Yes we do? "software engineer" is a very common job title.
I don't buy it. Eich was hardly a wunderkind capable of carrying a browser on his shoulders alone. And in a market for engineers that currently favors labor, do you really want to be on the wrong side of the social…
There is a great book by a marine biologist that goes into detail about these topics. It's called The Ocean of Life - The Fate of Man and the Sea by Callum Roberts. It was recommended to me here on HN several years ago,…
If political correctness means not making demeaning jokes about women in your code, then yes, it's absolutely mandatory. Even if you were the most sexist business owner, it should still be obvious that behavior like…
I would really recommend reading Eric Schlosser's phenomenal book Command and Control. I don't know who told you that about safety, but the book paints a very different picture. There have been numerous very close calls…
No, it wouldn't? What does a border guard know about calculus, much less some physicist's particular area of research? The whole reason this is farcical is that self-balancing search tree algorithms are notoriously…
My heart is broken by individual stories like this one, but I have a hard time sympathizing with these overwhelmingly conservative areas who lectured us "tax and spend liberals" about welfare queens and bootstraps when…
Man this alt-right spam has been getting out of hand on HN recently. I hope dang does something about it.
Come on, banning Muslims was a _key campaign point_. He talked about it all the time during the primaries and the general election. So yes, I do hold people accountable for voting for this.
It's perfectly reasonable to kick a toxic person out of your community. Free speech means the government won't put you in prison. It doesn't mean that other people are required to entertain your opinions.
Sama, I appreciate your taking a stand on this, but how do you reconcile YCombinator's ties with Peter Thiel? Actions speak loud than words, and so far we've only seen words from you guys. Be the change you want to see…
On the surface, it's a pretty weird acquisition. Hasselblad is known for making high end, large format cameras for professional photographers. Their flagship products are large, heavy, and cost tens of thousands of…
It's a joke. There are dozens of cities with articles calling them "the next Silicon Valley". But everyone still moves to California or New York when they need to raise big rounds and hire lots of engineers.
For readers who are (fortunately) unaware of alt-right symbolism, "globalist" is a code word for "Jew".
Oh yes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_astronauts It's all pseudoscience/"amateur" history though. As far as I know, no experts take it seriously.
I think the problem with racial profiling is a Bayesian one. Even if P(terrorist|brown looking person) is slightly higher than P(terrorist|white looking person) (which I'm not even convinced is true), P(terrorist) is so…
I'd love to see some comments on what it's like raising money in Toronto. Is there a local investor ecosystem? Do companies raise a series A led by a Toronto firm? Do they fly to NYC or SF and hope to find investors who…
The attacking part is great. It's the "fail fast" part that they messed up on. If the machines worked, would we be having this conversation about a company accused of lying to regulators and defrauding investors? Maybe…
Did they spend the $9.6m series A already? The CEO is apparently a cofounder of Sidecar and has experience in investment banking and at a VC firm. Maybe they're bleeding money and realized in today's climate they'd…
Why the snark? It would be trivial to add another gender option to the page, and it would make the world a slightly friendlier place to a few people. Must everything be an argument?
thanks dang you are running a tight ship around here
What are the other, more important reasons that research is unreliable?
My impression of I Am a Strange Loop was that it contains a subset of the ideas in GEB, and lacks the off the wall charm (and delicious mathematics) that GEB contains. I sometimes recommend it to people who tried to…
I think you misunderstand me... I'm not making a judgement about the art produced with any device. The art of photography is only tangentially related to camera gear quality. I'm saying that comparing smartphone camera…
Both of these phones have great cameras, but they don't hold a candle to the performance of even crop sensor entry level DSLRs and mirrorless bodies. It seems pointless to me to split hairs over picture quality between…
Yes we do? "software engineer" is a very common job title.
I don't buy it. Eich was hardly a wunderkind capable of carrying a browser on his shoulders alone. And in a market for engineers that currently favors labor, do you really want to be on the wrong side of the social…
There is a great book by a marine biologist that goes into detail about these topics. It's called The Ocean of Life - The Fate of Man and the Sea by Callum Roberts. It was recommended to me here on HN several years ago,…
If political correctness means not making demeaning jokes about women in your code, then yes, it's absolutely mandatory. Even if you were the most sexist business owner, it should still be obvious that behavior like…
I would really recommend reading Eric Schlosser's phenomenal book Command and Control. I don't know who told you that about safety, but the book paints a very different picture. There have been numerous very close calls…
No, it wouldn't? What does a border guard know about calculus, much less some physicist's particular area of research? The whole reason this is farcical is that self-balancing search tree algorithms are notoriously…
My heart is broken by individual stories like this one, but I have a hard time sympathizing with these overwhelmingly conservative areas who lectured us "tax and spend liberals" about welfare queens and bootstraps when…
Man this alt-right spam has been getting out of hand on HN recently. I hope dang does something about it.
Come on, banning Muslims was a _key campaign point_. He talked about it all the time during the primaries and the general election. So yes, I do hold people accountable for voting for this.
It's perfectly reasonable to kick a toxic person out of your community. Free speech means the government won't put you in prison. It doesn't mean that other people are required to entertain your opinions.
Sama, I appreciate your taking a stand on this, but how do you reconcile YCombinator's ties with Peter Thiel? Actions speak loud than words, and so far we've only seen words from you guys. Be the change you want to see…
On the surface, it's a pretty weird acquisition. Hasselblad is known for making high end, large format cameras for professional photographers. Their flagship products are large, heavy, and cost tens of thousands of…
It's a joke. There are dozens of cities with articles calling them "the next Silicon Valley". But everyone still moves to California or New York when they need to raise big rounds and hire lots of engineers.
For readers who are (fortunately) unaware of alt-right symbolism, "globalist" is a code word for "Jew".
Oh yes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_astronauts It's all pseudoscience/"amateur" history though. As far as I know, no experts take it seriously.
I think the problem with racial profiling is a Bayesian one. Even if P(terrorist|brown looking person) is slightly higher than P(terrorist|white looking person) (which I'm not even convinced is true), P(terrorist) is so…
I'd love to see some comments on what it's like raising money in Toronto. Is there a local investor ecosystem? Do companies raise a series A led by a Toronto firm? Do they fly to NYC or SF and hope to find investors who…
The attacking part is great. It's the "fail fast" part that they messed up on. If the machines worked, would we be having this conversation about a company accused of lying to regulators and defrauding investors? Maybe…
Did they spend the $9.6m series A already? The CEO is apparently a cofounder of Sidecar and has experience in investment banking and at a VC firm. Maybe they're bleeding money and realized in today's climate they'd…
Why the snark? It would be trivial to add another gender option to the page, and it would make the world a slightly friendlier place to a few people. Must everything be an argument?
thanks dang you are running a tight ship around here
What are the other, more important reasons that research is unreliable?
My impression of I Am a Strange Loop was that it contains a subset of the ideas in GEB, and lacks the off the wall charm (and delicious mathematics) that GEB contains. I sometimes recommend it to people who tried to…
I think you misunderstand me... I'm not making a judgement about the art produced with any device. The art of photography is only tangentially related to camera gear quality. I'm saying that comparing smartphone camera…
Both of these phones have great cameras, but they don't hold a candle to the performance of even crop sensor entry level DSLRs and mirrorless bodies. It seems pointless to me to split hairs over picture quality between…