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An insider's perspective on how really things really are in one of Silicon Valley's next unicorn startup- uBeam. Mark Cuban calls it a "Zillion Dollar Idea". Fortune calls her "Next Elon Musk". Reminded me about Theranos. But then, the author himself has brought up the comparison as well. This post is pretty interesting too- http://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/2016/04/must-have-preci... which talks about the start of uBeam. Seems like the MIT CTO, VP, and the recent CFO- all left the company. Thoughts?
Is this a rip off from ChitChat?

https://github.com/stonesam92/ChitChat
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This article reads like an amateur-gardener complaining about how hard it is to grow orchids.

> Selling coding as a ticket to economic salvation for the masses is dishonest.

Most of the articles I've read and discussions I've had about "learn to code" emphasized that the goal is not to become an engineer but simply to develop algorithmic thinking in order to have a basic understanding how a lot of things work in a computerized world.

> It took me more than a year of self-taught study before I got a freelance gig.

Either the OP is a genius or delusional. I had the privilege to learn from some very, very good engineers and all of them felt not being worth a salary for the first decade. It took me 15 years to refuse low-paid jobs because I was confident enough to say "My time is worth more than that."

> Do they keep coding in what is quickly becoming the language of lesser choice, or do they start again? If you’re a young twenty-something, this may pose little difficulty, but if you’re taking care of a family — with bills to pay and mouths to feed — the task becomes Herculean. [Yes, I am quoting out of order here].

And if you really understand what you are doing - i.e. you really are an engineer - then it's merely reading and meditating on specs for a week or two and a few more weeks of retraining muscle memory.
'char ASCII character -- at least 8 bits. Pronounced "car".'

Pronounced 'car'? Bollocks. Pronounced char as in charred.
The first suggestion that CO2 might drive climate change was made by Tyndall in 1859.

The first crude but usefully predictive model was created by Arrhenius in 1896.

That's 1896.

How much more evidence does it take?
author is clueless about online everything.

just like I'm now commenting that he's wrong, if this gets enough votes, should he sends the proceeds of the article to me?

internet content now is forums, user generated videos, etc. useless entertainment journalism is dead not because advertisement can't pay the bill. because it's dead.
> most of these should really be in Redis by now

This exactly the point of the module system. You don't need to either convince antirez to accept/implement a new feature, or fork redis if he doesn't agree. It will make the dynamics of redis much more interesting IMO
Pronounced care as in the first syllable of character.
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> It's easy to try to overlay your experiences from afar but if you honestly didn't live with that person through those experiences you can't make any assertion that you know or have the ability to know what they're thinking or if their thinking is incorrect.

That's why I'm insulted by your characterization of Ms. Paglia. You haven't lived her experience. You don't know what it is like to be her, yet you consider yourself competent to judge based on your assumptions of her knowledge - and they are assumptions. You simply don't know.

> So, Paglia's comments in this regard insult me greatly since they're that of a nosy neighbor that should learn to never intrude in that of the affairs of neighbors who didn't ask for their opinion.

Indeed.

She never asked for your opinion of her or your assumptions.
Pronounced char as in care
Did you read the actual filing? Mercieca sued for discrimination and defamation. He was not simply fired after a false sexual harassment claim.
I apply at a lot of places and have a lot of interviews since I prefer to do contract work nowadays. For a while, a lot of that included practice interviews for places I wasn't really interested in, but wanted to get a better feel for the job market. Interest vs a lack of interest doesn't seem to change the education question sets.

But that's not really the point. The point is that surface level things trump all else. Companies in all flavors - big, small, startup, medium, etc - all do it.
I am still in college as an undergrad studying CS and have for a long time wanted my life to mean something. After a failed startup that I thought would "change the world" (mobile payments platform for microfinacne institutions in dev nations) I was left thinking that I would sadly live the rest of my life as just a (this sounds egotistical and self-aggrandizing to assume this wasn't going to be the case) normal non universe denting person.

I [un]fortunately had a little baby girl recently and thought my life was truly over as I did not want the responsiblity. however in just the few months she has been around I realized that I was her whole world. I could do nothing more than just be there for her and I would put a dent in her universe. This may seem small, but for me it is enough [for the time being].

Everything I know and think can be left in a legacy in her.
I'm very excited about this. Cannot even imagine how I would feel if we observed an atmosphere with oxygen in it.
Thank you! A peek into the (as far as I know) into root node of source control history.
I agree. There were many kids in secondary school who would typically have the attitude of "when am I ever going to use this when I get a job" so they only half heartedly put any effort into school --more or less thinking they'd get jobs through friends, friends'' moms and dads, etc.

So, agreed, not everyone has the aptitude and need some vocational funnel. The problem with a place like the US (but not in Japan or China or to a lesser Germany) is that people will begin to ask why so many kids of this or that group are overrepresented in a vocational tract --given that disposition may be determined early on to be effective.

Still worth a try. And, to add, a system to help long-time workers transition into new jobs --through some kind of (un)employment insurance or mechanism with the same effect.
better mapping data, give us Geo boundaries for cities and zipcodes etc. give us a database of all government land like schools, airports, parks, etc and appropriate Geo boundaries associated with them. this is a huge issue for delivery services right now, particularly those in the growing MMJ market where you cannot deliver to federal land or near schools
They're not going to be as fast, but almost as fast. You could do that in theory but IMHO there's not much point
Why do they love to go to school? To learn? No - they can do that with the Internet today. They want a higher paying job, nothing else.
I can't really imagine violence in everyday life, but if you live in Northern Nigeria, or in certain parts of Mexico, or in all of Syria or Iraq the people there definitely can imagine it. That said, I consider myself exceptionally lucky to live in a hemisphere that is mostly free from war, religious persecution, and slavery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_war#/media/File:Ong...
Unless you're in Montana, as a practical matter, yes, "at will" means "you can fire whenever for no reason".
HT's hired Bruce Upbin (@bupbin) as head of Comms. Bruce was Managing Editor of Tech at Forbes for years and is a good, smart guy. Also means we'll be hearing a lot from HT beyond this MIT Tech Review coverage. They've got US$100MM already; some progress and some strategic comms will make that grow.
> No, you give them money to pay rent and eat

If every person gets X dollars per month, then over time, everything will cost at least X dollars. We have 78 years of a "grand experiment" to prove this (minimum wage).

Proponents of BI often forget that our economy will not remain how it is today.

Sure, if everyone today had an extra guaranteed $1,000 every month, it would short-term be fantastic. But the economy would eventually adjust, as it always does. Rent would slide upwards, so would goods prices, etc, to the point where we wind up where we are today with minimum wage (perpetually raising it every few years in a never-ending game of cat and mouse, the essential cost of living).

> Plenty of people would love to go to school but can't afford to on a minimum wage job.

We do have programs in place that solve this. Yes, you have to pay it back, and it can certainly add up to a large sum if you decide to not work at all and use your loan to pay for food and rent. Perhaps our universities should change the paradigm, and require students to work at minimum part time, as this yields a tremendous amount more than just money... but I digress.
There's always going to be a niche for a service that does what AOL and FB do.

FB will be killed by its successor soon - possibly within five years, certainly within 10.

Jury's out on whether it will be founded in the US, or whether it will even need a web browser.

(I strongly suspect the answer to both questions will be "no.')
Strangely, even after publishing books in my field, people still ask me if I'm ever going back to finish my degree.

Stranger still, the US government gave me a genius visa (O-1) despite my not having graduated.

I think it's one of those "If I had to do it, you have to do it" type situations. Or people are just curious and wonder if I'm ever going back to school. It's hard to tell sometimes.
But is it reactive?
Thanks for pointing me to this. I didn't know they started offering 6 weeks leave regardless of Gender. 6 weeks feels half-hearted though but better than nothing.
Iceland makes it very explicit that emergency assistance is free of charge and that if you're in trouble, you should call without hesitation (they even have an app where you click a button and your position is transmitted to the SAR center).

This policy saves lives, but unfortunately there's a tendency these days in some countries to back-charge for SAR ops when they are a result of irresponsible choices like many mentioned in the article.

Thumbs up for Iceland!
> You are making a radical suggestion; that scriptures (or their 'source material') are the whole truth of how they themselves came to be rather than the end of a long process pre-dated by unknowable oral tradition.

I have in no way made such a claim.

There is a known timeline of human understanding of germs, bacteria, viruses, etc. That knowledge is out there, and the timeline we can build with available records is perfectly knowable, insofar as humans are capable of perfectly knowing anything based on available evidence.

That you seem intent on persisting in arguing the plausibility of undocumented and truly unknowable alternative scenarios makes for very boring discussion. Let's just say aliens did it. We cannot possibly prove otherwise.
"Like the first word of "char *". The accent is generally on the first syllable."

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Your coda is often forgotten, and sometimes "Make it Fast" is essential to making it work.

[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DesignForPerformance
> What keeps you from wriggling that pin in Python?

Did you catch that "Cortex-M3" part after "ARM"? No MMU, no OS, very limited SRAM -- CPython doesn't go there. I am, however, a huge fan of MicroPython, but that discussion too OT for this thread.
> Is this a rip off from ChitChat?

White background with a list of users to the side. Isn't that a ripoff of well, half of messaging apps.
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I went to University back in 89-90 in Munich Germany while my dad was in the military. When the first Iraq war broke out he went and I ended up heading home. I did some night schools, but never got a degree. In 96 there was a program in Columbus, Ga, called ICAPP. It was sponsored by Synovus, Aflac and Blue Cross Blue Shield. Thousands tried out for it, and after much testing, interviewing, etc it came down to about 60 of us making it in. We got paid to go through a program that taught us Assembler, COBOL, IMS, DB2, and other mainframe development skills for 6 months. After that we were guaranteed a job at one of those companies. If you worked in Georgia for 4 years your loan was forgiven. I took a job in Atlanta at Total Systems, a company owned by Synovus. 20 years later I'm an application architect making $155k at a different company in Atlanta. I have no degree. When I finished the program it counted as college credit and I was 11 credits shy of a Bachelors, but I don't see what that will do these days. I have 20 years real world experience, and in case you're wondering, the latest project I'm leading is a NERD stack app (Node, Express, React, Database). I quit the mainframe job back in 99. I wish there were more programs like that.
Awesome news! Prometheus does fill a void in the monitoring, time series, visualization niche. I found it more straightforward to setup and use than the alternatives such as statsd, collectived, influxdb (which seems to be headed the wrong way in monetizing) and grafana et al.

I always thought that Hashicorp would someday fill this void with their polished products and straightforward community and monetization strategies, especially through consul [0]. I hope it can polish the rough edges while being incubated by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

PS.: I've prepared an Ansible role for prometheus for those interested, albeit outdated [1]

[0]: https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source...

[1]: https://github.com/arturhoo/cameos/tree/master/roles/prometh...
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Sold!

I'll use it write microservices for my new IoT application.
That brings back memories of being a kid with a large, untreated, clover-choked grass lawn. We ran around in bare feet all summer and at least once or twice a summer would step on a bee and get stung.
None in my [Mac]book. If you're running on OSX, open WhatsApp web on Safari, allow notification & pin the tab. Same outcome but resource efficient (compared to an Electron app).
> Thanks, frontend web developers.

Disclaimer: i'm a front-end web developer and rhinoceraptor's comments does not represent me.

Mozilla and independent contributors, please continue developing Firefox as openly and inclusively as you've always done. Web browsers have become a major tool of communication and information for many people, and i really appreciate having a good free (as in freedom) alternative on that front :)
My experience was similar. I taught myself C during high school, and found transitioning to higher level languages to be fairly simple after that. C was taught as one of the later languages in my university course, and many of my friends (that started with higher level langauges) struggled to pick it up.
> Surely the VC's are performing their due-diligence and there are adults minding the store?

They're not. VC's (especially in SV) are notoriously bad at actually understanding any tech and very easy to trick into delivering large checks. This has been seen countless times.
Why is Facebook/WhatsApp doing the tether to the phone crap? I have a few seniors in the family who have no need of a cellphone (stay at home most of the time). Everyone else in the family uses WhatsApp and these poor people are left out of the look. It is completely stupid as far as I can see. What is the phone requirement buying them?
Capping CO2 comes at an energy cost. If it were true that CO2 had no impact on the environment, we would be putting an undue burden on developing countries and low-income people in general. Even if the richer countries subsidize the poorer countries, that's money that could be spent towards other research.

Nearly every person who argues against global warming research is doing it because of this. They think we are making sacrifices for no purpose. If eliminating CO2 emissions came at no cost, there would be almost no debate at all because the majority of the people who didn't believe in the effects of CO2 wouldn't care.
And from all their other clients, if the industry assessments of their so-called encrypted protocol are to be believed.
And clover is really helpful for bees. "UNH researchers also have found that white clover attracted the largest abundance of bees, and red clover supported the highest diversity of bees." http://www.fosters.com/article/20160509/NEWS/160509387
I can't speak specifically to walking in off the street with no diploma/education at all, but I'll share this.

25-30 years ago some of my friends could fairly easily get line jobs at Ford/GM/etc with just a HS diploma. Of course, from what we were told, it wasn't as easy as way back in the 50s, but it was still a possibility in the 80s, and some of my friends did. In addition to direct work, there was a moderately large ecosystem of auto suppliers to work for, and many of them would still hire with a HS diploma.

Friends of mine were starting in 1990/91 at $17/hr with some benefits and usually some overtime available. Min wage, at that time, was... IIRC, $3.35/hr. So.. 5x min wage with just a HS diploma was possible. That's not to say it's not possible now, but I don't think there's many employment situations like that (certainly much fewer than 50 years ago). You'd probably need to be self-employed to pull in $35-$50/hr with just a HS diploma these days, and you're then having to cover your own insurance and perks and whatnot.

Hope that helps.
What you are tracking (and cherry picking) is the inflation rate, which naturally goes up and down over time. My point was, and remains, people are paid more today on a minimum, than they ever were intended to be when this program was created in 1938.

Minimum wage was intended as a baseline for unskilled entry-level jobs. Our issue today is we have a tremendous amount of folks, more than ever imagined, attempting to survive on minimum wage.

The solution is staunchly not to just give folks more money; we've been trying that for 78 years and we still have the same problem.

The solution is to enable people to support themselves off and above a minimum wage. We do this by empowering folks to get higher education and/or highly skilled job training.

We should not have 50+ year olds working the cash register at Walmart. That's a failure of society... and we're not working on solving that problem. Instead, we just want an easy out; toss cash at them so we don't have to think about this for another couple of years, never-mind that same 50 year old is still working the cash register at Walmart! That's a flat cop-out.
They "are doing tons of great work on improving stability and performance", but I've heard this before and somehow we got to where we are today.

Do you alternate between improving these things and worsening them? Could you possibly not worsen them, or at least warn us to not upgrade when that happens?

Regressions are really not OK. People are trying to use this browser. Well, mostly they were trying to use it. I stuck it out longer than most. Having 512 MB of RAM and dozens of tabs is my use case.
Just adding a note here that gEDA, the GNU EDA suite, is another free software alternative. Its older than KiCAD by quite a bit. I got started with gEDA since I was doing PCB's before KiCAD, and now have invested in tools and libraries and such and don't want to restart. The functionality seems roughly equivalent -- both have their rough edges, just in different places.
The 1800s is the worst cenutry for junk science. It's the century when Westerners started to believe in a young earth, for example. Anthropogenic global warming is fraud.
I made the comparison between uBeam and Theranos last week which led to interesting discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11615206

In other posts by the OP (the linked post is the first of the blog), they make the same comparisons too. I was suspicious of the OP's credibility, but one of the posts has detailed physics on airborne waves which fits their experience and skills at uBeam: http://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/2016/05/acoustic-nonlin...
I noticed a while back playing with google earth that if you take the ruler tool and trace a ray from the Nazca lines that quite a few of them intersect with known ruins...some quite some distance away. I am not sure if it has any "real" meaning...but it was an interesting thing to play with. For all I know it is irrelevant due to the errors on the google earth stuff or the curve of the earth...but it was still fun to play with. Some of the intersections were all the way up in Mexico...some as close as the coast.
I think the same points made in Larry's 1993 paper could be made about various Linux distributions:

Why a gazillion package managers?
Why not a common filesystem layout?
Why not a standard desktop?

IMO, Linus should enforce his Linux trademark by forcing every distribution to follow a set of standards. If they don't, they can't call it "Linux". If he got them in a room and said "This is the way it's going to be, or else", they'd do it.
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I suspect an inverse survivorship bias in the public representation of the company by ex-employees. Those of us with positive recollections tend to say very little, and (in my case at least) that's due to respect for Amazon's culture.
Do the common VM hosting services (AWS, DigitalOcean, etc.) offer such a thing?

Unfortunately, a superstitious RNG is more useful to a production service than a theoretical one.
You may find it interesting that opposition to vaccines (to the degree that it exists) doesn't really have a left/right association outside of the states.
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Not an excuse, but: A) WhatsApp is a true messaging app. Once the messages are delivered, they are deleted from the server, so you need a primary device that stores the messages. B) It currently uses a phone number as identification, in order to create a true desktop app you would need another method (unless you use a landline or dumbphone phone number for desktop as well).
What's amazing to me is that devs/engineers are acutely in demand. It's odd that, given this, so many organizations get away with environments that are overtly hostile.
The real meta problem is that if you don't work, you don't eat. Who cares if they have a job or they just sit at home and play videogames.

Basic Income would allow people the freedom to pursue the things that truly interest them. It will be a golden era of video games and movies and art. A huge percentage of the population will be only concerned with pleasure.

Overall, we produce more with less labor and robotic automation only accelerates that. It's not just factory workers and cashiers either. Many white collar tasks, bookkeeping, simple accounting, simple contracts, simple law are being swallowed by automation too.

I see a future where everyone is in a play or a movie, making a game, working on a novel, reading a metric ton of fan-fiction.

What's probably true is alot more porn, video games and arguing on Reddit about porn and video games.

Either way, it's better than millions doing jobs they hate, badly as they watch automation swallow them up like an ocean does an exhausted overboard sailor.
In no way is caring for/parenting/raising a child "small". Its huge. Its huge-er than huge. Do a good job.
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