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You should really insist on a review. If you don't get feedback on how you're doing in your career, it's at your expense. My company has no formal process, I still force a review every year.

Also, I believe you should ask for a raise every year. Even if you've completely stagnated professionally, your salary is decreasing continuously with inflation.

Companies seem to take advantage of introverted people who are too afraid to speak up about perfectly reasonable requests, like clarifying your performance and goals. It definitely sounds like you're in that boat.
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> even though it's authored by the maintainer of one of the most massively popular ORMs ever

Just curious, what ORM is that?
Wanna cringe annoying and plain incredibly boring quotes from children books? Pretty sure I could dig some dumb kiddy book around ...
Don't you mean UNencrypted SMS?
You're being pedantic; natural language is contextual for better or worse. Anyway, asking "Why did you use Java", is likely to be interpreted as a slight against the language and thus be downvoted (indeed, his politely phrased question was even downvoted when I saw it!).
Fallacy of Fictional Evidence.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14912880
Not just anybody can "fork" a company. Anyone and everyone can fork a blockchain multiple times.
I think much of the staying power of free shipping has to do with manufacturers' price fixing. If all retailers are forced to sell at the same exact price, then the most competitive thing to do is to pay shipping out of their overhead, similar to how a brick-and-mortar store's logistics costs are covered.
Seconded. I am in absolute agreement.
It's been a while since I tried to get into Clojure/Cljs but when I did I remember errors like the one in this article being cryptic:

https://8thlight.com/blog/connor-mendenhall/2014/09/12/cloju...

> Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Don't know how to create ISeq from: clojure.lang.Keyword

What's an ISeq? I can guess that' it's part of clojure's implementation from java.lang.IllegalArgumentException, but that's what I'm talking about when saying that clojure isn't a great first language because of how you have to both understand a little bit about clojure and a little bit about java, when it comes to errors and namespaces.
This all assumes that "taking out" datacenters is a physical/hardware operation.

When you widen the potential attack surface to include software vulnerabilities, unauthorized access, process flaws and other "soft" vectors, a much wider--possibly coordinated--attack that is potentially far more crippling can be imagined.
Oh they raise eyebrows. The kind that come along with thunderous applause.
Not sure what you mean by the question?

I built the full stack by hand. The iOS is Obj-C and the backend is NodeJS/MySQL.

Basically, the MySQL DB has checkin data (provided by users or from social media networks) pivoted on metadata (male, female, age) and then passed to a custom visualization algorithm on the mobile device.

Happy to answer any other questions.
Well, BCC has about 13 blocks on their chain in 24 hours. I understand there's a technical reason for the delays, but if you thought Bitcoin Classic had a problem with transaction delays, BCC absolutely still has yet to prove it can even remotely help with that.

I welcome the diversity, and a chain that has lower difficulty will be most welcome for miners as well. Hearing about some of the issues with withdrawal limits, I will not be surprised if there is a lawsuit against CoinBase. I'm personally just glad to see that, on the Bitcoin price graph, this whole event has so far been a complete non-event. (Even though I sold mine before the Hard Fork. I'm betting on ETH.)
Is there any way to have Chrome default to an alternate profile when accessing certain sites, or disable all extensions on certain sites? Ideally I'd like to use one profile with no extensions for financial sites, and a separate profile for e-commerce sites, but it requires that I remember to switch to that profile prior to logging-in. Maybe I could block the sites in the profile I use for development to force me to isolate those activities in a "clean" profile.
There are problems well beyond infinite compile times and infinite runtimes with a Turing-complete sublanguage hidden in something as innocuous looking as the type system.

Arbitrary code execution is the holy grail of exploits. If the type system is Turing complete or even nearly so you can encode arbitrary behavior into the types without using any of the language's mainstream operative syntax. One could put an entire subsystem of the running program into what looks like descriptive, conscriptive statements about the data the operative syntax is to use. This is ripe for hiding a source-level trojan in a part of the code that needs little to no support from the rest of the program. When you're first looking at code from others, is your first instinct before compiling it to check deeply in the types defined to make sure there's nothing untoward going on semantically?

Looping forever is a very simple DoS or a very complex mistake. It would also be very simple to end the compilation run and investigate. Intentionally obfuscated malicious code would likely be able to pass unnoticed much longer and do much more damage. The halting problem, realistically, is a problem but is the least of your problems here. It's already quite easy to write a non-halting piece of code on purpose and it's possible accidentally.

The big problem is the unexpected computational power of this sort of thing being abused, not that it's accidentally going to take forever to compile. Nobody's going to die of old age watching an uninterrupted compilation.
Seconding the others, it's really great in comparison to plain YouTube.
Economics changed. Right now the most affordable housing is furthest from job centers. Last time I compared apt prices where I live pricing was such that living within walking distance of downtown was priced such that pricing for similar apts 10 miles away had a delta greater than the cost of owning a car and commuting. God forbid you live in a city like LA that has no downtown because of freeway sprawl.
It's a little dangerous to think gene-editing is the cure to human-ills, and that it is "natural" progress for the human race. Considering everything currently known in the human sciences, I think what you're asking for is asking too much of gene-editing alone.

I prefer the Star Trek view of gene-editing, for genetic diseases, ok. Otherwise, no. Arguably, there is nothing to make better, or faster than what evolution is naturally doing.
I think it depends on how you do the fork. You can make a fork that generates blocks that the original clients can't validate, or you can make a fork whose blocks on the original chain, and are ignored just because they're not the tallest. If you somehow got a majority of the mining power on your side in that scenario, you'd supplant the "original."
There are multiple ways to interpret fiction. I'm reminded of that Russian fanfic that cast Sauron as a heroic industrialist doing his best to drag Middle Earth into an industrial revolution, all the while being hampered by superstitious people from the steppes constantly raiding his cities.
yeah, Wahlberg's crime is an interesting case -- the kind of violent crime most people think merits a severe punishment. and yet, he's a wealthy movie star today. American justice, folks.

oddly enough, it happened in Massachusetts of all places, a state i expect to take this sort of hateful crime more seriously. maybe it would nowadays. that particular violent attack happened a while back.

regarding licensing: the rumor i heard (for what it's worth) was that Wahlberg recently wanted to become certified as an actual officer on a local auxiliary or reserve police force for some new show he was planning. but, as a convicted felon, he is not eligible.
That's not strictly true. Network effects due to tied services can result in barriers to switching. For example, if you're tightly tied to iCloud, migrating to Google Drive might be seen as an enormous PITA.

IMO, this is the principle reason all of these guys are building easy-to-use, tied services offerings... because the OS is becoming increasingly irrelevant as things move to the web or apps go cross-platform.
Choices, the answer is people choose to behave as they do, when they do and how they do.
Amazon's are as high or higher.
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/seller/registration/part...

The "referral fee" ranges from 8%, to 15% (common), and up. Up can go pretty high, but mostly for Amazon's own stuff.

Ebay's are mostly just in the 10% range:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html
C, Go, and Rust would require different app packages for different OSes--that's not a problem. The problem is bundling a 100MB runtime for a CLI.
I don't see how the ethics of "fixing" that defect is any different from the therapy discussed in the article.
Are you sure those jobs all hire felons?

I browsed my State and saw jobs for physicians, pharmacists, and even a school psychiatrist.
A big gap between buying and renting is the classic indication of a speculative housing bubble. You may not want to buy a place in Vancouver right now.
Even if it's technically valid it's not likely to be a useful program if it has an unhalting loop in its data type declarations and enforcement.
I think each DC has at least two power sources and probably a backup generator. I think that's why cloud providers have been so reluctant to open in Africa, diversified power is apparently a problem.
I disagree, but it doesn't really matter for this: either way, the fact that they told people ahead of time doesn't change things.
iSCSI off-load that is available on a variety of network cards, along with network policies that are similar to FCoE (never drop a packet) allow you to get the same speed/reliability as FCoE for a lot less.

FCoE requires that the networking gear drops only one packet in 10 million or something like it, if you can make the same guarantees for iSCSI, it is for all intents and purposes the same thing. With iSCSI off-load it is even better.

iSCSI also runs across your existing network stack, and doesn't require purchasing special equipment and is better supporter across a variety of different vendors, thereby making it easier to find the gear with the features you need, rather than settling for something that supports FCoE.
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Exactly!

(Of course, being an undergraduate CS student, from my point of view the idea is better expressed as, "I would love to see more companies who value internship candidates with more familiarity with the basic concepts of computing, of the sort ... ".)
It also doesn't make sense to mine a currency that has no users...or people taking it as payment.

If there is a user base, miners will materialize.
That's not what the section immediately before the one you linked says.
ActiveRecord. Referencing it is a double-edged sword; Diesel is very much not ActiveRecord, so by saying it up front, people tend to get the wrong impression.
In Star Trek the genetically enhanced humans started a massive world war that almost wiped out humanity. That's what Khan was. In the Star Trek universe, genetic enhancement is illegal because of it (caused some problems for one of the characters in DS9).
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Glad I'm not the only one that feels that way..
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Guys, I've added a code screenshot above the gif, is it better now?
I see what you mean. That's pretty amazing. Thanks for explaining.

I would have expected the two forks to coordinate sufficiently to make sure double spending is not possible. But I see how this would have been extremely difficult if not impossible without one of these two rival camps agreeing to be the opt-in network while the other one remains the default.
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>would be more than just "I can't watch Netflix".

And, I think even more than we can imagine. It's one thing to count the number of services that are direct customers/dependents of AWS, and we really don't know how deep that goes.

But, add to that the non-AWS based services that directly or indirectly rely on AWS-based services.
https://github.com/rails/rails/tree/master/activerecord
The proclivity of politicians to marginalize expertise, in general, as meaningless and elitist is short-sighted (at best). The world is complicated and the complexity grows by the day. Curation of knowledge and having delegated trust on complex matters is essential to governing our civilization by consent.

If we reach a point where consensus is essentially impossible because a strong majority of people are no longer willing to delegate understanding of complex things they have no interest in then how is it still possible to govern via consent? At that point, we will have to revert to monarchy and/or authoritarianism to break the persistent stalemates of popular consensus. The right-wing of western democracies are playing with fire and they're either too stupid or too greedy to realize where this strategy will end up.
From the PoV of a company whose products get sold by 3rd party sellers on Amazon, it's a total disaster. They regularly sell used or returned items as 'new,' and most customers don't notice. They provide atrocious customer service. Amazon does nothing to police this. These sellers also do everything in their power to avoid processing a return. I don't want to crap on your business, but I hope these regulations push the less scrupulous 3rd party sellers back to eBay.
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This must be the worst submission title in the history of HN.
My wife's school has cubetto [0]. A toy to get the kids familiar with programming. Recently, in last kickstarter I bought my own because I love the idea. In addition, on my kids school they ask for parents with experience software engineering to give courses outside the regular hours. When I gave it once at my own work during an open day I used a fun game similar to cubetto (but digital). Kids love to be busy, so making it physical next time as suggested here is something I will definitely try out next time.

0) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/primotoys/cubetto-hands...
I'm not arguing against cloud platforms in general; just the irrational use of very specialized services they offer. I can run a containerized service that uses open source packages on any of the cloud computing platforms. Now if I used Athena, SQS/SNS, DynamoDB, ELB, Lambda, EC2 that would make me very nervous, and I see other devs designing these stacks all the time. I guess I shouldn't care as much, because I'm not going to be the one to migrate that when the company gets a better deal from another platform service.
It is exciting that people inside Google is using Clojure. The more Clojure gets popular, the better for the programming community as a whole, even if its usage means indirectly giving more fuel to Oracle.

<smug-mode>
On the other hand it also means we will thus be able to one-up Google by using Common Lisp...
</smug-mode>
I think the best thing would be to run a PPC campaign when you're at work, so you can acquire emails, and then email those leads through automation (you can do this with Mailchimp) just to confirm their interest.

Then, you have to use your lunch hour or anytime you can sneak away to get the deal done.

That's if you have a budget.

If you don't, I like the idea of hiring a sales person.

P.S. I wrote a book on branding and marketing. If anyone reading this want a free .pdf copy, feel free to email me at bj@bjmendelson.com
Agreed 1000%, the article just seem to overcomplicate things, why talk about processors, discs, binary? This is ridiculous!

All children can relate to physical movement and giving commands, lets start there! It's like we're throwing all the knowledge we got from Logo over board (2017 is Logo's 50th birthday!)
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Article 1 makes the the CCoRaF a joke of a "bill of rights":

1. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
It doesn't have to loop forever, it could just take a few minutes to calculate. There are plenty of useful, real-world projects that take hours to compile (see: any large project in C++). To reject these programs due to an arbitrary timeout is a non-starter.
Fuck prison, we need to bring the guillotine back.
No problem, I guess what I'm trying to say is that just like Rust took inspiration from Scala syntax (at least I get this feeling), maybe so could Diesel from Slick.
Unless you're going to mock it in your article, then stop giving this lady a platform for her nonsense.

People care about private conversations. We all do, even if we have "nothing to hide". Nobody wants even their "innocent" conversations to be exposed in public or to find out others have read them, and they'd be pissed off if they discovered that someone else was reading their private conversations with another person.

Anyways, the bottom line is that to get those private conversations you need encryption, because clearly governments of the world don't care enough about the laws to simply restrain themselves from collecting everyone's conversations in bulk and analyzing them.
This is a beautiful project.

Have you met the guys behind https://pigeon.ly/?

Are there any other problem areas related to the criminal justice system that you are not addressing, that you think a startup could help with?
Pretty good suggestions. I did love to charge $100 an hour. Maybe if I spoke at a few conferences, I did be able to charge that.

However, thats a US/Silicon Valley number. Europe, which is closer, will find that number too high for its local developers (as far as I know). :-)

Just sharing for sharing sake... not that it needs an answer.
But (to repeat another comment), some exchanges do have fiduciary status -- Gemini, for one, and I assume others. Would they be obligated to preserve the value of BCH for clients?
Agreed.

I also don't think the slow down is necessarily a bad thing. It's not that VCs aren't interested. They're just much more cautious about funding companies that end up being sustainable and viable. I think after all these unicorns, VCs have finally been brought back down to earth and are looking in the long term.
I use Uber pass fairly regular on my commute to work. One other minor unrelated thing I have seen is if the commute is within < 1-2 miles the drive ends up giving you a bad rating (not that ratings matter to me) but uber has no way to screen this fake rating. I made sure I was at the pick up point well before the car arrived, and minded my own business throughout the ride.

On talking to couple of drivers on a few occasions they confessed that they do this to filter out folks asking for lower mile rides!!

edit: This is obviously not in high uber/lyft density zone like a downtown SF where one can assume most of the rides endup being in the 2 mile radius.
No mention of what raymond scott did in the 50s?

https://youtu.be/MDIIfAMGLhM

Wikipedia:

> Scott developed some of the first devices capable of producing a series of electronic tones automatically in sequence. He later credited himself as being the inventor of the polyphonic sequencer. (It should be noted that his electromechanical devices, some with motors moving photocells past lights, bore little resemblance to the all-electronic sequencers of the late sixties.) He began working on a machine he said composed using artificial intelligence. The Electronium, as Scott called it, with its vast array of knobs, buttons and patch panels is considered the first self-composing synthesizer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronium

You will know his popular music from the warnerbrothers cartoons :) https://youtu.be/YfDqR4fqIWE
What is choice? I don't believe that "free will" exists. The concept isn't even meaningfully defined for non-dualists. In reality, we're Turing machines. We have certain inputs, a memory, and certain outputs.
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Frankly I don't see the benefit in this program for Amazon. 3rd party sellers often charge less, meaning less revenue for Amazon. The highly variable customer service also degrades Amazon's brand. Finally, Amazon still has to front the cost of any return/refund from a 3rd party seller, so there is still risk.
That's immaterial, because a company cannot force customers to forfeit assets by giving them a 10 day ultimatum.
Maybe it's just me... but sometimes in the middle of a long mix, it'll start crashing.

But definitely agreed on the ability to hold state on the song you're currently listening to.
> if these folks were earning more, someone else wouldn't be doing that job, so the overall earning that the set number of jobs would support wouldn't change one way or the other from the tax revenue point of view.

That's exactly what "zero sum" means.
Since Python doesn't support multi-line lambdas, how do they support the analog in LISP? It's almost necessary for any dialect of LISP to support lambdas (i.e. functions) that contain a LISP 'do' [1] which lets you group statements. Do they chain together expressions/statements with continuations or something?

[1] http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw60/CLHS/Body/m_do_d...
It is wrong that a dude who watch video about kids or enjoys their company has to worry about that.
Ask HN: Do you read comments of an HN post before actually reading the article?
Whenever I find an HN article which is about a topic I'm interested in but the article itself is too long for me to read at that moment, I generally go to the comments to see the community's reaction to the article. In these moments I base my own opinion on just the title of the article. Does anyone else do this? I'm geniunely curious if there are other HNers out there that also go through this thought process.
It's so interesting that this comes across as novel, though I totally understand how that can be - it's an unavoidable reality for those of us building side projects while living on the other side of the pond :)

It also plays into the R&D stage where the dynamic of participating in forum posts and irc/slack chats is a whole other experience. There's a forum or two where I tend to post a question at night, and don't even look at it till the next morning because I know nobody's going to really get to it till then (my time, in Israel).

The hard part with this setup is getting motivated after a full day of work, family, etc. Pushing before/after work is perfect in terms of time, but not in terms of energy. Burnout/fatigue becomes a tougher challenge. That's really a whole other subject though...
My goddaughter is 2 and my girlfriend's nephew (who've I spent considerable amount of time with) is 4. The goddaughter watches may more TV than the 4 year old but both watch a couple of hours a week. I've only seen them view animation videos on youtube that seem like in days gone by would air on PBS.

I'm not sure what kind of parent would let their kids watch stuff like this but it's pretty shocking to see that this stuff is even marketed as "for children". The only "for children" things I've seen on Youtube are pretty innocent animated shorts (lots of nursery rhymes too). But I guess the algorithm will show you what it thinks you like.
To buying bitcoins on Coinbase (and almost any other exchange) one have to use their online wallet. Fear was not a decisive issue when you (fig.) decided to buy bitcoins, but for whatever reason it is now that you want to move them somewhere else?