skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The quality of the degrees are very different. The US is known from having a good level and it's respected in most places around the world.
You're about 150 years too soon to use a lack of evidence on the Internet to call into question a phenomenon that happened over 100 years ago.

One day, sure... we can consider the human story to be largely Internet-documented and accessible. We're not there yet, and many older sources must still be found the old-fashioned way- by visiting a library and pulling their undigitized, un-internet-searchable works.
Yes! Calliope is a spin on the micro:bit that has been developed in Germany. They are a great team too!
I clicked on this thread to make a sure-to-be-downvoted ironic comment along the lines of "this isn't appropriate content for HN based on community sentiment regarding whiteboard interviews and what kind of work we actually do at our jobs."

There's a serious problem in the industry being driven by coding bootcamps; it's really sad to see universities being forced to stoop to compete.
I gave up on that dream long time ago, I rather have paying customers.
"Personally I'm morally conflicted by these studies which measure intelligence."

Are you, or your cohort fighting on the side of the angels, as morally conflicted by the treatment received by Arthur Jensen, Charles Murray et al?

It's less a "moral conflict" than the dawning realization that 50 years of New Age psychobabble (aka New Left "social sciences") are coming to an end.
That's the 'T' in 'TOTP': it's Time-Based (if the clocks aren't synced it doesn't work)
Imagine if a promoter of a technology implemented in their browser was flawed/didn't work.

If you ask a wine producer how tasty his/her wine is, she would reply that's awesome.
You aren't allowed to smile for passports either. I had to retake mine for my Canadian passport a few years ago because I put on a huge smile :D.

Most people don't walk around with a giant grin on their face. A picture of a resting face is more accurate than one that you pose and contort your face for.
I can totally agree with that. At the end of the day if a patriot is a guy standing between you and your leader and taking a bullet or on a field of battle losing a limb or pulling what Snowden did it's all a risk you take for participating in that level of game. It just is what it is and fairness doesn't enter into the equation.
They're really pushing it given the precedent the ban on cigarette TV ads set.
There is a journalism campaign against Juul in particular, and I don't know why. They continue to run stories about how kids are getting addicted to it, and that somehow Juul offering flavors (like cotton candy) are targeting kids specifically.

Again, I don't vape, but have occasionally done Hookah. Flavors were the whole point of it, and I was well above 18 when I made the choice.

Warn against the dangers of vaping, sure, but I don't see what this company in particular has done. And I don't see how people don't realize the dangers of vaping nicotine.
Exactly. If the burden of collecting the debt is on the loaner, they will do a better job of enforcing who gets a loan (which is traditionally the job of the loaner anyway). Student loans get handed out like candy and now we have a continuously-compounding problem of growing tuitions and debt.

If bankruptcy could fix student loans, then the ones giving out loans would be a lot more careful, schools would stop wasting hundreds of millions on new buildings that that are 80% empty, and we wouldn't have a large segment of the middle class population in indentured servitude.

Seems pretty simple to me.
> The main subject in this story was pursuing a PhD in "Women's Studies". Not to disparage that field of study, but it's quite obvious that it is a pretty useless degree that limits you to a career as a Women's Studies professor.

It isn't obviously useless, or even less applicable than many social science degrees, but for signaling purposes it's probably less useful to get a Ph.D. in an interdisciplinary field like Women's Studies than in one of the fields of more broadly recognized utility which it overlaps (which you can probably do with exactly the same research.) Because pretty much the whole thing about interdisciplinary fields is that they (in terms of the whole field) cross traditional fields of study, which tend to align somewhat with vocational fields, which makes degrees in them (without considerstion of things like the area of your personal research) less useful for non-acadenic vocational signalling.
>> 2) High levels of impostor syndrome.

I felt this, but was surprised that while there were a few genuine genius-level people in my program, the vast majority spent most of the effort trying to look like a genius but were far from it.

One of the things I tell people when they ask me about grad school is, "I thought everybody would be smarter".
I agree that for MOST use cases adding blockchain tech just makes things more complicated
There's a FAQ on the bottom of the page.
A company can't survive on paid oss (gnu/gpl). The license allows anyone to purchase it and then go ahead and give it out for free, which would happen in short order.

Support doesn't work for many small companies, because you just don't have the manpower, so proprietary software is necessary.
I hope Firefox will implement it, because Chrome isn't a trusted browser anymore
After 23-25 ive noticed my hangovers getting worse when drinking on the weekends or once every 2 weeks. I thought maybe its a liver problem. Blood tests are just a regular thing i do every year with my health insurance. I was never a heavy drinker, but like hanging out with colleagues and staying out longer once in a while.
Wow, this reminds me of the days in the late 90's to early 2000's where you would make a Windows downloadable application, and submit it to the hundreds of near identical software sites.
Outsourcing the enforcement to citizens might be the only practical way to do it.

According to the article, in about 18 months, his 25% cut of the fines amounted to roughly $5,000. Assuming you could hire city employees to do it, you'd probably want to cover their salaries with the fines. Let's say city's overhead from prosecuting these cases is 25% (Judges need to get paid, too), so that's $15,000 in 18 months, or $10,000 in 12, if they spend as much time at it as this guy. He's obviously motivated, and keeping an eye out whenever he's on the streets, so let's assume a full timer can only manage about 10x as much vigilant time as him. That's $100,000/yr. Assuming you want to cover both salary and benefits, that might not be enough in NYC.

And, assuming the program were at all successful, then you'd expect revenues from it to drop rapidly as every commercial operator in the city starts warning their employees.
Is 3D Touch the only, or even the best way of implementing a cursor?

Why wouldn’t a Long press, for example, not work for that? Or just a dedicated button to switch to a cursor?

A dedicated button wouldn’t be slightly more inconvenient but would be ridiculously more discoverable and make it available for people who have phones older than the 3D Touch supported ones.
For me at least. Who knows what I was doing though or if my form was correct. Given my mental state at the time when I was awake (my insomnia and anxiety had gotten bad), I'm glad that's all I was doing.
Having done this at various scales I can attest to the truth in this article. Fundraising is never fun, doesn't matter if it's $100k or 100MM. Fundraising is exhausting, it creates the deepest amount of imposter syndrome that builds with every meeting. The need to stay focus on what you're doing, how you got to where you are, and why you're doing it becomes a primary concern, having people around you who believe in you is key during this period, but even that often only treats the symptoms. This was an email I got from a VC a couple years back: http://john.je/tA3S - that wasn't a fun day. I think there is a lot of romance is building a scaled startup, but a lot of folks I know, even those who have had large exits say they'd preferred to have built a much smaller lifestyle business in a more organic manner. The real fact is, building and maintaining any business from zero is really difficult. Even though it can be incredibly rewarding, it's certainly very rarely much fun.
I suspect you're conflating the old and new meanings of "liberal".
iFixit sell DIY repair kits to ordinary consumers, so they need to cultivate a certain public image. The companies I mentioned sell tools to professional repairers, so they don't really care if consumers have heard of them.

My gripe is with the author of this piece, who seems to unquestioningly regurgitate iFixit's PR talking points. iFixit provide a useful service and do cool stuff, but they're much better at marketing than they are at fixing things.
But it's a choice to live that lifestyle. Doing so is implicitly assuming that you will always have that income level - which is rather unwise to assume.
Our life style is full of distractions. It is really easy to mark everybody as ADHD.

Just do an experiment.
Teach your grandfather or anyone from previous generation who used to be a hard-worker in his entire life. Teach him how to use an smartphone, social network, watching Netflix TV shows, reading online news anytime, and checking timeline of his friends and families..

After 3 months he will end up having same problems that you have. Distractions, feeling busy, demotivated, procrastination, eventually feeling super tired almost always.

It is not really ADHD, It is just life style in 99.9999999%. And trust me. The fact that you came here to ask this question means you don't have ADHD or anything similar.

We always hear and read most of the good advises. But they are so simple that we ignore them. And in general people are just lazy and try hard to not be self-disciplined. Instead they are looking for a pill, anything that help them effortlessly with quick results.

I have a few habits but you have to do it at least for a week to see the benefits.

- Write my goals and tasks.
- Light exercise in the morning.
- Pomodoro + Pair programming during the work when I need maximum performance.
- Prepare my stuff before going to bed. Don't leave a lot of work left to prepare in the morning (what to wear, what to put in the backpack). The rule is to burn least amount of mental energy as possible in the morning.
- Leave meetings at any point that I realize my presence is not useful for me or anyone else.
- Running away from noise.
- Don't read any news/social-network in the morning or in the evening. It will kill your day if you read news in the morning and it doesn't let you save energy if you read news on evening. News is just toxic. You don't realize how much mental overhead will add to your brain all these negative news around you. The only time I read news is after lunch, in the afternoon while my brain cares least about it. You can't believe how effective is this.
> It looks like the Apple authorized service program may be dead, or at least on it's last legs. Their website makes it hard to find these companies, I couldn't figure out how to get a list.
https://locate.apple.com/

Not sure what the problem is for you - I literally clicked on that link, answered a few questions and in a matter of seconds had a list of 2 dozen + repair centers that could replace a cracked screen within 30 miles of me, the vast majority of which are 3rd party.
You have a great question, but the answers given exhibit the wrong attitude.

The short answer is that the recruiter likely didn't know what they were doing and that you belong in a principal or management role, not in an SWE role.

If correct, all this anxiety (and derogatory opinion about Google) is about fitting yourself into the wrong shaped peg, created by a stressed out recruiter who glanced at your profile for 30 seconds.

How about using these CTO skills (or just being an adult/professional or big boy) and contacting them to say, "hey shouldn't my profile bring the most value in a <principal or manager>" and "look at all my skills along these lines, etc."?
I think different schools have different philosophies as far as that goes. There are schools that admit to the department and have students do very little research for their first two years, and there are schools that admit by advisor and you start research immediately.

My PhD was the latter, but for me it was actually one of the major selling points for me on the program. I had a pretty good idea of the area that I wanted to work in, and I was always bad at learning from classes as opposed to hands-on self-driven learning. By the end of two years, I'd already gotten a lot of research done and moving towards the end of my PhD I was able to branch out within my area and take my own path in a way I doubt I would have been able to do in a different style program, where I wouldn't have had the same depth of knowledge in my field.

All that to say, I think these are two different philosophies in designing a grad program, and each works better for a different style of student. To those that are still thinking about applying, its something that I think should be a serious consideration when looking at program fit.
>In my department, students make about $40K/year as a base salary, which is not a lot,

Erm. It's the median personal income and more than like 61% of the country's population makes. More than I make after 12 years on the job.
This is a great post.

I think one way to look at it is that the process of fundraising kind of sucks, and that it could be more efficient. I agree with this.

Another way to look at it is that fundraising is one of the easiest parts of building a multi-billion dollar company (and if you're aiming to raise from VCs like A16Z, Sequoia, Greylock, then you need to be building a multi-billion dollar company). The "100% responsibility" mindset for fundraising would involve "owning" all of this difficulty. E.g. getting a deep understanding of the business of fundraising by talking to other founders who have raised recently (much more accessible than VCs, in general), accepting that it's a sales process, accepting that it's hard and that it'll suck, but that there'll be many much harder things.

I guess I just react with some concern that readers of this post will take the wrong things away from a post like this. So I wanted to emphasize this perspective: It is hard. Like you note, it should be hard to convince strangers to give you a few million dollars. It would certainly be great if it was purely merit based. But for many (not all) companies, sales is a critical part of success of the business, and fundraising is another sales process - so it's a good approximation. And yes, that's not true of all businesses and it would be better if it was perfectly merit based.

I think the most helpful takeaway for readers is that fundraising is hard, and that it should be approached with a mindset of "it's really hard so I'm going to figure out why people succeed and fail at fundraising so that I maximize my chances of success." If readers take away a victim mindset with respect to the difficulty, then they'll find it much harder to succeed in fundraising.

I know this isn't really what people want to hear, but fundraising is hard, building a company is harder, you don't have to choose to start a startup.
It turns out that electrolysis in zero-g is tricky, the bubbles tend to stick to the electrodes. I believe there are some nanomaterials in development now to prevent that, but it makes it more complex than you would initially think.
> Apple would prefer people buy new phones than repairing old phones because they make more money that way.

I'm dubious of this. They could easily do this on the software side, but don't. A five year old iPhone 5S is still supported as of iOS 12; some Android devices are sold already unsupported. Only two percent of devices run 8.1! https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/
Should universities be offering 'concierge medicine’?
Thank you! I appreciate the kind words :)

A lot of people have mentioned wanting to see the game on mobile, and I do plan to port it later on this year. You are very much correct in assessing the main issue, which is the fact that it's hard to fit a 14x14 grid (plus the surrounding art) onto a small screen. We're considering things like zooming the camera all the way in on the grid itself, and then re-arranging the buttons to the top and bottom of the screen, or maybe giving the user a control to zoom in and out, but we haven't committed to a solution quite yet.

As far as distribution of effort, I certainly thought the same when I started the game -- I thought I'd just write the code for the mechanics in a few weeks and then spend most of the time refining the puzzles and level balance. To be honest, though, I found the exact opposite to be true -- I spent probably 3-4 weeks designing and perfecting the puzzles, but all the implementation of the mechanics/UI tweaks/transitions took several months. This was probably partly due to the visual style we decided on, though.

The project I'm working on now is much, much simpler visually. Since Omnicube was our first commercial game, we felt a lot of pressure to make it "look like a real game". My thinking now is more biased toward focusing on the content quality and worrying less about what people will think about the professional-ness of the visuals.
Exhaust particulates are the absolute worst as far as city dwelling. I had a balcony overlooking a boulevard in Paris. I would have to clean it every week from the diesel particulates that settled there. One time, after we went on holiday, I came back and tried to clean it and just gave up. It was so thick it filled 3 dust pans. After that I just locked the glass door and never went out there again.

Then I thought about how much of that junk is making its way into my lungs.

The city of Paris has only recently started to take any action on it. One was to ban trucks of a certain age. But now everyone is requesting waivers because they can't meet deliveries in the city.
I think you are using very rose colored glasses looking at the past. The best of the best could do that, likely. However, few could ever do things in seconds. Nor is there really any benefit in being able to solve something in seconds.

Interestingly, to me, it seems our industry was dominated by people that got good at gluing things together. To a very large degree. We bemoan this when we talk about how much more responsive machines used to be, but I think there can be very little denying that computers do more.

Granted, I suspect I am at best one of the bad graduates you are referencing. :(
As a student who SUFFERED through K-12, was an awful C-D student, I agree 100% with this overall idea.

I went from a D high school to a straight A student in college. I found the freedom to choose to study what I am interested in ( Computer Science ) extremely liberating. I found the respect shown by the faculty to the students refreshing compared to my high-school. I found that being able to leave, take a nap, and then come back for my next class much more tolerable. I found that not being locked in a building for 9 hours a day freed up time to actually study and get your homework done.

Basically, I discovered what everyone else already knew: Current schooling is intended to keep kids in child-jail while their parents are working. Most schools do not have the resources to cater to bored gifted students, so we are cast aside with the understanding that "we'll be fine" while sitting through remedial classes where we have to read out loud because some of the students in the classroom are illiterate.

People claim college is a waste of time? HA. HIGH SCHOOL is four years of my life WASTED that I will never get back.

Let students set their own pace for education. Have them take responsibility for their own lives and future at a younger age. Let the children out of child jail.
compared to 2018 it might as well have been
It would be remarkable that someone would fall on their sword like that today.

It'll be another couple of years before "The Flippening", i.e. scientists looking to cement their legacy doing the political calculation and deciding they'd rather risk some short term fallout vs joining Lyskenko and Lamarck in the history book.

That elaborate kabuki we saw from David Reich at Harvard a few months ago? It'll get even more entertaining in the coming months and years as that fig leaf continues to shrink.
For reference: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/427788.Miles_from_Nowher...
I'll admit that's the only reason I bought an iPhone in the first place, and why I bought into more Apple products over time. I couldn't trust myself to not break my phone trying to tinker with it (bricked a Palm Pre and then two Android phones after that, all my fault), so I got one where no matter what I did, it was phone first and computer second. Then HP shut down Palm and my HP Touchpad stopped getting updates, so I installed Android but the experience was never what I wanted from it, so I got an iPad to replace it. And then my Windows machine broke down (because of a bad repair I had made) and trying to fix it broke it even further (my fault), so I went out and bought a Macbook.

I got sick of being my own tech support. I do that stuff all day at work and when I get home I'm tired of it. If I have to fix my computer, I'm probably going to rush through it and make it worse, because I really don't want to be doing it in the first place. I want to be using it, not dinking with it.

Same reason I ditched my old fix-me-up beater car for something with a warranty: I needed a car that started every time I turned the key. I haven't opened my own hood since, and it's taken a lot of stress off of my mind.
Great read, I am trying to test out a startup idea myself. I realized that being a Software Eng sometimes we can get too focused on trying to architect and build the product, instead of knowing the nitty gritty details of the problem you are trying to solve. So I developed the mantra in my Steve Ballmer voice "Customers, Customers, Customers" :).
Not sure if you've been to an Apple store lately, but they're not exactly hurting for foot traffic - and IME only a small portion of the crowd are waiting on repairs.
Mesut Özil walks away from Germany team citing ‘racism and disrespect’
Speak for yourself.

I'd like to highlight that synthesizers are very easily available now. As for physical instruments... it hasn't really improved or worsened significantly in the last few decades.

There being less easily available music wouldn't lead to more people learning how to make it. Just people coping without it.
>The potential danger is that non-smoking children start vaping, and then move onto smoking. We don't think that happens, but it's a bit too early to know for sure.

It definitely happens, it happened to me and a few friends. I suppose we may be extreme outliers but I think it's happening a bit more than people might guess.
> It's the median personal income

But below median for a college graduate, much less one with an undergraduate degree in CS or another high-demand technical field, and way below median (and quite possibly poverty level) for some of the local areas where big-name CS graduate programs are located.
Until you have to find enough money to pay for it.
I’m not talking about a community of sharing and improving software. That existed and is the reason Stallman started the free software movement and GNU.

I’m talking about the creation of the Open Source Initiative in 1998 and their initial distancing of software freedom from any practical benefits of the software created by the free software movement.
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