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- Developing software features using object-oriented programming in Ruby, and the popular web framework Ruby on Rails.
- Developing software features using templating languages ERB and Mustache.
- Developing software features using relational databases (specifically Postgres), as well as database maintenance & migrations.
- Developing software features using various data stores, especially Redis, and usage patterns relevant to job queues.
- Developing software features leaveraging threaded environments, especially with relation to Sidekiq and background job processors.
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- Developing software features using front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, SASS, and Sprockets asset pipeline.
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- Git code versioning tool
- Heroku’s deployment, logging, and add-on resources.
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- Recruiter application/resume screening
- Recruiter phone screening
- On-site interviews with key stakeholders and senior software engineers
- On-site or take-home technical coding challenge/exercise
The shareholders are us, our 401ks, our pensions, etc. Overall, higher margins are good for us.

Walmart should not sell higher cost products just to have them made in this country. The ability to specialize is why free trade makes both parties wealthier, if we can't make bicycles as well as the chinese, then let them make the bikes and we'll sell them smartphones and apps.

If you were a lawyer making $300 an hour and could type 200 WPM, would you hire a secretary for $30/hour who could only type 100 WPM to type your filings for you? Of course you would because that means you can bill more $300 hours. Thats the specialization of free trade.
You only need 20 minutes to start being who you want
Rant: Since when did VTOL == 'flying car'? A flying car is a hybrid, dual-use vehicle. Is a helicopter a flying car? A Harrier jet? VTOL would be great for an actual flying car and it would be great for small, personal aircraft, but that doesn't make an aircraft that has it a flying car.
Germany Prepares for Turbulence in the Trump Era
I have to agree with @ericseppanen here.

It is true that the NYT article mentions the proponents and the critics, but they conflate the companies themselves. In other words, it sounds like the proponents and critics are talking about the same phenomenon.

Farther along it becomes even clearer when they say suppressing wages is good for the economy but at what cost.

"In other words, it’s true that cheaper labor helps employers increase profits and grow, and having more skilled workers in the United States contributes to economic innovation. But at the same time, individual American employees do face more salary pressure from newcomers who will work for less. And in some cases, they risk losing their jobs entirely, especially older employees who earn higher salaries."

@ericseppanen's point is that the two groups are not the same.

(A lot of the other critics in the HN comment section also seem to argue that the innovative tech companies are doing the same thing as the outsourcers.)
Strong convictions are the optimal way of wielding influence. The people paying for their time don't want to hear caveats, they want to hear that their dollars are being maximized.
More Perl 5 books.
Right, I should have said frowned upon as the legislative tides are slowly changing. Only 8 / 50 states are recreationally legal and even in these states employers still use drug testing as a pre employment filter indicating some level of social stigma still exists.

http://norml.org/states
My point is that contra ajnc, there are hordes of people who "choose poverty because of an unwillingness to work".
How world leaders were duped with manipulated global warming data
Only RethinkDB gets you a) working changefeeds, where you can receive real-time changefeed updates to your queries, b) a well-implemented and Jepsen-proven distributed database.

As far as I know, there is no other solution which gets both things right.

I use it in PartsBox (https://partsbox.io/), a solution for keeping track of electronic components.

I am surprised more people aren't interested in changefeeds — the way I see it, it's the only way to implement multi-user webapps which update in real-time (as in: a change is made in one session and all other open sessions get the update immediately).
How will a laborers family spend US Dollars in a foreign country? Hint: the money always gets spent back in the US by someone.
Replacing real estate agents and brokers.

Most of the value they provide can be replaced by (or already is) technology. The only thing keeping them afloat is regulation.
> He's an Obama appointee, but on the recommendation of McConnell.

By law the FCC can have no more than three of the five Commissioners from the same political party, so it is quite normal for a President to appoint two Commissioners from the major party that the President is not a member of. It is not required, but I believe most or all Presidents (so far...) have picked their "not my party" appointees by asking the other party's Senate leadership who to nominate.
"vast majority" still excludes tens of thousands of people. These are real people with real families and real jobs in real companies, not just some statistical data points.
Amazon, as one of the plaintiffs in the case (the State of Washington is the first named plaintiff; the "et al." on the case title means there are others, which include Amazon and Expedia), can't file (alone or with others) an amicus brief, which is a brief by interested non-parties.

But it's misleading to count them as a company that choose not to sign on to the amicus brief.
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And I'm worried about who MS is giving my data to
My argument is that when companies can't compete on technology as they may be used to, too frequently, they throw their hands up in the air and conclude that this means they can't compete period. However, we can see that Western companies are successful today competing along different axes.

I would even extend that further by saying that if things dry up in the future and we have to keep innovating to stay ahead as China continues to copy and catch up, good. Let's do that. Everyone will be better off.
The video is online now.
Canada has a separate visa process for entrepreneurs:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/publications/entrepre...

The program being cited is for workers, similar to the US H1B. And others have addressed why age is a sensible factor.
>I followed the development of perl 6 for a bit.

To put it mildly.
Not to mention heavy restrictions on money transfers in and out of the country and a huge amount of red tape. Ian of Dangerous Prototypes set up a business in China a year or so back and wrote about what was involved, and it's astonishing: http://dangerousprototypes.com/blog/2016/02/04/how-to-china-...
> do you want them to just open up more space in Bangalore

Yes. We have higher wages for our higher standard of living. As you said, it's not a zero sum game and all things are not equal.
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Lessons learned from hitting the front page of Hacker News
> they're generally on a short leash

How do you know that?
Inc is a publication targeted towards business owners. Nothing about the site is meant to be neutral. It's like learning about Democrats from a Republican website.

I wouldn't disregard it so quickly if the source was more neutral.
So, it's not aggression if everyone else does it?
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the use of that quote in this context is then advocating nuclear holocaust. If that is what you are trying to say, the next question is then: Are you insane?
I think you mean Jepsen? It's a slight exaggeration to say that RethinkDB aced it -- but they did very well[1] and (more importantly to me, honestly) Jepsen was used to find a subtle and nasty issue that was subsequently fixed.[2]

[1] https://aphyr.com/posts/329-jepsen-rethinkdb-2-1-5

[2] https://aphyr.com/posts/330-jepsen-rethinkdb-2-2-3-reconfigu...
Yep, I think something like this is the correct response, though I would prefer to see vegetables that have super-desirable test profiles that trick the body into thinking its getting the high calorie foods it's evolved to crave rather than drugs that alter the humans to want to eat less in general.

Humans are driven by biology, and psychology is only a thin abstraction on top of that. The amount of self-discipline any single individual can deploy is very limited. If that discipline threshold gets used up on other things, it's not going to be available for food and diet.

Consider on top of this that most of us have been socialized and trained for decades to prefer unhealthy options, and the already-steep incline of resisting the body's physically preferred options becomes treacherous.

Most fat people aren't fat becomes they're snarfing down platters that are meant to feed six in every sitting. They're fat because the foods they eat provide low nutrition and high calories, and candy bars aren't the only food with such a profile. Most packaged foods that you can buy at a regular, non-niche grocer are that way, even the ones that are touted as healthy. Food companies do this because they know people like foods with more calories more than they like foods with fewer calories, and they want you to buy their foods more often.

Technology got us into this mess by creating an easily-accessible supply of hyper-caloric foods, an amount of plenty that our bodies, built for scarcity, are not at all equipped to handle. Technology should be employed to fix it. Whether it's human-side or food-side, something needs to be developed that can blackhole the excess calories with no noticeable impact on the eating experience, either in taste or chemical reward.

The other alternative is to revert to a food supply where artificial contrivances such as candy and foods injected with sugars and other unnatural taste-improving formulations are very rare. This is not possible while we live in a society of abundance. It will only be possible if there is famine, hardship, war, etc. So it's not a good option.

"Just try harder" is never going to be a real answer to this problem, and the stats clearly bear that out. People hate being fat. They spend billions of dollars every year desperately trying to find someone who can fix it for them. We should try to address that in a reasonable way.
Google runs large engineering offices in a number of foreign countries. If there's talent out there that can't be imported the next best thing is to go where the talent is.
Unfortunately, it's neither new nor surprising that a director of "Open Source" at a large company would be spreading unfounded doubt about a strongly copyleft free software license. It is ultimately against their employer's interests to be compelled to publish their modifications.
Ask HN: What makes being an early employee of a startup worth it?
To me being an early employee seems to be all around a bad deal. But it is also a vitally important position for startups.

For example, lets say you join a startup as employee #2. You're granted 0.5% and make significantly less than a market salary. Now let's say this startup is pretty successful and exits for $50 million in 4 years. With that kind of exit the founders will likely never have to work again in their lives if they do not want to. You, however, will have made less than if you joined a more stable company.

Now people will say your impact is bigger or you get to work on something you're passionate about. But that is also true for the founders and they also get to make enough money to be financially independent.

Of course this also ignores the more common case which is that the startup just fails. And in that case "founder" still looks good on a resume while "engineer at company no one's ever heard of" is neutral to negative at best.
Holy shit. It this what over-fit looks like for humans (as compared to neural nets)?
Replace the people with robots, then they will not need to eat.
As was said elsewhere in the thread: It seems that the organizer of this affair does not want his hired hands to figure out what's going on, telling them instead it's some computer magic they calculate real-time.
When it comes to obesity the victim is to blame.

>I think it'd be a lot more challenging for someone to be obese with the same caloric amount of avocados than cheetos, for example

As I've said elsewhere, the fact that some foods are more calorie dense than other is irrelevant.
If Walmart replaces it's american made bikes with chinese bikes, and saves every family in america that shops there $10 on their bike purchases, that savings gets spent elsewhere in america.

The dollars that go to china get either spent or reinvested here. And Chinese purchases of iPhones has exploded over the last few years.
RethinkDB is just a great document-centric database. It has guarantees similar to SQL, including server-side joins, while having a great replication/redundancy pattern (similar to C). It's probably best in a use case where you are planning on 3-15 servers for a cluster. If you need more than that C may be better.

I like to think of it as MongoDB done right. Above and beyond better consistency models and a broader, more well thought out API, they have an admin interface that is second to none (well SQL Management Studio might be slightly better). It's definitely better than any other "NoSQL" database.

A couple years ago, I had been considering it for a project, at the time it was missing a required feature for the project (geolocation indexes), so I wasn't able to use it then... but I followed the development of the feature, and prerequisites for that and the automatic master failover and the engineering discipline and planning was far better than pretty much any project I'd been exposed to ... The team(s) and their energies were not wasted, and I really appreciate what they have done.

I was sad to see the company shutter, but very happy to see the project under LF, and hope that it really takes off from here. It would be a pretty natural fit as an RDS service under Amazon and there are a few hosted options. Horizon also looks interesting compared to firebase.

This is another feature over competitors is that streaming updates is in the box, and not bolted on to oplog processing like competitors.
I have a startup called Wizely, which is a social wisdom network. The iOS (phone) app (in development) will have a tree editor. I'm also developing a tablet version that would be bigger and more "touch-friendly". A full browser/desktop version isn't in the works, but if things roll out according to plan, it would be an important addition to our process.
Earthquake in northern India, magnitude 5.6
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13576921
I don't quite get that the eHang commands such a presence in the public mind. With the rotors where they are, it looks almost designed to maim and cripple passengers and bystanders.

The Volocopter, by way of contrast, has the rotors above the cockpit, has 18 rotors for redundancy, and is actually already flying for both unmanned and manned test flights, with preliminary approval by German authorities. In my view, it's a more sensible concept that's also further advanced already.

http://volocopter.com/
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Ask HN: How does IT department work at your company?
Hello there.

I found myself working in analytics for at a mid-size company, previously I have worked as a freelancer and have never worked in corporate before and these things sound weird.

I was wondering if you could tell me whether this is standard:

* Locally-hosted network storage ran out of capacity and I have been told that it is my problem and I should delete some (crucial) files as "drive capacity is finite". My first thought was why this isn't in the cloud already, but ok there may be some compliance issues based on old rules. Secondly, HDDs are not that expensive. How that would be handled in your company?

* I wanted to push some more compute-intensive analytics that go beyond the OLAP aggregates, I've learnt there is an idle blade that could be used just for that but IT does not comply with the request issued by my manager.

* Machine I work has windows with limited account which is understandable but I requested Linux VM to use more interesting tools and was rejected because that would mean unrestricted access to the guest OS (duh, that's the point). OK, there may be some vulnerabilities.

So, is it normal? Or Should I flee as soon as I can?
I was thinking that producing the hydrogen feed stock would be most of the energy used in the process. This site [1] states that, using the current global feed stock mix of light carbon and heavy carbon sources, about half the energy used in production is feed stock energy and half is added energy. Maybe an industrial chemist could estimate how much energy this new tech could save if it could be used at the scale needed?

[1] http://ietd.iipnetwork.org/content/ammonia
what if a lawmaker has it out for a particular publisher or writer,
and purposefully quotes their copyrighted texts in legislation

Technically, this ability already exists in some ways. Parliamentary Privilege [1] allows members of parliament to speak freely without fear of legal sanction.

As a result of a defamation case brought against Hansard [2] in the 19th century, parliamentary publications (e.g. a transcript from parliament) are also protected by absolute privilege [3].

That's UK law, but it's a common template for Westminster-system style legislatures.

So a law-maker could read out a book in its entirety, which could then be published in its entirety as a transcript of parliamentary publications. It's social norms and conventions on parliamentary behaviour that prevent its abuse, rather than copyright law.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_privilege

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansard

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_Papers_Act_1840

(edit: typo)
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-Initial experience of working in a tech start-up environment and/or of wearable data processing is an advantage but not a must

-International exposure in the course of your studies, or as an intern or visiting researcher, is an advantage

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Or they think burning money on this guy is worth it to get engineers to join the company because it's "cool."
Your mention of a meta-OS and putting all the content in the cloud made me think of ChromeOS.

Seniors probably don't think about putting all their content in the cloud, don't think about inheritance of their online account, and don't think about their OS either.

Sounds like an opportunity?
>> But this particular achievement is high-impact and the intern deserves credit on that blog for her work

I think the issue is that the project here was a library swap, which isn't hard to do. It just so happens to be at Google, where small optimizations reap huge rewards. Google want's to market it as "hey, look at the huge impact our interns have" and make it sound like a big deal, when in reality it's not that much of a crazy technical achievement.

>> 1.5 petabytes of savings in data usage per day is not HN worthy? I've seen far less significant improvements get voted to the front page with hundreds of comments. This is more than a small tweak to the Play store.

I know a lot of interns at smaller companies who did very impressive work, but because the companies are smaller the numbers aren't as crazy (both women and men, I should add). The effort by them might very much be HN worthy, but you won't see it here because they don't have a huge PR machine behind them.

Kudos to Anamaria for the great work though! Will probably save Google some cash.
Sure, at slots, but the parent alluded to other games where the odds aren't quite so bad.

In addition, games like poker aren't even played against the house; you're playing against the other players (and the house just takes a cut as a sort of "table fee"). If you're a skilled poker player, you can reduce the effects of luck (what cards you get vs. the cards others at your table get) and come out ahead more often than not.

And I'd agree that even a 30-40% chance of coming out ahead would be "significant"... people in the startup world still start new companies despite the conventional wisdom of a 10% success rate.

Having said that, sure, casino games are pure entertainment. Sure, you can win a little money, but you should never expect to, and you shouldn't play unless you're comfortable losing every cent you put into it.
My point is that a war with China would resemble a more traditional war as opposed to an insurgent conflict as in Iraq or Afghanistan. Why would we assume fighting a proper nation state would resemble fighting random lots of terrorists with varying agendas?
Still without ssl. Nice to see lots of stars and forks.
I think the original 19th century quote was 'If goods dont cross borders, soldiers will.' Attributed to Bastiat, but hasn't been found in his notes.
in las vegas, the hold percentage (on average - since each property can do whatever they like as long as its within regulatory limits) was ~8% in 2016 in vegas, and ~6% statewide in nevada [1]

[1] (pdf warning) http://gaming.unlv.edu/reports/nv_slot_hold.pdf

Yes pai gow or 21 or (the best odds not including card-counting, IIRC), baccarat have better odds. But, if you go to a premier casino on the strip, you might not find a table you can afford. It's not uncommon for them to have a couple $5 tables and the rest $25 (per bet) and up. Mathematically it's a better choice, but a $25 buy-in costs $500 which you can lose in minutes if you're unlucky. Not a lot of people can stomach that (nor should they, as my original argument was for the entertainment value of gaming).