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I don't really understand the outrage. The parties are not part of the government, they aren't held to the same requirements for fairness. The caucuses of the parties are supposed to help them gauge the public perception of their candidates, to help them make a better decision as to which candidate is most likely to win the presidential election. In fact, I expect each party to be biased towards a certain candidate. I expect the party to come together to back the strongest candidate to prevent any possible party fractures. Just look at what happened this time, maybe if the Democrats had gone full-force behind Clinton from the beginning Sanders wouldn't have supporters protesting outside the convention for his very party. Maybe I'm wrong here but I never expected either party to go above and beyond what's required of them and act like they are part of the government.
But if you're driving a 20-ton truck, even routine braking will probably be "hard" braking.
From the blog post:

"The investigation also identified two additional people as having engaged in inappropriate conduct, and they are no longer involved with the Tor Project."

Damn.

This effort feels like the kind of deep introspection that every organization should undertake. Every org has their bad apples. But as of yet, there's no norms for addressing them.

"code of conduct", etc

Thank you. This is excellent news. These types of innovations in governance will become the norm. Thank you for leading the way.
> Reference to Java libraries doesn't mean that Google calls it Java, and you know it.

Microsoft doesn't implement C99, C devs bash Microsoft because they don't update the language.

Google doesn't provide a proper Java implementation, it is ok they are on their right to fork the language.

Java is the whole package, virtual machine, language and libraries.

Anything else is a plain fork and word games to workaround licensing issues.

"For more information about general practices to clean up your resources when programming in Java, refer to other books or online documentation about managing resource references."

https://developer.android.com/training/articles/memory.html

> I suppose that Java SE, Java ME and Java EE are compatible and they are not fragmented.

Yes, since Java 8 there is a notion of profiles, valid across all certified implementations.

Android is not even compatible with Java compact profile 1, the smallest of them.

> Calling others fanboys? The argument you have is insulting?

Yeah apparently we are not allowed to side with Oracle.

> Are you saying that Apache ripped off Sun?

They also did not have a license to use Java on embedded devices did they?

The LGPL with classpath exception license was only valid for desktop and server deployments of Java.
COBOL!! I'm with jcbeard, "big data is the real winner"?!?!. Let me tell IEEE something, if you want to process Big Data, you are doing it in COBOL, and you've been doing it in COBOL for decades.
Owning a home can destroy real money if you have 20% down and prices fall by 10%.

At that point, if you need to sell, you've lost your down payment, as in WA at least, it costs approx 9.3% to sell a house (unless you're in an insanely sellers market, which you're not if you're down).
The OP is a liar, so I don't take his word on reading the rest of the article. And you're incept. Thanks for the input!
> The harm in taking these allegations too seriously (false positive) is doing research and finding out the statistics are invalid

That's one possible harm, but I think it's also possible that people will take the allegations too seriously and withdraw from the political process entirely. One of the paradoxes of modern political life is that the elections that get the most attention aren't necessarily the ones with the greatest impact on our day-to-day lives. If you don't show up to the polls in November because {Clinton,Trump,Satan} will win anyways because of the rigged system, then you won't vote for mayor, school board, and local bond measures that can much more directly affect the policing policies in your town, the education your kids get, and the transportation infrastructure to get to your places of work or leisure.
Who's downvoting personal responsibility?
I buy like 5 books a month just to try to keep up. I've got math-overload not to mention latency-depression and algo-stress. I have cuda-mares at night. Trying to keep up is so personally costly that I sometimes wonder if I shouldn't just become a carpenter. Or a gardener. Bring on the Universal Basic Income! Free me from this accelerating treadmill to oblivion!
Before I discovered that math and programming were actually a whole lot of creative fun, I got my kick writing poetry. Conversely, if you've never tried, you might discover you'll get the same rational / problem-solving kick writing poetry as you do writing programs.

Writing metered poetry that does not sound "stiff" is particularly challenging. I like how this one came out:

---

I would not mind floating downstream;
End up among the fish and whales.

Of the ocean waters, dark and deep,
I’m not afraid, for I do know
That, once you’ve lived among the corals,
The muddy currents, pebbles and rocks,
And parlous contours of the stream
Against whose tide you’d rather swim
Are banes you’ll gladly leave behind;

For deep at sea you’re not confined
By rocks and edges that grind and rasp–
The river’s water may be sweet,
But just as sweet, the river’s shallow;
I’d rather down its torrent follow,
Follow to the salted sea.”

(At this you quickly sipped your tea)

“Yes, in the sea I’ll freely trace
The peaceful ebbs of open space,
More free than any shallow stream;
As free as logic in a dream.”

Again you sipped, and leaned, and laughed,
Then played a moment with your scarf;
And I suspect you did agree.

---

I have a few more writings of different types at https://noamswebsite.wordpress.com/category/poems-and-fictio... :)

I miss writing! I think after this startup thing, if it's successful, I'll take some time to write again. I'm probably very rusty!

And it's incredibly challenging. Writing something meaningful and lyrical can be as much of a brain workout as designing a complex recursive algorithm. I've no qualms about placing Shakespeare under the same category of genius as Newton or Gauss.

It's kind of a shame that today the two worlds seem so separate... both sides are poorer for it.
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It's promoting terrorism if you're politically aligned with India.

If you're instead politically aligned with most people living in Kashmir, it's not promoting terrorism, you see it instead as showing solidarity with the cause of freedom. It may be hard to understand, but most of the hundreds of thousands of people protesting in Kashmir right now are not in favor of terrorism. Instead they are incensed by what they see as the decades of Indian oppression and aggression, and Burhan Wani is only used as a symbol of something like "a young son of Kashmir who was driven to madness and made the ultimate sacrifice for freedom".

Facebook's removal of posts is perceived as political censorship by a lot of people politically aligned with Kashmiri independence who are disgusted by terrorism in the same way the US public is.

The Facebook censorship team probably just doesn't have anyone from Kashmir working there, and does not have a good enough grasp of Kashmiri public opinion.

It is really not in line with Facebook's mission of promoting openness to be censoring these posts, and especially to be banning accounts who are posting what they see as legitimate political opinion (when their beliefs and feelings about terrorism are in line with US public opinion)
Thank you, everything helps. I agree completely with you, the actual CV I send out is linked at the end of the post, and I'll upload a tech-specific one now based on suggestions here.

For the past year I've been constantly on the brink of being on the street or worse and have been fighting tooth and nail to get even a sofa or any help at all. The vast majority of my family are back in South America and have problems of their own to deal with, my friends are not doing that much better. It sucks. No-one I'm applying for a job with would hear about any of it though of course.
Given that the noise from electric vehicles is intentionally generated, it can be much more pleasant than ICE noise while still being audible.
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The solution is they should worry less.
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The rules for parties are often easier. My argument is that they shouldn't be.

I also don't like that a party could literally pick a name out of hat to designate their presidential candidate. Of course it would be terrible for a party itself to do that, but the system is setup so that name would end up on an awful lot of ballots.
I found it to be a particularly interesting headline because I thought such things were normal. When I bought my home in 2004 it was not only zero down but on a 7/1 interest only arm at just 1 point above the basis rate with a maximum increase over the life of just 4 points. As a bonus I got $50K out to pay off the boat. Needless to say when the housing market crashed I wasn't freaked out because I had effectively nothing to loose. Sometimes not having any money invested, especially for the first decade or so can be a relief if one must consider a strategic default of the mortage.
Yes, but in many jurisdictions the rules are simpler for the parties than for some rando. That's my objection. The rando shouldn't have a higher bar than the established organization, they should have the same bar. Partly for the reason you highlight, backing of a party already makes it significantly more likely that someone will succeed in getting on many ballots.
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This is the dark side of open source. Moment.js probably has generated millions of dollars of value, but in exchange the primary developer is left with depression and burnout.

I am actually old enough to remember getting Programmer's Paradise magazine that would have listings for all sorts of VBX/OCX controls from a whole host of large and small vendors that developers could buy to help them accomplish a programming goal.

Now, a single developer or small team can create a small app or website in which free/open source libraries are doing all the heavy lifting in terms of complexity and capture millions(or billions) of dollars in value with the original creators getting nothing.

The main reason for an individual creating open source libraries is due to either idealism/altruism or else to increase their reputation so a company will hire them. My guess is that the altruistic individuals are the ones getting burned out because the users of their code, instead of appreciating their altruism, make them feel guilty and inadequate. Open source will have to solve this issue in order to be sustainable.
If you live in one of the most walkable neighborhoods in Seattle[0], why would you have a car at all, much less an electric one?

[0] https://www.walkscore.com/WA/Seattle/Capitol_Hill
I'd argue that if you're running out of 1TB local storage for data you use frequently, then this completely cloud based service won't work for you anyway. Imagine how much data will go back and forth for that 1+TB. Something like Dropbox/Google Drive with selective sync will be a better option.

And this cloud service doesn't solve the backup problem either. With Upthere, the copy in their cloud is your only copy. If their data gets corrupted, you lose everything. So, you want a proper remote backup solution anyway whether you use Upthere or Dropbox or Syncthing. And if you think Upthere must have good backup setup of their own, then I'd argue that so would Dropbox and Google Drive.

So, I still am not sure if Upthere really provides that much value.
OS X user here. I would at least have it installed for testing
Arbitrage can provide a service as well.
Hydrogen has low energy density by volume, but very good energy density by weight. The overhead of the volume might be offset by the gains from the reduced weight, which is especially important for aircraft.

Lossage is certainly a problem, but I think once your aircraft is airborne, you can basically burn any hydrogen as it outgasses.
The borders of what? Omaha? New York, DC, Los Angeles, Seattle and 'Frisco are (at least partially) gone.
If you were poor at negotiations, you'd probably also be poor at the skills required to get a "5" rating (selling your own accomplishments, etc.) I mean I don't know anything about you, but devil's advocate.
A very good friend and senior, expert, skilled developer just transitioned into a DevOps position. I was very surprised. His motivation was to have a greater impact on the success of his org. Commendable.

I guess I did something similar when I served as a QA Manager, years ago. I loved the work and felt really good about the progress that team made.
Why boo? Reduced speed maps to vastly reduced pedestrian death and injury, encourages increased bicycle road share, and allows reduced lane sizes which increases the usable land in urban environments.

All good things IMO.
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You're amazing, thank you! We're good on clothes thank god, we've been taking care of them. Hopefully by the time winter rolls around we'll be in a better position to get some new stuff. Seriously, thank you though.
Doesn't the graph on that site show that electric trucks would be a huge win for lower noise in the city? I would be interested in the standard deviations of these line plots, because I would guess that the engine noise varies much more depending on the acceleration of the truck. I am not that much annoyed by a truck driving with constant speed, but much more annoyed by a truck which is heavily accelerating. And maybe 9 out of 10 trucks passing by are just driving with constant speed but the 10th will be the one which is annoying because it is accelerating.
It depends on the book. For fiction, I usually finish it that night (I'm bad ay delayed gratification).

Non-fiction isn't quite as addictive usually and a week is about average. I usually carry it everywhere and use any free time >1min for reading (i. e. standing in line.
The last guy that talked about rigged Diebold machines died in a plane crash before testifying. That one should have been investigated just as vigorously as this time.

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/22/republican_it_special...
Perhaps the Russians were involved.LOL!
http://blogosqarteam.typepad.com/.a/6a0148c7b55aa3970c019b02...
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This. As much as I personally don't like JavaScript, it's not up to me whether it exists and is used, and having an advertising company de facto in charge of how people perceive its implementation simply isn't a Good Thing for the web in general.
> boy does it look familiar to products belonging to a company that begins with the letter ‘A’

Hm? "Sony" doesn't begin with "A".

The colors, the squarish shape and the keyboard (Sony used that style before Apple) look much more like a Sony Vaio than any Apple laptop.
I call this "value-subtracted engineering", when vendors take stock Android or Windows and mess around with it in a way that makes it worse.
> bonus is that xiami has finer permission control too on app level.

That's a Marshmallow thing, not a Xiaomi thing.
> This, I think, has the weakest link to Trump; obviously the "Make America Great Again" slogan speaks to nostalgia, but I do think Eco here is talking about a particular kind of primordial, ancient tradition that is present in European fascism. America doesn't really have the sense of a people dating back thousands of years, so we avoid it.

I disagree. As other posters pointed out Fascism infects with it's own unique flavor of the host country. In the US, post ww2 was an idilic time (not really, but there's so much rockwell imagery). It's post slavery and genocide. It ends with landing on the moon.

The mythic version of the post war boom is appealing. High paying jobs. A house with a white picket fence. A new car every few years. Everyone lives in a small town and knows their neighbors. Kids go fishing with grandpa. it's a fantasy, it avoids so many deep problems, but it's easy to see the appeal.

I would expect trump to knock off "morning in america" [1] for his positive ads. (if he winds up having positive ads).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU-IBF8nwSY
Apple literally redefined what a smart phone is. While he borrowed design cues from history, Braun in particular, applying that to the phone space and coming up with a design language that had durability was a big breakthrough.

Remember in 2006 Nokia, Motorola, RIM and others made literally everything but rectangular phones. They were covered in buttons and other crap.

Ive's vision of a virtually button free phone was strikingly different at the time, a device even simpler than the Star Trek communicator pad.

>Anyway, what's the fucking difference if you steal a few pieces here and there or the whole thing? Nothing.

It's very hard to strip something down to the essential components and integrate those into a package that becomes obvious in retrospect. The steering wheel in a car, the magnetic seal on a refrigerator door, these are all obvious now but at the time were huge breakthroughs.

If you can't see the difference between copying and working to reduce something down to the fundamentals you're obviously unaware of how one is lazy and the other is crazy hard.
> most senior Google employees have around 50% comp in stock.

Far more pervasive than that. A buddy of mine just took a typical sys-admin position at AAPL and is paid 50% stock/equity. Same with an MBA I know working at AMZN.
Came here to say +1 to this, definitely employ a bastion host and make sure that's the only way to SSH to your servers. This can be a little tricky to do correctly if you don't have someone on your team, but it's a valuable way to reduce your surface area to monitor.

Installing fail2ban is also a very basic / smart way to discourage brute force SSH attacks on your boxes. Also you could try piping your SSH logs into something like papertrail / slack, so you have clear visibility into who's logging into your servers, etc.
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I can say as a hiring manager, engineer, and friend of recruiters -- these salaries are a little low compared to top tier tech companies at every level, at least for developers. By top tier here I mean Google, Facebook, etc.

They're not horribly low, and they're probably in range for 2nd-tier companies that you'd recognize but that I don't want to name because I don't have recent salary data for them.

Honestly I think they're fair, although I personally would end up having to ask what counts as living in SF, because if you tell me I don't live in SF because I'm 20 minutes outside the city, I would agree until I found out it lowered my salary by 15% (or w/e the percentage is). :)
My family and I thought the book was fantastic, but one thing I wanted to say is how cool the the author is (Ernest Cline). We went to a book signing at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC. Ernest spoke and gave a presentation for about 90 mins. He was very funny, had a bunch of great stories, and really engaged with all the kids as well. Warren Robinett (the creator of Adventure on the Atari 2600) is friends with Ernest and lives in Chapel Hill so he came to the event as well and spoke a bit. Another great guy. I was just totally blown away by how engaging Ernest was and how much extra effort he put in with the kids in the audience. You really get the feeling that he is super excited about whatever he is doing. His enthusiasm was contagious. Anyway, thought I'd share this. It does make me really root for the guy now.
That tripped me up too. Though the author's intention was clearly "to not (read this piece and be wary)", it's easily misread as "to (not read this piece) and be wary".
a) Is everyone a monkey playing at God, or are some monkeys more godly than others?

b) What if some monkeys just want to play with bananas? Why should some monkey decide that "lifelong learning" is better for them?
At first I just looked at the graph and was surprised that Swift didn't make top 10 but then actually read the article to see the author mention it's technically #11, right behind Go. Think Swift will make top 10 next year?
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the iPhone SE not existing at the time was the reason I went with Android (I could have gone with an iPhone 5 but I didn't want a past model - and price was a factor as well)

I guess it's not much a reversal of the trend rather as a "return to normal"

Pockets and hands are still the same size as always
Why does it seem that we in America can only count to two during election season? Or, less facetiously, what keeps us fixated on the polarizing, binary approach to elections, even in cases where first-past-the-post isn't strictly followed (as in California's first-two-past-the-post case)?

Whenever people talk about alternative voting systems, the consensus seems to be that it would be impossible to implement in the US. But why? What drives this obsession with choosing between two evils rather than choosing among several, where one's own views might stand a better chance?
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"the Gigafactory will be the largest factory in the world when completed"

No way. Not even close. One of the largest single buildings, yes. Largest factory, no. See Ford's River Rouge plant, which once was the largest factory in the world.[1] Today, Foxconn has a whole walled city.[2] (Foxconn makes 40% of the world's consumer electronics. They're getting into auto manufacturing.)

What Tesla has actually built is much smaller. Right now, LG has more battery factory in operation than Tesla does. Looking ahead, VW is talking about building a $15 billion battery factory, bigger than Tesla's.[3] VW can come up with $15 billion.

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/EvoyvV2HB3K2
[2] https://goo.gl/maps/LZKdTUpz8ck
[3] http://www.techtimes.com/articles/161873/20160530/volkswagen...
Misleading content about One Ops.

> Why give away something that you created yourself that gives your company an advantage?

One Ops was an acquisition. They didn't create it. It's incredibly bad. But don't take my word for it, check out the nightmare of an entire platform built on chef cookbooks on GitHub. My biggest complaint isn't even code quality. It just doesn't work. Almost every single action fails and requires manual intervention.

Walmart has ideas that look good on paper, and horrible execution. I'm sure that the idea of a "cloud agnostic tool for building auto scaling self healing clusters" sounded great. In practice it seems to offer about 10% of open stack features. When it works.
> You downvoters can go fuck yourselves.

Please don't do this on Hacker News.
No it hasn't. The DNC leaks will be remembered as historic. I talked with the protesters in philly, and the vast majority had pro-wikileaks signs or were pro-wikileaks.
I might (or might not) start some quick proof of concept in the next few days.
Well, I have been camped in a tent for 4.5 years. I openly self identify as "homeless" online, but it isn't a good way to get real respect from most people and Hacker News is a professional forum and a place some people manage to get work. (That link (above) is my website.)

On the first of the month here, they do a thing where you can post that you are a freelancer or an employer seeking a freelancer. That is coming up in a few days. You might check that out.

You should also look for gig work. By 2020, 40% of US workers are expected to be doing gig work of some kind. Regular jobs are becoming less common. I have been doing gig work and my income is trending up while on the street. I do freelance writing, part time and intermittently (due to health issues). That is gradually leading to better things for me.

Best.