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> Dumb question, but what is it about Instagram that made it so huge?

I'd like to think the quality of their app has something to do with it. Unlike almost every mobile app I use, it's a joy to use (Android version). It's always snappy (this is huge), things always flow well, there is a ton of little detail functionality in there but it never overwhelms.

It's also great to see people's posts for a location you've tagged in your shot and compare their experience to yours. Or just find them. I know no other social network that does this so well.

It's the only social network I've stuck with and gotten any joy out of.
I agree that most things are both good and bad, especially in the modern interconnected world.

There are three ways that a person can live: live and work normally, live and work dedicated to some purpose, or withdraw from society. In religious terms these groups correspond to the laity, the clergy, and hermits, but secular society can divide this way too. These groups depend on each other, and each of them can do good, and I think it's a mistake to say one is absolutely better or worse than the others.

Nevertheless some people are better suited to one group over the others. If you think one group is better for you, then you should move into it. That doesn't mean the people in the other groups are doing things wrong though, they're just doing things differently from you.

Suppose you're a person with the skills to work at Google for a lot of money. Google is ethically complicated, but they do some good things for sure. You could work for them, make a lot of money, live moderately, pay your taxes, take care of a family, and donate to charity.

You could also work for much less money for some organization that only does good. You're definitely making things better at work, but you have less of your own resources to put toward taxes, family, and charity, and you're consuming the taxes and charity that the first person paid.

Or, you could withdraw almost entirely from society, live some place extremely cheap, do some freelance technical work for a few hours a week or maybe become a short-order cook at a truck stop. You're not really making things better on any large scale, but you're not making things worse either, and at least you aren't consuming resources. You're also free to write or make art that inspires and leads the first person to donate and the second person to work under their market value.

All of these are good options, you just need to find the one that is the best fit for you.
I'm going to infer you're talking about drones. There is a quantum leap difference between self flying military robots, and ones that carry humans around safely during rush hour crowds.
My two cents is that your skillset is not quite the right match for the companies you are interviewing at, and so it's going to be tougher to find a position. Not impossible but you'll have to interview around a lot more and have a good reference (as you suggest. Basically to get a stretch position you need an "in.") The easiest jobs to get are those where you are essentially doing exactly the same thing you did before, in a similar space. So - a company doing related work, of similar size (less than 15 engineers.) It sounds like you are interviewing at much larger companies than places you have experience as a tech lead at - and it is a different skillset. Large-scale experience IS different. Tech leads at a large company do different kinds of work than a CTO at a startup. A lot of the work is around working with other tech leads, and working with cross-functional leads across the company who have growing teams of their own, managing politics, scaling etc. Figuring out communication structures, reporting up and across and so on. Other on HN could elaborate on this better than I can. To get this kind of job you have to convince the interviewers that you can work well in a huge company as a tech lead even though you haven't done that before. Find ing someone who can vouch for you in that respect (a VC, executive at the company etc) will help you get there. Good luck
Yeah, that might work, as a social engineering tactic to get out of a ticket.
It really depends on the time and what projects we had running, and the needs we had in term of experience and background at the time! It doesn't mean anything about your adequacy. Try again, things change every month!

In general for remote positions, we look for people who've done it successfully before (or some shape of something like that - for instance I had experience as a research assistant for a prof from afar), or that have a lot of experience in their field of expertise.

(note: I'm an engineer, I'm not really involved in hiring stuff, so take what I say with a grain of "needs to be confirmed by competent authorities")
sounds a lot like WinAmp.
So no proof will ever be enough for some? Are EM-Deniers going to be a 'thing' now?
From University of New Hampshire....

"...There are many possible definitions of emotional intelligence, and many definitions can be found on the Internet. Many of these definitions stem from the popularizations of emotional intelligence found in the popular press and in popular books..."

Here is one definition they give

"Emotional intelligence refers to an ability to recognize the meanings of emotion and their relationships, and to reason and problem-solve on the basis of them. Emotional intelligence is involved in the capacity to perceive emotions, assimilate emotion-related feelings, understand the information of those emotions, and manage them."

http://www.unh.edu/emotional_intelligence/ei%20What%20is%20E...
> if we want to solve congestion and traffic as our planet grows beyond 10 billion people

These are all symptoms of a badly designed city. What a place like this needs is better infrastructure, especially public infrastructure such as bike lanes, buses, and trains so that a lot of that traffic isn't necessary. Getting more people into cars will only create more problems. All you're doing is moving that traffic and congestion into the sky. If you said we needed an airbus, I'd point you to my friend who is named "airplane".
I worked at a door factory. We worked 20% overtime for 6 months. We made 20% more doors.

Works great for manual labor.
At least on the T-models I'm aware of, the important parts are still easily accessible. And the rest is also replaceable, it just may require some more work.

Here's for example the maintenance guide for T560
http://ok1.de/thinkpad/HMM/t560_p50s_hmm_en_sp40k04930.pdf
Interesting, well documented article. Good to save for reference.
I used to be a strong Thinkpad adherent. But then Lenovo really jumped the shark, and I moved to a MBPr 2012 which was not even remotely in the same class as my T410s it was so much better.

Maybe they are better these days, but I need to spend more time with one. But they changed the keyboard, the trackpads were almost laughable, and the battery life was an utter joke - not even enough juice for a MSP-LAS flight. Not to mention (at the time) laughable resolution, and miserable build quality compared to the IBM nameplate T-series.

I'm looking for a nice 14-15" laptop like an old T60 that is built like a tank with amazing battery life.

It's tempting for me to try the T-series line again, especially if they bring back the classic keyboard they so stupidly did away with. But for some time it was utterly stagnant and more or less unusable trash.

I want to like the X1 Carbon
Most banking analysts (read: first 2 years out of college) have similar need to have 'butts in seats' for ~ noon to maybe 4 pm. In the morning you have to finish the work you didn't finish last night or your boss wants redone, and you get more work around 4 or 5 when the older people start leaving. But there's a few hours midday where you have absolutely nothing to do except browse the internet or try to sneak off to the gym.
I imagine the big problem is anything depending on user input, which is unpredictable. Then the unpredictability probably propagates a long way through the program.

A simple example would be something like `x = (isUserOnMars() ? "foo" : 1)`. The type of `x` depends on if the user is on Mars. In practice they never will be, but a compiler can't tell that and so must consider that case and make code appropriately generic. A JIT however can see that it always appears to be false, and optimise around `x` tending to be a number, with bailout if it's wrong (which it likely never will be). Then the use of `x` may propagate a long way through the program in all sorts of places, extending the effect.
> until there's a repeatable demonstration

Not just repeatable, but in different physical configurations of the drive test bed. Right now the tests are using a rotating base that has little to no calibration, much less the hardware, if I understood the link correctly.
Depends on which method you use I assume. For geohashing, WITHIN should be best case O(1) and worst case O(n) depending on specificity you care about, where n is the number of geohash cells you need to generate to match the bounding box you care about (which is typically pretty small unless you want, like, a 1km box with 1cm granularity)

Frontloading computation into generating smart data structures give you better choices here.
Very responsive. Instant load times on my machine. Well done.
>coloured trianglify patterns

I searched for this on Google to have a look and found a neat tool which I think is worth sharing.

https://qrohlf.com/trianglify-generator/
>I'm really bad at basketball. I have to insight to realize this, and I tried to get better. I really cared about getting better. But at the end of the day, I am not athletic. Sure, I can devote time and energy to improving my basketball skills, but I will never achieve anything beyond 'mediocre'.

None of that is in question, but let me ask you this: are you a professional basketballer?

I'm not a professional chef, read into that as you will.
Yeah instead we should just masturbate over the hottest tech and consume mindlessly. Why even bother discussing things?
Such a huge inspiration. He has achieved the impossible with all odds against him.
My theory is that it's the weather -- the evening chill in SF. I'm from the east coast and it also shocked me over a decade ago how everything (not just cafes) closes early in SF. The mission is actually a lot later than neighborhoods like SOMA, but even it is sleepy by east coast standards.

Portland is north of SF, but has no evening chill, so in the summer people will just stay out the whole afternoon and into the night. In SF the chill tends to break things up, even in summer time.

And that extends to business hours IMO. On the rare 10 or 20 days of the year where it's not chilly in the evening in SF, you can feel a big difference in the number of people out, which will affect businesses.

People in SF are early risers. I don't really get going until 2pm and I go to bed at 2 or 3am. That would work fine in NYC but not here :-(
the two stroke VTOL is homebuilt

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2123200/The-ultimate...
Yeah, generally overtime in manual labor type jobs yield more production.

Source: woke in construction
As someone looking to replace my 2013 13" MBP this is almost exactly what I want.

Enough has already been written about the new MBPs and why many of us will no longer consider them. I've already tried the Kaby Lake Razor Blade Stealth but returned it due to shocking quality and support issues. I considered the Asus Zenbook but it has too few ports to be a serious contender and the HP offerings all have screens with a lower resolution than I want.

I've always avoided Lenovo, party because Apple were building machines I wanted and partly because my experience of Lenovo to date has been low end cheaper models which suck. I'm willing to give them a chance at the upper end with this though. The sooner to market with this the better
Effects don't necessarily show up in the following quarter. Moreover, it's an overstatement to say there is no relationship. iPhone sales growth slowed dramatically following previous periods where supply chain order cuts were reported (eg in Jan'13 it was reported that Apple cut orders for iPhone 5 screens and subsequently actual growth did indeed slow dramatically). There seems to be a clear relationship between some such reports and the subsequent sales growth trend.
Politics, 9gag, and general clickbait are killing Facebook. It's hideous. Stopped using it after unfollowing most of my "friends". Never looked back.

Also a random pretty girl pic gets 1000 likes while a good original post gets 100 if lucky. Why bother.
I read a wide variety of sources. I linked to Moskos because he is one of the best, he himself has numerous citations, and thus there is no reason for me to duplicate the work he has already put in.
Having read some of the comments in here I'm surprised to see that no one has mentioned how the co-workers reporting their time are lying and this developer isn't. If you worked on a feature for an hour and stared off into space for another hour you report that the feature took two hours. If you took 30 minutes to write an email you certainly don't report that; you move time around to make it look better.

This behavior is totally normal in this industry and if you get put in a situation like that you have to do the same. No one can concentrate for 40 hours every week on development without getting burned out.

The reality is most people are probably lucky to get 20 hours of productive work done a week.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13099671
I honestly can't say if public salaries and benefits, including pensions, are too high or too low. But one thing I've noticed is that when salaries become a matter of public debate, it always invites a reaction from folks who believe that salaries are too high. There could be a variety of factors involved:

1. Most people make less money than people such as government officials, research professors, and the like, because most people are unskilled laborers. So it always looks like the salaries that we read about are exceptionally generous.

2. There's a cultural belief that government workers are lazy and incompetent, and their jobs are "easy" in a physical sense compared to unskilled labor and the construction trades, so we assume they're overpaid.

The result is a natural political pressure to reduce salaries and benefits for public workers.
Kind of amazing that somebody twice asks "who's responsible?" and instead of an answer to a straightforward question, they're accused of claiming nobody is responsible. Why not just answer the question?
I have a 4th generation x1 carbon, and having a built in sim card is way nicer. With 2 clicks I can connect to 4g vs getting my phone out, turning tethering on, and then connecting to my hotspot. (Not to mention the extra battery drain from tethering).

Project Fi allows you to add extra data sims for free, so the cost is the same as tethering.
So why the desire to have a VTOL car right now? The capability to do affordable commuter air is almost in reach and we already have aircraft in the certification pipeline that can fly 2 people on electricity alone for about an hour (see Pipistrel Alpha Electro and Airbus E-Fan). VTOL is something we've been working on for decades and still have issues with reliability (MV-22/F-35 anyone?) but airplanes are inherently stable and incredibly simple once you have a power plant that doesn't suck. If you want to know why GA has been lagging so hard, just about every plane you see has a $30k, 10gph, 258lb, lead guzzling O-360 in it that dates back from the 1930s. And yes, we still use leaded gas (100LL).
If people treated medical research with the same skepticism they treat this EM drive... the world would be a much healthier and safer place.
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Linux runs pretty well on my e7440.
> VC returns on average over the long term have been underwhelming.

Genuine question: why do VC's continue to exist?
Thank you! :-D
If I were running a consultancy full-time, and didn't hire anyone, I'd model that as 35 billed weeks a year at $30k. Travel to a client is billed to the client separately via a magical sentence that Thomas taught me: "I will expense travel as per your standard travel policy." I'd assume roughly $50k to $100k in overhead (legal and tax advice, travel to conferences to do prospecting, etc).

I have never ran a consultancy full-time, and didn't particularly want to start now. It was certainly an option, but spending a few years building Atlas seems much more fulfilling.
This is really interesting idea. It feels obvious when you get it but I've never thought about it and I've never seen it before.
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Assuming he's deducting expenses, I'd love to hear the magic method that will save him $50k on taxes. Solo 401k is likely the biggest potential savings and that would save (defer actually) less than half that. At his income level, the S-corp salary/distributions split is either risky or not very big. Might save $5k-10k. Any more than that and you're really just asking for an audit.
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I prefer to take a view that cuts out gender and identity wholly. I don't see a need for them in a conceptualization of sex.
Ironic isn't it?
Tradeoffs (like: two of fast/good/cheap) are legitimate, depending on the task. Though we each have preferences, talents and skills for particular tradeoffs, a lone individual developer will need to adapt. e.g. the quick and dirty prototype or "tracer bullet" to understand the problem/technology and/or the client/user needs; vs the second version that actually solves the problem or meets the needs; vs. factoring out reusable library modules.
The article isn't talking about quarter over quarter growth, but year over year. Quarterly sales will likely decline, as they do most every year in the period and as is perfectly natural for this market. The story is that year-over-year growth may be lower than expected and that iPhone 7 component orders are being trimmed down.
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I have a toddler, so no rest at home. I'm either coding or babysitting.

Hence, for me currently, more hours is always more productivity.
> > The city I live in now has many bike paths, completely separate from major roads.

> Which wasn't the point of that at all. It was to point out that you[r] assessment of how much time is wasted working around problems in each case is irrelevant given your vastly different experience levels.

That was almost my exact point, and it's odd you're repeating it back to me. I guess I could've laid it out more plainly.

> [Metaphors] Driving it into irrelevancy through focusing on minutiae is a useful rhetorical trick. [...] at the extreme end if done purposefully is not acting in good faith

Using a metaphor is a rhetorical trick. If you want to explain something to a non-technical audience, maybe analogies "get the hay down to the horses" so they can have at least a limited understanding. However, we both seem to understand programming languages so talking about roads obfuscates the discussion, leaving me to wonder whether there really is a parallel between the two topics. I know more about programming languages than I do about bike paths.

> Depending on the segfault? I could. It would take me a lot of work, because it's been nearly 15 years since I paid much attention to that, but I have done it before.

Even if I offer to run malicious data, it sounds to me like a low probability event - probably lower than my being in an airplane crash or shot by a cop. It's not something I should fear today. Over the last 25 years, I've had lots of segfaults, but I think I've done the most damage by accidentally overwriting files. I'm a little afraid of that.

> No, you don't optimize your life around them, but you might also support checking of identities on international flights to prevent access to your nation from known terrorists.

No, I definitely would not. It's very easy to get into this country, and an organized (dangerous) group would have no more difficulty than the drug dealers do smuggling cocaine. There is no benefit to harassing millions of citizens if you can't actually stop the problem.

> Here's the thing. It's not about you.

Are you suggesting the only people allowed to share their experiences in a thread like this are new programmers and the people pushing their language? I was new once, and I survived lots and lots of segfaults. Don't you think neophytes should hear that? They're definitely getting a large dose of doom and gloom about the bad old days.

> Some percentage of C and C++ programmers are neophytes. [...] I think that reducing this has such a large impact, that this is of vast benefit to society at large (given the botnets we are currently seeing), and would total billions of dollars.

In one of your other comments, you indicated you haven't tried Rust yet. You should - you sound interested. It definitely has its nice parts. However, I don't think you will find the safety features to be a big productivity gain, and you will have to use unsafe code to accomplish tasks from a freshman level computer science book. Think about that - you can't cleanly use the safe subset of Rust to teach computer science to beginners... (you could do it with a lot of compromises)
It's not just dead, they've yet to perform untethered flight on any of their prototypes. The Terrafugia Transition is an example of a far more practical form of "flying car"
"There are also folks who've worked several different jobs, each of them with a pension that vests fully after 15 or 20 years, so once they actually retire they're able to collect separate full pensions from several different bodies or even occasionally from the same one..."

This. It's common in CA for posts like Chiefs of Police to "retire" as soon as they are fully vested and split for another jurisdiction and a fresh pension hunt.
Snow Leopard was super stable. I can't remember a single crash.
I'm sure this is a common phenomena anywhere with bottle deposits, but everywhere I've lived in the GTA has had at least one of these people.

They can be polarizing. Some hate them, some are indifferent, others appreciate them. To the city they're a nuisance, because they take recycling money out of the pocket of the municipality. To some residents they're considered a threat or an annoyance, afraid of theft or annoyed by noise in the middle of the night.

Personally, I appreciate these people. I will collect my bottles and leave them out on a discarded table that sits in an alley on the route of the bottle collecter currently informally serving my neighbourhood. I live in a downtown area known as a party spot, so he does reduce a fair amount of litter by collecting the empties discarded just about everywhere.

It's reassuring that somebody sober is out on the streets and alleys at night. If somebody passes out or is otherwise in trouble, he may be the only person that would discover them.
IG introduced pinch to zoom just a while back fwiw

I discovered it on accident
It's pretty standard in the federal government.
I imagine it being more like I say "computer, set the lights to forest green", that speech gets crunched by a well trained neural net (or sequence of them) to determine an appropriate reaction, then the fraction of a cent compute costs get added to my monthly bill.
the cost it's also another big barrier I don't see it hitting the market at less than $250k.

As a proxy you have Icon A5 it was target at a price point of $130k in 2008 currently it's priced around $240k and only a handful have been delivered.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICON_A5
In what ways is Lisp / Clojure better for AI than say, Scala?
I clarified the terms in my edit.
Sure, in the case of the guy that voted for his own pension.

But if you take a job and work it for two decades with the expectation of getting a pension, that pension is part of your salary. Clawing it back after the fact is complete bullshit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Distribution_System