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Presto| DevOps Engineer | Addison, TX | ONSITE | Full-Time
https://jobs.lever.co/presto/f6c63732-5a5f-4764-b9a8-85a0cef...

Presto brings smart dining to restaurants with its completely customizable guest-facing tablet. Presto Terminals enhance the guest dining experience, streamlines restaurant operations and increases a restaurant’s brand value. Restaurant guests can order food, play games and pay their bill from their seats without having to wait.

The Presto is both a specialized hardware and software solution designed and custom-built to fit the specific needs of restaurants. The company was founded out of MIT in 2008 and is headquartered in Silicon Valley’s Redwood City.

See the Presto in action here: http://ow.ly/wlxvD
A 300-400 person A380 is a very light A380: Emirates go from 489 passengers (ultra long-range version) up to 615 passengers (2 class long-range). The A380 is that huge. Also I don't think there are many 100 passengers airliners capable of crossing the Atlantic: long range single aisle (A321NEO-LR) seats around 180.
"fuzzing intro", "fuzzing tutorial" will no doubt point you at suitable content.

I started with AFL, via this piece:

https://lwn.net/Articles/657959/
> If we make it so that you have to understand programming to even start [web authoring], then we take something open and enabling, and place it back in the hands of those who are already privileged.

Very much agree with this conclusion, though entry level web devs trained on eg. React might be too invested to acknowledge this.
Slowing down a stock exchange with 38 miles of cable
Agreed. Even flying economy the A380 feels a lot less cramped than any other plane I've flown on and for long-haul flights, that's a big deal.
"In short, if P≠NP, then the market cannot be efficient for very long because the ability of investorsto check all strategies will be quickly overwhelmed by the exponential number of possible strategies there are to check."

He also states this, but even an overwhelming amount of strategies can be condensed into algorithms that makes 99% of them useless. See the game of chess for similar ideas. 99% of the possible moves are useless, so it seems as if there are an exponential amount of good moves when only a fraction are viable. Chess is NP, but still partially solvable under P conditions. I believe the market is like this too.
Is there an actual list of approved languages?

Rust is listed a little higher in that link in the section about avoiding unsafe implementation languages. Given that they list it as a counterexample of things to avoid I would assume that means it is good, but that is no sure thing.
Eating meat and being against animal cruelty is no paradox. At most it is a dilemma - "want to eat meat, don't want to hurt animals".

The fact that many (most) people continue to eat meat means that people resolve the dilemma - they not be aware of the issue, consider it less significant, consider eating meat more important, etc.

The distance from the details of animal husbandry probably helps a lot. If I had to personally kill and clean all my meat, I'd either stop eating it or I'd get a lot more comfortable with the process. Then again, I have relatives who raise farm animals and others who hunt - distance from the process is not required.
>Electric airliners are likely to bring this ratio into even more profound focus, offering direct flights to thousands of smaller cities you didn't know you wanted to go to

(All) electric airliners are unlikely to exist commercially without a fundamental breakthrough in energy storage technology. Even hybrid-electric systems are only barely viable as a research area right now, and they are decades away from commercial production.

I'm a researcher in this field, and I wish I could say otherwise, but the rosy picture you paint is unlikely to be reality at least within the next 3-4 decades.
I don't know... this feels like yet another article abusing statistics to generate a headline. There are just so many factors that could have a high comorbidity.

The bigger issue I see is not living alone, but living without a social net -- I personally really enjoy living alone, but I also have regular social gatherings in my life.
You probably shouldn't have your browser in full screen mode on a 27" screen
It's pretty similar to momentum investing, except using real returns rather than relative performance: https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Research/Journal-Article/Fact-F...
I think it's simply a byproduct of silicon valley's fetishization of the word "failure". Anything that isn't a runaway success is re-contextualized as a "failure" so that it can function as blog title short hand for "here's what I learned from my experience that didn't go 100% as expected".
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This is even worse in a way. They specifically caused these problems because they believed their engineers were so smart that they could rely on their novel microtrenching technique to deploy the fiber for a fraction of the cost of the competitors.

I just don't understand why they didn't spend more time testing it on their own resources before rolling out to actual customers in a major metro area. We've all seen potholes, roots coming through streets and sidewalks. Just crazy to think they thought this was ready to be deployed at scale...
Show HN: HD Video Style Transfer Using Star Wars Posters
BTW, does anyone where to get better-than-anecdotal data on userbase size and composition for GitHub, BitBucket, and GitLab? And, ideally, growth trends?
I've never gotten anything but a form letter from my rep either. I usually just call their office and say I have a general question about X, could you please help me find who to ask. The staff seem helpful and knowledgeable as long as you're sensitive to their limits and position-- they can't actually do anything themselves generally. It can take time, although in this case it didn't for whatever reason.
CTRL and + to zoom in on Windows/Linux

CMD and + to zoom in on Mac

or CTRL/CMD and scroll wheel to zoom in/out depending on direction scrolled.

Or are you using an ancient browser without zoom?
The app is a general government portal app that purportedly includes the functionality the author describes. It’s a grey area I suppose.
First of all, tests that can not easily be repeated are inherently unfair. But in general we need to assess competence for certain professions. I really wish we as a society would put more emphasis on the "repeat until you got it" part instead of the notes.

The results, however, are fascinating. For instance how does it come that females of any color and black people of any gender are affected by negative priming but white men are not, according to the cited Berlin study? Social immunization? Dunning-kruger?

Doe the results indicate that female (color) students should be separated from male (white) students or would that not fortify the negative priming?

From an ethical POV, if we knew that male (white) students perform better in tests, because they are subconsciously in a better state of mind, what do we do if that phenomenon translates into the workplace? Do we help the careers of female surgeons, pilots, engineers by "correcting" their assessments. Or do we require them to get rid of that "condition"?
From the the article in OP:

> Soon, we will also open-source the whole product, WordPress-style. Anyone will be able to deploy their own version of Gumroad, make the changes they want, and sell the content they want, without us being the middle-man.
I think part of it's because they almost exclusively hire people who will soon leave if they're told to do too much "boring" work and aren't allowed to half-ass it to get it done fast and move on to something more fun.
Has Google given the Hacker News community enough reasons to forgive them for shutting down Reader, yet?
Non-profit execs make good money (by virtue of being execs), but certainly not more than they could be making in industry.
So it’s just spam. Just flag it and it’ll be gone in no time.
I switched to meal replacement shakes for this reason. Right now I am drinking bottle soylent but I enjoyed powdered joylent for a while.

Meat provides such easily prepareable calories, I can't say the same of vegan dishes that I know of, generally a lot more of a thing has to be eaten and multiple things. I enjoy spending 20-30 minutes total consuming food a day and not needing to spend time preparing food, cooking, and cleaning.
This website is kind of cool for trends.

https://meetglimpse.com
Aurora Raises $530M from Sequoia, Amazon
Eating meat is not an unavoidable part of life.
Ah, I see. I think what you said was clear now that I understand!
If those companies offer a product worth paying for, they won't have to. WSJ has had a paywall since 2005, NYT since 2011.

The web back then was full of 'hobbyist' websites covering film, music and art. Those websites might have been ugly, but they felt genuine because the person creating content wasn't begging for likes, follows and shares, nor were they stretching 2 mins of content to 10 to meet Youtube's minimum length requirements for video ads.

The companies you say would have to shut down are VC-backed "digital media plays" focused on junk food content that attracts eyeballs and ad dollars. There is no shortage of time-waster websites that would pop up to take their place.

People pay for Adobe CC, Sketch, AWS hosting, ProtonMail etc, because it's something they feel is worth paying for. They don't pay for 9gag, TMZ or Buzzfeed because they consider them to be time wasters.
Google Fiber's secret weapon in its gigabit comeback has failed
I assume they meant calf instead of lamb. (Calf is also a germanic word.)
> The developer must understand when it's time to use a framework

Frameworks are useful but not nearly as much as people might think. There are many cases where a static site generator (as a simple example, Markdown → HTML converters) or simple templating solution may be "enough", and they're relatively easy to understand as bells and whistles on top of HTML and CSS.
This is quite rad - thanks for the good exposition and implementation details, too
The ITU bands (e.g. 900MHz, 2.4 GHz) are way too small. If we had larger, national or global, unregulated bands, it would drive wireless innovation to even greater heights.

As it is now we have "innovators" who have access to private bands, and should know better (the cellular telecoms) threatening to trash the ITU bands with 5G coverage. It's a travesty since the result will be cellular Big Co basically squashing your Wi-Fi and the smaller players who can't afford private spectrum.
> the article uses "meat-eating" as a gloss for eating animals raised in cruel conditions

Probably because that's how the vast majority of meat animals are raised.
Sure, but what works for large channels doesn't work for everyone and that was a component of my original comment.

For example, 90%+ of Youtube creators couldn't negotiate an ad deal like Leo Laporte because they are too small. Generalized ad services like Adsense/Youtube create income for the 90%, and personalization boosts that income allowing more people to produce more content.
There are numerous problems with your response; I suggest reading up on the actual biophysical experiments done with people with absolute pitch to get a better idea on the details of what absolute pitch means.

It's not exactly; most people with AP can do, at best, note labelling. A much smaller group can identify pitches (frequencies) but then only with 1hz resolution around 440.

I don't mean to imply in these discussions that I'm an expert on absolute pitch- but I have a PhD in biophysics and we covered signal transduction in our classes.

I think sitting around speculating that there's some absolute pitch reference in people's head that works better because of genetic mutations is probably not the right path to go down. Because (almost) everybody has those pitch references (hair cells) and they're almost all equally functional (some mutations probably lead to slightly better or worse response).

I don't really follow all the parts about the bell curve other than to say most physical phenomena like this exhibit distributions that resemble gaussians, but that isn't really an indicator of the mechanism.
The middle ground, or the average of two positions, isn't necessarily any more correct than either of the two original positions. It's the argument to moderation fallacy.
I didn't even realize this wasn't part of the offering yet.
AWS needs to glue EC2 and ECS scheduling together. Today the schedulers are separate. So basically the feet does not know what the arms are doing. That leaves fixing this scaling up to the client meaning duplicate code effort solving the same thing for each AWS customer.
Yeah, no development environment installation ever trashed a Windows installation!
> many websites would do just fine with just those two (as in, they don't need JavaScript at all!), and I'm sure a very large fraction could get by with some small amount of hand-written frontend code hooked up to a database.

And that's where companies like Squarespace come in for their value prop: we'll handle all of the back-end, asset hosting, etc. for you, give you a set of pre-built templates to choose from and allow you to tweak some of the CSS.

Businesses are less interested in pure HTML and CSS skills because they can get "good enough" for a few bucks a month and not hassle with a developer that's charging market rate or get into the weeds themselves.
Well, thanks for not answering my question in any capacity, I guess...
Ah correct, that's the one for the crew, not passengers. My bad.
Yes I saw that.

Generally I don’t want to have to resort to ENV config variables in order to get back to the default shell navigation key combinations which have worked on POSIX shells for thirty years.

It’s nice they allow for overriding, but I’d prefer if people were more cognizant of built-in shell navigation.
Agreed. I think the next two steps in this thread would be:

* Driving isn’t natural, it is movement which involves mostly fine motor skills combined with situational awareness of unnaturally shaped objects, which are 20 times out mass, moving 5 times as fast as we normally do, in an unnatural environment (roads, traffic, street furniture)

* Yes, but (1) evolution still helped us get the basics, and (2) our designs are based on what our minds can cope with, the ones which we can’t cope with are either unpopular or get banned
I've heard recently that we can expect lower returns in the 21st century, on the order of 5%, simply due to more efficient markets. It makes sense given that information spreads more rapidly today which in turn reduces informational advantages. I like the following poker analogy, even if it's not a perfect one.

The markets in the 60s, 70s and 80s were like poker tables with plenty of fish and few sharks. The sharks came out with bigger returns due to asymmetrical informational advantages which resulted in exploitation of mistakes. Today, the tables are full of sharks which means less mistakes and smaller returns.

Intuitively, this makes sense, since market gains are really just market valuation errors.
Move fast and break stuff, up to and including your sidewalks and roads.
Having someone else around who's a negative influence on dietary, entertainment, and general physical activity choices can have a large effect on the probability you'll need an ambulance.
I don't think it's the only reason.

I have a hard time rationalising my meat eating, but then following through on that train of thought leads me to full on veganism, which is further than I want to go, so I don't.

And I grew up in the country.
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The concerns just don't stop with blocking access but privacy as well: Some ISPs, I'd wager, are intercepting all unencrypted traffic too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12091900. As long as one types in https instead of http, DNS and content based censorship should stop working, at least in theory, if one can use custom DNS providers over TLS, Https, or DNSCrpyt.

On Android, consider installing intra https://getintra.org to use a DNS over Https server of your choice, and switch to using Firefox instead of Chrome (someone pointed out in comments here that Chrome uses its own DNS resolver).

An example of how to set up AdGuard DNS (privacy oriented) on Android 4 and later: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18791895

On Windows, consider using SimpleDNSCrpyt https://simplednscrypt.org/

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Generally you could try and setup pie-hole, as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18075159
The prior. Now-a-days, the majority of developers can build a quality app since infrastructure and tooling (heroku etc) are widely available, that you can paper over most completely horrible / unacceptable experiences by limiting features early on. If you pick a huge market and have simply 1-2 compelling features, you can go from nothing to something within 90 days typically, and then use that to become unstoppable.
Hot take, of course, but I think pro-choice ethical vegans and (very) pro-life meat eaters have a more interesting paradox.

What interesting thing about a honey bee or fish deserves protection that isn't true of a fairly young human fetus? And, likewise, what's true of a young fetus that does not apply to a pig or octopus on the pro-life side?

There are clearly religious answers to some of the paradox on all sides of things, but I'm sure not all of us find them convincing.

EDIT: There is probably a more acute detachment/skin-in-the-game distinction to be made in this case, if we can suspend our politics for a moment, which might be asking a lot these days, perhaps.
Eh, I don't think it's as bad as you make it sound. It's not "constantly", it's the first major migration effort for Reviewable. And honestly, I probably could've stayed with Angular 1.x for a few more years (it's still being developed, after all), I just got tired of working around its performance issues. There's also 4 years of learning how best to architect an application like this that led to the creation of a Firebase-centric model layer where Vue happened to be a good platform to build on. And even if we didn't switch platforms, a thorough refactoring would've been necessary after many years of accumulated technical debt.
>That's why everyone is so heroic, and why all of the rival civilisations are mostly one-dimensional stereotypes.

That is literally what they are, they're intended to act as mirrors to various aspects of humanity, or embody singular aspects of the plot of the week.
He is a russian- these guys are crazy when it comes to performance lol.
More NYT propaganda. Ignore. Like cable tv--just ignore it.
It inside information from hedge funds. Or earlier access to non public information. But it’s generally not in areas that normal people like you and me can access.

Asymmetric information is pretty far from what used to be said about the perfect market and rational actors. It's "there's a sucker born every minute" and "if it seems too good to be true it probably is" economics.
I'm sure that's true, but you have to be churning through quite a lot of requests to get there.

Sadly so, because I can't stand lambda!
So what happens to the infrastructure? There's fiber optics in the ground right? Do they give it to a local ISP?
I suppose you could just ask them to raise the limits?
I'm curious what you saw. My understanding was that it's mostly generators, i.e. it's done through yields, not extra allocated arrays.
It's not that big of a leap: Silicon Valley mindset believed it get dive in to physical infrastructure, "disrupt it", and make a difference. Turns out it couldn't, because of the natural monopolies that are already controlled by incumbents with little incentive to do better, and because it turned out physical infrastructure is "harder" than they wanted to deal with.

You can't "disrupt" the power company, and you can't "disrupt" the water company. Not without a giant warchest to rebuild pipes and electric lines. Not without causing a lot of accidental incidental damage. No one actually wants that, they want to pay their utility bills and move on with their lives. It's past time we admitted that internet service is in the same category.
I'm STILL learning HTML and CSS after 20 years. Constantly surprised by new uses or semantics, or rediscovering a little known attribute or selector. One that comes to mind is background-image is an animated GIF with background-size: cover making it look like the page text is on the inside of a car window as its driving around.

It took a while for everything to 'click' and understand how DOM/JavaScript/CSS can really jive together. Using a framework is easier than understanding how something like Bootstrap works by examining the elements, CSS and scripts that all work together. I know there's always going to be more to learn, like any art form.
How Does Your State Make Electricity? (2018)
I was thinking more like some off-the-shelf solution purchased years ago that is something of a black box to those that operate it... subtle failure modes, lack of instrumentation, and opaque inner state.
We’re using the same definition here. I’m referring to rapidly scaling, $1b+ companies that are fundamentally reshaping markets.
Far more people are writing code now than ever, though.
I wonder if an entrepreneur with less connections and not a part of YC would get that $1 buyout deal. I would think the default would be ousting the founder and selling the assets. Then the founder would be left with nothing. They'd have no lifestyle business, even though they could have had one if they never took VC.
Blimps can't go all that fast.
4chan is known for hosting porn and snuff. Flvto is for downloading YouTube videos.
To try and hijack the top post with some of the comments I've scattered across this thread:

Google did a remarkably poor job in Louisville, and it's absolutely no surprise to me that they're giving up.

Google's strategy was to build a FTTH network with microtrenching. In practice, this meant cutting a 2" deep groove in city streets, placing a fiber optic cable in it, and using an expanding rubber gasket material to cover the groove.

This failed in spectacular fashion. One of the best pictures was this: https://www.wdrb.com/news/belknap-neighborhood-residents-con...

... a fiber optic cable, barely buried under the surface of the road, exposed after a few freeze/thaw cycles.

If you click on no other link about Google Fiber in Louisville, click on this one. This scene is repeated all over the city.

There won't be much in the way of "dark fiber left behind" because most of the Google Fiber rollout was FTTH done ridiculously poorly.

And for the customers? The only company competing for residential gigabit service is AT&T, which (wisely?) rolled out their service to high density apartment areas and wealthy condos; for most residents, Spectrum or Uverse DSL are the only real competitors.

Some cites:

https://www.techrepublic.com/pictures/photos-how-google-fibe... -- Microtrenching will save Google!!

https://www.wdrb.com/news/google-fiber-announces-plan-to-fix... -- uh oh, things aren't so good...

https://9to5google.com/2019/02/07/google-fiber-closing-in-lo... -- we give up, 2" of trench won't do it.
See, I grew up on a small farm. We raised chickens that my father would butcher. He'd string one up, slit its throat and it'd die instantly. After it was bled we'd pluck the feathers off and then cook it for supper. There wasn't anything particularly cruel about it, and I feel no moral qualms about eating chicken or any other meat for that matter. Maybe growing up on a farm taught me the reality of it which I see as normal.
Our treatment of animals is on level with slavery or the holocaust. Denying this is usually backed by uncritical speciasism.
The popular argument from cognition leads to issues with marginal cases that most are uncomfortable with.

>The question is not, Can they reason?, nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being?
thanks a lot! seems so interesting! Can't wait to start