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People do "starve" unless they are savvy enough.

There is often help for families but not individuals without children.

When I was homeless and living out of my car I actually had a hard time getting food stamps back then (this was a long time ago). First I had the problem I was in a southern state which are mostly Republican controlled and don't want to help people. Secondly I had an impossible time proving I didn't have income (how do you prove a negative?) Then the problem I didn't have an address. Oh there was also a problem someone had the same name as me elsewhere in the state and was already getting benefits.

I showed the case worker my car I was living out of and eventually she put in some kind of emergency request so a few days later I got something.

If it had gotten any worse I would have had to turn to a church charity for help, fortunately did not come to that. It is no accident the states set it up that way so you have to turn to religion, it is disgusting.
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Much like Gobolinux, Guix also has a completely different filesystem layout. Packages are installed into their own namespace under /gnu/store but then linked to expected locations under a profile root (such as ~/.guix-profile).
Uh, some people do not want to panhandle or turn to prostitution, or religion for that matter, they try to maintain what little self-respect they have in that state of mind.
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Losing Your Friends? Here’s Why You Need to Focus More on Your ‘Growth Friends’
How about using `lazy` for a memoized function?
How I verify data breaches
The days I used to use sub 7.
Protip: some of us can significantly increase our own throughput if we frame tasks like competitions.

I'll add a warning about not overdoing this, as someone who has previously burned out before I am careful not to trick myself too often.

Edit: at least -> out
Perhaps we wouldn't be seeing this if she had paid more attention in school.
In my trade, people usually only resign after they have another job offer (as in contract in their hands). I guess if I was in Germany it would circumvent this reference system at least for the current employer?
This is coming from someone biased since my Apply HN was disqualified for the same reason. Before you make a quick judgement of Maciej and myself, I'd ask you to take a better look at the Hacker News website and the Apply HN post itself.

1. I may have missed this but if you look at HN's guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) there's nothing that says that asking for upvotes is not allowed. You'll only find this in the FAQ (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). I'm going to guess that long time members of HN are not going to read the FAQ.

2. If you take a look at the submissions page, as of this moment there's no link to HN's guidelines, or even a mention of it. Nor is there a link or mention to the FAQ.

3. If you look at the stated rules for Apply HN, there's a) add Apply HN to the title, b) comment and 'be nice' and c) rules for scoring (which are designed to account for upvotes). You'll only see the mention about asking for upvotes, pretty deep in the thread. If it's that important then the announcement should be updated to reflect it

4. When you reference 'What We Look for in Founders' (http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html), it sends a mixed message because #4 comes to mind. "Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties... They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter." Of course "rules that matter" are going to be arbitrary.

If HN is going to be really strict about the rules, then it would be nice if the rules were referenced more often and if they were more specific ie. if a 'rule' is broken that isn't written down e.g a 'spiritual' rule, it would be nice if it would be written down for posterity

This said, I'm still happy about the end result of the 1st Apply HN, though it kind of shocks me that the winners were rejected during F3.
Now... this is certainly great, especially given the particular selection of projects receiving the donations. I've upvoted the article and hopefully more companies (aka open source consumers) will do the same.

But then I wonder, what is that the community would benefit most from? Money or actual code contributions?

I develop open source software and I get paid for doing it, which is a great luxury. Go DDG, raise the bar even further, employ people working on these projects if you don't have any already and even release more software!
Getting reliable access to shelters can sometimes be more difficult than finding work.
The donations are great for open source projects.

I just wonder if DDG is investing in their own crawler? With Yahoo BOSSS API bite the dust therefor loosing access to Bing search result. DDG nowadays has to rely on Yandex (Russian search engine) for their search result. The search results of DDG have gone from okay to a bit worse, so what's their long term strategy? Stay a meta-search-engine, or invest major resources to crawl the web themselves? What many people hate is high latency and to lower latency you cannot rely on third party APIs for the main search.
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The employer has 6 months after you leave to give you the letter, so generally you can't really be expected to have that one.
It is absolutely essential to have a theory of system while implementing it. The software system itself, however, should exhibit only a simple subset of the whole theory in conscise form as possible. Because - usually the full theory becomes obvious only while writing the software. And, in practice, one uses only a tiny part for the implementation at hand.

I think one facet of this thing is that people have an ambition to build huge systems that encompass the entire universe - while in fact, most software system only need to utilize the already excisting capabilities in the ecosystem.

It's like since people are eager tinkerers they approach software projects with the mindset of miniature railroad engineers - while in fact, the proper way to attack the task should be as brutally simple as possible.

The reason huge theoretical systems are a problem in software engineering is that a) they tend to be isomorphic with things already existing b) while not implementing anything new and c) they obfuscate the software system through the introduction of system specific interface (e.g. they invent a new notation of algebra that is isomorphous in all aspectd to the well known one). And the worst sin is, this method destroys profitability and value.
I could literally solve every problem I have in my life right now with an infusion of $20k, so yeah, calling it "measly" is just one more drop in the bucket of evidence that i'm not welcome at HN because it's for wealthy techbros.
I'd like to see this story picked up and verified by a mainstream news organization. But assuming it's factual, why would a flight crew take seriously such a bizarre accusation? Surely they are trained to deal with this type of situation. The person who raised the alarm should be held to account, much as someone who pulls the fire alarm or calls the police for frivolous reasons can be fined.
I prefer the reference letter system over the personal references system popular in the US because the letter decouples you from former employers.

They don't get calls every time you're in talks with a recruiter. The amount of information that's passed along is standardized (even if it's a weird standard, but see below) and better controlled.

It's possible to request interim reports, and when doing it semi-regularly (every two years, say), it doesn't provide signal to current employers about you intending to leave or not.

As for the peculiar language, that was quite the talk in the 90s when this scheme was "uncovered" by the media. By now, people generally know what to expect, while HR is typically aware if a letter is written "in code" or not (and have no problem if it's not).

More than the "code", these letters can also refer to more concrete traits, so the best course of action with the reference letter is often to write it yourself, have your manager sign off on it and get the HR stamp of approval. That way it states what _you_ think is important, not what the manager sees, or the even more remote HR department.

(source: have German HR folks in the family who explained the reference letter business to me, starting when the "code" fluff flared up in the media for the first time. also did some clerical work in HR in the distant past)
Trump is a symptom, not the cause.
Nitpick: for...in is not providing access to the index, it's the enumerate() method returning a collection of tuples, the first element of which happens to be an index.
/use/local/bin has the big advantage that it is in the default PATH.
In my experience, most employers are very reluctant to write reference letters at all. A common practice is to write the reference letter yourself when you leave the job and just get a signature for it by your ex-boss.
>> On what basis did you conclude that I reject any of that history?

The way you replied to my comments, I thought you were offended at the idea that I even tried to make sense of the Bible. You've made this clear now, that this is not the case. I had not gone through your HN history.

>> If you read the Bible as a story of ancient culture, which I encourage you to do, then you malign the culture by misreading what they wrote. You instead end up reading reflections of your own thoughts of the world, so of course that interpretation is going to make more sense to you. And yes, self-delusion can be fun.

My family members include both Muslim and Taoists[1]. I've been trying to reconcile both sets of beliefs. I've spent time with each of those sides of family. And, although I now see how putting what I understand out here can offend people, I maintain there are some philosophical links between those two beliefs.

I'm not entirely in self-delusion entertaining these thoughts, I point you to another blogger, who writes about the Taoist's pantheist world view through the lens of Sufism:

http://www.techofheart.co/2013/11/sufi-intepretation-tao-te-...

>> Nor can you reconcile omniscience with special relativity.

I know now it's not going to mean anything to you. I believe the universe (a passive) is working out what everything will be by moving time into the future. And that's how it "knows" everything. It's model of reality is reality itself. I know there's no "The reality", but I know there is "The universe". I know I might as well said left is on the left side of right, and that's exactly what it is.

[1] My grandmother a Taoist, my uncle Muslim, and my aunt Christian. They have all tried to teach me their beliefs basically my entire life, and I listened.
The headline graphic really caught my attention, because my fingers have ls -latr ingrained into them.

I thought it oddly fitting.
"Overall, I sense that men avoid competition much more than women do."

That's interesting, and seems a bit contrarian. If you felt like elaborating, I'd feel like listening.
If you're interested in hiring German developers on your team, leading with the fact you're not looking for someone with Doctor Professor in their title, you don't need apostilled copies of every certificate since kindergarten, and you don't need codified reference letters for every job will expand your market considerably.

I've placed several Germans in London development positions now, many of whom were surprised when I told them how little I wanted other than for them to answer some technical questions and to see if they got on with the team.

As the German market loses solid people to markets which aren't so incredibly uptight, the German market will change.
I carefully followed this page carefully to make a Dragonball fan page using MS frontpage. I also added "cool" touchs like comet cursors, midi music, and MP3 files with the extensions changed so Xoom wouldn't reject them.

http://labrocca.com/htmlementary/
Any links? I would very much like to see the results of a formal study on this.
Resigning only with a new job secured is also common in Germany.
That's what interim reports are for (that employees have just the same right to as for the "real" reference letters), although they may tip off the current employer.
> Though even if we decentralize DNS, ICANN controls all of the underlying IP addresses.

IANA would have to un-delegate a whole range from RIPE.

I don't see that happening unless they want to fracture the network.

Perhaps Elsevier will be able to force ISPs to blacklist that particular IP, but nothing more.

I also suspect they will move the domain under a ccTLD, not subject to the whims of ICANN.
I haven't done lots of testing on it yet. I just found out that happens when browsing in 'Incognito' mode. Probably a bug.
Yes, here's an excellent video outlining the key factors at work: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YwZ0ZUy7P3E
What sample size would satisfy you?
A list of command line tools for manipulating structured text data
Well, it's the first time I've come across this usage of the term. It's pretty misleading when there are serverless technologies around, e.g. P2P networks which don't make a client/server distinction, JS applications which can run from a local HTML file, etc.
for-in is elegant, and you can use enumerate() to access index. However, if we had to do reverse for-loops in Swift 3, we would have to use for-in with either from.stride(to:by:) or reverse(), and to me that is not as elegant as c style for loops.
" Nature likes to fight many of its creatures against each other

Anthropomorphising can only go that far. Do you know any physical law that has volition?
Ah, it is a total non sequitur, unrelated to what servo encounters when changing Rust versions?
Yes, Zen for the desktop (Summit Ridge) is even listed for end of 2016 [1], followed by first Zen APU's (Raven Ridge) sometime 2017 and Vega early 2017. [2]

[1] http://imgur.com/rRjKZDk
[2] http://i.imgur.com/lkjgayO.jpg?1
Whilst ServiceStack is a commercially supported product, it's not closed source. It's available under a dual commercial and AGPL/FOSS Exception (i.e. Free for OSS) licensing model and all its source code is available on GitHub. Whilst Windows is our Customers most popular platform, ServiceStack has been running cross-platform on Linux/Mono for over 5 years and we have several customers that host on Mono, e.g: http://blog.geni.us/2016/02/25/the-geniuslink-technology-sta...

It requires paid full-time developers to further develop and support all of ServiceStack's 60 NuGet packages and multiple IDE tooling support. Unfortunately we don't benefit from Windows Server Licenses or Azure Hosting that's paying for development of all past and future MS frameworks which are clearly benefiting from a superior business model. A commercial license is the only way we can sustain full-time development on ServiceStack, without it it'd just end up as another Framework destined for the abandoned .NET Graveyard heap as have nearly every other .NET Web Framework before it. I believe Nancy is the only non-MS alternative Web Framework that's still actively developed with decent market share.

As far as licensing models go, we aimed for the least friction option with a perpetual, royalty-free per-developer licensing model where any licensed developer can deploy anything they create with ServiceStack to unlimited Servers at no additional cost. Also all our client libraries are also free to use to consume ServiceStack's HTTP, MQ or SOAP Services giving ServiceStack Services maximum utility possible.

Obviously the bar is much higher for a commercial product and we need to deliver more value and productivity to justify the cost of the License. We're fortunate that enough Customers see value in ServiceStack that lets us continue making the most productive Framework and surrounding library ecosystem we can, we're even more fortunate that we're able to be 100% focused on development, we've never paid for any marketing, never paid evangelists, never paid for referrals, never called a Customer, never attended a Tech Conference or given a talk since transitioning to a commercially supported product ~3 years ago, etc. Yet we've been bootstrapped and profitable since Day 1 - all the success we've had has been through word of mouth from Happy Customers. Whilst we realize this isn't optimal for a Commercial Company and may change in future after we've completed the development tasks we've set out to do - it means for several years we've solely been product focused and have poured all our efforts and energy on further developing ServiceStack to make it the best development platform it can be - of which we've seen nothing else like it with a lot of its key features are a natural extension possible due to its message-based Services architecture that we believe already offers compelling value and advantage over MS frameworks that you might be used to.

In short, we believe ServiceStack offers productivity and value over and above its licensing cost and is the reason why our Customers see value in it.
s/missing from Python/missing in Python/
Thanks for fleshing things out. If you don't mind one last question - you mentioned about communality not really working [for TV ownership at least], who then owns the PV array - is it your company that owns it, does the community acquire ownership over time. Who is responsible for repair and the costs of that?
Where's my so-called "attack" or "insult" in this entirely reasonable post then (aside from the edit, which was obviously made after I was downvoted), with a lower score than the one you cited?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11645104

Or this one (also with a lower score):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11645505

> is obviously going to get downvoted.

For the baby language, maybe, but downvoting something you don't personally like is pathetic and childish.

That's not an "attack" or an "insult", it's a fact.

And it's, if anything, even more pathetic and childish to petulantly downvote a poster (perhaps across different posts) because they point out that fact.
I heard this story about a mathematician that wanted to score points with the establishment during the cold war / hippie period. He annouced that he was studying how to "remove radicals".
This goes a lot deeper than the article seems to suggest. There was an quiz on spiegel a while back that went in depth into the hidden meanings that only HR experts can extract from these letters (http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/jobundberuf/arbeitszeugnis-...). My wife who works in HR managed to get them all correct, but I would have missed a lot of the explicit meanings inside the numerous formulations.

In general these letters can state things such as:

1. this person has no manners

2. the person is an alcoholic

3. the person is an arrogant diva, etc

Some more for those who can read German (http://karrierebibel.de/arbeitszeugnis-formulierungen-bewert...)

As someone who has worked in both the US and German systems though, I actually prefer the German one for the reasons pgeorgi mentions - its like having a certificate that proves what you did and how well you did it after you complete any job, then regardless of whatever happens to an employer (they could go bankrupt, your boss could leave, etc) you still have that certificate that proves you did what you say you did.
I would love it if Swift could become the next-gen C++ for cross-platform development. The Apple platforms/Linux advances are great but is it ever going to be adopted on other platforms? I don't think Apple would care, it's mostly Lattner & the team behind pushing the language. (bless 'em :))
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At risk of being patronizing, you're probably being downvoted by parents who figure you don't have kids.

We have spent many years trying to present gender-neutral environments to our children. Yet at age 3 my son completely ignored the giraffe we were trying to point out at the zoo, and would only focus on the irrigation pump. That kind of experience was repeated often with him and my daughters.

One daughter would only build babies out of the meccanno I taught her to use. OK, they were robot babies and that's awesome, but still. This was before school, none of them had daycare, and we never had a TV.

These sorts of stories are repeated ad infinitum among parents, usually in the context of "I can't believe what I used to think..."
Well, sheds light on their Compute Unit architecture.
Would be really interested in your opinion on the German market. Do you see a trend of more and more solid tech people leaving the country?
I'm a German working for SV companies remotely for quite some time because of the situation here (very conservative both internally as well as product-wise, low salaries for non-management). I see most good people I worked with in Germany leaving for opportunities in London, Amsterdam or SV and was wondering if it just feels like that or if there is more to it.

My opinion on the topic is that those letters feel really odd and I stopped asking for one a few jobs ago. That being said, at my current job (SF Startup) I was asked for 'references' which was something new to me as well and it felt similarly weird and outdated. I don't think either are very useful to any party and IMO not worth the effort.
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"The implementations of the thread-safety layer, the thread verifier, and programs that use the three concurrency libraries are available in the concurrency git branch."
His picture of himself from his website. Guessing the scraggly beard + hair + math combo is what scared the passenger:

http://web-facstaff.sas.upenn.edu/~gmenzio/index_files/self4...
Best example I can think of is going out to eat with 10 and picking up the bill to expense, you will probably want to include that on expense due to amount.

Same thing for uber with multiple co workers. That would warrant a non negligible tip.
Impossible. According to the internet, girls are no different than boys.
Well, if I redefine the word "alcohol" to mean "water", I can be sure that I won't get into trouble by drinking "alcohol" (a.k.a. TeMPOraL!alcohol) and driving. But it doesn't mean the laws saying "don't drink alcohol (::alcohol) and drive" are suddenly wrong.

If Blizzard, et al. are using their own definition of asserts then they're responsible for their semantics. That doesn't change what is commonly understand as "assertion" in C/C++ code, and the author of this article is (apparently) using the bog-standard assert macro.