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"By reference" means different things to different people.

The most accurate statement I've found is that JavaScript, much like Java, passes reference-by-value. Everything is passed by value, but if your value is an object, then the new scope gets a copy of the reference. If you modify the object by dereferencing (that is, `a.foo = "bar";`), your modifications to the object persist outside of your scope.

This is an important understanding to have when working with JavaScript.
That depends on the advertising for the PC platform.

If "it is significantly different from the sample or description" or "it has a problem that would have stopped someone from buying it if they’d known about it" or "it doesn’t do what the business said it would, or what you asked for and can’t easily be fixed." Then yes, it would qualify.

So a bad port that still used the same graphics from the original platform to advertise could be an issue. Or if it contained show-stopping bugs, it could be a problem. Or if the business drops features after you purchase.
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Compulsive, addiction driven behaviour due to the gamification of apps and basic services?

I say let's remove that from our experience.
There are plenty of ways to learn the market without spending money as a day trader on Robinhood.

Most financial events are cyclical. Trading really hasn’t changed much since the late 17th century so reading a history book on financial speculation and market cycles would teach you plenty.

Another alternative is simulating trades without allocating real liquid to it. Watch how those assets evolve over time.
It would be Life's technical debt :D
Next time two (or at most three) coats - the first coverup coat should be black, since the purple (or red or whatever) won't show through black.
Try and write a loan on Etherium via a smart contract.

I apply, get eth, cashing out by selling it to someone else, then get hit by a buss or just ignore you.

Now, in what way can the system enforce that loan?

If you can get the eth from someone that gave me money then they are not going to give me money in the first place. If you say, sue someone in the real world that's fine. But, the smart contract did not actually do anything. If you say I need to put up eth as collateral then you did not give me a loan.
If the carpooling passengers could be "randos" that someone may be worried about, the carpooling drivers could be "of the wrong calibre" that someone may be worried about as well.
Pure EVs will be cheaper simply because they are easier to build. Wheel-attached motors drive costs down significantly, removing hundreds of manufacturing steps.
I'd believe it. I love Chappelle's show and specials. I won't go see him live again though. I saw him once about 10 years ago and it was a big disappointment. He was very stoned, and the only interesting part was when he dressed down an audience member who kept yelling at him about Rick James.
Can you elaborate? What I've read from him seems fairly reasonable, but I am open to updating my model.
OK, I'll take the downvote-heat on this one and offer a solitary "lol".
If there’s literally no structure in place for running tests, then OP cannot just add “a simple test case.” OP also needs to build the test runner. That requires convincing his manager, who is likely the one responsible for this mess (by claiming maintainable code is not a priority).

Personally I think it’s irresponsible to hire new employees before having a maintainable project. It’s much easier to onboard employees and delegate to them when they have a safe dev environment and testable projects to break while they learn.
It's actually protobuf which is both a serialization format and data definition language. gRPC is more of a service definition language in that sense.
that's bullshit, sorry. If they sell your order to a firm with good execution, you could very well get a much better price than from a firm that doesn't sell your order flow.
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Lightning on Stellar? I don't understand why this is desirable.
Point of clarification - MemSQL does not need to be all in-memory, there is also a columnstore that is on-disk and only leverages memory for indexes / column segment information.
I almost thought it was a Republican senator given the lack of affiliation!
Can you elaborate? Which language were you using it in, and for what usecase?
It's been public since about Jan 3 that the roadmap would be released on/around Jan 25. Here's the earliest mention I can find (it might not be the earliest mention, though):

https://www.reddit.com/r/Stellar/comments/7ntt4w/notes_from_...
That's not bad. It would be useful to be able to use some kind of "C slice" in an extern fn declaration, so you could talk about arrays, rather than pointers. Same function call code, but more Rust-line syntax. Then you don't need unsafe imperative code at all.

This would put all the memory-risky stuff in declarations of external functions.
ZimRide preceded UberCar. They largely targeted college campuses. Universities would pay them an annual subscription fee to enable ride sharing on their campus.
What have you find too complex about protobuffs? Unfortunately twirp is go-only.
it's improper to be glib on HN, but did you really just call it "spending"?

Regardless, there's a lot to be said for putting actual money down on your beliefs, it has a non-negligible impact on the learning process.
> Not American, but isn't criminality in the U.S. like at about lowest point in history?

Sort of. We're approaching 1960s level of crime, but it was lower in the early 60s and 50s. I don't know if we tracked it before then. Crime rates, including homicide rates, are about half of what they were 20 years ago, but about 20% higher than they were in the mid 50s.

> Is there some actual evidence that the lack of ability to do mass surveillance is somehow making criminal investigations less effective?

No. Police investigations still tend to use things called search warrants and interrogation of witnesses and suspects to acquire incriminating evidence. Mass surveillance is very expensive in order to be effective.

I have family involved in law enforcement and they are able to request access to stingrays from state or federal police, but their use is fairly limited and still requires a search warrant in many cases. I don't believe it's gone to SCotUS yet, but many appellate courts have ruled that you've got to have one.
Is there any phone app that purposely records video in the background without turning on the screen? I wouldn't care as much if people holding up their phones weren't shining back at me. I assume this is possible with audio, though concert audio is usually way too loud to record on a phone without additional equipment.

I believe this may not even be possible due to privacy issues, hidden cameras / recording without consent is enough of a problem already!
That's mostly irrelevant under Consumer Rights.

However, the phone slowing down probably doesn't constitute a major problem, but rather a minor one.

If only a minor problem exists, Apple has the choice of giving you a free repair, replacement or refund, but which is up to them.

So I expect in this particular case, they'll just give you a new battery and the problem will be solved.
Because that decreases the supply of housing available for those that cannot afford secondary residencies. If there is not enough extra housing supply, you end up raising rent prices. If the market isn't creating enough housing for some reason or another, middle-class and lower-middle-class are left hung out to dry.

This dichotomy bleeds over into arguments about welfare state, supply-side economics vs high upper income taxes, etc. You can argue that people should be able to create value and earn however possible, but I'm going to disagree with that view. I think regulation and limits are appropriate in some cases, this being one of them.
You should never buy insurance.

The Expected loss with insurance is higher than without for two reasons:

* The insurance company must make a profit

* You are much more likely to go bankrupt than the insurance company. Bankruptcy limits the payout.

The only time you should take insurance is when you know something the insurance company doesn't. For example, you know how very dangerous your house electrics are, while they don't. Take that thinking too far and it's called "insurance fraud" though.
Not true. Have you even read the link?
IB is good if you trade enough to make the monthly fee worth it.

But I execute maybe, 4 trades per year. E-Trade / Ameritrade / Scottrade are good enough, and offer me Options trading and other useful features.

Like a website, so I can trade on a computer properly damn it.
Not OP and I have no inside info, but if we take the $25m as given and assume that investors owned 20-30% on a $2m check with a vanilla preferred that brings the founders/team share down to somewhere in the the $17.5-20m range with the lion's share going to the founders.

Sounds nice, right?!

But, and this is admittedly a big assumption, this smelt like an acquihire at the time so I imagine the deal was structured in a way that allowed the financial investors to cash out with a respectable return while the founders committed to some form of earn-out to ensure their commitment and loyalty to making the platform a success for CNN. Given how quickly the shutdown occurred, you have to assume they didn't meet the metrics in the buy-out so will be leaving some (a lot?) of that purchase price on the table. If we assume a 50% discount that brings the net price down to under $10m split across a group of 10+ employees with the two founders presumably capturing about 80% of that. After tax ~ possibly at their prevailing income tax rate vs long-term capital gains ~ he may have realized a low-single digit million exit which is nothing to sneeze at for the vast majority of us especially given the quick turnaround. Now, if CNN negotiated hard on the earn-out or the investors had something other than 1x preferred it's possible that number is significantly lower, but none of us really know.
Re: 1. Also, at least the legitimate parts of AirBnB's business (i.e. not the condo sublets that break lease agreements or homeowner's association rules), are a pretty well-established business. Low-touch B&Bs, including without the breakfasts, is a thing. So are vacation home rentals.

There wasn't a very good company to do all this through in anything like a consolidated way before. There were some vacation rental companies but none were very good. My parents rented out their vacation home in Mexico for many years and would absolutely have used AirBnB had it existed at the time.
Funny, just yesterday my Lyft driver pitched an idea exactly like this.
If you can find a better place, get out. It's one thing that the code is bad, it's another that they just don't care. Now you know what question to ask during the interview...
The incorrect view is to teach wrong concepts just because some people rather learn based on gut feeling, than taking the effort to learn it properly.
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Left = 4 characters, Right = 5?
Because some won’t consider sqlite even for those that don’t.
"In practice, slugging involves the creation of free, unofficial ad hoc carpool networks"

Unofficial is the operative word here.
> While I do not believe that data about religion will be used as a round-them-up-and-kill-them list ever again

This seems to go against centuries of crusade and genocide, but we can always try our best :)
I'd grab a stick of chalk and some goat's blood.
It depends on the queries but columnstores would yield a faster result. We're not new to this and have used ClickHouse, MemSQL, SQL Server, and Druid extensively.

Columnstores just store data by column, they do not have any inherent limitations because of it. They all support SQL and compatible tools (although Druid is experimental SQL using apache calcite). They all store columnstore tables on disk (memsql uses rowstores in memory, sql server can optionally run columnstores in-memory using its hekaton engine, and they all use in-memory buffers for rapid ingest). They can all do geospatial queries, support JSON columns and some can handle nested/repeated structures. Indexes are available but unnecessary when you can prune partitions based on what's contained in each segment, especially when using a primary sort key (like a timestamp column in your case). SnappyData has a unique statistical engine to tradeoff query precision for much faster results (like HLL+ algorithms applied to the entire dataset). MemSQL will do OLTP access with full transactions across both rowstore and columnstore data.

Congrats on the VC funding, I'm always happy to see new projects and building on Postgres does give you a solid base with triggers and foreign keys (which come with their own scaling issues), and extending time-based functions will be useful -- however my issue is the marketing spin where you claim to be better than everything else. Columnstores are very fast, efficient, performant, and time as a dimension is not a new challenge. That's before considering the bigquery/snowflake superscale options or specialized databases like kdb+ which have served the financial industry for decades.

Approaching the field with a single-node automatic partitioning extension (as of today) for a rowstore RDMS and saying you're better than the rest on features that they already have just strikes me as insincere. It would be better to recognize the competition and focus on what you're good at instead.
Hmm not sure about this. I would say that the size of the company (or rather, its profit/disposable income) greatly affects flexibility of employee benefiting policies, at least when it comes to the financial costs associated with them.

So yes, if you work in a very profitable company under a crappy manager then it will be a very crappy life. If you work in a non-profitable company under a great manager it will be a better life than the former but not matter how great your manager is he/she won't be able to help you with things like benefits, compensation, additional hardware/software to make your work easier. The size of the company also gives a lot more options to find different projects to work on.

I would say statistically speaking you are likely to end up with an average manager and if you are then it's better to be at a largely profitable company while under such a manager. :)
Neat! Of note: if I'm reading correctly, this is learning to play the video game pong with no prior knowledge using the screen pixels alone. Pretty cool.
I would expect the opposite effect, given "netflix and chill"'s connotation
An irregular one ... look at the logo, and there is a photo at the bottom of the page.

(60 would have been much better https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentakis_dodecahedron :( )
> If you have a minor problem with a product or service, the business can choose to give you a free repair instead of a replacement or refund.

No. But you can get Apple to give you a new battery without charging you for it.
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Because you are the product.

They are selling you, your spending power and your data.

Their business isn't to be ad free you are their business.
I took his comment to reference the fact that this was originally written in 2002 with minor additions over time, as evidenced by the “Updates” section.
> Our parents didn't have that luxury

Yes, they did; before ubiquitous cellphones killed demand for them, basically every public place of any size (and many small ones, and even just public streets) had banks of payphones, and for many kinds of outings people would leave the phone number of the restaurant or other establishment that they were going to for emergency contact in the other direction.

The last generation that didn't have that “luxury” was whichever one was before landlines were ubiquitous.
Being an infinite company is an idea that my friend, author Simon Sinek, has been discussing with me. Simon explained that a company’s purpose is to advance its vision, and since a vision is a mountaintop you never quite get to, you should have an infinite time horizon. But many companies are designed to be finite. Finite companies are focused on beating their competitors and appeasing short-term interests. But business is not finite.

I love AirBnb and I hate being negative about Brian's post but I stopped reading there. Perhaps this is AirBnb's reality but it certainly isn't the reality for 99.999% of other companies, who aren't dwelling in unicorn land. Companies don't think finite because it's fun, but because they have to. Because there are bills and salaries to pay and shareholders to satisfy. Because there are people who expect a return on their investment in a finite time, because their lives are finite and because their kids will grow up a finite time before they enter college.

Don't get me wrong, as a founder there's not much I despise more than short-term thinking, but if a strategy can't work within a time frame of, say, a couple years it's kinda worthless. It's hard enough to plan and predict 2 years into the future and god knows what's 5 years from today. Why be concerned with infinity?
The build challenges are quarterly, not monthly.
Indeed. Pleas to "terrorism" and "think of the children" on a topic of simply unable to access your phone for a couple of hours.

HN has experienced a palpable drop in quality recently.
How easy is it to put a different key into an iPhone? How easy is it to get a private key within an iPhone?
I don't know why I'm indulging your pedantry, and I think I'll stop after this, but what I'm reading from you is the following:

Because he only failed at continuously merging his code and writing tests, but didn't explicitly mention that there was no build server, then he didn't fail at continuous integration. He only failed at version control despite the fact that they were using CVS, were branching and merging appropriately, but were not doing so in the rapid fashion that became prevalent 10 years after version control. Additionally, because projects have managed to succeed without continuous integration at all, the rest of the original article that simply mentions his "questionable" CI failure is not even worth reading (but is certainly worth commenting on).

Disregarding how closed-minded it is to dismiss both articles based on that single sentence, by implementing proper CI he would've covered all these "version control" issues anyway. I think it's fair to call that a CI failure, as it does fall under the blanket of good CI practices.

Secondly, I think your bar for "success" is too low if you're willing to throw out "ticketing, automated deployment, and automated unit testing" but still call a project a success. I'd call that an inevitable clusterfuck regardless of how well it runs at the moment. Without these CI basics it's going to suck to maintain that system in just a few short years. I really, really hate dealing with systems that were built without these should-be-obvious basics.
Oh man, I'm totally bummed. Thanks for letting me know!
It's possible relatives live in the countryside and this person outlived geographically close friends and coworkers.
Is this a big government thing that violates individual freedom? I wonder how people handle this successfully and avoid abuses. Which states are better? Former Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew often mentioned Asian family values. I used to think it’s a joke, but am starting to like it.
You don’t know they never will forever. Buffet will die someday and his successor might decide to pay a dividend.
This is a background issue in any study of the past: history, archaeology, genealogy. There's "true" in the absolute sense, as in what would you have seen had you been there. That's not really attainable. The kind of truth that's left in studies of the past is the consensus model reconstructed from the records, and that's always full of controversies.
Somebody would put a layer allowing forks on top of that anyway, for one reason or other. Physical layer has only so much impact on abstractions built on top of it.

(Also, please don't. It's enough that crypto starts to show up in global energy use statistics; we don't need for it to also crowd out the RF spectrum.)
Someone I know was just commenting that from convos w/ people in other companies, it seems many startups have benefitted from not being under the limelight, and thus had the chance to quietly clean up their own messes while Uber was taking all the heat from the media.
Absolutely.

As he mentions in the letter, they are friends. I’m sure he’s knee deep in most of Sineks’ philosophy on orginzations and products.
I don’t understand your emphasis?
Except it is hard to do because in this case where it's not an obvious problem to the people around you (like smoking), everyone agrees with the rule of no cellphones but thinks they're a special case. I was at a Bill Burr show where he caught a woman on her phone. She was checking her home security camera. For her dog. Twice.

Phones are clearly some step on the road to handing off part of our memory and socializing to a device that helps us, but it has completely changed our perspective. I remember reading a blog post by Charlie Stross a few years back about the idea of never being lost again (because of GPS + phones) and it seemed like a nice step in human innovation, but what I've come to realize is there's a negative to every positive phones bring: now I am liable to soil myself when I lose GPS in a strange place. And I'm at least old enough to know about road atlases.

I have a four year old and I can only imagine what kind of complex we are going to give her with the idea you always need to be able to reach them, the babysitter, the venue they're at, whomever. My wife and I have agreed to try hard not to do that; I assume if we succeed we will get in trouble with child protective services or her school at some point.
As someone building software to design genetic tools, this is actually a pretty good overview. It's analogies are pretty solid, even if they are just analogies. It's a well-described snapshot of the early phase of education where this helps build a grand intuition and relations between disciplines. Just be careful to remember that they're just analogies, and in general can't be relied on to actually discover, invent, design or conclude.

The fun part for everyone here is that the science has improved so far so quickly that at this point that we are starting to be able to improve, implement and otherwise make good on those coding-style capabilities. We can start to write, patch, update, and affect that code - and do so in intelligent and rational ways, rather than the screens set up in the past century.

The next section I would add would be one that actually started to talk about the compiled programs - the protein's themselves. All that code, all those rules, all those heuristics are there to be run through an atomic 3D-printer to produce proteins. And in an ensemble, those proteins form a closed community within a cell, which then form communities in a tissue, which form in communities called an organism. Those compiled proteins actually do the work at the lowest levels but often get a bit of short shrift while we all stare at their source-code in amazement. The source is elegant, but the programs are even more amazing, in my humble opinion.

Here are some 'profiles' of the kinds of economically and socially interesting programs we've started to make based on the above source-code. An 'app-store' of compiled apps if you will:
https://serotiny.bio/notes/proteins/