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Any language satisfies some needs well (hopefully), and some needs less well, and some other needs badly. Different languages have different sets of needs that they satisfy well.

So, if you're complaining that a language doesn't satisfy a need well, then go find one that satisfies it better. Use that instead.
> Nobody is stopping engineers from saying "I'm going to contribute $1.5m to your bottom line this next year, I want you to pay me $1.4m", but they'll be shown the door because there's a guy that's willing to contribute the same $1.5m in exchange for $100k in compensation.

No, the reason you don't get that salary is because you need to discount for the risk that you don't deliver $1.5m.

Realistically, you just could be full of shit, you could get bogged down in politics, your wife could get cancer, and any number of other things could happen. So the price trends down sharply.
> other fields have solved this issue by unionizing

careful with the "U word" around here. We don't need no stinkin unions, or any sort of professional association.

I mean sure we don't get OT and too frequently get asked to be in a hellish oncall rotation or some 80 hour a week death march. We like it that way and we don't want to do anything to change it!
I made a little tool to download all of the Who's Hiring posts and put them on a webpage. Then I added some Client Side JS to allow you to do filtering based on keywords. It's not perfect, like the Remote button shows a job listing that says "onsite/remote coding project" as part of the interview process. But it's handy and I've used it while building it and firing off a couple cover emails. I'm looking for a job :)

Also, I tried doing this entirely client side using HN's Firebase API, but it was hard because there was no way to bulk fetch and it seemed like a very small DDOS attack if lots of people opened it. Plus HTML sanitization in JS might be hard for me.
> I have a hygiene pact with a coworker.

Huh, that's a cool idea :) Is that common (under another moniker maybe)? I can't find anything on Google. Just proposing such a pact can probably be tricky, but I've been thinking about something similar recently.
Maybe I am a total loser, but I am not aware of any companies which "routinely" pay $300K for technical positions, not even at the Director level, in the Boston area.
Look up origin of halitosis. It's just a name for bad breath made up by Listerine, not actual illness.
Hey Garrett are you by any chance looking for RCG's? As im highly interested in the project, i would like to know more about it.
> Currently e10s is only using two processes

There is something that I've wondered about for a while on this Electrolysis fanciness: currently Firefox is said to be single-process. So why do I see tens of "firefox" threads in htop?
>but drive-by contracts are not enforceable

Copyright itself isn't a contractual agreement, even though a SaaS TOS may lay out copyright agreements. Websites typically list their copyright publicly, and claiming negligence (typically) isn't considered a valid defense to infringement.
Damn mobile; I meant to write Caffe, TensorFlor & mxnet
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If you can only really create value inside an existing player in an industry with large barriers to entry... then it's actually being an incumbent in that industry that's valuable, and not the employee.

It's like a person making minimum wage working at a hotel in Times Square, charging $800 / night, saying they're getting a raw deal because they're creating so much value.
> cloud-supported

Is a nice word for invasive to poorly informed people. Just because it's trendy (or "modern") doesn't mean that it isn't ostensibly bad.

> Your choice.

It's my choice and Microsoft has every right to crap on their users (if they obtain informed consent, which is again very much arguable). I'll have to sell relatives on switching to Linux and I'd prefer if I didn't have to do that. Lastly, that's beyond just my choice, Microsoft is setting dangerous precedents on x86 platform.
I think that's similar to Google Ride Finder[1][2] -- probably a blockbuster but ahead of its time by a decade.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps#Google_Ride_Finder

[2] https://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2005/03/need-ride.html
I think these ones will not be blocked, because they don't use any JS, and there's nothing to identify them as sharing buttons. Even the icons are embedded as raw SVG tags.
That's great! I dig how you treat them with respect and human dignity, that they're not beneath you but working hard, too. I hope you also support their right to unionize wherever that is possible.
I like that idea, and I definitely would like to see an element of incentive like your model includes, but I imagine I'd also spend a fair amount of time either (a) saying no to people with unrealistic expectations or (b) trying to manage expectations down for those I'd consider overly optimistic, which could be perceived as opportunistic. It's tricky.
Pretty impressive work but seems like reinventing wheels. Why wasn't it built upon existing tech?

I think the docs should enumerate the most important differences and use cases for which it should be a better fit.
> Because city governments are really great at investing appropriately in infrastructure!

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis

This sketch of a sketch of an argument that you have laid out it a total non sequitur. It seems to me that you're pointing to the Flint water crisis as proof either that all municipal infrastructure efforts are disastrous, or that enough of them are that the public utility alternative is essentially dead. If that is the "argument," then the easiest way to defeat this is just to say, "Flint was news because it represented a rare and egregious failure."

That's it. That's all we need to say to rebut that in its entirety.

If we stop there, however, we miss the opportunity to point out the converse: It's not news when customers get gouged for sub-par service, because corrupt and monopolistic practices are rampant within capitalist institutions, especially around lock-in. Cable companies. Phone companies. Privatized utilities. Airlines after deregulation. Military suppliers. It's just not news.

We'd also miss the opportunity to point out that the tactic of pointing to one criminal failure of a civic organization as proof positive that private industry is universally better is a favorite tactic of a certain obnoxious kind of 20-something free-market fanboy set.

HN is better off when that set either stays home or ups its game.
and SSRI's, if someone takes herion, zoloft, and xanax and OD's from zoloft, it gets placed in the prescription and illegal category. Instead of quantifying the actual numbers and being precise. So even though zoloft killed them, it will go under opioids.
Same here. If I clench my jaw or push it forward it gets much louder and more noticeable, especially on one side.
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Sure, just talking overall. I see this trend starting on HN recently. I have seen few times when cool projects got hijacked even by owners of different, similar startups. Thus the comment. Good job btw.
Verizon's main network _was_ CDMA2000 based. Now over 90% of traffic is over LTE and CMDA2000 will be sunset in a couple of years:

https://www.telegeography.com/products/commsupdate/articles/...
That, or fold them into stuff like "photography", "art", maybe "writing" for whatever fanfic stuff goes on.
I make substantially less than 400k and I assure you that I do not live in a cardboard box.

$5k is high for monthly expenses. I rented a single bedroom in Manhattan for $1850 and you can save even more if you're willing to live with roommates.

I'm not sure what I can do to convince you I'm not lying, but consider that median household income is less than $100k in both SV and NY. If the average person can get by on <$100k, why wouldn't you be able to save tons of money if you're making $200k? I have friends getting by on $40k in NYC. Can you imagine how easy it is to save if you match your lifestyle to theirs?

Of course, it's not going to buy you a luxury lifestyle. But personally I'd rather maintain a high savings rate than live in a glitzy apartment and spend thousands on bottle service.
Ships on all platforms today. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/48.0/releasenotes/
As someone else pointed across the thread, the error eliminates these bugs, not only in your code but, effectively, in all the libraries you import. It takes effort to retain those bugs.

That has significant value, and is why I've conclude Go's choice here was the right one, despite the annoyances it causes.

I like gofmt, but I don't really care whether the compiler enforces it. It's unlikely to catch bugs.
Probably due to flagging but censored none the less. HN has a strong conservative element.
Why would this ever be preferable to the built-in "find my phone" functionality on Android (and I assume something similar is available on iOS and other major competitors)?
The way I read it, git is not a competitor but rather an inspiration. They are taking ideas from git to apply them to a different domain.
Haha, I was actually under the impression that you made this in response to AddThis [1]. They basically do "sharing links as a service", plus analytics. It's not such a bad idea, since they were recently bought by Oracle for $175 million.

[1] http://www.addthis.com/
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about:config settings to force it on, that I could find:

browser.tabs.remote.autostart = true
extensions.e10sBlocksEnabling = false
I was talking about sandboxing. Multi-process rendering is not the same thing and does not intrinsically sandbox an app or make it more secure.
The two Big Telco (ATT, Verizon) companies are essentially the original ATT. The Telco companies are essentially monopolies and duopolies (Comcast, Time Warner, etc.). They have no incentive to compete. It doesn't make any economic sense to become dump pipes because they have no competition. 100 years from now which company is likely to be there Verizon, ATT, or Google? I would bet on ATT and Verizon since just building out a network going through all the legislation etc. would take 20-30 years to built out. Google doesn't have much competition right now, but with Tech incumbents get taken out pretty quickly.
> I've been thinking about something similar recently.

"Hey, dude, do you want to have a personal hygiene pact? Ok, great, because I have something to tell you..."
They seem to be running Cassandra still, at least as of last month - "Running Cassandra on Apache Mesos Across Multiple Datacenters at Uber" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2jFLx8NNro
Flint is an extreme example, but underinvestment in infrastructure is not rare. It's endemic. Governments across the country are underinvesting in infrastructure at all levels. It's not just me who's saying this. It's been a major talking point of the democratic party for years.

And that's for infrastructure like roads and water delivery where technology is largely static. The problem would likely only be worse for more dynamic infrastructure like broadband.
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And to be fair, PE's have to take two licensing exams, the FE, then the PE.

We on the other hand, have to take an "exam" everytime we show up for an in person interview.
Going through the SDK docs, why was a scheme like 'http://localhost:8000::people' chosen instead of the plain old 'http://localhost:8000/people'? Are there any benefits? If yes, curious to know what they are.
Most negotiation experts disagree with this advice. The first person who gives a number anchors the conversation to that number. When you name a number you certainly do set a max on negotiation, but you also get to set the starting number. And many negotiation experts think the latter is more valuable than the former.

So they can start off trying to negotiate you down from your max, or up you can spend your time trying to negotiate them up from their min.
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The Unreal engine already has lots of platform-specific code for each of the platforms it supports. Eg DirectX is supported...
The other school of thought on this is that the first person to talk numbers has the upper hand due to anchoring power

> Just like the word suggests, you want to set a reference point around which the negotiation will revolve. Making the first offer can be to your advantage, as this offer might set the height of the negotiation bar. This anchor is the arena where the two parties will wrangle in a tug and pull negotiation scenario. Interestingly enough, many studies have shown that the first offer has a strong psychological pull, almost a magnetic lure. The resulting agreement is often strongly attracted towards the person who proposes the first offer.

http://www.negotiations.com/articles/price-negotiation/
Have you read anything by Robert E. Howard? I imagine you might rather enjoy his works.
EFF Asks Court to Uphold Invalidation of Podcasting Patent
Well that's an arms race.
nice, little romantic schpeel. i once leased an office next to a guy who typed everything; couldn't nap for shit!
I actually have nothing against Elon Musk. I don't expect anyone to do things completely altruistically. But it's ridiculous to claim that this is just purely altruistic.
Very much like what I was going to say.

Hey Verizon! Try being the bestest dumb pipe that anyone ever saw! Best value for the price. Best service. See what happens. It seems like a lot of successful business have been built that way instead of trying to be the most hated companies.
> either the company doing the work should expand, or it should have competitors.

That's not how technology works. The most evident example is where data feeds data, creating a market without compare. You can't compete with google for map data or AWS for hosting.

> we should ultimately reach some sort of equilibrium

The equilibrium is not based on the metrics you have proposed except in the slightest degree.
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If you're writing fiction (or doing any sort of storytelling for that matter), The Story Grid by Shawn Coyne is an absolute must-read. The podcast is amazing—it's the first podcast I've found worth listening to from the very beginning—and it has opened my eyes so much, helping me understand the fundamentals of story structure and how great novels "work".

I've read Stephen King's On Writing and several other books on novel writing and as a programmer what I really liked about The Story Grid was its analytical approach to storytelling, as opposed to a more emotional, intuitive, "just keep writing and eventually the good stuff will come" approach.
Vancouver slaps 15% tax on foreign home buyers
Actually, Nietzsche's idea of the Ubermensch is a pretty strong criticism of the fear of death.
My answer is the same as with most "whaddabout... " questions with biometrics: consider the threat model. How likely is it that you'll run into someone who would threaten you with bodily harm to get you to unlock a phone with your retina but wouldn't do the same thing if you had a passcode? Not very.

So, this proposal improves on security for at least one scenario, while being no worse at another - that's an improvement. Don't succumb to the Nirvana fallacy.
If you think most people's expectations aren't reasonable, then maybe your service isn't needed. Isn't your whole thesis that lots of engineers are getting less than their worth due to their inferior negotiation skills?
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For plumbing, I don't know. That's a good question I should ask a contractor the next time it comes up. But given how old these houses are perhaps the problems are sporadic. A broken pipe here or there gets fixed and people move on. And some kinds of movement might not matter, like if the back of the houses shifts down the front end might not move nearly as much.

Also, AFAICT the plumbing comes up under the foundation walls, not through. Concrete slabs on the first floor aren't original (and you can still find the occasional house with a dirt floor at the first level), so maybe there are some degrees of freedom of movement that mitigate problems.

For electricity the Richmond and Sunset districts and I believe the vast majority of the city uses overheard wires. So there's plenty of slack.
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There used to be thousands of UFO sightings every year. Now with the arrival of smartphones and ubiquitous cameras, there are almost none.

Which indicates that the UFOs are an intelligent civilization that is adapting to observe us in secret. Whenever we develop means of tracking them, they hide better.
Older buildings weren't built to last either--the ones we see today are those that were extraordinarily well-built.
Back in 2013, Apple had to redesign FaceTime to use server relayed connections instead of peer-to-peer to circumvent VirnetX's patent(s) [1]. I wonder if, after this verdict, they will (and are allowed to) undo this change and start doing peer-to-peer again; Apple will probably have invested quite a lot in their (cloud) infrastructure to support these server relayed connections.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/report-after-pate...
Because these companies don't exist. Top companies pay SDE3s and tech leads like 300-400k. Medium-sized companies in high cost of living areas pay directors around that much. No one pays engineers that much. Literally no one.

Unless you're Norvig or Dijkstra.
Even earlier HN posting of the same article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12208402
What I'd like to see is the 'utility' part being a connection between my house and a POP/CO, specified as being capable of 1 or 10Gbps (symmetric). The municipality is responsible for ensuring this exists in the same way they do for hydro, water, sewer and gas.

I can then choose my actual provider who will hook up at the CO (either virtually or physically), and connect me to the internet (or their service) at whatever speed we agree on. The utility part is nothing more than a long cable between me and the provider.

The provider could give me nothing more than a public IP and route to the internet, or they could give something 'value-added' like an e-mail account and content filtering. It could even be a closed non-internet service like Facebook Free Basics[0] or maybe Verizon wants to dust off the old AOL service. The thing is, as a consumer I get the choice.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet.org
Yea and then a paragraph about git under it, made me double take to think maybe they meant CVS, but then realized they really did mean CSV.

If this is supposed to replace CSV cool, but there is a lot of ways to cross that bridge.

Curious however, what the target use case is. Is it a format, or a database , or both?
>If there exist jobs that produce $1MM in value but that have a going rate of 200k, then there should be more of those jobs: either the company doing the work should expand, or it should have competitors.

How could you possibly determine how much value your efforts are producing? How much value are you assigning to the risk the founder and investors are taking? Maybe your $200k job is producing $200k in value. Or even less.

>The fact that tech companies bemoan how hard it is to find employees suggests that we aren't at this equilibrium.

Tech companies always pretend it's impossible to find employees. That's not reality, though. That's a political strategy.
No it doesn't come back in a background check. The only thing that comes back is your title and employment dates.

That is actually how I've avoided all those annoying salary negotiations. Lie about how much I make, let them offer me slightly above that and gladly accept.
It's similar for me. I'm not sure if the tinnitus is the result of too many loud concerts / events, or constant jaw tension (TMJ). I've had it for about 5 years now, but it's generally pretty mild. I do notice I won't hear anything in the mornings sometimes so I suspect it's psychological, or tension related.

Two purchases have had a huge impact on my quality of life related to the tinnitus:

1. A pill case with some musicians earplugs on my keychain. Never feel like I need to decline an invite to a noisy place: https://www.amazon.com/Water-proof-Air-tight-Aluminum-Keycha...

2. The Bose qc20 noise cancelling earbuds - they don't go inside the canal, so they don't irritate or exacerbate the tinnitus, and for me at least the noise cancelling effect counteracts the tinnitus frequency.
Also posted earlier at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12208402 though no discussion there (yet?).
I have in the past had over 700 tabs open in FF (which is insane, I know) and it handled everything with aplomb until I switched from ABP to uBlock.
Now, I can't shut Firefox without it crashing, and my tab count can be as low as 100.

I don't use Chrome, since it bothers me that Google tracks and profiles everything I do, but when I did I was shocked that about twenty tabs and it hits the floor.