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Ideally, news is objective factual reporting, but editorial bias, conflicts of interest, emotional manipulation, propaganda, selective leaking, anonymous sources, government pressure, basic human nature and numerous other factors prevent this ideal from ever being realized.

As it currently stands, people decide which news sources biases more closely match their own in order to reduce cognitive dissonance. This reinforces their biases, and makes them seek more of the same continuing a downward spiral. Hopefully, you seek sources that disagree with your current opinions in order to balance your perspective, but the vast majority of people don't have the time or energy to do so.

Oh, how I wish the news was as you describe!
Both. You shouldn't think in binaries, and should recognize that your career is long and will have many different phases.

When you're young - first couple years out of college, or even while you're in college - it's time to optimize for learning. Maybe that means working at a startup, maybe that means founding one, maybe it just means going to a highly-regarded research university and working on some projects with the professor. If you didn't get into a highly-regarded university, it means picking a topic of interest and studying intently about it on your own.

Eventually at some point, you should get pedigree on your resume. A good university would do this, but so would working at a well-regarded blue chip or fast-grower. And most of them are more than willing to hire out of startups, if you have an interesting project that makes you stand out from the crowd.

Stay at the company as long as it remains interesting, where you're learning new things and developing new skills. Leave when it gets boring. Hopefully you've built up a nice nest egg in the process - big companies pay their high performers very well.

Repeat as necessary.
> I got really into experimenting with fermentation

I really like fermented food. Love kefir (fermented milk product), kvass (a Russian fermented bread drink). Pickles, sauerkraut...

He mentions fermented chickpeas. If you get organic foods with less preservatives in them, say some fresh salsa or chickpea salads, it will ferment pretty quickly even in the fridge and you can sort of taste it. I rather like it, and have left some things around long enough for them to ferment a bit.

Btw, if you buy pickles and they have anything else in the ingredients besides spices, water, salt and cucumbers, you are probably getting just boiled cucumbers with vinegar, so the sourness doesn't come from fermentation but from the vinegar. That is a very different taste than a properly fermented pickle. So next time look at the label and see what you are getting. One brand I have been getting lately is Bubbies (http://bubbies.com/kosher_dills) found it in a smaller local store, but there are probably others.
You've just described a decade of dead in the water MMOs. Which isn't to say you're wrong, just that very few manage to capitalize on the opportunity.
Race condition again. The file could be unlinked. fstat is the only safe way of getting stat information for an open file.
1.The Trouble with Lawyers - an early introduction to conflicts of interest

2.One Up On Wall Street - insiders view of the markets and other lessons

3.Consilence - how to distinguish real things from unreal things
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"Ma Bell, proud owners of both AOL and Yahoo." Clinton running for president. You would be forgiven for asking if it was the 1990s. It's hard for me to be excited by any of this. Those are three really dull companies.
> I can ask my brother for money
> we have a trash relationship

Do you have a trash relationship because you've asked him for money too many times?
That assumes everyone actually knows what his objectives are before electing him, or that those objectives stay the same after election. Given how often his views have changed so far, I'm not sure that's a safe assumption to make.

Edit: Also, to be clear, if he does have legislative support because enough people support him to elect representatives with similar agendas, that's not really something for me to be worried about, as that would be no different than any other candidate. If it's the will of the people, so be it (as much as I dislike it).
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Hellban? The only person I have ever seen use that term regularly is the same one who "coined" the term "VC-istan."
Yes, regular pages are limited to their same origin policy. Extensions, when they request it, are not. This extension requested it, so it is capable of downloading files from any server to a string. It also requested unsafe-eval, this lets it eval a string. Now, when you add one and one together, you have two features combined in a malicious way. But not a bug.

Sure, things should be different. But they are the way they are, and considering the way they are, this is not a bug. And certainly not bug-bounty'able.
There's no hard requirement for babel-polyfill or babel-runtime.

Babel works great without shims in modern enviros (I don't use shims in my projects).
I find the entrepreneur subreddit to be pretty terrible, honestly. My biggest problem is that to the less experienced, reading it can give you a false sense of being productive. Many years ago, I was reading it constantly because I was convinced one day I would find the secret to having a successful business.

However, it's overwhelmingly filled with people who have pretty low ambitions. It's mostly projects that are better suited for an etsy store than they are as a stand-alone startup. The ones with more ambition are usually something like "Uber for dogs" or "Facebook for dogs" and lack any real possibility of ever becoming a meaningful product.
Become a member of your local library and read. Choosing what to read can be difficult, but a good place to start is to read books that have movie and TV show counterparts which you like. I'm reading "Orange is the New Black" now. I'm 60 pages in and it's just as good as the show.

> I feel like I should go back to school but do I really want to rack up all that loan?

Always remember that you can learn for free. There is Khan Academy, MIT OpenCourseWare, edX, Saylor University and, formerly, Coursera (they charge for some classes now). I truly believe you will learn more from MOOCs than you will from classroom instruction.
https://github.com/a2o/snoopy
> I mean look at the 2 main people who were driving the Leave campaign - they both resigned!

The public voted for them to Leave. So they left.
Last summer, my daughter was working as a prep/line cook in a sort of odd highbrow/lowbrow place. She is extremely sensitive to chili peppers - so much so that it's effectively an allergy for her. So for some dishes where chilis and "taco seasoning" (made in house) were "to taste", she'd have others taste-test for her. At one point, the head chef asked why she did that. She told him it was because "to taste", for her, would mean no chili peppers or taco seasoning in the dish!
> You need a subject matter expert

Spot on. Too many people think that monitoring is about slapping a piece of code on some hosts.
Monitoring is data science.
While it might not be new, it doesn't change the fact that it is still happening, and actually gotten worse. Many of those people you're referring to likely ended up disenfranchised later in life as well, some of them may have even ended up in jail (which happened to a few of my Dad's hippie friends). Many of those people you're referring to never had the chance to grow up to be functioning members of society which further illustrates my point.

If you gave me a choice, I would love to exchange the levels of corruption and economic conditions from the 70's, 80's, and 90's for whatever the hell it is we have today. There were 10x the possibilities then there are today, and society in general was much more free compared to the present.

Our parents didn't grow up in a surveillance state, sure maybe they had some run-ins with the police when out in public, but that was it. There is no privacy anymore, and if you do or say anything that doesn't fit a politically correct narrative you're not only unemployable, but pretty much ostracized from society today.
I did go through this when I got my first degree. I graduated with a degree in writing and prepared to become a journalist and it was like the whole thing turned to ash in my mouth. I just didn't want it anymore. I couldn't even write anymore, and to this day, about 10 years later, I still don't write much even though it was a hobby of mine from a young age.

The best solution I can offer you is to wait. Find a hustle (job you don't mind doing that makes enough money for you) and let yourself recover a bit until a new plan / opportunity emerges. For me, I got a job working as a bar tender for a few years, then one day decided I couldn't wait on people any more and I didn't want to be poor anymore. Enrolled in my local college for Electrical Engineering and plowed my new path. But it took ~3 years for me to be ready to do that. I had suffered a fairly crushing defeat and needed time to recover and let a new plan gestate.

Be patient, and ignore the voice in your head that worries about how old you are and how so many other people seem to have their course charted well before you.
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+1 most concise and accurate explanation of life so far
You should really try explaining it.

Milton Friedman had a simple flat tax system too. I think Estonia and maybe Latvia have been using it.
Yes and no.

Yes, in that the tools are massively better. So is the hardware that it all runs on.

No, in that you still have to tell the computer precisely and unambiguously exactly what you want it to do, and how, mostly in text. The level of detail required today is somewhat less, due to better tools, but at a high level the work hasn't changed.
"Short-sighted" if you're describing a product as what it is today and not what it can be in the future? Having the ability to do something and doing it right now are two different things.

As things stand, the statement "there isn't much to do once you've caught them all" is pretty on point, not short-sighted.
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A big week 1 surge requires pre-existing name recognition.

Games with a 2 in the name are the next most likely to have heavy first week downloads. Angry Birds 2 or Bejeweled 2 for example.
+1 on the Pragmatic Programmer.

For anyone that is ready to stop consuming themselves with all things esoteric and start writing generally good code by default.

If more devs followed the relatively simple patterns and practices in this book the phrase "legacy code" might not be a curse-word.
AppSignal is also a cool product, although mostly focused on Rails applications. And, a big plus, they are working on an Elixir integration :-) https://appsignal.com/elixir
Flappy Bird wasn't overly popular when it came out, it was only later on that it went viral (I think about 6 months or so after it launched).
California has the Cullen Earthquake Act to deal with that.[1] That's a consolidation law, so that all the claims in an affected area can be resolved in one court proceeding.

[1] http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=ccp&gr...
Why not to start with AWS Cloud Watch: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/details/ - simple, scalable, but of the box solution. It's much simpler than build similar functionality yourself.
Once potential legal wrongdoing is in the picture, and especially after accusations have been thrown around, everyone is in CYA-mode (cover your ass). Playing dumb is a great strategy. My favorite example is when Hillary was repeatedly asked by reporters about wiping her email servers (implying she destroyed evidence). She responded:

"Like with a cloth or something?"
Google will become Skynet.
I usually start from presentation layer and dig deep into the data models. Sometime, in reverse order if the codebase is fairly bigger.
Anyone who quits after playing through the entire game in a week will be immediately crawling back as soon as the next new feature is released.
This is amazing, thank you for sharing this.

I'm going through something similar and you never want to go on a full on fight because, like you said, it's hard "knowing that you or the other person may not come out as friends anymore".

It's a hard lesson but I'm slowly realizing that it's better to know the limits of how real and true your friendships are rather than realizing it was all based off unstable foundations.
Greg Sargent of WaPo seems to have a pretty friendly relationship with the DNC. I'd like to know what they were trying to damage control here: https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/11242

edit: Seems they were just scared of the narrative after platform concessions with the Sanders camp: https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/13370
Well, that's what they said forty years ago, so...
So even though you are a remote worker you can't see how to run a company without the old "time on seats as productivity" mentality?

Sad, very sad

"informal conversations" move it to Slack (or your preferred communicator). Yes, people will still talk in the watercooler, but that will reflect there.

There is some need for "there time", of course, but not as much as people think
> Eventually, I predict there will be a decentralized torrent site. Using magnet links and just file names. Nothing hosted anywhere.

There's probably other versions of this but I know of 'Play' on zeronet (which I won't link because piracy, it's easy enough to find). It's a fairly elegant version of what you described.
I recently tried out Bosun and liked it a lot. The documentation is a little light, and the dependency on hbase and hadoop (since opentsdb uses that) is a bit of a pain. Maintaining those isn't particularly straight forward or fun.

I'm also interested in prometheus but haven't gotten to try it out yet. Anyone reading this have experience with both? How do they compare?
> Modernist Cuisine is probably the most well known reference for actual cooking theory

This was what I was expecting from this article, instead of a cooking philosophy, not that there's anything wrong with that. What I got served just didn't match the expectations.
Here's a "Best of" collection

https://nothingismere.com/2015/09/12/library-of-scott-alexan...
> I mean, how do you know the interface the programmer is writing through isn't compromised inside the CPU?

Inside which part? I suppose if you're worried about compromises inside the casing, you need to take off the heat spreader and look for yourself.

Anything on-die falls under the custom fabrications exception.
I work on Google Fiber and am continually impressed with the business folks too. It is hard work to dig up streets and install fiber, negotiate agreements necessary to provide TV service, provide high-quality customer service, etc.

Google (er, Alphabet) has a lot of employees, and maybe not every single one is the best in their field (they hired me), but overall I think that a Google tenure on your resume can be a meaningful positive signal for future employees.

At the very least, maybe they'll steal some of the really good ideas around here, like an internal social network. (Available for anyone using Google Apps, not just us ;)
Any time a new idea comes along, there's always someone who claims everyone needs to learn it, and that it needs to become a part of school curriculum.

In my opinion, the ability to think laterally is far more valuable than the ability to think 'computationally'. The latter is comprised of essentially one pattern of thinking -- procedural -- while the former opens one to an infinite set of patterns with which to think.

The computer is a decent vehicle for exploring patterns or modes of thinking once you've discovered them, but the goal should be to explore the pattern, not the vehicle.
Plenty of folks building large scale custom monitoring solutions with InfluxDB (plus Grafana, Collectd, Telegraf etc) - https://influxdata.com/testimonials/
Come on, everyone is a potential racist.
Hell, even trying to explain how a relatively simple shopping cart web app works, unambiguously, in plain English, to an executive, is extremely tedious and verbose, requires defining a lot of specific terms, and at the end of the day it still confuses the hell out of him.
It wouldn't be possible if the filesystem were not recklessly-shared (essentially global) mutable state, and the danger of shared mutable state is one of the high-level lessons that learning Rust will teach you.
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You can rent an r3.8xlarge instance with 344GB RAM on AWS for $2.66/hr. If that isn't enough, an x1.32xlarge instance with ~2TB RAM is $13.34/hr. Assuming your data is already in AWS, of course. Of course those machines have a crap ton of CPU power (I'm explicitly not saying cores because I'm mystified by what vCPU really means) as well which you will be hard pressed to take advantage of but if it's RAM you need they're super-cheap.

If you prefer Azure, a G5 instance with 448GB RAM is available for $9.65/hr.

Not a lot of need for Spark/SparkR for the vast majority of data sets given the cheapness of compute these days.
There's always a server. Regardless of how far away you've abstracted it away, there's always a server which should probably be monitored (even if to know when it's about to fail and should have work shunted off it prior to its failure). Icinga and others make it easy to programmatically add and remove servers as they enter and leave your environment.

Even if you don't have access to the server so you can monitor it, you can use the "host" concept as containers for your services: "api.mycorp.com", "tasks.mycorp.com", "backups.mycorp.com" are great starting points.
Compiler... 3D... and Knitting all in the same sentence.

What a time to be alive.
I'm in NYC and we negotiated a ridiculously low monthly rate as an introductory offer into one of their newer buildings (I'm talking more than half off what their initial offer was). It certainly made us question how well they are doing, particularly as they expand so rapidly. I'm also assuming they gave similar breaks to get other folks in the door, which I can only imagine increases churn when that initial 3-6 month deal concludes.
Italy is in a world of hurt with 12%+ unemployment, a 37% youth unemployment rate, actual problems at the government level with the actual mob, corruption that would make your head spin, and a desperately shrinking economy.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/why-italy-s-economy-is-a...

So no, not so much with the survival.
You see this effect on Kickstarter also. The people who stand the best chance of funding large projects on kickstarter are people who have already proven their abilities outside of that format.
Honestly, after spending a bit of time in Africa, they really do not need more unskilled volunteers, but money to employ locals to do the same job. Locals should be educated and then go on ahead to teach the next generation.

I did meet several skilled volunteers (doctors, finance directors) that are bringing knowledge to areas that are severely lacking. Construction of solar powered resources is popular.
I think it seems like a sensible name to me:

"The term isomorphism literally means sameness (iso) of form (morphism)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomorphism_(Gestalt_psycholog...

Perhaps the knowledgable people here (that unfortunately so far have preferred to be flippant and condescending instead of educating) could provide an explanation of showing us why "Isomorphic JavaScript" is a misnomer?
That's precisely what I'm not doing. You don't get to break the rules here just because you're anti-X, even when X is Trump. Following the site guidelines means posting civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Are they using the Google Cloud as the server?
Network tuning guides
Have been working on a project where we have a high throughput/low latency requirement (500k+ requests/sec, with sub 5ms responses SLA).

One thing we haven't worked on yet much is tuning of the actual server and it's network settings. Was curious if there are any guides you recommend.
Isn't the problem with them divesting both of those entities - Alibaba and Yahoo Japan, the outsized tax burden from the sale? I thought this was the reason it was a non-starter this past year.
> When I was at the office for a decade, 90% of the insight and productivity came from informal conversations in the hallway, lunches and things I overheard in passing.

I could not agree more: I once bumped into someone in the bathroom on a different floor that I had met briefly years before during a re-org meet-and-greet. In a few moments of catching up, I found out he had worked on an in-house project that was essentially the same category as the products I was on a team to evaluate.

We didn't end up resurrecting his project, but his insight into the ultimate selection and experience with the rollout was extremely valuable.

A similar thing for a casual acquaintance who told me in passing about his private work in app development, and I was able to put him in touch with someone on our app team (it was a big company with a lot of silos).

I ended up later working remotely for a few months with the same company, and lost the serendipity of accidental human interaction when all my communication was low-bandwidth, narrowly focused, topic-at-hand meetings and communication.

I can sympathize with others complaining about the high cost of interruptions, but for the way I work and think, non-directed conversation is invaluable.
I don't think it's being taught adequately to lots of people who aren't destined for careers in tech or academia. Look at the nearly universal disdain for math and especially "story problems," as well as the mystical aura of "coding" outside of those tech / academic circles.

In that context, I do think early encounters with programming might be a great entry point to "computational thinking" for some who aren't well served by existing curricula. It certainly makes more sense to me than trying to train every child to write code for its own sake.
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Multiline blockquotes seem to be broken in the GitLab web site's GFM documentation: http://i.imgur.com/agTjiLc.png

http://docs.gitlab.com/ce/markdown/markdown.html#multiline-b...
I like the idea but the price seems to be $150, not $99. The price point seems critical. I paid $190 for an HP Stream 11 and it makes a great travelling Linux box. If the eventual price were < $80, and with the advantages of having your whole environment on your phone, then that sounds good.

I tried to get an adapter for my Samsung Note 4 would use an external HDMI monitor, but did not find much joy. If a few phone manufacturers would standardize on a docking standard so being able to walk up to a Kiosk or a docking station when visiting other companies, travelling, etc., then that would serve a real need.
Prometheus.io which is a modern fresh monitoring system that I would checkout if replacing a legacy system.

Also take a look at Riemann which is system monitoring written in Clojure. Riemann should be good for monitoring latency of the system.

If it helps here is Slidedeck from Spotify how they do their monitoring
https://www.netways.de/fileadmin/images/Events_Trainings/Eve...
--facepalm--
Until WeWork pulled this, few people knew WeWork was in trouble. Now everyone on HN does, which includes many WeWork investors and customers. Expect press coverage in a few days.

Streisand effect, people. The coverup is worse than the problem.