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> This would read better if it wasn't followed by speculating where the guy's qualified to work (based on memories of a tweet from three years ago!) and then speculating what he does and doesn't know about an interview he was in.

The process at Google (of which I'm not intimately familiar with, I admit, but I have read a lot about) is such that if you are rejected, you are very rarely told why (I know of one case in about 30, and it was an offer that was rescinded based on some bureaucratic reasons). It might have been the reason, for sure; but it is extremely unlikely that this is what he was told, thus I infer speculation on his side. By accounts from Googlers I know (and some who commented on those threads at the time), it should be considered truism, not speculation, that he was not told the reason.

Also, I'm not speculating about where the guy is qualified to work. I was referring to several places I know for sure (some high profile, mostly in finance) where such a rant on Twitter is enough to disqualify you (and get you fired if you're already employed). I don't know Yelp specifically, but it seems like one of those places[0]

[0] http://fortune.com/2016/02/22/yelp-employee-ceo/
Thanks but still beyond my budget. On the offchance that somehow i could afford this are you saying you can guarantee expedited security AND check-in at Heathrow?
The truth usually does come out, but finding it among all the junk news is hard.
A long time ago I lived in baltimore, and there was a man who was "homeless" (he lived in the church he sat behind so he had a bed) who did just this.

You would give him a book of yours and he would give one back that he though you would enjoy... It was like having a one on one book club, with the greatest recommendations ever.

When I moved from baltimore I gave him the dozen or so books I had to add to his collection, and I always wonder what ever happened to him. I miss having a commute (walk actually) that included the strange bright spot of his presence.
It's definitely legal, all of our ground team members have special badges that allow them to do this service. They'll escort you to special fast track lines or simply walk you to the front of the immigrations and customs lines.

Our agents are problem solvers. If you forget something on the plane or need something they'll be sure to handle it quickly and efficiently. They're your your best bet when trying to get through the airport as quickly and safely as possible. A fair amount of our clients use the service to make their connections on time.
Very clever. Sounds like this strategy is for an ultra specialised product, that you have need of yourself, so that you can write good copy about and which is not sold through the usual channels like Amazon etc.

Thanks for sharing. I'll rack my brains and see if I can apply this myself. I'd love to read a blog post about this strategy, if that's something you'd ever feel like sharing (without giving away your secret sauce of course.)
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Is it possible to edit comments? I feel like I've seen edit messages on comments before but I don't see any link on the post to do so.
I completely agree, but not all of us have the legs for single speed in the places we live - 20% inclines and a single speed with something like the typical 46/17 style ratio is not going to work for a lot of riders.
>without sweating

right now in NL it is 80 deg

right now where I live is 90 deg

the high temp for NL for the week is around 90

the high temp where I live this week is around 101

a few degrees either way makes a lot of difference
My sister locked her bike to a pole through the frame in San Diego. When she came back literally every other part was gone, and the frame remained locked to the pole. They even took the cranks, the forks, and the brake cables. Who steals brake cables?
A good companion article to read is "Your Media Business Will Not Be Saved" [1], written about a year ago by the guy who founded The Verge before he launched The Outline.

The basic argument is that these media companies are chasing readership scale (via Facebook exposure, etc) as a way to solve the problem that no one actually values what they produce very much. And that they keep chasing the next "tech thing" as a solution to get more readership scale instead of just producing good content for an audience that actually cares about them.

It's a very cathartic read if you are jaded about the current online media world.

[1] https://medium.com/@joshuatopolsky/your-media-business-will-...
Push notifications – by spec and by all implementations I'm aware of – must not be sent without explicit user consent: https://w3c.github.io/push-api/#security-and-privacy-conside...
Vertical video by the pros.

I wonder if large portrait displays will become available again.
> First, you're looking at a feature of modern Ruby that got added in 1.9.

I thought 1.9 died quite some time ago.

> what do you expect if you have an invalid byte sequence in your UTF-8 string?

What I expected: An error when creating the invalid UTF-8 string literal.

What I got: An when trying to split the UTF-8 string.

It's a very odd place to get an error.
You can apply them to discussions about hypothetical solutions to current problems, though.
Short answer, yes.

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I think their point is that there are thousands of programmers who handle this data on a daily basis as part of their job - intentionally limiting the scope to "funsies" is ignoring that.
I have been traveling through a bunch of countries with this service, and I must say I'm super happy.

Some highlights:

1. It works perfectly with my iPhone 7 Plus (Calling, 4G, hotspot)

2. Since it's roaming free, it always swap to the provider with the best reception

3. fi.google.com/account is really intuitive.

4. Support replies within 1 minute

5. It comes with a free data sim
Intel used to make the best ARM CPUs on the market, check out xscale.
Have you seen this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xjTJUCMTZg

Video is in The Hague, I've seen it in Amsterdam though, a couple of times.
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Constitutionally irrelevant, as the justices are well aware.
> All culture is a lie.

You clearly haven't met people from cultures other than yours, have you?
With all the stories about US immigration recently, I think what people would pay for is: fast-tracked and friendlier US immigration for international travelers, nothing more, nothing less.

There are some programs to fast-track US immigration here [1], but only from a short list of countries [2].

1: https://www.dhs.gov/trusted-traveler-programs

2: https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-...
> I wonder if large portrait displays will become available again.

Turn display sideways?
"Fietsen" stands for "riding a bike", leisurely. Fitness racing is called "wielrennen", running on wheels, totally different thing.
Nope, I started small years ago and have a great success, so if I can do it as a side project, he can do it as well, it's not a open hearth surgery...
This, IMO, is extreme. I know it's nothing illegal and the cost of doing business, but you've tried four mattresses already. You're costing all of these companies real money with seemingly no real motivation to purchase the mattress as you already have yet another mattress on your list.

You might benefit from reading up on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem and I hope these mattresses stores create some sort of a shared blacklist of customers to prevent freeloaders like you. This is how the average consumer loses generous return policies from places like REI and Costco.
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Well, that's it then. Either I'm officially out of touch, or Time Warner is $100M out of touch. Occam's Razor.

Is this what getting old feels like?
Good points! I also appreciated your writeup on this class of attacks.
Lol I hadn't heard that interpretation. Personally it's too interpretive for me. Ive always accepted the tautological version -- similar to TANSTAAFL: Information wants to be free -- simply because the cost of duplicating and distributing information in digital form is basically 0.. all information is free. Not really speaking to the quality of said information and this is not as strong as what you have said -- it's useful because clearly policy makers and lay people often can't internalize this economic truth. Ie this is the same definition of information as in the phrase information theory.
No kidding, but I don't want that information out there, and I imagine most people don't.

Just because some skeezy website shares all my personal information does not make it public information. It's private to me and I'd rather it remain undistributed, where possible.

Overall point being, this US voter data leak is bad. That appears to have released information on all of us that we consider private.
No matter what you're responding to, it's not OK on Hacker News to include personal attacks like this.
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> it took my two week notice for my current employer to finally act.

This happens frequently. Assuming money is NOT the sole motivating factor. Would anything else at your current employer change? Here are some good questions to consider> > http://fortune.com/2017/03/12/counteroffer-job-questions/
Yeah, it's basically inherently unsafe to allocate large buffers on the stack. grsecurity/PaX have apparently mitigated this somewhat by increasing the size of buffer required to exploit this, but there's no way for the kernel to fix the issue.
>I'm sure some alt-right types will take full advantage of this decision to do what they do best - troll

I see that as a good thing. That kind of trolling works because it points out hypocrisies in the underlying system.
Jeebus, my old chap from the old times of fr.comp.os.linux.* actually lurks HN, my that brings memories back :)

Sorry for this completely irrelevant interruption :)
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You would think so! But if she went to Nottingham Trent for her criminology coursework she would have had no statistics courses at the undergrad level and the only stats-related course at the postgrad level is "Comprehensive Research Methods Training". Their law school coursework is also lacking in stats, but that's not really a surprise.
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With every update it gets heavier with annoyances (notifications, booking.com integration, etc) and less usable. Dropped it in favor of OSMand
I think part of the reason is that people are already on Facebook - another reason though is that most news websites are pretty unpleasant to go to directly.

I have a NYT subscription and their stuff is pretty nice, but something like CNN takes a long time to load, has a pretty bad video player and is just not that great in general.
Um, yes. It certainly is. I don't want it released publicly, nor have I consented to release it to any website.

If there are websites out there sharing that private information, they're doing it without my consent.
As much as I love this site and what it provides, the last sentence of your comment should be an all-caps sticky message on the front page at all times... :)
waits for instagram to do the same thing
When I was just starting my career, I did. I think a lot of people assume that they are there to help and protect you.
What if the turbine uses tubercles in its design for better efficiency?
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> I wonder if large portrait displays will become available again.

Monitor stands for LCD panels that support rotation (and video drivers that do the same) have never stopped being available.
What's the actual effect of this? Negative filesystem lookups are cached, and I believe they're cached forever on local filesystems (since you know if anyone's writing to the local filesystem), so the overhead is just that of a couple of syscalls. That feels like it's small enough that you really want to benchmark to see if it matters for you.
Wow. This is yet another example of the fatal combination of Rolling Your Own Crypto + Using OpenSSL Directly And Blowing Your Own Foot Off Because It Lets You.

var cipher = crypto.createCipher('aes-256-ctr', key.toString('hex'))

Besides the completely fatal error of using derived and non-unique IVs (fatal as in, if you encrypt more than 1 item with it, it is exactly as good as plaintext because any two items encrypted with the same key+iv in CTR mode cancels out to plaintext), isn't using hex encoding vastly constraining the possible complexity-per-byte of the key?

A single hard-coded salt for key derivation:

const key = crypto.pbkdf2Sync(auth, '0945jv209j252x5', 100000, 512, 'sha512');

Again, the salt is only lowercase alphanumeric. This makes this 120-bit salt really just a 77-bit salt. But since it's hard-coded and not randomly generated, it's a 0-bit salt.

Can everyone who is developing crypto apps Just Use NaCl/Libsodium?
"This is in contrast to expanding bullets, especially if shot from an assault rifle, which can discharge bullets much faster than a handgun."

Ugh, Not sure why 'assault riffle' needed to be used here instead of simply riffle. A bolt action can shoot at the same or higher velocity.

If by 'discharge bullets much faster' the author was instead referring to the rate of fire I'm still not sure what the point is as a semi-auto riffle and Semi Auto pistol can be shot equally fast.
> There's obviously some mistake, CNN or Fox should be along with "Thrillist", "NowThis News", and "Dodo" and not reputable news like "Russia Today".
Worse still, sometimes merely being shot dead is preferable to other circumstances surrounding such murders.
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That's a well-put perspective.

... however...

I can't even picture the political shitstorm that would happen if someone suggested (openly) segregating schools by parental income and education level.
We're in an era of accusing other people of "virtual signaling" instead of actually discussing what people say.
I would imagine that an angle grinder works equally well with all locks regardless of brand.
Yep, I ride 48:17 (fixed gear, too) but I would never do that without clipless pedals or pedal straps.

AFAIK, most Dutch bikes are internally/hub geared with chain cases to protect it from the elements. It's a shame hub gears aren't more popular in the US.
I wonder if they corrected for differences in activity level. Pot has a habit of keeping you on the couch and away from more novel experiences and learning opportunities. Maybe being highly sedentary during brain development contributes. Wonder what the observation would be in sedentary-but-sober people.
Potential follow-up article: Snapchat stock continues to plunge as teens, annoyed by Time Warner ads, leave in droves.
Only for the first 2 hours after you post them.
Smartwatches are already incredibly thick, too thick for many people in fact. Getting them thinner is a huge problem. A 2mm gasket when heroic efforts are undertaken for every mm shaved would make a product unpalatable next to a competitor that is 2mm thinner.
I'm with you: 3 shows a day * 5 minutes * 365 days a year * 2 years < 200 hrs of content for $100M

Now express that budget as something relating to advertising budget and profits. Those 200 hrs should steer tens of billions in sales.
White people could already use "nigger" in the names of their bands. Why would they now "rush to" use it just because it can be trademarked?
A hundred times yes. Passwords should only ever have been allowed locally. When untrusted web sites started to demand passwords for authentication they went down the wrong path already. The industry (including OS and hardware makers) really dropped the ball on this one in the early days with scant support for physical token authentication that people could have gotten used to. Even Yubikey piggybacks on a USB port, when all the energy spent on idiotic fingerprint readers could have been better spent on creating a standardized, dedicated hardware key port.
> Another agent will go stand in line a head of time and you can cut in with them, or they'll know the immigration officer and simply walk you to the front.

If I would be in said line and observe such a behaviour, I'd be really pissed.
I went to the article hopefully expecting to read something new by McPhee (after all, he's only 86) only to be disappointed that it's an excerpt of a prior work. Even so, just about anything written by him is worth reading and re-reading.
In 2014, "Vulnerable Populations" made up 80% of the poor in the USA. That essentially means children and the elderly.

On top of that, it's like another 7% of people that are in poverty that are fully employed!

http://www.demos.org/blog/10/23/15/2014-vulnerable-populatio...
HR is always on the side of the company. Think Cattle Resources in a farm.

I remember a post that compared it to secret police. First rule in any country with secret police: stay clear of secret police. I can't find it but there are plenty of them. Examples

https://theartsmechanical.wordpress.com/2016/02/02/the-hr-se...

http://www.cmo.com/opinion/articles/2015/11/25/is-hr-the-new...
"Snap will take 50% of the ad revenue generated by these shows and the content partners will keep the other half"

Pretty interesting. Anyone know how this split compares to what FB is offering its partners to make original video content?
This is hilariously close to an actual scene from The Simpsons: https://frinkiac.com/meme/S05E20/289238.jpg?b64lines=IEFNIEk...
You might also want to consider hunter2, it's similar but with smartcards.

https://chiselapp.com/user/rkeene/repository/hunter2/
I would agree. I tried Twist and it's a really usable app, lovely UI design as you'd expect from the Doist team. But for our 60+ product and engineering team, Discourse does a great job of handling asynchronous threaded discussion – and we can host it on AWS for $20/mo for unlimited users. I'm struggling to see the advantage (UI aside) of Twist at this stage.
Who's saying it's their fault? The only thing I'm saying is that both descent into poverty and ascension from it can be due to personal action. Why do we have to choose 100% one cause or the other?
If you want silence at home, move to the country. The notion that urban spaces should be free of human voices at any hour is ludicrous. No loud music after midnight is reasonable, but other than that if you can't sleep install better insulation. No one is forcing you to live in the city.
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One has to be incredibly naive to think HR is on the employee's side. Always follow the money:

Who pay's HR? Company; ergo - if HR is against company, HR gets replaced.

Same for binding arbitration: Who is the arbiter's repeat customer, company or client? company. ergo, if arbiter is not good for them, arbiter gets replaced.

Also, when you buy real estate, some people believe that their agent is looking out for them. However, if you look at the money, one party (buyer) brings money to the table, and three parties (buyer agent, seller agent, seller) take money proportional to the deal amount; Therefore, everyone except buyer wants deal amount to be maximized.
It is ok to have any thoughts you like about anything. Once you act on them, that's when other people have to take into consideration their consequences. And speech is certainly something with consequences.
A basic Mustang GT is only about 40k USD - so you're talking about 3-4x as expensive...?
Just like the government...
One thing I (a Dutchman) noticed while in Copenhagen is that all the bicycles I saw were quite fancy! I spend less on bikes than I do on my shoes, and I don't spend a lot on shoes. Of course, you can splurge, but it's very doable to do what I do: buy a second-hand bike for about €50 every two years, and now and then spend a few Euro's on a repair kit to fix a flat tyre. (Or a few more to have someone do it.)
Ask HN: What slackbot do you wish existed?
What functionality do you wish you had in slack, that you currently aren't able to do?
Crystal polarization always makes the viewing in portrait quite odd
I spent less than 1k on a bicycle that I rode for about 15.000 km within the first 18 months within the city only. It was always serviced in a shop.

That makes 6ct/km (1.6 if we don't consider the bike itself) at what is still the early stage of a bicycle's lifetime.

I think that qualifies as virtually "free".
Offtopic/meta. I'm wondering about a technology that allows us to NOT re-implement an algorithm cookbook every time a new language shows up.
What an incredible waste of money
Yeah, it depends on the type of mental illness, I think. Addiction is obviously harder without easy access to the chemical/activity.

But even for something like depression, many of the behaviors that are known to help would be more prevalent/mandatory in small, close-knit, more primitive societies. For example, you'd probably be getting tons of physical exercise, getting good sleep without artificial light, have frequent contact with a close family/social network, and probably have a pretty fixed routine that would be expected of all members of your cohort within the community. I'm not saying those activities cure depression, but speaking personally and for close friends, those activities make a huge difference.
Fair point, it's fixed now.