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Ask HN: Does Microsoft hire mediocre developers?
I've heard that Microsoft is hiring Go developers. I personally find working for Microsoft very interesting (Azure in particular) and I can write Go but I'm far from being an expert. I'm still learning, every day (I guess this applies to everyone else). I'm highly motivated and I am a fast learner but I don't think I can be compared to engineers like Aaron Schlesinger, Brian Ketelsen, Ashley McNamara, etc...

All the new hires are amazing, I really respect them. But I'm not as good as them. Should I still try to apply or maybe I shouldn't bother? I want a change in my career. I'm looking for an environment where there is a lot of talented people that I can learn from, and I want to work for a company that invests their time in making me a better developer. I work for a small company that struggles to find talent because they don't have enough money to attract it.

Thank you!
I feel like opportunity covers that.
> But the uptick in other languages is likely more because they are new and therefore there they have a virgin land advantage.

That is incorrect. The languages in production that interact with javascript, might be a better way to think about it. They are all generally older than javascript (as opposed to dead, like ALGOL). The MS ecosystems and Java might have a bogged down problem in the future, but when even Lua is updated more frequently than JS, you might want to question the wisdom of the current processes.
> Because Java starts treating everything as a String once it has found a string in System.out statement

No, because int + int -> int, int + string -> string, and string + int -> string.

System.out is irrelevant, except that it's what causes the result of the computation to be printed.
What's the big picture? In a few hundred years maybe this sport will look as unthinkable as gladiatorial games in Rome. That's certainly one possibility.
Even before the recent language onset, univ had classes quoting papers on how large the number of programming languages is.
I play sitar or flute music on youtube. I feel that it increases my concentration a lot and helps me focus as it doesn't has any lyrics and the music calms the mind.
Yes, Brian's plan was to fold encryption into ZFS after 0.7.0. It was simply too large of a change to do in one shot.
There is a camaraderie born only of shared violence that seems to be expressed by football players, soldiers, mobsters, that might be hard to replicate in volleyball. I can't claim any firsthand knowledge of it however.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that bias would be unexpected. I just wanted to point out that even in the absolute worst case where the bias of this simple turns out to be as high as it possibly could be, the results are still crazy bad.
What is web application attacks and how to stop it?
Yeah, it's the "card" functionality that appeals to me. I was planning on building something using slate.js but Mobiledoc sounds like it will fit my needs. Thanks for responding, I'll check things out.
We need better compartmentalization
Segregated Witness is currently projected to lock in during this period
130 is about 1 in 50 people.

Which perhaps is still remarkable, but I think it is a much higher frequency than most people would intuit from the number.
> At this point it is immoral and unethical to have tackle football in schools.

That remains a normative claim, not a positive one. Some parents will be dissuaded from allowing their children to play football competitively, but you'll have great difficulty enforcing something like a ban.
Given the way genes work, which is that they operate in networks and rarely code for a single trait, what other phenotypes would be affected by selecting for such genes ?
My advice: Hire an immigration attorney if an informed answer to the question is important.

Good luck.
Python3 + numpy + scipy + (possibly) tensorflow, for technical computing. The ecosystem is stable, readable, and performant enough for my needs.
Show HN: Note-taking for devs pre-release
If you make the time for carrying it all out, please blog about it and post it back to HN. Should be very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
I did that when that particular change was announced; it still doesn't show everything and still often differs between loads. There should be a simple per-account selection of tweets, retweets, replies, and likes.
The notion that a work of art could be "incorrect" is absurd on its face. Just because a game (in this case) does not remain confined to accepted norms does not make it "incorrect". The use of this word is pretentious as all hell, as if the author is the be-all-end-all of art criticism.

If one does not like a game, we have a word for that: "bad". There are plenty of bad games to analyze. Why the author picked Sonic the Hedgehog is beyond me.

As he said: it works. Therefore, to twist the word "incorrect" to its breaking point as he does is ridiculous.
Glowforge: First Thoughts and Impressions on the 3D Laser Printer
I once spent a week porting some python2 researchware into python3. It was only at the end of that week that I discovered that it was the actual logic of the researchware that was broken, and not the way I was porting it. I now distrust all FOSS except for widely used and tested ones. You would think that a graduate student would debug (or at least fix to the point of being interpretable) the work that they spent months on before publishing it as finished and adding it to pip.

And yes, 2to3 fixes 90% of porting problems. But in my experience, it was especially bad at handling, of all things, import statements. Definitely not a silver bullet.
/me takes furious notes...
Webpack, sourcemaps, chrome developer tools, flow, and webstorm could meet your needs for these things.
Because we've already done it with plenty of other animals, even cloned them and let them grow to maturity. Never heard of Dolly?

We've been at a point, where it's viable for human application, for quite a while. But the ethical and religious stigma is preventing us from going the full distance.

As of right now, it is very likely that the first genetically engineered/enhanced human will be a Chinese person because they are way more pragmatic about those issues.
You're assuming that in a world with only anonymous cryptocurrency there won't be banks and credit cards and the like. Keeping cryptocurrency saved on your personal hard drive with backups or something is equivalent to keeping your money under your mattress today. Banks provide you with interest on your savings and security.

I suspect in a world with only cryptocurrency instead of fiat, trying to make a direct peer-to-peer transaction to purchase an expensive item like a house or car will be met with the same reaction as trying to do that today with a duffel bag full of cash.
Well, he may not have every option in the world (e.g. he can't simply move to San Francisco and hope to have a nice life without working), but he does effectively have his own personal basic income, and it's a significant amount. Right now, I couldn't imagine the additional freedom I'd have if I had ~$30-40k coming in every single year, regardless of what I did for work (if anything).
why can't have both, "eliminating things that drag it down" + genetic engineering?
Run your service like a drug lord with K8s and Keel
Web: Rails 5 with latest version of Ruby.
Why: Rails is awesome, it can do UI, backend, everything.
The shuffle does multiple playlists. Hold the voice button (short push reads song name/artist) to access playlists, device reads playlist title, user clicks voice button to select the one they want. Not a great user experience, but it works.
It's as meaningful as it's thankless.
Well that's what visualization are for. Wealth might be more "multiplicative" than "additive", hence a log scale would be more suitable to study it
React V16 New Error Handler (example / Code-Playground)
It infuriates me when I see people complaining about how slow they think JS/HTML/CSS is as a developer platform, or how terrible it is to use a JS framework, when the real cause of slowdown for 99.9% of the web is garbage like this.

Modern web browsers can preload resources and compile and run JS incredibly quickly. But even the best optimization efforts fail when sites are loading thousands of scripts from hundreds of different domains.

And yet still I see developer advocates from Google on Twitter trying to shame people for using React, blaming them for the web's failure to dislodge native apps. It's utter bullshit.
Each contract is individual, but generally, endorsement contracts have a lot of termination clauses, so Bose could and will end the deal soon, unless Urschel's brand is so unique (MIT math PhD and NFL player? Nothing like it) that they decide to keep him on.
"That Cassius over there has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Men like him are dangerous." [1]

1: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/julius_caesar/julius_caesar.1.2.h...
No, Southeast Asia. E.g. Indonesia or Thailand (just not Singapore)
China, with its totalitarian capitalism, scares the shit out of me. I truly believe this country poses the single biggest threat to human kind today.
A study of status distinction (2010)
Ah, got it, thanks.
and easily mitigated by the right use of parentheses.

System.out.println((1 + 2) + " = " + (1 + 2));
Well, pre-check does actually require a human being to do something with your application and work to happen on the part of the government. I'd rather the folks requesting the service pay for that than the taxpayers as a whole. Don't ascribe to classist malice what is simply a fee for service.
Rails for api and Vue.js for front end. Our team love it so much.
That's enough to live on and do those things you would do that only requires you. If you ever want to leverage something into a larger undertaking, that requires serious capital rather than a basic income.
It isn't immoral or unethical to have sports where long-term injury can occur. Using that metric we would have to ban all sports. What is unethical is not educating the participants of the risks. We need to push for more studies and education, not bans.
Manage and Secure Environment Variables in Serverless
I think Quora would be a good starting point.

Maybe by googling:

site:quora.com robotics

And seeing the people who answer and good writers.

Also, consider scientific journals and people who are PhD candidates at universities.

This balances their expertise with their willingness to be pitched to write on the subject.
A Serverless 1.x plugin to manage environment variables with YAML and turn them into a .env file on deployment.

Supports encryption with KMS, multiple stages and custom profiles.
Thank you for the link ! That's what I was talking with log scale. THIS is a log scale visualisation about money
> For all we know, this could all be pre-calculated or pre-animated. Everything moves exactly the same way every time.

You can look at the source code and see if that's what it's doing.

So you want to change the simulation? Change the initial setup.

This is obviously not user friendly, but I'm not sure how you can possibly suggest this is not a simulation.
Yeah, daily is the problem. I'm tired of charging devices all the time. Phone, watch (TomTom for running), GPS (for cycling), iPod, iPad(s), laptop.

The Garmin Fenix comes really close to replacing the watch and GPS from above. And it'll run for about a week between charges. If it played music, I'd own one already (even if that meant charging twice a week).

Total 1st world problem.
As an aside, i feel there has been a lack of such strips from XKCD lately.
The joy of having made the world a little better can be seen as a "return." It's the idea behind impact investing, for example.
The risk of getting hit by a 14-year-old kid is obviously less than the risk of getting hit by one of the hardest-hitting 26-year-olds in the world, but the rewards are also less. Many Hall of Fame-level NFL players have said that the glory, fame, and riches were worth the lifetime of pain, dementia, etc. afterwards. It's not clear that someone who got 10% of the brain damage but 0.0001% of the rewards would say the same thing.
This is great parody!

People always misunderestimate the difficulty of formalizing things that are easy for people being people to deal with into legible systems that an institution (like law or a company HR team) can deal with. People tend to know what harassment is. There would be some disagreement if you ask a group of people, especially in ambiguous case. People's opinions will be culturally informed, informed by bias...etc. But, groups of people have an instinctive knack for this.

People do not have a knack for creating institutions that can work with this sort of efficiency at determining truth, or justice... Institutions need formal rulesets, absolutes.. like machines made of people.

Anyway, since harassment is very relevant in the context of the quasi-litigative, something like this could actually happen.

The precoital consent form is a cliche already. But, some sort of formalized policy for hitting on co-workers in a harassment-safe way... That could actually happen.
There are a lot of areas of the U.S. where people actually do retire on $25K/year. Having said that, they probably own their home, have cheap Medicare and have paid all child-related expenses at that point. So you're right, for most 30 year olds it's a different story.

Also, even if people budget a $25K/year retirement there is always the possibility of needing long term nursing home care in the last years of life. (Say, if you're a football player that suffers dementia later in life.) Depending on the quality of care, that can wipe out even a $1M nest egg. It's a big financial concern at that age. It's not covered by insurance the way that, say, a heart attack or stroke is.
IQ is bullshit.
See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_investing
Absolutely. But computers and centralized data make physical security easier. Old fashioned typewriters, paper files, and manual indexes for searches are safer (for very specific things), because you simply just can't haul all of it out. For a decent set of paperwork you'd spend months or years xeroxing everything. Leaks may happen but may be smaller. Processed and redacted data may still be put on computers for searching. It's a tradeoff with obvious serious disadvantages, but one that can save the operations and even lives of the good guys.
You're ignorant of how of how contracts work.

Once a contract is published and referenced, it is impossible to change.

Therefore I can read Solidity source with my own eyes and agree to use it, at that point in time.

This place is now what Slashdot was a few years ago. Thanks for your ignorant comment
Personal
- Elixir/Phoenix for a web project (just an excuse to mess with these technologies)
- Racket to explore an idea for a large rule-based application for higher ed
- OCaml to try out its programming language design set
- Swift to make an iOS game with my daughter

Professional
- Python3 to rewrite a moderate-sized batch application with a lot of custom rules
- Java/Spring to rewrite an internally-used web app
Clickable: https://github.com/danlm/QNial7
>Not doing those things actually weakens the network.

It's true but it's not exactly in the same category. I was mainly considering attacks that would attempt to mess with the ledger, not a denial of service. DoSes are a problem of course, but it's transient and can be fixed "in hindsight" if it actually becomes an issue. Successfully tampering with the blockchain on the other hand would be a massive shitfest and non-trivial to fix.

I'm not really worried about the number of nodes becoming insufficient to relay the transactions because clearly people who are invested in bitcoin have all kinds of incentives to keep it running. That means that big exchanges and "whales" could easily invest a few dollars a month to run a full node on a high bandwidth VPS. Keeping Bitcoin usable would actually be a good incentive to run full nodes if that ever became a problem. If Bitcoin really keeps growing eventually banks, big companies and governments will want to run nodes and I presume they won't host them on a raspberry pi connected to a 56k landline.

On the other hand if your internet connection is too crappy to support 8MB blocks (14kB/s, remember?), I can't really imagine that it'll do a lot of good as a backbone for the bitcoin network. If anything you'll end up eating up bandwidth from external nodes as they forward you the blocks and transactions while not really contributing much yourself.
So find the smartest person and make them the dictator. Problem solved.
Really smooth user experience and fair pricing. Still I find one negative point that really makes it unusable for me :
Content are only one level deep.

Unless I missed a feature allowing to nest content on multiple level ?
That's not because of Jobs. It's because Apple customers are most of the people that will accept that kind of behavior.

Keeping that attitude means that Apple can not grow¹, but not that it will shrink.

1 - All the times they acquired a lot of market share, they weren't doing that.
You're not making sense to me. u/jondubois dislikes the walled garden, which is the inability to run apps that don't go through Apple's app store (with the corresponding review and fees).

You respond to those two lines by saying that the walled garden prevents fragmentation.

It does not.

* If you were unable to run apps other than via the Google Play Store in Android phones, the OS versions would still be fragmented. App developers have nothing to do with that.

* If only Google manufactured and updated Android phones (hence no fragmentation), you would still be able to run whatever you wanted in the phone. "Walled garden" doesn't mean "closed source".
Python + Flask + React
I read the article. The comment of my parent poster seemed to imply that U2F will only work on Chromebooks and 'vanilla' Linux.
Welcome to the world of financial regulations.
> He's right. The Core-versus-the-world battle is far from over.

Proposals from the core development team have widespread support from businesses and exchanges [1].

Saying it's bitcoin core versus the world is a tad bit hyperbolic.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Segwit_support
If the obvious public good was something anyone cared about, proprietary software would not exist at all. We have license protections in our free software, and those must be respected for the license to be of any value. Zealot is a very rude way to say "People with respect for the authors' intentions".
That's the implication but what exactly did he observe that led him to say that? It's an awfully big claim and very little is given to back it up. It may not be possible to show us all his tax returns or bank statements but there should certainly be more than that it "appeared" to be Putin's answer.

Did Putin become drastically richer in the following years while the oligarchs became poorer? In what way?
Do you really think you will be among the ones allowed at the top? Protip: if you were you wouldn't be here right now. We will all likely be denied access to the best technology and will quickly fall behind within a couple generations.
Well he's only a student so somewhere between $30k and $40k, maybe a touch more if he gets a fellowship.

Also, how much professors make varies quite a bit. An engineering professor might make $100k from the university. If they are particularly motivated, you have professors who write books, play key roles at companies, consult, or give expert testimony. They can make quite a bit off those secondary activities but it isn't automatic.
Do you think it would be any faster if you had to "check" your carry on at check-in, they were all scanned asynchronously from you actually going through security, and you pick up the bag on the other side in a mini baggage claim scenario? I know baggage claim proper is generally a madhouse, but if it's just literally going through a wall to allow the actual security screening to happen faster, I think it could be faster overall.

Would definitely need some infrastructure changes in the airports themselves, which is probably a pretty big negative.
Looks like a "paint" font on top of a filtered stock photo

https://blog.ghost.org/content/images/2017/07/DJI_0006-Edit....
> convoluted JavaScript hacks

Yay for WebAssembly.
Met him twice during my time at MIT. A very nice, down to earth guy. We did get curious about his days as a football player for a while :)
If you wish to phrase things that way then feel free to reinterpret the discussion chain thusly:

1) spyhi used a continuous scale: "also never been fatter"

2) _qhtn switched to a discrete scale: "Do fat Americans run"

3) I replied to that question, that yes, "fat Americans run", objected to _qhtn's discretization of a continuous scale, and gave a pointer to a paper regarding BMI, which assigns categories like "overweight" and "obese" to the continuous scale.

Your comment comes across like you think I didn't know the difference between continuous and discrete, when that was the point of my response.
Researchers shut down AI that invented its own language
Don't they mean 3 == 12?

You cannot assign a literal to a literal Java.

So much for them trying to be clever. They're point does not stand since 3 cannot ever be assigned 12.
Since I presume you have verifiable backups of your pool couldn't you just remake the pool with the increased number of disks and copy back to it?
I suspect you're experiencing the joy of floating-point nondeterminism.

Edit: yup, it's the same every time per browser, but I can have e.g. Edge and Chrome running next to one another doing different things.
People won't even be able to start participating because they can't download more than 1TB in a month.
I'd be weary to conflate OSS with what you refer to as "researchware". Code coming from academia is notorious for poor reproducibility.
C#, .Net Core, Postgres. Really liking the Marten DB abstraction over Postgres.
So it's not capitalism at all. It's something else.

Undue influence of individuals with power (via money or other mechanisms) is hardly unique to capitalist systems. Every socialist country has had the exact same problems with corruption and misuse of power. It's also pretty trivial to argue that such corruptions and abuses are far far more toxic under socialism because there is no "pressure relief valve" in the form of competition. Socialism is predicated on a monopsony, and over time a market with a monopsony will likely result in monopolies on the sell side. You eventually end up with no alternative to the corrupt choices.

"Late stage capitalism" is a political term that was likely created by someone that considers themselves a temporarily embarrassed bolshevik central planner.
Continue playing until his 30's, make a lot of money, and suffer pain and disability for the remainder of his life in addition to constantly diminishing mental acuity

- or -

retire now to pursue a PhD and be healthy, earn a living that could possibly meet his football earnings but more likely, keep him comfortable, and be able to use his mind for the rest of his life. Plus, he has a much reduced chance of losing a $150,000 earring jet skiing.

I think he made the correct choice.
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Yes, I don't mean to exclude those people. Both pairs of my grandparents had a fixed income of less than that. But as you said, they didn't have many personal expenses beyond bills and food.
I'll have to hit you up for advice on the forum when I try it out.