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I'm not concerned about fresh talent. When I went to a state school I was worried, I wrote scripts, did some minor html and word press. I considered myself as someone who has 0 experience programming. I did quite well but I did not expect the amount of people who simply are not cut out for programming. In programming 1 and 2 about 50% completed the course. Discrete structure only 15%. Algorithms less than 50%. It was an insane experience and the school is no MIT. People pick CS because they all think they will make $100k straight out of school. They don't care about computers/programming. Someone that is half passionate will have much greater results because they take some pride in their work.

Plus, good problem solvers do not have to program to make money. You can go work for smaller company and help them define processes, improve automation or manage software/system integration.
You forgot to mention that in 2019 you are wearing on your wrist what in 1980 would be considered a super computer and occupying several shelves worth of space.

Edit: Some info that I found online. According to this article from 2015 [1 ]the apple watch is equivalent to two iPhone4s (Not sure I believe that but if true incredible).
Also this quote:

"Meanwhile, the Cray-2 supercomputer from 1985, which is the fastest machine in the world for its time, is now only equal to an iPhone 4."

Another quote :

"The Apple Watch performs about 7 billion FLOPS"

According to wikipedia [2]:

"The Cray-2 released in 1985 was a 4 processor liquid cooled computer totally immersed in a tank of Fluorinert, which bubbled as it operated.[8] It could perform to 1.9 gigaflops and was the world's second fastest supercomputer after M-13"

So assuming that all of the information is correct then it is indeed true that the Apple watch from today is many times more powerful than a super computer from the 1980s.

[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3098315/The-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_supercomputing
Okay, so how does this make any sense?

>"He never donated any money to anything that I know about.”[...]

>Following the 2013 meeting between the two men, Epstein arranged for a $2 million donation from Gates to the MIT Media Lab, according to a report in The New Yorker. A spokesperson for Gates said in a statement provided to the Journal that “any claim that Epstein directed any programmatic or personal grantmaking for Bill Gates is completely false.”

So 5 years after Epstein is officially convicted of soliciting underaged prostitutes Bill Gates pretends as if he doesn't know who Epstein is, and somehow seems clueless of any donations despite having Epstein arrange a 2 million dollar donation, while also being one of the richest and most well connected people on the planet? These people cannot be serious.
> Enrollment managers know there is no shortage of deserving low-income students applying to good colleges.

This may be true for Trinity College, but I don't think this is true overall. Lower-income students are already less likely to graduate from college than others:

> An even larger gap between graduates of low- and high-poverty high schools was documented as well. After six years, only 18 percent of high-poverty high school graduates achieved a four-year degree compared to 52 percent from schools with low poverty rates.

https://collegeforamerica.org/college-completion-low-income-...

There is an interesting and somewhat depressing this American Life episode related to this, https://www.thisamericanlife.org/550/three-miles.
I hope this will be gradually available outside US too.
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In my case it is the opposite, programming has helped improve my overall morale.

I was running a startup, during first few years my programming contribution to our products were very high as I had inexperienced developers. But once they gained experience, my contribution to actual coding got diminished and was limited to architecture and major troubleshooting. That was compromise I had to make as a single founder and executive of the startup.

But in 2018, I had severe health problems and had to undergo life-threatening surgery which has permanently restricted my neck movements severely and had to close my startup.

While I was bed ridden during recovery, I wondered whether I could even get back to computer usage if not programming. Now a year since surgery, I have adapted to restrictions in the neck movement, changed computer display setups to aid it and started programming few months back although my primary profession now is coaching startups.

I recently released the project which I was building past few months[1], which was inline with what I do professionally and being able to build and launch the project after months of uncertainty over whether I will be able to use the computer again has had a positive effect on my morale.

[1]: needgap - 'Submit problems for startups to solve' - https://needgap.com
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Please explain your points instead of off-the-hip vague statements.

I suggest you have a second look at the HN guidelines [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Question that wasn't answered: Should user generated content links, that may or may not be sponsored (suppose the site owner neither knows nor cares), be marked "ugc" or "ugc sponsored" or "ugc nofollow"?
Samsara Founders Now Billionaires Thanks to Startup’s Latest Funding Round
I love making our CRUD not latest and not greatest web app. I get not bad salary and I have great people to work with. No pressure, no assholes.

Some point in time company owners may change, situation may change, but for what it is worth I am riding this wave until it dies and then will see. Not changing that job even for 2x salary.
Can you make a call from your Fitbit?

Considering how fast Apple Watch charges, a 7 day battery life isn’t that compelling considering how much you get from an Apple Watch compared to Fitbit.
Photographer Robert Frank has died
My understanding (which is probably uninformed at best) has been that coal, nuclear, etc are used to cover base load, and basically work best when up and running at 100% all the time.

Natural gas has the advantage that it can be spun up and down pretty quickly, which has meant that it is used primarily for "peak" load, which I think used to be covered a lot of the time by things such as diesel and oil plants and have basically been supplanted at this point by natural gas.

Solar and wind have the trouble that they are unreliable, which means you need something to smooth out demand. This is something coal and nuclear are poor at, meaning if you are bringing solar and wind into the mix on a large scale, natural gas becomes even more appealing since you can spin it up / down to balance capacity.

A thing I don't see mentioned very often is the relative density of each power source. One of the things nuclear and coal have going for them, is that you can supply a lot of electricity in a fairly limited footprint.

Wind and solar a much less dense, meaning you need to cover a much larger area, and you need it to be more distributed rather than all concentrated in one place.

All of this is to say that I think everything is inter-related much more than people realize. Shifting to using more solar / wind creates a pressure to move away from coal / nuclear even without considering the "clean energy" aspect.
We shouldn’t burn the Amazon down, but the amount of effort we should expend in trying to prevent that is absolutely important, and articles like this help shape the assignment of resources.

Fighting climate change requires using limited resources (taxes, labor, public empathy, etc.), squandering them on useless projects (like the plastic straw ban) hurts the overall cause.
Thank you for all the insight. I'll be sure to keep clip-path in mind.
I generally agree with you. But, I think we also need to constantly evaluate our view about the current way we do things.
For example, in 2012-2013 time frame, I was involved in a project dealing with an insane amount of data. I studied Hadoop in the spare time
and applied what I learned at work. I felt grateful that it helped with the scale and performance tremendously. Fast forward to 2016, I was just starting to
learn more about Spark (even though it was available for a while by then) to replace the slow execution model of Hadoop MapRed for our iterative model. Again, applying what I learned to the project helped us to cut the
R & D time a lot. Plus, for most of the folks who start with Spark, they don't have the first hand experience of the original MR idea implemented in Hadoop. It is a pain and
slow to use Hadoop MR model but nevertheless it makes you feel more appreciated with things like Spark/Flink.

To sum it up: you don't need to constantly chase after the greatest & latest framework. But, you need to constantly review new inventions/technologies to help you improve
the way you currently do things. I am grateful for still having the passion to improve things around me!
Well, or it's because a black cab is often nearby and can be easily flagged on the street, whereas Ubers are technically illegal (or did that get fixed) and cannot be spotted on the street.

The Knowledge is archaic. It exists only because regulation is ossifying and because existing black cab drivers feel "I had to do it, so should they". It's literally hardly changed since the 1800s and doesn't even cover all of London, just a six mile radius from Charing Cross.

Google Maps can do it better, more reliably and faster than any person, without the massive costs and overheads involved in the entire licensing and examination regime required. The amount of labour hours required for these cabbies to memorise the layout of central London alone is a staggering cost and there's no reason for it.
Apple Music is a disaster when it comes to music discovery, and frankly their app is very much behind compared to Spotify. Even on iOS it feels like a web app, something I didn’t think I’d ever say about Apple’s own, built-in app.
> working on an algorithmic trading bot right now.

Any suggestions on how to approach building algorithmic trading bots?
Ask HN: When will text-to-speech replace narrators
When do you think text-to-speech technology will become good enough that human narrators will be replaced by software? Narration is big business nowadays (audiobooks for example) but for how long?
Wow, 3% back on AWS is definitely nice!
> There's a group in Germany (I think) that proposed attempting to qualify Rust to get it approved for inclusion in the list of 61508 languages, but that proposal did not seem to be met with much enthusiasm.

https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/sealed-rust-the-pitch/

There's still a lot of interest; this stuff doesn't happen quickly.
Is there a way to invert (or even just disable) the y-axis?
Programming is the single thing I'm capable of that has allowed me to provide an upper middle class lifestyle for my family. I will keep doing it for as long as it serves the function. I don't require any other motivation.
What you're missing is drivers are specifically not told the value of a ride before accepting it.

You often find out after you've driven 5-15 minutes to a pickup that you're about to spend 10-20 minutes in traffic and of the $9 they're paying you're only getting $3.75.

The bad rides are essentially bundled with the good.
Interesting, but it doesn't quite pass the 'easily' test.

:-)
Well in this case you don't have to wonder what it means because they say exactly how long—18-hours.

Also, nobody says "open all day" in retail because retailers would be more explicit about the fact that they are open at night, thus you have 24 hour convenience stores, not "all day".
Same here, I'm having difficulties getting it to work on both.
Expert predicts 25% of colleges will fail in the next 20 years
Wow, I feel lucky now! My watch (Series 0) will last about 16 hours, 15 hours if I do a heart tracking working.

It's been worn every day (and charged every night) since it was purchased.
Plus, a full year of it is given away with new hardware.
For me, I haven't worked in an organization where I would be rewarded in any concrete way if the business achieved it's goals. (0 equity, pay based on market forces more than effort) So I don't particularly care about business goals in any real sense as they don't appear to align very well with my personal goals. Honestly I just do whatever looks best on a resume at this point.
This could be very, very bad, if it does in fact start to happen with any regularity.

If you have a bunch of colleges go out of business you suddenly have a scenario where degrees from those institutions are either potentially seen as invalid as they can't be verified and/or you have degree mills going "Nnnnnoiiiicccceeee, you want a college degree? Pick from one of these hundred colleges and we will send you aged printed transcripts and a perfect replica of their diploma" and then you suddenly have tens of thousands, or millions, of people with degrees that are fake but can't be proven to be.

Many employers would probably just refuse to acknowledge degrees from those institutions or at least considerably discount their value compared to an applicant that has a degree from a university that hasn't shuttered. Worse, you'd have people still paying for loans for degrees that can't be verified.
Awesome, love to see great work from my alma mater!
True, it can be stored in salt for example, as it currently is in multiple operational concentrated solar plants. Some have the ability to maintain output during the entire night.
When JFK was trying to get into college he wrote that he wanted the status of having attended Harvard. Their blessing combined with the networking of knowing other people with that blessing may be the most important component of "education." Youre paying for who you grow to know.

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/11/jfks-v...
Big Tech yes, but there are smaller companies who have an insanely hard time finding well rounded full stack engineers.
Is it really inconceivable that they didn't know that he was there, or that they did not recognize him, or that they were unaware of his criminal record?
I always picture the "variously attributed" as some kindly old gent, like Ralph Bellamy in Trading Places, whom, after telling some outraged protestor this bit of wisdom heads back into the private club, to the innermost sanctum where the other conspirators sit around a long table, grabs up a golden goblet brimming with what is hopefully wine, and announces cheerfully "Gentlemen, to Evil!"
This is a strawman. Disenfranchised communities don't have a choice to go to a trade school either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_of_poverty
I think you're looking for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20931042
Am thinking about picking one of these up for my daughter, 32GB seems a bit stingy though, will that be enough for apps and games?
Temporary containers with Firefox.
Every sane person would assume that but because they were unable to meet the "all-day" target, they kept it as a marketing phrase and added the actual life time.
> big tech becoming more powerful than Nations on the global scenario

Can you explain further? I guess the "on a global scenario" hedge is to note that in any local context they're less powerful than even the smallest of local governments -- they can't fine or tax anyone, after all. They can't pass laws like all nations can, they can't use force like all nations can, etc.

But maybe you mean something else by "power"? Like they have more popular websites or something?
I have the AW 4. I keep it on from wake, through my workout, and throughout the day until I go to bed then I just take it off and toss it on my charger.

I use it to roughly track calorie burn and movement throughout the day so I like to keep it on as much as possible. I don't track my sleep metrics except for time.

It goes on the charger when I go to bed at the same time, and right beside my phone. It works. The most tedious thing I do is change the band from my leather one to silicon that I wear during my time at the gym.
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Since when has ease of charging stopped Apple? I'd have expected it to only be compatible with the second-gen Pencil, along with an announcement of an optional Pencil charger.

NOTE: I'm 95% joking about this. It does seem like a missed opportunity for them to sell a second gen Pencil charger if it's the only way to use it with a non-iPad Pro though.
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Not sure that would ever happen - the watch is often just a thin client for the iPhone so they’d have to port the majority of iOS to Android if they wanted to do that.
Current owner of the messenger has always had open door policy for russian law enforcement organizations, so any changes since 2010 couldn't be counted as secure.

edit: Also, the recently published analysis of the data on available in-the-wild (authentication isn't supported! firewall rules were deleted due to requests for it of the end users! some of the data is on shodan.io!!!) mandatory for ISPs traffic tampers made "to help russian police with investigations" showed that it has client's IP - ICQ UIN mapping.
When I was a kid and my Uncle described Amazon as a 'new virtual bookstore,' this is almost exactly what I pictured. Very cool.
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Focus on your impact, the 'true' value you're providing the world.

This is difficult considering what most SE's work entails (i.e. advertising, addictive feedback loop design etc.).

Choose your work with strong philosophical underpinning. Else you'll end up in existential crisis.
The other remaining question I have is if they are going to release the shows using the Netflix model (dump all at once) or follow Amazon/Hulu and do weekly releases. My guess is the latter. The $4.99 price point is great but it also signals to me that they know they don't have a huge library as a draw. So releasing shows week by week will also be a better strategy than just dumping all episodes at once. Otherwise people could watch everything using the free trial and then cancel the subscription.
I have three tactics that I think primarily contribute to staying interested in projects (in or out of work), even if I find them somewhat dull or unnecessarily laborious:

1. Find a good space of the day when your brain is optimally productive and lock into a tasklist that you've preplanned. For example, I will often create a tasklist in the evening for what I want to achieve the next day, then hit it hard in the morning as that's when my enthusiasm and focus is best.

2. For any given project find an interesting approach to the solutions you need to provide. I won't take a run-of-the-mill approach to solving things (unless it's a quick win or mostly appropriate to do so) but will use solutions as a platform to approach things in a new way, with a new technology or just by improving what already exists.

3. Exercise: the reason I find the morning my most productive time of day is because I cycle to work every day, I think. If I have too much sedantary time in front of the computer it does my head in, but even a quick walk around the building will let my mind work on itself to meet the other two points I mention. If you're frustrated at your desk, you're already losing.

Hope that helps! :-)
I'd recommend companies that have a comfortable environment and that are not overly profit focussed but also do something that you consider useful. I'd definitely also consider going with something that might not offer the highest salary/chances of getting rich.

Chances are that the technology you use might also be useful for side projects. Also not working in a high pressure environment might enable you to work on interesting things and leave some space for creativity at home.

The times I felt the most burned out at work where actually also those where I took the job most seriously. That's very much the experience I have now from working over 10 years at various companies. Hope this helps ;)
I may be wrong, but I think that it's completely encrypted and that Apple couldn't even access it without your password.

I can't say I'm a huge fan of being locked into the ecosystem, however I am relieved to hear that my privacy is actually cared for.
I would be wary of having a government agency decide the certification criteria for some subjects, especially for subjective areas like history. Who gets to decide which interpretation of history is correct?
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In this thread, and across the press, there's this ridiculous guilt by association epidemic going around.

So now, if I met Epstein one time at MIT, without knowing his crimes, I'm a pedophile too?

What exactly is Gates being accused of here? Just come out and say it? You guys want him to be a pedophile too so you can tear him down? Gates has done so much good for the world.

If Gates is found to have done something wrong, I'll be the first to call him a scumbag.

Till then, stop hating on him.
What might be the concrete use cases of C integration? ML?

I'd rather have integrated support for Wifi access (and Bluetooth), for Arduino-style Iot. Things never quite work as intended (even within an Android version).
Very little initial content explains the low price. Good idea for the free trial will boost initial launch numbers.
Family is who you love.
Is there even an Android tablet market anymore? (Excluding Kindle Fire)
I'm betting the question was something akin to "Why do you prefer vaping over smoking traditional cigarettes?" or "Do you prefer flavored smoking products over unflavored?"

While the argument does have some minor merits, I'm personally against removing flavors from smoking products.
>I understand why you would be misinformed though, because the articles on the subject have been very reactionary and exaggerated in order to stir up media frenzy and drive views and clicks.

It would have been great if we could have had this conversation without going there. One could easily say the same about some of your claims regarding the Vitamin E only being found in black market samples, and only in the midwest. Also, what is defined as a "legitimate" producer? Do you think every company out there that has a product in a supermarket follows every single law and regulation on the books?
Probably at least part of it is that, at least the Garmin Fenix watches are pretty big. The newly-announced Fenix 6 apparently slims down a bit but they're still basically big hunks on your wrist. Personally I don't really mind but big difference from an Apple Watch.

Also, I haven't looked recently because I ultimately found my Fenix 5 wholly unsatisfactory for hiking distance tracking with GPS but the watch with GPS only lasted for about a day. (Which is what I basically care about for a smart watch.)
> I do the odd consulting gig if you're a small company who has a few technical problems and want to pay to fix them ASAP.

I've thought about this before, and imagine I could encounter some pretty interesting problems as well as collect some pretty valuable experience, but I just doubt companies acknowledge or care about a lot of tech issues. Particularly if they shakes up established processes
> You don’t have as much free will as you think you do on these matters.

So your answer is having Nanny Government ban it?

Can't worry about free will if you don't have it, I suppose.
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I love my Series 3 Apple Watch, with a data plan.

I now usually leave my iPhone at home. I am trying to follow a digital minimalism program, following slow media ideas, and using digital devices for highly productive activities, not to waste time.

I find AirPods work really well with my Apple Watch, no iPhone lifestyle.