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> entire concept of professionalized industries that are unwilling to invest in the education and training of their employees is absurd and something we should all adamantly reject

1. We're a professionalized industry? Really? I don't see any licensure outside Texas, any credentials that aren't sheerest fluff, any teeth whatsoever to the ACM's deontological ramblings^W^W Code of Ethics, any etc.

2. For reasons I don't know and which are another topic of discussion entirely, the CS industry is all about high turnover. Career advancement comes less from promotion and more from switching employers. Under these circumstances, if you are a company that employs software engineers, do you really want to make an investment whose returns will mostly be reaped by others, if not by your direct competitors?
> To go back to your own example, if our culture "expects women to be quiet", and then discriminates against quiet people for jobs, that kinda sucks doesn't it?

Well, yeah. Except there's a ton of jobs out there for meek, quiet, agreeable people who don't rock the boat, to the point where sometimes it's even more of an impediment being boisterous, loud, and outspoken, even if you are male. They're not always the best and most respected jobs, just as meek and quiet people aren't always the best and most respected people, but they're out there.

And yeah...if you're conspiratorially minded, it's awful convenient if women are socially conditioned to have exactly the personality traits that make them easier to dominate, isn't it? Except, socially conditioned traits are a trailing indicator and not a leading indicator. Maybe it's easier for women to get away with being assertive now than it used to be, because we have tons of cultural countersignaling ("well-behaved women rarely make history") that seems to indicate that. I dunno; it's a hard problem to navigate, and I don't have the experience to advise what a woman should do in that situation.

What I can say is that--as an employer--you should definitely make a point of hiring assertive people, and particularly assertive women. I think it's the wrong move to say, "women tend to be quiet and agreeable, so we should try to hire quiet, agreeable people instead of loud, assertive people for diversity reasons". No, being quiet and agreeable is exactly how you get oppressed and stay oppressed. If you're an individual woman trying to survive a sexist and unjust system, you do what you can, but if you're part of the system, you fix the damned system. Go out of your way to hire "aggressive" women, and coach the women you have to become more assertive. At least that's my advice.
Then why not raze Paris' buildings down to one story?

(The difference in sunlight exposure for pedestrians between an 8-story building and a 16-story building is not remotely as large than between an 8- and a 2-story building)

Because sunlight non-exposure is one of the pinnacles of unfounded, futile arguments against density.
Indeed. The OpenGL Programming Guide[1] has been the "Red Book" since it was published in 1997. Everybody knows about the Red Book.

More seriously, I have no idea what book you're talking about. Whatever it is you're referring to, it was not the textbook used when I took Data Structures and Algorithms in undergrad (EE), nor when I TA'd the course while doing my master's (CS, Graphics) at another university.

It feels a little arbitrary. As an EE, I took many classes on the fundamental design and construction of computers and communication networks. That knowledge has been very useful in understanding how my software interacts with the world. I will be the first to admit that my knowledge of trees, graphs and other data structures are weaker than those who spent many courses on them. But the company needs a broad assortment of skills to succeed, so it seems like a bad idea to base hiring heavily on finding people that all have the same talents as the interviewer. Of course, if I need to conform to that mold to pass the interview, that's what I'll do.

[1]: http://www.opengl-redbook.com/
>Just need to keep getting gullible local officials to throw money at you for a "study."

The article that this article is quoting says no public money is going towards this project. But of course you conveniently forgot to quote that bit...
Browser APIs are deprecated surprisingly often (although, usually the ones that were not often used or didn’t work out well).
Someone should make a GDPR notice blocker.

Edit, Haha, sibling comment links to it. Absurdity.
This. 100%. This is perfect. I just sent it to my CEO.
I said as much:

> ...Apple just needs to be careful that a pattern of discrimination against a protected group isn't established in its decisions.

I was just pointing out that the facts of the case didn't involve a persona non grata. It was about compelling someone to create something (speech?), not about businesses' right to choose their clientele.
Recreationally in a pretty stereotypical way. Out in places I was able to meet new people primarily, but it's also very therapeutic to do with a loved one or good friends.

Generally about 200mg in a night, usually at once or 100mg twice an hour apart. That was actually quite alot to start on when you don't have a tolerance (I'm about 60kg), you could definitely start with 100mg and get something out of it. Sometimes I'd do more, sometimes less.

I was able to notice the lowered depression after two or maybe three doses within the span of about six weeks or less. No therapy, except the natural therapy of feeling very comfortable with people and being able to talk to them more honestly. Definitely had some therapy-like conversations while on it.

It felt like I was able to let go of a bunch of stupid stuff and start focusing on things that were more important, especially people. I became less materialistic, started socializing more, and had more confidence in myself and a better outlook on the future. I also seem to enjoy music more even after weeks without drugs, which is nice.
Solo describes itself as "An upgrade to U2F Zero." What does it do better than U2F Zero?
Brazil reciprocates all and any customs process any country implements.

It will go as low process as only verifying the foreign documents at the border against a known criminal list, and as high process as demanding an entire day at the embassy on the specific case of the US.
Thanks this is very very helpful.
Sol-R is an awesome CUDA/OpenCL-based realtime ray-tracer compatible with Oculus Rift DK1, Kinect, Razor Hydra and Leap Motion devices. Sol-R was used by the Interactive Molecular Visualiser project (http://www.molecular-visualization.com)
For a toy compositor, is there any reason not to just use SDL? The DRM and KMS side of things is interesting, but doesn't help much in understanding the Wayland protocol.
University may be affordable without loans if it were not for all of the capex expenditures every year and needless administration. Education has a huge HR problem. Lots of people doing nothing and it is sucking our young dry.
I guess the mistake here is thinking that PreCheck provides any kind of additional security. Best I can tell it's a way to bribe the TSA to remove some of the inconvenience of going through their security checkpoints.
In retrospect, that idea was like introducing taxi medallions to make prices for taxis go up when almost everyone can drive a car: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_New_York_City#1930...

Of course, it only got worse from there in the case of game consoles. The fun thing is that the current debt-based economy encourages this kinds of behavior.
That visa is hard to get not specifically based on third world status, but based on the statistics of overstaying those visas. Substantial home country ties, such as a business or owning property vastly increase the chance of getting that visa.
Contrary to what's written about microkernel speed: Systems I used in the '80s to great effect used at least the moral equivalent of a microkernel ("Nucleus"). They were fast (compared with VAXen etc.) for interactive use and supported real-time processes. (Some visitors thought context switching was a bit slow, assuming "microseconds" meant "milliseconds".) The filesystem was fast enough to dispel the assumption a "database" was always required for speedy experimental data access rather than a file per spectrum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS4000

The performance wasn't just because Nucleus initially was in hard/firmware; two later software implementations were performant (on faster hardware). Also, as the article is about security: at least the original Nucleus also supported an A1/B3-level secure OS.
Yes, it's right there in the first ammendment.

>Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. And also, persons, including legal persons, will be compelled to provide a platform for persons inciting violence.

So, no.
I learn a lot from HN, and I believe every profession should have its own HN.
No I don't think so. BlueLoss doesn't actually pair with any devices, it sets your phone/tablet to always be discoverable via Bluetooth - in other words it makes the phone/tablet constantly broadcast its Bluetooth address.

I think things like keyfobs would only be in Bluetooth discoverable mode when they are pairing (at least that's what I would guess they do).
You can't think of any way to make money by using hype to corral municipal transit contracts? You don't consider it a con to generate the hype with social media instead of ever, ever subjecting the product to competitive bidding processes? The implied question here is "would LA let an actual civil engineering firm dig a hole under the city as a proof of concept" and the answer is a pretty firm "of course not."

I think "con" is a cynical and slightly disingenuous way to describe this project. I'd probably go with "stunt" or something else, but I can absolutely understand the perspective that could drive this negative opinion.
I think he sees other stocks as overvalued and his own as the best value - I guess!
British and Canadian governments accidentally exposed passwords to the Internet
Ask HN: Any devs in Pittsburgh want to team up?
Like the title says, I am looking to see if there’s another dev out there in Pittsburgh who is interested in teaming up and combining forces on a side project I’ve been working on. The idea is still in the early conception stages so there's still plenty creative input needed from someone else.

Looking for someone with a passion for music, experience with modern web development, won’t give up after three weeks, and is not too insane.

The general stack is currently Typescript, React + Mobx, Java, Postgres. Ideally, if we end up generating any profit it would be split 50/50.

Me - I’ve been working as a full stack dev for about five years now and am currently working remote for a startup full time.

Send me an email if you want to grab coffee or beer and chat :)
I don't really understand how Trump could be viewed to be handling China well. One of China's big selling points as a negotiating partner is they're consistent. The US has traditionally also had this virtue. Trump isn't even consistent with his own state department. Why on earth would you rest anything on a country that might elect somebody like that? If you were Qatar, why would you agree to another US military base, knowing that the next president might say you're harbouring Al-Qaeda, because some Saudi royals told him so? If you were the Phillipines, why would you feel confident in US support?

I know some people like big tough guys in politics, and to some of those people, Trump appears big and tough. But I think even if you have this persuasion, Trump's no Kissinger, no Tito, not even a Putin.
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More important is the big red mushroom switch you push to abort and roll back a mistaken deployment!
Show HN: Analysis of sorting algorithms using random comparators
DoorDash Valuation Nearly Triples to $4B in Six Months
Having other long-term visas and not overstaying them also helps.
This is an encouraging example, not just because they did the right thing, but because they struck a workable balance between pragmatism and good citizenship. From the post, it seems Bitmovin' didn't actually need to fight anything in court. They just did enough legwork to credibly threaten legal action against the troll, who then backed down.

This is a relatively low-cost tactic that others might well employ too. If it catches on, the bar will be raised for trolls, and the business model will become less profitable.
For reference, the case is Hertl Media, LLC v. Bitmovin, Inc., Docket No. 1:18-cv-00938 (D. Del. Jun 25, 2018). The patent-in-suit is US 9,324,365 B2 [0], originally assigned to Nero AG (of Nero Burning ROM fame). The invention in question seems to be directed to parallel processing of multiple langauge assets in a audio/video stream to enable low-latency switching among the available languages during playback.

[0] https://patents.google.com/patent/US9324365B2/en
"a few times a week" is considered pretty insane for even heavy users. I don't think that just about anybody is advocating that frequency of use. Regardless of long term effects I think most people would be feeling pretty messed up by the end of that week.

Once a week is sustainable in the short term but I am not recommending that and make no claims as to its safety in the long term. I would have no way of knowing other than googling studies.

That being said I'd still like a source for the claim:

"Yes but MDMA specifically will mangle your brain after very little recreational usage relative to almost all other drugs."
I still use Opera 12 as my primary mail client on the desktop.

My gripes with Vivaldi: still a Chromium-based browser (like the new Opera), and still no e-mail client.

Compare this to previous iterations of Opera (pre-12), which featured a custom, fast rendering engine, and built-in features ranging from mail client, IRC client, and torrent client to a web server and a file-sharing platform![1]

Sadly, Vivaldi is still a shadow of what Opera used to be. I'm still hopeful, but they simply don't have an attractive product yet. I'll think again when the mail client is there, it was a killer feature.

I've switched to FF Quantum, and not switching to anything else any time soon. For me, the killer feature is the new fast engine -- and the reader view, which is the only way I can tolerate about half the websites out there.

With reader view and integrations such as Pocket and full-page screenshot directly from the UI, Firefox seems to be the only browser innovating on UX-out-of-the-box these days. (Edge had introduced some neat things, and I tried it for a while, but it just falls short for me).

Meanwhile, Chrome is turning into an interesting OS that just needs a good web browser.

[1]https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/3468/turn-your-computer-into...
"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." -- jwz
Two of the example polls in the site screenshot are political (us 2020, cannabis).

I'm wondering how you get background demo info on poll participants?

I think it could be interesting to think about using visual cues from video (gender, age) but what about info like is registered to vote or other demographic info.

I don't see example of the hardware but I'm guessing this is like those smiley face poll stations in that it just collects a simple response and doesn't collect say first, last, address, birthday etc?
Rather than encoding this as SAT, would it be easier to use an actual constrain solver environment here? Like MiniZinc or PiCat.
Thanks unirock for giving us the secret info (LIVE with quinn michaels)
WhatsApp backups will stop counting toward your Google Drive storage
TSA screenings don't protect anyone from anything[0]; they are pure security theater and a great way to control the flow of people around the USA. TSA PreCheck is simply a revenue stream for the TSA.

[0] https://abcnews.go.com/US/tsa-fails-tests-latest-undercover-...
Tim O'Reilly did this quite a while ago and it probably wasn't the first public appeal for help with prior art.

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/23/business/patents-web-site...
You might feel that way, but sophisticated software has been written by average developers in the past and it will happen in the future. The odds are not great but the industry is well into the 100’s of millions of man hour territory and unusual things happen accidentally if nothing else more often than you might think.

PS: However, when what you say is literally wrong I don’t think it deserves a detailed response.
Sometimes market prices reflect the value some individuals think other individuals will place on things. Which leads back to how something can be over/under-valued.
> depression, anxiety, introversion, etc.

That's a whole array of pathologies and symptoms, for which there is no single pharmacological solution.

Many comments in this thread are over-standardising mental illness as well as the (supervised administration) therapy presented in the linked article, which is about much more than dosage and frequency. On top of that, the patient in the article expresses many specificities that are unlikely to be matched by most patients.

This is, to me, the first negative aspect of banning a drug -- it suppressed 99% of the potential evidence base and replaces it with poor 'SWIM-based' anecdotes.
You're confusing claiming dual nationality, which the US has no problem with, with entering on a non-US passport as a US citizen, which is not allowed. Your relative was lucky that the immigration officer allowed that.

"U.S. nationals, including dual nationals, must use a U.S. passport to enter and leave the United States."

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-lega...
I heard Indian temples have fast lanes to see gods. This is a similar system to create a fastlane. If you pay $99, you don’t have to take your shoes off.
Work ethic vs details-oriented are two diff things. Maybe have a pull request model where you approve and give feedback?

If it's truly work ethic, then your call on whether to continue the project. Projects/startups are like romance, don't try to change the person (to each their own), or expect change to happen, just let people be who they are and decide if you want to continue given their disposition.

Be humble, be chill, and know you have your own faults that he probably has to put up with. I'm an only child. I wish I had a brother, so for my sake (lol), prioritize your relationship above your project.
Like quintuple: tuh-ple

As in: That group of 5 was a real ‘tuple.
> Further, you've contradicted your own point in your spiel about nicotine.

How so? I stated that it isn't the nicotine or its addictive effects that make cigarettes addictive even though research indicates nicotine is universally addictive. A cigarette is not nicotine.

> I really don't think your ideas are supportable.

There is sufficient medical research to dictate whether or not these ideas are valid. The question I am trying to raise is to what degree behavioral medicine is more a factor in this than physical medicine, but I honestly feel you are deliberately ignoring this to prove some point.
Oh that's so dumb.

Broadcasting, as well as using beacons, works well until some smart kid happens who knows how to clone your beacon.

Ages old "blueproximity" Linux PAM module does much better. It just `l2ping`s the device you point to, and you can always do that after you have paired the thing. AFAIR I did pair an earpiece with a laptop, it worked fine.
I would suggest kneeling and placing your weight on your toes (curled underneath, heels touching one another with butt resting on them, think Japanese praying in front shrine) this puts a lot of weight on your pelvic floor and strengthens the lower back and spine which gets out of whack from sitting long periods. Do it barefoot, shoes are cheating. Sleeping on your back will naturally keep you more awake , don’t fight it !
Already exists as described, gab.ai.
> No one likes scaling factors to their identities.

Sure, I totally agree. Doing things this way would make some things more intuitive (Hz would "work right") and some thing harder. As you point out, the identity

e^(ix) = cos(x) + i*sin(x)

would need to be rewritten

e^(ix) = cos(x/2pi) + i*sin(x/2pi)

or equivalently

e^(ix) = cos(x radians) + i*sin(x radians)

if we redefined `sin` and `cos` to take "revolutions" instead of radians. It's obviously worse in that regard -- it's longer to write, less intuitive, more difficult to work with etc.

It's probably a horrible idea. It's not wrong, though. It even has some nice properties:

sin(x) = -sin(x + 0.5)
sin(x) = sin(x + 1)

etc.
Security theater, my friends...
Anyone on the same itinerary as a person without TSA precheck does not get TSA precheck? I think that already happens today..
> I am convinced that there are more people who would begin to benefit from unprescribed private self-medication with MDMA than who would begin to suffer suffer harm.

conviction |kənˈvɪkʃ(ə)n|
2 a firmly held belief or opinion

belief |bɪˈliːf|
an acceptance that something exists or is true, especially one without proof

opinion |əˈpɪnjən|
1 a view or judgement formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge
I know "everything is securities fraud" is one of Matt Levine's memes, but it's my understanding this is not actually grounds for a lawsuit? The company has to have misled investors in some way.

(Not a lawyer, not legal advice, etc.)
Doesn’t work all the time. I have it, but my wife doesn’t; we were both denied precheck on one pair of flights. Maybe this is how they incentivize us to get it for her too.

EDIT: typo
> Sure, I just meant that going from that level of knowledge to shipping a working program which integrates with a non-trivial third party library is a decent showing for a new grad hire.

Do you think this is a commonly-held view? Honest question, because I know I could pull this off and I didn't finish university (or study CS when I was there). If companies are looking for this level of talent during the application process, I could probably work for IBM without a CS degree but it's not likely they'd even look twice at my resumé.
It's worth noting that Cyph came up in an earlier discussion about HPKP being removed from Chrome:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15572888

As far as I'm aware that means their approach no longer works (across browsers), and, though it was a fantastic idea, it did require you to trust that they really were throwing their keys away (a trust model slightly weaker than TOFU).
Oh yes; while certainly mismatched new[]/delete has been a source of problems since forever, what I mean specifically is the new types of exploits possible with the "operator delete(void* ptr, size_t sz)" overload (and its array cousin).

Before C++14, using delete (rather than delete[]) to deallocate an array of ints (or other trivially destructible data types) would be safe in practice, even though it was disallowed. In a world with sized deallocation functions, it's exploitable.
> including a response of choosing not to associate with that person any longer

Individuals and businesses already have restrictions on their freedom of association already, the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Fair Housing Act of 1968 that require businesses and landlords / property sellers to serve people in protected classes being prime examples.

So, yes, you could say that I am just as much in favor of restricting the freedom of association for businesses and landlords to preserve equality for protected classes as I am interested in restricting the freedom of association for common telecoms carriers and social media businesses to preserve freedom of speech.
I would agree that staunch political alignment kills curiosity. To me, curiosity is a desire to learn and discover. You can’t learn if you’ve already made up your mind.