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I am confused by your positioning Mother Jones as no more extremist than the Democrats while also saying "They are basically Fox News, but on the left".

I can't tell from that if you mean that the Democratic party is an extremist party, or if you mean that that Fox News is as moderate towards the right as the Democrats are towards the left, or both.

I thought 'Democracy Now' was more like the left-extreme version of right-extreme Fox News, only much less influential. In any cases, shouldn't your comparison be more to one of the conservative print sources? Is Mother Jones more like the National Review or The American Conservative for the left?

From what you wrote, it's hard for me to tell if your statement that the Mother Jones writing "gives you a distorted picture" is because you also have a distorted partisan view.

About the only times I read an article from Mother Jones is when it was submitted here on HN, which occurs a few times each week according to an HN search.

I looked now at several of their investigation pieces, at http://www.motherjones.com/topics/investigations?page=1 , I do not get the same feeling of being "less informed" that you described. To the contrary, pieces like "They Had Created This Remarkable System for Taking Every Last Dime From Their Customers" and "The World Bank Is Supposed to Help the Poor. So Why Is it Bankrolling Oligarchs?" seem like informative, well-written pieces that I would expect from those reputable sources you mentioned. They also link to primary resources, including SEC filings and court documents. That's not something I see from Fox News reports.

The web site lists only a small number of investigations, I can't find an investigation that the Democrats wish hadn't been reported. I instead looked for other long-form pieces.

Five years ago they ran "Why the Democratic Party Has Abandoned the Middle Class in Favor of the Rich", http://www.alternet.org/story/151108/why_the_democratic_part... (first appeared in Mother Jones, but doesn't appear to be online) and "Why Screwing Unions Screws the Entire Middle Class" at http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequalit... , which contains among other things the line "The Democratic Party has largely abandoned the working class".

The author of those piece is Keven Drum, who has continued with more recent articles like "Democrats Have Done Virtually Nothing for the Middle Class in 30 Years".

These do not appear to be something the Democratic Party would wish published.

My examination is only cursory, so while I don't see how you reached your conclusion, you have the longer experience with Mother Jones to be a better judge.
I found his claim that "people are basically the same" pretty interesting. He came from a family of IMO medalists (himself, his brother Po-Ru Loh, and his sister Po-Ling Loh). So it's surprising that he believes in nurture over nature.

Maybe there was really some secret sauce in his upbringing that he is now passing on via coaching?
My son went through a similar stage when he was just learning about his own anger.

Once we all realised that he didn't want to be angry it got a lot easier for everyone. We gave him words and guidance to let him analyse his anger, helped him to try different means of coping with his feelings and then incentives to apply those tools.

BTW StackExchange's parenting community[0] is a good place to find answers to issues like this.

[0] http://parenting.stackexchange.com/
> health benefits of rubbing broken glass in your eyes twice a day?

I'm sure there are plenty of medical journals documenting the effects of getting abrasive substances in your eyes.
I'm super excited about this curriculum, which is being built by Sebastian Thrun (Stanley creator and Google Self-Driving Car project founder). Would love to answer any questions I can!
Ask HN: Quitting from a small startup?
I've been a key member (first hire) of a small start-up for a couple years but now it's time to move on.

I recently accepted a new position at one of the big tech companies and, to be frank, the company I work for now relies very heavily on me.

I'm the only one with any experience doing front end development and they have a lot of need for that right now.

What are some tips to help soften the blow when I give them my two weeks?

I've got some ideas but I'll let you have at it without influencing the commentary by mentioning my current 'plan'.

Thanks in advance for the tips!

Edit: Just to add, I'm on good terms with everyone. They've been working me to the bone for months now (one of the reasons I chose to leave) but it's been a positive work environment 100% of the time.
I came here at 26. My English tests at native levels or above (it's been ~10 years since I took the test). Most people assume I'm a native speaker until they hear my accent and even that is going away.

English really isn't that hard to learn.
Thank you for your courage John C Dvorak. I'm sure it took a lot of time and effort to put this piece together, and it was great to see it first thing in the morning.
Beethoven's 4 Rules of Success in Business
GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.11.0 released
Singapore may be small, but within that space (a bit over 700 square km) it has everything larger countries have. Towns, expressways, nature reserves, military bases, airports, etc.

Thus, it is an excellent place for testing such things as self driving cars.
It's not a clear camera though like we were led to believe. Unlike your phone camera, it draws the room in weird wiggles in black and white. It also creates a performance impact so most people prefer to brave without it.
If you haven't read Malcolm Gladwell on Rice Farming and math you really should give it a look: http://gladwell.com/outliers/rice-paddies-and-math-tests/
Ah, that makes sense. It doesn't install anything extensions of it's own, only using the kernel bits provided by Hypervisor.framework.
Which is a great argument in support of making immigration easier for the highly intelligent and highly educated. Selfishly, enabling the best and brightest in the world to relocate into your country is a win. Particularly if those people were educated at US universities, taking internships at US companies, or doing US research.

Nothing is gained by opening the floodgates to average and below average intelligence people, who we have already have a native surplus of.
It varies from years to months/weeks, although a lot of the months ones were contract jobs. My longest stint was 3-4 years, which I only left because I relocated.

The shortest is weeks, this is at places that have mountains of technical debt as well as other problems, like managers that don't understand the limitations of that technical debt and want everything done yesterday.

The last job was 18 months. despite a lot of bad code I had a free hand to add gradual improvements. The current one is looking to be considerably shorter.
What's funny, is to me F# and JavaScript would rank pretty highly in my mind. Though JavaScript does allow for more varied paradigms of adoption, but not so friendly.
In addition to the fact that openssh has supported certificate authentication of both servers and users for years -- the easiest way to bootstrap "traditional" ssh keys is probably just to list the public ssh host keys on a web page secured by https/tls.

It'll be just as insecure as the rest of the x509 CA-based cluster-fuck -- but at least it's easier to automate and less error prone than manually checking fingerprints.

So, not saying you're wrong, but that while advice regarding "fingerprints" is technically correct, just adding "the correct" keys to known hosts is probably the more practical -- and in practice more secure -- solution.

That is of course assuming that like the rest of the world setting up an actually secure solution using ssh-keygen seems like too much work (I'm myself guilty of this, for my personal servers it's easier to just stick with manual keys - it's also hopelessly insecure and inconvenient in the case of a breach or other reason to rotate keys).
>I bet you could shake $100M out of the prison system if you looked for cases of people being locked up for ridiculously trivial offenses.

Well FL already has programs in place releasing felons to free up funds, so whats a few more felons...although talking about looking at saving money now vs not seeming to care about what happens tomorrow, about 10% of those released early will commit new crimes during the period they should have still been incarcerated.

>The so-called fiscal conservatives are always looking at saving money now, they don't seem to care about what happens tomorrow.

Perhaps they are cutting their nose off despite their face as you suggest due to some warped politically ideology, but they say the same thing about the other side. Looking at the most fiscally healthy states, they are all red states. In fact what makes the most fiscally unhealthy states what they are is not that they are blue, but that they are taking on obligations (usually pension and healthcare) today that will make them insolvent tomorrow. I am aware the common response is sure they don't have the money to pay the obligations but the revenue will come in the future, but history shows that debt simply continues to climb resulting in more and more tough budget cuts...until bankruptcy and while we haven't had one at the State level yet, there are 51 municipalities/cities who have filed (both red and blue, but by far the largest bankruptcies were blue).

Still I maintain it does no good looking at these things as left/right, because they are budget decisions and both ideologies fail and both succeed fiscally. Unfortunately politics gets people taking a side and acting irrationally when confronting facts, say for example how fiscal conservatives hammer Obama for doubling the debt and yet they praise Reagan (who tripled the debt). Or when you get Trump saying Obama is soft on immigration when there have been more deportations during his administration than any other.
No implementation for the MSP430 as it stands, but I can't see why not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9CClinux
> what are people doing with their chargers?

In my case, the problem is that I use my laptop on my lap.

Even if you're careful, there's no avoiding the occasional bend. The cable can't handle this over time and breaks next to the magsafe connector.

I understand that Apple considers my use case outside of the tolerances they designed for. Nevertheless, other laptops I've used do not have such failure-prone cables.
and a lot of the are so desperate for a helping hand out of that dank hole that they will put on quite a song and dance. How much interesting work is going on, what an interesting, interested and supportive group it is..
Also make sure that person's work is recognized as being important.

I really like to eliminate crap, but I also try to avoid doing it as much as possible because it's something that never earns any recognition or praise. Historically I've had to really push to even get my boss to recognize it as an accomplishment during my quarterly reviews. Maybe management says they don't like technical debt, but that doesn't mean anything if incentive structures are designed in ways that encourage me to pile it on ever higher.
That's very impressive. Obviously everyone will experience different learning curve, but you are an exceptional individual and not a norm.
It's more of "years since last studied algorithms". University algorithms classes are useless for these types of interviews for the most part when 90% of the focus is on the proofs.

Most people I know spent time studying by themselves outside of class/class material.
The beauty of bitwise AND
I got a contract from a client that would have held me responsible for "estimated loss of profits" !!!

I wrote back quoting the offending paragraph: "Nice try but yeah, no."
It's entirely possible that some of those haters are Caucasian-Americans who don't consider Asian-Americans real Americans.
This was a very compelling essay. I could almost see the limit of my brain's ability to accurately see "self".
Thanks for sharing! The strong backend makes it worthwhile.
It's entirely political. Else he'd have also sent letters to members of the bar in MO's general Assembly which is equally if not more to blame for the current situation. (And is, IME, a ridiculous embarrassment to the state...)
I find that abstract data as objects, translation, conversion, etc works very well in JS. There's a reason node has seen it's rise as a middle-tier server servicing front end APIs as much as it has.
I don't see why Apple should have to tell you anything though. They can't preemptively warn you of all possible scams post-stolen hardware.

That said I've had an iPad stolen from the seat pocket when I was asleep on a long haul flight so I can sympathise and this scam particularly hits home.
I guess the next Coup attempt will need a CTO...
Thanks, hopefully that's the stage we're getting to. My wife hung posters on the walls with exercises to help him calm down and I've been quitting work early to be able to spend more 1-on-1 time with him in the afternoons.

What incentives worked for you? We've tried the points/sticker chart thing without any luck (allowing him to redeem his points for audio books, tv shows, treats, and even Dave and Buster's if he saved up a lot).
I was semi-certain they were going to talk about Telegram, turns out I was wrong though, phew.
'A native surplus of below average intelligence people'

I'd like to see you prove that claim while defining exactly what you mean by a surplus.
Yeah, Matt Dillon is up there with John Carmack for me in terms of programming masters. He pumps out a lot of high-quality code.
Not for this particular team but I had done a quick study of previous Indian-American members of winning teams. They were all US born.
They do that? I had no idea. Is there an article about this and related practices they use?
I grew up in Appalachia. You don't have to look hard...
Why aren't we using ipv6 with ipsec for everything? Then we could just stick with rsh, telnet and http...

I honestly think that the time has come to turn back the clock, and move forward with that approach. We've time and time again proved that "mostly encrypted" is almost impossible to get right, and almost never what we really want. We've also shown that we really do care about authenticating the servers we communicate with.

With the recent advances in cpu power, ram (and custom hardware) -- there's not much reason not just encrypt and authenticate all the things any more.

In the 90s, doing full ipsec and ipv6 everywhere was expensive: new switches and network hardware was needed, and the overhead of encryption was way too high.

But now the time should be right. Still not all that hopeful that we'll actually get there, though.
I can only speak for myself, but as someone who interviews developers for a small-medium company (<20 in my office, ~100 total), I have to say that this is bad advice if applying to a place like mine.

I need some formalized experience document, even if your resume just looks like bullet points. It gives me discrete items/events/projects/education/skills that I can consider and discuss with you. If I don't have that as a reference point when talking with you, all I can say is "So, tell me why you're awesome", which is not useful.

If I'm not starting out with some idea of what we can drill down into, some table of contents, I have too little to work with and I'm not going to bother. Perhaps more relevantly, HR probably won't even bring you to my attention.
Living in Singapore, I disagree with you. Of course there are not many children playing on the main roads, but drive into a residential estate and things will be very different.

When I drive, I wish that your last statement was true. However, you're welcome to look at the traffic view of Google Maps and you can see that's wishful thinking. It's not as bad as places like Bangkok or Manila, but about as bad as your average European city.
combination of (1) more riders (2) fewer taxis because (a) taxi companies cover damage on a limited basis i think (b) driver pays for repairs out of pocket and then goes through a lengthy and painful assessment and reimbursement process (c) out of work while the car is in the workshop
> but the example would seem so absurd it still shocks me it exists.

So what conclusions do you draw about Libertarian - really in this case Austrian - deregulation of markets? Given that:

* Comcast exists

* It provides service to (IIRC) millions of people

* It turns a tidy profit

... it seems like the worst case example you can raise isn't so bad?

I mean, if you're citing Comcast as a worst case criticism of Libertarianism, that's a lot better than say the whole of Venezuela as an example of a planned economy.
The "ZOMGBadHash" isn't unique to that codebase - it's the hash specified by the ELF ABI (see http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/latest/ch5.dynamic.html#h... ).

It's not just a random mush of xors and shifts, it's:

- Add the next character value to the current value;
- Left-shift the current value by 4 (because most of the entropy in plain text ASCII is in the lower 4 bits);
- XOR the top 4 bits into the bottom four bits of the current value, because they're going to get shifted out next time; then clear the top four bits.

It's still not a great hash function (obviously). Part of the issue is that with a 32-bit unsigned int it's effectively only a 28 bit hash.
It's too bad it stops where it does, I wanted to hear about the development of GEM.
I can empathize. You have one life to live so why be miserable? When a company's management disrespects its talent by imposing on them one or more of bad processes, malicious and/or incompetent minders, poor technology, and other non-technical obstacles, you enable and enforce this behavior by staying. There is only so much one can ask before accepting an offer, especially when some have no problems with lying. I resent the implication that I must agree to be voluntarily Shanghai-ed by the omnipotent employer for fear that I turn off some nebulous good prospect down the road. I hope the people who I encounter in desirable employment situations in the future evaluate history individually vs. do the whiteboard-interview lazy equivalent.
So if they want to know if you visit a specific site, all they need to do is add it to the list (a hash prefix is probably often enough to be very specific)... Wikileaks was added and removed from the list lately... I will just leave this feature off. Also, I don't follow Firefox' code close enough and the behavior might change at any time.
I don't disagree, at the same time you're not giving much of a counterargument to the examples you brought up except saying "I don't like them saying this"
That hasn't been my experience so far in discussing it over the last two victories. I see it almost universally out of Europeans who prefer to think of the US as backwards on education and capability, so they'll take any angle they can to discredit the US if it achieves something in that realm.
That many of them is of Asian descent has been mentioned a lot. Perhaps the top US universities should reconsider their soft cap of amount of Asian students admitted every year.
Unfortunately there a so many users that have no idea how the internet works. It's not unusual for me to have to explain to someone, what a URL is. I had a 20 something year old friend ask me "so /where/ is the Internet?" not that long ago.
If you can convince the general public the tech industry will wither on the vine for lack of skilled labor, you can get Congress to raise the H-1B cap, allowing you to drive down your labor costs.
I think they are Americans. It is not like countries are buying children to win at maths competitions as some do with athletes for the Olympics [0]. It is just notable that they are all of Asian descent. It is also notable that they are all male. You are not instantly racist when you realize that a group that represents a country at a competition or the overall starting field of a competition has different characteristics than the general population.

[0]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/athletics/2016/07/07/seven-kenyan...
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And the response was clearly questioning the argument put in favor of that point, thus making the point itself questionable.

It's a strange world when a startup that was just founded 2 years ago and is steadily growing [0][1][2], is considered a failure because they haven't already wiped out a 22-year-old goliath that has had a long history of struggling to break even, and operates in several other markets (AWS, Streaming Video, Devices, etc) that aren't this startup's main focus.

[0] https://www.snapagency.com/blog/jet-com-vs-amazon-mean-ecomm...

[1] https://www.internetretailer.com/2016/04/15/jetcom-predicts-...

[2] http://time.com/money/4337044/jet-com-lowest-prices-amazon-w...
I think it has more to do with the fact that most of the develop world starts learning English before they're 10 years old. And a lot of the music/movies/internat is in English as well.
> someone with a lot more money than you decided that they couldn't make a better return than financing your home loan

I'm not sure this is how fractional reserve banking works. Banks only supply a fraction of depositors money against a mortgage with the majority supplied by the fed. They basically make their money by investing other peoples money (including fed "imaginary" money) and by keeping a relatively low default rate.
There is no counter argument to be made in that sense, one is not necessary. The victors are Americans. The critics in this example attempt to proclaim that the victors are not American due to race in order to tear down the accomplishment by the US, while pretending the US is a homogeneous white nation because that's the only way they can set up the fraudulent attack.