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I can't help you with Halifax or AMEX (yet), but my company (https://teller.io/) has a Natwest API in production (private beta). If you would like access, please ping me. sg -at- teller.io
How are artists doing under Spotify? Oh wait, that's not your problem.
The downvote, at least from me, was because:

1) Suggesting that posting/reading an interview with someone with radical views is "glorifying" them. How dare we listen to the opinions of others?

2) The post implicitly accepts the fact that the culture on HN does not particularly consider Sonde to be a "criminal" but simultaneously calls him one one without argument -- it is nothing more than a nasty smear.

3) Suggesting the current online culture is not "respectful" of content-creators, a point which I think is patently false and is again made without reason, explanation, argument or support.

I think the move you and your parent have made which I find disturbing is to call these people "content creators". As if "content" is some commodity that should be bought and sold like pounds of steel or rice. Your phrasing pre-assumes your position; most of the time people are thinking specifically about "artists". And what they produce is not something bland, generic, and revenue-driven like "content", it's art.

Many artists don't care if you pirate their work and are happy to say so. Most artists broadcast their art on public airwaves for free for anyone to listen to or watch and are delighted to do it. So delighted that paying for the privilege was so common it had to be made illegal. Art is generated in the context of culture, and culture is a common societal good. Art created in our culture in some sense belongs to us all. The beatles albums, in my view, belong to the public after this long. It is disgusting someone should be able to "own" art that is central to our common cultural history and extract rent from people who want to enjoy it. Especially when the "owner" is just a wealthy capitalist who has decided they want to own thoughts and art, not an actual artist who had anything to do with creating it.

I think as a society we should allow artists a reasonable period where they can, in good faith (which is rarely realized because of the way almost all contracts work to brutally exploit non-savvy artists), make money from their art, but after a decent period of time it no longer belongs to them. It belongs to the public. It certainly should not be sold and traded like a commodity. That's the artistic version of patent trolling -- buying intellectual property rights with the sole purpose of sucking money out of them and stifling art/culture/creation, and it should be illegal.
I don't really think 3-4 micro services ought to be something one can't run locally relatively easily. Even with a brand new MBP I couldn't effectively develop full stack using just a handful of services without running out of memory. Though I suppose this is less about locking yourself into a single framework for your services, and more about not shipping insane amounts of bloat with each of your services.
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I wrote a blog post[1] a long time ago. Someone post it on HN and for some reason(?) made it to the frontpage. When I checked by website records (a week later) I saw a HUGE spike in traffic. My blog is very low volume 50-100 visits per day... so that spike in the graph dwarfed every other day displayed. I bit the bullet and joined the community. It has surely paid off as it kick-started my remote career.

[1] https://www.convalesco.org/articles/2013/02/01/the-macosx-wa...
Burn down chart?
And they have always been considered weird, even when respected by their local culture, and to number very few. We have a word for such people. We do not actually have a word for people who are not hermits, because that's how normal it is. We have words for being excessively group focused, like "gregarious", but not for "not a hermit".

Slightly less extreme, many cultures have had some sort of monk experience, where the monks do not live alone but often have some sort of highly restrictive vow of silence or something. It is certainly a thing in humanity that is popular enough to at times create social institutions for those who wish the rather different lifestyle, but it has also been a radical minority of people who choose it.

What's my point? Is there anything wrong with those choices? No. The point is that trying to arrange a social order that tries to push the majority of people in that direction isn't going to succeed.

I consider "everything is going to become telecommuting in the future" to be up there with "mobile games are going to completely destroy PC and console gaming". If it was going to happen, we should not still be speculating about it... it should be happening right now, visibly obviously, not something we have to go parse through trends and sort of squint at to see.
New AI learning method by Google allows training of algorithms directly on phone
Yea, I'm not going to share which airline or which branch (other than to say it wasn't United or Chicago), but I have a relative who works at a pretty high position in one of them and they were, to my great surprise, in defense of United and the police in that episode earlier this week. Statements like "airlines bump people all the time", "they can't offer anymore than what they did, its a set rule", and "if they just complied none of this would have happened, its a crime to disagree with flight crew" kept coming up. This is the mentality that permeates the airline industry and is what lead to that episode. They don't put satisfying the customer above following the rules. Its also why no one who has flown much was particularly surprised it happened in the first place.
> The worst of these are also the sort of people who, if your speedometer was broken, would insist that the car is not moving. Even after you told them to look out the window.

That's an amazing quote. I'm totally stealing this.
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What I'm saying is that in some cases I do believe it to be irreconcileable.
If it's already a set in the language, use intersect. If the numbers are in a array or sth. similiar, make a set and use intersect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersection_(set_theory)
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Yes you do. Otherwise I can just come along and take your stuff because I feel like it, and if you object I'll beat you up.
I always wonder, when people make such claims, if it is true.

So I am upvoting this for the simple reason that she spent so much time going over the research that demonstrates that humble leaders are more effective.

edit: p.s. alternative theory of why we choose Charisma over Consensus. Consensus minded people tend to pick many different leaders whereas the charisma influenced people, even though they are in the minority tend to end up picking the single leader who displays the most charisma (in the narrow sense of negative, narcissistic and authoritarian charisma defined in the article).
Won't you accomplish the same result by asking questions around the suspected fatal flaw? If it's really a flaw, the suggester is made aware of it. If it isn't a flaw, the asker is given evidence that it's not. It just seems like a different approach to these end result.

I also believe that method promotes hashing it out together. Outright rejection of an idea seems to put the onus back solely on the suggester to defend the idea without having been communicated the reason. That said, communicating the reason for rejection goes a long way towards making both process more equivalent.
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it seems to me like because you have a pre-existing bias against the shamanic model you deliberately use the most uncharitable interpretation possible and conclude, as you were determined to do so from the outset, that the author is both derogatory and making statements beyond the scope of the individual experience. I concluded neither of those things.

I don't think we have anything else to discuss. Have a nice day.
Nice excel graph with the number of "points" burned each sprints.
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>I hate to break it to you, but malloc/free is not magical and O(1).

Trust me, I know more about it than I'd like to. I work on embedded software with hard realtime constraints and we had to remove all malloc/free calls from the critical paths.

What I don't like is people claiming garbage collection is free. It annoys me to no end. Garbage collection comes at a clear cost and you need to make a cost/benefit analysis. For your average chat application, this is okay. For video games, it might be, but it's probably already noticeable. For anything remotely realtime, forget garbage collection.
How the idea of humanity came into being
Electron as is, consumes relatively more resources than QT and it's obvious because uses Chromium under the scene. But this is not the only reason for a slow electron based program. Code is the most important thing in any application and it's the primary cause of bad performance. A well writen and optimized application will have a good performance, no matters on which platform is based (good ones, obviously). "Electron is slow" is like "Java is slow" right now. Do you want a probe of a well writen electron app? Check VS Code; it's fast, it have a good performance and consumes a lot less resources than Atom, for example.
If you look back at the source for the "Humble People Make the Best Leaders" source, it's a little less straight forward than that. It's not about humble leaders, it's mainly a study about how altruistic leaders make their employees feel:

https://hbr.org/2014/05/the-best-leaders-are-humble-leaders

And that supposedly helped in somewhat ambiguous fields: Uniqueness, Belongingess, Team Citizenship, and Innovation
Mostly okay. I was on the leading edge of a wave that was going to happen anyway, and the term is relatively generic. As long as someone doesn't start one with the same name as any of ours, I'm good. Many of the people behind other * Weekly dev newsletters have become good acquaintances.

We have a rebrand in the works, however, as due to our reluctance to heavily promote or send arbitrary emails to subscribers, we have a lot of subscribers who don't know about the other publications.. and our stable is not very cohesive branding wise. This will be resolved by the end of the year :-)
Duplicate / messed up tickets happen and IME (I travel roughly once a month and saw this maybe 3-4 times) the "first in" is always how things are resolved. Whoever is first keeps his seat, whoever is late is reseated, gets an apology and some goodies especially if this is a downgrade / later flight. I think (but not 100% sure) this might even be codified in some airlines policies.

I saw duplicate assigned seats, I saw seats assigned in the toilet -- the plane had last row of ABC seats and lavatory where DEF seats would be. Sure enough two people show up with tickets in the DEF section. After some (weary) chuckles the folks just got squeezed into any open seats.

What is messed up about this case though was the lack of clear policy (so the person does not feel he is discriminated against), threats instead of apology and no compensation.

I am also surprised at the price: $1000 for a first class ticket on a long flight is low. Was that be one of the "gate upgrades" he purchased instead of the real first class ticket? This does not absolve United at all, but at least gives some potential sanity to their choice of a purchased seat over a gate upgrade.
Via a link on Techmeme.
Start meditating, seriously, it saved my life and its better than ever before now.. without the attachment to the "I" which seems to think that it thinks these thoughts.. who are you? what are you in the wholeness of your experience? Ask yourself, intently, and listen to the silence. Feel the core of your arms, the subtile energy there. Keep your awareness on it.... and then look around while keeping your awareness there. Look at things, look at what you see in the whole field of view. There's space behind it and around it. You are the space experiencing itself thinking these thoughts. You are nothing without thought and yet you are not thought.. can you see what I mean?
OK, breaking contracts isn't criminal. Just grounds for legal action. But assault and lying to police officers, those are criminal offenses.
I firmly agree that the free and open internet is in a slow state of decline. The speed at which people are willing to accept that decline without even realizing it’s happening is pretty staggering, and certainly not the responsibility of one person to fix. I’m wondering though if maybe the community can remedy that by bolstering the techniques that are still good. Off the top of my head:

* Eliminate the notion of a second class netizen: WebRTC, STUN etc to overcome the mistake of NAT (which still exists in IPv6)

* Separate content from source: distributed hash table (DHT) in place of subresource integrity (SRI)

* Encryption everywhere: letsencrypt.org and other providers, with fast start (begin sending encrypted data before full handshake to eliminate startup delay)

* Trust networks that can be trusted to work: Diaspora, possibly others (I am the least familiar with this aspect of P2P networks)

* Nearly free backbone: cell phone hotspots and rooftop boxes that can run a meshnet at full bandwidth, using existing DHT and CDN concepts to cache data blocks locally

I’ve written these from easiest to hardest to the best of my ability. Maybe part of the reason the web is failing is that its fundamental software and hardware were created under assumptions that cater more to system administration or the profit motive than they do to full self-actualization of the user. Few of these infrastructure improvements will come from the corporate sector, but they’re needed as a foundation for a real web 2.0 that isn’t a walled garden.
Once, I saw an ad that HR wrote (with my input) looking for someone I would then train. Judging from the ad HR wrote, I was not qualified for the job.

Don't take that stuff too seriously. If you think you can do the job that needs done, apply. The worst that can happen is they'll say no.
I don't view it as men. I and my (male programmer) friends use the term quite freely and derisively, because frankly we're all dismayed at what's happened to this industry over the past 20 years. "Brogrammers" is a term that sums it up pretty well - there's far too many huge egos in this industry today who seem to just be in it for the fame/money/ego stroking.

For those of us who just want to write good code and fix shit and make the world of software better, it's disgusting and demoralizing and tiring.

If improving workplace diversity helps even a tiny bit with that problem (and I can't see how it wouldn't), then I am 1000% for it.
> Was a time in America where we had capitalism but every dollar over like $10 mill was taxed at near 100% -- that CEO's would instead pay their employees more, or hire new ones and grow the company instead of pad their pockets.

Like... are you honestly so fucking lacking in integrity that you could not bother looking this shit up before puking this garbage here?

> over like $10 mill

This number is PURE bullshit. That's not how it worked. Read here: here:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_history_of_the_United...

> CEO's would instead pay their employees more, or hire new ones and grow the company instead of pad their pockets.

Stop puking whatever your college professor shoved into your head and think for yourself for a minute.

Take 100% of every Fortune 5000 CEO's income and divide that number by the number of people they collectively employ. How much more money do you think each employee would get? 1000 dollar more / month? 10 000 per year? If you believe so then you are as lost as your friend Bernie. Plenty of economists have made those calculations and once you look into them you realize that this argument makes no fucking sense and it is just a talking point to rally you into voting for democrats. The average worker would get no substantial or life-changing increase in income if you distribute the CEO income by the number of employees their corporations have.

> This is what I hoped for when Bernie Sanders lost

Bernie didn't lose. Bernie sold you out. He repackaged, shuffled and sold you to the most corrupt politician of modern times. Yet here you are shouting THIS THIS THIS. You are being fingered by your candidate. The sooner you realize that the better you'll be able to sleep.

> Trump is king, and America's going to shit pretty darn fast

No it won't. The president doesn't change much. It's a democracy not an autocracy. Get fucking real already and stop with the hyperbolic bullshit.
It's a project management strategy named for how it makes you want to burn down the office.
Would love to have this for Telegram secret chats.
Reminds me of something from my quotes.txt:

"The problem is that by standing for public office, the candidate is showing that they are unsuitable for the job."
NYC has a 24/365 hour Apple Store which reflects the vibrancy of the city 24/365. Need I say more?

Europe is very beautiful. But for the creative energy and vibrancy NYC is the place to be.
I don't see the downside here. Being able to sell lesson plans would be a nice little bonus to often underpaid teachers. It would have the upside of having teachers put in a little more work in developing their lesson plans if they think they can sell them. Other teachers would be able to benefit greatly from purchasing other lesson plans and saving time and effort.

I don't think it would harm the "traditional collaborative atmosphere of schools". Creating an exchange, even with the option of payment would just improve it
Ads you say? No thanks.
The trick is to retrospectively rescale the work estimates.
Airlines already take your money when you cancel. They overbook because so many people cancel that they have vacant seats, meaning they can sell X% of seats twice.
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Why can't they just make the tickets non-refundable? They still get paid!
How did game developers pack entire games into so little memory 25 years ago?
But the argument is you have a poor framework which was internally developed. This is considered a technical debt, and not a fault of sticking with one framework. I don't think people are arguing for only one framework is allowed, but rather the point is to establish a platform approved list of software/libraries. If you have reasons to believe moving to another framework is better in the long run, talk and bring up a plan how to address it. But I will say often people (both developers and managements) will dismiss rewrite / attempt to replace components because they think it's better off to leave things alone. This is a double sword: low morale and excitement to work on a project despite the product is unstable, but fear of failure after replacing / rewriting. strong technical leadership is often absence.

This is actually quite important from both licensing and security point of view, and having such list available encourages discussions. I'd like to write one of my services in Go, but does my company have the resource to maintain Go application after I depart? What are the strong technical reasons that the service must be written in Go rather than in Python or in Java? If Go is approved, then I need to make sure management offers training / materials for developers to learn Go, and that I am available to train others (have good documentation, brown bag sessions and what not).
I am about to ask the same question. LOL
Glad teachers are finding a way to make some additional money especially given how much time they spend on lesson plans. The licensing aspect seems interesting and potentially problematic, but I don't see why the school districts couldn't get into this too and do some sort of revenue share with the teachers (ignoring the bureaucracy of actually setting it up). A more "open source" version of this would be nice too but then you get into the same kinds of funding issues that open source projects have. Seems like it would be good to have teachers contributing back improvements though too. Does anybody know of anything like this?
What kind of engineer are you? One of the types that must gain a license to practice?

Regardless, I'm interested to hear elaboration on how you could fundamentally disagree that engineers must achieve a rigorous consensus on the facts before e.g. landing a rocket booster on a moving target in an ocean, after propelling to low earth orbit.
> Nobody in the last 5-10 years cared about writing Desktop apps before Electron came along

What? Have you heard of Adobe AIR, AppJS, Node-Webkit (now NW.js) and Mozilla Prism/WebRunner?
It's a common metric used in the Scrum methodology. You start off the "sprint" with a set number of "story points" (say, 30 points), and end the sprint with zero points. When you graph the team's progress over the course of the sprint, it should ideally form a linear, downward slope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_down_chart
Google Assistant Design Inspiration
Comically striking similarities between the logo for The Google Assistant and the classic WonderBread logo.

Google Assistant Logo:

http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news2/google-assistant-enabled-on-non-pixel-phones-via-google-app-512850-2.jpg

WonderBread Logo:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/36/Wonder_bread_logo_interstate_bakeries.svg/1280px-Wonder_bread_logo_interstate_bakeries.svg.png
That's not the only cited reference to back up this claim:

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0149206315604187

> Findings largely support our theoretical assertions, suggesting that CEO humility has important implications for firm processes and outcomes.
It sounds like he realizes that too, with his comments towards the end of the letter:

"Fourth, recognize true misalignment issues early and escalate them immediately. Sometimes teams have different objectives and fundamentally different views. They are not aligned. No amount of discussion, no number of meetings will resolve that deep misalignment. Without escalation, the default dispute resolution mechanism for this scenario is exhaustion. Whoever has more stamina carries the decision."