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When running Lua, always consider running it on the LuaJIT (http://luajit.org/). It's extremely fast, portable and lightweight JIT compiler for Lua, although it only supports Lua 5.1.

The performance improvements are incredible, and it allows you to write inline C code thanks to the FFI library (declaring it like this https://github.com/Mashape/kong/blob/master/kong/plugins/fil..., and invoking it like this https://github.com/Mashape/kong/blob/master/kong/plugins/fil...)
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Spring has come! Thing it is good that there is such a different choice.
To be clear, it would be foolish to say all people, even of a given type, think the same.

This statement doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

One of the main purposes of training for many jobs (lawyers, physicists, police, etc.) is explicitly to modify the mental model you apply to the world.
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Nonsense. "View my complete profile" takes you to the G+ page, and directly underneath his name it says he works for canonical. So what if his personal blog doesn't disclaimer everything in it - the information was one click away. You're just looking for excuses, really.

This new HN where everyone is complaining of 'clickbait' titles and demanding disclaimers everywhere for things like personal blog posts... it's starting to get pretty tiresome.
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So most people are normal. :). Some are thick skinned, or confident, or just socially oblivious and will just tell their mind. Complete honesty is a dangerous thing. It's like walking nude.
> Money in most cases is the best motivator.

That is demonstrably false.

> The fact that there is little evidence to show that money motivates us, and a great deal of evidence to suggest that it actually demotivates us, supports the idea that that there may be hidden costs associated with rewards.

https://hbr.org/2013/04/does-money-really-affect-motiv
Sent this to my scrum master, hopefully he finds it funny. Or takes it really really seriously.
Yes, I should have specified that.

I should also add that it's not 100% that everyone has this perspective, and it could vary by region in the US. Sometimes it's employers who think that customers might perceive this. It might even just be the case of a vocal minority of people who think everyone else doesn't work as hard as them.
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What client would choose a bank that won't even provide them a chair?
I think unfortunately you're right with your thoughts about the perception, but this leads to very misguided customer happiness management crap.

Since it's well known that cashiers (especially at grocery stores, but in most countries this is a general thing) are not that well paid while the work is all about speed and efficency (aside all those unpaid overtimes, at least in German discounters), it tells much about prevalent work ethics.

It should be

"Why on earth should those people stand while doing this monotonous work everybody needs to get done?"

instead of

"Why are those lazy people are allowed to sit while taking my hard earned money?"

But I doesn't think that those customer happiness advocates do care much about those trivial considerations.
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There are some Lua 5.2 extensions: http://luajit.org/extensions.html
I can only speak for myself, but I found it instructive. There is significant complexity to ones life experience, but I found myself echoing many of his statements and situations, and find myself at a similar crossroads (IC vs Manager).

The fact that our long term desire (to impact positive change) is aligned, and he found himself unable to accomplish that to a sufficient degree as an IC, certainly weights my so-to-say bayesian prior in this decision.
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I'm all for providing sensible working conditions for workers. There ought to be some minimums set by OSHA, sensible minimums, rather than bare minimums. Yet... There is a disparity between what people will put up from other people and from themselves.

Say someone set up a food truck. If they run their own food truck, they'll have internal minimum working conditions (I won't work more than 14 hrs per day and I'll take a couple bathroom breaks). But if they were working that same food truck but for someone else, even if the money in the bank were the same, they'd likely have different internal minimums.
This seems to be at the intersection of "Agile" versus "Extreme". An extremist would answer, "of course people don't work nights and weekends to complete a sprint, they work normal hours and we adjust the expectation of velocity accordingly."

Anything else is a death march as a series of death sprints.
Does this also make Goole Street View illegal?
> If [police who conducted the search] knew he was running an exit node

They did know. Martin Kaste of National Public Radio [reported](http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/04/04/472...), "Seattle police spokesman Sean Whitcomb says the department understands how Tor relays work, and they knew Robinson was a Tor host."
The picture you paint is confused at best. It's clear that the company had some assets that made it worthwhile to "swoop in" instead of allowing the company to shutter and to buy the assets in a fire sale during bankruptcy.

But it appears that those assets were not it's products, and not it's customers. So, now that they own the company, and the relationships with the customers, they decide to not honor their product with those customers.

I suppose that's fine. But you should not be surprised if people read that as a signal that Nest will do the same thing with any of their other products.
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In my opinion, Lua is better-designed language. JavaScript has horrible parts.
I see it more like another side of the same coin. If in an average bigco you can hardly have an impact, how could you be ever engaged? The sense of ovnership/meaningfulness is shredded by it being a bigco and you being a number, which no amount of encouraging could overcome (unless you are a top brass, that is, but then you are in the circle of ivestors and have an impact already)
I'm from Atlanta and still live here. You wouldnt know I was from the South because of my accent, I have none. I did kill my accent in grade school when kids made fun of me for saying words different.

In my limited experience working with others, southern accent = ignorant bigot has not been something I have seen with my co workers. People usually just shrug it off but I can see why a country accent may be looked down upon by ignorant people.

What part of the country do you work in?
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I know mlrtime's comment probably isn't conducive to a good discussion, but it's worth noting that his example isn't that crazy. There are lots of extremely expensive adjustable desks for folks who want to stand up while they work, and most are bought by government agencies or large lumbering firms.

http://store.focalupright.com/sphere-standing-desk-p/let-100...
http://www.thehumansolution.com/uplift-950-electric-sit-stan...
http://www.ergodepot.com/Focal_Locus_p/focal-locus.htm

It's not that courts mandate super expensive desks per se, but their mandate interacts with several other institutional disfunctions and, in real life, leads to mid- and lower-level employees buying $10k desks on someone else's dime.
Not sure it's fair to judge without knowing the whole story. Maybe he has other costly obligations that you don't know about. Maybe an expensive health condition. Stock market went down. Debts, whatever. Or, he just encountered a string of bad luck (left Apple in the late 90's--oops!). Without those facts, blanket statements like "how do you manage your money that poorly" are unfair.
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As a father of 3 I agree. Children in my experience just makes you more aware of how quickly time is passing. My oldest is now in junior high, but it seems like just yesterday she was a baby.
Very cool.

Obvious next step: build this into the OS/browser/screen reader.
I was going to mention that too - the benefit to future projects, budgets and employers is potentially quite large.
Also funny, in a gallows humor kind of way, how people are being considered disabled despite the existence of trivial accommodations

It's about as funny as how companies are letting their employees acquire disabilities despite the existence of trivial accommodations.
Same thing with the Eiffel tower lights - they're copyright art separate from the public tower.

http://artlawjournal.com/night-photos-eiffel-tower-violate-c...
not a big problem, tie it to a very (very!) small percentage of the earnings.
Everything I've ever read put it in the realm of around one to two years, not 6 months. In my case, I didn't even own the printer for a year before it pulled that one on me, and I purchased additional ink for it. That's just shady practice on HP's part.
My definition of 'good job' is:

- The pay is in-line with industry standard.
- Time seems to fly away when you are working (aka not bored).
- When you leave the job, you leave the job as a better person and with better knowledge/skillset.
I think the LW diaspora types are almost always doing "here's a model for understanding this thing that I like, let's talk about it" rather than "this is How This Thing Works and there is no need to consider other perspectives". A lot of this type of criticism that I see looks like expecting the latter, when there's an underlying assumption shared by the author and the people familiar with the subculture that the former was the goal.

For my own curiosity, what tension do you see between Bordieu's or Weber's work and this rando blogger's perspective?
But right after that they say "or other devices". So my question is: Where is this standalone application, that can apparently do what a smartphone does, running on? It's apparently not an "other device".
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Same thing at Times square during New Year's Eve. Almost no one looks at anything during that time directly, it is all through a camera lens. Which is fine, it is their choice - but it becomes super annoying when hundreds of flashes are going off around you, at the same time, and if you were the odd man out who actually wants to see things with your naked eyes than a lens, it is impossible.

It is a real disappointing experience
I disagree with this advice. Quality of work and consistency is so much more important in a startup or small company, or any team that's distributed.

While you are right that spending the most time in the office sends the signal that you're working harder, it feels like veneer around the real issue.
Article raises an interesting point... I think the divide is valid between social class and economic class, however i will say it is much more fluid in US than in most other countries both developed countries like UK and developing countries like say India. I think the reason is because to the US point of view the ultimate social goal is financial success.

Next interesting point, I think a lot of the outrage with Donald Trump from within the republican party is he is projecting 'lower' class based signifiers and in effect turning power from the 'upper' class republicans to the 'lower' class republicans.
I use KeyCDN and they offer an "Origin Shield" so there is only one request to the file and the PoPs request the file from the shield server. Other CDNs probably offer that as well.
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i dont know the app but i assume he has a core action (-> which he iterates/churns out) and evaluates if people act (-> used as rating)

eg (guesses here)

new notification types
"think for 9 seconds about a loved one"
"what was your favorite vacation, go there"

if people act -> reward and reuse
if not -> reuse less (only by random chance)

alternative to notification could be "completed medidation screen"
There is at least one caveat with multi-armed bandit testing. It assumes that the site/app remains constant over the entire experiment. This is often not the case or feasible, especially for websites with large teams deploying constantly.

When your site is constantly changing in other ways, dynamically changing odds can cause a skew because you could give more of A than B during a dependent change, so you have to normalize for that somehow. A/B testing doesn't have this issue because the odds are constant over time.
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To be honest, that sounds annoying. I just need to hand the teller some papers, and have them give me back a receipt. I don't want to sit down and bond and feel respected; I want to go into a building and come out having accomplished my task, preferably in under five minutes.
It's a pretty large mental leap to go from "you have the right to sit down" to "you have the right to sit in this specific chair that [in the case of cashiers or bank tellers] costs 4-6 months of your salary"
I am indeed in the same situation as you and him. But I struggle to conclude anything valuable from his story. Should I get encourage to go for management because another person who maybe different side of the coin compare to me has regretted it in his senior age?

Just curious, how did his story change your view on making decision for your fork road?
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My spouse doesn't work. I'm nearly 25 and on/above target on my 401k savings and am slowly gaining money in regular savings accounts too. I made some bad decisions with debt a few years ago or I'd be even farther ahead.

I live in Missouri though, which has pretty low cost of living.
For me, the Scottish accent is the hardest of the English accents for me to understand. I work with English speakers from New Zealand/Australia and India to the UK/Ireland.

English and Scottish sayings/slang are my favorite. Southerns have some good sayings but they are not as enjoyable for me to hear, maybe because I used to them.
I understood it as the phone is currently on a call that has been in progress for 33 minutes, but it seems as though I might have been the only one to draw that conclusion.
I've lived in Dallas, Austin and New York, and I've never seen that. Where do you do your banking?
I actually regret making that comment. We should be suspicious of logic-based arguments about topics for which there is actual evidence. We already know what it looks like when supply outpaces demand, because there are housing markets all over the rust belt where that's the case.
I'm just going to throw this out there: If you want to become a better photographer you do it through practice and repetition, not theory. I know it's the counterpoint to this thread, but don't let your camera collect dust, use it every day. Critique and then delete your own work. Get muscle memory to be your friend so you never miss that split second where you have the perfect shot.

Obviously there is always more to learn (and you should), and clearly i'm NOT advocating that you upload all of your photos to instagram/facebook. But I am suggesting you will learn more by doing then you ever will reading theory.

That being said, I bought Understanding Exposure http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Exposure-3rd-Edition-Pho... based on some HN recommendations (i think), and it covered the basics of everything I needed to know from a technical perspective. I recommend it if you are starting out.
minilock (https://github.com/kaepora/miniLock/), see the video for a good overview of how easy it is to use.

I'm with moxie and Matthew Green (http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/08/whats-matter...), I think that we should seriously thank PGP for what it's done, understand what to do and what to not do (I believe Web of Trust is part of these) and take advantage of the fact that PGP has relatively few users to create something better.
My biggest regret as a programmer: starting when I was 25 instead of 15.
In the banks I've been to, the tellers are for quick in-and-out tasks like depositing or withdrawing money, and I'd no more expect to sit down for that than I would expect to sit down when ordering a cup of coffee or purchasing groceries. For longer tasks, like opening/closing/adjusting accounts, they have bankers with desks and chairs for all.

That said, I certainly would have no problem if the teller was sitting, even though I wouldn't expect to sit myself.
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"Assuming any government is going to better spend money than private enterprise is one of the funniest things I've read today."
As someone that works in the same industry as Pfizer (and Valeant), yes it is true that sometimes the government is going to spend money better than private enterprise. The Cost and success rate of R&D in drug devleopment is not sustainable without the significant funding the US government (and to some extent other governments) contributes to basic science. The Valeant CEO (now Ex) has used the phrase "value destroying R&D" and Pfizer is Pfamous in the industry for R&D Pfailures. Both have been serial acquirers where they find much of their post-consolidation synergies in R&D, leading to deep cuts (often total cuts in Valeant's case). While they are acting economically rational way, the long-term consequences are that they are subsidized by the government.
To be honest, this is a first world problem. Most people on Earth (and honestly, at least the in US, the majority of people http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/05/news/economy/job_satisfactio...) work at a job they hate because they feel they have to for whatever reason be it survival or their kids or their bills, etc.

My job is easy (for me), requires little from me and very occasionally is worth getting out of bed for. I'm probably one of the lowest paid people here. But, I take lunch when I want, I wear what I want, I have a situation that is somewhat flexible (not because the employer wants it to be and actively dissuades it, but because my co-worker and I will mutually look out for and cover for each other). The benefits are bad. Treatment by management ranges from indifference to overtly hostile for the most part.

I'm not a programmer and would put myself somewhere in the middle satisfaction wise. The money sucks but I've had worse jobs and the time off (2 months a year), while unpaid, is great.

$.02, my ultimate point was not worrying where your next meal is coming from is a luxury most people don't have - so worrying that you're not doing something fulfilling becomes a secondary concern at best.
This is the approach every good AB testing service/framework uses.
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My first job was working for Micron in Boise, ID, and I lived like royalty on their college-hire engineer salary. Loved the town, wasn't into the work.

I'd move back to Boise in a heartbeat.
In a competitive market, customers become discerning. This means you have to put more time and effort into marketing, R&D and UX testing.

Luckily for the intrepid, giving the market something it hasn't seen yet isn't terribly difficult.

Develop some social skills. Best place to do this is a bar. As you get good it can double as your dating pool.
I disagree about this idea that local news is not profitable. What makes you belief this? Maybe very limited examples can qualify but it all comes down to having enough interested consumers to justify the expense. It has always been this way. With so many people posting stories to the net it likely the real need is an intelligent aggregator. From there a micro transaction system might arise that pays people based on views and such.

as for government, they already are too involved even in the US. Directly by manipulating what can and cannot be said as well using the threat of cutting off reporters who don't report as the politicians want. Indirect as journalist unions will guide donations to politicians who do what they want.

Universal tax rebate? While some may consider journalism part of the common good it does not mean it must exist to serve the smallest of groups. We have more journalism than necessary to get the news to all interested parties and much of it is free on the net.
I completely agree, and what makes a great job would be walking out the door and having a sense of fulfillment that you are having a positive impact on the world and genuinely care for the work you do.
Not only this, but given how much google tracks you, google has a good enough idea about whether you are a bot already, hence the "captcha" where you just press a button.

There are times they could give you that button but already knowing you are human they use you to train their AI.

I wouldn't be surprised if they also score you against how well you train AI, and give better trainers more captchas.

Google has so much data, any time you think "I wish we could do X, but we'd never get enough data", it's an opportunity that Google can move on but the rest of the world can't. That's another argument for breaking up monopolies.
You should contact Optimizely and let them know right now.

https://www.optimizely.com/contact/

They'll need to reeducate their statisticians right away!
Hope there is iOS version!
First contact may have infected that continent with virulent European pathogens.

Recent discoveries suggest the Americas were vastly more populated but wiped out by viruses.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/03/1491/302...
I do wonder when somebody uses this technology to troll.
If only life was so linear and predictable You could have remained at Apple and Steve Jobs would have never returned and several other possibilities and cumulative possibilities based on the combinations of all those other possibilities.
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Another way to look at it: Do you hate those one or two hour-long meetings that management puts on your calendar and insists you go to? Now imagine your entire day from 8AM to 6PM chopped into these hour long meetings, 5 days a week. If you think that would drive you crazy, don't get into management!