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The languages are too similar for both to survive in the community. It's extremely pointless for both these languages to exist. VB.net existed to help migrate over classic VB users but ended up being too much like C# to even do that effectively.

C# is definitely the more popular language, so there's no reason to waste time on VB. Nearly every open source project, sample code on stack overflow, etc will be in C#.
Please don't post comments like this. If you're worried about voting on a story, send an email to hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look into it. (In this case, the voting looks largely legit. Rust is popular on HN these days, so that may be why.)

Oh, and nothing is wrong about posts by new accounts making the front page. We welcome new users!
A person with some fixed 'value' X can be worth much higher to one company than some other company. In fact that is extremely common. Value is relative here so I completely disagree with your "a professional knows their value" sentiment.
Nonsense. There would be no debate if this was a "clear cut case." The child had to have actively avoided being found for this to happen.
> I still hope to have some Rust on lower level to push it into the XXIst century.

Well, there are some nice tools available, but not many seem to be willing to pay for them.

http://www.mikroe.com/compilers/

http://www.astrobe.com/default.htm

http://www.ptc.com/developer-tools/apexada
Reverse Sokal Affair (spoofed physics papers):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_affair
>Apps are expensive to build

>The U.K. government also has a poor record of delivering large scale IT projects with complex chains of dependencies...

Staying on the web and skipping native isn't a panacea for budget bloat, poor project scoping, and loosely supervised bidding processes. State and municipal agencies routinely pay stupid amounts of money for trivial functionality on the web.
Challenges You Will Face While Setting Up Your Online Store – The Next Scoop
The bronze age in that part of the world was around 3300 to 1200BC. Tutankhamen ruled from 1332 to 1323. From that alone we might suppose why a bit of proper iron was more valuable than gold. (the Hittite secret of iron wasn't for another 275 years despite Mika Waltari's poignant novel "The Egyptian" which had the Hittites flashing their iron about the court of King Tut)
Patients are the Health Care System's Unpaid Labor
please elaborate the question, as to what you want to learn, because "Stuff" would some up everything there is to learn and the word in itself does not define anything my friend???
5% of people qualify for unemployment benefits I believe, not that 95% of people that want jobs have them. For most purposes an essentially useless measurement.

"A broader measure of unemployment that includes people too discouraged to search for work or who are making do with a part-time job because they cannot find a full-time one, stayed steady at 9.7 percent."[0]

[0]http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/04/business/economy/jobs-repo... (credit: dforrestwilson1)
I am hesitant to adopt them. I guess we are finicky about how we shop. Fearful of the bad head of lettuce or banana or what have you. Or how will we know they didn't chose the yogurt that expires in two days over the one that has two weeks?

There are ways around this though. Using Ocado in the UK, they will specify minimum lifetimes for all of the products you order and display them prominently (for example, in the iPhone app: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3d0awqydeqq386v/2016-06-03%2019.58...)

I'm pretty sure they'll also refund anything you aren't happy with, which helps to keep quality high.
I just, like, applied online. Went on the job-boards of the country that I wanted to go, created email-alerts on all of them, and applied to the one I wanted in my email-inbox.
> The unemployment rate is not a good metric. The labor force participation rate is more inclusive

LFP rate is not better than the unemployment rate. There are a lot of factors that go into labor force participation, and demographics is probably the biggest. It peaked in the late 90s and has pretty much followed the same downward trend since:

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/labor-force-pa...
That only says something about the display to eyes end of things. If you record only a subset of the visible spectrum the image can end up wrong. You might actually not get any color at all in the worst case.
They are adding jobs.

However, we now having more people making less money for essentially the same job. It's a win for consumers, because it's more convenient and in some cases, cheaper.

But it's a lose for the people that actually made a decent living driving who now are competing with college kids that are doing the same thing in their spare time without having any of the same startup costs.

Uber and Lyft removed the barrier to entry by breaking the law and the monopoly the Taxi unions had over the entire industry. But the result is lower wages and benefits.
The trick is to hire people below you so that your job becomes coordination and a set of minor tasks (HR, high-level architecture, roadmapping). For that you can't really delegate hiring as you need the right people in the right job.
But you can definitely delegate training new hires, software architecture, writing code, product management and QA.
I don't know how much headcount you've been given but if you have to manage more than 5 people your role should only involve management.

Break down all the tasks you are doing and are supposed to be doing. Every task that you can see yourself doing for more than 8h/week needs to be done by somebody you hire.

Before you jump in and go on a hiring spree, make sure to list the top 5 outcomes (with measurement) you want to achieve by hiring this person.
It also helps to list the personality traits/skillset you think they will need to achieve those outcomes.
Using this approach you know what you are looking for and frankly, this approach has helped me bring in people that completely own their domain and almost need no guidance (beyond the initial onboarding). Ironically the goal you should have as a manager is to make yourself obsolete.
Running off into the woods is smart?
Any good dongles this year?
If you had written a comment which summarized a recent BMW convention that you enjoyed and wanted to share links to interesting things discussed at the convention, and you ended it with "On the other hand, some other cars are too obsessed with <insert irrelevant opinion here>", then yeah, I would consider that snark.

If you instead say "BMW prioritizes horse power, which is why I like it better than X, which seems to prioritize <insert something else here>", then (1) your tone is much less snarky, (2) you've given context to your comment (the BMW horsepower - without that, it is much more snarky), and (3) you've opened up the thread to encourage discussion and alternative opinions, instead of shutting it down with your original tone and phrasing.
This. I can't believe how the media/government has completely bought into the fact that the creditor (bank) failed to do proper due diligence in order to verify who they are extending credit to. And to make it seem like it's the fault of the person being impersonated is absurd. SSN as a password was the single biggest banking failure ever committed, aside from what happened in the 2000's mortgage debacle.
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So it's basically column oriented json?
But 90d json is so much hipster...
I mean that they are focusing on the wrong things while having a really great potential.
Because the site's content is regularly submitted to Hacker News I'm curious about how the blog posts are written and researched.
The country that sentences children without parole
Except when they overcome those market forces through collusion. See: wage lawsuit against Apple, Google, and other tech Titans
Apologies. I thought it was a valid example of a clickbait title based on actual article content.
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No, but telling each department that they can tender for their own contracts, put non-technical people in charge of project planning, and deliver services in whichever format they want more or less guarantees those things. The money wasted on Connected for Health (often paid directly into the pockets of management consultants) is nothing short of criminal.
But Java was never "meant" to be a leader on the desktop; VB, Delphi and plenty of others have always had the lead. Whatever market share Java is losing, it is market share that it got due to market failure, and only held briefly. You're absolutely right about mobile, but the fragmentation there is such that no language/platform is the clear winner. Java's uncontested hegemony was short-lived, but even without it, it is an order of magnitude ahead of its closest competitor on the server side (with the exception of .NET). Everything else is just too fragmented to pick out a winner. Go is indeed an interesting challenge, but it has some fundamental issues that are serious roadblocks, while the JVM doesn't.

Let me put it this way: the war on server-side development is the JVM's to lose. Right now, it has some challenges (memory usage etc.) that are all solvable, if the important ones are recognized and addressed. Maybe they won't be, and someone else would step up and grab the lead. Maybe it'll be .NET; maybe it'll be Go; maybe JS. But right now, all alternative platforms are cannibalizing one another and competing for market share that has (almost) never been Java's much more than grabbing significant market share from the JVM.
Okay, libraries can't provide new inabilities. But that's why we have linters, static analyzers, style guides, compiler options and warnings, and ultimately code reviews and good taste.

I think the big problem (and sometimes benefit) of old languages is their culture. For example, C programmers don't trust anything written since K&R. This is both good and bad. Creating a new language doesn't force existing communities to change; it means creating a new community and either waiting for the old ones to die off, or (ideally?) driving them into obsolescence.

I remember when Wikipedia was new and there were lots of studies finding errors in their articles. Instead of replacing Wikipedia, those techniques for finding errors were simply incorporated into the editing process (as much as possible). I wish that as new classes of bugs came onto our radar, we could go back and refine old code instead of throwing it out with the bathwater. (Even OpenSSL wasn't beyond saving, judging by BoringSSL and LibreSSL. These projects still need more work, of course.)
Sorry but I'm still slightly confused.

Would you mind sharing the user flow starting from business folks with their calculations in a spreadsheet?

I'm guessing if I write a front-end spreadsheet like interface, grab their input, have LibreOffice process it, then spit it back out into the interface, it would essentially be my very own spreadsheet program on top of LibreOffice?

I'd really love to learn what's the benefit of making that abstraction because I've been on both sides (business and tech).
"Yeah, but once you get established enough (which you probably are if your salary is really high), then 95% of interviewing is you looking at the work they are doing and deciding if you want to do it, and salary negotiation. "

Ideally, but not always practically, especially as a software developer.

A large complicating factor of the whole "when to start talking about required salary numbers" is the fact that in computer software development no matter how established you are you are still often expected to do some ridiculous multi-day dance of interviewing to separately prove to n number of people that you can actually string code together (even if there's already ample evidence to prove you can, such as successfully shipped applications at prior jobs, repos full of open source code written, etc).

Interviewing for software jobs is (still) just incredibly broken in ways that make waiting to talk about salary until a later time a very dangerous game.
> 5% of people qualify for unemployment benefits I believe

Incorrect; the headline rate does not only include those qualified for unemployment benefits (it does only include that part of the working-age non-institutionalized population out-of-work and actively looking for work, though.)
A small cohort of Island Southeast Asian women founded Madagascar
When you consider e-bikes are illegal in NYC thats even more impressive
EDIT: Immaturely commented without reading article in full. Now get the "laundered traffic" issue. Thanks for correcting me. Either way, kept my initial response.

Jamie, I don't understand what you mean by laundered traffic.

The clicks generated by click-baits, advertorials, etc you see on the sites the study mentioned are real, non-bot traffic.

The ads you see there do in fact direct to shell sites, more commonly referred to as "bridge" pages. All these sites do is create a conversion funnel that starts with (for example) priming the reader about "fit girls" and end up in an advertorial for a diet pill.

It's not affiliate marketing per se, as nowadays companies have their own media buyers, but the fact is that businesses that are profitable enough to profit from high volume, high chargeback rates are shady business that are usually very active in affiliate marketing and CPA-networks. AKA, loans, insurance, diet pills, etc.

So yes, it's not affiliate marketing, it's actually shady businesses. But it's easy to make a single business compliant and run "good ads", whereas it's not that easy to make thousands of affiliate compliant. And that's where you see the problem.

These affiliates are the ones that turn to shady tactics and click-baits, etc (which is simple a strategy to increase click-through-rates) to maximize their profit.
What does that $1M actually cover though?

“But if someone takes out a mortgage in your name and now you owe the bank $100k or more – nobody covers that, and that’s what they need to cover.”

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/03/are-credit-monitoring-ser...
Strangely, the small merchants in India are doing a great job when it comes to door delivery of groceries.

Even over 15-20 years back, my mom used to get door delivery of the month's groceries by just making a phone call.
One of the reason's for the success of this model was that most customers did not have a car to transport all of their groceries and phone-order was the easiest option available to them. (I'm talking about the late 90s when Internet was not that common).

Of course, it works on the assumption that the customer exactly knows what they want - rather than making them buying arbitrary items at the store.

Most of the merchants circulate their menu/deals along with newspapers and have a phone number that customers can reach them at. All you do is decide on what you want to order and then call the merchant at the given number. They deliver all the items at your house within a couple of hours. It uses the idea of "Cash on Delivery" i.e., you make your payment in-person to the delivery person. This method has been in practice for so many years that customers are quite used to the entire process and the merchants make sure that the delivery is processed as comfortably as possible.
They've been doing this kind of thing over in China for some time now[1]. Science with a capital 'S' doesn't happen until the U.S does it though, and until that point and time all procedures are considered risky and dangerous. Even if you're going to die before any of it gets approved, you better not do any of this stuff.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fu2ub/as_requested_i_...
Yes, I also spent time staring (fuming) at the paper letter I got.
It was hard to fit the title of the page along with a proper description but you can search through over 83 React boilerplate setups on github and even filter by the needed features of each, for example: Redux, Webpack, CSS Modules, live reload, ES6

Also orders by Most starred, Most recently updated, Number of Least Dependencies, and Most Dependencies
You read it wrong. Him said that in Haskell PM & monads are using for make imperative code, NOT that is the defined trait of haskell, instead: "are arguably unrealized or aspirational"
I don't understand your argument. I never said any value is fixed. Of course a person's value changes from role to role and from company to company. Part of doing your research is understanding the pain points for the company and the value you bring by fixing those pain points.

If you disagree with "a professional knows their value," what are you arguing? That "a professional doesn't know their value?"
I am going to guess that he is too busy being a Ph.D. student.
Pretty serious MTB/cyclocross racer here that's done a lot of trailbuilding and trail advocacy: a lot of dudes are scared that offroad ebikes are going to kill access to hard-won trails. It's a not-unfounded fear as motorized bikes are pretty dang close to motorcycles in most people's eyes.

That said, I'd love to have an ebike! I have a 26 mile one-way commute (that's a 30 minute train ride) but every once in a while I ride my road bike in. I arrive sweaty and have to clean up in the bathroom. Not ideal. If I had an ebike, I could ride in assisted without sweating all over the place and then on my commute home, turn the motor down and get a workout in.
> Windows, OS X, RHEL all those are operating systems; Linux is not.

I'd consider "Windows" to be a family of related operating systems (but usually referring to the "Windows NT" OS). "Linux" as well, using the name of the kernel to refer to a family of different OSes built on top of it (while excluding others, in its common use).
We don't have to force an equality of outcome. But it behooves us to be suspicious when the outcomes aren't equal. For centuries we had unequal outcomes in terms of doctor gender; one defense was "women don't want to be doctors". But when we finally removed the barriers, we see medical school admissions run about equal.

I'm all for men going into nursing. You can work on shifting that ratio if you like. But I'm not personally going to work on that because I don't think it is a result of oppression in the same way that keeping women out of medicine was.

I'm also fine with a little bit of what looks like overreaction in the moment, because that's how we find out where the balance is. People thought Title IX was an overreaction at the time, too.
> many savvy recruiters

Again we must discern between "internal recruiters" and recruiting agencies.

Reputable third-party recruiting agencies will not play this game:

- They know their clients.

- They know how prior placements have been compensated.

- They only get paid if you get placed.

- They have 10 other companies they might be able place you at with higher likelihood.

"Internal recruiters" should be seen as any other adversarial negotiator: hopefully in a weaker position.

"I've got 3 other offers on the table right now, my time is extremely limited. I am sure you can understand: I cannot afford to waste time on unsuitable roles. What is the top-end of your range for this position?"

And really, you need to know what you are worth, or this number is meaningless. Once they've dropped the top-end of the range, you can give an ultimatum: "Match and exceed companies A, B, C." or "I would be willing to take a risk and go down this interview track, but understand from the onset: your top-end is at least $xx,xxx lower than I would consider. Furthermore, I do not wish to be the most well-compensated employee on my team, which might detract from my desire to proceed."
Hopefully as a result of this exercise the reader has gained some valuable insight into modern web browser design.

And that about says it all, doesn't it?
>Perhaps, but they're not solved by any of the languages/platforms mentioned.

Go and Elixir do support concurrency/paralellism mechanisms that are not supported very well by the JVM. Go also solves the value type issues that cause the JVMs excessive memory usage. Code/skills sharing between client and server isn't supported by the JVM either (for web apps that is).

>Except that they were the same VMs (HotSpot was a Smalltalk VM)

Yes, but HotSpot is from 1999 whereas Java is came out in 1995 if I remember correctly. The initial Java VM was a bit of a throwback.

>I don't know if the JVM environment is "broken" or not, but it certainly isn't any more broken than any other platform for serious server-side software.

How do you define "serious"?
Right, Doesnt the ones who are qualified add up to about %18 or so with the unreported numbers?
Leave it to Vox to expect the government and the system to figure out all of life's problems for you. This has to be written by a millennial.

Would you say that I am 'unpaid labor' because I have to do all the work of finding a good university? How about buying a new car?

I've dealt with many government agencies and if you think government-run care will be any better than what you describe, you're dreaming.
Hey thanks! That looks like an extremely useful site.
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PyCon this year was incredible as always.

Full abstracts for the talks are available at - https://us.pycon.org/2016/schedule/talks/list/

Accompanying slides will be available here soon - https://speakerdeck.com/pycon2016

*Currently blocked by a bug in Speaker Deck [ticket filed]. As a workaround in the meantime, you can access several decks from Google's cache by copying a URL from here, then searching it prefaced by "cache:".

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?client=safari&r...
Damn I like to complain not code, that's why I'm on HN right now.
> The code is definitely experimental

For Ling in general or for the raspi port?
> Sadly the resulting system was nigh-unmaintainable, on the level of old-school Slackware

What is unmaintainable about Slackware, unless by "old-school" you mean older versions that aren't supported anymore, i.e. not maintained? Slackware has been one of the easiest to maintain distros since the beginning; I would know, I've been using it since 1999, and it's one of the few distros that survived the early/mid 90's birth and adolescence of Linux.
Yeah, laws about the lightweight end of the spectrum in powered transportation came into being when we were talking about noisy, polluting two-strokes. They make little sense in the context of lithium ion batteries and silent brushless DC motors.
Researchers Uncover a Flaw in Europe’s Tough Privacy Rules
I think the idea that you can be a "good person" is a destructive fairy tale. The sorting of individuals into naughty and nice is not a good model of how harm happens.

I wish more people could just accept that we all do evil things, often unknowingly. Much evil happens through no ill will. Part of being human is doing terrible things. It's not a reason to panic, but it's also not something that should be swept under the rug.

All of the commenters saying "I think you are a good person" are like drug addicts. We can't handle the idea that we might be partly destructive, so we invent new moralities that are like drugs... they work in any situation to wash away the emotions of guilt. Stuff like "you tried your best" or "you did't know".

But, like addiction, the real solution is that we accept that not every day is going to be awesome sunshine rainbows and sometimes it's good to spend time thinking about the ways you are bad, and the harm that you do.
I meant for the port, but I'll admit that it's supposition on my part. It doesn't look like the Rπ port keeps feature/fix parity with the main branch, but I may be mistaken.
Version Vectors are not Version Clocks (2011)
Interesting. Besides the bike. I've read reports that Norway and Denmark want to ban gas and diesel cars by 2025.
http://www.renewablesinternational.net/will-norway-ban-gas-d...
What do you think about this?
You can use a script for setting up an OpenVpn on a Digital Ocean box in max 2 min. Check this one https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install .