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Paying $5000 per month in cash for tech career(SDE) guidance
I can't believe he wrote this...

Sent to Seattle Scalability Meetup Organizers:

Paying $5000 per month in cash for tech career(SDE) guidance

If you are a team lead or a hiring manager or you have connections from a top tech company in Seattle, I will give you $5000 in cash($100 bills) each month as you provide guidance through my early(entry/junior level) tech career.

It's completely understandable to doubt my competence by now. However, I can assure you that not only I have a verifiable degree from one of the top 20 CS schools in the US but also my apps were featured on many top tech news sites like ycombinator. The reason I'm looking for guidance is because I never worked in a large tech company environment before and my parents want me to get a few years of working experience in large tech companies before they can fund mine. I need your guidance to make the transition as smooth as possible.

Unless your team is doing something a lot more interesting, I prefer to work in an iOS(Swift) team or an IoT team or a computer vision team. If all you can do is an employee referral then you are probably not the person I'm looking for. Contact dyc278@protonmail.com only if your decision matters a lot in hiring process. See the list below for examples of top tech companies.

absolutely no Microsoft tech stack involved

To summarize what's your responsibility as my tech career mentor:

<summary snipped for 2000 words>

These are the basic ideas. If you are still interested, we can discuss the details. If your prefer something formal we can finalize the terms into a contract with my lawyer. Verbal agreement is fine with me too.

Keywords:

- Swift
- iOS
- C
- Java
- Google
- Apple
- Facebook
- Amazon
- LinkedIn
- Yelp
- Uber
- AirBed & Breakfast
- Snap
I lived in the midwestern city as a single graduate student with $25K in a ratty (literally) apartment. I survived, I didn't feel "free" enough in the way he suggests. The only way I had savings and spending money was the hope I'd get a degree someday and the fact I don't drink alcohol or smoke, and I didn't need to drive.

I earn more now, and am considerably more free. I don't wish how I lived on anyone, and I am under no delusion that most well adjusted adults in the richest country in the world would be willing to live how I did. I realize you aren't making this argument, I'm more replying to who I replied to initially.

Might I add I had good healthcare due to my university...and my department waived my tuition (and hence paid for my healthcare). Could you imagine life without that? Or if I couldn't defer my loans?
I spent the first 5 years of my career making 20-25k / year, family of 5. This wasn't some crappy McJob either.

It was pretty tight at times but we made it work.

I switched to a different company and make around 4-3x that now and live pretty comfortably.

Welcome to a world that isn't California (and to an extend New York)
Would you also object to training the mice that infest our houses to also engage in activities we consider useful? Perhaps say, training them to do their business outside?

I mean, to describe the animals, like crows or racoons, which live in cities and consume human detritus, as "wild" seems like somethings of a misstatement - I'm not sure what the best term would be but "feral", "parasitic" or "coadapted" are seem equally good. Training animals in an environment that's otherwise untouched by humans seems bad for the "naturalness" of said environment but situation seems no more invasive than spaying feral cats.

Indeed, if anyone is worried about the human domination of nature, they can take comfort that schemes like this should further raise the intelligence of crows to the point they'll have a shot at overthrowing the unjust reign of we naked apes.
A car is unaffordable on 30k a year, after taxes, insurance, and rent.

Think about it.

Taxes/Medicare/SSI chops of 30%, you're left with 21k.

Rent is 500 a month in a cheap city with a roomate, youre left with 15k.

Utilities are 100 a month with a roomate, that leaves you with 13000ish.

Food and ALL OTHER living expenses including clothes, transportation/gas, etc are (living frugally) 250 a week.

That leaves you with 1k a year...
Take a Peek Inside This Impressive Tiny Farmhouse on Wheels
If you use D3 for Javascript visualization it's very easy to get this right. D3 has supported interpolation in CIE and Lab spaces for a long time now, making it easy to create visualizations with perceptual uniformity. Many of its built-in color scales are also perceptually uniform.

https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3014589
https://github.com/d3/d3-scale/blob/master/README.md#sequent...
Facebook is nothing like a "real-time yearbook", though.
Oh goodie.
For long enough key travel times that could actually show a negative latency, which might be super weird.
Put them out and put them in the garbage, your pocket, or a plastic bag.

When people go out to a national park they don't just throw trash on the ground because "I paid an entry fee that should fund the clean up."
You didn't count taxes, car payment, utilities, health insurance, and other bills like phone...in there.

You deff had help from your parents to so blithely discount those expenses.
buses have greater reach and are potentially cheaper

I know you're counterpointing here, but really it nets out the same. Connecting transport increases it's potential.

It baffles me that SF chooses not to integrate Bus, BART and Caltrain.
This was from a prof giving an undergrad ML lecture at Cornell about 10-12 years ago. Wikipedia's coverage of _Perceptrons_ suggests my lecturer also had only heard the mistaken version of Minky's XOR example, so this could have been entirely wrong :)
Just to play devil's advocate here: you do have the alternative of not smoking.

(I dislike smoke, but if you're not blowing it around in a public place I don't particularly mind your decision to smoke)
>> I'm curious to see if I, as a local, can identify some weather patterns here that outside meteorologists haven't noticed yet.
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It's almost inevitable that some local would be able to identify extreme local patterns.

To generalise the result though, a problem you'd have, if you turn out to be one such local, is figuring out the extent to which your experience is common, or just down to unfortunate local factors.
I've been using one of their products for a few months now. It was easy enough to assemble, and is reasonably comfortable for the price.
It's nice to be able to cheaply and easily design the layout which works for my house.

I'm pretty rough on things, and one of the strand board back pieces has broken twice. They've mailed me replacements pretty quickly, but I do wish it were a stronger material.
I essentially agree with you that "education" isn't really education, but I don't follow that it's impossible. Practically speaking, I think it's very unlikely we'll solve education, or solve harmful flaws to the human condition for that matter, but I wouldn't go as far as to say they're unsolvable. Actual education has been sufficiently tried in this country. There's definitely a clear limit to the stupid ape we call the human, but even if we could improve the average autodidactic or philosophic ability, or even increase the mean IQ by 5 points, there could be a significant improvement to the health of our society.
8k/ year for a car? You could pay one off in like 2/3rds of that if you buy something used.
A hundred million here, a hundred million there: who cares? It's way cheaper for FB to buy up these small social media companies than wait around until they become big competitors. If it fails, so what? It's worth it to ensure their market dominance.
I can only think in paperclip terms right now, are they paying this with yomi, creat, ops, clips, or still plain $$$?
I've been using voice calls regularly, and it's occasionally been problematic. Yesterday it was behaving as though it had absolutely insane packet loss (occasional robotic sounding fragments would make it through, otherwise the line was dead) without any indication of high jitter or packet loss - I had to resort to stupid workarounds to get it working. Move convo to a server -> change server to Central from West (why can't this be done for regular calls!) -> instantly working perfectly.

FWIW, it generally works pretty well, and overall, Discord is a fantastic product that I'm happy to be using.
KRACK, the WPA2 exploit that kills Wi-Fi security, and what you need to know
I would hardly identify lazy evaluation as a core feature of functional programming. It definitely forced Haskell not to compromise on purity but, as SPJ himself has pointed out, that may be the only strong thing it has going for it[0]. Currying is also nice, but I'm still not sure that is _core_ to FP.

What Lisp is really missing from an FP perspective is purity. In fact, maybe a pure variant of Lisp would be perfect for teaching.

[0]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/wearing...
This project seems to enable the same thing on commodity hardware:

https://github.com/moha99sa/EvilAP_Defender/wiki

Setup some RPis with WiFi dongles and you can likely make a perimeter defense. IANAL and I do not know how the FCC would view this, although I imagine it is not worse than the Ruckus APs that can do this, yet still passed their certification.

This is not a substitute for patching devices, but it might help somewhat with devices that will never be patched.
As a life-long resident of New Jersey, I hope this happens.

Yes, $7 billion in tax incentives is a lot. But it's not like New Jersey / Newark would be collecting those property/wage taxes if Amazon didn't move in. But Newark needs help - the city was recently giving away land virtually for free to entice people to build homes and move in, and even then not many people took it.

The city is centrally located, accessible by public transit (NJ Transit and PATH), close to a major airport hub, etc., and despite that there's just no industry there. The city's been trying very hard to lure tech talent to the city (and managed to get Amazon's Audible to base itself there). Bringing Amazon would be a huge win for the city and the state.

And for me, personally, since I could cut an hour off my commute by going to Newark instead of NYC. So do it, Amazon!
I would like to see them dramatize Dijkstra's algorithm in the same style. Instead of looking at all possible paths of arbitrary length within the graph, of which there are infinitely many, ...
So I am on first name terms with about 100 crows and jackdaws. What if I have the chat with them and tell them that from now on they have zero hours contracts employed picking up cigarette butts. So rather than hang around in the trees by the river waiting for some small child to turn up with bread, I will be expecting them to be diligently going along paths and through lawns picking up cigarette butts and then getting paid in posh bird friendly food for that. I can't see this going down well with the birds I know.

Do not feed wild animals is something I know and generally believe in and honour. However I feed the ducks, crows, pigeons, seagulls, geese and others that have decided against doing fabulous things such as emigrating and have decided to exist living on bread donated to them by small children. I also take others with me to feed the ducks, as if I really need the 'help'.

In fairness I do give them reasonably fresh homemade bread that is not empty calories or I give them goodies from the work fridge that need clearing out. I was horrified to see a lady giving the ducks mouldy bread recently, luckily they knew it to not be food.

I go for the airborne catches of food. So that means seagulls, jackdaws and crows. The crows know where they have to be for me to throw something to them and for them to catch. The same with the seagulls. There is some need to concentrate and pay attention, correctly sized pieces have to be thrown quite accurately and on time, with the seagulls they have to do a big 50m radius turn in the air to come in again if they didn't get lucky the first time. The mid air hover is most impressive as abilities go.

Despite knowing that feeding wild animals is always wrong and that bread poisons the water and has no nutritional value, I do take great pleasure in feeding the birds. For those few minutes I am not thinking of this problem or that problem, I am just in 'the zone' feeding those clever birds, as is whomever I have brought along to help. There is an art to it! But still, ethical? No, golden rule has been broken.

So why break the golden rule? Well, these birds have already decided not to do things like emigrate, the river doesn't have the insect and other life it would have and much else is wrong. So I look into their cute eyes and go along with 21st century realities, humans feed birds, okay?!?

What motivates others to feed the ducks interests me. The best answer yet provided is that 'birds are god's messengers' and that by feeding them that one can get 'a word in'.
To be fair, replacing a series of ALU ops with a lookup table doesn't usually add a "data dependency" - the data dependency probably already existed, but perhaps flowed through registers rather than memory.

What adding a lookup table can do is to add the load-latency to the dependency chain involving the calculation, which seems to be what you are talking about here. For an L1 hit that's usually 4 or 5 cycles, and for L2 hits and beyond it's worse, as you point out. How much that actually matters depends on whether the code is latency-bound and the involved lookup is on the critical path: in many cases where there is enough ILP it won't be (an general rule is that in most code most instructions are not on a critical dependency-chain).

If the involved method isn't that hot then L1 misses (like your example) or worse are definitely a possibility. On the other hand, in that case performance isn't that critical by definition. If the method is really hot, e.g., in a tight(ish) loop, then you are mostly going to be getting L1 hits.

The comparison with 384 FOPs seems a bit off: I guess you are talking about about some 32-FOP per cycle SIMD implementation (AVX512?) - but the assumption of data dependencies kind of rules that out: one would assume it's scalar code here. If it's vectorization, then the whole equation changes!
Isn't the particular problem this is aiming to solve less that the founder CEOs aren't able to think in 30 year time horizons but more that sometimes they are[1], but fear that when most market participants have much higher discount rates, their position is vulnerable to activist takeovers (if the market's preferred yields are sufficiently short term, they'll get a value boost for kicking out the execs who's hockey stick growth is forecast for ten years' time in favour of those promising earlier revenue growth). It's not the market makers they're worried about, it's the people that actually hold stock for long enough to vote, hence the desire to weight the voters in favour of themselves and the investors that bought into their vision, and not the people buying with the intention of flipping after good quarterly figures.

I mean, they're certainly not going to raise bigger IPOs on a brand new marginal exchange with no track record and a lack of liquidity, but I'm not sure that's the real aim here. (You might need a new exchange to introduce rules like making key executives immune to termination too)

That said, I'm not sure how real a problem it is: AMZN has a very long term strategy and unusual approach towards margins and its stock is doing just fine. And cynics might suggest that other tech stocks returning unimpressive quarterly figures might actually not have thirty year plans...

[1]or want to be considered that way to justify still not turning any profits as their growth metrics start to plateau
How did you do alpha testing after creating your MVP?
For a networks app like social media what metrics/analytics should I rely on?
Well, that's ironic.
For fun, I designed a few beer labels at 99designs.com. None of my entries won, but I enjoy doing it anyway.
> One source said there were 5.8 trillion cigarettes smoked globally in 2014. There's no way most of those get littered.... right?

Given my observation of people's smoking habits and the locations (or, mostly, not) of public facilities for the disposal of cigarettes, I'd say it's quite plausible that most got literates but only between 1/5 - 1/4 were smoked in a place where there was convenient access for disposal by someone who cared to use it.
I have mixed feelings about dogs. On the one hand, their faithfulness and loyalty is proverbial - better than human. On the other hand, we bred that subservience into them, selecting for willing, loving slaves.

Like Douglas Adams' vegan cow, bred to want to be eaten.
Ohh gotcha, shoulda picked up on the context :)
> they can take comfort that schemes like this should further raise the intelligence of crows to the point they'll have a shot at overthrowing the unjust reign of we naked apes.

Here's the thing I think you're missing with this statement though, our rise to intelligence had nothing to do with a superior species endowing us with a head start. In fact, for early man it might have hobbled us to not be challenged because we're "really good at picking up cigarette butts".

Also, do you want to be the one that explains to the super-intelligent crows how we used them to pick up garbage?
Rose Pak wasn't a progressive. She was a local politician narrowly focused on Chinatown. She formed alliances with other politicians (Pelosi, Willie Brown, Newsome, Peskin, ...) to achieve her goals but she was no progressive. She was basically Beijing's woman in San Francisco; she was very PRC.

Yep, the Central Subway was a deal. Pak was able to turn out votes to defeat the progressive candidate, Matt Gonzalez, in 2003 and Pelosi delivered the Central Subway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_mayoral_election...

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Pelosi-secures-federal...

Local politics are local.
I went to boarding school in the same State I now live in. I have seen the climate change. Even in the decade since my retirement, the climate has changed.

It's had an interesting effect in that the summer hasn't had many hot days, but the average is higher. This year, I only had a couple of days go above 90 deg f. My winter has fewer longer cold snaps, but some pretty steep cold snaps (-48 deg f this past year was the record). My snow totals have actually increased from area historical norms. I've been able to get the historical data and have a weather station that logs my local conditions.

There's also a bit of microclimate effect going on here. I'm not a climate scientist, so I am really only capable of comparing the results.

If it wasn't so damaging, I'd be all for it. I love snow and hate when it goes above 90. I don't get grumpy until it goes below -20. It's too bad that it's going to cause lots of damage for other people.

Sort of related: You can get the data and run the models yourself. I used to model traffic and there are some similarities. It seemed like a good thing to learn a bit about, so I spent a couple of years poking at it in my free time.
Yeah, this app strikes me as "who should be prom queen."
Fresh Findings from Cassini (Presentation at AAS-DPS)
She's a journalist whose reporting on the Panama Papers led to significant impact in Malta:

http://www.politico.eu/list/politico-28-class-of-2017-rankin...

> The best way to think of Daphne Caruana Galizia is as a one-woman WikiLeaks, crusading against untransparency and corruption in Malta, an island nation famous for both...“She single-handedly brought the government to the verge of collapse,” says one MP.*

If it were straightforward to report on Malta in the Panama Papers, the original investigation would have targeted Malta's government. A lot of important journalism is examining released material and connecting the dots within a context.
(American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Science meeting in Provo, Utah)
In case anyone else is trying to re-assemble this into a working game, here's one way to do it :)

https://github.com/x3ro/super-mario-bros-build
Coins seem like they'd very difficult for a bird to handle - they're heavy for their volume and can't be bitten into.
I think this was posted to HN before, but in any case, related:

http://isitsnappy.com/

It's an iOS video app for measuring latency. The page has this about Apple keyboards: "This one’s bizarre: the onboard keyboards on both the 2015 Macbook Pro and Macbook Air have worse latency than an external keyboard. Plugging in an external wireless keyboard improves response latency by 40 ms."
The second game, melee, definitely had a more traditional engine running it, too many ~bugs~ fantastic features to have been taking advantage of lookup tables.
People of modest means will more typically be driving used cars.
Such a good question there's a section of the README dedicated to it! https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl#why
According to The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/03/brew-pe...), it's becoming works of art. Completely agree with them
So you are also against agriculture?

It might be unethical, but I'll take unethical civilization over ethical subsistence hunter gathering (remember that even subsistence farming is unethical)
SBCL is already suitable for scientific computing. All that's needed are good engineers who can write good libraries.
I was not aware that a single tweet by Mike Isaac, who has a tendency to be extremely snarky about everything, represented the feelings of everyone on Twitter.

Don't get me wrong, Isaac is right a lot, but he's also wrong a lot, and from what I can see: https://twitter.com/search?q=facebook%20acquires&src=typd the reception to this acquisition is mostly positive.
But with the physical store you can walk into the showroom and get a feel for whether a couch is a cheap because it’s a piece of garbage or if it’s a good deal on a piece of solid furniture.

Not with 100 percent certainly, but a lot better than some staged photos on a website.
That's nothing! He has two videos on walls, floors and ceilings, each longer than half an hour (and both of them extremely interesting)

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnU7DJXiMAQ

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1kbABTyeo8
Drivers have vastly different reflexes and visual acuity.

I have been running for 25+ years and have on occasion been traveling at close to 10 mph and usually at least 8 mph. So California rolls are pretty much the bane of my existence.

This is primarily because the "roller" may be planning to take a right turn and are looking straight and glancing left and don't even look my way traveling from their right.

I do take responsibility for my own survival so I wear lights, and try my best to make eye contact before entering intersections etc. but I have had many close calls where they did not even see me due to their own target fixation.

Now that I am on a bike more often I feel even more insecure because my speed is so much higher.
We would be reusing the hell out of everything and we wouldn't have every single company on the internet building their own CMS.