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[I've revised this comment several times now, but I don't actually know where we disagree. I'm just leaving it as is for now.]

> Gregory Clark has an awesome book on this, The Son Also Rises.

I haven't read Clark's book personally. But a passage via SSC [1] (a link which I cited for you to follow and actually read):

> efforts to democratise education and eliminate discrimination over the past century appear to have had no discernible effect on mobility

which is, uh, sort of better relates to the toppish-level discussion.

SSC cited how Georgia raffled off the land they stole from the Cherokee. The white lotto-winning descendants weren't appreciably better off. This exemplifies how dynastic wealth can diminish because of a lack of some intangible value (work ethic? genes?), which incidentally Gen Y may not have inherited from Gen X and the Baby Boomers. I.e. I see no issues with my theory so far.

Also your Socrates quote is off point. The Greeks had this notion that civilization had descended from a Golden Age to a Silver Age, and from there a Bronze Age. They also believed civilization would continue to decline linearly. This is obviously silly since the Western World's economy has appreciated a wazzilion fold since the Renaissance. But the point of the Chinese Proverb was more consistent with the "Mandate of Heaven/Dynastic Cycle" meme. I.e. dynastic wealth ebbs and flows like a business cycle. This idea is incompatible with neither dynastic long-term growth nor societal long-term growth.

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/26/compound-interest-is-th...
If Healthkit actually aspires to be just one more silo, you can stop right there and say it's already part of the problem.

You remember the scenario the author sketches out - a critical care patient arrives and you're handed a packet and given a verbal description. Now someone is saying some more crucial information is just lurking on the patient's iPhone? Yeah, either you waste crucial minutes finding that or that info is lost (most likely). Thanks Apple.
Healthkit fails to solve problems it was not intended to solve. Fixing health records is a political problem more than a technical problem.
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The Guild are people who choose their tools based on what fits the problem, not based on what they happen to be good at.

It's got nothing to do with a particular list of languages. I think.
I think this is Apple's play into medical devices without having to go through the expensive process of starting through the FDA or messing with these backwards EHR companies. They start consumer and then physical trainers start using iPads and iPhones because they work well for consumers devices. Work up to doctors that pressure the FDA into relaxing regulations to allow them to use Apple devices. The exact same thing happened recently in the airline industry. Apple wins consumer confidence then customized expensive medical apps follow that run on that same hardware. And Apple takes a 30% cut of those sales without having to certify any software, throws the responsibility to the app devs.
Interestingly it seems http://✪df.ws isn't actually valid, even though it exists. ✪ isn't a letter[1], so it isn't allowed in international domain names. I was looking at the latest RFC from 2010 [2] so maybe it was allowed before that. The owner talks about all the compatibility trouble he had after he registered it [3]. The registrar that he used for it, Dynadot, won't let me register any name with that character, nor will Namecheap.

[1] http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/272a/index.htm

[2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5892

[3] http://daringfireball.net/2010/09/starstruck
You're not wrong. But then they seem to be sending the accounts to collections.
Nmtba, but to what extent is this entertaining generalization true?
I haven't read all the comments, so I'm sorry if this has been suggested before.

1. Check out this book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004IYISQW/ref=oh_d__o00_de... In a nutshell it talks about how you should not sell custom services, but instead build and document a repeatable process that can be executed without you.

2.Be picky with your clients. It's very tempting to take on as many clients as possible. However, some clients are inherently worth more: They are easier to deal with (no support needed), they pay more, or they are repeat business. Focus on these clients and get rid of the others.

Hope that helps. Good luck.
I remember hearing Jordan Palmer (Carson Palmer's little brother) talk about this on Hard Knocks a few years ago.
In really urban areas, different theaters do attract distinctive clienteles. However, out in the 'burbs where most people live (and definitely in South Dakota), it's true that theaters basically just catch everyone nearby.
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As a 20-something developer, I appreciate and agree with your insights.

Also, I give you credit for responding in a mature way to some of the overly harsh responses to your comment. I guess that some level of gruffness comes with the territory of HN's matter-of-fact debate culture.
Disgusting title! An exhibit to why the program is needed. It is not for getting girls excited, it is for getting idiots like the reporter (Jordan Crook) understand that coding is not a men's thing.
Perhaps because the author of OP was flamed in the comments for using the male identity.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7929436
Man, what about Clojure, Scala, Go, Node.js, Hadoop and Spark? I wanted to join the elite group and screw those JS/PHP monkeys (JS in the backend with Node callbacks are honorary elite members), so I invested so much time learning those - only to understand C is the only l33t!

To tell you a secret, C is too hard for me because all of the system programming, de-referencing pointers make my head spin. Their threading, socket multiplexing I usually can't understand until Node.js or Scala introduces something similar to it and boils it down for me. Bah, seg-fault again!

Well, I hope someone makes a Codeacademy or Railcast for C very soon for a plebe like me. But only give select invitations as not to dilute the membership, I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me.
Advertising creates a disincentive for trying unknown products. Combine this with brand loyalty from good PR, and you keep control of your market share.

This is well illustrated with Ironbru in Scotland. Lucozade and Tango in the UK in general. The introduction of Fanta into the North American market too, I knew it from the UK and one of the last flavours introduced was actually Fanta Orange (the most popular one in the UK, direct rival with Tango) due to the saturated market for that type of drink.
Thanks -- unintentional typo. I don't think I have the power to change the title after posting.
Amazon's new phone
This entire rant begins with the premise that the spec matches the real world implementation. Given that one of your examples is "what an email address is", I submit that expecting reality and the spec to match is a beautiful dream, from which a developer should awaken before trying to implement such a scheme.
Torch is an amazing project and has been a great inspiration for my leap in to deep learning. I wish the maintainers the best of luck. It's ambitious to write a deep learning lib. That being said, you guys are doing a great job.

The comparison helps quite a bit. Mind if I lift this for our site? I'd link back to this thread as well.

Thanks!
I'd love to hear your critiques of the computation section. I read this paper basically yearly.
Shouldn't even a somewhat small proportion of customers hitting them with chargebacks cause them to lose their merchant account fairly quickly? Is there some way around that, or does it just not work the way I think?
So crazy in fact, that it took until 2012 to emulate all of them correctly.

https://archive.today/evDty

Byuu, if you're reading this could you please put your old articles back up?
What an annoying article.

You know what the great engineers that I know have in common? They're great at engineering. Once you start looking at other qualities, they are pretty diverse. Some have families, others are single. Some play trading card games, others write musicals. Some wear ironic T-shirts, others dress "up" (not exclusive of course). Some fly planes, others ride bikes. Some are straight white dudes with kids, others are transgender people in polyamorous relationships.

You know what else is interesting? They come from everywhere, and every one of them had a first gig somewhere, where nobody realised how brilliant they were (with some rare exceptions).

Great people are all around you. Don't limit yourself by falling for the caricature.
@bdcravens posted this 2-year-old link (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3922579), referencing the same post. Read the whole thread -- lots of interesting comments from all kinds of perspectives.

A question for the community, based on this comment:

hkarthik 780 days ago | link (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3923997)

I've been speaking to a few of the more established startups in the Bay Area that built apps on Rails and have started migrating the performance hotspots to the JVM. There's definitely a pattern I've seen.

1) First version of the app is built in Ruby, Python, or PHP and the lightweight stack helps the business stay nimble as it finds its market position/niche. During this time, there are a LOT of inexperienced, younger engineers working on the code.

2) Once the right market position is found, the app takes off and scaling problems abound as the lightweight stack starts to fall down at massive scale.

3) Funding is secured and more experienced, older talent (the Guild) is brought in (at much higher salaries) to help fix the hot spots. This is usually done using a combination of using the JVM or unmanaged C/C++. The engineering demographic often switches here as you see a lot of 30-something veterans from Yahoo, Google, etc come in and bring their tools with them.

4) Scaling isn't an issue anymore, but the culture has changed a bit as the business has become more established. Many of the early folks have moved on or gone into leadership roles. A few have been absorbed into the Guild and will move on.

It's very interesting. I've worked mostly in the midwest and the South during my career, and this lifecycle of talent is not something I've really observed outside of the Valley.

Why wouldn't this be something that takes place outside of the Bay Area?
There are many women involved in Girls Who Code who are programmers. If you go to the site, www.madewithcode.com, the women highlighted are engineers.

Moreover, no one here is telling anyone that they need to code.
Simple argumentation often elicits a complex response when the issue itself is complex, as simple arguments can miss important elements of the issue.

The difference here is regarding whether private property is considered a political institution (as you're considering it) or more a natural social institution (like language). This is also the essential difference between right anarchism and left anarchism.

The right of a starving person to food produced by others is relevant to determining whether wage labour is free or 'coerced'. If they have no right to food produced by others, then modern society isn't forcing them to have any less food than they otherwise would, hence I would argue that it's not accurate to say society is 'coercing' them. In the sense that coercion is defined as threatening to make someone's life worse off if they don't do what you want them to (which is the definition I was using).

Here's a thought experiment to identify libertarian/right anarchist morality. Imagine you're walking in a park, and see Rich Uncle Bob, who has just invented a cure for eugitis, walking along carrying sacks of the cure. You also see Poorman Joe lying on the ground nearby, soon to die of eugitis. You have a weapon. Assuming it was legally allowed and you were guaranteed success, would you threaten Rich Uncle Bob with the weapon to make him give some of the cure to Poorman Joe, saving Joe's life? People with personal moral philosophies that are more pro-property would generally say no. Now change Poorman Joe to one's sick spouse/child/parent. Generally only libertarians or market anarchists would still answer no in this case. I think that scenario acts as a microcosm for the general differences in moral beliefs between pro- and anti- market types.
One thing that isn't really supported yet :-(
We have support for doing complex FFTs etc. in the signal package, but otherwise, it is non-existent.
Seems like a fine design, but doesn't it require a lot of space? It looks like you would have to widen existing roads by at least 10 ft or so, which wouldn't be practical for a lot of roads in the city.
Um...you're in an abusive relationship and probably need to get out.
You willingly signed up for the charge, then you canceled (or at least made a reasonable effort to inform them that you wish to cancel), and any charges beyond that point are fraudulent. "Fraud" isn't just "someone stole my card". "The merchant charged me when they shouldn't have" qualifies just fine.
>"The first time they read 'Nintendo' we got it to return 'Argonaut', so that was what dropped down the screen. On the second check, our resistor and capacitor powered up so the correct word 'Nintendo' was in there, and the game booted up perfectly."

This is a really good example of a TOCTOU [1] attack.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_of_check_to_time_of_use
I don't understand the focus on making women want to code. Maybe women just like different career choices then men. Does it really make sense to spend $50M on marketing to convince women to code?
This is more or less how they do it all over Germany. Parked cars next to traffic buffering bikes and then peds all the way on the inside. Much safer and more sensible design. The key word being design, not hacked on after thought that reduces the number of lanes for traffic.
The fact that nitric acid is a strong, very corrosive acid (pKₐ of about -1.3) is not exactly esoteric; a high school student taking A.P Chemistry understands that.

The story about nitric acid reminds me of my favorite quote by Ira Remsen about the value of experiments in a laboratory:

❝While reading a textbook of chemistry I came upon the statement, "nitric acid acts upon copper." I was getting tired of reading such absurd stuff and I was determined to see what this meant. Copper was more or less familiar to me, for copper cents were then in use. I had seen a bottle marked nitric acid on a table in the doctor's office where I was then "doing time." I did not know its peculiarities, but the spirit of adventure was upon me. Having nitric acid and copper, I had only to learn what the words "act upon" meant. The statement "nitric acid acts upon copper" would be something more than mere words. All was still. In the interest of knowledge I was even willing to sacrifice one of the few copper cents then in my possession. I put one of them on the table, opened the bottle marked nitric acid, poured some of the liquid on the copper and prepared to make an observation. But what was this wonderful thing which I beheld? The cent was already changed and it was no small change either. A green-blue liquid foamed and fumed over the cent and over the table. The air in the neighborhood of the performance became colored dark red. A great colored cloud arose. This was disagreeable and suffocating. How should I stop this? I tried to get rid of the objectionable mess by picking it up and throwing it out of the window. I learned another fact. Nitric acid not only acts upon copper, but it acts upon fingers. The pain led to another unpremeditated experiment. I drew my fingers across my trousers and another fact was discovered. Nitric acid acts upon trousers. Taking everything into consideration, that was the most impressive experiment and relatively probably the most costly experiment I have ever performed. . . . It was a revelation to me. It resulted in a desire on my part to learn more about that remarkable kind of action. Plainly, the only way to learn about it was to see its results, to experiment, to work in a laboratory.❞
Note that the free annual credit report is a real thing, government mandated, but of course the agencies don't advertise it. Instead, they advertise stuff that sounds like it, but is a ripoff.

Visit annualcreditreport.com for the real thing. They might still try to upsell you, but if you can resist that, it's legitimate.
> Why wouldn't this be something that takes place outside of the Bay Area?

As someone who's worked both inside and outside the Bay Area - because startups on the outside can't afford to do step 3. Or don't dare to. They keep patching things up, applying duct tape upon gaffer tape solutions ad infinitum.

In a lot of cases they also just never reach the scale where doing this would make sense.
You'd only have to filter out xn--, though.
Excuse me while I wax melodramatically rhetorical.

Dear CanILeavePlease,

Congratulations are in order. You have crossed a threshold that you will most likely not understand the full importance of until much later in your life. That threshold is named "Your limits". Crossing this threshold is a privilege reserved for only those worthy of learning and growing.

The long and short of it is this: The world seems to love throwing more work at competent and resourceful people. The problem is that the world is full of work and so the competent and resourceful typically fill up very quickly to the point of overflow and explosion.

You write about freedom. The lesson that you will learn is that freedom starts with saying "no". Once you start saying no you will immediately start to feel the freedom enter your body. It's very surprising how great it feels.

Lets imagine that tomorrow a client calls for a status update on their project and they ask you if it will be done on time? Tell them "No. The project will not be done on time." and see what happens. I can almost guarantee you that you will feel great for the following hours. You won't feel good because someone else didn't get what they wanted. You'll feel good because you were able to tell someone else the truth. Bonus points: if the client is reasonable they will respect you more than before because they now know they can trust you. Afraid your friends and employees won't like to hear it? Bullshit. Start saying "no" and you'll become leader that your friends and employees really need and can respect.

It's true that some people expect the entire universe to never say no to them. The good news is that those people aren't worth having in your life. When one exposes themselves by trying to make you feel guilty you can be please that now you know it and can disassociate yourself. This works in reverse as well: You can choose to associate with people that have the proper respect for your boundaries.

I've been there. I quit my job and started freelancing. Not even 3 months later I'm triple booked and sleeping 3 hours a night. One morning I cracked and my wife found me in the living room beside myself rocking back and forth, visibly shaking. Later on that day I had to make some of the most difficult decisions of my life. Guess what? Once I made the tough calls the liberation began.

As you have probably figured out already, working 14 hours a day is not the answer. Making better decisions is.

Best regards,
Eric
Thanks for the feedback. Probably has to do with the poor filtering mechanic i added minutes prior to the game. I'll take a look at it!
Stop ruining my fantasy!
I am interested, how do i sign up?
According to the article, are they then engineers or tradesmen?
It's perfectly sensible for a trial to simply expire and stop rather than starting to charge you without any further intervention. Plenty of trials work that way.

If the salesman told him that's how it worked, and it wasn't how it worked, I think that qualifies as a "scam".
Thanks for the feedback. Good call on the FIFA trademarks.
Certainly he's targeting a not-exactly-right stereotype that he'd like to be true and there isnt really such a strong web of invisible geniuses that all know each other.

That said there's some truth in it.

For starters most real C coders do in fact know all other languages. your typical python coder (cause yeah, PHP is kinda dead) can't do that. he can't fix the server software thats in C either.

Generally, he writes a new server in python, and its magically slower and problematic. Wrong tool.

Go and such languages might make this gap a little narrower tho.
It's been recreated/ported recently to iOS and I think they did a great job: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mule-returns/id629126149
I've been trying to write a comment essentially just like this one, unsuccessfully; thanks for putting it so clearly. I can't think of anyone that fits the stereotype listed in the article, and I've met many downright astounding hackers; the trait they share is curiosity, above all else. This means that they're about the furthest thing from the 1-dimensional stereotype in the article -- they play music, build cars, hack game consoles, write novels, fly planes, and are generally just complex individuals. Boiling them down to a bullet point list of generalizations is just silly.
This totally makes sense unless you actually think about it. Then it's just shit.
Oh yeah im sure thats why. News are serious business with good information.
From a cyclist's perspective, intersections are basically death traps, where right-turning drivers threaten collisions at any moment.

A bike can travel on the right near an intersection only when it's passing traffic that is completely stopped. If traffic is moving at all, you shouldn't be on the right, you should be in the lane. If you still want to pass, pass on the left, although if there's only a single lane of traffic in each direction you should probably just ride in the lane and wait to pass until after the intersection.

I appreciate attempts to solve real problems like this, but I doubt this design will be an improvement. The most dangerous thing a cyclist can do at an intersection is blast off the sidewalk into the crosswalk. Such a cyclist is more dangerous than properly-crossing cyclists, because from motorists' perspectives he appears out of nowhere instead of simply continuing to travel in the street. He is more dangerous than pedestrians, because he's moving much faster. This new design appears to force all cyclists into that situation: traveling quickly and appearing, to motorists, out of nowhere.

Another problem with this design is it prevents large trucks from turning right.
Google seems to think so. IIRC, 20% of their software engineering staff are women. This is probably because 20% of the software engineers in America are women. If google could help push that number up to near parity, then they will have hundreds of thousands of new potential applicants to help create skynet 2.0.
*Mostly because LuaJIT is awesome (with it's quirks)

Could you give some example of its quirks?
Thankfully a lot of bother care about insanities. They are in the grid of thinking, good people.
The whole free software movement is a an evidence that a lot of people care about insanities. RMS is the founder and forerunner of this impressive socio political movement.
Are they programmers or engineers then?
What's wrong with 'rouge'?
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