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Saw my team size peak as CTO, went to Beijing for the first time work on a project that never saw the light of day, struggled with cash flow realities and did what was necessary to keep the company alive, which meant essentially significant layoffs and personally leaving the company I built over the last 9 years so they could circle the wagons at headquarters in London.

Joined a new startup with a founder I have long admired and wanted to work with for the last decade and did my first real work in Python/Django and Node.js as well as being solely responsible for ops in AWS. Startup failed to gain traction and we just wound it down last week.

Now looking for a slightly larger company to deepen my technical chops, going through the whole SV hiring ringer for the first time in my life. Finding out how my past experience is simultaneously amazing and relevant or completely insignificant depending on whom I talk to and their agenda. In a sense my experience is reduced to few lines on a CV or at best a good story, but in job interviews there is really no way to communicate the color of what it was and the uniqueness of the experience.

I am melancholy over this, but also awakening with fresh eyes to future possibilities. SV for all its faults and ridiculous rents is still a place that fascinates me and I hope gives me a few more good stories for my grandkids. If I find a good job before New Years it will have been a successful 2016 indeed.
Except a new architecture brings with it non-trivial software compat and operational overhead. If you are 100% in control of your software the former is manageable, but how many of us really are?

The trick here is to make the new platform attractive enough it survives the stupid test, i.e. I'd be stupid not to try this out! That implies either very cheap or very fast or.. both. I presented on this at Linaro Connect USA in 2014: https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/linaroorg/leg-keynotekiko-...
I use mass transit almost every time I go to SF (because driving on 101/280 on workday around SF is insane). It's reasonably working, but yes, there are smells sometimes (especially at underground stations), and there are many people, including some looking (and smelling), let's say, not in a way most are accustomed to. Not a big issue for me, but I guess might be for some.

My bigger problem with SF is that timing is kind of unpredictable (trains go on time mostly, but everything else is kind of hit or miss). Usually it's not a problem but once I missed a train because trams had a sort of traffic jam. I didn't know that can happen, but apparently it can. Another time it happened again, I was smarter and just got out and run for like 3 blocks and got on the train on time. But I still use SF mass transit, even though there's some room for improvement, and think it is very valuable.
About me - I was employed on a long-term contract, which ended in 2015. Had no idea what to do in 2016 and, as far as I was concerned, was a complete professional failure. But at least I had financial reserves (yay for unions!)
I started crawling a government website to open data that should be truly open. Soon I created a bot network to open data and, for the first time in my life, felt real nice about a programming project I was doing.
I created a website showing some disturbing analysis on urban life using only open data.
That project caught some attention, which led me to some very interesting freelance work. Enough money so I could afford living expenses.
Got diagnosed with OCD and anxiety disorder. Taking meds, doing behavioural therapy and it is working wonders.

Fallback - Anxiety is hard. Not enough freelance work. Financial reserves are dwindling. I'm already looking out for jobs. Probably won't get remote work. Definitely not wanting to go back to an open floor office and all the huge pile of anxiety it brings.
Pilot waves aren't made of anything, they are a description of configuration space. Think of it like this: to describe particle motion, take the ordinary/classical equations of motion, and now add another term to account for quantum behaviour. The force exerted by this term at time t is a function of the position of every other particle in the universe at time t, no matter the distance.

That's pilot wave theory, where this term is sometimes called the "quantum potential" and is governed by Schroedinger's equation. As you can see, this extra term goes to zero when quantum effects become negligible and we recover classical mechanics straight away. The difficulty is the obvious nonlocality and what that means for special relativity.
Sadly the article is thin on facts and the article writer confused. Questions coming to mind:

1. Is this only Windows? OS X?

2. Which download is this in particular?

3. What if applications like IntelliJ Idea bring their own JDK?
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I saw the firmware-update progress bar (one of several similar progress bars that macOS/OS X can show during startup) during a 10.12.2 update. So that's a bit more confirmation...
> But news like this shows that there is an antithesis: the conventional encryption techniques are also potentially widely exploitable by state-level actors.

Are they? Really? We know that NSA has lots of vectors for exploiting the system AROUND encryption. We have pretty solid evidence that the NSA has weakened some encryption standards to make them crackable.

We DON'T have evidence that encryption developed outside the milieu of the NSA are equally crackable. And circumstantial evidence suggests quite the opposite.

The problem is that there are lots of things to get right to get crypto right, and getting even one wrong leads to failure. Which is why we tell people not to roll their own encyption and to let the experts do it.

Another problem with too many people rolling their own encryption is that it dilutes attention and no system gets sufficiently audited.
Please don't. Even if you correctly interpreted that comment, the fact that some people litter in the town square doesn't mean you should too.

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Yes and no. ARM is growing fast, it is growing fast because there are lots of manufactures making ARM cpus.

First there is diversity, while Intel or Atmel might announce 3 new CPUs with 2 or 3 variants each in a year, you have 10 manufacturers each with several new offerings so that it many many different CPUs.

The ARM "tax" (licensing fee) is lower then the minimum Intel "margin" (what they demand over the cost to produce) so the device maker's margins are better.

ARM is more open about its various interconnects so it is easy^h^h^h^hpossible to add features to an ARM CPU in a custom SoC. And to delete features if you don't need them. The Cortex M4 cpus without Floating Point is a good example, try to buy a Pentium processor without a built in FPU.

The thing that kept Intel in the driver's seat was software, and it was why (in my opinion) Itanium never had a chance over AMD64. Software, software, software. And once open source broke the server OS monopoly and smartphones became the computer for the masses, ARM was a good bet.

Is there a CPU saturation limit? That is an interesting question.
It might not have worked because it's already been posted before? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11752790 But I think reposts are allowed on HN, so I'm not sure if that's why.
But I don't think I know everything.
From the grandparent:

"Public transit has its use, but I generally hate it except in rare situations like Zurich or Berlin."

From the parent:

"I'm in Japan at the moment, and I can't help but agree - it's clean, fast, the trains come exactly when they say they will"

This: (how nice (insert public service here) is in CH/nordic/germany/japan) compared to the United States is always submitted as some kind of perplexing accident - like only some weird burst of cosmic rays could possibly explain why, for instance, polite behaviors on buses are so much better in Tokyo than they are in Cleveland.

But it's not confusing or strange at all: a homogenous society is easy to make work.

Oh, you have a whole city full of Lars Larsons and Handt Hansons ? Why, however do you make such a place work ? How amazing that everything comes together just so and there is no animosity between net tax payers and net tax receivers.

Well, of course there isn't. It's easy to work and live together with people and provide funding for their social benefit when their name is John Johnsson just like yours is.

The US is not easy. It's not an easy place. We have interesting problems that are going to be harder to figure out than pedantically pointing at the nordic countries.

On the other hand, we invented jazz and stuck a flag on the moon, so we've got that going for us - which is nice.
I worked in venture capital, wrote an article about what VCs look for[0], it could help shape your pitch/approach.

[0] http://www.techendo.com/posts/what-venture-capital-companies...
Left my job and my life as I knew it and ran away halfway across the world to consult while traveling.

Went from no network and no experience consulting / selling to being able to support myself in Tokyo without needing savings.

Changed my image and gained a lot of confidence and soft skills.

Met many people I otherwise would not have.

Grew my view of the world, myself and life in general.
You've posted many uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments to HN, and we've had to warn you about this more than once before. I actually just banned your account for this, but on reflection, decided to unban you since many of your comments are also the civil, substantive kind. The latter are the kind we want here. Would you please restrict yourself to those?

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Same here - knowing that there's a cheap last-mile service within 5 minutes enables me to use commuter rail more instead of dragging my car all the way over only because I need to visit that one place with bad public service.
There are plenty of field theory extensions for Bohmian mechanics. Due the relatively few people working on it, no single approach has become dominant.
Well, now, depending on how you define surveillance, it's either 0 or 319 million, give or take.
It wasn't just the UK. Two days ago my wife's Domino's account and her stored credit card were compromised. Someone in Texas ordered pizza on her dime (we live in Atlanta). At first she thought it was just her card and the thief had tested it with a Domino's order, but she also got an email from Domino's about the order itself. She immediately filed a claim and canceled the card, and she contacted Domino's about it. Their response was along the lines of "We're not going to do anything about a $40 order, but thanks for reporting it, and good luck with your credit card." It was infuriating to say the least. Thankfully her card issuer (Amazon Visa card via Chase bank) reversed the charge without a problem.
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You're confusing quantum mechanics with quantum field theory. Pilot wave theory is just QM, although some field theory extensions have been discussed. There's no particular reason such an extension would be impossible.
Anyone can "come up with their own".

In Debian, install openvpn with easy-rsa. Then:

# cd /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa
# source ./vars
# ./build-dh

Some time (depending on sources of randomness) later, you'll have a unique dh2048.pem key, aka prime, such as this one I just created:

-----BEGIN DH PARAMETERS-----
MIIBCAKCAQEA3Mdx5SV5kjdmq+QdTG+JIwkqdlsrXYitOTUK2GQdlRI9JhYFW3cZ
6R1oLy14JbhTKTHEzRrljePCyJJDq1gAVAcIdIazNWFRnuAMRN5HdJcDyXluaajO
k3u9HDVlIyTIDiJC6fNXuq76AQV1J+8V5t2s+nqhYFIjxxeXdSdGqeGlINgM+kMm
cRZa77UTk3MZK0uEjxeZNFnMIW+laCUT96YB8Vs+PH+7JPeMPBWJP7yQmrSEkOgD
h8BxnE+P+6lTgtNgd1wKDzdGd8wES7ObXhAcxhZnKSUIUyuzzaJtXDMsj/rXXQip
xIXKARi8X7uCaYZUEh5qC2F+uBoPjV6NywIBAg==
-----END DH PARAMETERS-----
So you hate civilized society and think companies should be able to do whatever they want?
tldr: no.
It's weird that they didn't offer a refund, the next logical step for any consumer would be to file a chargeback, which Domino's has to pay for (in addition to the money she was refunded through the chargeback)
For me, what is most important on the subject is that, even if we can't differentiate from one interpretation to another experimentally (yet), it doesn't mean they are all equally correct. Specifically in connection with general relativity, which is an open issue, the exploration of alternative interpretations of QM may lead to actual experiments differentiating one interpretation from another, effectively tuning it into a theory.
Adopt US dollar as your national currency;
Here are all the countries that does it;
http://qz.com/260980/meet-the-countries-that-dont-use-their-...
What did you expect? India has a huge population. They all need jobs to support their families. So the local gov't has it covered. Would you prefer three of those five people being engaged in a riot and the other two, on gov't payroll, beating the shit out of them? I guess this pretty much ilustrates the difference between East and West. Mr. Rushdie has a book with short stories on that.
The main idea was to avoid negative news content with the help of sentiment analysis algorithms. It detects good/bad news articles automatically. So you can read about only good things that happens in the world.
I really can't understand how this article misses entirely the actual news here

"Venezuela is issuing a full new set of notes and is replacing 100 VEF bills (the biggest we had) for a coin"

So far we had this (in VEF):

- Coins for: 0.05, 0.1, 0.125, 0.5 and 1

- Bills for: 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100

now we will have (in VEF):

- Coins for: 10, 20, 50 and 100

- Bills for: 500, 1.000, 2.000, 5.000, 10.000 and 20.000

So thats about it, the gov is finally accepting that we have a huge inflation and the old bank notes can't be used any more (in terms of convenience) so they are exchanging our current biggest bank note of 100 for other sizes but is nowhere mentioned in the article

Of course all the previous bank notes (from the old set) are being banned because they are being taking out of circulation mostly because the DESING IS THE SAME (just a recolore) and can cause confusions, here you can see a comparation:

- old desing: http://runrun.es/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/venezuela-boliva...

- new desing: http://imgs.globovision.com/2Io-ZrCgwYEjgOw-dGsi6ndh1WM=/700...

In resume this is actual good news for venezuelans because even tho we still suffer all the problems we have, at least we get to avoid carrying 1 kilo of 100 VEF notes to make a purchase, we can just pay with 1 20.000 bill.
We banned that account and another one that did the same thing.

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Just pointing out the spin.

To be honest, I don't really like Uber the company all that much. But I do appreciate their irreverent attitude towards meddling bureaucrats.

On principle, would you give a bully your lunch money? It's only $5...
Supposing "deterministic" means "classical", and so only classical computers are possible: since it's deterministic, the entire timeline leading up to turning on a quantum computer is also part of the computation, a prep phase you're simply not counting. So QCs aren't really faster, they just cheat in a way that's not typically observable.

What's interesting is that this actually explains the source of quantum speed up, something no other interpretation can satisfactorily do at this time.
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It's my understanding from her conversation with the credit card company that it's not being processed as a chargeback, but as a payment reversal. No extra fees to Domino's, they are just out a bit of food at one of their (likely franchisee) restaurants.
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Interesting thesis (that city planners will reallocate tax dollars assuming Uber and other ride sharing services will pick up the slack) but I don't know if I buy it.

I'm fascinated by the various company buses in the Bay Area. If you look at the passengers they carry they take a significant number of cars off the road. And even though they are economically inefficient (every company has their own set of fixed costs) there is no effort to create a public/private partnership that would meet the needs of companies and urban planners with less cost.
## Achievements

- Got 3rd in an AMIA data mining competition for a novel evolutionary mining strategy.

- Had a successful summer of research culminating in one IEEE publication and a presentation at the SCCM Annual Congress (in Hawai'i!).

- Only had a weekend to study for the GRE but I was blessed with a great score.

- Applied to 8/10 CS PhD programs (2 more apps to submit!)

- Found an amazing boyfriend!

- Built a ton of programs. Added a crucial feature to my spaced repetition flashcard app that has been a lifesaver for studying.

- Beat a video game! (Inside)

## Setbacks

- Got pneumonia for a month, was miserable, did poorly on that block's exams.

- A bit overwhelmed/exhausted. Trying to balance med school and applying to grad school and running around to these conferences to present my work so that grad schools like me.

- Med school is hard, yo. The month of pneumonia did not help.

- Made the difficult decision to stop playing rugby. Not ready for a fifth surgery.

- I will be 100K in debt when loans disburse next week. O_O'

- Haven't read a damn book in forever.

- Haven't been in the weight room in forever.
Please don't go on about downvotes. This site has multiple rules against that (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), and it takes discussions off topic (as per the replies below).

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I witnessed a startup implode (from the inside), which was interesting.

I managed to launch my side project, Postways [1], as public beta a few days ago. It was a major birth and I'm proud I made it this far. I'm ready for the next battle, getting users.. :)

[1] https://www.postways.com
The video makes it look like it's similar to Pokémon GO.
Of course, of course. Otherwise, what would be the point? The best part is eventually the local dealerships will have to offer the same prices and same, eh, liberal maintenance policies if they want to have any hope of selling their wares.
Snark is deprecated here, so please don't do this. Instead, if a comment is annoyingly missing something important, wait for the annoyance to subside, then neutrally say what they're missing. Otherwise the discussion just degenerates.
Maybe it's a bad habit, but I have my card numbers, expiration dates, and security codes memorized. I'm that way with random strings though; I know the VINs to all of my vehicles, and I even have the license key to my old Windows 98SE disk rolling around in my head, fifteen years after the last time I reinstalled it. It's not quite a useless talent, but it's certainly a boorish one.
How does this compare to llvmlite?

Is this going to support a larger portion of the LLVM API?
George H.W. Bush lost because Perot came in and split the conservative vote.

That's been debunked: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-ross-perot-myth/

...and really, in general this is just so much post-facto justification. Whatever the election result, Reasons will always be found in hindsight. If Clinton had lost in '96, you'd be able to say it was due to the Whitewater affair. If GWB had lost in '04, you'd be able to blame the unpopular wars in the middle east (or more specifically, Abu Graib). If Obama had lost in '12, it would be easy to pin it on Obamacare.
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If a company has a bimodal age distribution, the question to be asking is "Why didn't they think about hiring someone occasionally over the last 15-20 years?" Of course, the answer is that no corporate manager wanted to miss his number by hiring another person.

So, the managers kicked the problem down the road and hoped that someone else would take the hit.

> Seems like unions benefit just the insiders and seniors.

Everybody gets old, you know.

Unions implemented this policy because companies were wiping out older workers because they were more expensive in terms of wage and healthcare.

> Employer competition probably does more for that than unions.

Agreed. But the same anti-union people are also against anti-monopoly regulations.
Here is a haiku I wrote recently. As with any, it may not be applicable, relevant, well written, or discoverable:

Do not fear mistakes.
Fear instead those who hide them.
They will consume you.
>A gun shot is not that much different from a firecracker

What? No. Guns are loud.

https://youtu.be/7leSF_FE658?t=1m23s
amazon echo :)
Sorry that it came off that way, I tried to make myself clear with "I can say that this is really a subjective thing. When you make a judgment about these people, it actually tells more about yourself than the person being judged."

From my experience, all these brilliant, intelligent, and talented people (who don't do extracurricular activities related to coding) have completely different motivations than myself. My point is that it's fine that they do, and it's fine that I don't think that way either.

I'm just saying that there are people who are fit for certain type of situations, and some people--no matter how talented they are--are not fit for certain jobs just because their life values are not compatible with the situation. That doesn't mean the employer who made that decision is an idiot. They're just not compatible, and that's fine.
Cycle of mistrust or not, this would likely work better than gradually increasing the retirement age as it happens in Europe. The free market always provides better solutions than state or superstate bureaucrats. In the EU they just throw regulation at any problem.
Whoa. There's no reading by which this comment is civil, which means you can't post like this here. Please don't do it again, and please don't engage in flamewars about sexual assault, of all things, on HN. Or any other flamewars.

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Come on. I won't dispute your past experiences but you really should avoid extrapolating on anecdotal data.

Car ownership for Parisian households sits at 39%.

Zooming out to the Ile-de-France region (population: 12 million), 33% of households don't have a car.

source (french): http://transports.blog.lemonde.fr/2015/05/03/la-preuve-par-l...

Regarding your comments on safety, I certainly believe the city feels much safer today than in early 2000's.

(Obviously not talking about terrorist acts, as they are not caused by 'immigrants loitering in groups on the streets').
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In Cambridge, MA one of the local bus' has the power to keep a light green longer than normal with the same/similar system: http://pb.cambridgema.gov/1bus .
I agree that there is no reason that it can't, however the loudest narrative (and in the cultures of the flagship companies) is that it does not. If the author doesn't gel with that for whatever legitimate reasons, then they are looking at the wrong companies. The company culture is like this because it is apparently working (so far). People who don't like it should go to better companies for them, or push for a collective change like a union I guess (just look at HN's love of 'old geeks'), or start their own. Nothing is stopping them from doing that.
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