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Don't get into the habit of looking for things to blame. The internet will keep you well fed. Finding things to blame, obscures clear thought and expression of your underlying needs. Find those needs and keep focus on them without blaming anyone. It's a much healthier route to connecting with people and getting those needs met.
How about you seed the conversation by telling us what you think about internet echo chambers?
Just like in startups, you get what you measure. In school, you measure by grades, so you get students who play the rules to get good grades.

Also see Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
I disagree. There's no technical reason why an automated system couldn't be fully transparent to the end user about the criteria on which it is acting. That's not the reason why.

I mean, you're correct about the fact that putting a human in the loop costs too much at scale, which is why it doesn't happen, and that sucks when you're an edge case that gets shafted. But that tangential to the question of transparency. Even if there were people in the loop, they wouldn't be fully transparent about the actions they take for exactly the reason the parent comment said. It would make it easier for the bad actors trying to exploit the system.
In my opinion all education criteria must be eliminated as soon as possible from all immigration rules worldwide, but until then, what can I do.
Thank you for this. I’ll try to keep an open mind while reading it.
What diagrams do you see used in dev teams these days?

In our team (non enterprise), there's a lot of visual flow models for UX, and still some class/interaction/activity diagrams for explaining how stuff hangs together.
I strongly disagree. Elite colleges are all about signaling. But I don't doubt for a second that my CS degree taught me an enormous amount - some skill-building, lots of abstract thinking - that I wouldn't have been able to achieve as quickly as anywhere else.
Interesting! Any chances to see an ARM port in the future?
Glad to see this as the first comment. Was curious what waffle was, so I spent five minutes googling around and going to cache:waffle.io
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This has nothing to do with them cutting off vendors, who will now sell on marketplace instead.

They're just dictating different terms to suppliers.
That's a valid opinion, but it doesn't address the question: do other fields lean more heavily on signaling than others?

Does going to a top 10 law school matter more than graduating from a Top 10 CS program?
Dunner is a task runner tool like Grunt but used Docker images like CircleCI do
All these anti-education articles are pretty tedious. If you believe it's the schools who have it all wrong by teaching subjects that aren't useful for building phone apps, you're probably already pretty set in your worldview.
It's completely possible to acquire CS skills in much less time elsewhere.
Except online education is dominated by the existing players, and they are charging the same kind of money you would pay in person. If you're getting a STEM degree especially, Coursera will charge you something like $600/credit.

This is because of, wait for it, signaling. You don't actually need all that much education to be an entry level software engineer, especially outside silicon valley. But you do need those letters after your name.
Absolutely yes, without any doubt.
Who defines the terms "Nazis" and "terrorists"

By your logic, Youtube would have to host child pornography, because "how do you define child pornography?"

These terms are whatever the moderator says they are. If their definition does not match up with mine, I complain. If it does match, I don't.
But these are not merely nonsensical arrests otherwise unconnected to everything.

Modi named PUBG as a problem in a recent public meeting. Then some local police officials decide to outlaw it, and start arresting people over it, while the courts and the government do nothing about it. The arrests are absolutely a part of the rise of fascism in the country under the current regime. Why should the world not be interested in the growing fundamentalist face of India?

Multiple people being arrested because of draconian laws enacted at whimsy, anywhere, is always newsworthy. I don't understand why you're trying to trivialise it.
> My understanding is that the wash from old designs would reduce downforce for cars that follow, which in turn would slow them down and make it harder to overtake. This made for less interesting racing.

My understanding is that to reduce drag, the intakes for cooling air (engine and possibly intercooler) have been minimised to the point where they are sufficient for clean air but insufficient for turbulent air. The engine loses power.
this is a good argument to publish the full bulk unredacted Snowden archive then
WhatsApp co-founder accuses Facebook of trading privacy for revenue
Sure, I suppose you're right. I'm mentioning these top colleges because we're on HN, which is heavily oriented around the Bay Area tech ecosystem, which loves to dip into that pool.
You can sell without brand registry, you just don't get all the features like special brand content, reporting, etc.
DDG search for "cumin pizza". Click of the first image since the top hits are saturated with copies of this article. Link through to "Grilled Enchilada Pizza" at http://savourthesensesblog.com/grilled-enchilada-brussels-sp... with 1 tbsp cumin.

So while the answer for me specifically is "no, I wouldn't have thought about it", I'm also pretty boring in my pizza making. I wouldn't have thought about putting refried beans on one either, until I saw one.

While if the "you" in the question is "anyone", then certainly yes, many people have already put cumin on a pizza.
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Most colleges aren't elite. The vast majority of college graduates do not go to elite colleges. It's myopic to think of elite schools as "all schools" as so many articles do.

Seriously, rankings are so pointless. I personally value someone's skills, not what institution they obtained them from. I guess for our society's elite, it's their version of keeping up with Joneses. Or maybe the upper class feels the need for their kids to get elite credentials to compensate for a lack of any real skill. I don't know how motivated I'd be in life, if I didn't have to work to support myself. So in that sense, I do have some empathy for people in that position.
Yupp. I think I misunderstood at first. Now I get it. Thanks all.
I dunno, I thought it was pretty gouda
I work right by the one in pioneer square. slate is excellent. I hate that they refer to a latte as espresso + milk though :-)
Apple sounds off on Spotify's antitrust claims in surprisingly tone-deaf screed
Thanks, didn't realise snow pillows were a thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_pillow
This is pretty sweet! Looks like it checks all the boxes of what I currently have spread across multiple accounts and apps:

* Savings (want sitting cash to make market-competitive interest)
* Checkings with no monthly fee
* Budgeting analysis (if you can integrate with other Banks via Plaid or something that would kill 5 birds in one stone)
* No international fees
* Dining/travel points

## Questions:

* Do dining/travel 2x points apply internationally? And any chance this can become 3x?
* 30k ATMs... compared to Schwab, who credit all ATM fees, how reasonable is Point to work overseas in the same manner?)
* How fast (business days) do transfers take?
* When is launch?
* Mobile Apps --> do you support Android?

Great job, I think there's definitely something here.
This is awesome! I've been wanting to build something similar to this for many years. I also wanted to hack together a prototype with a Raspberry Pi and scale, and automatically add items to a grocery list whenever the weight dropped below a certain threshold. Automatic ordering and delivery would be great too, but I don't think that would be viable in most countries.

I'd love to have a smart fridge / pantry where every spot on the shelf had a scale, and could detect when things are running low. Unfortunately most of the big appliance companies seem to be spinning their wheels on strange and useless "innovations" like putting Twitter on your fridge.

I think starting with a single product and having a subscription model is a really smart idea. Unfortunately Amazon has an enormous edge, especially after acquiring Whole Foods. Also the Amazon Dash button, and Amazon Go for automatic checkout. I've been expecting Amazon to put out a product like this for a long time (maybe their own smart fridge with automatic restocking.)

So I think it's very brave to go into this market! I hope it works out well with the coffee, and that you're able to expand into other products.
Okay but how about this: Say you actually dropped out of your degree one day before completing it. Skillwise you are almost the same but your compensation will take a drastic hit on average.
If people living in Princeton had, let's say, a high quality UBI for life, I think a TV ad campaign saying just this would pack their lecture halls

At which point Princeton would enforce their membership rules but that's another atory
Having gone to 2 of the top 5 US CS programs, I would have likely learned more about CS as an autodidact vs learning from researchers, barely speaking English, dragged kicking and screaming into doing lectures they visibly couldn't care less about. It did give me direct access to FAANG though, which was convenient and I wouldn't have gotten from some random community college. It goes back to credentialing and signaling IMO.
You mean anti-schooling. Education is much more than schooling.

Formal education is classroom-based, provided by trained teachers. Informal education happens outside the classroom, in after-school programs, community-based organizations, museums, libraries, or at home.
http://enhancinged.wgbh.org/started/what/formal.html

In other words, if I'm reading at home, undergoing on the job training, even picking people's pockets, I'm getting educated.
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I agree. Most of discussion is irrelevant to most HN people.
We're not throwing anyone in jail, no one's liberty is being compromised. As for the great thinkers of the enlightenment, I think you would find them squarely in the camp of both not putting people in jail, while at the same time supporting the actions of private citizens to suppress scientifically invalid information.

* "We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." ― Benjamin Franklin

* "Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition." - Adam Smith

* "Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn." ― Benjamin Franklin

* "It is difficult to free fools from the chains their revere." - Voltaire

* "We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter." - Diderot

* "That Politics may be Reduced to a Science" - title of 1741 essay by Hume.

* "One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant." - Locke

* "The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception" - Spinoza

Shall I go on?
What do they filter for? How do they keep just anyone from applying and keep it to qualified people?

How much is required on a resume to get past a screener and land an interview?
Previous discussion, from 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=594682
Maybe issues should just be built into Git itself. Can't really imagine software development without them.
You don't get to do exams and that is massive difference. As a motivation and as a feedback too.
interested as well lol
Who is a data engineer here making $800k?
The just show up mentality exists, but those people are learning online or reading books. What’s the advantage of commuting to a live lecture?
I had not, but then I was using a DSL for sql generation.
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No, I don't think skim milk is a byproduct of anything. With whole milk you can get whey and cheese. You can get butter and buttermilk. But skim milk has to be intentionally done. Im pretty sure.
Do you really not see it?

"Also the prevalence of women in school administration..."

Implying that male administrators, purely by being male are not making whatever nebulous errors you complain about.
I think the article seriously underestimated the effort to make it through a thre year degree at an elite college - let's say an MIT mechanical engineering degree - my understanding it is 80 hour weeks, with yearly inflection points where the faculty will try and eliminate the bottom 10% or so. get a first or 2.1 there and you are not signalling attendance but genuine effort. (Any alumni able to comment? )

There are signals and signals and disparaging an entire school is ... unfair.
I recently saw the he head of Google’s Nordic cloud division give a keynote speech at an event for the public digitisation in Denmark called Offentlig Digitalisering.

She talked about Google’s mission to democratise data. It probably would’ve been interesting to ask her what they planned to do to make sure their censorship filters knew the difference between hateful terrorists and human rights groups.

Because if it can’t tell the difference between those two, then I don’t think it’s good enough to be allowed an editorial role on YouTube.
Do you think it's possible and that your advice is still applicable if one doesn't have a degree?

Is there a glass ceiling?
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> The other 99% except hardcore algorithmic optimizations, like structuring code, creating simple code, naming variables, splitting code into classes/functions and refactoring? No clue about any of that.

So...you're saying a student wrote code like...a student? Color me shocked.

You can coach talented programmers to write neat code, design classes, and name their variables right. It's part of turning a junior engineer into a senior engineer. It's far harder to teach someone how to solve programming problems.
Wow this is great advice, thank you I appreciate the time and effort you took in writing that.

I have a few follow up questions if you dont mind.

>If your goal is to make more, you need to be aggressive. Invest in yourself in as many ways as you can. Learn more about software. Start by expanding beyond “web developer”. learn back-end programming, databases, etc. Talk to the people in your company that do sales, marketing, operations, HR. Learn as much as you can about your business or one you want to move into. Experience trumps everything. If you aren’t getting experience that makes you more valuable, you need to move on.

Its so easy to learn in isolation, but how can you actually turn it into profit? How can you quantify your skills? How does one get good at tha?

Also, why the call option analogy, do you work in finance (just curious)?
Ask HN: Is Ubuntu Core only for large companies?
I decided to take a few hours to play around with Ubuntu Core 18 tonight and was left a bit disappointed. Setting up a Raspberry Pi and connecting it to my account worked great, but that's where it ended.

After my first login the device did an unscheduled reboot for updates. It's like the worst feature of Windows 10, but for Linux. I think it's changeable from the command line, but that's the type of thing I'd want to control via a management portal. I started looking for device management and navigating their site makes me think I might not be the target market.

Most of the info on their site is locked behind contact us buttons. I think device management requires a personalized store which requires contacting them to have one set up manually. Also, their blog post about Ubuntu Core 18 (https://blog.ubuntu.com/2019/01/22/ubuntu-core-18-released-for-secure-reliable-iot-devices) claims "10 years low-cost security maintenance", but I can't find pricing info anywhere.

Overall it feels like they're looking for big companies with a lot of money to spend on support and value added services.

I want to build a simple hobby project to get some experience with IoT device management. I'll only set up a few devices, but want to learn how deployment to and management of those devices would work if I had a lot more. There's a good chance I'll archive the project when I'm done since I mainly want to learn.

Am I wasting my time? What does it actually cost to manage a device?
What's happening is that the std::unordered_map was a mistake. Many parts of it's API prevent implementing it efficiently (For example, every insertion requires allocation, even if you reserve). It's widely regarded, within and outside the standards committee, as a very unfortunate mistake.

swisstable (absl::flat_hash_map) is a popular choice right now for the hash table to use for C++ code that cares about performance. There are other choices as well (dense_hash_map, F14FastMap, etc), But honestly most choices these days are worse than std::unordered_map (well, boost::unordered_map is probably just as bad, since std's implementation was taken wholesale from boost without any thought!)
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What I really loved was the different benchmark ideas e.g. variable input size and hashing as part of a bigger algorithm.
Graphviz is one of the things that I make sure is installed when I get a new computer, along with PlatUML (also mentioned).
In the case of Waffle, I always thought it was quite a clever name. Their product is a grid of issues. Waffles are a grid of little squares of deliciousness. Works for me.
The human is not required for the transparency but for the possibility of appeal (last of the three bullet points)
Hello fellow RWC dweller!

Can confirm, don't need much AC or Heat year round.
It’s not about them not making errors or not it’s about them making decisions suitable for women students.
Honestly you're right. I'm not inclined to give the time of day to yet another SaaS project that should have been a command-line tool
If for example I post a picture of myself in a skin coloured top, that gets automatically flagged as nudity, and I'm notified as such is that really transparency?

Yes I know why the post was removed, but based on the stated no nudity rule, the post should have been ok.

If we go one stage further and appeal (to the same algorithm). That too will presumably fail.

So what we are left with is a set of rules, and a set of defacto rules, that don't match up. That I wouldn't say is transparency, except in a limited and meaningless sense.
Fascinating 2002 article that goes into a great deal of detail about CAFOs:

https://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/power-steer/
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The people who take money just to then talk shit about the people whom their got their money from...that’s really the lowest class of human being. I mean would you want to work with such person?
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I just want to say, if I were in his position, I would also trade my company for sweet millions of dollars.

But at least I would not constantly call out the people I sold it to, as if my words had any meaning at that point.

Also, it's frustrating to me, to see how it's seemingly impossible to care about the users AND have enough users bringing in revenue at the same time so that you are never in a position where big companies try to blackmail you with sweetsane amounts of money into giving them access to data.

Edit: After reading the responses, I must correct myself. The turmoil within the human soul is much more nuanced, rendering "stop flame, whin0r" an inadequate response. The only thing I know is that I'd probably have done the same, as I reckon most would have.
> That’s illogical by definition

What’s the definition of “free will”?
It's funny: Reading this thread, I now know what people who didn't grow up with / don't like Whataburger must feel. I'm Texan, born and raised, and grew up around three Waffle House restaurants. My hometown, that grew from a wide spot on the US highway to a very wide spot on the Interstate, had two of them, one at each of the two (then) major exits.

Nobody I knew ate there on a regular basis. They never got mentioned at school or work or church. Me and my family ate there maybe three times I can remember and all three times it was an OK experience but we'd rather go to Grandy's or just the Golden Corral breakfast bar.

After the state redid the Interstate in such a way as to move those major exits to other locations, thus rendering the Houses of Waffle more easily accessible from the city streets but not an immediate off-the-highway-and-back-on situation, they both closed within two months of each other, a year after the change. In an amusing twist, one of those parcels is now home to a Whataburger and I regularly see its parking lot full. I'll never not go to a Whataburger and if by some miracle someone builds one inside the city limits of Seattle, I will move next door and live there until my last day no matter the cost. But I've never seen the attraction of Waffle House.
The irony of this being published on The Daily Mail, one of the English language publishing world's absolute shoddiest sensationalist tabloids.
How can the clock utilize a 120V 60Hz AC signal when it's only taking power from a 12V DC Adapter?
How to do you verify an algorithm? Can you give me an example. Lets say you are trying to come up with some sorting algorithm, and you unknown wrote Bubble sort - how would you go about verifying the algorithm? As far as I know, we test the algorithm analytically and empirically.
That's absurd. 1 point of the company at a given stage might be 5-10% of the total investment that the VC makes (given that VCs typically shoot for 10-20% of the company).

The VC is doing, give or take, the same deal 10-20x in a portfolio. If you talk about that 1% becoming a norm, then it really moves the dial 5-10% on the total return for the VC.

A founding team should be owning 60-80% of the company after that transaction. Meaning, the 1% ownership difference is something like 1.3% of the founders' total return.

If you're going to try to do math on it, be fair and real.

Full disclosure: VC here.
I never said they had markets in water.
"I gotta stack cheese. I gotta stack cheese!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TRhoE5Cf3k

Some may recognize this song from its use in an Avis commercial a few years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPw35jQUGt8
I feel much as you write. Upvote as a sorting mechanism seems to work: it captures the zeitgeist. Down vote feels like it's mainly being used to decorate dissent from a norm.

But I freely admit I too use it oppositionally. I dislike articles and comments of a naive reductionist randean libertarian view and I loathe the constant harping anti Chinese responses to all things and I down vote them irrespective of well formed correctly argued positions because reasons.
A product that is 'free' for it's users from a company that wants to be extremely profitable seems to be a fundamentally flawed business plan.
But what if he is right?