skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My comment was in regards to a young daughter asking how she could break into the start-up world. The author suggested that coding was a good idea.

The author went on to mention that learning in the span of a summer would help pick a good team member or even build a prototpe him/herself.

We know from both studies and personal experience, that tech interviews just don't work all that well. This is tech interviews done by professional programmers and managers. We don't know how to pick people who are good vs talk like they're good!

This is not anecdotal - it is well known via studies, done by top psychologists.

Given that - how would a summer coding bootcamp help pick a co-founder? It's certainly better than nothing. It is also not clear how much one would benefit from 3 months versus taking one of the many excellent online courses and working at your own pace, such as Harvard's CS50, freely available on youtube.

Regarding building your own prototype after 3 months of programming - I just want to throw my hands up in the air of this wishful thinking that 3 months is anywhere close to enough time. You will need someone who's tech savvy, and then you're right back to the same difficulties.
But if they aren't predicting profits any time soon you won't be getting dividends. And you'll only have weak voting rights with which to nudge corporate strategy.

So, why invest at all?
The robot. Would be interesting if the robot gets to a point where it's useful, reliable, and versatile for the home and its "owner". I wonder if this will spawn new economies as it did for automobiles?
Yeah. Subjectively (and this is with a U.S. bias), I would've ranked them as Binance, Coinbase, Bitstamp, Gemini, Bitfinex, Bittrex, Kraken, Poloniex, Bitflyer, Circle, ItBit.

[Now I'm going to peek at the actual volume rankings. Hmm, not bad - Kraken is doing better than I thought, and I underweighted Bitfinex and Bitflyer per U.S. bias, but it's otherwise quite close.]
>Your position is that the unavailability of housing to those suffering diseases tied directly to their being unable to pay market price for housing somehow has nothing to do with the prevailing economic arrangement that utterly defines the housing market these persons cannot participate in.

I'm not claiming that at all. In fact, I disagree with that. In this topic I've stated that chronic long-term homelessness is largely the result of mental illness and drug abuse. Those issues have different solutions than lack of income or capital or whatever you're trying push.

>They don't have and cannot borrow capital

We live in a democratic, regulated market economy with a social safety net. You're arguing a straw man when you imply we live in some sort of Randian/Libertarian free market capitalist system. We don't. Social welfare policies are tools already used by modern governments.

>I'm advocating for merely mentioning capitalism in the discussion!

To what end? If you have specific policy suggestions, then argue them. If you want to argue for a wholesale change to some other socio-economic system then at least argue for that. As it stands, I'm not sure what a straw-man lob at our current system accomplishes besides FUD.
"If they can improve international monetization then there is a lot of room for revenue growth it would seem."

A universal truth in the social network space. Unfortunately, not even FB can really extract much value outside of North America.
> You explain with discrimination (which was real in the 50s according to most evidence we have) what is in parent's case better explained as a difference in motivation (making a five-figure salary by being responsible for humans is more attractive to the average US woman than being responsible for modules of code is).

and your evidence for this is ....?

> , and there is a multitude of reasons that are more plausible than purely discrimination.

same? When computer programming was first invented, nearly all programmers were women. Only when the job became prestigious were they pushed out by men. So this would indicate that discrimination, not interest level, is the sole reason we don't have a lot of female programmers today.

evidence: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-first-women-in-tech-didnt-l...
that's everyone's branding, not just the S-1 :)
>>The insanity, here, is that you can't take the land the motorhome is on and build a studio on it.

apple and oranges. The permit to built the studio makes that building legit, kinda forever. A motor home, they can chase out with a new law, or just by enforcing existing laws.
And it’s likely not optional. Any transfer of shares to someone who is not already a Class B holder will probably trigger a conversion. Iirc that’s how Facebook and Google’s shares are structured.
I think a part of the problem is that some companies aren't very transparent with how they're using your phone number. In my case I do want my bank to have my phone number, in case they need to contact me. I would rather they don't use it as a second factor (which I never knowingly agreed to) and I absolutely don't want to be able to reset my password over SMS.

The yahoo example is horrifying.
They gave him asylum.
I don't consider bashing a toxic-unsustainable transport culture unsubstantive.
RV parks are expensive. Why not buy deeded RV lots individually and build your empire piecemeal?
I am genuinely curious, how does the year-over-year growth of 60% come together with the pretty consistent "death curve" according to Google Trends [0]. Could they have deliberately lowered the revenue in 2017 through some clever accounting in order to come up with this number? As they have been around since ~2012, are there any prior financial metrics publicly available?

[0] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=p...
I hope you've never argued for a raise when you could have asked your boss to give someone else a raise instead.

It's like, yeah, we should think about others, that's great. But not every and all attempts at raising one's own status completely bad and evil.

When I was young and starting my career, there were plenty of fields I could have picked that were almost all unionized (in my home country, unions are the norm almost everywhere). I specifically didn't go those ways because I felt I could do better without. Didn't stop the others to go that route. Now that I'm there, on purpose, if people tried to build a union, I'd probably push back. And if the majority still wanted it (that's their right!), then they can get it, and I'll move somewhere else.
As for a flyer's bill of rights it would be nice to have more widebody flights or at least something small but comfortable like the Embraer 195.

What's been lost in this discussion is that the 737 is based on the 1958-era 707 in it's major configuration -- with its circular fuselage it is not built with compatibility with the human body in mind so of course you are going to feel like flying is hell after a transcontinental trip on what was originally intended as a regional jet.

Even if you survive the flight on a 737 you are going feel like you're dead. Since the 737 and A330 represent the vast bulk of planes built, anyone concerned about the environmental impacts of air travel (e.g. climate change, noise) would want to see the 737 get a clean sheet design like the 787.
I feel like the mini is way underrated and I was worried they would cancel it. My mini is my favorite device. I'm excited to trade in my old one for a new one.
I use both very frequently, frankly Hangouts is crap compared to Zoom. The only thing it wins on is that it doesn't require a client download.
We can surmise your gender from this comment :-D
This headline would get you banned from Twitter
> Our goal as engineers should be to found the next dishwasher company, not the next robotics company.

So I have thought about this a lot, and I even started and failed an ambitious robotics company, and I feel like a good niche product that could make a profitable company is self-cleaning litter boxes.

No, it won't be a multi-billion dollar company (at least not just with that product), but there is definitely a market for this and the current products are underwhelming. And technologically, it is about as approachable an unsolved robotics problem as you can find.

Here's the competition.

https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-automatic-cat-litter-...
Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you. I was just talking about what happens in the aggregate.
I've read that story several times. It's never sat well with me, and it's only now that I have a concise argument against it:

Pike is conflating the diagnosis process with the quality of the chosen solution. In practice, they are often unrelated.

A good debugging tool will not only show you the state of the system when the bug happens, but help you understand the execution path that formed that state. (If your debugger doesn't do that for you, then you should either get better at using it, or find a better debugger.)

A debugger _doesn't_ tell you how a problem should be solved; that's a separate decision which often has many other factors beyond "improve the design to be more future-proof".

The story also implies that it should be enough for the programmer to explore the mental model they currently have. But if I have a problem that needs debugging, and a minute's thought isn't enough to reveal it, then it's usually because that mental model _is wrong_. I've spent enough time dealing with engineers who furiously insist that a system shouldn't be doing something that it clearly _is_ doing (including myself) to know that your mental model can be just as much of a barrier to debugging as it is an aid.

So, as often with arguments about whether you, a smart engineer, can solve all problems with pure reason: No, you can't. There are often things that you don't know, and things that you don't know you don't know, and getting external assistance is often a huge time- and embarrassment-saver.
Usenet has a lot of illegal content. The only ‘saving grace’ is that the groups that have most of that are unreadable because of spam.
On the other hand, my PhD was one of the most rewarding times in my life. I was independent, I worked on fascinating problems, and I had the time to learn about topics at a very deep/expert level. I am proud to have extended the range of human knowledge in a minor way.

> Once you've dropped out of academia, the prestige of the PhD will matter for nothing.

I don't agree. I work at a large industry research lab, and every position basically requires a doctorate.

I had some sloppy bad habits and a PhD helped me overcome them. It also taught me skills that I'm finding invaluable in industry (autonomy, project management, full stack programming, etc.)

But as the parent said, doctoral programs have high drop out rates (it's like Navy SEAL BUD/S in some cases) and it is almost certainly not about the money: a masters is likely the sweet spot for most technical degrees if you want the best price/Salary optimization.

More to OP's point, I was offered several Quant positions after my PhD and had no trouble getting interviews. I don't this the particular program matters very much. My doctorate was from UT:Austin.
I fully agree that the Earth could sustain over a hundred billion people (and even keep vast natural spaces) with proper advances in infrastructure, construction, and technology. However, people just tend not to have enough babies to make the population grow much higher than the projected peak of 12-20 billion. Even the most fertile countries and cultures don't have the size and growth rates necessary the species to hit 100 billion.

It would have to take some kind of massive program making hundreds of millions of extra babies per year in test tubes and implanting them in surrogates (or machine surrogates, if technology allows). I could see pseudo-religious motivations for such a thing (allowing every possible child to exist), or secular motivations (needing a vastly more productive and space-faring population, or creating a new form of egalitarianism by inundating births with masses of randomly-but-equally birthed).

But that is social-science fiction on top of science fiction - the chances are slim.
> Well, I guess alignment doesn't say anything about how large of a block is allocated

It tells you where something can't be, and because virtual memory is allocated in whole pages the "padding" so to speak will always be accessible.

There's also the obvious truism that if you can access something in a cache line, all addresses in the cache line are safe to access. (Vectorized algorithms frequently implicitly rely on this for short reads, IOW there is no way reading a 128 or 256 bit vector can fault if just reading the first lane would not fault).
It's incredible the way they phrase the formation of a union as an attack on marginalized people.

But on closer analysis, I suppose things have always been done that way.

It's like saying that food stamps and welfare breed dependency when 80% of people in poverty are children or the elderly.
They may be the same type of person that would launch a ddos, for example.
Somebody in Silicon Valley needs to hire David Carson.
Intel abandons development of modular Compute Cards
I got a pretty good idea from skimming the FriCAS book:

http://fricas.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html
That's a valid point of view, of course. The failure is certainly well beneath what one should expect Facebook.

Nonetheless, I stick to incompetence over malice. There's just so much more of the former in the world than the latter!
The concept of a game being transient is still a new one. There are 20 year old Pokemon cartridges out there with their original batteries keeping still kicking, keeping their Pikachus intact.

Combine the surprise of transience with the use of real money to buy fake goods and it can be a true shock. This is especially true for casual gamers who have yet to experience their first game shutdown.
Possibly NSFW https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/autoblow-a-i-replicates-h...
Communicating Sequential Processes in JavaScript: WIP New Library
FWIW, we use AWS chime. It's absolutely fantastic. Call quality is always good to great, super easy to use for all parties. We found skype and zoom didn't work well for conference calls such as NYC to Cape Town.
Ask yourself, would it be proper an action titled: Men: Learn Medicine this summer or Men: Learn Psychology this summer?

All I am asking is for coherence, one way or another.
Haha, that title reminds me of "Eddie, what have you done for me lately" from Eddie Murphy's "Raw"!
Apple puts USB-C ports on their pro-level devices so they can use pro-level peripherals, but that isn’t a significant benefit for their consumer-level devices.

In terms of compatibility, continuing to use Lightning is probably better for the target market of the consumer-level devices. More importantly though, using Lightning lets Apple ensure that any accessories will provide a reasonably good experience since they distribute all the connectors to approved third-parties through the MFi program.
> What's the evidence that women aren't coding because they aren't "interested"?

Every study that actually bothered to ask that question?

1.

For example, there was an ACM study that asked both men and women (most studies do not). To their surprise, they found that women reported greater levels of support from their management than the men did. One of the few things they asked in terms of attitudes where there was a statistically significant difference between men and women was, drumroll, "interest in technology".

And that's for people actually in the profession!

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2008/2/5453-women-and-men-in-...

2.
Then there was the study that looked at why women leave engineering. #1 reason? "Didn't like the work/not interested in engineering". #2 reason was starting a family, #3 was didn't like the environment.

https://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/NSF_Stemming%20the%20Tid...

(Note: look at the actual numbers, not the headlines, because the headlines are very, very selective and do not reflect the actual numbers)

3.
There was a study about high school students taking (or not taking) CS in Israel. They looked at all the factors that are usually trotted out, support, role-models, etc. No difference. The one point that showed a difference: "interest in CS", with the boys taking the class at 100% and the girls at 43%. For kids not taking the class the level of interest was gender-neutrally low. Interestingly, this was reported as "no statistical difference", which is...odd.

(Semanticscholar actually has the table in question, it's table 7 in the gallery)

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Computer-science-issue...

4.
The ROSE project showed that non-interest in science and engineering starts at a very early age. It also shows that interest dropping generally in countries with higher HDI, not just for girls, though for girls it drops even more quickly.

So it's not just the Gender Equality Paradox already mentioned quite a bit here, but also a more general Development vs. interest in STEM issue.

https://roseproject.no/network/countries/norway/eng/nor-Sjob...

And of course there are the more general studies that show that a difference between people vs. things (empathising vs. systematising) is one of the largest and most robust gender differences that has been found (in the same category as the difference in aggression).
My interpretation was that they were using the plaintext password as one of the searchable fields, presumably for development related to authentication.
This isn't really saying that much. It's like saying an orange is similar to a planet because "they're both spheroids." It's true, but it doesn't really tell you much.

In principle, Bitcoin can be used as a medium of exchange, and it can be reasonably liquid. In practice, Bitcoin is largely treated like an abstract, illiquid commodity.
Thanks for your input. I think I have a pretty good idea what a PhD entails (I've been doing basically full-time research at my school for 2 years now), and am going in because I want to learn more about the topic (and also end up doing IMO more interesting work than say purely software development).

I was asking because I heard about the idea of "target schools" and how academic pedigree matters in certain parts of finance (e.g., IB), and wonder if this also applies to more technical positions.

May I ask you what gave you the confidence to say you "would not have a problem getting a quant position"?
The problem I see with it is that Linus doesn't leave any room for someone to disagree with him. Specifically:

> Oh. And sure, when things crash and you fsck and you didn't even get a
clue about what went wrong, you get frustrated. Tough. There are two kinds
of reactions to that: you start being careful, or you start whining about
a kernel debugger.

> Quite frankly, I'd rather weed out the people who don't start being
careful early rather than late. That sounds callous, and by God, it _is_
callous. But it's not the kind of "if you can't stand the heat, get out
the the kitchen" kind of remark that some people take it for. No, it's
something much more deeper: I'd rather not work with people who aren't
careful. It's darwinism in software development.

> It's a cold, callous argument that says that there are two kinds of
people, and I'd rather not work with the second kind. Live with it.

True, he's not using profanity, but his words boil down to "People who introduce a crash and want to use a debugger to find out what's going on are not careful developers. Careful developers would not introduce a crash in the first place. If you cause a crash while developing on the kernel, you are not welcome to develop on the kernel." It's impossible to argue that a debugger would be helpful because Linus will label you as a careless developer.

Eventually he gets around to the actual reason he doesn't like debuggers, but he spent the first 2/3 of the email just belittling people who use debuggers.

> I happen to believe that not having a kernel debugger forces people to
think about their problem on a different level than with a debugger. I
think that without a debugger, you don't get into that mindset where you
know how it behaves, and then you fix it from there. Without a debugger,
you tend to think about problems another way. You want to understand
things on a different _level_.

> And quite frankly, for most of the real problems (as opposed to the stupid
bugs - of which there are many, as the latest crap with "truncate()" has
shown us) a debugger doesn't much help. And the real problems are what I
worry about. The rest is just details. It will get fixed eventually.

Only after the last 1/3 of the email do you have enough information to craft a response to Linus to argue why a debugger would be helpful.
Android tablets are dead. Now there are Chrome OS tablets and 2-in-1s that run Android apps. I've found that I prefer the 2-in-1 form factor and that I reach for it far more often than I ever reached for a tablet.
You cannot really be comparing housing without a kitchen in a large city like San Francisco to selling a person, right?
> Since our founding in 2011, we have experienced rapid growth. For example, our headcount has grown to 1,702 full-time employees as of January 31, 2019,

WOW. That's a lot of people
They have those, and this is a point that is repeatedly made, and debunked, on HN.
If I recall correctly, Google was profitable when it went public.
My wife has been playing this game on her phone for years, and is super sad that they are closing it down. She's probably bought a fair number of "gems" from them too, to beautify her island and trade fruit, I guess.

Some of the comments are funny, in a heartbreaking way. People really invested a lot in this game, emotionally and financially. They are wondering who is going to feed the pets they bought to live on their digital island.

The funniest/saddest thing about it is that, as a last hurrah, the maintainers of the game gave everyone 10 million gems to spend as they see fit in the remaining 2 months that the game is online. On the one hand, the players are kind of pissed off at the belated awareness that the gems they were hoarding were always fundamentally worthless, but on the other hand they want to buy the final superpet or whatever for their island before the volcano blows up.
My main incentive to cut out Google/Microsoft/Facebook products is to save on battery life, it makes a material difference.
Apple's lineup is getting so confusing. The iPad Mini is praised by a lot of Apple enthusiasts but for me it just adds more chaos to their product lineup. Which tablet supports which pen? Can I connect my iPad to my Macbook using the included cables? Do I charge with USB-C or lightning? Does my device support 3D touch? What's the difference between an iPad and an iPad Air? What's the difference between the Macbook and the Macbook Air and why is the Air thicker? Does my Mac have a T2 chip (the new iMacs don't). Can I get my device of choice with 128GB (only the XR, not the XS). There's too much segmentation and I think it's appropriate to ask whether this would've happened under Steve. If I can't keep up with this mess, how do they expect non-tech people to do so?
Pinterest is relevant and generalist enough to be useful to most people, allowing different usecases from a free cloud storage of pictures to a social network.
> As of December 31, 2018, we had 1,797 full-time employees, an increase of 32% compared to December 31, 2017.

Why do you need so many people? A breakdown for each department would be interesting
> I enjoy it much more than the little Node I investigated for work.

I'm another one that prefers putting a bullet on my foot than putting it on my head.
That's why everyone sane avoids giving out their phone numbers to any company except dire necessities, like maybe banks. Use U2F, don't use "google authenticators" or any other pseudo-2FA. No website has any business knowing your phone number.

Bonus: phone number databases are used in online tracking for connecting accounts across many websites to datamine more accurate data and form better profiles. Everyone privacy minded should be aware of this.