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Agreed. Social companies like Facebook and Twitter started out with open APIs, but closed them as they grew more successful precisely because they don't want to be protocols.

I don't like that, but I get it. The money is in owning the user experience. And it's hard enough to continuously improve your user experience when all the people making that software work for one company. I think one of the reasons email and IRC are losing out to things like Facebook and Slack is that it's nearly impossible to make those things broadly better.
In Ireland and in the UK is not uncommon. Some friends use 2 or 3 vacation days before or after public holidays and end up with 7 or 8 days off and they are not abusing their "powers"
A lot of hate here for DST. Personally, I like it. In the sense that in northern climates, the really long days are actually pretty nice. Even in London in the height of summer, the Sun didn't set til about ~10pm. That's nice.

I'm not opposed to the clock change but my solution for that is to have DST year-round not non-DST year-round.

All this being said, I'd be surprised if this goes ahead.
We're currently looking at pxCore / pxScene. It's a fairly small couple of libraries with a portable frame buffer layer (core) and hardware accelerated 2D scene graph (scene) with an optional JavaScript API (you can also just use C++ too).
Great so let's have solar noon be at 1pm all year round. Am I the only one that thinks this is stupid? Can't we have a sane time system and everyone just do everything an hour earlier instead?
That makes me want to go inside my older machine and mark the current positions, say with a sharpy or dye. Mine had the main plastic timing pulley break in half and is un-obtainium. So I epoxied the pieces together, while drilling holes and embedding steel wire reinforcement. Works like a champ, though I go the feeling it was built with planned obsolescence, as the rest of it was built like a tank.
If you use a clay like fire clay instead of plaster, it will be much more durable.
Honest question: do people actually pay for reading a newsletter?
Biannual is fine.

I think you're confusing biannual and biennial. Biannual and semiannual both mean twice a year. Biennial means every other year.
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none of those ever made it to very high levels of industrial adoption.

Non-exotic methods of strengthening wood, made it to high levels of production in spades: plywood, oriented strand board, microlam and glulam beams, and medium density fiber board (MDF) are direct examples. Wood I-joists and plate connected wood trusses are less direct. From a functional standpoint, standardization of lumber grades is a social technology that allows designing wood members with known engineering properties.

On the chemical front, pressure treated lumber increases wood's strength across a timeline. Fire treatment increases wood strength in a narrow set of circumstances.

Of these, plywood is clearly the most successful in terms of industrial adoption being used for aircraft, boats, and furniture among other things.
I wonder where the name 18F comes from...
As far as front end libraries go, I learn quite a few of them in my free time, and I found Vue.js insanely simple to pick up. One of the things I like so much about it is the tooling can be incrementally adopted. If you don’t mind paying quite a bit for a membership I would recommend the 4 hour course on frontendmasters.com by Sarah Drasner. That’s how I learned.
Bamboo cutting boards are often advertised as having anti-microbial properties. No clue if there's any scientific backing to the claim, though.
There is still a street in Pittsburgh that is end-grain wood blocks. (In Shadyside, a short residential street.) They continue to treat it with tar. So I wonder if it was a similar idea.
Your link indicates you may misunderstand the original article.

They aren't abolishing timezones.

They are considering removing the 'shift' that happens twice a year.
Why would that surprise you?

I'd never heard of your keyboard so I googled it. It's a regular keyboard with no number keys on it. Why would it be surprising that people would ask you where the numbers and their corresponding symbols were?

Looking at the photo I certainly can't see how you'd go about typing an exclamation point, for example, even though I know it's over the one.
That's not true, Qt itself doesn't look like anything. It's the style engine that matters in this case. The framework itself is interesring from the API viewpoint.
DST really is a very clever behavioural hack. You could never convince every school, workplace etc to change its hours in a coordinated way. But everyone changes their clock and poof it's done.
This seems like an "up to eleven" argument to me. Why not just wake up earlier in the summer?
Building Cronitor has given me more experience with local dst customs than I ever wanted to have.

One great thing about dst in Europe is that rather than happening at 2am local time in each tz the way USA does it, it happens across Europe at the same timestamp.
Switzerland: 4 weeks/year by law, two of them must be granted consecutively. By law time and length can otherwise be decided by the employer, even though it is rarely enforced.
Yep. A client of mine is approaching it this way now. I’ve been building the prototype/MVP for the past couple months. The founder (my client) is an ex-lawyer and the customers will be law firms like the one where he worked. The product pricing will be in the range of $50-100k per customer. The sales strategy is to pitch the early customers with the MVP, get them to commit $50-100k for the mature version of the product delivered in two months, and use that money to fund further development. We talked to some companies that successfully approached b2b sales in the same way. I’m interested to see how it works for us.
Rust and C++, esp how Qt uses it do not mix very well in my opinion. For that reason I created tool to create bindings rom a JSON model to both Qt and Rust. You write the application logic in Rust and the UI in Qt.

A talk at FOSDEM 2018 about that is here https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/rust_qt_binding_gener...
Meltdown and Spectre on HTTP workload
Compensation in government jobs is almost always lower than what the same person could make in the private sector.

18F's problem is that the appeal of government work is in benefits other than salary: solid health coverage, a pension, job security. But those are really only of interest if you're planning on staying there long term, and 18F's pitch has always been "take a year or two off from your real job and come work with us." It's the Peace Corps for techies, and nobody joins the Peace Corps for the retirement plan.
Like other people answered I am connecting from my Macbook to my Windows gaming PC at home and play games on it. This feature is called 'Steam In-Home Streaming' and it works only over local network (or VPN in my case). 30Mbit is sufficient to remotely play at full HD.
DST does not change the length of the days.

If your shift begins at an inconvenient hour, or your timezone is misaligned to your astronomical time, those problems do not require manually fiddling with time by multiple countries to solve.
Rediscovered Twitter for blockchain news.

Why: Subreddits for different tokens/currencies end up being echochambers (but still good resources as long you follow multiple subs). HN rarely shows blockchain stuff and the upvoted ones are often just anti crypto.

Following 30-50 crypto influencers on Twitter provides a good mix.
That's a different problem though... So we could still society to start earlier (assuming it's a good thing, less car accidents etc...), but re-think the concept of the school day. Just making school start later but keeping as long, so finish later might not be a good solution for lots of reasons (don't want to go into this here, this is a different discussion).
Sure, that makes sense. But no point in changing time twice a year.
You need to actually shift the clocks if you want a time system where schedules are consistent and you typically wake up at about sunrise. (I realize this greatly depends on latitude and location within timezone, but shifting the clocks gets a lot closer overall than any fixed time offset would.)

The big downside to keeping summer time in the winter is that in northern areas it will be dark for a lot of the morning, when there are sleepy drivers who just woke up and kids walking to school. That's probably a bigger safety issue than the sleep issues caused by the time shift. I'm generally against shifting the clocks, but the problem it's solving isn't an easy one.
Could be either

[0] http://grammarist.com/usage/biannual-biennial-and-semiannual...

[1] https://writingexplained.org/biannual-vs-semiannual-differen...
"Five layers of the material laminated together — just 3 millimetres thick in total — was able to halt a 46-gram steel projectile travelling at roughly 30 metres per second. [...] That’s much slower than the several hundred metres per second at which a bullet travels, says Hu, but it is comparable to the speed at which a car might be moving before a collision, making the material possibly suitable for use in vehicles."

That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. Nature?

A ballistic impact seems like a poor model for a vehicular impact. You don't want a car to resist impacts the way armor stops bullets. A large, slow projectile isn't a small fast projectile, but should be comparable. This section seems meaningless.
"This sharp decline represents a significant erosion of technical talent in the federal government and, if it continues, will likely impede the ability of the Trump administration to use technology to implement its agenda over the next few years."

This is . . . bad?

But in the larger scheme, this is bad, since it seemed like 18F was actually making some headway in improving the government's use of internet technology.
Unless you've specifically gone through the effort of stylometric misdirection and fudged the few personal details you've given us, this post has some risk of being deanonymized. (CTO, HN user, Brooklyn, growing startup, B2B and B2C, IP concerns as of Feb. 2018 -- that's a lot of bits!)

That might not end up actually mattering in any way (or maybe it would!), but if anonymity is intrinsically important to you, something to consider.
As an end user, I disagree. A consistent, clean UI was a big selling point for Facebook right from the start (even back when it was competing with LiveJournal); it's much lower-friction to watch FunnyOrDie-like videos on Facebook than on their website when every website has its own UI and most of them are worse than Facebook's. And a unified recommendation system across all kinds of content is absolutely huge; following a single source like FunnyOrDie and manually guessing which stuff you'll like or won't is much less effective than getting automatic recommendations from thousands of content creators in one place. Facebook adds a lot of value, that's why people use it.
GS-15 is more than many pay, maybe not bay area or top, top companies. But I had friends there who made $160k-ish and had a hard time moving back to SF to mid-size startups because he would have had to take a pay cut (but with equity filling the gap). Plus it was pretty high impact work, and the ability to work remote on demand, so was hard to find something comparable if you're very mission driven or want a more "relaxed" lifestyle.
He didn’t articulate it well but the issue is the lack of organic reach given to page posts these days. Facebook has decided that fan page owners should pay to access their own fans - which negates the entire point of having a page or fans in the first place.

The issue for Facebook is that as more and more publishers leave because they are getting no organic traffic, people will spend less time there. So this whole money grab may eventually backfire on them. If all publishers leave and only the social functions are left, is Facebook as attractive anymore?

This is of course anecdotal, but many of my friends have not posted on there in years, and the ones that have average a post or update maybe every few months. That’s hardly worth sticking around for unless other interesting things remain in the ecosystem. I’d say that while people are jumping ship, 2018-2019 might be the first time that it is at least within the realm of possibility that someone could start a viable Facebook competitor. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.
Oh I see what you're saying - you can have `char * x = "foo"` and `char * y = &x[1]` (or something - I forget the exact syntax). That's a very good point! So to be regular you'd need a whole host of other commands to deal with substrings.

I guess that makes the point that what they chose is probably correct, but it's still quite disappointing that the stdlib doesn't help more to prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot with pretty common operations and data-types.
GSA is located at 18th St and F St.
> In the sense that in northern climates, the really long days are actually pretty nice

It's easier for local-only industries to adjust their workdays based on the seasons than to force everyone to change how time is measured. For cross-time zone workers, DST is a PITA with economic and wellbeing costs.
Don't forget to patent it!

(1. come up with brand name. 2. patent the product. 3. develop the product.)
Are you talking about product of same manufacturer?
18F was a model for success, and of course the current administration can not tolerate that.
My question is: has anyone ever tried to actually compile the source and create their own working "unofficial build" of Windows?

Or is this not feasible due to factors that we non-programmers wouldn't understand?
Dunno if you're trying to be sarcastic, but at least in this instance it appears they're productively tackling a controversial, thorny, side-effect-laden subject at a sensible pace.

(Edit: OP has added "/s" marker.)
Their offices are located on 18th and F streets in DC.
but cash is a currency... unlike bitcoin (according to the IRS)
The best way to not have conflicts of interest like these is to avoid them in the first place. Ways in which you can avoid them:

- do not have side projects as a C level exec that may end up competing with the company (as a C level exec you usually don't have time for that anyway)

- do not work for companies that place restrictions on what you can do in your own time

If you do not avoid the conflict you will have to engage it, and the real result is not resolved when you sign a contract or an amendment, but when you get called out and possibly when things go to court. And that is why it is better to avoid these in the first place...
Being pedantic is not lovely. Of course it changes the daylight hours we enjoy outside of working hours. During work most of us are indoors anyway.
"National Treasure 3: Why is this a thing?"
> It's unfortunate that the Trump administration doesn't recognize the power of technology to act as a lever.

Trump seems pretty adept at using the power of technology to act as a lever - look at the power of his Twitter usage for example.
Merrell Trail Glove Failures and Minimal Running in a Communist Shoe
for profit? who said anything about this being for profit? I don't think it is
* Elixir quickly got a bigger job market. Why? It's easier and good-enough, while still benefitial. Also it has a One True framework instead of the Clojure situation (many competitors, different degrees of liveliness)

* Sadly JVM-Clojure interop is not used as Rich envisioned, neither technically (we use wrapper libs!) or socially (we create Clojure projects from scratch rather than 'hijack' enterprise Java projects)

* Don't know much about Reason. But in general I get the impression other JS communities don't have the same headaches as us (maybe at the cost of some complexity)

Clojure is a great bunch of ideas. But ideas also need continuous grunt work and refinement.

And finally, IME most programmers will take 'Easy' over 'Simple'. Which is why other new langs seem to have all the fun, and more jobs.

Another example: Kotlin. It did in 1 year what Clojure didn't in 10.
> why not include the timezone in the timestamp?

I don't think there is an unambiguous way to represent time zones. Time zones are a creation of law and convention. They change, and have changed, over time.
All the coworkers bargaining for benefits with management like a group? That sounds like a union (not that it would be a bad thing).
Thanks for that. I wonder why it isn't interesting for major newspapers.
It'll be interesting to see what that does to their hiring and retention, though. They are competing for people with Facebook, Google, etc. They weren't previously giving out those options to be nice.
Good for you. Your exprience however does not refute research.

https://journalistsresource.org/studies/environment/energy/d...
What I find the most interesting, is sometimes there a person who comes along, completely unaware of that limit, of the supposed difficulty or scale of the challenge (common knowledge among the others), and breaks that limit seemingly without effort. The story of George Dantzig is just one example that comes to mind (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dantzig).
Frogans Technology
That's the secret sauce that ClojureScript relies upon for tree shaking, dead code elimination and other optimizations. The Closure library is also used for building blocks of the CLJS runtime.

https://www.clojurescript.org/about/closure
It's not a bad deal if you're young and single. It wasn't tenable for me to bring my wife and daughter to share a townhouse with a bunch of other USDS [+] staff making $130k/year.

[+] I'm aware that USDS and 18F are independent branches.
I'm sorry, what? I can't imagine daylight savings time is a partisan issue. And it's hardly "American" when many countries across the world unfortunately use it. That's an absurd statement.
Are you under the impression that mistakes never get made in rocket science? Because a naive reading of your comment would indicate strong agreement with me, i.e. rocket science is really hard and mistakes are made.
40M looking for 18F for some fun?

I mean, the name is already not too well designed I'd say.
Agreed.

There will always be arguments around the "optimal solution", but the only solution that matters is the one that gets your product to market the quickest and with the least resistance.

If you know Python and Django, keep on keeping on.

Of course, there is always room to experiment and try new things for learning purposes.

Don't get lured in by the clickbait articles and twitter stack-of-the-month evangelists.

There are very few framework choices that are 'bad'. And I'm willing to bet that a dev that knows a 'bad' framework inside and out is more effective than someone who hops around to the current flavor of the month.
Hm, the fire clay I'm familiar with is extremely brittle once it has been through a heating cycle, do you have some specific kind in mind?

The stuff I know is more like glass.
You can feel bad for the toads and the species they are wiping out. It's not like they are consciously deciding to be an invasive species.
Exactly, right?
That's the rub. For that to work, we have to convince everybody to come in to work earlier. Including schools (which is proven harmful to adolescents).

Yeah, on a day with no meetings, I can pretty much come and go as I please. But, as soon as somebody on the west coast schedules a 4pm (eastern) meeting, I'm stuck. Same thing on the other end of the day meet with peers in Bangalore.
> Because why would they learn from experience, right?

You realize it isn't the same kid every time, right? The whole point of doing something for lulz is to laugh about it within a group of like-minded people who share techniques and hacks.

> Revealing a bunch of movie star salaries, approving of it and not admitting to it? Can't see the what the point would be.

See GP post for reason. That it was really about not showing a film making fun of the leader makes them look silly. If it really were the case that their leader is so beloved all over the world that non-Koreans did it of their own volition as they claim, that would not reflect poorly on Kim, but then these supposed non-Koreans messed up by having so much evidence point to DPRK.

> North Korea maintains that it was a false flag attack.

The bomb was put on the flight by a pair of North Koreans. You believe that they were turned prior to planting the bomb? And what do you believe about the Kim Jong-Nam killers?
If you are a CTO you have signed off all the projects to your company. Not some, all. For the entire duration of your tenure. That's why you are making big bucks and that's why non monkey companies pay big bucks to CTOs
Why does ppm seem to peak in April/May each year?
No, he’s saying the internet upended the old funnel model by providing democratized global distribution to anyone, but now Facebook has not only largely reversed progress, they’ve done worse by profiteering on content they’ve assumed effectively zero cost, risk, or effort in distributing.

Furthermore, they’ve destabilized democratic societies and radicalized neighbor against neighbor (speaking locally & globally.) Again, all the while, profiting from their carelessness, suffering few, if any, meaningful consequences.
The Republican Party position for the last two decades has been that government is incompetent to do anything except defense and transfer money to the rich. Therefore, headcount can always be reduced without any particular balancing efficiency gain -- the government just stops doing that function.

Doing things more efficiently is a threat to that worldview, so it must be stopped.
Sure it does. If "day" refers to how many daylight-hours coincide with the standard workday. Which the grandparent was doing.
This was my big fear when I was going through the extremely and unnecessarily long interview process (started interviewing in May, was told I got the job in July, was given a start date for late October in late September...I took a different job in the meantime) there a few years ago. That, yeah, cool, Obama is forward looking and stuff but 18F just seems like a prime target for the chopping block for a Republican administration.
No, DST makes no sense, in fact IF we have to move the clock at all, we should move it in the other direction. Let's call it MST (Moonlight Saving Time).

DST gives you more sun-hours during the day, which is exactly the opposite of what you want. It means your evenings are useless. On a nice summer night, I want to have a BBQ with friends but usually it's not possible due to DST, it's simply too hot to be outside for any reasonable amount of time. Summer nights get nice and comfortable AFTER the sun goes down, so instead of maximising sun-hours during non-working hours, we should try to minimise them.

You want the hottest part of the day to be during work hours when you're in a nice airconditioned office building, and the coolest parts in the evening when you want to be outside.
What team are you on now?
#1 question! First, why do you think it peaks?
Twitter is the world's news paper now. I think, as world newspaper, it is worth it's value.
this is one of those stories that reminds us that the companies making the most noise in this space are not the only ones which are making progress and in this case really good progress.

This is the first time I even heard of Embark, does anyone know of a site tracking all the self driving efforts?
I know you're joking, but FWIW the name refers to the agency's location at 18&F Sts. in DC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18F