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There are plenty of people who feel the same way about all the useless startups in SV that exist solely to take VC money.

At least Facebook actually provides something of value to the hundreds of millions people who use it.
> The happy medium for government checks on behavior is somewhere in the middle.

That was my point.

> Your parent makes the argument, very reasonably imo, that the overhead and cost of regulating these types of company's results are not worth the upside.

I think we read different comments; all I got was a snarky condemnation of government oversight.
Maybe we need a regime change.
Not necessarily. I left undergrad after four terms and self-studied to the point of having published research, giving invited talks, and even being a visiting researcher for three months with my expenses paid.

Links:

http://content.algebraicgeometry.nl/2017-2/2017-2-007.pdf

https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdfview_1/euclid.ecp/1508...

Look for my name (Thomas / Tom Price) on these pages:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170121000748/https:/wwwmath.un...

https://www2.math.binghamton.edu/p/seminars/arit/arit_spring...

https://www2.math.binghamton.edu/p/seminars/arit/arit_fall20...

https://www2.math.binghamton.edu/p/seminars/arit/arit_fall20...
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The productivity part is that it binds single keys directly (without meta keys like control, alt etc) to actions, so working with it is extremely fluid, almost like typing. There is almost nothing I need menus or gui buttons for, so I never have to take my eyes off the work. I often work with one hand on the keyboard and the other on the mouse and I just get into a flow where I have completely forgotten the human / computer interface exists.

It's hard to describe, but certain tools are designed this way and I love them, other tools are designed great for beginners to learn them but you can never achieve the above.
Maybe there should be (if there isn't already) a way for multiple people to add to the same bounty. So if 100 people are all annoyed by some longstanding issue and each offer $100 bounties, that's $10k for someone to fix it.
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> there is always room for developers, too, especially those who can help with preparing the upcoming Inkscape 1.0 to be usable on MacOS. As few Inkscape volunteer developers use a Mac, the project needs someone who knows how to automatically package a .dmg file, to enable Mac users to test the alpha version, along with Mac equipment to run continuous integration jobs.
You're not trapped literally. This is all a mental game. Everything you just listed is an excuse.
I guess you would have to bring a proper heart rate monitor and compare the two readings.

Although people might give you strange looks :)
When I first read this I thought they meant small mammals that had been buried by people at some point in the distant past.
I am just leaving a comment to commiserate with you. This is exactly how I felt. And I have a similar story. It was a depressing time.

> Finally, I realized my brain needs more time than the average programmer

I also came to this conclusion. I accept it and focus on my strengths as a team lead instead.
He misses the point by a mile, as do his twitter correspondents. If we're to indulge him let's ask if the staff of the "nytimes" consider themselves "American" or if they're stuck in a time warp clinging to a 1609 "British" identity that even the British no longer recognize.
I think these sorts of posts give people a warped view of interviewing for SWE positions. Most companies don't ask whiteboarding questions of the difficulty discussed here. If you want to work at one of the biggest corporations in the world, thats one thing - but there are plenty of good jobs out there for people like you and me who don't want to put in this sort of time commitment to interviewing.
My philosophy is that one can still hold a mostly libertarian perspective regarding markets (particularly as tools) but with minor stipulations.

I hold that the government's primary role with regulating markets is to aid in the pricing of positive and negative externalities. In particular, a focus on pricing in and intervening for "harms" seems to be philosophically consistent (enough) for me.
> Finally, I realized my brain needs more time than the average programmer to find patterns in this type of problems.

I'm the same way. I'm really good a identifying solutions to a problem. I'm really good at identifying the costs/benefits/issues with each of the problems. However, I take a while to get there. I may figure out one (suboptimal) solution quickly, but it takes me a while to pick out a variety of them and identify the one I think is the right one for the current situation.
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It is when most of these businesses are just buying lists and sending blasts through automated programs with minimal human investment in qualifying leads. If I did not give you my email address and a human is not sending the email directly, it's spam.
Yes. Unsolicited bulk email is the actual definition of spam. This whole story is about sending unsolicited bulk email.

Generally some end recipient will engage with the spam; that's why spam gets sent.
I am not sure if you are much interested in philosophy but I came across an introductory lecture given outside of an academic context which introduced me to the Japanese term jikaku, which can translate as self-awareness but can also be used to refer to an element of identity in adopting a role.[0]

So in your given example, another way of referring to what you are doing is to say that you are adopting the jikaku of an athlete. In a sense, adopting the role of athlete is more effective because it is ascribing both an outer and inner identity element to yourself.

Perhaps you will be curious. I found it to be an interesting overlap with what you've discovered on your own.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJfsMDPcLBc
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I remember at least one of the popular third party chat apps like Signal or Telegram made a big push to squeeze past the Great Firewall by hosting on AWS and being judicious with their traffic patterns. IIRC they even manged to get AWS shut out of China at times.
Ex FB user here checking in. FB free since `11. There's a ton of us.
Well they have correlation that remains correlated after you adjust the model for other risk factors. So is that direct evidence? No.

But when you add in the other lines of evidence, you start building a case. It's sorta like a murder trial (not withstanding a separate discussion of our criminal justice system...) where the case is built over lines of evidence.

And as one of my graduate professors once said, "there is no double blind randomized trial for the efficacy of parachutes" ;) [0].

[0]. https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459
Nobody holds the position that "more money flowing into the government is wholly beneficial." When Democrats argue for increased taxes it's not because they think it's good to have high taxes, but to fund particular programs: in this case, a Green New Deal to address climate change.

As for "entirely too much money is squandered", what did you have in mind? The combination of defense, Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security/SSI, and debt interest make up around 85% of the budget.
I design all of my vector graphics in PowerPoint. If I want to export my PowerPoint graphics to SVG or PNG I can simply export to PDF, import into Inkscape, and re-export as SVG or PNG.

Used it countless times to make T-shirt designs, logos, etc. Super convenient "free" alternative to Adobe Illustrator. (Most people have access to and know how to make vector graphics out of shapes in PowerPoint)
Using a debugger for testing multi-threaded code is particularly painful. Tests and logs are especially superior in this case because you can make complex assertions that capture emergent behavior of a multi-threaded application. Pausing threads to step through them can often make it harder to observe the behavior you might expect to see when multiple threads are working together in real time.
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> This is one of those HN threads with a lot of misinformation by people who don't know the subject area well but have a strong opinion anyway.

So essentially just like every thread in every online discussion group then?
Can anyone help us identify this mystery machine?
I'm interested on the differences between all the offers. It still surprises me how much variability there is between the top companies.

It’s much easier to compare multiple offers made to the same person, rather than comparing isolated offers on websites like Glassdoor.
Did you try LMDB ?
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Could you please start posting more substantively? This isn't a one-liner sort of place.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Perhaps he's referring to the Win32-style apps that were the norm on Windows Mobile 6.0 and earlier? There was an huge number of apps (for that era anyway) that were obsoleted by the transition away from that paradigm.
That source is a few people in a room having a chat and creating a list of the most harmful drugs based on their opinions.

It's not really a source.
Companies like this have a bright future as the result of a quirk of resource economics.

Short version is, resource rich governments don't need a sophisticated state apparatus to stay in power, so long as they can pay the army. (See "resource curse," and demesquitas "logic of political suvival")

It means their domestic intelligence capability is not as mature as that of a democracy, so they have to go to market for sophisticated technical surveillance services. Enter mercenary intelligence companies like NSO.

Mexico is an exception, but in general if there were a way to get early exposure to this market, the margins are probably hyper political and irrational, and it's not going away.

Maybe DPRK will trade these services to unstable regimes for currency and support, but imo these sort of companies are here to stay.
Heh, then I guess you do not know the lengths the IRS goes to track the income of US persons wherever they are. Double taxation of US citizens has even pushed some dual citizens to renounce their US citizenship...
It should be noted that the digital payment system China is moving to is Wechat. If you try to go to the mainland and use cash outside of tourist areas you quickly run into trouble. Even for things that most people assume are cash run, like Taxis.
> Just because someone doesn't know how to write BFS code doesn't mean they don't know what it is.

Actually, it does mean they don't know what it is. BFS stands for "Breadth First Search". If a node in a data structure has two links, one going down in the data structure, and one going sideways, breadth first means going sideways first. "Depth First" means going down first.

That's the algorithm. It ain't rocket science. There's no trick involved.
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Somehow though, the windows version is great. It's only Mac that seems to have huge problems.
Hard to say it's a top SV company when the list lacks intel, tesla, netflix...
Here are the possibly relevant enumerated powers of Congress:

- define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations

- declare War

- grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal

- make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water

- raise and support Armies

- provide and maintain a Navy

- make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces

- provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions

- provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States

Nowhere in that list is "for an indefinite period of time, kill a bunch of unidentified people in unspecified foreign lands for unspecified reasons". Wars fought among nations are generally bad things, but historically there has been a protocol that the Constitution references in the simple phrase "declare war". Various acts of violence against various parties for various purposes have been considered necessary for the peace and security of any political unit, but those acts have been limited to the territory of that political unit.

Ever since the USA army wasn't properly stood down from WWII, the requirements of the military-industrial complex have dictated the invention of another procedure for killing thousands of innocents every week on an ongoing basis. A cursory examination of the Constitution reveals that this new innovation violates the enumerated powers of Congress and the executive.
"The worst offense I see around the web is super tiny font sizes."

Yes! So much so that I've been forcing 16pt DejaVu for everything for years and it makes the web so much nicer that it is worth the annoyance of working around sites that it breaks. Every time I use a default profile browser I cringe at how small most text on the web is. I would use pt rather than px but I guess it doesn't matter in CSS (and em/rem when possible as your link suggests).

I don't mind wide text that much, but I agree it is usually better to limit the width. Similarly, your image suggestions seem like good defaults. It would be great if more people followed most of these suggestions.

The one I really disagree with is featured image being a must. There are way too many useless images on the top of posts (and sometimes inside posts also) just for the sake of having an image. My local newspaper is the worst at this, where I often look at several stories a day with the same (sometimes misleading) stock image, but lots of blog posts do the same thing (including this one). Wost is like this one where the useless large stock image is in the blog header.

I would also add no popups or fixed headers or footers. Don't pop up share icons anywhere (this page provides a good example why not :(). Just leave the share icons at the bottom. Follower side bars are often annoying (particularly when they have share icons) but occasionally useful and at least don't obstruct anything on a larger display.
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I've had the same one to nexus@ mydomain which I suspect I used when I was doing phone dev on a forum or manufacturers website. I'd love to know which site it was that leaked.
I love DBeaver.

Long time ago I started searching for a DB-client similar to "TOAD", but on Linux and targeting only my following key requirements: 1) write & execute single SQLs on a "page" which has multiple SQLs without having to use any terminator (";") between them, 2) ability to show the execution plan of the SQL in which the cursor is positioned and 3) ability to connect to different kinds of databases.

I ended up with nothing, and I actually even initially excluded DBeaver as running on Java (personal thing - most Java apps I tried always had some kind of bug which made it a no-go for me).

After a while I gave it a try and I ended up being extremely happy with it, especially because I can use it with basically all databases that I am/was using (I'm currently using it mostly with MariaDB & Clickhouse, but used it in the past as well with DB2, Kudu, PostgreSQL).
Please don't post like this! The guidelines are pretty clear.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Wonder if the study took into account secondary infections. ear aches or rattling in the chest, sinus infections ?
I wonder if he feels like he's a better programmer after all that studying.
I'm sure one person out of a billion has bought viagra from a spam email, it doesn't mean all of those were fine.

There is no cut and dry rule, but here is a simple heuristic that will apply to most emails you write and receive: If it takes longer to write it than it does to read it, it isn't spam. This metric also generally applies to cold emails as well. However, once you start automating emails then it is a slippery slope and you'll very quickly end up in the spam range.
Yeah, shit like this is why I absolutely refuse to pay more. Ultimately, you're killing them, I couldn't care less what else you do to them or how nice you treat them before you kill them.

The few times I've had to buy the more expensive stuff (I was trying to make a specific dish and only the higher priced organic one was available), I've noticed no significant difference in quality or flavor.

Fortunately I don't know many people who fall for it, but apparently they exist.
The specific questions don't have a hold in real life but the patterns behind them do. Most problems to be solved in computer science, with enough abstraction, have already been solved. I joined a new software development scrum at work and have been helping optimize how long our application takes (it can be thought of as an encoding engine) we've seen huge leaps in improvement with very simple solutions, 75% of the time the way we're seeing that the best way to solve a problem is via a hash table. That's also an incredibly common core solution to most interview problems.
Funny, but it's not devolution of a comment thread, I'm pointing out that things are falling apart in the US, and the problems in the Navy are merely one facet of a much, much larger problem with the way the government is operating (at both federal at state levels, but most of these issues have a lot of federal involvement, e.g. bridges, and public transit usually spans states because most of our major cities span states, and long-distance trains necessarily are a federal issue).
Wife and kids are (top) priorities, not excuses.
The whole process is a roll of the dice. The more senior the role, the less fair that roll of the dice will be. If you can accept this fact, you don't have to be "trapped". That's how I think of it anyway: I never spend more than 2 weeks (_very_ part time) preparing. I do get rejected sometimes, but I get plenty of good offers too.
Would love to see specific numeric information on offer packages, negotiations, counter-offers, and final accepted offer, if the author feels comfortable disclosing such information.

I bet you can get a really nice offer when you get six big tech companies to bid over you.
That's exactly what I thought when I read the headline; I was mildly disappointed, though I do love tardigrades.
"Preparing for an interview of this nature would have a detrimental impact on my family" is a perfectly legitimate reason to opt-out.
The candidate's experience shows how flawed Bay Area recruiting is. This candidate was clearly strong, as they had a 100% offer rate on companies that they interviewed at and almost all of those companies are top tier(Apple, LinkedIn, Amazon, Facebook, Google).

Yet 70% of the companies didn't even give the candidate a chance to interview. It's incredibly sad that a candidate that is able to get offers at Google, Facebook, and Apple can't even get 70% of the companies to let them in the door to interview. Interviewing is clearly broken.
I believe it's the fact that it causes inflammation when your body tries to remove foreign masses. It's a good function that your body does to keep things anew. However, doing it constantly is a problem because it causes long term inflammation and oxidative stress. [0]

[0]. https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(18)30029-0/pdf
==Cities in league with Chicago would be NYC/SFO/LAX/SEA/ATL/BOS/DC==

All of these cities, except Atlanta, are considerably more expensive than Chicago. Worth noting that Atlanta has 486k residents and Chicago has 2.7 million.

==Chicago is good for many careers, but for how much longer==

I think your perspective is a little outdated. Cost-of-living growth in Seattle, San Fran and NYC has made Chicago a much more attractive destination for tech companies:

"Data from real estate firm CBRE shows that Chicago was the second most popular destination for companies based in the Bay Area, Seattle, Boston and New York to open new office space, behind only Austin." [1]

Don't forget the world-renowned universities graduating boatloads of CS majors:

"One out of 10 computer science degrees in the nation comes from Illinois colleges and universities, according to the index. California is the only state that churns out more." [2]

==and how much are people willing to deal with Chicago's weather?==

But Boston and Minneapolis make your list? If anything, climate change will make Chicago more attractive over the next 30 years.

==or many in the top 20%, I don't think they would suffer career wise in many other places where the tax burdens aren't so severe. ==

The fastest growing demographic in Chicago is households making over $100k. The region is also quickly growing higher income levels:

"Cook County, which includes the county seat of Chicago, is home to the No. 1 and No. 7 fastest-growing concentrations of $200,000-plus households." [3]

I certainly have a bias towards Chicago, but your points just don't really bear out in the data.

[1] https://www.americaninno.com/chicago/inno-news-chicago/despi...

[2] http://www.govtech.com/education/news/-Illinois-Second-Only-...

[3] https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/americans-earning-ov...
3 employees were, after being explicitly told by Facebook not to do so.
I believe you're just saying the same thing I am in different terms. The fact that zero is even a 'distance' you can divide by is consequence of the fact that you're deriving distance from the coordinates of the bodies. If distance was instead fundamental (and not a function of coordinates), you'd not even have a zero distance, and you'd have no inclination to attempt dividing by it. (But the math for doing that is basically to always account for every part of every body, and that's just entirely intractable.)

This is assuming mostly Newtonian physics, of course. Once you start dealing with fields and quantum mechanics, none of this makes as much sense.
Nevertheless, you are a small minority outside the HN bubble.
> I'm reading this as a guy with a wife, kids, full-time job, and rusty whiteboarding skills

yeah, well these companies don't want you. I mean they do but they need to make sure you have the same availability as a college hire. One way of checking that is to have you block time like that for a while.
> 53+ thousand new users

This might explain why my perception of average comment quality has dropped. It's purely anecdotal, but it feels as if the volume of joke posts and "me too" responses has increased well beyond what it was five years ago.

Comments have always been the most valuable part of HN for me. It's frankly starting to feel a little bit like Reddit around here, and I'm concerned about the signal:noise ratio dropping any further.
That’s a really bad take. You can work on interesting problems in organizations that aren’t causing harm. And should, if you have the option.