skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two distinct groups involved here.

First, there is a specific role in Toyota group companies with the title "Production Engineering", which is tasked with creating/improving/redesigning/etc. the production process of particular products, new and old. They are the most important category of engineers hired as undergrad and masters engineering graduates, and everyone knows that they are the group best positioned for career advancement through the engineering side of the company. The exact title is "Seisan Gijyutsu 生産技術". If you see a Toyota group company CEO with an engineering background, chances are he came up through this division.

Second are the "craftsmen" who are typically HS grads from the Aichi area, sometimes from Toyota branded schools. They are the ones with the deft touch and individual skill that are often lauded in these western oriented articles.

It's only when you have both sides working together that you will have scalable, transferrable progress.

disclosure: I worked at a Toyota group company as a new grad in Aichi and spent 3 months in the factory as part of my training.
I agree! I'll go you one further: I don't have a lot of sympathy for people who complain about how investors make it hard to run a slow-burn company, or to build a service that funds itself on subscription fees rather than ads/data.

I gave a long list of reasons though because I think there are reasons not to raise even if you're ambitious about growth.

It's very clear to me that if you think you might ever raise, YC is a no-brainer.

It's pretty clear to me that if you've never run a company before, even if you don't ever plan on raising, YC is a net positive.

After that, it's less clear to me --- not that I think it's a bad idea, just that I think it's something you'd have to think about, rather than automatically saying "of course yes yes!".
I think his work went downhill after inventing the pendulum :-P

Did anyone see the Focault-Chomsky debate?
Actually, as another poster said, I saw your name and a few personal details in your profile and did enough research, including seeing a photo that is probably you, to be 95% sure you are male. I suppose it is extra-annoying because the person was wrong in this case, but I would still find that post lacking if you do prefer to be called "she."

I don't have a problem with your response in general, or ideas like "male should not be the default gender". I often try to avoid using gendered pronouns, for reasons like this. If the original person had said something like that, I probably wouldn't have replied. I do have a problem with someone casually questioning the use of a word, without demonstrating any consideration of whether it is actually correct, whether an effort was made to make sure it was correct, etc. For all we knew, the person who used "he" personally knows you, and mindfully chose to use a male pronoun. That uninformed, knee-jerk reply ("He?") is as useless and obnoxious as having a bot post "PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: REMEMBER THAT NOT ALL HACKERS ARE MALE. WE WELCOME WOMEN!" every time someone uses the word "he."

Really, to go full-on PC for the benefit of trans people, etc., I guess we can't use gendered pronouns even if we do know someone, unless we have been explicitly (and recently) told which pronoun they prefer.
It's fairly easy to extend this to either an exhaustive search afterwards, or to run into a SMT solver to prove that it's correct / incorrect.

Though that's probably too much machinery to add on to a compiler.
It's probably important to understand how DD is a forcing function for investors. There are lots of ways to create forcing functions for operators, but not so many ways to deterministically create them for investors.
Agreed, YC's value is not in the initial funding but the brand name validation + connections + some organizational advices. I think tptacek and patio11 already have all that, plus they probably have enough self funding to run this company for a while. I don't see YC provide much added value here. On the other hand, if it's someone who just arrive to the Bay Area from schools, or someone who's always been with a big company as an engineer, then YC clearly provides a lot of extra values.
You had one professor who had a system worked out. How did the rest of your professors handle their workload? I too had a few professors that had it all figured out, a lot that were hard-working professionals, and a few that struggled to be on time to class.

Much like anywhere in life.
Here is BuzzFeed's first pitch deck to investors in 2008
> If you don't care about MSVC

Even ignoring personal taste: I care about MSVC. I also care about clang. GCC is the one compiler I'm able to not care about.

> IMHO new C code should be using the gcc cleanup extension

Even if I didn't care about MSVC, I'd disagree.

I'm OK with extensions that are "harmless" in that the program will still run without them working if I #if them out on other compilers - error pragmas, deprecation annotations, static analysis hints, pre-C++11 override keywords, etc.

I'm not OK with self inflicting vendor lock-in for something as important as cleanup rely on a specific compiler's extensions - especially not when we have a perfectly standard, portable, significantly better tested (and thus less likely to have bugs) reasonable alternative in the form of C++ destructors.

If I'm not using C++ destructors, it's either because:

1) I'm doing small changes to an existing C project (in which case I'd be stylistically inconsistent with it's preferred cleanup patterns for minimal gain, since it almost certainly doesn't use the gcc cleanup extension)

or

2) because I can't rely on having decent C++ compilers on my target platforms (which means I can't rely on having GCC either, and thus can't rely on the gcc cleanup extension by definition.)
Heh, I came here to do exactly the same. I figure one free link per year on HN is about right for Manic Supporter level subscription, but you beat me to it.
Ok this is fun but to be clear this subthread: not about Starfighter.
That's a good point.

Here in silicon valley, the best performing companies are rarely the ones who have only engineering talent. A good engineer often lacks domain experience in the space they are trying to innovate in. It is important to find and work with those who have domain experience in order to progress quickly.

Thanks for pointing this out. :)
Personally, I don't think I would have learned much if it wasn't for co-op. I paid my way through university and gained a lot of valuable experience that helped me land my first job.
Forget Rand Paul, Let's Talk Paul Rand
Valve now enables mod makers to sell their creations on Steam
Downvotes are overloaded. Disagreement is just one of their modes. The overall purpose is to keep HN from being worse. It's an editorial tool for strategic protection of the commons not absolute valuation of each comment.
I went to school at the University of Regina, and did an engineering co-op 5 years ago. It was amazing to see how gradual it makes moving out from home if you go to school in the same city where you grew up.

My work terms were Regina (home) -> Saskatoon (3 hrs away) -> Waterloo (28 hrs away) -> India (really far) and definitely was able to grow in experience each time.

I'd say it was invaluable for learning what was important and what wasn't with respect to the class materials.

Now I'm at Twitter and often look back to the wide experience I gained at companies where I could leave after 4 months and have no negative repercussions.
Why pick google?

Choose anything, except maybe object storage, and there is somebody out there who does it better than Amazon, there is also sombody who does it cheaper than Amazon.

Except for S3, AWS isn't the best at anything, nor the cheapest, but, they are the only ones doing it all, and typically the ones inovating new services. Nobody has all the services AWS has, or even as well integrated, or as granular etc...

If you have very specific needs, then go pick and choose from different vendors (assuming you're ok with multi-site latency), but if you're starting a company and have generic needs that aren't well defined yet, AWS is probably your best bet to start with. People do that, and once their invested so much time in learning the environement, they stick to it.
Great! I've been looking for something like this.

Uh, now I just need an Android Wear device...
The Long-Term Problem with Dynamically Typed Languages
That's a deuterium, it's a whole particle more than you need.
> C, C++, and Objective-C

Notice the use of 'C' in the names of the languages? Its because they all belong to a C family which shares code. Just like Lisp languages.

Wikipedia:

"Objective-C is a thin layer on top of C, and is often called a "strict superset" of C"

"The C and C++ programming languages are closely related. C++ grew out of C, as it was designed to be source-and-link compatible with C"

Emacs Lisp contains many Common Lisp functions and there is even an implementation of Common Lisp integrated into Emacs Lisp: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsCommonLisp
Emacs Lisp grew out of Maclisp, just like Common Lisp.

ISLisp is largely a subset of Common Lisp. For example the Gabriel benchmarks for Common Lisp have been used in ISLisp and they work with only minor changes.
Thanks for mentioning LULD:

http://cdn.batstrading.com/resources/membership/BATS_US_Equi...
>the game slows down

You act like games today don't do this. Most games by Nintendo, notably the latest Super Smash Bros., embarrassingly still do this.
Cool! How soon until you can tap into a calorie app/database (MyFitness?) and start to guesstimate the user's caloric burn rate each minute?
The current maintainers are officially Dmitry Polyanovsky and Jesse Gumm (same guy who maintains Nitrogen, from which N2O was forked, and also the SimpleBridge web server abstraction library), I believe.

You're right it's not terribly active at the moment. It has rough edges, but it's very much usable.

Phoenix arguably supports most of the same patterns as CB, but on top of Elixir.

EDIT: Oh, by the way, you can actually write Chicago Boss apps using Elixir and LFE instead of plain Erlang, if you'd like. This is officially supported.
Startup Podcast: Origin Story (Season 2, #1)
At Guelph, we do two full years of academics and a summer off before any co-op work term (so we have one less work term overall), and have two 8-month work terms and a 4-month as part of our schedule[1]. I think that's a much more workable schedule, and I think Waterloo even has a similar scheduling option in terms of term duration (at least for CS) as I've worked with a student from there for the same 8-months. As long as you stay with the same employer for 8-months (many seem willing if you ask) or the same town for both placements, it works out fairly well.

[1]: https://www.uoguelph.ca/registrar/calendars/undergraduate/cu...
Krugman is a Nobel-winning economist. He is also a loudmouth ideologue who writes a column, in which he makes authoritative statements that have nothing to do with the research that won him a Nobel. He trades on that prestige, but he's no better than a highly-ideologically-driven professional-economist-but-out-of-his-area-of-specialty in most of what he writes. I have seen him rip Republicans for the same behavior that he lauds Democrats for.

I wouldn't call him a troll. I would call him a shill. And no, that's not not saying more about me. It really is about him.
I have a Moto 360 and like it a lot!

It was recently on sale for $180, and I'm going to guess it'll be on sale again, since the Apple Watch is just starting to ship and new Android watches are expected to be announced around Google IO in late May.
https://moto360.motorola.com/

Note: the heart rate monitors on these early devices aren't great! We have to do a lot of work to make sure the sensor works well and the graphs are understandable. But I think the hardware will improve rapidly in the next 6-18 months.
It's worth listening to part of these, if only for the 1980's muzak intros... The tape quality and sounds are giving me flashbacks to elementary school tapes and projected films.
Imagine you happen to walk up to your ATM when it's Mother Banking System is in the middle hotspot compile followed by a GC pause. What would you do if your ATM took 5 minutes+ to respond to your Withdrawal Request?

You'd probably freak out and worry about getting ATM card back.
That's a frequent feature request, so hopefully soon--the thing I'm not sure of is whether those things are even close enough to accurate to be worth it. I think "guesstimate" is a great word for it. :)
>> "...pledging to push for campaign finance reform[3]..."

Pardon my cynicism, but I can't even see the mirrors because the smoke is so thick.
Agreed! I do not even use Rust myself (yet). I just do not think the comparison to the NoSQL/JS Frameworks craze is valid. There are real fundamental improvements being tried in Rust, hopefully it turns out for the better.
I think Apple Watch is the very next platform, but I've heard good things about the Microsoft Band. How have you found the heart rate sensor?
Is there any watch on the market that has enough battery to do real continuous HR monitoring? Last I checked, they all only measure continuously in the "sport" mode for an hour or two, and in the "regular" mode they measure HR once every 10 minutes or so.
That's one reason why the tax code is a perfect domain for computer assistance (read: Intuit).
HA HA HA HA "Dare to Reproduce."

http://tiffzhang.com/startup/index.html?s=145038787741
Immutable collections don't have to be wholly copied – derived collections may share internally quite a bit of information with the original collection/s. That allows them to be both fairly efficient and yet safe when used across concurrent processes.

The "tricky party" is when concurrent processed need to synchronize some reference. Facilities for such ops can be orthogonal to the implementation of immutable collections, and then the two can be used together to good effect.
Not paid directly - it's a combination of 1) brands being top of mind 2) what people / robots will recognize and ever so likely potentially to share or what will have the tiniest bit of extra SEO juice.

#1 only comes from a lot of ongoing PR outreach, coffee chats, briefings, etc - which takes time and $$$$ usually via an agency working nonstop on developing relationships to keep a brand top of mind for side mentions like this and to be at the top of the rolodex when a reporter needs a quote or some help understanding an industry or technology space.
You just did the same thing :)
Thank you for this comment...I thought I was going insane for a minute reading the others.
I was quite pleased with Taxiio[1]: Uber for taxis. Now there's a novel idea.

[1] http://www.launchnik.com/taxiio
NYC still doesn't have gigabit for $70.
I'd love to hear some thoughts on how this affects battery, especially on some battery-challenged devices such as the moto360 ?
4 Year Old Girl Afraid of Dying
Uhm, yes, yes we do. https://cloud.google.com/prediction/docs
A recent Waterloo grad myself, this goes against what I've heard from my peer group. (Most consider it to be a blessing alone) I also think many of the downsides listed in this article have little to do with co-op.

Here's a summary of my pros and cons.

Pros:

- Work experience (2 years)

- Travel (Within Canada, the US and even Europe if you're up for it)

- Money. Far more than we probably deserved at that age.

- Ease of mind regarding future employment. (Speak to any peers who haven't interned or gained any work experience)

- Break from school every four months.

- Break from work every four months.

Cons:

- Travelling can be annoying.

- New cities can be lonely. (I spent a term in Ottawa where I knew literally no-one)

- No summer break.

Other:

- The issues with deadlines and stress mentioned in the article are not related to co-op.

- The issues with stressful work terms are not related to co-op. It will likely be the same once you begin your fulltime work.
http://tiffzhang.com/startup/?s=648423843085

Screwable: Screw together with your team

I'm not sure what definition of 'screw' we're using here.
It's also entirely possible that the reporter either asked AWS for some customer names and cherry-picked those, or the reporter asked their network for some names. In my experience, it's not paid other than in really shady non-mainstream media sites.
However a 6 month cycle allows you to gain a better idea of what it is like to be a full time employee at a company, not merely an intern.

I did several 6 month cycles, but most of the other interns I worked with at these companies were doing 4 month cycles (in fact, they were almost all from Waterloo. That experience has given me an immense respect for that school.)

With 4 month internships, many companies give you an "intern project" that you see through to completion. It tests not just your technical capabilities but also your ability to plan and manage a project yourself. Great experience, and a great way for a company to test your skills and abilities. 6 months is a bit long for a single project meant primarily for one person though, so they throw you into the standard drudgery of full-time employment. Less pleasant, less sterilized and organized, but much more realistic.

At least that is how it played out at the companies I worked for.

Unless you are from a wealthy family (or live in one of those fancy progressive nations where higher education is free), chances are you will need to figure out a way to leverage your experiences in university for money. I think that either a 6-month or 4-month cycle of internships/coops is one of the best ways to prepare yourself for this. There are pros and cons to either, but both are pretty great.
Thanks! I guess I'll hold out for a while on the device, then. Good luck with Cardiogram!
Probably, but the same can be said for a lot of things people consume every day. I don't see much point in hand-wringing.
Give up on the idea of regulating cybersquatting; it will never happen in a free economy. Counter Points:

1. IMO, a startup who's being held back by a domain shark is already in the wrong mindset and is probably going to fail. Successful startups work with what's available to them and pick up the domain they truly want when they have the capital to do so. Facebook for example, started as thefacebook.com; they purchased facebook.com in 2005 for $200k

2. Yes, .coms are becoming a rarity, but again - free economy; it's all about supply and demand. While .coms may be the ideal domain, it's not like there aren't other completely feasible choices out there. If the .com isn't available, why not .io? .ninja?

3. The drug analogy is incorrect and improper. A better analogy is to think of domains as land. Both are finite in what's usable; and in both cases owners are entitled to deciding what they want to do with the property - whether that's building something, letting it sit there, or selling it for profit.

Don't get mad at people because they thought of your name before you did; accept it as a reality and embrace the practice yourself. A certain founder I know of a publicly traded deals website is sitting on over 100+ domains. Why? The opportunity to use them in the future. I myself am sitting on 20+ for the same exact reason, I recommend you do the same.
Yep, forgot that in my comment... 500+ warm intros means that if your pitch is compelling (not a given) then there will be a lot of competition to invest. This is naturally good for founders both in terms of pricing the round and getting it done as quickly as possible.
This was easily one of the wittiest and funniest articles I've ever read from a British author...

But why shouldn't vampires be more lauded than Victorians? Why should Jane Austen, with her painfully circumlocutions, be more academically welcome than that woman (forget her name) who wrote 50 shades of gay? In many ways, old "classical" works are telling the exact same stories as modern "trash novel" works, except the modern "trash novel" works are doing it in such a way that is clear, simple, relevant (to today's audience), and thus free of misunderstandings. From them, through clever literally mental contortions, one can still elucidate all the themes, lessons, and humanities like you could from confounding classics - just less obfuscated like "there is no place like home" instead of "lost is my homecoming", "...and then they had sex and fell in love..." instead of "... I profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine, the gentle fine is this...", etc.

And who says the arts are dying? The arts are vibrant and alive in today's web-comics, video games, movies, and tv-shows. The medium has changed from a completely closed system of ink and paint to a modular, copyable, and distributable one of .mdl files, computer images, and carrier streams. It's just intentionally confusing junk like cubism, poorly drawn junk like medieval art, and inhumane junk like pyramid building that's gone away.

The pressure to have to constantly monetize, I'll admit, is painful... but that primarily hurts the large institutions who have bottom lines that must be covered. And in my opinion as a flexible small business kind of guy, that's a good thing. Large institutions were necessary for centuries for individual survival at the cost of individual self-actualization, but in today's flexible scale era, it's entirely possible to just be good at something and survive without having to give up your soul to a large corporation. In that case, going small, lean, and individual is the way of the bright future.
UHD video streaming (and I don't mean the super compressed Netflix version of it).
We've had surprisingly good experiences—generally the beta testers are reporting 1-3% battery consumption, and I think we could sample more frequently.

I think if we can get true, beat-to-beat monitoring, the health implications would be huge. Doctors don't care a whole lot about steps, but they definitely care about heart rhythm.
Sorry, I don't have it yet. Also sorry for deleting the comment above.
What about those teaching cheaters?
I didn't think it was a good idea either. I though google would get bogged down by DMCA request and having to pay the big name content makers. I also though once it became only "legal" content everyone would just move on to the next video sharing site.
> Universities, which in Britain have an 800-year history, have traditionally been derided as ivory towers, and there was always some truth in the accusation. (...) Across the globe, that critical distance is now being diminished almost to nothing, as the institutions that produced Erasmus and John Milton, Einstein and Monty Python, capitulate to the hard-faced priorities of global capitalism.

I never looked at Oxford people with the same eyes again after reading Giordano Bruno's works and about how the professors in there treated him. From his wiki page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno#England.2C_1583...):

> His views were controversial, notably with John Underhill, Rector of Lincoln College and subsequently bishop of Oxford, and George Abbot, who later became Archbishop of Canterbury. Abbot mocked Bruno for supporting "the opinion of Copernicus that the earth did go round, and the heavens did stand still; whereas in truth it was his own head which rather did run round, and his brains did not stand still",[23] and reports accusations that Bruno plagiarized Ficino's work.

I've recently read a book by French historian Jacques Le Goff who was saying something along the lines of: "the University as we know it was born around year 1,000 and flourished for the next couple of centuries, only to become more segregated and focused on itself starting with the 14th century, so much so that the Renaissance happened outside of its sphere of influence".

So I will keep my hopes up. This downfall of the University as an institution has happened before but we still managed to create and produce great things outside of it.
Simulation for designers