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How long has he been in the company? Is he a new member or is there a track record of delivering/not delivering stuff?
It's really annoying that the showcase video is only 360p. It's too small on the website, and if I go fullscreen I can count the pixels..
Url changed from http://boingboing.net/2015/08/05/british-library-releases-ov..., which points to this.
Location: Tehran, Iran

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: ASP.NET, C#, Typescript, Javascript, HTML, CSS, ASP.NET MVC, Angularjs

Resume/CV: http://1drv.ms/1W3f1y5

Email: alisabzevari [at] gmail

Passionate developer with almost 10 years of experience. I like learning new technologies and not religious to my stack as it seems! I am working in a BI focused company and worked on data visualization and BI application for about 4 years.
My feeling is that it looks great compared to most of the stuff I see on the web. It's a good start for a plain minimalistic website. The content needs more work (one "Tufte's" is fine, while the other don't) and all "don't" have incorrect '.
I wonder how exactly it works. t0 are not very specific about implementation details. If they are using the bitcoin blockchain it should be possible to point out the actual transactions there.
Biggest issue for me is that on mobile all the side notes go away (on portrait) and there is no fallback.
At 21, He's the Mind Behind Multi-Million Dollar Startup OYO
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Letting my imagination run wild, I'd add a speech recognition module, generating CSS from a spoken description of layout etc.

After some busy work along that line, we would arrive at a generation of PLs where you don't write source code but have it generated from interpreted speech input.

I'm not so sure I (as a programmer) would really want that, but it would seem a rather obvious line of development.
I specifically noted in my comment that I know you cannot understand the underlying problems by watching TV.
> they are definitely paying a price for expansion.

Of course, that's the whole reason to raise capital (so you can expand rapidly on a model which has attractive unit economics).

The point is that we don't have to speculate about what will happen once Uber raises prices. Just look at their mature markets, where pricing is on par with taxis, and you can see a profitable model.
Even just burying it, burning it or keeping it in a single pile would seem better than having it lying all over the place.
It really grind my gears because it's not even grammatically correct to say that "Isomorphic architecture". Isomorphic to what?. An isomorphism is a binary relationship... "A is isomorphic to B".

It's like saying "We run an equals to architecture".
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But where did the $30k go?
At your service.

URL changed from http://phys.org/news/2015-08-million-miles-nasa-camera-moon.....
Get rid of all the privacy-invading, likely non-free javascript and use only HTML. They could then brag about having the fastest website of any media company.
Off topic but I am curious to know - how did you manage to land your first customer? Sales has always been an enigma for me
Or you could just explain what you are talking about.
I too would am curious to know
Here's something for anyone upvoting to process in their brains, a koan coined years ago: "correlation does not mean causation".

Now write that on a wall and start banging your head against it ...

Here's the deal with Coke.

For a normal body fat percentage person (up to 20% male and up to 30% female) it's ok in small quantities. By small quantities I mean up to 500ml a day.

Don't drink it late and wash your teeth twice a day. And if you drink it after a meal, it may actually help you digest it a bit better.
That's why i would not want to use it.

If it would be controlled by non-china company outside of china and programmed by chinese programmers then YES i would be interested.

But your government can't be trusted as well as your companies can't be trusted. Sorry.
> Is this guy entitled to live in NY? Is anyone? What's wrong with Chicago, or Kansas City, or any other fine city in the US. Does every one HAVE to live in NY or LA or SF?

No one wants to leave his home just because some rich asshole decides he wants to make a shitload of money. (And no, the option to stay is not an option if your landlord is one of the mentioned mafia-like ones)
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I agree with all Ironchef's points. I was diagnosed with ADD when I was over 40 already and only by coincident, because my daughter had it too.
I was able to finish high school but university (CS) turned out too much of a stretch, I basically just got too bored.
After a couple of other jobs I ended up as a programmer anyway and I still like it. Here's what I learned:

Like Ironchef said: ADD can be a handicap at times, but at other occasions it can be a tremendous asset. Focus on the good parts and build your life around them!
In my case, I found out that I like deadlines, they keep me focussed. Also I always got bored in every job after half a year or so, so now I'm a consultant and I'm happily switching companies all the time. So what is a weakness in one situation, can be a strength in another.

Exercising helps. I exercise (mildly) every morning and it helps during the day with keeping me motivated and focussed.

Have realistic goals. I tried a couple of times but learned the hard way that long term studies are not my thing, my attention will fade too quickly.
So now I'm doing short online courses all the time, I love Coursera for instance.
Incredibly well said.

My parents — probably like yours — are very traditional. And in so, they are convinced that having that piece of paper means you're +$30k a year from the start <at least AND no matter what other circumstances> ( except outliers).

I STILL hear this all the time... "when I was your age..."

I reply, "yeah well when Barack Obama was your age, he was the first black President of the United States of America."

When my parents were my age, they could go to school full-time at the University of Minnesota, have a minimum wage job, and at 16 hours a week they would be able to afford their education and living expenses.

Those were the days where it made sense to have an education because it was such a great value at a very affordable price.

BUT. Now, because it's so much easier to get <nearly free money> (a la student loans), Universities saw this as money in their pocket: Since students are getting money easier, that means it's easier for them to get an education; now that there's more money available, let's make more money for ourselves!

It's a terrible fucking system.
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> For reference, I had few colleagues who did their job well, though where completely clueless out of their job requirements range. They have not attended college, or dropped out very early. They had narrower and way shallower interest fields than people I know with degrees.

Were they engineers? :)
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So how do you know you're not missing out, or more precisely, that you're not missing out and what you are missing out is so great that the productivity you gain from restricting yourself to the subset of tools you fully master does not compensate for what you are missing out - I am thinking of frameworks like Angular or React? I am asking that as someone who doesn't use the frameworks I mentioned and sticks with vanilla JS and DOM APIs.

If you were at Google I suppose that you had lots of technical conversations with colleagues so you more or less knew about the latest trends and their benefits, but it's harder at a smaller company or working on your own.
How do we know who you are? I am of course interested, but I don’t sign up for unknown services offered by unknown people. Any reason you have not hosted this form on usecanary?
> To put it in another way: as the power of available machines grew by a factor of more than a thousand, society’s ambition to apply these machines grew in proportion, and it was the poor programmer who found his job in this exploded field of tension between ends and means.

I always thought that it was easier to be a programmer in the old days. Back when you could assess the performance of a program by counting the number of CPU cycles. All you had to learn was an assembly manual (a mere hundred pages?) and you knew everything there was to know about programming for that architecture. And there weren't that many architectures. Now we have non-deterministic CPUs, hundreds of high level programming languages, multiple operating systems, an entire jungle.
Anything above the first tier of Maslow's pyramid is not essential.

Ask yourself: do we as a society benefit if Facebook uses open protocols? Law should facilitate society's needs, not the other way around.
Heh, quick, put out a press release about how we didn't succeed to allay fears
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Those instructions haven't worked for almost a year, when Google stopped supporting Chromium v22.

I just updated my instructions to use Google's new open source connector: https://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/add-google-cloudprint-wifi-...
If people used precompiled headers (which have been available for about 20 years) that problem wouldn't be there...
However I'm not sure that the parsing is such a bottleneck these days; I think all the complex constructs are a lot more of a time sink (templates etc). That and linking! Takes an hour to link the webkit library with the regular linker :-)
They're spending an awful lot for control of a market that is expected to disappear within a few years when self driving cars mature.

Of course, they are aware of it and are investing in being a leader in that market - but they're fighting with global giants over there, not the local Taxi outfits.
Maybe as interesting is where this satellite is: The Lagrange L1 point. The 5 Lagrange points in essence allow orbiting bodies to break Kepler's laws. A satellite a million miles closer to the Sun shouldn't have the same orbital period as the Earth... but it does.
You just said the same thing, but framed as a positive.

Use VC money to put taxis out of business then jack up the price and let the service level plummet as cheap immigrants become the drivers.
Car manufacturers will benefit.

What matters is passenger miles driven, not total number of unique car sales.

If you open up a new pocket of driving demand because it's easier to get a lift, then the total passenger miles driven goes up. Even more so if it is a pickup/dropoff model with 'empty miles'.

More miles driven->Cars worn out faster->more sales. More sales of likely generic cars less obsessed with expensive annual styling tweaks. More sales -> fewer models -> longer model runs = more profit.

I'd say the car companies are happy.
How does bellard.org/jslinux work?
Try reading the career guide: https://80000hours.org/career-guide/basics/

I agree that's an issue - we're working on better mobile optimisation.
Yes, Earth's average albedo is around 0.3 while the Moon's is only around 0.12.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albedo
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I don’t think they are :(
Why aren't the stars more visible in the background? Does it have to do with the camera's exposure?
This is true. Some founders seem to have planned their company well beyond their lifetimes. When they retire, MBAs move in.
No, it's like TeMPOraL said. I could've said ABAP4, but (thankfully) not a lot of people are aware of it.
As someone from Europe, so am I.
This is mentioned in slide 51 (with picture of said device in all its lurid pinkness):

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13p6O0C3aY-LSeqGAjfEg...
I miss "Job-caused sleep deprivation" aka "what happens when you have to work 2 jobs+care for a child" to pay rent.
I find it ironic that people are warning about 'oooh, Uber monopoly' when their business model is all about deconstructing actual government monopolies.

Uber already has competitors in major markets. The market has very low switching costs. A new competitor doesn't even have to educate the customer on what to expect, or how it works, or even how to find drivers. All this has now been worked out, so any price gouging can be easily competed with.

I can only conclude those who want to 'regulate' Uber for the 'betterment of society' are severely long Taxi licences, or are hardcore socialists who abhor any economic freedom of agency, or maybe both.
Oh, poor countries do even more of these shenanigans.
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Having just been officially diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea today, let me tell you why that part of insufficient sleep is an epidemic: the system is a racket. Here are the steps to get your sleep apnea solved:

1. Go to your GP and have them refer you to a sleep specialist.

2. Make an appointment with the sleep specialist (one major clinic here in the Bay Area is booked out weeks in advance). Do that office visit where you get the prescription for an overnight sleep study.

3. Wait 2-3 more weeks for your sleep study date, where you get wired up like you're joining the Matrix, and then told to go to sleep at 9:30pm. Riiight.

4. Have a follow up visit at the office in step 2. Go over results. Possibly get prescribed a CPAP machine.

5. Find an in-network provider to buy the CPAP from, and make an appointment with them. This is not an off the shelf thing, expect to spend 2-3 hours in the office/store. Wait time: a couple days to a couple weeks.

6. (optional, if the study from step 3 wasn't split-phase) Return for another sleep study with your new machine so they can calibrate it.

7. Make another follow up appointment to have the doc look at the report from step 6 and actually perform the calibration.

Dude, WHO HAS TIME FOR THIS? Ironically, this whole process is a bit of a nightmare.
Very important to get your sleep. I recommend no caffeine 4 hours before bed. It seems like everytime I can't fall asleep its because I accidentally drank caffeine. I sleep 6 to 10 hours weirdly enough. It seems to depend largely on the previous nights sleep and the physical exertion I've done in the day.
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If you want anything less centralized, then why are you using Github, a centralized interface to and storage of a previously inherently de-centralized system, git?

Github is for people who accept centralization.
Earth is a sunlit object in this picture, the luminosity is the same level as during the day on earth - would you see stars in your photos if you took a correctly exposed photo of something during daylight on earth? I don't think this would happen :) The dynamic range difference between day light objects on earth and the stars on the sky is huge.
"correlation does not mean causation" is very true, but in the case of this article there are citations for studies that prove causation for some of the effects mentioned:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19151203

http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2013/Q3/prof-diet-dr...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7854587

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17525693

Renegade Pharmacist is a bit of a crank site and tends towards pseudoscience some of the time, but that doesn't mean Coke isn't bad for you. It is.
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"And because it's an event that brings in high-level government and corporate staff, there's also plenty of data and networks to entice the nefarious.It's one-stop shopping, a place were every major security executive is gathered..." ---- I wonder who's got hacked in the past
There is one factor I haven't seen addressed: mindset.

If you have certainty in what you're doing, if you have belief, it's a lot easier to be productive than if you're questioning everything ("Why am I doing this?", "Is there a better approach?"). That outlook on life has scuppered my productivity at times.
Since you have to rewrite everything, you might as well switch to another language (we switched to OCaml). If there was an incremental path or a safe subset of C or something like that, that would be more interesting.
Hey, thanks for sharing that. We used to have a team section on our site but I forgot that we don't anymore!

This is me btw :) [redacted]

To answer your other question, we really wanted to create a useful community and were concerned it would look like a lead generation tool.

We're in the process of creating a dedicated landing page but for now the form is what we've got!
You probably just dont want to do whatever you are trying to do, simple as that. Seriously, ask yourself whether, deep down, this is something you really 'want' to do, or its something you feel you 'have' to do (school? work?). This is a completely normal feeling.

Now comes the hard part - doing what you 'have' to do.

Few steps

0a. Get excited about what you 'have' to do - whether it be the learning aspect, the mastery of your work (craftsmanship), the purpose of your work (helping users, making money, etc)

0b. Think about what you are going to do, and write down some granular steps (key)

1. Get yourself to start by hook or crook, and remove absolutely all distractions you can find (spend the time doing this). Start the first step you did in 0b.

2. Work for an hour at least.

3. Feel a sense of accomplishment, pat yourself on the back for completing some work. Look back on the work you completed. The goal is to start 'feeling' a positive sense about doing work you 'have' to do, which will make it easier in the future to do more.

Starting is always the hardest part like anything. Once you get into a routine, it becomes much easier. The hardest part is converting feelings of pain / 'have to do' into feelings of 'want to do' or curiosity.
definitely agreed
the UD definition would involve poker, and not much else.
Not everybody is the same. Caffeine has zero effect on my sleep: I often drink a cup of coffee before going to bed.
Or have a can of Red Bull (I drink it for the taste, not for some energising properties which have no effect on me).
Yes, the first thing I've thought looking at the page on the computer was "I wonder how that looks on my iPhone." I've tried: not easily readable, for me.
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Probably originally attributed to Alan Kay: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Edsger_W._Dijkstra

Quote:
I found an amusing quote from Alan Kay on Dijkstra, from his 1997 OOPSLA keynote: 'I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.' [audience laughter][1]. --24.184.131.16 20:06, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xoyw8LHGtzk
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Probably because that's the Dark Side of the Moon?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon
Out of band verification of key fingerprints is necessary to protect against a malicious server. Users are encouraged to tweet their public keys and verify in person.

We don't have any mechanism other than trusting Whisper Systems that their client binaries matches the sources.

The truly paranoid could be their own client application from source.
The server code is available, people can and do run their own. Several other parties not affiliated with Whisper have written compatible clients. Lots of people are actively looking at and contributing to the official clients. It really is private end to end. The server is merely a router and keyserver.
Out of thousands of rides, 90% of the time I get an immigrant cab driver. I find they're perfectly capable.
Wait.. "cot" and "caught" have different pronunciations?
Ask HN: Teaching programming to asylum seekers?
Hi,

my hometown (in Germany) hosts a facility where asylum seekers can stay until their application is processed.

To make their stay more pleasant and to help them learn something new, a charitable organization offers various courses there. They are always looking for volunteers that can teach about a new topic.

I thought some introduction to programming or web development might be a great addition to their offers.

I am not a teaching professional. Currently I study Philosophy and CS, while working at a tech startup. Do you have any tips for teaching, setting up a curriculum, etc.?
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The collective 'you' is the same as the singular. Just like fish and sheep.

It's incorrect to create a collective 'you' in the same way it's incorrect to say 'sheep'. But English is open source, so whatever.

Ironically, I'm from New Orleans apparently.
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Part of my ‘problem’ with some elements of programming culture, is I fundamentally I don’t think I have that part of my brain where code is my hammer and every problem looks like a nail, so I struggle to even imagine a self-made project I’d have that kind of dedication to, let alone some random corporate or startup app thing.

Like what does Google even do that’s really deserving of that kind of dedication? There are religious orders that are less demanding than many of these stories. I kinda get the practical argument about SV housing costs until I think about it for two seconds and go "What? Fuck, no!"

It's a job. Might even be a good job. But if your work-life balance ceases to be so much a balance as 'just work all the time until you're rich' I can't see that as healthy. It's like some people are entirely voluntarily recreating the company town, and employees are lapping it right up.
Is it not the case that san-serif fonts are better on screen and serif better in print? Seems a bit strange that the webpage uses serif.
The real question is: do you care?

I personally don't care which taxi company carries me on my journey.
What I mean is that they typically give each user their first few rides for free. It's much closer to being a free trial than it is to being a sudden price hike.
Loyalty is not an anathema to a non trivial company, but it needs to be a core value practised across the board not just in part of the firm. It's just like altruism has been shown to be a benefit in natural selection (somewhat counter-intuitively), being a loyal employer has all sorts of benefits to the company. The problem is that it doesn't work with the aim to be a unicorn - you can't grow massively, you can't risk the company on a play. Those "plodding" companies a step removed from the white heat of capitalism, the ones whose owners are "quite rich enough, thankyou" and don't sell, the ones whose employees do spent decades working there.
Flurry has been doing that for ages, as well as Google Analytics. What's the point to announce it like it was never done before, and everybody is ready to "buy" it like Apple Watch? :)