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> In contrast, autotools, known for having a high learning curve, is really not that bad for people who already know unix. If you understand how to use a unix system, you can figure out autotools faster than you can cmake. And you can really know it, to the extent that you feel confident diving in and messing with its defaults, much sooner than you would with cmake.

I've been using unix since 1992 and find the entire autotools suite to be almost incomprehensible. The low point was in 2014 when I was trying to compile a package that intentionally did not ship a configure file and made the user explicitly call autoconf. This would have been ok except that in the 3 or so years between when the code was released and I was trying to build it, autotools made some backward-incompatible changes and autoconf/automake errored out, with no indication of how to fix those. Eventually I just gave up and used a different package.

Conversely, when I started using cmake (motivated by clion using it as a build system) I was able to get it up and running basically immediately, and 12 months later I appear to have become the cmake guru for my company.
After I got my iPhone 6 and started monitoring my steps using its pedometer, I started walking 10,000 steps every single day. After a few months, I noticed that my body was quite a bit more toned and muscular. Great benefit to the steps!
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I get it that giving feedback can expose a company to lawsuits and takes a lot of time, now, what's the excuse for not even informing the candidate of the rejection? many companies simply stop communicating.
To a first approximation, a calorie is a calorie.

The mechanisms that make this not strictly true (and there are many) aren't really worth your time and focus when thinking about diet and exercise, unless you're trying to fool yourself into not doing something difficult.
> At the other end of the spectrum are companies or teams that don't even bother notifying candidates they've been rejected. I'm sure they have good reasons, but to me that sends a negative signal.

As someone who's done that before, it's because my plate is too full (my own fault), which is why I'm looking for candidates, and I'm busy dealing with everybody who is still in the pipeline or getting used to working with the person who got through the pipeline.

Then I tell myself "Fuck, I really should send those people an email explaining my decision. But I don't know what to say or how to not sound like a dick. Fuck it, I'll do it tomorrow".

Then this repeats for a week. Then two weeks. Then three weeks.

Then I tell myself "Fuck, if I do it now, I'm just going to look like an even bigger dick for not having done it yet. Best never contact this person ever again and if they happen to bump into me in real life, pretend I didn't see them and hope they don't recognise me."

That said, big companies have professionals whose job it is to make sure this doesn't happen.
Digg Reader is almost identical in every important way... just in case you haven't tried it
Yep. I asked the HR rep if people get mad or threaten lawsuits. She said a few people will argue ("I solved that problem!") but she just pleads ignorance on tech details.
Seems like the word 'Unicorn' is currently the buzzword of 2016 in tech!
if you want to try LXD Demo
https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/try-it/

Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_vRmItDORo
Internecine Swedish politics are becoming their own circle of hell on Hacker News.

> Asbestos suit ready. Flame on.

Please don't. I don't just mean talking blithely about flamewars, but conducting them at all.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11087694 and marked it off-topic.
Nice. I didn't know it was on my iMac. All the pics I took on my iphone are already backed up on photos online. Pretty nifty!
Yip, Google Talk is merging with Hangouts ... I wouldn't bet on those 20 cool features any time soon though
The comment was, well, offensively chauvinist.
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Great idea. If it's possible, support for a responsive data table would be helpful for invoices/receipts/etc.
So you want to write a package manager?
Does that mean there is a case for a class-action lawsuit?
The Rise and Fall of the Unicorn
5. Legalize and encourage squatting to make life difficult for speculators. Impractical, but fun :)
"Safe" here means memory and type safety.
Google Ventures is just a VC fund. And they are funding businesses that are largely agreed to be legit enterprises.

The two examples in the article:

Foundation Medicine: sequences tumor cells to use for directing cancer treatment. There have been some high profile cases from academic research centers where this has saved lives. Roche purchased over 50% of the company last year.

Editas: Everyone in biology has heard of CRISPR. The company was founded by Zhang and Doudna, although it is now primarily a Broad company (meaning Zhang). It is led by Bosley who previously led Avila to being acquired by Celgene.

The notion that these investments are not doing "actual medical research" is ridiculous.
Take hard copies of those pictures and also consider having them transferred to film/negative. (I wonder if there will be a demand for this in the future)
We keep a record of all coding exercises performed by people who want to come in for an interview. We reference it for those who reapply to see if there has been improvement. All of our interview questions are in a github repo and peer reviewd so you don't get those brain teaser useless questions.

I wish we took notes during interviews. On well. We still remember candidates who apply multiple times.
I hear that even in the more conservative suburbs, support for rail is increasing, just because the traffic in Seattle is so bad. Is this true?

I think Washington state's regressive tax pyramid and dependence on plebecites will still stymie progress, though; in Canada, provincial and federal governments have much more centralized power to levy taxes and spend.
I'm talking about using UTF-8 as the string representation, not UChars. UChars are an artifact of UTF-16, and thus require converting all text on input and output, unless you work in a Windows API world where I/O is UTF-16.

Modern programming languages such as Rust gain efficiency by working with unmodified UTF-8. All you lose is constant-time arbitrary indexing, which is a bad idea in most cases anyway.
At best childish and stupid. At worst bullying and stalking. No-one should have spent even 10 seconds working on this.
Contractually obligating pi to be 3, the Earth to be flat, or software features and ship dates to be specified, doesn't make them so.

All you've done is restate the problem as an error on the part of the negotiating process. Not a problem to be dumped on developers.
Or you could wear the devices and not focus on statistics until after the fact. I dont really pay attention to my stats day to day, but its cool to me to see trends in my exercise and weight.
May I ask where you live?
It was my understanding that both the House and Senate would have to pass the same bill or go to conference and work out differences that would then get voted on by both chambers. Only then could it proceed to the President for signature.

I was under the impression that only the Senate passed this permanent ban.
newsblur is one of those open source yet hosted options that is a really good replacement
> Prop 13 has nothing to do with real estate price inflation.

Its hard to imagine the current real estate inflation in the case where home owners had to pay taxes against the fair market value. In other words, home owners would at least see some value in new construction. As it stands now, there is only downside.
We're working on such a standard component, we'll publish it next week
> Being able to sort pics

Google Photos is amazing, but sorting photos in it is pretty lackluster. You can make albums... That's about it. It's sort of like Gmail; They want you to worry less about your complex organization system, and just use their fantastic search instead.
Maybe we can look at this as we can look at the inventions first developed for military purposes?
Here is an interesting study regarding energy consumption
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(15)0...
Tldr days of high level of exercise does not linearly correlate to high level of energy usage. The body can somewhere(brain?) spend less energi to compensate the exercise.
You can live downtown or close to it without spending half your (dev) salary on rent. And you don't have to worry about gas, being stuck in traffic, etc.
A child deduction is absolutely a subsidy for having children. Not having you pay $500 is economically equivalent to giving you $500.
No, it isn't. Capitalism is where the means of production are privately rather than publicly owned.

cap·i·tal·ism ˈkapədlˌizəm/ noun

"an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state"

Rent-seeking is orthogonal to capitalism. You can (and do) have rent-seeking in non-capitalist economies too.
Is that an advantage or a disadvantage? :-)
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But big pharma companies have existed before Google. I was not interested in them and I don't want Google/Alphabet turn into one of them. If they focus on healthcare, they're doing something completely different which is of no interest to me. As a shareholder of Alphabet, I feel this is some kind of a treason.
What does type safety has anything to do with runtime or user of an init program? Or is not the memory safety provided by the OS already? Does OCaml bring anything specific to the table, or could this've been written in Go as well?
For the time being I have also disabled e10s because it does not yet, and I suspect never will, support userContent.css and userChrome.css.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1046166

Eventually, I will need to migrate my user styles to a plugin such as Stylish, but I have preferred the minimalism of userContent.css.

However, seeing the mention of a multi-process user interface elsewhere in this thread is tempting me to ditch userContent so I can re-enable e10s with the multi-process UI, at least once the kinks are worked out.
Not to mention the CPU choice is one of easiest parts of making a datacenter company. I'm not counting heterogenous ones customized to workloads like I've always advocated: just typical put work or VM's on Intel/AMD CPU's. What they need to do, from marketing to operations to internetworking, to outperform major players in datacenters is huge and not in their direct expertise.

I could see them establishing new revenue by making some custom SOC's for host workloads, I/O offloading, and networking analysis. There's already companies and academics in this space but barely tapping the potential. They could bring in some big bucks putting their engineering talent into some already proven methods. Not going to solve their company's problems, though. Too big haha.
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I lived in Vancouver from 2000 - 2005. Left when I got married and worked as a software engineer in southern California until the end of 2010. Got fed up waiting for the green card so moved to Australia (my wife is an Aussie) and currently live in Melbourne. Reading articles like this I'm very, very glad I chose not to move back to Vancouver. Sure it's expensive to buy a house in Australia, but rent is relatively cheap. We're paying $1700/month for a 3-bedroom house in a nice neighbourhood 15 minutes by train from downtown Melbourne. Now that we have 3 boys I would never consider moving back to Vancouver. Low salaries, very high housing costs and non-stop rain in winter. Makes no sense at all if you have kids.
Recreating Facemash to kickoff a branding project
There is that element undeniably, but it's not so much about being a "Pretty" girl as having "Pretty" girl confidence.

The real thing is that the best ones tend to be "single" mothers, so they are very motivated. Sales is 90% motivation, talking to a lot of people.

The average sales person tends to be lazy as heck.
Forgive my ignorance but with the UK government being very bullish with enforcing its (in some places google influenced) ideology upon the NHS. My interest in such matters has suddenly piqued.

What are these Health Care software systems? Are they distributed CRUD systems between different locations and actors? Are they event driven systems that push a leaner, more efficient process through the health care system? Are they big data / AI products for the macro that identify patterns to help policy, planning, budgets or micro to help as early warning for identify suspicious patterns in areas, surgeries or even an individuals monitoring?

I can see software being incredibly helpful, I can also see it being thoroughly expensive and intensive if the NHS has to go through a multi-million-pound multi-year tending process that is almost immediately invalidated by factors such as it'll need customising so heavily it'll take years to actually tailor correctly, all medical records will need migrating making the entire system redundant before it starts, it has to work across all trusts at once, all patients have to consent etc.

I want to see this help. Software can really benefit everyone, but I fear we are heading for a horrific car crash of 'enterprise' Health Care IT sucking money out of wards and doctors away from patients.

Someone convince me otherwise :)
I've got a rather large collection of large photo images. Images which I can and do want to work on, crop, tune brightness, contrast, etc, before publishing them. Webapps right now are amazingly primitive and crude for even the most basic of workflows, especially when you're working with raw images.

Additionally, in order to save the images I want how I created them, I'd have to pay a non-insubstantial amount of money to store them. By saving everything locally, I can have the full-resolution image for my own usage, and just pay the occasional cost to upgrade/replace hard drives.

Furthermore, I'm almost certainly going to have to have a copy of many of the images on my computer anyways. A lot of the images I make, I tend to want to share in 2 or more other places, not just a random web album. So again, the webapp usage story falls apart.

I'm also not always in a place where I have internet access which is particularly fast and reliable. So, needing a webapp in such a situation means that I can't edit and arrange my photos at all until I get to a location that has internet access. Not everyone wants to be hyperconnected all the time.

Webapps mean you're even more beholden to someone else for functionality than a desktop app. You are limited in how you can post your content, where you can post your content, and even what content you're allowed to post. A desktop application has none of these limitations, whereas they're inherent flaws in the webapp ecosystem.
also the more basic unix tools written in ocaml the better.
Do you have more info on this supposed "junk zone" ? Have to admit that I'm a little suspicious of it.
That sounds pretty defeatist; you can't stay inactive just because you lack 100% certainty, especially if someone else is meddling in a manner contrary to your long-term interests.
You can eliminate middlemen if you can show cost reductions for a player larger than the middleman.

You'd be surprised. Weak decision-makers -- and they are legion -- fear what they don't understand. They'll justify paying a more for a known entity than even entertain a small risk of chaos or disruption.

In a rational world, you'd be right. We don't live there, unfortunately.
Facebook was great. The recruiter gave me detailed feedback on what each interviewer said for each round.
Demo URL, if you're interested: https://bittitan-branding.firebaseapp.com/ (Don't worry, your interactions will not be saved to the database).
The only statistics I care about are the number of exercise reps I do each day and how many hours a week I spend dancing to loud music.Not only do I not want to get hung up on analytics, I see absolutely no reason to share that data with anyone else so they can work out better ways to advertise to me.
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Do you need to do 10K steps per day?

I don't think your average person is capable, let alone able to set aside the time. Tools that confirm the minimum physical PT requirement in my view, is good. It will individualise the minimum requirement.

I do above and below, 10km/day, 6 days per week, year in, year out. [0] This puts me hard case territory. Does everyone need this? Probably not. I move upwards of 1600km to 2000km per year. If you move a minimum of 5km/hr that is 2 hours per day. Time commitment required. I choose to move across broken ground and carry weight, a minimum of 1kg and irregular max of 20Kg, averaging around 8kg. The physical commitment to do this is high.

What do I find.

10km/day is hard. In the cold it is better. You have to take precautions in the heat. You don't have to count calories as much. You get sore feet and muscles. Do you need it? I doubt it. For me I can probably meet your requirements with a 5km/day with some resistance gym work.

Interesting psychological observations: The most likely time for failure to get out the door is the short time before you start. If you say to yourself, "f*&$-it, just go" you are more likely start and complete. I've tried this for a decade and the resistance to start is pretty constant but one you get out the door, this disappears.

Do the hardest thing first ~ http://seldomlogical.com/hard.html

[0] currently at 5km/day with weights and gym till I crack 200km.
I'm Greek, I love snails, but I had no idea Greece is the major exporter to France. Actually, I had no idea they were actually bred, certainly not at an industrial scale. Back when I lived back home, people just picked them up from the countryside after a good rain.

I'll have to share that link with some Greek friends, they'll find it very funny- thanks for posting.
Hi there Chris, I am a robotics engineer doing graduate studies, they aren't any possitions open for an intership in that area in the page, any idea if one will be open soon?
Best regards
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11086572 and marked it even more off-topic.
Teen Hacker “CWA” allegedly behind FBI and CIA hacks has been arrested
Did you end up suing them?
I have used it some, and my experience usually runs like this: (try simple thing) "Hey, it works!" (try slightly more complicated thing) "Too bad, this isn't implemented yet".
> You really want Google to be the custodian of all things bad?

I expect them to manage their products (chrome, search) in an ethical way. If I'm using their search, then yes, I expect that they'll give these warnings. If I'm using Bing, then I expect MS to do the same.
I'm looking forward to seeing Google put its DeepMind AI and quantum computer to work on health problems and various cures in the next 5-15 years.
The are left wing in the identity politics sense. Ridiculously so.
Am I the only one who thinks it is odd to fake an employee?
It just feels dishonest and utterly wrong to me.
Well, what sucks is when you only get attention from groups that you have no interest in, and the people you are interested in seem to have no interest in you.

In a way, getting the interest from the undesirable people makes it even worse, because you're seeing the difference. If everyone ignored you, it wouldn't seem as bad I think. But if you're a straight dude, and you can't get a date to save your life, but gay men are constantly hitting on you, that's not going to do much for your self-esteem, it's going to make you question why you only seem to appeal to them.
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I hate how google just changes things on a whim. It took me a few years to educate my parents how to use picasa to manage their pictures efficiently.

They used to access all online albums by going to plus.google.com then clicking on the panel on the left then pictures. Until one day...it was just gone. No indication where to go now. Unless of course you follow tech news and know that you have to go to photos.google.com now.

Now they are retiring picasa in favour of Google Photos which are an absolute nightmare to navigate interface wise. What is the difference between albums, collections and shared collections? When uploading photos I can choose any of those and I have no idea what the difference is. I also learned the hard way that deleting something from your album does not delete it from your photos like it did in Picasa.
The reason is almost always "There was a better candidate"
I would say it is slowly changing with the Maker over Manager culture. Companies are valuing more makers and less managers.
You read the readme, but did you read the code? You may be surprised at just how simple and straightforward it is. I'm not quite sure that this OCaml (or indeed the suckless) init implementation's intrinsic value depends upon the author conducting a survey of existing alternatives.

Read the code.
California does give a homeowners exemption on property tax; but it's in the constitution at $7000 of value, so it's only a $70/year discount, and there's a lot of rules to follow if the legislature wants to change it, it looks like they have to also increase the renters credit, and be revenue neutral for local governments; I don't expect it's likely to be increased by legislative action.
If that's the case then i am eating metaphorical humble pie after missing the joke.

Edit.. Yep! On re-reading I suspect you are are right, now I just feel silly!
Another thing to keep in mind regarding prop 13 is that it also affects commercial real estate - commercial landlords tend to set up a company to own/insure/maintain a building, and then rather than selling the building they just change the beneficial ownership of the company, preserving the low property tax rates.

As a homeowner myself I'm being a bit hypocritical here because we bought at a low point in the market and now pay a fairly low rate of tax relative to the change in the property value, but on the other hand that outcome was the result of years of waiting for an opportunity to time the market.
Why?

From the other side of the desk, wouldn't you be impressed if you had a candidate come in for another interview, and they explicitly tell you that you had interviewed them previously and they understood their weaknesses at that time. And they're looking forward to show you just how much their chops have improved in the meantime, and then proceed to do just that?