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Ask HN: How to move from web developer to just developer?
I have been working with web development for a decade, started being a web master then a designer then a frontend engineer.

Having no formal education I am interested to hear what steps are recommended to find a more technical job.

I have the impression that no serious company will hire somebody with my background.

I am considering everything at the moment, from backend to system and mobile. I have time for small projects/portfolio work but I have tried doing that before and they ended up being too simple for the position I was applying for.
First Pass Yield (FPY - % of cars that don't require rework) is another

I get that, but isn't it expected that if you create a new car factory, sort of from scratch, your FPY won't be exceptionally high? Unless you really know what you're doing due to previous experience in car manufacturing?
It's zero sum. All those losers are needed to power the boom.
More common than you think. If ppl take out debt for cars, vacations, home remodeling, they can do it for crypto currency too
No. I meant the Baltics. "Well within" was a wrong phrase. Apologies for that.

Finland has nothing to do it. My point was that it's not that difficult for Russians to consider NATO a hostile force even if the West calls it a defensive force. NATO already outguns Russia on many parameters. If there is a full-scale war and China supports NATO, then it's pretty much game for Russia.
Curious, how can this compete against free open-source alternatives?
I was wondering whether post the net neutrality repeal any IP has actually started tiered internet packages based on what content is being accessed, whether they stared throttling as many were fearing. If they hadn't it doesn't mean that they won't, was just curious if it's happened yet
I'm so glad to see naive investors learning that cryptos are a scam. Now they can get back to real investments like social media apps and cloud computing.
Another mysterious city appears in the sky over China
True, probably a lot of bias in my environment but I interview a lot of people for frontend roles - a couple of years ago Elm was the next exciting language to learn, it's now more often than not Reason.
The old fogeys among us would point out that this is an incomplete implementation of the batch queues that VMS has had for 3 or 4 decades. The new fogeys would point out that 60% of this functionality (the hard parts) is present in PowerShell and all the rest is a boring CRUD app.
Some of the complications are necessary. You either need generics or a whole bunch of primitives to have non-nullable references. Go would also have to replace slices with something different. Return types and the shape of the interfaces would have to be changed. Algebraic datatypes or some complicated way of defining return types would need to be added for it to be usable. Defer statements that can modify the function's return value would need to be handleable by the type system, or dropped.
Cases:
1.Cooperate with them
2.DDOS them
3.Buy them
3.Post comments at each publication (like common user)
4 Remake content to link it with your platform (like product-placement technology)

if this not enough, feel free to ask me
Isn't this kind of thing the whole reason we have accredited investor laws? This might be an unpopular opinion, but if we want to protect people from themselves, maybe we should stop banning people from investing in private equity and start worrying more about exotic stuff like crypto. It seems utterly absurd to me that I'm not allowed to buy a single share of Uber or SpaceX, while sinking my life savings into whatever obscure cryptocurrency I choose is perfectly legal.
"Memristor – The fictional circuit element" implies B does not exist. It's a lousy title.

Perhaps "Memristor - An interesting device based on a flawed theory" would have been better.

The debate I'm having is whether the language used was inappropriate, i.e. whether the best words were used or if we should keep looking for better words. If all they care about is clicks then that's their prerogative, but the people reading these words need to know what they're supposed to mean.

Because "fictional" has a specific meaning, and this isn't it.
One of the benefits of React and its components is that components built with design and prototyping tools (e.g. Figma) translate well to it. You design prototypes, test them, and translate the design components into react components.

Elm seems more like a prototyping language itself, where you create your architecture as you go, easy to refactor (and thus live test I guess). Those of you who made the jump from React to Elm, did your approach to prototyping and evaluating what to build change? Do you prototype less before you jump into code?
that is not a reliable indicator though. I remember a lot of non-tech people talking about bitcoin in 2013. Even at $100-250/coin it was getting a lot of media coverage.
This has happened to every other car company on the planet at one time. Pretending it hasn't is silly.

If you don't want a car that has ever had any production issues at any point in it's life, you don't want a car.

It's like complaining that Intel has low yield numbers for their CPUs, or that some of the apples that your local orchid grows are rotten.

The cars are being manufactured to the correct specs, it's just a different (more manual) way of doing it. If you care about nothing but your car, then you wouldn't give a shit how it's manufactured as long as it's good.

If you have an issue with the end result of these cars, that's another thing. But the FPY has nothing to do with that. A car made to shitty specs and with awful tolerances is going to be awful regardless of whether they made it awful on the first try or the 10th.
Yes it can, it's not a perfect experience (yet) but quite a lot of people are already using it in this way. We're also generally interested in a more decoupled approach to the front end, so you can expect this to improve further in future!
Yes.

I went to the Design2Part show in Santa Clara a few months ago. The California Department of Corrections had a booth there, offering slave labor as a service.
Any recommendation of picking a good font for display? System fonts won't be sufficient you think? I guess there's not enough font-weights with system fonts
I haven't looked into it myself, but it could be that due to all this massaging you'd lose more on throughput than you gain on memory use. It's similar to doing 8 bit quantized stuff on general purpose CPUs. It's very hard to make it any faster than float32 due to all the futzing that has to be done before and after the (rather small) computation. In comparison, no futzing at all is needed for float32: load 4/8/16 things at a time (depending on the ISA), do your stuff, store 4/8/16 things at a time. Simple.
>As I've gotten older, my tolerance for blather has dropped like a stone, though. And some authors blather and yammer. E.g., a certain popular author lovingly details the military details of his space ships, which is really irrelevant to pretty much the entire rest of the book. Wish he'd keep that stuff in his private notefiles.

What blathering is to some, is worldbuilding for others. Personally, I read all 5 GoT books (the first three were the best, the last two were meh) and GRRM is really good in describing food ... man my mouth always started watering reading those passages of banquets and feasts.
Ask HN: Is there no more a different Advisor Track at StartupSchool ?
I am a little confused about this whole thing even now at Statup School. Just wanted to make sure if still there is a separate Advisor Track or every one will be in the same program.
And from an outsider's perspective it's madness.

Case in point: https://www.google.com/search?q=majority+of+Americans+single...

The majority of Americans support single payer healthcare! Coincidentally (except it's not a coincidence at all) out of OECD countries the U.S. has the most amount of completely uninsured citizens (about 1 in 10!): https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=HEALTH_PROT but also pays on average more than anywhere else: http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/graph-of-the-month.ht... including this nugget: “Of all the OECD member states, only in the United States does voluntary health insurance and private funding such as households’ out-of-pocket payments account for more than 50% of the total”

When you realize that what the average person desires in the U.S. makes statistically zero difference on what laws get passed† it's little wonder that many have stopped voting.

And yet, what do the rest of us have to listen to on HN? Partisan bickering and identity politics. Spare us please.

† https://www.businessinsider.com/major-study-finds-that-the-u...
I suspect that what makes Apple so keen to maintain the Touch Bar, in spite of a lack of adoption after two years is a major long term change. Few things have benefited from so much patience; all those who did were significant interaction changes that absolutely deserved it, but were not properly foreseen.

In this case, I see that the touch bar is expected to replace more of the keyboard and trackpad. It might use the same haptic technology as the iPhone’s home button since the iPhone 7, and have fixed groves for keys; it might use a material a bit more comfortable for repeated strike — but it feel very unclear why Apple would have not taken over touch screen for it’s laptop line.
'Abrupt thaw' of permafrost below lakes could significantly speed climate change
Ha, thanks for saying that. My mother had the same reaction and I assumed she was just being obtuse but now that a commenter on Hacker News has said it I'm going to assume there's genuine ambiguity there and add a little prescript to the post to clarify! ... and done. Thanks again!
But that's what they are doing... Wasting a little time and money up front by manually fixing it while they develop and deploy a fulltime fix...

People here seem to be implying that they should entirely shut down the entire factory and not start it up again until all of these flaws are completely fixed, and that's not "wasting a little bit of time and money" that's putting a bullet in the head of the company.
Showing up at a kids party stoned seems like a pretty normal thing to me. It's completely socially acceptable to drink alcohol at kids parties. Chuck E Cheese's even sells alcohol.
> "What this has got to do with Facebook's trustworthiness score machinery I do not know."

This article posted is immensely relevant for the intersection
of tech and political discourse, and in such cases, I would personally prefer to see more discussion on HN.

If the article is about new advances in Golang, sure, I'd hate to see talk of politics in threads.
> Both Elm and Standard ML have additional type constraints for numbers and comparable types that aren't implemented in terms of a user-definable type constraint like Haskell's typeclasses.

That's not really true. Standard ML has overloaded operators for int/real, but you cannot write a polymorphic function over any kind of number without using the module system. This is a key distinction. Standard ML does have a notion of 'equivalence type variables', which is frequently seen as a wart (since you often get an equality definition you might not be interested in). Standard ML has nothing for 'comparable' types (except, again, through the module system).

Offhand, I can't really think of any other language that uses builtin type classes in the style of Elm.
Will NVidia's New RTX/Turing Chip Put 3D Texture Artists Out of Work?
ROM sites are falling, but a legal loophole could save game emulation
> I'll be surprised if it's still around in 10 years.

I agree that facebook the site, in its current form, is unlikely to exist in 10 years. I highly doubt that facebook the company is going anywhere in that time frame.
Because the fees are the lowest and it's been proven over and over again that the number 1 headwind against long-term equity growth is the fee structure.

Index funds require no special knowledge to build...just buy the S&P100 stocks in equal amounts and boom, so the fees for such a fund can be super low.
That's too bad. My understanding is that it's mostly the big companies who pushed the hardest against non-compete reform. EMC was particularly prominent.

I actually had to sign an EMC non-compete when the company I was at was acquired a number of years back. Fortunately, the terms didn't seem likely to affect me (and they didn't).
I think it's probably better to train yourself to accurately estimate the calories in food than it is to assign food to clicks for two reasons. One, it's easier to measure calories in vs calories out if you use the same units for both. Two, adjusting the unit you are measuring (clicks vs calories) doesn't solve the problem of bad estimates. My calorie estimates are rarely off by the same percentage, often times my estimates on certain food will be off by 50% whole other food is spot on. 50% could be a choicing a few clicks less on certain high calorie foods causing your counting to be inaccurate.
Google and Facebook want to have their cake and eat it too: billions of users without having millions of customer service workers.

What they're trying to accomplish, to my mind at least, would require the invention of general AI. Automatic content moderation sounds very close to a Turing test to me.
Maybe so, but can you please not post shallow dismissals to Hacker News? This is in the site guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I probably won't ever do a homework assignment again, unless I feel like I absolutely have to. It's not just the time involved, it's the time involved plus the apparent necessity for me to ask what the results were.

It seems obvious to me that if a company asks an applicant to do a homework project, then when the applicant submits the project, the evaluation and feedback (positive or negative) should happen automatically and quickly.
This is explained in the article. They are bipassing the recording process and this is the basis multiple state supreme courts have used for considering such transfers and the MERS system in total invalid.
You did calorie reduction, which is why you lost weight. It just did not feel that way.

PS: The human body can only convert so much protean into energy per day. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning
that must suck..to have the misfortune of buying that stock instead of AOL, Cisco, Oracle, Intel, Dell, Microsoft..anything else would have been better. It goes to show how you can lose money even i n a boom if have bad luck, but also a good reason to diversify. .
Kubernetes will eventually just kill docker. It's the best way to run docker in the cloud right now and keeps getting better. Plus it abstracts docker with pods. Better support for OCI/Rkt and docker will just die.
Helpful, perhaps, would be James Ford's recently released "Introduction to Zen Koans": https://www.wisdompubs.org/book/introduction-zen-koans

Not necessarily what you're looking for, but possibly more useful.
Mostly agreed, but you can buy arbitrarily small amounts. The mistake is putting too large a fraction of your savings there. This is not like Berkshire Hathaway in any sense.
> A more relevant case

So are we deliberately conflating spam with political discourse now? Seriously?
1% of capital every year is crazy money.

If the fund is really that good, they'll take x% of the profits and not charge a fee on capital. You take capital because you're not really that good, and you don't know (like basically everyone else) what's going to happen.

Funds know they can't reliably beat the market, and thus don't offer such structures.

I want a ratcheting fee structure. No capital fees, and no fee if the fund loses compared to its benchmark. The fund only makes money if it beats the benchmark.
“We’re taking waters. Would you like a water?”

“Why not?” said Novak.

Daizaburo signaled a crab. It began speaking Nihongo. “English, please,” said Daizaburo.

“Antarctic glacier water,” offered the crab. “A deep core from Pleistocene deposits. Entirely unpolluted, undisturbed since the dawn of humanity. Profoundly pure.”

“What a delightful conceit,” said Novak. “Very Vietti.”

“We have lunar water,” said the crab. “Very interesting isotopic properties.”

“Did you ever drink water from the moon, my dear?” Novak asked her.

Maya shook her head.

“We’ll have the lunar water,” Novak ordered.

--Bruce Sterling, Holy Fire.

(I should really reread that. Thanks for reminding me!)
Funny how it was recommended at the start of this thread, in light of that.
Employer 401k, I think my current one is 0.39% for target 2055. I hate it, but doesn't seem to be interest in changing. I think I will push for it again soon though.
I appreciate being the opposite of this story. Bought into an ICO five years ago, forgot about it, remembered early last year, diversified into more tokens but had a feeling to pull out when BTC was $18k. Sold 95% of my entire portfolio.
I'm unclear on why we wouldn't just ban both things.

The reason you can't buy a share of Uber or SpaceX is, effectively, that those companies don't want your money. Both could easily do a public offering and admit you as a shareholder, but choose not to.

Further clarity: I'm "accredited", and I don't think I can buy a share of either company either.
Isn't that what my 401k is? Sure I get matching contributions from my employer, but I am hoping it keeps rising and that I can sell later for a profit when I retire. Maybe I'm oversimplifying that, but how is that any different?
It's technically not illegal under the 13th amendment.

> Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

It's immoral and unethical, but it's legal. Not saying I agree with that part of the 13th amendment, I abhor it personally.
Free speech is not being stifled. They want to regulate content in their site. You can publish your content in other places.

I appreciate fake news being cleaned in my timeline, if the cost is no more than some occasional legit news being pruned once in awhile.
Moreover, cash is guaranteed to lose value. The mandate of global central banks has moved from "price stability" to "2% inflation".
I'm 100% more willing to do a take-home coding exercise than sit for grueling whiteboard problems. Preparing for whiteboard problems takes prep time at home too, in fact a lot more so. So homework assignments actually save time.
And it'll keep going to quadrillions of dollars, right? Obviously there's a limit somewhere. It seems reasonable to think that $20k is already pushing it.
Unfortunately the homework project is usually followed by an in-person whiteboard hazing, which nullifies those benefits. I recently interviewed with a well known tech mini-giant who admitted that my homework assignment was among the best they’ve received, but still flunked me based on the in-person slugfest so YMMV.
Also probably the calm winds come when it's 5°F outside.
> I don't see anything wrong with making money off of other people's fantasies (in virtual or real life), as long as everyone is a consenting adult. The indictment doesn't establish that backpage encouraged underage prostitution.

Eh, what? You can't just say "as long as" first and then change the bar to "[isn't] established that they encouraged" in the next sentence. Maybe I am missing something.
AFAIK many crawler robots can place shunts on live lines automatically, without any risk. I wonder what's the advantage of doing it manually from a helicopter.
This is a free open source alternative, the pro version is just a cloudbased PaaS based on the same code.

Here's the GitHub: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost
1.Cooperate with them
2.Buy them
3.Abuse them
4.DDOS, Hack, Discredit it
5.Make your content HardLinked to your platform (Liken Productplacement, watermark, use authentic style and features.

If this not enough, feel free to ask, will think more
due to the mining aspect of bitcoin, unlike a stock, it does a a sort of floor, but that too can eventually fail
Unfortunately, the 13th amendment allows it...
Why would someone start with a minor platform? Mac is consistently 5-6 percentage of the market and has been for decades. They honestly have never been a player.
Did you read the indictment or the press release?
Thats how I always used to host my blog. Free ad-free php, cPanel, Fantastico. But it was always a nightmare, hacker exploits a bug in WordPress, upgrade WP, then the free host changes policy & now one or other feature is broken.

Its easy to install, but its not easy to keep up & maintain the VPS WP installation for an average user like me.

Last year I came across GitLab pages & jekyll; & now its easy to maintain. Yes, not easy to start.
Ghost is not the best bet for documentations. It's great in its area but not for sphinx like documentation. Better look at mkdocs! If you want to see a website we created from a Sphinx to mkdocs switch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17717513
As a day trader for about 5 years, I could (and did) almost perfectly guess the price runups after breakouts, and knew 20k was sell time...it was a super easy chart to read in fact.

All the moves were textbook.
The fact that a particular person in a pornographic video is underage is up to the government to proof if they want to convict you, say, of a child pornography charge. It does not matter where the material was produced, or what kind of records they kept.

Now, the government may create laws that oblige a distributor of pornography to be in possession of such records, and someone how is not may be in violation of those laws.

It also doesn't matter if the material is advertised as "teen" or not.

Similarly, you may argue that a site like Backpage should be legal, as long as they verify the age of the advertisers. It's a rather strange argument, after all, they can't verify that the person they verify is the person that turns up at the appointment. But that is not the law.

The government is instead alleging that there is a law that makes Backpage-like advertising of prostitution illegal, regardless of whether the ages were verified or not.
In the time it takes one person to do the 37 minutes of rework you have taken 5 more cars off the line.

So 6 mechanics in 6 bays at the end of the line do the rework jobs and cars continue to flow out of the plant one every 7 minutes.

An extra $20 in COGS per car. Is this really so horrible? What am I missing?

Even if it’s 10 mechanics and 10 drivers moving cars into and out of the bays, with some bays idle some of the time and let’s call it an extra $60 in COGS.

Their gross margin is already way better than anyone expected to see on the Model 3, they used some very impressive electrical design to save in so many places.

Even just their rear view mirror is more than $50 cheaper than the competition’s mirrors because of their smart electrical design. [1]

Right now they need volume more than anything else. Speaking as a reservation holder.

[1] - https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-3-solidly-profitable-s...
Was that a subtle riff off Newsroom? If not, post well crafted.
Using molecule with Docker to test Ansible with systemd requirements
I never said it was realtime. I said it was acceptably fast on CPU ie. it'd take a few minutes/hours to generate some samples and convince yourself that they did not cherrypick a tiny handful of good quality samples out of a universe of lousy ones. I would very roughly guesstimate their 2000px model probably would take ~0.5s/frame on a GPU, so multiply by the usual >10x CPU slowdown, you can generate a 30fps 30s snippet in maybe an hour or so.
In terms of hours per day worked, what is the actual difference between doing an unpaid take-home test? Signing a contract is just being honest about the time it's going to take to learn about the candidate.

What about onsite interviews, do you have to tell your supervisor that is the reason you are taking off work? Would they be OK with that?
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