt it'd come to blows, or gunfire, but in this case I think the states need to take a solid, protective stance against federal intrusion. For once, this type of resistance is a good thing.
My bad, it is not zero. I dint account for the commissions platforms charge for using the service.
> A gossip magazine will make statements that are often false but falsifiable. Hence strictly more scientific than statements about EQ

So, are you arguing that people not following scientific method AT ALL are more "scientific" than people who are at least trying to produce scientific research in this area?

I have a hard time taking that position seriously; I assume I must have misunderstood. Are you talking about researchers or someone else?
I just started 'Days of Rage', and much of what he discusses is the fact that from the end of the 60's, through the death of the hardline leftists in the 80's, bombings were an extremely commonplace means of violence. These bombings were less often intended to cause casualties as opposed to destroy property and make a public statement.
It's 2017. The space race has been over for decades.
Anything that receives 8 firmware updates per year is a risky thing to put into mission critical service.

It is getting better, I can say the last few unifi updates I did involved much less butt pucker than previously, and they were done to get new features not because of necessity.
Not the OP, but when you have children good pay is essential.
I was a web developer for a few years out of college, but I eventually realized I got much more pleasure out of helping my colleagues solve challenges in their own work (obscure bugs or browser compatibility issues) than building my own assigned pages and apps. I transitioned to technical product/developer support engineering which I've now done at two companies for a combined six years or so, and it's been great.

There's definitely more interaction with people, as your day-to-day work is more about helping people succeed than building things. But you still use a lot of the same skills you've built up in development work - especially if you've spent any time debugging code.

Whether this will appeal to you depends on what motivates you. For me, I really like feeling like I've made a difference and one of the most powerful ways to get that feeling is to solve a problem for someone, so this is a very satisfying line of work.

Also, I've done a lot of interviewing of candidates for this role - and I can tell you that at least on my team, lack of experience isn't really a blocker. It's common to need to quickly learn a new product or feature to solve a customer/developer's problem with it, so we look more for quick learning and problem-solving instincts than built-up experience or domain expertise.
I don't know exactly how to react to this; I guess this is a huge waste of time on both parties: the kid who just want promotion and NASA (idem). Please, go back to focus on what is important and to what really matters for us humans, instead of PR stunts and whiny kids who missed a meal.
Math rods / Cuisenaire rods: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Viga-Wooden-Maths-Rods-Cuisenaire/d...

A Pound of dice: https://www.amazon.com/Wiz-Dice-Pack-Random-Polyhedral/dp/B0... (I'd be keen to know if there's dice at a similar price in the UK)

You can then play something like Button Men (which could easily be rethemed to "Pokemon battle") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button_Men
What are you using instead now? Genuinely curious.
Cool exhibit - they had an old ATT blit terminal connected via old Telebit Trailblazers.
This is very cool, but I can't help but think that toasters are an incredibly impractical way to be toasting bread if you start from nothing. Just make a stick and a fire to hold it over and you're done in minutes!
I miss the good old days when cops could be cops. Locking people in mental institutions for 6 months, arresting people and killing them with heart attacks.

> Also, it was Friday.
Uber needs a CEO who can maintain the reality-distortion field. Otherwise, the valuation will collapse and they'll have trouble getting new investors.
A kickstarted I supported is Turing Tumble, a simple Turing-complete mechanical computer. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/871405126/turing-tumble...
You must be fun at parties. This stretches much further than the superficial waste of time that you suggest. Encouraging kids to get into STEM fields, and eventually the space program is the goal here.
Incident Response: The crash of BA38
Hopefylly they where give more then a few weeks time to fix it. But by reading the article it seems they where impatient and didn't even wait for the weekend to be over before publicly announcing that the site had a vuln. And he didn't give instructions on how to repeat the "bug" in the DM (Twitter Direct Message).
Yes, granted its 3 times as much revenue and not 3 times profit, as i have employees and an office etc now, but yes, i'm earning a lot more.
Can you speak to how you initially made the move and got clients, and how you get them now?
Growing up, I wished I could design my lego projects ahead of time with an interface as simple as what Google SketchUp has ended up coming up with. I wanted to be able to model it and order the required parts with a single click. I think they might have something like that now but they didn't have it back then.
Here we run up against the fact that the world is a far more cruel place than most people would like to admit. Is it fair to these people? No. Do I like it? No. Is it going to happen anyway? Probably.

It's worth remembering the history of people who love their home but had to move away because some other people loved it more. Those folks who are so attached to the downtown apartments they can't afford anymore? Their neighborhoods became desirable because of a variety of urban renewal projects that largely worked by eminent-domaining & bulldozing lots of poor, mostly black neighborhoods. The original inhabitants - who after the Civil Rights movement were actually excited that they might be treated as first-class citizens - had their communities eviscerated, and still haven't recovered.

And then if you go back further, all of America is founded on the genocide and conquest of the Native Americans, many of whom loved their home and had to move away because the location was highly desirable for settlers.

And if you go back further, many of those tribes themselves stole territory from other more peaceful tribes. The Comanche and Aztecs, for example, practiced slavery and human sacrifice for rival tribes captured in warfare.

You could look at this as part of a long chain of humans kicking out other humans whose lands they covet. In the grand scheme of things, it's actually rather polite, as the original owners are being paid for the use of their properties and aren't even giving them up.
> The current fashion is that there are basically NO biological sex-type differences; that any sex-type differences are socially imposed and generally disadvantageous to women.

It's important to know that the existence of non physical systematic differences between male and female is as uncontroversial among scientists in the field as climate change is in that field.

It's easy to be "pro science" when science confirms what you already believe. When it says you're wrong is when you show how pro science you really are!

PS The mental and psychological male/female differences are all statistical with substantial overlap. Much like how men are on average about 5 inches taller than women, but there are many tall women and short men.
Lego, erector set, chess, backgammon, othello/reversi, card games are all things I remeber from my pre-technology childhood.

Reading of course.
Show me how to make neoprene at competitive prices with no pollution and I'll quit my job and fund raise for you tomorrow.
We're nearly 100% Juniper on the network side. The PtP and PtMP equipment we were using from Ubiquiti is now 95% Mimosa. The only Ubiquiti products that I like are Airfiber 24's and that's only because no one else offers an alternative.
What's with all the clowns replying "please stop" to unsubstantive comments. Everyone thinks they're a "dan-g" nowadays.
Attraction is the last thing we're trying to engineer in the workplace.
I'm thinking of doing exactly that switch. How did you get first customers?
This is where the analogy breaks down; if my metaphorical windows were on the open internet, I wouldn't feel at all secure after locking up one single weirdo.
If it was because of him, then by now it probably wouldn't matter much if he was kicked out, as he already built a certain type of culture inside the company. The company would pretty much have to be built from the ground-up to change all of that.
I know this is a little direct, but how's the pay compare to your old jobs and to your colleagues in dev?
As said in the article. Condoms doesn't work 18% of the time. That's a pretty high failure rate.

The contraception methods available to women are much more effective.
Yes, it's called Louisiana.
>"The economic response to this (and I'm not saying I agree...I don't have a horse in this race either way) is that a tourist's willingness to pay for accommodation exceeds a resident's, and so they should get the apartment.

This in my opinion encapsulates exactly what is wrong with evaluating a complex issue like housing in purely transactional terms. Do cities and their residents have no responsibility to each other beyond "capturing a surplus"?

Certainly what makes their neighborhood interesting and by extension desirable in the first place wasn't the product of purse economics was it? A hotel district where guests stay in apartments formerly occupied by residents doesn't sound like a very interesting or inspiring place.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by ignorance, indeed.
This is so true. I have been trying to get into this space but leads are so hard to come by.
Hey, have a little fun.
The Average Hit Song Has 4+ Writers and 6 Different Publishers
Lot of overlap but lot of learning to in broad spectrum of subjects. Maybe he'll be more into low level programming, maybe security. Or maybe once he understands magic behind ML, he'll like it.
To me CS degree was about expanding views. I still sucked at programming after getting MSc.
Assuming i've found the right place[1], I doubt Nipton would even be counted as a village in the UK.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Nipton,+CA+92364,+USA/@3...
Quoting the judge, when handing down the death sentences:

I consider your crime worse than murder... I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-Bomb years before our best scientists predicted Russia would perfect the bomb has already caused, in my opinion, the Communist aggression in Korea, with the resultant casualties exceeding 50,000 and who knows but that millions more of innocent people may pay the price of your treason.
It would probably be better to use a trie directly, maybe a radix trie or a b-trie.
You're about to have a very bad surprise if you think women are infertile 3 weeks per month.
> The reason I ask is because I've heard that companies that kick their founders generally fail.

Possibly because that companies that are so screwed up internally that they have to kick their founder out are destined to fail. And kicking the founder out doesn't change their course enough to fix it.
Yep, LDraw/LeoCAD.

http://www.leocad.org/

http://www.ldraw.org/
In a sense, both the host and the guest pay "tax" to AirBnB, in the form of service fees. These fees are then used to provide many of the services that governments have traditionally provided - regulation of commerce, payment processing, dispute resolution, insurance against bad events.

I'd agree that we need some sort of theory of checks & balances for these new global corporate actors. People seem to have reacted to the dysfunction of governments by creating new quasi-governmental actors, but without realizing they've done so.
Me to, maybe this is the manifestation of affirmative action but for space. Its not even a new design, they literally just used the cubesat platform and launched it from United States.
I did this easily at a 100 person company.
Shorten the iteration or abort it midway? Not gonna happen. Management loves having a Monday to Friday iteration. That structure and control is way more important to them than reaponding to change.

Shortening the iterations means you now how to rechop all your tasks and do the estimates again wasting even more time. Also the smaller the task the less people focus on the bigger picture and your software just turns into a mess of puzzle pieces.

Just my experiences from having to go through Agile Hell.
How much more would cleanly produced neoprene cost?
Then you could cite the paper. But my reference checker robot will throw a stack overflow exception.
*Lisp (star-lisp) had some interesting constructs for this machine https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c... [PDF]
Like they did 55 years ago? NASA nowadays uses someone else's rockets to launch its own satellites, and it makes sense economically and strategically.

Rockets cannot be a smart space system, we have to invent something else, more fluide, secure, economical and less catastrophic in its essence.
It could be me and changing perspectives but I find myself opening TC articles much less lately.

Most of them feel like filler content that, in case you were into the article topic, make you look for the substantial information elsewhere.

I also realized I am not seeing TC headlines anymore in my feeds. It only happens on HN.
+1 for K'NEX. Legos always seemed so limited to me as a kid. K'NEX is much more oriented towards actually building things rather than just making neat things to look at.
We might need to consider not all cities are made to be tall. You cannot make Lisbon or Vienna go tall, otherwise it's not Lisbon or Vienna anymore... Also, it's silly to move local residents to the outskirts to have tourists right in the city center as tourists don't have to commute on a daily basis, they can be away from the center, it's perfectly fine for them.
I can't tell whether or not you realize that isn't the point.
One common path I've seen is to prove yourself inside a company and “step up” (volunteer yourself for the new position). 1-2 recommendations later, it'll be a done deal.