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In my experience having worked with talented Product Managers and Project Managers, as well as people who seem to think they are interchangeable, I'd define the difference as follows:

[Product Manager]

- Responsible for knowing the market, customer, and product inside and out.

- Defines the product roadmap, helps write specs, etc.

- Success is defined by whether the product is successful in market (or whatever specific goals are of the feature they are working on, etc.)

[Project Manager]

- Primarily responsible for making sure things get done to spec on time.

- Assists with resource allocation for team members to make best use of time, and help keep the roadmap on schedule and on/under budget.

- Not responsible for making product decisions, or the end impact of those decisions. Purely responsible for getting the project out the door successfully in the most efficient and effective manner possible.

So at the end of the day, the Product Manager decides what gets shipped, while the Project Manager makes sure it ships on time and on/under budget in conjunction with everything else.
Corporations cannot donate to campaigns either. What they can do is donate to Super PACs that make independent expenditures to support particular candidates.
The Vanual
It seems like it wouldn't be that hard to create an indexed tar.gz format that's backwards compatible.

One way would be to use the last file in the tar as the index, and as files are added, you can remove the index, append the new file, append some basic file metadata and the compressed offset (maybe of the deflate chunk) into the index, update the index size in bytes in a small footer at the end of the index, and append to the compressed tar (add).

You can retrieve the index by starting at the end of the compressed archive, and reading backwards until you find a deflate header (at most 65k plus a few more bytes, since that's the size of a deflate chunk), If it's an indexed tar, the last file will be the index, and the end of the index will be a footer with the index size (so you know the maximum you'll need to seek back from the end). This isn't extremely efficient, but it is limited in scope, and helped by knowing the index size.

You could verify the index by checking some or all of the reported file byte offsets. Worst case scenario is small files with one or more per deflate chunk, and you would have to visit each chunk. This makes the worst case scenario equivalent to listing files an un-indexed tar.gz, plus the overhead of locating and reading the index (relatively small).

Uncompressing the archive as a regular tar.gz would result in a normal operation, with an additional file (the index) included.

I imagine this isn't popular is not because it hasn't been done, but because most people don't really need an index.
> We don't have pins on our chip cards

That seems to be true, what I can't figure out is why.
I'm not a chemophobe by any means. I'm also not anti-lab grown products. Providing for a world with 7+ billion population requires some of this. However, we have decades of studies proving what natural food does to the bodies and we're still learning what synthetic and lab-grown foods do. And yes, I realize this statement can't really apply to Stevia considering the lack of studies into its health on the human body. But I'm responding to your general idea, not specifically to Stevia.
How to Avoid Google Penalty
I am involved daily in precisely an effort to do just this. The differences between the big 3-4 providers is relatively marginal (call arguments and versions of interpreters such as NodeJS). Take it as a plug if you must, but being able to handle the former is one of the goals of https://github.com/iopipe/iopipe.

The version of language runtimes is where the most lock-in will occur, and really, that's kinda marginal, too. Language runtimes should be as stable and standard as, say, the Linux kernel's userland interface. If language runtimes can't deal with this, then they'll fail.
Did NIST verify “post-quantum” claims in the SHA3 proposal papers?
"It's not misleading. "
Of course it is.
People are not the companies they work for.
Period.

" Many of the donations are from top ranking Googlers like Eric Schmidt who directly interact with these politicians in a business sense."

"many".

Opensecrets lists 503 unique people identified as googlers donating. I don't believe you have any reasonable argument that there are 503 top ranking googlers who interact directly with these politicians in a business sense. I think you can argue maybe 1-2% of them are.

So 98% of them somehow don't fall into what you consider "many of the donations".
That doesn't seem like many to me.

"Unsurprisingly, almost all pro-Google legislation is sponsored by the same Congresspeople who have received the largest donations from Googlers."

What is "pro-google"?
Who are "the same congresspeople"?

Can you give specific examples of pro-google legislation and congresspeople who have repeatedly passed them, where there largest donations were from google?

I see a tremendous amount of handwaving in your comment, but pretty much no real data.
Phippy is a PHP app, not a Java app.
I run www.terminusapp.com and it's profitable. Started it as a side project and now working full time on it.
You get used to it. Not in a bad way, like getting used to nasty medicine. After about a week it just tastes like normal sweet and it's no big deal.
How Do You Solve a Problem Like DevOps? – Part 1
I'm doing what many consider "high quality journalism" without any expectation of getting paid. I'm not the only one who does this (dozens!). Some of us just want to do good journalism because we're passionate about the subject we're working on. When the focus is on money, and we have little to no access to submit our work, then there's a major problem.

I don't know what the solution is, but there are smart people out there who can find it. For now, we can't even talk about the problem, so of course the problem is going to continue on..
Ask HN: Disable private trust MITM in chrome (or what browser should I use)?
Per the comment here: http://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/security-faq#TOC-How-does-key-pinning-interact-with-local-proxies-and-filters-

Chrome does not perform pin validation when the certificate chain chains up to a private trust anchor. A key result of this policy is that private trust anchors can be used to proxy (or MITM) connections, even to pinned sites. “Data loss prevention” appliances, firewalls, content filters, and malware can use this feature to defeat the protections of key pinning.

and here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9078506
Ethereum’s Not-so-Smart Contracts
Maybe. I don't own a US card but heard of such stories.

But I can tell you that my German card is quite slow in Germany (not as slow as US transaction though) but blazingly fast in Sweden, Denmark, or France.
Because they're currently a public company, and without people interested in buying the stock, it's going to attract activist investors which often ends up as a big distraction without making any real changes.
But aren't the Magdalene texts themselves strongly affiliated with Gnosticism? The Gnostics were interesting because they were subject to overt purges.
Same reaction. They might be super transparent and everyone (in the comments at the bottom of the post) are in awe of it, but these numbers just make no sense.
> I can't fathom why anybody would put real cash into such a system.

They take the risk for hopes of future profit; it's an investment.

> Just... why would anyone use this?

Because they want to see the world change, it's a protest against the current financial system.
Missing Azure SSH Thumbprint in Hashicorp's Terraform
How an ASI Learns Ethics
I think a bunch of 22 year-olds making $150K straight out of college does a bit more damage in that department than an illustrated Kubernetes guide.
After writing one myself along with a guy on IRC who needed a 'quick way to access huge .tar files', I found one written in python: https://github.com/devsnd/tarindexer

He ended up doing the smart thing and changing his archiving program to not use .tar files, which solved all of his problems, but for the 2TB of data he already had this worked rather well.
Can we rough out a modified fermi paradox equation that substitutes values for as many constants as possible, and takes into account the issue with the inverse square law vs background noise?

Also, can't you distinguish a lot of signal away from noise using parallax and paired telescopes?
Against Dog Whistle-ism
Also like this in Chicago.
no... my analogy would be fundamentally a different analogy if i compared a bottle of vitamin C to a whole piece of fruit (quite "apples and oranges" in fact). I wanted to underscore that two pure substances, one synthetic and one extracted from nature are indistinguishable. When i teach biochemistry i'm always struck by the resistance to the pivotal biochemical scientific experiment of Friedrich Wöhler who synthesized urea and showed that it's identical in every sense to the urea extracted from urine. Thereby ending the notion that there is a vital principle. One may always quibble about contamination, but carbon atoms linked to other carbon atoms are the same whether made in a cell or made in the laboratory.
As far as I know US banks use the same chip standard as European banks (EMV) and in some countries those transactions are pretty fast (in others less so).

The card swipe doesn't use the same reader hardware as the chip reading (well, it is in the device) and there is more processing going on with more round trips to the bank if using the chip. Likely different parts of the software are used both at the reader and the bank as well.
If I recall correctly and it's been a while: The initial header is x bytes from the beginning of the file, or that you have to search for a known key string PKsomething. Then you have to go back and forth between that and the compressed data as you decompress. When compressing files you have to go back to the beginning of the zip file ( or disk1 in a multi disk archive) and update that table with the CRC info. Just was not practical for streaming for multiple reasons. Remember the original zip file format was created by phil in about 1987. I believe they just thought it easier to start over with a better design for gzip with the same compression algorithm.
It's clear we can improve our messaging about ways to integrate Imageflow. The command-line tool aspect is under-emphasized, and the libimageflow aspect seems to be confusing as well. What other things are unclear initially (or are still confusing)?
I have an unknown autoimmune condition which manifests in sinus issues and gastrointestinal issues (clinically diagnosed with lymphocytic colitis, which is rare to the tune of 0.06% prevalence). Immunological/autoimmune pathways are clearly involved as mast cell stabilizers, antihistamines, and immunomodulators had a strong effect. After exhausting the resources of conventional medicine, I made a list of like 25 things to try that included everything in the world that made sense, ordered from least crazy to most crazy. And eventually I got to the bottom of the list. At that point the only reasons to not do it were pretty silly (shame, fear, etc) so I did it. I've done a lot of "crazy" things in my life that make a lot of rational sense.

What people don't understand is that people who do crazy stuff like this are not crazy. They are mostly doing what any reasonable logical person would do. They've just gotten to the bottom of the list.

> What were the results?

It had a marked significant positive effect on my immune system. A year after taking them I expelled them as (1) it's possible they had a side effect I wasn't enjoying (GI-related) and more importantly, (2) I had since discovered the Autoimmune Paleo Diet which is remarkably effective for managing a wide variety of autoimmune diseases. So the issues I once suffered from are much more manageable since discovering that diet and learning more about that..

Regarding (1), expelling the worms didn't fix the side effect, so it could have been unrelated. To this day I can't say for certain one way or the other.
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Because you know 5 years from now it will be worth $1m, and not a lot less after a series of growth-oriented misadventures that didn't pay off.

Also, you'll be getting steady income from dividends.

Also, in the bigger picture you're less likely to be dealing with a manic depressive cyclical market that gyrates wildly between extreme growth mania and extended depressive episodes.

What you don't get is a monkey-brain dopamine kick from telling yourself that you're an awesome person who beat the market.

It makes investing predictable and drama-free, and where's the entertainment in that?
This used to work with Paypal virtual debit cards. At some point in the last 5 years they decided to cancel the program.
She got 100 million+ dollars.

She doesn't need a brand anymore.
The troubling issue with the system that this highlights is that a majority of users can agree to implement a fork which invalidates an existing contract.

As you say, that's a known property of the system. And it might be one of those things that's only viable in practice when the network is young. But can a CFO be considered to have satisfied their fiduciary duty if they write a contract which can be subverted in this way?
Yeah, I almost wrote one myself in Perl a year or two ago. :)

I was going for maximal tar compatibility, graceful fallback, low impact file additions, and the ability to add an index after the tar is created without rewriting it all. That's what I came up with off the top of my head.

I did just search for indexed tar though, and it came up with dar[1], which I had heard of, but completely forgotten about.

1: http://dar.linux.free.fr/
This comment breaks the HN guidelines by being uncivil, which unfortunately you've done quite a few times before as well. We ban accounts that do that. To keep commenting here, please post civil, substantive comments only.

Worse, lying in a provocative way about an inflammatory topic ("me as a female engineer") is outright trolling. That's an abuse of this site, and if you do it again we will ban you.
I had a similar crisis recently. I was feeling really incompetent. I realized that there are other things in my life that are important to me that I've been neglecting. Side projects, music, what have you. Work is just work, and I allowed myself to invest too much self-worth into the situation. I don't know if this is helpful to you, but it was helpful for me to take a step back from my job and realize that when I die, nobody is going to remember me for the great career that I had. If anyone does remember me, it will be because I was kind to them, or because I impacted their life in a meaningful way. Changing the priorities that I'm focused on helped me to feel a lot better about work and life in general.

*edited grammar
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If I'm reading you correctly, you eat nearly a pound of sugar per month? And your doctor recommended something called "Metformin" instead of saying "don't eat so much sugar"?

Maybe you need a new doctor to go along with your new sweetener =)
>It is time we stopped pretending these platforms are trust free, and instead recognize that we will always end up trusting someone with the power to fix bugs. The power to fix bugs is the power to destroy.

I was talking about this with my dad. It feels like there is no way to escape the Greek classics on political philosophy. Whenever decision making and ressources are involved, we have to deal with politics and governance. In the case of blockchain technology, the devs are the legislators, the "smart" contracts the legislations, etc.

Blockchain forces us to reconsider the way we come to consensus but to this day, we haven't been able to find an alternative to what was brought forward thousands of years ago.
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Yeah, it's really frustrating. This site is full of incredibly smart people who come up with clever solutions for all sorts of things. But we can't come up with a clever, non-invasive solution to something like this?
I Skipped Showering for Two Weeks and Bathed in Bacteria Instead
I think in some ways it makes sense that she gets paid so much though.. A failing company probably needs to give a greater incentive for someone to want to be their CEO.

It'd probably be difficult for Mayer to get another CEO position in the future despite the fact that a turnaround at Yahoo would have been difficult for anyone. In a way she's being paid proportional to the risk associated with the job.
I don't think that most CEOs/VPs would take such a job in the first place though.
Ok, here's my anecdotal story: about 12 years ago, I was probably 40 pounds over my college weight. So I stopped drinking sodas every day, and drank water instead. I also got more exercise. (I also cut out stuff with hydrogenated oils, trans fats, etc.) Now I'm back to my college weight. I don't use sucralose, and I really don't see why you need to.
Because you're wrong. Stevia tastes nasty, like some kind of nasty unsweetened licorice or something.

And they do use it to sweeten drinks. Go to any higher-end grocery store and you'll find weird-brand drinks with it, for weirdos like you who apparently can't taste the ick.

What does cilantro taste like to you? To some people, it tastes like soap, to others it doesn't. There's a gene which controls this.
I thought he was joking.

Then I read the name: Adler: as in Adler-32 (the checksum function that zlib uses).

Then I knew it was real. The darn author of zlib answered the question. That's as close as you're gonna get to "primary source" folks!
Modern BASICs don't use line numbers or even the let Keyword. In old BASIC you had to use a $ sigil after your variable for strings. In modern BASIC compilers you have to declare the type e.g. DIM Name AS STRING. Keywords don't have to be type in all caps either in a modern BASIC.
Yeah, the above is with an assumption that the archive is in deflate's stream format. I'm not sure off the top of my head how gzip's different levels relate to that, or what tar defaults to when compressing as the tar is created compared to a full file tar compress after it's created.
Dan, thanks for taking the time to type that response. I am going to take your correction to heart and try to adjust my tone in future conversations, as after having time to cool off I think you are correct that I could have expressed more self control, which would have in turn created a better discussion and debate. I'm not jealous of your job of moderation, but I'm impressed with this interaction so I tip my hat to you.
-XX:+OptimizeStringConcat is enabled by default everywhere I can remember, AFAIK
ahem... just because sucralose is not super reactive does not mean that it is not harmful. some evidence suggests it can screw up your gut microbiome: http://www.nature.com/news/sugar-substitutes-linked-to-obesi...
Please don't. We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11922131 and marked it off-topic.
To me, it tastes extremely icky. It immediately and unpleasantly overpowers anything I put it in, even though I'm fine with every other sweetener I've ever found. It's probably one of those weird genetic things, like how some people can taste PTC or PROP and others can't.
I'm assuming "journalist misheard something and isn't intimately familiar enough with space scales to know it". I don't really mean the latter as a criticism... however much fun it may be, there isn't much practical value to knowing the Milky Way is ~100,000lys in diameter.
> we have decades of studies proving what natural food does to the bodies

You are making the false assumption "natural" foods are a correlated group as far as health goes. This is empirically false (ignoring the fact that natural has no scientific definition to begin with). Studying sucrose won't inform you of the dangers of cyanide though both are "natural".
And then someone helpfully posted his wikipedia bio in a comment:

FYI: Mark Adler is an American software engineer, and has been heavily involved in space exploration. He is best known for his work in the field of data compression as the author of the Adler-32 checksum function, and a co-author of the zlib compression library and gzip. He has contributed to Info-ZIP, and has participated in developing the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image format. Adler was also the Spirit Cruise Mission Manager for the Mars Exploration Rover mission. (wikipedia)

That's quite a résumé.
I'd love to write about this more at some point but something I think that engineers don't understand is some of the key advantages they have over a lot of traditional marketing folk (like myself).

My background was always in that space and about 3 years ago I started to teach myself to code. Albeit not great but enough to probably land a job as a junior full stack developer if I ever wanted to.

I think the canonical example of this was someone like Patrick McKenzie, I remember when I first came across him a while back and being blown away at what he could do with just a little bit of marketing knowledge and some code.

I look back on many of the things he would suggest to SaaS businesses for example now and while they were no doubt "clever" very few of them were actually complicated ideas from either a marketing or engineering point of view. Those kinds of things are entirely within your reach.

I don't want to trivialize the marketing side of it but honestly I feel like you could EASILY learn enough concepts within under 2 months that you could apply to everything you ever worked on again forever. I'd also make the argument that if you are in the one man SaaS space that would be a very profitable and very worthwhile endeavor to embark on.
You beat me to the punch on the mention of anise (licorice) aftertaste.

IME, the liquid stevia preparations produce better results than any of the powder forms. I use it in my coffee exclusively and have tried 'em all.

WRT the question, then, about stevia's relative lack of popularity: I think it comes from the aforementioned anise-like note, which seems to operate below a threshold in smaller amounts (such as to sweeten coffee), but at larger amounts (such as soda (pop)) this secondary flavor presents clearly.

Since, for example, one 12oz (355ml) Coca-Cola has 39 grams of sugars (!), the amount of stevia required to equal this level of sweetness goes well into the range where the undesirable anise note becomes present.

I've tried a couple of different stevia sodas and, yeah, they just aren't that great. (Since I rarely drink soda, when I do partake I usually go "full leaded," as they say. Life's too short, and all that...)

That's just my working hypothesis as a stevia fan. YMMV.

(Disclaimer: IANA chemist|biologist|nutrition scientist|&c).
Ya, it's a tricky issue to be sure. But the miners are strongly incentivized to act in a way that minimizes harm to the currency itself. If they start accepting hard forks left and right then ether will lose all its value extremely rapidly. So i'm not really sure the slippery slope argument applies here.

I think this really can be considered a 'one time thing'. It isn't like miners can be pressured by a government to halt contracts for terrorists or other things. They have to be convinced and agree with the argument being made. There isn't a sole individual to whom pressure can be applied here. Granted, Vitalik may wield some influence, but if he started advocating things that were clearly not in the best interest of Ethereum, people simply wouldn't take on his suggested upgrades.

EDIT: I'd also add that for the record, as a DAO token holder, my personal opinion on what should be done is this: A soft fork to prevent ether from moving out of the child DAO, and then nothing. Just burn that ether forever. This avoids the moral hazard problem while minimizing harm to the overall ecosystem. People like me who made the mistake of investing still feel the pain, but Ethereum itself moves forward.