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> I realize that me posting this isn't going to do anything.

FWIW, comments like yours are helpful to people like me in that they provide the assurance that I'm not alone in largely disagreeing with the sentiment expressed in the top HN comments in threads like these.
I lived there for a couple of months in 2014. Amazing city, even outside of the hacker world. The locals are very friendly and there's a great expat community too. I would love to go back.
Has there been any new books out there to learn D? I have one that still references the Collection Wars (Phobos vs Native). Once I saw that, I put the book back on the shelf and stuck with Java.
Only in UO can you have a story like that :). I had a similar experience. Was this on Baja by chance?
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Some Capital One employees had the same thought and hijacked their data to make $4.4M over ~15 months:

> "The SEC sued colleagues Nan Huang and Bonan Huang in January 2015 alleging they made hundreds, if not thousands, of keyword searches on their company's private database for sales data on at least 170 publicly traded companies from November 2013 to January 2015."

Ref: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-sec-capital-one-fin-inside...

It seems like the biggest problem was misusing non-public Capital One data. Imagine if a personal finance app made that part of their business model and got scale.

Something like Mint could front a powerful consumer investment strategy..
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When I first joined ten years ago, most discussions were highly technical, or oriented towards doing a startup with no politics on either side. The politics stayed in their own threads.

I agree that the forum has been on a ten year trends towards slipstreaming in politics, ideology, and dogma on more and more articles. They follow very similar templates: a standard liberal rant about how we need more benefits for the people or a standard libertarian rant about how the markets will take care of it all. As a result, it becomes less interesting because the points made are similar.
We always (sort of) go first by sharing our comp ranges to candidates. If either of us are way off why waste each other's time? We do ask for comp history. We try to be very fair and we rarely end up needing to negotiate at all.
I agree with the latter half of your sentiment, but to the former, like I said, I was playing on the newest machines intel could build and I had an OC-48... so no lag. but after the housing insanity... it did go down hill.

I DLd the open version(which is incredible how that was reverse engineered in-and-of-itself) and it was literrally entirely populated with house and was no fun AT ALL.

but yeah, there was some where near a year where that game was amazing.

It is funny to think though, even though the game was revolutionary, how quickly it was grokked by people and play strategies were realized.

Fuck, look at twitch and how basically computer game culture has evolved!

there will be PHD level courses on this within 20 years.
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The article seems to conflate intelligence with creativity. They're orthogonal.
> "The US has lower unemployment than in 2010, and higher unemployment than in 2000." Fact.

Define "unemployment." Our labor force participation rate is down from 2010: http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/563caf319dd7ccfc418....
These 5 million transportation jobs will not disappear on the same day. It will probably take a decade or so.

This has happened many, many times over the 250 years since the Industrial Revolution. Each time, the old jobs have been replaced by newer and better jobs, and each time people have worried about mass unemployment and misery that did not happen.
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I, for one, want to see something beyond the shiny-toy syndrome when I talk to a team member about why we need to use the tool/technology/framework/library in question. I'm all for personal improvement, and every technology, regardless how different it is, that we learn/become familiar with makes us better professionals. But sandbox to production is a long way. Keeping things simple has its merits.
It's easy being altruistic when you're the clear leader and have a comfortable margin. Doesn't give me any comfort knowing how benevolent Google is presently.
Ai Weiwei is not a minority. In fact, the only reason he is not in jail continuously is because his family is very powerful ("noble") in China.
TL;DR: Do less automated work, and call it a "coaching service".

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I think the challenge here is that the student is NOT writing the essay. Or at least that's the way it looks to me.

Your thesis holds if the intent of the essay is simply to communicate information. With that viewpoint, asking a set of dynamic questions is a great solution. It's the automated equivalent to having a journalist interview the candidate, and prepare an initial draft.

However, I suspect that for many universities, the meta-intent of the essay is to judge not only information, but also the ability to communicate that information. If a university offers a scholarship to a high-level student, who does potentially groundbreaking research but is unable to communicate the findings, that can still be considered a "failure". Your software will not be there to ask dynamic questions and write the research paper.

If you want to continue to offer the service, but you want to retain the ethical high-ground, I can think of two possible options:

1) Disclose to the university that the essay was written with significant help. This may impact your candidate's chances. However, it allows universities to self-sort based on the desire for raw information and accomplishments or communication skills.

2) Provide the same service, but make the output VERY VERY rough. In this sense, the essay builder becomes more of a writing coaching service. This would allow you to overcome barriers of self-modesty and grammar, but would force the candidate to do more work.

From your various posts, it sounds to me like option #2 represents the goal of your product, and is your true desire. However, reading between the lines, I also get the impression that you're going rather far beyond that point. It seems like (?) you may be doing more work than you'd like to admit and are trying to cover that fact. I could be wrong here though.
I honestly thought some social media marketers would come out the woodwork and agree - equally vaguely - but I guess they aren't here

Its more beneficial not to be more specific, and seeing that nobody else has anything to add and are more-so frustrated at the asymmetric information then its a form of validation.

But I've taken accounts from 0 followers to 10k+ followers within a week's time. All the follower's accounts are non-bots, any random selection would be highly engaged real humans, and new posts maintain around 2%-5% of the followers liking or viewing+liking without the use of hash tags at all. There are interesting skews in the demographics, worth its own article, but I'm fine without it.

For follower count alone, instagress would take months to do the equivalent, as its activity is slow and varied to avoid detection as a bot. Also the unfollow rate begins to match the speed at which it can safely attract followers, in the low thousands, if you don't have an exceptionally active niche.
Fast fission reactors don't leave much plutonium behind, because they fission it much more efficiently. Hybrid reactors would be even better, because fusion neutrons have such high energy that they fission U238 directly.
Great analysis Troy! It's good to see real data to back up the most likely (and least worrisome) scenario.
Ask HN: Node or .net Core or GoLang or any other?
I am working on a side project where i am using React and Redux for the Frontend. In this app/game, I have to maintain the state of the user like (any progress or interaction or last state) as well syncing of the data with the server.
So i am in the great dilemma for the server technology selection. I have experience of both Node as well as .Net(day job) but no experience in golang. Can you please suggest, which technology should i go for.
I develop Hololens apps and just purchased a top-end Surface Pro 4 a week ago to replace an Asus ultrabook. I love having a touch screen (ever since Windows 8) and the screen density and size is perfect for a long page of code in portrait. When I'm having a tough code problem I can just sit down on the couch with it, read through and try a few things. Really impressed by it overall.

Outside of hololens I use both Ubuntu and OSX all day. Windows 10 is really nice but I can still see the struggle between the tablet and desktop form factors in the UI. The way Gnome and OSX treat titlebars, swipes, and context menus is much more intuitive.

Battery lasts forever.
Ask HN: Which provider would you use to start a small web hosting company?
My day job involves looking after a Cloud Linux web hosting setup, based on WHM and cPanel, for a few thousand small customers in a niche sector.

I freelance and create (mostly WordPress powered) websites for small to medium businesses, as well as eCommerce sites and so on. I end up referring them all to various 3rd party hosts and domain providers, when most the time they ask if I'll host it and provide services like backups, setting up email accounts and so on.

As I have knowledge of web hosting, and it my work are ok with it, I figured it'd be a fun side project (I've been looking for one) to scratch an itch I've had to learn more about 'the cloud'. All my work web hosting is on our tin, and I've used Azure enough to dislike it.

What would you use to back it? I was thinking of either DigitalOcean as I know it well, or learning AWS, which I want to do but seems daunting. It'd be great to be able to auto scale, or simply create an EC2 instance per customer or something which would be great for security.

As well as the titular question, if anyone has any blogs or similar related, I'd be interested in reading.
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"Otto noted that it had developed an “in-house custom built 64-laser (Class 1) emitting 6.4 million beams a second at 10Hz.”"

...

"Lidow explained that many lidars today use 32 lasers and 1 or 2 million beams per second, and that a 64-laser system emitting 6.4 million beams a second would give superior vertical resolution and quicker refreshes. This would be better able to capture small, fast objects such as bouncing balls or animals darting into the road. It would also be technically challenging to build. “But I don’t think the speed of the system or the number of laser pulses are definitive in any way to tell you whose system it is,” he said."

While Velodyne has a 64 channel product, I can't find any reference of a Velodyne system that comes close to that 6.4M beam per second refresh.
> All of a sudden you can have the idea that an hour-long commute is actually a big perk because instead of driving and having to sit and focus and lurch through traffic, what if your car is a rolling living room?

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Need some risk capital for that. Where's that going to come from, when investors have already risked $166 million?
Well, of course you can. Pick any human endeavour, including software development, and I can demonstrate that it's just applied philosophy. But it's not a useful exercise, IMO, it's just a reductionist rhetorical device.

I think it's wise to keep ourselves humble -- few of us are blazing new trails, in anything that we do. And I agree that many so-called innovations are nothing of the sort. But if we reduce everything that we do to revision and extension, then the word "innovation" entirely loses meaning. Why would we want to do that?
English needs to reform out written language as well. It isn't as bad as Chinese, but there is a reason "only two languages commonly have writing competitions: Chinese and English." (I'm not sure who to attribute this to, it isn't mine though I probably got it wrong)

Spanish adults read at a 5th grade level, English adults read at a 6th grade level, Japanese adults read at a 9th grade level - this isn't a reflection of education it is a reflection on how difficult the written language is to learn.

As a bad speller with a passing knowledge of Spanish I'm jealous: when I hear a Spanish word I can spell it, with English I have no clue.
> is certainly not up to the lousy journalist that wrote that title to decide.

Journalists are allowed to interpret. In fact, that's a core part of journalism.
Mandating that employers are forbidden to ask about previous salary seems like a pathway to more government intrusion into a complex process. Part of job seeking involves learning how to negotiate with a potential employer. I've side-stepped many an inappropriate or premature question about salary with "Are you making an offer," followed by agreement to disclose the "details" if and when such offer is forthcoming at which point I know far more about what the position involves, am in a much better negotiating position and can explain, if necessary, why the pay scale was lower. If that doesnt satisfy a recruiter or potential employer, I tend to think they're not very serious about me as a candidate and I havent disclosed personal information that might limit my future job search.
Where can you get the parts for building one yourself ? Thinking about switching from web dev to making robots.
Mandating that employers are forbidden to ask about previous salary seems like a pathway to more government intrusion into a complex process. Part of job seeking involves learning how to negotiate with a potential employer. I've side-stepped many an inappropriate or premature question about salary with "Are you making an offer," followed by agreement to disclose the "details" if and when such offer is forthcoming at which point I know far more about what the position involves, and am in a much better negotiating position.
Heck, anyone who has ever been to Japan can recognize that there is still plenty of flimsy chabuduoism in Japanese culture as well (no country is really that special in this regard).
Yep. The Stripe account isn't the hard part. All you need is a US Address (sorta) and an EIN (I think). You can go for a while without adding either to your account. The US bank account is the hard part, because they have some serious KYC checks, and most banks simply don't do it at all.

I managed to get it via SVB - just applied on their website. I originally spoke to them with the intention of doing it for a US LLC as described above.

It turns out that they were happy to open an account for the foreign corp directly without a US entity underneath. To qualify I had to demonstrate that we were potentially high growth and would be seeking accelerator / angel / VC investment at some point. (Would they fire you if you didn't end up doing that? Perhaps not.)

The monthly fees for this arrangement jump to a couple hundred $ per month maintenance after 2 years. Not sure if their deal with Atlas is different on that front.
Sourcegraph CEO here. We are excited to ship this. Happy to answer any questions folks have.
And my experience is that never, ever, has a potential employer expressed a "pretty good idea" about what a "normal" salary for a position is.
Unless you're an unskilled driver, driving becomes "automatic" in much the same way that riding a bike does. When you ride a bike, are you concentrating on not falling over? Maybe for the first week or so that you're learning...
People are totally going to game this just like they game SEO. No doubt about it. Oh god, I hope "Fact Check Optimizer" doesn't become a real profession.
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It's depressing to me how many responses there are on this, without anyone simply saying: "Lying is wrong"

I know there are a lot of purely utilitarian thinkers around here, but is there no moral compass at all?
> First, literacy isn't completely related to the writing system. Look at Spanish speaking countries, where the alphabet is more phonetic than the English alphabet.

Perhaps more to the point, Japan, which uses Chinese characters for nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and verb-roots, has a very high literacy rate. [1]*

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2014/2014008.pdf

* Not trying to cherry-pick for Japan being at the top, but Japan's not listed in the 2015 UNESCO report that's referenced all over the place. This US DoE report from 2013 seems legitimate enough.
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Property values are still climbing in Miami because the market seems to think that the city will be bailed out by some colossally-expensive engineering project to fix the problem on the taxpayer's dime. Nobody knows what that is yet- the usual levees and canals won't work because Florida is a limestone sponge and the water just comes up through the ground if you try to dam it- but they assume there'll be something.

Depressingly, the market is probably right. Abandoning Miami would mean admitting that global warming is real, and that's just not going to happen. Besides, "retreat" isn't in our vocabulary! `Murica!
Thanks for the link. Business logic, to me, is: 1. Make sure that domain rules are enforced and keep data consistent. 2. For every use case, always trigger the same sequence of actions (behavior and side effects).

Imagine a fitness app where you can enter workouts and how much water you drank. You may enter only one workout per day (rule) and you cannot enter more than 1 gallon of water (rule). When you add a workout (behavior & side effects): the weather API is called and the current weather is added to the workout, the workout is stored in the DB, some calculated statistics are updated, your public "progress report card" is updated, you get a "good job!" push notification.

In my PHP OOP spaghetti approach, I might create an AddWorkoutCommand that executes() these actions by calling a bunch of other functions in other objects and trigger an event for optional listeners/actions. With Redux, not everything is in the same store (or in the store at all) and I don't even know where to start. It feels like this doesn't have anything to do with Redux, because it's partially not even state/view-related.

Maybe I'm overthinking this, but I do have a hard time finding a good tutorial that shows how to work with behavior and rules that goes beyond "add this item to the todo array".
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Sorry, but that is factually incorrect.

"licensed gun owner to open-carry in California", as I read it, is "a gun owner licensed to open-carry in California".

Regardless, you can't get a license to open carry in California, as no such license exists, and open carry is illegal in California under California Penal Code Section 26350[1]. So, you may be able to legally carry a firearm in California, but unless you're a law enforcement, you may not carry openly. This has been adjudicated in court in Peruta v. San Diego[2], and the courts found that an outright ban on open carry for the citizenry comported with the second amendment.

So, as a private citizen, you might be able to carry a firearm, but you would have to do so in a concealed fashion, and only after being licensed to do so. In order to obtain a license, you have to apply with your county sheriff, they have to evaluate whether you are of good moral character, whether you have a legitimate reason for carrying a firearm, that you have completed 16+ hours of training, and that you are a resident of their county. Noting that 'self defense' is not a valid reason for issuance, most applications are denied, though that undoubtedly varies from county to county.

[1] - http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection...

[2] - https://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/content/view.php?pk_id=00000007...
For what it's worth, I find the radio enormously distracting as well. In fact, I find all conversation happening in the car distracting.

I've narrowly avoided several accidents because I was able to hear the other vehicle approaching, because I always pay full attention to my surroundings. When the radio is on though, or passengers are talking, it becomes very difficult to notice those types of subtle cues.

For this reason I have an explicit "no talking" rule when I have others in the car with me. Doesn't make me the most popular person when it comes to carpooling, but whatever, I'll take safety over idle chatter anytime.
What! I always thought .SWF was for "ShockWave Flash", not Small Web Format. Ha, a bit late to learn though.
The standard hacker stereotype is of kids in basements, which the author seems to propose here, but most hackers who commit crimes are in their 20s-30s. (I have no direct evidence of this except the majority of public arrest/sentencing of cyber criminals, and generally people in the blackhat and organized crime scenes are not teens) The bravado thing is less a factor of being young, and more that a ton of cyber criminals have comically inflated egos.
> Would be nice if managers prevented small teams from choosing any technical choice they felt like.

That requires knowledge, experience, and good technical & business judgement. Unfortunately not everyone has these qualities. Refusing something simply for keeping things as they are is not a sustainable strategy in technology. Decisions have to be made smart, and they have to contribute to the incremental improvements.
It took me some time to parse the title. Isn't the original - clickbaity - title better?
Define "bad".

The question as regards to human habitation is: will a warmer planet be a planet that can support us as well, will it be a planet that we enjoy living on to the same degree?
Trying to defeat this with technical trickery won't work. "Gee golly gosh you're smart, on through you go" is not a standard CBP response.

They will search your devices. They have a process flow to follow and 'empty contact list' will likely branch to 'second-tier inspection' and laptops will be searched.

Much better to keep an old previous-generation smartphone with a minimal but genuine contact list ( immediate family, emergency contact, work & insurance numbers ) and a couple of useful non-social apps and use that when travelling. And only for travelling. No trickery, just hand it over.

I don't agree with the policy, but it's policy. I can't change it as one foreign national standing in line, I can only minimise the damage it causes me.
I think you are mistaking journalism with creative writing.

The core part of journalism is to present facts and let the interpretation up to the reader.
back before 2000, it really was important to know file formats. we didn't use libraries. we looked up the formats in books and implemented fresh code every time. I prided myself on having memorized most of the .wav header, enough that i didn't need a reference. Then, I learned .fig. Then, I worked on understanding .jpg.

Nowadays, with widespread APIs, the file formats' significance is almost irrelevant! In theory, only a single person in the world needs to know any file format. Everyone else can use a library they've written.

my how the world changes :)