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Flyt ( Just launched US) |Node.JS API|Remote , Client site|Full Time

Calling all graduate engineers, are you looking for a company where you can work from home 2 out of 3 weeks, on client site anywhere in the US for the other and be part of an amazing company that is rapidly growing?

Flyt provides the API platform that connects restaurants to delivery partners, ordering platforms, point-of-sale systems and beyond. We enable concepts such as Pay at Table, Delivery, Bar Tabs, Order at Table, Order and Collect, Table Management, Digital Voucher Redemption and Food Ratings for well known brands such as Uber Eats, Postmates, DoorDash, Facebook and more.

The Role
We are looking for JavaScript/Typescript engineers who will play an integral role in building out our integration platform and building the connective tissue (integrations) between hundreds of POS systems, booking systems, menu systems and more. You will be required to travel to site for at least 1 month out of every 3 months (team of 3, 1 person onsite for each integration), so if travelling around the USA and Canada for work sounds amazing then this is the job for you.

Responsibilities
To write integrations with 3rd party API’s and systems, tools and packages in NodeJS and TypeScript, and to dive-in deep where required to other technologies such as Go.
To help design and further extend our Google Protobufs which are a core part of how we communicate across our integration platform.

We’re confident you’ll love working here if:

You want to get into the trenches with a collaborative team.
You want to contribute to architecture and deliver innovative software products.
You like to get stuff done, and you love working your way through a problem.
You are a continuous improver, you constantly push outside of your comfort zone.
You like to openly communicate, and willing to listen to peers

Please apply directly to our US CEO, at
https://workable.com/j/B4CD621647 or email your CV to B4CD621647@jobs.workablemail.com
That helps.

In my mind I was picturing a double-wide pointer that (assuming 48-bit address spaces) carries 20 bits of type information, a pointer to an allocation descriptor, a pointer to / into the object, and 16-bit CRC of the allocation descriptor. The allocation descriptor itself would have a base address and size, a generation number, and maybe some bits for something else (what? perhaps another CRC?).

However, this would change the ABI...

And yes, I thought you were encoding the C type of the object pointed to in the pointer, which is why I was thinking wide pointers.

Thanks for the clarification!
Interesting reappropriation of “viral” to say that open source markets itself, rather than that open source forces other work to be open source, too. It’s “viral” as in “viral marketing”.

The author repeatedly expresses that there is one open source business model, “the open source business model”, at a given time. It’s not that they really believe there is only one model. They acknowledge and describe changes and variations. But from their point of view, one model seems to monopolize mindhare at any given time, and successive generations of companies refine it, in reaction to how the prior generation fared.

In skeptical terms, it’s a herd mentality. In positive terms, it’s a codeveloping state of the business art.
The situation with default file permissions is already terrible enough that no host should ever have o+x on home directories. And once you remove that, it doesn't matter if everything inside is 777.
I said “consider themselves”. Actually there is a study saying high IQ can worsen ADHD symptoms. To me it always felt like I was constantly battling against a invisible barrier that would eat away my motivation despite my many ideas and aspirations.
Tantivy does not allow schema evolution, but Lucene does, this is a major blocker for dynamic indices
I think the OP is looking for a differential diagnosis. Here is my 2 cents:

Burnout: taking time off is a sufficient cure.

Depression: you cannot feel pleasure even at points of success when everyone else is, and it won't be so if you changed anything else about the job.

Laziness: you are not unhappy or unwell but notice other people with roughly your skillset and responsibility are more productive.

Wrong job: you are arguing a lot with people or taking a lot of criticism for having legitimately valid alternative opinions or ways of doing things.
That’s not true. They make less than 20% of their revenue from services. The iPhone accounts for about 60%.

Here are some nice charts you can look at: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/11/01/apple-4q-2018-results/
You left off the most obvious and least controversial option, “not keeping with CTA’s image” of course.

But it makes for a better outrage narrative if we cherry pick the most offensive interpretation possible.
We probably have different standards for what makes a "great" print. Mine, which are of course very subjective and distinct from the artistic quality of the content, involve having a file that outresolves the printing method to the far corners precisely resampled to what the drivers expect (200 or 400 ppi for Lamdba c-prints, 360 or 720 for Epson inkjets, etc.). This would result in very small prints with a phone, even disregarding other more subtle issues.
Photonic laser thruster
I make content for Open Simulator type virtual worlds and I could see this becoming popular there. Definitely in a spaceship, dungeon etc., the possibilities are endless.
They really should have included it in TFA but I found this:

> Another mishap befell the 92-metre-long (302ft)...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/13/worlds-biggest...
There was a story a few days ago about using radar for object recognition and gesture tracking (among other things).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18855337
broken link. Mirror?
Maybe unrelated, but actually trying to think yourself out of a problem, is often worse then simply reacting on instinct. If you are really good at something you sometimes think and analyses the problem, explore new strategies, etc, instead of doing something you know works.
The effect you're referring to is caused by speculators who predict that growth will continue and bid up the stock price, which then falls back to the baseline when the prediction is shown false. Companies should stop eating their seed corn just to keep quarterly profits above the level dumb speculators predicted it would be, at the expense of the long-term health of the company. But most of them probably won't as long as executive compensation is tied to short-term numbers rather than long-term numbers.
Simple 3D object viewer using Vue.JS
I guess you were unlucky in ear shape genetic lottery. The AirPods fit snugly and comfortably in my ears.
FACEBOOK ADS and FACEBOOK MARKETING MASTERY GUIDE 2019
New management I think?
PrivateKeyVault on Raspi
They were right!
> For example the Netherlands has a hybrid system that utilizes a competitive, private, for-profit insurance market (with subsidies from the government).

I am always skeptical of these claims. We have a hybrid system for higher education which utilizes a competitive, private, for-profit education market, with heavy subsidies from the govt (given to the students in the form of aid). Look what it looks like, ever increasing prices.

Take our K-12 schooling system, again the same problem, somehow it works great for other racially homogenous European and Asian countries, but in America, we spend far more on public education per students, and get worse results.

So why is the belief that our healthcare system is going to look like Netherland's when our education system doesn't look like that?
I have a naive question related to this:

Why does a company care what its stock price is? If I buy or sell a share of Apple, Apple doesn’t get any money from the transaction, right?

Why should a company be concerned about its stock price at all?

I’m not talking about when a company IPOs and sells shares, I’m talking about after that.
> However, if there is a need for alot of cargo then an airport usually already exists, and drones would probabally be more economical for smaller packages.

Airship plans are for heavy hauling, not delivering amazon packages. TFA's airship lifts 10 tonnes. Lockheed Martin's LMH1 is planned for 20. The goal is large / bulk cargo in low-infrastructure or hard-to-access locations.
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https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/gua...

Read the first sample story, exactly the opposite of what you described.

I agree with your second point even though in the case the store it received the product from a European distributor then the store has a 2 year guarantee from the distributor.
The idea of a telephone with a screen wasn't really new in 1969, since Ma Bell had been promoting the idea for decades. The Jetsons made fun of it on TV in the early 60s.
Hey laurynas, we'd love to hear what features you are missing. Is there already a feature proposal? If not, feel free to raise one over at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues.
Notes on the Hawaii false alarm, one year later
I sold my Apple stock about 8 months ago. These are the relevant data points:

- Apple is a superb company but the stock price is still too high.

- Apple faces increasing competition from its own older phones that still work just fine.

- The older phones work just fine because Apple was caught crippling the older phones to preserve the life of the $20 battery inside the phone, and ended up having to simply replace batteries rather than sell new phones. This should be considered a scandal on par with the Volkswagen emissions scandal. I suspect the crippling was timed to make the shiny new phone seem all that much more appealing.

Note that Google recently rolled out Android updates that default a lot of battery killing AI features to "on" even on older devices, dramatically reducing their battery life. This may have been an attempt to boost sales of new phones, or it may be that Google thinks the AI features are so compelling that they will drive new purchases.

- Apple has continued its practice of small, steady improvements to iOS, but has also dramatically increased the price of the phones. I had to chuckle when I realized I spent $1K on my last iPhone. Wow.

I'd argue that the incredible Moore's law-like growth of mobile technology has actually held back a lot of innovation, and now that the platforms are more mature we'll see bigger investment in platform technologies that were risky before when the target devices two years out were largely unknown.

Apple has still shied away from trying to defend its market share by entering the low end market. Like Github's decision (far too late, after Bitbucket nearly caught up) to offer unlimited private repos, Apple will eventually enter the low end market, but only after its lunch starts to be eaten by competitors.

What happens when new big budget production apps don't prioritize iPhone by default as the first platform to launch on? Apple has no strategy to deal with this, and has neglected its development tooling substantially. This is basically the position Microsoft was in (and a nearly identical strategy) right before it took its own nose dive.

Apple should:

- Release a $199 iPhone as quickly as possible, and a $199 iPad also.

- Team up with Facebook to make React-Native a first class citizen for iOS development, even if this is a hostile fork and a blessed version released directly by Apple.

- Institute some programs (battery replacement, etc.) that show that the devices are the only one anyone would ever consider buying.

- Work with software vendors to create apps that actually do require the latest hardware features and the newest phones. Most apps do not need these.

- Make the devices fully waterproof so I can throw mine in the dishwasher once in a while to get it clean.

- Create car radios that are "CarPlay Only" that can be retrofitted into vehicles that didn't ship with one.

- Release a version of OSX that works (and is supported on) Intel NUC hardware.
I find Fira Code to have too harsh serifs and unnecessary details like the open lowercase g. Given my love for Input, I emailed DJR (the designer) about including ligatures but he wasn't interested, so I drew a set of my own: https://pasteboard.co/HWhfhsE.png
The iPhone is so powerful now I don’t understand why they don’t sell a dock for it that runs a desktop environment. or a laptop enclosure where you drop it in as the trackpad. I’d be back on the upgrade cycle if they did.
Google is made up of high test achievers who move on to decide how to test applicants. Its self perpetuating in that casez not human nature
There is an schematic toward the bottom in the photo montage [0]

[0] http://www.ireneposch.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/knitted...
Giving people on other platforms the tools they need to allow them to purchase content directly from Apple has been around since the iTunes Store and iPod first made an appearance for Windows.

It continued with Apple Music on Android, and I don't see any difference in Apple's strategy here today.

Apple is moving into video subscriptions and wants to make sure the broader market can purchase their content.
A company was operating sightseeing tours in Zepellin NT crafts in California between 2008 and 2012…
Your point is a good one which I fully support, but the comparison of company value to GDP which you quote bugs me. Company value is a stock, while GDP is a flow. Comparing them is like comparing velocity and acceleration.
I think some can be boring. There is one near our house with 3 or 4 rooms. I took my family to it and we did two of the rooms. I've been to some escape rooms with work as well. The one near my house that I took my family to was my favorite, and had a room that was genuinely enjoyable and exciting.

That room was actually 3 rooms as part of the escape. It was built around the idea of a zombie apocalypse. You enter a room, #1, and the lights are off, and you are trying to get into a bunker. Once you get in to the bunker, room #2, you have to find your way out of that room before a toxic gas is released. We had to use a ladder to get to a "vent" to climb through (and shut off lasers in the vent) to room #3, the final room, a science lab.

The quality of the build was very high, and was pretty fun, as it was very much like a movie scenario.
It's shown in the 8th image in the rotating set of images at the bottom. Some text in one of the images references Tetsuo Kogawa, so I guess the circuit is from here: https://anarchy.translocal.jp/radio/micro/howtosimplestTX.ht...
I think Microsoft's Surface line is showing what computing can be about. Its lacking the one thing though that Apple is really leader, a phone.

I think Apple should look there to get some inspiration, they could easily bring that to the next level.

Its 2019 for instance and my MacBook Pro still does not have a touch screen, seriously? Which to me, coming from PC world, seems like I'm using a device from 6+ years ago. It has an interesting touchbar though. Ok.

And everything seems too expensive I feel also. I would never pay for a MacBook, my employer does.

Personally I did research end of last year and bought a Surface device and am very happy with that decision.
This is such an awful post. This is the equivalent of looking back at the last 50+ Super Bowls and proudly claiming the winner of each one. Very "Captain Obvious".

Surprised he didn't have "automobiles" in the strong category and "horses" in the "weak" category.

A few of these (cloud and blockchain) touch on current technologies but this is a really twisted (and cheap) way to demonstrate his key point that truly innovative technology means thinking outside of current norms. No kidding!
Flight Delay Compensation – 3FlightDelay
Trains (etc) require a lot of infrastructure, especially if you've forgotten to plan for them for a century or so.

In Australia, the Sydney - Canberra - Melbourne route would be a potentially interesting one for this, as road travel averages 100km/hr, but has obvious downsides. These are short leg trips, though I don't expect this tech would alleviate most of the land-based delays, and (traditional) incumbents would not be happy if they did.

Either way, a less painful than jet, cheaper than jet, (slightly) faster than car, less attention demanding than car, travel option would certainly be relevant to quite a few people's interests around the world.
It doesn't seem like "over testing" or "harm" if the end result is less people dying. The fact of the matter is that I was able to get an MRI the same day I went to the doctor with an issue twice in the US. One of those times was for severe recurrent headaches. The doctor didn't think it was a tumor (and it wasn't), but he did it to be sure. If I were in Canada chances are I would have waited months for that appointment. In the worst case that would mean the tumor had time to grow. In the best case that's months of unnecessary worry, which isn't healthy in itself.
Alternatively, skin effect limits the amount of AC current you can throw over a single conductor. With DC, you can make your conductors arbitrarily thick and you'll use the whole thing.
Yes, but they did so at a time when none of them could reasonably have been described as startups. GP's point was about startups.
Compared to most other options? Software Developer has been the least stressful title I've ever held, even with the occasional long nights involved.

It helps that our relationship with employers tend to be in the Software Developer's favor.

- It's unlikely for someone to be fired suddenly (outside of outlier companies like Netflix)

- The high salaries give people an opportunity to build up a decent emergency fund (which everyone should 100% absolutely have)

- Finally, with the high demand for experience in the U.S., there's a high likelihood for any experienced dev to find a new job within three months

With these factors in mind, devs should always be able to walk into work with piece of mind, no matter the situation.
Open source software for chips reverse engineering
I can't imagine every wanting a touchscreen on a laptop with a keyboard. I used to have one, and it constantly irritated me if I accidentally touched it.
Czech people don't have a lot of respect for graveyards in general, se this one in Turnov

https://cs.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soubor:Turnov-%C5%BEidovsk%C...
Crossing the Chasm Part 1: APIs
Ember’s HTMLBars is no more “building up code as a string” than jsx is.
Setting aside the poor writing of this article, the reasoning seems to miss a key element.

The higher the skill, the higher are chances of blundering probably because:
1. Higher complexity
2. Very high likelihood of being punished for it. At lower elo, your opponent probably didn’t realize the blunder either.
Which city name and job position have you look for? can you share more details so I can check out.
They didn't miss the point. Yes your anecdote is "meh" because the economy being about to crash doesn't necessarily mean you think your country is going in the wrong direction. But claiming you won't get an honest answer from those people seems just as flawed. It's a pretty general question. If you download the PDF you'll see there were a bunch of more precise questions asked and in some of them China did rank Quite high, like the environment one.

I'd actually argue that just claiming Chinese people are brainwashed would be a better explanation, but as has been said in other comments here, I think it's mostly that they have very different priorities in life. For example, privacy traditionally never has been as an important issue even before the internet and everything, so things like that social credit system just don't appear as crazy to them as to us.
Your point being? Are you suggesting we make software development harder just for the sake of it? (Isn't that what Hacker News constantly bitches about, anyway, with regards to Javascript?)
But why send the grades (real or invented, it doesn’t matter) to students’ and parents’ phones? Who does that help? Does it help the students? Apparently not, because it looks like it makes them more anxious. Does it help the parents? It probably only helps those “tiger” moms and dads who are toxic anyway, I honestely think a parent shouldn’t care about the intrinsic details of his kids grades and day-to-day activity at school, it only causes more anxiety for said kids as it makes them even more nervous and risk-averse.

And on a more general note, how did we manage to screw this up? (I’m talking about people in my generation, late-20s, 30s, early 40s). Why are our kids anxious? Why do they kill themselves? Why do I hear of a close friend’s niece cutting herself when she’s only 12? We weren’t like that, at least not at this magnitude/level, so the screw-up is on us.
A heavier-than-air dirigible? As Keith Moon once said about the New Yardbirds, that'll probably go over like a lead zeppelin.
Ask HN: How to be notified of vulnerabilities?
Do you have a service to recommend to be notified when vulnerabilities are discovered in software such as node packages, composer packages, linux distro versions, etc.?

I try to not update things too much as it often breaks other things, but I’d like to be notified of important vulnerabilities and fixes.
To the extent that you believe a company's primary responsibility is to it's shareholders, increasing the share price (over the long term) is the main thing a company is meant to do.
Like this?

https://www.samsung.com/us/business/products/mobile/phones/d...
Things I Learned from Chris Dixon about Startups (2015)
Hearing "Kirov reporting", still gives me the sweats.

Time to add some AA to the build queue
The last iPad Pro allows you to hook it to external screens...
A quarter of Google's traffic is now over IPv6
I'd want to turn it into a drone swarm staging ship and see if it could do last mile delivery.
What does "open source contributions" and "community work" have to do with non-compete clauses?

Non-competes prevent you from working for your employer's commercial competitors. I.E. if you leave Uber, you can't go work for Lyft.

Also, it's naive to assume you can just "sell" an employer on a contractual change that goes against their goals.

Saying "I'm a software engineer, and I plan to continue being a software engineer after we part ways, instead of waiting tables" also sounds like a strong "sell", but it does not work based on my experience.

It's not about convincing anyone, it's about power and who has it.
Take a look at the updated 2018 version.
The Microsoft Surface hardware is not the problem. It’s the OS. Windows tries and fails to be both a desktop OS and touch screen friendly.

I have a work Dell with a touch screen. I never use it.

I also bought a Dell 2n1 and thought that it would serve as both my computer and tablet. Windows 10 is still a horrible experience as a touch screen and the 16x9 ratio just doesn’t work.
> Seems fairly niche

It's basically a container ship for land that doesn't need any crew

If they bring it to market, it's not going to stay niche

Edit: the smallest 10ft containers hold ~10 tons, so each ship is basically a flying small container. Still though. Also reasonable to assume bigger ships would come next
Excellent retort, and it doesn't even go far enough: since a non-compete restrains my full ability to command an income, I would expect financial compensation as part of severance for the length of the non-compete period.
FTC thinks smartphones are too expensive
Opera Magistris – A Book on (Almost) Everything
Generate your document site in 3 seconds
"In a review of research on emotions and moral development, the psychologist Nancy Eisenberg suggests that shame emerges when parents express anger, withdraw their love, or try to assert their power through threats of punishment: Children may begin to believe that they are bad people. Fearing this effect, some parents fail to exercise discipline at all, which can hinder the development of strong moral standards."

Here is a very good read: Raising a Moral Child. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/12/opinion/sunday/raising-a-...