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Imagine you start a job painting houses. You would not paint them the same way on your first day as you would after a year of experience or 5 years of experience. What have you learned? How do you work smarter/better now than in the past.

What experiences triggered that learning process, or did you just take orders from someone else with a more problem-solving oriented worldview.

The same applies to technical work. We're not perfect robots, we are given the freedom to figure things out, so the goal is a refinement of the "program" in our minds. The more effective/sophisticated that program is, the more rational we are.
> The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Free Tier is designed to enable you to get hands-on experience with AWS Cloud Services. The AWS Free Tier includes services with a free tier available for 12 months following your AWS sign-up date, as well as additional service offers that do not automatically expire at the end of your 12 month AWS Free Tier term.

https://aws.amazon.com/free/

There's a list there of what does/does not expire.
The code is really refreshing, not surprising since the author is a BSD developer :)
This is where I find myself, although my team is very small (2 people only). HN has gone a long way in eliminating my expert beginner syndrome. Looking at what people are doing, when all I'm doing is writing "textboxes over data", is both humbling and inspiring.
I also find that sites like CodinGame, HackerRank, and Project Euler can also be helpful in combating that.

Ultimately, I'm looking to make the leap into a more challenging job, but for now, these will have to do.
Complete with the loud BING as the startup sound?
Supersonic-capable aircraft tend to be absurdly fuel-inefficient when operating subsonic (for aerodynamic reasons I don't really understand).
What are you going to do with that evidence that walking back to the shop won't accomplish? If I'm too far away, I'll throw the donut in the trash. If I'm nearby with nothing better to do, I'll stop back and ask for a refund.

Nothing about that practically requires a receipt. If I'm denied a refund when I go back with an insect-laden donut, I can make enough ruckus in the shop to get my entertainment value's worth. I don't really need the $0.75 anymore than I need the donut...
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I wonder whether it all went wrong when SGI bought Cray Research in '96 or if things were already sliding downhill by then.
I think more cloud providers should do something like what Google Compute Cloud does, they have SSHGuard on their images by default so IPs get blocked after too many failed attempts.
Funny I had assumed that Boom was the name of the "airline" but on second look the name seems to be both an airline and the name of the plane?

Or is the 5k just a price point for selling the plane? Now I'm confused what these guys do...
It encourages people to spend an extra $100. If the base model were 32GB, far fewer would.
I used to be in your camp but honestly, after using iPhone 6 (not PLUS) I am okay. I actually don't use my phone all the time. It is mainly sitting on my desk or in my pocket on the go. My hand is not huge per se, just regular size, like any grown up male in his 20s. Comparing to the old model with smaller screen, the larger screen does increase read space which is quite pleasant. Give it a try.
You are right -- there would be a bit of extra subsonic about 150km into Canada, but it would work.

Flight time at 2.2 would still suck, but there could be a market. Probably depends on the total traffic between the city pairs, since some fraction would pay for supersonic coach-size business vs subsonic business/first.
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I'd so much rather do a project with my own tools and from the comfort of own home than commute several hours across the city for a several hour interview.

If all it required was an hour phone call and a small project, I'd totally do it for the right company.

I'm too well-paid and busy to do interviews.
My first real job & paycheck was an internship in Tokyo. Since Japan is very cash-based, and I only had a savings account (and wasn't sure what the limit on transactions was, if any), I would withdraw my spending money /for the month/ and avoid going to the ATM as much as possible.

It definitely formed a different attitude towards cash then I feel I otherwise would have got. The money I have left in my wallet feels like all I have this month, and as the bills disappear I really feel the spending. I feel spending from my bank account much less.
if you have a Model S or Model X $1000 is probably nothing
<areacode>-555-1212 is the correct order.
Naming aside this seems to be positioned really well. 5k NYC/London in that time is quite the game changer. I like how they position it to cater to the busy executive who'd love to spend more time with their family.

How can you position it so well and chose such a bad name :D
Either way really excited for this even though I'm likely to fly on it 0 times.
> tax rate is too high

It's not that simple. Scandinavia has a higher tax rate than Italy (and Russia), but much less tax evasion.
This. That's why silicon valley. That's why working remotely doesn't work very well for most people. Non verbal communication is very important for trust.
Read Hamming's famous talk on how to decide what to work on. He wrote it for research scientists but the same logic applies: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

(The talk is entitled "You and Your Research" so if this site I liked to gets overloaded, just search for that).
If you really want to use an iPhone 6 or 6 Plus with one hand, just double-tap (not press, tap) the home button and the software adjusts the display size for you.
I still don't get that name choice. I'm guessing it's tongue-in-cheek, but in the back of my mind I still can't help wonder whether it'll turn out to be some sick prank. Then, it's like "well, it was right there on the label".

I know the chances of that are next to nil, but why even put that image in potential customer's heads?
Going for 16GB storage on my 5S might be what makes me upgrade...otherwise the phone still seems fast / good enough for most tasks after 2.5 years of ownership.
Part of op's point is that they explicitly don't guarantee that the sooner you reserve the sooner you get your car.
I read it special edition like motherboard / slimmed edition. Usually SE is a trimmed down edition...
Well, what they think when they first see it, and what they think after it's made the rounds of the late shows (Kimmel, Colbert, Fallon, etc) might be entirely different. This is low hanging fruit.
Somehow, I don't think we're going to find any agreement here, when your comments consistently dismiss anyone who disagrees with you as having an invalid perspective.
Yep. Haven't done DMARC yet, but I did everything else on the list years ago and Gmail's always been suspicious of my server.
In a manner of speaking, yes. It ran on PC hardware, but when it was first released the system requirements were at the high end of the spectrum. (Local bus, 32MB RAM, fast disk, specific graphics cards, etc.) In 1993-4, I lived in a dorm over a store that focused on NeXTStep/PC hardware (Omegabyte in Austin, TX), and remember it being around a 4-5K proposition to get started, at least.

Flash forward a couple years to Summer 1995, and the NeTXStep system requirements are easier to attain. Unfortunately, by then both Linux and Windows 95 have made it a lot less important.
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Sorry but - from the article

"""

No 3D Touch

Sources told 9to5Mac that the reason behind this is that the front-facing flash requires the new display tech we’ve seen on the iPhone 6s, which brings us to 3D touch.

The flagship feature on the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, which offers deeper interaction with various applications on the iPhone through hard taps and long taps, will not be present on the iPhone SE.

"""
Seriously? The whole post is an apology. A guy named Dave is publicly saying he screwed up. He's saying his name, he's wrapping his identity up in this screw up, he's giving reasoning into their decision and what they're doing to fix it, and he's providing ways to give suggestions to fix this. But this isn't good enough to you because literally the words "I'm" and "sorry" weren't next to each other?

If he didn't take the time to respond and explain things, you might have a point. But this seems like a knee-jerk reaction that doesn't fit the response that was given by Dave.
> There are things that remain illegal even after you have consented to them.

Yes, I pointed that out.

> They do, but things are not as simple as "can act on your behalf with consent"

I believe that was exactly the point I was making.

> Around here, for instance (but I'm in Europe), they can only act on your behalf if:

While I'm sure you're right for your location, "Europe" encompasses not only ~50 distinct legal systems, but also half a dozen or so distinct legal traditions (with e.g. Common law, Germanic law, Napoleonic law and Roman law as the biggest traditions), which is one of the reasons I specifically pointed out that it varies greatly how clear one has to be about whether or not something is signed by an agent.

Worldwide it gets even more complicated.

To be very clear: I agree that some places the agent will need to specifically sign and state their own name and specify they are acting as an agent. Exactly in line with the examples I gave, a couple of which are from Europe.

In others they can stamp or use a machine to "fake" the name of the person they are acting on behalf of -- as long as they have that persons consent to do so.

In the US we have perhaps one of the most famous examples of the latter: The office of the US President frequently uses an Autopen [1] to sign documents on behalf of the president, such as autographs or letters to constituents. The purpose of it is to duplicate the signature precisely, making actual pen strokes in order to make the signature seem more authentic than e.g. the use of a stamp or seal.

But US presidents have used it for much more important things than letters and autographs, including several times that Obama has had staffers use an Autopen to sign laws on his behalf.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopen
The market is not impressed with the announcements so far.

http://i.imgur.com/IfkUcJ9.png
They showed live photos, which requires 3D touch to activate, so I guess it does pack a 3D touch.
Just to add a data point - I interviewed with AirBnB in January 2014 and had a very similar experience.

I was referred by a college classmate and close friend who used to work there at the time, who knows me extremely well, and is easily in the top 1% of engineers I know (Linux contributor, loved by every employer he's ever had, etc.). He told me I totally had the level to work there, and was better than most people he worked with. So I went along with it, and went to their holiday parties, where one of their execs schmoozed with me for a while, told me I sounded like a great fit, and a recruiter would be in touch with me.

I talk to the recruiter on the phone, get assigned a home coding challenge. I spend a Saturday on it, and get a perfect score on it. I don't know if it was by design or not, but it showed me the rankings of every person who ever did that challenge. I was tied for 1st place with 40 or so other past candidates, in a pool of a few thousand participants.

I do their onsite interviews (fortunately I was local to SF) - don't remember much, except that they felt very stilted. But it was the usual "here's a canned problem I know the best answer to, you have 40 minutes to figure it out while I give out cryptic clues". After 3 or 4 of them, I sit in the room alone for about 30 minutes - the recruiter then comes to me and tells me that they won't move forward, bye bye.

My friend met me outside for a smoke, and told me he had no clue what happened. Oh well. AirBnB definitely left a bitter taste in my mouth, but I got a much better gig at a much better company a few months later, so things worked out.
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It's because they've stopped saying "I don't know" without following it up with "but I'll find out and get back to you tomorrow." And then actually doing it.
I will go with the Chevy Bolt.
You bet. Also a 1-bit dithered screen mode and rounded screen corners.
It's Apple being petty (price segmentation), basically. How much does 16Gb cost today, $10?
I got one for free by paying for a lifetime account at LibraryThing. (Don't know if they still do this - I signed up 7-8 years ago.) Supposed to make scanning barcoded/ISBNs easier, although Ive never used it. :)
The same reason why you pay $600 for 32 GB of RAM with Apple.
They've been around for many years, so that makes me think that someone is using them. I would be surprised if they weren't tracked like hell.
All the FBI or anyone with a locked phone has to do is wait without updating the phone. Eventually an exploit for that version will emerge. It appears they've already caught up to iphone5 and iOS 8.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=ios+passcode&_osacat=0&...
Sounds like you need to tailor your resume for each role.
A full 24 hours worth of music (~33 complete albums) at 192 kbps is only 2GB.
I did too!

I can understand why they do it, but it seems like a very hill-climby optimization.

This was basically my first interaction with them and it engendered a lack of trust in their product.

I filled out the minimum amount of info in my account and don't intend to use them much going forward, mainly given how creepy I found this interaction.

edit: phrasing
Threads in Python creates a full posix thread which is very heavyweight compared to using AsyncIO. You should get the same throughput for a far lower resource usage.
You mean a million dollar profit deal
I agree about the possibility of bias creeping in. On the other hand, humans are biased, so understanding how to hire for success within your own (or your organization's) biases is useful. Some people would want the opposite candidate to the one I described.

Resourcefulness is more of a mindset. New parent? OK, what have you discovered about childrearing that you didn't anticipate? What will you do differently next time? What is your ideal work/life balance? These are all relevant things, and sometimes the young parent is a superb hire and may read very interesting books in anticipation of having more time to hack in a couple of years.
I interviewed at Loopt (sama's YC company) 4½ years ago. When I went out to lunch with their tech guys, they joked about a guy who had come in before me in a suit, and how that really hurt his chances to get the job. Though I knew enough to dress casually, I was coming from a company in the midwest where I had to wear a suit every day. Both extremes seemed absurd to me.

I eventually turned them down in favour of another offer.
No where does it mention proposed range. This is a big deal: with thirsty supersonic cruise, your fuel mass fraction will exponentially grow according to the Rocket Equation. Simply put, the more fuel you carry, the more fuel you must carry to bring that fuel along.

Flying twice the distance will mean >>2x the fuel. LON-NYC might be attainable, but tran-pacific will certainly be difficult.
> At times, I am not convinced that these companies would do much better with some kind of "sweep the street" approach to hiring, vacuuming up a huge number at a time and taking them through some structured filtering/training process. I've even thought through how such a model would work. Haven't found anybody willing to experiment with this yet, though :)

Didn't IBM and a few other big iron shops do this in the 50s/60s with secretaries? iirc, they could apply to be programmers and would get trained.
The "good school" thing is an entire topic in itself. You get good and bad from any school, but from what I've found over the years is people want Ivy League or close when they want someone just. like. them. Someone that looks like them, talks like them, thinks like them. They want a person who will be a puppet for management, nothing more.

I have worked with, and currently worked with people who are amazing problem solvers and developers who went to community college or trade schools. Recently I worked with one of the smartest people I've ever known who had no college experience at all. He's so good at his job his makes over 6 figures with a high school diploma with no student loan debt.. how could you not call this person smart?

I definitely wouldn't say that people who come top schools aren't top talent, but it's no guarantee and I think it's silly when people require it.
And two wrongs make a right?
PDFBox is quite good at extracting text from pdfs. When I use PDFBox, it is for extraction.

Maybe this has changed with newer versions of PDFBox, but 5+ years ago, the internet wisdom was to use PDFBox for extraction and something else, like a version of iText that suited your license needs, for generation.

As much as I like LaTeX, if you have made no prior time investment in typesetting with it, it is not trivial to produce custom good-looking output with it.

Have you tried using (La)TeX in a real world project? Would be cool to hear from someone on whether compilation time is an issue. Some TeX packages have a quite severe impact on performance.
interesting parallel... yes we should scrap the JS/HTML/CSS mess and go back to straight PS.... ;o)
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"Buy the Rumor and Sell the News"

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/news-trader.asp

Not uncommon.
Sweet design. Really like the filters on the left. It would be cool to see equity on this.
In Norway you can mutually agree to leave early, but the employer can generally not force you to leave to the extent that there have been cases where people have insisted on coming to work against the employers will because the saw it as problematic for their professional reputation if they were forced to leave. Generally courts would tend to be sympathetic to employee concerns in cases like that unless there are very compelling reasons to keep them out (e.g. lets say they were dismissed after a violent attack on another employee or after being found stealing secrets fro the employers).
Same story posted 3 minutes earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11329909
> Yep that says it all. Hardly the example of what innovation means.

It appears you fundamentally misunderstood my point. Though innovation has occurred on my Linux system (and on my MS system) without fail for years, I haven't hard to learn bizarre new mouse movements and locations of menu items. Rather than slow me down, I can begin taking ADVANTAGE of innovations right away because they aren't implemented on CLI interfaces in a detestably-arbitrary manner.

Also, I don't get your first point. If people got unhealthy and unemployable due to something OTHER than the mouse and GUI usage, then so what? That doesn't negate my point at all. It simply shows that yes, more than one cause exists for obesity and brain rot.

It's been shown through years and years of clinical study that the injuries received at the modern office have to do with the movements associated with mouse usage. Keyboard use is easy to adapt safely to the modern healthy workplace (standing desks, padded surfaces for wrists and feet, etc.) Mouse use, on the other hand, barely works correctly for the seated and unhealthy worker, and works even less properly for the worker trying to make healthy changes.

Mouse use is a problem. Keyboard use is not.
The 16GB storage size is a deal breaker. :( Going to stay on the 4S, see how things pan out later on.
That's definately true. The problem is figuring out how to avoid situations like that without hesitating to speak up around people you don't know well.
I think this is a valid point. My characterization of openness in my initial comment was a bit narrow. I think the most important aspect is openness to new ideas and experiences, and willingness to put one's self out there a bit.
Elvis impersonators.....
Wal*Mart sells 16GB flash products for $4.99.

Company margins need to be padded somewhere?
Maybe: have you recently questioned whether doing X is the best approach for a given problem,and possibly investigated alternatives or sought input from others? For 'simple' things this still applies, even if your day job has unsexy issues.
> Go doesn't force you to deal with errors either.

> And some languages that have exceptions actually force the client code to handle them, like Java AFAIK.

But this misses the point. Any error which you have to explicitly ignore is fine, because then you were aware of it at some point and explicitly ignored it, and anyone reading the code can plainly see you explicitly ignoring them.

And errors which can only happen at specific points (like function return values) are also ok, because then you only have to consider error handling and cleanup at those points.

But if you have neither of the above - if you have the situation where errors can spontaneously result from any evaluation of any expression with no explicit notation required - then you have a poor situation indeed.
I predict they will sell a ton of the SE's. I'm in the same boat, the 5S was great and the 4.7" and larger screens just seem too big. I have been waiting for the SE to come out.
For those looking for the link to copy:

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There is a 64GB model.
Probably not only then. The moment when you want to restart your server via the web UI would be another good moment to upsell you.
And thinking about how many features would be there, a 10 pages might not be enough for their cloud offerings.
An ability to state "I don't know that" without shame is a strong positive signal of intellectual maturity, but I'm not sure that I'd want to press it out of a candidate by asking an impossible question, if it had to get to that point. The process that you describe isn't one that I would feel comfortable using, but I like the objective.
One can argue over whether Angellist's ToS constituted valid consent. But the original blanket claim that an action "can't be magically made OK by a contract" is just flat-out false. It can.
If you don't mind me asking, why that give you anxiety?
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I haven't been following SC2 since HOTS

Too bad, it's really good.
The comment is actually more than relevant... A lot of people have fear of flights and the name which brings negative emotions is an issue.
It isn't competitively priced. The 32G used to be a sweet spot I could go for, but it's gone now.
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And that's about all the space you'll have with ios and default apps!
Replace dish with drink (or worse, joint). Do you still think people who "decline to try" have a problem? That they should try in case they might like it?

I'm really NOT keen on trying chocolate-cover ants, thank you.
As a stubborn iPhone 4 user, I was excited for this press conference because of the return to a smaller form factor. I'm not sure the SE is going to push me over the edge just yet, despite the price.

Think I can hold out for a couple more months, just in case something amazing happens with the 7.
I agree, this is an insanely hard problem to solve. There are dozens of companies with tons of capital and massive R&D budgets that haven't already done this, presumably because they either think it's too hard, the regulatory hurdles are too high, or the market is not ready. Why can this startup do what they can't?