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> Seriously: the recruitment of minors for major league with giant cash benefits should require them to sign a consent form for arms-length management of their capital for some time period, and give them the income stream not the capital.

No, thanks. It's their money, let them have it. If they want it to be invested on their behalf, that's fine. But it should be their choice.

How would you like it if your employer told you that instead of paying you your wages, he was instead going to contribute to an investment fund, and you'd receive the income from that fund rather than receiving the money directly?
I think it's less about the notation, and more about thinking around computational complexity. You should know when to use a set vs a hash vs a list vs an array. You should know what different sorting algorithms do, and why you might use one over another. In some cases having exposure to more esoteric data structures like persistable tries, minimal spanning trees, red/black tries, bloom filters, etc can come in handy. Knowing why things like that are useful is worth knowing. But I agree with you, judging a bootcamp graduate on skills that can be taught with experience and continual study is probably not the best way to go about hiring people.
Yep, and I have actually been wondering; Has anyone been able to determine if the Trump family has been investing-in or profiting-off of twitter?

How much twitter does trump own?

https://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+stock&oq=twitter+sto...

Certainly looks like this year has been an uptick for them...
Nobody at USPS has explained to me yet why the USPS carriers were instructed never to hold Amazon packages at the distribution center if someone wasn't home to receive them. Maybe this is part of why?
I think it's more about simply having an awareness of algorithmic complexity. I'm talking about writing a doubly nested 'for' loop and being able to realise that you've just written an O(N^2) algorithm if you're iterating over the original collection again. This sort of stuff is blindingly obvious to experienced programmers but for bootcamp grads who haven't built up that intuition, a short course on Big O notation exposes them to it.
Many humans would, unless you believe that the tobacco industry spent decades and billlions on FUD, bullshit research, and shady political dealing to keep people in the dark?
I never spent a dime on any of these free 2play games. I am in awe at how dedicated the team behind Fortnite seems to be when it comes to providing us data (real data?) of what's happening on their side, while I am sitting on my couch logging into one of the matches with my keyboard and mouse
The advice to include online MOOC courses on your CV runs counter to every piece of advice I've ever received in regards to putting online courses on a CV. I've always been told that that is seen as a red flag and that you might get docked 'points' for having something like that on a resume.
You're investing in a future where they are used as currencies. If today you could buy USD for 10 cents, knowing that it'd be worth its value today, that'd be worthwhile. Now, lots of people don't think cryptos will ever achieve that kind of success, and they may be right. But that is the investment thesis nonetheless.
I think your experience is largely true for professional web developers, but with the advent of things like Node that brought JS into back-end land, there are a lot of traditionally front-end people spilling over into back-end and "full stack" roles, which often do require some basic level of competence with complexity analysis.

When you make the switch from writing code to support UI elements to writing code to handle data processing, for example, you're going a bit beyond the standard coding bootcamp's toolkit. I think this is the author's point, and why he recommends that bootcamp grads (who may end up in situations like these) take extra steps to be prepared for whatever curveballs come their way in their careers.
> Ripple is completely centralized

Except for the validation of transactions done through their distributed consensus protocol, which is done through validator nodes sitting across the world at places like MIT and Microsoft.
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At one point, Waymo initiated arbitration over the issue of poaching employees, but the taking of trade secrets was excluded from that case. Did they subsequently go to arbitration over the latter? And, on the other hand, does the mandatory arbitration clause in Waymo's employment contracts mean that it can not take Levandowski to court over the trade secrets?
It's a smaller post office.
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> ... so going in to collect the bug would be the mode used.

Well, the whole point is that it is supposedly a "secure" facility, so you may have the rare occasion to enter it again, after having beeen exceptionally been able to access it once to install the software (since you cannot install it remotely due to the air gap and faraday cage even if you can get access and by-pass firewalls and/or data-diodes) and deploy the receiver with flash under the floor (no pictures are allowed on walls of a "secure" facility, and someone may notice a fresh patch of plaster on the wall[1]), in order to gather the data next year, on the 4th of July, not exactly "in a timely fashion".

[1] And no, it is not like any "secure" facility is confining with an easily accessible area, the walls are normally reinforced concrete and with no less than 30-40 cm thickness.
Russian nuclear scientists arrested in “Bitcoin mining plot”
wow after reading this I have no idea why they were angry and annoyed. I bet you're positively charming.
The articles have such misplaced attitudes. Healthcare is eating up GDP and no articles about disrupting pharmaceutical companies.

Global warming is threatening the entire world no articles about disrupting the energy industry.

Give me break.
Do you have details on what happened?
I don’t know how to break this to you, so here text only cnn from cnn:

http://lite.cnn.io/en
What on earth are '5D optical storage techniques' when they're at home?
Be wary of applying this to thought experiments. As yourself what if the supposed reversal was not true, and I am only being told this?

The 'gets better, gets worse' quality here, is contestable because the underlying "skill" is a phantom. There is no perversity, testing if a non-existent thing is a property of the system or not: thats a strong test in science.

The perversity, is people's belief in the distinction of ability over something subject to random chance.
SimCity was the most successful game of all time on the Origin platform. Anyone who claims it was a failure is ignoring the things that actually matter, the money, in deference to meaningless (at least in terms of business) issues like the experience of gamers. Nothing is better news to a game publisher than mountains of gamers who pre-ordered were discouraged by launch day troubles (caused by not spending more for more resources, the game was on Amazon and providing more resources was a few button clicks away but would cost money) and who aren't coming back. "Look at the playerbase dwindling!" sounds exactly like "look at our server costs dropping!" for any game that isn't based on subscriptions or microtransactions.
But since 20 years that this has all been debunked, we luckily have no more new smokers and everyone is working on quitting !

No amount of education can force behaviours into people. Logic is not a shared resource.
It is actually really frustrating. The Tangle idea is pretty good, but the rest of it is crap. The product is getting such a bad reputation that using the good ideas for a better product later will be hard.
Do you need to serve that over HTTPS?

EDIT: Alright, I figured it out, this page is out of date. Google services reply with this header which works:

alt-svc: hq=":443"; ma=2592000; quic=51303431; quic=51303339; quic=51303338; quic=51303337; quic=51303335,quic=":443"; ma=2592000; v="41,39,38,37,35"

No idea what these quic values are :) but here it is.
Uber has a significant documented history of flouting both the law and agreements they've made?
Or you could watch the video where he talks about unapologetically helping to confiscate the property of fellow Jews who were sent to death camps. No moral qualms whatsoever.

https://youtu.be/0PUDmLCkgNc?t=7m24s
I agree and I don't. For the record, I'm a (2014) bootcamp grad. I don't use Big O directly, and still struggle routinely to talk in those terms, but also consider considering performance one of the most important parts of my job.

I think it's important that bootcamps teach about complexity, and that they don't do a great job of it. I also think asking anyone to speak in terms of big o may or may not be the most comfortable way for the candidate to talk about it.

I do a lot of interviewing now, and prefer to check to make sure that they understand how to optimize their solutions in a coding context, rather than asking about the "description" of that optimization, personally.
It must be stressful knowing your entire profession is BS with a glossy veneer over it, and the walls could all come crashing down in an instant.

In some ways, we have come a long way from employing ducking stools to detect witches, but in other ways, we have not advanced at all.
> Seriously: the recruitment of minors for major league with giant cash benefits should require them to sign a consent form for arms-length management of their capital for some time period, and give them the income stream not the capital.

First of all, these are not minors - they are over 18. Secondly who the heck are you to decide that you should be in charge of what they can and can't do with their money?
From your website it sounds like your project is much bigger than just improving QUIC. Wouldn’t it make sense to bring your expertise to improve QUIC in the short term? It seems to be relatively common to hear people talk about how nobody will listen to them because of cronyism or something, but then the thing that they are proposing is actually a one-man rewrite of everything. Maybe nobody has the time to dig into your massive, non-working project. Also, it’s kind of an implicit statement that you are not interested in working with anyone else. Maybe if you approached things in a more collaborative way, your ideas would get some traction. I’m reminded of a relevant XKCD about standards here.
> dump your money into the stocks and pray) are increasingly being exposed as obvious bullshit.

I'm not exactly sure how stocks have been exposed as
bullshit given they've produced above average returns, especially for young people who have gotten in after 2008.
Replace your employer with government and its real life social security. In theory I support it... if it lasted till I retired.
> but ALL 100+ institutions are only evaluating / doing pilots

No... That's just not true. Cuallix isn't. Moneygram finished their initial pilot and is beginning its deployment to internal transfers, which could be folowed by deployment to everywhere else.

> I am very curious why there isn't a single big name that has put it's weight behind this for real production use.

Banco Santander: https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/31617/banco-santander-p...
I think you mean Norman Lamont's idiotic policies did that, backed up by the Bank of England who really should have known better.
Coders who don’t have enough statistical expertise is a problem why? I understand the importance of O notation, but didn’t know that stats/probability was important for things like web design and other coding jobs. Can someone help me understand this part?
It makes a lot of sense to me. Google cares much more about Uber not stealing their trade secrets, than about money. I strongly suspect that once Travis left and Dara took over, Dara was able to convince Google that Uber would behave appropriately from now on. The lawsuit served its purpose by helping to force Travis out.
Yep.

My classmates from Chem.E had more classes in common with us mechanical engineers than any other branch.

Thermo, fluid dynamics, CFD and heat transfer is where it is at.
What's your basis for saying athletes have impulsive personalities?
> and it doesn't have as stringent real-time requirements

Blizzard is absolutely stringent about their real time requirements for WoW. It's crucial for PvP, Raids, etc.

Fortnite doesn't need to broadcast nitty player info for players on the other side of the map to you, either, I would think. That should definitely be optimized away
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From what you posted:
"It will increase prototyping speed and lower the barrier for building software"

How does that claim that AI will be plugging the last mile problem? That extremely vague statement says only that it will increase prototyping speed and lower the barrier of entry.. neither of which hints at solving the last mile problem.
Either way. Generally the asked-for damages is much larger than the settlement.
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> Money is great because it lets individuals manage their own selves, but I'm still a little worried about how fraud, abuse and mismanagement can wreak havoc in society when money is abused.

So we need an alternative to money because of problems that we know about and manage rather well? (And yes, we do manage them rather well. You might be traumatized by the 2008 crisis and think "omg money is evil", but you'd be missing the big picture of all of the improvement in standard of living across the board and around the world since the Renaissance that has been made possible chiefly by having money and credit.)

Anyways, there are no alternatives to money (and credit). The only alternative is barter, and that's extremely inefficient.

If you want efficient trade in services and products then you need a money-like measure of value that stores value in itself for at least the short-term, meaning: for long enough that people are willing to use that money-like measure for trade. Such a thing is money.

Not having money and credit means reverting to a state we were in centuries ago because without it there is no way to leverage barter into the kinds of trades we do today on a daily basis.

Money without credit is not that good either. That's basically what we had in, say, the Roman empire days -- not exactly fantastic.
That doesn't make much sense. Http being that way was a deliberate decision by its creators. They could as well have designed it so that the request header is prefixed by its length as a 4 byte value, for example. You definitely still want the stream representation for that and not juggle around with packet fragmentation yourself. You can simply disable nagle for your own protocol if it speeds up things for you. The only thing different in your suggestion is that the length prefix adding and handling should be done by the network api instead of your app, which I don't think is that much of a hassle anyways.
Anything civil must go to arbitration and criminal isn't something Waymo can initiate. Alsup recommended the DOJ look at the case. They may choose to investigate Levandowski.

I am not a lawyer.
Works with 10.13.3 on a 2015 MacBook pro. Weird issues/hangs when upgrading using multiple external monitors:

Unplug all devices/monitors and then upgrade
What about Elementary's mail app? It fits the description, of cloning Apple's Mail, at least superficially.
I guess spIrr said it all. Evernote's collaborative features are an afterthought to say the least.

The fact of thinking the tool for teams changes entirely the design : in Slite it made us focus on a flawless collaboration with collaborative editing, mentions, comments, notifications system, activity & so on from day 1.
Russian nuclear scientists arrested for using supercomputer to mine Bitcoin
You clearly don't know much about IOTA. IOTA will require hardware that is customized to operate in trinary and perform IOTA PoW in a fast, energy-efficient manner. This hardware component is being tackled by JINN.

No blockchain will work with IoT. Any decentralized ledger whose throughput cannot rise with transaction volume will not be scalable.

I advise you read up on IOTA before saying outlandish things like "Of course it's not meant for IoT." The FUD is strong with IOTA because it threatens the success of so many other projects.
Is there any way for someone very much unfamiliar with large C projects to contribute?
>primarily because they can charge more for micro transactions and private servers this way as far as I can tell.

I believe its more about standardizing the user experience. Now that enough games have dedicated servers with a standard expectation of latency your game looks poor if your user experience is beholden to community servers with selfish moderation and varying stability.

The added benefit of centralized server hosting and control is exactly what you point out though.
One issue with these is that they don't always ask you to rate what you expect. For instance, my local Walmart has one with a small sign above asking you to "rate your experience with self checkout" yet everyone who checks out with a cashier uses the button assuming you are resting any checkout experience.
You’re being obtuse
> The case was initially about patent infringement, and for undisclosed reasons they were all tossed out.

Possibly because the patents were invalid due to the existence of prior art? Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15875685
Or, since you're hiring Junior devs, someone could like, take 10 minutes to explain why what they did is wrong and point them towards some resource to help them get on the right track.

This whole thing is part of the circular logic problem with hiring: you have people making these hiring decisions that aren't trained in hiring, so they just go with "what makes sense to them" or hiring a younger version of someone who looks exactly like them for a junior role. It's fine, it works for the company, but it's why people will miss long term talent.
Isn't it a chemical addiction?

I mean, what does Heroin do to your brain? Releases a ton of extra dopamine and serotonin and crap, right? And what happens when you see that 14 people liked your post?

Okay, so maybe Facebook doesn't change the way that your brain's receptors work with long-term use, but don't deny that people keep going back for that hit of inclusion.
Here is one idea based on your background: Stock trading robots, it is going to be fun to test trading ideas and who knows you might find an edge!

You only need a bit of stock market data to start...
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Look forward to seeing how they fix that MongoDB collection write stalling problem. Vaguely recall that was still a big problem the last time I was looking at MongoDB years ago.
ESPN's "30 on 30" sports docs looked into this matter and did a really goof job and worth watching. The episode is called "2 Broke". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elfw0ESih-A
Unless I've missed something there is no claim in that document about why SCB chose Mu to be strict.
with a polished UI it could be better, the protocol and options support are fine.
Except 10 cents of USD was worth more 50 years ago than now.
I really think it is going to depend on your location and a bit of luck unfortunately. The local couriers in my area who work with Amazon at first were horrible but have gotten much better to the point I prefer them because they will deliver usually early in the morning and on any day of the week. I've been getting reliable Sunday morning deliveries for a few months now.
What about trying to monetize the software ? Just say that it "cost" 19 USD / year / family and leave the software libre, no license number / checking, nothing. (= Just trust the user and ask them to make a yearly donation for each home)
...aircraft have been weaponized for a longgg time. Kamikaze pilots! That's been the problem, though. They cant be self-guided, you have to lose a human life in order to use them. And that's where rockets came from, the Germans started trying to figure out how to weaponize flight without losing soldiers (see V2 rockets). That's why autonomous control is so scary, it's the first time that this sort of thing is actually realistically hitting the point of being cost-effective, and especially scary when we're talking about it become cost-effective for really small forces to use. (I feel awful using a term like "cost-effective" when talking about human life, but that's the way military-types think about these things. Yuck.)
It's also very uncommon for NFL recruits to go straight from high school without passing through college. Which would put them at closer to 21 than 18.
The first three Foundation books are good. Then Asimov went off the rails.
One of the most pervasive myths we humans cling to is the idea of agency; that our skill and will an overcome random chance. While we might be able to undertake methodologies that skew chance distributions in our favor, everything around us is a game of probability we can only gently influence.

Methods are MUCH more important for a career than any individual execution.
Isn't Amazon basically the SoA empire, where departments are basically customers of each other, and every service should be ready to be made available to the public at all times?
Of course they do, but do they underperform to the point that the cost difference means nothing? I’d argue there’s plenty of room for lower efficiency but at vastly lower cost. If you have an office of 1000 employees making $60k vs $100k you’re saving at least 25% (after benefits/healthcare), let alone real estate. You could operate offices at 75% productivity and still come ahead, no? I ask out of actual curiosity.
I am a bootcamp grad with several years of experience now. I agree with the article that the two of the weakest areas for bootcamp grads are data structures and algorithms.

However, my advice would be to interview at places that have focus less on these areas instead of taking coursework. At the end of the day if you are bootcamp grad you are probably not in the financial situation to take extra coursework. It's better to lower your standards a bit to get your first job and then pick up these skills on the job.

You will still have to grind out algorithm prep by using sites like Leetcode and Cracking the Coding Interview, but it's probably a better idea to focus on companies that focus less on this area.
It's called personal responsibility. They're earning sums that many will never reach and it's on them to figure out what to do with it. Nobody is stopping them from asking for help and it's not like there aren't enough examples to learn from by now.

Someone who doesn't have responsibility can't be forced into it.
Learning how to do X can be very easy if you accept an arbitrary level of competence as enough to claim "I know how to X".

I have the feeling that a lot of people can believe they have learned to program while all what they did is to go past their chosen programming language syntax and grasped a few core CS concepts.

That's quite a low barrier to entry, but if that's what people mean when they hear the word "programming", then I'd argue that Software Engineering would be a better name for the field we're here comparing with practising law.
Based on the posts on HN, one of two things will happen:

1. Enough people will say "screw Prime" and Amazon will start trying to figure out how to fix that.

2. The turnover for delivery employees will be so bad, that it will cost Amazon more than if they just paid them better and had better working conditions.