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Fight or flight?
Hi.
I took a senior developer job offer via an HR company. I'm an employee of the customer company, with email address, business and access card etc handled by it.
I had to relocate to a city that was about 500 km far away, and I did it cause I got promised I would have had the chance to earn the lead developer role that I was holding. I really liked the field, and full of trust in myself I accepted. But once there I discovered that the role was already taken by a more senior person who scored better than me in the technical interview.

He in the following months has shown great problems in getting basic code written without errors, understanding any sort of spec requirement and communicating to the main office (note:in another language) up to a point that the coworkers from there cannot understand this person or get understood by him/her.
After six months, I can confidently say that I proved my level as a developer and as a leader, taking initiative, helping others whenever needed and providing significant contribution in meeting the deadlines of all the projects I was involved in.
The person my team lead reports to confirmed that I should get this person's job, and so have done many of my other coworkers. They have pressed the management to perform the role swap, but it never happened.
When confronted, the people in the management could not provide a valid reason why not to proceed (saying that someone else said that a specific skill was missing: something that was never possible to corroborate when asking directly).

I'm having a hell of a time with this person that is now my boss, since my focus in being diverted in irrelevant meetings, deadlines are being missed, and essentially being pushed into not taking initiative within the team to not make my boss look lesser.
I really like the great software the company is writing, but it's getting more and more difficult to get off of bed in the morning.
What would you do?
1,225 was the number of firearm homicides recorded in 2013, according to that publication. 1,699 was the number of homicides where a weapon was "known".

But yeah, still totally off, AFAICT. I also wonder where she got the supposed 2016 data, given that 2016 hasn't happened yet.

Other interesting tidbits from that PDF: almost as many people were killed with ropes, as with rifles. About half as many were killed with knives and blunt objects as were with handguns. Hardly epidemic, if you ask me. Considering how much more convenient it is to kill somebody with a firearm, you wonder why it's not really that much more popular.
Nothing unexpected, but interesting to see the comparison to other jobs
Rust has the same policy.

It might appear differently because we're very up front about any change that might possibly break any code, even theoretically. We don't make any changes that we think actually break code, except for blatant bug fixes.

Go has made changes post-1.0 that were more aggressive than anything Rust has done, such as changing the size of int.
> Google ... are also at fault

Primarily at fault.
It's probably more a case of "not looking hard enough", especially since this antibiotic class was discovered only ~1 year ago
Not sure why you say HDL has no effect. Ratios of "bad" to "good" markers have been shown to be much better predictors of risk than any one number on its own, even LDL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRFRRqe0vrE&t=924s

You should also take a look at the latest risk calculator derived from the Framingham Heart Study. It's basically a multivariate regression of various risk factors against CVD risk. Total cholesterol and HDL are inputs, while trigs and LDL aren't used. They do of course factor into total cholesterol, but the researchers specifically stated that "The use of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol did not improve model fit or performance."

http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/117/6/743.long
I'm from Texas, I witnessed this all the time growing up, as well as working in a professional office for a software company.

Did I say everyone does it? No, but it is common enough. Are people improving? Yes, many, but still most are stuck with horrible habits.

In the 90s, my school teachers almost always had a can of Coke or fast food fountain soda cup for breakfast. Yes, Coke.
Why would any nation give up a permanent security council seat?
I don't really get what your age has to do with posting here. You should just describe what your app does, because your app looks cool.
Distros are okay with a single starting binary for compilers. Gcc does this, for example. Rust would publish a single bootstrap binary, and distros would build the next compiler with that (and publish), and build the next one with the one that they just built, and so on. Multiple platforms would just involve cross compiling the first time.
Well, depending on which Christian sect you subscribe to, the biblical accounts contain the direct words of Jesus Christ and Yahweh respectively. So I'll cede that if we're already going to treat the Bible as if it were objectively factual.

Otherwise we'd have to get into an argument who "Jesus" even was (assuming we accept the majority interpretation of history that there was someone who at least vaguely matches the biblical character of Jesus of Nazareth -- specifics aside).
Answering my own question - the graph is about mass shootings. The data is from http://www.shootingtracker.com.
Hasn't that always been the case. I was always under the impression that he was basically an affiliate scammer that made enough money to pay a team of coders to fulfill his 'business ideas'. All of them bordering on PPC/Affiliate marketing scams and MLM schemes. Seems his only genuine interest is sports cars, hookers and blow.
Read-only apps don't require ether. Any time you need to perform a state-change, you need to spend ether.

As for downloading the entire blockchain, light chain verification will make this unnecessary.
On one level, yes. Excessive fees suck. Bidding them down is great! But it's not the core problem.

The 401k system, as it stands, is designed around extremely confused envy. Rather than allowing workers good tax-advantaged options for their retirement, it aims to give them the same options as The Man who currently employs them, in all his mustache-twirling evilness, irrespective of that Man's complete ignorance about mainstream IRA advice.

Did that otherwise-respectable business have an HR moron set up the plan, and not have index funds? Too bad. What does your retirement savings have to do with your current employer? Why should they be so tightly coupled? Well, no reason, but remember that envy above? The plans require that savings (sorry, "contributions") have some parity with those of highly-compensated employees of that same employer.

A sane system would allow anyone the same (index fund) options as say, federal employees, and not care whether some arbitrary cross-section of workers at a particular employer are saving nearly the same amount. As long as we have these Byzantine rules that put you at the mercy of your current HR department and confusedly envious legislators, we're stuck with it -- that is the problem.
Nice move. I'm in the process of doing a similar learning project. I'm a web dev guy and decided to learn iOS development with Swift, because from my research, React Native won't do it for me.

So I started to make small apps, heavily inspired by the projects in 100 days of Swift.

While I sometimes wished to see the source code and get a bit more in-depth explanation for every project, I discovered another approach that works for me:

I started with Apple's tutorial [1].

Then I tried to copy the projects from 100 days of Swift. The first projects can be solved with answers from Stack Overflow and tutorials here and there. I noticed that I'd push my apps in a slightly different direction and just wing it with whatever interests me. For example, I added an NSTimer to project 6 (DateTime).

This way, I won't get the solution easily as source code, but just see the screenshot/video from the final app and try to think of my own solutions.

From my very limited experience, the UI building and auto-layout stuff in Xcode requires an in-depth explanation. This is where I struggle most right now.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/referencelibrary/Get...
You didn't approach us, either; bummer! I doubt we'd have been down to team up outright, but maybe some of you guys could have done an internship in our lab if you really wanted to work on the CGC? I guess it's ancient history now, though.

Resource utilization is definitely tricky. But man, the amount of resources you had is just mind-boggling! I just realized it's even more cores than DARPA gave us for the final event! I'm impressed you guys managed to keep it all running smoothly (at least, it seemed that way from our lab, where there was complete chaos as our system fell over and crapped itself repeatedly for the first few hours).
Bit of OT

Played Pokémon GO yesterday (iOS 1.0 version) and it was very buggy. Many bugs looked like they were server side (requests freezing), but there were strange rendering errors (like seeing only waves on the ground where Pokémon are, and not the actual Pokémon on them) that could be fixed by restarting the app several times. The phone also got absurdly hot, I never play on it, I don't know if it's normal for it to get like that, but I could barely hold it in my hand.

I literally couldn't understand all the fuss about the game, it was unplayable for me...
Badass tech and fuzzing results in your main comment. :) What Scheme or transpiler did you use, though?
I always found Silent Garfield the best (and actually fairly amusing).
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Fair point, although without knowing that this approach is practically viable to begin with it was getting into speculations territory. Not that Minsky didn't like to speculate..

Anyway, IMO people overestimate Minsky influence to single-handedly shut down an avenue of research. The reason _Perceptrons_ conclusions caught up is because they were sound and reasonable to his peers at the time.

I also seem to remember his video interview from a few years back where he elaborates on perceptrons and how much of his original conclusions are applicable to the state of art ANNs. Can't quite find it though.
This is the source of the data: http://www.shootingtracker.com/. Thank you all for the feedback, I'm just getting into the field and I'm sorry for the very commonplace mistakes I've made with this chart. Rest assured I will fix them and make sure that I keep these suggestions in mind in the future.
Thanks again!
I did end up taking a Vitamin D test after I had started supplementing, and on that dosage I'm still a little below normal levels.
That's good and all. But is there regulation to prevent the livestock industry from using it indiscriminately? It doesn't matter much how awesome it is now if we're going to fritter away its effectiveness in a few years.
Oh good, I can finally feel comfortable about installing it.
But as public funding has dried up, they increasingly insert "brought to you by ..." and/or pledge drives, which are nearly as annoying as conventional advertising (even though I understand they have little choice).
Don't underestimate just how easy it is to misunderstand phrases across cultures and languages.

It took me, literally, years before I figured out 'check your brain at the door'.
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Basically, when bacteria discover a gene that works, they share it with others. As far as I know, this does not readily lend itself to a human counterattack of some similar approach. The solution will likely come from some other avenue.
Teixobactin is cool, but if it's only active against gram positives, it's never going to work against most of the bacteria listed in the article: E. coli, Salmonella, Klebsiella, N. gonorrhoeae, etc. Most of the terrible new drug resistance genes are showing up in gram negatives.

Sure, new methods of finding antibiotics are in the works, although the article you link has plenty of experts recommending caution about their potential. The bigger point is that in 2016 there is a looooooong road from antibiotic "candidate" to FDA-approved drug. That road involves decades of trials and costs billions of dollars per approved drug.

The larger problem is that there is little if any incentive for pharma companies to invest in antibiotics compared to traditional blockbuster drugs that are supposed to be taken chronically (and therefore have better ROI). It's the same reason little R&D goes into making new vaccines. It doesn't matter how many candidates are found if they can't make it to market in a timely fashion (the point of the CDC bar graph), and this is what the "slow catastrophe" really is. It is not that scientists will never figure out new ways to kill bacteria.
I think the practical way this gets enforced is that sites will sometimes ignore takedown requests, if they think the request is bogus.
LDL is still "bad" and HDL is still "good", but that means in your blood, not your diet. The evidence linking dietary cholesterol and saturated fat to cardiovascular disease is weak.

Dr. Peter Attia provides an excellent summary of the topic here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhzV-J1h0do
This is true in every niche as far as I know. I am convinced that the vast majority of blogs that show up in search results are paid content mills and otherwise engaged in SEO operations, like paid link rings.
You're thinking too much about web and desktop software.

Software is often delivered with hardware or other services which have to have releases, hence releases are still very much a thing.

software world > web software.
Yeah, it's time to kill all communists, otherwise free world may not survive this time.
I suggest reading the submitted article, starting from the heading "What are your other concerns?"
There's a Radiolab podcast [0] about the revival of a 1000 year old antibiotic from an old medical text. Towards the end they discuss theories as to why something that appears to be tremendously effective was somehow lost to time and one likely explanation is this "shelving" effect.

[0] http://www.radiolab.org/story/best-medicine/
> Not sure if you're serious or trolling here.

I'm completely serious. I genuinely don't understand how you can pick some arbitrary rules and decide that the "other people" are not "true xyzers" and thus are invalid.

> As true gamer culture I describe people with a real appreciation for games (should be obvious). People who actually play and enjoy games (or create and mod them).

Great, I know lots of those people! I'm one of those people! Honestly, I don't really know anyone who doesn't enjoy games (who plays them that is).

> Not people who are faking it for money,

Great! Imagine if there were laws to make sure those people had to disclose when, why and how they were making money associated with games!

> not people who are trying to push agendas onto gamers

I'm trying really hard not to project the rest of the internet on to you, because I don't know you, and I'm sure you're a lovely person. It sounds though, like you're upset with certain "social" complaints that some people have had with games lately, i.e. being upset about women being over sexualised in games, or what not.

With that in mind: I agree with a reasonable amount of that commentary. Does that make me not a "true" gamer? What is your yardstick here? More importantly, why does your opinion on who a "true gamer" is matter?

> And trust me, these are surprisingly rare in game media

I don't see it. And I don't see how you can see it either honestly. I feel like if the entire games media scene was bought and paid for by game companies someone would have actually written about it. This stuff generally gets reported on pretty well when it happens (see: Jeff Gerstman being fired for giving a low score to Kayne & Lynch, the Warner Bros issue we're talking about right now, etc). There are always people looking to expose something to make a name for themselves, and if anything like this actually existed someone would have done just that. And no, I don't count KIA / whatever ramblings.

It sounds more like a bunch of people are saying things you don't agree with, and so you've decided they aren't "true gamers" so you can brush off what they're saying without having to really think about it.

> You can call it unhealthy, the truth is often unhealthy. You can choose to remain ignorant about it, and patronize people like me. The fact is: Go out and ask kids, go and ask the people who play the most. They don't give a damn about game media and they are not involved in it at all. They just play their games.

I'm not "choosing to remain ignorant", I'm disagreeing with you and what you're saying. Hopefully politely, apologies if it's not coming off that way.
A few days ago, in a moment of 6-degrees of youtube, I came across a flat earth video. Out of curisoity to see what their beef was, I watched one. It was interesting. One of the claims was that all of the earth images we have are not actual photos or pictures per se, but rather, artists renditions (I think they used a different term which I don't recall at the moment). Apparently, this point was admitted to by NASA too. And they had pictures of earth from space (taken and distributed by NASA) over the years where continent sizes change drastically on the same circle. One of them even had "sex" spelled in the clouds.

Watching this, it too looks like an artist rendition. Notice how the moon moves in a straight line. And while the earth rotates around, the moon doesn't. That is fine as we see only the same side/face of the moon but remember: this is taken from far far away so, at that distance and angle, you should be able to pick up a change in the moon's rotation as well. Here, we don't.

Interesting indeed.
Curious if you've heard about the sale of CadSoft to AutoDesk, I was about to write Eagle off myself but I'm hoping they give it a little love.

http://www.premierfarnell.com/content/sale-cadsoft-0
And in response to that, the pharmaceutical companies will sell the antibiotic in high volumes to the livestock industry. Thus increasing profits... forever!
I built Servo last week, I ran "git fetch upstream && git reset --hard upstream/master && git submodule update" and then "tokei .". So, unless Servo puts its cache in the dir, I would guess not, no.
Seeing as the Android version only required the LOWEST possible Google permissions scope, my guess is someone checked the wrong box, or for some reason was doing something in development that required slightly more permissions and simply forgot to switch it back.
Thank you for taking the time to write a detailed answer!
It's always easy to try to make assumptions based on data, but it's just as easy to take away the wrong idea. Do prospective executives negotiate because they're used to negotiation, or because companies are prepared to negotiate salaries for those roles?
Completely random, I just had googled this before coming on Hacker News so that I could cite the original article. Great read if you haven't done so yet.
Or conversely shows how easy it is to make non-sense that can be interpreted as deep or meaningful. Makes me think of India's guru culture or the US's new age stuff. Its like our minds are hardwired to trip a fuse when we see something on the level of zen koan or similarly weird or meaningless. Another example is 'cut up books' where you randomly paste together strips of sentences from other books or newspapers and eventually get something interesting.

Maybe its a side-effect of being a novelty seeking species. Who knows.
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This should be removed as it says sharing any password is now a federal crime, yet the title of the linked article says "could" not is, which is a major difference.

And it even says explicitly that the ruling wouldn't presumably apply to things such as "sharing a Netflix password."

@Esalman, please read the full article before posting.
Only on older hardware. Anything with an A9/M9 (iPhones 6S and SE, iPads Pro) works on battery power as well.
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You don't get to that role without negotiating and if you notice the higher up you get, the more likely you are to negotiate.
Correct, that's out direct custodian costs. We work hard every day to lower these costs. Custodial services do have value and are worth paying for.
I can't find anything by google, but the basic approach is probably as follows, because it makes sense: Pick a class of antibiotics that you want to remove resistance to. Stop using it. Completely. Use other antibiotics more aggressively. Selection pressure toward resisting your still-in-use antibiotics will direct evolution's optimization power toward fixing traits to resist them. If you're lucky - and I think we are, for the most part - antibiotic resistance is metabolically and/or genetically expensive, so the traits for your shelved antibiotics will be gradually lost, or even better, actively selected out. Some time down the road - I don't know how long - your shelved antibiotics will be back to full power, and you can shelve your still-in-use antibiotics out and rotate your shelved antibiotics back in.

Ideally you have enough different classes of antibiotics that you can maintain a constant rotation and always have new antibiotics coming off shelved status so you can retire antibiotics that've formed resistances. Even better, a larger library of antibiotics directly improves the effectiveness of this strategy - in the short term, introducing a new class means you can shelve an old, resisted class; in the long term, more classes means each class can spend longer on the shelf and we reduce antibiotic resistance further.
The concern (at least for me) wasn't that Niantic was doing anything nefarious, it was that if they didn't even know they were asking for full permission are they professional enough to prevent that full permission from being misused by a malicious actor? The app is so popular that an exploit could be a gold mine for black hats.

Glad to see Google patching the permissions server-side, as I bet a lot of people just checked the app out once out of curiosity and won't launch the updated version.
> the design phase is relatively cheap

In my world (enterprise software), the design phase is usually the most expensive phase, as it tends to be staffed with expensive architect/designer/technical lead-level folks.
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I'd prefer the EU to change, setting up such a thing is a lot of work. But it's shown it won't do that. So I'd like to see a replacement, yes.
If I'm not mistaken, resistance usually comes at the cost of some efficiency. Drug resistant bacteria are outcompeted, which is why resistance fades in nature.

My crazy theory is that somebody with drug resistant TB could be deliberately infected with regular TB, which will replace all the DR TB, and then you treat the patient normally. Assuming they survive.
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...and very likely, in a few years time...

people will see 'Agile' or 'sprint' and cringe.
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I've also had all of these happen to me. It's quite annoying, (especially the burning hot phone and battery drain), but I'm still enjoying it.

Nostalgia is a powerful force.