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I'm glad your algorithm class covered this. Mine did not. It surely covered some other obscure material that you don't know. You are missing the point. If we had a standard CS curriculum, you can fault people for missing out on stuff they should know. I think part of the problem is people is that CS is too big of a discipline at this point. A systems person couldn't pass a graphics person's interview, etc.
A ledger is a separate write that slows down I/O and uses up disk space. Any way the question should by why a ledger wasn't used, not why it couldn't. Of course it could, but it's not necessarily desirable.
If you have a happy life won't you be pissed/scared at the idea of death?
Is there a philosophy that can give you comfort regarding the idea of death that is not a religious thing, the only idea that gives me a extremely small comfort is the idea that time is relative so in theory a dead person is stil young and living somewhere in the past just we can't get there.
Can't say I disagree with the sentiment, but you can communicate the same thing while maintaining civility.
If it was sustainable, I would applaud. But the reality is that young people don't want to take over the farms and rural population decreases rapidly. Even with incentives, new people don't want to take over farms because investment needed to modernize them is too important.
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Ah, facebook messenger was one of the reasons I quit facebook.

The fact it popus up on your phone and you cant get rid of it. So then I only had it on the webbrowser - but then i'd only go on the browser version once a day and people would have to take ages to get a response from me and it might be important. But most people assume you'll check it multiple times during the day.

So I just removed it entirely and gave people my whatsapp. And I'm so, so, so much happier i've done this.
Still have an account but haven't used it in about 5 years, except occasionally to deal with website integrations or answer an incoming message or invitation. My life is much better without it. I do sometimes miss out on announcements (especially weddings and births), and am not as much in touch with some friends and family as might be ideal. That's a price I'm willing to pay, but ymmv.
I'm working on a project that improves general productivity (not just developer productivity) with common methods, based on science studies. The methods aren't popular yet.

The biggest insight is that it's far more important to work on big, important problems.
Eh, I've seen an Intel SSD 320 eat a bunch of pages and an HGST 5K4000 4TB direct thousands of writes to the wrong sectors. There are a lot of things that can go wrong with storage devices, not just the optimistic case of a bit getting flipped after being written correctly.
> People opt in if they want, and opt out when they want.

How is this different from a mailing list?
I never used it and never will. I want something better.
I'm dealing with a very old, large, somewhat rotting codebase. it's barley tested. Is fuzzing something for me to improve code quality, or are tests the lower hanging fruit?
I found it more important to learn to write well rather than to add a comments section. Also, to have a way to get feedback before posting.
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Game servers don't do hard real time. That would be overkill, and requires specialized operating systems typically used for niche applications like robotics; e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTLinux
Edinburgh is a beautiful city - although to warn the rents are higher than most other cities. (I lived there for 5 years). HOWEVER the flats tend to be HUGE so it's good value for money. I had a bedroom in Edinburgh that was the size of my entire 1 bedroom flat in London.

There's some startup hubs in Edinburgh that are really friendly - i'd go put your cv in there. One is called "codebase"
> workaround of national law forbidding them to do so

Citizen data is still minimized, regardless of who collected it. There has never been evidence of this often-repeated "workaround" theory.
So the problem slack has is that chat is so foundational to the web that it's one of those things that doesn't really make sense to farm it out to third parties.

It's not hard or expensive to run yourself, and it's not difficult to securely expose on the web. That's why Lync has such a head start and why Atlassian's on premises option is gaining traction. Ultimately I suspect Mattermost is going to end up the main winner here. Slack, Teams and Hipchat will all have their userbases, but they'll have been in a three-way bar fight to get them, which is expensive.

Meanwhile, all those 12 person offices that farm their IT out to third party support companies? They're gonna start getting given Mattermost servers, because that's easy for the IT shops to license and install, yet also still under their direct control, which is important because IT support companies don't have a tonne of bandwidth to educate all 100 client companies if slack suddenly changes something.
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Yes, exactly, that's the original argument. Electron doesn't help you make anything, so making an animation if Flash (an alternative to Electron) were to go away would be much, much harder.
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By doing it in Perl it becomes fun instead of boring ;)
I work with and know plenty of people who groan at the idea of an all USB-C primary MBP for getting work done that swap phones and other hardware quite frequently. Also, it's not just about being totally USB-C w/ the MBP:

- Loss of HDMI port. Big for me because I often need to plug in to a projector.

- Loss of SD card slot. I use this a few times a week for the 3D printer at least. Photographer friends live off the thing.

- Micro electronics work: You already have to run USB 3 through a USB 2 only hub to smooth things out with certain devices. USB C will be at best, equal to that.

- Not a lot of docking station/monitor support for USB-C yet. Between my two monitors it's a two wire connection for my laptop to connect to all my peripherals, none of which are USB-C.

I need four things to charge every device I have, all of which fit in my laptop bag and provide no confusion (unlike the myriad USB-C cables that look exactly the same but don't do what you expect): Lightning cable, micro-USB cable, USB-A charging block, laptop power brick. If I was desperate for space I could drop the small USB charging block and just plug in to the laptop to charge.

Now, I'm not arguing AGAINST USB-C, there's just not enough of an ecosystem to make the transition as easy as what I have today. I don't want new technology and to spend money on something that at best, breaks even. These are the tools of my craft, they should make it easier to do my job, solve an acute problem that I have, or just generally make the experience better in some way. So in 18-36 months when there's a monitor with the 4K (or better) resolution of mine and a USB-C hub built in that is cheap enough for me to buy two or three, then I'll be making the switch.

Additionally, if you look at the recent entrants to USB-C, if you've got a half decent laptop, they're not screaming for you to upgrade to them. For example, there's no reason for me to upgrade my 2015 MBP to a 2016 touch bar when they've got practically the same internals. The same goes for all the other brands out there, if your laptop is less than 18 months old, you're getting about the same hardware you already had PLUS an ecosystem challenge with USB-C.
No. Clickbait is overblown and vaguely deceptive titles, not short and cryptic ones.

Based on the title and the domain name, and on zero prior familiarity with the writer, I figured it for one of those "we're moving on/what an amazing trip it's been/next stage in our journey" Valley-style bankruptcy announcements. In a cockeyed way, that's actually more or less what it is.
It's important to realize that working for someone else can be the best way to prepare yourself for a startup. Sometimes the best way to climb the higher hill is first to climb the short one and then work your way up the saddle.

Starting a startup is a lot easier when you're (relatively) financially secure. There's no way I would have been able to survive the first 6 months of my startup (when I didn't have any revenue coming in) if I hadn't saved up a decent amount of cash from working elsewhere (not to mention that working for others gives you important skills). The important bit is to think about this systematically: if you're going to take a job to accumulate financial and human capital, have a plan for how long you'll work there and how much capital you need to accumulate.

Being able to found a startup on your own terms (without having to desperately find angels) is very freeing and I definitely prefer it this way. My current startup is doing much better than my last one because this time I'm not worrying about investors at all.
Pardon my ignorance, but what's a CDRT?
Ask:  What is your office workspace setup?
Attending meetups in NYC gives a glimpse of office layouts. The meetup hosts tend to be early or mid-growth stage tech-oriented startups. The impression that I've gotten, at least from this category, is that employees get a powerful laptop, a widescreen monitor, and dock their laptop in at their desks.

I'm curious what your workspace is like. What city are you in, what stage of growth is your company in, and are you working in IT?
My first thoughts on this:

- I still won't use it because googling/favorites are faster.

- Somebody might find this useful if he/she wants to spy on the user.

Not sure if the time investment was worth it. I only use it as a reference browser.
This site is actually really awesome, and has worked for every website I've tried! My only slight issue with it however is it took me a few minutes to actually work out what "HTML codes" were and even then it was only from watching the video. Have you considered renaming it to something like "HTML Source Code"? It also seems to struggle on web pages it can't find tables, such as the following website I made which contains no information:

https://hastebin.com/eguluvoquq.html
The author calls "Nature" a "low quality journal". Is that really it's reputation?
Many of the best startup ideas don’t originate from analyzing market size or competitive landscapes or potential investors before those “eureka” moments. In fact, for many entrepreneurs, successful business ideas don’t start out as businesses at all, but as solutions designed to address a challenge they face personally.
This looks like a childish attempt to drive traffic to their consulting site, which itself looks like it was put together as part of a class project. Half the links on it go nowhere.
It probably is not very fair to assume people are brainwashed due to not having the same opinion as you on this.
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The founders birthday is the fifteenth, and it is followed by two days of rest.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/04/15/north-ko...
> Had it been a blog post, I don't think anyone would have taken more than a cursory look at the analysis. Yes, anyone can fit data points and reach a conclusion with blogs, but isn't academic research fraught with similar problems already?

Some papers are cited not because they are well written, but simply because they covered a topic which might not have been covered by other researchers. Literature review is a fundamental part of a paper.
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Lighten up. It's a forum post about a goofy project for a toy VM. It isn't a commercial product. Nobody's making money off it. Heck, the limitations of PICO-8 practically guarantee you won't be able to make a full-length game with this SCUMM engine.
As far as I can see there's only other kinds of Bs there (B = cubic(A), B = some_other_super_resolution_menthod(A), etc, etc). Can't find the real As... :P
I'm really curious why are you so wound up against him to mount such a strong an "ad hominem" attack against him?

Yeah, his work had mostly only aesthetic value imho (aka "worthless", I agree), bu one doesn't judges philosophers based on their life and character, one judges their ideas. And even so, I'd have no problems of with a philosopher who was lazy and sympathized with horrible people. Heck, if Hitler wrote good philosophy himself I'd praise his philosophy despite the person (note: he did not, I agree, Mein Khampf is 100% crap).
Too many startups go the easy route once they get significant funding – go on a hiring spree.

In my opinion, per-employee metrics (ie. revenue/profit per employee) are a great way to make sure that you don't overhire [1].

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/revenue-per-employee-at-apple...
My first visit to the site just now. It is hard to read the font with underlines and the divider lines on top of that.

I have no idea what the categories are, if there even are categories.

Titles like "YES.." and "3am girls", I have no idea what will happen when I click it.

It might not be "bad" but it could definitely be easily improved upon.
> “We’re trying to build empathy at scale,” Mr. Butterfield said.

> “There are people who will die, get divorced, have children with cancer,” Mr. Butterfield said. “You really have to put yourself in their frames of mind. If we preoccupy these people for a minute longer than we have to, we’ll lose them.”
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I think it depends on the academic center. Where I'm at some of the clinicians that don't do any research are some of the most highly regarded faculty.

I'd say a good combination of both academics and skills are needed. As another anecdote, where I am in school they have tried to teach us better clinical reasoning and procedural skills rather than solely preparing us for board exams.

The way I see it, your research and academic pursuits can wait until you have a good clinical background. You only have one chance to fully immerse yourself in the practice of medicine (residency), so why dilute that?
I'm going to tell you how hard it is to get chat right. I work at the company that more or less popularized internet chat. We use slack internally pretty much exclusively, and have for years.
> That's a gross mischaracterization of what actually happened. The EU didn't seized anything but gave a bailout of 10 billions euros at the demand of the cypriot governement and asked that in return the second largest bank be closed and uninsured deposit over 100k€ (and 48% of them in the largest bank) used as a one time levy.

Whether you call it a "one-time levy" or the assets being seized is splitting hairs. The result is the same. Given that the money had already been taken, it would be hard to apply the levy more than once.

> Most of this money belonged to foreigner using cyprus as a tax haven.

This is just a smear against depositors. They had their money in a Cypriot bank account and had a reasonable expectation that it would stay there. Their intent for moving the money into Cyprus is irrelevant and certainly doesn't give anyone the right to arbitrarily seize assets.

> Those who lost 3 Millions in the process were given a 7 millions discount on buying the Cypriot citizenship.

How generous. This is like buying a faulty good and being given store credit for the same store as compensation.
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> Why do we always bring up CEO compensations...

I certainly bring up professional athlete salaries. Given that they produce absolutely nothing of value beyond a marketing opportunity, they're all overpaid for very little real work. It's not like they're curing cancer. Actors? Memorize some lines, and have lesser-paid minions tell you how they should be repeated.

All that's really happened is that a class of people have managed to market themselves to a section of the population - sports stars, actors, CEOs and politicians. They've made themselves superstars, and unfortunately, sufficient numbers of people believe in the legends that they can ask for whatever excess they like and get it.
CDRT maybe Conflict-free Replicated Data Types
Except in a startup you can discover that the high hill is a deep valley. Doesn't mean anything really. Only you can decide if you want to take that risk or not. I stopped pushing people one way or the other simply because only they can know what is best for them.

Another option is to work in a big company. After a few years there will be nothing new for you so you can bootstrap something while still having money for... food :)
outwit hub is my go to for a large, complex extraction: https://www.outwit.com/

their marketing is poor but the product is very powrful
> About the history feature, if a website is important i will bookmark it, i want history only for that session, not save it for future search, again that's my opinion.

100% on this, Though I will say it is a very cool feature.
«The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself. The very best startup ideas tend to have [the one crucial thing] in common: they're something the founders themselves want» (Paul Graham, a co-founder at Y Combinator - one of the top startup accelerators in the USA). Look at these software developers who acted accordingly before they found success.
The draft also outlaws the use of DRM on copyright works that have fallen into the public domain

That reminds me of all the sites which sell PDFs of old equipment service manuals, many of which would've become public domain due to their age.
professional scientists are under pressure to publish long scientific-looking articles, and their fellow reviewers have almost no motivation to spend any significant time reviewing

You have a point but from all scientists I know myself there's not one for which this applies. Might depend on the field though and I'm not denying there's a bunch of impossible-to-reproduce-crap published and there are rotten apples everywhere. But what I see (in fundamental research which is usually not as publicly known as other kinds) doesn't come near what you describe, even though it's anecdotal of course.. Yes there is pressure to publish but their papers aren't 'scinetific-looking', they're properly scientific and they are just the length needed to describe the findings on the subject. And there is an abundance of motivation for reviewing mostly inspired by wanting to make sure everything is as correct as possible, for the sake of research.
I think the difference is that with open source there's a chance that one could find out about tracking, fix it, then continue to use the product. With a closed source solution, this is almost impossible.
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This whole thread is full of YES sayers, however this field is also full of people talking about age discrimination where 30+ is being pushed out. I'd think this would be moreso apparent in a junior role.

I'm all for age being of no importance as I'm about to hit 30 in a few years. But it's worth mentioning (maybe).
I wonder the same. My best guess is that it's because of the movie Her... Although, if I recall correctly, Rus Salakhutdinov said in a recent talk at the Simon's Institute that chatbots are nowhere near ready. (https://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/russ-salakhutdinov-2017-3-...)
Reading through it, my comment came about too much as a rant against PHP, though I actually like parts of the PHP community for their sense of practicality.

I know there are libraries for HTML escaping, but I stand behind my statement that PHP's lack of HTML escaping is a fatal and unforgivable (almost criminal) design flaw when PHP's original use case, and distinguished feature vs. other general-purpose languages is dynamic HTML templating. In my opinion, PHP has gone the "get something quick out there and fix it later to become the dominant web runtime" route (which kind of worked), but without doing the actual hard work, and as such deserves to be called out.
Actual title is: Mathematics teacher accused of inciting mass riots now also accused of supporting terrorism and once again detained. Had to truncate it to fit HN's title limit.

The math professor is Dmitry Bogatov, a Debian and Tor developer.
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Check out recent discussion of Max Kanat-Alexander's blog post on increasing developer productivity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14071716 (and of course the blog post itself, http://www.codesimplicity.com/post/effective-engineering-pro...)

P.S. See also Max's earlier blog post Measuring Developer Productivity: http://www.codesimplicity.com/post/measuring-developer-produ...
then why not just import chips? even the regular price 2$ pretty package seen extremely high, i am buying 150g back of supermarket brand chips for 0.5€ here, so even with transportation doubling the price it would still cost half of normal Japanese price
I use my Facebook account when I need to do stuff for work.
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Thought the same. I'd recommend checking out "Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer" by Dean Baker instead.

http://deanbaker.net/books/rigged.htm
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Looking at that office makes me feel so glad that I work from home - look at all those people hovering about and interrupting!
You switched to a playback means that is inherently destructive to the media as a means to protect against data loss?
Depends on who you ask probably, but in the scientific world it's generally not regarded as low quality, rather the opposite. Also it's impact factor suggests that. Though the way that is calculated is also under debate by some, I'd say it still gives an indication of quality in general.
Probably meant CRDT

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In an article discussing the dispensation of advice to the parenting community as a whole - which includes the whole variety of genetic heterogeneity - her being adopted isn't relevant.
Aside from transferring from disk to every larger disk, how would memory corrupt an mp3? Given Apple's long-time tradition of putting metadata (playcounts/star ratings/etc) in a separate file, an mp3 on a MacOS computer is pretty much write once, read many.
> The web as we know it is popular because there is financial incentive.

Really? how does wikipedia function then, why do lots of people create meaningful content in web for free?

Applying the results of a system (aka web being currently commercialized) as its cause is circular reasoning at its finest.
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I'm sorry, it's an "Orange Pi Zero"[1] that I'm using, not a "Banana Pi Zero". I've gone through so many of these dev boards that it's hard to keep them all straight!

[1] http://www.orangepi.org/orangepizero/
In what way is Draft broken on Android?

Edit: I see now. I've had a look around and this open pr seems to fix it for draftjs:

https://github.com/facebook/draft-js/pull/1013

How are you currently handling Android? We're launching with draftjs in two weeks and need to support Android.
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