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We still build steel mills near cheap sources of transportation, but it used to be that they tended to be near sources of coke and iron ore, such as in Le Creusot in Eastern France. Nowadays the big steel mills get their ore and coke through ships. There are also direct reduction mills that don't use coke and are often located near a source of natural gas.

One example of an instance were steelmaking and data centers meet is Facebook's Luleå operation, built in an iron ore port town: loads of hydroelectric power, good infrastructure, and cold.
If you want to be really pedantic, there is also the choice between "runtime overhead" and "code overhead" (code specialization).

And why not mention the overhead of the programmer foregoing these "short cuts" and hand-coding it herself.
Sounds like a pitch to fill open positions at YC funded companies. Nothing wrong with it, just the verbiage of the post -- "surprising hack". It is a hack which feels like Sam just thought up of or made it up. Because otherwise, there is no need to correlate working for YC as a hack to get into YC.

There were other "surprising hacks" always mentioned here, have a solid product with good group, have a product which makes money, get a recommendation from other YC alumni etc.

This, this just sounds like, "hey, we want you to work for our companies. In case you ever want to start one, we will look at your app favorably then."
Whatever disfunction exists in VC (I'm sure some does) is an opportunity for funders who specialize in funding women. They should obtain better deals than those who are for whatever reason only capable of correctly judging and interacting with male founders, especially if they can develop a reputation for it.

Best wishes to the founder here, who took positive action by starting a business that seems promising enough (I agree with the premise that there are still opportunities in online dating). I'm not a fan of scolds with no skin in the game and outrageists who make every 3rd anecdote into a 'trend', but relating true experiences is surely good.

Interpretations of social-psych-science studies (as opposed to the actual [reproduced] experiments) should be taken w/ huge lumps of salt.
It also makes multiple inheritance (which Rust has, through Java-like interfaces) easy to implement, and fast at runtime. The virtual inheritance of C++ is a real mess, by contrast [1].

[1]: http://www.phpcompiler.org/articles/virtualinheritance.html

Edit: I don't mean to bash C++ here, BTW; the skinny-pointer approach has a lot of benefits when all you need is single inheritance (and there are early-stage proposals to add it to Rust too). But I don't think it works well for multiple inheritance.
I think the point is, that with this job, Musk want's people whose dream and life goal is the success of what the company is trying to do, and not to have a family or any such commonly accepted life goal.

I believe improving space travel is one of a handful of dreams/goals that there are potentially enough talented people out there, that one could find the people who want this to be their life as opposed to that of a more traditional role.

I know this may illicit the typical 'burn out is real' responses, and I know it is but I honestly don't think it occurs if you are a person with a singular passion and you are lucky enough to be pursuing it for your 'work'.
I don't believe that you are really Peter Todd, can you please sign the challenge "1" with one of your known bitcoin addresses?

Joking aside, I used some of your scripts to seed the fuzzer:
https://github.com/jonasnick/bitcoinconsensus_testcases/tree....
If you come up with more scripts I'd love to feed them to the fuzzer. I'm still surprised that a javascript implementation (bitcore) is withstanding so far.
I was thinking of a generalization. Choosing between working on something important in the future for many people vs. spending time in the now with a few people you value.

I.e. if you don't single out the event "birth of a child" but look at the more generalized category "spending time with family and friends" then the response may be more understandable.

If Elon truly convinced himself that he's basically trying to do his own contribution to saving the world (climate change and such) then in his mind he may be working to save countless future lives at the expense of some personal time of his own and his employees. And thus "birth of a child" and "going bowling with friends" don't seem all that different.

It's basically a side-effect of convincing himself absolutely of his own mission.

Also note that scolding is not necessarily the same thing as punishment. It's just a harsh way of stating a preference. I.e. that he would prefer if they'd spend more time on saving the world.
> At some point, it's important for us as programmers to indulge that "I could do this better" instinct.

Sure, and that point is pretty easily defined: the point at which the existing solution has produces real, tangible, definable problems with achieving your current goals is the time to invent a replacement that "does it better", with better defined in exactly the terms of the problem that you are addressing.

Its also okay to do it as something exploratory, off the critical path of a real project for understanding/skill-building.

What's not okay -- and is instead a dangerous, expensive (both in the short-term and in maintenance terms), ultimately unproductive diversion of effort -- is making a reinvention of something that works adequately a dependency for some other effort.
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If you create something that is "Uber for X, stored on the blockchain, anonymous & ephemeral" that's like 80B valuation right there.

"Uber for x, blockchain, anonymous, ephemeral" -> the evolution of "Social/Local/Mobile"
I would love to hear more about this "legalize one side of the corruption" proposed solution. Can you elaborate?

The article is lengthy but ultimately boils down to what one of the other comments mentioned: Game theory predicts that corruption is inevitable when only a subset of the population is empowered to enforce societal norms. Hence, the only way to eliminate corruption is by empowering all of the members of a society to enforce societal norms.
> OTOH: Which characters do and don't belong in unicode and in what order? I don't fucking know. :-)

Should we use decimalized time or time based on the Babylonian base 60/12 system? Both have clear advantages. I don't fucking know. :-)

The world has standardized on Unicode, which (as a collection of expanding standards) defines the set of valid code points and their order. There's still some debate as to UTF-8 vs. UTF-16LE (and perhaps UTF-16 w/BOM and UTF-32) encodings, but Unicode has clearly won. It's not perfect, but it's silly to pretend Unicode hasn't won.

Source: I used to work as an engineer on the content converter portion of Google's indexing system, which took the world's web pages, PDFs, etc. and converted them into a unified format (the text portion of which is encoded as UTF-8) for the rest of the indexing system. Sure, we saw some percentage of EUC-KR, GB2312, Big5, and Win CP1252 text, but Unicode has clearly won and UTF-8 and UTF-16LE are steadily replacing all other encodings.
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The article makes it sound like "That is no excuse" is referring to taking time off work to see your child born - in other words, there is nothing that could excuse someone taking off time for that. It's possible that he's merely saying that taking time off for something so important is no excuse for failing to request the time off with HR, failing to ensure that a different team member could be present in a meeting, or something along those lines - in other words, not that taking time off for important family reasons isn't OK, but rather that things still need to be handled properly even for things as important as taking time off to be with your partner while she was giving birth. Something like that might not be the kindest thing to do, but I can at least understand the logic behind it.
Yea, I really enjoy programming but I have yet to be able to come to terms with this idea that if I'd like to be a professional software engineer I have to want to be the world's saving grace rockstar ninja programmer.

Isn't it enough to want to wake up refreshed every day, put in a good solid 6-7 hours of professional quality engineering work, and then have the time and energy to want to perform all of the other duties and joys to be found in life?
Three things I expect from a "Project Manager":

1. That he will increase the amount of busy work done by everyone while at the same time providing NO VALUE to the project in terms of speed or quality. Typical examples of such busy work include multiple status updates each week.

2. That he will demand deliverables from people who aren't actually responsible for them. One PM even wrote a blog post about what he demands from "software architects" as though these guys were team leads!

3. That he will invariably measure project status and quality in terms of meaningless but quantifiable-sounding metrics, like percentage of completion for each task (mistakes are "unforgivable" --snicker--), and demanding a 0-9 "score" for both probability and impact of each risk. Why actually ask your reports for cogent explanations when they can wrap it all up in a single dubious digit for your consumption.
The question is about whether you'd have it say that or that you were a great father. It's rare to be able to do both, particularly if the company's CEO says having a child is "no excuse" to miss an event. Not a deadline or a board presentation or an earnings report. An event.
At this point I wouldn't put BIOS/NIC spying past Lenovo. They've sternly defended their bad decision and continue to pre-install Superfish.

I used to think RMS was paranoid with his fully open source stack, Lenovo has me questioning that belief.
What are some psychological pricing tips when pricing products or services?
I know there's an incredible amount of psychology behind pricing products and services.

We've all seen the $x.99 method our entire lives and I recently read about not pricing services as a round number such as $10,000. Apparently more specific numbers like $10,350 seem more legitimate, calculated and personalized.

Are there any other pricing tips and strategies that people have found effective in practice or through research? What's the thought process behind them?
I think I'll take a stab at this. Suppose you do need the aggregate to be worth around 400 billion to deliver decent returns. If Andreesen Horowitz catches the next 2 Facebooks ( worth 200 billion each ) over the next 10-15 years and loses money on every single other deal ( an extremely pessimistic assumption ), they can deliver it. Is this a guaranteed outcome? No, but it certainly seems reasonable / plausible
I love the workspace structure and the package versions policy. Definitely my favorite among the languages I used.
There is usually only a token nod to interstate commerce, but it still exists.

As one example, there was a federal law known as the Gun Free School Zones Act that banned possessing a firearm within 1500 feet of a school (unless it was on private property, encased and locked, the possessor had a concealed pistol license, or a couple of other exceptions). In the case US v. Lopez, it got shot down as unconstitutional. It immediately got re-passed with the caveat that it affected any firearm that "has moved in or that otherwise affects interstate or foreign commerce", which of course is almost all of them.
Your entire tirade is a troll. You got an answer from Fitz (looked reasonable to me), but you didn't like it. So you decided to take the debate to HN?! Nothing productive ever happens like this. This is some teenage angst diarrhea. Fork the project and write your own solution. Show us all how fucking brilliant you are.
The power of Haskell goes beyond the particular language. It encodes powerful ideas of value in and of themselves. When we've got better than Haskell (say, production-ready Idris), the investment made in understanding these ideas will continue to pay dividends.
I interviewed at a big company (unrelated to Mr. Musk) about a decade ago. The team was in a little satellite office away from headquarters, and we headed back to headquarters for lunch. As we walked into the cafe, the guy from the team who took me pointed to an office building next door and said something to the effect of, "Our office used to be right in there. It was so convenient! I could be at work, come down and grab dinner, then go right back up to work."

And that was the moment I knew I would decline their offer.

Some people really seem to go for that stuff, though.
Well, it's not that small.

~35k population.

I have no idea who any police officers are, nor have I ever (knowingly) sat down next to one...anywhere. I occasionally see a group of them at Arby's or something, eating with each other at lunch.

FWIW I have a very wide social circle in town, here (I own a bar)--but it includes no police officers.
Yeah if you can find a job that is okay with you only working 30 hours a week while paying you for 40, hang on to it and never let go.
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It may be from 2009, but it looks like there's been more work than I expected using the MAGE machine going by Google Scholar cites of their paper "Programming cells by multiplex genome engineering and accelerated evolution": http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=12846716603863206939...
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John Chambers seems nice, and Cisco did okay.
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> It's really important to keep in mind that errors are adopted from error values in C, which means that their idioms and usage is inspired by that rather than by exception handling. Many new Go programmers (including me, when I started) were more familiar with exception handling in higher-level languages than error handling in idiomatic C, so it does take some getting used to.

It's also important to keep in mind that people who don't like Go's approach to error handling might not be in favour of the exception-handling way, either. :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9439948
Wow, this is awesome. So it works!
History repeats itself and people who are trying to "change the world" don't care about any casualties on their way.

Ironically, world could change so much by everyone being kind and grateful to others. No invention or conquest can bring this kind of change.
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I understood the quote marks myself, but when you look at many of the comments here, it's obvious many didn't. So the reason failed.
An announcement like

"If you've worked with a Stanford professor and have a positive reference from them, we will take that into account on your application."

?

That sounds like a totally sensible (as well as totally ethical) thing do do!
And on twitter and tumblr, doxxing your opponents' families is the norm.
I wonder how the good the CFAA case will be.

The software was pre-installed on the machines. I guess it probably depends on what the user terms were for it. The statue requires "without authorization."

I'm surprised there isn't a negligence or products liability claim in here. Because one of the biggest problems, isn't' that they MTTM attacked HTTPS to inject ads, but they did it in a way that was recklessly insecure.
Only if you plan on becoming a low-level TCP/IP implementation engineer or some other such niche field in the very immediate future.

The vast majority of working programmers can be extremely effective without knowing much more than basic socket usage and perhaps the basics of how NAT setups can work against you if you're doing something other than just pure web-browser networking.

Having said that, knowing how in-the-wild network protocols work in general is one of those things (like knowing how compilers work) that can broaden your horizons and are probably worth learning for that reason, just don't worry too much about retaining minutia about them that you can easily look up should the need arise.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The guidelines allow for changing a misleading title, even if it was unintentionally misleading. From the comments here, clearly many were misled.
That's the point of separating powers - the police shouldn't judge or carry out sentences.
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The Facebookrucible.
The alleged e-mail seems to mitigate against that reading:

> That is no excuse. I am extremely disappointed. You need to figure out where your priorities are. We're changing the world and changing history, and you either commit or you don’t.

"Figure out where your priorities are," not follow procedure. "Commit or you don't." There is not a terrible lot of ambiguity here.
This is almost unrelated to the post, but the question on the MD5 checksum was the inspiration. It seems like we could have a DoS mitigation strategy with a protocol extension that required the packets to be checksummed with a key stretching algorithm (similar to bcrypt). The worse the DoS got, the higher the number of iterations that could be required. If routers at the network edge could verify the checksums somehow then the traffic would be dropped at distributed nodes rather than at a central node. Ideally you'd want something easy to verify but hard to calculate for the client. Of course, I know nothing about DoS attacks, so this is probably trivially wrong in some way.
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Huh, my coworkers who have had pregnant spouses generally gave us a heads-up around week 24... unlikely to be that premature, but it helps everyone plan for that possibility.
I'm with you, brother. I'm sick of being attacked because of my gender when im not a part of the problem, and than shamed because I'm not actively helping women.

oh well.

cheers, mate.
We do a lot of work to ensure we represent the assets in as true to form as possible. However, I'll check to see if the company is okay with me answering this question and get back to you. I am comfortable saying that the work effort is not trivial.
Anyone who trots out Liebeck v. McDonald's as an example of a "bad" lawsuit is just demonstrating that they're operating from a position based more on opinion than fact.

Liebeck sued McDonald's for actual costs of her medical treatment. McDonald's refused to pay for her injuries or admit fault. The jury awarded the massive punitive damages ($160,000 in actual damages and $2.7M in punitive) of their own volition, because the company's behavior was so egregious, was just one incident in an ongoing chain of similar ones (and for which they'd settled previous claims), and was obviously responsible for the third degree burns she suffered beneath her clothing.

Please check your facts next time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restau...
I like your phrasing. It prevents being busy for its own sake. I wonder how much work at Space X is "help mankind make its first steps on Mars" and how much work is TPS reports.
Are you talking about the legalization of paying bribes?

I was looking close, because I think the topic is very interesting. They legalized paying bribes only for services that one'd have the right to have anyway. If a person get any kind of advantage over what they already have a right, it's not legal anymore.

Overall, I think it's a very well thought-out law, and completely not radical. The entire world should copy it.
Yes, and we'll scold sama for you too, but I actually can't think of a good (accurate and neutral) title.

"Working at a YC startup can help you get into YC" isn't right, since what the post says is that a recommendation from a founder of a YC-funded startup that you've worked at can help get you into YC. 80 chars, anyone?

Edit: ok, thought of one. We've changed the title from "One surprising hack to get into YC". If anyone can suggest a better title, we're happy to change it again.
You really need to read the article in order to have an informed opinion of it. At the very least, you should take into account the author's own caveats around her conclusion.
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What I would like to see is serious incentives for police officers to turn in their colleagues and give IAB unlimited power to spy on every aspect of officers' lives.
I was actually referring more to the core routers with TCAM than home routers. And I agree, ignoring IPv6 isn't an option, but it is a viable option to encourage workarounds. Which is exactly what's happened; so most ISPs that support IPv6 do 6to4 tunneling at the edge.
And you hadn't given work a heads-up that she was getting close?

Edit: Just pointing out that there is an extremely easy way to notify your work, given the uncertain schedule of all childbirth.
Unless the employee has the same reward ($$$) you can't expect the same level of commitment.
Witnessing the beginning of a life altering project is not even comparable to help somebody else build a car.
What would you think of a founder that misses the launch of his product?
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Yes, if your goal is to get into YC, but I would argue that, as a startup founder, your goal should be building your process and getting it to market. YC, for all positive hype they get, will not help you build your product, design your process, or give you users if you didn't have the fortitude to get it in the first place. If building a startup is driving on the highway, then getting into YC is driving 95 mph, while just doing it on your own is driving 55 mph; there are more risks and deadlines involved, and there is no guarantee you will reach your destination... But if you do, it happened really quickly and everyone else is impressed.

Doing a startup is the 21st century version of the 7th century practice of going on a religious pilgrimage. And YC is a wealthy kingdom somewhere along the way; it is neither your destination nor an absolutely necessary via-point (though it is refreshing to go there). Your startup is your journey, the roads you trailblazed is your business, and the journey itself starts with you and it ends with you. YC might help you on your way, but it won't and can't carry you (incidentally, the only thing that gets your through your worst moments is blind and obstinate faith, which is surprising because this hasn't changed despite all the centuries)
If a reference from a YC-funded employer is useful, does the same apply to a YC-funded customer?
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