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I wondered why they always have so many job reqs out, and why they're out for so long. It always seemed like an interesting organization to me, and I like the product, but everything about their hiring process seems to be shoeing people off. Perhaps this will be incentive to try onboarding people or at least to bring in some consultants to shore them up.
Extensive discussion on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13531707
Fair play, my bad. I was a bit bemused that tschellenbach just dissed my startup's name in a dickish way without being critical. Apologises.
Not as serious, but I always set root terminals on my system to be this scary red.
> Are modern-day people perpetually drunk on mass-media opiates from consuming up to a gallon of behaviorally-engineered dopamine shots each day?

Yes?
The whole "this is crazy" bit is a matter of opinion only, you understand that, yes?

What tech companies are so upset about is being cut off from their cheap source of exploitable labor. The rest of the huffing and puffing is just a smokescreen to make you forget what they are guilty of.
Ask HN: Fast relevant qualifications for .Net/MVC?
We're an MVC/C#/.Net/MS SQL Server shop. We do corporate internal web development. Responsive design, Bootstrap/JQuery. Pretty generic stuff.

So the business has an odd pay bonus. If we earn a qualification that they consider helpful to our day work then we get a pay bump ($1Kish forever), if we do a harder tier of qualification then we get a larger bump ($1.5Kish forever). We have to pay for the qualifications ourselves.

The only one I know of is Microsoft's MCSD. I need alternatives. The concern/issue I have with Microsoft's MCSD is two fold:

- It is legitimately hard. Deals with obscure memorisation. Would take months per exam. Which is fine for learning, but bad when I am losing money every month it isn't done (literally almost $100/month). That's a lot of pressure.

- Due to the structure of the MCSD and work's pay thingy, I am rewarded only for the first exam ($1Kish) and third exam ($1.5Kish) but nothing for the middle exam. I'd like to find a two exam qualification where the second one is considered a fully realised qualification.

Assuming I didn't pay a cent for training and passed the first time, I am looking at $495 for the MCSD. That's do-able. But given the nature of the exams, they're almost designed to be failed. They bring up the most obscure parts of the most up to date spec for JavaScript/CSS/HTML/etc. Without Microsoft's official training materials you don't stand a chance, and frankly I don't feel that learning a spec in such intricate detail is a good use of my time (that's what Google is for).

I'd definitely consider qualifications only loosely related, like project management. It just has to be something I can sell to work as a legitimate value.
I like the idea, but the idea of having to carry and use cash is enough to put me off completely.
> And when they download Clash of Clans or whatever the hot new game is, and the battery lasts 90 minutes, Apple doesn't get the blame?

Correct. If it lasted 90 minutes they would clearly attribute it to playing the game. If however a regular mix of typical daily activities gets low battery life, that's just the phone's fault.

But I would add that Apple has done a lot of work to make their game APIs power efficient. Metal is a perfect example of a more proprietary approach that achieved significant speed and battery life gains.
Along with Crowdfunding/Kickstarter, a platform that allows for the White House's petition signature mechanics for city/state offices (with a lower threshold for "response required" correlated with population for the candidate's office/area) might be a good way to engage constituents: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/about

You could also possibly allow constituents to place donations that would go through if the petition succeeds and a response is given.
If you get the chance to observe pilots operating in the cockpit, I'd recommend it. Every important procedure (even though the pilot has it memorized) is done with a checklist. Important actions are verbally announced and confirmed: "You have the controls" "I have the controls". Much of flight training deals with situational awareness and eliminating distractions in the cockpit. Crew Resource Management[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_resource_management
There's been "distros" of popular editors like Emacs and Vim aiming to provide this functionality. Spacemacs is one, and there's another one for Vim.
How is it a "massive invasion on basic human rights"?
EPS is only really relevant if given in the same breath as share price.

P/E ratio is the more meaningful (and shares-outstanding-invariant) metric.
Perhaps a small hardon collider.

(Context: http://archive.fortune.com/2006/11/30/magazines/fortune/obri... )
I'm in Australia and although I'm very happy these laws have come in, I would love to get some actual statistics on how many people have actually been fined for smoking where they are not allowed to.

I have never seen anyone fined for smoking in any of the places where it isn't allowed (sporting fields, bus stops, etc), and I see people smoking at these locations literally every single day - especially at bus stops. The whole legislation seems to be "smoke and mirrors".

I'm in NSW, and there is a NSW Health website where you are meant to report places to investigate. I have done so about a couple of locations where people smoke where they're not meant to, and nothing has happened. People continue to smoke at those locations regularly. You never get a case number, or any indication whatsoever that anything has been done at all. Police do not enforce smoking bans, and will readily admit that their policy is not to.

Even places as famous as the Manly Beach corso, where smoking is banned, have smokers there every day. Rangers there do nothing, and as I said police do nothing. I have spoken to a ranger on the only occasion I have actually seen one there, and he said that he "usually gives a warning". When pressed, he admitted that he had never actually fined anyone.

Another glaring and infuriating omission to the smoking situation in Australia is in apartment blocks. My neighbour continues to smoke regularly, which comes right into my living room. Apparently I have no right to fresh air in my own living room, and have been told as much by the police.

Smoking is not permitted within 4m of outdoor public eating areas, but my living/dining room is closer than 4m to my neighbor's balcony, yet I have no protection there.

Why are the rights of smokers to smoke taken more seriously than the non-smoking majority's right to not inhale secondhand smoke?

These laws need to have actual teeth, and be enforced.

Addicts cannot be relied upon to do the right thing, or apparently even the bare minimum required by law.
Just the animation of a spinning circle on that overview page uses half a CPU core on it's own.
Hey man, don't beat yourself up over this. It's shitty but you found some flaws in the process, in the setup, and y'all can make things better because of that.
I like to always try to automate stuff as much as possible to remove human error. It's easy to forget an arg or other parameter on a script or even know what the arg was for in the first place. Sounds like their last backup was 24 hrs ago. Having backups are like having good security, you don't realize how important they are until it's too late. Reminds me of this old meme:

http://www2.rafaelguimaraes.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/g...
Will they pay them us salaries?
>I had 4.0 GPA, valedictorian, 2400 SAT, 800 on three SAT II tests, a varsity letter, awards in chemistry and math competitions, and 5s on 14 AP tests.

I used to work with students polishing admissions essays for colleges like MIT.

The one thing I learned is that a resume like you listed isn't what gets you into a school like MIT. It's those things + something that makes you a uniquely appealing candidate.

Sure, you can get into MIT with your resume, but it's also very possible to be passed over. But the kid with that resume + something special is very very unlikely to get overlooked.

MIT, Harvard, etc. can fill an entire class with outstanding academic records. But they want people who are going to be truly special in the future and the best way to do that is select people who are already there. And they have their pick.
Sorry, I probably failed at writing a simple Collatz conjecture search (it should halt if Collatz is false).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture
WRT citizenship, if I googled it correctly, C-24 requires a terrorism-related conviction, or having obtained the citizenship by misrepresentation or fraud, in order to strip a dual citizen of their Canadian passport. It doesn't seem to be in the same category of things as the sorts of things Trump's doing. I'd say compared with Tories, the Republicans really are in a class of their own.
my guess would be that the source you cite is not a reputable measure of bias.
Well, but that is not really "production", because you need the language to translate from.
Can't you ask management what to recommend? Is that not seen as taking initiative?
I am not my employer, and that policy is not mine to set.
I'm not sure that there is.
That's only the source of the generated document you are viewing.
Emacs comes configured with a command called "send-region-to-shell" that will take the current region and send it to a python interpreter. It makes for a great development experience that I haven't seen replicated with other tools and I'm not sure why there's not a bigger interest in it.
Hey Daniel, I want to thank you for your candid feedback. Rest assured that this sort of thing makes it back to the team and is truly appreciated no matter how harsh it is.

You're absolutely right -- we need to do better. We're aware of several issues related to the .com service, mostly focused on reliability and speed, and have prioritized these issues this quarter. The site is down so I can't link directly, but here's a link to a cached version of the issue where we're discussing all of this if you'd like to chime in once things are back up: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YgzBJm...
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House price is about on par with San Fran. You can check it out via mls.ca and look around the Vancouver area. There is and has been a massive amount of money coming into the Vancouver housing market driving things a little crazy.
I'm not from Silicon Valley and don't identify as a democrat. I've never even visited the Americas. Throughout my years on HN I've seen that there are plenty others like me on HN. To say HN is for "Silicon Valley and Democrats Only" is very naive.
the projection of the equator onto a sphere is less pithy, I think.
I don't think you quite grasp how hard a problem can be for a fixed size Turing machine. The state size is 2^(Memory), naively solving the halting problem for all cases that can be solved in a reasonably-sized Turing machine still makes the age of the universe look like nothing. 2^10000000000 is nothing to scoff at.

For the Collatz problem you can simply run a (fixed version) of that program with arbitrary-precision arithmetic and it would pretty much run until you run out of memory, which is on the order of 2^RAM. For me that would be about 2^8000000000.

I think an important argument that hasn't been made is the simulation speed. If we want to make sure a program running at clock C never ill-behaves, it suffices to simulate it at a clock C'>C and halt it if and when it misbehaves. Any constant factor speedup is sufficient to manage that even in the same hardware. A problem starts to occur if C is susceptible to random mutations, with a branching factor B every T seconds. Then to simulate t seconds into the future requires B^T/t more computing power. If there's one 1-bit mutation per second, it gets unpredictible less than 1 hour in the future.
Hmm, this actually makes me much more excited. I finished with grappling existential issues about being a simulation a long time ago; I don't see the point anymore. But if I understand this right, this would give us reason to believe we could simulate absolutely tiny models of the universe with relatively high (still quite low) confidence it's meaningful. Is that fair?
Was this document meant to be public ? It this is the case, the honesty is perhaps a bit too radical.
My team and I switched from bitbucket to gitlab a few months ago and we love the transition. Gitlab provides a lot of value to me and my team who are learning how to code while working on side projects. Although we cannot send merge requests today because of this issue, we are all cheering them on. I’m very happy that they are so transparent about their issues because my team and I are learning so much from their report and insights here on HN comments. Good luck!
Visually there's not a whole lot of difference. Ideally, you want something where the shape of each name is reasonably distinct from all the rest — otherwise folks will just ignore that odd blot before the prompt.

And then, once you've started naming things as $ENV-$TYPE, someone will want to cram in the location, and the OS, and the team which maintains it, and the customer, and and and. Then someone will reduce all of those identifiers into single characters … and you'll be in the situation I mentioned. Clearly clpudb1 is CharlesCorp's first London production database system!
In our postmortems we explicitly avoid referring to names and only refer to "engineers" or specific teams. There is no reason to refer to specific names if your intention is a systems/process fix.
I don't see many sales in the future of iPod.

haha. this is good stuff.
Sec-State under the previous administration was tasked by Congress and they came up with the list.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1187

See section (12) Not present in Iraq, Syria, or any other country or area of concern

It is unbelievable how bad the media is now at doing their job of informing the public.
Ha! That's an amusing interpretation of how supply and demand interact to find an equilibrium price/quantity point.

A typical Econ 101 textbook says:

higher demand --> higher price
higher price --> higher supply
higher supply --> lower price
lower price --> higher demand

In Econ 101 we pretend that cycle eventually reaches an equilibrium. In grad school we analyze the dynamics.

But even if we believed your demand causes supply causes zero price model, why is that unique to engineering and not business acumen? And why do programmers get paid anything, don't they work for free?
The Tasmanian parliament is considering exactly this -- banning smoking for anyone born after 2000.
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In what way? They have two production database servers, db1 and db2.
Thanks grzm. But I've seen a bunch of posts where people can't downvote after 500...but some people can.

I'm not interested in down voting anyone.

Edit: I've gone down 16 pts in the last hour. I know part of this is me being an ass initially, but clearly people w/ downvote ability are piling on...

Edit2: Yes, Me being an ass and idiot. Here'e the post that ended at 400

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4638246
You're talking past my point to a different one. And no, as both a principle and rule, I do not expect everyone to lay out their case when refusing to go along with an order they believe to violate their oath and/or the Constitution. Acting AG Yates made it clear that she questioned the legality and justness of the order and would not be able to defend it. She also knew exactly what would happen next.

You've been repeating your argument nearly word-for-word throughout the comments here. It's very clear you stand firmly there; nobody has convinced you otherwise despite repeated attempts engaging your points directly, even when your comments do not directly respond to the OPs to which you reply (like me).

Checks and balances are the core of our government. Those checks and balances exist as much within the branches as they exist across the branches. Resigning is an action that neither checks nor balances—and it ought not be expected of anyone, appointed or otherwise. Executive officials, especially within the DOJ, have a responsibility and obligation to the People and Constitution first, and somewhere after that the executive. That's what their oath demands. They don't take an oath to the executive.
You can look at the EPS trend for many years and form your conclusions. If its going up that is good, if its down or flat you should be asking why.
The only way you can engage with this particular administration is by not shitting all over it no matter what it does. This is what Musk is attempting to do. What the protesters are doing is ACTIVELY HARMFUL to that goal, because it makes softening of the restrictions politically unfeasible.

Ask Obama how well "engaging" with Republicans worked over his two terms. Anyone who shows up expecting Republicans to negotiate and compromise and work together in good faith is going to be waiting an extremely long time for them to do it.

Absolute hard-line "say no to everything and slander them for even proposing it" politics dominated the past eight years and seem to have been incredibly successful for Republicans. Why not adopt a winning playbook?
"Downstream" means everybody, of course, forever. You've just lost your patented tech, so if you don't want to sell it outright, you can't touch anything GPL. Given how complex technologies are, now, that severely limits where GPL2 and 3 can be used.

So you might ask, why does Google use the Linux kernel? Perhaps because they don't have to modify the kernel to accommodate inventions they wish to preserve, for public software such as Android; but more importantly the kernel is useless by itself and the license doesn't extend to libraries (Google spent billions recreating the GNU libraries to be sure of that), so the license for the kernel has no practical importance. The rights granted are "stranded", as it were. Clever on the part of Google. But in most cases, the GPL or MPL can't be gotten around in that manner.

The googleable rubric for GPL2 is "GPL's Implied Patent Grant." In sum, the GPL seizes all relevant patent rights from any contributor (regardless of whether those contributions related to their patents, IIRC) and any distributor. In some cases that doesn't matter - in other cases, it does. If you want to retain control of who gets to use your patents, and patented tech, that's a big problem. If your invention is a hardware invention, the GPL still scoops it up - their language doesn't exclude rights to hardware inventions - so you may actually have the right to build any such patented hardware as long as you put Linux in it: if the patent owner touched Linux. It would take a court case to be certain this wasn't a risk.

This also seems to mean (even for GPL2) that if you explicitly license one entity to use GPLed software with your patented tech (hardware or software), then you've just given a free license to every soul on earth to do the same, with no royalties. In some cases, that might not matter. In many other cases, it does.

"In contrast, a GPLv2 licensee, under the doctrine of implied patent license, is free to practice any patent claims held by the licensor that cover “reasonably contemplated uses” of the GPL’d code, which may very well include creation and distribution of modified works since the GPL’s terms, under which the patented code is distributed, expressly permits such activity.

Further supporting this result is the Federal Circuit’s pronouncement that the recipient of a patented article has, not only an implied license to make, use, and sell the article, but also an implied patent license to repair the article to enable it to function properly, Bottom Line Mgmt., Inc. v. Pan Man, Inc., 228 F.3d 1352 (Fed. Cir. 2000). Additionally, the Federal Circuit extended that rule to include any future recipients of the patented article, not just the direct recipient from the distributor. This theory comports well with the idea of Free Software, whereby software is distributed among many entities within the community for the purpose of constant evolution and improvement. In this way, the law of implied patent license used by the GPLv2 ensures that the community mutually benefits from the licensing of patents to any single community member."

https://copyleft.org/guide/comprehensive-gpl-guidech7.html
Everything can be iterated. The degree to which this iteration can be accomplished is really highly dependent on the complexity of your product, but, in terms of iteration complexity (and highly simplified, dropping lots of intermediate points, etc):

Polished product > Happy path demo > Mockups (mechanical, digital, etc) > User stories > Deck

At the very least iterate on things like the user stories to make sure your customers can see your product fitting in to their day to day life. Without any form of iteration, you're leaving the most important thing -- product market fit -- somewhat to chance.
And the life expectancy of a factory worker was insane. Cities were in a constant population decline, only propped up by people in the country having to find work.
This is the best feature of tmux. It's worth pointing out here though (in a post about making the terminal act like an IDE), that you can split the terminal into two panes so you can have an editor and a REPL open at the same time similar to many IDE's. There are even some projects that make it easy to pass code between the editor and the REPL in the other pane, though I have never gotten them to work very well.
In the Philippines, Uber accepts cash. It has the options UberX, Uber Black, UberPool and UberHop (point-to-point)
You're right, they have done a ton of work. Unfortunately, you can't make developers use it. So you find some games that don't seem to do too much but waste your battery, and others that are very impressive and barely touch it.

I'm looking at you Pokémon GO.
These are bans on smoking in public areas. You can still smoke your lungs out in private.
Your suggestion is impossible, because "virtue signalling" is now a thought-terminating cliché for the right. But I wish you luck in trying to negotiate and compromise and find common ground -- the past eight years demonstrated that you should be prepared to wait for the heat death of the universe before it happens.
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https://github.com/epeli/slimux
You don't have a production ready backup system until you've used it.
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YC has been donating to nonprofits for a few years. It's not an investment, and the relationship is not the same as the one they have with startups. I think the general idea is just to support a good cause, and give them access to a bunch of rich entrepreneurs who might want to partner or donate.
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Sure they do; it's all in their head.
Invisible force? Aren't all forces invisible?

Oh, I see. The title of the HN submission has been creatively edited and is not the title of the original Nature article.

Clickbait.
It's basically applying the drug war to cigarette smokers.

It's using the police and state to use force to deal with people who are doing no harm to anyone but at best themselves.

I think this breaks basic human rights.