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I'm cloning patio11's appointmentreminder.org in Austria. Doctors pay me to send SMS reminders to patients. Most rewarding was when a doctor told me that my reminders made two patients take a checkup exam in which colon cancer was found just in time for effective treatment.
How do you interview someone more experienced than yourself?

In the last set of interviews I had to do, I've ended up doing the role of talking to people about the technologies listed on their CV and asking them detailed questions to find out just how well they really know them. This just because I happened to be the person in our company who knew a little bit about most of the things that the people we were interviewing claimed to be good at.

Sometimes you have a really nice technical conversation with them and discover that they're clever and knowledgable. Sometimes you uncover a blagger trying their luck. Sometimes a bit of both. So, it's a useful part of the interview I think.

So very recently we interviewed someone with 30+ years of experience, more than any programmer at our company (only 3 developers), and much more than myself (8 years).

So I went away and did a little bit of research about the technologies he'd talked about: COM and Corba and JBoss and other artefacts 80s and 90s, and tried to ask some questions in as respectful a way as I good, and I hope he wasn't too annoyed. In the end he was great (actually I found his enthusiasm and attention to detail pretty inspiring) and we hired him.

I can definitely see how a person would be annoyed by that sort of probing though, especially when the interviewer doesn't know what they're talking about.

But, what's the alternative?
The linked article is not criticizing SimCity. This is an architecture student who made something unusual with it, and finds a hidden meaning in his project. Nobody is saying that SimCity teaches bad lessons (at least not in this article).
Not really, closer to reddit. But prettier, which is why I used to use digg over reddit "back in the day".
I think the biggest issue here isn't the money spent on loot boxes but how variable rewards are addicting and can change children's minds about how they percieve value in the world more generally.
- Slimmer case

- Faster video transfers

- waterproof

- slimmer frames with nicer colours

- prescription options

Also the article lists most of the features in the first paragraph, so I hardly consider that a legitimate criticism of the content.
We moved to Twist (https://twistapp.com) a few months ago after having similar issues with Slack. Twist is more forum-like, so you avoid the "I have to jump in now" feeling that a continuous chat stream gives you.
For the record, Arch Linux has to have the best, thorough documentation I've ever read.
I thought the same thing, although I've tried LUT approaches to other problems like gauss curves and the results were much slower than I expected. The LUT may stay in the L2 cache, but whatever was going on, there was actually a big discrepancy between looking values up and just calculating the gauss curve equation even though it had exponents on floats.
You are not including all the other taxes and withholdings that serve to raise that percentage. Personal income tax is only one -- disability, medicare, state tax, and so on. Total tax burden to all parties needs to be no more than 20% or so.

If the government here offered a quality of life equivalent to what I experienced living in western europe I'd be fine with it. But we are not getting my 35% worth of government service
That may have something to do with it. But it just reminded me that U.S. drivers prefer trucks and SUVs, https://www.npr.org/2016/05/09/477301486/why-americans-are-b... --- which is another reason I feel so out of step with American tastes. Even the Civic to me is a boat. Just give me my MGB.
However, once one comes up with a suitable ffmpeg command line, it is literally one click to do the conversion locally. No need to upload something, not even to wait or to pay.
I don’t know why but I felt regression to be a very easy starting point. y = mx + c is just high school math.
I've used red shift apps, cut out sugar and caffeine, got controllable lights that follow a day night cycle. I still stay up late. The last thing I can figure is back lit screens, but that is a bit harder for me to live without.
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> 2. What if you want the window at the top of the screen without being maximised?

I'm using Unity in Ubuntu 16.04, and there a window only gets maximized if you drag it very close to the top edge of the screen. If you drag it to the bottom of the top bar or anywhere in the bottom half of the top bar, it moves to the bottom edge of the top bar without maximizing.
My total outlay for 2017 was around 35%, taking 1 deduction, and my income is near that $100k mark. And I still had to fork over an extra $600 on tax day.
I am not sure I understand your position. So you would not get a lawyer to review a business contract because doing so would imply that your business partner is a lying scumbag, a morally unacceptable position when starting a new business relationship?

No, and that's called due diligence. Same with hiring. I have come across enough candidates where there was a huge gap between claims written on the CV and what the candidate actually did or knew to blindly trust any CV.

And the best candidates are often not the best CV writers.
Heh. It reminded me of Kowloon Walled City [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City
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What I find interesting now is many people do not know their neighbors in a physical location. I know a few people in my neighborhood, but for the most part everyone is a stranger.

I happen to live in an HOA where a select few make rules for everyone else. This idea of an online community and the draw back of rule makers seems to extend to the real world in this situation.
I've always found it funny that CVTs which are so popular in economy cars are banned in almost every form of racing like F1, and Le Mans in order to control costs.
You mean it has the super annoying snap to window edge that windows 10 has
They were always listed on Spectacles.com
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>To me, the circular video format is an amazing new feature.

Is it though? Within the app maybe, but what if you want to pull the video off and say, post it to youtube? Outside of the snapchat walled garden, a round video will look absurd.

>$150 for sunglasses merged with a gopro is amazing.

It's not a gopro, it doesn't have (real) HD, it records round videos, and can only record for a maximum of 30 seconds. I cannot think of any overlap in use-case between this and a gopro.
One day not too long ago I changed my Facebook News Feed settings from "Top Stories" (the default), to "Most Recent". It was eye opening -- so many friends (and "friends") whose posts I hadn't seen in months or years. I hadn't even noticed they were gone.

On the other hand, the posts of close friends were just us likely to be lost thirty pages down in my feed as were those of people I knew only peripherally.
I recently realized that not only do I want to do challenging, high-impact work, I want to be thanked for it! Knowing you made a small improvement to a million people is one thing. But if someone says it was great to you in person, it's really a good feeling. Satisfaction = impact + fuzzy feelings
Small web game: increstellar.com - tge game is okish, the technical aspect probably on the side of bery naive, but I finished it and player interacted actively, which was incredibly novel experience to me. Ideas I tought were fun were shot down, while the community provided an endless stream of possibilities to improve areas that I never have considered.

For the simple incremental structure it has I got quite the engagement, with a thousand of players and an average session of 20minutes it was far beyond my expectations.

I also got back a ton of knowledge on the topic, which is nice.
In order for it to be a bug, wouldn't the universe have to be designed? I'd say pain and suffering are an emergent property of a complex / chaotic system. They're neither a feature nor a bug - they just are.
I imagine it'll further influence neighborhood design to be more punitive to this behavior (more cul de sacs and neighborhoods with a single entrance).

I saw an article talking about we often look at day-to-day congestion, but they looked at how different cities dealt with interruptions better than others. Cities with lots of back roads faired a lot better during a road closure, while other cities just stopped.
> Maybe they don't have or need interpolation hw or other GPU features?

Definitely, no need to do any kind of rasterization here.
> The team began this investigation more than a decade ago, when an F-Secure employee had a laptop stolen from a hotel room. Some of the staff began to wonder how easy it would be to hack the keycard locks

This seems like a very breezy assumption they're making about how that laptop got stolen.

People who run conference events (and who manage hotels) know that things like this are the deeds of hotel staff, not masked bandits picking the lock on your door.
Ask HN: Is it morally right to automate jobs people want?
I understand automation provides a lot of pros and cons. Some 'pros' include: it can reduce repetitive tasks, cut down on workplace injury, and offer greater efficiency a majority of the time. It's no surprise more companies are looking towards automation.

However, I believe there is a mismatch in terms of benefit to society and benefit to the corporations. Aside from initial capital and maintenance costs, automation provides businesses a way to profit without having to deal with the costs of paying and managing people. Assuming the role of the business is individualistic, the incentive is to pull in as much profit as possible, and work towards reducing costs. My takeaway from this is that self-interest also creates a lack of employee-interest.

For example, with low-skill, low-reward jobs such as cashier, most people may not care if they get automated (as we sort of have today with self-checkout/kiosks) since they were not very desirable jobs to begin with. Yet, what is to stop a business from automating other more "desirable" jobs that employees may actually want and enjoy doing, such as software developer, strategist, manager, etc. - the higher paying jobs that people train for and aspire for to put their productivity to good use. If it saves the business (or executives at the top) money by axing those jobs, my guess is that they will do it, regardless if it hurts their employees (or impacts greater society).

So with this in mind, where is the moral limit for automation?

Should we protect employees from having their jobs taken away for a more profitable alternative?

(I'm not counting on things like UBI in this instance because, sticking with the presumption of corporate self-interest, I'm not assuming that more profit = more paid in taxes for society, if taxes are another undesirable "cost" that businesses would want to reduce).
I know that myself and Petr were working totally in isolation just trying stuff out. We did what we could but it sure would have been helpful to have some clues :-)
I'm on the side of freemium. Enjoy all the hard work put into a quality app and pay to enhance your experience. Spotify is a great example (from the post). I was tired of hearing the ads and the limitations of only skipping a few songs. I gladly pay the monthly fee. Bring on the quality and I will be on board. (Ad free at that)
There's a socialist critique of SimCity here.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/10/les-simerables

The article argues that SimCity encodes a set of neoliberal assumptions into its game play that make imagining other forms of city-building impossible.
Physical access dynamics area always interesting. I used to visit data centers with high security to work on some equipment. I almost always had more access to more areas than the local employees. I had the magic hand that could open all doors. Many server guys couldn't physically access the data center floor, but I could, and I didn't even work for the company.

The only guys who had more access than I did.... their $15 an hour security guys and ... the janitors. Every room had a garbage can somewhere, someone had to get it... funny how that works.
Hah, that happened to me at the Canadian border. When asked what my profession was, I said "Computer Programmer", but my visa was issued for an "Architect". Had fun explaining that I am a "Software" Architect, not a building architect.
I quit my job to run a developer newsletter full time. Now it makes $3k/mo
Well, we are just waiting for that one :)
Sometime during year one at my university I was wandering the stacks, pulling books out at random to see what kinda stuff there was. It was 7 stories of stacks, including the basement which had these crazy moving shelves.

At one point I'm at a shelf and pulling out thin volumes with titles like (remembering poorly) "Shift calculations of blah blah style concrete," "weather effects on bloo blee cement," "compression formulas for heehaw company concrete," and so on. Book after book. Next shelf, same thing, entire volumes of concrete and cement research and data. All with different titles, different content, different authors.

As I moved down more I realized the entire row was books on concrete. How? was all I could wonder. How could there possibly be this much published information on concrete? Who dedicated significant amount of time to compile research, stick it in a thin volume, and then have it placed among a thousand others? What librarian chose these books?

I had a mild plan when going into college of reading a whole lot of everything I could get my hands on, but it was only then that I really grasped just how much information is available to mankind. It's truly unassailable. (probably relates well to the other article on the front page right now about the last man to know everything)
Would the world function more logically without appeals to morality and virtue? Probably. Pointing that out is really just an ego serving truth. Go ahead and violate the unwritten rules of your society just make sure you cash out before the reckoning comes (facebook, Shkreli, lootboxes, etc).
For reference, I used to be in web/mobile dev before working with OP. You can always transfer over, as to be honest a lot of the skills are transferable.

That said, space code has its own versions of webpack dependency hell...
some 30 years ago i could ask you: so you'll be totally content if 20 years from now society decides that gay people should be allowed to marry?

i'm not really sure what your point is. are you arguing that societal changes should be prohibited? well then: is the recent change towards equalization of gay people's rights ok? why? because you like it?

so, let's say we base our reasoning about our present-day society on the culture of 17xx AD England, because change is bad. well, we will have to roll back women's vote to right, not to mention all the modern nonsense that "negroes" are allowed today. but why stop at 17xx AD England: that society was the result of many changes from 10xx AD England. lots of change, and we've established that change is bad. but don't stop there: even 10xx AD England was a product of changes, and changes are bad...

btw, the answer to that non-sequitur of yours is "no i wouldn't." but i have to accept the bad with the good. democracy helped Hitler to the Chancellor title. i don't think we should get rid of democracy to prevent another Hitler.
> Only when the reference count is zero will the file data be removed.

Not even necessarily then, right? (That is, there's no guarantee that a file's data is zeroed out just because its reference count drops to 0.) It's more just that it's only when the reference count is 0 that the actual space occupied on disk can be overwritten.
These low-efficiency designs are low-efficiency because they have a lower temperature. The old ones were around 2400 K while these newer ones are more blue at 3000+ K. This is what I want to avoid for night lighting.
Definitely would be automating monthly reports at our company. Prior to building the system, it would take a week or two to collate all the data for our 200+ clients.

The system integrated with all our third-party analytics platforms that could handle all of our reports with a client of a button. Went from 1-2 weeks to 1-2 seconds.

Now we keep adding more and more integrations, and even our competitors want to use it.
No but he wouldn't be able to answer questions that go a bit deeper into what they claim they did or know but didn't/don't.
Apologies for the delay:

Power consumption - pretty much the same as Windows. I did enable tlp and put `powertop --auto-tune` in the startup.

Trackpad is fine but it suffers from the same issue my XPS 13 (2016) has under Linux - occasionally tap-to-click stops working. A couple of clicks and it comes back but it is annoying.

Wifi performance is awesome, i'll max out my 300mbit internet on it, it's a league above the 'killer wifi' that Dell persist with.

The biggest issue and one that's apparently shared with the new XPS models is that Microsoft decreed their 'connected standby' sleep modes can't coincide with s3 (normal sleep). As Linux doesn't seem to support the new mode you have to patch the initrd line to insert a new ACPI table. It's a pain in the arse but you only need to run it once on each BIOS update. It's detailed here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1_Carb...

Once that's done Fedora 28 is awesome on this, and the keyboard is leagues above the XPS or the latest Macbooks. Highly recommended.
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Indeed, that's also my experience. ImageNet is pretty huge (although 'it's the new MNIST') so that seems to help converging to very similar solutions and accuracies.

Tracking down bugs in convergence is really costly in these settings. We had a problem in pre-processing that took us quite a while to figure out...
Except Launchpad is entirely optional and not default for anything beyond being in the dock on new accounts.

GNOME, meanwhile, binds that thing to a top-left hot corner as well as the meta key, and it's the main way to search for stuff (meta key, start typing), and it's the only way to switch workspaces.

Of course, you can install a bunch of addons to work around some of this, but we're talking about sane defaults. GNOMEs are not.
Facebook, Google, the credit agencies, et al would need to make the argument, then, that collecting personal data is protected speech. Otherwise, whats the legal objection?
I worked summers in college as a garbage man and laborer for my town department of public works.

My current side-hustle is guiding kayak trips with local outfitters. I am looking forward to retiring into that.
Unlikely, given Volvo has publicly stated (https://www.volvocars.com/en-ca/about/our-stories/vision-202...):

”Our vision is that by 2020 no one should be killed or seriously injured in a new Volvo car.”
I'm currently a solo UX at a start up, and I have dabbled with FE dev for past few years.

I am a bit frustrated with how the FE operates with this company, they don't seem to care about ensuring good UX, I'm not even involved in their sprint cycle, they just build things AND THEN ask me to fix the UX if someone points out how terrible the products are. (And obviously with TONS of restrictions saying the codebase/architecture wouldn't allow it - smh)

I understand I'm still new to the company(4months), but this has been by far the worst design-FE collaboration I've ever experienced. I tried to schedule a meeting to address these issues in a professional manner, but they canceled it and said it's not important for the company now.

I really take joy in solving problems for people with good UX but now I just come in to work to design CEO pitch decks in PPT and get paychecks... the pay is alright but it is really not rewarding at all professionally. Should I jump this ship? Do you guys have any advice for me?
Will your location be impacted by brexit?
I got in at ~$12 two years ago, was down 26% for most of that (I'm long, and don't care much for intra-day volatility). I hope it will crawl back up, but I'm increasingly bearish on this one.

Without investors pouring money in it, the R&D will stall and that's not something they can sustain. One of the few reasons they haven't been bought yet is because that will invalidate their license sharing with Intel. So I guess the other strategy is to simply bleed them dry. I mean just think about it. They build GPUs, just like NVidia. They build CPUs, just like Intel. They have their own fabrication process, logistics, research, the whole thing. Their chips don't perform much worse, even better in the mid-range tier. Yet AMD is valued at 9, instead of like 5x or even 10x as much. The people with the money are holding a grudge or something, and I can't see them keeping it up for much longer.
Non-AMP link: https://rumorsontheinternets.org/2010/10/14/magnasanti-the-l...
Also, in case this clears up some confusion, I was using the nonstandard definition in some posts because I inferred that this was the definition you were using.
Thanks for the info. "Rugged service" or "long life" seem to be the magic words for finding them.
Because reading someone else's proprietary code exposes the company potentially to liability? Not just claims of IP theft, but there would have to be legal vetting that you have the right to show that code in the first place. Also, I have no way to confirm how much of the code you wrote yourself.
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>You mean it has the super functional snap to window edge that windows 10 has

See how opinions work?
Usually when I'm critical of Linux (in a desktop context), it's because I see a lot of potential for Linux to be the absolute best desktop platform out there. It already blows away the competition on a lot of different metrics, but some parts of the overall user experience do sometimes feel clunky or buggy or otherwise non-optimal, and it'd be awesome for that to someday not be the case.

A desktop Linux distro could combine the user-friendliness of the Mac world with the power-user-friendliness of the (pre-8) Windows world and turn both up to eleven while bringing its own element of stability and dependability. It won't get there unless problems - even if they seem minor - are identified and resolved.
I never noticed until now. (After just posting a comment that I stuck with Xfce to avoid crap like that...)
Ask HN: Why is everyone updating their privacy policies now?
I've gotten email notifications from 6-8 tech companies recently about privacy policy updates. Is this just them getting ahead of GDPR, or related to the Facebook fiasco, both?

The emails invariably describe what they changed in the equivalent of "bug fixes and performance improvements" but no real details.
But where are children getting the money to spend on this? Shouldn't their parent know better than to let them spend $100 on stickers or loot boxes. Passing the regulation on to the governments seems like an unnecessary measure to me.
this might be of interest to you
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> I had time to customize stuff when I was a kid, now it's time to work.

That's me exactly. I used to love tweaking Enlightenment(?) into a Hollywood-worthy environment.

These days if I tweak something, it's probably to select a larger font because my eyesight isn't what it used to be.