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Ask HN: How to prepare for a job change?
I work for a big tech company (not a startup in any sense of the word) we recently had massive layoffs and rumor has it 2017 and 2018 will be more of the same, perhaps on a smaller scale.

Looking at the landscape and judging by our performance relative to our competition I'm not sure this company can remain a market leader much longer, although I believe the death will be slow.

I feel like the writing is on the wall and I should take the next 6-8 months to really gather myself and prepare for interviews, but I am not sure how to go about this. My current job is the first post-graduation and I've done pretty badly in past interviews (last time I interviewed was about a year ago), what are the best resources to prepare for interviews, what should I look at to ensure I'm ready to change jobs (personal finance and market wise) and what are some of the growth areas within software engineering that would be hiring ?
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Nobody has yet mentioned Helium-3, though it's related to your asteroid mining point. Helium-3 is used in fusion and seems to be the "free energy" replacement for petrochemicals that we need. China and the USA have both stated that they have sights set on Helium-3 mining on the Earth's moon, though China appears to be much more serious about it than the United States. I personally believe that Helium-3 will be the thing that causes a gold rush into space.
I wouldn't be surprised if Nevada had this by 2022.
You drove from Alaska to Argentina? How did you drive through the Darien Gap in Panama?
Thanks guys. I'll add them soon.
Yeah it seems odd to pay for what is essentially an RSS reader reskinned with custom CSS.

You think they would do better as an affiliate model for subscriptions (e.g. NYT gives 15 free articles per month to some readers), but maybe inoreader already does that.
I didn't have to do that, probably because I already had that stuff lying around from earlier git usage. Fork recognized several of the repos I use without me having to configure anything.

It was missing a couple of crucial repos I need, and I was in the process of figuring out how to add them, when I hit the show-stopper that caused me to put the app in the trash.

The developer says he's put up a new version without that problem, so I will try again.
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3. Pick a default that is safe for users in the 75th percentile of carelessness.
Did our ancestors live in trees?
....Until the market adjusts. I imagine a trip from SF to LA will cost $5 within the next 10 years.

To the people who think I'm insane: There are university Facebook rideshare groups in California that offer that trip for $15. Today.
> but how often do you scale something through 6 orders of magnitude?

Well, that's the whole point of using big-O notation.

Otherwise, there's no point in distinguishing between O(1) and O(lg N) either--lg(10^6) is only ~20, after all.
#vanlife was on the fringe about 5 years ago, but it's starting to gain wider acceptance in the US. I would hope that within five years Volkswagen will finally bring the California T6 to the States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_California
No, he doesn't.

But even if he did. I've been careful not to include any answers that don't have plausible deniability and I have changed a few key numbers in such a way that it doesn't change the question significantly.

Edit: even if he did, I think with a few minor exceptions if he read this it gives me more leverage not less.
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No i'm literally talking about eliminating the free market from the equation for the bare necessities. No vouchers, you give people the minimum required nutrition, whoever wants it. Soylent or whatnot.

Not vouchers for housing, you build specific housing for this purpose. Basically communism for the bottom rung of society, though anyone is free to participate in the capitalistic parts of society anytime they wish. High wealth individuals coudl just as easily decide to reap the benefits of free housing and/or nutrition. Just a thought.
That doesn't sound right to me. As far as I can tell, for most positions, if you just care about money and are not counting on the IPO lottery, you're better off working at Google or Facebook (assuming you can get the job). In other words, overfunded startups aren't paying THAT much.

And even then, most people would not call you "rich" by Silicon Valley standards. I would say "rich" at a minimum requires you to be able to buy a house in Silicon Valley or SF.
Here's a non-sensationalized article about the observation, posted two days prior to this article by The Observer: http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=36248
From the article: (failed startup) "providing valet parking with the touch of a smartphone button".

What's ending, one can hope, is the idea that attaching some low-end labor-intensive service to a smartphone app is a "tech business".
Could it be that humanity at large is doomed to repeat its usual method of a "reset"? Planet Earth isn't getting any bigger, and if we're lucky worldwide population may plateau around 11 billion. Per Wikipedia, "Global workforce": "As of 2012, the global labor pool consisted of approximately 3 billion workers, around 200 million unemployed." Per The World Bank (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.CACT.ZS), labor force participation has dropped from a little over 66% in 1990 to barely 64% in 2014. They give a per-country overview of these rates, and also per-income levels:

High income	60%	60%
Upper middle income	72%	67%
Middle income	67%	63%
Lower middle income	62%	59%
Low & middle income	68%	64%
Low income	77%	77%

High and Low income held steady, every other level shows decline.

Take a look at http://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/employment-and-growth/..., which has this byline (June 2012): Strains on the global labor force are becoming painfully evident. Market forces will fail to resolve demand and supply imbalances for tens of millions of skilled and unskilled workers.

As automation becomes ever more adaptive and versatile, it will be interesting to see in what ways human employment may somehow remain economically of interest. But right now the labor force participation trends downward, and the only way that could be good is if the non-participation people are having healthfully happy lifestyles - perhaps as retirees or married to well-to-do spouses.

But if the social order of things is changing such that the prospect of gainful employment becomes less tenable for most, here's to hoping that a better world may yet emerge with minimal strife. Otherwise, it's all too easy to imagine us collectively squabble and fret over moral hazards, free-loaders, and property rights (including the intellectual kind), and that the crisis must first reach a breaking point before any material changes can happen.

If UBI is a non-starter, I've got no ideas other than for maybe getting serious about space travel and colonization.
Not sure why this is downvoted, I'm also interested to know how popular these sort of tools are compared to command line git and what the main advantages are.
And if you're curious about how it works, there's this great article.

http://fabiensanglard.net/anotherWorld_code_review/
Actually, from a city pollution point of view, cars registered in Flagstaff do not even have to pass smog. Flagstaff does not suffer from pollution like much larger metropolitan areas. The local environment is completely beside the point anyway.

We're not replacing coal power stations. It isn't an "upgrade" away. Our energy demand is increasing so any new stations supplement rather than replace existing power stations. The stakeholder wouldn't shutdown a power station before its lifetime anyway. They need to recoup their investment. The current operational units at the station will not be shutdown until 2025 and they'll probably add more to extend the lifetime of the station.

And furthermore, if the plant was to be supplemented with solar, where do you think the energy will come from at night when the car is plugged in?
No, the universe is absurd. The response to absurdity is giving up (death, credulous belief) or acceptance and defining meaning.
I absolutely loved reading this. I liked how he went into it cautiously, testing out whether he could get by with a small fridge, small bed, less possessions, etc. And I also appreciate the web page design itself -- one long vertically-scrolling piece, very easy to read through!

One thing I find ironic though is the attitude towards other people who make a different decision about the worth of a home and the mortgage. Does he not realize that his van was only possible because his parents owned a home, raised him there, and let him park the van in their carport for 40 days while building it out?
Here is another positive testimonial[1] of Tesla Model S's long term reliability. Great reliability, simpler design (than conventional ICE cars), unlimited mileage warranty and cheaper per-mile operating cost make Tesla Model S a terrific choice for taxis.

[1] http://jalopnik.com/heres-how-a-tesla-taxi-held-up-after-100...
Yeah but they aren't very nice.
I would think parking a commercial van on any old street might get some reactions. Plus, he's pretty much in the US, so there are many box stores that allow RVs along with quite a lot of rest areas.
A follow up, Ghengis's campaign put multiple cities to the sword, executing everyone not of direct use to the campaign. Death tolls are hard to estimate, but you're looking at anywhere from on the order of tens of thousands to a million people executed at the same time—over the course of hours. Famously, the Tigris ran black and red from ink and blood after the sacking of Baghdad (the ink came from the Grand Library of Baghdad), and the destruction of the Khwarezmia dynasty was particularly bloody.

Who knows if we'll ever get accurate numbers, but it's one of the most gruesome period of human history. The institutional hate towards Ghengis only disappeared in the 20th century.
This will cause undue attention from meddlesome neighbors and cops.
What % of revenue is generated via consulting?
Worrying about the speed of light in processor caching these days is like putting a spoiler on your cart and horse to reduce drag. It might matter eventually, and that's kind of cool to think about, but it's absurdly negligible with the technology of today. Processors today are orders of magnitude slower than that.
Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best,_worst_and_average_case

Big-O is valid notation for _many aspects_ of an algorithm. The author applied it to a very practical one and explained what exactly he describes very well.
Just in case. I've written these while ago:

Routing, view, controllers in 60 lines of code + jQuery:
https://github.com/c-smile/spapp

Template-less repeatable sections / lists in 100 lines of code + jQuery: https://github.com/c-smile/repeatable.
What I don't understand is how this got published in Nature. This work, while cool isn't that novel. Microfluidic logic and soft actuators have been around for some time. Combining the two is not that impressive and more worthy of an engineering journal than nature.
Yes. It should be built in in browsers.
Personally I welcome useful mentions of relevant alternatives in HN discussions, even if it's someone's own project.

I would encourage you to tone down your rhetoric a bit, though. Intercooler looks like a good lightweight tool for projects with lightweight requirements, but based on your own documentation, the claim that it covers most of what is needed for most modern web apps just hurts your credibility.
But it's hard to know whether those valuations are real with quantitative easing and near 0% interest rates.
Thanks for posting this. It's sad how few people seem to know about event delegation...
By projected perimeter I mean the sum of lengths of projections of all edges. I'm not canceling them out or anything. Think of the box as a graph, its projection is another graph that happens to lie on a straight line, but we can measure the sum of its edges regardless.

It's not completely obvious why the projected perimeter of the inner box is bounded by the projected perimeter of the outer box, but it's a statement about one-dimensional segments that's easy enough to check.
I might be in minority but I always considered most them robots.

(depending of course the model and complexity)

But then again, I am no one
He mentions showering at the gym a few times through the piece. Also that he exercises daily - so I'd assume a membership at a nation-wide gym? It'd be a bit much for me personally but I can fighting said Grizzly-ness with his method.
Understand that as the consumer of a FOSS project you are entitled only to terms specified in the license. Usually those do not include free customer support or a guarantee of quality. If you can't or don't want to contribute code you are certainly free to contribute money to help offset the cost of development for features you would like to see. But if you think it's appropriate to harass developers and usurp their development platform in an attempt to squeeze more thankless work out of them, there is something seriously wrong with your world view.
I’m a black UChicago graduate. Safe spaces got me through college
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In Aristotle's view, there was a meaningful distinction between pleasure, which led to hedonism, and happiness, which is fairly abstract and depends on virtuous conduct performed with the right mindset. Edit: if I recall correctly. This is from The Nichomachean Ethics.
I think it's a massive and needless abuse of standard computer science terminology to re-define it as something completely different.
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Ask HN: Where do you get your news from?
The point isn't Brexit, it's that economists have a hard time predicting fallout from political events, and therefore people have a hard time believing economic experts. It notes at least two other recent instances where the doomsayers were wrong. I can think of many other cases where economists predicted loudly that the sky was falling and were wrong in recent decades. I can also think of some big cases where they failed to predict big busts.
You seem to be attaching a moral axis to the decision on whether to raise capital. Consider that people look at you like you have two heads because you're making an irrational decision.

Capital usually comes with two strings -- giving up a part of your company, and giving up control (both of which are correlated, but not the same thing). In the current climate, if you could raise a seed round while giving away a minimal amount of your company and not giving away control, why wouldn't you?

Put a different way, how good would the terms have to get for you to take the money? In the limit case, if someone wrote you a million dollar check, no strings attached, what would you do? How far are the current market conditions from this scenario?
I think deprecation should only be taken into consideration if one is planning on selling the car in the future, and I get the feeling that he is planning on driving that car into the ground.
I think the puzzle as phrased is slightly incomplete. The stranger must communicate something _new_ each day to make the induction work.

For instance, if the number of blues is 25, and the (merciful) stranger says that the number of blues is not prime every day, no one ever has enough information.

And in fact, even that doesn't seem to be enough. The non-trivial part must be that at least one person knows more than they did before the statement, otherwise a merciful stranger could say 'The number of blues is less than <big number>' each day, where the big number is more than the population.

Unfortunately that stringent of a definition for non-trivial sort of ruins the problem since in the formulation is the idea that at least one person in the village gets (at least) one number closer to knowing the exact number of blues everyday, and as soon as they know the exact number of blues they are eliminated.
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> The reason is, the binary tree accesses that a single b-sized access replaces get exponentially more "local."

sqrt(n)+sqrt(n/b)+sqrt(n/b^2)+...
versus
sqrt(n)+sqrt(n/2)+sqrt(n/4)+...

And since b-tree nodes can be half empty, there's a sqrt(2) uncertainty. (And of course there is no other memory overhead at all, none whatsoever.)
You can have an accident if you drive while being drunk. The fact that most of the time there is no accident doesn't mean that it's not dangerous. Sometimes it looks like we take economic and political decisions similarly.
> It's attribution

Give me a break, this campaign is misleading, on purpose, in order to get some money.
Does anyone have any inside knowledge of when, if ever, DTrace might become a standard/official part of Linux? Seems like right now you need to compile a kernel module which will taint your standard kernel in order to use it.
> And so we come to the conclusion that the amount of information contained in a sphere is bounded by the area of that sphere - not the volume!

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"My non-compete an invention clause are very strict and I live in a state where they are legal. We do consulting to pay the bills (the lean startup way) so my non-compete pretty much covers every industry you can think of." Show it to a lawyer if it is very broad it most likely would be tossed out in court.
Thanks! I noticed some people on the forum were able to cast audio by changing "chrome://flags/" but I could not.
That's completely false. The speed of light today already constrains processor design (and by extension, on-CPU caches):

http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/08/are-processors-pushin...

"Even if signals in the chip were moving at the speed of light, a chip running above 5GHz wouldn't be able to transmit information from one side of the chip to the other". Note that a light-nanosecond is about a foot, so I'm assuming this is talking about the propagation delay of electrons in silicon that need to go through gates, which I'm sure is much slower than light in a vacuum.

To put this another way, you can view the scaling law as a hard upper bound on the speed of access to data; engineers can only approach that bound from below as technology improves.

But given a certain level of technology, it's easier to make a faster L1 cache than an L2 cache, and that will hold even as we approach theoretical limits.
Ask HN: Career solo developer. How do companies plan/build in “real world”?
80 chars kidded that title. Eek.

How do companies plan/build apps/software/webapps in the real world?

I've worked on bigger projects for clients, but I feel that I don't have an exact repeatable process down that I can rely on for the lifecycle of a project.

I should note I do have lots of "real world" experience, but I've never sat down with a team of anyone and started a project from there. I've always been responsible for devising the plan — usually as I go.

Is there a straightforward, no-noise, step by step guide or book to this kind of stuff? There must be. I'm interested in the entire phase, from idea to concept to testing to production.

When do you wireframe? What do you wireframe? Who's responsible? What about features? What are some methods of defining features?

I suppose there 'ought to be some project management book out there that encompasses all this stuff. What do you all suggest?
It's worse on Windows, where Git tools (including some from Microsoft themselves!) expect to see a .ssh folder in your user folder root. Wrong. Bad. Windows doesn't work that way! There's not even any contract/guarantee the user folder root is writable by the user in Windows! Sigh.

Lazy Linux developers making lazy "ports" lazily.
> Angular is difficult to grok because it makes computer programming second class and limited to what you can cram into HTML tags.

...say what? I've done a lot of work with Angular, and a lot of work without it, and it's possible that I might agree with what you're saying here if I understood it, but I don't. Can you elaborate?
Re-read the article, bearing in mind that O(sqrt n) is a set that contains O(1).
I think this isn't a viable option because you would need 100% certainty that your flight will not fail. An explosion in the atmosphere with nuclear waste involved sounds pretty devastating. This is the same reason that nuclear power should be avoided right now. Even if the chance of disaster is tiny, the consequences are far too large.
Assuming some of the logic for determining whether a page is castable (or what options to offer) reside server-side then I can imaginez why this might be necessary. However it also might be poor coding.

Was it onerous in terms of resources - or was there any hint of nefarious behaviour? My suspicion is many people will assume the latter despite the rather neutral tone of your post. Therefore I'd be interested to hear more detail.
The last non-retina Macbook Pro is from 2012 though. http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#MacBook_Pro
Chrome is deprecating Chrome Web Apps in favor of native Web Apps. Essentially it's a push towards a more open web now that the APIs have caught up. It really has nothing to do with services.
I think it's great to make such arguments but a bit more rigor would be appreciated in such theoretical constructions. If the main point to get across is in Part II, and Part I does not support Part II, as a matter of convenience, I would elide Part I.
Ukraine is not an isolated event. It's yet another chess piece in a long and drawn out American/Russian chess game that's been played since WW2.

Yes, Russia is being bullish on Ukraine. This is happening after America has expanded NATO into multiple ex-Warsaw pact countries eastward of the Berlin Wall after an agreement was made for that not to happen. http://spiegel.de/international/world/a-663315.html

Given that there is evidence that America was also meddling in the future of Ukrainian government, it's not hard to see that Ukraine is an important geopolitical asset that both superpowers are willing to manipulate. It's not as simple as Putin annexing Ukraine for some evil world domination plan, it looks more defensive than offensive on their part in the grand scheme of things.

The fact that your friend was wrong does not make all geopolitical analyses that are more complex than Russia being the bad guy and America being the good guy incorrect. Any argument that the situation is morally clear cut is overly simplistic and harmful.
I think the real monument to outlast humanity will be in the infrastructure we build in space. That's the real long game.
I never wrote it up. The only weird thing about it was that unmodified crashme wouldn't run because of a prefetch bug in the silicon, plus there was a debugging trap that wasn't handled in the kernel. I added a trivial handler for the trap and pre-processed the randomly-generated crashme code to nop prefetches... 15 seconds later, I saw the hang.
Come on, voidqk. We all know your dad built this camper van while you took the selfies. His work shop says it all.
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It's not in the same vein, but my favorite puzzle is the Monty Hall Problem. Although as is relentlessly pointed out, it's not actually how "Let's Make A Deal" works.

Monty Hall shows you three doors, two have goats behind them, one has a brand new car. While still closed, you pick a door. After you've picked, Monty opens one of the other two doors to show you a goat, and asks if you want to stay with your choice, or choose the other remaining door. What do you do? Stay? Switch? Or it doesn't matter?

For background and spoiler, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem

Edit: Spelling
3 'more or less' typical millenials? 3 CEOs and one poor guy? Really?
https://news.ycombinator.com
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Near 100%. The non-consulting amount is not statistically significant. Why?
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