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Maybe I'm off base here, but to me, meetings are not nearly as big a disruption to my IC work as random interruptions from teammates. Meetings are usually planned and able to be worked around and scheduled for. There is typically an agenda, and if there isn't, it's very simple to ask for one. If it's not valuable, don't go, or leave. If you must go, you can often get the meeting rescheduled - people in engineering organizations are surprisingly accommodating of the maker's schedule.

A random interruption by an engineer when you're trying to focus is much more disruptive because it's unplanned and often pulls you right out of the zone. Often times, especially for more senior engineers, an enormous amount of patience has to be practiced as you listen to someone ramble on as the context in your head flutters away, while they go in circles explaining the problem to themselves.

This is all part of the job though. People don't have all the answers and the questions are often poorly defined. My skills wouldn't be nearly as valuable if the problems were so cut and dry that I could just program a solution straight through without interrupting anyone for clarity. I don't quite get the hang wringing over being interrupted. It happens, and it happens especially more as you get more senior. Some of the best solutions to problems I've come up with have not been technical, but have come about by talking to people and realizing that maybe the technical solution we were pursuing wasn't the best one, and we could save a lot of time and money by solving the problem a different way.
No, it's 2018, we need some new app to disrupt the tried-and-true method of message delivery.
But it would also be easy for the manager to say "No, meetings are the tax you pay for being part of the organization."

I am moving teams at the end of the month and I look forward to suggesting this to my new manager, perhaps just a day or two to start and review the VCS after a few weeks to see how much more gets done on those day(s). I just think it would be very easy for a manager, especially a non-technical one, to disregard this entirely.
Any sane gateway would block any access to anything from RFC1918, and using a private IP address for a public service is a bad idea in general.
It's not a Web browser because you can't browse the Web with it.

In my view, Electron does not embed a browser, it does embed a HTML/CSS/JS renderer.
IIRC 7-Zip has explicitly decided not go get signed. It doesn’t help all that much anyway, SmartScreen still catches your application and nags the user.

Unfortunately, I cannot seem to find any reference, so I might remember it wrong or it wasn’t about 7-Zip or whatever. The thing with SmartScreen is (unfortunately) still true.
"..some people in the UK who think that unemployed people in the UK can get away with not doing anything."

As someone who was unemployed for a while in the late 90's, it was possible. I believe the system is a lot stricter now but a lot of people base their ideas on past experience.

I have a friend who has been long-term unemployed due to health reasons. He has to attend courses and such from time to time, which he actually enjoys because he would like to work. He does a bit of voluntary work too.

The story all seems to be the same though, on the first day there are maybe 20 people who turn up and by the end of the week most of them have dropped out.

I don't know the facts but, just guessing, maybe there are still ways of playing the system?
Ask HN: What ratio of users choose a “magic link” to log in?
I've been seeing more and more usage of the "magic link" (submit email address, receive tokenized URL in an email, click link to sign in) pattern in web _and_ mobile apps.

I, myself, tend to favor it. I'm skeptical of the general public's acceptance, though.

For those of you building apps with both options, what numbers are you seeing around its adoption?

Thanks!
Thx! Will fix!
Time machine people, time machine! :)
And were exposed to different types of pollution, stress, and all sorts of stuff.
A time-traveling hunting guide operation will have to pay a big fine in another couple of centuries...
Could be I suppose - though before announcing something like this you'd think they'd check more frequently.

In addition, I'm assuming the dating has a margin of error which was not stated in the article, so I'm curious what this margin is. (But even so, I doubt it's a large enough margin to get close to the 600k that was stated, which is already 'far out there')
Not as good of a headline.
> but not actively searching a job (because they are on the dole)

Depends on the country, but in most to draw the dole you have to be "actively searching for a job" (at least in the sense that would count for these stats).

What this figure _would_ exclude would be retired people and those on permanent disability.
It's one of those difficult things. You have to restart and run all to make sure your code is working and your state hasn't gone fudgy, but you also don't want to re-run that cell that took 3 hours to run unless you have to.

My personal best practice is to 'restart and run all' to run the entire thing before I commit it to github. Jupyter git integration is a whole separate bag of worms, as the combination of presentation/code violates some core git assumptions.
It doesn't have to be linked to age, just a yearly probability summed over more years.

Then you can start adding in the things that make people live longer, like less heart disease per year of life, etc., and you get the same effect they are charting.
Yes it's a rant. It's born entirely out of frustration on a bad day.

I called him crooked because he dealt drugs to his favourite staff, or gave them coke as a reward. He was eventually on Crime Watch UK for fraud. The pay rise was to get people up to minimum wage.

Not that that matters - it was still a rant. I'm not going to apologise for that, though. Sometimes it happens.
Interesting. I don't know that I've felt imposter syndrome since my first year or two as a programmer. If this persists for a long time in to your career, yet you've received pay raises, promotions and positive feedback from your manager/colleagues, perhaps it is time to start questioning your belief that you don't belong. While I'm not sure if imposter syndrome is common, almost everyone holds beliefs about themselves that are either not true or that while true, are not useful and could be reframed in a way to be more useful. Most people don't question these beliefs, but we could all do ourselves a favor if we regularly questioned our self judgements a bit more.
It's a fascinating idea from science fiction perspective, but moving the Moon anywhere will probably have devastating effects on the Earth's biosphere
> "I hate email. Sometimes I won't get an answer for a few hours, or sometimes until the next day" -- Coworker

It's definitely a culture thing. I've worked with teams across the spectrum, and, personally, I definitely lean far towards async communication being the best most of the time. There's times when you can't beat a whiteboard session, but those are the exception for me.
What created math?

I don't see how the essentially magical appearance of an incredibly complex set of axioms from nothing at all is a plausible answer to the 'Why something instead of nothing?" question.

To be clear, I have absolutely no idea how to answer that question. I'm certainly not a closet theist. My best guess is that a useful answer is currently some way beyond our pay grade as a species.

So I don't find "Because math" to be any more convincing as an answer than suggesting god did it.
File this under the no shit category
Because a store of value is a theoretical construct that is never actually realized.

There is no such thing as a perfect store of value. Luxury goods and status objects can go out of vogue. Foods spoil. Houses need constant maintenance. Land's value can shift based on regional demand or even be destroyed by changes in climate - too much water, too little water. Currencies can fail and even personal favors fade over time.
That looks beautiful. Does Qt/QML support the full power of the JS ecosystem? (bleeding edge or at least modern JS, npm)
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I can't agree more.

If a company asks cookie-cutter questions and gives out cookie-cutter exercises to complete, then they shouldn't be surprised when they also make a number of bad hires that were just developers that knew how to pass these "tests".

On the other hand, as you say, if you sit down, ask them to talk about their experience, and shut up and listen, you're going to learn really quick if they are a BS artist or actually know what they're doing.

I also really like your idea of working through problems with the interviewer. I imagine it gives the interviewer some pretty important insight into how well the person breaks down a complex task into some semblance of an architecture, as well as how good they are at keeping such an architecture clean and simple.
Instagram asked for my phone number and permission to read texts so it could connect(and read all my text).
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Wouldn't "passive decay" mean it's not based on fission -- but the article and video both mention fission...?
Doesn't seem to work in Safari 11.1 (desktop) either.
To be fair, that argument depends on the properties of evolved pathogens. A designed pathogen, in the context of the GP post, would not necessarily be bound by that dilemma.
Third level education was free until recently and is still far, far cheaper than cost. It's also a fairly wealthy country.
ZTE imports most of its chips from the United States and its allies. Without these chips, it cannot manufacture the majority of its products. Its future is now unknown, and the stocks have stopped being traded.
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Human bodies are vastly different and one of the biggest difficulties is finding compounds that work the same 99% of the time, with minimal but known and treatable side effects.

There's a reason this research takes so long. Things might have gotten to market sooner decades ago, but it all comes down to a trade-off with potential good vs safety. When political maneuvering gets in the way, you can get things like the Vioxx disaster. Even with Vioxx, FDA monitoring and procedures did do what they were suppose to in identifying the problem and pulling it off the market.

The biggest problem really seems to be money, resources and funding the research. You might discover something promising, but your company will need to pay all those people, buy equipment and purchase animals to go forward. If you get to monkeys and lose a single one, you gotta go back to the beginning. You might find a side effect in 5% that's really bad/serious and your entire compound might need to be scrapped.

Companies need to make money off of those investments so the compounds that do succeeded might become insanely expensive. The entire process is pretty backwards and I know people who are biochemists in this field who get paid really shitty despite their important work. A lot of money goes to equipment, but a lot also goes to management and cronies in the shops that can fund this stuff.

It's a mess. There needs to be a better, not-for-profit model where a failed compound doesn't matter as much.
When has success ever stopped business breaking the law?
> the current administration is no more racist than the last (if anything it is less racist)

That reads like ideological boilerplate attempting to pass as fact.

Can you back it up with something objective?
I've used Questions for Confluence before. I've noticed that from the "supply side" (someone writing documentation), it's not better than writing a Confluence article. From the "demand side" (someone having a question), it doesn't beat the immediacy of Slack. So while I'm glad to have the option to have team SO, I'm not sure it solves the documentation problem better than other tools.
I think there is a problem with too many meetings though. I used to have morning and afternoon meetings every day. Certainly made my schedule full but also meant I got less done.
"Publish your Games into the AppStore with almost native performance".

This had me laughing. Maybe too honest.
For anyone interested: https://www.mirror.co.uk/opinion/money-opinion/p-s-investiga...
Wikipedia defines it as, “In international law and business, patent trolling or patent hoarding is a categorical or pejorative term applied to a person or company that attempts to enforce patent rights against accused infringers far beyond the patent's actual value or contribution to the prior art....”

It goes on to say that patent trolls often don’t make products using the patents, but this is not always the case.

That definition seems a lot better than one limited to a non-practicing entity.
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I have previously read that for some reason the author disables most of the compiler options for things like ASLR and DEP

I never managed to find out why

edit: just found this: https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/feature-requests/1270/ -- seems rather questionable considering MS give away the latest compilers for free
The jargon exists because the category is useful in answering the question "how is the economy doing".

If we included people who are retired then we would see unemployment go up and down in correlation with generation sizes: when the baby boomers retire the number of "unemployed" people would go up dramatically. But that confuses the picture of whether businesses are hiring.
My guess: Because 7zip is not a good auto update software (does it even warn if there is a new version?) this security bug is HUGE!

Just give you an example: Many Germans think that http://www.7-zip.de/ is the official site and you still download 16.04 there.
Ask HN: What would you do with $100K cash?
I have around $50k sitting in a couple 401k accounts. The rest of my savings, somewhere around $100k, is sitting entirely in cash right now. In all likelihood, I'm not going to spend the time required doing research to invest any of it in individual stocks, so what should I do with it? Mutual funds, index funds, real estate, crypto?
Not me. I'd take dplyr and related libraries over pandas any day. I've been using pandas for 6 years and I'm still regularly tripped up by parts of its API.
It's a lot worse than the prediction regarding the VW scandal and that continues to make headlines today.

http://news.mit.edu/2017/volkswagen-emissions-premature-deat...
Nope don't like it at all.
I would think that such phones did not have as high powered radios as a cellular phone due to less transmission distance required. I also have the impression that they weren't overly popular because of the ease of eavesdropping.

If analog cordless phones captured interference from fluorescent lighting and automotive ignition systems[1], does that mean there is a vast array of things that could cause health effects via RF?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordless_telephone
Lately it feels like all I do are meetings. I never feel like I'm doing any work.
Amazon is slowly eating the world of retail. The amount of pure power that Amazon has is a scary thought.
I just got a Jabra Evolve 75 headset for work a few months ago, and I'm super happy with it. It's got reasonably good ANC, and while it covers the ears, it does not envelop them like most other ANC headsets, so no more sweaty ears for me.
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Amazon Prime Video's Growth Outpaces Netflix in UK
Pretty big thing to not mention TBH, given the odds are so slim once you take the track's take into account.
EV Code signing certs get you immediate trust with Smart Screen. Recently discussed over on the bootstrapped forum: http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/t/code-signing-certificate-re...

Regular, non-EV code-signing certs, aren't as useful as they were when Vista / Windows 7 were the main Windows OSes.
> It doesn’t help all that much anyway, SmartScreen still catches your application and nags the user.

Windows 10, in the default configuration, won't let you install unsigned applications at all. It might "nag" early downloaders when a certificate is present but you can override that (and the nagging stops eventually due to popularity).

But more importantly, if the site were ever compromised, it makes it easier to spot if a compromised binary is posted. Since hopefully the bad guy wouldn't have the code signing certificate. Right now the official binary looks like a compromised version.
> As a result, they are implemented to be as simple as possible and don't let you express rules like "You can open /etc/ld.so.conf but nothing else in /etc".

OpenBSD's pledgepaths (..soon to be renamed?) will address this, but in general "hoisting" the opening of files before pledge or "sandboxing" is often correct.

The proposed semantics for pledgepath are explicit paths/files are allowed, and must be done before any pledge including "rpath/wpath" or "cpath".

pledgepath("/etc/aaa", perms)
pledgepath("/etc/bbb", perms)

Where future open*(2) calls to "/etc/aaa" and "/etc/bbb" succeed, but anything else returns -1/ENOENT.

I suspect Bob Beck's talk at BSDCan 2018 in June will be interesting, to say the least..

http://www.bsdcan.org/2018/schedule/events/968.en.html
I think that's just short term thinking: When the sun expands into a red giant, the gas drag will slow down the moon. I think that means it will crash into the earth if it's not removed before.
You're taking some kind of global, government level point of view. It doesn't help individuals like me and my peers who have already made the fundamental commitments to being healthy and now want to watch out for new dangers. I'm not going to wait around for the rest of the world to wake up, smell the coffee, and live a healthy lifestyle like me before accepting research on new, unknown potential dangers.

There is plenty of coverage of the risks of smoking, bad diet and lack of exercise. It's in schools, it's in government materials, it's in posters, on packs of cigarettes, TED talks. There are non-profits dedicated to this causes creating propaganda. There are even national fitness and stop smoking days. No one in the world can claim, "Oh really? smoking isn't healthy? damn, I wish I'd known that!" They're making choices for themselves (modulo addiction and cognitive difficulties). I don't know how much more coverage would personally satisfy you.

Calling the article about cell phone risk sensationalized is out of proportion and not just a cute exaggeration. This is simply another article in a newspaper that runs hundreds of articles a day. If it were on a billboard, if television was interrupted, if a national holiday were declared, these kinds of things might render it sensational. However, it's simply a news article on a web page between an ad for women's clothing an a breast cancer medicine ad.

Maybe you think information about new health risks should be stowed further in favor of improving the health of people in general. If you feel strongly about that and you're not just trolling, I urge you to take some action and attempt to change peoples' minds about smoking, diet and exercise yourself, because you haven't changed my mind at all about the importance of researching and publishing the potential risks of cell phones.
Also they are offering promotional pricing - before July 1st it's $4.15/user.
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Did you gamble experience help you in real life (in case you work for some trading company)?
What do people use for doing TLS client certificates with the Yubikey? I’ve tried:

- Yubikey as PIV token, works well on Windows, other OSes require OpenSC, doesn’t play nicely if you want to use GPG as well

- Yubikey as GPG token only, and using Scute as a PKCS11 emulator on top of GPG agent.

I’m currently using the scute method, but it doesn’t play that well with Windows (Cryptographic Service Provider), and Scute itself doesn’t seem that well used or maintained. Ideally I’d be able to use my Yubikey as a GPG card and have seemless TLS client auth and Windows Smartcard logon.
It's still a candidate. It's moving backwards rather than forwards on its acceptance criteria, and realistically won't be joining anytime soon, but it's still a candidate.
That's a reasonable hypothesis. Still just a hypothesis of course.
Make it available in India. I'd like to test and provide feedback.
You would be surprised how the devil always emerges in the details when you move to real applications from academic exercises and datasets.

I definitely use a lot of statistics daily. I do not need to compute integrals by hand or construct formal proofs, but a lot of intuition is necessary.

Statistics is very tricky by the way. It is so easy to have incorrect assumptions and totally misapply the methods. Also another problem with ML in general is that if you make an error you very often do not notice it. The methods will usually work a bit worse but they will still kinda work.

Just yesterday I discovered a tricky feedback loop that corrupted my data for several weeks.
Thanks for the change!
Musk's comments from yesterday's earnings call:

"We have a slight laughable lawsuit recently from some company ironically called Nikola. Nikola is suing Tesla. That's hilarious. Fate loves irony. But they're suing us because the way the trucks look, which is absurd. Nobody's buying a Semi truck because the way it looks, or because going to wraparound windshield or whatever. Please."

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4169027-tesla-tsla-q1-2018-...
Are we all mature enough to agree that we can still acknowledge that Cell phones might cause cancer in some people, and still be pro Technology? I dont see that much in the comments here. Poo-poo-ing this cancer issue is not helpful.
I didn't realize that so thanks for pointing it out. But sometimes I also comment for third parties reading along to pick up some info as well.
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Most people I've ever worked with treat email as an immediate conversation. If you don't respond within 20 minutes (and typically within 5) they'll send another, try me over chat, or even call and immediately go "did you see my email?"

I sometimes takes days to respond, unless something is truly urgent – which of course it almost never is. For whatever reason this pisses some people off, but they also learn that the best way to get an immediate answer out of me is to call (I work 100% remote.)
Why 'tried'? It's still there and OS X itself is progressively making it less trivial for random unauthenticated code to do whatever it wants in general.
The individual meetings aren't a big interruption on their own, but their scheduleing is usually the problem. I frequently will have half hour meetings in a day but sprinkled throughout the day, which means I am always just getting back into the zone when trying to work.

When you combine that with coworker interruptions and the need to eat I can end up with an entire day where I can't solve anything more than trivial problems.

I can always stay late or work on the weekends but I don't really have any desire to eat into my free time because management wants to constantly hear updates from me every day about how the very work they are interrupting is going
Isn't it true that anatomically modern homo sapiens date back 400,000 years? Go back further, and you probably have something close to a chimp. Chimps hunt in packs, so I'm not surprised some hominid group could bring down a Rhino 700,000 years ago.
Israel isn't an EU, EEA or EFTA member, or candidate for EU membership.
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