skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except it's not necessarily that simple. They are also probably taking into account your ability to seek out other options.

Researchers found that black women were getting cars sold to them at a much higher markup than white men. I doubt that is because they were getting profiled as wealthier.
I suppose it depends on how broadly you define startup. Surely some drug dealers, online casinos, etc, are doing well. I believe Silkroad did $1B+ in sales.
Yeah that is a real concern, that is many people who don't even posses a deeper understanding of those topics will take on the job market, so having a "rare" skill can differentiate one in the job market.
Can you summarize it here, so that others may benefit from it as well? I'm sure others will be curious as to your thoughts in addition to me.
I don't have a Mac, so I'm afraid I'm useless for iOS development. (It requires Xcode, right?)
No-drive list us going to be much more fun than no-fly list.
Just out of curiosity, why don’t you keenly buy your ebooks?
In the past when I've had to insert many rows (for example), I wrapped it inside a transaction. Why and when would someone use executemany() instead? Or does executemany() do a transaction behind the scenes?
Quoting from the collective wisdom of HN here:

Because it doesn't scale.
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Give pedestrians a route over or under the roads. This is done in many places throughout the world already, and it works well.

But even if you allow crosswalks and stoplights, cars can use buffer space in traffic (assuming the road is not saturated) to minimize the stops/starts.
More pedestrian overpasses? Or maybe the same amount, with all the cars flowing down just a few trunk roads, because nobody is trying to “avoid traffic” by taking a side road.
You could do both though.
Ironically, you have a giant media house (AOL), one of whose important revenue streams is selling hopes of the startup world ("Startups, start here". [1]) through their Disrupt conferences, writing something like this.

My personal opinion - as long as there is a market demand and as long as you're a business fulfilling that demand, startup or not, whether the tech is accessible or not, it's all that matters.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/event-info/disrupt-berlin-2017/
The metaphor that I’ve used for a lot of things (notably “viral content”) and that was first suggested by I believe MEJ Newman (complex graph theory) is, paraphrasing: It’s like measuring the size of the match to predict the size of the forest fire.

Susan’s blog was a match; internal issues (entitlement that made something like Levandowsky thinkable) and the tension they created (among the dwindling number of female employees for instance) was the increasingly dry underwood. I suspect that, a year later, the same blog post would have had no echo because all the female engineers would have had left at that point.
This is a trend that's been occurring over the past 50 years in all business sectors. The conglomeration of everything, from healthcare to food creates a oligopoly where only the big players have a seat at the table.

Tech was just immune from it because of its immaturity and infancy of the technology itself. Now that its a mature business its being subjected to the same pressures and issues of any established industry.

In some ways it's just tech "growing up".
Those are not the same things at all. My experience with "older" engineers puts them into 2 camps:

* Those that have grown into leads, have become masters of their craft, have major accomplishments, and are still willing to admit there's always more to learn: No problem getting a job, very highly paid and sought after.

* Those that have a 20 year resume of 1 to 2 year jobs. No title progression, bad and arrogant attitudes, have completely let themselves go physically. Always talk down to other engineers, claiming how they did it 20 years ago was so much better ("why don't we use vanilla JS instead of this fancy React mumbo jumbo"). Almost always QA "engineers" / SDETs. Cannot find a job because they're not valuable, but claim ageism.

If you had a doctor that claimed that we did medicine better 30 years ago, and hopped around to new hospitals every 6 months to 2 years, you bet your ass they'd be hard-pressed finding a new job as well.
Another thing to consider is, if you're just calling a magic box on wheels to take you from A to B then disappear again, why would you can who it was made by, what style it was, and so on?I wonder if the manufacturers have fully thought this through from their own perspective... I mean I can't imagine ticking a box for "... and it must be a Volvo" when I summon one, I simply wouldn't care!
Taxis have not supplanted personal vehicle ownership by a long shot, therefore neither will self-driving cars, unless personal vehicles are banned by government edict

Yeah, that's why washing machines have never become popular; after all, we could already hire maids to wash clothes for us, yet most people washed their own clothes.
Think of string_view as a non-owning pointer to a known-size array. If the array is moved or destroyed, then string_view is left dangling... just like a pointer.
I think FB tackles hard problems, it's just that the hard problems they tackle aren't FB-specific so much as decades-old market research, interest-tracking, and adtech in the internet era, not to mention datacenter design and engineering. But none of these achievements require FB to exist as FB in any way more than a test bed.
Starting businesses is outmoded, the new fashionable high growth thing is starting currencies?
I don't think they're saying we should stop eating all meat — just that it should be significantly reduced.

That's pretty much a no-brainer for our health, for the environment and to reduce the suffering of millions of animals at the hands of the industrial livestock industry.

Personally, I used to eat meat multiple times a day, and now I only eat it once or twice a week. It has really improved my life. I think everyone should try it.
Almost 5 years developing financial products with VA Smalltalk.

No previous experience, but happy to use it, one of the reasons is that code that it's ~10 years old it's still able to be maintained (and changed due to new requirements).

The problem is almost always integration with low level apis, or some protocol missing support.
I don't think it's our model of 'cancer' that is wrong - we can recreate it in lab, we know quite a bit about it, even though it's extraordinarily disingenuous to call it a single thing.

Our model for developing drugs is stuck. Small molecules were unbelievably (literally) useful against invaders of our bodies. They can discriminate and interupt vital processes of one biology without effecting another's biology. This made the development of small molecule drugs in the 20th century against bacteria, fungi, and even some viruses verry effective. Cancer is you. There is no biologically 'other' one can use as a discriminant that doesn't apply equally somewhere else in you. Socially we've built an entire pharmaceutical industry whose talents are focused entirely on a methodology for finding 'interruptors' of foreign disease. And again, that is not cancer.

Look the the new CAR-T therapies for cures to cancer. They disrupt the pharmaceutical industry's methodologies in thier development. There can't be a tox test or a primate study. They are fundamentally customizable, cheap, and curative, but they are the injection of genetically modified immune cells containing invented and designed protein tools - not small molecules. There is literally not yet a vocabulary to distinguish these new therapies from the drugs of the 20th century. They are as distinct from drugs as vaccines - but have literally only been tested on a few hundred people, being approved by the FDA only in the past two months.
Unlikely to be that one, but the most interesting book about ants that most of my friends read during high school was this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_the_Ants_(novel)

It’s a novel that is SciFi-ish in its construction but actually, it’s more an expose of a general theory of complex systems build by naive agents, stigmergy (coordination by traces).
For me, Elixir is a way to do Rails-like web development with much better runtime performance, plus the big bonus of functional programming. And because Rails was such a success (I still get recruiter spam constantly for Rails positions, even after 10 years), I think Phoenix+Elixir will gradually come out on top. It's just a shame that I fell in love with the Lispiness of Clojure. Do...End...sigh.
In Portland, they already do have right of way. Still drivers often don't yield. Most experienced bus drivers learn to just play a game of chicken and pull out anyway. Makes for some exciting conflicts.
Job trends play a role too. I really like Clojure and would like to keep using it. But it's less likely to help get me a job than say learning Python.
Apples haven't supplanted oranges either, what's your point?
Thanks for the correction. I put that, and other spelling errors in that post, down to fat fingers on a mobile keyboard.
I think Java being slow was the reality 20 years ago, a widely believed myth 10 years ago, and something that no one but dinosaurs believes now.
Agree that Erlang is what gives most of the performance and scalability benefits to Elixir and as such I should mention Erlang / BEAM to give due credit. However Elixir is my recommended target language for any developers who want an easy to learn language with a great community. The phoenix framework and powerful meta programming constructs are unique to Elixir.
Pandas is however limited to what can fit in memory, and can hit that limit pretty quick, unfortunately. If your CSVs are pretty big, or your machine is limited in memory, you could consider dask dataframes. It is supposed to have a similar api to Pandas, but it can keep most data on disk if needed, I believe.

Edit: just saw your other post. You shouldn't have any problems using plain pandas with a 750 mb dataset on any sort of modern computers with a few Gb's of memory.
I suspect the original comment was referring to the home-schooling and intense Stoic education early on. Ivy League physics grads are indeed pretty part-and-parcel; people who had to go to Dean's office to get in, less so.
While making it sound like they care about your, productivity or the world in general what matters to Volvo is their profits and the preceding brainwash to get the right traction and acceptance.

[Digress: Volvo's pitch to legitimize joining forces with Uber to fully automate driving.]
If I put the line anywhere, it would probably be 1937. That's when both the Golden Gate and Bay bridges opened.
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We have already moved on to the ICO era.
Maybe interesting datum: the existing Battery Street Tunnel has two lanes with a total width of 25 feet[0].

> The SR 99 roadway width narrows to 25 feet with two lanes in each direction through the BST

> The existing lane width varies from 10.5 feet to 11 feet, and there are no existing shoulders only a gore stripe adjacent to the curb... The existing posted speed is 40 mph.

So there's no real reason we couldn't keep the 10.5 foot lane size, 40 mph speed limit, and do three lanes. The new tunnel has better sight lines and curve radius than the BST. And there's separation between directions, which is better than the Aurora bridge (which also has pretty narrow lanes):

> Many aspects of the existing horizontal and vertical curves do not meet today’s
roadway design standards for the posted speed limit. When compared to current
design standards for stopping sight distance, horizontal curve radius, and vertical
curve length, about two-thirds of the horizontal and vertical curves would coincide
with a design speed of less than 40 mph.

[0]: http://www.scatnow.com/DesignDev3Grade.pdf
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Weird that an article on the end of startups doesn't mention the likely next big area for startups: Genetics.
Is this only for the pro version?
> I find myself much more productive and I make less bad design decisions than I used to

But how much more expensive is a 40yr old developer as opposed to an entry-level one?
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You can still do that, these machines are emulated pretty much perfectly.
I think the most interesting part is how we humans reason when it comes to risk. A hacker causing accidents is so scary that autonomous cars sound like a bad idea, yet the risk of dying to a hacker while in an autonomous car would almost certainly be lower than dying to a drunk or distracted driver right now.

37 000 people in the US died in vehicle accidents last year and around 2 million were injured. Obviously not all accidents would be preventable by autonomous cars, but I wonder how many of those people would be alive or uninjured if the cars could have been autonomous.
An alternate, better version:
If all mass transit was autonomous
Transactions are a separate orthogonal concern.

What executemany can do is prepare the statement once and call it multiple times with different sets of parameters, whereas execute may be preparing the statement every time it is called (possibly hoping that the database system has a statements cache) or not preparing them at all (and the DBMS only does simple query planning).
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Security camera video is typically write only, not read only.
Yeah, it seems like you could replace 'IoT' with 'physical product.'

Sounds like the author has been living in the land of hand-waved 9-figure growth estimates for a bit too long.
Digital Research also produced Concurrent DOS (later renamed to Multiuser DOS), which I think was based on Concurrent CP/M-86.
> Give pedestrians a route over or under the roads. This is done in many places throughout the world already, and it works well.

It really doesn't. Here in Germany most underpasses built in the car-friendly 60s and 70s are being abolished because pedestrians don't like them.
My point is that price matters; you can't simply assume that behaviors won't change when the price does so dramatically.
Or more importantly, cyclists. Because they already share the road with cars.
Question: how does one become a "senior developer" if one has only worked at startups? Is it as simple as assigning yourself the title? Or does one need to work at a large organization (with large teams) to be able to use this title (with credibility of course)? What if you were the only developer at the startup?
Replace pedestrians with self-walking autonomous robots! This way they can sync with the cars and cross the street without a single car having to stop or them getting hit.
Samsung 960 EVO or PRO in the M.2 form factor. If you're willing to spring for a big PCIe drive, I think Intel has some good options. Maybe even Optane, although it's very expensive.
I agree with you about the authoritatianism in large corporations currently, but what makes you think the future will be more free?

The internet looked like it might help for a while, but it's currently being constricted by the ISPs and corporations like Facebook and Google, while more and more data is being tracked about each person at every moment. Authoritarianism broke down many times because you couldn't track what everyone doing and eventually someone managed to make a plan to fight against you. Information technology is just making it easier for authoritarians to maintain control
Grandparent may refer to freeways etc.
> More often then not, the things I've implemented have required parameters, and sometimes many of them.

The disconnect for OP here is that generalized systemic approach (think e.g. Java Beans for one of the earliest attempts) is necessary for the container-component architectures [but arguably un-necessary for application specific approaches (which has informed your experience.)]

Go, imho, is a poor fit for the container-component paradigm. It certainly can meet the initial requirements (context + options) but the lack of first class metadata facilities will limit the possibilities (sans code generation) in that architectural space.

[pre-emptive p.s.: "container" here /does not/ mean process level composition ala Docker, etc.]
Do those risk adjustments actually occur in real life? Is it even specifically "police insurance," or is it under the umbrella of the insurance for the jurisdiction (city, county, etc.) where those risk adjustments can get buried within larger coverage patterns?
Hi /u/toufka, do you have any papers or summaries of CAR-T you'd recommend?

The first-level Google results are all PR-heavy so I'm hoping you can share something more granular and explanatory.
The article claims the walls aren't high enough to keep animals penned.
Fair enough. I have added the GPLv3 as an option.
You can be a "Senior Developer" at 24 because at most places that is a low-mid level position.
Yes, potentially quite soon if HDDs don't advance pretty quickly. As of earlier this year the guess I was hearing was 2018-2019. It seems like Western Digital had another breakthrough, so maybe that edge is pushed back another couple years.
If that were true in this market noone would ever buy a Mercedes when a Nissan would be a fraction of the price. Turns out the real world isn't so simple as you think.
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"70%+ yearly turnover" Much higher than the food store I worked at as a student, long ago. If success is impossible because of high turnover, surely the language will not matter. Ironically, it is possible if there are management problems causing extreme turnover, then Clojure would be a strong advantage for management as a scapegoat.

I was on a major automation project where mgmt nailing down the specifications across four existing departments procedures took over a year... hard to imagine devs working less than a year making sense of it.
The thing about being 40+ is you really start to see through bullshit. I remember working for one company that was selling a product customers simply did not want. I tried explaining this to the founders, and suggested alternatives, but got branded "not a team player" for not drinking the Kool-Aid. So it is important to work for companies that are actually doing something useful, otherwise you are going to have a hard time concealing your skepticism.
All these hypotheticals!

I don't switch because it's a pain to even try. I've had experiences in which a price I was quoted turned out to be lower than I was actual billed, so I don't have a lot of confidence that I'll get a straight answer if I do ask for quotes for new companies. I'm not sure I have accurate answers for questions they might ask. So I keep paying whatever, even though it's more than I like.

For all I know, I could be paying half as much elsewhere. This is just the company I've been with for many, many years.
If autonomous cars are operated by centralized services (Uber/Lyft/...), then they can offer cheaper rides if you are willing to share a car with different people. Especially when congestion is at its worst, chances of matching people with the same destinations are also the best - the daily morning jam on highways is mostly caused by people driving alone in their cars. Why not share 90% of the way with X other people, if it lasts only 2 minutes more for changing from/into a small first/last-mile vehicle. And why not deploy lots of small buses which carry 10+ people through the congested areas? This could even be encouraged by lawmakers; but I think this group rides would be so much cheaper that many people would use them whenever possible. Just like you don’t use your car if you live next to a subway and your destination is also right next to a station.
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Depending on location, probably less than you think. Because of the general shortage of developers, juniors are probably overpaid. This makes senior positions 1.5x the cost at the high end with 1.2x->1.3x at the low end.
GDPR has significant scope to enable DDOSing of commercial organisations with information requests - it will likely become a tool for political activism as the new information request system has no fee.

It also has potential to spawn new greasy organisations that facilitate mass requests for personal info on your behalf which could lead to some new PPI-style compensation claim situations.

It's a good step for custody of identity information but I'm not sure impact has been completely thought through.
I'd care. for a long trip > 15
minutes I'd want a quiet and comfortable car. Quiet so I can relax and/or listen to audio without having to crank up the volume over the noise of the car. comfortable might include seats big enough I can put my notebook on my lap and work. comfortable might also mean a luxury style suspension so the ride is not hard.
My issue with mass transit is destination granularity. I can imagine having individual cars that can "clump" together to form a mass transit system, and then break off as and when required to arrive at specific destinations.
>"Big businesses and executives, rather than startups and entrepreneurs, will own the next decade; today’s graduates are much more likely to work for Mark Zuckerberg than follow in his footsteps."

I disagree with this. I think the bloom is off the rose for these companies(FB, Google, Amazon et al)in terms of an image as a "cool place" to work. I they will increasingly be viewed for what they essentially are - just other big corporations. Big corporations that only have their own best interests at heart.

This nearly reads like a propaganda piece intended to discourage people from doing their own thing.
> However it leaves us with an impression of ancient peoples as superstitious fools who spent vast amounts of time and energy building ritual objects with no practical purpose.

Every culture spends vast amount of time and energy building ritual objects with no practical purpose. But that doesn't make them superstitious fools, that just makes them human beings with a culture, thus whose lives aren't entirely consumed by practical matters like survival. That's a good thing!
Do you expect Volvo to make more profits in an era where fewer people own cars?

I don't think car manufacturers are rubbing their hands at the thought of becoming suppliers to be squeezed by Uber et all, rather than sellers of aspirational items to billions of individuals. I see them as resigning themselves to that future.
I've been complaining that there's no such thing as a low-capacity (32-64GB SSD) for $40 (or whatever) for a couple of years now.
It is unlikely in the extreme that DJB would ever try to enforce the copyright on TweetNaCl. But yes, if you want to use SC4 in France, I guess that's a risk you'll have to take. There's nothing I can do about that.