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You seem to have left out some context. What does this have to do with Gitlab?
That's the old excuse: "America is so big, diverse or small (compared to China) so nothing from anywhere else can work here and nothing can be learned ". I hear that all the time and this attitude will kill the country in the long run. It's the excuse for having a dysfunctional health system , bad infrastructure, gun violence and lots of other problems.
Reminds me of an old joke:

CEO: Someone stole the last 50 megabytes of our main product's source code

Programmer: The last megabytes you say? No worries, it's written in Lisp.
I used orkut a lot, so I will give this a chance and see where it goes. My favorite thing about orkut was the mini-forum on the communities, something that Facebook communities lacks. I hope this one have something similar.
Looking at the example image on Wikipedia's page, I still have a hard time recognizing the numbers, even though they are marked:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal#Examples

People have always been using short hand and sloppy hand writing, I don't find it surprising that you can't recognize the numbers without some practise.
Creator here. I would absolutely agree with this, but let me shed a bit more light to clarify: the underlying idea of B+ trees with inline caches is not patented (or maybe it was, but a long time ago?). Tokutek's patents are all focused on the methods they use to achieve concurrent operations on a single tree--they have a very interesting & novel locking protocol.

The Hitchhiker tree completely avoids their patents, since it makes very different decisions in order to become purely functional.
Property taxes might be just as difficult an imposition to avoid, but generally scale with the size of the property and don't apply to those who are living of the goodwill of others; they're also seldom conceived as income tax replacement schemes starting at $6000 a year.

Even back in eras when slavery and serfdom weren't widely seen as immoral, attempts at universal head taxes tended to cause riots.
While I think that's part of it, I also don't think that the movie and record studios are really pushing for a reform either.

The largest studios could, in theory, go to the EU with a proposal for how they would like a single market for movies and music to work. They won't because they like the ability to have differentiated prices. Having to sell a movie in Sweden for the same price as in Slovenia translates directly to lost profit. Selling in Slovenia at Swedish prices results in lower sales figures and more piracy. So I doubt the big players are all that interested in help the EU on this one.
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just put your graduation date.

in my own experience (interviewed for internship, current full time position, and a few competing positions, and have interviewed many candidates):

i did not feel like my educational experience was taken into account when interviewing.

and when my coworkers and i interview candidates, education is almost never discussed.

the only reason i suggest omitting the start date is to get past HR filters.
A few will, the majority won't. The key to not coming off as whiny is not to be whiny :)

As with any Resume/CV issue like this just practice answering the question - a couple of sentences is sufficient, and you'll be fine.
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Never even thought of that, hence my reason for asking here. Thank you for replying.
I've had a few old guys on my teams in the past and they've been great.

You aren't old. They were 55+.

When I interview people, age does not concern me (45 wouldn't even make me blink). It is only if I think that person will be an asset to my team. And if they are, why should age bother me?

More important questions I ask myself is: Is this person going to be self sufficient or are they going to need a lot of assistance?

Is this person a generally positive person who is willing to communicate with others and me about any struggles they are having so we can fix it?

etc...
Perfect reading and reproduction of the market-fundamentalist-pamphlet! Who are you to call anyone brainwashed? Talking in truisms, uncharitable to any disagreeing point of view, turning anyone who opposes your points of view into caricatures. Give me a break.
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Same old, same old: Core XMPP doesn't provide guaranteed delivery, but Extensions do, and today XMPP is more or less unusable without Extensions. I'm talking about XEP-0184 (https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0184.html) which is pretty much used in all maintained clients and servers. Note that XEP-0184 provides end-to-end delivery receipts; if you're only interested in hop-to-hop delivery, you're going want XEP-0198. I believe this one is a bit less widespread though.
Creator here. There's no visualizations of this yet, but I'll be speaking about it this year at Strange Loop. For that talk, I'll be creating visualizations, so stay tuned!
I checked last 10 movies I saw. 2 aren't available on Netfilx at all. Of remaining 6 aren't even available in US. None is available in my country. I think I'll stick to torrents.
I've heard this argument quite a bit but never quite understood what the problem was supposed to be. Could you articulate why you think the comparison is troublesome?
Not so much different, except that your wallet cannot display your current location, provide a compass, etc.
This made GitLab hosted repos well worth it for me over github or bitbucket:

https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-ci/
That is very cool! When you end up doing reads, do you compute all the pending writes along the path from root to leaf, and then run queries on the projection?
I don't see why you are entitled to a cheap price.
Pompem v0.2.0 is launched for Pentesting and Exploiting
Can I be the first to note that being strapped to a large jet engine like that has got to be terrifying?
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As another Brazillian, let me offer an attempt at a more distanced take on the matter. Roussef's impeachment proceedings are motivated by alleged budget manipulation. I don't think there are many who would say the maneuvers in question were 100% kosher, but the question of whether it is a sound basis for impeaching an elected president is not a simple one. Renowned legal scholars differ on this point.

In particular, it is clear the congress voted for her ousting due to a series of reasons unrelated to the allegations. One reason is the dismal state of the economy, likely due in no small part to Roussef's policy decisions. Another reason is that a majority of politicians, from all major parties, are facing serious corruption charges from a large, unprecedented, investigation conducted by the federal police, and the impeachment acts as a diversionaty tactic (there are recordings proving this is not a conspiracy theory). Lastly, there is the usual power struggle, that is fiercer and more complex in an environment with many political parties.

In all, a complex scenario that does not bode well for the immediate future of the Brazilllian democracy.
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Your note at the end is actually the big point to me. The American Dream isn't college, it's education and job security. College happens to be one way to achieve those things, not as reliably as it was in the past.
Flikr originally had a hard core community of a certain demographic in the Netherlands.

[1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Flikker
Not wanting to diminish what GitLab is doing, but what you mention is an inherent characteristic of git itself that applies the same way to GitHub, Bitbucket and a self hosted git bare repository. Any git host should expose a git interface for it to work as a git repository.
Some will, some won't. In all honesty I think you should be glad for the ones that will reject you based on that. It shows a toxic culture focused on things that aren't really important.

Much more important is where your degree is from as to whether it means anything.

You should have an answer prepared for why it took longer that is reasonable and doesn't reflect badly. I.e. "I failed classes and had to take them over." doesn't sound good. "I took a lighter class load so that I could work while going to school to lower my debt." sounds reasonable.

"Going through a lot of stuff" isn't good enough.
Alaska and Hawaii are pretty much outliers. Essentially everything is expensive whether it's at a local store or because of shipping surcharges. (Although Amazon Prime still covers both states--which I imagine is quite a big win for residents of those states compared to historically.)
Okay, I'm going to be open minded and I want to try it.

What will you do with these private data? Is your company aiming for a privacy quagmire on par with Facebook (loaded question I know, but it also shows what my worries and reservations are).
> That's because most ancient societies were blatantly misogynistic.

I have serious ethical concerns with such a claim. It gives a simplistic view of history, to the point of severe distortion.

It implies that all women terribly oppressed, while all men had lives of unrelenting leisure. That's simply not true.

What is true is that the Mesopotamian civilizations were violent, hierarchical, racist, genocidal, poor, etc. Many men were slaves, killed in wars, or beaten to death by the rich. Calling a society that treated women poorly "misogynistic" is like calling the USA a "technological" society. Well, it mostly is, but you could also call it an oligarchy, capitalistic, and sometimes democratic. No one sweeping term is accurate.

The Biblical story of Esther shows that women were valued, and had significant "behind the scenes" power.

I would even venture to say that there are no human societies, ever, where women were utterly powerless. Such a society would quickly collapse.

> ... but because of the male-oriented power dynamics that clearly dominated most ancient societies.

As opposed to our society, where most politicians and business leaders are male?

As for why this happens, see:

http://www.comparativecandidates.org/sites/default/files/Eng...

Once we take into account incumbent advantage – where more men are incumbent - the ratio of elected women is about the ratio of the female candidates. When we model candidate success measured as the number of preference votes for individual candidates we do not find that women receive fewer votes than men on party ballots either.

Maybe men just prioritize competitiveness more than women do. And for some strange reason, people who are competitive out-compete people who aren't competitive.
They will if it's clear from your resume that you took 6+ years to graduate. It's a reasonable concern for an employer, since the cause is often different from yours (namely, lack of effort).

So, as other have suggested, don't make it obvious. It's ridiculous to see the year of high school graduation on a resume anyway. Also, you don't have to list internships from your first two years.

If it does come up, or if they ask about it, do not lie. The appearance of hiding anything is a red flag. Just tell them that you were dealing with personal issues, and that they are resolved now. So, it won't affect your ability to perform the job.
Look at inheritance as a payment for providing happiness and support.

In that case, shouldn't inheritance be taxed as income?

I don't understand people who have problems with other people giving their money to those they love

The problem I have is that some people receive large fortunes effectively tax-free that they have done literally nothing to deserve. I have no objections to people donating their wealth to whomever they choose, just as long as those who receive are taxed like everyone else.
They seem to be building a web version, they are hiring for this:

http://www.hello.com/en/jobs/index.html#frontend_swe

I think they just thought mobile was priority and are launching a MVP before having the web version...
I'd be interested to see a study of wages net of union fees
Just tweeted by Neuroskeptic; if this has implications for the recent issues with fMRI studies, I hope someone smarter than me will let me know.
You can use GitLab.com with no charge. It's free in the same sense as GitHub is free, except it also runs on open source software (well, GitLab EE, which is a superset of CE and has a proprietary license but is still developed and supported in the open unlike GitHub).

AFAICT the "cost" is that you're effectively load-testing GitLab EE and help guiding the development of a commercial product. Plus you're giving GitLab free marketing. But to the extent that anything in life can be considered "free" (as in "gratis"), GitLab.com can be used for free.
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Ask HN: Are you interested in picking up “idea sunday” threads again?
> A HN experiment. Every Sunday, a thread will be started to share product ideas. Why? Because many people have ideas they will simply not have the time to implement, and many need product ideas to work on.

I've seen the idea pop up a few times past week, are you interested in picking this up again?
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US Copyright Office sides with cable companies against FCC’s set-top rules
I believe it was very popular in a few countries. Brazil and India come to mind but I'm not sure.
We're working hard on making CI super easy to use and setup.

If you want to give it a spin, check out our recent blog post on starting from 0: https://about.gitlab.com/2016/07/29/the-basics-of-gitlab-ci/
These are planes that were going to fly anyway. As another poster said - the only really new thing is the paint scheme. The planes are still owned by the same firms, and still contracted to Amazon for carrying their parcels.

Not to be snarky, but to reduce your environmental impact in this area, you'd have to stop buying things from far away places -- only buying locally produced goods. Which for parts of the world that aren't China, would be hard to do.
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Wow, talk about a nice benefit! I wonder if he had to pay taxes on its potential value? I'll take my stock options in small unmarked domain names, please.
As of one of the most recent Java releases, I believe the G1 GC does this on Windows. G1 is not the default but can be selected with a single command line flag.
By "recent issues" I mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12032269

Thought this might be interesting for people that know the No Free Lunch Theorems from classification/optimization too
This has nothing to do with orkut or the specific product, but if the NSA wants to know “what I'm passionate about”, they'll have to ask me themselves. I guess I'm just not the social network type.
I guess the thing is that it can be a bit awkward when you're not expecting to talk to someone randomly.

If there is some way for people to "opt in" for random encounters such as Tinder, couchsurfing Meetup.com, it makes things much smoother.

What other sites are there that facilitate things happening in the real world? The MP3 experiment is perhaps my favorite.
Can't recommend gogs enough, slick/simple yet quite fast. Hassle free installation is a bonus.
Instead of consuming more value than I create, I create more value than I am compensated for. Because I derive my income from my work.
Assembly language is sadly not widely commercialized. I'm sure there are lots of vacancies out there, but the positions are likely incredibly specific and require a lot of specialized knowledge about a particular field.

Both assembly language and reverse engineering are vast, ambiguous fields of knowledge, so it's difficult to provide an on-point answer. A couple things come to mind though:

- Quite a lot of demoscene-related sourcecode has been released over the past few years (covering many individual productions along with supporting tools), and quite a lot of it is in assembly language. Considering that you've been tinkering for 30+ years, DOS/similar-era stuff may be of particular interest to play with or explore. This would best be considered akin to soldering practice, to use an electronics analogy - DOS-specific knowledge (including eg low-level VGA or SoundBlaster/GUS control) is not likely to be helpful commercially. That said. old technology is similar to learning a language like Latin, and provides the advantage of neatly sidestepping the general social/human confusion concentrated within the current focuses of technological development.

- Many people are likely to generally recommend microcontroller development, but I understand chips with eg ≈256 bytes of RAM or ROM (where hand-assembling code would be useful) are somewhat rare nowadays. This may be interesting to explore though.

- Finally, considering that you really like reverse engineering, you could make yourself available for hire for medium/long-term contract work reversing major applications or systems. Depending on the system in question this may be a lot of fun or incredibly tedious; reverse engineering is generally nontrivial work, as on the one hand there's the occasional tedium of picking IDA up when it doesn't realize it's fallen down, and there's also the general strain of ensuring the technical specifications you produce are complete, bug-free, and provide 100% coverage (or, in the case of self-modifying code, "100.∞% coverage").

As an aside, I think your age is actually a big asset - I don't think enough emphasis is generally put on the fact that age and maturity means an applicant already has a lot of "life" things taken care of. Obviously domain-relevant skill(s) remain key, but it's possible an employer may be willing to provide additional education to someone who's been around the block a bit. Case-by-case-specific though.

This forum doesn't provide a way to edit posts and comments after an hour, but you can always update it via a top-level reply.
Tangentially related, but people who are interested in digitally archiving ancient materials might enjoy reading this article from one of my favorite blogs: https://medievalbooks.nl/2015/12/18/x-rays-expose-a-hidden-m...
Limited to some countries (I can't pick my countries phone prefix and you can't skip that part)? Why?
It's a bit ironic that this new social network that is supposed to connect people is not available in my country...
There is a vast difference in the value of $100 within states too. For example, western New York state (eg, Buffalo area) is far cheaper than NYC in terms of median home prices, supermarket prices, etc. Similarly, Richmond VA is far cheaper than the Northern Virginia / DC suburbs area.
> PPS. If you're in CS create a GitHub account to act as your portfolio.

this is totally unnecessary.

no reasonable engineer that is asked to interview you will look at your github, or care if you have one.
We're looking into both options, but don't have internal knowledge or capacity to build this ourselves at the moment.

There are some plugins listed here [0], but we hope to have official plugins in the future.

[0]: https://about.gitlab.com/applications
Is it possible to use this from Java directly, or does the Clojure API make this difficult?
Yes, it needs tracks for the bus. It also needs guardrails for the cars, to prevent them from hitting the wheels of the bus. Also, where cars enter the road, there needs to be a gate which ensures cars do not exceed the maximum height. With those three things in place, it seems like a very viable concept.
If you believed HN users' tech predictions, Snapchat would've shutdown a month after launch.
> If you're talking about huge projects with heavy performance constraints (os kernels, AAA games and browsers come to mind)

Actually two of your three examples are no longer correct: game engines often use a core GCd heap because that's how Unreal Engine works since v3, and Chrome has switched to using garbage collection in the core Blink renderer as well. The GC project is called oilpan.

The benefits of GC are so huge, that they're used even for very latency and resource sensitive apps like browsers and AAA games.
Like 5 min install it, ~30 min configure it, then about every two weeks spend 5~10 min check any new release and release notes, then just "docker-compose pull && docker-compose up -d" to upgrade.
I'd like to piggyback on this question with my own, which is relevant.

tl;dr: do employers care at what age you finish your degree?

Long story: I'm a 35 year old software engineer with 6 years of experience (mostly java/scala), currently an EU citizen residing in UK (London). I've studied CS when I was 18 at the universtiy, but dropped out (various reasons). Now since Brexit news I no longer feel I want to continue living here and I am strongly thinking of moving to USA. My plan is to get a Computer Science BsC from Open University in 3 years, apply for H1B visa/job and then later green card. I'm only doing my degree now because of H1B requirements, no other reasons. I would be 38 by the time I finish it.
Guaranteed they're wrapping them like hell without first giving an inch or so of straight cable out of the side of the brick.
> But Denmark’s economic philosophy seems to be that the market is an unfortunate socioeconomic lottery system, and so the country compensates the poor with generous transfers paid by high taxes on the rich.

This to me is the heart of the Sanders economic philosophy as well. Everything else is an attempt to convince people that it's a _better_ philosophy.
It's a very odd bug. If you take a minute to read its description, you'll see it causes rendering issues depending on the font name. It's also a bug that does not affect Atom or other editors based on it, which makes it even more odd.

I think HN is precisely the place to highlight things like that.
> If it means they have to spend a few mllion dollars less on advertising Captain America 4 or Star Wars 8 or Fast and Furious 8 then so be it.

It's not like they have "spend money on advertising" as a terminal value. They spend money on advertising because advertising makes money.
Your attitude will change when the market does. Trust me it will.
As most everyone says, no most interviewers won't care. In the small chance anyone ever asks why you took longer, just don't spin a whole sob story to explain. Just say 'personal circumstances' or so, very short and neutral, and quickly divert attention away to your GPA (if it stays good) to make it clear that it's not because you couldn't do the work.

I had an interviewee once who would try to explain everything that was remotely sub-optimal on his CV with long stories of how horrible his upbringing was and how hard he had it in life. I guess he was trying to get sympathy but all I heard was 'drama all around'. Now, being able to overcome adversity is a good thing in general, but there is a fine line between that and being desperate to blame everything on everyone else or emotionally blackmailing people.

So my advice, for what it's worth, is to not be seduced into giving long emotional explanations. Just say 'I had to work a full time job' or 'I had to finance myself' and leave it at that.
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Two reasons:

1) Rust appears to be significantly less productive than a true GCd language. I see a lot of people talking about "fighting the borrow checker" with Rust and I see a lot of articles describing basic patterns that would be simple in any other language, but are complex in Rust.

2) If you want to invoke code that assumes a GC you need to have one.

You can do manual memory allocation in Java by the way and a few high performance libraries do. It's just not common.

It's interesting to note that the Chrome guys have gone in the direction of deploying a GC into C++ whereas the Mozilla guys have gone in the direction of moving manual memory management into the type system. I've got nothing against Rust but I'm a Chrome user, personally.
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They should also run an TCP echo server on port 7.
For me, hydroflouric acid.