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If you have a bin of different Lego pieces of the same color, you have to carefully look for the piece you want.

If you have a bin of the same pieces in various color, you just pick the color you want.
Maybe sprintf("%f") doesn't give you enough digits, or something along those lines.
This is exactly why I've moved (and am in the continuing process of moving) more and more stuff over to BSD. Standards matter. Compliance with POSIX and other common standards and conventions are what made the success of Linux possible, and I find it disturbing that the new generation of RedHat developers are keen to tell us that it's old hat and is no longer important. But they are forgetting much of the history and the reasons for it.

Linux didn't get to where it is by throwing its weight around and dictating to others (at least, not much). Its success came from interoperability with everything, making it indispensable glue, and its adherence to standards was an integral part of that. As mainstream Linux becomes more insular and controlled by a single vendor, it becomes correspondingly less useful and less desirable. I don't want to be locked in to a RedHat world any more than I wanted to be tied to Solaris or HP-UX. I get occasional PRs for my software demanding that I add systemd-specific functionality, with the assumption that it's the only thing that matters, and people get annoyed when I refuse to compromise the portability of my already-standards-compliant software with Linux- and systemd-specific hacks.
I'd be interested in understanding the methods used to determine the difference between homosexuality and hyper-sexuality, and simply curious.

They can tell the difference because they're doing "Data Science," not science.
Before or after overtime? My understanding is that here in Canada most nurses doing shift work make 6 figures. Hospitals are understaffed so there's lots of overtime available, and of course nursing is a 24/7 job. The night shift premium and the overtime premium multiply so picking up a single extra night shift can gross $1000.
Being focused on customer satisfaction is probably always a good thing. Many of the other things you mentioned will also need to happen for other reasons, such as for EDP auditing and various kinds of certifications. Such certifications can be important for selling the company, but they can also be important for marketing and attracting customers.
That type of vehicle is called a hybrid airship!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_airship
A bomb? George's desk is built like a bunker! I'll hide under it until they sound the all clear!
Oh that's a great idea. Thank you! I have garbage bags full of 2x4, 2x3 and 2x2 bricks in common colors that are worth relatively little. I'll ask my panel of experts (5 and 7 years old) to see what they would do with such a treasure trove.
This seems alarmist to me. In principle we can make computers much more secure and in practice some groups actually do.

If we get some decent information out there and stop enabling people with the mentality that computer security is an add-on product I think we can make it pretty far. I doubt google or microsoft will be significantly harmed by a "cyber-weapon", and I don't think most end-user devices with automatic updates enabled will either.

This is a solvable problem.
So you're basically saying that "how many people are attracted to your idea" is a good measure for value of that idea?

If only all those people in history thought like that, we'd still be living in caves.
This is a much better idea. Make it a crime to conceal this information. You can't just ban lobbying unilaterally (or even just getting paid to lobby) because it's such a fundamental aspect of democracy. Whether you have elections or sortition, you need to have the right to lobby the government.
Well... Hans Gruber is not John McClane's father though...
Based on the table with the article, asset managers seem to have the largest negative externality.
How to write a lock free Queue
I suspect this is our evolutionary trained neural net looking for fruits in vegetation that helps us here.
Google App Engine standard now supports Java 8
Some other warning signs:

- When you get rid of your QA team in the name of "quality" with everyone being responsible for testing, but then never provide adequate testing resources or environments. And when quality and velocity inevitably drop, and everyone claims they want to improve quality, but it's never actually prioritized.

- More generally, when your company is saying one thing and doing another.

- When your executive team flat out lies, and doesn't even blink when questioned about it.
Wow so much wrong with this UI. From the floating head to the weird use of space. I just can't parse any interesting info from here, which is a shame because I think there is something to be gained.
"circular hash attack" left me confused and waiting to hear the full story. I totally agree with "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence".
That's exactly the EU case agains Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
I've got two Firefox OS phones, and was very excited at first, but when I was no longer getting updates I felt where this was going to.

One of the phones, orange, I think the first or second model, is still in use. My wife now uses it on our annual trip to home country, and it still works fine as a phone. It's somewhat safer to use it, than the iPhone she has here in US - simply for not being stolen. It works just fine years after development. Most surprisingly though... the battery life was at 50%, a year after we haven't used it. (unless my son secretly charged it, and used it...)

I kind of wish for Firefox OS to come back. I liked the idea of apps being web apps, though it was a bit blurry what's downloaded and what's not, but with today's prevalent mobile internet that should not be a big deal (just a bit more pricey)
Talking through a problem in my head is the most natural way to solve it for me. I've always wondered if that counts as hearing voices. Especially because sometimes it's hard to shut off at night when I need to go to sleep.
Angular vs. React: Which Is Better for Web Development?
> I don't know, overoptimistic real estate developers?

If developers in SF become too optimistic then those homes become a drag on the economy, and SF soon loses the career advantage it currently has, still leading to equilibrium eventually.

> tons of factors that affect rents more in the short term.

I felt I was quite explicit that finding equilibrium takes time. I am not sure why you are focusing on short term movements in price.

> You might as well argue that rents in SF are rising because they are trying to reach equilibrium with the rents in rural villages in Mali

In some ways that is true. China's rags to riches story happened in large part due to costs in the US rising to the point where it became cheaper to move (some) operations over there. Reaching equilibrium at the international scale is more difficult due to many artificial barriers found along the way, however. There is really nothing stopping an American citizen living in SF from moving to Flint.
business professors.

economists.
Would love to learn from data if you have any to back that up. From what we've seen, top reasons that determine who gets laid off include those who:
1) get paid well (the layoff is a desperate cost-cutting measure)
2) are randomly selected (the company is acknowledging that layoffs are not performance-related)
3) either got hired most recently or have most tenure (an attempt to reward longtime employees or respect those who just joined)
> In my case, there weren't exactly a whole lot of traffic engineers. We had to make them, and we did.

i think that's the model in a nutshell. all companies should be doing this. no companies should be bellyaching about a shortage of qualified workers.
More info on what the tool actually does here: https://www.barkly.com/how-stackhackr-works

There's also a walkthrough here: https://blog.barkly.com/stackhackr-mock-ransomware-malware-s...
Japan's most unusual flavored donuts?
Two anecdotes:

Buying a house is the biggest list of "fees" I've ever seen in my life. I felt so nickel-and-dimed with random $50-500 fees tacked onto every part of the transaction. My mom just sold a condo as well, same thing with tons of superfluous random fees throughout the process on that side of the transaction.

A friend of mine, who is a really nice guy, so I don't hold this against him at all, but was kind of flopping in his career until his early 30s. Started as a real estate agent out of the blue in the Seattle market a few years back. Is now making 2-3x more than most of us. I'm happy to see him successful, but I also take this as an example of the job having pretty low barrier to entry to make a lot of money.
I know plenty of "everyday regular users" that would disagree with you, considering that they spend 99% of their time in a browser.
I know it's not a fair comparison anymore since I realize that Holberton is 2 years and not a "bootcamp" but most bootcamps offer a certain period of time for you to repay the tuition fee.

For example, at the bootcamp I did, I think there was a 1000 fee due before 1st day of class, a couple more during the bootcamp, then 5k due 6 months after the last day of class.
Depend how often you travel by plane: all that little lost time do add up.
Reminds me of the blinking Web of the '90s.
As someone who just recently sold FSBO, this rings true to me. Real Estate agents provide an entirely 100% superfluous service especially in relation to the absurd amount of commission they charge. The important aspects of selling a home are done by inspectors, appraisers, and lawyers. The Real Estate agents are basically leeching middlemen that keep as many people out as possible to keep their perceived monopoly, which sadly most of us are forced to use out of our own will because despite it being explicitly laid out as unethical in their guidelines, real estate agents will only work with other agents and skip over homes that are FSBO. The only other equivalent I have found is financial advisors.

* a little caveat: I am little bit bitter about the process and the "locking out" I faced. One real estate agent even told me this up front, which I was like "Dude you know I could report you for saying this and you could lose your license right?" But alas I just shook my head and carried on.
Nurses in the U.K. don't get overtime. They can join bank nursing which is like a separate pool of nurses to cover these gaps. Pay is a bit higher but not by much.

NHS pay rates are here: https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/about/careers-nhs/nhs-pay-a...

Registered nurses are on band 5 and start at the bottom (22k GBP). They move up a point every year.

No band 5 nurses in the UK make six figures.
John Romero’s Doom II floppy disks sell for over $3,000
Google and Microsoft can't afford to do this either :)
I'm begging you, please post a full-speed video that shows a seemingly random assortment of pieces sorted into boxes with identical color/size/shape pieces. I think it would be insanely satisfying for many people to watch. I would literally grab popcorn and watch it for hours (and I think many others would too).

Given your current setup, it might be easiest to just take one bin of identical pieces and then sort it by color into various bins. I'm salivating over what this would look like.

If you posted that video, I bet it would rack up millions of YouTube views.
Why is Jeff Bezos building rocket engines in Alabama? He’s playing to win
Thanks for spending the time explaining this.
Zume Pizza adds extra automation as it rolls out to new cities
So would this mean that showing image results in Google's main search page is also against EU rules, since "Google Images" (images.google.com) is also a "search product" that Google is promoting over its competitors like Bing (which also offers image search capabilities)?
At my last couple of jobs my raises and bonuses were getting smaller over the last year or two I was there even though the company was supposedly taking in more revenue. We weren't expanding or hiring anyone so I started looking for new jobs. Both went under within a year of me leaving.
Aren't we finding Chinese nationals snooping around fields to steal seed technology? Or being the (if not second to Russia) largest force behind computer intrusion to American corporations, for the purposes of stealing intellectual property?
I have shied away from certain designs because Google has very specific ideas about how a site should be structured, rooted in the pre- web app days. If Google had real competition, they would adapt to better index "modern" designs and architectures. Instead, developers/designers have to limit ourselves if we want Google to not only index our content, but not penalize our rankings.
What exactly this did to restore your faith in humanity and since you're saying it did, what made you lose it in the first place?
After reading that article, my main takeaways are:

- both dogs and wolves are capable of bonding with humans

- dogs prefer dependence on others (even inter-species)

- wolves prefer independence from all outside their 'pack'

- wolves can allow humans into their 'pack', but will still view all humans outside their pack as 'other'

It seems like domestication of wolves is possible, but not really beneficial for either the wolves or the humans as a species.
Can you talk a little about your startup's traction before and after YC startup school. I watched the office hours video were you said you had 25 paying customers, so approx $400/month. What are the numbers looking like now? I also noticed that you did a few show hn submissions but none of them gained traction, so what's your marketing strategy now?
>You could actually tinker

I have. I've installed the kernel extensions. Installed Spectacle for tiling windows. I installed Karabiner, it worked, then I updated the OS and it didn't. I think it does again now?

>Completely doable through the UI with just a mouse.

I know the dance you have to do to do this, because I have googled it. Here's the suggested solution:

>To do this open a new Finder window by pressing Command-N, and then press Shift-Command-G to reveal the Go to Folder panel for the new window. Then drag a target file from another window to the Go to Folder text field, where it will be converted to a full text path that you can select and copy.

The same thing on Windows? ctrl+L

>Also available as a keyboard shortcut or through the UI with a modifier key

Which is counter-intuitive when ctrl+X does nothing, and the UI entry for Cut is greyed out. This wasn't even an option until 10.7!

These things are frustrating when moving from Windows, that was my point.
Ah, one guy that hated his industry speaks for the industry.
Model Y before 2020. Then electric will finally be S3XY
There are lots of reasons to not (fully) trust the NSA (and related agencies). They've done (and likely still do) some things I don't approve of -- I think most of us could write a lengthy post about the details.

At the same time though, we need to collaborate with things like the Information Assurance Directorate (IAD)[0] to secure national systems. There are dangerous weaknesses in the US computer systems, and while a lot of the research on securing systems is done by private groups, government agencies are really the only ones that can sustain the funding and act as coordinators between private and public interests (eg, it's costly to secure the electrical grid, but there's a public interest in having one secure against attack).

So hopefully the past few years have scared the NSA on to a
saner course of supporting national defense instead of undermining it. And hopefully we can meaningfully collaborate with them on defense while fighting them on issues of privacy.

[0] - https://www.iad.gov/iad/index.cfm
The main reason for this is government regulation artificially limiting supply. For example, being a lawyer isn't that hard. You could intern with a lawyer and read books on law yourself and get just as good an education. That's what our founding fathers did. However the lawyers want as few people as possible to enter their profession so they make incredibly stupid requirements for becoming a lawyer, such as having to have an undergrad degree.(which can be for literally anything) Policies like this are horrible because they drive up the cost of both lawyers and school. It also lowers the quality of education because educators are now in a position of unfair power over prospective lawyers since they can say who can and can't practice law.
iPhone 8 Expected to Include Faster 10W USB-C Wall Charger
Ok, will do but first I have to speed up that first feeder stage because I really don't want to stand there for an hour to drop pieces on the recognition belt.

Any good ideas for that first stage are very welcome. I've looked at all kinds of mechanism (belts, pickers, vibrating drums) and none so far have the required speed, regularity and are quiet enough to be used in a home.
I am addressing the part about not being lifelong learners. My experience suggests this is not quite accurate and that people will do so, if they can.
This thread seems to have few comments on the article and several on the title. It's not an HN survey, it's an article regarding a research paper [1].

IMO -- this kind of data could/should benefit teachers and researchers who want to argue that their benefit to society isn't reflected in the existing high school/undergrad/graduate metrics. Instead of paying teachers/researchers the wage that reflects an equilibrium between available supply and job demand, maybe we could offer something that offsets their (positive) externality. I suppose it only makes sense for public schools since private entities aren't focused on things like this. But there's a lot of debate over public school funding and this seems like a great input to that debate.

[1] http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1324424
That's brilliant. But how do you safeguard against a defector reporting against the rest of the group?
> real estate agents will only work with other agents and skip over homes that are FSBO

Is it typical in the US for a buyer to have an estate agent too? If so, why? If not, I don't understand what this means.

Where I'm from, typically only the seller would have an estate agent.
Isn't it a main goal of the Boring Company to reduce the cost of projects like what is happening in Seattle?
Analyzing Cryptocurrencies Using PostgreSQL
You need to balance it though. For example by adding economists and social scientists to the pool. You can't let one group have too much power.
How's Postgres a freemium project? There are commercial forks, but they're not done by the people running the .org project, and they're not particularly popular in comparison.
Scaling Ethereum to Billions of Users – Fred Ehrsam – Medium
Employee experience. The biggest problem at the company I recently left was inexperience. The company thought they could hire cheap and simply cross train and up-skill everyone. A FTSE 100 company. Eg a dev manager was a js dev now managing half the 200 odd dev dept. Hired mostly PHP devs who were all going to be cross trained as Go devs. My last manager had no management experience and was also the dept's Go tech lead, with no Go experience - a PHP dev, now starting at amazon, should be entertaining. Another Go dev on the team an ex-lawyer with two years dev experience as a ruby dev. The place was disorganised, frustrating, and not delivering. Toward the end of last year people started leaving, then more, then more - exodus. The dept has effectively collapsed as it's now a fraction of the size and a significant proportion of the remaining devs are new. It won't absolutely collapse because like all big corps they'll just keep hiring replacements and eventually paper over the cracks. They're now "restructuring", but the same rookies are still running the show so they're probably just going to botch it all over again, just in a different way.
This has terrifying implications.

Imagine an Islamic country demanding that Google remove any website that they deem insulting to Muhammad... WORLDWIDE.

Imagine your religious beliefs (atheist, christian, etc.) being deemed offensive or hate speech, and the government therefore DEMANDS that Google remove you from its index WORLDWIDE.

This is censorship. This is wrong.
Increasing Rust’s Reach
Product Management styles: which ones to go for and when?
> Especially because sometimes it's hard to shut off at night when I need to go to sleep.

I recently realized that listening to a "boring" podcast or youtube videos while trying to fall asleep will shut down all those voices and thoughts.
For example, if I caught wind that the company was being reorganized

I have a great relationship with my manager, he lets me run the development side as I see fit for the most part, I'm privy to a lot of information because of my role,but he couldn't tell me anything about a reorg until it was announced to everyone. I understand that perfectly.
Yes, I habe worked at a company where we would ship a high amount of construction machine spare parts with FedEx, DHL et al. We had a ~90% discount on their regular prices.
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He'll be at New York ComicCon, where I'll be taking my kids in October.

http://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/Guests/Entertainment-Guests/
I thought the Boring company was the most "obviously for Mars" project. One of the cheapest ways to create pressurized, radiation-sheltered spaces is to dig.
> This is a solvable problem.

If only security wasn't last on the budget ...
I'm not sure, but I think I was recently in a dark scrum/kanban environment. Agile was imposed from above; the attempted sale to the workers was the "burning platform" metaphor. Passive-aggressive adherence to roles, where people would be aware of problems but wouldn't say anything because it wasn't their role. This was at a BigCo.

I say I'm "not sure" because this was my only exposure to Agile. I suppose that's unfortunate.
From my experience this is very much true of the current state of real-time rendering (and there's nothing really wrong with that, because it's just not possible to run anything resembling physically accurate algorithms in real-time). However, in the world of offline rendering and raytracing, there has been considerable work on doing physically accurate rendering. Of course a lot of approximations are still made due to memory/CPU constraints, but it is a different world. "Physically Based Rendering" by Pharr and Humphreys is a good intro to this way of doing things.
That was the implication I was trying to make, I apparently failed in that regard.
That's true. Stats can be cherry-picked or distorted. That's why it's preferable to choose the goals / metrics at the start of the period so that other metrics can't be cherry-picked based on what might show "good" growth to employees.
Also to add to this:

- nurses pay around 500 gbp per year for their nursing pin (registration) and union membership, which is required for insurance purposes

- nhs pensions take out a further 7%
You might want to read one of the many pieces written about Henry Kissinger. The world is not a pleasant place.
I agree with pretty much everything you just wrote, but I'd like to add a bit about equality of opportunity:
1) It isn't enough if the opportunities are bad (even a completely fair system that resulted in 99 out of 100 on the scrap heap doesn't appeal to me).
2) There's got to be a safe "worst" outcome. This is for several reasons a) the alternative punishes risk taking, making a mockery of equality of opportunity b) you don't want the losers in society turning to crime for completely economically justified reasons and c) it's the right thing to do.

(And yeah, it's not completely true: I'm one of the ones who made it across. From what I can tell, there aren't that many of us about.)
Can this be used to identify Muslim travelers by name? Asking for a friend.