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Agreed on corporate interests, but I'm not sure about keeping government jobs weak.

With the government, your target market is every citizen (plus visitors, immigrants, etc.). The private sector has to create its market by providing a product or service, whereas the government is obligated to provide some products and services.

What incentive is there for government to squander talent and keep itself workforce weak?
You can install GalliumOS GNU/Linux on the right Chromebook and also reflash the firmware to get rid of that startup screen.

https://wiki.galliumos.org/Installing

https://wiki.galliumos.org/Firmware

I'm writing this on an Acer CB5-571 (4GB RAM; Intel Celeron Dual-Core 3205U 1.5 GHz) that I did that with. Nice GNU/Linux machine for about ~US$350 total including upgrading the SSD with a ZTC 128MB. You can use it with Linux without upgrading the original 16GB SSD -- I just wanted more space. There is also one with a faster processor that costs more.

It runs Visual Studio Code and Node.js smoothly -- and even Minecraft (passable) and Steam streaming to a Windows desktop (laggy).

The battery life after about a 1.5 years seems to be about 3 to 4 hours or so under GalliumOS (but I have not measured it exactly). It used to be more like 7 or 8 hours under Chrome when I first got it.

It has a centered track pad (no number pad) which is very important to me in a laptop. A lot of 15" laptops have number pads and off-center trackpads which make them hard to use in your lap.

That said, sure, I might prefer something faster, with more storage, and with a backlit keyboard. I dropped it which damaged the power connector, and the third-part charger seems to create erratic track pad issues when it is plugged in. I did not like the textured finish so bought a hard shell case for it. But I liked saving $1500 to $2000 bucks over buying another Macbook Pro after the last one had graphics issues from the lead-free solder melting on the graphics array.

It has been an interesting learning experience for me about the low-end of laptops. Definitely money well spent as far as bang for the buck and self-education -- even if I have my eye on something with a stylus next. Maybe the next version beyond the Lenovo 720 15" (which could run Windows games in dual boot at 4x the price of the CB5-571) -- or maybe some other converted Chromebook if a 15" one comes out with a stylus at a good price.
Microservices and containerization are the next cloud fad.

I am yet to do any enterprise Web project that isn't a classic application server.

Not everyone and his dog are jumping into it.
Please keep this sort of ideological crap well away from HN.
Snowden let that cat out of the bag years ago in voluminous detail. You absolutely do not need to cite sources re: illegal NSA surveillance anymore.
They haven't changed much yet, but the Iridium Next constellation has hosted ADS-B payloads (as well as AIS). Sometime in 2018 these will be available globally, and make it much harder for either ships or planes to be lost outside the range of land-based receivers.

That wouldn't help intentionally or accidentally disabled transceivers as was (probably) the case for MH370. That would require space based radar... which was once but is no longer a DoD project. It'll happen eventually.
Right now, they just own you and your data. With this, they will own your machine.
HPC systems also tend do an unusual amount of stuff in userspace, such as running custom TCP stacks in userspace or using RDMA to bypass the CPU entirely. You wouldn't want to run a 10GB+ multiqueue Ethernet NIC on a single core, it'll choke on the interrupt load.
Is there any way to use Sapper.js with React, Vue or anything framework? I find the premise behind Sapper interesting, but I just don't see the appeal of Svelte, where they are basically reinventing HTML syntax.
So they're cutting the french tuba and Italian professors, but keeping all the far more expensive deans?

Seems backwards.
I never understood how this isn’t interpreted as tax evasion. The SEC has wide athority to interpret the intention even if it’s not written in law. I don’t see how the IRS should be any different.
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents, regardless of ideology. They're reliably some of the most low-quality threads we see—partly because they're all the same and partly because they trigger everyone's reflexes rather than their curiosity. They are definitely not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Nope. True, JSX is thin XML-like DSL on top of Javascript. However, it uses Javascript everywhere. It never breaks assumptions about scoping, hoisting, where variables come from etc.

You can skip JSX and write `React.createElement` everywhere, and nothing will change. Your code remains Javascript code. Unlike whatever svelte/sapper is. More details in a different comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16053685

Nothing about svelte is "just HTML with styles and scripts". It's a yet another custom weird templating language with its own custom magic binding rules and a Javascript-like scripting language which breaks all assumptions about Javascript (methods/properties hoisting, invalid scoping rules, automatic data/variable injection etc. etc. etc.). And it's also just strings everywhere. And magic strings (as in "add $ to tell svelte the property comes from a store").
The movers and shakers of government in the U.S. are the elected officials and their political appointees. A lot of them actually do come from private industry or academia.

The staff of government have to work within whatever decisions get handed down to them from the political process. The political process does not always prioritize staff flexibility and initiative. To the contrary, it's a favorite pastime of politicians to play up public distrust of the government.

In terms of government staff, a lot of people go into the government not because it is generically stable, but because it's the only place you can do certain work. If you want to manage a public park, you have to work for a government. If you want to catch criminals (and your name is not Sherlock Holmes), you have to work for a government. If you want to fly fighter jets, you have to work for a government. If you want to create policy and regulations, you have to work for a government. Speaking of the NSA--if you want to legally hack into a bunch of stuff, you have to work for a government.

In competencies one can do anywhere, like deliveries or contract management, I think you're onto something with your idea of seeking stability.

But I think the attribution might be backward. It's not "the government is made inefficient and inflexible by the lower quality of people who work there." It's more like "the government is made inefficient and inflexible by political law making, which makes it hard to attract the most dynamic people."
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Hate to be that gal, but is Athena OSS?
Here I was thinking that 6.5/yr was cheap...
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> I'm including that in the lack of accountability.

Fair enough and thanks for the clarification. In that case, I definitely agree with your perspective, both logically and anecdotally.
For the time being.

The plan is to support all major OpenJDK platforms.

There is also Project Metropolis, which was recently started, with the long term goal of rewriting all existing C++ code into Java, so AOT needs to exist in all platforms.
90% of the company is remote, so that makes sense for us.
I think the main mechanism is that it doesn't get absorbed. For example, sugary urine is a well-understood side effect of diabetes that isn't well-managed, caused by your kidney draining excess sugar from your bloodstream into your urine.

Interestingly enough, your body also raises its level of activity in order to burn calories and maintain weight levels. I believe they've measured a surprising amount of excess calories burned from extra fidgeting when overfeeding people relative to their usual diet.
> The author misses the point when he says this might help Java regain share in the space of DevOps tools which is currently mostly Go.

Maybe in SV, because I am yet to see it being used in any of our projects or hiring processes.
> This is all negative for the US but our loss is the world’s gain

That's fine, why shouldn't other countries do well and achieve success. There was a story about China offering a house and a huge research budget to a Chinese national who just graduated from a US school. And people were upset and kind of negative about it, but I think it is great that China can do it.

> American students may flock to India to get a better education at a fraction of the cost.

Yeah, it would be good to see more international cooperation. And it can and should come from other countries becoming centers of research and learning.
Time waste alert. I had two interviews and then was ghosted. Completely disrespectful.
Recent surveys do appear to support a slowdown in international graduate school enrollments ([1] summary, [2] original study).

Furthermore, this trend predates the immigration policies of the current administration, and I suspect this trend has further strengthened.

[1] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/09/28/graduate-scho...
[2] http://cgsnet.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/CGS_GED16_Report_...
I wonder if cloud providers will ask Intel for partial refunds when their CPUs get 5% to 30% slower than promised?
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Interesting... two downvotes, no comments.
I'd love to know why. Did I come across as snarky? If so, didn't mean to. It's just the timing of this article is so close to my prior speculation on this that I thought it warranted a mention.
Tokyo and some other links are broken on job listings page [1]

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Oh wow! A complete maven project after only a few cryptic commands in weird generated subdirs and a -D switch! It's so simple and obvious it's almost criminal! I bet the OP is eating humble pie now!
So you're saying we should give politicians a pass for making low quality laws but punish (smart) citizens and corporations for finding a way around it?
What chip exactly introduced this feature?

Core 2 architecture? Nehalem?
> Its main competitor, Zcash -- which isn’t known to have a significant criminal following -- can offer even better privacy protection.

On zcash, there was this discussion:

http://jeffq.com/blog/on-the-linkability-of-zcash-transactio...

which suggested that nearly 31.5% of the hidden transactions in Zcash has some transparent parts to it.
Imagine you are AWS. You have a range of instance types with various performance characteristics. Having customers move from c5s to c4s is much better than customers moving from AWS to GCE.
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Don't worry. I don't think that there will be two separate kernels for Intel and AMD. I think performance drop will be on both CPUs no matter has it the bug or not.
React Native is great for apps, and if it's a game, just use Unity. They're building up their internal CI infrastructure and it works better every month.

Tbh, I'm not sure how many use cases don't fit either React Native or Unity, I'd practically never choose to do an app another way these days.
Well, this makes me want to go straight to /r/keto ...
You can turn it off and on via a commandline flag.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15521611
Haha yeah. The magic of green threading is so misunderstood: Ok, it no longer blocks your UI thread but it takes AT LEAST as long as before to render (browsers still don't have an API to reliably schedule small chunks of work without also incurring the cost of setTimeout clamping)

So it's not really an improvement for me, your component tree becomes harder to reason about (when does this component renders??), you may see very unwanted progressive rendering where you didn't want to, etc. Many vdom implementations are faster than React, synchronous perfs matter a lot too.

Even the core React maintainers acknowledge this is kind of like an experiment.
Certainly not true for India (second largest contributor of international students, behind China [1]). By my (extremely unscientific) estimate, less than 5% of Indian students arriving in the US for higher education go back to work in India.

[1] https://www.iie.org/Why-IIE/Announcements/2017-11-13-Open-Do...
Providing "support" probably means "fix defects that are otherwise unnoticed in a closed/secret system."
They are robots and won't be traveling in one group.
Time waste alert. I was asked to complete a timed take home project. It took a few hours. I waited a few days and when I didn't hear back I sent my own follow up email. I then received a canned rejection email in response.
None of these points are valid:

1. Dependency management is probably a lot easier with Maven than with C++ or Python. Hope that needs no reference...

2. No idea why, but Java is backwards compatible. So not updating to the latest version is only laziness.

3. Having much smaller containers or virtual machine disk sizes should lower your AWS/Google/Cloud... bill a (little, but whatever) bit and therefore make your CFO happy...
“It's human nature to group up by any perceivable similarity and view oneself as superior to those who are dissimilar.”

Oh the irony here. On this particular topic, HN is an echo chamber.
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But you can static link them instead.

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/178
I think the 2 main reasons to stick around long term would be the pension and getting 6+ weeks off a year. Not many private employers do that, and I imagine it is a huge boon for retention.
re: only 3.5% of traffic using z-addrs:

The dirty secret of crypto is that there is almost no economy that exists for any of the altcoins, and relatively little even for Bitcoin (which functions as the reserve currency due to its lions' share of the economy).

Effectively, by volume most altcoins are held by either miners (who sell immediately), or daytraders who will pump and dump. A very small fraction is held by true believers (who will HODL under all circumstances), but they don't contribute to the economy either.

Such people don't care about anonymity, they're not actually using the currency, they're just traders, and traders mostly don't need to be anonymous.
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Off-topic but related, any way to block/disable their stupid auto-play videos?
I do not, which is why I deliberately said "2.x". I think it was either 2.1.x or 2.2.x, but not certain.

I'm not sure why you would think the BIOS update package would not touch it. It certainly touches the USB-C and the TPM modules.

It was around the end of this past summer when that update came out. Along with a different brightness curve, it bumped up the battery life as well.

I've heard of the Windows utility for disabling this, but I thought it could be used on the FHD model as well. It didn't bug me enough to bother with Windows.
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Sorry going to have to disagree as well - I graduated from a top 3 CS school in the US and then when I recruit as well.

NSA has a booth and so does In Q Tel and a few others, but these are very sparsely attended. Where you'll see a line of 200+ for Facebook and maybe 1 person for NSA by accident sort of thing.

A number of the 3 letter agencies have very nice job propositions (you really can do work you can't do anywhere else) but their processes and bureaucracy (not to mention pay etc) really leave quite a bit to be desired.

For example a number of the NSA Presidential Fellows are ridiculously amazing, but for some reason (maybe my lack of exposure) I've not found them to stay in their role, or to necessarily be super positive about it.

Similarly when we were getting offers even with a lot of the red tape out of the way (e.g. already having a high level clearance), it would take months for paperwork - in the meantime you could get a few offers and deadlines for many of the well known companies.

Again similarly there were likely a handful that went to these agencies over the last 6yr and they were never our best + brightest; if you were drawn to that sort of work it made more sense to do a PhD with a NDSEG/NSF fellowship and do an internship at one of the military labs/NSA then to spend years there.
If the problem is attracting better people, how would that get fixed just by making it easier to fire people?

I wouldn't claim that the government has the best of the best across the board. In some areas they do, like fighter pilots or criminal investigators. In others, they generally don't, like web application developers.

What I disagree with is the idea that the government is full of incompetent people, who just need to get fired for things to speed up and get better. It ignores the reality of how the government really works, and therefore who joins the government and why.
One option available since Java 8, would be to statically link them instead,

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/178
Actually,that's a good point! People telling me things isn't exactly evidence. I wonder what pure evidence would look like?
What of Apple’s An-series processors (Fusion, Bionic,...) in it’s iPhone and iPad ranges? Those are customised ARM_64 devices so presumably they’re vulnerable to attack just as any other implementation, and will require an iOS patch to fix. If this patch has the performance impact being bandied about for the x86 patch we’re going to be looking at a more sluggish mobile experience (especially when switching apps or doing I/O intensive work) and heightened battery drain (because that wasn’t enough of a problem already).
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The billion dollar question. Why didn't you leave.

Couple of weeks ago been talking to a coworker and said him that _sometimes_ people end up in uncomfortable situations. Family, children, debt, divorce, medical, elderly parents and so on - he said, that's not possible, because people _should_ plan their lives.
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The morally reprehensible with this is not a cooperation acting in its own interest, the moral reprehensible is a cooperation not investing into possible risky ventures with these gained riches and instead using them to find zero days in the tax law - and bribing devs to put them there.

Innovation should be the only acceptable tax haven.
To be sure, the time it takes to progress from Step 1 to 10 has no bearing on the grade and step in which an employee is hired at.

If your colleague was hired into GS-15 Step 1, then it would still take this person the same 18 years to progress up the ladder to Step 10, assuming no irregular increases in pay.

If coming from private industry, entry step is often negotiable; prior industry salary serves as basis, so it wouldn't surprise me if this person started at Step 10 (not that it matters after Step 5 based on Bay Area locality).

In any case, GS-15 is a management position.
> That's not how Fair Use works. Fair Use is about making transformative works

Fair Use covers more than transformative works. See, notably, Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, 464 U.S. 417, 455 (1984).

Though while audio ripping of the type descrived could have been considered general fair use much like space shifting was in Sony, it actually was covered under a separate statutory allowance to avoid ambiguity, as the Audio Home Recording Act; this was found to cover ripping mp3s specifically in RIAA v. Diamond Multimedia, 180 F.3d 1072 (9th Cir. 1999), which specifically cited Sony’s Fair Use result.
I run https://hackclub.com and have worked with a bunch of people in your situation (and used to be in it myself, I left high school after my freshman year to work in Silicon Valley). I know how painful it can be to be on a non-traditional path, but you should also recognize that it is your greatest asset.

The honest reality of the situation is that internship “programs” for high schoolers do not exist. Occasionally you’ll see large employers like GE, Whirlpool, and defense contractors running high school internship programs, but they’re universally terrible. Their incentive for running the programs is to say that they “give back” to their community, not to foster talent – and the quality reflects that.

When a path does not exist, create it. If you talk to people that work in technology, you’ll find that nearly everyone gets their jobs through referral. You should cold-email founders, hiring managers, and engineers at companies that you’re interested in. Get on a phone call with them, meet them in-person, and create the internship that you want to participate in.

I can help you write cold-emails and form a strategy to make sure you have an internship this summer. I know that every situation is different, but I’d highly encourage you to consider internships in a city like San Francisco or New York. You’ll meet a ton of people way smarter than you and be exposed to a million different viewpoints.

My email is zach@zachlatta.com. I’m also happy to put you in touch with a bunch of people from Hack Club that have gone down this route and can share their experiences.
Turbolinks is often a terrible user experience. The user doesn't measure page load in seconds, but in the perceived load in seconds. Turbolinks on slow connections feels painful, including on big sites with fast servers, like YouTube and Github.
Is there anything that an end user can do to mitigate the performance impact?
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To rephrase... I don't think that the comparison between capital punishment and murder is worth the calories it takes to type, just like a comparison between a speeding ticket and armed robbery.