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Because supply and demand curves aren't smooth - Increasing production scales linearly up to a point, and then you need to build a new factory. Samsung is pumping out all the SSDs it can produce. It is probably also building new factories, but the capital investment and lead-time on that are significant, and until those factories come online, they're simply sunk cost.

Customer demand is not smooth. I will buy precisely 0 SSDs at prices > $125 per 1T drive, and I will suddenly buy 4 as soon as the price drops below there. There are thousands to millions of other customers will scattered plot points around that area, but while you can draw a smoothed graph over them and be reasonably correct, they do not actually represent a mathematical law.

Further - Information is imperfect and markets, for all their elasticity, are only trending towards efficiency.

This all assumes you're arguing in good faith. This in itself is an unreasonable assumption - Your last, mocking line seems to belie it. As does this line.
I was in the Google NYC 8th ave building as a full employee -- everyone who had a cubicle was working 4 people to a cubicle. Then they densified, and put six people to a cubicle, The cubicles were pretty big. Then they moved us to a different section of the building with an open floor plan with no cubicles at all.
Shouldn't you feel the same way if your mother had a heart, kidney, or liver transplant? You'd be directly hooked up to it as a fetus and it's as "dead" as the womb in this case.
Chongo longo
Is this literally illegal? From what I understand, the typical arrangement is that these people are full-time employees, but they are employees of a different company, and the contract is between companies.

To delve into hypotheticals, company X has a building and hires company Y to clean it. Company Y employs the janitors full time, and company Y decides the policies for hiring and firing janitors, and decides what their schedules are. The janitors are working at FTE conditions, and therefore they are full-time employees, but they're not employees of company X and don't get the same benefits.
That's what I meant by "proper". It can do it, but PG does it better. It's one area that I wish they would invest time into considering the large developer impact it would have.
How about this?

https://web.archive.org/web/20181205191905/https://www.faceb...
The EM field itself is quantized. You start with the classical electromagnetic field and you try to quantize it. The rules for this are not precise nor formal.

That means something a little different to "photons can only have specific energies" (that applies only to very specific atoms or atoms with certain structure; in many materials, electrons can exist in bands of continuous energy).
From a business point of view they can get developers/researchers working with PhysX early. Eventually these developers will convince their employer to shell out for other non free Nvidia products.
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Some of this has been attempted, and deprecated. E.g., there used to be language tags in Unicode corresponding to Internet language tags.
Unions, in general, aren't monolithic. How the average trade union member may feel about contractors within their field would likely depend on the industry they work in.

Further, these groups aren't mutually exclusive in some cases. Many contract electricians are unionized, for example.
Correct! First available release was in 1979 according to the wiki, so almost 40 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Database#Releases_and_v...
Love this, will use for the underground commutes.

Would like to see the stories numbered struggling to sperate the stories.

Also maybe a way to turn the snipits of?
I think this is referring to something different, but I could be reading it incorrectly. I think this is essentially that Google has a contract with the companies named, and then the contractors are full-time, regular employees of the contract company. The workers themselves are not 1099 contractors, I don't think.
I can read you because I went to my settings and turned on "showdead". But you are shadowbanned, so you don't know you're banned. It sucks and it's really mean; it's a big thing I don't like about this website.
Meh, typically burner would be disposable. He’s arguing you don’t need to ‘burn’ this device after using. It’s just a normal phone that you can keep using.

Burner-like if it works better for you.
Ask HN: How to transition from business role to coder
I'm in my late 30's and have been in business roles since leaving college. I've done moderately well in that role, founding a YC backed startup, gaining B2b customers, raising seed round and leading two crowdfunding campaigns totaling nearly $1MM. I've always been miserable doing that work, and burned out really badly when my startup eventually failed.

On the side I've coded since college (where I did maths) and always enjoyed that. I'm entirely self taught and have focused on hacking things that work rather than any solid software engineering skills. I've built a few MVP's for startups, including one android app that got 400k downloads (but not great daily active usage). I've built stuff in Java, Javascript, Rails and Python.

I'm considering pivoting my career full-time into a software role and looking for advice on whether to do that and if so how. Questions I have:
1. Will it be frustrating going into entry level jobs in a young industry?
2. How should I find jobs and how will my background look to an employer?
3. Should I do a bootcamp or go back to school or something like 42's program?

Appreciate the communities advice. Thanks!
Whenever we get one of these snippy exchanges going far to the right on the page, circulating uselessly and boring everybody else, both parties are to blame for keeping it going.

Any time you find yourself writing things like "This is the second time you're calling me irrational, and it's not acceptable," you've passed the kind of discussion we want on HN. Even if it's true that the other person was behaving as badly or worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Not if you are Google full time employee.
The Neurons That Tell Time
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Progress is a function of effort, not time. Default to action, push whenever feasible to fix what is broken.
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The key has to be in it to start it, but once started, the key can go away and it will continue to run.

(& yes, I still start my car with a key that is inserted, and mine also has a clutch & manual H-pattern 5-speed)
Thanks. That really helps. I fail to see how this is superior to XML, except that tools/DSLs like jq are so much easier to use than XSLT.

EDIT: But still, no please. This isn't even remotely close to on the same level as XML is, and we don't need XML to be reinvented.
They don't duck surveillance from facebook as you and I know it, but from facebook as an employer, which is very different.

If a company provides your phone, then it has access to it, and if you don't want your company to have access to what you do on it, you use a different phone. If you want the convenience of a personal phone that you can check your work mail (or work facebook groups) on, then you grant access to that company.

It isn't any different from when a law firm or bank provides its employees phones. If you don't want that firm or bank to read what you write on it, then you need another phone.

A "burner phone" gets thrown away--"burned"--to prevent the someone from tracking you. You don't allow anyone to know you use it.

No one at facebook cares if you use a second phone. So some better terms would be "personal phone" or "non-corporate phone".
> So a phone used to duck surveillance from a powerful entity to conduct discussions about things you don't want that entity knowing about, colloquially goes by what other name then?

A "personal device"
I cringe every time I have to use SQL Server.

1) Weird gaps in ANSI compatibility (no concatenation with ||, no current_date, top n instead of limit/offset, etc.)

2) Just yesterday a client's SQL Server started selecting deadlock victims to be killed, so the DBA's workaround was to throw (nolock) hints on every table and read dirty data. It happens when concurrent queries update records in a different sequence, but the same application on Postgres never deadlocks.

3) The query planner seems amazingly naive for such a mature product. Hard to understand how a query with three where-clause constraints can execute in 20 ms, but adding a fourth constraint makes it run 240000 ms, but I see this kind of insanity every day.
Thank you for putting my thoughts into words much better that I could.

I'd just like to add that the "personal car" era might be coming to its end and we should work with that as well - underground garages are hard to convert to anything useful.

> has to pay more for their home because the land that could have held 8 homes now holds 5.

Yes, and the parking space itself costs a non-trivial amount of money (40-50k USD - if it has to be underground), especially for people in Eastern European metropolises.
> Better to pay out for a vehicle theft, vs. actual injuries from a collision.

What do you mean? It's not as if anyone will be driving less... the insurance company will pay for a new car, the family will buy a new car (presumably they need it), and still be just as statistically likely to collide with the new car.
Are you saying you want them all to endure "discrimination, racism, and sexual harassment"? I hope I'm reading you wrong.
Yes, I was making a joke, but I was also semi-serious. I personally wouldn't mind that the car unlocks based on the fob's proximity, but requires insertion of the key for ignition. I currently drive a 2009 car with the usual key fob and my biggest issue with it is not having to insert it to start the car, but unlocking the doors while my hands are full. Once I'm seated in the driver's seat I'm not carrying anything and starting the car is no problem.
I really like posts/articles like this that point out problems that need to be addressed, but they always seem to miss a reasonable call to action.
In this case it mentions what the author did (refuse to let her sleep be interrupted and make a verbal agreement with those tending.)

But if that doesn't work? For instance, what do I do about the new nurse that doesn't want to upset the dr and insists on doing the 4am blood draw?

With hard facts about WHY the nurse doesn't need that 4am draw I could formulate an argument to convince the nurse to let me sleep instead. But outright refusing to let the nurse do their duties just feels... obnoxious.
I'm not familiar with Sandpoint, but rather than a park and ride, why not a park and walk? Tourists who want to hang out downtown all day could park a half mile or so away and walk. While it's not the expectation in some places, prominent signs and way finding could alleviate any confusion about their being "no parking".

This would bring additional foot traffic to downtown adjacent neighborhoods, and encourage people to stay longer.
> Why not pay once for high-quality sensors built into the highway infrastructure, and have them feed data to passing vehicles.

Collective action problem.
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> Do employees at facebook really feel the heat?

Two words: Stock price. A big part of compensation is in stock.
> Oracle has a way of doing this w/o copying the entire row.

And I have seen Oracle 12c servers completely lock because of that way.
A burner phone is one that you intend to discard after using it to conduct some clandestine, often illegal, activity. Just because a phone is private doesn't make it a burner.
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So many firms still use Excel to drive trades. When I started out I was using GNumeric and still sometimes use it for quick ideas before coding a strategy in c++
I was being tricky here but I mean the AMA.

It controls a great deal about doctor's education and working conditions. It does not collectively bargain, so it's not strictly a union. But it's more powerful than most unions at this point. So a glib, "maybe doctors should get a union to represent them" answer to poor working conditions for residents doesn't really make sense. They already have a powerful organization that should represent them.

I think that there is at least some group of physicians who really think that poor working conditions for residents improves patient outcomes and doctor training.
I think so much of it is just a scale issue. I grew up in a mid-sized suburb in the Northwest just a couple decades ago. Most road were only 2, or maximum 4 lanes. The idea of driving around without your headlights on in the dark would be unfathomable. And if you did, you'd get honked at, flashed, and presumably at some point within 5 or 10 minutes, a police officer would see you and stop you.

That area's gotten bigger, and I moved to the Bay Area, which is bigger still. 2 decades on, It's not even worth COUNTING the number of vehicles without headlights on in the dark or rain. I never thought I'd be one to complain about too few police, but I see at least 10-20x as many vehicles with no headlights as I see cops (for example). Much of my commuting is on the freeway, and CHP are few and far between but also police aren't so common on surface streets either. And when they are there, they don't bother pulling anyone over for "small potatoes" stuff like this. I don't know if they're waiting for the next violent crime, or what, but it would be nice if they did a little "broken windows" policing.

Why don't they bother? I don't know. Probably because everyone's busy, everyone has a sob story, their stupid new car with its light-up instruments on 24x7 makes it LOOK like the headlights are on, the daytime running lights make you THINK the headlights are on, are you really going to give a ticket to someone just trying to pick up their kid from school?

I wish the answer was YES, but it just feels like everyone's stopped knowing or caring. When you don't own the same vehicle for 15 years, you have no idea how the controls on this week's lease work, there are too many cars on the road, the problem has gotten too big, tech has taken over too much of it.. everything just feels out of control.
This is called Laplace's Demon. It has been disproven by chaos theory.
Is that because you're not responding to the recruiting emails or they don't get back to you after you respond? How would you imorove that process?
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There are several ways. The simplest is setting the "Align" property of a control which is similar to the "Dock" property of WinForms in that it makes the control stick to the left/right/top/bottom edge (multiple controls stack) or fill the "client" area. It also has an "Anchor" property that again works similar to WinForms' property of the same name, allowing anchoring an edge to the location you place the control.

Beyond the above (which i think are all what WinForms provide, at least from the visual designer) the anchors can also be set so that instead of just "sticking" to a designed edge, they are set relative to some other control in the parent container with customizable gaps. For example you can configure (using a dedicated anchor editor window) that the left edge of an input box is 5 pixels away from the right side of the label control and the label control's top edge is aligned so that the label's center matches the edit box's center. Note that any control can be anchored to any other control, so if you have a form with 10 input fields you can anchor their left side to the same control (e.g. the longest label or a "guide" control) so that they align neatly.

The align property is enough for most cases and the anchor system covers almost the rest of the layout cases. Where those do not suffice, there are a few more dedicated options like the TFlowPanel container that flows controls in various formations as well as the ChildSizing property that allows for specifying some automatic layouts. TBH personaly i never had to use those though. Note that most of them can also be combined.

Finally each control also has constraints (min/max size) and spacing (margins) for each edge as well as an overall spacing.

Somewhat related, but you can also make pretty much any control dockable by setting its DragKind property to dock and DockMode property to automatic. Docking happens in "dock sites" which are basically any container (like a panel) that has its DockSite property set to true (and preferably, although not required, its AutoSize also to true) and since containers are regular controls they themselves can be laid out using any of the above options or be anchor targets for sibling controls. The framework handles the whole drag/drop, docksite resizing, creating popup windows for tearoff docks, etc. In fact the whole docking system is modular itself and there are a couple of different docking managers that provide quite advanced options.

Note that all i've mentioned so far are done with the visual designer, there is obviously more fine grained control by writing code.
Sounds like she needs a better purse.
Don't use your own equipment for work then. It's your employer's responsibility to provide the resources needed for your job, not yours.
Strong nuclear force is always attractive.
I was confused by this too.

I noticed that in both places they use the term, they say "lurk in", almost as if it's a term with an accepted meaning within Stripe.

The fact that they say "read to your heart's content" also suggests that they aren't using "lurk" in it's usual meaning (which to me is reading but not commenting).
That the setup is complex enough that they need a container should tell you enough.
> is likely

Probably 100%
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Why is flagging the fact that the term retarded is offensive to some people getting downvoted?
He’s arguing you don’t need to ‘burn’ this device after using. It’s just a normal phone that you can keep using

We don't know that as a fact, do we? In this specific case I mean, I know how burner phones are used, but we have from the piece an interesting nugget that isn't really fleshed out.

Maybe the employee just used 'burner phone' to get the point across quickly of the lengths employees were going through, maybe it's an allusion to something more but it's a nugget I found interesting nonetheless.
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> DO NOT JUST GIVE IT TO A BANK -- best way to pay a ton of fees

Why you'd have to pay a ton of fees on a heavy deposit?
https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-use-a-Stepper-Motor/
safety pin near the top + carabiner = instant easy access keys
And bear in mind that these things are 12-storey-high explosive tubes landing from 75km up in the air
These "contractors" exist solely to create the ability to exclude employees from benefits and rights. It's entirely possible for Google to resolve this: Google can hire it's own employees. From my recollection, Apple Store employees are, in fact, employees of Apple. Whereas if you go to any sort of Google popup retail location, you're going to be working with contractors.

The other way Google can control all of these aspects even for contractors is to refuse to work with contractors who do not uphold the standards they set. As these contracting companies exist solely to provide contract work to big tech cos, they will fall in line immediately.
We have social security tax, which is 14.2% (including medicare). The employer pays 50% and the employee pays 50%. When you're self employed - you're the employer as well as the employee so you pay the full 14.2%. That 6.1% increase is usually a lot and hard to get enough deductions to offset it.
Full-width text is fine, I like not having miles of unused space on either side of an article. The problem is that an AMP page displays as empty if you refuse to let it execude arbitrary code within your browser.
A portion of the heat is probably from their peers/friends/family outside the company since the company has such a negative stigma right now. Another portion is due to the fact a significant portion of their income is tied to the market value of the company, which is now back at Feb. 2017 levels and declining, both due to the negative press cycle and bearish long term outlook by the market.
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Facebook gives employees corporate phones. It seemed to me that these "burner" phones were just personal phones sensationalized for the article.

At my last job I was given a corporate phone as well as my own personal phone. Some coworkers decided to do everything on their corporate phone. I chose to keep the two separate, but I wouldn't say that I was using my personal phone as a "burner".
Are meter fees the primary complaint about street parking? They don't really factor into it for me.
Stupid non-physicist question here: we know the universe is expanding, but where does it expand at? Are there physical areas which we can observe growing? And if so, shouldn't that mean that we observe distant objects as lighter than their interactions with closer objects would imply?
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Started already and managed to get to page 12 of 78 when the people realized at work that Christmas is, surprise, again on Dec. 24th. I totally forget that I wrote that many words... ;-)
I agree. Here's Horovod for anyone who hasn't heard of it: https://github.com/uber/horovod
There’s nothing convoluted about deducting health insurance and dental premiums if you are self employed.

Money you pay for health and dental insurance is counted as a reduction against your AGI — technically this is even better than a deduction, as long as you don’t qualify for insurance through another employer, and cannot exceed your total employment earnings. So you can’t decline employee sponsored health insurance and also claim the reduction, and you can’t deduct premiums to the point where you have a net loss.

Qualified expenses go on Line 29 of Form 1040 where it says “Self-employed health insurance deduction”.

You do not have to incorporate or setup an LLC to claim the deduction.
Facebook provided the means for Cambridge Analytica to occur. Facebook also shared social graph information with Obama's campaign.

Facebook is far from blameless, and should be held to account for its scummy behaviour, and for enabling scummy behaviour.
We haven't observed any of the predicted WIMPs at the LHC, as one example. They were subsequently relegated to a higher energy level.
As long as you are able to take the same code path for all empty lists, you can do something like

if (xyz instanceof List) {
if (xyz.isEmpty()) { ... }
else if (xyz.get(0) instanceof String) { ... }
else if (xyz.get(0) instanceof Integer) { ... }
}

Which, I admit, is a gross hack.
Most contractors don't own their own company - they are w2 employees of some contract compant. The contract house takes a cut (generally half again more than you make - but out of that they have to pay a bunch of taxes on your behalf). You are an employee for all legal purposes, just not of google but the third party.