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For the past year, we have been working on a new project eminent.ly to improve the way we hire and do business today.

I have been searching for the missing link that would allow modern job and business platforms to be more effective.

In my previous companies, most of our best talents were coming from our own personal networks. So it was obvious to me that the missing link is: us!

In fact, today's platforms rely on data that do not describe who we are as co-workers, mentors, mentees, bosses or friends accurately.

There's something far more valuable in the link that unites two people than keywords or hashtags.

Experiencing various situations together allows us to know more about each other which in turn creates a special and valuable bond, a shared experience that cannot be condensed and stored in a database.

Yes people matter!

More and more companies are starting to understand that point and investing in employee referral programs. Those programs are proven to bring the best profiles, who stay longer, and are a better fit for the company.

This is because employees know within their own network who can be a good fit for the company and the open position. But those programs are usually hidden within the company platform and only available to employees, assuming they even know this system exists.

Also, using traditional headhunting agencies and private business networks come with a high cost in commissions.

Furthermore, some of us are frequently making referrals and hoping for feedback about how it went or for people to return the favor someday… unfortunately, we are often disappointed.

To tackle these challenges, we are launching eminent.ly, a platform that brings a new way of introducing people for a job or business opportunity by relying solely on your valuable network and knowledge, not on an incomplete and inaccurate database.

With our platform, you are now able to manage your referrals, track how people are doing, and get paid for it when a deal is made.

Thanks for your attention and hope you will be a part of this journey.

Eminently yours,

Romain Pellerin, Founder.
My advice is, hire a lawyer and have him/her review and correct your option contract before you sign it. You will pay a few hundred dollars. It’s worth it.

I was employee #1 with a substantial equity stake, and my lawyer has found half a dozen ways I could be screwed. By default these contracts are incredibly one sided, but they don’t have to be. And as a rule in a startup if you can be legally screwed out of your money, you will be.

EDIT: The linked site does have great advice and is vastly better than just about anything else on the topic you can find on the internet. Just remember that there will be a _lawyer_ on the other end, and they know this stuff much better than you do. It's better to retain a lawyer on your end as well, especially if the amount of equity is non-trivial.
Because the way the fed increases interest rates is by selling a bunch of bonds. Which incentivizes people to moves money from the private economy to the Fed, and which leaves less money available to lend to small businesses.

>In fact, higher interest rates would mean that the cost of liquid capital, a bank's main equipment for making money, were suddenly more productive, right?

Banks basically just borrow money at x then lend it out at x+y. With y being expenses, defaults, and profits. Now if x grows that doesn't grow y, if anything it shrinks it because there are less individuals looking for a loan at the increases price.

Basically if banks were toy makers, the interest rate would.be the price of plastic. Sure if the price of plastic went up toy makers would charge more for toys. But they wouldn't be making more money, if anything they'd me making less.
Take the resources being spent to get Bitcoin onto Wall Street, spend them to get Facebook Moms onto Bitcoin and suddenly the value rises. Salvageable currency, without that utility it suffers.
Correct, but for us (migrating from AE Flex to Standard) it meant that it was working out of the box.
Yeah, as the cloud/edge interface settles we plan to build SDKs for pulling models from iOS, GNU/Linux through Swift, Python and C#.

Let me check your repo.
More education = higher jobs for more people = more people have money = more people spend money at walmart/amazon/malls/movies/local restaurants/etc... Some of these people will use their money to start businesses.

Some of these people may have ended up in a poverty trap all their lives, and never contributed. One may even go on to end cancer, or do something amazing with the extra opportunity they now have.

Education ALWAYS contributes to society as a whole, not just that individual. America needs to start valuing education more, I see dumbasses on social media and elsewhere who don't fact check anything, believe everything they're told and can't even tell which side of the civil war Lincoln was fighting on.

They are the same people Jay Leno used to make fun of by asking simple questions on his Jay Walking bit.
I should have been clearer, I was referring to the part that said "Goal oriented people actually tend to be better organized and get more things done"

That's less like "I like this one food or this one workout routine" and more like "People who do this workout routine tend to be stronger and better looking than people who use another one", or "People who use [some operating system or programming language] tend to be better organized and get more things done"
> It's far less maintainable...

How so? What form of maintenance does it prevent or hurt?

> ...and goes against the grain of how people expect libraries to behave.

You could dynamically link it if you wanted, it's just that there is little reason to. This approach is inclusive: it enables all three major ways people use libraries.

Honestly, I don't see what the problem is. You're entitled to prefer dynamic linking or static linking, but how does it hurt you that it can also be used another way?
Trimble has a bunch of mixed reality solutions in the market and more are in the pipeline:

http://mixedreality.trimble.com

You are quite right of the challenges but the technical competence of the largest engineering companies is quite sufficient to implement new solutions if they actually provide value and fit into their pipeline (err... that means most of the time that they can display dwg and revit models).
Apple Patent Turns Car Windscreen into Giant Augmented Reality Screen
If you're looking at banking regulation for causes for inequality, you're looking at the wrong place.

The article pointed out the gulf widened at the 1980s. That should be more than enough hints as to how to fix it.

There's no political will though.
Another significant point is pedestrians are allowed to cross the street outside of a crosswalk. But they must yield to traffic when doing so.
Saddling someone with (or allowing him to take on) an unpayable debt raises him to a state more equal with people who were previously better off?

How? Doesn't buying a house (at market price) have an approximately zero effect on your net worth?
The system of integer functions (2017) [pdf]
From that page:

"This kit contains all parts needed to convert your Printrbot 3d printer into the Bioprinter showcased in Carnegie Mellon's Paper".

It might be a good idea to look into printers other than Printrbot's too, as they officially closed their doors recently. :(

https://printrbot.com
Because, as said elsewhere in this topic, the sexes are not coequals in sexual selection, not even close. And when someone zooms in on a peculiar dynamic like this one and says “AHA, men!” they completely miss this.

This is built into the nature of sexual relationships across the genders and possibly even gender itself. What I’m talking about is descriptive, not oughts. No one ought to be harassed, but people will keep doing this because it is an outflowing of an emasculated culture.

What I don’t like about your line of argument is how it infantilizes women. It’s clear just by the nature of how this medium has developed that it’s going to create unwanted or unrecriprocated sexual attention. It’s a fantasy relationship simulator. That doesn’t make harassment okay, either. But how do you police this? Are you really saying women need to be protected from the precise male gaze they are courting? How?

Not only is this impractical, demonizing men or trying to frame this as a woman’s liberation issue just furthers the emasculation culture which leads to the creepy, inappropriate behavior you take issue with
I think you're interpretation is pretty accurate. There's an old joke that a language is a dialect with an army and a navy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a...

The basic premise is that there is no clear distinction between the term "dialect" and "language". Especially when you hit interesting cases like dialect continuum, which is a bit like a game of telephone. Any two neighboring dialects can generally understand each other, but the further away you get the less that is true. So if you look at the two ends, is that two different languages? Even though you could walk from one to the other and everyone will understand each other?

An accent, on the other hand, is something more intrinsic to how an individual renders sounds. That is, I can speak my native language English with my accent, and I can also speak Spanish with that same accent. For instance, I could use English "r" sound (/ɹ/) instead of the Spanish rolled or tapped "r" sounds (/r/ and /ɾ/). Or I could use English vowel "e" (/ɛ/ or maybe /eɪ/) instead of Spanish vowel "e" (/e/). And so on. "Losing your accent" is basically learning how to render those sounds in a fashion that matches expectations.
> the previous PHP -> C compiler

I think the transpiler version targeted C++?
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Why can't people just improve their credit rating by doing credit worthy things?
The era of a musician making a $100m is over.

The same thing has happened to books and software.

I'm a little surprised that movies can still make so much money. There's an explosion of video being made.
Yeah, you're right. I still don't think it's the end of the world - it doesn't seem significantly different to me than people getting hooked on soap operas, but you're definitely right that this is much more aimed at children and young people than other media, and we don't really have a good way of educating kids about why the shitty shows are shitty.
Think about what you're describing: if the goal is to offer a new UI feature and see how users react, do you a) spend years standardizing a new protocol or b) use a single source to try it immediately while you independently explore the long-term options?
Except that Facebook moms won't get on crypto until it's on Wallstreet.
I currently have nine usernames in the array (removed all except Walter from the comment for brevity and privacy), but it's still a pretty small `n`. I don't know at what `n` the set becomes faster than the array, but I haven't noticed any performance impact from the script, and I can't be bothered even googling how to profile it in the browser.
Existing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17715337
They're going to get locked out eventually. This is a scorpion-and-frog situation. It's in a major music publisher's nature to screw everyone else they do business with.

So anywhere one could say "they might get locked out if they do this" could as easily read "they might get locked out sooner if they do this".

Another advantage Spotify has over traditional music publishers is discoverability. The major publishers make most of their money on the most listened-to recordings of all time. Artists out on the long tail, with good product, but no hits, or in a narrower genre niche, get worse deals from the major publishing houses, and more to gain by bypassing them and going indie. If they can get a recommendations engine to introduce indie artists based on likes and dislikes from mainstream artists and pop tracks, and to occasionally sub in covers and style-shifted recordings, the consumer will likely accept it.

I don't need the Rolling Stones, specifically, to paint it black. I don't need any boy band in particular, anywhen from the Monkees to BTS, to reassure me that I'm their girl, baby. I don't need exactly Whitney Houston to be the one to always love me. I might need Prince to be Prince, Beyonce to be Beyonce, and Bruce to be Bruce, but I can deal without, if I have to.

With the media consolidation in TV and radio, I can no longer effectively discover anything new over the air. Everyone plays all the same songs, all the time. I can turn on my radio and spin the dial all the way around and never once hear even proven star Bob Marley, much less Peter Tosh, Jimmy Cliff, or Desmond Dekker. I can spin it again and never hear more than a sample of George Clinton, much less James Brown, Sly Stone, or post-NPG Prince. I can spin it again, and fail to hear anything as metal as Metallica, as punk as Rancid, as emo as My Chemical Romance, as polka as Weird Al, as march as JP Sousa, as southern as Lynyrd Skynyrd, as jazzy as Louis Armstrong, as bluesy as BB King... all the stations play only the released-for-radio recordings that sold the most copies. And a lot of the stations play only the current top 40 for pop. If Spotify can get people to listen to stuff they haven't listened to before, they will end up liking some of it, too, and wondering why they haven't ever heard it before.
Upvoting to offset the cargo cult downvote squad.
32-bit:

https://developer.arm.com/products/architecture/cpu-architec...

>Although the ARMv8-M architecture is 32-bit, it also supports data types of various sizes such as 8-bit and 16-bit. ARMv8-M also supports a limited set of 64-bit operations.

It looks like it still uses the 'Thumb' instruction set, which combines 16- and 32-bit instructions in an attempt to balance code size and operation complexity.
Nice use of emojis. I loved reading those picture stories in Highlights magazine as a kid.
It'd be a bit easier if we cut the pentagon budget by 60% to match other countries of similar size.

UHC would actually save 2 trillion over 10 years (according to a very conservative Koch brothers study).

We need to end money in politics though, there needs to not be easy ways to bribe politicians.... It's becoming a circus, until corruption is tackled, nothing will function efficiently ever.
Unless the dev has the authority to make the decision, what he should really do is explain the tradeoff: “Hey marketing, I know you want this feature, but it’s gonna cause us to drop down in Google results. Is it still worth it?”
It definitely attracts 'wrong' kind of people, but that doesn't mean idea is bogus. It needs more legitimate uses.
Tangent but relevant to HN: the book “Fortune’s Formula” touches on information theory, Bell Labs, gambling, and the New York parking lot company that went on to purchase Warner back in the 60s.
Choose: Fuzzy matcher for OS X that uses both std{in,out} and a native GUI
Yeah, the very first one actually ran some sort of a DOS and had an x86 chip.
I believe in Bitcoin only.

The people that have been around for almost a decade have treated Bitcoin as a hedge against Fiat currency inflation. Similar to how people treat gold. I am one of these people that believe in the 21,000,000 solutions as something that is nuclear chemistry proof and rare.

Outside of that is a joke.

dApps unused, copypasting bitcoin (or various alt coins), then promoting it as a world changing idea. Various centralized currencies which defeat the entire purpose.

I imagine things like Tether will be the future allowing money to be moved cheaply. As I develop my own coin, I choose to tie it to a very popular investment rather than produce yet another silly 'rare' number.

CryptoCURRENCY needs to move things that are hard to move, cheaply. Crypto that stores and manages data seems like a foolish application due to the enormous expense, unreliable txn times, and unneeded verification.
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As another vanilla anki user, what are your favorites?
> If you compare music from 1960, 1980, 2000, and now (almost 2020) you'll notice that the 60's to 80's to 00's were incredibly different. Like, they clearly come from distinct eras.

Wasn't that maybe because of the incredible evolution of music hardware? 70s music was IMPOSSIBLE to produce in the 60s, 80s music in the 70s, so on.

Today that hardware evolution is slowing down, so it's normal that the sounds don't change that much.

But neural networks are on the horizon, expect shocking things in a few years.
Yinz never mention Pittsburghese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Pennsylvania_English

https://www.youtube.com/user/pittsburghdad
It seems to me this product is mainly targeted at 1) new customers, and 2) AE Flex customers wanting to switch to Standard.

The third category (Existing 2.7 Standard customers wanting to just upgrade to 3.7 -- which is me unfortunately) are going to be disappointed and stuck in a hard place, I think.
Exercise may be the best protection against aging that we have
i can't help but feel disappointed about mozilla proposing to have advertisement mechanisms built right into their browser. there's a blurry line between suggestions and plain advertisement. as a user online i don't need more relevant information. this is just marketing people baloney to make people buy more stuff.
I'm inclined to see this as correlation, not causation. Where is the powerful coupling between <10 years of tighter bank lending standards and income inequality?
Well it does mean in order to understand the library and/or contribute you have to use <flavour of the month>. Also it makes the library prone to rewrites if something else comes up. I don’t mind TS (though es6 suits me fine) but I have seen many js paradigms come and go. Who knows maybe TS will stick around for the long haul.
That doesn't make sense - how would pedestrians cross roads with tram lines?

Here's a crosswalk across a road with a tram line in Berlin.
https://goo.gl/maps/G9vfZyoUjr62
Your assessment from investment side is sound.

Although I'd like to point out that bitcoin is now a rather small fraction of the whole spectrum of crypto economy.

Bitcoin as a main-stream pioneer served its purpose well, and now the focus is actually to provide equal-quality infrastructure for crypto to become a meaningful candidate for future economy.

That prospect certainly does not warrant the hype and money currently in the area on a case-by-case basis. But any such large-scale changes have to have a phase of rampant lock-in of wealth from general public so the society as a whole commit to support the development of the technology for some minimal amount of time.

I actually no longer regret my negligence to bitcoin, which for anytime between 2009 and 2014 can help me make a fortune from complete financial freedom to a year of income, now I see the society have committed a good amount of resources; and a substantial fraction of people are aware of the concept. It's not the time for engineers to start work hard and build the actual infrastructure.

That hopefully can deliver the actual value!
> How? Doesn't buying a house (at market price) have an approximately zero effect on your net worth?

As of the closing date, sure. However, closing on a home allows a renter to become an owner for about the same monthly cost (plus produces some significant tax benefits typically only available to the wealthy). After 30 years of paying a mortgage, if holding all else constant, one probably owns the property. After 30 years of paying rent, holding all else constant, one still owns nothing.
The value of any particular coin is pure marketing. Anyone can start a coin. There is literally an infinite supply. The only thing giving them vale us popularity, and marketing is what drives popularity.

Token price speculation (aka "crypto investing") is much more about marketing than it is about technology. This is why you see cult-like marketing attempts.
Same here. AMP is Google's own walled garden, and that plus Google's pervasive tracking finally pushed me to DDG. Enough is enough.
Thanks for reminding me to updated and test my container. ;)
We don't live in a world in which men must approach women. I was approached by my partner, as have been several male friends of mine. One female friend of mine even proposed to her boyfriend--reversal of the usual situation, which is uncommon but not unheard of.

Incels aren't only men. There are female incels, but they're not violent because women aren't socialized to solve problems with violence. There's a lot on the subject of female incels; google around a bit and you'll find it.

It isn't hard for a woman to bother a man with sexual harassment, either. My first job out of school, one of the admin staff was a "playful" woman who kept a riding crop on her desk. She started swatting me with it "playfully," except it wasn't playful and I was made to feel very uncomfortable by this overt sexual harassment in the workplace.
I'm not arguing about dynamic versus static linking. In fact, I think dynamic linking is pretty bad. I'm just arguing against distributing libraries all in one big C file. You can statically link against an archive built from several sources.
Unfortunately, I can't comment without more context on that particular example. However, from my experience, I've seen a very strong correlation between the sexualization of content on the platform and the harassment on the platform as a whole. My theory, and it really is just a theory, is that the users (81.5% Males) and many under the age of 18, are "primed" to expect certain behavior or reactions due to the prevalence on the platform. This leads to these people acting like total asshats to all female streamers, even when they go out of their way to avoid any potential for sexualization.
It certainly is in Arizona (called on-peak and off-peak), where air conditioner usage is high during the day.
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There is no clear distinction between a dialect and a language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a...

For instance, having taken German in school, I could generally read Yiddish as long as it was written in Latin alphabet and not Hebrew. Even though they are considered two separate langauges.

However, I could generally not understand, say, Swiss German, even though that's still considered German.

EDIT: I just found this interesting blurb regarding Low German in Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_German#A_language_or_a_mer...?
I think this has also contributed to the homogenization of music. You would think the opposite would happen - with so many music options, wouldn't the options have a wider variety?

But here's why this isn't the case:

Twenty five years ago, CDs were expensive. Because they were expensive, listeners were compelled to listen to them over and over and over again.

Remember buying two CDs for $40 and playing them endlessly?

But in 2018, music is basically free. And because it's free, nobody has a vested interest in investing a lot of time getting to "know" an album.

So you wind up where we're at now: a lot of music that sounds alike, plus a ton of music that's derivative of music from 30 or 40 years ago.
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Metric Profiling and Daily Logging with Java
Does anyone think google is engaging in anti-trust/monopoly-building actions by prioritizing AMP pages
But those instances you run cost money 24 hours per day.

Lambda doesn't cost anything when there is no traffic, and it handles spikes very well.