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"We don't distract ourselves with VC-funded side projects". Ouch. These 'low blows' are childish at best. IMO, I wouldn't think a YC backed + VC funded company would be a side project.

It's good that you can be passionate about what you are doing, but it's obvious there are other motivators

EDIT: sp and example motivator -> https://twitter.com/TravisWebbUSA/status/679406525358600192
uMatrix is a nice blocking tool, but it doesn't replace everything that NoScript does.
Yap. It reflects not just directly on the product but on the team dynamics.

I have seen this happen at least twice in the past: start with a great team, smart people, self-sufficient. New manager comes in. What does the manager do? Stay by and watch the team do what they do best. Nope, start to set up meetings to improve communication, to streamline, to optimize, adds new rules , new Kanbans, some agile thing maybe, intensify devops a bit. "But why? it doesn't make sensse". Developers are wondering, watching their motivation and productivity get sucked out.

But it does make sense. The manager has a manager. When the end of the year comes, they'll have to report "I did X, implemented Y, facilitated Z etc". They are paid more than the average developer, their know it, the expectations are high. They have to do those things, so that behavior starts to make more sense.
Hi Trevyn, I sent you an e-mail under simon@mooffgames.com about what we do and our situation. I'm looking for support from someone who believes in what we do.
Yeah, but that narrows down your pool of developers a lot. There are a lot more JavaScript developers than there are JavaScript developers who also happen know RoR.

I mean, sure, someone could learn RoR on the job, but in practice, will they actually do it? In all companies I worked for where the frontend and backend languages were different, developers tended to stick to one side of the fence. Developers just don't like context switching.
I don't know much about the current state of training courses but here's some advice for self study.

A lot of things will be very similar to Java but with subtle differences. This means you'll be able to get up and running quickly but your code will not have the same nuances. Look for coding standards used at big companies. I believe Google has one that's publicly available. Epic Games also has one for UE4. Hopefully they should have some explanation for the choices they made. If not, do some googling of the relevant areas and see if you can figure out why they chose what they did. Spend some time reading code. GitHub has lots of repositories you can check out.

For books you won't do badly if you pick up anything by Scott Meyers or Herb Sutter. They also both have good blogs. Meyers's books tend to be broken down into about fifty main points with discussion on each. I like to use them by reading one point and then trying to apply it specifically in my work. Doing this at one point a week I can go through about a book a year. C++ Coding Standards by Sutter and Alexandrescu or Effective C++ would be my top two recommendations for someone with your background. I'd stay away from Alexandrescu's other work for now since it tends to be more advanced and potentially dangerous.

YouTube videos of talks by any of the authors I mentioned may also be useful to you.

You specifically mentioned memory management and concurrency so I'll throw in some specific advice for them. Modern C++ uses smart pointers for dynamic memory. If you're allocating dynamic memory and not using a smart pointer you're almost certainly doing something wrong. If you want to get into really low level stuff with memory management look at how malloc or new are implemented and do a search for "small block allocator". For concurrency your best bet is probably to find resources devoted to threading and asynchronous execution. I haven't looked into that in a while so I don't have specific recommendations for good resources.
It was only c like in brackets. This language is an amalgam of the good features of many languages really and it's not done adapting to where it should be. I agree that indentation from Python is a bad feature though.
Wouldn't it be better to use the XKCD version [1] of the problem? That version was published 2 years earlier, doesn't make light of suicide and there's a ton of useful discussions [2] about the logic of it in the forums.

[1] https://xkcd.com/blue_eyes.html

[2] http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3
I think this is the actual study:

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/1966000...

I fundamentally dissagree that it was trivial, but I worked on large vacuum systems and feel a bit close to the topic. But I also fundamentally agree that the experimentation was barbaric and cruel. But... I also don't see how we could have worked around it. I hope it's some consolation that they never doubly-exposed the dogs; I'm actually surprised that wasn't attempted.

Unshielded hard vacuum is horrific. The problem isn't that it's awful - that's obvious - but exactly how does it affect the body? (I've sealed a hole with my hand and got a hickey, but I've never been immersed in it.) Even today, studying things in a vacuum is difficult; it's always behind a think layer of material that's hard to observe through, and even with cleverness you're testing through the neck of a bottle or only looking back on data logged by some gizmo. And there are a lot of confounding variables; narrowing the time-to-unconciousness/death was the most critical, and each test batch needed multiple samples to make sure no data was wasted. One note that came out was that it seems clearly better to recompress with pure oxygen; would that fire hazard be worth the risk in space (especially after Apollo 1), or would they need to design a mechanism to temporarily mange it? I could see that argument having a significant impact on the cabin design.

But yeah. We can do better. A damn sight better. We can illuminate and record and monitor so much better. A couple years ago I stuck a 20 dollar pen camera in a machine and captured video - with sound - at such an unbelievably higher resolution and fidelity than what they had eked out at incredible cost; it's downright heartbreaking to think what they could have done today instead. Hell, we could probably now just simulate portions of the effects.

I'd hope the scale of this experiment would never need to be repeated today. We're likely at the point where we can risk learning from accidents now.

Addendum: Here's an interesting clip about a year later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO8L9tKR4CY
EDIT: `curtis beat me to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10819055

I wouldn't pay too much heed to the commentary, since we can be sure the test pilot's survival wasn't miraculous at all - he was repressurized fast enough survival was very likely. But you can see how primitive it was, and how little was understood. That one accident was so useful, simply because the subject was concious for a few seconds and could talk about it.

I'm glad (at least hopeful) we're past that sort of groping in the dark.

EDIT: Whoops, Apollo 1 happened two years later. I remembered it had a full oxygen environment for - IIRC - keeping the astronauts more alert and safer at low pressures. I'd be interested to know if that was informed by the dog/chimp study, and if they only reversed their decision for a full oxygenated cabin after the crew burned alive. These days I just assume all safe industry/procedures came from someone's loss.
It was a great article. Loved the web pyramid. So, where's your link describing why Taft is the best and deserves this honor?
Unquestionably, threats should absolutely be forbidden, and they are. Threatening another person is already a federal crime and anyone receiving threats online should report it to law enforcement so the person making those threats can be dealt with and so that person can't continue to terrorize other people online.

We should feel secure for our lives. Indeed it's one of the inalienable rights defined in the Declaration of Independence: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

What many people now know as safe places, however, overreach their stated goal of providing security for minorities. They sacrifice liberty for life. You can put someone in jail for threatening your life, but you can't put someone in jail (or fire them or ruin their livelihood otherwise) for saying something you don't agree with. If you force someoen to empathize, they aren't truly empathizing, they are remaining quiet for fear of being called a bigot and getting their reputation ruined. They shouldn't have the right to make you fall behind at work because of harassment. Then again, no one should have the right to do that on anyone, no exceptions based on arbitrary classes/categories.
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To quote the great: "you are in a seat, in the air, flying 1000km/h... it's a miracle". Without the planes, it would take 2 weeks to cross Atlantic. So love it already ;-)
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I hope to see less of this in 2016.

Happy New Year!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
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Also, Oracle Crystal Ball.
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That's interesting and probably more in line with what I need to do. It wouldn't be difficult for me to bring the entire stack online in another datacenter, but if all of your customer data resides on (for simplicity) a master SQL node in Linode-Dallas and that datacenter goes offline, how can you bring that backup node online when you can no longer access the Dallas machines?

Are you suggesting to have a slave ready to become master in the 2nd datacenter? If that's the case, my main area of uncertainty is: if you promote a slave to master in a 2nd datacenter and that new master accepts writes, you then have a brutal problem of propagating writes to the old master when he comes back online.

The whole thing may exceed my capability right now but I think having a disaster recovery is far better than a mirror now that I think through it.
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Episode Synopsis: Starting the new year, Sameer Singh, author of Tech-Thoughts.net and our host Bernard Leong discussed the five predictions on Asia technology landscape 2016 in the second part of the two-episodes arc. Building on their earlier conversation on the five major events that rocked 2015, they forecast the events in 2016 which will shape the technology landscape of Asia as it is becoming the new battleground for the US companies as well as the homegrown Asian giants in the next few decades.
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Does anyone over here know when was the first New Year ’s Eve celebrated? I mean, in what year or country? I'm trying to determine the historical context and origin of this tradition. Thanks.
The questions have been raised. They are actually covered in the FAQ you linked to:

"Limitations on inherent tribal powers of self-government are few, but do include the same limitations applicable to states, e.g., neither tribes nor states have the power to make war, engage in foreign relations, or print and issue currency."

I'm not sure if this would prohibit raising an army per se, but what good is raising an army if you don't have the power to make war? Building bases is wholly out of the question, though, since that would involve engaging in foreign relations.
> If the p-Value is less than significance level (ideally 0.05),

Erm, no. P=0.05 is borderline meaningless, there could as much as 30% chance you are wrong about the actual difference being there depending on the true probability of the initial hypothesis.

P-values should be used with strong caution.
That's a long time ago. I've been working on my own open source project for 2 and a half years. It's good too know that these kinds of projects take a while to gain traction.

I first heard about RethinkDB in 2015. I gave it a really thorough tryout and I liked it.

It's the first database that makes NoSQL worthwhile for me - I love how easy it is to configure and scale.
Also the query language is really clean and simple - You can learn it as you go along (unlike SQL, you don't have to know it all up-front in order to use it efficiently).
Coming from someone who has very little idea of international politics, this question may be pointless and not worth answering, but I'm curious...

What would happen if someone with more money than all the existing cartels combined were to very, very quietly arrive, made their existence and presence known, and use their power to enforce arbitrary new laws that worked to suffocate corruption and make it die out? Furthermore, what would this person benefit from doing this?

I'm not asking "would it work out or would it not," I'm just curious, from the perspective of an uninformed (and admittedly uneducated) bystander, what would play out, what the economical and societal kickback would be, and what would (or could) be gained.

I realize the economy is noteworthy enough that the list of potential candidates to fulfill this position is small, so this discussion is mostly theoretical and educational in scope.
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Just ship something.
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The domain of the website which I always look at gives you a strong hint.
It take longer to adopt and learn RoR than ES6. Both have their owns strength but Javascript and Python skills can be apply to any organizations, RoR is quite limited.
To offer another sci-fi example, it's how two pilots of an experimental spacecraft in the TV series Stargate SG-1 were rescued when the spacecraft rapidly traveled away from Earth and locked them out of pretty much everything except ejecting from the craft. Their rescuers were waiting in a nearby spaceship to scoop them out of the vacuum of space.
wow, that makes me feel a little dizzy. :)
Awesome. Here I thought when TJ swore off nodejs for Go he stopped working in JS entirely.
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Typo:

"The graphics card on my late-model Apple laptop could not literally not cope with the load."

Moving aside from said pedantic nitpick, a hilarious and brilliant essay. I'm definitely going to be stealing The Taft Test, perhaps somebody should make a web app that lets you perform this operation automatically?
The first sentence of the article sums up the entirety of the human behaviour pretty nicely: People generally don't do what they're told, but what they expect to be rewarded for. Pretty much all of social history of the world can be explained with that.
I'd appreciate some pointers to where this is too. I've tried some obvious keywords but it looks like I need to be very specific. My email's in my profile.
In my experience any developer worth hiring can do complex frontend work (even by 2015/2016 standards) and backend work. I've never seen a "frontend only" or "backend only" developer.
A surprising number of videos are served through a small number of video service provider sites (there's a different acronym for this, I can never remember it).

A half-dozen or dozen entries in your /etc/hosts file will block them quite effectively. I've posted this to HN in past.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10133969

(Including CNN. Fuck'em indeed.)
Suit : anybody I don't like.

For the record: I've never in my life worn a suit and there is absolutely nobody dead because 'a fucking PC techno-facist censored a thread'.

Just like edw519 isn't responsible for Aaron Swartz killing himself neither is DanG responsible for Ian Murdock.

You and all the other backseat drivers in this thread that have never in their lives had a visible and public role should take a hike.

Remember: it was precisely the sort of harrassment that Ian Murdock had to sustain that eventually caused him to flip, there is quite a bit of evidence that one of the catalysts in this whole saga is that someone kept on railing on debian.

DanG has taken exceptional risk in being publicly visible as the moderator of HN, he does so in an incredibly transparent fashion, comments on when and why decisions of all kinds are made and is working extremely hard to make HN a better place. To see a bunch of assholes use any and all opportunity to second guess the decisions and to make personal attacks including yours is proof positive that no good deed will go unpunished.

Your 'prior presence' does not excuse you from this deplorable behavior, you're just another lurker and an anonymous coward to me, your account creation date has fuck all to do with your degree of involvement in HN.

And if you really believe this place is run by suits and techno facists then you probably don't want any part of this anyway.
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Synk.io code scanner for JavaScript ecosystem
An great security scanner for any Javascript projects, Meteorjs, Sailjs, Hapijs, etc.

Definitely a must have tool for producing quality code. Anyone tried?

https://snyk.io
Happy new years guys,let the new year be a good one!
N.B.: "September 29, 2015"
Yeah sorry, yesterday I thought "hmm a talented sociopath could make several completely different lives.., it's the same guy!" But no, looking again, they look completely different.
I think they were both technical (one of them has a CS degree and started a PhD program, couldn't see the LinkedIn for the other)
The guy who wrote that post definitely has technical skills.
And some guy:
http://codepen.io/dredmorbius/pen/KpMqqB
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I've always found it particularly useful when learning from a source, to write down questions that go to the heart of the matter being presented, rather than just summary notes.

If one later writes answers to the questions, it highlights what one doesn't understand, what one needs to relearn, and how to explain it to oneself and others. It then becomes valuable in the future when needing to review and test key concepts.

I think this is somewhat in line with the ideas presented in this article.
> P-values should be used with strong caution.

FiveThirtyEight (and Scientific American, and others) did some pretty interesting articles about this recently if you haven't seen it:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/science-isnt-broken/

Just from personal experience, the use of p-values is really broken in biology/chemistry. The things I've heard principal investigators say...
Hm, an 'alias' plug in for urls?
I've had the same problem trying to find a WordPress theme for my weblog^. Well, I ended up hacking it myself. The reason? Despite hundreds of premium WordPress themes, they were all bloated. Even the ones claiming "Minimalist theme".

I wonder if there is a real market for such theme.

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I simply didn't get the idea that she was unwilling to compromise or discuss the matter, apparently you got a different impression.

And I think it is—unfortunately—normal for a healthy community to discuss banning users who harass others, because users who harass others are everywhere, until they are kicked out.
I'm not with you on linkedin, that's not marketing, that's malware.
I wrote a blog post about this:

http://softholmsyndrome.com/2015/08/28/your-blog-does-not-ne...
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Which actually beings up the point, when will higher education make the switch over??
> - Expectation is to work on your project full-time, without any other employment or work-for-hire obligations

That's not for me, but I like the idea.

$700/week is a lot in some countries, so I wish you to make our universe a better place :)
Happy new year from Seattle: https://www.flickr.com/photos/aaronbrethorst/24017817061/in/...
Anything related to tech unionization or is critical of the free market has a way of disappearing.
Explained in the talk that Taft is the Greatest US President by Volume.
This was my standard trick in chess when I still played a lot. If I would play against someone strong on openings but a weak player otherwise make an irrational opening move totally upsetting their apple-carts. If they were strong players they'd take advantage but if they were only strong on book knowledge you'd take them to the cleaners. Knowing your opponent in chess can be as important as knowing the game.
You couldn't be more wrong about that. Humanities, liberal arts education are the most useful parts of education (and I say this as an engineer). The reason why, through the ages ruling classes educated themselves in philosophy, history, literature, is that it shows you how this world really works, how politics is done, what separates rulers from ruled, what are the basic human rights. Greek and Latin, which you consider useless as well were key to this, because up to Enlightenment era most important papers were written in those languages (either by Plato and Aristotle or by Cicero, or medieval philosophers)

Lower classes were allowed to educate in some practical matters, like medicine, architecture, geography, etc. but studying liberal arts was forbidden by law (e.g. in ancient Rome), because there is nothing worse, from master's point of view that the slave with sense of entitlement, fighting for hers human and political rights.

Democracy arose about the time when humanities education became common enough - because it became hard for people to settle for less than the freedom.

Now, in 21st century we see opposite trend: people are encouraged to study STEM fields, completely ignoring history, literature and philosophy, which basically makes them highly skilled puppets. Which of course is welcomed by ruling class of our times.
IDE features also kill the argument against Python-style indentation.

It's not like experienced Python programmers are constantly getting confused by their IDEs and wondering what scope a line is in.
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And on top of that, some redirect you to another page to display the no-js-warning. Then you enable JS for the site and reload but will get the same warning because you're no longer on the page you visited...

I think it is mod_pagespeed that's doing this, kinda silly.
Indentation is visible. Conservatively estimated, tens to hundreds of thousands of programmers don't have any real problem with syntax based on indentation.
The Russian novel comparison is indeed completely unfair. If Crime and Punishment was served by today's web publisher, the contextual ads for money lenders, lawyers, adult services and what-not would of course inflate the size of the page to hundreds of megabytes, significantly exceeding the size of the tiny pages shamed by the unfair comparison!

To his credit, he did make the point of most images and videos being superfluous in most pages, and of them wasting battery and bandwidth, even if they do so after the text was rendered.
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I wish there was a tool that could follow a browser session and tell me what, specifically, I hadn't used in my bootstrap CSS.

Or a tool that could similarly tell me which parts of JQuery I could just delete.

I feel the sites I have produced are fairly trim and optimised, with the exception of the CSS and JS. Sites like https://www.lfgss.com/

Yes they're responsive, and they load fairly fast, and they're encumbered with web fonts... but it's the CSS and JS that is the real bloat.
It's likely they won't notice anything at all if he is doing a good job.
That's the other issue: not only the product of programming is not easy to see but consequences of good or bad practices do not become visible before the author is long gone and forgotten.
Sometime doing IT feels like delivering medicine.