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I can't agree, comparing two languages purely by a superficial "this one lets me write code like this out of the box" ignores everything that matters.

Lets say I wanted to write a web blog server. One language has "import blog; blog.run()" and I am up and running instantly. Another language makes me install a blog library and some other side stuff, and choose a webserver. The point is it isn't just built right in. Which language is better for writing web blog software? The answer is, you have literally no idea from what I just told you. My analysis is insanely superficial and meaningless. Presumably, if I am going to spend hundreds or thousands of hours in some coding environment, what is 'built in with no effort' matters somewhat on hour 0, but virtually not at all by hour 200. Professional scientists presumably spend thousands of hours on this stuff, it's really not too much to ask that they become somewhat competent with the tools they are using.
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According to this study[0] on the diagnostic (and triage) accuracy of online symptom checkers (including WebMD among others), the reliability is a coin toss.

[0] http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h3480/
integrity being, "the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles."

okay, so, I don't have hard evidence of their strong moral principles, that said, to be in the VC business that long must be a fairly good indicator that their services are trusted, and their behaviour is befitting of their duty.

"With $4 billion under management, Bessemer invests from $100,000 to $75 million in innovative companies like LinkedIn, Yelp, Skype, CornerstoneOnDemand, Pinterest, Box and Twilio. Over 100 Bessemer companies have gone public. Last year alone, Bessemer had 5 IPOs, 7 M&A exits, and 20 new investments. "
Actually vote, as a group, in your own best self interest... not for people like Trump. Hold representatives to account, and put money and votes where the mouths are.
Are there teams considering using ZeroMQ for new projects in 2017/2018?
I am considering using ZeroMQ for a project that I am working on.

I am learning my way through the example documentation on the website (ZeroMQ - the guide) and the ZeroMQ O'Reilly book (copyright 2013). The book mirrors the website in terms of C examples. I have to say that this is some of the best documentation I have seen in a while.

However on using the examples now in 2017 I notice that some of them are using deprecated APIs and I am having a hard time refactoring them to use the current APIs. It doesn't help that I am just learning and using ZeroMQ for the first time.

In compiling sample code I find that I have to refactor it to use v4.2 APIs since the code refers to pre v3.0 code in some case.

Finding out how I can find the right substitute for say the deprecated zframe_t or zframe API methods and what I should use instead is getting hard. How can I replace all references to zthread_* in the sample code to use the zactor model instead? etc.

All my googling is just bringing back the same 2013/2014 samples or others referring to the old deprecated samples.

I know the code is being updated but the example documentation seems to be from the 2013/2014 time period.
> Nor am I going to go on some weeks long hiring safari where I hire you for a week or two and see if you can cut it. No time man.

So WHAT weeks long safari do you go on for your company? Product management? Raising fund? Sales?
I was still a student, but I'd just got my first job. Managed to part with £1,200!! Most expensive PC I've ever bought even to this day.
I used pip & virtualenv on linux constantly. On my new windows laptop, anaconda is preinstalled, so I thought I'd just use that, since I heard from everywhere that it was so good. I ran into issues with it requiring admin privileges or other windows permission issues.

I am no using python 3.6 (which comes with anaconda) create a venv with `python -m venv venv` and I couldn't be happier. Numpy and scipy wheels seem to work (although I needed an `--only-binary scipy` flag added, or something of the like).
I imagine it varies. I have gotten some good mileage out of my github projects in interviews that have resulted from the HN whoishiring thread; I'm sure if I went in for an interview at some line-of-business software shop here in Houston this would only result in a blank stare.
Does it matter? The answer is still, “at least an order of magnitude less than Bill...”
There is very little point in using a fission rocket low in the atmosphere (wouldn't play to it's strengths, would not be much better than chemical rockets), but there is no problem in lifting fission rocket engines to orbit, because a fission reactor made out of U-235 is not significantly radioactive before it's turned on. So you can ship it into orbit in some configuration where it cannot turn on by accident (half of fuel removed and in storage or on a different rocket), and then only turn it on when you are in a safe orbit pointing away from earth.
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I am sympathetic to these problems. Do you think spot fixes could resolve it for good, e.g. sharing road maintenance with the Feds, or does a larger paradigm shift come to mind?
I believe you are looking at this problem the wrong way. Part of that is the fault of the media and all of us on social media that focus on the heinousness of Harvey Weinstein's actions and our immediate move to dehumanize and vilify him. Weinstein was so far past the line that it might cloud were the line actually is. It is only natural for men to look at him and go "I'm not that bad, I didn't threaten anyone, I didn't rape anyone, I didn't proposition anyone I have direct control over, I didn't do any of this at work, etc.".

However the line isn't people being sexually harassed at work, it is people being sexually harassed at all. This isn't limited to drunkenly groping women at tech conferences or asking women you might potentially hire to shower with you. The problem is that your first romantic move with someone shouldn't be a grope or an offer to get naked. Simply don't behave in that manor until you know your actions will be received positively by the other person. It really isn't that difficult to simply treat people with empathy and think of their responses to your actions before you make them. If you do that you will never even get to the point of unwantedly groping someone.
Something being blatantly illegal never stopped anybody from taking from the public easement. There's a pretty infamous little county road that the locals stole near Silicon Valley.

http://blog.sfgate.com/bicycle/2016/03/22/road-thieves-of-th...
Related: so called 'Bull Bars' are illegal in the EU, because of the damage they inflict on pedestrians even in light collisions: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullbar.
I wonder if the ideas of centralised layoffs based on performance reviews is even a good idea at all, especially for anything other than manual labor and the like.
Would you give 21.co access to your email?
They had stack rankings. Fire one guy per department even if everyone is ok.

Any signs this is what tesla did? Lowest 2% is fine. Lowest 2% per team is not fine, means you need a scape goat for each team.
It's been so awesome to local politicians from across the political spectrum message us and say, "Hey, what we're doing isn't working, do you have advice?"

People are so much more invested in their own community and open to tangible solutions.
You mean HIPAA? Assuming so, what were the issues?
What reasons? openSUSE is defaulting to btrfs. snapper is really sweet.
I wasn't comparing the pollution of more products vs less products, but rather the pollution of the same number of products after they're forced to become obsolete (years before their technology becomes eventually) by patents and their closed nature which prevents anyone to properly support/use them forcing people to throw them away.
I'm saying that unauthorized access shouldn't apply to things that are trivial to access even by mistake.

The law needs to be at the same standard as real life. For example the police can search your belongings unless they're locked, then you need a warrant. If you've got a service wide open on the internet with no security it shouldn't be a crime just because somebody found it.

The difference between doors and locks is that going through real life doorways is a lot different than connecting to a service. On the internet the act of connecting to it gives you access to the inside, there's no second act of walking in.

It's like an open door that throws a copy of it's contents at anyone that finds it.
I have 2, I'm pretty sure plenty of people have me beat :).

I've read of people that were accepted on their 2nd or 3rd submission. I even think they have statistics on that.

Drew Houston / Dropbox is the most famous example.

Edit: this guy had 3 rejections and now got invited for an interview - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15546643
Yep, inequality is not great. The fact that a guy can make $15M in a year by building a social network in the era of FB/Snap/WhatsApp/Instagram is pretty great.
Are there any advantages to an enzymatic approach to chemical production vs fermentation?
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I wish the android app would update, it's from 2011
Why on earth would you keep naked pics of your clients on a computer connected to the Internet?
Does your office serve alcohol? Does your rule of thumb extend to what you eat and drink? What kind of clothes you wear? Whether you stay or leave?

I think it would be great if it did. But then you would have to significantly restructure conferences to conform. Many of the official events of a conference are blatant violations of workplace behavior.
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> Define a new wrapper class

For simple types, for which this makes most sense but from which you cannot inherit, it is a lot of work.
Do you have a reference for this? It would really help me settle a recent argument with a work colleague who thinks that reverse engineering a SAP HTTP API is not OK
Yes, of course, you can, but my comment was meant to address the concerns of the parent. If you have side projects, you don't have to be afraid that they will criticize and judge you X-Factor style about them.

If the applicant has side projects, it's often easier to talk about them instead of day-job code, since they usually are more passionate about that, and they can talk about it more freely because they don't have to be afraid to (accidentally) spill company secrets. Side projects are not a must and I've had good conversations with applicants about their work projects, though more confidence to talk about them is something that comes with seniority in my experience.
Congrats Gaurab and Sean! Excited to see your progress.
You're probably right considering that clown Zinke, who wasn't even born in Montana and doesn't appear to appreciate the real sentiments of many in the American West.
It was their idea.
Just out of curiosity, how many hours a week all the people you hired worked for their previous employers and for how long?
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Yes! Also, a land value tax does not tax the property value, but only the land's value, so the same amount of tax is owed by these neighboring plots:

1) an empty lot,
2) a single family home, and
3) a 30 floor residential tower,

presuming they're equally-sized lots with equal land value.

If granny's taxes are high, the answer is to put her land to productive use like by adding rental units instead of growing zucchini. Or sell and buy better land for hobby zucchini gardening (or grow it on the roof of her new tower).

Regulations don't allow her to add rental units? Then it's the regulations that are bad, and finally land value taxes are aligning land owners' and renters' interests instead of dividing them.
While this is true idomatically,

there was also a 'Project Butter' designed to make Android 'Buttery Smooth' a few years back - I think the high level of application of this idiom to video rendering specifically took hold at that point..
Thank you for the long answer!

Yeah, few biological processes care about the effect of pressure other than the changes caused in solubilities etc.
The physics of the sparging process is very interesting. Do you also do countercurrent (downwards) flow of the water in the sparging unit? (Settling velocities of microdroplets is a subject close to my heart.) I guess anti-foaming is also a big concern there.

A word of caution on pressure classes: in some conservative industries (e.g. oil and gas) they won't let you get away with using piping components rated at some pressure class as pressure vessels at the same pressure class without additional certification. Say, if you were using a piece of large diameter 150 lb rated pipe with flanges at each end as your reactor body. Certification as a pressure vessel is more exhaustive/expensive than certification for piping components.

Nice trick going with the PSA unit instead of accepting the large O2 partial pressure penalty. It sounds like you guys run a tight ship, all the best of luck!
I grew up in a small rural area and learned very early that a no trespassing sign means that it is likely to get a warning shot sent your way if cross the line. The signs were not up to just discourage non-locals. I am sure some areas are different but that is my experience in Montana.
I use Cash far more than I use Venmo these days. Like maybe 90% Cash 10% Venmo.
How is it a good idea? Not everyone needs this functionality.

I wonder how much effort might be required to implement a purely opt-in syntax/library for the purpose: something like Ada's Enumeration_IO.
Except the alternative is a complete fail from a user standpoint. Decentralized systems are, almost to a rule, not user-friendly.

Privacy doesn't seem to sell.
Depending on the country/state laid off and fired be very different legally.

Laid off generally comes with a severance package that is consistent across the laid-off employees. The reason for the employee termination is (at least outwardly) the companies fault due to the company not having a use for that subset of employees - department closure, cashflow, product cancellation etc. In the UK a company must announce it is going to go through a lay-off some weeks before actually terminating employment contracts.

Firing someone puts the 'blame' on the employee. Generally the company has to document the reason for firing the employee. Even in places with 'at will' employment law a company will want documentation in place in order to defend against wrongful termination or discrimination claims.

Companies will often offer some cash sweetener to a fired employee in return for them signing a termination contract that makes future legal claims more difficult (or costly).
Some of these are intentionally deemed "not easements" by the government because it would make them responsible for maintenance.

I once called the Bureau of Land Management about repairing a dirt roads they liked to use that crossed private land. They made it crystal clear that it was an "abandoned mining trail" and not actually a road or easement, which in their mind relieved them of any obligation.
> I lost the job for a boutique app firm in downtown Austin

Towns awash in startups and those types of developers have a different cultural expectation than say Dallas or Houston.
That doesn't really answer the question. I am interested in seeing a list of policies and practices that actually work to do the following:

1) Include women equally in the work force.

2) Protect all parties from both sexual impropriety and scandal without simply presuming women are victims, men are predators.

I am not aware of well developed policies for preventing such dramas. And I have read quite a lot on human sexuality, sex abuse, rape and illicit affairs. As much as possible, I sought out reliable sources that involved serious studies.

Telling me to vote (but not for Trump) is utterly unrelated to my question.
>It seems to follow from this then that we do really need Facebook to the degree to which they control all means of socialising

And therein is the fallacy. Facebook might be popular, but they are absolutely not the controller of all means of socializing. Everyone I'm friends with on Facebook, I also have the email (and often phone, and often other IM service) contact info.

You confuse generalized control with control in their own walled garden. Anyone is free to step outside of that garden whenever they please.
Since there is no standard definition of "engineering" in software, it is mostly driven by individual employers. If a potential employer wants to see you constantly programming in your spare time and have a GitHub account than that's how they view their "engineering" practice. You don't necessarily have to agree. But put yourself in an employer's shoes for a minute. If you, as a candidate, are not a certified engineer who practices what essentially amounts to a form of pseudo-engineering and works in a field where a large number of people don't even have a relevant degree yet claim to be "engineers" how else is one supposed to make a decision about your technical chops?
But per your link "Clean-room design (also known as the Chinese wall technique) is the method of copying a design by reverse engineering and then recreating it without infringing any of the copyrights associated with the original design."

They did reverse engineer the code instead of infringing copyright. The problem is that it violated a license prohibition on reverse engineering. I'm not going to claim that the judges interpreted the law incorrectly, but I think that this legal result is overall bad for society. It means that a company can stifle competition even if potential competitors avoid violating copyright or patents.
>code golfing stupidity

Smile when you say that, stranger!

http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2011/05/when-you-call-me-that...
Except that, side projects are nothing like day to day coding in a company. Beyond basic coding skills, they are very different animals.
It's not that they "dare to look there", it's that they _only_ look there and don't care enough to look even a tiny bit further.
The "Friends of the Gorge" are no friend you'd want. Every interaction I had with them was NIMBY, how dare you not smother the small towns along the gorge to death BS. Most of 'em would see to it that the Gorge goes back to having no wind mills, roads or dams unless its directly used by them for wind surfing or skiing.

Bunch of rich, elitist assholes who've come in from Portland and Seattle to fuck up the Gorge IMO.
Software development is a craft, not fully art and not fully engineering. It definitely is not science.
> And how an I supposed to tell whether they're worth working for without seeing their work?

Ask questions, and do you really expect a hiring manager to have work relevant to your interview to show? But you can ask about policy, culture, etc.
Unfortunately, in C++ even the notion of the string type itself is not part of the language...
It leads to professionals treating their work as if it was a profession.
Being deprecated in RHEL means nothing; Red Hat didn't have any btrfs people anyway. They have all the xfs people, so that's what they focus on.
What happens to those "degraded" catalysts? I guess you do have to remove them and dispose of them somehow? And you must have a lot of them, since you only use the H2 from starch and all the rest is "catalyst", as you seem to suggest in your introductory blurb.

In short, saying that "the only output is H2O2" is... weird. You may prefer not to call them outputs, but what are the waste products that are produced, how much of them, and what happens to them?
Gianforte is the best example of wealthy land owners blocking access. He came from out of state, got luck with his tech company when Oracle came knocking, and now he wants to pretend he is the embodiment of Montana. All the while he is more than happy to block access to others whenever he can.
I don't know, man... My girlfriend is a psychologist and I built a small Python program to generate reports using python-docx based on input from standard tests. It was a small project that took me 2 months and was pretty fun (and I work with support, not development). My point being: one can find neat problems to solve anywhere, spend a few weeks, have fun and end up with something to show.
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He realizes the hysteria around policing online speech and content will be short-lived. He is trying to keep it neutral and not warp it to consist of only the things some people would like to see. Its a strong strategy in the long run.
Funny, I just used SAS Studio for constrained optimization tasks (linear programming), for my Supply Chain Management classes, and I rather liked it.

I was told I could use Python instead for the same tasks, but I liked the single-mindedness of SAS, the program pretty much writes itself.
Thank you, this is all very useful information. I talked to the group and they seem to prefer dungeon hack-and-slash, so we might go with Dungeon World after all. I'll definitely read the GM chapters and some of the SRD to get a feel for it either way, it sounds useful.

Thanks again!
> But it can also have the opposite effect, demoralizing employees and driving valuable talent away, especially when it isn’t clear why some people are paid more than others.

Yes, if only something could be done about that.
This article says that it's easier and better for companies to keep their unfair compensation schemes private than risk employee unhappiness by making them transparent.

Sure, it's easier and better for companies to keep their dirty laundry hidden, but it's better for employees. That's the whole point of transparency: to see the unfairness, and to work to fix it. And if you don't fix it, you won't be able to attract talent.
If it is a text heavy site Railway by Google for me. Otherwise I typically use Roboto.
You're not wrong but I don't have to run a server to use Airdroid.
More like family, rest, active rest, friends, painting and so on. All the activities that have no imediate economic value.
This doesn't solve it either, however. As an example, if I'm friends with 5 people who each have this setup, I'll have to pay to belong to each of their 5 separate shared Slack channels. And they would need to do the same for each of THEIR friends.