skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Some of the best developers I know didn't even get an engineering degree.

How do you know this is just not confirmation bias on your part. You like to think that degree-less people are somehow vaguely 'better.' You know some developers that don't have a degree. Consequently they must be the best developers you know. I think most would agree that you would need actual double blind research including some way to order developers by ability that made sense. You would also have to have a sufficiently large sample size randomly chosen instead of your biased sample of a few people you know. It stands to reason, though, with no research done that you are just more likely to know more developers without degrees since only 18% of the population have a Bachelors and 7% have a masters.
Certainly one of the more absurd comment I've read on HN.

3 month bootcamp attendees shouldn't make more than $75k. They are junior as hell, and add little if not negative value for a long stretch of time. Even $75k is a reflection of the crazy job market, not their actual value.

Your COL & salary analysis for SF is incredibly off. Yeah you'll probably have to sacrifice the excesses of your upper middle class SF lifestyle (boo hoo...). You can easily live on $75/k year in a $1600/mo studio in the Tenderloin, or on the flip side you can have a $1600/mo shared apartment in the Marina. You can't do that if you have a family, (but if you do, that's on you for switching to programming while needing to support a family).

Crappy programmer entitlement is just so off the charts (and disjointed from reality) it's a little frustrating.
It isn't a very large player. Most websites will not see anywhere near 25% of IE < 11, even though that may be the global distribution. Even some of our most conservative enterprise clients have upgraded to IE 11. I'm not entirely sure how Microsoft pulled this off, but I'm impressed at how quickly they are pushing everyone to a modern browser.

If you start a new project today, there is almost no reason to care about IE < 11. By the time you get enough users that IE itself becomes a sizeable number, I am willing to bet that IE < 11 will be around 5% of users on the high end.
Is 9% UoP's overall graduation rate? According to TFA (and the DoE, where they sourced the data), the online school's graduation rate was 7.3%.
>No sane employer turns to an internship program for cheap labor.

You're kidding, right?

>For one thing, intern salaries are not exactly "cheap" ($10k+ at SV companies).

Relative to tech salaries after graduation that's cheap. In industries without such high salaries interns often don't get paid at all. That's super cheap.

>For another, nearly every intern is a net drain on the company in the immediate term.

So are many dirt cheap outsourced developers. That doesn't change the why they are hired.

>So why should they invest in training? In the immediate term,

For a long term investment pay off.

>Note that that's what actually broke the wage-fixing cartel: Facebook.

A class action lawsuit by tech employees broke the cartel.
Just the fact that an accredited University is publicly traded is somewhat troubling to me.
>You shouldn't go trying to be a PM, because you've got neither the experience nor the respect to get there. Sorry to be blunt, but this'll save some time.

I get that, the only reason I have my sights set on it is that I'm already working as one for a company. :) I think that I'll best be able to leverage my experience and skills in some sort of technical product or program manager role, but I wanted to be sure I can pass a big 4 technical interview ect in addition to my pm/ business skills.
Rent is so high because salaries are so high.
He's basically saying, "i want smart suckers. people who'll work their asses off to make me as money as possible, and will get fucked at the end of the line"
Jacquard Loom: Early Computer Programing (2011) [video]
Another great reference for Flexbox: https://scotch.io/tutorials/a-visual-guide-to-css3-flexbox-p...
I don't remember what all of them are but I read an article a while back talking about a number of for-profit schools. The fact that there are accredited institutions that are publicly traded just seems wrong.
One doesn't. One spends loyalty in order the 'fuck people over' -- and that's why Uber needs to build loyalty first.
I want to second that the salary tends to top out, and the rest of compensation is very heavily stock based. Also that stock compensation might of not been as worth as much when it was defined, but because the company stock has performed well, it's value has increased significantly.

For example if your 4 year stock grant was rated on the early 2012 price of apple, and now it's about double, then your making a lot more money!
Seems every variation of my name and what it represent are taken on all major email providers. Hard finding one that represents strong INFOSEC, lay people understand, easy enough to spell, and sounds cool. Then, I had an idea. Just click on my name to see my new email for security work.
It should be possible to pipe to file and then fire off a subprocess to open the resulting png.

In Windows, you can do:

os.system("start {}".format(output_file_name))

to open the output file with the default Windows program to view that file type (although if there is no registered program to open files of that extension, you'll get the usual prompt asking you what program you want to use to open the file.

Similarly, you can use `open` in OS X and `gnome-open` in at least some flavors of Linux (including Ubuntu).

Of course, you could always allow this command to be user configurable, with the defaults above depending on the OS in which the code is running.
Perhaps. I won't argue that my parents, on the whole, raised me very well. I wasn't aware of this at all until I had some distance from them, and heard about/experienced other people's parents, who tended to fall into either "helicopter" or "absent."

I left college to start a company (a decision that, I note, my parents were incredibly supportive of), and I have no debt. I wouldn't consider myself a model person; I don't take very good care of my body, I have poor work/life separation, and I am currently wallowing in mild depression. I think too much and do too little. But on the whole, I have a solid base to build upon, and I can thank my parents for that.

Thanks for the perspective. I had internalized a lot of these issues and never tried to lay them all out, so this was therapeutic.
Complicated? Just easy to forget. Esoteric unimportant details.

I can sympathize. I have 4-5 languages I write once a month or so. Each has a different "if" syntax, and a different "for" syntax. Pretty soon I'm going to cave and write myself a little reference note like that.

(Yeah, yeah, I'm sure any real ninjapirate worth his salt can perfectly recall every syntax rule of every language he's ever written)
Free market solutions to community need, such as the charitable foundations you enumerate, have been crowded out by state monopolization.

Hospitals are also too quickly forgotten: Catholic and Masonic.

There was also a great article in The Economist recently (linked on HN?) about cheap & effective market schooling in the third world.
"USA did a survey when our show premiered, targeting millennials, and asked if they could go back in time and start over, would they join Facebook. And I think, overwhelmingly, most people said no, which is great."
> now the manufacturing industry in the US is so bad

Isn't this pretty soundly debunked at this point? Honest question because I hear alternately "US manufacturing is dead" and "US manufactures more crap than anyone else except China, barely". I get the sense that saying the US manufacturing industry is dead because it doesn't employ many people, is the same as saying the US agriculture industry is dead for the same reason, and also wrong for the same reason (i.e. number of people employed is a weak metric for the strength of an industry).
http://www.nleomf.org/facts/officer-fatalities-data/causes.h...

Shot & killed? Around 50/year.
Information+on+ISV+certifications+and+recommendations+-+Lenovo+Support+(ZA)
I have witnessed two different trials of Google Apps for "regular" office workers. In my experience, the number of Excel users satisfied with Google's offering is a lot closer to 0% than 99%.
I stopped reading it because it was very clear that his ego is still giant. And it's not surprising that the Steam circus has some of the same ego issues.
Usually they are young and don't know how startups work that well. They don't know how the full financial simulation works out.
Shortage may be phony?

Ask all the unemployed engineers over fifty if it's phony.

Ask all the women leaving the field after less than five years if it's phony.

Ask developers who want to work remotely if it's phony.

If you don't see companies making simple, easy changes then you can be pretty assure the shortage is phony.
I also wrote a js MegaMan clone (which is moooostly complete) You can check it out at http://executive-man.com/. I set it up with touch controls, joysticks controls, sound fx, music, etc. source code is available at https://github.com/CamHenlin/ExecutiveMan
It's unfortunate that most will discount this article prima facie given the current political and societal winds.

I'm not qualified to determine whether the guy's science is sound or not, and I damn sure don't endorse "shoot first and ask questions later." But I've been the guy with dirty boots carrying a gun and can tell you that unless you've been there, it's difficult to understand how quickly things happen and how your brain and nervous system react...far too quickly to rationally consider things like "he is shooting too fast to have a high probability of hitting me" or "statistically my job is not getting more dangerous" like so many enlightened internet commenters are proposing. Comments like that nauseating naiveté masquerading as enlightenment, not constructive solutions to police shootings.

Let me state unequivocally that one preventable death is too many, regardless of race or circumstance, and police officers who abuse their power or hide behind their badge ought to be punished more harshly given the increased responsibility they bear.

But in the same way that we ought to empathize with the victims who have gotten the short end of the stick from our justice system and society in general, maybe we ought not to be so quick to judge officers who do a dangerous and often thankless job, but one that's critical to society. Especially those who have never been in a shoot/don't shoot situation or faced the ambiguity of trying to determine in the heat of the moment whether the situation unfolding before them in real time is truly a shoot/don't shoot situation.
I hope the rest of the networking industry simply ignores this and continues moving forward on 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps equipment. There's already gear on the market for this and by the time there's 25/50 Gbps gear available, the prices for 40/100 will be more viable and more gear will be available.

2 x 10 Gbps gets you pretty close to 25 Gbps and if 40 Gbps isn't enough then you can bond a couple of those together too (or just go ahead and make the leap to 100 Gbps).
I was expecting his argument about how life is a really simulation, still a good read nonetheless.
I've had very nasty experiences with bitfields even though the order was well defined on that platform. It was an embedded system where someone got the idea to create bitfield access to a cpu register.

The problem was that some bits in that register would be cleared automatically each time, so even if you wrote 0 it would read back as 1 the next time. Some other bit would always trigger an action if you wrote to it regardless if you wrote the same value as it had before, this was called the send_bit and when you wrote 0 it sent some stuff onto the network cable. So code that looked perfectly fine like this:

register.bitsa = 0x2;
register.bitsb = 0x1;
register.send_bit = 0.

Actually sent 3 packets instead of 1 because the compiler translated each write of a bitfield member to a write of the whole register, some other bits in bitsa could get corrupted by the bitsb-write since they didn't read back as they were written. I assume the cpu had a minimum addressable unit of 8 bits so the compiler had to translate each line into something like register = (register | setbits) & clearbits; which requires reading the previous value each time just to write a single bit, this is very easy to overlook when you just see the three lines of code being written in a neat sequence.
Have you ever actually hired an intern?

I've literally never seen a company make a net profit on interns. Talk to people running intern programs: it's explicitly seen as a hiring funnel for full-time, not as an end of itself.

> A class action lawsuit by tech employees broke the cartel.

The lawsuit came after the cartel had already stopped functioning. Facebook refused to play ball and started recruiting aggressively from the other companies (particularly Google), directly undermining the wage-fixing.
Was pretty much in your exact same boat 2 years ago. Had to leave. Spent 2 years outside as a digital nomad, working remotely from Asia. Got my O1 approved last month, and am moving back. On the one hand the last 2 years bouncing about in Asia have been a unique experience that has made me a grow a lot. I would never have done it without being forced into it. On the other hand, I missed SV so much and can't wait to be back.

Find my contact info in my profile, feel free to get in touch.
I don't understand how your claim about Starbucks employees not having college degrees contradicts the assertion that people with college degrees apply there but don't get hired because they're overqualified. The employees actually hired would be those without degrees, which is what the OP says.

I would also add that despite quoting juicy statistic from your article, you don't seem to have read it accurately - there's no about how many baristas have degrees. The only comment is that 25% of all employees have degrees. I don't have the data tell what the chance is that the average Starbucks barista has a college degree but I'd claim neither do you if you're just going by that article.
>This retired cop has somehow reached the conclusion that it is a much more dangerous world today than it was 20 years ago, despite crime rates being at an all-time low. I'm seriously wondering where his delusion comes from, because it seems to be shared by cops all over the nation.

My wild guess: the 24 hour news cycle.
Zimbabwe seeks second American 'lion killer'
Rent is high because there is not enough housing.
For certain topics, mailing lists seem to be where the high S/N ratio currently is, although in some cases that's been true since the '90s. Almost all free-software projects that once used a newsgroup as their primary public discussion venue now have a mailing list, for example. And some professional specialties and academic disciplines have a widely subscribed mailing list for people in the field. The downside there is that it can sometimes be hard to figure out where exactly people in a field talk, since there's no central, browsable index. Sometimes it's a professional society like one of the ACM SIGs running the list, sometimes it's a university, sometimes a nonprofit or a big conference, and sometimes just some random listserv that accreted enough subscribers to become a de facto hub.
Yes. I think a lack of accountability among police causes them to behave with indifference towards citizens.
Testing is the step before prod
Things without boundaries will eventually cease to be things. Anti-discrimination laws remove many effective ways for communities to form boundaries around themselves. A lot of terrible shit about our society follows from this.
How to set up cron job for Xibo CMS? What cron job setting shall I use?
Then are you just round-filing CVs that you get via that path? Because if you really think that you'll get no good candidates that way, all you're doing is introducing needless noise into your search process by cluttering it up with unwanted candidates.

Either you're not being honest about your opinion of those sites and others like them, or you are behaving irrationally.
I see history repeating itself...

Anyone who buys/implements this gear is effectively locking themselves in and, while it may work just fine within their own datacenters, they're still going to have to use the "normal" (i.e. IEEE) standards to connect to anyone else.

Broadcom already has a huge portion of the networking market. It's my guess that they didn't initiate this, but why wouldn't they agree to supply the chips if they were approached and asked to do so?

Honestly, this seems in line with Microsoft's "embrace and extend" mantra, although I'm having trouble seeing how it benefits them (financially).
or ie10...
Regarding the camera with hitpoints, is there a name for that class of bug? Poorly thought out code reuse? Overly specific inheritance?

A similar seeming bug is the old "kangaroos with rocket launchers" story (from military simulations, not games) [1].

[1] http://www.petting-zoo.net/~deadbeef/archive/4488.html
Scalar output would be way less than that number, 25 GFLOPS. At most 2x clock frequency. It's likely their benchmark just doesn't support AVX2 (and FMA [1]).

You get about 25 GFLOPS if you use SSE only.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FMA_instruction_set
ublock or umatrix, either will do.
Everything Is Yours, Everything Is Not Yours
I think an important distinction is between speech in general and testimony in a courtroom.

"Defending" in the sense of publicly arguing that the accused officers are innocent is your basic right in a free society. I don't think this sort of speech results in responsibility for future deaths. It doesn't seem very rational for a potential murderer to be encouraged to commit the crime by the knowledge that there are some people out there who will argue that he is innocent. After all, there are lots of examples of people who end up behind bars despite having a large number of supporters.

"Defending" in the sense of presenting pseudo-scientific testimony that sways a jury is IMHO perverting justice. Moreover, it shows potential murderers exactly how they too can get away with it, so there is a fair argument that such testimony does result in future deaths.
And that’s okay!

My trans friend recently moved to stay with me in California. Her experiences, and the experiences of others, have helped me realise that gender is really important to many people—and I just don’t have a slot for it in my personality.

Same goes for religion—my folks tried to teach me about their religious background from a young age, but I never had the ability to believe in it.

I just try to respect people, and shut my opinion-hole and acknowledge when I just don’t get it.
5% +- 1%

I am a strong believer that all people have equal ability, and if all countries were on a equal footing then their GDP size would be more of less reflective of their labour force.

Ofcourse it gets complicated if countries have resources only to their geography.

GDP per capita is a weak measure since america has high inequality, some people in america are as poor and hungry as the worst conditions in africa.

America was built mostly out stealing labour from the rest of the world in a selective way, without taking full advantage of your own labour force.

The unfairness comes when we talk about investment. A lot of counties like India invested heavily on education. What happened to the talent produced by that investment ? They all ran away to US.

Its okay if a small number of people do it, but when a huge portion of the population does it then its not fair to the country involved.

It also allows america to get away with it by not investing in their own education or labour force.

Some countries figured out this game - south korea, china. who force their labour to pay back the investment - is it wrong ? yes.

But given america's hypocrisy they had no other option.

Right now america is loosing its ability to attract talent, since the global financial meltdown in 2008. It used to be a blackhole to world labour and investment (using wallstreet).

But as countries develop american multinationals and the american govt will need to downsize and they are not happy to do it, since it means downsizing its global bullying power.

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If you want to learn more about how america has screwed over humanity.

1) http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Global-Minotaur-Economic-Controv...

2) http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Oil-Kings-Changed-Balance/dp/143...

3)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit...

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I have been reading about it and making sure things are historically accurate, not only am I becoming more economically literal - I am also enraged about how horrible america has being, I used to celebrate american culture and now really feel bitter. I have been reading them only for the past 20 days or so, so my initial phase of angry is still not complete.
Depending on which bit of Reddit, its also entirely possible the only way of reporting that "non-anonymously" might have been to say "According to a Reddit comment by BigDick4YoMama", which quite likely isn't what your editor wants to see in your articles. (But you are right, and I deserve the downvotes I'm getting here - it was a pretty poor attempt at humour…)
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I have 50/25 Mbps at home (via fiber) but, looking at my usage graphs, my peak usage is waaaaaay below that (we hit up to ~6 Mbps when watching Netflix). I can get 1000/500 Mbps if I want to pay another ~$100/month and I've thought about upgrading but I really don't have a good reason to do so (other than the geek factor and bragging rights).
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The closer two languages are the harder it is not to mess up with details like that.
Not enough housing because high salaries draw more workers.
Oh interesting: Aaron Swartz's father was the founder
Maybe DOS allowed one to to statically link OS-provided libraries? I have no clue, this was way before my time.
I'd go even further:

First, consider the distribution of wealth based on consequences of birth, which is pure luck: Race, gender, socioeconomic class of parents, parental 'skill' (care, skill development, investment in your upbringing, etc.), and location (e.g. Silicon Valley, rural North Dakota, or North Korea?). Where and to whom you were born is highly determinative of economic success, but clearly it is 100% luck and not skill.

Also consider how much of success is due to others. Consider Walmart, for a simple example. How much of the following did Sam Walton build himself?:

* Infrastructure: Roads, train tracks, airports, etc. for transporting the goods he sells

* The technology of that infrastructure: Who invented and developed automobiles, trains, airplanes, refrigeration, electric lighting (so logistics can operate at night), conveyor belts, electrical generation and distribution, IT, etc.

* The development of the human resources: The education that makes his workers literate and skilled to do their jobs: The schools, the teachers, the concepts, the textbooks, pencils, chalkboards ... we could even say language, mathematics, etc.

* The system of laws and government that protect his business and allow it to operate efficiently (e.g., via contracts, dispute resolution, etc.).

That's just a small sample of what Walmart depends on, that Sam Walton did nothing to provide. Sam Walton, and many others, built something very impressive and far more than probably anyone reading this, but it amounts to a sliver on top of a massive infrastructure built up by generations before him. He, like the rest of us, needs to contribute his share and build for the next generation, just like all who came before him.
IE10 supports flexbox, it just supports the 2012 syntax.