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Your comment history suggests that any good faith attempt to engage with you will most likely be futile.

It would be nice if more people would make an effort to engage me in good faith rather than blame me for my lack of traction.

I'm quite confident that I have gotten whatever traction I do have due to being very reasonable in the face of a mountain of crazy-making BS.

It winds up being a damned if I do, damned if I don't situation.

For the record, in response to my comments here today, someone emailed me privately to offer an hour of their time this weekend to discuss my desire to learn to code. Hopefully that's a sign of better things to come.

I'm noting it to say there are, in fact, options beyond refusing to engage me or blaming me (or other women, people of color, etc). I'm stating it for the benefit of anyone wondering what they can do about such issues.

I'm very well aware that it's difficult to engage someone who is angry and complaining. But not pointing out the barriers to participation also doesn't foment change.

I wish it worked to just show up and participate as if my gender was irrelevant. But the truth is I did that initially and the result was souch push back, I went digging to figure out why. And that's the reason I know I'm "prominent" for a woman here. Because I was making waves and it was coming back to bite me at a time when I was nowhere near having enough karma for the leaderboard.

I would love to have zero reason to bitch about sexism on HN. It was never anything I wanted to talk about. I just wanted to participate in conversation and learn to code and further my projects, just like the guys here do. And that proved impossible.
The situation will never change for as long as """"""marketers"""""" continue to benefit from the big data collection it facilitates.
They’re a bodyshop
"Finally, don't overcomplicate it. Just use the basic stuff for as long as you can before trying to layer all sorts of other tools over it."

This is I think always the best advice for almost anything.

And we all know it. And yet so often, we ... can ... not ... resist.
I don’t even have a twitter account. I don’t need to be told what’s obvious: that all of your text (UI, help, support...) is childish, immature and simply cringe-inducing.

I’ve read about your support team allowing “cub porn” (ie child porn for furries) somewhere else, but that’s an entirely different matter.

Also I don’t care about being called “toxic” or “hateful”, mister “:P”.
What happens on exchanges doesn't have to be settled on the blockchain and higher exchange volume is not necessarily reflected in utxo volume.

That being said, it looks like the whole 2018 had more utxo activity than 2017, and things seem to get even more intense lately: https://utxo-stats.com
I can only talk about my experience in the SF Bay area, but these policies don't seem too out of place. Some of my co-workers go a step further and claim that companies are racist and sexist if they don't use policies like this.

Public figures also agree. Bloomberg's Emily Chang - one of San Francisco's most prominent tech reporters - encouraged adopting explicit reservation systems for women. Even though this is totally illegal in the United States.

I'll admit that at the end of the day I'm only one data point and that maybe I fell in with an especially progressive group. But this is what I'm seeing.
That's not what this story is about though (admittedly IM sometime not so HO).

I would agree that that's not all the story is about. It just happens the be the part that touched a nerve for me. Otherwise, I don't disagree with you. I think there are a lot of open questions about understanding the nature of "truth" on the web these days.

Is it time to start building a 'web of trust' for information 'chunks', as the original PGP set out to do in the 90's for people?

Good question. Skeptics will say that this approach has been proven to not work. I might counter that we just haven't figured out how to get the details right yet.
If the site is still down, https://web.archive.org/web/20190322200152/https://www.scrib... has the page.
Archaeologists resume the search for the home of drama in a Greek sanctuary
> That's $4M across a fleet of 50 jets

On a total order of $5000 million.

The problem with this is as that $4m sounds like a lot of money to pretty much everyone on the planet but if you are buying 50 medium size commercial jets it's literally a rounding error.
In December it was the 3 and 5 year which inverted, and today it was the 3 month and 10 year. Typically I’ve understood the biggest one to watch is the 2 and 10 year though.
Are they water-proof? Could you put them in a pool to heat it up?
According to rumor--lots and lots of cash.
Even sophisticated/organized hackers have free time, and if someone "messed with them" and caused them to need to push a hotfix at 6pm on a Friday because their cluster got stuck on your tarpit, you can bet they'll give the tarpit operator some of their attention. Woe to you if they happen to find something that's not patched.
So many comments here are touting the benefits of this, that or the other, but aren't mentioning Nomad at all. Nomad is definitely worth a try even for large deployments. Yea, it doesn't autoscale without 3rd party tools, but you don't always need that.

If you just need to keep your jobs running, load balance to those apps, use externalized config and need a simple UI view system status, then Nomad/Consul/Fabio really works great.
What are these other materials' physical characteristics and cost to produce? Apart from absorptivity, a key factor here is the thinness and potential for inexpensive mass production.

In contrast, absorber plates tend to be large and heavy. 1lb per square foot isn't uncommon. They are also often produced with (relatively) expensive copper.

This might not be a breakthrough in terms of new capabilities, but it could allow a scale of use not currently practical.
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I haven't had a chance to try it myself yet, but from what I've read the extra delay is sub 100ms. Caching or pre-rendering the HTML output for bots in advance is an option too depending on the particular use case.

I would certainly consider this ahead of SSR driven by "isomorphic" Javascript for frontend-heavy apps.
Ok... and? Ownership != control on the Bitcoin network.
I'm attempting to 'transition' -- as a DevOps / infra guy professionally rather than pure dev -- does anyone have any recommended resources for reading non-dry, fairly example-filled docs to get started? The Kubernetes O'Reilly book seems to be very broad and overly high-level from the reviews (and I remember best if I read "why" and "how").

Thanks in advance
Housing, startups, art, cars, watches...pretty much everything collectible or rare has seen its value skyrocket since the great recession.

The big pool of money has been sloshing between asset classes for a while now, but it doesn’t get reflected in inflation metrics.
Docker Compose is great, Docker Swarm isn't.
I was rejected by them on an Elixir position about 1 year ago. I don't recall anything specific from the email (so probably it wasn't the same one shown on the Twitter thread), but honestly I wouldn't feel any different if it was. Of course this is a 100% personal reaction, each person reacts differently, and being such a sensitive moment, it's just good sense to be extremely careful with the wording.

ETA: I also have nothing against their wording in general. It feels more personal and less enterprise-y. Given their target audience, it seems a good choice.
> In 2007, Axiom was forked twice, originating two different open-source projects: OpenAxiom[3] and FriCAS,[4] following "serious disagreement about project goals".[5]

Do you know what this disagreement was/is about?
Ask HN: How to learn front-end beyond the basics?
There are thousands of materials on how to learn the basics of front-end: HTML, CSS, JS, responsiveness, some front-end library like Bootstrap and JS framework like React. The stuff that you need to land a front-end job; in fact I learned all that and I got a job myself, great!

But where to go from here? I take it that most people become better by learning from their seniors at work, but I work for a small company and unfortunately I don't have any very experienced front-end developer around to learn from, yet at the same time I know that my skills aren't great and there's a lot I still must learn. Googling for "learn front-end" just gives me a ton of materials on how to learn the basics: the stuff I already know. I thought I should turn to books to find more in-depth knowledge, but that's particularly hard in the edge case of front-end development since it moves so fast and a book from 2016 is already pretty much outdated today.

I'm thinking it would be great if there were experienced front-end devs who streamed live coding sessions, or some complex open source front-end projects that one could hack into and also see good front-end code that they should emulate, but I couldn't find anything like that for front-end.

So my question is how do I learn it beyond the basics?
The thing is a pound of copper has a pretty significant specific heat, and that’s a feature rather than a bug. A thin graphene film may be more conductive, but what is it thermal capacity? If it’s just a thin film that gets blazing hot it’s not necessarily useful in that way.
Not all of us are in a position to work only on great products.

My impression of Oracle products is that they are frustrating to work with, feature-rich rather than elegant. They can work well, but take a lot of configuring and tuning.

The ex-Oracle folks I've worked with have been a mixed bag. Their reports about working for Oracle have also been mixed, skewing toward the bad. I suspect the company is basically run by sales, not engineering, certainly not customer support.
That was considered in the 1970s.[1] Generally considered to be a really bad idea.

[1] https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.5.2036/full...
Ok, we changed to that from http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/03/22/sacked-it-guy-ann..., in keeping with the guidelines' call for original sources (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
The same author wrote an article about the tunnel fire in the New York Times yesterday that talks more about the overall story: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/business/mont-blanc-tunne...
high paying multi million dollar companies https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/iaas/customers
Apparently gone from the app store. Any way I can still download and play until they shut down?
The "awkward" stereotype does not describe most software engineers I've encountered in my career. Even "introverted" only applies to somewhat more than the average percentage in the rest of society, in my experience.
> and that Haiku picked it up because the networking situation without BONE is dire

Haiku is vastly more POSIX compatible than BeOS ever was (we have mmap, pthreads, posix_spawn, madvise, etc. etc. etc.) It is indeed compatible with both BONE and Net-API BeOS applications, but properly speaking our network stack is neither; under the hood it looks nothing like the BeOS network stack did (only NIC drivers are source-compatible for the most part.)

> I don't get the feeling that you're arguing in good faith here. If you know about BONE, you know that I'm not whistling dixie about the lack of sockets on BeOS being a problem.

Nowhere did I say it was not a problem. What I did say that a lack of them does not make BeOS "not a UNIX".

> and everything else is different, is that really similar?

What does this mean? Do you think that if there is no "/dev/sda", it's "not UNIX"? There was "/dev/zero", "/dev/null", "/dev/random", etc. What exactly are you asking for here?

> when they're just supplying whatever hardcoded information they need in order to make their POSIX facade work.

The point is that the facade is at least there; I think they were planning to add multiuser in a later release. (Haiku is still single-user on the facade, but under the hood you can useradd, chown, SSH in to other users, etc.)

> BeOS is so deeply multithreaded their marketing called it "pervasive". Linux is not at all; fork is the standard model for multiprocessing and most processes can happily be forked without issue.

Yes, obviously using fork() in an application that used the GUI would not make sense on BeOS. It doesn't make sense on Linux either; it's just that most "BeOS native" applications had GUIs. So what is the difference here?

> Almost nothing on BeOS forks because almost everything needs to use a thread at some point. You know this too; I really think you're playing dumb here in order to make your point seem more convincing.

My point is, again, not that "nothing used it", but rather that "this is how the process model works." I am not playing dumb here...

I didn't look at the details, but my understanding is that the Be-native API calls (e.g. BRoster::Launch) invoked fork/exec under the hood. So, again, simply "it's not that useful when you are using threads" is not the case here.

> The chapter treats signals as sort of a Venn diagram between BeOS and POSIX, where there is some common functionality in the middle

I haven't read the book; what's in the diagram? Is it just signal names e.g. SIGKILL, SIGTERM, etc.?

Only having some signals and not others does not mean it's "not a UNIX". If it talks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, but it's missing a leg and half its feathers ... it's still a duck.

> BeOS's glibc is forked and heavily modified.

Not really? They released the modified source due to GPL of course, and they mostly just removed stuff like mmap() or the like.
Does Google have 145 products and services at the moment? That’s how many it has canned to-date.
Remember that temperature does not indicate energy. A graphene layer is a tiny amount of mass per surface area, so a absorbing single (small-c) calorie of energy would be enough to raise a patch of graphene to outrageous temperatures- but, you'd still only be able to get that single calorie back out, which wouldn't do much to a liter of seawater or whatever.

For that matter, it doesn't seem like they specify under what conditions this heating is taking place. Fire a high-powered laser at something and you might see that behavior in a variety of materials.
There was a less extreme yield curve inversion a few months ago, which is likely what you're referring to. But it wasn't so far reaching as the current inversion, which puts the 1 year Treasury over the 10 year.
They have apparently canned 145 products and services.
They should buy a mobo mfr and include one of these coprocessors on each board.
So some of those conspiracy theories about earthquake weapon tests could be credible?
Look into google app engine. It’s very similar and much cheaper. For hobby projects the free tier is usually sufficient.
We have a brand voice. It doesn't appeal to everyone. We also have a clear TOS that clearly delineates our position on cub porn, and if you're interested in a policy debate on this (hint: we're more restrictive on cub porn than even Google) I'm more than interested in pointing you to some interesting reading material! And, since you brought it up, I'm not a "mister."
Probably because in tech, merit is what matters quite a bit.

Merit is... what skills can you personally bring to the table that can help? In a meritocracy, no-one cares about your race, gender, or sexual orientation.

Diversity of skillsets matter more than diversity of <biological attribute>. The former is useful, the latter is basically meaningless.
You could also pay taxes with tulips, if you exchanged them for the correct currency, yeah...?
I currently work for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure; ex AWS for Commerce Platform and Identity organizations. Let me tell you, OCI has a group of brilliant, industry mature developers and people. I've been working here for 2 years, and I've never been happier before. This org is nothing like Oracle Corp; started by ex-AWS/MSFT people, the environment feels just like those companies + a well funded start-up hype.

And the best thing, no assholes and backstabbing like in AWS. :)
NodaTime is excellent, especially the way it differentiates between a calendar date and a point in time.
Rancher [1] looks really nice for a guided use of Kubernetes. I saw a demo on how to use this with Digital Ocean's Kubernetes clusters; the presenter went from having a blog in a container to having the blog on a K8s cluster behind a domain name in 30-ish minutes. Anybody using Rancher?

[1]: https://rancher.com
4G was supposed to achieve 100mbit peaks and I have yet to see speeds even approaching this with 4G LTE. So if somebody is enforcing advertising rules they're doing a shit job...
Heroku is really a different solution, I don't know anyone at medium scale project that uses Heroku, Heroku is like the Digital Ocean compare to AWS.

You can't really compare DO, Heroku with k8s and AWS, the laters are much much more powerful.
"America has a far bigger GDP"
It depends on how you calculate it. According to PPP, China has a GDP of 25 trillion vs the US of 20 trillion[1]. Yes, China has a bigger market and bigger GDP. If you calculate nominal GDP, China has ~14 trillion vs the US 20 trillion. US is bigger nominally, but not far bigger.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
Heroku's $7 instances and the $25 instances are not very different. There is also the free instance that sleeps for 6 hours.

You have to factor in that you get free tiers of many things, all managed together like docker would help with, such as:
30 MB Redis memory cache compute instance for free
500mb Mongo database compute instance for free
External logging compute instance for free

and a whole marketplace of all these managed services, with the grouping of containers further managed by heroku.

A Linode VPS at $5/month does not give you all that. If you like configuring all the above (and of course, assuming your use case calls for it at all), then the $5 plan with 1 GB RAM would let you put in a bunch of 256MB containers if you really wanted. The $10 plan with 2 GB RAM would let you put in comparable 512MB containers, but then you should have just been paying $7/month for Heroku already.

Hope that helps!

For a long time I struggled with inability to understand my potential costs for server-side projects, and occasionally read horror stories about other devs who got it wrong.
Common Lisp does not run in LX zones.. at least Clozure common lisp doesn't.

Apparently Clozure does something 'ungodly' to the signal stack which just throws the kernel and ends up crashing out. Chances are, these days anyway, most people aren't running common lisp, so it probably isn't much of a problem - plus Clozure runs perfectly fine under Solaris. As a result it's probably not high on anyones list to sort out.
Same, I have a gen 6 ipad that I like and an iPad Mini 2 that I love, I bought the mini 2 for mobile safari testing but outside of my desktops/laptops I spend way more time on the Mini than I do my phone, it's just a convenient form factor.

Think I'm gonna spring for the new mini and give my old mini to the boy.
I’ve come to much the same conclusions as the author in this blog post and have put together a small Nomad demo in case someone is interested: https://github.com/rbjorklin/nomad-demo
that is out of date- wordpress is up to over 33% of the web

https://wordpress.org/news/2019/03/one-third-of-the-web/

That's the entire web. It is staggering.
Well nobody can control what others say. I'd say that those actually involved in cryptocurrencies (other than those who bought) knew this all along. It's why there's been so many different attempts at fixing it!

But like I said above, a car taking magnitudes longer to cross the country compared to a plane doesn't make the car useless for all purposes. Having the option of being able to use a blockchain to transact without trust is a huge benefit to many. It might not be what everyone wants for all transactions, and it having downsides doesn't mean it's useless, but it still has immense value to some, for some of their transactions. Bitcoin was not designed to be faster than Visa, so saying it's useless because it can't keep up is kind of silly.

Blockchains and Bitcoin might be useless for you in their current forms, and that's more than fine! But they are still improving and changing, and they will almost definitely never truly be "finished". It's all about fixing the problems that people have.

When Bitcoin was first introduced, it was one of the first to allow trust less transactions without a central authority (again, a gross oversimplification). People found value in it, and as it gained some popularity problems were found, and people began working on solving them.

Those solutions are now beginning to have more widespread usage. Things like Lightning Network aren't "hopefully" in the future, they are now. The usage is still small, partly because the developers are intentionally taking things slow (becaus bugs can be very expensive here!), but the theory seems pretty sound. And many exchanges are already part of it and are planning to move to using it for everything (and IMO any good exchange should love the idea of LN! It takes all the risk out of holding people's money, it allows you to prove your trading volume is real, and it is as fast as you can move the bytes).

I have no doubts that more limitations will be found, and LN itself already makes some tradeoffs, so there will be more work after it's "done". And you can continue to not use it, and you can continue to criticize the ecosystem based on what charlatans and assholes said, but I believe in this tech and there are many people who will continue working on it and improving it for those who want it, for the use cases they want it for.
Hey, thanks! =)
Right on! Thank you =)
Unless there's some demonstrated correlation that this subset of people is likely to be less productive contributing to a project like Linux, then this would just be bad leadership on behalf of Linus who'd exclude potential contributors based on personal whims.
Do you have any info regarding Rancher pricing? There is no info on their website other than reaching out to them...
I wrote a longer message but I deleted it out of fear of speaking inaccurately. So instead: Discord has a brand voice. Some of us will find it "cloying" and "vaguely demented." However, others will find it funny. Our user base has continuously reinforced to us that they are in the latter. I pray that they are all not demented or in a locked-down unit, but I can't guarantee that.
I get what you mean based on the dictionary definitions of implicit and proponent. What I meant was that his actions are aligned with MMT theory, even though he probably doesn't explicitly subscribe to the theory.
This should get you started: https://learn.hashicorp.com