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Ask HN: Dealing with Lazy Coworkers
My officemate/teammate is lazy. He spends most of the day browsing youtube/reddit, making personal calls, and socializing. Management can't tell the difference between large and small tasks, so he easily gets by with doing a few small bug fixes a week. My team lead is very hands off, unorganized, and engages in a fair amount of non-work related activities himself (shopping, phone calls, etc), so even though he knows about my officemate, he doesn’t really care.

My question: what should I do, if anything? I’m contemplating making detailed notes regarding my officemate in my end of the year status/performance report, but I’m not sure that would be productive. I could talk directly to my team lead, who, despite his ambivalence about the job, seems mature enough to engage with. I could also go up the chain to the next boss (our VP), but he’s not a developer and might not understand. I could also not do anything, and see what happens.

At this point I’m not even sure what I want. If you haven't already guessed, the work culture is relaxed to the point of absurdity. I’d hate to turn it into some sort of police state, but I feel that my coworkers are really taking advantage of it.

Part of me thinks that this is an amazing opportunity to work on side projects (at work), but that just doesn’t feel right to me. I also feel like I could be doing a much better job as team lead, but I’m not sure how to go about even hinting at that.

Background: medium sized company with small number of developers (~10). I have been at the company for less than a year, but have several years of experience.
Thanks for the feedback :) The date type is on my to-do list, along with the appropriate views (like a timeline and a calendar). That'll make it easy to list historical events... or upcoming dates, etc.
> And the part that, if you are a decent human being and not a racist
bigot, you have been dreading: American blacks average a standard
deviation lower in IQ than American whites at about 85. And
it gets worse: the average IQ of African blacks is lower
still, not far above what is considered the threshold of mental
retardation in the U.S. And yes, it’s genetic; g seems to be about
85% heritable, and recent studies of effects like regression towards
the mean suggest strongly that most of the heritability is DNA rather
than nurturance effects.

> In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but
commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is
unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the
general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact
independent of skin color.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=129

> I was near surrounded by these people, for the first time in my life, at a sort of ethnic-pride gathering which I was attending for reasons not relevant to this essay. And found myself experiencing disgust. Not anger, not hatred, but a visceral feeling of revulsion similar to being exposed to sewage or rotten food

That is his feeling towards some "minority X".

> Now the uncomfortable part: by any objective measure, blacks as a group are a problem of a kind minority X is not. Lower mean IQ, more crime and violence, more welfare dependency, lots of whining for privileges, etcetera etcetera. And I have had the experience of feeling like I was in physical danger when isolated with a group of black people (just once, on a night train in New Jersey, but that once was more than enough).

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5001

That wasn't even hard to find. His blog is simply bigot literature under a veil of smarts, going against black people and women (and even more groups) with purported legitimacy given by his earlier contributions to Open Source.
If you'd like to enjoy the benefits on the desktop, there are extensions: https://github.com/edlea/DesktopAMP
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I am happy user of Anker mouse and I must say - I dropped it so many times, but it works great. My wireless Microsoft mouses, while great, had average life of 1-1,5 year (I am using mouse ~10-12 hours a day).
Anker is with me since almost 2 years and only visible sign of fatigue I can notice is that brand name wear off from the face of mouse.

Great quality for silly price.
Really? I thought REST says you shouldn't assume URLs follow any pattern. So if you want to get product 123, you need to search for it, then find the URL. Instead of doing Concat("/product/", prodId).

Twilio is an interesting case. They claim all REST, yet they encourage people to generate URLs using IDs. (Twilio's API is great, apart from the incomphrensible decision to use IETF style dates, the silly "Mon, Nov 8 2009" format that only made sense in the 70s over obvious year-month-etc. style.)

I'm not sure there are any popular, really REST APIs out there.
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+ for readability, - for precise versions. Good luck receiving critical updates this way...
Hah, it rained more than enough here this month, no video was needed.
Why do people keep writing domain-specific package managers?
I thought it was a fascinating argument that 1) Twitter is struggling to gain new users and 2) Twitter is staffed by male caucasians and asians so no wonder it's struggling to gain new users.
Lucky you, I'm stuck with 5.3, because of old CentOS too.
At least it is nothing compared to how MS attacked it. That OS/2 2.0 fiasco is one of my favorite topics BTW.
Since 1997, you should accurately refer to it as IBM/Lotus Domino.

An annoying email client, to be sure.

But the Domino project was a fork of Apache, with support of server-side JavaScript (as well as VB-Script variant) talking to an HTML based templating system. This allied to an embedded NoSQL database engine that's the ancestor of CouchBase, with a granular ACL system of authentication based on RSA keys.

So, totally uncool then. :-)
I will - I have to clean up some stuff first though!
Yes, apologies if unnecessary... But you tend to build up a certain dislike for someone like murdoch after seeing the same old fear-mongering crap in all his newspapers for years. I like to boycott people who take a lot and give very little back from society.
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Disclaimer: I am not an accountant.

According to http://www.bnsf.com/about-bnsf/financial-information/form-10...

BNSF has about 85% of their revenue in the tracks and 15% in the trains so your guess isn't far off.

Can you comment on competition for a given route in the current railroad model? I assume railroads control who uses their tracks so they can prevent competitors from serving those routes, is that the case and how does that not constitute some form of monopoly?

Edit: Thank you for the clarification, I had no idea how much railroads had tied up in the infrastructure. It seems that much of the value of a railroad is on the ability to serve certain routes without competition which in hindsight is pretty obvious.
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PHP5 didn't fix deranged fundamental stuff like ($x == $y) && ($a[$x] != $a[$y]).
The chance of actually getting caught in this situation is really rather low...being unsuccessful, sure, but truly caught, prosecuted, etc, probably won't happen.
"Appropriate technical and organisational measures shall be taken against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal data."

TalkTalk did not take appropriate measures against unauthorised processing.
You still have to be able to eat.
SystemML: Machine learning made easier (open source)
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They do have a list of recommended cables -- the ones that they sell. Regardless, that doesn't mean that the Google Store is the first place people go to get a "standard" cable, especially as it isn't necessarily the cheapest.

To many, a cable is a cable is a cable, and preventing someone from buying a commodity part that might damage their phone is a good objective, no matter how it's done.

Posting Amazon reviews might not be the optimal way to get me to buy the "right" cables, but it's a pretty effective way at preventing me from buying the wrong ones.
Not everyone has what it takes to point a gun at a driver's head (actually, not everyone has a gun in the first place). If the truck is driverless, then it removes the courage factor, the inherent risk of having to deal with a human, and now it only takes cunning and intelligence. Since it is driverless, you could even use a RPG rocket against it, without risking a human life. Maybe, I played too much GTA. That being said, I find it hard to predict whether crime or security will prevail.
Different agencies use different approaches applicable to their circumstances. For example: http://yosemite.epa.gov/EE%5Cepa%5Ceed.nsf/webpages/Mortalit...

"The EPA does not place a dollar value on individual lives. Rather, when conducting a benefit-cost analysis of new environmental policies, the Agency uses estimates of how much people are willing to pay for small reductions in their risks of dying from adverse health conditions that may be caused by environmental pollution."

"In the scientific literature, these estimates of willingness to pay for small reductions in mortality risks are often referred to as the "value of a statistical life.” This is because these values are typically reported in units that match the aggregate dollar amount that a large group of people would be willing to pay for a reduction in their individual risks of dying in a year, such that we would expect one fewer death among the group during that year on average."

"EPA recommends that the central estimate of $7.4 million ($2006), updated to the year of the analysis, be used in all benefits analyses that seek to quantify mortality risk reduction benefits regardless of the age, income, or other population characteristics of the affected population."
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It's about time. The App Store was practically unusable for browsing previously.
Security is a spectrum. There's definitely a path for someone with full local access to the hypervisor and system memory to do some careful reconstruction or other malicious injection, but that attack vector is amazingly rare compared to attacks based on bad protocols for network traffic, bad app-level auth, and insecure storage practices (mixing code and creds, for example).

There's immense value in defending against the kind of attacks where an attacker gets partial access, even if an attacker with omnipotence can compromise you.
so this is an oversight on their part? it sounds like they had maybe a half-baked justification, but idk
Researchers Hack Off-The-shelf 3-D Printer Toward Rebuilding the Heart
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You can pretty safely bet your life this is going to happen if this guy gets any press for what he's doing. Within a month or so, every tech product on Amazon will have glowing reviews by "Josh from Microsoft" or "Brian from Intel"
Only two? There are more than that. For example, Android Studio uses Gradle. Go and Dart have their own build systems as well.

It might be because Google is a big company doing many things in many languages, Bazel was only open sourced recently, and so on.
I share the same perspective too.

Capital should be blind to all these qualitative descriptors like race, biological gender, age etc.
Successful capitalists are always looking to maximize the return on their investment and they don't subscribe to these inconsequential notions, all what they care for is making money for them. If you're a Martian and are capable of doubling their profits every two years or so, they would be all over you and discard any prejudices toward you.

Money $$$ talks after all esp with the capitalists.
check out this post about twitter's "engineering effectiveness" team: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/flowers/

in general, it's a great productivity booster across the board to have a team doing this; the main problem is getting buy-in from orgs, because the time and effort wasted when you don't have one are so pervasive as to be largely invisible.
I agree, but I'm also a bit (selfishly) sad to see that the old logos have disappeared (I was the one who redraw them in SVG, before only bitmap formats where available).
I'm curious what sort of problems this new distribution would solve. Is it mainly for running legacy software, or are there other applications?
Disclaimer: I work at Google on Kubernetes.

One of the biggest opportunities for improvement we hear about is just making sure getting it going is easy - there's lots of work in flight to make this better, most recently here: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/16077

We would really appreciate your thoughts on this - it's an extremely active area on the project.
That's an interesting perspective. I say this because I have personally encountered people who argue that the value of a presumed-novel viewpoint should be expected to outweigh a sufficiently small difference of technical skill or similar in hiring decisions.

Anyway. Are you sure it's a good idea to compare numbers like recent grad percentages and Fortune-500 CEOs? These two in particular strike me as separated by several decades in which society has changed. Perhaps not the most useful comment on current society.
I look forward to reading his review of this USB cable: http://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-Diamond-feet-Braided-Cable/...

I'm sure Google can afford the $1000+ price tag.
And how exactly do you build your projects? Msbuild? That's a 2 (4?) GB download.
http://sachachua.com/blog/2015/04/john-wiegley-on-organizing...
Ledger, a command-line accounting system
I think his closeness and donations to Obama and friends carries more weight than an interview answer...
Happy to take PRs if you feel you can write it better. One of these paragraphs has to come before the other.

"Mathy" probably should have a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_theory. My experience is that if you say "type" in the context of functional programming, people expect Bertrand Russell and have a right to expect Bertrand Russell. We're not delivering Bertrand Russell, so it would seem like false advertising.

A mold is a function whose range is some useful span. A mold is always idempotent (for any noun x, f(x) equals f(f(x))), and its domain is any noun.

I stared at this for a moment but was unable to make it any clearer. Suppose your span is the set of all cells. A mold for this span is a function that maps any cell to itself, and any atom to a trivial cell like [0 0]. Does that help?
If by development work you mean system level change, yes. The WHO reports that up to 40% of healthcare funding (~$2.75T) is lost to inefficiency and corruption. This is in part due to the fact that it was historically challenging to get money to healthcare providers in low income countries and even harder to collect data about how the money was used. Long term, we plan for our technology to enable not only individual donors, but foundations and governments to fund healthcare more efficiently. We're trying to bring healthcare funding online. And if we succeed, it could impact patients everywhere regardless of their condition or the type of care they need.
> I did not know such thing is possible.

It's theoretically possible, but right now it's too slow to be practical in usual situations. Just storing and single operations are maybe possible. But for example homomorphic AES takes multiple seconds per each block. And that's still AES-128.
Asking for my location when I don't have any idea what is going on is a pretty quick way to get me to close the tab.
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This is neat - however every location near me is considered GREEN (low population). Maybe that's true, but any time I've been to Wegman's... it's been packed. Of course, maybe Foursquare just isn't popular enough around here.
Keep forgetting that, thanks for the reminder.
New mammal species discovered in Portugal
Wawa also showing "few humans." - Perhaps what this needs is a way to adjust the scale. What might be "few humans" in LA or NYC can be very different in other parts of the country.
I grew up poor, what they call "white trash" in the south. I saw this firsthand. I knew I wanted out, so I went to college at an excellent private liberal arts school. One of the most amazing eye-openers there was meeting the parents of other students, and meeting alumni, people who had done amazing things with their lives. A few years earlier, success to me meant owning your own motorcycle dealership.

Today, I've shook the hands of multiple billionaires. I could not have even imagined that as a child. But I'm lucky. I'm very intelligent, talented, lack major health issues, and I'm white, male, and American. The combination of innate talent and privilege opened a lot of doors for me.
Tududum, anyone's got it cached (Google has some JS only)?

%exit

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[%bad-beam %home]

/~zod/home/~2015.10.17..20.34.57..3a55/arvo/eyre/:<[1.103 9].[1.106 38]>

/~zod/home/~2015.10.17..20.34.57..3a55/arvo/eyre/:<[1.102 9].[1.106 38]>

/~zod/home/~2015.10.17..20.34.57..3a55/arvo/eyre/:<[1.101 9].[1.106 38]>

/~zod/home/~2015.10.17..20.34.57..3a55/arvo/eyre/:<[1.100 9].[1.106 38]>
I know you meant "for producing spam" but it seems these techniques can also do semantic-relatedness[1] which I imagine could answer questions like: "Is this about viagra?" or "Is this related to something the mailbox owner actually talks about?"

[1] https://github.com/ryankiros/skip-thoughts#semantic-relatedn...
So the pesky US constitution got in the way of a "fallow land tax"? It seems to me if land is being left fallow, then that's something which ought to be discouraged. If land is in service, then the property taxes should be nominal.
I met John briefly at a Haskell hackathon a few years ago. I was impressed then, and ever since I keep seeing his name pop up (pipes, now emacs). Happy he's steering my IDE of choice!
Aero, the fastest web framework on the node platform
So you're essentially where I stand then. :P

I consider myself the "Milo" of transexuals and have a large disconnect with most people who consider themselves part of the "LGBT Movement". Many of which are right up there with PC culture (e.g telling me I can't use the word "tranny", even when referring to myself? Fuck off.)

While I do see the problem and in many places agree - I do not agree with the proposed methods of solving it. That especially includes "quotas" - unofficial or official. Nobody wants to be the "token black guy" (even if there are "40 token black guys") just to improve a diversity number. Which unfortunately is how many tech companies seem to be trying to resolve the "wow that company isn't diverse" criticisms being flung at them.

"If I weren't homosexual, I'd be the largest homophobe." - Milo Yiannopoulos
HMAC tolerates collisions in the underlying hash function.

That said, stop using SHA1.
You are talking to someone who used to have a hole in one lung, with a condition where doctors wait for infection to eat your lungs up and then list you for transplant. At one time, I was on 8 or 9 presciption drugs and I spent 3.5 years in constant, excruciating, please-kill-me-now pain. I reached a point where the only thing I wanted was to hurt less and doctors were not offering me that. My pulmonologist told me "People like you don't get well. Symptom management is the name of the game."

So I began pursuing alternative treatments because doctors had no hope to give me. I did whatever reduced my pain, during a time when I was routinely hallucinating conversations with The Grim Reaper. And when I hallucinated that he peered down into my face, saw something he had not seen before and turned his black steed to leave, I ran screaming after him "Take me with you!" I knew the death watch was over and I would live. I also knew I faced a long, hard, torturous recovery. It was a journey I had no desire to make.

I think there are things worse than death. And I also very much fear two things: 1) That every minute put into researching heroics like artificial hearts is a minute taken away from researching something more humane and 2) the extremely high value we place on just making sure no one dies, and quality of life be damned, gives patients like me a very grim future, even if we get the best available care and do everything "right" (according to our doctors).

That answer is not intended as dramatics or as anything screechy. It is just honest commentary on my actual experiences that my views grow out of. Your question is a very reasonable one. I think my concerns are equally reasonable. I am aware few people will side with me on this. (Perhaps none, in fact.)
Thanks jstoiko!
You are right. Parallec is not specifically built to do crawling or parse website pages recursively (however you may build such crawler on top of it) We mostly use it to manage (HTTP/S) agents on every production machine in the cloud for software deployment, remediation, asset discovery etc. (Parallec like a kubenate master) to manage all the kubelet (agents)

Yes, we may or may not want to slow down. Sometimes if it is just regex or simple parsing we just put the parser inside of the worker. We can send the results out to Kafka etc so that some other process/machine can process them.

http://www.parallec.io/docs/submit-task/#apis-on-response-ha...
The example was intentionally far-fetched to encourage you to step out of your filter bubble.
Cool idea, though quite a few of the listed places are currently closed, so I didn't need the app to know there's nobody there.
Ask HN: Should I take a job at a bank?
I am a junior with a fairly technical background. The only offer I have been able to acquire for next summer so far is an Application Development position with a large bank, in their San Francisco office. I worked for this same company last summer in Chicago.

It pays $37 an hr, and is in a great location. I have not heard back from any other companies, and do not have any promising leads. I feel like I won't be able to find a better position than this offer I have now. However, I do not want to work for this bank again, as banks have a bad reputation.

Do people think working at a bank is valuable experience? Would it be a good work environment for tech in the bay area?
For a route from city A to city B that can be served by BNSF do consumers have a choice of a second railroad? If the answer to that is mostly no doesn't BNSF have some form of monopoly on rail transport?
Amazon is opening its first physical bookstore
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3qkr7e/iama_colorblin...
The Dropbox Badge thing looks neat [1] but I don't see any indication of an open API so that non-Microsoft applications can take advantage of it. Does anyone know if there are any plans for that?

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/help/7670
Thanks for letting us know. We'll get that fixed (I'm an employee). Here's the correct link: https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-python/blob/master/ex...
>I invite you to be more civil

I can be civil till certaint point, but how to be more civil when you have no idea of what you are talking about and instead of admiting it you just keep making more ignorant statemens?, just say "I have no clue" and that's it, nobody is going to judge you.

>the fact remains that the default routing system is fairly mediocre, for no particular reason

You keep repeating the same as a broken record, yet, you have presented zero evidence, there is no route that I have implemented in Java that I wasn't able to replicate in the same way or even more easily in .NET, be it MVC or Web Api, so please, present some evidence or go home.
You talk about fairness and cheating but you refuse to say unambiguously whether you think your own programs are cheating.
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