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Ask HN: What do the smartest people do
I joined a small start up as one of the first engineers and helped grow the company into a multi-million dollar company with an international market and global engineering team, along the way I moved up into management eventually managing most of the engineering department. However even after years of putting together a top notch team I am still one of the best engineers in the company. My position means I can't do much technical work any more, but there have been many occasions where customer problems that some of the most capable people in the company couldn't solve were easily solved by me in a short time ,and its pretty common for me to assist the team to finish projects when the schedule gets tight or contribute to the design of key components of various products.

So what do the smartest people in a company do. Companies need people like me to get big, and they need people to manage the engineering team, but it seems like spending the rest of my career managing engineers is a waste of technical ability and just leaving seems like throwing away years of domain specific experience.
Did you know that the US spends more on education than almost any other country? Only Switzerland spends more per capita and only Switzerland, Norway and Austria spend more per student.

http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cmd.asp

Do you think more money is the answer or should we spend smarter?
You might want to take a look at: lthread & lthread cpp

https://github.com/halayli/lthread

https://github.com/halayli/lthread_cpp
Apparently it's a performance issue.

From apple[1]: Note: Apps containing content blocking extensions for Safari on iOS are available only on 64-bit devices, due to performance limitations of 32-bit devices.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/releasenotes/General/WhatsNewInSafari/Articles/Safari_9.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014305-CH9-SW9
In what way does it resemble a bomb, exactly?
Heh, novel URL: http://a.practical.guide.to.distributed.scrum.pdf/

Warning: OT

1) Is there information on how many gTLD registrars (right word?) have (or will) spin a profit on their gTLD? There are so many gTLDs out now that I can't imagine all of .photo, .photos, and .photography will get enough domains registered to pay for the initial $180k application cost.

2) dang, is it feasible to display more than just TLD and 2nd level domain in the preview? Some sites like this benefit because of a novel URL, but other sites like Knuth's homepage almost deserve to be identified as unique from "stanford.edu"[0].

[0] From earlier today: "Programs to Read (stanford.edu)" --> http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/programs.html
Testing Socket.io and Passport.socketio with Mocha
re. 1: His claim that it is "highly unlikely" that a home-made clock would look like a bomb needs some citation. Unless your definition of "looks like a bomb" is "anything with PCBs and wires, stuck in some kind of box", at which point I would argue that any home-made clock will look like a bomb.

re. 2: He's asking the father to provide an image of something that was confiscated by the police or school administration. Furthermore, the first video with the boy contained a fairly detailed description of the clock, and the second video even contains an image of the box (or at least a similar box).

re. 3: Well, he provided an alternative explanation for that himself.
One way to prevent DoSing your own server while using expensive hashing algorithms is to offload some or all of the computation to client-side JavaScript (if it's a website) or client-side native code (if it's an app). This is called "server relief" [1].

Experts have said that scrypt can be safely used with server relief (see link below). But I'm not sure whether PolyPasswordHasher can be safely used with server relief (i.e. without leaking secrets to the client). Perhaps someone more knowledgeable will pitch in with a better answer.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9305504
United States Code 18-242 makes it a federal crime (a felony if armed) to violate a citizens constitutional rights under color of law. There are several rights that I think were violated here, or appear to have been enough to make it indictable and possibly merit prosecution.
It's good to be able to distinguish different things. In my experience, however, reasonable people can disagree on questions of fact, on questions of value, or on both questions. It is an extremist position to require unanimity on either "facts" or "values".
Chile earthquake: 8.3-magnitude quake strikes off coast – Tsunami Warned
First,

go try joking about explosives in security line at the airport, or at the white-house, or the local federal courthouse. Its not the joke you are getting (going to be) arrested for, its not the absurdity, its not the freedom of speech you are exercising. Its also not racist or whatever...it is just not the context for jokes.

Second,

The <carrier-device> for the "timepiece" is straight out of a B movie. see, eg

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+a+gun+briefcase+look...

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+does+a+bomb+in+a+breifc...
Given the reference to notmuch, I'm guessing harvesting addresses from/with notmuch index?
Their live thread is here: https://www.reddit.com/live/vlfanix4u5u8
"IEX is built from the ground up for those participants". This is not really correct. Why? because a huge percentage of IEX volume is HFT, just like on any other exchange or dark pool . Their whole solution is nothing but a marketing gimmick. All the major HFT firms trade on IEX just fine
Chile earthquake: 8.3-magnitude quake strikes off coast – Tsunami Warning
Do you think it would help if prices were openly displayed before the procedures? (That would certainly encourage shopping around.)
Cydia+install+iOS+8.4.1+iOS+Jailbreak+Tools+and+Jailbreak+Guide
I'm interested to see if this changes anything.
neither does their magic shoebox. It doesn't solve anything and HFT firms aren't meaningfully impacted by the shoebox
You have an excellent point in there: if you aren't free to put your code in any order you like, then it probably won't fit very well into your prose.
To be fair (and I slightly hate myself for speaking up in their defence) the cops were claiming "bomb hoax", not "bomb".

Of course the police are also claiming "not racially motivated policing", so as we gauge their level of truthfullness we should keep both those facts in mind...
The front door application to YC is the same that it was before. YC is seeing that they aren't interacting with enough minority founders and are doing targeted outreach to groups so that they can speak to more of them. Adding more minority founders to the funnel, as they would if they wanted to see more hardware startups and talking to places that serve hardware startups.
Not sure about others, But this isn't news to me.

And now pretty much standard ( or going to be standard ) in every country.
Apple apparently restricted this due to performance limitations.

I have an iPhone 5, and found a way to get around this restriction by building a content blocker myself. It's pretty easy, just a list of JSON rules. You can use this project as an example: https://github.com/krishkumar/BlockParty

I am running my own content blocker on my iPhone 5, and it works nicely.

Note however, that webpages do seem to load slower than when a content blocker is not installed (this is why Apple limited it to 64-bit devices)
HP Job Cuts Reflect EDS Legacy (WSJ)
Really? That sounds like a solid step towards fascism.
Right, that makes sense, but Katsuyama and Lewis both present IEX as a morally superior, cleaner stock market. It makes sense that large block traders would want a different way to do large block trades, but why not just see it as an alternative financial product that has some demand just like the regular stock market, instead of making it a moral issue? I guess my question is, do the people who work at IEX drink the Kool Aid?
But Medium has parallax scrolling and "social integration" features that will disrupt the news business, and perhaps all of our world later. Checkmate, dude?
Apple's 'Move to iOS' app bombed with one-star reviews
Can you expand on how IEX's delay isn't preventing HFT from succeeding? I don't really understand enough about the financial markets to know what you mean.
The family released the photo not the school.
I read that line as more along the lines of yelling "fire" in a movie theater. Clearly there was no intent of causing hysteria with Ahmed's suitcase clock, which I assume is why he was freed. But, clearly, this shouldn't have gone as far as it did.
Since [1] arguably counts as significant new information [2], I guess we'll leave that one on the front page and demote this one as stale.

I don't feel strongly about this other than not having the story occupy more than one spot on the front page, so if people have strong objections otherwise, we can adjust.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10230696

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10230555
Considering this[0] is what an actual bomb looks like, practically every student at every school could be carrying a bomb.

The teacher he showed the clock to in the morning is kicking himself for not telling the kid to leave it with him and pick it up at the end of the day. He knew what the administration/other teachers would think if they saw it.

What if it was a bomb. Or the timer for a bomb that was already planted? And the news today was "14 year old brings bomb to school, teachers save day"?

The situation was not handled well at all by any of the adults involved. But schools are a scary place. You've got a building with a generation of other people's children in it. And some times people do bad things in those buildings.

Someone should have looked at that clock and said "yeah, this is a clock. No big deal. It doesn't even look like a real bomb, but if it kind of looks like a TV Bomb, maybe don't bring it to school next time." and then everyone goes on their merry way.

Unfortunately, adult ego got involved.

[0] http://www.oddthingsconsidered.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/0...
Dude, it was the size of a pencil box. If comically tiny briefcases are such a cause for alarm... man, you guys are swept up in a culture of fear.
People commit violence for all sorts of reasons. You really have to look at the motivations of the people involved on a case by case basis. Often times the reasons are entirely different from what any of the the people involved publicly claim. Sometimes there are long term political goals involved. Sometimes it is just simple revenge.
https://subscribe.washingtonpost.com/prime/#/
My response to that is how did he attempt to perpetrate a hoax? What evidence did the officers have that his intent was to do so?
Cocoa Architecture: Dropped Design Patterns
Thank you very much for the details comparison!
So if the parents are 'on' pot does that mean we've come full circle?
Earthquakes, and the twitter responses to them, have been the focus of some pretty interesting academic studies that I've read (2011 Christchurch, NZ was what I studied). If I still had access to the academic journals, I'd pull up some articles. They present fantastic case studies of how using twitter user lat/longs, time logs, and nlp can be very useful.
I'm not entirely sure what your photo has to do with anything.
A list of content blockers for iOS 9
Is there a risk preferring EMC Isilon Hadoop over commodity hadoop ?
First - he never mentioned, joked, or claimed anything about explosives (but the cops carefully framed that as him "not being forthcoming"). The only people talking about explosives were the "adults".

Second - when did it become "OK" to handcuff and question children without lawyers based on what b-grade movie makers choose to use as stereotypes?

(Sorry you're getting downvoted so hard - I disagree but would rather discuss and understand your position than downvote you to oblivion...)
Since when do you have fraud protection with credit cards?
> I'm down with all that. I'm really arguing in favor of threading here rather than any particular model of it.

Oh, from an ergonomic point of view I'm in total agreement that imperative-looking code is the best. I've never liked explicit node.js-like continuation passing style or what have you.
every exchange takes some amount of time to match orders. IEX is no different. Let me ask you this way. Why would you expect IEX delay to prevent HFT from succeeding ?
Based on the post, it seems availability drops but durability remains the same. You might need to rest to get an object, and you'll be successful eventually.
What's really shitty about this isn't that the school or police overreacted at first. It isn't that this somehow affects Islamic-American relations or American-Muslim citizens. It isn't even that this may have discouraged Ahmed from future creativity. What's so concerning about this story is that if it wasn't picked up by the news, a defenseless 14-year-old would have a criminal record for bringing a personal project to school.

Situations like this make me think of all the similar incidents that never got picked up by the news because some terrorist was shot or the stock market dipped and the story was no longer important enough to report.
GTA 5 – PS3 Most Hacked Game Ever
It's a home built clock.

I think in Texas that'd make me suspicious - and I think that's _insane_.
Pangu8+download+Achieves+iOS8.4.1+Jailbreak
BTW: I'm concerned that typical people scare you.
> It is not expected that the performance of compiled applications will ever rival 'v8'. JavaScript is an awful language for static compilation - it almost seems designed to foil any attempts at optimization, and so a JIT will always have a significant performance advantage.

For the compiler un-initiated such as myself, is there a simplified explanation for why static compilation is inferior to JIT for languages like javascript?
Right. But it matters how much availability drops, and also what the correlation is between failures -- if they're completely uncorrelated but there's a 1% failure rate, you just retry, but if 1% of objects are going to be unavailable for the next four hours, that's a problem.
He didn't, and none.

The kid did nothing wrong. The supposed "adults" and "authorities" are 100% at fault here.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223735
I'm confused. To me, green threads are just an implementation detail. The fact that green threading is being used shouldn't leak into the interface. To take Go for an example, you could perfectly well write a conforming implementation of Go that used 1:1 native threading: it would just have different performance characteristics and things like LockOSThread() would become a no-op.

Could you elaborate on what you consider the interface difference to be?
How is the idea that our whole universe is merely a simulation inside someone else's computer practically much different than the idea of there being a "god"? From a certain perspective, they're one and the same. They can both change the universe arbitrarily either by changing the rules of the simulation or the state of the simulation.

I agree that both are incredibly unlikely, but you can't say for certain that it is not so.
In a typical situation, no. But this is very much atypical. The person in question has a guaranteed source of long-term income. It's better than any job; they'll never get fired, or get fed up and decide not to come in anymore. It sounds like you can even redirect the payments so they go directly to the company making the lump-sum payment. The only risk is bankruptcy by the payer. It ought to be safer than a high-quality mortgage or car loan, which right now are available at 4% or less. (My car loan is 1.11%, which is completely ridiculous and not all that unusual.)
I understand and agree with your outrage. But isn't the attention and humiliation they are receiving enough? Elevating the dialogue was the graceful thing to do.
It's a little ridiculous thinking that institutions supposedly founded to increase intelligence insist on being governed by rules demanding it's absence.
Not-Very-Good MRI Heap Analyzer
Date-Onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game – Jon Birger
Are the source of piper and the build tools also in the mono repo and also developed/deployed off the head branch? Seems like a random engineer could royally fubar things if they broke a service which the build system depends on ...
> Interim OS is a radical new operating system with a focus on minimalism. It steals conceptually from Lisp machines (language-based kernel)

These two concepts being so close together ("minimalism" and "Lisp") is practically an oxymoron, as far as Common Belief Structures go.

Minimalism is 6502 machine code as written by someone who honestly believes assemblers make code go slower. Don't you know that? /s

Meanwhile, this:

> It boots to a JITting Lisp-like REPL

... is basically Dalvik/Android. It's what we run on our phones, except our phones use Java, not Lisp, because Lisp Is Slow. Dogma. Can't challenge it. People look at you funny.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10218915
I just submitted a change today that affected 266,259 different build targets within google3. I was slightly terrified to make a change of this magnitude, having been at Google for less than three months, but I ran all the affected tests multiple times and it doesn't seem to have broken anything. (Fingers crossed!)

Working on the google codebase is pretty awesome. This week I've made changes/improvements to libraries owned by three different teams (not counting my own), in C++ and python, when my main project is all in Java. It's super fun. The code search tool is great - it's ridiculously fast, and makes navigating through the codebase very easy.
Not really. It was just a thing that happened and when the administration backed down nothing else really came of it.
I'm not sure if this is your implication, but neither Watson nor Crick is an expert on race (race being not a biological phenomenon but a very social one).
GTA 5 – Biggest Hacker Community Ever
Just wanted to say as of early late 2015 GTA 5 on PS3 has become the most hacked and modded game ever to exist.

A game from rockstar that was suppose to be well support and developer oriented has fallen apart very quickly and massively.

Windmills are now added into almost ever GTA 5 ps3 online session not allowing players to access their cars and their garages as well as there apartments.

As the players continue to rage and complain rockstar has still been unable to beat the hacks and mods as they are happening more and more often as the days go on. It seems every time rockstar thinks they beat them the very next day you will see a brand new hack or mod.

Rockstar is simply not capable of beating hackers and modders and it has showed now more then ever in their latest GTA 5 video game especially on the playstion 3 console.

Hope you found this entertaining its a video of an online session with a windmill blocking my garage. That windmill was hacked into the game to troll players. Not by me but that does not matter it should not be there ever LOL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uoeEKHgt28

Get a grip rockstar. Hire some hackers to beat other hackers its the only way LOL.

For a game that grossed 2.5 billion within its first week of release I would say it has done more then taken a dive off the plank.
On Manovich
I don't suppose any of you have heard of the School to Prison Pipeline.

Lookup Dr Umar Johnson
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223480
And if you take that idea back, it goes directly to the Jacquard loom, because Knuth Knows we can't possibly have any advances due to modern times. This Debased Era must always be in awe of our Glorious Past. Keeps the kids in line. Keeps people from thinking they know anything.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223480
I guess I assumed when they say "innocent until proven guilty", "proven" implies hard evidence, not just two facts that suggest that an event occurred.
Perhaps not Lisp in specific, but the idea of symbolic computation (that is, computers are more than Big Adding Machines) is important and should be on there.
Right up until 1789.
It seems to me that Ahmed's story is turning out to be this perfect intersection of zero-tolerance, racism, technological illiteracy, and police overreaction. It's an entire decade of nonsense in a tidy little package.
Don't forget Google Life Sciences -- we have lots of software. (The team I'm on is 100% software, and we're around 25 people split among 3 sub-teams.) All our code is in piper, and depends heavily on the rest of the google infrastructure.
I wonder if Apple would allow the inverse app in its App store.
We just turned it off. These were all experiments, the green sites generated more negative than positive feedback, and it's fine for an experiment to fail.

Also, the same information is available by clicking on the domain: if you see only that story in the list, it means there has only been the one submission from that site.
I'd also like to know the exact reasons, but I imagine it has something to do with types.

With JIT you're only interested in the type of a variable when you're reading it, whereas ahead of time you'd have to account for many cases - I think this would be a big deal with JavaScript's inheritance model.
These are not app reviews but rather political views. Shouldn't Google have some policy about such reviews?
Apple mitigates but doesn’t fully fix critical iOS Airdrop vulnerability
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10225096
“You don't get the lightning bolt in Mario Kart when you're already in first place.” —spotted on the internet
> The reaction is hardly a surprise, given the polarising nature of the two platforms, but Google deserves some credit for allowing the app in the Play Store - as John Gruber points out, Apple's rules would preclude a similar app for Android from ever appearing in the App Store.
TypeScript is a superset of EcmaScript, and adds nothing new except for types. Only exactly that.
Just hack it away. ;)
Taking high road is best. The fear these authority had comes from ignorance. And the HNer types can help change that. Geeks can do a better job of presenting technology to normals in a way that is palpable.
Apple would not approve it, as there is a clause in the review guidelines, that forbid mentioning competing platforms:

3.1 Apps or metadata that mentions the name of any other mobile platform will be rejected

Pretty hypocritical, if you ask me.
From one of the customer quotes on the page:

> it’s vital that customers have immediate, instant access to any of [our photos] at a moment’s notice – even if they haven’t been viewed in years. [IA] offers the same high durability and performance ... so we can continue to deliver the same amazing experience for our customers.

The way this was phrased implies that this customer's use-case had a hard requirement that all of their data be in "online" storage at all times, and their satisfaction implies that IA does, in fact, hit this requirement.

I'm not sure what the 99% SLA means given that.
You are forced by law to respect a jewish enclave and you should respect Irving and Texas.
But you even said if you had put it in a suitcase it would look like a bomb...