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I work for GoDaddy in the Office 365 Provisioning Team in Tempe, AZ. Our team's stack is Ember + some React / PHP + node / Linux... all running on OpenStack instances.

I think it's a great place to work... lots of interesting projects, nice people, wonderful work / life balance. (I just got three months off for Paternity leave, for instance.)

I can personally confirm the side project thing as well :)
The show was good, a bit like Firefly without the humor or actor chemistry. Replicating Firefly is a tall order though, so comparing it to that is a bit unfair.
You'll notice this post got (correctly) flagged off the front page.
I completely I agree with you as well, there are many reasons a person could be depressed including strictly scientific/medical reasons. However, I still feel very strongly those "boo hoo" items build up to create new problems or worsen existing ones in a significant way regardless of clinical status. To ignore that seems negligent.
Even worse: the ones that go "Do you like the app/ Are you happy?" Either option will leave the app. No opens up your email with the to filled to their support and yes opens the app store.
> I have a thunderbolt monitor that I bought 1 month before this was released.

I would expect such an obvious technophile to have greater awareness of what's going on in Apple products. The Thunderbolt Display hadn't been updated since its introduction in 2011 and was discontinued in June, seems like a risky purchase.

Note you can use a Thunderbolt Display with MacBook Pros with USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 ports: "For Mac models with Thunderbolt 3, you can use a use a Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter to connect to Thunderbolt devices like displays and external disks." However, "Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter doesn't support connections to Mini DisplayPort displays" (emphasis added). [0]

> I need the HDMI for presentation

What's so unacceptable about using an adapter? Did you boycott MacBook Pros until they added an HDMI port on their Mid 2012 models? No MacBook Pro ever had a built-in VGA port, the previous (and still pretty common) standard for connecting to projectors and displays in rooms (vs. a monitor on a desk).

> I tried the new keyboard (my friend has one). Hate it.

I have concerns (mine hasn't arrived yet) but I also know I already use an external keyboard far more often than the built-in one. I know keyboard feel is something people get very attached to and I can sort of understand why that could be sufficient to drive someone to a platform change.

> Apple, your new MacBook Pro is pushing an all Apple house out of your eco system.

I don't understand why, your other Apple stuff can happily coexist a non-Apple laptop. If Apple only sold iPhones and iPads to Mac owners, they'd be a much poorer company. USB-C is a new standard, Google has already started using it on Chromebooks and Android phones. The USB-C connector type has been certified for use as an HDMI connector. It's going to be everywhere, Apple's just ahead of the pack, similar to when it adopted the original USB on the original iMac.

I wish Apple used USB-C on the iPhone 7 but I fear they never will because it's thicker than Lightning (and USB Mini) and they're obsessed with thinness.

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204154
Then I'll say it anonymously as a former graduate student who left academia? For getting a PhD at any tier 2 or lower school, it is sufficient to work hard and be reasonably intelligent.
Just read that myself - highly recommend.
"...and process hundreds of millions of words per second, which is the fastest word2vec implementation to the best of our knowledge." Sweet! Just today I saw someone on the gensim mailing list trying to process 250Gb worth of data feeding it into word2vec https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/gensim/QvSJd4Ma6oE
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From my perspective, knowing some photographers, it's more like a tension (and of course there are exceptions) but a good portion want the attention and want the benefits of it, but also dislike the darker parts that attention brings --like copying and use without permission. But without the attention they are not in demand.

Few do it for its own sake in anonymity (though there have been a few).

As an aside, there are many amateur photographers who don't care about the money because for them it's a hobby and put stuff up as CC and some professional photographers hate that because agencies will use a CC instead of paying for a commissioned work (depending on use and license).

So, basically, it's akin to when you liked a music artist but didn't want them to become famous so you could keep the artist to your cool circle of friends but of course the artists wanted to become better known so they could actually make some money to cover the bills and then you got to call them sell-out and poseurs.
I highly recommend this documentary: https://youtu.be/9YA7X5we8ng

This youtube channel has more great NASA documentaries as well.
>According to my family, programmers are just "coder monkeys," people you hire to make your grand idea and that's how it's done.

Yes, tell that to the coder monkeys who started Google, Facebook, etc.

I don't know the statistics (and I'm not sure where to find them), but I'm guessing that the majority of successful tech companies had a "coder monkey" as one or more of the founders. I used to work for a private company that was started by 3 COBOL coder monkeys (yes COBOL - not that I'm a fan) that went on to be a $100+ million dollar a year operation (lrs.com). All bootstrapped, NEVER took a loan that I'm aware of.

Don't listen to them.
Yes, it is leading edge and admirable. I applaud the effort but question the headline.

A Google datacenter near the Columbia River may derive 100% of it's energy from hydro. Google pioneered that practice and many others followed. But their overall real estate footprint relies heavily on local energy suppliers, which may be coal.

Any company making a claim of being 100% renewable, is basically just using offsets.

And offsets are a way the government allows companies to (metaphorically) continue driving down the road in gas-guzzling SUVs, but make investments in renewable energy to offset their footprint.
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I am surprised there is nothing about comcast on there.
That's specifically counter to the rules, though: it's a detox. We're supposed to get better as a community by avoiding these topics entirely. Flaming was already against the rules, and low-contribution (though non-flaming) comments were already subject to downvote.
I am more familiar with this map: http://map.norsecorp.com/

There is no DDoS going on right now.
For those who are near Paris, there is a new HN meetup in january:

https://hn.silexlabs.org
My Top 100 Programming, Computer and Science Books Part  One
I would have liked a bit more fleshing out in the "second" part as well, but it does seem to get the point across, and at that point he would have had to write two volumes if that book was going to get any bigger.
I'd gamble it all on games of skill to improve my risk management abilities.
A good guideline in general, but I hope you can imagine reasons why it might be worth commenting in this rather unusual case.
With rifle and bibliography: General Mattis on professional reading
At least they're pretty honest with it. Every time I walk by their counter at the airport I laugh at the sign because it's like, no frills but you'll pay for everything!

In a way I kind of like that model - just not on an airplane.
Netflix's '3%' Turns the Google Job Interview into a Dystopian Nightmare
Can't you just create additional, unassociated Google Accounts? It's probably good practice for any registrar anyhow.

I ended-up doing this for GANDI after receiving this out of the blue:

It is very important that you confirm that your email address works and that we can reach you at this address. If we do not get your confirmation, the domain names that are associated with this email address will be deactivated on 2016-08-12

Consider that if the e-mail address hadn't worked then I wouldn't have had any domains after a week and wouldn't have known why.

Not a risk that I can accept. So I split each domain onto a new 'handle' so that there's less risk of total loss, and now I am planning to spread across other registrars.
Story broke 6 hours ago:

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-is-finally-going-to-sta...

Mac site picks it up 5 hours ago and it gets reported on HN:
https://9to5mac.com/2016/12/06/apple-ai-researchers-can-publ...

Bloomberg writes the same story an hour ago and it finally gets huge traction on HN. My guess is that many people ignore the "new" page and it's all a matter of luck that 3 or 4 people get it to the front page where a story takes off.
I thought the 13 month was a bonus at the end of the year?
And more profitable services. Could google also pay taxes like other companies ? Or was that a bit too much to ask ?
Show HN: Prototype for a Collaborative App for Leading an Intro-To-JS Class
Source: https://github.com/katzgrau/hour-of-code-developer

I was set to give a 20-40 minute intro to "coding" at two local high schools, and it struck me that it'd be really handy to have some tool where students could run/modify pre-written code snippets, share them with the instructor, and perhaps actually feel like a real developer. I hacked up an initial concept and used it for the classes yesterday and today: http://hoc-developer.herokuapp.com/

Right now it's insecure, the code's sloppy, and there's no MVC structure or framework since I was doing it as a last-minute thing.

For anyone that teaches/leads classes/bootcamps, do you think something like this might be useful to you if it were more robust, allowing multiple classes, configurable snippets, etc?

Been thinking of expanding on the idea, but I don't really want to do it unless others might find it useful too.
Hard Work – Not Relevant (Netflix, 2009)
Project Voice Bank by Mozilla
Perhaps you can do it some months after this :) it would be great to hear back with the results, so please don't lose the password ;) or safer yet, add an email to the profile.
This political story does not belong on HN.
I find it interesting that this list of books includes a scholarly look at a man I believe to be God incarnate, written by a non-believer.

Does that not violate the temporary ban on "the conflicts around party, ideology, nation, race, gender, class, and religion that get people hot and turn into flamewars on the internet"?

I'm sure it's an interesting book, and I'm all for people reading it, but is that really the sort of thing we should be discussing this week? Next week would be totally fine.
Interviewed is hiring a Ruby engineer and 2 others. We're profitable and remote
Interviewed (YC S15) builds job assessments that let candidates demonstrate their real world skills so that hiring managers don't have to rely on resumes, behavioral interviews, and personality tests -- which are inherently flawed. By completing job simulations, instead, the best candidates stand out regardless of their educational background or years of experience. Our customers love it.

As an engineer at Interviewed, here's what you can expect:

- Our team of 13 is remote spread across six cities in the US and South America. Makes timezones easy.

- Mostly Rails and React, with some Python for ML.

- We ship new capabilities often and quickly by explicitly asking ourselves the 80/20 question often.

- We care about making beautiful, intuitive UX.

- Philosophically, we love it when something is NIH ("not invented here"). We actively look for specialized services that we can outsource capabilities to like PDF conversion, image manipulation, audio transcription, etc. instead of rolling our own.

As a company, Interviewed is a year and half old and we just hit profitability! We still have 2 years of cash in the bank left from our $2.4M seed round, so we are financially secure and have no need to raise additional capital.

Our hiring process is simple and focused on letting you show off your skills -- not your resume. As soon as you contact us, we'll reply with an invite to tell us about a particular dev situation. The purpose is to see how well you communicate in writing -- an important skill for remote teams.

The second stage is a phone call to get to know you and a 1-hour work sample where you get to build a feature on a real-world git repo (no algorithms).

The final stage is a (paid) one or two-day project to implement a significant feature and interact with the team over Slack and Google Hangouts. This is the ultimate job preview for you and for us!

Please email me directly at daniel@interviewed.com or you can see all our openings at https://internal.interviewed.com
To make us feel better about collaborating with authoritarians
Mobile Trailblazers: Meet Michael Eilers Smith of Frank and Oak
I don't get the impression GP's disagreeing with the "not mistakes" bit, only the "carefully crafted with a solid understanding of human psychology" side of things - they're deliberate, yes, but more often than not they're clumsily-applied snake-oil, not the evil-genius stuff they're pitched as.
It's a joy to read such a polite newsletter. Friendly towards to original source. Friendly and open as a community. Everythings seems well organized and distributed. Well done!

Also thanks a lot for the tool, I use neovim almost daily.
I'd like to use something like this for making and iterating user-testable prototypes with team members who might not know how to use version control, text editors, IDE's, etc. I work with smart entrepreneurs and designers who can can do some technical stuff, but shouldn't need to spend their time googling installation instructions and git commands.
I like it.

May I suggest an array of squares (maybe something like dashing.io's demo) with color codes?

I would like to put it on a screen so we can just look at a glance (and remove certain squares we don't use)
https://doubleyourfreelancing.com/category/start-freelancing... is a good place to start. No affiliation, though have purchased some of his products in the past and they were superb.

Specifically to your question regarding first client -> https://doubleyourfreelancing.com/3-easy-steps-to-finding-yo...
Replying to you and the wu-ikkyu's sibling comment here: please see my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13118079

There's mounting evidence that depression is a biological disease, not a woo-woo problem with your mind. You seem to be presupposing that the mind somehow exists outside of biology, and that probably isn't the case.

At best, advice like this is geared towards coping with it.

(See also: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2095769-gut-bacteria-sp...)

While advice for coping -- from people, like you, who know what they're talking about -- is good and helpful (when limited to that context), the notion that depression is a thing that can be beat through sheer willpower should be beat back with the same intensity as the argument that sleeping with virgins will cure AIDS, and for the same reason.
I agree but as I wrote in another comment, I fear they never will because it's thicker than Lightning (and USB Mini) and they're obsessed with thinness.
Conversational Commerce and the New Business Customer Communication Era
Can I use golang to develop? ie 'go'mix?

Edit:

>> hese are there to help maintain service levels for all, and to stop someone’s accidental infinite loop somehow costing us a small fortune.

It blows my mind companies allow users to run code in environments that allow this. Containers mitigate it, but from a resource allocation perspective, that's an expensive "solution".
First paper: "Snarky Reply and Joke Generation by a Virtual Assistant Using Deep Learning"
Without screenshots and/or more information, there's zero chance I'd sign up to get a better feel for what's involved with this. By all means try to get early customers as you flesh out the site, but I wouldn't recommend pitching to HN until you've done a bit more work otherwise your conversion rate is likely to be poor.
I see a number of posts that proudly claim [...] that the article author is "misguided and inflammatory."

I wrote that. I definitely don't mean to attack the author personally, just the content of this one article!

I did try to choose those words carefully, though. I went back and forth a few times before deciding that, yes, the article is pushing what I think is a very counterproductive line, so the "totally misguided" seemed strong but fair. And it draws rather grand (and I think incorrect) conclusions from very thin data, hence "inflammatory". But it's hard to stay civil while also saying what you really mean; maybe I was a little too harsh.

once you use the computers to calculate the real life stuff (like the movement of your car, or even the spaceship 50 million kilometers away) the worst thing you can do is introduce the "fatal discontinuities" in the processing

I definitely agree with that, but silent overflows are just as likely to kill you in that scenario as a crash (and hopefully fast reboot) in a submodule. Imagine if the calculated brake pressure in your car wraps around from +MAX to 0, for example. And there's a story (apocryphal, I think) about a fighter jet that would roll 180 degrees if you flew into the southern hemisphere (negative latitude).

A submodule crash is at least something you can plan for and test -- that's standard practice in large Erlang programs, for example.

For safety-critical stuff, extremely careful and painstaking specification, coding and testing is the only solution. There's no silver bullet. Runtime overflow checks won't save you, but turning them off won't save you either.
+1. My family is in the same boat. A good meal planning/delivery service that provides healthy meals with local ingredients where possible would be great. Heck, I would pay the same as my grocery budget now (~1300/mo) just to avoid going to the store.

The biggest factor for us is dietary restrictions. For example, my wife is going through a "elimination" plan right now trying to find what foods are triggering health problems. One ingredient that is off our table is garlic. It is hard finding a variety of meals that don't include garlic. A service would be welcome!
Five years later, Apple has expanded the iPhone line to include five models, two of which are last year's flagship versions.

Here in Moscow (at Apple Premium Reseller site) it has eight models, down to iPhone 5s (which I resently purchased as a gift for a paltry price of about $344).
http://www.re-store.ru/apple-iphone/

If someone don't know what an Apple Premium Reseller is, here is some info:
http://www.apple.com/in/buy/apr/
by the way, here the link to the github repository https://github.com/marcopaz/is-service-up
If you use Slack, you can subscribe to the Github Status RSS feed from the DM page for slackbot, or even your own username by using:

/feed subscribe https://status.github.com/messages.rss

I got a "Major service outage" message about 30 minutes ago.
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We’ll just need 30 mins of your time, and as a token of my thanks to those that participate, I’d like to offer a US$50 Amazon gift voucher.

If you’re interested, just shoot me an email with your availability over the next few weeks and we can set up a time to chat for 30 minutes. Please also include your timezone so we can schedule a suitable time (as I’m located in San Francisco).

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Angela Merkel Calls for Ban on Full-Face Veils in Germany
Ebola OUtbreak
The page doesn't make it clear, but the watch doesn't run BASIC, the keyboard does. The watch just works as a screen. On it's own, the watch just has some basic databank (with 2K of RAM) and timekeeping features. It supposedly supports small programs running from RAM when disconnected from the keyboard, like the Timex Data Link's WristApps, but I can't find any real details on it.

A somewhat more detailed explanation of the watch is here:
http://cdecas.free.fr/computers/pocket/uc2000.php
:smile is a vim command that was introduced in the new version of vim, I'm not sure but it seems like they are making fun of it.
There's always been a bit of hostility between the neovim people and Braam, last being the fact that Braam finally implemented jobs in Vim 8, but using a different API than neovim.
What do you mean by 'affecting hardware'?

Compiling is separate from linking. In C, a simple program calling malloc() and nothing else will include malloc.h. That results in a lot of definitions being brought in, but no implementations. Compiling will produce an object file. Again, no implementations for malloc(), it's an empty address waiting to be filled in. When you link, it all comes together, assuming the linker can find an implementation for malloc() (and there can be many implementations).

So compiling is rather straightforward. The harder part is automatic linking -- anything Java-specific that doesn't directly exist in JS (like long ints -- https://github.com/dcodeIO/long.js), or any calls to some library that also doesn't have a direct equivalent (like, say, some Swing draw commands), will have errors at link time. You can resolve that by creating an interface-equivalent version in JS and telling the linker about it, or you can go all the way to emulating a CPU and other hardware for an OS: https://win95.ajf.me/
That universe seemed to have a much more developed space industry than we have, indicated by the fact that they attached a whole asteroid to the ISS.

Stephenson does seem to have a history of fudging a bit of the realism to drive the plot, like anybody, but he seems to do it in a way that says "wink wink, I know this couldn't happen but work with me people ;)"
>Something about their styling screams "high tech"

In a similar vein Seiko recently reissued the watches from the Aliens movie
For garbage collectors and other things you really want a randomly selected number to only infrequently be a valid address.
Is neovim packaged for distros?
Depression is the result of how you interpret things. While genetics can make you more susceptible, thought is always the root cause. Your belief in the inevitability of depression is only leading to more depression.
You've probably heard this a couple of times, but - I don't have a GitHub account, don't want a github account, yet for me to use this I have to create a github account.

Any reason for this?
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I wouldn't. If I'm going to get an encrypted mail from someone, I've alread verified the sender.
Cool, but why?
I guess that the hard real-time stuff is handled by a microcontroller board.