skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard it said that woman who are not mothers earn 95 cents to every dollar a man earns.

What I have read is that in the US, women who are childless and without a man earn 98 percent of what men with comparable education and experience make. My stats are probably out of date, so 95 cents on the dollar may be more accurate.

Just suggesting it probably isn't terribly far off, from what I gather, having read up on such a fair amount over the years due to my gender.
They are theoretically paid to do physics!
YC Is a Network Effect Business (2014)
> Yeah, just like regular employees are better qualified to run a company than the CEO.

I think you could pretty easily adapt Tolstoy's argument to business and say that the primary role of a CEO is to ratify all the on-the-spot decisions his subordinates made as events got away from them.
The author misses one useful strategy (or maybe it's just a sub-strategy of #3): Pick a name that is a former fad name. I was named after two uncles (same name, one on each side!) and my name is wildly common in men 30-60 years older than me and unusual in my age group. This is ideal: everyone knows how to spell it, and nobody thinks it's a weird name, so I have most of the advantages of an unusual name without the disadvantages. :)
As a 2018 Corolla user, it’s because Toyota’s software is just absolute garbage. I’m so glad they moved to CarPlay on the next models.
Why wasn't that a capital loss?
To me, the most important thing is to a) seperate the person from their product b) be constructive. By that I mean saying "this code you wrote is bad and here's why" instead of "you are a bad coder and you should feel bad".
Shopify across Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, and Waterloo.

https://www.shopify.com/careers

Bonus, you get to work on something that's actually important for the economic future instead of making people click on ads that they don't want to see or growth hack their last drops of free time away.
Consider how few "genius CEOs'" reputations have survived their attempts to take over failing companies and turn them around.
The size of his shop also eliminates most "I don't have a space big enough" excuses.

http://www.clickspringprojects.com/blog/from-little-things
Reminded me a bit of shape note singing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_note
This guy explains it better I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISSGL4Ns2qw
Sure do. And I know we have a lot more diverse culture than say sweden or spain or any european country.

Maine to NYC to new orleans to texas to california to the midwest to las vegas and throw in puerto rico, alaska and hawaii.

Feel free to show me another country that can match the diversity of peoples, cultures and land that the US has. LOL. Show me another country with the grand canyon, rocky mountains, yosemite, yellow stone park, etc.

I love people who laugh at american culture and yet watch our movies, tv shows, listen to our music, etc. So thumb your nose at us while listening to rock n roll, jazz, hip hop, techno, etc and watching game of thrones, friends, southpark, etc.

I gave an honest answer to why americans don't travel to foreign countries as much. It's because the US is the size of a continent. We have a lot of things to see here. We can literally travel thousands of miles and still be in the same country. In europe, you can drive through 3 countries in an hour.
To my understanding Damascus was indeed not needed anymore as sword fighting came out of fashion. For swords it was very useful to have flexible yet sharp blades. Or has Damascus steel been traditionally used for knives too?
The fact that you think that it's an "ideological wedge" says more about you than anything about the evolution of linux community. Some people see threats everywhere, they go through their whole lives insisting X is really Y, and A will lead to B and therefore nothing should ever change. Since these people are irrational and provide no rational basis for their paranoia (or even historical examples) healthy organizations will tend to completely ignore them.
True, but modern Bluetooth is just a hacked together transfer solution that was originally intended to replace IR for office gear. I personally can’t wait until it dies. To be fair, for a lot of things, yes it’s kinda like wireless USB, for when you really look at the protocol and transfer capabilities they’re nothing alike.
Ethical Engineering for the Average Engineer
Ask HN: Is it feasible to start a startup while having student debt?
Currently a Senior in college and weighing the chances of ever starting a startup (successful or unsuccessful) while having a ton of student debt.
walking a in side leaning curve minimizes mean total walked distance over all possible cases
Software development for an original product is one of the highest-risk activities that you can do in business. (It's like buying a bar without permits and expecting to open in a month.)

The best way to reduce that risk is to ask business owners you know, "Who wrote your prototype?"

You need 2 things:

1) Somebody who has, and can, deliver a working product.

2) Somebody you can communicate with when differences arise.
I would rather prices went up and they did this. The point was that the data should make the experience better.
True, but even the ancients of other cultures largely considered them odd.
Rockwell Collins said near clearance from China on United Tech merger
I got audited by the IRS... I had accidentally forgotten to file one of the many 1099 forms I had received that year. The agent handling the audit easily had some of the best customer service I’ve ever experienced and I was able to get the problem resolved.
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Laptops are nearly at the limit for what can be brought on a plane, capacity-wise. I don’t think you’ll see that take a leap forward until laws change or batteries get much safer/more energy dense.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-vYrOAmtrx9sBzJAf3x_xw "success in tech", lectures on design interview questions. the man really helped me to get a job at Amazon. Thanks pal!
FWIW, I have a 12 yr old boy and had to reconcile my and the culture’s proclivity for swearing when he was old enough to know what was going on. I decided to treat it like other things in the category of “for adults only”. I.e it’s ok to watch adults doing it and when you’re an adult you can too, but until then, no swearing.

For the most part it’s worked. On the few occasions where he’ has sweared (sworn?) there have been consequences. So far he’s stayed on the straight and narrow.
Agreeableness is the attribute imo. There’s a scale from “spineless” to “actively squelching dissent”. Agreeable side of the scale people always get rolled in direct confrontation.
It seems like no matter what wing of the spectrum both sides are shrinking their windows and growing in reactionary frustrations.
Serious question, what’s your proposed alternative for a local secure data transfer/accessory connection, and how is requiring a physical connection less secure than wireless?
This paper is interesting, but I think it's important to note that this is covering one particular problem that is somewhat different than what most users of cloud backups are looking for: client side, encrypted de-duplication of files ACROSS CLIENTS. That is, that you want to de-duplicate A,B's files without being able to reveal to A, B, or a honest-but-curious hosting provider that there is a duplication of content.

Most backup schemes only care about de-duplication within the context of a single user; that is, A's files are de-duplicated between backups only against A's files, and even if B uploads an identical file, it is stored twice on the provider's servers.
Doesn't happen at all startups but work vs reward. I feel like in startups especially at successful ones, the founders gain so much at the expense of the workers (usually in the form of time).
They come from man hour savings from generating a topography of the mine and stockpiles. Our mining customers have found our product gives results within 1.1% of the accuracy of laser scanning the mine and is more accurate than the results from traditional methodology performed by an average ~3 person survey crew. It requires only a single person to capture the mine, and customers get the data back in a single day rather than 3 to 4 days later. Thus, they can capture the mine topography far more inexpensively and far for frequently than they could previously.
Do you mean that they are paid, and in theory, they do physics. Or that they do physics and, in theory, they get paid?
> I have used duckduckgo a few years ago, I found myself going back to google "!g" often. More recently, I started using Qwant it seems to be better (subjectively) but from time to time I find myself heading to google again.

This is a common narrative but if you think about it, it's bad data:

* Question: Which solution, A or B, outputs more accurate results?

* Method: Collect inputs for which A outputs inaccurate results; run those inputs through B.

... obviously, the data from the experiment isn't meaningful to the original question.
> I don't find gravity or physics to be culturally relative.

But isn't relativity all about your frame of reference?

(sorry)
I have had two startups promise me the moon and the stars only to fire me shortly after the product was developed and viable.

One found a way to screw me out of all the equity as well, which would have made me a ten something millionaire.

Once people start smelling money things shift quickly.
This all started because of the incredible amount of e-waste because every brand used their own standard. Things didn't seem much better when USB started becoming standard on the other end of the cable for data and charging. Apple's original compromise was to offer lightning to micro-usb adapters[1].

[1] https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD820AM/A/lightning-to-mi...
> He clearly can separate the blunt stubbornness ("we do not break userland, period")

For what it's worth, he doesn't even avoid breaking userland. Off the top of my head, we had a problem at work a few months back where kernel 4.3 and below rounded up listen(fd, 0) to something nonzero, kernel 4.4 didn't, and a piece of commercial software was (inexplicably) using listen(fd, 0). https://ldpreload.com/blog/git-bisect-run is a post I wrote about tracking that down. (We're slow enough at kernel upgrades at work that it didn't seem worth reporting the regression upstream several releases later.) Also last summer Linus himself merged a commit that very intentionally broke a userspace feature that he didn't like but that Julia and rr both depended on, and got a very polite email (https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/5/29/541) requesting that the behavior be reverted, to which he replied:

Oh, we'll just re-instate the kernel behavior, it was more an
optimistic "maybe nobody will notice" thing, and apparently people did
notice.

which sounds like planning to break userspace to me.

I think that saying he could still be stubborn without being rude is doing everyone a disservice. It's clear that "do not break userspace" isn't actually a rule, and while it's a lot better than cursing out people in public, saying a fake rule very nicely is still going to hurt people, drive away contributors, and fail to attract enough eyeballs to make a high-quality product.
What you want is international reciprocity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocity_(international_rel...
Brazil is a big proponent of this. When the US brought in taking bio-metric data from travelers Brazil did it too - but only for US citizens.
Seconding Clickspring. His australian accent is also very soothing
Agreed. You can tell by the offering of bare bones tickets - ones you can’t even bring a carryon that is too big to put under the seat.

People aren’t even willing to shell out another $20 for that.
Not sure where to draw the line between edutainment and education here. Some favorite or curious -

barnabydixon : Puppetry -
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxseO_JzIiiJENauW2RmcJQ

Gary Cheynne : A colorful whitebeard teaching Archery -
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCufXwwtJmZWDzjdHXeWYO0w

History with Hilbert : A light history channel -
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Zc6_BhPXiCWZlrZP4EsEg

Northmen : Vintage footage of Nordic crafts -
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcaVClI50rGZmbYMhoSSDGA

Rare Earth : Chris Hadfield and Son's reports and ruminations -
https://www.youtube.com/user/ColChrisHadfield

Thought Slime : Funny anarchist perspectives (impractical?) -
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrr7y8rEXb7_RiVniwvzk9w
I loved traveling for work for about 2 years (traveling 4 times a year overseas for a week). After that it was just horrible. Once you start having pets and spouses and kids, it becomes a complete nightmare. Especially if you don't live near a lot of family who can help while you're gone. Eating food on the bed jetlagged in the hotel after another way-too-long day gets old.
> That’s like saying ban all muslims from entering the US due to their ‘track record’

No, it absolutely is not. That is explicit race-based discrimination carried out by the government. Companies can, and do, decide not to give certain privileges to remote offices. It is not comparable to businesses refusing to staff certain positions or give certain responsibilities to remote offices. Furthermore, companies can require certain positions to be filled by US citizens (common practice in defense and aerospace companies).
I think this is sarcastic but also maybe a little bit true?
.. yet.
>Anecdotally, one of the most effective engineers I worked with, who asked penetrating questions during code and design reviews, did come off as a bit of an asshole at times

Those are simply the people that stand out. It's harder to appreciate professional and nice leadership because if it works it does not even stand out.

If we just take some of the most successful businesses, projects or ventures around and look at their leaders, are most of them abrasive or rude? I wouldn't say that's true. There are certainly some, but they seem to stand out negatively rather than positively, and there is very little to rudeness that actually helps running human organizations.

It's popular to like renegade stories, but Linus outbursts don't improve his leadership, he's a good patron of the Linux project despite of and not because of it.
Einstein's letters to Mileva make me feel that maybe empathy wasn't his strong suit, either.
If you populate these quadrants most points might lie in QII and QIV (along the -1 diagonal) with few in QI and QIII (though maybe we all know many QI's in our lives...).
I'd say there are a couple problems you're likely to have at a successful startup:

1) You (the early engineer) get promoted and are leading the charge, but have no mentors or role models to help you develop your career.

2) You raise a huge Series A / B, and everyone says "spend it in 18 months" so you hire a ton of people quickly, which significantly changes the company culture. Your first attempts at introducing structure / management to the team are rough, and early engineers get frustrated the growth and seek out smaller teams.

3) You (and everyone else) think the startup is "successful" as valuations increase and build your internal narrative around this success. Later reality sets in - you need a bridge round! Since you and your co-workers placed so much of your self worth in the company's success it totally destroys morale.
Thank you. One of the best comments I have ever seen on this forum.
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Besides game companies and research offices for big tech companies, what else is in Montreal?
"Rests aren't explicitly displayed"

"Stem length denotes note duration"

If only my eyes were 20 yrs younger. This hurts to read :-(
Something ridiculous about the media environment today. If time magazine can't survive, why not just put it out of business. The same thing with washingtonpost or theatlantic.

Why are tech billionaires buying up these companies? Just to push their political agenda? To support their political ambitions? To run for office? They obvious aren't doing it to make money.

I don't see how our society benefits when tech billionaires buy up media like this. If oil titans were buying up failing media just to serve as their personal mouthpiece, we'd be a lot more upset.

Also, it's terrible for the media space because it props up failing companies. If failing news companies were allowed to fail, it would open up space for newer companies with better business models or better ideas.
In some cases, they probably don't want to talk about a recent discovery because then there'll be a bunch of people looking for more mummified remains. The researchers might want to have a nice long look around before attracting a crowd of tourists.
Does anyone know anything about Startpage? All I see is a website with the text of a good privacy policy. But who the heck are they? Why should I trust them? Compare that with DuckDuckGo, whose leadership, support, and activities are widely known and who I know are more committed and competent than some random person who typed up a privacy policy.

I don't mean to raise doubts about Startpage - I'd love to know more about them so I could have more confidence in them and have another alternative. Also, I find that non-technical users seem to stick with it more than with DDG, when I introduce them to it.
Make your own startup or join an interesting small company. How do you do this? It is very easy.

Step 1: Go to https://vanstartupweek.ca/. It's next week. Maybe you can still volunteer and get in for free if you want.
Step 2: Talk to people! It's a very business-focused crowd there, so your skills are both hard to find and in very high demand.
Step 3: Pick a company. They tend to range between "nonexistent as of yet" to "small". (Note the venues, they're often looking for programmers as well.) Be friendly, personable, and make some contacts. Enjoy the food, it's good. :)
I used to love travel but too much work travel killed my passion for it in all forms. Now I dread flying anywhere and staying even in suites(with points) in hotels is just meh. I'd rather be home with my dog and wife and familiar stuff.
I hope he steers the ship more to the center. This weeks issue is a puff piece on Nancy Pelosi, complete with flattering cover picture.
If you're acquired, there's a significant risk of a cultural clash between the people from your company and the current employees. "I didn't want this job" syndrome is real.
I have a lot of quasi-libertarian beliefs. However, if you read up on the history of capitalism in America and how poor and middle-class people have been manipulated, mistreated, and oppressed by rich landowners and large corporations since the beginning and you may come to the conclusion that I did: Unfettered capitalism is just as shitty as communism.

I think a better form of government results from trying to achieve a balance between capitalism and socialism (Possibly other things too, I'm not a political science major). I'm not sure how far it should lean one way or the other, I just know that both ideologies lead to plenty of human suffering when allowed to completely dominate.

1984 is one of my all-time favorites. I love dystopian fiction. Have you also read Brave New World?
If it’s a first hire should I be looking for someone really good at the specific stack/language or a generalist who can solve problems and connect with the right talent?
Also, for anyone interested, there is a brilliant 2016 documentary film 'All the Rage, Saved by Sarno'

Here's Dr.Sarno's words at the end of movie trailer:
'All this because of one simple idea — that the mind and the body intimately connected'
FPGA Implementation of a Time Delay Reservoir Using Stochastic Logic [pdf]
> Oh, do I have a bit of linguistic fun for you! English disagrees with you.

As I said in the previous comment, "English is not a person."

Let's look at a good source: Webster:

1. "According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh." (emphasis added) No comment required.

2. "With close adherence to words; word by word." For this definition, the given example helps: "So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally. --Dryden." Clearly this definition is not the opposite of the first.

> When you clip something - are you attaching it or cutting it off?

As I said in the previous comment, there are some words that have multiple, contradictory meanings. "Literally" is not one of them; by its nature, it cannot be. If you disagree with me, you should argue this point rather than cite irrelevant examples.

> The most wonderful thing about languages, from a linguistic anthropological view, is precisely how they change over time as the living generations shape and mold language to their liking.

Linguistic anthropology cannot confer wonderfulness on anything, for it merely observes and catalogs; it does not pass judgment. My argument does not lie within its purview.

The problem arises as a living generation loses touch with reality, and as certain entities strive to confuse it by muddling their language. It's not important whether "table" means "to consider" or "to not consider." It is important whether "literally" still means "literally", especially in this day and age, as the pace of change is ever increasing. As fragile, finite, foolish humans, we desperately need solid handles on reality to cling to. Those who would encourage us to render the word useless are doing a disservice to us all. You would do well to not be one of them.
It's even dumber than when Apple ditched the serial port, dooming a whole generation of fine hardware to obsolescence.

Just another marketing win, engineering loss.
Every good thing must come to an end. Sounds like linux is going to go down this path and the industry and innovation will suffer as a result of this. They've been gunning for Linus for a long time. My guess is that they got some dirt on him.
There isn’t some function we can feed a different argument here to value agreeableness more highly though. I generally agree, but that more collaboration would be good isn’t so much the question - the question is HOW these tweaks can be done.
"A man who says a spade is a spade is only fit to wield one" - I can't recall who this quote is from but it had a profound impact on my how I conduct myself.

Or: "A hammer is no more or less honest than a scalpel."

I had the same sense of reality as Linus is having now, fortunately I was only 26 when it was brought to my attention.

Previously I took pride in calling a spade a spade. I was abrupt, people actually praised me in this behavior before I realised it was holding me back. To be specific, some close friends who were in Senior positions to me gave me a reality check.

My behavior was not genetic, it was nurture and not nature. The Finish brash is not too far from the Northern English brashness.

I've had my ego checked on a few occasions and I've changed my tact accordingly when I realised it wasn't a win/lose or a zero sum game. It's about working together. I shouldn't escalate to a combative state so eagerly. The above quote resonated with me when it highlighted I need to better at communicating. 'Disagree and commit' is one such method that I've been trying to practice. Anothe

I'm glad he's been given a reality check, though I hope it doesn't take anything away from his matter of fact way of speaking. He doesn't need to sink to ab hominem based attacks to get his point accross.
This post is blatantly wrong. Wootz steel (sourced from India but known in the West as Damascus steel because that was where a lot of the blades were made) was not pattern welded / folded.

Pattern welding was used in the West to try and emulate these blades, and has gotten the name "Damascus steel", but it is not classic Damascus / wootz steel.