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So I'm in charge of a software development group and I have a guy who is like you. I shoot down his ideas all the time. I don't like it. I try to encourage him. We hired him because he is "constantly learning" and seems to enjoy the work and do things on his own time just like I do and just like you do.

But I shoot him down because his ideas don't fit in our group. We mostly do boring CRUD stuff for internal customers. Most things are very similar and having 7 similar projects all built in different ways with different technology is NOT maintainable. The other developers wouldn't be able to work on things that he built. Yes, the other developers should get up to speed on different technologies, but different isn't always better and I can't change them all.

Anyhow, my point. Maybe your ideas aren't shot down because you're the "newbie". Maybe they don't fit that organization. Keep learning. Keep enjoying the tech. Keep an open mind and maybe the old-timers where you are might teach you something and hopefully you can teach them something also, someday. Mostly, don't get discouraged and keep your eyes open for something better.
Seems like the ideal situation to implement a blockchain-based currency.
street shiters claim to invent Email, while he was a toddler.

Who invented the email in 1971?
This is why Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email in 1972. Like many of the Internet inventors, Tomlinson worked for Bolt Beranek and Newman as an ARPANET contractor. He picked the @ symbol from the computer keyboard to denote sending messages from one computer to another.
> No need for the USB-A. Just switch to C.

The iPhone 7 ships with a USB-A cable. You can't connect their flagship phone to their flagship laptop. What happened to "it just works"?
The view stated is that positions held in opposition to all fact and experience are exceedingly and manifestly harmful.

History bears this out. There's nothing quite so violently dangerous as wishful thinking.

I'd prefer HN supported that perspective, and do so aggressively.
This is an out of court settlement, not a trial result. Had it gone to trial, truth is an absolute defense to libel, so there's still no first amendment concern.
*real desktop client
> What do they even do?

Good question! The easy way to think about this is that it's a system of record or database for sales and marketing teams. The idea is you can keep an extensive and detailed history of every lead, contact, opportunity, and account you interact with. You can also report on and analyze this data to see how much you've sold over the last year, or how many leads turned into sales from a conference.

Salesforce is also a platform that you can build applications for. There's a really big ecosystem of developers who do nothing but build custom tooling and applications on top of Salesforce.

For example, my company recently started using a commission tool that is also a Salesforce application. So when you want to use it, you log into Salesforce and get a little custom "Commissions" tab.

The great part is that Salesforce's developer tooling has been hilariously inadequate for years. Many developers are not using version control at all. It's the wild west. Part of this is on Salesforce and the poor tooling they've provided. Google "Salesforce DX", and then realize that many things you might think of as standard are just being introduced.
Wow. Thanks. Very helpful.
I'm not sure this qualifies, how is this a challenge, or how can you accomplish it in 30 days? :P

The only answer that actually served the purpose of my question so far, which was to discover a new topic of interest :-)
Second this, there's nothing quite like a walk through nz bush.

I would add that NZ bush walks aren't curated forest walks. You're walking through rough dense terrain. Check the weather, be prepared for sudden changes and carry food and water for a couple of extra days and a PLB. That or stick to the super popular tracks but they're just not the same.
Britain is metric much like it is European.
This is such a wildly unpopular notion, and yet I've never heard a reasonably articulated counterargument.

It's like people who understand supply and demand short-circuit when they think that the same laws don't apply to money too.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12875168
Wonder if the rollout has targeted certain areas first - newer suburbs first or those with the dodgiest copper? It really is dire where I am. I tried to get on the Rural broadband (4g) bandwagon but the people at Spark I talked to just couldn't understand why anyone wouldn't want the copper connection.
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I think tptacek was talking about actual takeovers of Telegram accounts. AFAIK there have been documented cases of this in Iran and Russia. See e.g. https://www.fredericjacobs.com/blog/2016/01/14/sms-login/
Warning still does not fully prevent the attack. The attacker can still access the account and obtain the data stored at a server (like contact list if it is stored there).
Really? If you're going to downvote it I at least expect you to point out the flaw in my comment. It's a little hard to argue it's not factually accurate so I'd like to hear why you downvoted it.
Ask HN: Other than coding, which other specific interests have you got?
What projects have you done with those?
> No interactive logon support

technically doesn't come by default with Linux (the kernel) anyways

> no display support

can be configured out. I'm pretty sure you can even configure out the whole TTY subsystem if you want, so you can't even use a serial port to debug your madness.

> no printer support

who still uses parallel ports? for anything else (except usblp which basically never works) you need CUPS anyways

> no hot plugging support

last I checked, hotplug is mandatory on x86 (but only for certain components, so you could configure out say USB support if you wanted)

> few drivers

sure, you can compile your own kernel if you want

> no battery management

I don't really know what "battery management" means.

> The OS underneath ought to be simple enough to be installed for the life of the hardware.

you can already try this with Linux. then you run in to problems like "what happens when there's a vulnerability in Xen", because https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119318909016582.
Great Job.

This is the next iteration of Titanium Appcelerator and Xamarin style apps (which basically do the same thing but internally).
> Now, there's never been a country that should have been so rich been so poor as Venezuela. Indeed, it has the world's largest oil reserves, but has still managed to have the world's worst-performing economy.

Is there any actual evidence that natural resource wealth is strongly correlated with level of development?
No, you are not the only one :-)
I know plenty of CS undergrads who have broken the substitution cipher a part of a assignment. Saying it isn't trivial just because you couldn't do it foolish.
> how many people are actually going to buy a $3k+ desktop?

A high-end workstation is going to cost a lot more than that, particularly with Tesla or Xeon Phi coprocessors included. A single 7120A will set you back $4,841 and change.

The point being that the Mac Pro doesn't really satisfy, or target, the workstation crowd any longer.
Further, it's single-year cohorts that's the big break from almost all of human history. I'd expect associating with a range of ages to be the right thing for socialization.
There could be two separate versions, one for paranoid users, one for those who don't care. The number of permissions Signal app requires is scary. It gets almost full control over your phone including reading SMS messages.
He wrote like half the algorithm and then said it didn't work.
What makes you think slow, steady inflation matters so much?

You can typically keep your savings growing faster than inflation with relatively safe investments.
Trouble is, there's nothing in your response that lets me differentiate "there is a blockchain solution here and it would work, here's why" from "I'm a bitcoin fan with a blockchain hammer and this kinda looks like a nail".
> I mean, I guess you could argue that's not their "primary mission", but then I don't think that is in conflict with the OP's assertion that they "dropped the ball".

Part of what you quoted does seem to be in conflict with the article's assertion that NORAD dropped the ball:

"The 9/11 Commission determined that on the morning of September 11, the FAA deliberately did not adequately notify NORAD of the hijackings of Flights 11, 77, 93, or 175 in time for escort aircraft to reach the hijacked flights."

So, if anything, that means the FAA dropped the ball, not NORAD.
Usually people don't understand the dangers of private banks owning a fiat paper currency they can print at will.

Until I pull out a silver quarter or silver dollar and prove to them how much the private federal reserve has devalued their money.

Then it's like, "Oh. Wow. You're right."
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>Yay anecdotes!

I'm not claiming superior knowledge, just sharing my experience. Experience is valuable too. If you have facts the show something alternative, bring them to the conversation.

I have involvement with an automotive business that buys cars that have been written off. In short, I see a lot of cars and how they failed.

>The real question is whether or not battery fires are harder to put out than gasoline fires.

>The current recommended practice for a lithium ion battery fire is to let the fire burn itself out...

Good point. Actually, I think better pre-crash measures need to be taken. If a battery is about to explode, I imagine it be possible to control where that explosion happens, i.e. directed away from the cockpit.
I think such people just aren't paying attention.

Everyone who understands American economic policy knows that the currency is being slowly devalued on purpose. This is not a conspiracy theory, it is common knowledge. The inflation target is always greater than 0. This is in part because of the perceived risks of deflation -- better to be on one side of the line than the other -- but also, generally, the point is to encourage people to spend or invest rather than passively save, because spending and investment grow the economy.

To a libertarian this is one of the most oppressive things about the way the government works currently ... it forces everyone to work more than they would ideally have to, in a sense. (But I say "in a sense" because if the economy were at a much less active level as "normal" maybe everyone would have lower quality of life. I don't know.) If you ever wondered why Ron Paul dislikes the Fed so much, well, it's because of reasons like this.
> I consider the matter settled and don't wish to engage in dialogue around it.

And yet here you are.

> I consider this to be a slam-dunk, and the reason why is an inductive process of replacing one cell at a time with one that interfaces with the other cells the same way

All that argument shows is that an embodied simulation of a human brain would feel pain (and BTW, I agree with you about that). But a shrimp brain is very different from a human brain. In fact, it's a bit of a stretch to say that a shrimp even has a brain.

> does the nonillionth prime exist

Existence is not a boolean. You should read this:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2015/02/31-flavors-of-ontology.ht...
Indeed, but why?

Any professional is responsible for the damage they cause, whether on purpose or by neglect. These forensic "professionals" are not. And that's messed up. Besides, if you are both a professional and dumb or mistaken, you say that you don't know. Lying about your lack of confidence destroys human lives, and that's why I think bad "experts" should be tried for murder and probably convicted for (involuntary) manslaughter. Making expert witnesses responsible for the BS they spout would align their incentives correctly.
This one appears to have been written more carefully.
The client will nearly always be newer, so that message will almost always show up. You'll update your laptop tools regularly, and only bump your infrastructure occasionally.

How many versions has this been a problem? It's not thinking about things like this until (apparently) 11 days ago that give Docker haters such ammo. The UX of the entire ecosystem feels like an afterthought. Yes, it's been evolving rapidly, but that's no excuse for not having a good, unified user experience for what's there or what's coming next.
@gavanwoolery - is there a chance you could also upload a single file with all the smaller ones (snapshots) inside? GDrive is taking forever for me on "Preparing download - Zipping" message... Also, I don't seem to see any 70MB files on the list?...

Tx!
Cool! http://rustdt.github.io/ exists but I've never used it.
The demand for money is greater than the supply of precious metals so we don't use precious metals as our only money.
This is not a refutation, but the rubric under which your idea would be scrutinized by mainstream economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrality_of_money

I'm not going to engage you because I don't even believe in mainstream economics. Shrug.
What am I, the average Joe, going to do with a few ounces of silver though? A few scraps of paper or a handful of metal, both seem pretty equally useless.

Food, medicine, clothes, transportation... Now those are far more inherently useful to a human. Not great mediums for a standard of exchange, however.
I'm actually working on an on-demand hardware store that sells only nails and accepts only bitcoin
Cool, thanks. I linked to an eclipse plugin in a sibling. I'll check out PyCharm's debugger, I've never used it.
There is ample evidence that we cannot write software that can be installed, run and updated in a simple and secure manner. Software is too complex with too many dependencies. Hackers are are better than us almost every time -- and once in the can bounce around at will.

I just want to run my own containers or those written by others on commodity services from Amazon, Google or Microsoft. Or even spin up my own environment if it suits me.

I want to be able to install and remove software quickly, completely and whenever I want. I especially want to be able to install software I don't fully trust with no fear of consequences. I want to be able to install multiple versions and even multiple instances.

I want my PC (Mac/Linux/Windows) to be a thin hypervisor with everything in a container, including IO and UI.

I still want open source projects on GitHub that I can fork and contribute changes to at will.

I want containers to be small and ultra simple.

All of this means that my "OS" only needs to manage containers and resources. All traditional elements sould be in their own container such as logging, authentication, window managers.
The world has 7 billion people.

Very unlikely none share a certain idea, particularly that one.
This is most likely negligence, but I typically have 3-4 VMs open. One is for hotfixes, one for next feature branch, one for secondary project, one for another experiment. It keeps things really clean from a deploy point of view and reduces the cost of context switching greatly. This is VMware stuff running on Windows 7. I'd love to hear more ideas. All 16GB of my random is always in use.
Government wouldn't inflate money supply if it didn't matter much.
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It is correlated with having your natural resource wealth extracted by developed nations. Everything else can vary widely.
I think it would be more accurate to say that he invented the first private/internal email-based collaboration systems a la Microsoft Exchange. Which is actually a pretty decent claim to fame that I'd certainly be happy with.
Then it is a serious problem for Telegram and any app that relies on SMS or some phone identity to restore access to an account.
There is solid evidence that slow, steady inflation is beneficial to the economy. Besides the emotional appeal of "they're stealing my money!", the onus is on you to prove otherwise.
For 3200$ in a macbook I get a quad core i7, 16GB of ram, crappy AMD GPU, 256GB at 3.1 GB/s, very good screen and battery, no ports and dongle hell, thermal throttling

For 1500$ I get quad core i7, 32GB of high performance ram, nvidia 960M, 256GB at 3.1 GB/s SSD AND a 1TB HDD, SD card reader, ethernet, USBs and HDMI port, fullsize keyboard, worse screen and worse battery life, proper airflow, anodized black alubody

Thats a model from last year btw.
(had suggested the author add an endnote; they did)
It'd make the difference between life and death for many Venezuelans right now.
You can get a large loan denominated in US dollars at a low interest rate. You can exchange the value provided by the loan for things like cars and houses.

Those things contradict It's worthless and bankers are able to devalue it at will.
There's limited evidence that demand for currency is really related to the underlying material it is printed on. In fact, that has been a staple of our economy since we adopted fiat currency. It is not perfect to have fiat currency, but currency value is more about aggregate demand for goods and the functional circulation of the existing money. (See velocity theory of money). Remember also that the laws of supply and demand are not necessarily rational, and they effect the value of gold just as much as the value of paper money. (Gold is not inherently valuable)
In fact, there is occasionally (ok very rarely) sea snakes are found on the coast of the North Island.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/80026544/Ven...
>I'd argue that the race to the bottom which has happened in the mobile app marketplace has caused many people like myself to lose faith entirely. I've been conditioned to treat mobile developers with the same distain and mistrust that I reserve for lawyers, politicians, and used car salesmen.

Sorry, but what "race to the bottom"? There are 1.5 millions apps in the iOS App Store. Inevitably a lot of them will be bad. But there are thousands of great apps at any price range.
Most local buyers cannot afford the multi millions required to buy, the rental equivalent was much cheaper per month and they knew it was a volatile market going in. It's like getting angry at the central bank for raising interest rates during a stock bubble.
Even if you have an escape key, you shouldn't really be using the physical Escape key for Esc, it's against the philosophy of Vim.
And so Venezuela goes down the predictable path that Socialism is always leading to.

Do they already have forced labor camps in Venezuela? There's already cases of Cannibalism in Venezuelan prisons so they must be close to the final Socialist stage.
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>Are we going to need autonomous vehicles to drag burning cars out of tunnels so they don't cause structural damage?

Even then, I imagine a lot of damage being done extremely quickly. I think the way forward is with damage limitation when crashes eventually happen.

>Vehicles are probably the most destructive thing most people own. You can literally cause tens of millions of dollars in damage with a car merely through negligence. Pretty hard to do that with anything else normal people have access to.

Ever seen an old person forget they left the gas cooker on? But sure, with great power comes great responsibility. I can see automotive law becoming stricter as a result given the damage that can be done.
A Morgan dollar is worth $15 for its material and possibly more for its collectible value, what is the problem here? Every dollar invested in 1900 would still have yielded a better return than $15, i.e. burying silver in the ground.

The real issue with a currency based on precious metal is that the reverse grows at such a rate much slower (<1% annually for gold IIRC) than economic growth. In a deflationary market, rational actors would simply remove money from circulation because it will just increase in value on its own, whilst the economy collapses.
Computers have less than a century of history so far and you're already able to predict the next thousands of years? Sounds like a religious belief to me.
Yeah, especially with those two! "My mentors were Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison." Who wouldn't want to be able to say that?
They're apparently very tiny; many are reportedly more like nano or femtobreweries.
I'm generally amendable to the idea of cryptocurrency but I don't like the current way Bitcoin is designed. Block size has been discussed ad nauseum whereas nobody seems to be willing to admit that a deflationary currency is doomed to fail.

It's an interesting experiment but I am still waiting for something with proper inflation targeting.
You seem to be implying that containers are somehow immune to hackers...

Truth is, it is relatively easy to keep a machine secure. Just not if you want it to be a convenient machine.

You think you want containers all isolated from each other. Except for the uncountable times and ways you want to exchange data between them. This, at the least, includes the data of who you are, as the user.
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I'll take it one step further and say that nuanced opinions are at odds with modern society's increasingly short attention spans.
There is such a thing as the "resource curse". That is, if a country is rich with exploitable resources, the political economy will tend towards infighting over who controls the resources. This is akin to a zero sum game, instead of creating an inclusive system where innovators can profit from their creating.

"Why Nations Fail" is a great book that goes over this.
The problem with this is funding. If one country took it upon itself to save the planet they pay a huge price and everyone benefits, so there's no incentive to do it.

It's only when things get so bad there's no option but to do it, by which it's probably too late, when everyone might decide to fuck it and go solo instead of waiting for consensus.
Shit happens, but the shit that's happening right now is our own doing.
For those who want an impartial overview on Venezuela's economic woes, I high recommend the podcast below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrfM5UD-Azk

Hint: It did not begin with Chavismo, but it has got worse since.
RISC-V's privilege separation model is promising for finally supporting hypervisors which probably work.
"When I go into ‘interviewing mode’ I stop working on side projects, I stop visiting bs sites like reddit, news sites, and even HN. If it isn’t going to help you get that job just cut it from your life. Focus intensely on learning and writing job applications until you get there. This process isn’t fun, why drag it out any longer than you need to."
In countries with strong central banks, the economy is mostly inflating and deflating itself. The central bank attempts to guide it towards a target. The observation that central banks find a low level inflation valuable stems from the fact that the target isn't zero.

One reason the target isn't zero is price stickiness. For instance: people react irrationally to drops in their wages, but, obviously, the price of an hour of labor can't be steady: it moves up and down just like anything else that can be bought or sold.
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I really don't understand all the hate lately, I really can only speak for myself but my MB Pro will be ok for the next 5 years and if it breaks I'll just buy an "old" one ( the same ).

16gb ram is ok, I can compile my code, I can read my mails, that's all I need.
Yes, I agree that's more transparent. I've added an endnote, and linked to it from the place where the edit was made.
Now come on. Oracle and PostgreSQL and MySQL and the others all overlap a lot, but there's one thing that Oracle does much better than any of the others.

It makes money for the Oracle Corporation!