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Sorry just seeing this question. Without getting into a giant rant about software hiring, there are things I think should be and things I think are.

In a should be case you'd have a hiring pipeline that had a good objective work sample proxy for the work you were trying to do and you'd judge blind other than that.

In the real world, I've found what actually happens is network based hiring. I hire the people I already know are good. After that, its mostly a crap shoot but I'd take popular open source contributors over other candidates all things being equal (though by the time you've contributed to a popular open source project you are dramatically past the bar for hiring outside of the "network" tract).
> Yeah, they've just known since the 70s, sure they will get right on that.

Someone I respect pointed out that greenhouse gas alarmism started on March 29th, 1979.
Which Judge voted against it?
So is this what the old rethinkdb team have been working on at stripe?
I don't care about the clickbait, if it gets someone to realise that in most cases, latency is at least as important a figure of merit than bandwidth or packet loss, that article does its job.

Long, uncontrolled queues that live at fast-slow transition points and induce pathological latency is a very generic issue and is certainly not unique to IPv4 packets getting bufferbloated at CPEs or whatnot. It's always tempting to use cheap memory to make huge buffers to try to increase utilisation (and thus bandwidth) or decrease queuing loss.

Any practitioner who works in any role (designer, programmer, operator/administrator) with packet-switched networks should have some familiarity with this sort of problem -- even if it's just at a "some queuing is good because it increases link utilisation but if queues are too big and are allowed to stay full then latency goes to hell and the network breaks" level.
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Wait, how was Chronic Fatigue not a metabolic illness? I always assumed it was a mitochondrial disfunction from the way it was described in the literature.
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It is slightly disingenuous. Although it might be true that a coal plant emits more radioactive material overall, the concern with nuclear plants is the radioactive emission in the event of an accident, not the emissions during regular operation. Just wanted to bring up an important distinction. I personally still support nuclear energy.
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Replace the word "ads" with "popups" in your comment and you would be making an argument for a return to a horrible era.
I have a tattoo that is a butterfly with a skull in the middle. It's wings are in the upright position, meaning it's dead and pinned so uh I guess it's okay? It's a bad tattoo either way and has become a pretty regular joke.

If any of my friends are reading this; it's too late to tease me.
This person could have been president.. smh
No reason yc shouldnt be encouraging founders to share terms.
See my other answer to the subthreads. I could go on and on about software hiring as its something I've spent a fair amount of time testing and thinking about. But in a limited answer:

- If I had a good work sample based proxy for hiring, I'd use that and basically nothing else.

- But that never happens, so what I (and most places I've encountered) actually use is network based hiring. So a bunch of great reviews from your managers is awesome for hiring assuming I know them. If I don't its basically a crap shoot, but I view it as much more valuable than some half baked collection of github repos proving to me you've done the the first couple chapters of several hot "how to" books.
Again, though, that's a completely insincere argument. If you are worried that NATO is being weakened and undermined by underfunded member militaries, the corrective course of action is to strengthen those militaries and very much not to announce to the world you might not necessarily honor your treaty obligations if they don't. That weakens it further.

Trump doesn't care what Belgium spends on defense. Trump is crapping on NATO because Trump (or one of his patrons, ahem) wants a weak NATO.
I'm not either. When I heard what the French tax their high earners,mI understood Gerard Depardieu's move.

I would like to see income tied to any fees/fines at all levels state, federal, and local governments though.

Why does a poor person pay the same $550 red light violation as the wealthy person?

Why does the wealthy Doctor pay the same license fees to the state as the new doctor?

I could go on and on. Fees for building permits. Fees at DMV. Fees for going to a county park. Fees for fishing licences.

We have the technology to tie income to the person, why not tie it to fees/fines? Oh yea, I always thought it was rediculious that a poor man gets the same bail amount as the wealthy man.

I heard Sweden ties fees/fines to income. I wonder how much extra it's bringing in to the kitty?
The problem here is that marketers are only measuring click through. If they measured other metrics in addition I wouldn't be surprised if these ads had negative value. I personally put any company that engages in annoying advertising on my mental shitlist, and avoid purchasing anything by them whenever possible. Unfortunately, that behavior doesn't show up clearly on analytics.
I work on Manhattan and live in Brooklyn, with family and kids. I still reap most of the benefits of a dense city (subway, nearly everything within walking distance, variety of options in food, etc), while spending < 20% of my income on rent.
Seems like a "partial" disagreement from Ginsburg, leading to a 7-1-1 split.

> Six other justices concurred with Roberts in full, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg concurred in part, saying she agreed Lexmark patent rights ended when the cartridges were sold in the US. For foreign sales, she said Lexmark’s patent right was not exhausted. Here, “patent rights” refers to restrictions Lexmark placed on the cartridges. The newest justice, Neil Gorsuch, didn’t take part because arguments were heard last year, before he was confirmed and seated.

[0] https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/250050-supreme-court...
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But then, I seem to spend equal amount of time scrolling here on HN as I do on facebook. How many things can I deactivate now? :|
Because art :)
It's also almost certainly wrong in practice, given that the 2007 data in the article wouldn't include the Fukushima meltdown.
Well what is "reasonable". I think most people don't know what that is.
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From wikipedia: "Happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being which can be defined by, among others, positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy." There's your definition.

Am I happy? Sometimes I am, but mostly not. Overall, I wouldn't consider myself a "happy" person. But I'm working on changing that. Working on becoming a better/happier person, oddly enough, seems to be one of the few things that bring me happiness.
> It seems there is this effort to get C/C++ code performing fast inside of a browser... then at the same time there seems to be an effort to get people to stop coding in C/C++ altogether and switch to something more memory safe.

WebAssembly offers a compelling "alternative": instead of (or in addition to, if you desire) writing in memory-safe languages, with all the cost that incurs, you can write in unsafe languages and the consequence of memory errors is limited by the sandbox.

This approaches the problem from a different direction, on one side we have e.g. Go and Rust. Go with garbage collection and its overhead, or Rust with zero-(runtime)-cost abstractions which push the burden onto the programmer at development time. C compiled to WebAssembly is low-overhead but safer than native code, giving the benefits of both worlds.

I would have never expected it, but now believe C is the language of the future for the web. Built on decades of history with an unbeatably large existing codebase, extensive analysis and tooling support, standardization, raw power without the shackles of safety, yet confined to limit damage by the browser sandbox. True cross-platform compatibility with powerful HTML5 web APIs.

My experience about a month so far developing a C application compiled to WebAssembly/asm.js using emscripten has been surprisingly smooth. I can compile and test natively, including enabling the clang static analyzer or -fsanitize=address and -fsanitize=undefined to find bugs endemic to C, fix them and then deploy and run on the web. For the most part I can code directly to OpenGL and GLFW, which emscripten bridges to WebGL and other browser APIs seamlessly. I had to contribute a handful of fixes to emscripten, as well as an implementation of glfwJoystick to the HTML5 Gamepad API (also working on file drop and monitor API), but this was straightforward and easier than expected, emscripten happily accepted the patches. There are Rust (https://github.com/thinkofname/steven) and Go (https://github.com/thinkofname/steven-go) applications in this problem space but porting a similar application written in plain C (https://github.com/fogleman/Craft) to emscripten was nearly trivial (if there is any interest: https://github.com/satoshinm/NetCraft). After about a week I was able to consider the web-based port finished, and then focus on developing new features, for both web and native.

Is C compiled to WebAssembly a panacea? Not by a long shot, there are many (perhaps most) scenarios where memory-safe languages such as Rust would be preferred. But for games and other programs where performance is more critical over correctness and safety, WASM is a godsend.
Wow.

A- Ads do not manipulate people into buying things against their own interests. Businesses who sell great products that people want don't just magically find their customers. They find customers with ads.

B- You're free to use an ad-blocker, and websites are free to block your use of the site.

C- I assume you enjoy the web, and that a lot of effort is put into the sites that you enjoy. Do you expect all of this for free?
Lol reminds me of this meme:

http://imgur.com/a/KDwtE
In nineteen ninetyfive, I was around 20, I started using the Internet. I was amazed and started looking for ways to communicate with others. I realized everyone wanted to communicate with everyone. I started subscribing to newsletters. When I opened my inbox I thought to myself "wow, the Internet is communicating with me".

Today my stomach turns when the internet communicates with me (ads, messages, pretend news). The original idea is lost. Newbies never get a glimps of what I saw, back in the day. I wonder if it's lost forever.

I blame Google. They solved big data. Made it queryable. And then implemented a business idea very far from "not evil".

Edit: spelling
He's a 3 year old floundering idiot who happened to be at the right place at the right time.
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this is super backward; 30% of people approved of pulling out. It doesnt win him any support at all. Shocks me people think these things mean he can read a room.
It's not this single action by itself that's outrageous, but the long pattern of harmful anti-science policy of which this is the latest example.
I always figured photos of cocktails and food were a standard part of the after vacation slideshow you'd invite your friends to. A few once a year isn't bad. People complained about those slideshows also though.
An interesting question!

Typical banana dose: 0.1 μSv per banana [1].

Typical concrete building dose: 100μSv per year [2]

ie. 1 year in a concrete building = eating 3 bananas a day.

I'm not claiming that fly ash laden concrete is going to kill anyone, but I think it's interesting that (given my assumptions) the concentrating effects of coal combustion are causing a decent proportion of concrete's radioactivity (even if the total is still negligible).

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

[2] https://www.euronuclear.org/info/encyclopedia/r/radiation-ex...
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Disclaimer: I'm an Australian in the US on a work visa.

I'd consider it "not ridiculous" if the vetting was limited to ensuring:

- That my visa application is valid: If I'm coming to work, I'm doing it for a real job and I really do have all the necessary qualifications and my travel plans match my intent.

- That I'm likely to leave the US. I think it's fine to ask whether I have ties to my home country or to the US and whether I've broken the terms of another visa.

- That I'm not already a criminal. It'd be fine to be asked for a police report.

I consider the following ridiculous:

- Anything related to potential future terrorism. If I wanted to enter the US to kill people, why on earth would I get a visa when I could just cross the border illegally or use a fake passport?

- Compelling disclosure of any information a citizen could deny a police officer who lacked a warrant.

Then again, I understand that the US considers visas to be a privilege and I respect its choice to deny them to whoever it wishes. If it decides I'm not good enough, I'm more than happy to take my economic output elsewhere (and I will if they ever ask for details regarding my online presence).
I think if you add up all the coal power stations and add up all the nuclear power stations, nuclear power stations emit millions of times more radiation than coal fired power stations.. just look at fukashima

Not to mention the waste fuel containing stuff that never existed before being produced in a nuclear power station
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Leave a town without police, stop fixing public roads or just stop collecting garbage.

Very soon the people will demand to have police back (or roll their own temporarily), will demand roads fixed, and garbage taken out — or look for a garbage truck company to pay to.

The effects of this are very quick and visible. Unlike that, climate change, or e.g. effects of using lead paint and asbestos in building practice, is a slow, hard-to-notice thing. "Too late" happens decades later that the time of a preventive action; very few people have a planning horizon as distant.
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> I wonder if eventually ad companies will just host the content themselves. Or at least route it through their servers. The ads then get served through the same domain and can't be blocked that way.

This is already happening. Further, embedding paid for content in the middle of original content at the server side is also already happening.

> As ML ad detection improves, the only way for ads to get past it will be to make ads that look more and more like real content, even to the human eye. Perhaps in the limit, ads and content will become completely indistinguishable.

This is also already happening. Brand placement deals are nothing new to advertising and they are basically table stakes to most content purveyors.

The real question isn't if those things are going to happen, its how those sorts of deals will handle the analytics side of the equation. How will you prove that your instagram feed is the best place for the yoga pants provider to spend their marketing budget?
> Dude, that guy who was supposed to lose by 90% chance actually DID win.

Again, that's how probabilities work. Unless the prediction was 100% Hillary win then a Trump win is possible. This isn't a new concept, it happens in sports all the time. Odds are offered for betting, and every now and then there are upsets. That doesn't mean the odds are nonsense.

What's the alternative? News organisations never even attempt to gauge whose campaign is more popular? I don't think that's realistic.
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I'm not sure if you are seriously interested in iOS development, but most Macs in circulation that aren't Sierra compatible can be upgraded with this tool: http://dosdude1.com/sierrapatch.html

If you don't have the budget to buy a Sierra-compatible Mac (a few hundred dollars) You can also buy a used iPhone very cheaply, especially if you look for ones with damaged screens, and keep it on a version that's supported by pre-Sierra XCode.
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Won't the bitcoin miners just move to Vietnam or Thailand or Taiwan or Macau or some other place? It's not like these bitcoin miners have no money to relocate...
Folk from Myanmar (but working in Singapore) here. People in my country, they regard Facebook as "The Internet". They walked into the mobile phone shop, they asked for "open Facebook for 3$" which comes with a FB account, followed the celebrity pages etc. They do everything you can imagine on FB.

Now there are "digital agencies" who take care of the celebrity/company FB pages, post click-bait articles, run campaigns and throw money for advertising.

I don't think these things are going to change anytime soon and I don't have an answer. So, either promote yourself, things you are doing, on FB or your online presence is mere. Just sad.
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> the Iraq war is as related to terrorism as vending machine crush deaths

This is just wrong. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, but 9/11 provided the political cover that the Bush administration needed to take the country to war. Absent that terrorist act, there's no way that the American public and the international community would have stood by and allowed the US invasion to take place the way that they did because of 9/11.
>Exactly. This is something I think most don't understand. Patents give you the right to sue. That's it. They don't provide any "protection" beyond that.

They give you the ability to credibly threaten to sue as well and reach a big settlement without a lot of expenditure. You can also sell a patent to a competitor who needs it.
Well, this Supreme Court opinion says the exact opposite, so your expectation probably wrong for points in the short- and medium-term future.
They will relocate to where ever electricity is the cheapest. Labor costs aren't a factor.
"exponential" in what?

You can just encrypt a counter using AES or ChaCha ([1]) to produce 2^68 random bytes from 24 initial bytes. You can use HKDF to expand 16 bytes into as many key+nonce pairs as you want, each producing 2^68 random bytes.

1 - use AES if your hardware has AESNI, my mobile i7 can do AES at 5GB/sec on a single core
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“You know it’s hard for me to go to the beach nowadays,” she said. “When I’m there, I’m looking at how foam dissipates, at how the water recedes back into the ocean, the cadence and the rhythm of the little breaks. I’m looking at how the beach itself is modeled to create the reef breaks, how the light affects the water, the clarity of the water itself, the colors. There’s just a million things going through my head.”
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Yup. Once a graphics nerd ... always a graphics nerd. This is me looking at everything.
This is a very useful way of thinking about responses and latency, and a great example of a domain with a lot of very specialized knowledge (industrial engineering and logistics) that probably doesn't overall have enough cross-talk into CS given how much we talk about queues, latency, and workers.

I'm going to have to brush up on my IE one of these days to try to figure out if there are some useful insights to potentially be gleaned from models that account for server-level concurrency more directly, along the lines of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M/M/c_queue
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I agree. Milton Friedman says; "Instead of giving non-cash benefits like food stamps, housing vouchers and education we should calculate how much those benefits cost per person distribute that to people as negative income tax." Government spends tons of resources running these programs and leads to corruption and unfair distribution for a lucky few, "bucket is leaking". Every single UBI proposal/experiment I have seen keeps all the benefits and then adds an extra basic income payment, which works fine in a small experiment but quickly becomes unaffordable if you scale it to the whole country.
Always interesting to read about Apple in the 90s. As someone who was born in the late 80s and by no means could afford Apple until after my secondary education, I grew up a Windows guy. I'm somewhat of a diehard Linux/Apple guy now but it's great to see the parallels of then and now...a lot of distrust of Apple these days but I knew nothing of it at the time(back then).
Most people have a broader conception of the word "crazy".
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What would happen if, as an American, I came into my job in Japan, worked my 40 hours a week, and went home each night at 5?
You're right - without fixing the copyright loop hole you don't have the right to repair things with software lock outs.