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Ask HN: Should I start looking for a new job?
Hi HN

I've been working for the same company on the same team for the past 5+ years.

It is not the first time in 5+ years I think about moving job. But I chose not to because I didn't want to deal with the hassle of moving my visa. Having just acquired my permanent residence I can move to a new company without restriction.

Pros of current job:

1. Friendly and talented team members.

2. Flexible working hour and location.

3. The technology we work on is mature and boring -- a stable job is guaranteed.

Cons of current job:

1. It is unclear when I can get promoted. Manager talked with me about creating bigger impact a year ago. I have done what they asked but little reward is given. I haven't got a promotion in 2+ years. There is a lot of conflicting signals: partners say I'm doing well, manager says I'm doing well, but no promotion is given. I really don't know how to interpret what I'm experiencing.

2. Management is unwilling to invest more in our team. That basically means to me there is very little upward mobility.

3. Pay is just so-so. It is not bad, but there is better pay elsewhere.

4. Technology is mature and boring, which means there is little to no chance to go big.

5. There is little for me to learn.

Cons #1 and #2 have been my biggest gripes over the years.

My experience in the past year makes me wonder if my manager is trying to manipulate me.

What would you do if you're in my situation?

I’m inclined to start looking. That would at least give me some ideas where I stand. I’m not sure if my expectation about promotion and reward is unreasonable because the current job is my first serious job, so opinions are very welcome.
That is a solid question. The optimist in me says 'well if the private key is leaked we're in about the same spot we are now with SSNs'. Every other part of me just cries.

In regards to "which version do we trust if a new key has been issued?": My gut says there would need to be a centralized system to for which ones have been voided, and which ones haven't. At that point what we're doing is making SSN's that we can invalidate, with the added disadvantage of being much more confusing to work with.

I have no idea what the right answer is, but Aunt Claire is (possibly) in need so we need to figure this out fast.
Cryptocurrency is now to the point where Wall Street is noticing that it is a thing people are willing to assign a value to, despite it generally not having any obvious inherent value.

Be careful: Wall Street is really good at extracting this value, and leaving everyone else involved with empty pockets.

How can a cryptocurrency defend against this? Should it? Should it embrace this instead, in hopes of riding these cycles long enough to look like a legitimate Store Of Value? Which one would be better for the theoretical long-term goal of replacing existing currencies with cryptocurrency?

(Not that I am saying every ICO is floated by angels with only the most perfect selfless interest in cryptocurrency; decide for yourself what percentage of the people doing this are running a scam.)
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Thanks for your response.

The medium-long term is where I'm fuzziest. Maybe that's why life is so interesting.
Would it be possible to have a laptop or desktop that spends most of its time operating in such a Read-Only mode?
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Smoking is the main risk factor for lung cancer. In the US about 80% of lung cancers are related to smoking.

https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/lung/basic_info/risk_factors.htm

> Cigarette smoking is the number one risk factor for lung cancer. In the United States, cigarette smoking is linked to about 80% to 90% of lung cancers. Using other tobacco products such as cigars or pipes also increases the risk for lung cancer.

[...]

> People who smoke cigarettes are 15 to 30 times more likely to get lung cancer or die from lung cancer than people who do not smoke. Even smoking a few cigarettes a day or smoking occasionally increases the risk of lung cancer. The more years a person smokes and the more cigarettes smoked each day, the more risk goes up.

It's true that not all lung cancer is caused by smoking.
Basically you give the user a device that has the private key, but never exports it.
eID uses this: https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.slid...
A lot of commentators here were suggesting that the due diligence report was strong evidence for Waymo's case, but I think that Judge Alsup is strongly suggesting that it's not: they're still crucially missing evidence that supports the case that Levandowski's bad actions made it to Uber.
The tea party was an infection that just inflamed the worst aspects of the GOP. That frothing, screaming mass of ignorance was wielded like a big fat mace by the GOP to completely disrupt and destroy precedent and civility. It turned into the fascistic monster it is today.

The Democrats are simply the party of miscellaneous now.
You could have read your own link, though.

Also, no, not all the bad banks are from Switzerland, that's just prejudice.
They still have other senses.
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Building smart checkout flows ... but that would include things like showing overviews of a shopping cart, allowing the user to make changes, and handling of physical products by the postal service, and I don't see that covered here.
Well I would say close to half of those accounts are duplicate - as in not 1 account per person.
It's a very short article, here are the salient bits:

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A massive data breach at Yahoo in 2013 was far more extensive than previously disclosed, affecting all of its 3 billion user accounts...

...

...Oath ... said the company determined last week that the break-in was much worse than thought, after it received new information from outside the company. ... declined to elaborate on the source of that information. Compromised customer information included usernames, passwords, and in some cases telephone numbers and dates of birth...

...

The number of individuals affected by the 2013 attack is smaller than 3 billion, because some people​ have multiple accounts​ ... Oath will immediately begin notifying the users who own the additional roughly 2 billion accounts. That is expected to take several days and occur via email...

===

Emphasis mine re: details of disclosed info.
Yea, the car industry has pulled out every trick in the book.

I'm looking for a new/used car for a relative, and don't like the terms, or even what's being offered.

The average consumer will lose money the minute that new car is driven off the lot. I used to equate it to rolling down your window every morning, and letting a $100 bill fly out the window for months.

O.K. The dealerships reslized consumers didn't mind clean low mileage vechicles. They immediately raised those used car prices.

Lease the vechicle to someone--win--win. They get back a used car they can off on someone, usually at rediclous terms.

What suprized me is the amout of new/late model cars I'm seeing on the road. There's no shortage of people buying new cars. It's almost skin to the housing crisis? I have a ha d time believing the economy is that good.

Leases/ownership terms going out six plus years--crazy? Like everything there will be a crash, but for the life of me I can't predict when.

On a personal note, the new vechicles I'm looking at just look like a breakdown, and a deslership visit just waiting to happen.

I used to be a mechanic, and would never buy a vechicle I couldn't work on.

Times have definitely changed though. I had one salesman say, "Oh yea, no one works on their own vechicles anymore. They just bring it in." As I noticed the shop rates at $220/hr. He then offered Starbucks coffee, or bottled water.
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Fully driverless cars are here today, for that matter. But if you want want tamperproof driverless cars that perform well under adverse conditions and are thoroughly tested, then you're going to have to wait a lot longer than "months".

I think this snippet is pretty telling: "Waymo chose the Phoenix area for its favorable weather, its wide, well-maintained streets, and the relative lack of pedestrians." (Emphasis mine.) Probably wise, but I'm sure they've already carefully calculated the risk/return vs pedestrian fatalities and are coming out ahead.
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What kind of firepower do you think would be necessary to win a fight the US government? I don't own any tanks, fighter jets, stealth bombers, nuclear submarines, and I don't have a military consisting of millions of highly trained, battle tested soldiers.

Me with an AR-15 versus the Marines is not going to end well for me.
> This implies that there is racism at work

Does it though? Or does it suggest that the problem is not (just) racism, and that all the noise is making it harder to identify and solve the root problems?
Azure fell over for 7 hours in Europe because someone set off fire extinguishers
This is most disturbing. I remember big change in facebook policy on 1.1. 2015 that would mean that deleting your account would not delete data they had on you. Up to that point their policy was that after you delete, data about you is erased (at least in europe).

I did delete the account before that date with few other people (mostly because of that policy coming).

I never tried coming back but if they still kept all the data, that is pretty substantional. One could sue facebook for that or am i missimg something?
Hopefully your experience is characteristic of most yahoo users, and this breach is less effective because people are using a unique password for their breached account.
The well-known algorithm for macro expansion is mark-and-rename. Although the racket implementation was later changed to scope-sets(http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/scope-sets/index.html).
I think the issue right now is that private user information is viewed as an asset, not a liability. If we could find a way to make it more of a liability, companies would be less likely to collect it just for the sake of having it, and they would be more proactive in securing it.
Young Warren Buffet could.

I can go to Vegas and lose all my money on dice. There aren't laws to prevent this. Why are there laws to prevent my ability to invest?

The regulation makes more sense as a way to keep the opportunities exclusive to the powerful, while regulators get to claim a moral high ground.
Legacy ISPs managed it somehow? So I don't see why Google can't. Especially since technology has improved (microtrenching and etc.). If anyone, Google has enough money to pull it off and seriously compete with incumbents.
What are you working on for Open Source?
That's the system many universities have. Community colleges are intended to serve students who are unprepared for universities, can't afford to attend universities, or have other nontraditional backgrounds. Most community college administrators would argue that your suggested changes would make the college less able to serve its students.

There is always a tension between meeting the needs of the nontraditional student body and making sure students make academic progress. I agree with you that community colleges are not balancing that properly, but I don't think that something as strict as you suggest would be the answer. Making students choose a major when they don't know what they want to do with their lives is going to result in a lot of wasted time if they change their minds.

Most of the majors outside of STEM fields end up having the same coursework requirements anyway. Even at the University of California, many students spend the first two years taking the same courses. So, it's not clear that making people choose a major at community college would make much of a difference, except for STEM majors. It's only after transferring that most of the major-specific courses are encountered.

The aspect of community college that stood out most to me was how you could avoid interacting with the administration other than registering for classes. I think it would be a great step for community colleges to require every student to meet with an academic adviser at least once per year. Of course, that would probably require more advisers.
This might be the worst thing he's done so far, but it's not even the stupidest thing he's done this week.

Five days ago he put out a statement congratulating himself for demanding that Tim Cook turn on an imaginary iPhone radio to help the people of Puerto Rico.
any ancillary benefits that occur as side effects of funding a physics project, could almost certainly have been achieved, without the funding of the physics project. for example, direct investment into disease research is much more likely to have short-term impact.

that's not to say ancillary discoveries with impact outside the original domain don't occur- they're just not as cost effective.
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The article described how the courts are basically in cahoots with the scammers, bending any possibly argument in favor of the "professional ward."

It's truly awful, but it seems to jibe with the whole prison thing going on in the states. Its all the people who have no means to defend themselves who seem to be the targets of these schemes: poor people, kids, elderly, the disabled.
It's a different experience.

Ethereum brings a whole development toolchain and ecosystem through the Web3 API which wallets implement, allowing for DApps. Take a look at this GIF, for example: https://gfycat.com/BleakSimilarGermanspaniel

A lot of it could be emulated with Bitcoin through a combination of signed off-chain and on-chain state, but you'd have to convince yours really hard to say it's equivalent.
The video demo of this tool is fantastic! It is a simple "showing by doing", that also gives a show while showing (pun kind of intended).
So your contention is that inhaling propylene glycol into your lungs might not be unhealthy?

"In its product safety assessment for propylene glycol, the Dow Chemical Company recommends individuals avoid inhaling the chemical"[1]

[1] https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/122-a244/
I use vagrant a lot for testing provisioning scripts. For example, having an Ansible setup with 2-app, 3-mongo and 1 redis server makes the script complicated, so I use >close< to production ( DO / Linode ) Linux distribution and try the scripts on my local machine. Works like charm.
It took me three minutes to set this up and after 10 minutes there were the first eth in my wallet. And I am a crypto currency newb and only have litte AWS experience. I am impressed. I don't expect this to be profitable, actually I would be surprised if I get more then 50% of my AWS costs back, but still an impressive application of AWS cloud formation.
You're imagining Steve Jobs made some sort of rational choice. It sounds like he pretty much ignored the facts, as well as the advice of family and friends. Here's his biographer's quote to CBS:

"I think that he kind of felt that if you ignore something, if you don't want something to exist, you can have magical thinking. It'd worked for him in the past. He regretted it."
Not really, gravitational waves are distortions in space-time caused by gravity. They just confirmed something that was predicted by general relativity a century ago. That's a big deal, and I don't mean to sully that achievement, but saying it's as big a deal as the discovery of electromagnetism is really overselling it. Gravitational waves are profoundly difficult to detect and can only be created by monumental celestial events (colliding black holes), it's not going to spark an energy revolution like the study of electromagnetism did.
Can you and others please stop reading actual neuroscience and saying, "oh, Numenta did this already"?

* Firstly, you're reading a neuroscience paper. It's biology! Numenta is not biology.

* Secondly, Numenta makes a lot of big claims and then never publishes anything.

This has gotten as if we were responding, "Simpsons did it!" to jokes which, in fact, The Simpsons had never aired, based on the supposition that since they once did a joke with vaguely similar vocabulary, it must have been the same as this joke.
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Multi-party signatures?

Something like "X has my PoA, if Y agrees that its necessary."
Ask HN: Cyber criminals of HN, what is your tech stack?
I am reading American Kingpin, a non-fiction account of the Silk Road and its founder, Ross Ulbricht. Although the book doesn't go very deep on the technical aspects of running what was basically an e-commerce website, there is some basic information:

- php
- mysql
- running on a server behind the TOR network
- pgp encrypted chat for employees to talk
- bitcoin for transactions
- bitcoind (php?) library

It made me hungry for some more details.

In any case, those of you doing things considered illegal by your government, what is your tech stack? Please also give us a vague account of what you are doing.
User accounts? Really? This is Yahoo we’re talking about. You really do need user accounts to run an email service
I mean if Uber can just openly destroy evidence yeah it's going to be hard to link them to a crime.
> "Well, you only need three of the lawyers over there to try this case," Alsup said, gesturing to Uber's table full of attorneys. "We will miss you greatly. I was looking forward to seeing you perform in this case. But next time, maybe you ought to produce the documents."

Judge Alsup is a badass.
> It's time for the whole suburban-liberal "follow your dreams and go to college" attitude to abruptly implode.

So you're saying it's time to drop the illusions and admit that most people will never be professionals with six-figure salaries, thus dramatically increasing class consciousness and ushering in the workers' revolution?

I don't think that's going to be politically popular.
Thank you, I appreciate that! I was just lucky to have saved enough money to take some time off and work on something I find interesting and think has a lot of potential.
I do like the new solution more than the Realtime Database, but I see only this solution to fit smaller scale. Applications with heavy write could get really expensive. Also, the standard plan has only "Maximum write rate to a document	1 per second". The write is currently three times expensive operation as read hopefully, this would be lowered in future.
Here is some context on Racket vs Gerbil by a well-known Common-lisp Programmer, François-René Rideau : https://fare.livejournal.com/188429.html
Perhaps I can go through my spam folder and disable all those irina781@yahoo.com types of accounts.
On the flip side, the status quo is killing 40000 people per year in the US alone:

http://www.nsc.org/NewsDocuments/2017/12-month-estimates.pdf
You'll probably get better answers in the future if you post directly on https://discuss.ipfs.io instead of on HN.

> If I install IPFS, does that mean that I'm part of the storage solution?

There will be nothing automatically stored on your node so you won't automatically share anything. Things you fetch via `get` or `cat` will be stored and shared temporarily, until a repository garbage collection runs. `pinning` a hash keeps this content around for as your repository exists, even if you run gc.

> It uses a DHT, does that mean my machine becomes part of the routeing system?

By default, yes, you'll help route the location of content and other such records. You can run the daemon in `dhtclient` mode instead, and just read the dht without helping providing any routing though, by doing `ipfs daemon --routing=dhtclient`

>I'm having a hard time finding a simple explanation of the basic operation of the IPFS - are there already ELI5 documents?

Best place to get started: https://flyingzumwalt.gitbooks.io/decentralized-web-primer/c...

Also, check out the community at https://discuss.ipfs.io as there are many people ready to answer any questions there.
If you uploaded the bytes of a copyrighted image to the Ethereum blockchain, then the notice would go to... I guess every peer who downloads and reshares the blockchain.

But also it could go to any gateways which promote and display content from the blockchain, like our thousandetherhomepage frontend. It would be our responsibility to stop violating the terms to the best of our ability, and the NSFW flag is that.
replace it? SSN has one purpose, and that is to identify our national social benefits account. that's it, and it works for that.

but we don't need a national ID. at all. the tracking that will most certainly accompany that is diametrically opposed to the concept of a free people.

banks take a risk with every account and every transaction. it's up to those institutions to figure out how to manage that risk, without obligating all americans to give up their hard fought and valuable constitutional right to privacy to make it easy for them.
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both men and women can die from breast cancer, too. in fact, men have worse survival rates because it's generally diagnosed later in the process, because there's so little awareness.
> Literally a Swiss bank made it upon the 70’s and dubiously said their prize was to “honor Alfred Nobel”. They were very forceful and never backed down from the prize, ultimately winning the PR battle and forcing the real Nobel org to sort-of acknowledge them.

1. Swedish, not Swiss. Both start with “Sw”, but, still, completely different countries.

2. And not just some random Swedish Bank, but the Swedish central bank (equivalent to the US Federal Reserve.)

3. And the first award was in 1969, which would be hard if it was made up in the 1970s.

4. The “real Nobel org”, as relevant to this discussion (there's actually four different ones) is the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (which awards the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry.) Which don't just sort-of acknowledge the Economics prize, they are the ones who award it.

5. And, as requested by the bank which both endowed the prize and pays for administrative expenses related to it, the Academy awards it using the same standards as associated with the prizes funded by Nobel’s endowment.

6. While Hayek and Friedman did win the prizes in the 1970s, neither earlier nor later laureates were consistently identify with conservatism.

The idea that you seem to be pushing, that it's a right-wing propaganda tool issued by some other organization unrelated to the prizes endowed by Alfred Nobel that is merely “sort-of acknowledged” by “the real Nobel org” is simply not supported by the facts.
Understood, everyone's use case is different. On my team, we were using Vagrant to spin up something that looked a lot like our test environment (and, in turn, production) and that was a server running MySQL, Apache and PHP. Setting up a Docker instance that ran both and included some test data wasn't hard to setup and was faster to spin up on Linux workstations.
Why would this be the case if they stated Asians and other minorities have not been affected? Black and Latino names are way more common in the US than Asians / Indians. Are you saying that silicon valley will hire every other minority besides black and latinos?