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I think this is a neat idea, however I'm pretty sure the boss who'd know what to do with it probably isn't the boss who will get (m)any of these.

As a founder who's always open to feedback I want to know if someone thinks I'm/we're doing something wrong. But... I also understand how hard it is to tell your boss you think he/she is wrong, especially if there's no additional feedback. Still, if you think something can be better you should always speak up.
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For now. I've heard this all before.
Everything curl [book]
>The configuration is not that intuitive and you really need to get into the syntax and concepts to get an understanding of knobs to turn in order to achieve a certain goal.

Personally I found Nginx configuration much simpler than Apache. I think Nginx is pretty intuitive, it certainly is much supplier than IIS, which is a nightmare.
To train a ML Algo on it.Obviously
A Modest Proposal by Jonathon Swift:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

Are you familiar with it? Obviously, it's not quite the same, but this was the first thing that came to mind from your comment.
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> 6x9 and 4x5

handheld or tripod/view camera?
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13349807
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Hah. Hah.

Most people talking about "accurate" have no idea wtf they're talking about. I'm a musician, and I've produced records. At best, vinyl vs digital reproduction aren't "better" than one another, just different. But personally, I think vinyl can be more true to the music.

Start with dynamic range, since that's one of the spots where the "But it's more accurate!" people get it wrong. In theory, cd has far more dynamic range than vinyl. In practice, it has great deal less! This is a result of modern "loudness war" mastering. Most modern albums have less than 6db of actual dynamic range. Listen to something with more range than that, and it sounds flat and lifeless. Vinyl is usually mastered with significantly more dynamic range, but sounds more open and breathy - the way more dynamic range should sound.

And why is this? Because either way, most audio reproduction equipment is in no way able to reproduce the sound of instruments in an "accurate" way. You cannot shove the massive sound of a 100 watt Marshall stack through a pair of iPod earbuds, any more than you can look accurately at the Grand Canyon through a pinhole. So records are a miniature of a real sound. The entire recording, mixing, and mastering process is built around trying to capture the essence, the spirit of the original sound (or an ideal sound) in a way that can be reproduced on car stereos, cheap headphones, and the like. And the sound itself isn't exactly accurate, not on a record where the acoustic guitar is as loud as the drum kit!

Accuracy. Hah.
Maybe it'll turn out like Dell and other computer makers who at some points were only in the black because of Intel payola. It undermines their entire offering but a "market solution" isn't possible to punish these offenses because the payola protects the offender.

http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/23/technology/dell_intel/
Yep I meant to charge the phone; my thoughts were if you are going to be carrying extra stuff to charge the phone then might as well carry parts that extend overall battery life. (And I was thinking of away from wall usage scenarios.)
>Of course, what's missing from hypothetical artificial arithmetic is simple symbolic manipulation. And I am pretty sure that "More gofi", a more explicit treatment of AI, is something that Noam Chomsky and other have as their favorite bullet point on how to go further.

Unlikely as Minsky (the prince of gofai) and Chomsky were, umm, hardly fans of each other's work.
Also pdf: https://www.gitbook.com/download/pdf/book/bagder/everything-...
Sorry if I sound pedantic but your math is really wrong here.

Difference between the 2 kits: 600$.
So 600/15 = 40 rolls, at 36 slides each, you're in for 1440 exposures.
Google "24" and the first hits are all about the TV show.
>I'm a longtime Windows developer who doesn't have much patience with nerdy complexities.

That is funny because I have setup Apache, Nginx, and IIS web servers before and by far the one I found to have the most nerdy complexities is IIS.
Your argument doesn't explain why a programmer cannot implement his own append or delete functions on existing container types. These exceptions do not make sense.
> The other beef I have with hiring is the attitude "we only hire A players". Really? If you are doing work worthy of "A players" then that's fine. But if you aren't (and this is true in most cases), please don't pretend that you do cutting edge work and drop the attitude.

That's the thing, this is Facebook, arguably the A-player requirement is sound.

The issue is that departments have misaligned incentives, and each work to optimize their own : diversity figures is a major yardstick for HR, and the one by which they're judged. Technical managers optimize for teams that work and have exceptional problem-solvers in its ranks, which leaves no place at Facebook's level for other considerations.
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As an Oxfordian, this is a complete strawman. I'm not sure where anyone got the idea that Shakespeare from Stratford was not well attested as an actor ("Shakespeare the Player"). He is extremely well attested as an actor.

Here's a 400-page biography of Shakespeare from Stratford, by an Oxfordian:

https://www.amazon.com/Shakespeares-Unorthodox-Biography-Evi...

In Hollywood terms, a simple biography of this guy was that he was an actor who became a producer. The "authorship hoax" is that the screenwriter's work was published under the producer's name. In the Elizabethan world, which is second only to Twitter for dubious attestation and pseudonyms, this is about as unlikely as finding a goat on a goat farm.

The Elizabethans were not egalitarians. Social climbing in the Elizabethan world is not unheard of, but it's quite rare and very likely to be remarked on. A country bumpkin who becomes a noted poet on first-name terms with top aristos would be someone everyone talked about, and wrote about. Ben Jonson's ascent was less vertiginous, and he appears clearly in the written record as a human being. Shakespeare the social astronaut is not quite an anachronism, but Shakespeare the reclusive social astronaut is pretty much impossible.

Mainstream conspiracy theories and outsider conspiracy theories often have the same weird, bitchy, false-triumphant tone found in the OP. Like the people who analyze the walls of Auschwitz gas chambers for cyanide derivatives and thus "prove" that the Holocaust couldn't have happened. It takes a lot of work to evaluate the specific piece of evidence, but very little work to listen for this tone.
When can I search code lol
Heh, was going to mention this. Funny how nobody expects inline pop culture references in HN discussions, so they're often just taken at face value.
If only facebook , whatsapp etc would give me the data
Yes, code signing is important whether onsite or off-.
If you (the general "you", not you specifically, and hopefully not you at all :) are working someplace where this sort of anonymous nastygram to a manager is the most pragmatic way to make your voice heard, the fact that you work in that sort of environment is a much bigger problem in your life than whatever problem the anonymous nastygram might help with. Your time would be better spent finding a new place to work rather than sending anonymous nastygrams.

The best possible outcome from an anonymous nastygram still leaves you working someplace where the only way to make your voice heard is via anonymous nastygrams, and that's unacceptable as a long-term solution for anyone, anywhere. As a short-term solution to a specific problem, it's still not likely to help- it'll just foment paranoia and ill-will. In fact, the passive-aggressive approach is probably only going to have a constructive outcome with managers who care enough about their employees that it would be better to just talk to them anyway. The terrible managers this is designed for will just double down on their terribleness if they were to receive something like this.

I don't think anyone's suggesting that someone in this situation should quit their job and then start looking for something new. No one should ever do that if they can reasonably avoid it. But that person should definitely be putting all their energy into finding a new job rather than trying to patch up their current, unfixable employment situation to be more bearable.
Ever used a manual typewriter? I've got a lovely West German Olympia I picked up used. Very authentic writing experience...how authentic? It actually hurts after enough effort.

If every keyboard took the same amount of effort as the typewriter, 80% of the internet chatter would be gone because of the amount of physicality involved.
For the last bit this is a very commonly talked about idea, often referred to as "the pipeline problem". There is evidence that the level of which minorities graduate with CS degrees outpaces hiring though, suggesting that the pipeline can't be blamed alone.

The first part about why diversity is important has been covered ad nauseum so you can find those arguments and agree with them or not.
I'm sure they do know the truth. The trouble is, we, the public, can never learn it from them. Even if they decided to reveal exactly what they knew, their repeated lies during the Snowden affair have undermined their credibility too far for anything they say to be believed.
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I'd use Windows actually, being a .Net developer. I used Ubuntu for a while too (when doing Php), but have too many bad memories of trying to just get my darned X1 Carbon (gen1) trackpad to work properly. Win10 is great now.
> I would like to see a fairly hefty tax on top of visas, the proceeds of which go into funding some useful program.

There is a $1500 fee as part of every H-1B visa application dubbed "American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998 Education and Training Fee". See https://www.uscis.gov/forms/h-and-l-filing-fees-form-i-129-p... for details.

Also, aliens working on H-1B visas pay all the same taxes as local citizens.
Scientists Finally Figured Out How to Spin Artificial Silk the Way Spiders Do
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13342483
Developers do what the business wants them to.
This is great if you want a speculative investment. As a replacement for cash? Not so much.
I think that's back when Gotham died :/

http://randsinrepose.com/archives/rip-gotham/
I think WhatsApp and Waze are both pretty good examples of high profile acquisitions that played out this way.

I also feel like (and I realize many disagree) that YouTube largely kept its "feel" and didn't turn into Google Videos 2.0.

Of course there are plenty of examples of exactly what you describe. I feel the same way about Java, Hudson (lol) and plenty of other acquisitions.
There are a lot of decisions in Go that I find very distasteful. It's frustrating because Go comes very close to being something I'd want to use, but falls short in all areas.

It has this great automatic interface system! Amazing! Except it also has "primitive" types that can't participate, so many of my functions have to take interface{} instead which is pretty much void*.

It can dispatch to different functions based on the argument types! It will even automatically switch to the non-pointer type if you pass a pointer to a non-pointer function. However, you can't write a pointer and non-pointer version of the same function. Also why are we using pointers to represent reference mutability and optionality these days? Other languages have maybe/option which handles optionality much better.

Speaking of not having maybe/option, every other line of code is "if (err == nil)" and there's no way to abstract this out. Give me `option` dammit. Exception handling exists via panic, but it's a little different than you're used to and the language designers like to pretend it's not exception handling at all.

There are built-in functions that use generics, but I'm not allowed to write one? Hypocrites.

You have to name things starting with a capital letter to make them public. Who came up with this convention? It is not shared by any language ever. It also gets extremely annoying when you want to serialize json, serialize a protocol buffer, or do a database query. Name your struct members in lowercase and those libraries won't be able to see them, but name them in uppercase and the output will be in the wrong case. Instead, you have to "annotate" those struct fields repeatedly for every library you're going to pass them to. You also have to manage "naming convention" systems that translate between the two names, and these conventions are never the same between two libraries.
And parents! They're the worst! Always telling me what I can and can't do, but what do they know?!?
> They are brought to the US, given around 40% less, to work jobs that could easily be worked by Americans.

Some of them are; many are not. Check out H-1B salaries at AmaFaceGoogSoft or SV startups.

> So to sum it up, America does not need more talent, it has plenty of its own in a population of 300 million people.

A large fraction of SV wealth has been created by people who first came on H-1B.
That's not true at all for limit, the perfect bot's bluff frequency is probably higher than most humans. Play against it yourself here http://poker.srv.ualberta.ca
Note that the red test image is only valid for iOS devices, since in Android you can see the Instagram logo even though it doesn't support wide color
Incredible pedantry!
i wonder why Durr (tom dwan) and Isildurr (viktor blom) are not in the mix.
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First, I don't think you are adequately compensating for the availability of new technologies, such as medical molecular nanotechnology, which we will certainly have by 2065. The entire approach to medicine that we use now is likely to be obsoleted in that time frame, leading to the eradication of most terminal diseases.

Second, one doesn't have to eliminate biological death entirely to muck up those forecasts. We know from super-centenarians that those who are lucky enough to not suffer any life threatening conditions nevertheless kick the bucket around age 120. Even if that's not fixed by 2065, it's almost double the average life expectancy and that is not factored at all into the OP's calculations.

Third, birthrates are currently constrained by menopause in women. Most women don't have more than a few children in the developed world because they are biologically incapable of having more. And although men have the capability to have "2nd families" (with another woman later in life after their previous children are grown), women do not. Defeating/controlling menopause is therefore more likely to result in either larger families, women choosing to have a second family at a later stage in life, or women who would have otherwise missed their chance having a family at all. Again, fertility advances are not factored into the OP's calculations.

Thus although I could argue that biological immortality is not "unfeasible", I don't need to. The OP has failed to factor in reasons why the death rate will go down and the birth rate will go up, making his charts too conservative.
Good question. I don't know.

Or maybe, once Google has a hosted copy of an AMP page, it will never remove it.
Racing for everyone: descriptor describes TOCTOU in Apple's core
Why are you being so prickly by a statement they've been making undisputed for years?

Apple likely has much deeper market research than you or I do, and so do their competitors.
Similar issues with using tape vs. digital in recording studios.
Is this supposed to be a joke?
Professor of psychology here.

Attachment research is full of problems, and I see it as irresponsible for the NY Times to present this area in this way.

Here's the problem: typically, attachment theory and research is focused on a dyadic-level variable as if it's disentangled from the individual-level variables that are part of that dyad. At some level, it's fine to talk about system concepts, but a dyad only has two parts, so focusing on the parts is very tractable.

Why is this a problem? Because a lot of phenomena that are really about the child, or the parent, get folded into some nebulous concept at the dyad level. It's a form of formal hand-waving that allows you to avoid hard questions about who is contributing what to a relationship by simply ignoring the distinction. "Attachment styles" is no better, because now you're just talking about a personality trait as it manifests in a relationship context.

There's more tangible problems with this area of research too, because it almost never sufficiently controls for (1) background genetic and environmental variables together, and (2) individual-level variables that might better account for "attachment".

To be clear, I am not saying that there's no such thing as bad parenting, or that it's all about the child, or that parents don't have any effect. I'm also not even saying that people don't feel attached, or that there aren't relationship-level phenomena. I'm only saying that attachment theory as it currently exists is very problematic theoretically and methodologically. Criticizing such research is politically very unpopular (because doing so leads you to be cast as anti-child or anti-family), so the field persists.

It's very much in the same ballpark as psychoanalytic theories in the 60s: something that is fundamentally flawed, but has a kernel of truth, so becomes ubiquitous.

My advice is to approach your child as a parent, as you think best under whatever circumstances you find yourself in, and don't worry about attachment--it's an epiphenomenon.
Anecdotal as it is, I started my career working as a sysadmin while studying CS. When I was younger I was quite interested in security (e.g. I followed defcon and CVE lists and read a lot of manuals and source code). I built server software, broke applications, and did a lot of reverse engineering. In that time I was forced effectively to learn about how the OS worked and how to utilize it, both Linux and Windows, from C APIs to scripting, package management, and everything else needed to effectively work in those environments, primarily around reverse engineering and vulnerability research.

That experience naturally lead to me becoming a sysadmin during my study at university. It was a fairly straightforward application of what I already had learned with a much larger scale of management. The primary thing I gained out of it was a drive to automate everything. When I started that job most of the sysadmin work was manual, but a few of us spent a huge amount of time focusing heavily on automation and when I left most of the work was automated and we were just doing meaningful firefighting and supporting development.

As an engineer, the main benefits have been understanding how my software is going to run in an actual software/hardware stack, easily jumping into a production environment and debugging complicated issues, being able to quickly have my OS do what I want, and that drive to automate everything. A lot of that informs how I build software and in general it feels like it makes me a lot more productive.
Where did you pick all that up from? Every replier has put lies and assumptions into my mouth, because you believe you've a "special" understanding of philosophy. You're not a special snowflake. Again, like the other repliers, you haven't even hinted what you studied, how you studied it, any qualifications, serious academic credentials. I have no idea if you're a fool who's read Sophie's World, or a Doctor in Philosophy. Then again, I doubt you're a Doctor as you've not put forward any cogent arguments. Your arguments are glorified "Oh, no it's not, 'cause I said so!".

I cared about the questions and the content. I'm past that and out the other side.

It's when you realise that despite asking all these questions and coming up with all these wonderful thought experiments that it gets you no closer at all to improving your understanding of the world, of ethics or politics or history or science, even the basics, understanding the meaning of life. All you've got are empty, hollow frameworks that you can break with simple thought experiments that make it obvious real life is far more complicated than armchair philosophy.

And worse still, the further you get along in philosophy, the more advanced work all comes down to petty arguments about the meaning of words.

I was merely using a subset of philosophy, logic, in another comment to highlight how little a module in philosophy actually teaches.
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> That's the thing, this is Facebook, arguably the A-player requirement is sound.

I would argue otherwise, not all roles in FB require A players. Not everyone in FB is working on AI, machine learning, ad optimization etc. There are a bunch of people working in maintaining legacy code bases, tools, IT, and other positions which doesn't necessarily not require A players.
> Check the democratic peace theory -- democracies don't fight wars with each others.

The Democratic Peace theory has always been bunk: even when it was formulated, for any definition of democracy restrictive enough for the claim "Democracies don't fight wars with each other", the number of available democracy-democracy pairs is so small compared to thr number of pairs of countries that the expected number of wars between them is, rounded to the nearest integer, zero.

Certain, since the wars in the Balkans from the 1990s, the Democratic Peace theory is even less defensible than it was previously.
I heard that Facebook offers new hires the opportunity to moonlight on a different team for one month after their first year.
gotta remember to look at the clock when you are not bluffing too, otherwise you are teaching your opponents how to "tell" time.
I can't see the Instagram logo in the red test image on Windows 7
Hipchat is a piece of shit. Inline code highlighting anyone? /code is crap.

Slack has more speed, better integrations, better search, reliability. (For example, getting notifications on iOS.

I hate HipChat. Apologies to those that love it, but it's likely you never used both side-by-side during normal working days to compare.

So if Atlassian tried to put their mark on Trello, I have little confidence that it will still be Trello.
I'm sure that the best way to reach out to rural Americans is another "scathing lecture" from someone who doesn't live in their community.
> It has Structural Typing! Amazing!

I wouldn't say Go has structural typing. It has a form of interfaces, which are not the same.

Structural typing is when the data members of an object are expressed in its type. For example, `x : {f : t}` is a statement that the object `x` has a member called `f` of type `t`. That is structural typing.

On the other hand, what Go has is pretty much the definition of interfaces, where you have constraint types that indicate that anything satisfying the constraint has some functions defined on it.
Bear in mind that Jira is hugely customizable. So, saying "I use Jira" is more like saying "I drive a Ford" than like saying "I drive a Mustang."

Your experience will depend on the plugins you've installed, how you've configured custom fields and workflows, your org's SSO policies, the hardware you're deploying it to and how well you keep it up to date (if you're deploying on-prem), etc.