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> I should note that any third-party intro (to say nothing of a warm intro) will drastically enhance your chances at almost any firm even if they don’t require it. It’s a sign of hustle, diligence & genuine interest from entrepreneurs

The counterargument is that this attitude reinforces Silicon Valley as a non-meritocratic who-you-know culture instead of one that optimizes producing good products. (case in point, Andreessen's investment in Lucas Duplan/Clinkle)

Many founders can't get that kind of access, often due to class or other systemic factors. It's not "hustle," and in my opinion, that attitude is an albatross on the startup ecosystem.
And github's $100 million in venture capital didn't hurt.
Some interesting thoughts on a similar sentiment: http://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

Nice takeaway: "The nice thing about boringness (so constrained) is that the capabilities of these things are well understood. But more importantly, their failure modes are well understood."
People successfully did boring and tedious tasks for thousands of years in many cases because they were trapped, quite literally, and did not find their experiences pleasant. History may be written by philosophers and kings, but tedious labor has always been something we don't like, and send to the silent and controlled.
Interesting to know - 100th of an inch is extremely small - certainly not visible with my eyesight! Seems odd to need that for surveying.
I like this, but a nice idea might be to add an unknown time to completion. For example I like to get myself to have at least an hour a day working on studying. So it'd be nice to just put this as 2 chunks instead of "50*5+however much I want for the weekend".
Have you checked out https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app

Currently using it on a project and it works seamlessly.
This is really a bizarre story. how does someone not know whose car they are driving, how did the pill get out of the bottle and onto to the floor, that too on passengers side. A cop just happened to spot a tiny pill on the floor? how did the university find out about it, do they run criminal records of employees on a regular basis? Why did the judge even convict this person, just a random pill on car floor is enough to convict someone?
Every "interactive whiteboard" (brand and design) I've ever used sucks.

The best setup I've used so far is a standard whiteboard coupled with a projector (ideally with a second board to the side). It needs very regular cleaning to prevent a blurry display, but being able to write normally (being able to see what you're writing with zero lag) is a huge benefit.

If you really need at-board interactivity (as opposed to keyboard+mouse at the PC, or wirelessly, or casting from a tablet, or...) then Epson do a projector with an IR "pen" that works with any old whiteboard.
A big issue too is... how long will this be supported? When you migrate away from Google Apps, what is your $6,000 touchscreen good for? Is it open?
Ask HN: Where do you go for part time dev jobs?
If you're a full time employee who is looking for small part time programming jobs for a bit of extra pocket money, where do you look?
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Both kinetic energy and air friction scale approximately with N^2. (Where N is units of velocity.) One can escape a lot of air friction by going higher, which is what Boom is planning to do, but you have to pay for the potential energy of altitude with fuel. Boom is minimizing the weight by using carbon fiber. (Which also means the wings have to redirect less air to keep the plane in the air, which also reduces drag.)

It's likely that the carbon footprint is several times higher, perhaps nearing an order of magnitude.
No, totally understand and that makes a lot of sense. I think there is a lot more to it when someone is looking to get a very professional logo/brand done. Thanks for writing this!
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It has Skyrim-- only 5 years late! So impressive.

The fact that they're showing off Skyrim, a 2011 game, in their 2017 console launch video doesn't say much for their hardware's abilities. It says a lot about how beloved Skyrim is, though.
What are you basing this on?

According to the DoT, they "took detailed measures to reduce any risks associated with the self-driving delivery project including testing validation, ride alongs and escorting the delivery" (source: https://www.trucks.com/2016/10/25/ubers-otto-hauls-budweiser... )
$2400 a month for a 1br apt built in the 60s covers a lot of wear and tear, especially when you have maintenance staff making $10/hr doing all the work. If I add up all of my maintenance costs over the past 5 years, I'd be very surprised if it totaled over $1k (paint that they charged me for, a small window, a small drywall patch, carpet that they charged me for) .

It's also hard to feel bad for home owners renting half of the property they live in to cover their mortgage while their property values increase 10% a year. Apartment residents meanwhile are building zero equity and eroding their chances of ever owning property.

Real estate is a hugely profitable business due to the perpetual license granted by the government to extract infinite rent from the property.

I have friends who just pay professional management companies to do billing, maintenance, and lease management for their properties. All they do is write a check to the management company and they get to keep all the profits. No, I don't think what they're doing is a real job, they just happened to have enough money to afford a few down payments on houses, and now they're getting something for nothing.
> I mean, that, as a minimum, means you're running and maintaining a Windows server, along with antivirus, backups for the OS, and backups for the database.

By contrast, if you're on the LAMP stack then you won't need a Linux box, and since you don't have a server you definitely won't need to secure it or back it up. It'll all just run on clouds or something, I guess.
I would love to see domestic super sonic air travel. Sadly I don't think it will ever come to be.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_sonic_boom_tes...

For international flights the technology is more than proven. It's purely a market problem. I wish the boom teem well.
You can still hustle from the edges inward, you just have to be a bit more creative about it. I probably can't hit up Marc directly but I bet I could find people who know him well enough to provide an intro but who aren't so well known themselves that they would ignore a cold call/email from me. Any firm you want to pitch has associates, secretaries, IT people, lawyers, and somebody who waters the plants, all of whom are there every day interacting with everybody else. It's a hustle-filter, not foolproof, not perfect, but efficient enough.
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No trick - just not currently supported. I use Postgresql full text search, and haven't researched how to handle c++ or c#. The only sophistication baked into the search are wildcard queries and title vs. description ranking.

I'm aware of the limitations and want to fix them. If any HNers know what I should search for on Google to get this done, please let me know.
No. I'd encourage you to read Facebook's FAQ on React's license at https://code.facebook.com/pages/850928938376556 , as well as other discussions on the license (links at https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master... ).
I write and prefer libraries written in error-first callback, continuation-passing style. I also prefer `require()` to new `import`. Those choices have rather little to do with backwards compatibility, from my point of view. I think they are better choices, which just so happened to be the norm before ECMAScript began to change again. Opinions differ, and will differ, forever and ever, amen.

Maybe we can all agree that experience in other languages leaves ECMAScript with much to be desired. Whether the changes ES6 hath wrought and ES7 and friends portend bode ill or well is likewise up for debate. So are the one-trueness of futures, specialized async syntax, and static typing. Those aren't either-or kinds of debates as far as ECMAScript is concerned. ECMAScript could be more Scheme-like, more Java-like, more ML-like. I've forgotten to mention some other disappointed camp. Forgive me!

If specific judgments on those kinds of controversies unify a culture, there is no unified culture of Node.js, any more than there is a unified culture of C or Java or English punctuation. The only unity is that standards-compliant ECMAScript runtimes are everywhere and we all want to use them. As long as different tastes are at least sufficiently well specified, we've a fighting chance of automating adapters. So I'd argue promisifiers and depromisifiers might be the most important libraries of the moment, culturally speaking. But it's too much to ask of any broad and adaptable common platform or library to hide the fact that tastes and approaches differ.
Imagine the Pacific flights. How many flights LAX > Tokyo or Hong Kong were there in the 1970s relative to today?

Apparently the Concorde was only purchased/operated by Air France and British Airways, on transAtlantic routes.
Choose a 787 if you possibly can. Better air pressure, much better bathrooms, high ceiling, and quieter. I'll adapt my schedule to ride that plane.

Edit: also, lovely big windows.
I don't know if you're taking show suggestions, but I'd like to recommend The Dollop. The Dollop is a bi-weekly* American History Podcast. Every week, Dave Anthony reads a story to his friend, Gareth Reynolds, who has no idea what the topic is going to be about.

It's hysterical, and has a huge following. They do live shows and everything. Just finished up a tour of Australia.

*(bi-weekly means whatever Dave wants it to mean)
No idea how they've done this one, but https://asciinema.org/ does this for command line demos at least really nicely and easily.
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You can write a todo-list app in any language. See http://todomvc.com/
The big difference was that Concorde mostly existed before the Internet. With email and video conferencing, the need for a lot of these 1-day out and back trips has likely been greatly reduced.
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Circular bezelless phone, on a strap, in my wrist. Oh wait.
How do you figure the value of stock increasing reduces borrowing costs? I don't know of ANY financial institution that bases the interest rate of a loan on the value of a company's stock. It is, in every case I've seen, based on their credit rating.

You could have a stock that's through the roof, but if you don't pay your bills on time that means absolutely nothing to me as a financial institution. On the flip side your stock could be in the gutter, but if you are financially viable and pay your bills on time, I couldn't care less.

Generally speaking there is a correlation between stock price and "health of the company", but not always.

Finally - stock price increasing creates jobs???? Source? I have never, in my life, heard of a company of any size hiring people because their stock went up. That's the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard.
I don't think it's that hard to pick promising tech to explore once you have some experience under your belt. For instance, containers are super interesting to me because they directly address a lot of the pain points with dev VMs or native development. It may end up being the case that Docker does not win this battle, but it's also clear there is some meat to this hype and I will profit from learning about it even if the landscape shifts dramatically before it stabilizes.
> The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't know what it means for a programming language to be powerful and elegant. Once you learn Lisp, you will see what is lacking in most other languages.

Then:

> My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means I am too busy to do much programming. Around 2008 I stopped doing programming projects. As a result, I have not had time or occasion to learn newer languages such as Perl, Python, PHP or Ruby.
Speaking of ordering a pizza, I remember visiting a very cheap pizza place in my home town. It was during a year I earned around $200k, and the pizza over there was around $4 (whole pizza, not just a piece).

While I was waiting in line, an elderly couple entered. It looked like it was a big event for them - average earnings in Poland are around $10k/yr, for them it was probably a half of that.

They looked at the prices, I think they asked about something cheaper, or sth.. I don't remember the details, but I remember them leaving because it seemed it was too expensive for them.

If I had more wit, I would just buy them dinner, and make up some kind of a story of me celebrating or sth, so it wouldn't look like a charity. I didn't, because I seriously didn't know how to react...

Some other time, I remember getting into an argument with a bum a Warsaw city center. Bums in Warsaw are much cleaner than the ones in SF or in States in general. I don't know why...

Anyway, I had a good day, so I told him I will buy him a warm sandwich. He followed me to the shop, and I told him to pick the biggest and best one he wants (biggest one being $5 vs. $2 smallest, again, pocket change in US).

The guy was literally unable to make any kind of a choice. The lady at the counter asked him for a kind of meat, and he couldn't choose which one he wanted. My bet was that he was unused to a situation of abundance of anything...

Anyway, he finally managed to make the choice, with my help. I remember how grateful he was. He ended by shaking my hand, and saying something about having a dark past, being a part of SB (kind of like polish KGB) and doing a ton of bad things to people before 1989...

That's some of my recent memories. I still remember reading menus from right to left, and I try to buy people food whenever I can, and whenever it won't make things awkward...
Apparently AMP prevents the Google trick of being able to bypass paywalls. Can someone post the gist of the article here?
>along with antivirus
I've never heard of anyone seriously running antivirus on servers _except_ in the type of environments where it's mandated by terrible policies. Policies that probably aren't going to excuse lack of antivirus on Linux.

So yeah, if you're dealing with the type of person that runs antivirus, then everything else will probably suck.

I'm also confused what Windows has to do with an HA DB setup. Or do you mean compared to a cloud service, which has even more complexity, just hidden?
I'm still experimenting to find the right price point that maximizes quality job postings. I've had it at $0 and had to delete a few. One person posted an ad for what appeared to be a technology cult even (deleted).

I've been asked to bump the font size by a few people and have to defer to ctrl+ (win) cmd+ (mac) for now. I'm dog fooding this site and 14pt "courier new" is what I like best.
A discussion from last year suggests those jobs are not advertised. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10143743
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> more concise than Python, but safer than Java

really? or was that supposed to be the other way around?

Personally, I can't help thinking of scala as a hipster beard on the face of java.
Hm - I have read many times that the "premature optimization is the root of all evil" quote was misattributed to Donald Knuth and actually came from C.A.R. Hoare, but here it is in print, and he seems to present it as his own thought. I'm going to go back to attributing this to Knuth. (and pointing out that almost everybody who repeats it is misunderstanding it)
Really good idea. I have a feeling it will not work for me, here is why:

I learned that to make things work, you need to schedule them, put them on calendar. However hard this is for me, I do that. Most of the time, I have to spill over a lot of things I would think I can do in a day over 3 day period. Majority of the time, even 3 days are not enough. So it keeps me honest.
At every second, I know exactly what I need to do, and what I am avoiding to do.

It took me a while to get into that system. I suspect others have their own and it would be hard for them to get into this new one.

Having said that, I wish you best and will keep an eye.
Sure, but longevity alone is an insufficient criterion. There are a few venerable, perfectly adequate, stacks (for lack of a better term) that I would rather not start new projects with.

I say this as someone who once had to argue forcefully to start a new project in .Net while it was still in beta.
Ohh that BS war on drugs again! How come banks get to get away with measly fines for laundering cartel drug money for do long? 100s of billions of dollars per year of drug money flow through the banking system, sure its profitable to pay the fines when you have so much guaranteed cash flow every year. Banks Get caught red handed laundering drug money. Banks don't Get shut down, CEO s don't go to jail?! Wtf? Ohh no messing with banks is hard , let's just wiretap every potential criminal in the country citizens won't do anything to resist this any way. They will just swallow this BS war on drugs story. I'm just a regular citizen I got nothing to hide!
That would depend heavily on the effect on the volume of flights, fuel per seat per mile, the energy inputs to constructing the plane & its maintenance parts, and their sources...
Not OP, but maybe "coding" is a better term: they are language-agnostic fundamentals that don't change as quickly as the tools and frameworks we use daily as "programmers"
And documentation, or at least answers on Stackexchange. Documentation often lags behind on these new projects, especially when they're in a state of flux and you can easily find yourself pulling your hair out because the docs are for two versions ago and wrong now.
> There are many situations and styles where callbacks are perfectly adequate, and promises offer no benefit

Promises are superior in general, I guess that has been discussed already[1], many times. Promises may indeed offer just an insignificant benefit sometimes (you can even call it just a different style), for example when you are first writing a monolithic prototype. In this worst case, you would simply make a giant chain of ".then" methods, any your gain is you can get creative with the error handling if you want. However, the greatest benefit revels itself later: The composability that comes with them will help you immensely when refactoring.

[1]: One example: http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/302456/9451 Another: http://blog.parse.com/learn/engineering/whats-so-great-about...
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I'm very sorry about your friend, and oppose the DEA, but this is probably something your friend told you to save face if he was wealthy, educated and actually convicted.

Edit: there seems to be some confusion in the replies about my point. This isn't an endorsement of drug laws. We who oppose legal injustice need to have an accurate understanding of how these laws work and what is actually likely to happen in order to be taken seriously, and to prioritize our advocacy for legislation and DoJ rules. I don't believe this story is likely to be true, and that helps me to focus on things that actually happen every day.
Might not be the change in pitch you are noticing but the speed of the music
A perennial favorite. I never get enough of a person stating their opinions in such assertive terms.
The range of the Concorde was only about 4500 miles. That's materially shorter than would have been needed for, say, San Francisco to Tokyo.
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The parent poster apparently lives in Europe and is "going home" when traveling eastbound to Europe.
Yup, I also noticed on my Mazda that I don't really look at the main gauge cluster anymore - HUD is way closer to my standard field of view, it's focus is closer to the things on the road and it shows all the critical info (speed, radar cruise control status, directions, lane keeping... in new version also blind spot monitoring status and speed limits).

I'd recommend it to anyone, the annoyance is only that you need to readjust it for every driver.
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I have flown ZRH-SFO-ZRH 3x a year for the last 10 years, last 2 years in business class. I would definitely take a halving of the flight time over a more comfortable seat.

On the other hand, I'm very doubtful about Boom; the fact that they mostly seem to be talking about the passenger cabin does not inspire a ton of confidence, and even if they get their plane built, I have doubts about their ticket price projections.
Sadly not much has changed since 2013 and now that we can (hopefully) move past the Trump train wreck and look towards the future via Clinton's policies, it seems to can expect even more of the same from the next president.

Leaked emails shows she sides with law enforcement regarding encryption, publicly she is calling for an "intelligence surge" as a core part of her national security strategy, and in interviews she still strongly stands by her support for the Patriot Act:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/clinton-wont-budge-mass-surveillanc...

The people who will end up getting appointed to the various leadership roles is the other big question. Hillary's advisers contain many hold-overs from the Bush-Cheney era, including ex-DHS lead Michael Chertoff who strongly supported the TSA full body scanners (made by the company he went on to work for), who I hope aren't given big roles.

Regardless, all of those cyber contractors in DC, Maryland and Virginia must be excited that their gilded age was given a 4yr extension and likely a further expansion. Not that they were ever at much risk of losing it - given the majority of the candidates were hawkish from the start of the primaries, the pull of influential thinktanks, and of course the media, with the NYT - in between fawning over Hillary - publishing daily articles citing 'anonymous intelligence sources' supporting various causes.

There's also been almost entirely silence over surveillance policies from the tech industry/community as far as I can tell. Although typically our industry isn't very political or partisan (until things actually go down like SOPA), so this is not entirely atypical.

Note: most of this is regarding military/defense but it seems to spill over into federal drug and criminal investigations. Drug policies are another big elephant in the room.
>And when deploying on-premises, the cost of the Windows licenses do matter a lot.

I'm not sure why you'd pay for licenses if the company is forcing you to have your product deployed on-premises. You would be an individual owner among the rest of the licenses which are owned by the company. That just sounds really dumb to do for both sides of the deal. Is this normal?
This looks like a good source to learn WebRTC data channels. Correct?
> People themselves will not be remade in technology's image.

That's a rather poetic statement. Is that a common expression?