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Really? Epic Games has 160 employees according to Wikipedia; Epic Systems has ~10,000.

I do happen to have worked in healthcare IT though.
So glad this is to make i3 work under Wayland. I jumped around with Tiled Window Managers for several years and it stopped 3 years ago when I started using i3. i3 has the best config system out (it reminds me of the old Arch rc file).
I'm in Belgium.
I have a feeling that the general public considers it to be something that affects reading ability and leave it at that.

However some of my language teachers (Dutch,English,French) would offer to print reading comprehension tests in a larger font, which does not help at all for me (nor any other dyslexic I know, but apparently some did find it helpful).

The speech therapists I saw after school for extra language lessons to help me with dyslexia seemed to have a lot better understanding. Or at least the never offered advice/help that I know didn't work for me, and I had noticeable improvements with those lessons.

You are correct that poor reading ability is the primary symptom of dyslexia, and that it had nothing to do with eye sight or intelligence.

Left me give you a brief run of what happens to me when reading the following sentence: "Reading this is impossible, but I try anyway." When I read it I may read "impobbible" instead. The thing is (for me) I saw the letters correctly. While reading that sentence and wrongly reading that I word I notice that something is wrong, so I stop to stare at the word and give it another attempt. At that point I see the word very clearly "impossible", but like a illiterate person I couldn't speak what was written down there (notice the phonological aspect?). The only option I have at that point is to look at each letter individually and then I usually get it "AH, It says 'impossible', of course!". I feel that the struggle I have here is really phonological in nature. After that I happily continue reading without to much issue until the next "strange" thing comes up.

So now my question is: Is this a "visual" problem? Did the letters "jump" around? Well... yes ... and ... no. They did. I read "impobbible". It really is what I thought was written down there. It feels like my brain says "yeah impossible means impobbible".
As an aside, if you asked me to write down the word that I had misread, with out letting me figure out what it truly was, then I probably wouldn't be able to remember what was written down there, and just go for whatever I pronounced. At least that is what I think would happen.

You don't look at each letter individually when reading, you match patterns of letters, parts of words, whole words, fill things in based on context... I feel like it is this pattern matching that goes completely wrong every now and then.

And that is where the visual aspect comes into play. Despite not being vision related I do find that using the opendyslexic font is a noticeable help, and I'm guessing its because it changes the shape of letter and words, which in turn changes how the pattern matching works. I feel that the claim that it is not a visual problem is very accurate but that certainly doesn't mean there can't be visual based tools to help us. Note that I also have dysgraphia, mgrennan mentioned that font was more of a help when you have both.

Interesting enough I hadn't noticed the incorrect spelling of the title of this post until
kator pointed it out in his comment. Anyway I hope this helps.
> Except something like 60% of sleep apnea sufferers in the US will never get diagnosed. I used to be one of those people and its only after I switched doctors out of desperation that I was diagnosed.

And even if you are diagnosed, there is not always a lot you can do about it. I was diagnosed with central sleep apnea about a year ago, and tried BiPAP for about six months. It made absolutely no difference to my sleep.
UWP allows you to release games on X1 and PC with very few code changes. For big companies, where development time costs $$$ for every day on the project, this is HUGE. If we could port our X1 games to PC with minimum amount of work it would save us a lot of effort.
Many new FOSS projects are now using Slack instead of IRC, with a variety of methods for auto-inviting members of the public instead of Slack's intent of manually managing users.

Another popular one now is Discord, which is Slack-like but anecdotally better for large sets of users because of a more robust admin/permissions scheme.
If they are interested, you can - but probably not in an ... affordable amount of time.

What's desired is that our company have the best talent, but that someone else develop it for us. We'll pay the maintenance fee at a high level but we won't actually invest in it.

This is a simple problem - we know the cost of everything but the value of nothing. And then we begin to redefine "best" down to make it easier to measure.
Do you actually do that?

There's a lot of hoops one would have to get around for a seamless experience with a VM. Most of the time Cygwin just works[0].
I tried running my Emacs and terminal in a separate VM, wasn't so pleasant. Sharing the file system bidirectionally is the biggest problem.

[0] I'm sure for certain domains, say unix'y systems programming it's not true at all.
No details? In a nutshell, there was water damage which ended up affecting systems that must never be affected by water damage. They lost reactor instrumentation (no sensor readings for several minutes) and control (the control rods were stuck). They ended up flooding the reactor with boric acid, which is a measure of last resort to shut down the reaction, and apparently unheard of in European nuclear power plants.

None of this was reported, although I'm pretty sure reporting it was obligatory. The whole thing was classified as INES Level 1, from a brief look at Wikipedia it sounds more like an INES Level 3 incident.
Demonstration of local teleportation using classical entanglement
I agree CS is essential, but as a 'key'? Maybe not. Let's go back to fundamentals - which means math & science.
Are you seriously commenting on the URL of a link rather than its content?
Yes, that's actually the point. What I'm saying is that seemed well and good when it was actually helping me find a product I was looking for. It seems less well and good now that I know it's tracking when I have an illness and selling ads based upon that "demographic".

Think about the repercussions if I googling for cancer treatments or HIV infection symptoms and not just cold cures.
HN Submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11225469
The move to the new reCAPTHA alone has made it a lot more usable for tor users.
Please don't copy and paste giant blobs of text into HN threads. It's sufficient to quote a small bit and/or link to it.

Also, political opinion pieces don't really belong here.
Pretty sure Skype for Business (at least on OS X) is a rebranded Lync client. In fact, on OS X, it's not even rebranded ;)
It's just a protocol. Like HTTP, FTP...

It's not a client. It's not one companies servers. It's not anything like AOL IM, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, PowWow...
> I think that "high investment" is an important note. Even in dual parenting situations, the temptation is to want parenting to be low-investment. (I'm a parent; I definitely struggled with that.)

Missing the point. I'll quote my other comment:

"Even if we pretend both parents provide the exact same types of resources (which they don't: both are important for different reasons), then mathematically you're getting half the resources to raise a better kid."

We can make this argument apply for money and time, both of which sound like pretty important things to put into a kid. Both of which are practically gauranteed to be less when there is a single parent.

> But from my outside perspective, I would think that it might be preferable to abuse, though maybe not preferable to almost anything else.

Nobody's arguing that two parents which are abusive would be preferable to one who is not. I believe this is called the Red Herring fallacy. My point is that it is irresponsible to promote alternative family arrangements which are strongly correlated with worse outcomes for children, without at least considering these correlations first.
What location is this? So this pool of skilled applicants who won't work for 55K, what jobs are they doing instead? Since most explanations of your sort claim that a large pool of skilled IT workers will materialize if the pay is increased, let's say the pay is increased to 75K which job sectors will people leave and join IT?
No it isn't. MATH is. They need to teach MATH, not how to make text blink on a web page.
The big advantage to liquid types, a la liquid haskell, is that you get far more inference than you can get in full dependent typing.

I still think liquid haskell is too immature (Integer is not a good theory for Int, type classes aren't handled well, etc), but the promise is fascinating if the issues get worked out.
I tell you true: when I look back on my career so far, I'm most proud of the work I did helping people climb that hill.

Most of the code I've written, even the best of it, is long gone. The company died, the system eventually got replaced, the business needs changed. I've debugged some epic problems through herculean efforts, but in retrospect most of those problems shouldn't have even existed; bad work process created bad results. I created some great system architectures, but technology advances so rapidly that the great solution of 10 years ago is now sadly out of date.

But getting some non-developer hooked on development? The shine on that doesn't wear off. Taking somebody who's struggling and helping them become a solid contributor? I'll always be proud of that.
I'm only a crypto hobbyist, so I haven't followed the field (side-channel attacks on ECC) too closely. Still, the authors themselves address ECC and not jus ECDSA in the related work section, and I considered Curve/Ed-25519 to be a sufficiently important contribution to the field to at least mention it.

One way or the other, this is really impressive work and it shows yet another reason to avoid ECDSA, unless you are a crypto rocket surgeon.
The problem with an open distribution system is that it easy to abuse, and that leads to security problems. Most of us all know non-IT literate family members that have clicked through a web advert advertising to "speed up your computer" to end up installing some bad spyware/malware or whatever. I'm happy for Windows to become a walled garden by default, as long there's an easy option to switch it off.
Ah, I stand corrected. Thanks!
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> In 2006, 12.9 million families in the US were headed by a single parent, 80% of which were headed by a female.

> 45% of single mothers are currently divorced or separated

Which means that potentially 45% of these 80% had the father in court fighting for his kids custody, and we all know how biased to justice system is toward men in that case. My point is don't make it sound like fathers just abandon their kids.
I'm not really sure how I feel about SeedRamp but I love the published interviews. It's interesting to watch different personality types and how they all answer questions/explain their businesses.

Are there many resources like this anywhere else out there?
They've finally fixed this with the last update to the Skype for Business client.

It's still a huge clusterfuck of a rebranding. The two clients are just barely compatible, and it's a huge mess when you're building a Skype for Business tool, and the users think they can use regular Skype to do anything with it.

Hopefully "investing in Skype" is a code word for building out an API for Office 365 Skype integrations that actually works. They've only been promising it for two or three years.
"We will ask you to give us some stock in your startup. You decide how much, but it has to be enough to make us interested. It all depends on your situation. A few percent, I'd guess."

I actually think this model fills an important need, but it's kind of a scam as is.

http://www.yegor256.com/2015/12/16/investors-are-too-scared....
Sounds like the others are indeed correct. Thanks for the citation!
> Since companies like Fidelity do get to see the books

How so?
Microsoft isn't rent-seeking with Windows 10. They are attempting to build a secure and trusted platform, just like Apple did with iOS. That platform and the store for the platform are valuable. I applaud them for moving in this direction and applaud them some more for doing it without sacrificing the openness of Win32 on the PC (at least for now).
I just wonder if they'll ever stop confusing CS with a software engineering?
Maybe, depends on where you are located (outside any big tech hub, probably not) and your experience (if we go by the out of college starting a startup, I don't see a lot of companies paying consulting fees to 25 year olds with very narrow experience.
You could argue that the best pay for themselves, and that running out of a cash could come from hiring bad people.

The absolutely best employees I've seen haven't been frequent job hoppers. At most it's every 3-5 years. I'm thinking of an unscientific sample size of 5 or 6 people who have had sustained outstanding technical performance of 10-25 years. Companies don't let people like them go. And they tend to be loyal to the mission if treated fairly.

Now a company with $1mm of seed money that's supposed to last 12-18 months can't afford to hire 5 people like that. There's not enough cash or equity to go around.
> Just sleep so little that you actually feel sick, and food no longer seems appealing!

Is this a common thing? I've been awake for 110 hours before, and was a mess at the end of it, but definitely felt more hungry than usual for the entire period.
Biggest patent troll of 2014 gives up, drops appeal
So true. Can you "teach" someone to be a world-class guitarist or songwriter?

No you cannot...it takes a deep ambitious drive and 1000's of hours of self-study that are laced with frustration and the feeling that you are making no progress whatsoever.

I have never taken a class that "educated" me about that particular process and how to overcome the internal resistances to it.
In an enterprise environment, Slack is sometimes considered bad because all of the company data is not under the company's control. I seriously doubt that the company I work for ever would go all in on Slack, precisely for that reason.
"You can teach everyone to be a great programmer"

Flat out dead wrong. If you hire "anyone" and try to teach them to be a programmer then you will probably fire them.

This is the sort of attitude that leads companies to outsource their development overseas: "Our programmers are people hitting keys. We'll get overseas people to hit keys and overseas people hit keys for less money.", cause, you know, anyone can do it.

Programming is VERY hard and it takes a huge amount of motivation and hard work to become any good at it. Sure you can learn how to do simple stuff without any serious interest, but to be beyond ordinary it takes enormous work and time and research and Joe Schlepp off the street is simply not going to do that.

If you want to hire people and teach them then you need to look for these things: enthusiasm for computers and programming, demonstrated willingness to learn, energy and effort. You should value energy and effort more highly than anything. Those are the raw ingredients for trainees, and people with those ingredients are far from "anyone".
Yes, this exactly the basis of differential power analysis. This was first demonstrated back in 1999 by Kocher et al [0]

[0]: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~nadiah/courses/cis800-02-f13/read...
In any case where one has to mitigate the problems of bringing windows into the mix. At my last job I had several bridges to windows only systems and silliness that exposed out to a nix universe with ssh invokable cli tools.

Currently my only use case is that it does count in my book as a different variety of nix. If you are attempting to have a portable software it is another platform you can use to for testing that can be brought into a CI pipeline.

A more common use case (though still strange) is people using windows natively, who want to use C, C++, Fortran, Ada, etc to make windows programs (instead of cross compiling from Linux). Generally this category is students, and this is still far more educationally beneficial than attempting to learn skills with long term value from say visual studio's IDE.

edit note: asterisks make things italics on hn
"And require the employers to pay that wage annually for at least 4 years."

So no raises in that 4 years? And they're still tied to the company?
The prominent placement of the "didn't fund this company" videos seems a bit harsh, there's even a red background striked text label showing you how much they were denied.

This particular thumbnail caught my eye...ouch: http://i.imgur.com/03f63JZ.png
Source? AFAIK most DX12 samples in SDK are not UWP.
Why is this needed? It's already available on bootstrapcdn which is listed on the font awesome website: https://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/get-started/
The agreement has a blank for the most meaningful term: the valuation cap. If you raise a round below that cap (or just above it) the SAFE ends up being a good deal. But if you raise the next round at a valuation significantly higher than the valuation cap, you could take a haircut. For example, a $1MM cap that's followed by a $15MM pre-money valuation at the Series A would give SeedRamp a 93% discount on their equity. That's the risk.

TLDR: No way to tell what they might get for their investment until they offer you a valuation cap (and even then it still depends on the future valuation put on the company by the next equity round).
"route everything through government surveillance" is perhaps a bit too blunt, but let's not forget that Microsoft was the founding member of the PRISM program.

And Prism or no Prism-- Skype was a $1bn present from Microsoft to the intelligence community. Even if they never snooped on anything (we know they have) they did re-engineer skype in a manner that allows it to be subject to more traditional CALEA trap and trace techniques, as well a numerous side channel attacks and traffic interception. The "secret sauce" of Skype in the very beginning was P2P connections, which MSFT immediately removed.
To my private branch? As often as I feel I need to feel safe about backing up the changes I made.

How often do you press "Save Game" during a new level?
"A special pool for startups would be nice too, with less costs/requirements."

No. Startups should not be given special treatment. Otherwise Tata, Infosys, et al would suddenly become "startups".
I've been using Sway for a few months now, and I think it's great. I'd recommend it to anyone who uses i3 and wants to try Wayland.
The paper clearly says what was vulnerable. Don't extrapolate from the summary, that most likely wasn't even written by "them."
Why Spotify Migrated from Kafka to Google Pub/Sub for Event Delivery
...what skill crisis? There isn't a skill crisis. There is a wage crisis.
As a midwesterner who's working as a "consultant", one thing I can say is I don't get benefits, so that's an obvious plus for them.
That would be a travesty. Skype and the Skype org is such a huge pile of flaming crap.
Alright, I've got to ask. Why is IPv6 support important?

I tried a cursory Google search, but couldn't find much. I'd love to learn why I should be paying more attention to IPv6.
AFAIK, there are no such features. Desktop app can use any UWP component maybe minus UI controls (but there's WPF)
This would be more believable if distribution of UWP software was possible without the Store, f.e. with sideloading like on Android.
I agree. Even if I live in a rural area, I expect a much more higher wage. What if I want to move to another location in a few years? I should be compensated fairly, not accordingly local average wage. As a matter of fact, when I visited West Virgina and lived there for two months, I found cost of living in a low-spend life is pretty much the same as in NYC. I have to drive, I have to buy grocery, I have to entertain myself occasionally, taking some wilderness trip here and there. While a house in WV is generally 10x cheaper, everything else pretty much the same.
I don't think that's correct either. My understanding is that the issue with DirectX 12 is that it is limited to Windows 10 - So people still on Windows 7/8 can't play DX12 games. AFAIK, you can use DX12 in non-UWP applications.
Are those really mutually exclusive? I tend to think not, even given the finite amount of classroom time available.
You're still misreading it. The author didn't say college degrees are creating productivity.

Productivity is a metric that you can measure.

You're struggling because you don't understand the meaning of the sentence you're critiquing.
Are You Smarter Than a Quant? Questions from the MoMath Masters Contest
I dunno from web stuff, really, but none of that sounds like rocket surgery ( because I don't know what I am talking about, you see - this always makes everything easier ). Of the list, "scaling the backend" sounds the riskiest because the tools landscape is very fragmented.

Then again, a person with whom I went to college is a recognized expert on Oracle performance. I find it keenly interesting that such a role even exists.

I look at startup-ey, Webby looking job postings and it's like the qualified people drew to several consecutive inside straights just to have the right buzzwords on their resume. And it's a different set of inside straights than it was six months ago. And it's different yet from firm to firm.

See there how easy it is when you don't know what you're talking about? :)
My last consulting firm accounted their consultant salaries as a cost center, despite our hours worked being directly billed to the client. I left about two weeks after finding out.
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Well, with H1B hires, you don't have to worry about turnover for a set period of time, and you get to use the threat of deportation to get them to do what you want.
Bitcoin is not a good example, because there can't be competing forks on the protocol level. Once one fork "wins", the other automatically dies. Therefore, it's much more important to get the right design, because individuals in the minority who don't like the choice made by the others have no way to change anything.

Whereas a typical open-source project can, in theory, be forked with absolutely no consequences for those who remain on the original fork. Any change introduced in bitcoin harms those who disagree with it. The analogue by other software would need to be auto-updated software that couldn't be blocked.

Edit: another difference is that if you fork bitcoin and mess up, it can be unrecoverable. It might crash, or all funds might become unspendable, or a couple of other things. If it shakes confidence, then you might not be able to go back.

Also, you can't fully test bitcoin releases in advance because they interact with the network, especially for forks. So you might not know something's wrong until it's too late.

While a mistake in other software can just be reverted, and can be tested independently, because instances are localized.

(Disclaimer: I am simplifying a bit here.)
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