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> On the other hand, I wonder why they do this? This can only hurt Java

because they can. because it makes money. because it works. because the people who choose to base their entire technology stack on proprietary software are used to paying exorbitant fees for stuff that's available for free because they don't have any confidence in their own ability to solve problems.

i mean, the real question is: why wouldn't they do this? everytime i see ellison's megayacht parked in santa monica bay when i drive up pch i know exactly why.
I am currently employed as a vr developer and started learning using my galaxy S6 and a Gear VR. You're not going to be able to learn many important aspects of building a true immersive vr experience because of the lack of real graphics horsepower and motion controls, but mobile vr is a good way to start learning and the experience of building something in code and seeing it in VR around you is really incredible. Daydream is a really solid platform and there's absolutely a space to develop just for mobile vr, but even if you are only interested in "real" vr mobile is a great low budget way to get your feet wet.
I can't speak to the robustness differences between SQL server and others since I haven't encountered any data loss either way.

But while I love the features of Postgres, I sorely miss having a first party GUI for not only just running queries but all the other important things like scheduling backups, building schemas, and importing data.

Postico is really nice but very simplified.
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[edit] actually in hindsight I've spent a lot more time with my 9yr old daughter than I have since the birth of our son. Pokemon Go turned out to be a pretty big player in us spending time together.
Recently I've heard two different stories about this exact problem. Two specialized trades, two experts of their crafts about to retire, and two companies unsure how they'll replace them.

I wish I remembered more details about the experts themselves, I believe one was a specialized glass worker.
Man, who would've thought not wanting to be raped, assaulted, or mugged would make you a coward.
Once I failed a programming test on factorial. I was younger and less experienced in interviews than I am now, nerves got the better of me.

I implemented the thing, but with plus in place of multiplication. Before that, I realised I was struggling and asked the interviewer whether it was + or *, that was probably the moment he failed me.
There have indeed been a number of such comments, but by the time I saw the thread (I was traveling today, so missed it earlier), the community had weighed in more thoughtfully. The discussion now is genuinely not awful, and perhaps a notch better than we've seen in the past.

It's a common pattern that shallow, knee-jerk reactions show up first (because some people's reflexive defenses get triggered quickly) while thoughtful, meaningful responses take longer to appear—for one thing because they simply take longer to write. This sometimes leads to a perception gap about the community. The majority of users here, probably the vast majority, are fair and considerate. But it takes a while for that to reveal itself—longer, unfortunately, than the time it takes the rapid internet readership to move on. Not sure what we can do about this.
The people who drive Google's self-driving cars aren't engineers. Uber's drivers are even less likely to be; they're driving actual customers.
But what have you learned from your poop data?
I know what you mean, but it's also easier to fake. I've definitely run into the situation where someone's projects look good, but then they are terrible on the job. I'm left to conclude they were pairing with someone more knowledgeable or cloning some idea or maybe has spent years preparing to tackle that one problem and are not good in general problem solving.

Not saying you won't get a lot of false negatives with high-pressure on-site coding or whiteboarding, but if done correctly I think it's probably the most signal you can get for the least time. Granted it requires good judgement from the interviewer, and a lot of candidates to calibrate. It's also unfair to candidates who are easily rattled, and biased towards candidates who have time to do a lot of preparation. In the past I have preferred contract-to-hire as the gold standard if that works for a candidate, but that only works if the pipeline is small.
Did you have paying customers before going out to meet investors?
No. Did you actually read the entire article?

"Java SE is free for what Oracle defines as “general purpose computing”...But it is customers in these general-purpose settings getting hit by LMS. The reason is there’s no way to separate the paid Java SE sub products from the free Java SE umbrella at download as Oracle doesn’t offer separate installation software"
Point me to anything in the Yahoo court case that says they were asking for three hops.

Your "further proof" also shows that they don't ask for three hops. It says that in order to request call records (phone call metadata, not the communications themselves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_detail_record), the investigator must show that the user is two hops by communication from a target. They determine this from the full-take phone metadata collection program that ended last year (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsas-...) despite being ruled legal by the courts (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-surveillance-idU...). According to Snowden's leaked documents, analysts have neither the authority nor the tools to look at anybody's call records in that full-take data but are only able to query it in specific ways (e.g., list the anonymized numbers that are 3 hops away from a particular number). The government can then apply for a court order to request the call records for a particular number according the rules you quoted.

> They can collect full content and metadata of every foreign traffic they passively intercept.

They can, but according to Snowden's leaks, they don't outside of a handful of hostile countries. The poster's friend is unlikely to live in one of those countries. This is not unique to the US -- Pretty much every country's laws allow the government to collect any data on foreigners.

> The issue with metadata that was debated is primarily because they had unlimited warrantless access to American metadata since it's basically public data in their view.

Also false, as I explained above. They have legal access to collect it, as I showed above, but the law allows them to query it in only a few restricted ways.

> The FISA orders are for granting analysts access to full content on Americans (most likely they already have most of this data, they just aren't allowed to query it without a warrant.

Completely wrong. FISA Section 702 orders can only be for non-Americans living outside of America. Data for a non-American living in the US cannot be requested, and data for an American living outside the US also cannot be requested. You're thinking of NSLs, which also must specify the particular user whose data is requested.
Yes, the specs of Centriq and Vulcan are probably similar enough to Skylake that there's no catching up left for them to do. At best they could advance at a similar pace to Intel/IBM.

When it comes to the desktop, Intel is driven more by business concerns than technology. Putting the southbridge on the processor doesn't have that much advantage, but AFAIK Zen can run by itself with no external southbridge to some extent.
My publication on Medium.com now ranks top 7 in VC category:

https://medium.com/startup-blink
Great point. I'm in my thirties, my boss when I started was a mainframe systems programmer for years. They had critical business process on an unsupported platform and this guy and a colleague wrote a pretty decent TCP/IP stack for it. They also were experts in some random business processes that were ridiculously important. They were jack of all trades. When I got there they had moved into monitoring and management and were reasonably capable NT and HPUX performance guys.

Now there's literally a platoon of BAs, java programmers and others maintaining the successor system.
I wanted to get better at speaking and lecturing, so presented about 80 times.

I convinced a few people to draw me dinosaurs.
2016, hmm ...

Recovered from a nervous breakdown while overworking and learned a powerful philosophy that changed how I viewed work, play; art and mission.

Finally found a startup who is doing work among the categories of things I have identified as making a real impact on the world ... and whose product is valued enough for me to actually get paid enough to support a family on it. Is there risk it will fail? You bet. And I'm having the time of my life doing something I feel is worthwhile with people that feel the same.

Helped my wife fight to regain custody of her daughter. In the meantime I learned more than I ever wanted to know about relationships. Dating is hard, relationships are much harder.

I used to live in northern Arizona for the past few years (where I loved it) and moved to Phoenix. I miss Seattle, the weather, the city, and the people :-)

2016 was an intense year for myself and a lot of people I know. It wasn't just the election. There were a great deal of uncertainty and suffering. It was a long journey, and there might be more -- but I don't regret it.
I wouldn't want someone else making these choices for me so yes, yes I would.
I borrowed money for oil stocks, was 3 months early and went down 50% at lowest in February. Deep in debt, I scraped by at the edge of margin calls by constantly trading and adjusting positions. Gained invaluable knowledge through hard work and studying that gave me conviction to hold through. This conviction lasts today, even though I now have gains of 300-400%. Instead of taking profits, I am holding on well into 2017 to see if it can double again.
Anecdata: I'm currently in the middle of interviewing with a wide slate of mid-size SV companies, and not one has asked for code samples. It's all a mix of whiteboarding, on-site coding, phone-screen coding, or take-home coding.

So at least for 15-year veterans it does not really seem to be much of a thing. Although I do secretly wish they would discover my 4-digit GitHub user id, that's gotta be worth some kinda programmer-cred right?
They probably mean they protect the nation the same way the US military protects the nation by fighting wars abroad.
Reminds me of Snow Crash.
Gotcha that makes more sense with extra context.
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In other words, some people just discovered the children's joke that you can lie to someone and then make fun of them for being "gullible", destroying your credibility in the process.
> (I think this was due to new legislation, not anything I did.)

Not legislation, this would not get past the Republicans. The Obama administration updated a rule increasing the salary requirements for exempt employees. This update has now been blocked by a Federal court and the Trump administration is expected to reverse it.
What's the expenditure for 10 days in Iceland? Did you pay the travel ticket for her? If no, how much money she spent on you and how much money you spent on her? (* asking the real question here *)
You can use the same formalism for most things, but Bohmian mechanics is a different formalism in some cases. For instance, you can derive the Born rule for systems in equilibrium, but that leaves open the possibility of non-equilibrium regimes, which simply don't exist in orthodox QM.
> Does ASP.NET really stack up well against Rails or Node.js as a web application stack on Linux?

Yes; have a look at the language column one this page:

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r13&hw=...
Of course I do. I like painting, and photography, and history, and sketching. But most of the time (since I'm in school) I'm working on projects on the weekend. It boosts my portfolio and hones my skills.
This dude going places!
Since you have a history of breaking the HN guidelines and are continuing to do so despite our requests to stop, we've banned this account.
Part of the process for me has been to try to do as much of my job as possible in the open source world.

Naturally, I can't open-source any private business code. But if I'm doing my job right, I'm building libraries and reusable code that isn't tightly coupled to business logic -- and there's no good reason to avoid throwing all of that on github, and have it be used by as many people as possible.

Of course there are going to be companies that aren't onboard with the idea of open-source. It's taken a lot of places a lot of time to get to that stage. But are those the places you really want to work?
The pilot waves are always there whether or not you acknowledge them as such. There's nothing superfluous about them.
> These leftovers would be enough to match what the NSA has.

They still need power to run theese, space to store them. All of that costs money. Why woold a private org break crypto if it has nothing to gain from it? And besides, people willingly give their data to Google, Facebook, Amazon. Why would theese orgs need to crack anything at all?
Well, the NSA does military signals intelligence. They protect US interests by compromising foreign assets, and by intercepting communications. In recent years, there have been efforts to expand its defensive role. But it's rather like the career transformation from "black-hat hacker" to security professional ;)
This article cuts to the heart something I've wondered for a long time.

The common advice in all the classic texts is that developers should not roll their own crypto because smarter people have thought of more vulnerabilities and addressed them in battle-tested code.

But news like this shows that there is an antithesis: the conventional encryption techniques are also potentially widely exploitable by state-level actors. Furthermore if I was someone holding solutions to cherry-picked primes for well-understood algorithms in wide use, I'd be complaining loudly every time someone wrote a bespoke library too. I'd be paying to publish books that recommend no one write their own crypto because it's just such a darned hard problem, especially with so many high quality alternatives out there tested and ready to go.

Granted, one should certainly have a repulsion to to writing custom crypto for all of the many good reasons, but it makes me think it's worth putting in more than the minimal effort into it, especially when lives are on the line.
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SF has public bathrooms[0]. SF public places still often stink (and yes, in vicinity of those too). And by stink I mean eye-watering. And apparently the public ones share the problem[1].

[0] https://localwiki.org/sf/Restrooms

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/It-s-time-to-ra...
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Algorithms datastructures OOP? Softwaredesignpatterns

hardware, chip, logic gate design. Asm.

inheritance, templates/generics

compiler design, some math stuff

fizz buzz, fibonacci, fucking sort functions, and palindromes

(From what I've seen from other devs)
Why do people care about this? It's the bank's credit card number that gets stolen, not yours. Fraud is so routine that you probably don't even have to call anyone when this happens. They discover it, reverse the charges, and send you a new card.
Well, Vulcan is now kaput, Seattle seems disowned and X-Gene is up for grabs, so only Qualcomm and Cavium remain as contenders in the server SoC space. I predict they still have a solid shot but it will require a lot of uncomfortable adjustments along the way.
For sure. But then, consider national defense efforts during the Cold War. I've never heard that NSA does anything at that level.
Are you seriously saying that NuGet/paket are worse than a flawed package manager that even managed to cause a JavaScript global outage when a padding package was retired?
What are your problems with NuGet and paket?
Copenhagen gives up determinism, definiteness and locality. It's by far the worst of the interpretations, but chugs along due to inertia
This Prenda stuff was what turned me on to Popehat. Amazing writing.
> What's the expenditure for 10 days in Iceland?

Flights, hotel and Airbnb reservations, renting an SUV for 7 days, tickets for the ferry to Westfjords, etc. it was about $3500 for two people. That doesn't include food, tickets for local attractions, etc.

> Did you pay the travel ticket for her? If no, how much money she spent on you and how much money you spent on her?

Nope. We pretty much split Iceland evenly, we just went there as friends.

I fully covered Montréal because it was my idea and I didn't expect her to contribute. That ran me about $1200 for air fare and a night in the hotel for the two of us. I fully covered that along with cab rides, food, tickets for local attractions, etc. The only thing she paid for was a coffee while we were waiting to board our flight.
I strongly blame the Apple watch for the demise of the smart watch. People, including this article's author, look at how unfit for purpose the Apple watch is and draw conclusions about all smart watches. And the Apple watch is the most visible, so that's all most people see.
That's exactly how I feel, here's to a better 2017!
Hm, I can't remember exactly what the condition is, but I know there is a situation in which they won't except PayPal because it's happened to me before. I think that might be if your order is under £10, or if you're collecting or something like that.
From the article

"Java SE is free but Java SE Advanced Desktop, Advanced and Suite are not. Java SE Suite, for example, costs $300 per named user with a support bill of $66; there’s a per-processor option of $15,000 with a $3,300 support bill"
Chin up son. 2017 is a new year and with it, new opportunities.
I can do 10 pull-ups now
Since it is simple economics then you might know about the 'helicopter money' principle. In Uber's case they artificially are able to create a market by undercutting prices where (as the article states) even public transportation can not compete anymore with the endgame of having a monopoly. If Uber would not have billion's of VC's helicopter money they would not be able to do that.
Think of it this way: the propaganda worked.
There's a pretty strong bias built into the system against designating any lawyer a vexatious litigant. Filing lawsuits is how a great many lawyers pay the bills, after all, and they don't want to be looking over their shoulder every time they file.

There was a woman in the SF bay area who was finally restricted from filing lawsuits, but look what she had to do before the courts took action:

>McColm, a law school graduate, has acted as her own attorney in filing dozens of lawsuits against public agencies, tenants, banks, neighbors, physicians, newspapers, lawyers and insurance firms.

>Litigating with McColm "is a time-consuming and incredibly expensive quagmire," the homeowners' brief said. "Discovery becomes hand-to-hand combat and litigation a war of attrition as McColm filed motion after motion without regard to the merits of any arguments or the veracity of the facts."

>Among McColm's lawsuits was one for injunctive relief from children next door playing basketball in their own back yard.

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/S-F-woman-vexatious-litig...
Final in the sense that hopefully we won't need a fourth one. It should provide the best performance (since the IR is not re-encoded in Python) and I've tried to make it flexible and future proof. llvmlite currently only supports LLVM 3.8, while I quickly tested llvmcpy with 3.4, 3.8 and 3.9 and works flawlessly.

Still quite alpha, though.
I wonder often how often cliquishness gets interpreted as agism, but in either case, being an aging white male in the tech business has given me a new perspective on the merits of workplace diversity :)
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I also think that contract-to-hire is a good option to consider. Vetting a small, unknown company requires time and effort.
What's the difficulty level of writing star tracker software for consumer grade CCD devices? I've always had writing and open sourcing a star tracker on my bucket list, similar to how this person did the same for a from-scratch GPS receiver [1]. Same for determining your position in space using pulsars as beacons [2].

[1] http://www.aholme.co.uk/GPS/Main.htm

[2] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/201500...
A few good examples in Clojure would be:

core.async https://github.com/clojure/core.async

core.match https://github.com/clojure/core.match

Compojure https://github.com/weavejester/compojure

Midje https://github.com/marick/Midje

Korma http://sqlkorma.com/
Only a $50 fine! Makes it even more tempting. :P
I don't believe the concept of PE extends to software. I know its true for architecture, you need a PE to sign off on big structures.

I would LOVE to have it in software.
In this context, "No, actually, it's not" is not a particularly civil way to make this point. The valid concern you're raising would not be hard to express in a good-faith way. I think we can all agree that there are multiple concerns and it's not obvious how to balance them.

The fact that you led with "No actually" instead, and ended by imputing a strawman ("everyone needs to automatically assume") gives your comment an absence-of-good-faith quality that we should all be striving to avoid on HN—particularly when the topic is divisive.
Outstanding. Do you suppose I could just lease it for a few years at a fraction of the ordinary monthly payments? That way I can drive it extra hard and skip changing the oil and all that annoying stuff and then at the end of the lease, I just send it back. That'd be fantastic.
Their video from 2012 also showed the same man (Steve Mahan) and it also showed the car going through a Taco Bell drive thru on its own.

It's going to be some time before both of them are reality.
you're an idiot if you think google, facebook, and amazon are breaking state-of-the-art crypto to steal your information
What worries me the most is when businesses start welcoming regulation. That means they are entrenched and just trying to keep out fresh competition.
I got a permanent position in academia (associate professor) after only one year of post-doc. Dream job :). I'm feeling so lucky and happy. It also implied moving back to Paris where most of my friends are.

Fallback: I moved back to Paris, where it is poluted and rainy. One can't have everything at the same time ;).
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> I miss Seattle, the weather, the city, and the people :-)

Rare for someone to appreciate the weather in Seattle. Can you tell us more about your perspective?
interesting! I don't use WYSIWYG myself, but I'll look forward to the product launch. seems like this would pair especially well with react native.