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Right, my bad. I tend to write loops in the former style, thinking of them as reversed(range(9)). This is another advantage of this style. I should have been more cautious when writing the second one.
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Damn. I've used Status Board for a while and love its simplicity. Shame to see so many dashboard apps closing down this year. 2016 is definitely not 'Year of the Dashboard'...
> The man had recently put in a request to transfer to a different department, but was placed on an employee improvement plan

Having escaped from an abusive manager myself, I can imagine what this person went though. Managers that are skilled in the art are able to inflict pain without leaving much of a paper trail.

I did ask for (and got) professional help, including medication. There's only so much stress 24/7 that you are able to handle before you start to crack. Who knows what would have happened if I just tried to ride it out.

I'd have gone bananas if I had been placed in a PIP instead. This was one of the possibilities identified by my branch predictor, so I was collecting a mountain of evidence against said manager. Thankfully, it wasn't needed.

(I realize that nowhere in the article it says a manager was the issue, but corporate pattern-matching gets pretty good after a while)
I was going to say that you're probably thinking of Trantor, the imperial capital, and that the earth was protected by R Daneel Olivaw and his "descendants", but now I just want to wave the nerd flag and link Wikipedia, because you're right about the radioactive but (apparently) wrong about the habitability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_(Foundation_universe)

You win this round, sir.

Edit: What petre was referring to was that the eponymous Foundation was deliberately founded on a world poor in radioactives (and other metals), so that they'd be forced to make the most out of what they had, resulting in extremely small, low power equipment.
Korean conglomerate (chaebol) owners utilize interlocking relationships between companies in order to maintain control despite having only a minority ownership[0,1]. This can cause lots of corporate governance issues, such as when family disputes end up affecting companies[2].

0: http://www.esadegeo.com/download/PR_PositionPapers/43/ficPDF...

1: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.sci-hub.cc/doi/10.1111/1467-8...

2: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-29/death-prob...
The argument about time seems plausible. I don't think time travel is possible either. I do however think there is such a thing as time and height. Units of measurement are certainly arbitrary but there is something that is being measured.
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"Amazon seems to have seriously cutting edge infrastructure"

How do you know? Based on what they sell through AWS? This is not super evident - they might have duct taped bunch of shitty stuff and rely on people on-call 24x7 to keep system running.
Yes a compiler can generate the instruction. But if it's alone in a for loop surrounded by random STL classes - which even if inlined - are bodging up the pipeline or (gasp) causing spurious random dram accesses, there's little performance gain. And that's what usually happens in c++ code that wasn't already designed for AVX ("it's using AVX, but it's not running any faster. i guess AVX doesn't make much difference").

Net-net, data and code need to be structured for AVX to achieve the potential performance gains, and that's 80% of the work.

Once you structure the data and code for AVX, yes you can use regular C statements, then experiment with optimization flags until the compiler generates the intended instructions (and hasn't introduced excessive register spills). But its hard to see how that's any easier than using the intrinsics.
Voyager I and II and Curiosity are powered with radioisotope thermoelectric generators [1], which are nothing like this proposal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
Very sad.

But how is this Hacker News?
Taibbi is responding to what he calls a disgusting anonymous smear job against fellow journalists, by perpetrating a disgusting anonymous smear job against fellow journalists.

Neither of the stories he links to in that paragraph actually says what he claims they do. One is his own story, which does not name a single name or include a single quote from a journalist going into the tank for Clinton.

The other is a NYTimes opinion writer exploring how the media's dedication to "balance" and merely reporting what politicians say might be played by a politician who repeatedly and blatantly lies about everything. This is true! Rutenberg nailed the challenge, the media failed it, and the results are plain for everyone to see.
The WP,theguardian, huffingtonpost are the 3 self appointed guardians of humanity, savings us thru propaganda and fabrication
The ends justify the means
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The nightmare stories are often from years ago or non devs. There are some pretty awful oncalls though.

I'm on a team I like, work with people I get along with and have hours that are good (<=40) except around launches.

2 years after college, I make enough (~160k total comp, a bit over 100k salary) for money to not really be a motivating factor.

When I first got to amazon, I fully expected to jump ship within 6 months and move somewhere else. I stayed because I liked the people and the work was fine. If my team culture changes and I don't like it, I'll look external and internal then leave.
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I would add Peter Watts.

We shouldn't restrict this club to authors that provide citations, but he does satisfy that criterion as well.
Following this, he was assigned to Amazon's employee suicide improvement plan.
I have heard whispers of this, and the mention of common on call hours seems to lend it some credibility
Maybe they would be more effective if they changed.
I had asked the same question on the blog post, and the author responded there saying the patches were not integrated into vanilla nginx yet, only "upstreamed" to the nginx-devel mailing list in December, 2015.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/hpack-the-silent-killer-feature-...
50 hours seems to be normal in some effects houses, which are increasingly operating like sweat shops. Weta Digital is also the same. And they strictly expect minimum 50 hours there.
Does static linking msvcrt help this issue?
There's only so much duct-tape you can throw at a problem before it becomes unmanageable. The scale, complexity and reliability of AWS indicates that they are indeed running a tight (and tidy) ship.
# echo "1" > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq

# echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger
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Wiggly loop-de-loops.
On BitLocker protected machines, you would need to provide the recovery key to unlock the disk and open any file.

Edit: To clarify why that isn't the case here, the Windows 10 upgrade process suspends BitLocker.
Thanks for the kind words. I'll try to apply this to my job hunt.
>us type credit score is creepy
Lol... I guess it is. It makes sense, to most of us on the why's, if not the how's of the credit score applications. Not all who use it agree with it. There's no choice in the matter. Unfortunately, credit scores are used for things irrelevant to debt paying history as well. So... hmm. I think I share your fear. And raise ya, in that perhaps the US could also abuse such a system after seeing how China applies it, and it's effects.
Current off the shelf betavoltaic batteries produce 50-350 nA @ 2.4v. I don't expect them to be producing much more than that.
I've heard it might be 5/15/(20-20)/(20-20) in some departments. I have no idea if splitting last two years in half would really help with hiring.
It's easy to beat a compiler in the small - just takes time & patience. But such an approach doesn't scale. We don't write tiny routines and throw them away; instead, we write big programs made of lots of routines & classes, and we maintain them for years, probably porting them from machine to machine.

I encourage everyone to write some assembly; you'll learn a lot. But use a compiler for your work.
This happens in the states (sometimes). There was a famous case of a surgeon in Florida who killed someone while driving. The victim's family successfully argued against jail time so the doctor could continue practicing and have the money to pay a settlement.

Putting him in jail won't fix anything; paying restitution is a better outcome. The key is that you shouldn't be able to avoid criminal penalties if you repeat the crime. The "Get out of jail for a fee" card should only be available once.
Grad school, if your ultimate goal is not academia, will most likely be an irresponsible use of your time.
If those are the three best things, it seems like kind of a bummer.
Peter Thiel recommends creating monopolies in Zero to One. That's basically what YC companies are doing.
Hmm, I wonder if you could use one of those in place of a pahr splah.
You can still judge company-wide policies like vacations, 401k match, or health care.
I did. I truly wasn't performing as my peers, and my manager was pretty awesome about the whole situation.

He asked me for my honest opinion on whether I was performing at the level I could (I thought I could do better), and what things I thought were causing it. I named things about me, things about the team, and things about the company in general. He explained the PIP was a deal: for three months he would take care of the external factors, and I would take care of the personal ones. We came up with a project for that quarter, which would be the metric with which I'd be evaluated.

If nothing had been done (no PIP, no anything), I might have been fired during that year. But we all wanted me to perform better; me, my boss, and the company that designed the process. And so all sides were willing to change reasonable things to make it so. Because of that honest conversation, and that feeling of all of us being on the same side, I recovered and have been going strongly for years.
Well, the most common voting machines are iVotronics from ten years ago, which are pretty laughable. Dr. Appel at Princeton already hacked these systems back in 2006. There's even a flash card on the top of the machine, which even the state's hand-picked pen tester had to admit could be accessed even with a tamper-proof lock in place.

It's starting to bother me that the PA election officials keep saying that the voting machines aren't connected networked together, and that one would need 4,500 cards to compromise an election. It's just flatly false, since every county feeds into a central system such as Unity or GEMS, which themselves are provably insecure, and can be infected via the compact flash cards when they're collected. You would only need a few people in key counties to swing an entire election.

What I would give for the days of hanging chads...
Hard to say, probably they are under intense pressure from gchq to legalise and normalise activity which was recently found to be illegal. Of course, since gchq has been doing this for decades, including to all sorts of officials, they probably have an interesting file on all of them. It's not a particularly popular measure with the public, I think indifference is the best description of popular opinion.
I 100% agree. I'm sorry, but my credit worthiness has nothing to do with my ability to perform a job, or how well I can drive my car. Auto insurance also uses credit. Again I sat, Irrelevant uses...
But what's their reason for not presenting evidence?
kibana?
I'd say it's been there for a while but it's taken a long time to just accept this. Its kind of like a schrodinger's cat thing and hoping it got better. It's weird and difficult to accept that your company that you pour everything into is built on fraud.
We use dashing at my workplace extensively. From my research into the space a year ago, dashing is the one with the largest library of plugins [0], and its super easy to make your own- here's mine [1].

[0] https://github.com/Shopify/dashing/wiki/Additional-Widgets

[1] https://github.com/aysark/dashing-timeline
Yes, you get additional stock grants every year.
In Europe (and probably US) both drunk driving and running from the scene of accident are prosecuted by the state. In most countries accidents resulting in bodily harm also requires Police intervention and investigation.

Anything less is a sure sign of corrupted third world shithole.
Wow, the heater booster is great. Instead of paying for the disposal of your nuclear waste, you get people to pay you to buy it! /s
Pretty much everywhere

The most sensible option is to do the bare minimum acceptable work and use all the leftover energy to find some other place, as the clock is ticking. Depending on the company, you have until the next quarter or the next performance review. Or the next headcount reduction.
That's funny. I just applied to their new grad position? Is it really that bad?
radioisomer batteries would provide much much higher power densities, but they're currently more of a theoretical thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_isomer#Applications
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Given how many terrible $3 apps I've wasted money on the $15 cheese is probably a better ROI.
> I don't understand this. Amazon seems to have seriously cutting edge infrastructure;

I think it depends on what part of Amazon you're working for.
From what I understand, Amazon.com is not run on AWS.
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My (second hand) understanding is that if you get put on a PIP at Amazon it blocks you from doing an internal transfer. So if you have a manager who doesn't like you and you try to transfer out they can put you on a PIP and effectively you're done at Amazon, even if you had someone else who wanted you internally.
Look at the Hanjin mess. The chaebol decided not to bail out the shipping business unit, which is now bankrupt and shutting down. (Today was the last day to claim your container and make arrangements to move it if it's stuck on a Hanjin ship.)

But Samsung isn't in serious trouble. It's just not paying out enough to investors.
> maximum clock prescaler division

How do you calculate the tradeoff between the low power of a lower clock frequency and the shorter active time with a higher clock frequency?
They need to strive to be accurate and true. Objective implies neutrality, but the facts aren't neutral.

If a politician says that black is white, the headline "Politician: Black is White" is objective, but not accurate or true.

The reporter knows that black is not white, the editor knows that black is not white, heck the typesetter knows that black is not white. The politician obviously knows too--or at least they should. So the headline should read "Politician Lies About Black Being White." That's really what happened.

Once a upon a time, journalism viewed itself as a check against government--an institution dedicated to holding leaders responsible and accountable. Somewhere along the way the concept of "objectivity" turned them into mere stenographers for the powerful.

Journalists must adapt to the reality that information is not scarce anymore. If people want to know what Trump said on Twitter, they can follow him on Twitter! It's free and just as easy as loading up a news website. So news outlets don't need to just repost what Trump said.

They need to do reporting (and write headlines) that provide accurate context and tell their readers the truth about what Trump said.
If only we could make line-item choices with our vote...
HN can do

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You don't have a device in your pocket that will vend you an endless stream of cheese wedges 24 hours a day though...

That gives me an idea for a startup.
You're kidding, right? You can drop in any executable in place of sticky keys? And it runs with Administrator privileges? How does Microsoft own the enterprise and government spaces with glaring lack of basic security like this? :/
Not in Portugal, we were using mostly using Turbo Pascal.

In the 80's using C on MS-DOS, was only seen by those that had UNIX at work or universities and wanted to work home.

It wasn't even C, rather SmallC or any other K&R dialect.

In any case, everyone that cared about performance was using TASM and MASM, writing everything in Assembly.
That's my point, why would I ever buy keyless entry/start? Of all the things that bother me with car ownership I never felt burdened by having to put a key in the ignition. That's the best part!
He might be referring running program directly from an SD card, without need for flashing. Most of Cortex M MCUs can run program on RAM, which is more flexible and fast
Then the ad is doing exactly what it needs to. As mentioned elsewhere, the ad doesn't even need clicks; as long as the ad instills a conscious reminder or unconscious reinforcement of the product/brand then it's done its job.
http://nypost.com/2014/01/05/window-washer-survived-47-story...
I wouldn't be surprised if the person working in an Amazon warehouse doesn't have the same vacation options as the person coding the internals of Simple Queue Service.
It works like that at many companies. Sometimes a PIP is not even needed, a low performance review is all it takes. I do not fully understand the logic behind it, other than facilitating the process of reducing headcount in the company as a whole.
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Hi and welcome to Hacker News! No need to leave a comment saying thank you, an upvote is more than sufficient :)

In general, unless you have something meaningful to add to the conversation, it's best to refrain from making comments (even if you're comment is a positive cordial one such as the one you posted).
By tracking people that converted and then feeding that into Facebook's Lookalike Audience we were able to drop the cost per lead to about a third of the original cost over time (from $78 to $27). It beat everything else (TV, display ads, retargeting, SEM, etc), to the point where we only did that.

We've noticed that every time we stopped the ads, or changed the targeting parameters/audience, it would take a while for Facebook to get back to the same results.

p.s The lead cost was that high because we were selling $200k land + $500k houses from a small tropical country to US consumers that may have never even heard of that country.
Maybe it's my lack of imagination or not having English as a native language, but how can something be "hard" and at the same time shatter easily?

EDIT: nvm found the answer via Google

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-diamond-hard-yet-brittle
Don't forget the oft-overlooked poor stress coping mechanisms and the associated psychological and personality disorders; and "privilege deficits" such the lack of healthy social support systems, the inability to build healthy relationships that increase knowledge, self-awareness, and expand skills that promote personal, social and economic growth.
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True. As you've noted elsewhere, this is intended for code. It doesn't work very well for text. You have to break the lines yourself rather than relying on the browser. If you break wrong, those with small viewports end up with nasty side scrolling.
I can remember three employees who survived a PIP. Two took it as a wake up call and turned into good team members (one turned back into a good team member, the other just got their act together).

The third was a master at reading the PIP, pulling just above the written requirements, then six months later was back in the same stew. Was delighted when they finally accepted a job at our main competitor.

There are others, I just remember three in particular right now. You have to take the PIP seriously: of course it's designed to protect the company, but it should really be the message of last resort rather than a formality.

Also if you have to issue a PIP you need to go back to the manager to see what went wrong. Did you have a hiring mistake or a management mistake or what? Every time I have fired someone I have felt sorry for them (not that I tell them -- they don't want to hear that at that point!). We shouldn't have brought them on, perhaps causing them to quit their previous job or forego another offer, if in the end they didn't work out.

I know some companies assume that if you're on a PIP it's impossible for the emp to recover. If a company is like that I don't see how the PIP would protect them from a lawsuit. It's like H-1B: if you take it seriously it costs you a lot more to hire one than to hire a local. It's again, an action of last resort.
Do you have examples of goverment-negative papers? Do you have data to back up the other claim? I don't think you've grasped the concept of "evidence" here.
> The number of Macs I've unlocked by creating a new admin by removing the "install is finished" file in single user mode is in the teens.

What's the procedure, in case I need to unlock a mac someday?
I've survived a 4 story building fall when i was 3. Came out with no scratches or broken bones.
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that's too dark for the polite society here. we're civilized; suicide is too serious for levity.
....because rich people have a hobby of killing people. And in a drunk driving incident, they'll quickly make a call to their secretary to confirm which guy has a family and who hasn't so that he can aim for the one who doesn't.
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Yes. See my other comments and evidence (the most I could provide without getting in trouble). I worked at the Ads Team as a Contractor.
I'm not sure what they recommend, but the in-place upgrade path for Fedora works really really well.
What in the world does filing bankruptcy have to do with flying on an airplane?

I thought being on 'do not fly' lists came about because of one doing something that could be construed as anti-security, er...like terroristic in nature. I'm so confused with how some people commenting in these threads come up with off the wall, random and unrelated associations lol. It's exasperating to say the least.
Hah! Use those "booster" balls in a thermo-electric generator and string them along a conductive tether hung from an ocean platform. Beam power up to your space-based microwave routing constellation for delivery worldwide. ;-)

Edit: Add/lengthen tethers until the economics work out.
> 1.Read and get a basic understanding of the material before lecture.

I folliwed this same advice and went from being a B- to A avg student in just two quarters. If you can, review the material the night before so you can sleep on it and process it unconsciously.

In my case, another essential key was to attend both the professor's and the TA's office hours. Most of the time it was to discuss the material outside of the scope of the class. This ensured that I truly understood the subject matter and wouldn't forget it after the final.
This sounds like something out of "Chemicals I won't work with."
Those points you mentioned are pretty standard for any corporation that isnt an insanely profitable tech company.
The oncall routines were terrible, though, I agree. Luckily I was in a strange situation and was able to avoid them.

I would think that Amazon of all places would automate anything they could.
Fantastic until you need to malloc. You're reimplementing libc, but at least you know what's going on at every level.
Can you explain what's special/specific to CSS coding about it? I don't think I get it...