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Enormously powerful, and powerfully unreadable for mere mortals. you can take the assembler out of the loop but you can't take the failure to comprehend out of the programmer.

I don't do C for a living any more (barely did) but the number of times I asked smarter people "why did you use this idiom with this terrificly confusing side-effect" and they said "thats not a side effect" comes to mind...
Do you the like the new job (except for the code base) ? Like the domain, co-workers etc. If so then propose that you can increase the velocity of release by proposing good architecture practices.

Then have them write integration tests for all the major test cases and start peeling the layers. It is almost kind of fun to develop in brown field instead of green field. Looks like the code grew organically without much thought.
Here in Japan, most concerts have a strict no-photos policy. In smaller venues, I've seen this enforced by guards shining bright focused flashlights at you if you try to take a photo/video. Seems to work well. Some artists stop to do a "ok let's all take a photo together now" bit near the end for those who want a memory.
They aren’t dropping fat binaries. ARM desktops and laptops are on deck. They might make sense next year or in three years or never, but Apple is going to leave that door open. They’ve learned the lesson not to be locked to a single CPU architecture.
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> Tesla rockets

Tesla is distinct from SpaceX.
about how you paid all this money to be here

This is a reaction I've heard from self-important attendees who insist on recording despite posted rules: "I paid good money to be here, so I get to do what I want."
>Tesla I believe sold around 100,000 cars in 2017, and 76,000 in 2016, in the US alone Ford and GM sold 2.5 and 3 million respectively in 2016 - to give you scale GM sold 10 million worldwide (again, in 2016).

And I'm certain Casio sold millions more watches than Rolex last year. The fact is that consumers are rational in their choices with respect to not just actual utility, but perceived social value. High end brands have an undeniable, albeit intangible, value.
> lacking the pressure that would lead to focused/cooperative effort and lots of resources pouring in

Until literally a few months ago, hacking at the level of the protein abstraction was relegated to academics. Then Chimeric Antigen Receptors cured children of cancers, and were approved by the FDA. And so in August, Kite got bought by Gilead for $12B. Then in November Gilead bought another class of multi-domain protein biotherapeutics called SynNotch for $0.5B from an 18 month old startup. And Juno got purchased yesterday for $9B again for their work on CARs - multi-domain protein biotherapeutics.

We'd like to think that such cooperative effort and resources are just starting to pour in. But up until very recently, it was not obvious what the commercial value was when working at such an abstraction layer.
Tracking a journalist: https://www.theverge.com/2014/11/19/7245447/uber-allegedly-t...

About the company specifically designing and building an internal tool to make this process easier: https://www.theverge.com/2014/11/19/7245447/uber-allegedly-t...

That whole "greyball" story, which involved personal tracking of law enforcement officers: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-...
I'm not sure why nobody else has said this yet, but go find another job and then quit.

There's no reason that a good developer should have to toil away in obscurity on a shitty codebase.
worked very well

... except for those who were behind the recorders.
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I downloaded Waze Carpool, and it feels just like that.
The interesting part is how this contradicts what Elon's original stated goal of the company was.

I am a Musk believer, and when he started Tesla he stated his goal wasn't to be a major car manufacturer but to be a proof of concept to push the major players into the space. He demonstrated this by the open sourcing of EV patents.

Tying compensation to cap value of Tesla means that he no longer believes the major players will adapt (although there is strong evidence that his original plan has worked and the other manufacturers are making much larger investments in EV), or that the auto's segment will grow as a whole so significantly, that Telsa, as a minority player, will still be able to reach a 10x size over the next decade.
`fork` is how you create a new process on Linux. Threads, which GP was talking about, are different, especially Go threads, which are not the same as OS threads.
Microsoft introduces new privacy tools ahead of Data Privacy Day
Yes, since stock compensation is only granted if the market value of the company hits a threshold.
> Sorry, you're just incorrect about both the content of Colin's comment

You seem to have misinterpreted me. I wasn't saying Colin was attempting to clarify (I didn't know his intent), I was saying that is his comment was factually clarifying. I didn't have any evidence as to his intent at the time, but I didn't see a reason to assume anything other than he was being helpful.

> Yes, it doesn't denigrate anyone, but that's a really low bar.

That's not even half of the criteria I listed, so it's not really the bar I set at all, is it?

The comment contributed by clarifying the submission name for those that had not yet read the article. It additionally contributed by adding some factual information about some of the referenced features and how they are used in the kernel.

I don't think anything he said takes away from the article, so I don't think he's necessarily missing the point.

> I do give authors the benefit of the doubt when something isn't clear. That's why I couched my message in "I think" and asked a question instead of just asserting facts.

I think you also misunderstood what I was trying to accomplish, how much of my statement was meant to be a condemnation and correction, and how much was leveled at you instead of the general readership. The only existing reply to you at the time I posted was referencing people on HN that like to nitpick. It was meant as a "this isn't necessarily negative, so let's just take it for what it provides, and it provides some usefulness" and not as "shame on you for assuming the worst".

Edit: Blah, there was some weird wording in that last paragraph
Someone mentioned libgit2, and that is a good first step fix. There is no need to launch a process that calls libgit2 when you can call high-level libgit2 functions yourself. That already eliminates this problem entirely, along with all the other ickiness that comes with running command line tools programmatically.

But ultimately this is the main Git interface for the remainder of the site, and it is apparently already sharded so only has to deal with a limited number of repositories. You can use libgit2 on a low-enough level that you can just keep and mutate repository state in memory. Something like a ref exists should be just a hash table lookup, and there are a bunch of other commands where gains can be had when you are not starting from scratch on every API call.

(This is what github is doing. They started out with grit, which was some parts of Git reimplemented in Ruby and then launching git for heavy-weight stuff. Nowadays they use rugged, the ruby bindings for libgit2.)
Did they not have to wait in a queue of other parents who were similarly concerned? Sounds par for the course in that case.
I think you're reacting to the wrong issue -- a minor and perhaps unwise choice of words: substitute "strong" for "unbreakable" and the point remains -- aren't we better off by standing up for what ought to be a human right -- strong encryption -- instead of knuckling under to implementing backdoored encryption that governments have long wanted cryptographers to implement?
the estimates I’ve seen say it cost ~$100-$500 for a bank to administer a checking account annually.

Is that an average or an actual cost per account?
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Of course the US can and will continue to hide from its extreme poverty. There’s not nearly enough attention for any serious action to take place. It’s already well known to those who care, and unknown or forgotten by those who don’t particularly care.

The few articles I’ve seen lately and over the years about how expensive it is to be poor don’t even begin to reach the critical mass needed to take even the smallest token action.

I appreciate the topic and I care, but the headline is nonsense. The situation will continue and likely it will worsen.
Avoid sites like freelancer.com. You can try the following:

* Go to meet ups. There are hiring managers that attend that are looking for full time or part time talent.

* Craigslist gig's section is good, since people like local developers that who like to meet etc.

* Find a niche area, blog about it, put some sample code on GitHub
And Nokia used to sell 300x as many phones as Apple did at one point. Giants don't tend to adapt well to paradigm shifts in the industry, and make no mistake, switching to EVs is a huge paradigm shift. Everything from factory tools, supplier partnerships, type of employees, and even business model is different here.
Yes. However for me, when not using the turmeric milk thing, it lasts upto a week. There was a clear reduction in the time it took for the infection to subside. Now I am not saying this is proof that it's a magic medicine. Just an observation.

It could as well be a placebo effect.
Nobody is buying Tesla shares based on 2017 sales. They're buying an option on the future.

You may think the company's future isn't worth a $56 billion present value, but comparing Tesla's historical production against Ford and GM is completely missing the point.

That would be like comparing Google's revenue in 2004 against its competitors in the advertising industry.

Investors who bought Google's IPO were valuing the company's potential in 2014 and 2024, not its minuscule market share in 2004.

Google's 2004 IPO valued the company at $23 billion, twice as much as WPP Group even though WPP had much higher revenue than Google.

Today Google is worth 35 WPPs, and Tesla investors think it could be worth multiple GMs and Fords ten years hence.
Very very few people I hope. There is no economic incentive for companies to invest in secure design/architecture. The costs of building it right almost always lose to other product owner features and timelines.

Until we can actually get incentives aligned, companies will continue to build leaky, poorly designed apps with no layered controls.
Yes, someone will jump on me and say "but my company does is right!". Great for you! Share your knowledge! You are a snowflake, and probably fortunate to have ethical leadership! The rest of us are doomed.
Falcon Heavy rocket is poised to boost space science
Wonderful scene in Makoto Shinkai's "Your Name" anime of the Kuchikamizake ritual!
Well... as a general rule, I'd say "don't use sites like Freelancer.com, Upwork, etc. Seek out clients directly." And I'd definitely say that if you meant to make a full-time living as a freelancer. But since you're doing it on the side, you have limited time to do the kind of sales / marketing / promotion stuff you'd probably need to do in order to directly source clients.

On possibility might be to befriend as many other locals who do freelance work as you can, and try to work out an arrangement to take on subcontract work / handle overflow work / etc.

Anyway, if you haven't tried yet, you might find it worthwhile to ping as many former co-workers and other connections as you can (this is where LinkedIn is really handy) and let them know that you're available and looking for freelance work. Or if you can spare the time, visit as many networking events as you can (technical meetups, "business mixers" ran by things like the Chamber of Commerce, "lead swap" meetups, etc., etc., etc.) and network like mad.

You could also try a direct mail campaign targeting local businesses. Maybe put together a bundle of software + services using Open Source software and your skills, and target, say, I dunno, every car wash in your town, or every bar/restaurant, or every medical office. Whatever makes sense given your history / skills / experience / domain knowledge / etc.
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Reminds about that funny article from Uber on why they switched from one DB to another. Seems like they had failed to discover a number of things.
Are you using something like Vault [0] for that? Always been interested in different approaches for this.

[0]: https://www.vaultproject.io/
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I was interested in checking this out until you mentioned driver is paid at most $0.54 per mile. That really stinks for city travel where commute times are long and parking at the downtown destinations is expensive. There is no incentive for me to pick up a carpooler on my 30 minute 6 mile drive into the city where parking costs $26/day. In rush hour traffic, it'll easily add an extra 15-20 minutes to my commute each way to pick anyone up.

It would subsidize $6.50 of my parking but I'd end up with an extra 30-40m of driving each day. Perhaps it's better than nothing?
It depends on policy of the venue and artist and can vary.

For example, a lot of concerts at SAP Arena are literally called "Zero Enforcement" where ushers are disallowed to intervene in any inter-patron situation outside of medical emergency.

It ends up being a Lord of the Flies situation where the fittest do (or stop) what they want.
Oh. Sorry, I interpreted it that you were a full-time freelance developer.
Use something like boring old FCGI. FCGI spawns off N workers, which process one request at a time. If a worker crashes, it's restarted. Workers are usually restarted every once in a while to deal with any memory leaks.

Read-only requests with no security implications get done by in the worker process, which has read permissions for public files. More complex requests spawn a Git client program.

It would be so uncool, though.
His vision is highly dependent on levering up the company even further and selling more equity in the future. What happens when their cash flow dries up during the next recession, which by the way last happened nearly 10 years ago, and they can’t meet their debt obligations?

When there is chatter that PE ratios don’t matter, it’s time to run for the hills as irrationality has set in. Also, Tesla doesn’t have a PE ratio because they don’t generate profit. The stuff that gets companies trough difficult economic times.

Also, on the batteries and solar endeavors - sure it’s a growth opportunity but does Tesla really have that much of a competitive advantage beyond their brand name?

One final thing. Don’t forget that Musk does not have shareholders’ best interests in mind. He bailed out solar city, which was heading for bankruptcy, using Tesla as his piggy bank. And then got shareholders to drink the kool aid that it was a smart move when in reality he could have simply bought it out of bankruptcy - but that would have cost him personally, so he didn’t. https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/11/01/teslas-solarcity-b...

EDIT:
Levering, not leveling
Lane-splitting should be illegal. It puts vehicles in places where they are not expected to be, and "I didn't see him" is one of the most common explanations for collisions.
Ford does ~$150B in revenue per year and they are worth $46B. Ford's P/S is 0.31

GM does ~$166B in revenue per year and they are worth $61B. GM's P/S is 0.37.

Tesla does ~$12B in revenue per year and they are worth $56B. Tesla's P/S is 4.67

I'd argue that Wall Street has an extremely optimistic view of Tesla's future since they are worth 12-15x more than Ford and GM on a revenue basis. I can't really compare on a profit basis since Ford and GM are profitable and Tesla has never made a profit and their production/delivery numbers have been basically flat (~25k units) per quarter for a year and a half.
Direct deposit frequently just means ACH transfer, which can even be from your own account at another bank. Need $250 in direct deposit? Transfer $125 in on the 1st, out the 7th, in the 15th, out the 22nd.
How do tissues get their shape?
There is some balance needed.

Take "speech is violence", for example. I've seen a family member destroyed by verbal abuse. I've seen a friend destroyed by gossip, and thought that it might have been kinder for them to just stick a knife in his back. Some speech really does qualify as a kind of violence.

And yet, most (90%? 95%? 99%?) of the "speech is violence" stuff is "this person is criticizing my ideas or beliefs and it makes me feel bad" variety. The correct response is some variant of "grow a thicker skin".
Quite a few community banks were purchased over the last few years in my region. Many communities around me don't have anything but a regional or national bank today.

The one in my hometown went from carries the bland name of "Commercial Bank" instead of "<Town Name> State Bank".
There are certainly "client oriented" (as opposed to webhooks) push APIs out there. However, such APIs that let you specify a starting position to read from are rare.

Sometimes APIs will give you tokens to use for resumption (e.g. SSE event IDs, or any long-polling API), but typically these are for a time-limited session rather than a stateless query against any point in a long-lived log.

Years ago, services like Friendfeed, Livefyre, and Convore had stateless long-polling APIs that returned a log of data, I believe. These kinds of APIs seem to have fallen out of fashion, though. There are still stateless long-polling APIs, but most of the ones I'm aware of don't return logs of data. For example, Dropbox and Box will let you query for a change notification against a starting position, but then you have to fetch the actual data separately.

That said, just because streaming APIs that let you set a starting position are rare doesn't mean they're impossible to make. My company (https://fanout.io) has built tools to help with this.

Edit: since you asked for a real example, Superfeedr is one such API: https://documentation.superfeedr.com/subscribers.html#stream...
I use Python for machine learning, but I wish I could use a friendly, modern, statically-typed language like Kotlin, Swift, etc. instead. Dynamically typed languages feel scary beyond around 1000 lines of code.
I mean, in the big-time institutional scheme, I understand that. But from what I've read, $10M is where a fund gets in danger of being delisted.
I believe in game theory this is called signalling. If you think he's full of bluff and marketing, it certainly seems he believes it himself.
Tesla has pretty big moats around it's business.

1. Tesla can always enter into the ICE market with ease, not that they will do it, but they can and probably will succeed. The big 3 have had a lot of difficulty in getting into the EV market. Sure, they have competing vehicles, but lack the marketing power of Tesla.
2. Tesla is the new cool factor. Undeniably. People get mocked for driving a Prius. Owning a Tesla evokes a more positive response.
3. Tesla has it's supercharging network, which I think is a very smart move. That's a pretty big moat.
4. Tesla's marketing machine is immense and enormously efficient. I remember Elon writing a blog article about a journalists negative review of their car and the discussion about Tesla dominated social media for a few weeks. No one even bothers about the management at the big 3, but Elon is a celebrity who is given geek god like status.
Do you have a non-paywalled link?
> But I've also seen in a lot of countries poor people voting for policies which will actually make them poorer.

"Let's repeal Obama-care and drive up health care costs!"

"Let's give tax breaks to the rich, at our expense!"

— America, 2017-2018
Interesting, what do you think about rocksplicator https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/open-sourcing-rock...? And also pika (https://github.com/Qihoo360/pika)
That's interesting to know, thanks. Regarding the 'cooperative' aspect, though—acquisitions might be falling a bit short of the ideal imo ;) But maybe it will be enough.
And what is the breakdown on that? What's actually costing the banks that much?
He even agreed to share core patents royalty free, and I haven't heard any news a major manufacturer took up on the offer.
Or he plans on growth in other segments (solar, batteries, ?)
If everyone was purely self-interested, corruption would be much more common because there would be no moral voice at the back of people's minds to hold them back. The only hurdle would be the fear of getting caught.

It's difficult for individuals to uphold laws in a system where everyone knows that everyone else is cheating.
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You are completely right. Thanks for correcting.
What was "cool" to the parent's generation is often considered "uncool" to the children's generation. That is why it is very dangerous to build a business on "cool".
Yeah, barely scratching the surface.

Can't afford a car or taxi/Lyft/whatever? You're going to lose hours every single day trying to get around. Hard to work two jobs to make a decent income when you can't get to either one expediently.

Don't have a job? Good luck getting to interviews on time. Good luck when they ask whether you have reliable transportation. And heaven forbid you have a felony on your record. And whatever you do, don't twist your ankle walking to the grocery store, because miss too much time from work and you're fired.

Oh, you do have a car? Good luck paying for decent tires, or gas, or the tow bill when it inevitably breaks down, or to replace the glass when someone breaks into it, or the insurance, or...

Money begets money. Poverty begets poverty.
I question if either was really bold. Neither man really needs the extra income... So nothing at stake.

It is neat and getting good press, but bold?
It was an average - but it was just for checking accounts
These are the ICO's that will start in February 2018
I've worked entirely from home before and I didn't really like it after a while. It was too hard to get motivated every day and keep to the schedule I'd set and I missed having coworkers even just being around even if we don't talk all the time. But I would enjoy being able to work from home while still having a workplace I needed to go to at leaat a few days a week.
I sincerely hope that your approach becomes common enough that I will see it implemented in practice. Right now it is rather the opposite, plain text data flying around everywhere and at rest in test databases and backups is the norm. And if you are really unlucky you will find it on the laptops of developers in the form of a two week old copy of main database. And if you are even more unlucky that developer does not have his hard drive encrypted and takes the bus every day to work. And already lost another laptop, just like that one, only nothing ever came of it so the data is most likely still safe.
Yes, they obviously have the infrastructure to do it. However, they don’t even optionally.

Part of the reason is that people sometimes forget their passwords and that would lock them out of their backups. So they want to allow email/other methods of resetting the password and giving access to data.

But it would be nice to have it as an option. It’s worrying though that even technical people seem to believe it is end-to-end encrypted. When it very obviously isn’t.
Has anyone found a good resource on using gRPC directly in a JS client? I've looked at using gRPC. My current challenge is that I want to support a website/webgateway on one side and mobile gateway on the other. If I use Swift or Java on the mobile side, it's easy. If I use Ionic Framework, I'm in the same spot as with the web gateway; probably better off with HTTP + RPC.
"Is here. This not a joke. We can wonder about the license though. Maybe we should ask the walking product of this source: Craig Venter."

The reference build of the human genome (provided here by Ensembl) is almost entirely derived from the public human genome sequencing project, not the private project led by Venter.