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> NSFW warning for the liveleak vid, if you're at work the site contains porn ads.

For you maybe.

You gotta start signing out of your google and facebook account when searching certain things... retargetting will get ya! ;-P
Ah yes, but what IBM does I don't consider software

Skype for business works. IBM stuff doesn't
The kernel interface tends to be super stable (eg on Linux, kernel interface ABI breakage is a blocker bug, and Linus rants about that every now and then when people ignore this).

So it shouldn't be too painful to run RedHat 4.1 (from 1997) in a container on top of current Linux 4.8 and use that to run software linked against that ancient set of libraries. Probably easier than getting all those libraries to run in a current era userland.
More interested about the traffic and backend (pun maybe intended) challenges in a big porn site. Advertisement has the traffic but porn is more interesting :)
Most rural WalMart super-centers have a full supermarket built into them.
Your sense of sarcasm and self centered posture gave me a good laugh, have an upvote sir.
Where are you looking instead?
Thinking about some blockchain precedents can lead to some valuable insights about what we can build with them. It's effectively a scroll. Societies used scrolls to record actions so they could consult history to make decisions. Power was concentrated in the scribes and their masters who controlled the scrolls. If we now have a digital scroll in the cloud controlled by no one, that could be a powerful tool for coordinating entire societies without concentrating power. Maybe.
I'm assuming they are going to make their money selling password access to companies.
Not really. The headline is clickbaity, but then the author goes against the headline in the third paragraph

But this story reflects two universal truths about culture.
First, many cultural changes for which Millennials are
initially blamed really reflect broader trends affecting
even the oldest consumers. Second, many cultural changes
are really reversions to old norms.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems to me that this article may completely misinterpret its own statistics. It keeps talking about shoppers, but the unit in all of the charts is dollars.

It claims that more people are eating out. But it may be that as income disparity increases, restaurant prices go up for the people who can afford to eat out. That would lead to an increased amount of money going into restaurants, even though the same number or even fewer people are eating out.
> Dimon uses email but is known to keep his replies short and factual, favoring "yes," "no" and "thank you."

I mean, come on. Everyone uses email. Having said that, everyone also knows there are things you put in email and things you only discuss face to face, or over the phone.

And the dividing line doesn't necessarily have anything to do about breaking the law.

Everyone on wall street has had an email they typed up get into the hands of someone who they wish it wouldn't.

Whether its shitting all over an analyst for not being good at their job that got back to the analyst or doing something similar to a CEO, these things can harm your future relationship with these people who you may need to do business with again.

You rant over the phone, you issue actionable orders via email for the same reason. One has no trace, the other has a record you can point to.
Both, but that's not really the point.

As others have pointed out, education and experience help you develop different skills. And yes, education is not for everyone.

However, your claim that you ar struggling with education because you wanto to focus on gaining experience is an amber light in itself. What would you think of a bodybuilder that claims that he is struggling to develop his biceps because his hamstrings are getting in the way? Sounds a bit off, doesn't it? It tells you, among other things, that his trainning is a mess, and that probably he has not yet developed the ability to set and pursue goals in a systematic way.

So, get your act together. You sound like a fairly young fellow, just starting on this path. So, it does not matter if your future peers/employers value education more, or experience more... since you clearly lack both. Just concentrate on self improvement, and things will eventually play out in your advantage.

Also, about education specifically. It is OK to not pursue that path, but be sure to make that decision for the right reasons. Every thing worth doing in this world requires effort; being struggling with each of them is the normal state fo affairs. Either complete your degree... or don't, but don't just leave because it is hard. Getting experience will be harder, in its own ways.
A degree tells me that you can stay focused for 3-5 years without your life falling apart, while being given increasingly difficult challenges. Even better if it's a degree in the field that I'm hiring in.

It's not about "no degree, no job", it's about "can't get a degree, higher risk that we're going to regret hiring you".
If you actually check Wine compatibility charts and user ratings you will see that there is a lof of garbage (the worst rating) ratings for the most popular Windows/Mac software. So it is not a viable option for the biggest applications like Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, Pro Tools, Ableton Live, etc.

And certainly no option for a business, but rarely for your average Joe, either. It is often hit and miss.

Like I have said countless times, a lot of users are bound to using either Windows or Mac because of a few applications. There is Microsoft Office (cloud versions are not good enough). Visual Studio. Adobe products. Avid. Ableton. Apple’s own software (Logic, Final Cut).

Where there even is alternatives, they are just not good enough.

Where Linux has gotten some support, is from the VFX industry, especially from Autodesk. You can use Maya and Nuke and Linux. Actually, almost all VFX companies use Linux in their shop.
> It is not about the technology platform. You still have to dedicate resources to ensure feature parity across both OS systems

It is about the technology platform, because the amount of resources necessary to ensure feature parity is a function of the platfrom. Word for Windows and Word for Mac are probably two separate giant monsters of early-90's C++ and keeping them in sync is agony. Assuming Teams is written in Electron, the amount of work is nowhere near the same; not having feature parity across operating systems is probably harder than having it.
What's wrong with what he said?
Career Advice from YC's Sam Altman
Or serving unserved organizations, or both, depending on how one looks at it.
Because that's how statistics work.
Do you mean decision of becoming Clojure-centric? That was probably the best thing that could happen. Can't say about UK but in the US office we are interviewing for engineering positions almost every day.
(Hoping this is a satirical comment, in which case: well done. If not...)

Many, many millenials aren't as fortunate to have a high-paying software engineering position like yourself.

For them, $20 per dinner every night is simply impossible.
The only stigma I experienced was self generated. I wouldn't tell people where I worked for a while. However, after that period of shame, whenever I told someone I worked in porn, they had a positive attitude and dozens of questions. After moving to the Bay Area and going to several parties were Google/Facebook/Yahoo engineers were present, they would actually be very interested in what I did.

Devs rarely hung out with the production staff. I almost never saw the talent. The production was done in warehouses several miles from where the back office work was done. However, the owners occasionally threw parties where the talent would show up. If you wanted to fuck a porn star you met at these parties, you could, if you were mostly discreet about it. Devs would also go to tech conferences (flying first class no less), but we never shared the nature of our business with people we met (at least I never did).

Compensation was comparable/above average, perks were good (free membership at high-end gyms, fully paid health insurance), but bonuses were meager and there were essentially no equity possibilities. However, after 1.5 years working in the area of the country where I was, I had enough saved to put a down payment on a nice condo. I didn't, and I used that money to move to the Bay Area, where I had to start that process all over. And the Bay Area is definitely not a place where a developer can buy a condo after saving for ~2 years.
You have to see it from th job hunter's perspective. It is very common to send out 20 resume's and maybe get a single response or two. It is very time consuming to write a custom multi-paragraph cover letter with every application. Eventually all job hunters learn that you get the same response rate when you write one sentence cover letters as you do when you put a lot of effort into them. Why spend so much effort when you don't have to?
Perhaps David gets more grace than Goliath? Or Austin's government is oblivious.
Microsoft Solidifies CNTK Deep Learning Toolkit for Industrial-Grade AI
Slack Welcomes Microsoft to Messaging with Full-Page Letter
> Nothing works right, on any of them. Copy/paste, batteries, wireless networking, drag and drop, high-res displays, multilingual input, even like fucking word processing and email and image editors and terminal programs...

Can you be more specific?
i.e. - copy paste with a highlight+middle mouse button is frankly awesome in GNOME.

- Batteries - yeah, Windows laptops usually don't have amazing battery life and it can even be slightly worse under Linux, however if you're working in a mode where you laptop is 99% plugged in and you just need occasionally a couple of hours from it, it's quite doable, which I'd imagine is the use-case for most "workstation" usage scenarios.

- wireless networking - works great if you're willing to do a bit of research before buying, instead of just dropping Linux on any garbage PC and expecting it to work flawlessly, (why won't you try that with macOS and report back?)

- drag and drop - that seems... highly unlikely, unless you're dragging/dropping from/to some weird, wrapped wine port that doesn't communicate with your desktop

- high-res displays - not as good as macOS, but works quite well in GNOME 3 and improving all the time, (far better than Windows)

- multilingual input, even like fucking word processing and email and image editors and terminal programs - things like multilingual input work well, word processing works well, but certainly there's no MS Office, (which isn't that great on a Mac either), there's no Photoshop, but I find it strange that Krita, GIMP etc. won't suffice you for many tasks, mail works well and terminal programs work amazingly well as well.
In addition gaming on Linux is now miles better than on macOS, in addition to the far superior customisability and superior package management, not to mention not being under the will of a single company that does whatever it feels like that day, which matters to some.
I actually got my current job at IBM Watosn through a Who's Hiring post.

It stuck out to me because my hiring manager put his email in the post. Since I would be talking to an actual person rather than applying into a black hole, I decided to send an email asking for more details.

A few months and several remote interviews later, I got an offer.

I can't find the actual post anymore though.
How did this get buried from the front page so quickly? Hmm.
Because we proactively separate a member’s submission data from their
Member ID when compensation data is submitted, it enables us to
secure the system in such a way that we cannot even support the
ability for a member to update their previously submitted salary
information - they have to resubmit.

How is this possible? If the salary data is not associated to the user in any way can't a user submit their salary over and over again drastically swaying the aggregate salaries?
If that became a problem for them they would just use an IP address directly instead of a hostname.
> this day in age.

Sigh. At least you didn't write "for all intensive purposes".
> When Office 365 came out, I mostly compared the price to Google Apps and didn't really think Office 365 brought that much value.

Opposite here. Forced to use Google Apps to write documents and it's a pain in the arse. Wish I had Office.
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In my experience, there's a difference between "how much suffering are you willing to take", and "how much suffering can you take".

This race is interesting because participants can stop whenever they want to -- and they know it. So there's a meta-contest happening for each participant. I have, on very long bicycle rides, found myself spending a lot of mental energy on knowing that I could stop any time.

This is not always true, even in recreational activities or endurance sports. I have been on climbs where there is no reasonable option for retreat and getting off the rock wall is actually a worse option than finishing the climb. Similarly, I've been on backpacking trips where weather and terrain dictate that the only reasonable course of action is to (for example) get off that ridge _now_.

In situations where I don't have the option of choice, I find I'm capable of a lot more.
Whoa, where do you live that you're spending $1000 a month on food for two?

I love Costco too, but our apartment is too small for storing lots of bulk food items. My wife and I dream of having a bigger kitchen, pantry, and chest freezer someday.
This stuff is another way the whole economy is getting screwed by Amazon in a manner similar to Walmart in the 80's and 90's. Amazon is spending billions to kill everyone else so that they can put the screws to everyone in the future.

If you look at the rates that Amazon pays to replenish FBA warehouses, you see the difference. UPS Ground from Upstate NY to Kentucky for a small parcel costs < $6. Compare that you the UPS "Retail" -- $16-18, or USPS Priority, which is a minimum of $11, depending on rate. IMO, shipping rates are going up because big kahuna customers like Amazon are grabbing all of the capacity and have contracts that allow them to surge instantly.
Do I see that right that the first color picture is from 1969 on that whole list of exhibitions [1]?

Even tough the color photography is available to anybody since the early 1900s [2]? Is there a reason for that? Is it a choice of art?

[1] https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1918?locale=en

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_photography_techno...
Looking at the data presented in the article - it seems to correlate pretty well with economic recessions. I think that when people are flush with cash, they tend to eat out, while when they lose their jobs and are sitting at home, they economize at the cost of personal inconvenience. This is neither structural nor generational - there were dips for all age groups during the '91, '00, and '07-11 recessions, the dips were just larger for younger workers (who tend to be more exposed to economic fluctuations, since they enter the job market with no work history or network, and the onus is on them to convince someone they're worth paying for).

Certainly there were moments when I worked at Google that I was like "Why do I bother going to the supermarket, when I get 10 meals/week at work and can easily Instacart the rest?", and it was really just force of habit that kept me shopping. But now that I'm doing a startup, I appreciate having habits that keep my burn rate low - my in-laws recently looked at their food budget and realized that "Oh, the reason we're not saving any money is because we eat out every day."
Yep, currently transitioning to a company I found in the October thread.
Why do millennials hate groceries?
Nah, NetBSD. Let's see how many obscure architectures can run Emacs OS!
The time spent cooking isn't time spent earning.

You can write off those last 30 minutes of work a day as the part that feeds you but ultimately you're spending over the odds for food you could have made yourself.
When is an Android app coming?
FWIW, Slack offers Giphy integration.
That was my point. (And Walmart Superstores are increasingly in a wide range of suburban locations as well.)

ADDED: I don't like doing grocery shopping at Walmart in general because of generally sub-par meat, bakery, and produce. But I still use one to pick up packaged groceries simply because it's a bit closer than my nearest regular supermarket.
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Ah, wave.

I wish instead of just throwing it at the world, hoping for people to figure out what to do with it, Google had used it as infrastructure to build a variety of applications.

The problem with Wave was that it was too open ended for most people to figure out. Those who did figure out, loved it, and were burnt when Google shut it down. I still don't think there is a good equivalent to wave at the moment.
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Gawker settles with Hulk Hogan
But he could probably care less.
Because hardly any of them know how to cook.
For me I don't mind grocery shopping. When I was in the city proper, it was on the way too or from work. I would do delivery some time. But I love too cook and get hands on ingredients. After I moved thought, my diet has tanked due to difficulty in getting food.

Exceptions are dried spices, household goods, and oils which I buy in bulk. I did hate the time in line, effort etc. But also allowed me to check out for a bit.

Now I dread it, and do most of my orders through FreshDirect. I'm sort of in a food desert. There are two grocery stores two miles away from me. There are buses that run every 1.5 hours, and take 40 minutes to get there.

I hate it because I generally have to walk. It burns about 2 hours for me. I have to carry everything back in a backpack. Uber/Lyft is 30$ per trip. It's a bigger problem for impromptu meals. Or oh I need this but forgot about it.

The other night I wanted a salmon filet over a salad. I went to the store all the ingredients together was 22$. The pub next store has a salmon entree for 15$. Sometimes the value propositions are skewed.
Perhaps you should let the marketing team reply. Candidate interaction is also customer interaction.
How Montreal police were able to use legal means to track a journalist
> Its the actual business process and thought behind it.

Exactly. Even if one disagrees with a thought process (actually, especially if one disagrees with a thought process), one should still seek to understand it inasmuch as possible. Otherwise one is doomed to repeat it.
I'm pretty fussy, and I haven't noticed any slowness when editing long lines on Emacs on OS X or Windows. Might be specific to the GTK port.
Perhaps you might appreciate a different perspective. Broadly speaking, ergonomic devices are meant to combat repetitive strain injuries. I think of ergo devices as useful if they give you more variation. They might not be better positions in themselves, but switching between palms down and palms sideways when moving from the keyboard to mouse gives you variation that helps to combat RSI. At the very least, I couldn't put my palm down without pain for a while, so a sideways mouse is better at least from that vantage point.
I've set up a cronjob to pull the latest hosts file from Steven's aggregated list

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
Sounds like a computer vision problem. The heuristics of judging the quality of most foods doesn't seem that prohibitive - coloration and geometric consistency puts you about 99% of the way there.
We don't recover the full cost of shipping, but it's good enough for us.

You mean directly? Or are you subsidizing purchases for some business building purpose??

(I'm being picky, but look at the headline and article here. They make the incredibly sophisticated point that businesses have to cover their costs somehow if they want to stay in business)
Also, it is $20/person/meal, which quickly gets out of hand with more than one person.
Haha my apologies, I knew it felt wrong.
Ask HN: Are there programming jobs with no deadline stress?
In my career, there's consistently been only one stain which ruins otherwise perfectly enjoyable programming jobs: that of deadline-related stress.

There's really nothing I'd rather do than create software, but the difference in stress between working on a personal project with no deadlines and working under a deadline for an employer is night and day. In mild cases, deadlines inevitably result in cut corners and poor decision making. In severe cases, they end up ruining my quality of life.

Ironically, most of those poor decisions and cut corners will eventually be corrected, but much later and at much greater expense.

I can't help but think that we'd all be better off without any notion of deadlines -- not only would the developers be happier, but (over the long run) the business would have a higher quality product on a smaller budget.

This is important enough to me that I'd be willing to take some personal (financial) risk in order to try and find a better solution -- perhaps a bounty system? (fixed cost and flexible timeline).

I thought I'd reach out to HN to help me think through this. Are there alternatives to deadline-driven development? Have you personally negotiated some alternative arrangement?

Thanks!
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What about soma.fm?
I've hired somebody directly from a who's hiring post.

This was the post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7830111.

The developer was remote - we did a couple of phone screens and sent a contract over within a week or two. I still work with him and he's one of the best engineers I know.
I got similar it felt... like... how do you think you can compete with us, we're the best.... it's a tough space, you shouldn't even try and get out... when Microsoft's actually looks like it could be a slack killer - a lot more functionality because of everything combined, heck if I was a CEO of my own company I'd probably ditch gmail and get the whole outlook business essentials package for everything and move to microsoft's cloud instead of google's.
FWIW, my guess is that a lot of the novel stuff that has been released in the last week is because of the impending ICLR deadline (Friday). The review process for that conference allows the papers to be updated until the reviewers' decisions are made. So getting the text 'finalized' isn't an essential step right now.
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"Considering there tends to be zero food waste with this option"

hmm, sure is a lot of energy waste though for every meal delivered.
Except the article goes on to say that people are spending more money at bars and restaurants than at grocery stores. There is no indication that millennials are spending less money on food overall (in fact, wouldn't eating out every day mean they are spending more money than would buying groceries?).
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Well, there are a number of reasons. Cooking your own food tends to be physically healthier - not to mention that there's a certain zen to it. It's also a good skill to have, and it's fun. Finally, it'll make your mother happy :)
The job I currently have I got from a "who's hiring" post about 3 years ago. When I first started there was a team of 4, now it's just a team of two, me and the founder. Back in June 2016 I was told that the company couldn't pay me anymore so I had to find another job. I think I sent out 20 or so applications from the most recent "who's hiring" at the time and didn't get a single response.
whoosh

;)
I appreciate you taking the time to post this. I'll make sure to never use Hertz again.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/09/12/...
I use it to chuckle over emails suggesting I endorse people I don't know for skills I'm not certain they have. I also enjoy when people who don't know me endorse me for skills they can't possibly know I have, and may not even possess. It's a cute game.