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Looks like 'view source' reveals the true motivation, commented out ;-)

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A large office, good pay, and very little work.
Frequent expense-account trips to exotic lands would be a plus.-->
It's a pretty solid resume, but I've seen a dozen better ones that don't belong to billionaires... Unless...

Sorry, gotta update my LinkedIn.
All of those reasons and really, no power outages anymore ever. Unless the grid is down for a long time, days, weeks you could be uninterrupted.

In the future it will probably seem ancient to not have this, and laughed at that we had power outages or rolling blackouts.

It would probably be great in the developing world and off the grid. It could enable housing to be away from the grid if the solar was good enough or even networks of battery grids and many other uses we cannot imagine yet.
If the OP had any official duties or responsibilities while enrolled in his program, then he can always list his PhD studies as a four year "teaching and research assistant" position or whatever.
This is a very long writeup however, worthy to read and goosebumps along the way are guaranteed.
Yeah, but its better quality than something like /r/datascience
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Check out VersatilePhD (http://www.versatilephd.com). It's been a great help to me (ABD in Comparative Literature).
Who pays for the manufacturing of these cars?
In a couple of years, there will be no need to own a car for most people. Lots of car-manufacturers have already started to build out the infrastructure for "cars on demand" (e.g. drive now, car2go). In Berlin, there is already always a car within a 5 min walk from my apartment.

Once driverless cars are here, people will just request a car Uber-style and it'll be wherever they are within a minute in any metro area.

It'll be cheaper to not own a car, and it'll be a lot less hassle than owning one (as it probably is today if you're taking Uber instead of having a car).

One will of course use mobile devices inside the car, as we do now as passengers... and Apple makes enough money with that.
This is an interesting idea, probably ahead of its time. I can't help but think of this quote: "Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
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This, combined with driving through a few walls and parks seemed to speed up my commute considerably.
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No, your education does not.

The real reason you see many PhDs fail to get private sector jobs is that they're expecting to be compensated for that PhD. But from the perspective of a hiring manager they're really just a recent grad with a superiority complex.

If you are willing to accept that your PhD does not catapult you into being a senior developer (particularly for startups), then you shouldn't have any trouble finding a job, assuming you are in fact a good developer (unlike many PhDs).

Also, if you're in dire straits, I recommend picking up a contracting gig. It's a great way to tide you over without rushing into the first job offered.

If you'd like to work in NYC, or want to try your hand at contracting, just write to me: morgante@cafe.com.
Ask HN: A computer for children?
I'm the proud parent of two children whom I'd like to introduce to computing at a young age.

The thing is I don't want them to be passive media consumers; they've had next to zero screen time so far (eldest is three, youngest has just turned one) and I'd like to keep it that way w.r.t. entertainment media (i.e. not the awful "four year old parked infront of YouTube for an entire day" model).

So I'd like to build them a rig that encourages experimentation and deep learning, and which can be extended later to include interesting projects like robotics. Ideally something close to a modern version of my own childhood experience, which was a microcomputer ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC#CPC464 ) that when powered on quickly dropped into a (BASIC) REPL that gave instant feedback.

I was thinking of building a setup with the following:

- A decent mechanical keyboard. I currently use a Unicomp with an integrated trackball, and my three year old already enjoys 'typing' on that, and it's handily indestructible. http://www.pckeyboard.com/page/UKBD/UB404LA

- A Raspberry Pi 2. I've used an original Raspberry Pi for a few projects now (most recently controlling a DSLR for time-lapse photography) and I love the thing. It's close to the old micros in spirit: plug in, power on, and it's running. http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-2-on-sale/

- An LCD monitor. I was thinking a matte-finish 24" or larger, high-res with HDMI. Nothing out of the ordinary there.

The real question surrounds software. After attending RubyConf and seeing a Sonic Pi ( http://sonic-pi.net/ ) demo I'm definitely keen on that, but otherwise I'd really appreciate some guidance. What software would people recommend to get children interested in computing, and also impart good skills?

Back in the olden days I'd have gone straight to LOGO and a turtle robot.
Sisi is Egypt's president, so there's nothing wrong here.
It might be fun to do something like this with Chinese characters - similarly compact, but less visually noisy, more obvious to a Chinese or Japanese speaker, and more expressive due to having many more characters to serve as variable names.

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I took an easy corporate job with middle to low salary, and the equity bonus I get is whatever I manage to create with my saved time and energy. Anyone else chose this path?
I don't think it's that bad. It sounds like you could counter that perception of yourself by simply giving future employers a link to your Github profile.

If you don't have one, make one!
There are a number of reasons to "suffer" and suffering shouldn't be cast out as unethical because we don't like it in the current context.

Please do provide some reasons why raping a day-old newborn infant wouldn't be considered unethical.
me goes facepalm
Heroku can be expensive. You're looking at $240/yr just for SSL (vs. $0 - $30/yr for non-wildcard SSL). For a 1GB VPS, a dyno costs ~3x as much as Digital Ocean.

For protection from cyber crime, you might be better off paying an insurance company than Heroku prices.
Yes, it should be able to not only Read but Write data.
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I suppose it would be, if you had reason to believe there was a sufficient likelihood of a sufficiently negative outcome. It's probably not a concern for anyone reading this, though.
That's pretty awesome. Would be cool if you could upload a google tracks file and have it show you're route with the car.
Such blasphemy!
Cities in Evolution by Patrick Geddes has some overlap (it's quite ideological though). It's archived as well: https://archive.org/details/citiesinevolutio00gedduoft
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Spot on. The article disregards that you really need a log of activity to check against with reset requests.

Should I allow an abusive user to send 37 reset codes in 15 minutes to an email address they don't own (or even if they do own it)? Absolutely not. How else do you keep track of that activity without storing it in a database of some sort to check against?
Most people won't need a car most of the time. Except for when they do. When they do we car owners will subsidize them. Want to go hiking out of the city? Oh can you drive? I don't have a car. Sure thing friend. Sure thing.
> How about an ownerless ...

Are you intentionally changing the subject, or do you equate self ownership to "ownerless"? Or is it that you are skipping ahead logically because you don't recognize a non-human entity as being capable of self ownership? If that is the case, that is the more important issue that needs to be discussed.
Rotate the map, rather than the car. With OpenGL in the browser, you can get the graphics card to do it.
> "Für sechs Groschen, Fritz, ist's heute genug"

I'm puzzled over the statement that this is supposedly hard to translate. Both translations offered miss the important distinction of tying the soldiers pay to their willingness to go above and beyond. Let me make an attempt:

> "That's quite enough for six dimes, today, Fritz."

That being said: I'm not sure it's smart to insist on binding your passion only to the money you make from its product. For things like being a soldier, that may be more true than other professions, but there are very few challenges that can only ever be compensated monetarily.

I know it's a common exploitation trope to tell people to not think about the money too much and instead appreciate the experience. However, a lot of people are so focused on never being even slightly exploited in that way that they do miss out on all the potential experiences - sometimes precisely the kind of experiences that would put them in a position where they could be on the better end of that equation.
Years later and I still haven't seen decent and working LaTeX to HTML converter.
This is definitely true at NASA. A PhD is tremendously helpful there. You will almost certainly be making a higher starting wage than someone with just a BS or MS, and you have many opportunities for advancement as a PI down the road. They are often looking for people with programming skills.
No, I'm trying to protect against somebody grabbing my laptop off the table and scraping the hard drive for suspended VM RAM contents from last month.
I'm watching Bloomberg.com. With their recent redesign, its front page headlines have also become a lot more Buzzfeed-like.

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The most obvious reason why Apple won't buy Tesla for $75 billion is that it's an absurd valuation in excess on a stock that's incredibly overvalued.
Logging things in a relational database for the purpose of catching suspicious behavior is a bad idea.

You also don't need to mark reset requests as used, if the generated token was composed of the user's old hashed password or email, as that token will be invalid as soon as the user does the reset.
There's also EmojiLisp: http://emojilisp.com/
Indeed, we agree that Go is suitable for some things people call high-performance but not others. I do not advocate porting everything to Go. Not only is it not always a good fit, but there's a very high bar to clear to justify revamping any perfectly good codebase. (I use Python at work and wouldn't advocate for porting anything.)
One of the best pieces of advice that I ever came across regarding email was "If you are replying to someones reply pick up the the phone/go talk to the person or let it go."
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Sometimes I wonder if finding an old Apple system with a turtle robot and a copy of LOGO might not be the best approach...
I think it can be convincingly argued that profit maximizing is social good maximizing, especially in technology. See: every technology ever :)
>after I secretly saw my ex girlfriend that I refused to place boundaries on and refuse to not see

Oh. So you not only failed to communicate to your lady-friend but was also imprudent enough to see this outcome.
"It is unique in that it is in written mostly TeX and hence is a somewhat more elegant design than other converters. A small portion of it is written in Perl."

I have no conception of how any software written mostly in TeX with a little bit of Perl could have "elegant design" as a selling point.
A loan from the autonomous self owning bank?
Because the road to success is to copy successful people. Right?
Thanks for the info. I had the impression that in Germany everybody was purchasing fresh milk because in Italy there is a pattern that as you move towards the north, people are more and more hardcore with fresh milk, and there are fresh milk "centrals" in most cities in the north with locally produced fresh milk. I expected the pattern to continue towards north.

UHT milk is sold here of course but mostly used as a "backup", to take a few home if you end without milk. Also micro-filtered milk is gaining in popularity for years at this point, but if I should judge the percentage of buyers from the amount of bottles I see in supermarkets, still far from fresh milk.

An important part of this is: fresh milk duration is 4 days max mostly for a matter of ancient regulation. With new productive chain milk gets a lot less contaminated with bacteria so usually lasts a lot more. Many people say that filtered milk is mostly about regulations than a huge difference in duration per se. What is true is that in filtered milk actually the fat is split from the rest of the milk and pasteurized at higher temperatures, and then re-added, so indeed the duration should be better, but not a lot better than fresh milk produced with a very good standards.

Finally, in certain parts of Sicily it is possible to purchase "raw" milk, not pasteurized at all, in automatic machines on the street (in the province of Ragusa, for example). They have a special permission because of an enhanced procedure that allows the milk to be not contained in the process.
> but it's still just a thought experiment about something
> which cannot be falsified.

Well, there's this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis#Testing_t... ( http://io9.com/5950543/physicists-say-there-may-be-a-way-to-... )
> `git tag -s`

Know of somewhere that explains how to do that well? I'm a big fan of keeping all of my workflows related to project in git as much as possible, especially if GitHub picks it up correctly.
It's worth noting the parent didn't say anything about relational databases. Even if they did, I don't see how that would be a problem.

How else can you keep track of whether there is a wave of reset abuse targeting an user / email, if not through saving it to some sort of data store?

eg - after 5 reset attempts in 15 or 30 minutes, prevent any further reset attempts for the next X amount of time; either outright, or based on a signature of the request
In a recent podcast by Adam Savage[1], an avid drone enthusiast, drones are described as "cinder blocks with propellers attached" or something to that effect. In one incident described in the podcast, Will describes a multiple-redundant multirotor losing a single propeller and having the vibrations of that cause a cascading failure of the other propellers, ultimately bringing the machine down in an uncontrolled manner.

I think that as a blanket rule it is very appropriate to not allow amateur UAS to fly directly overhead of people not aware that it is there. If a machine should be built that is provably safe against such failures or demonstrates an extreme tolerance to them, then special licensing could be dispensed.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RvHI79CyqQ
Recruiters take note. Content >> style. He worked on some interesting projects but the writeup would be deemed "unprofessional" and his resume would be tossed to the bin by a huge chunk of HR departments/firms I've had relations with.

Would have been interesting to use a slightly altered version of this for a blind "which person would you hire" test.
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Hi Simone, when I installed the solar system on my house (5.2kW, 2001) we seriously looked at going "off grid" (which means batteries). The problem at the time was that getting a few 10's of kWh of batteries was both quite expensive (you basically either built your own system or used an over priced data center UPS type system) and quite intense in its maintenance. Tesla is working both the reliability and the maintenance issues simultaneously.

That means that using their tech, with two of their battery packs (so that I can disconnect one for service/replacement while the other can run my house) would very much be an interesting "feature" for Solar City to offer. Typical peak power requirements of a house might hit 25kW but a car it can easily hit over 75kW (100 hp equivalent). So they have the inverter technology to build a whole house inverter.

The bottom line is they have built for a car, that which could be sold for houses, with the "hard bits" mostly solved. But that only becomes a useful thing if they excess battery capacity because I'm sure they can make far more money selling this tech wrapped up in a car than they can as a 'get your house off the grid' kit.
If AI starts to sort of work, we may get to see some kind of corporation run by computers, owned by other similar corporations. Probably out of some financial haven such as the Seychelles or Cyprus. This is more likely in the financial space than in the self-driving car space.

I could see someone setting this up and retaining some minority ownership so that they get dividends, while the thing runs itself.
"Ph.D.: expected June 1997."

Ah, someone else who didn't finish their doctorate and ended up working for Google instead. We're like kindred spirits, Sergey and I...
I see this scenario happening in cities. But, even sticking to Germany, I don't see this happening in areas like rural Saxony, the Oberpfalz, etc. Too rural. This scenario gets even more difficult when you talk about the US or even the UK and Ireland, large chunks of rural land w/o the density to support something like this -- same problem rail has had in the US.
Nonesense, this is HTML from 1996. You will need to resize your browser window, at the least.
Resigned a few days ago for the same reasons. I have been working no less than a senior for months, and each month my company made me remember that I am a junior.
> So 1/64 of my validation links ended up being invalid.

Why not just try appending "." on the server side if what you get is too short? All of the links become valid again.
For what time interval does your algorithm maximize profits/social good/etc? We've seen what maximizing profits for the next earnings report does. Ten years? For our lifetimes? Our children's?

Too short, and you miss some big opportunities. Too long, and the algorithm might hedge against all the unknowns and miss some big opportunities.
You said it would be unethical for people to create a simulation wherein the simulated minds might experience suffering. If you have children, you are creating new lives that are capable of experiencing suffering, and who inevitably will at times.
For further exploration of some of the ramifications of this hypothesis, see http://www.new-god-argument.com/
Have you ever rented a car?
> Google gives you restricted stock units which you can sell immediately upon vesting

But you have to pay taxes on those RSUs at the moment of grant (if you do an 83(c) election), or at the moment of vest (if you didn't). How does Google or anyone else work around that? Do they also give a tax-covering bonus with the vesting?
55lb going 100mph rapidly descending from 500' AGL. Hmm.
The distinction between senior and junior developers isn't in how much they work, but in what results come from the work they do.

If anything, I expect junior developers to work a bit more than senior developers to accelerate their learning.
I'm not arguing that it will happen, and I'm pretty sceptical of the whole Apple car thing, but overvalued is very much in the eye of the beholder. The value Apple receives might be an order of magnitude higher than Tesla's discounted returns from now until the end of time.

Could this be the case? It's possible Apple has determined that there is a window of opportunity during the transition to automated and electric cars to swoop into the chaos and eat everybody's lunch like they did with the iPhone. If true, saving a few years could be worth a trillion in market cap to them.
Hey man,

Thanks for posting here...I can't speak for big companies but I wouldn't be so reluctant to apply to a startup.

First of all, I'd say that most startups growing quickly will judge engineering candidates on merit, not connections. If you're a startup growing aggressively, hiring great people is so important that you end up using your personal networks not to filter candidates but rather to find more candidates than you'd otherwise get through people who apply cold. For our team, if we saw two brilliant engineers, a PhD who applied cold, and another wonderful fellow with a connection to our team, we'd hire both.

I'm sure there are some stereotypes about PhDs, but I'd be surprised to find a startup that held it against you. One piece is advice...I think showing humility is important. I've seen some PhDs who want to join our team and dive right in (that's great!) while others are only interested in leading a research team or something fancy like that even though they have no work experience (that's not great). I'll always give someone the benefit of the doubt so I won't assume that any PhD I meet is too big for his/her britches, but as a PhD applicant I think it's important to understand that anyone leading hiring has probably seen plenty of PhDs who don't come to the table with the humility you need for a startup job.

Last thought -- the one challenge in applying to startups is to make sure they don't accidentally reject you, e.g. we're a relatively small team and we get thousands of applications a year, and we try our darndest to read every one and review every code challenge and take everyone seriously. That said, I'm sure we make mistakes every now and then, and we overlook someone who's awesome. As an applicant, one way you can avoid that is to make yourself stand out. Was your PhD research really fascinating? Have you built something cool? etc. For example, people sometimes email me as the CEO instead of applying through our web site. It happens often enough that in most cases I'll introduce them to the head of recruiting on our team; I can't get involved personally every time or it's all I'd do every day. But if someone really stands out when they email me -- and in a substantive way -- I'll pay attention.

Sorry man, I know the job search is hard, especially coming out of a PhD program, but the good news is that you're in a highly competitive job market for engineers and most companies are hiring on merit.

PS if you're looking in Boston, feel free to email me afeuer@panoramaed.com (Panorama YC S13)
Heh, the Movie Rating project is cute (who hasn't done that?).
Sure there are (in many reasonable senses). Polynomial root extraction just isn't expressible in terms of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and nth roots alone. But that's ok; there's nothing magic about that particular set of operations, so as to make it the end-all, be-all.
I think the most interesting bit is that Sergey Brin was such an early adopter of python in its infancy. I'm guessing this resume is from 1993-4. Python was released 1991.

edit: nevermind, from the Masters date it sounds like its 95-97
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Thanks!

You really only need the first line for the apps to start in vi mode automatically.

Knowing the key combination to toggle is still useful for when pairing etc...
Amazon hires PhDs for machine learning research, and it seems like you could also get hired as a straight SDE as well. Lmk if you can't find the public job boards.