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Ask HN: Failed Google interview, Enthusiasm for the Valley,  0 responses
Got an update fr Google 2 days ago, I did not make the cut for the final round of F2F interviews (Product Manager role). This is the second time, the first (BSA - 8 months ago) got through to the final round in Mountain View only to receive a no-go result.

I am trying very hard to put my foot into the Valley community, ultimately with a startup or joining decent company to further elevate my skills and learn. Have been trying very hard for the past 2 years despite the countless rejection emails. Figuring out what is wrong or why I dont get any approaches with my CV and on LinkedIn. I have approx 8 years of solid tech delivery and solutioning experience with Big-4s and I have a relentless work ethic. But I don't see myself doing it for the rest of my working life and need a stepping stone into the startup/valley community.

Am beginning to highly doubt my self-worth, the news about Anthony Bourdain broke me down terribly, not only looked up to him I also took it very personally and related myself to it because if someone with such high caliber and knowledge would give up like that, what would a mere character like me be valued at in this whole game. It’s a tough feeling, as though I have reached the dead end despite my journey and principles.

At this point, I am determined to get some guidance and support or maybe someone to just give me a chance as I’ve no mentors or anyone I know in the valley.

Willing to work for FREE and make sacrifices for this. Any advice would be much appreciated. Ready to compensate/pay for your time and feedback. Please Help, and apologies for using the word “I” aplenty.
> We have close to 30 teams that run some or all of their workloads on our clusters. Approximately 70% of all HTTP traffic we serve is generated from applications within our Kubernetes clusters.

Sounds big. But then per wikipedia:

> uSwitch.com [...] allows consumers to compare prices for a range of energy, personal finance, insurance and communications services.

And:

> On 30 April 2015, the property website firm Zoopla agreed to purchase uSwitch from LDC for £160 million

So... a low bandwidth business (we're hardly talking Netflix here!) doing maybe, what, $10M in revenue annually and not growing fast enough to justify venture investment or IPO funding (they were a private acquisition!)...

Seriously, I'm sure they like it. But do they really, truly need Kubernetes? This really sounds like the kind of scale that can be achieved with 2-3 hand-managed servers, or maybe twice that number of AWS boxen.
Steve Ballmer's advice for Facebook and Google on their legal woes
This. Humvees are probably just what's readily available as a test platform.

If such a wheel/track is ever used for real, it might be on something very different, and not on the front lines. And possibly larger or smaller than this.
It sure is rich seeing a person who thinks hacking should be punished with death complain about webcomic layouts.
Very cool! In WildDuck IMAP server I use a bit different deduplication method (I deduplicate decoded attachments, not lines) that does not give 90% reduction but still more than 50%: https://github.com/nodemailer/wildduck/blob/master/README.md...
> You should be able to dictate the query plan to the engine directly.

That's like arguing you should be able to dictate the assembly that your compiler produces. The entire point of SQL (and most compilers) is that they can use their knowledge to optimize the result in ways that are too difficult or too involved for humans to do. Most people cannot out-optimize a compiler in the general case. And most people cannot out-optimize a SQL DBMS.

Also, with SQL, the result might be highly dependent on the data itself. A table with 1,000 rows yesterday might be queried entirely differently from the same table now with 100,000 rows. Are you going to constantly go back and dictate the query plan to the engine every few months as the data changes? Probably not. Use the tool as intended and you'll be fine. Anything else is premature optimization at best.
> don't routine security updates mean you're constantly rebuilding and redeploying these images?

It means you should be constantly rebuilding and redeploying these images.

The fewest people I've seen use Docker actually do that.

The answer I've heard most commonly so far is "uh hmm ... right, given that I see new CVEs fixed every day, scrolling by in the `apt-get dist-upgrade` I do daily on my desktop, we should probably be doing that for our Docker as well ..."

Many then refer to per-push CI/CD, not realising that holes need to be fixed regularly and not when you push.

The fewest have automation set up that rebuilds and redeploys when the upstream docker image changes.

Plain Debian/Ubuntu servers have the benefit of `unattended-upgrades`, but with Docker you have to take on that task yourself and build automation for it.

Also have a look at https://hub.docker.com/r/library/ubuntu/tags/

At the time of writing, every single image is labelled with "This image has vulnerabilities".
99% sure it's this: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E22471_01/html/821-0782/analytics...
Could “mid-tech” jobs elevate more people and non-coastal places?
The financial aspect is definitely something that I've been saving up and working towards for a long time now. The path of transition is really what's not clear in my head. Your advice on the investment of my family is a good point.
It probably involves lobbying.
Aside from dining out, what fun is there to be had for young adults anywhere?

I mean, anywhere with a plentiful supply of other young adults gives you approximately equal opportunity to socialize, right?
it's radio. the length is infinite. there are pauses in music. there are pauses in speech. Also, he didn't mention anything about delayed listening. The implication was that it happens in real-time so you don't know how long it will be when you need to start dropping the levels.
Zimbardo has lost all credibility, the fact that this begins with anything but a point-by-point refutation of the Medium article just highlights that fact.

The Medium article was highly illuminating and included so many different sources that Zimbardo's response here just reads as a desperate attempt to regain credibility that's LONG gone.
--stop-dns-rebind
Reject (and log) addresses from upstream nameservers which are in the private IP ranges. This blocks an attack where a browser behind a firewall is used to probe machines on the local network.

There's no TTL, it just blocks any responses with private IP. Might break some software, because that's a legitimate DNS use.
Why Human-Sized  Vehicles Will Conquer the City
Ever had to debug an osi stack using a printed out x.409 decode ?
That sounds amazingly complex and cool at the same time. Have you looked into sous vide machines or pressure cookers? Those two are the items I use the most to get precisely cooked meals done in batches.

I've found that a lot of meals done via the slow cooker tend to taste the same because of the consistently and the type of ingredients typically involved in them.
Definitely not generating income at your level and so probably why there's a bigger need for a plan on my end. The risk/high reward advice makes a lot of sense. Sometimes it probably is just the way you view it.
You may be interested in using http://hnapp.com/ to set up a custom filter. It can create an RSS feed with your custom filter.
"I've always wanted to go and do undergraduate classes in calculus, but that seems like it would be quite a leap from my current existence and I'm not quite ready to rock that boat."

I did this in my 30s, having had my butt kicked by calculus as an undergrad in 89/90. I took a couple of courses at a state school over the summer. Wound up getting an A and a B, which I was happy with.

It felt a little weird being so much older than everyone else, but it wasn't a big deal.

Contrary to ghaff's observation, these weren't huge lecture courses. Presumably because they were held in summer.
Good old id still makes games with 99.9999% gameplay. DOOM 2016 was all about the gameplay.
After 5 years, I had to leave there. Too much religion. Too much smug mediocrity. Too much fawning over the DeVos's & Meijers.
> having a single artifact and reproducible builds where a developer can run the docker image locally

This is the key thing here. As a team grows it’s easy to get various kinds of learned helplessness. Docker, for its faults, is mostly simple enough that you can expect/insist that the team use it. Which means fewer kinds of surprises at deployment time.
Bourdain didn't "give up". He suffered from mental illness exacerbated by a grueling schedule and poor work-life balance. If you want to learn something from him, you should learn that happiness is often found outside work and that career achievement doesn't mean you'll be happy or healthy.

I strongly recommend that you see a mental health professional to help you through this.

I'd also ask why you want to be in SV so badly. There are many other places to work with better pay compared to cost of living. There are great companies all over the world.
Sinclair Scientific Calculator Emulator from Arduino Enigma on Tindie
Medical appointment booking app HealthEngine sharing clients' personal info
> I'd strongly suggest you consider the complexity, cost, and efficiency tradeoffs... before characterizing certain decisions as flaws.

I will almost always characterize a tradeoff that renders a device incompatible with rechargeable batteries that are commonly used in the appropriate form factor, or that causes the device to turn off before the majority of the energy in the battery has been used to be a flaw. I'll stipulate that it's probably usually a business decision rather than an engineering failure.

Incompatibility with rechargeable batteries is a hard no-buy from me as a consumer for almost any portable electronics.

> Do you have published numbers to back that up?*

I don't. I suspect people who have numbers about this (battery makers) really don't want to disclose them. My perception that alkalines leak often comes from moderating /r/flashlight. I've also seen it in person quite a few times, mostly with devices belonging to friends or family that aren't used often.
Show HN: UnityShell, a “shell” for the Unity Editor
Databases are amongst the most complex systems you will ever use as a developer. At the limit, they rival operating systems for complexity - distributed concurrent systems with lots of low-level memory and filesystem action, along with a parser, optimizing compiler and often a code generator too.
Suppose your laser-zapper spacecraft is solar powered. The force of the sun on its solar panels is approximately the same as the force imparted by its laser beam on the target garbage.

This is to say nothing of the propellant required to transfer the laser-zapper spacecraft into the same orbit as its target garbage.
Please do post pictures and videos. It sounds like a real life rube goldberg machine!
Ask HN: What questions to ask a future employer?
Was curious to understand what are the red flags or criteria should one look for when working or not working for a company. As in what questions one should ask the company to understand the company.
The performance characteristics of them, though, are easy to learn, and easier to get a grasp on via EXPLAIN and such.
Bliss: Fly now, pay later
"For an existence proof, look at the troubles that the orange man is having with his intelligence agencies."

Troubles for which I, for one, am eternally grateful.
Sqlite is incredible. Tiny and usually used for small stuff but I have heard of 1TB+ databases with acceptable performance.
US is not fighting in areas where getting stuck between trees is a big issue.
Interesting, I didn't know that Sonoff did a power consumption monitor. That makes sense for something like a washing machine. Presumably though you never actually use the relay/off-switch capability of the Sonoff, right?
For real. This dude could have just said "the lone wolf alpha-male archetype is rooted in truth" and then wrote a listicle supporting his points and he would have gotten his argument across so much better. He formatted it as a long-winded essay for no apparent reason but his choice of format actually inhibits understanding his point, it doesn't enhance its understandability in any way.
Happy birthday to my friends using text.
Giving a statement to a journalist who has already made up their mind that you’re a bad guy is probably a mistake. Especially when it comes to politics, the other side will take whatever you say out of context and present it in the light most unfavorable to you. Morally-exculpatory nuance goes out the window, or buried at the bottom of the article (the part that we know no one reads). The headline will be spun to make you sound like a monster (see CNN’s headlines about Mr. Damore: that he thought “women are biologically unfit for tech jobs”).

Most people should make all statements with the assistance of professional PR if they’re in such a situation. Just like how anyone being interrogated by the police should only speak with the advice with a lawyer, no matter how innocent they actually are.
Heck for that job he should get or make a couple of scrapers. They take up no space.
We should not make "better" the enemy of perfect or something of the essence. If we can have self-driving vehicles that are twice as safe as the average human, then they should be allowed on the streets.

https://www.rand.org/blog/articles/2017/11/why-waiting-for-p...

I realize that accepting that a machine may kill you when you cross the street is a bit unsettling but if you think about it, it is no different than accepting that the person in the car behind you may have a moment of absence or not pay attention to the road end up killing you or a pedestrian.

Yet having another human kill another human seems to be accepted by society?

If car manufacturing companies take on the responsibility and financial burden on them to compensate families that are killed/injured by a self-driving car, just like insurance companies do nowadays on the behalf of the drivers at fault, then the problem becomes non-existent unless I am missing something.
The internet portal business is a house of cards, ripe for disruption at any time. I predict that within five years Facebook will have morphed into a different company. They probably don't know for sure what their new business model will be, but cranking out lots of software patents may turn out to be helpful.
Thanks, too long back to correct it now :(
Changes in WebAssembly Could Render Meltdown and Spectre Browser Patches Useless
Breitbart readers hate Bezos because Trump hates Bezos, so their reaction would probably be somewhat different. It would probably involve the terms "Bezos", "Deep State", "Treason".
Should any business that has SLAs and needs to be reliable ever rely on “2-3 hand-managed servers”? No.

Kubernetes isn’t only about scale. It also provides rolling upgrades and rollbacks. And failover. And DNS based service discovery. And there’s more. You can find solutions to these without Kubernetes but a lot of Kubernetes use is to get these, not simply for scale issues.
This is interesting. I've always found programming to be fairly easy. Not only do I do it at work, but I continue on side projects at home.

Its extremely rare that i'll get stressed from doing it and if that happens, normally an hour break (or less) will fix it.
That of course depends on what you're going for. The 'lifestyle' comparison only takes into account basic goods. It doesn't take into everything else that actually affects your personal quality of life (cities vs more rural life each have vastly different benefits).
Which is, in fact, the point of the Roberts' led dissent as well. Basically that this would be better off as a Congressional effort and that, by overturning Quill--even though there were good reasons to do so--the majority has thrown a wrench into ongoing efforts to work towards a national solution.
I am appalled at statements such as "twice as safe as human". We should be comparing driverless technologies with humans assisted by the same technology running in passive mode.

Otherwise, you're implyjng that the developer of that technology would either release the technology as completely driverless or not release it at all.
Migrant care worker asks 91-year-old Swedish woman ‘to suck on her breasts’
Ask HN: Supreme Court sales tax ruling GDPR implications?
Note: not seeking legal advice. I noticed that two subjects that have been discussed here may have some intersection, and want to see what people's thoughts are.

Often when GDPR is discussed here there is a sub-discussion over whether or not the EU can actually enforce it if you do not have an EU presence or any assets they can reach.

The US often will allow foreign judgments to be enforced in the US [1], if the US agrees that the foreign court had both personal and subject matter jurisdiction, and that you had notice and the opportunity to defend yourself.

With no physical presence, there was a good chance US courts would find you did not a "nexus" with the foreign state, meaning that they do not have personal jurisdiction.

But late last week, in SOUTH DAKOTA v. WAYFAIR, INC., ET AL., the Court overturned its earlier precedent and decided that doing online business in a state that you have no presence in can be enough to establish a nexus. The exact parameters of this are yet to be determined, other than it will probably require that the revenue or number of transactions you do in the state must be above some threshold to establish a nexus.

Will this loosened standard for what can establish a nexus only apply to taxes between states, or is this the new standard for all inquiries a to the existence of a nexus? If so, does that mean it will now be easier to establish that a foreign court had personal jurisdiction, and so easier to get foreign judgments enforced in the US?

There are some categorical limits on foreign judgments. For example tax and penal judgments will not be enforced by US courts. I do not know if GDPR fines fall under any of the forbidden categories.

If they do, a US GDPR transgressor still might not be safe, because GDPR also allows the data subjects themselves to sue for compensation, and foreign judgments for compensation are usually allowable I believe.

[1] https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/0-619-6072
I don't have any particular problem with it. I majored in EE about 15 years ago, and haven't really looked at op amps since studying the 741. Just curious what's popular these days.
Sure, but that's cold comfort if you work on something that blows up some astronauts and a teacher.
There's a couple things about modern DNS that just doesn't make sense. There's probably a good explanation buried somewhere in a mailing list or three.

The other one that still astounds me is that DV certificates rely entirely on DNS control for validation prior to issuance, and browsers trust that system, but there still exists no way for me to cut out the middle man and put my own domain-specific CA Cert in DNS directly.
I'd consider retrofitting a Kitchen-Aide or other stand mixer. The epicyclic rotation should give you pretty good dispersion.
The performance risks may not be so bad, if you're using a common CDN/library as it may be cached and save on download speeds: just hope most of your users don't have secure browsers, wiping caches regularly.

But there is still a problem with loading third party JS, even beyond the SaaS type that you expect to change regularly (where SRI+CORS becomes difficult-impossible to control), just loading Bootstrap has risks.

Although a good web developer hopefully knows how to add SRI, uses a validated third party library, will pick a fixed version and use a CDN with qualities as good as their hosting solution... they are rare to find and I doubt any data protection controller/officer responsible for GDPR should allow this risk.

The developer might: forget to add SRI; pick a CDN that allows tracking (read https://www.maxcdn.com/dpa/); pick a CDN registered or running servers outside of the EU.

So, the data protection office therefore has to check the terms of services of the CDNs, audit them regularly and then ensure there is appropriate staff training and QA to put in SRI and validate it it as needed.

Meanwhile, if the developer or data protection officer changes, there has to be enough documentation and process around to transition these practices to the next staff.. it all adds up.

Man power is often more expensive than CPU, so chucking the JavaScript in static hosting the company has control of is likely less for the DPO to worry about.
I think there are issues with weaponization. Developing a space laser with sufficient power and the guidance system to go with it may trouble international treaties against weapons in space. I love the idea of dragging the rubbish down in a net, very low-tech.
On the other hand, operating a bunch of price comparison sites sounds like the kind of thing that has tons of small moving parts for data import and such, which seems like a reasonable fit for an orchestration system like this. Especially if there's 30 teams making pieces of it.
I dunno, I think Trump is pushing so hard on tariffs because he doesn't understand what trade imbalances mean.
30 teams' services fit on 2-3 servers? We don't have anywhere near 30 teams, but at my last count end of last year there were ~250 repos, and everyday I get auto-emailed telling me I've been subscribed to a new repo. No way could we have only 2-3 servers.
Here's a case study from CCRi using GeoMesa on BigTable from the GCP Next 2017 videos: https://youtu.be/KaRbKdMInuc?t=40m32s
> that is basically the two games worth getting it for it

Splatoon 2, Bayonetta 2, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, ARMS.

Also homebrew and Linux :)
There’s a lot of cognitive dissonance in this post. Notably, you’re leaving out that smaller companies often don’t (and can’t) file patents, which means this system just further entrenches existing large companies.

Also, large patent collections don’t protect you from patent trolls since they aren’t exposed to counter suing anyway - they don’t make or sell anything!

But whatever you have to tell yourself to sleep at night, right?
This is a geospatial focused library and framework that uses space-filling curves to collapse space/time dimensions so that it can run on any sorted key/value database (HBase, Cassandra, bigtable, etc) for storage and querying.
I don't really get facebook outside of being able to see vaguely what is going on with family. I call, text, and email my actual friends if we're not in person.
Definitely. The concept was commercialized years ago. E.g. http://www.zonepowertrack.com/en
That’s the most spirited defense I’ve seen of denying food to prisoners, congratulations?
Meta: HN cannot count. The original version [1] of this question was 2907 characters long, exceeding the 2000 character limit for text posts. I edited it down to 1993 characters [2] and it still was rejected for being over 2000 characters.

The present version is 1971 characters. My first guess was that maybe the length of the title is being counted too, but this version plus the title is 2029 and was obviously accepted.

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I use a technique where I don't click on the posts that don't interest me.
I wasn't looking at the slash so much as the question "No surprise that both will be a lot lower in Grand Rapids, but I'm wondering how the ratio looks".
I like the speed and flexibility of Hugo. It doesn't force you into the blog format like Jekyll does. Jekyll has collections but collections don't have all the features of posts. I keep coming back to Jekyll because of the relative link support that works across VS Code, Github, and Jekyll. Hugo added support then removed it.

https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/1921
How Events Are Reshaping Modern Systems [video]