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by idrios 8y ago
Well if we're using personal anecdotes, I had never touched a line of code until college and had just assumed I wasn't smart enough for it. I did study engineering though, which was an easy choice because I had tons of family who
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by idrios 8y ago
In this case, solving the problem downstream does tackle the problem at the root. A lot of people in engineering went down that path because they were inspired by someone when they were younger. If there were more women and minorities in en
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by idrios 8y ago
>how did we manage to screw this up? I was a teacher last year and while I can't answer this question fully, I do know that it's a result of perverse incentives and group pressure. Where I taught at school (a private English sc
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by idrios 8y ago
In regards to your first point, most US students when they go to college don't have the life experience to know which degrees will give them meaningful employment. A kid who was passionate about reading and was encouraged by their teac
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by idrios 8y ago
Was part of a hackathon for building useless things. Someone made this gem and I still love it. Flappy bird where you fly by screaming into your mic http://glench.com/ScreamyBird/
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by idrios 8y ago
I think auditing needs to be part of it too. Otherwise what's to stop companies from just never disclosing data loss? The way I understand it, right now companies intentionally don't look for data breaches so they can claim igno
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by idrios 8y ago
Just a few hours ago there was an article on the front page about yet another tech giant getting hacked and losing contact info on hundreds of millions of users [1]. A GDPR in the US should have the power to audit companies and ensure compl
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by idrios 8y ago
It's a facilitator of bad habits. Telling him to leave Twitter is like telling an alcoholic to get the alcohol out of his house. In either case it's a good first step. But more directly, everyone makes mistakes and we make more ra
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by idrios 8y ago
What's your native language? A year ago I started learning Chinese and I'm wondering if there will ever be a day that it helps me be a better engineer or programmer.
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by idrios 8y ago
Right? "Sorry this is only my first multi-billion dollar startup. I guess I need to start a second to merit having a name in your headline."
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by idrios 8y ago
A professor at U of Washington who's been been teaching for 32 years wrote an essay in response to James Damore's (Google-Memo guy) firing, saying that tech's culture is too silencing of opinions, and wrote an article using t
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by idrios 8y ago
I'm glad privacy is a valued feature and wish it were the norm. But more importantly, I come to HN to learn news or tools for programming. Less of this sponsored content and more "Show HN: Here's how I used computer vision to
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by idrios 8y ago
A number of people made a similar comment to yours and that the money isn't lost, it just changes hands. The response that most people are giving is that it's an example of the broken window fallacy. With gambling, though, there&#
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by idrios 8y ago
As someone else has said, this is specific to the SF bay area, and it's so similar to my experience that it's something I could have written. I wouldn't say the takeaway is that working in tech is bad so much as it's a c
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by idrios 8y ago
I think I solved the problem backwards but I ended up with the same answer. I made a table of what I know vs what my friend knows. I know they have 6 or 8. If they have 6, then I have 12 or 14. If they have 8, then I have 10 or 12.
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by idrios 9y ago
The first link is a review paper of research going on in the field and draws reasonable conclusions. It's also full of language like "A 1999 major cross-sectional study reported erectile dysfunction in 5%, and low sexual desire in
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by idrios 9y ago
Here are two cherry-picked articles from a popular website[1] among users of a popular self-help reddit page for overcoming porn addiction[2]. Example of porn linked to abnormal sexual development https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2
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by idrios 9y ago
You're right about that. I guess for a rule of thumb, imagine what the reaction on HN will be if your system gets hacked, and assume bureaucrats will say the same thing. Will they be criticizing "Everyones' credit card inform
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by idrios 9y ago
I think "reasonable measures" is pretty typical language when talking about compliance. I don't know GDPR regulation very well but I know FDA regulation reasonably well and I imagine compliance will be similar, and much easie
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by idrios 9y ago
I equate the events right now surrounding Facebook to Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle", and GDPR being the privacy-analogue to the creation of the FDA. The FDA makes the medical field hard to break into for startups, but fo
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by idrios 9y ago
Yeah we do. While I don't like Google tracking where I am from my cell phone when location-sharing is off, I love listening to music on Pandora and Spotify and I would never discover the new songs I do if there was no option to like or
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by idrios 9y ago
More than that, the traditional press hates Facebook because Facebook is stealing its business. I thought Wired ran a good story about it [1]. [1] https://www.wired.com/story/inside-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-...
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by idrios 9y ago
I made DuckDuckGo my browser's default search engine a few years ago out of principle, but I would switch to Google very quickly because it was still so much better. In the last few months I noticed it had become incredibly good as wel
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by idrios 9y ago
Also relevant, though maybe deviating a bit from engineering: Principles of Neural Science by Kandel and Schwartz https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Neural-Science-Fifth-Kande...
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In the last few years I've lived in Cleveland OH (5 years in college), Denver CO / Colorado Springs (3 months), and San Jose / SF Bay area (1 year). All 3 of these places had homelessness issues and the root causes were very
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by idrios 9y ago
I remember reading (don't remember where) that the current state of machine learning is a lot like the state of bridges a few thousand years ago. People basically try different approaches using intuition and sometimes if the results ar
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Clarification needed. When you say their commitment has been limited, do you mean they have done things that go contrary to protecting data (like selling user data to ad companies, or handing user data to government agencies when requested)
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by idrios 9y ago
"When I was poor and complained about inequality they said I was bitter; now that I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm beginning to think they just don't want to talk about inequali
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by idrios 9y ago
seanmcdirmid made a good point, since I'm currently teaching English my case is probably an exception and my statement was overgeneralizing
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by idrios 9y ago
As an American expat living in China and currently applying to grad schools for neuroscience research, I'll give my own personal anecdote. I considered applying to grad schools here, especially since some Chinese schools are quite high

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