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I use to run it order to quicker get some shelter. I did not know it had positive side effects.
Ask HN: Positions Available for AB Test Development / Personalization?
Hi there,

I was hoping to get some feedback on a situation I am working through.

I, for the past several years, have been working with a internally built personalization engine (of which I designed and developed the entire front end portion), as well developed extensive experience in setting up Web Analytics and AB tests (via the Maxymiser platform - A client Side AB service). I really enjoy this kind of work, and while I do not currently do the analysis myself, I assist our analysts in that work.

I find myself in a situation where I am questioning if I should stay with my current employer, and if it turns out I want to seek employment elsewhere, do any of you know of companies looking to hire this skill set?

If not, can anyone recommend specific skills they think I should ensure I have before seeking employment as someone who specializes in this type of work?

I've done a few job searches and they tend to come back with more general webdev roles, but I would like to work on this type of work specifically. Perhaps suggest some keywords?

Any assistance is much appreciated.
collectivist model?

If something, the excuse used is the free markets and the Laissez-faire as epitome of justice.
While I can agree with your points, but it is only possible to analyze N reasons when it is established that the business failed. Had they not, we would be applauding the sheer effort that went into the startup.

The way I see it, if you are not building something that businesses will pay for (B2B), you are making a huge bet akin to a lottery.
Very similar experience here: As a mac guy, I only have a single gaming / audio PC running Windows 10 in the living room and I'm very impressed with how snappy, useful and flawless everything works.
Frankly, my usage on this machine is very limited - no development environment, editors or other applications, didn't even configure a mail client. Just Steam, Kodi and Roon.

I don't have any intention to switch platforms and still think the third party applications available on Windows are, while available in huge quantities, mostly subpar and terribly designed, however the core parts Microsoft delivers with the OS really, really impressed. Very solid.
School setting is a good example+. I think the benefit is hooking up a keyboard in addition to the monitor.
Mini projector would certainly be cool but I think existing monitors are more realistic.
Some stuff is hard on phones (or maybe I'm too old). I'm thinking of programming classes, history classes with maps etc.
Libraries/open terminals that let you plug in your phone could also be interesting.

I'm also imagining someone like my parents. They prefer a bigish monitor for most tasks but those tasks are relatively straightforward. Mail, Office stuff etc.
Currently they have a cheap Linux box for that, this could be removed and a bit of maintenance would go away.

+Assuming for arguments sake a setting in which most kids are expected to own a cell phones.
FYI, that page renders strangely on Safari on my iPhone. The text runs past the white rectangle background on the left half of the screen.
I hope they do it.

then we can all move onto a new Internet free of this nonsense.
or go for gogs and learn go along the way? ;p
I was reading on a mobile. It must default to the white on black theme.
Yes, but we were talking in the context of the grandparent post "IPFS is encrypted and with pluggable PKI too!", not of publicly accessible files.
OK, we changed that absurd title to representative language from the article. The article itself is substantive, so let's forget about the bait.
So, refactoring is a good idea?
Stripe bypassing PCI is still really questionable, if someone hacks you stripe isn't gonna stop them from stealing your customers credit cards.
There is nothing wrong with requiring research and development in medicine. It keeps everyone safer.

Maybe you should look instead at how the US is effectively the only country in the world which allows companies to market prescription drugs to consumers (the other being NZ). This inherently undermines best medical practise and morality.

Some mega pharma companies spend up to twice as much on marketing as R&D, literally tens of billions. I for one know where I'd rather have them save a bit of cash.

Imagine if they actually competed on making the most effective medicine instead of the best commercials.
That was my point as well.

The culture in the gamedev world is such that the big teams only switch tooling when forced to do so. Only amateurs tend to try out new ways.

Back when the move from Assembly to higher level languages started, many games would be filled with inline Assembly.

The compilers weren't that good generating code and they didn't want to loose the power of Assembly.

Just like now with the managed runtimes and having tons of C and C++ underneath. Languages that weren't that speedy 30 years ago.

We need to keep the spirit of taking things far alive, because in computing seeing is believing.
How to Make a Compelling Case to the CEO
that is a good point as well. I definitely agree with it. The one thing I would add is that I repeatedly get update notifications on my iPhone. Due to the increase in lockdown of all features, I am legitimately afraid to update as the:

* provides security update

* increases iTunes performance

type descriptors, do not provide enough information about how they will fundamentally change my system. Most notably when I updated my iPhone and found out I loaded in some horribly inefficient talking pseudo AI that was not neutral, but a straight up negative feature consuming system resources.

I think you are really correct though, as you gain more experience and skill with technology you have more needs and better judgement. You can evaluate things better because you are aware of what is possible. The biggest problem isn't that they make changes, it is that those changes are not predictable so they become difficult to mitigate.
They should have been able to swap out the RAID card and import the configs from the disks. This is pretty common practice with LSI/Avago-based cards. Curious as to why they didn't do that. Maybe the card went really bad and started writing garbage all over the place?
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http://patterntap.com used to be great for this sort of thing, but then the guy behind it decided, ironically enough, to redesign the interface and that killed the site. Also Dribbble came out around the same time, so it didn't help either.
>a book she’s publishing to accompany the exhibit includes her journal from the height of that surveillance, recording her first-person experience of becoming a spying subject, along with her inner monologue as she first corresponded with the secret NSA leaker she then knew only as “Citizenfour.”

That line really highlighted the fallacy that "mass surveillance is effective" for me.

They were actively spying on her concurrently while she was "the subject of a grand jury investigation" and still were unable to deduce that she was actively conspiring with Edward Snowden which would ultimately decimate their reputation worldwide.
I see lots of people asking me for invites to Keybase in this thread. Sorry, I can't help, I'm all out. I gave away the 9 I had super-fast.
I don't care what other people do. I want client side encryption!
Tax Software Provider Discloses Data Breach
> I think it's common in databases that if you throw a massive query at it that the server doesn't have the resources to handle, things will go wrong.

This has never ever happened to me in the last 20 years I've used SQL databases. Sure it might take a long time but that's it.
Investors Are Willing to Make a Blind Bet on Uber
I think a lot of the Boomers are going to get their comeuppance. At my age, my parents were on their third house. Most of my cohorts rent, and as I'm in a city where housing is now higher than before the crash, I wouldn't buy a home even if I could afford it. And I don't have school loans.

There are going to be some disappointed Boomers in the next decade, when looking to sell their main asset, upon discovering nobody can or will pay their inflated prices.
It's on our list.
Interesting proposition for a static income. I'll look into it
You lose a RAID card as often as spinning metal disks? Sure that's not a wild exaggeration? Sure sounds like one. In 15+ years of doing this, I've only been a part of a RAID card swap three times. Once was just to be safe with an overly paranoid customer.

That said, I'm a fan of moving away from RAID. It's just more complexity in the face of a movement towards simpler architectures. The one benefit of a good RAID card: stupid fast, safe writes with a BBWC.
No, if people find it interesting, that's fine. You're probably thinking of the Show HN guidelines, which only apply to a subset of stories:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I was in Iraq at the time, and probably interacting with people one step away from the people involved in persecuting her. Based on everything I saw at the time, they were perhaps well meaning but utterly overwhelmed and without any handle on the situation, and once something like this starts, it snowballs and has a life of its own. The terrifying thing is when this happens to someone who isn't a white US citizen journalist...they can easily end up in local detention or even theater detention or more, indefinitely, or be killed.

I wish I could apologize to her for what she went through. It probably is better for the world that she went through it, was then an even more effective journalist, and then in contact with Snowden, but it was a huge sacrifice I'm sure.
It cost more then a Netbook. What the heck were they thinking!
What you do is you collect, not curate.

PS. The hamburger menu and the "all patterns" droplist don't work in Mobile Safari. They don't respond to taps at all. FYI.
I see it fine on Arch. I have a relatively minimal set of fonts installed, and it seems to be coming from a font named "Standard Symbols L", which seems to be included as a Type1 font with Ghostscript's core35 font collection.

It might also be in Symbola or Unifont.
> Well, large corporations using political influence to extend copyright terms effectively forever to prevent works from ever entering the public domain against the express intent of the Founders (at least in the U.S.) aren't exactly the white knights in this story either.

Exactly this. Get back to me when we have a sane copyright regime in the US and, for that matter, the rest of the world. Until then, pardon me if I'm not bothered when people pirate content.
This was mostly on GWB's watch.
Please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN.

Putdowns of the rest of the community are particularly tedious.
Lucky to u, they just delete my server just for i set up a VPN server...
Yes, they are going to answer the question in general including the points you brought up. Just categorically denying any liability for links without thoroughly thinking about those points is shortsighted.

Just because in some cases it would be stupid to rule against the linker doesn't mean that it wouldn't be the right thing in other cases. Saying linking in general should never result in violation of the law because <insert specific situation here where it would be crazy that does not always apply> is disingenuous.
I was referring to the second part of the comment:

"Containers are immutable, or like to think they are at least, so blockchains are an obvious thing to use in conjunction with deployments of said containers. At least that's what I keep telling everyone."
Some additional data about Emscripten code without asm.js mode, corresponding to memory model 2 in your comment. We generated the data on spidermonkey using the --no-asmjs command line switch.

Startup time:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17fFM1YqhMV2-O0ZdymEv...

Execution time (small benchmarks):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17fFM1YqhMV2-O0ZdymEv...

Execution time (larger benchmarks):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17fFM1YqhMV2-O0ZdymEv...
Exactly why they want to do this. Tax the difference and keep the price constant because they know a raped consumer will keep paying it.
Lack of oil/gas taxes encourages wasteful spending elsewhere. When gas is cheap why not buy a house in the suburbs that's a 90-minute commute to work and a gas guzzler vehicle?

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/the-conservative...
All you have to do for startup success is find an accidentally rich sucker willing to pay $10k per user.

Good on Cuban for selling to a giant fool, but I'm not sure recognizing a sucker and selling to him or her is really all that broadly translatable a skill. My guess is the problem is the too-small supply of over-wealthy suckers.
The "past few years" is a bigger sample than just "the past year", so assuming the posts are equally distributed through time, you're still going to get more of them in the first bucket.

Still, from the top 10 of past year:

"Why Airbnb is dead to me" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10291070)

"The two faces of Airbnb" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10487447)

"AirBNB why did you terminate my account? – An Open Letter to AirBNB" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10090119)

"Living and Dying on Airbnb" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10531229)

And many of the others in the top are not really about AirBNB itself, just of related topics. I don't see much praise.
Can you elaborate? What makes it a "huge dependency to maintain"? Is there anything that the Twisted project can do to make it easier? If this is actually a problem I'd really like to hear from users on the Twisted mailing list and bug tracker.
Anyone have any experiences with running VM's with ceph storage? I've used it for other things, but I know that VM hosting is quite popular. Care to share any stories?
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Please don't post uncivil or unsubstantive comments to Hacker News. This one was both, which is no doubt the reason for the downvotes.

Also, the HN guidelines ask you not to go on about getting downvoted. See the two rules at the bottom:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You guessed correctly! Invite sent.

(I've updated to my profile to actually include my email now.)
>We've been a customer for 2 years, surely they could pick up the phone and call us.

I don't understand that reasoning from customers to be honest. That right there, throws away the $5 and $10 plans. Having some one trying to contact a customer, just because their credit card expired, cost more than the actual hosting.

Top tier service does comes from companies with $5 a month plans. I'm sorry it just doesn't.
What is the mechanism by which "debasing a currency" leads to "staving off deflation"??
I guess, but not really my point. All the projects that go through massive rewrites to port into another language always seem to attribute the gains they inevitably find to the new language and not to the fact that they completely restructured the code in full view of what a completed version already looked like. Very much a pilot sytem result [1].

I know there are plenty of rewritten projects that truly benefited from a language better fitted to the domain, but rewriting itself will usually produce better code. The argument against refactoring would be that the better code isn't often worth it when you're not changing languages.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#The_p...

Edit: I submitted accidentally.
People are downvoting you... why? You even provided a citation.

This is one of the more fascinating recent discoveries about diet, that anti-oxidants can actually CAUSE cancer instead of prevent as previously assumed.

Obviously the jury is still out, but we had thought the jury was not out until recently.
10 great ways to increase your mobile app marketing with social media
Dude, he put radio on the Internet.
Unikernels
And this case is exactly to provide a framework for lower courts to decide intent. In fact, it was a court that asked this question to the CJEU to be able to judge a specific case. It's much better to have clear rules what is allowed and what isn't than operating in a grey area and being dependent on courts deciding in your favor without being able to asses the risk beforehand.

> Profiting off illegal content is already illegal by itself

That is not so easy and depends on your definition of "profiting".
What did the author mean by "stave off deflation by debasing their currencies"? How does the latter lead to the former?
Ask HN: Havw you used the Skyscanner API?
Hi all,

So I was bored whilst at the airport today and wondered what crazy things you could do with an API from the likes of Skyscanner etc.

Have you used the Skyscanner api or something similar and what did you use it for?

Thanks
Oli
This is a really good point. I've deactivated my Facebook account (going on 4 months, feeling much happier without it) and one of the "addictions" I've replaced it with is Duolingo. If I know I'm going to be addicted to some kind of distraction, learning a language (of a country I hope to move to one day) makes it a much more positive thing in my life.
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Inflammatory and bigoted comments break the HN guidelines. We ban accounts that do this, so please don't do this.

Perhaps you didn't mean it in a bigoted way, but conforming that closely to the genre is definitely not ok here.
Would that include the subsidies for solar rooftop installations, wind energy projects and electric vehicles?

Problem with that approach is that you quickly get into "subsidies I like" and "subsidies I dislike" territory.
But wouldn't you do A/B tests in a driver lab first before going out into the wild with the fonts?
Also, please don't use uppercase for emphasis. It's basically yelling at people.

That's in the HN guidelines too. You might reread them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I wonder what would have happened to SV if the Federal government put a 30% tax on every dollar earned by tech companies a week after .com bubble burst.
Have your tried something like Ecoute on iOS? It's a third party music player and I use it full time since Apple Music was trying show up everywhere in the music.app

Ecoute uses the same library as the default app, shows a nice simple grid or list of your albums/artists/playlists and is well designed. When you use any controls in either app it will be picked up in both. It doesn't matter in which app you start a playlist/play/pause/skip/whatever. With that in mind, using Ecoute as default app was as easy as replacing the icon in the dock. No need for a default music app setting in my opinion.

More here: http://www.pixiapps.com/ecouteios/
Please don't respond to an inflammatory comment with off-topic rants. That makes the thread worse. Instead, simply flag it.

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I worked for a company that believed that, for a while.

They bought a hugely expensive SAN solution (HP I think). One of my questions was: What happens when the SAN fails? Well you see, because it has redundancy, that can't happen. Clever uh?.

First time it failed, everything gridded to a halt for two days. The second time they did better and had it running within eight hours.
Please don't be rude.
The current version still has the problem that if you do a massive SELECT then it will fill up memory until the process gets killed.

That means any ad-hoc query can trivially crash your server. That's pretty serious. It's even worse if the ingest is using statsd-influxdb-backend with udp since during the crash you'll lose data.

Do you really think it's ok for a novice user to be able to crash the server from your web gui if they make a minor mistake (e.g something like

SELECT value FROM /series.*/

not realizing how many series their regex actually applies to until it's too late and the has gui stopped responding)?

I think it's common in databases that if you throw a massive query at it that the server doesn't have the resources to handle, things will go wrong.

This thinking is worse then wrong. Not only is it wrong - a simple unqualified select won't crash any "common" database - it makes anyone with any "common" database experience doubt your other claims.
This is interesting. They're running Debian 8 inside an LXC container, which I've personally never seen before on Android. Not sure how they're doing the HDMI interface though - I assume it's an app, but couldn't find it in either one of the images.
It's true that there's too much negativity on HN, but it's also true that people contribute to it without meaning to. Your comment kind of demonstrates that.

On the other hand, your use of the word 'minority' there was both astute and thoughtful.
Thanks. There were some quick changes that got pushed out as the post started gathering steam today.
Try running for office on that platform.
The key innovation in Windows Phone's "Continuum" feature is that the desktop is just another view into the phone. You can access the same exact apps and user data - browser, mail, calendar, messaging, etc. - and switch back and forth without losing state. In that world, a phone with KVM support doesn't just save you from owning a PC; it saves you from having to keep track of a different set of installed apps, setting up accounts, preferences, and state (currently open tabs, documents, etc.)

I'd welcome something like that for Android, especially as Google is experimenting with support for windowed Android apps with mouse support.

Unfortunately, Maru is not that. It appears to only run X11 apps on the desktop, and only Android apps on the phone. I don't think there's enough value in that. It has the inconveniences of needing to dock/undock your phone plus all of the hassle of having to maintain 2 separate sets of apps, settings, and state.
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> How does the latter lead to the former?

Debasing your currency is, by definition, inflation. Debasing your currency means that the value of the currency drops, such that the same amount of currency buys a smaller amount of whatever (for example, if $30 will get you a barrel of oil today, but only 60% of a barrel tomorrow, the dollar has been debased). Inflation means that the same thing costs more money (for example, if a barrel of oil costs $30 today, but $50 tomorrow, we're seeing inflation in the dollar, as reflected in the oil price). As you might notice, those are two different ways to frame exactly the same pricing information.

(The reason we have two terms is (at least in part) that they arose from different historical circumstances -- debasing a metal currency meant, e.g., taking what were supposed to be gold coins and mixing a base metal into them, so that your new coins weighed just as much as they should but were worth less (since they contained less gold).)

So, the mechanism is: they are the same thing.
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Whats advantage of having a "supervisor" inside the container, rather than just "supervising" the container itself?
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"Debasing a currency" is a dysphemism for effecting inflation, and inflation is the opposite of deflation.

So the lead-in reads in plain English that Europe and Japan aren't able to cause inflation by causing inflation when everyone is trying to cause inflation.
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