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Recruiters are probably the worst thing on the planet. Because besides interviewing with them, giving them all your info, you still have to do all the communication with the company. I recommend this, recruiters are kind of an evil you have to live with. So allow yourself one recruiting company that has a good bearing in the area. I.e. you meet them in an office that they own and not at a star bucks because it's a one man show.

Then uses sites like indeed.com, venturefizz.com, or apply directly to the company. Use hired.com if you got a nice fancy resume for them to show off, but avoid it if you are strictly entry level.

The troublesome part is that only recruiting companies can get you in to startups that are still in stealth mode or too small to hire someone just for recruiting and hr.
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In my experience only excessive use of 'umm's and 'ahh's is distractive. If a speaker uses them only every now and then to gather their thoughts I don't mind at all. Actually it might even help the listeners to gather their thoughts as well.
MA will enforce unpaid fines with non-renewal of MA driver's license or vehicle registration. I don't know with which states MA has a reciprocity agreement for that. (And eventually, I think at 3 overdue tickets, your car is eligible for the boot.)

These are civil fines; no arrest warrant will be issued, but I also doubt that just because BPD stopped sending notices that they agree the ticket was bogus and have deleted it. Far more likely is they just stopped sending notices and the ticket is still active.
I didn't understand anything from this post.
Apple, Amazon, Ubuntu, and Mozilla are three alternatives to Google either presently or in the not too distant future (there's also Microsoft though they've got their own issues).

I don't know that any will succeed, but I suspect one or the other eventually will.

Android as it stands sucks. Badly.

I know. I'm typing this on it.
Looking at the brutalistwebsites sites

Wow, anyone who sends me one of these as a portfolio wouldn't get hired to write Twilight fan-fiction in my shop.
Well, the investors funded Theranos likely have (collectively) at least an order of magnitude more wealth than Holmes, so if they decide it's time for the axe to drop, I don't exactly see how she'll be able to 'buy her way out'. Which isn't to say it's likely she'll face criminal charges or anything like that, your cynicism is correct in that regard, but her reputation and finances are very much on the line and her billions (which aren't exactly liquid) won't be able to do much for her on that front.
Thanks for letting us know. I've updated the quota so the website is up now.

EDIT: Changed it to say the website is up, where it said the website will be up shortly.
I don't know how it works in SF, but after my final administrative hearing was denied in Oakland in exactly the way you describe, I filed an appeal in the county court, appeared before a real judge, and won: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10381103
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This isn't about tech, if they don't have basic engineering fundamentals then it's not going anywhere. And yes, it's possible to check for NOs. Some companies are easy to see as definite failures. And, if you cant tell... then by definition they become a MAYBE.
There is a HARC in Amy Tintera's novel Reboot with similar goals. I wonder if they named it HARC because of the novel, or if it's a coincidence.
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Yes, but what's worrying is their response. Instead of taking responsibility for the fail-unsafe UI design and their failure to avoid obstacles above a certain height, they are completely blaming the user.

I can't see myself trusting their cruise control or autopilot features. It's like they're saying, "Hey, our cars can drive themselves! But not really. They can maintain speed and lanes and avoid other cars on the highway! But you can't take your hands off the wheel. You can relax and let the car steer for you! But you'd better be ready to take control in a millisecond if it beeps at you. Oh, and if anything bad happens, it's your fault for using it wrong. Thanks for participating in the Tesla Autopilot Early Access Beta Program!"

No thanks.
Hashes are generated from the contents of the files. You don't need to store UDIDs anywhere.
"Otherwise what's the alternative? A private police force for Wal-Mart?"

Yes.

I mean, lets assume, I rent a small house bc I am poor. And you are rich and build a palace, a show off of wealth. Then the police shall protect all your wealth 24/7 and the public pay for it? What is the alternative?
I appreciate this is anecdotal data, but: in my locale, there are no good public high schools. They have problems with academic results, drugs, and bullying. Going private allows us to send our children to a school without any of those problems.
Can one write and have the court enforce a free software licence that discriminates against companies that impose API copyright on others like what Oracle is doing?

Something along the lines of:

You can use this software, freely distribute it yada yada as long as you do not "pull an Oracle".
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The cover of the print issue that week showed Yahoo's sale as if it were a telephone pole yard sale sign. I think it's trying for a mix of that and the 90s aesthetic.

It looks like the confusing ui is only in the first paragraph, right?
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> Having a salesperson in the room means bringing in a bullshit meter. The sales rep is the one who is going to say, “I know you’re excited that this product was built on/with such-and-such, but so what? That’s not going to excite my customers. How is this differentiated from everything else out there?” They’ll ask the hard questions.

I've also seen the opposite even more - bringing in (average or lower) salespeople usually adds to the bullshit.
They also did not build their car to never run into objects. These 2 are not mutually exclusive.

For example, a kitchen knife is not designed to kill people, but it also wasn't designed to prevent itself from being used to kill people.
Can we call this skeuomorphism? I think so. Many of these websites are imitating an old-fashioned, cozy-feeling interface that happens to be the naive '90s web
ChitChat is great but is not _exactly_ like a mac app. You can't drag it from desktop to desktop. No big thing though.
> * The recruiter will get much much more candid feedback about you than you'll ever get directly from the client

This is why I really appreciated going through recruiters early in my career. Companies will never give feedback directly to candidates, but for some reason they feel perfectly comfortable passing it along when there's a recruiter acting as a middleman.
Unless you are rich and commit a crime so horrendous you are Jared Fogle it's pretty much guaranteed that the wheels of commerce shall just keep spinning.
You can thank Metahaven[0] for this.

0 - http://mthvn.tumblr.com/
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Which is a good point, that's a major circuit for tech.

Also, what happens if another circuit rules the opposite? Can we start a case in a circuit without incompetent judges?

Furthermore, if these judges are elected, they need to be VOTED OUT
"Walmart can be sued for detaining someone wrongfully. The police, not so much."
No, you can sue Walmart and the police. No difference. The outcome may be different. But you can sue.

Detain someone for drinking a 99cent drink? Have YOUR security personal walk him out and tell him he is off limits on the premise for the next 5 years.
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We use it in production on some pretty heavy platforms, and we're considering moving more platforms onto it.

My feedback:

* Read/write performance is as good or better than you will get on any other MySQL platform, and much better in some cases. We didn't really choose Aurora explicitly for it's performance gains so YMMV.

* Replicas had some serious lag issues on earlier versions of Aurora, but they've completely disappeared for us after the 1.6 patch (released in March 2016).

* Peace of mind with replicas is worth a lot. They shouldn't ever fall out of sync with the writer node, they lag less than traditional async MySQL replication (as of the 1.6 patch), & failover to them is pretty fast/easy.

* We had mild stability issues for a while, but those have also largely gone with the 1.6 patch.

* Pitfall: if you're heavy on big temp-tables for on replica nodes, then you might not get great performance on creation & reads from those temp-tables.

* Protip: if you're in a Java-based stack, use the MariaDB JDBC driver (in Aurora mode). This eases farming out queries to replicas, and makes failover a lot easier/quicker.

I'd also say that Aurora isn't a fix for a bad data model and/or lack of indexes. We've noticed that CPU% is pretty comparible to any other flavor of MySQL for heavy/complex query workloads.

I recently spoke about Aurora at an AWS Summit. Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvMKKDbzaxo
Please don't post uncivil or unsubstantive comments here, regardless of your opinion of Theranos.
This article is a load of bullshit, or satire. The referenced Bloomberg article is inexcusably ugly and hard to read. "Eschewing so-called best practices"? Hacker News was virtually unusable on mobile until YC decided it was worth paying any attention at all. It was/is successful despite the design. PG is either an artist ahead of his time or someone who built the simplest thing he was able to cobble together.
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You can get something similar for around $50 in the US also by directly going to the labs.
thanks :) .
how to learn about the selling part?
An anecdot: when I lived in Manhattan in 2001, I parked near 61st and 1st, between two differing parking signs. I was clearly very close to one, and much further from another, by at least 50 yards. I got a ticket for illegal parking according to the further sign. Being a broke ex-dot-commer, I was furious, so I photographed and measured everything, and put together a seven page report.

After a long while, I got a response back from the responsible agency, which agreed that I was in compliance with the parking rules, and thus they would reduce the fine from $100 to $40. What??
It's a car and it's not a "pivot". The Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Watch are all about apply the same philosophy to new product categories and then tightly integrating them. At the core of it is fundamentally rethinking the interface between user and machine.

With cars it makes perfect sense as long as you do one thing first: throw out everything you've read about fully autonomous cars being right around the corner. If instead we're facing a future of semi-autonomous capabilities which still require a human to oversee and guide -- much like the autopilot controls of airplanes -- then there is a massive opportunity to rethink the automobile interface from the ground up around this new hybrid approach.

You can be sure that Apple's car will not just be a Jony Ive designed Tesla. It will involve a rethinking of the user interface. Apple likes to make a 10X difference when entering product categories and that's been the key element. Effective autopilot assistance features can plausibly get us to 10X improvements in safety and convenience.

Apple's functional organization is one of its secret weapons in applying this philosophy consistently across so many consumer categories and creating a halo effect. I would be very surprised if they changed that for computers-with-wheels.
I partially agree with your thesis, but:

>> There is just no demand for a car that can support an Apple-in-2015 type valuation

Assuming transportation is on demand and automated, the revenues of that industry will far eclipse the phone industry revenues. Add that with the fact that automated cars are really hard, brand might mean life and death(in the mind of people) and moving people in shared vehicles on-demand has pretty strong network effects - there's a possibility for a bigger business than the iPhone.

But from that to Apple winning that business ? that a low probability bet, so maybe pivot is the wrong word. But Apple can allow itself to try that bet, money is of almost no concern to them
Yup, FreeBSD has cal and ncal. Latter has additional options for printing week numbers, date of Easter, etc., though I find it kind of hard to get used to transposed row/col output.
It's not about "ugly" or "difficult", it's about minimalist and functional with no frippery. It's hard to argue that, for example, HN is difficult to use. It just doesn't peg your CPU with pointless blinkenlights.
I have tried using snapchat 3 times and found it frustrating to use. I have no friends using it. Because of this post, I gave it another try and followed Justin Khan and other tech entrepreneurs. I must say I finally know a bit about why it is such a big deal. I spent like an hour during the past 7 hours watching other people's stories. It is kind of addictive. I love Justin's snapstorm on founder burnout and how to avoid it. It feels very personal and casual. Justin, please ignore the negativities and keep being awesome.
For me, the biggest improvement is the unified typed Dataset API [1]. The current Dataset API gave us a lot of flexibility and type-safety and the new API lets us use it as DataFrame API instead of converting to RDD and reinventing the wheel, like aggregators [2].

[1] https://databricks-prod-cloudfront.cloud.databricks.com/publ...

[2] https://docs.cloud.databricks.com/docs/spark/1.6/examples/Da...
My freshman & sophomore calc classes used his books 1 and 2. I still have them.
I really wonder how they will differentiate themselves from Tesla's offerings. Tesla represents the very cutting edge of innovation in the automotive industry being the leaders in autonomy, EVs, battery production, the chargin network, etc.

I wonder if Apple will partner with Tesla to use their Gigafactory batteries and charging network. If not they would have a lot of ground to make up.
The main feature - for me - was the ability to use the same project.json to compile a project for multiple frameworks. Sad to see, that they ditch project.json - especially after the overhaul one or two weeks ago, which was a necessary cleanup. How will they be able to release the rc2 on May, 16th, week they change a critical part of the build chain again? Does this mean, that they are ditching dotnet CLI too?
I find it discouraging that everyone is looking at Theranos. It smells dead and it is dead. Can't we just leave it alone and untouched, please?
I usually have some latency between when someone says something and when I've finished running my "Am I about to say something stupid, pedantic, incorrect, boring, or cruel?" checks on my response. In my experience, removing filler words makes people think that you weren't listening to them or aren't going to bother to responding to what they said. I've had to deliberately practice saying "umm..." before speaking rather than just being silent while I thought about my response.
This thing that each Lisp developer writes its own DSL library is one of the reasons why the enterprise isn't so found of Lisp.

It is always a steep curve to dive into other developers code.
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Oh come on Cedric. You managed to troll better in the past.

As you surely know it already, the deprecate-remove cycle is pretty much how a) Scala works and b) C# doesn't work.
I was fully expecting this to be about websites which are 30% content, 50% advert, 20% broken, with subscribe-to-my-newsletter popups, clickbait links in the middle of the "content", and the final third of the page inaccessible until you sign into Facebook and complete a short survey.

And Hacker News is one of the ugly, difficult ones?
"..., the department focused training on traffic agents, ..." -> The police got trained, but we are suppose to just know the law. How unjust.
To touch upon and dive deeper into your comment about how the author lacks expertise when selling into enterprise accounts. In enterprise I've found that most of the time when prospecting the equation for selling is 95% TRUST & 5% VALUE. Enterprise customers have a lot to lose if your offering goes south on them, so they need to trust their vendors.

That said it takes time to build trust. You can establish it over time by building authority and offering social proof in any industry.

Going direct to customers is a good way to start revenue but it's tough to scale. HP sells 80% of its revenue through partners. Instead of going direct to customers you should build a channel sales program and build up partner relationships.

Partners you work with should have clients already, clients you want. Clients that trust these partners because they do a good job.

That's how you get into enterprise quickly and scale.

I have built and sold five companies in the last 7 years. I was CIO at a $50M/year sales organization by age 24, now I am going to be taking over 170 (as of writing this) startups through a probono training on how to do sales for enterprise. I'd like to extend an invite to everyone on here if anyone is interested in joining our session. No cost to anyone for as long as I enjoy hosting it. It's going to be hosted over a webinar on May 26th. Email me hn (at) strapr (dot) com to get on the list.
From the title, I assumed this was going to be about all of those websites that break scrolling and replace it with some cumbersome, unintuitive form of page movement.
Apple can find visionaries as it did in the past, when fadell outside of Apple started pitching the idea of the iPod and Apple recruited him and let him manage that division.
what you gonna do about the selling part? I mean how do you develope it ?
The HN guidelines ask you not to go own about downvotes and not to bait other users into downvoting you. They also ask you not to call names ('you asskissers') in comments.

Please read and follow them when posting here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
I'm talking about within the main use case, which is front-end web development. I guess some folks might be cool with 10MB+ JS apps, but I don't think that would be terribly popular, and certainly not popular enough to bother with imitating Java reflection in JavaScript.
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This is about ChromiumOS, not the browser Chromium.
Does anyone know exactly what kind of data Tesla can access and under what conditions? Do they routinely scan "their" whole fleet or just in cases like this?
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The underlined non-links go throughout the article.

Mocking someone's bad design is hardly a valid reason for hindering own readers, if the purpose of the article is actually being read. As opposed to being visually admired without reading ;)
Not to be confused with another HARC: http://www.harcresearch.org/about/75
The saying about rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic comes to mind.
Your last point, that kids are being introduced to apps through devices that don't have easily accessible dev tools, is something I hadn't considered. That could certainly push the bar back up, especially if they don't have a PC at home or at school as well. That's something to think about.
I wonder if this could also be some smart accounting. The US and other countries have tax incentives that encourage R&D expenditure.
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Ya if I had to guess i'd say that's exactly it. But do we really need an Apple car? What is there really for them to offer in that space? Better UX? Is there enough of a delta there to warrant entering the space?

I grant though that this is a sort of 'unknown unknown'. By definition, the great new things are non-obvious. I may have said the same thing about pre-iphone phones. But I don't really see what they could offer me that would make me want to pay an apple-style premium for a car (other than full autonomy, of course).
This mythic story was true in the past, but with the Apple watch, they didn't introduce something that different from the competition - most of their win there was because of their brand, their loyal customers and the watch being a fashion item.
Here is a somewhat related video with the reversed situtation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytVdBLMmRno
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> Fire Tim Cook?

Why do you want him fired? who do you think can replace Cook? I don't see anybody.
Why not http://www.petition2congress.com/
Sorry, you can't found a $9 billion company on wishes and promises and then simply get left alone.
Unless there's some bug. Errr, software impairment...
First, having an alias to the "Automatically add to iTunes" folder on my desktop has helped quite a bit with adding non-Apple ecosystem music (primarily from Bandcamp) to iTunes. It doesn't seem to make too many wrong choices, but then again, likely the people who package the mp3s do their best to work with the ecosystem.

Second, I've stayed the eff away from iTunes Music. It likely doesn't have what I want anyways, but compared to their hardware, it just seems more like some executive's idea of how to improve Apple's income from iTunes rather than an actual music lover's platform. And iTunes is kind of a hot mess trying to do too many things while execs decide to keep tinkering with it rather than doing the multi-product rethinking they would need to make it work again.

Third, a few times a year I make sure to backup everything that isn't on Apple, and most of everything that is. And not via "Time Machine" either, which you should be doing, but actually copying the iTunes music folder or any other downloads onto external media.
Depending on the circumstance I've been working hard on just using silence - or when that would go on too long , simply saying, "I'm thinking that through" or something similar.

Anecdotally people seem more focused on what I'm saying when I do that vs the filler sounds I'm trying to stop saying.
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But specifically in the case of entering a name into a form, shouldn't a SQL database be able to handle arbitrary UTF-8 text when used correctly?
Some of those websites are intentionally obtuse to use by design, but I'm not so sure 'web brutalism' is inherently associated with being "difficult." HN is cited as an example: is there anything particularly wrong with HN's interface? Many modern websites nowadays feel over-designed and intimidating. If anything, this new (if you can call it new) brutalist trend potentially could bring about increased usability and a better overall experience.
I'm not trying to take this to extremes, but my first thought reading this, especially the part about it not necessarily detecting objects close to the ground, is how long will it be before a Tesla in summon mode runs over a kid playing in the driveway? It doesn't seem inconceivable, and you would think it should be literally inconceivable that something like that could happen before releasing the feature. If it was a critical safety feature that could have a deadly side effect - like an airbag - that's a different thing entirely. But a convenience feature more akin to comfort locks should be held to a higher standard of safety.

It's a similar situation to determining what side effects are acceptable in medication. If it cures a deadly disease, serious side effects including chance of death are acceptable. If it's a cure for, say, male pattern baldness, that level of risk would obviously be unacceptable.
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Well, it shows in some people's typing as well. They try to imitate their verbal communication and actually type "hmmm" or something like that. Drives me nuts.