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Leadership. No skill (rather, set of skills) will be more universally applicable throughout the entirety of your career and become more heavily weighted the higher you climb.

Are you an engineer? What skill(s) will you be leveraging most as a Director or VP of Engineering? Leadership.

Are you a designer? What skill(s) will you be leveraging most as a Director or VP of Design? Leadership.

Are you a <fill in the blank>? What skill(s) will...you get it.

Back in my time at Georgia Tech, Warren Buffet came to speak and told an anecdote about a media executive who would go play records at one of his radio stations in the middle of the night. Buffet said something to the effect of, "the farther I get into this business, the farther away I become from why I got into this business."

I started working professionally at small companies in 1997 as a "Web Developer." I finished my degree in 2004 and I've been doing software engineering since then. I'm currently a Director of Engineering at PayPal and, while my technical skills are useful, my primary role is centered around the leadership of a large team. I haven't written a line of code professionally in over a year. I share these same statements with my managers and engineers from my team. Always be developing your leadership skills--they stay with you forever.
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Most of these short-term life extending efforts basically amounts to putting people on chemical and mechanical life support, which isn't going to be a source of significant improvements in life quality.
This is absolutely true, and actually learning R is an excellent way of learning statistics.
This inevitably becomes "just get more raises" though. Very few would accept an increase in responsibilities (and the correlated increase in risk that you'll not be very good at your new job) without a comparable increase in salary, even if it comes with a shiny new title.
The doctors don't know either! Have you ever tried to talk to your doctor about how much something costs? You'll just be told to talk to the front desk.
That's how some out of network providers handle billing. Essentially it offloads the entire claims submission process to the patient.
Maybe the .001% of people in the world market, and even then, of those people, approximately a much smaller amount would be capable of flying such a vehicle properly. They might be financially able to purchase, but will they be competent enough not to crash it within the first month? I seem to recall Dodge Vipers being notorious for being crashed within the first week of ownership due to lack of proper training (which was subsequently provided in advance of delivery IIRC). We're talking airplanes here.

Obviously the FAA doesn't control global airspace, as evidenced by a Malaysia Air passenger jet flying over an active combat zone and being shot out of the sky by a SAM. Sometimes the FAA does good work. Sometimes not, but it's definitely the foremost "authority" in aviation.
FWIW, this is not the article's actual title. The actual title is "What's Our Next Fight?"
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Why don't you cite the packages you use?
This is a simple way to display the counter to your users. GA is for internal use, whereas this shows how popular your site is at any time.
Probably my number one recommendation would be effective public speaking combined with effective writing of presentations of ideas. If you can't communicate your ideas both effectively and persuasively, you will be severely hobbled in your career. Even for people on the technical track rather than the management track, as you become more senior, you'll be expected to explain your architecture / designs to junior engineers looking to your for guidance.

Even if you are severely introverted (I am) you need to make as much effort as possible to overcome it. People who can't communicate are effectively invisible, regardless of how well they do their jobs, and invisible people are replaceable people.
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Killer app for me: alarm clock. I wear the Apple Watch at night, and it'll wake me (vibrations) without waking my girlfriend.
Hmm...Why are there no privately funded residency slots?
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Speaking in a confident voice. Scott Adams book "How to Fail at Everything and Still Win Big" was an eye opener.
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It's great seeing a strong push toward aviation as a superior method of transportation. One of the side effects will be people gradual spreading out, away from huge city congestion, which is largely set up due to our transportation. It will enable us to live more in tune with nature, while not giving up the conveniences of having everything we need within short distance. I touched upon this in a blog post: https://medium.com/@eblanshey/the-world-is-undergoing-massiv...
It goes all the way back to lifestyle.

For most people, freedom means something like, "My partner and I will work our whole entire lives doing things we don't really like, possibly be out of debt by retirement, at which point our kids will be in debt. Then we can travel the world and spend the rest on our healthcare." The fact that they can do that seems good enough for them. They always think if they work a little harder they will get ahead.

For others, freedom means something like, "I will further the betterment of humanity. I will work until my house is paid off and then expand and enjoy the gift of existence."

For the elite, the perspective is, "I've got a six-sigma edge. It enables me to put a in few months of light, clever work a year and not have to kowtow to anybody, all while living in devastating luxury. It requires leveraging all available resources, such as plundering the environment, the Constitution, the well-being of others, but it keeps me on top."

The elites are the ones convincing all the mainstreamers to forward their potential to their own causes. "Spend all your time on facebook. Consume. Compete. Upgrade. Fear." Linux people are caught in the middle, because they tried to make tools to help the mainstreamers, but didn't quite get there yet and the elites got a hold on it.

I believe the real answer is waking people up to the reality of how their desires are being manipulated to trap themselves in debt and desire. Basically, the message of Adbusters. Stop feeding Hollywood. Stop eating out all the time. Slow food. Do things IRL. Eat together. Fix old cars instead of constantly tweaking designs. Stop responding to dopamine rushes.

I went out to lunch with an admin at my company the other day. Her family doesn't have laundry machines in their home, but they're going to Las Vegas for a vacation. Why give away all that time and money to others?
This was my biggest issue with Obamacare. It did nothing to increase price transparency.

More broadly, I think the discussion needs to move away form health "insurance" because what we're really talking about is health care financing.
Both use the Windows console host, effectively what a terminal emulator is on Unix-likes. It provides the window and a bunch of other functionality (character grid with attributes, history, aliases, selection, drag&drop of files into the window, etc.).

It's just that every console application on Windows uses that host. This includes cmd, PowerShell, Far Manager, or even vi. Sorry, I may have seen it conflated with cmd too often. It just nags me. For Linux users it's probably when everyone starts calling a terminal (emulator) "bash".
Technically creative and curious business analysts area an role that will be emerging in the next few years, having one group to do B1, and another to do tech is fast going out the window. Techies can learn business much easier than most business folks can learn tech from my observations and experience.

Why is this important?

The single most important skill I see needed in technical people is empathy to the problems people are solving. Just because it's trivial to one group to solve, or prioritize does not mean it's not valuable. Being able to put yourself in the actual shoes of the user, their needs, their perspectives to ultimately empower them, instead of taking the easy way of interpreting from a distance how they must do their job/task based on how you would approach it.

There is a great deal of intellectual capital in any organization where people have a "why" of how to do things a certain way that is not 100% the standard procedure.

These things form the competitive advantage that software developers, implementors, and consultants can kill in an organization.

Want to be a better software developer? Help people solve problems better in their terms, not our own. Whether it is a sales, marketing, production, design or management problem, being able to relate to the problem and how it's beneficial to solve is the single biggest valuable skill that I have landed on.
we took the kids in every time they were a little sick

Why? There's really not a lot a doctor is going to do for your kid's sniffles. Just wait it out. Even if it were free, I wouldn't take a kid in for a minor illness. Hell, even if you paid me a nominal amount, I wouldn't waste the time. This is an education problem. It sounds like you're taking your kids to the doctor too often, regardless of cost.
Fight it. In the US, networks aren't used to manage costs, they are used to deny coverage.

(As far as I can tell, insurance companies make an actuarial decision about accepting charges from a given area, they aren't negotiating shit with providers)
This is similar to the stuff GoalImpact does:

https://twitter.com/Goalimpact/status/740657055841816577

It's true most predictive models work at the team level, but it's interesting to point out that one of the more successful models over the last season was Chad Murphy (@soccermetric)'s MOTSON, an SVM trained over a bunch of stats per player:

https://twitter.com/JamesWGrayson/status/732673663019802625
Did you try contacting them and asking for a refund? What did they say?
"they can fund or perform any proprietary development they need themselves as well"

Try phoning up Microsoft and asking them how much it would cost to add a feature for an old piece of DOS software that they haven't touched in the last 20 years. I suspect the answer would be at least 8 figures, if not 9.
It's very frustrating to me when people here take the time to build something and then solicit feedback from HN, only to have someone immediately post "That already exists".

Sure, it can be nice to solicit explanations of differentiation from the OP to help understand the use cases, but these kind of sweeping comments aren't helpful to anyone.
> Every single pilot has practical first-hand experience with unpowered landing

Considering many people can barely handle driving normal cars correctly, the number of average flying-car consumers that will have airplane pilot-level training, knowledge, skill, and maintain sanity in emergency situations like unpowered landings is minuscule.
True but in reality an attacker won't just use any dictionary. They look at password leaks, figure out what passwords people are actually using and what the most popular ones are.

You also can't assume that all accounts are equally valueable. An attacker might very well prioritize some of them.

This doesn't render all of this useless but I think you shouldn't consider even best solutions out there to be anything else than a temporary barrier. It's a good one and you probably will have enough time to change your password after a leak but you really do need to change your password within a week or so.
You can become better at this by doing it a lot. Every time a situation presents itself where you can try to convince someone of something, try to do it just for the heck of it. Most people evade these situations, but if you keep at it, it will improve.

Persuasion is independent of "shyness" (actually, being an introvert) but a lot of it has to do with natural talent, unfortunately [1]. You can definitely improve it, but some people are just born with a higher degree of "energy transitivity". For instance, their face have more muscles and they're wired in such a way that it is easier for them to control it, among other things.

[1] Malcom Gladwell wrote about this briefly in "The Tipping Point". You can learn more on this by looking up the book "Emotional Contagion" by Elaine Hatfield, John Cacioppo and Richard Rapson. There's also Howard Friedman, from the University of California, who created the Affective Communication Test, which aims to give an individual a measure of his personal carisma - this transmissive or "magical" ability you speak of:
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~friedman/act.html
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This could be very much a rare coincidence. I saw Facebook advertising Sphero BB8 right after I took photos from my iPhone. I did not upload these photos to Facebook or post comments on Facebook regarding BB8. Is Facebook accessing iPhone photos without permission and uploading them for advertisement purposes?

Those who are interested in trying out. Please take a photo of well known product ( BB8, Lays Chips, Parrot Drone etc) but don't upload it to Facebook or don't post any comments regarding these things on Facebook. Check if you see advertisements regarding above items in your FB feed.
Leadership isn't management... It will make you a good manager but if you are an engineer today, then being a leader is totally possible. Its about being proactive, helpful, thoughtful and "solutions oriented" (if you spot a problem, bring a solution or better yet two to the table with it). Be the person your peers reach out to when they are stuck.
Did health care change because our attitudes about death changed or did our attitudes change as health care improved?

You seem to think it's the former, but I am almost certain it's the latter.
not bank accounts, not debit cards. I'm sure the police would like to plunder that too, but that's not what this technology does.
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For your upper right quadrant, I think that's where the biggest problem is today. PyParallel is a (long-term) attempt at solving it.

Reading through the presentations, it appears having proper OS support is also necessary, so it's not just a Python GIL problem.

[1] http://pyparallel.org/
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I'm aware. Step 1 is generally still considered under the "eventual consistency" umbrella (fork-join specifically). Step 2 doesn't really matter because all you actually need is monotonicity from the clock; locally it's really easy to guarantee uniqueness (and remember, it's fine to delay transactions as long as they commit eventually, which is one reason CAP is kind of imprecisely stated; you're only unavailable if you never respond to a request, when in practice it's really trying to convey latency requirement).
You do know that OS X was just a rebranding of NeXTSTEP which dates back to 1985 and so had all those things (dev tool chain, userland, etc) 6 years before Linux started, right? How much did NeXTSTEP owe to Linux, say in 1990?
Surely they can regulate use of land. What good is your helicopter without a helipad?
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Here is a fully open secure hardware device:

https://sc4.us/hsm/

(Please don't submit this link to HN. I want to stay somewhat stealthy until I've had a chance to write an introductory article.)

At the moment it's only a prototype. I have done a very small production run, so if you want one to experiment with, contact me. I'm planning on doing a kickstarter to fund a real production run.
Like lawyers and the bar exam, who decides who gets to be a doctor in the US? You have to get into a school and get licensed, and other doctors decide if you are up to the task.

Check visa requirements for doctors:
http://m.shusterman.com/jwaiversfordoctors/

"International Medical Graduates (IMGs) must pass the the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE), complete a medical residency in the U.S. and become licensed in a particular state in order to qualify to practice medicine in the United States. Often, IMGs obtain J-1 visas to come to the U.S. to do their residencies and fellowships. If so, they are compelled to return to their countries for a minimum of two years once their training is complete"

Doctors have huge lobbying power in their union the AMA
The article specifically specifies that they gave her a giant severance package, and were honest about what and why it was happening, and only _after_ trying to figure out a new role for her where she'd still be useful.

Sounds like they were loyal to her.

But I agree, none of this works without 2 way loyalty.
Err, it would have got them from NeXT which got them partially from GNU. No Linux was involved in the making of this operating system.
I did A) and gave the for-loop algorithm that examines each integer in the range on one axis, computes the value of the line at that point, and checks if it's also an integer.

The interviewer said this works, asked me the time complexity (trivially O(N), where N is the number of integers in the range on that axis), and seemed happy.

Then he asked if I knew a way to do it using the GCD. I said I did not know off the top of my head, and then he concluded the interview and left no time for me to ask questions.

I think your characterization that I "didn't engage" is not right. The interviewer was also clearly not looking for someone who needed paper and pencil to work out this property, but instead specifically for someone who "just knew" it as an immediate trivia fact.

FWIW, I don't agree this is a good question. It's so-so, and it's fine if the goal is to work through it, but that was not at all the case.

I should also add that I consider myself reasonably good at dumb-shit tricky interview questions. I've done well in stereotypical finance interviews asking riddles, card shuffling tricks, colored balls in urns, drunk man sitting in the wrong airplane seat, etc., as well as more formal probability questions. This simply just came down to me not making an instantaneous connection between the number of integer lattice steps between the end points and the GCD of the ranges. I don't think it's the same as freezing, it's just that that knowledge would never have been accessed in the particular interview setting. It's just not how I think about that problem, and never would have been.

I'm certain you could devise endless algorithm trivia just the same. Print a binary tree in some weird order, rotate a 3D data array, etc. The one and only way I'd ever solve anything at all like that is slowly and by drawing lots of pictures, making some candidate code, putting it into an interactive programming environment with small toy examples, and iterating.

And in all my professional experiences, including a high-intensity quant finance job, that has been more than good enough for any job-related problem, and has also been what everyone else did. Only in interviews have I ever encountered anything like this.
I think it's a temporary cache-related glitch. Can you try deleting your browser cache, or simply trying again?

It's working for me here, anyway...
Would love to know how to go about finding places that build physical "stuff" both at a prototype stage and at scale. I have hardware + software ideas but I'm not clear on how to build customized hardware (even simple stuff like plastic casings).

Alternatively, sales. Working at large software companies has given me a lot of exposure to software engineering and product management, but I rarely get to see the sales process.
I see your point, but I'd posit that the second aspect is the opposite of how moral hazard is normally taught and explained, which is a ratcheting up of risk due when one is insured, rather than an overuse of some public good, which is normally thought of as a tragedy of the commons: I have access to a public good, I may as well milk it for all its worth. Tragedy of the commons does not affect how somebody treats their own body.

At a higher level though, you need to look at what is actually driving healthcare costs. Is it the (relatively) inexpensive but overused checkup/preventative costs, or is it the expensive and overused prolonged treatments for preventable/chronic diseases such as type-2 diabetes, lung cancer, heart-attack/stroke, etc.

Eighty-six percent of all health care spending in 2010 was for people with one or more chronic medical conditions.

http://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/overview/index.htm
There are lots of private endpoints that are secured by a token that you were able to obtain by being logged in. For instance Github's raw view of a file. Sharing this link in a private Messenger chat should not be public for the world to see.

One would naturally assume private conversations are 100% private and not scrapable by some third party.
It's a 403 error, so it's probably unlikely it has anything to do with browser cache (but of course possible, though I don't know what Django would need from cookies/webstorage/cache). I did try on another machine in a incognito window and got the same thing 3 times.
GNU yes, but GNU pre-dates Linux. I first used GCC on SunOS.
Anyone knows if this could be used with Go or Rust? like a c lib.
> if having a job wasn't a social norm enforced by threat of starvation, homelessness, bad quality of life, and loss of healthcare [...]

If people didn't do their jobs there wouldn't be any food, homes or healthcare. People work not because of a social norm, but in order to solve each other's problems.

Note how ubiquitous work is: people engage in it across all cultures with otherwise highly diverse social norms.
>It's illegal to work for free today

Tell that to all the unpaid interns out there.

The fashion and journalism industries are rife with them.
So do not register your company in the USA, otherwise you have to deal with patent trolls.
Read Dale Carnegie's classic "How to Win Friends and Influence People"; it's still in print 70 years after it was published for a reason.

The Dale Carnegie Company also offers instructor-led training in small classes. Having taken it, I would recommend taking the in-person course if you can; nearly every major city has a DC office. If you're willing it to take it seriously and put work into it, it can be quite beneficial.
Wait, there was real Health Care before World War II???
This. Most of the comments on this thread support your statements - people don't vary because of the risks, the biggest one being not getting published.
it's like you are explaining how somebody can invent a new alphabet that is "evocative" so we should accept using it instead of the alphabet we already know.

or to put it another way, Staunton.
Well, OS X's ancestors had a largely BSD-derived userspace so that's neither here nor there. The strongest claim and perhaps biggest contribution, I think, was GCC on which NeXTs Objective C compiler was based from the beginning.
Source code really should be available, but it almost never is. The peer review process is, in my opinion, quite flawed. While your paper's high level content gets reviewed, no one actually looks at your code and data to ensure that you didn't forget to carry the one. Your analysis could be totally wrong, but reviewers only review what you say you did, not what you actually did.
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Though some companies are remote friendly and hire remote devs and designers (US or overseas), many are still reluctant to do it. What are the main reasons behind this?