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Ask HN: New job at startup. I am overwhelmed. Is this normal?
I started a new ruby remote developer job in a startup. The money is good and it looked like a tech challenge. However, since a month ago (when I started), I am totally unhappy. The goals are impossible to reach, which means working extra hours or weekends, and the organizations is terrible. You can work on your task because you depend of a colleague to finish his task first. The documentation is pretty bad too, so I have to keep asking my colleagues about new parts of code I have to work.

Is this normal? Or is this specific startup that is making my life miserable?
'Weighting the evidence objectively, the intelligent investor should conclude that IPO does not stand only for "initial public offering". More accurately, it is also shorthand for: It's Probably Overpriced, Imaginary Profits Only, Insiders' Private Opportunity, or Idiotic, Preposterous and Outrageous.', Benjamin Graham
B2B Manufectures, Suppliers, Exporters/Importers
At the moment there is no revenue source.

So what makes you think your fate will be any different than that of all the other free file hosts that have had to resort to advertising in order to survive?
I was using C++ in 1994. I am fully amused today to hear 'ergonomics' attributed to the language, even with the qualifier 'bad.' I'll spare you the rest of this "back in my day" post. I just can't fault the language for a project creator not including -Wall in the Makefile or whatever they used to build.
Confluent raises $50M to continue growing commercial arm of Apache Kafka
Currently all different file types are accepted so the asterik has been removed - thanks for pointing it out.
These are the essential questions. The technical side of filesharing is easy. The legal and economical side is not.
Great to see an English search engine where there is no tracking and independent results are given!
You've never tried a petty rebellion as a kid? It's fun. Even as an adult, you can get a thrill by calling in sick and going out.

There's a reason we love to watch crime dramas.
Code like this, there were just as many, if not more, logic errors that wouldn't be caught as there were mechanical problems that would have been caught with a more diligent compiler. There's just not the discipline there for good code, period. Too many corners cut, too much code commented out, etc.

I think with the types of errors you mentioned, that part of it definitely is ecosystem. Look at OpenBSD, for example. They've built things like a safer malloc and fairly extensive patches to gcc that have caught a lot of errors and bugs. I think C/C++ can definitely get safer without changing that much, the ecosystem just needs to get a bit angrier about warnings, etc.

Standardization, and multiple implementations, means you can have multiple sets of compiler eyeballs looking over things. The zcoin bug, for example, emits a warning with the default settings of clang, but doesn't emit a peep with the default settings of gcc. For someone working with a lot of embedded code, it also means that there's a better chance that there's an implementation of the language ready to go when you need to move to a different platform.
Whilst I agree with your criticism of the treatment of felons in the US in most jurisdictions a conviction for a crime of dishonesty, especially one in a professional context, will haunt you for life. In the context of this specific individual it would be a bold company that put him in a position to have any influence over money, management or clients.
Picking up Clojure and learning to be extremely judicious about the use of persistent state reduced my bug output rate dramatically.
My right eye is missing and I normally wear a patch over that socket. I've used that smiley for decades; my offline friends usually get it but it's understandable that that someone who's never met me would be uncertain...
Yeah, I noticed that as well. I interpreted it that stoicism forces a certain way of thinking that can lead to very bad outcomes with certain way out. Effectively a one-way path with no exits and no way to reverse course.

The stoic becomes its own trap.
I would doubt your claim that 99% or HN readers are at a high technical level.

I spend a lot of time here, mostly in awe of the expertise of others and hoping to learn something from them.
I am just not sold. 100m/200m is nothing compared to 700m. Besides the mass increase needed for a concrete anything to survive that depth they want a turbine there too? Do you float these things when they need service? What if you can't? Like it fills up but cannot be pumped out? You are going to lay cable how far out into the ocean and across land, installation will be expensive and maintenance not much better.

there are just too many things that are expensive with this type of solution. Just like movies, when you thrown in scads of water things go wrong and they go expensive.

Just build carbon fiber spheres, bury them, and pump them full of air or other compressible.
Seems OK here in the UK. A few years out of education and focused on Golang in which demand is outpacing supply, especially in London.
Doesn't seem to be working for me in Chrome on Android. I submit the form, the page goes blank, and nothing else happens. Also, a suggestion, the fields rendering in a random order will be very confusing to someone if they are going to be using this multiple times in a row to compare pricing of different EC2 specs. I was very confused when region was at the very bottom the first time I tried to submit the form, then at the very top the second time.
Introducing the American Health Care Act
Isn't that part of the reason he is now drilling as well? I thought he had realised that getting roughly straight hyperloop tracks into city centers required tunnels.
It gets more fun when you're dealing with things like memory mapped I/O, where reading from a register is a destructive action, so even a non-overloaded == can cause side effects.
There is actually a page that explains the encryption used and how it works which can be found here: https://nofile.io/security/

A link has also been added to that block to make it easier to find, thanks for pointing it out.
Companies may need Product Editors rather than Product Managers
Au contraire. I've had a long career in the field (various domains, I'm always the "code guy") and it's actually useful to me to hear people besides myself expressing the level of surprise/frustration/bemusement they experience. It keeps the trade from being utterly dry.
MongoDB's JavaScript Fuzzer
RSA: Resisting the Self-Improvement Craze with Svend Brinkmann
No, it's not hard to avoid, actually it's pretty easy to avoid if you understand what you are doing.
I can confirm the article is spot on, been chasing their support since November and still no reply
From that perspective, all the publicity surrounding this firm might actually make the problems associated with them worse. Other unscrupulous lawyers might study this and learn which specific mistakes not to make, rather than learning to avoid this model altogether.
https://nofile.io/security/

"Your file is first securely encrypted using a secret key (AES-128) with Javascript on your device.
Once it has been encrypted, the encrypted data is uploaded to a NoFile storage server over a secure HTTPS connection preventing any malicious users from seeing what you're uploading (as an extra layer of security).

Only those with the secret key (which is in the URL) will be able to see the correct content and filename - if a single character of the key varies, then the file will be unrecognizable."

You need to set this as your preferred method on the upload page.
Sometimes you think it's stupidity, but sometimes from their side the clever scammers use it as a filter.

You obviously know it doesn't make sense, so you hang up and don't waste their time. But xyz down the road doesn't, which means they are both not as informed and far more likely to fall for the scam.
I think it's very interesting/strange/scary to see what started out as a Cypherpunk dream come true is now being experimented with / used by the industry it was meant to replace.

While I think Bitcoin (et al.) is extremely interesting and definitely has it's use on the internet, it is becoming clear that it is a lot harder to replace money than it is to replace media supply chains (torrents): Everywhere from the political situation (blocksize discussion) to current usage cases (a lot has to do with circumventing either capital controls or AML/KYC for a number of reasons).

disclaimer: I do a lot of work in Bitcoin but am currently employed by a bank for a project very similar to this one.
Both are true.

More precisely on (a), the unis care about rankings, but the politicians who'd have the power to change the structure of research don't. Indeed for the majority of German politicans, the word "elite" is toxic, even and especially in the context of having a few world-class centres of excellence rather than 50 merely adequate universities.
Helper functions mean one key press to jump to their definition and another one to jump to their declaration, and one more to jump back.
NASA Releases Software Catalog
I'm confused by the suggestion that there's some kind of religious motive behind this.

Mainstream Christian apologetics is usually rather critical of multiverse theories, since they're often used as a foil against fine tuning arguments. I can't think of a Christian apologist who uses the existence of the multiverse as part of an argument for God's existence.
LSD ‘microdosing’ Trending in Silicon Valley, but Can It Make You More Creative?
I don't know how it was implemented, but there was a similar free food blitz[1] list at Dartmouth in my day. I swear, just catering the campus-funded student organizations' events must have floated half the restaurants in town. Most days, you could eat like a hobbit.

[1] Dartmouth is a weird place and for the longest time ran a unique homegrown emailish/im protocol called BlitzMail, with an entire vocabulary and culture associated with it.
When something gets taken to HR they likely have policies that kick-off automatically. I don't know the size of your organsiation, but adherence to these procedures will get checked in any audit of the HR department a medium+ size company does.

Hands are tied, wheels go in motion.

As another poster also said, this could very much be part of the toxin healing you described.

An aside: I recommend anyone reading this to keep a warm relationship with your HR; don't need to be friends but simply warm. As well as showing you're a colleague, wheels are oiled for when difficult or unexpected organisational problems arise and need to be solved down the line. Not suggesting this of the OP, but in these discussions it can often turn into 'us vs. them' which is absolutely wrong.
Why would I use this over duckduckgo?
Would you mind sharing some of the various reasons why the paper work goes missing?
There could be an important side-effect in condition. Isn't persistent state fun!?
> UC Berkeley was forced to remove free public access to their course lecture videos because they weren't captioned, but paying to caption them just to give them away for free isn't viable.

That is super dumb.

Hopefully that specific problem (video captioning) will go away in the next year or two as automatic speech recognition becomes less expensive and more widely available. Basic captioning for compliance should be a single API call. Quality won't be perfect, but good enough for a deaf viewer to get the gist of it.
While their financials could not be solid they can use the capital to try new things, including acquiring other companies. Since Google and Facebook we are seeing a new kind of companies which are more flexible on trying new ventures and being relatively successful comparing to companies like Xerox or IBM that were/are not able to integrate innovations in their business.
There's a lot of US district courts and judges. If a particular judge starts to ask pointed questions, just switch to another. Thats how they kept under the radar for so long.
There is an issue that people get 'parked' on methadone and never fully come off it. However, some people I know are now in their 70's and still managing their addiction via Methadone prescribed by a GP. They have been on this treatment since the late 80's. They would not be alive and working, paying their taxes if this wasn't about.
Drones are nice and all, but using a drone as a dash-cam, that's going to be expensive as hell since the drone would have to have a top speed equal to the top speed of the vehicle. Weather conditions, powering the device, obstacle detection.
Oh good, I'm not the only one. Sad. It made me feel special. :)

But the article is spot on. Having been an owner of the original Up Move, I wanted to upgrade to the Up2 and that one stopped working after 2-3 months of usage. Emailed support and got nothing but silence back...That was back in November.

Moved on to Garmin and could not be happier.
In case you're holding stock options of a US company but need to pay your taxes in Germany I can highly recommend this article (in german): http://www.pinkernell.de/esop.htm
it can be a tethered drone
Another cool thing about Land Rovers and Jaguars is that the body panels are built from ~50% recycled aluminium.
If AMD goes the route of open source in the future, I think the future take a turn for the better
Since there's no business model, NoFile could disappear overnight.

Without some sort of guarantee of availability, I wouldn't be able to recommend it to friends, coworkers, or family. I don't want to advertise something that is truly a great service but ends up shutting down few months from now after people start abusing it.
Mobile Devices Are Propelling Industrial IoT Scenarios
Thanks for the positive feedback.

Right now there's only an option to upload files to Dropbox, but the plan is to add as many useful alternatives as possible and S3 would be a good option.

The number of times a file was downloaded is currently being counted, but it isn't public. It would be an interesting idea to display it on every download page by default (similar to Imgur) and give the uploader the option of disabling it.

The duplicated info block has also been replaced, thanks for pointing it out.
https://gist.github.com/mseshachalam/b57907a37763532917fc2ca...

cloudflare captcha is blocking me to test this.
Bridge ahead. Tree branch ahead!.
Why am I participating in this?
Bitbucket: Intermittent slowness or session interruptions
At least in wife's case there was an additional 4 month gap between "starting treatment" and actual surgery.
Loads of assumption that your data is true. Autism is not recognized as a single pathology but a range as in Autism Spectrum Disorder. And in its current state it is at best an approximation which group many different cases in the same bag.
As convoluted as they can be, what alternatives are there other than nested conditions, which are equally convoluted? Surely if you need to logically compare five variable then you'll be doing it in some variation of 5 chained operations.
> That's more readable and less indented. It's also self documenting.

It also pushes you ever closer to the dex method cap imposed by Android, unfortunately.
> And, now capitalism has made all margins of businesses so slim that there's no real way to enter a business and still have a safety net in case you fail. You either need to disrupt an industry, create a marketplace, find a niche, or fail hard.

While this is true, phrasing it like a critique of capitalism seems very, very weird. As if in a socialist or communist society starting a business is supposed to be easier and margins larger. (Disclaimer: I have founded two failed startups to date, still living on friends' couch after the second one now).
The encryption key is passed after the hash (#) in the URL.
Therefore the keys are never sent to the server over the HTTP request (more info about this can be found here: https://nofile.io/security/).
I think he/she meant the less crappy among the older services.
The problem isn't in the implementation, it's a problem with Zcoin itself. One should not be able to create Zcoin via software whether that's a bug or deliberate.
Most people are not good at doing these interviews. Which is one reason why they work better than a lot of people here think they do.
Do you have that Packt script handy?

There's a lot of junk that gets put up there, but also some gems. Unfortunately it seems like the gems are always on the days I don't check it...
Actually it adds more than just that and that is not really what I find more interesting on it.

Rather the support for interfaces, annotations and most importantly untraced references.

If you read the papers related to Oberon design, specially EthOS, not having support for untraced references was considered a pain point.

It is also something that Cedar, Modula-2+ and Modula-3 also supported.

As for the "object" and the duplication between records and objects, I agree with you.
Just in the way of feedback (and I might be really out of the loop/not your target market!) but here was my brain-in-action after I clicked on the link from HN:

"Hmm, this looks pretty... what is it for?

It has a huge area that says "click here or drag and drop to start uploading"... but uploading what? And why?

Let's scroll down and read the 'about'!: "Fast", "Compatible", "Encryption"... um... ok but WHY?! Is it personal file storage for me (Like Dropbox?) or is it like a public FTP server? Or something else? If I drag and drop my tax return there is it suddenly shared with the entire world? Why do I want this thing?! Back to the HN comments to find out more!"

Something like that anyway! According to the comments it seems to be more like a rapidshare/mega thing - and now that I get it I'll keep this site in mind for sure!
US police agencies with their own DNA databases stir debate
How does one person need 4 knee replacements in 10 years?
Typically the victims are low-margin businesses operating in old buildings that were designed long before ADA existed. These businesses may never have served a wheelchair-bound customer before, or if they did it was an ad hoc process. In other words, physically lifting a wheelchair over some stairs or just bringing the customer's purchases outside. That's fine for reasonable customers, but the wheelchair people involved in these lawsuits do not behave in reasonable fashion.
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Where Big Data begin?
Everybody talks about big data with many uses starting with predictive analytics of this big data. Today’s challenge is the way in which we approach data standardization and how to manage data and how to engage Crowd Sourcing for Big Data processing.
No, there are plenty alternatives storing energy. I'm just wondering about the comparative environmental costs.
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W-wait... Did you remove the option to vote on my comments?
7 of the Most Effective Content Marketing Tips for Startups
I think it's very great, that Linux users get high-quality systems. This could be a solution for all the new MBP haters.
A drone with a camera that could be deployed when required rather than permanently could be useful for parking manoeuvres, extra visibility when overtaking, checking out why traffic has stopped, and so on.
I've ran medium sized projects (not hobby projects) on the GCCB, and they took about 5 minutes to build and test. Unless I want to build >24 times a day, this means GCCB will be free for my business in most cases. Personally, I think it's a great gesture, I didn't ask for it and yet it's free.

If your builds become much more complicated, and you have an team of developers working with CI, yes, you will exceed the 120m limit. But if you are running at that scale, a couple of dollars per day for the build process is the least of your running costs.
Improved “No results” pages
I'm not sure I get your example.

If groups A and B have 2 members each, but one of the members cares about the group status, while the other one doesn't, don't they effectively have only 1 member?

I.e. group of "me and someone who doesn't care" would just be a group of "me". Then that group isn't useful to be high status in, since it doesn't offer any extra benefits (a group of "me" can't do more than just me).

If the weights weren't 1 and 0 for A and B respectively, but something like 1 and 0.5, then the group's value would just be (status within the group) * sum(participants sans self * their weight * their influence). (assuming influence can be quantified somehow)

Then if I gain status in a group, and other members of the group lose a bit of their status, I can evaluate the gains and losses and the sum will be 0.

To get the global status I just sum the results for all the groups I'm part of, and compare to other people.

So a person A can be highly regarded in a paper airplane folding club, but unless there's a surprising number of top politicians/lobbyists/whatever who care about the club a lot, person B who plays golf with Donald Trump will probably have higher global status.

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Looking at it now, I guess you could say that the global status is technically non-zero sum, since it will inflate with creation of new groups.

Maybe the weights representing how much people care should need to sum to 1 for every person, that would solve the inflation? Then it only inflates when new people appear.

Anyway, the global status is just a ranking showing who can "move the most pieces", as it were.
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Honestly this is one area where PowerShell kind of nailed it.

I still don't use it enough, but when it comes to scripting PS's objects beat the hell out of these
Colleges' “innovation jargon” mimics startup buzzwords
At the same time, making things repairable definitely hurts the environment in some way too.

I'm looking around my office - there's about 300 workstations, all of them have a gigantic metal case, the motherboard has several PCIEx slots that will never be used, several SATA connectors, metal clips for the CPU mounts, tons of power cabling just hanging around doing nothing because it has no devices connected to it. All of those PCs will be fully replaced for newer models in about 3 years, and all of this effort to make them repairable and modifiable will be for naught. If we could buy a small system that had everything integrated on the motherboard and required one cable for power, would that not be better for the environment? All the plastic to make superfluous connectors in my machine is literally a giant waste of resources and we could have done without it.
I like it. But I would like a more concrete answer to how long the files are kept. "As long as possible" is not really a great answer. I don't expect it to be there indefinitely, but something like "For at least 5 days. And no guarantee longer than that" would be fine with me.
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The ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) requires that businesses take appropriate steps to make services available to those with disabilities. They can be sued by private citizens who attempt to utilize their services but are unable. So you get lawyers who partner up with someone with a disability and go around suing businesses because they had a wheelchair ramp but it was 1 inch more narrow than the local code calls for.
I lost about 50% on my Apple stock in a single day shortly after buying it during the early 2000s. I didn't mean the company's actual business had drastically deteriorated. It just meant that shares I had previously evaluated to be a good purchase were now on sale and it was time to buy more.