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I was really confused by what the author was trying to say. TSOM is a family-oriented movie and, while we can all agree that the Nazis were more terrible than the movie presents, I don't think it's fair to criticize the movie for sparing children who might enjoy the musical from the atrocities of war. You're not suddenly more wise or more mature because you recognize the naiveté of the film (meaning the author, not OP). You're just pointing out the obvious decision the filmmakers made to keep the tone of their film.
Interested 3rd party... What metadata would you say is essential?
Ok. But if people prefer the 2D version, then they’d not pay more for something they like less.
I agree completely. Cultivating the discipline to maintain a daily journal is the hardest part. Could I suggest that you check out https://www.60secondseveryday.com?

It's the fastest way of daily journaling - you make a 60 second phone call every night to answer the question "What do you want to remember about today?". From there, it gets transcribed, archived, and it's all searchable as well.

Disclaimer: I came up with the service after having a need for it myself
Head of Product @ Stormpath

It doesn't really matter where you start, as long as you can relate to the product and its customers. I've seen great PM from every beginning. My beginning was a normal comp sci background -> dev -> customer success manager (any support role is a great segway into product management role) -> PM. Having managed many PMs, it boils down to this:

Can you be an advocate for your customer for your product, regardless of intercompany demands?

Can you communicate your vision for what needs to be built effectively across the whole company?

Those are the two main skills that I try to distil for any PM that I hire. There is a 3rd which I call the auxiliary skill (these can be taught easily, hence auxiliary).

How do you validate your assumptions, remove cognitive biases to come to the best decision about the priority on what should be built when?

And a fourth, which comes down to background and personality:

Can you be a swiss army knife and help wherever the team needs you?

The product I currently manage is a developer tool, so taking a look at an example based on the 4 points:

1. Can you relate to developer pain points, market problems with identity, create great developer experience and understand where there are holes in the current product?

2. How can you use the tools at your disposal to communicate what we need to build to the engineering team, marketing, and executives. Technical and non-technical folks alike, even for a technical product that is sold to devs.

3. How can you manage feedback / signals from sales, developer evangelism, customer asks, and visionaries to create a roadmap

4. Demonstrate how you have needed to step out of your comfort zone to get the job done.

When interviewing, having a developer background is a must (but it is only a must because my product is currently catering to the developer persona), but replace a developer product with a dental product that is sold to dentists. That hiring manager is going to want someone that more than likely understands dentists and their pain points that the software is currently solving for. They could come from, office manager, dentist moving to software (it happens), someone from the insurance industry... you see the point.

Hope this helps, I'm always happy to help and advise. Snag my twitter handle from the profile and shoot me a DM.
"What was the worst requirement you had to meet?"

Thanks for mentioning that one - it means I get to think of a sensible answer rather than convulsing in laughter for a few moments. It did involve physical buttons for "Burger", "Beer" and "Porn".
I don't know much about this industry --as in I know nothing, but I think some of the costly parts are "exploration rights" as well as regulatory hurdles and costs. If you own some land with mineral rights, then you can do some of this but if you don't have land then obtaining that land and getting permission to explore is not a trivial task, I think.
How does this work with GNU Social, the federated free/libre software Twitter clone/social network software?

https://www.gnu.io/social/
As someone else says, it depends on what you define as a "software architect". A co-worker from a former company that was a "technical fellow" and "technical director" (effectively an architect, at a 12,000 person tech company), came over to Google and just has the title of "Software Engineer". From the companies I've worked at, software architect covers a lot of different job descriptions.

At Google, more senior software engineers will have a "system design" type question as part of their interview. There are sample problems for this all over the internet[0]. For example, you could ask them "Design a URL shortening service like bit.ly.". When you ask open ended questions like these, there are so many parts of the system you can dive into that you can really test the depth and breadth of a candidate's knowledge.

[0] https://www.hiredintech.com/system-design/
Wow that's a great tip, I did not know about that one, but it's going to be very useful for a UI I am about to start working on.

In addition to requestAnimationFrame this could be very handy!

Are there any gotchas you have experienced in using this API that I should look out for?
Fuck it, Ship it
Moving students around schools in an attempt to equalize race and poverty levels isn't a new concept and it's been tried before (and possibly still done in some states/cities).

They tried forced busing of students to schools across the cities in Ohio back in the 70s and 80s to equalize school demographics. Parents moved in droves to the suburbs and Ohio cities only started recovering in the past 10 years after the program was ended in the 90s. No one wanted their children to go to a school 40 minutes away when there was a perfectly good one within walking distance.

If one still thinks this is a viable solution, how is it going to going to avoid the mistakes of previous attempts? Last thing the cities here need is a mass migration back to the suburbs when the cities have just started turning around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_City_Schools#1977_Des...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregation_busing
That’s my point. People do like 3D movies. Not everyone, but enough to dedicate screens to it.
https://backtrac.io/ is another one.
Squeezing Webpack into back end frameworks
Loved the game. I don't mind about the ads. It was well thought, because when you lose, you deserved ;)

As I suggestion. You didn't need to waste time in so much detail for the first version. If you haven't mentioned about the birds and the building lights I would never have notice. It is a nice to have, but surely it would be better to ship the game earlier. Even though, I would rather like different cities. The city is destroyed, no matter what :0
I don't get this article. The laptop I'm reading this on has a maximum brightness of ~300 lux. Its emission spectra looks something like this [1].

In comparison, indirect sunlight from a clear sunny day is around 10,000-20,000 lux. Its emission spectra looks something like this [2], with significant amounts of "harmful" blue light.

So, I don't get this article. Why does the blue light from my laptop cause blindness, while the 30-50x brighter indirect sunlight seemingly doesn't?

[1] http://scienceblogs.com/principles/files/2014/02/display_com...

[2] https://cdn.comsol.com/wordpress/2016/01/Emission-spectrum-o...
I would suggest a combination of being a point person to solve production issues (either on a pager or being a developer who fixes problems after an outage), or a more involved side project (try keeping Wordpress running on a VM when something is on HN, etc)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13456357
Kind of a tangent point but I really wonder how our society intends to solve the problem of automation replacing high paying skilled workers. Is education and relocation the only answer?
Re: LED lighting

Any idea if anyone has experimented with using heliostats and light pipes (fiber optics) to move sunlight from the outside to the inside for growing plants, while eliminating the heat issue - for growing plants?

I know it has been done for lighting a room, as well as for artistic purposes - but I am not sure about whether it has been tried for indoor farming...?
Microsoft victory in overseas email seizure case is upheld
The post doesn't list any differentiating features of Vivaldi. It just talks about Microsoft's alleged disregard to user's default browser selection. Admittedly, I bought a Windows 10 laptop recently, that's been through multiple OS updates, while retaining my default browser selection.

The post doesn't explain why Vivaldi over Firefox, chrome or edge.
Google Cardboard?
No, I meant that suspecting Chrome of covertly sending data to Google (without telling us) is paranoia. Especially since the source code is open.
Sometimes you don't have that luxury. What if your company requires an influx of new capital to be able to maintain your current staffing levels and one requirement of the funding is delivering a set of features in a week? Adopting the attitude "we'll just ship a few weeks late" may result in funding not going through, everyone losing their jobs, and the company dissolving.

I agree that death marches are counterproductive. However, if you've been around long enough you've run across situations where they are unfortunately necessary. Another example: production goes down Friday at 5pm. Do you say "we'll pick this up Monday morning"? No... it's all hands on deck to get production back up working as long as it takes, assuming your company isn't large enough to have its own dedicated 24/7 incident response team. Hopefully there's a lot of process and automation which helps to minimize the effort, and if not that's a great takeaway to improving the process down the road.
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It's not cheaper. It's just that people don't factor in the dramatically increased transportation costs.

Metro Vancouver studied this and found that when transportation costs were factored in, car reliant outer suburbs became more expensive than "pricy" downtown and inner suburbs.

http://bc.ctvnews.ca/suburbs-pricier-than-vancouver-when-tra...
As a bellweather, OSX has had something called App Nap for some time, which throttles hidden apps apart from certain activities like playing music or downloading. I would imagine it affects Chrome as well as Safari. Have there been any real problems with that in practice?
Ways to Burst Your Filter Bubble
I like questions like this, but I always give an explanation what the service is, in case the person freezes up in an interview situation.
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The NHS money was a simple direct claim printed on the side of a bus and used as a backdrop in photocalls.

It was a blatant lie; very manipulative, and people who knew it was a lie but who said nothing before the vote should be ashamed.
Any such "tech automation moratorium" would have to be a world-wide thing. It would not work if everyone abided by a moratorium but the US didn't or Every did but Australia --that would create an unfair advantage to the one doing all the automation where others had to pay for semi-skilled labor. There is no easy answer to the conundrum.
IDK. Slackware isn't noticeably slower to boot than Fedora, at least for me.
I only made it through one third of the sequel. I thought the quality had taken a dramatic step down and couldn't bring myself to finish it.
To be honest neither is slack. They've got push notifications through web service workers. What for would they need aggressive background activity?

I'm not saying this to be pedantic, just trying to nip this entitled vendor mentality in the bud. "We're important so give give give without asking." It's a bit what you see with permissions on mobile: the more famous a company is, the more brazen a permission policy they can get away with. It's only tangentially related actual functionality of the app.

This is not about you personally, by the way, but about vendors. You just shouldn't let them get away with it. Even if they're slack :)
It was always rather transparent that the "jobs" angle was a play by big oil to stoke populism for an objectively unpopular agenda (i.e. more drilling, extraction pollution). Once automation removes the need for low skilled laborers I would think this tactic would not be available anymore (but who knows, in this era of alternative facts).
The way math papers and proofs are written is fascinating, because it reveals so much about how people read mathematical notation. Much of the older notation was more explicitly used as shorthand for words or phrases, rather than being a language in its own right (as it is today). (And old papers were written out in natural language, which seems so hard to read by today's standards.)
Rust contests the claim that you actually need to do pointer arithmetic and stuff often in systems languages. You need to do it a bit to implement your abstractions, maybe, but it is not the first tool you should need to reach for.

The code in the blog post looks very much like C-translated-to-rust. Right now, systems programming mostly does look like C/C++ because those are the only two mainstream languages that work here (D, too, but D is like C++. There are also other languages). But systems programming doesn't have to look the same or use the same primitives.

Do you really need to use malloc to allocate memory in a systems language? Do you really need to use pointer arithmetic to deal with things in a systems language? Sometimes, but not necessarily often. Even the Rust operating systems have managed to minimize the amount of unsafe/C-like code.

Rust does expose this functionality, but if it's not something it expects you to use often it makes sense that it might not always be straightforward to use.
HTTP is standardized, but lots of stuff doesn't follow the standard in the areas that didn't use to matter. Then we get problems like this:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=616212

that have to be worked around by assuming that other devices might not adhere to the specification.
It's a question of reliability. When you market an 'autopilot' that periodically crashes into stationary vehicles, you are probably fine using just a camera. If you, on the other hand, are Google, and want to provide an actual hands-off Level 4 self-driving car, well.. you need an actual 3D point cloud and not just some neural network's educated guess about what the distance is.
Is your implementation correct? I get strange values.

Q_rsqrt(16) = 0.24957678739619552

I'm not sure if I'm just not doing something correctly. Even if I go to a smaller number I get:

Q_rsqrt(0.125) = 2.828426859705843

Which is vastly off (10x ish)
I'd like to second jagermo with this question, and in all honesty.

if you're uncomfortable about commenting publicly, or if anyone else who can chime in is, feel free to send me an email instead. I mean it!

I really do want to understand the pro-brexit side and I can imagine there being many points of agreement (I'm not fully pro-EU in part on account of generally being suspicious over decentralization). But my bubble is firmly on the anti-brexit side, so I'd love a different-thinking HN user or two to share their views and talk about it.
Being able to leave fingerprints of a high value target at a crime scene could really make things interesting from a lot of perspectives.

eg: providing false alibi's, setup/framing, coercion/bribery

When (if?) that actually starts to happen, law enforcement could get a whole lot trickier. :/
>those jobs are never coming back

Does it make anyone else sad to hear this? I see posts about robots/AI/etc automating away jobs and I try to be happy about that (who wouldn't want to never have to work again?) but I guess I'm saddened by some perceived loss of interesting opportunities.

If I wanted to get my hands dirty or get away from the world for a bit, before robots I could work on an oil rig for a bit. Now, that's not really an option.

Does anyone else have this sort of thought pattern? What replaces work you find enjoyable/exciting if it's not something you can do at home or by yourself in a post-AI, post-UBI world?
One of the fun things about these questions as an interviewer is all the answers end up a little different, so you end up learning something. While that's not the prime goal, it is nice if a candidate uses it to teach you something :)
BT Group PLC Investigated for Securities Fraud
Although not directly about Maths, her online course (MOOC) "Learning How To Learn" is also a great resource.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
My recollection is he and his company were very well regarded. FWIW.
This is specific to my codebase I was interviewing candidates for (heavy OO). Not all of these concepts are necessary for the candidate to understand, but a few go a long way towards a great developer experience when applied correctly:

- SOLID principles

- The Expression Problem

- DRY

- Dependency Injection

- Composition vs Inheritance vs Delegation

- Connascence

- Law of Demeter

- Invariance, Contravariance, and Covariance
Tesla to Transition to ‘Fully Self-Driving’ Features in ‘3 to 6 months’
thats why we're all here right? I mean and passion for someone else's idea of course
Well, many people get headaches. It's not a stretch to say whatever causes a headache in a sensitive person might cause worse.

Edit: to whoever downvotes this, I had seizures when I was 20 years old. Despite numerous examinations including sleep deprived EKG, CT, MRI they never found out what causes them. So if you are downvoting this because I sound like we do not know what causes seizures then you are either ignorant (because we indeed do not know and I am the damned walking example) or have knowledge I really badly need. If the latter then please share links to new neuro research which will help me and my neurologist to decide whether I need to stay on medication or not. I would be glad to stop after two decades.
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I'm extremely sceptical about VR in the home. You just have to look at how 3D went. Consumers don't want friction, they don't want the hassle of having to put something on and off their face. In this respect VR is the same as 3D, except even worse.

Sure VR has fantastic experiential applications, just like going to watch an IMAX 3D movie in the cinema is a great experience. But in the living room? I'm not quick to believe the hype.
> The problem there is that housing is so insanely difficult to build in a place like New York or San Francisco.

What's the basis for this comment? I feel like I read something like this on HN every time the topic of affordable housing comes up, and it's usually written by a Bay Area resident who just kind of assumes that's the way things work rather than a uniquely dysfunctional characteristic of where they live.

NYC has it's issues, and expensive housing, obviously, but it doesn't seem similar to SF really at all. Where I live in downtown Brooklyn, literally dozens of huge high rise residential rental buildings have been built in just the last few years, the area is almost unrecognizable. We're talking thousands of apartments, literally.

What are these abusive zoning policies, specifically? Is NYC really suffering from a problem of low density? You sure? There are many issues with affordable housing in NYC, but I'm not at all convinced that you've really hit on any of them.
Also there are some sites that don't work well with pinning, including G Suite. I'd love to have pinned tabs for work email, work calendar, personal email, and personal calendar. But every time my session expires, they all get redirected to login pages.
I definitely felt ill a lot after meals and my gastrointestinal tract was a disaster. I felt ill on days with a lot of air pollution. My immune system was always freaking out and I got lots of rashes and other ailments. As for whether the cancer was caused by my presence in China, I can never know for sure, but the type I got is extremely low in males in the US, and the location with the highest rate on earth is north east Asia, so it seems likely.
One Design Framework to Rule Them All – Spotlight
SONY also has it: SimulView™ it’s called there (we just bought a TV that happens to have it)
You could have an algorithm change how pieces are requested based on availability (seed to peer ratio). If a torrent has high availability, then there is little harm in retrieving pieces sequentially.
Duplicity to Google Drive has been working great for me , nightly I run a synthetic backup on a local box that syncs the drive to compress each day's incremental backups into a new full backup. Wrote a Google app to auto empty the trash every night.
Yeah, I wouldn't suggest double incomes families is the sole reason for wage deflation but I'd submit it played a significant part.

WRT point 1; I remember 30 years ago thinking if the U.S. consumes such a disproportionate amount of the world's resources just how it was possible to bring the rest of the world up to the U.S's standard of living. Seems like the math doesn't add up here.

Your points in item 3 are well taken. It's interesting, or maybe obvious, that the skilled labor examples you've listed can't be off shored.

Often I think inflation has caused people to subconsciously choose to buy cheap, less quality goods. For example, buying furniture at IKEA versus buying hand made from someone local craftsman. Do people really demand the cheaper (price and quality) furniture or are they forced to accept the cheaper furniture because they're real disposable income is diminished? When we're talking about furniture it's not such a big deal but what about food? Are people really demanding carb, corn syrup laden crap with maximum calorie density or are they forced to make that choice because of the lower real wages?

Finally, I'm generally for free markets and against the idea of tariffs. However, it seems to me business and labor are not playing on a level field here because business (specifically multi-nationals) are allowed to take advantage of labor arbitrage but labor is not allowed to take advantage of rent arbitrage; meaning labor just can't up and move to Thailand or where ever to take advantage of the cost of living difference.
So will President Trump regulate or otherwise curtail the automation economy? His voter base would probably like him to.
Cause was our primary SQL server BugChecked :-( Doing a full internal write up now, and expediting a SQL maintenance window for tomorrow so we can run some memory checks on the system that crashed.
An outsider? He's an American and he has the same right to buy property in Hawaii as anyone else in our country.