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I've never had a poor experience on Alaska. They're my preferred carrier when going to SEA.

What don't you like about them?
Why is that required? There's nothing stopping you from only giving the list a precise type after an element has been added. This mirrors the way statically typed languages with inference handle the same situation (except they wait for evidence that it's being used as a list of Ts, instead of the actual act).
What is a menial task in software development?

I mean, our entire field exist for pushing menial tasks into computers. If you have as many of them to fill 50% of your work load, there's probably something wrong.

Besides, are you sure bugs in menial tasks are not important? When did you judge those tasks to decide this?
> No offense (and sorry for being off-topic) but I never get how people obsess over the under 1 or 2% cost savings while completely ignoring the overvalued principal.

Here's my counterpoints:

1. ~5k is enough to pay for two amazing vacations for me and my fiancee. I'd be enthralled to save that amount of money.

2. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like you're making the implication that people should instead be searching for cheaper housing. Easier said than done.
I think the key thing for me is that maybe I produce more one week, but working 60+ hours is going to make me useless the following week.
Ask HN: How important is choosing a target market?
I was reviewing an interview with Nathan Barry, the founder of ConvertKit. He took his SaaS from $5,000 in MRR to $700,000 in MRR.

He says a major reason for the turnaround was positioning.

Here's the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVNYcj5HkLA

Basically, changing his customer focus from "Email marketing for anyone unhappy with MailChimp" to "Email marketing for professional bloggers" is when his product really got traction.

Here are his Baremetrics stats: https://convertkit.baremetrics.com/

Have any of you experienced something similar? Did changing your positioning improve growth?
Cassandra allows multiple clustering columns, it's not simple concatenation under the hood.

There are no hidden exponential backoffs in Cassandra in any of the hot query paths, period.

Suggesting that using nosql as a DB is broken is so ludicrous I'm not even going to try to refute it - you simply don't know what you're talking about.
What in the hell are 95% of motorcycles doing that can't be handled by a motorcycle with 108 miles of combined highway/city range? I have plenty of friends who ride motorcycles to work or on the weekend, and aside from not being obnoxiously loud, the motorcycles that company sells would do everything they want save for track days/illegally going 150+ on public streets.

And what are ATVs doing that can't be handled by a vehicle with 500 lbs of load capacity in the bed and can tow 3/4 of a ton? Oh, and it has a range of 50 miles.

I have family that own ATVs, and use them for hunting and fishing, and the Ranger would handle their needs 100% of the time. How many people are taking ATVs out for 50+ mile drives? I guarantee you it isn't 95% of them.

I grew up in a rural area. Maybe not west Texas rural, but Appalachian foothills rural. This ATV would handle just about all the needs of most of the people I knew growing up who wanted an ATV. Heck, the fact that it's quiet, might be a really good thing for them when hunting.

And rural areas ARE an edge case. They're 15% of the US population. Sure, they have special use cases, but your whole "95%" statement is completely false.

And as to the "once you understand the different varieties of ATVs and motorcycles" statement. Electric motorcycles and ATVs don't have to cover 100% of all use cases before they are viable. So stop trying to say they do. There are plenty of areas in which electrics are perfectly viable, and it's probably over 50% today, and it will only continue to grow as battery tech improves.
I didn't downvote, but my guess would be because ISIS is responsible for this escalation, not the US.
your post is peppered with insensitivity and condescension. the kind of behavior that typically drives people to become antisocial in the first place.

I am not trying to be overly critical. I don't sense you are a bad person. maybe just uninitiated :).

the line between "direct" and "insensitive" becomes so much more clear only once you've experienced a similar depression.
Shouldn’t this submission have the original title: „Speculation Regarding the Pricing of and Strategy Behind This Year’s New iPhones“?
You should, I did exactly that sometime ago for only the 5 companies at that time who were super interesting to me.

For each of their cover letters I told a personal story that was spot on relevant to the position and their mission/values. It demonstrated all the soft skills....each of them called me within a day or two.
I've been able to improve my partitioning by adding a random suffix from a small set to the key for the writes, and then just trying all suffixes for the reads. Because my work load was relatively write-heavy (used at least ~10x more write capacity than read capacity), and because most of the read capacity was consumed by the size of the entries and not the lookups (so I didn't even have a linear increase in the need for read capacity), I think I came out ahead.

Ultimately, we've decided that dynamodb was not really suited to our use case anyway, but I'd say that's mostly because our total data set was fairly tiny and we our writes were not evenly distributed over time, which is just at odds with the capacity model.
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You’re really just looking for owners
#5 Uh what?? As a Canadian, I didn't even know Cirque was actually Canadian (nor was it in any top 50 Canadian brands lists I just Googled), so I'm not quite sure if it's the biggest brand in Canada, unless you are strictly speaking the biggest brand that is from Canada, but people don't know is from Canada.

I know it's a huge brand, but man, I've never seen it in a list, or articles or anything, you know, all that crap that comes up in "25 great things you didn't know were Canadian" and what not, or discussions with people. Maybe I'm just out of the loop. The rest of this stuff makes sense.
It seems strange to me that agriculture should be treated differently than any other industry.
Not quite. You could make it a legally punishable offense to provide incorrect information to a weather oracle. The provider would be sent to jail for defrauding the oracle.

I'm just saying that it's possible to solve the problem the same way that it is solved today.
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So 250 times the debt? Sounds like a deal :/
Can somebody comment on the status of Lisp in 2017?

If one were to learn a functional language, is Lisp a good choice today? Or is Haskell more appropiate?
CdS showed up at Microsoft Build this year [0] too, to talk about how they planned to use AR/VR to step up their show production. While it looks a bit like a superficial, it still is neat how they are always on the look for new technologies to improve their work.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNz5Rw6TwCw
Agree entirely. The opening email is a lot of waffle - I'm sure the beaches are nice but the person hiring almost certainly doesn't care. I know the idea was to come across like a friendly person but I feel the tone makes you seem naive tbh.

I think a couple of a paragraphs about why you want to work for the company and a CV would suffice.

Best of luck with stuff though, an interesting post.
Explain Penny Arcade
anti refugee sentiment is so unconscionable, what the hell world do we live in
On the flip side, you have Louisiana seeking the death penalty for a man who rolled over on his child. Dale Cox is a monster.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/06/revenge-killing
I believe exacerbating information asymmetry about exchange goods and services is anathema to free exchange goods and services.
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I would add prevention to your list as a primary justification, because people in jail cannot simultaneously be committing crimes on the outside.
We work a 9/80 flex schedule. 44 hours one week, ,then 36 hours the next with Friday off. So every other weekend we have a 3 day weekend, or 4 if there is a holiday on Monday. Works great, moral increases, productivity increases. Its a win, win.
Note that uranium mined from seawater is about six times as expensive as conventional uranium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brine_mining#Uranium
Life Can Be a Wes Anderson Film If You Look Close Enough
The fact that he murdered his wife is indicative of the fact that he is capable of murdering another person in a fit of rage. Certainly it's not true that "the murderer is no more likely than anyone else to commit a crime."
There may be _one_ example: the 40km wooden pipeline transporting brine from Hallstatt to Ebensee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstatt#Romans_onwards), starting in 1595.

Given that this is downhill (slightly; about 70 meters over 40km), according to Wikipedia, it wouldn't surprise me if this wasn't pressurized, though, and that, I think, is the essential difference between a covered duct and a pipeline.
Fwiw, in recent years the school has preferred the more distinctive name Polytechnique Montréal, rather than either École Polytechnique or École Polytechnique de Montréal, although there are plenty of materials not yet using the new branding.
Interesting example with 'guilt' as an emotion that may help to foster cooperation. This reminds me of an idea of evolution being treated as a thermodynamic process and 'punishment' as a crucial mechanism in the evolution of cooperation. The authors argue that "punishment acts like a magnetic field that leads to an 'alignment' between players, thus encouraging cooperation."[1]

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608139/new-model-of-evolu...
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I think it depends on the nature of the job and whether or not I "own" my work.

If I "own" my work in some capacity, e.g. a freelancer, a co-founder, getting public recognition for my work, getting to publish papers in my name, getting to talk about my work in public, get the chance to open-source my work, then I'm happy working more.

If I work for somebody else, or some big boss always takes the recognition for my work, as is often the case in some large companies, then I'd probably be much happier on the <40 side so I have time to learn and build things that are truly my own, outside of work.

I think 20-40 might be a sweet spot for certain fields where creativity drives money. In those cases, rest and recreation time are paramount to work productivity.
https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2017/07/PwUqoz6-800x534...

It really hurts seeing little kids caught in this crap.
I used Redfin to sell a house and the realtor helped get the property ready for market (which took a while) and pulled multiple comps to help watch the market trend. Place sold quickly for much more than I thought it would.
Quote from an article along the lines:

> However, in broad brush, we might say this: You’re a pattern in spacetime. A mathematical pattern. Specifically, you’re a braid in spacetime—indeed, one of the most elaborate braids known.

http://nautil.us/issue/9/time/life-is-a-braid-in-spacetime

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10323222
Ask HN: How to prepare for an Engineering Manager interview?
I have 10 years of experience as a software engineer with various roles as a lead engineer. I have never managed anyone directly - nor hired/fired anyone. I recently applied for a manager role at a great company (not a big-5). To my surprise, they're interested in my profile and would like to start the interview process. My goal is to grow in those areas and gain a new set of skills.

This role does not involve intense coding but requires a good high level understanding of technologies. It is focusing a lot on career growth, decision making, resource allocation and mentoring.

How could I make a good impression despite the lack of management experience? I did mentor engineers, etc. in the past. Happy to hear about things I should be expecting.
Key phrasing I intentionally left undefined, because there is valid room for debate, "certain amount". I have no idea what that amount is. $1 million? $10 million? Certainly above $100 million, yes greedy hoarders. And any civilized society would have a 100% inheritance tax on such "certain amounts" of wealth, to prevent the rise of aristocratic families.

Aristocracy is how you turn every damn thing into a product including life. Oh you're sick but you can afford health care, too bad, life is unfair, you die. Oh you're wrongly accused of murder, can't afford a good lawyer, have fun in jail, bye. It makes the entire society untrustworthy, and its stability is specious falling apart abruptly and violently. And that's what we should be trying to avoid.
For my very small-data use case I would be very happy if I could use DynamoDB as a persistent data store because the operational aspect is like ten lines of Terraform
If you read the EME spec, unless they've changed you're not guaranteed to be able to overlay anything over the EME-provided video rectangle using HTML. The only cross-platform approach is to treat it as an opaque, untouchable area that does not interact with the HTML side of things in any way, like the bad old early days of plugins. Also, at least on Android the playback chain goes through TrustZone code that's effectively running at a higher privilege level than the kernel.
If you think this merits a downvote please tell why. Excuse my french.
I agree with you on the definition, but ...

It'd be easier for a native speaker to attach a somewhat correct meaning to transduce because of familiarity with words like translate, transfer, transform, induce, reduce and deduce.
That was his campaign platform. Why is keeping promises weird or petty?
It's weird because life is both overvalued and undervalued.

The same people who believe that the death penalty is barbaric (hey, we all die, that's the hard truth) get fixated more on the tragedy of the criminal on death row than the dozens of people they killed.

I do mean that literally. Monsters like John Wayne Gacy don't need to live any more. They have nothing to offer society but a sneering "kiss my ass" as they are put to death.
with the exception of six or seven titles, this forms my reading list as well !
Anyone interested in business and following kevindeasis recommendations should start with The Everything Store and Shoe Dog
I agree with you on the definition, but ...

It'd be easier for a native speaker to attach a somewhat correct meaning to transduce because of familiarity with words like translate, transfer, transform, induce, reduce and deduce.

So while most people couldn't define them, they are familiar with both parts of the word and that would make it easier to remember and to understand in when seen in its context.
I really wanted to enjoy the article, but I found the author's diction so clumsy I couldn't get through more tgan a few paragraphs. It was like he was trying to hard or something. Bummer.
In general, I think there are a lot of things like whiteboard interviews and coding competitions where employers would prefer "good at X means good on the job", but are reasonably happy to settle for "bad at X means bad on the job."
I've seen the media talk about the sustainability of lithium ion batteries at scale.
-I can't remember off-hand what his sentence was in years, but we have a form of sentencing for criminals being deemed extra dangerous to society called 'forvaring' (literally - 'safekeeping').

If sentenced under this statute, your case will be up for review by a board after a few years; if they find that the inmate is still likely to pose a danger to society, they'll just shrug and say 'tough luck', then schedule another review in a couple of years time. No worries. Breivik is not being released anytime soon.
I didn't really look too closely at this library, but I do have a need for some heavy form processing (not so much validation) on a new project I am working on. Got any recommendations?
My team switched to re-frame after about 6 months development, and our only regret is that we didn't do it sooner. It took about a week to switch over, and caused minimal friction. The complexity it introduces is minimal, but it makes things more predictable when it comes to rendering, and it goes a long way to help with organization.

The big advantage of using re-frame in my opinion is that it provides really clean MVC semantics for Reagent. All the changes to the model go through controllers created with reg-event-db, and then the view observes the model via reg-sub subscriptions. With this approach, you can easily tell how the events update the model and interact with each other because they're all in one place.

You can see a real world app using re-frame here https://github.com/yogthos/memory-hole and I don't think it's any more complex than it would've been using plain Reagent.
asymptotic productivity of work, and winner take almost all nature of capitalism. seems like a very succinct way of explaining why people work so damned much

A myth of capitalism is that the donkey can reach the carrot hanging from the stick if they work harder, that "almost all" can be won by those who are being driven to work more hours. However, this doesn't take into account that there are at least as many carrots-on-sticks as donkeys, and that carrots are cheap.
I know plenty of people who wouldn't prefer to work from home. I have the option to do so regularly, but I only take it when it suits me for other reasons (someone coming to visit normally) I prefer to keep my work and home life separate if possible.
The best re-frame guide I've seen so far.
There are many Lisps, they are not always like MLy languages like Haskell. Practical Common Lisp -> On Lisp -> Let Over Lambda with Keene and AMOP on the side are good for Common Lisp. Clojure has good resources too, Professional Clojure, Learning ClojureScript. For Haskell, CIS194 online from UPenn is good. I would suggest trying everything out and not being limited by what others think and the limits on what they can communicate to you with language. Where we are going we need your full expression.
Ask HN: How much is conversion ratio in email marketing with bot?
Is it possible to automate cold email calls with a bot? I think it is possible if there are certain sets of reply with the mail content.
Is there any company provides chatbot kind of emailing platform?
Lisp is not used as a purely functional language. It has the tools to write functional programs, but most lisp code is procedural.
It takes time to construct new mines. When Tesla started building the gigafactory, they signed long-term contracts with companies building new mines in the US and Mexico.
i dont get what you are trying to say. something about how its easy to mislead people into working long hours?
In general, politicians don't hurt themselves or their friends. Trump won't be the first or last politician to operate like that.
Tl;dr: yes.

In practice, it depends, mostly on the size of your app. It's one of the cases in which TodoMVC is too small to make the framework shine properly. You're going to love it especially when your app starts to get bigger (and the complexity of "real world" starts to creep in) and the small complexity of the abstraction that you added in the beginning pays off. This is because you have a framework to put the new stuff in, but it doesn't get in the way.

This is the opposite of what I usually felt with the other js frameworks I worked with (Angular, Backbone, React doesn't count because not really a framework), in which once your application scales in size its complexity terribly increases.
I am really surprised by this, I was convinced that the table-wide capacity is re-distributed evenly across shards.

Looks like you're entirely correct: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developergu...

I wonder how many times I scrolled past the explanation without internalizing it.
His top advisor complained that Silicon Valley had too many Chinese CEO's, so this isn't surprising. It'll be interesting to see which country takes our place as the 'brain magnet.'

>“When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think...” Bannon said. “A country is more than an economy. We’re a civic society.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-bannon-disgusted-a...
fixed! I thought it was really cool that the DORSAL lab (http://www.dorsal.polymtl.ca/en) is doing such interesting and practical linux research -- I often think of academics as living 'up in the clouds', but it seemed like they were contributing a lot to the Linux kernel and building really useful tracing tools. So a bunch of people in academia are doing super practical systems work & writing papers about it and I think that's awesome. It made me want to read more academic systems papers.

> Research done at the lab concentrates on improving the performance, reliability and resilience of distributed, cloud and multi-core systems.
1) Emotions are an evolved heuristic algorithm and only should be judged on a statistical basis.
2) The algorithm evolved to serve the species, not the individual.
3) Evolved algorithms can't be expected to handle circumstances not present during their evolution e.g. hard drugs and electricity.
Somewhat related. On the Pitch podcast a guy pitching VR headsets on planes said those seat back entertainment systems are heavy and cost the airlines $1b a year in fuel costs.
https://gimletmedia.com/episode/skylights-s02-ep04/

Company: http://www.skylights.aero/
Bank loan to outfit airplanes with seatback video -- easy "no" for the bank, it's dependent on the airline's ability to repay, with little recourse if the can't.

Boeing financing sale or lease of 12 new aircraft? Easy yes -- the aircraft is an asset generating revenue for them, and can be repossessed if Virgin doesn't make the payments.

Same reason that a person who can't get a $5,000 unsecured personal loan at a bank can often finance a $50,000 new car.
Most unicorn founders are graduates of Stanford, Harvard, and the IITs
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I mailed you last month and still haven't heard back
Some people are just irrationally biased against mergers - on my last flight, the couple next to me could not stop blaming the merger for us leaving SFO 5 minutes late, even when we arrived at SEA on time. It was Friday at 7PM, heavy travel time for SFO-SEA.

I try to fly Alaska everywhere too - never had a bad experience, on-time every time.
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People should know how the meat industry works but this reasoning seems extreme.

I am not comfortable watching women give birth, that doesn't mean I shouldn't have children.
where is that available?
So what happens when these bots are manipulated into writing fake news (in the same way the way better funded Google search is still manipulated for SEO purposes) ?
Watching now, I've seen most of his stuff but oddly never watched this one, thanks.
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