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"The other side thinks blockchain is practically useless, the most overhyped technology ever created, a bubble never-before seen in history."

I really think the bubble side of crypto currencies is wildly overstated, the total market cap is tiny in comparison to any massively over leveraged asset (housing,student loans) etc.

Whilst BTC and others may be in a bubble even if they crashed to zero now it would pale compared to bubbles within the last 20 years.
Obviously the whole account -- they're concerned with charging for usage, not how one splits it.
"Smart" isn't a single-dimensional space where you're either smarter or dumber than someone else. You're probably a lot smarter about your domain than anyone else, including top brass. The trick is that those other people operate in different domains in which "smart" looks a bit different.

The antidote is humility. Genuinely and in good faith assume that other people can teach you something. Get out of the habit of asking yes/no questions where you define the premise (except transactional interactions), ask how, what etc. You'll quickly meet people who are smart in domains you barely knew existed.
I'm actually okay with using "blockchain" to mean "distributed Merkle tree" if that's what people want. Just be clear about what properties you want so nobody builds mining into your system when unnecessary.
Sorry to break it to you but HN is exactly the same. The difference is that the hive mind here doesn't like memes.

Groupthink still exists.
HGH supplementation is not a good idea for full grown adults. It makes _everything_ grow, including eg the heart muscle.
yes, it is!
It isn't binary. Neither is there a binary choice between ending the company, and letting them do whatever.
the article acknowledges that it is also an issue for men. There is no reason to imagine the 'fix' only applies to women.
I explained why: to not create a harmful stereotype that women are the only ones affected, or even more affected by it than men. Why must everything be about identity politics?
They will not ask for location like that, because it wouldn't make a difference - EU citizens in a non-EU part of the world still have the rights outlined in the GDPR.
Try and pull your savings out of a bank when there is a bank run.

I agree with the poster above, BTC and others may be in a bubble but the bubble is tiny compared to other asset classes and previous bubbles.
Yeah, do I have a domain name and used my own domain with gmail.
But it sounds volatile to me, if (for some reason) I lose my domain I'd miss a good part of my communications.
Thanks for your advice, I'll see what I can do.
I have the feeling 90% of people who think they have imposter syndrome are just bad at what they do.

Just because you work with people who are even wors doesn't make you good.

And just because people who are worse than you act like they not doesn't make you better either.
My problem with it is the underlying ecological damage. There is a declining ecological space for these whales (due to krill fishing). OP was arguing that the argument for culling would be to keep them at this constantly declining number.

To use your deer analogy, it would be like cutting down half a forest ("fishing" the deer food), then saying you need to cull half the deer herd to keep them from overpopulation. Then judging by history, the forest would be cut in half the following year. Before long you have no deer left.
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Exactly. We tend to judge other people by their actions, but we judge ourselves by our intentions.

Similarly, we tend to judge others' intelligence by their achievements, but we judge our own by what we could do.
The absolute worst is when you do point something out, and people laugh and say, "haha! yeah it's always been like that! ha!"

Like - so we should do something about it, right? This thing that would dramatically improve our lives that is really obvious to everyone. Shouldn't we do it?

Turns out, nope. It's always been like that.
This is great advise, I also find talking to the right people about doubts helps too, we all get trapped by our doubts, and it's up to us to free ourselves from those doubts, but sometimes you need to hear from someone else that it's all just a mirage and you were never really trapped to push forward.
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Something tells me you just read the latest XKCD.
"The problem with Zookeeper is that a change in the topology can take a lot of time to be detected. For example, if a host is down, it can take up to several seconds to be detected. This is way too long for us, as in one second will have potentially thousands of indexing jobs to process on the cluster and we need to have a master that attributes an ID to be able to handle them. So we have built our own election algorithm based on RAFT."

Thats a bold move. Afaik the timeouts in Zookeeper can be tuned, no?
The title should really be "Facebook promises 'clear history' feature" as it has been promised but not yet delivered.
I think cool tech stretches farther back than that. Sure us Gen X engineers didn't have the Internet growing up, but we had Star Trek, Star Wars, the space shuttle, arcades, Apple II's, etc to inspire us to become engineers. And don't forget the Internet bubble of the late 90's; that surely would have brought a lot of fresh faces into tech.
I wish I learned to take care of my health at a younger age. Of course, I'm overdue to go to the dentist, so perhaps I'm still struggling with that.

I wish I had learned not to have a fear of other people at a younger age. It's easy to say that I was "shy". I think it went much further than that. I'm in a place where I don't speak the common language, and let me tell you how hard it is to learn a language when you are "shy".

I wish I learned to recognize abusive behaviors and asshole-ism much earlier than I did. I occasionally shock people by telling a story where awful stuff happened and at the time I didn't think anything was wrong.

I wish I learned whatever it is that makes people want to hire you in interviews. I've been through thousands of interviews, and the only jobs I've ever gotten are ones where I wasn't interviewed. Even when recommended for jobs, where I'm perfect for the position and the job is perfect for me, I've never gotten hired that way. Most jobs don't easily let you in the back door; usually you still have to go through an interview process. I still don't have this one sorted out, even if the previous two I have down much better.
Growing up in clean(-ish) LA air already gave me that hope.
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That's actually another reason why pair programming is good: The interview is just as much a signal to the candidate as it is to the employer. If the developer he's pair-programming with is a douche, it's a good sign for the candidate to run and not look back.
I've been in software for 14 years without a computer science degree and carry a chip on my shoulder because I missed out on algorithms and compilers in school. I'm mostly self-taught and have had the opportunity to run a SAAS company for six years now (CodePen).

I'm winging it like many other people in our industry. I wish I'd had two things to when I started my career.

1. A right of passage that endorsed my skills as a competent developer (or that educated me on what skills I'd yet to learn).

Something equivalent to what doctors have when they receive a medical license and become board certified.

After five years on the job, no one cares about your cute degree but the 21-year-old version of me who knew nothing and was a tiny bit terrified of being found incompetent cared.

You are born with a level of confidence (unsubstantiated and unproven), but you can also earn it by doing a substantial amount of work.

A right of passage within the software industry that showed a fundamental level of competency beyond the fizz-buzz test would've worked wonders for the young me.

2. A formal mentor.

I spent years flailing within technology. I learned the wrong things, dove deep into the wrong technology (Java Swing :|) and made obvious mistakes. In retrospect, I would have paid to work for a capable mentor when I started who could have validated my work and guided my efforts.

Alas, software development is free, unregulated and open to all. That is what makes it beautiful. That is what makes it frustrating.
The guy's job was apparently to check out profiles of people that may present a security threat. So if his job was to look at profile data all day, in this specific case his firing would almost have to be reactionary, because his nefarious activities would have looked like normal job activity to any auditing program. We only know his activities were nefarious because he said so. A developer or people in almost any other position for that matter would likely have been caught proactively.
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But at the same time doung nothing to prevent IP spoofing.
HN has some serious facebook derangement syndrome going on.
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The backups that you can retain are hard to justify further back than about a year (if you even manage to do that), and if you ever use them you have to make sure the data that was deleted because of a request before is not in there again.
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Thank you for your follow up. 5 jobs in 22 years doesn’t seem that extreme to me, especially if you had a legit story to go along with it. Do you think the company you work for now only wants you for 1.1 years?

Out of curiousity, in what region do you live?
Have you tried https://hn.algolia.com?
"The bigger issue here is that they reacted to this event, rather than proactively managing it."

They may well be proactively managing it, but you don't hear about it when those actions are taken?
I think honesty is a good way to fight against this syndrome.
State what you know, state when you have problems, and be open about your results. That way simply doing your best should be enough.
File a non-BS patent for something you invent and see it awarded. Found a $100m corporation. Win a nobel prize. Become a household name author.

Smart is a spectrum and ego is the enemy if your goal is true greatness. Otherwise you’re just going to be stuck feeling smug that you’re in the 1% when there is this whole other level you could be operating in if you stopped feeling so good about yourself.
This is a genuine question with no snark intended (sometimes we need to clarify stuff like this on the internet hah).

What's the overall energy expenditure for all fiat production,maintenance, asset storage (gold), mining of assets etc?

There are some interesting developments in the crypto sphere moving away from high energy proof or work to a holding system (Proof of stake).
From my experience, if you become too entangled in abstract tasks, this impostor feelings starts to inevitably creep in, as you don’t have an actual measure of success for what you are doing.

So my take is that once you start feeling that, you should find a manual hobby, something that you produce with your hands, by your effort, even if simple things. In my case, I sew. Since I do manual work, crafting solutions for mundane things, I see the results of what I’m doing, I have a direct contact between doing something and achieving something — again, even if just a mundane thing.

This takes me out of my abstract world, where I tend to get lost, and from measuring myself by the standards of others in tasks that are not quantifiable in terms of real competence. By doing manual work, I take a much needed break from the my intelectual work and demands. For a bit I feel more like a normal person, competent enough to do this particular manual job.
I was discussing this with a friend just last week. He too believes it is wrong to ask for a home assignment. But I have serious anxiety problems so I find whiteboard coding tests terribly difficult. Same thing with pair programming -- it's fine when you know the other person as colleague, but impossible for me in a "judgy" interview situation.

I'd rather do it at home.
The TomTom Routing API offers directions based on real-time and predictive traffic. You can check it out for free: https://developer.tomtom.com/online-routing

Note: I work for TomTom
I make a decent living improving software to make real people's lives easier. I'll probably never be a millionaire but I'll never have trouble sleeping at night. There are plenty of points in my career where I could've chosen to make more money by selling something that doesn't work to idiots, and I don't regret missing out on any of them.
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Get better at what you want to do.
Disillusionment: "a feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be."

> Not really.

How so?
That won't work. They also cannot retain data that could be aggregated to identify you as a person. Anonymising by removing an ID is not actually doing that, it's just theater. The GDPR has provisions for that. Bottom line is: if you start fudging things or working around it, you're going to get fined.
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It needs to be useful for something other than just "being a store of value". Gold 'works' as well as it does because there's at least something tying it down to market fundamentals. You can make jewelry out of it, you can coat electrical contacts with it. There's reasons besides collective psychology that gold is worth something particular which isn't $0.

A digital asset like Bitcoin has nothing tying it down to market fundamentals at all unless there's something else to do with it. It's a disconnected number flapping about in the wind. And as we've observed, since the value people ascribe to a Bitcoin is entirely psychological, the price can do anything. I'm not storing my value in anything I can't be fairly certain will have similar or greater value in the future. A Bitcoin that could be used as a currency would have some inherent value, because being able to use something as currency is valuable.

Something has to be at least a little useful for its value to be reliable. (Having a trusted organization, which you expect to be around for a long time, that promises to exchange it for something useful counts as being useful itself.)
There might be many bad aspects about cryptocurrencies.

But they don't have to be perfect, they just need to be better than what currently exists.

ACH and SWIFT are, at their very best, mediocre and sad when technologically compared to blockchain.

In fairness though, if all transactions made it into a blockchain, fewer and fewer people would be able to store it in their computers, let alone process it.
To make it more clear: I'm not trying to defend anyone in a case I know nothing about, but if there is further evidence that cannot be made public, a non-exposing description of that evidence must be the central piece of the article, not some screenshot that only stirs emotion because someone used the word "stalker". With that as the focal point, the article makes it all seem like a baseless witchhunt and that can only be harmful to the cause.
Actually I am scared of them stopping to work one day. That hard drive crash was enough emotional turbulence already. :(
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A lot of non-programmers simply can't discern the difference in output of a senior dev and a junior one. Like I recently realized, junior devs can appear massively productive because they can copy another part of the system and simply modify it. The output looks the same, but without that code made by someone with much more experience, they'd be lost.

If I'm brutally honest with myself, I used to think I was a lot better than I was.

I could fix any bug, I could add loads of new functionality. I was great.

What I wasn't appreciating was that the senior devs had set up an architecture for me to succeed. They'd laid out the code and made the loads of small decisions born of experience that meant I was basically coding with training wheels. I could simply look at how they'd done it and use the same technique. I didn't have to make any decisions, nor was I aware of the decisions they'd made.

What I've seen since is where someone's employed graduates to build something from scratch, those systems are a real mess. They literally code themselves into corners. Adding new functionality becomes harder and harder until they quit and the client has to call in the big boys.

I remember chatting to a senior contract game dev a year or two ago at a meetup, he was complaining that he never got to make a game. He always got called in at the end to optimise the game and do the best he could to fix the stupid architecture decisions the cheap, disposable, inexperienced game devs they'd used to make the game had made.
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It's missing the actual exploit, no?
It does seem that way. I think the middle ground in that debate is occupied mostly by people who just don't know much about blockchain on the one hand and people like myself, who expect very good OR very bad consequences to come from the technology, but are unsure how to raise the odds of the good outcome and don't even all agree on which are which.
You should evaluate the TomTom offering too. https://developer.tomtom.com/store/maps-api
The opposite would be the Dunning-Kruger effect: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect

There's also the (closely related) illusory superiority effect (i.e. "everyone's an above average driver"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority

Consulting disabused me of this mindset pretty quickly. As I took on tasks outside my expertise (e.g. project management, contract negotiation, marketing, devops, etc.), I had direct proof that said expertise was far more limited than I'd realized. I might be good at engineering (and even there, I've gained more of an appreciation for where my skillset starts and ends), but there's a lot I don't know.

Aside from that: talk to people outside your field, and take the time to deeply listen. Nearly everyone I talk to, whether they're a field biologist, a welder, a sommelier, a lawyer, or an art history expert, takes something for granted that I have no idea about. In many cases, I've been surprised by how deep and interesting knowledge outside my field can be, and I've been forced to re-evaluate my earlier belief that engineers are somehow superior to other walks of human life.

For instance: did you know that humans exhibit marked sex differences in olfactory perception? [1] I learned this from a scientifically-minded wine expert on the bus from Montréal to Toronto. That's the kind of thing I'm talking about: people know things you can't imagine.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4221136/
> Cash is a decentralized payment system for most intents. So the question becomes: Do I need a digital decentralized payment system? Does one need them?

Cash is not decentralized. Governments can print as much as they want.
Well said.

Even a "generalist" is [from a high-level perspective] a specialist.
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NPM guys explain it in the blog today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16975025
I’m slightly over 40. Recently, I’ve been interviewing, and almost all of the focus has been on how I solve their ‘coding challenge’. Few questions about software engineering practices, algorithms or data structures, about how to approach challenging problems, make trade offs, or ship software.

It all comes down to if I can solve a problem like “Given an NxM matrix of integer strings, print true if any row, column, or diagnonal contains only palindromic numbers that can be written as the sum of consecutive squares.“ Oh, and on some random guy’s laptop, with a panel of 4 people watching me type as they sit in silence, and with 20 minutes remaining.

When I look back at all of my career successes (leading engineering teams through 10 successful commercial products, 4 startups, 3 acquisitions, millions of users, etc.), coding was hardly important.

I guess it’s time to retire.
Interesting read - This is actually how a ton of game trainers/bots are made (especially ones used by Chinese gold farms in MMORPGs), along with private servers (except the other way around, where you send packets to the client). For some games, the bots are advanced enough where they can interact with all of the game's network protocol and behave similarly to a human, all while just being a 'terminal' for the game that sends custom packets. Hacking games via packet manipulation is nothing new either - I remember one of the big MMOs ~10 years ago having an exploit which would allow anyone to delete anyone else's in-game guild, and similarly, log into any user's account under some specific conditions.
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> I believe it’s simply easier to manipulate younger devs into taking lower salaries

I agree with this, but just wanted to add how interesting it is that it occurs in a country ostensibly run by a system which is ostensibly about the power of labour.
Also encryption done well should not rely on some particular hardware being closed or the algorithm secrete, like this system does, but only on the secrete that the user know, the password or other authentication methods.

Like disk encryption with Linux, you select a robust password, or you can store a key in whatever way you want, you enter your password on boot and unlock the disk, if you PC broke, fine remove the disk from the computer and put it in another. The security lies only in the password you choose, not your particular PC having some kind of closed hardware in which somewhere lies the key (of course).
I mean, even if he never accessed any user data, bragging that he can is still problematic for the company - it looks bad on the outside.
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“As the vulnerability has been patched, the code is available on GitHub.”
>I'll never have trouble sleeping at night.

If it bothered you that much, you could have had millions to donate to any charity of your choice.

>I'll probably never be a millionaire

You won't with that attitude.

>There are plenty of points in my career where I could've chosen to make more money by selling something that doesn't work to idiots

You started with airs of the moral high ground and now you're the supposed smart guy to the rest of the idiots. By extension, you're implying Bitcoin buyers are also idiots. The hubris. The gall. The cope.
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