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Ask HN: How to deal with interviews when English isn't my native language?
I'm from a non-english speaking country. Although I have a fairly good command over written English, my vocabulary isn't good enough when it comes to spontaneously speaking English. I'm working on this, but haven't gotten there yet.

That said, I want to work with global companies - likely companies outside the country I live in. During interviews, I find myself mind-blocked often because of my poor vocabulary. And this builds up, affecting my interview performance too.

Is there any concrete way to get around this problem? I tried casually conversing in English more often, but during interviews, the spontaneity with which the person in the other end talks, makes me feel inferior about my command over the language.
Hi thanks for the reply. The only thing he could think of was that he skipped through a couple of videos on Google's official YouTube developer channel that day. But likely coincidental. (On a sidenote, when my coworker had access, autoscaling was broken, like completely, hence in part my curiosity).
is fission material inexhaustible?
The premise of “no fiat, less war” is just asserted without any proof, and is actually quite ahistorical.
maybe 1/2 of my friends from college live in SF. I have a huge social network here. Objectively the city is not awesome, but I can't imagine moving somewhere else and starting from scratch. Lots of tech workers are in this situation IMO.
> Shares of companies associated with Fan plunged by 10 percent, the maximum daily limit on the Chinese stock market.

?! How does that even work?
Switching to ipads for the pilots resulted in saved fuel costs as well (yet another article). The populist notion that corporations are just evil things out to do stupid things really clouds rational thought. :(
> What is the first thing you need to work on?

Your hyperlinks need to work without Javascript.
Your sign-up form isn't working. It won't let me enter a valid password.
Listen to English audiobooks on your way to work.
> Nobody should do factory jobs...

This is a terrible attitude.

Many blue collar jobs are perfectly good well paying careers available without crushing student debt to people who (crazy, I know) don't want to sit by a desk all day.
I can think of no worse way to entice technologists to flock to your cloud platform than to announce that you're "borrowing from the Oracle playbook"...
This article reads like a not-very-well-disguised ad for the methodology that Baiada is selling.
Could it be that change is painful? When people settle down, they want things to mostly stay the way it is until they die. A city in growth or decline interferes with that.
I was tinkering around with BASIC on any computer I could get my hands on. (Found it installed on my mum's old 80286 and on the old Dells lining my rural school's labs). That would have been in the early/mid 90's-2000's

By the time I was 15 or 16 the school had just started offering a very basic programming course that had you write programs to do simple things in Turing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_(programming_language))

It was wired up to a canvas like space so we could write simple animations, etc.

That would have been in the early 2000's.
I'm working with some researchers who are using similar recently-declassified spy plane imagery from the '60s for an analysis of glacier size + movement changes over time, which is another cool use case.
Ask HN: Help with Sales Commissions
Dear HN, I'm a solo developer with a working prototype of a product. Yesterday I did a demo to a long time client of mine who would be a possible customer and has connections to the market I'm targeting. He was amazed and immediately ask if we could form a partnership.
I would be happy to have him on board as a sales person and pay him commission after the deals he closes.
The product will have a monthly subscription, with a $50+ monthly fee.
What is the usual comission after the subscribers he brings onboard and how long shall I share the rev with him?
Any advice welcomed how to approach the negotiations with him.
Thank you for your time.
In my mind CMake and Meson are tools for engineers to use in solving problems. If one tool needs some support tooling in order to be usable, then I'm intrinsically less interested in using it simply because there's some extra stuff I have to bolt on before it becomes useful. So I don't see why you think it's "the wrong question" here.

Another poster has explained the IDE support is about IDEs being able to parse CMake files, and I can say that back in the day before CMake IDEs would parse the C/C++ directly using a compiler to output an abstract syntax tree that they would use. So for example Eclipse has this notion of "Build configurations" which allows you to control how this parsing occurs and which files the parser considers valid and what symbols are predefined. Which is IDE support very much like you're looking for from CMake. I worked with it for several years at my last job to provide support for other engineers working with a Make-based build system.
Depends what sites you’re ok with breaking. Users will blame the browser if it works in chrome but not firefox
How is it math? It totally ignores that a movie star could be well known over many countries in the world. Considering Hollywoods reach, I wouldn't be surprised.
Reminds me of the sodium amalgam Nile Red was experimenting with on his last video (other than the April Fools one).

It seemed to be a sponge of liquid mercury dissolving liquid ammonium.
Mapping the world to help aid workers with weakly- and semi-supervised learning
Thalidomide [0] has been demonstrated to reduce morning sickness in pregnant women. Oh, and it also produces a high rate of birth defects. But let's not focus on the latter, shall we?

I'm sure there are pros to cryptocurrency. One of the cons is that it contributes to climate change. We've all heard plenty of cryptocurrency drum-beating over the years, it's not like "focusing on the latter" is some crazy imbalance of criticism.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide
Well, arxiv-vanity.com uses a different TLD than arxiv.org, and their respective url schemes are completely different. arxiv-vanity.org is hosting a redirection site that interprets the arxiv.org path scheme and redirects you to the correct arxiv-vanity.com url.

I originally bought the arxiv-vanity.org domain and set it up as some rewrite rules on my personal caddy server. The owner of arxiv-vanity.com thought it was cool so we got everything transferred over to them now.
Works fine from my VPS. Perhaps set a custom forward/reverse DNS name for your node.
I think the suggestion is that some comments give the impression that the "natives" would be much better off under Western rule than under their own people's.

I can understand that this may pass off as supporting European imperialism, and even perhaps racism.

We can hope that China becomes democratic but that is an issue for the Chinese people.
The title is wonderful. Poetic. It's hard not to imagine a mind drifting into reverie on reading it.
This is great news.

Now let's just make sure they don't replace employees with lower-paid contractors. I'm always suspicious when these minimum wage hikes don't talk about contractors.
I once wondered why aircraft don't have electric motors (either battery or APU powered) to move them to the holding point at which point the fire up the engines. Turns out Airbus has a patent on it, it's not yet being used due to complexity / weight tradeoffs.
https://cloud.google.com/datastore/ is still available.
I would be pretty proud of a company that could take people from various backgrounds and education levels, make them productive, and enable them to earn a good living. Same goes for a city.
ISO Extended Pascal was an update taking into account existing language extensions.

Many of them available in 1981 dialects
I think they really dropped the ball by grouping Angular and AngularJS together.
Be straight about it.

Focus on listening as much as speaking.
70 percent of male developers rate themselves as above average. 50 percent of women do. Dunning Kruger anyone ?
The recommended deployment model for Java now is to bundle the runtime with the application. The "desktop/consumer" JRE is gone in newer versions. Ask whoever it is that produces the Java software you're using to bundle the runtime with it. People who don't develop Java shouldn't concern themselves with Java runtime installations and licenses.
Hello again, I couldn't get an answer from the provider so I've acquired IATA codes and added a local conversion. Now it should cover the most of the airlines. Cheers
A lot of people hated the forklift segment. “Why am I coming home from my job to relax by doing another job?” was a common refrain.

The article is a stretch, but is is downright mundane compared to the explanations of game designs I’ve heard straight from the mouth of Japan’s rockstar designers who made them. They enjoy wearing sunglasses and black leather jackets and getting extremely abstract about game design.
Can someone help this old (2^5 years) developer out? I've worked with a number of programming languages over the years, and have never found a combination that brings me such joy and productivity as Ruby and Rails. However, I've always felt that Python and Ruby were very similar in style & goal.

Can someone who is experienced in both Rails & Django explain why Python & Django are trending up so quickly, while Ruby & Rails are ranking on the "most dreaded" lists? I don't want this to become a holy war, I am just genuinely curious what I'm overlooking.
I imagine he means before the advent of 3d printing, services like PCBWay, products like Arduino, and online stores like DigiKey. It's probably much easier to make one's own devices today than it was when USB was first being designed.

He's also right about the physical access thing. Fundamentally, it doesn't make much sense to add protections against scenarios where the attacker apparently needs physical access, because there's no way to protect against all things he could possibly do then. It's not really obvious that the user needs protecting from himself as he plugs in a device of doubtful origins. We used to hold the user to higher standards.
> Organic (or "Biologisch", as it's called here)

Indeed a similar topic. Many people don't realise that "organic" is a marketing term. You cannot equate it with "ethical" or anything of the like from a terminology point of view. It (organic farming) has formal definitions in the countries where the products are sold and these are not always sensible or honest.
Wow, jQuery is still one of the most popular web frameworks. That was unexpected...
Clickbait title. The discovery is that at high pressures, potassium adopts a complex crystalline structure, of which different parts have different melting temperatures.
The only problem that keeps me from entirely supporting Firefox / Mozilla is that they had to be so vitriolic in opposing someone's right to their own opinions and beliefs. The time they got rid of Brendan Eich still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The irony of calling yourself "free and open".
We used to have a telefile option where you spent ten minutes on the phone punching in numbers off your W-2 forms and then you wrote down a confirmation number. It only worked if you had a really simple tax situation, but it was so easy. I assume it was killed by the same lobbyists.
True,but HN crowd tends to be allergic to the typical kind of customers nowadays targeted by Codegear.
> The move is also a sign of increasing wage inflation for thriving companies.

This phrasing doesn't sit well with me. If the company is thriving, as it is, then why would you term a wage increase as "inflation"? The wages aren't tied to "shareholder value" or other metrics the BoD discusses before setting executive compensation.

Also, the article should be retitled to "BoA raising minimum wage to $17", or "plans to raise wages to $20 by 2021". Makes it sound like fait accompli otherwise, which it certainly is not.
> Please show me where an unemployed person with uncertain future prospects and neither a work history nor any assets can get an unsecured personal loan for 4-9%?

Every high street bank in the UK offers a student overdraft facility, e.g. HSBC[0] offers a guaranteed £1000 0% overdraft, with up to £3000 depending on how long you've had it. Other banks offer credit cards with 0% interest for students too.

Finally, student's aren't the same category as
> an unemployed person with uncertain future prospects and neither a work history nor any assets

While that is a technically true statement, it's ignoring the fact that <4% of recent graduates are unemployed. While that makes them higher risk than an engineer in SV making 6 figures, it absolutely doesn't have students in the same risk category as an unemployed disabled veteran.

[0] https://www.hsbc.co.uk/current-accounts/products/student/
99% of people will not read all the way to the end of the article and just assume it's official.
Maybe you haven't been harassed or panhandled while walking in SOMA and had the police just watch and ignore, but that is an issue the police can help with.

I've also seen the police help, but it's few and far between because there are so few police on the streets in SOMA.

It's not that the police are bad, that they are the cause, or they are the only solution. I think the police are probably underfunded, understaffed, and under supported; the issue is more systemic then specific as the author states.

Edit: typo
I'm curious why they should get a pass. They're a first-class part of the ecosystem, and pretending exchanges don't exist to goose the numbers feels dishonest. Further, it's the exchanges that set the "price" of bitcoin relative to fiat, which in turn sets the exchange rate for BTC to goods in on-chain transactions. Unless you're suggesting there's an "exchange" price for goods and a "black market" price for goods that each value Bitcoin differently?
More context in this blog post: https://www.netlify.com/blog/2019/04/09/netlify-dev--our-ent...
Might be a bit of both TBH. It’s rarely that cut and dry.

The point here is calling out empty PR, but I’m not going to misrepresent an article without proof. I just have suspicions.
Preventable fraud is still fraud.
"Kurian estimated to the Journal that Google Cloud's sales team is only between one-tenth and one-fifteenth the size of the sales teams at Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. But he's planning to ramp up this tiny fraction, with goals of making Google Cloud's sales teams half the size of its peers"

That's a small sales force. You can build solid products, but you've got to have a sales force to go with it. Amazon had advantages as the first big mover in the cloud market. If you're coming in later, you've got to be able to sell.
When we say percentage - the numbers are not adding up to 100. How are we supposed to read this report?
I was not aware web 3.0 is a thing yet. Is there any "killer" web 3.0 app? From what I've seen most are small crypto currency apps or web 2.0 apps with a crypto payment/token component. Is IPFS considered Web 3.0 as well?
What apps do software engineers use to collaborate?
> So? What does this have to do with anything? Is the goal to produce an airplane where pilots press a button "fly to destination", and the plane does it?

When you're nose down heading into the ground, taking your hand off the stick to adjust the trim can get panic-y. Especially since the MCAS may be working against your trim adjustments.

The design of the Max line seems to be just enough compete with the A320neo, and just enough to not "need" re-certification. But these two justs, together, may have cost several hundred people their lives.
It sounds like he's mostly taking the "good bits" – scaling the sales teams to be closer to those of competitors, and making the product offering more compelling for enterprise customers.

As a Google Cloud customer, I really hope that he doesn't take the "bad bits" – raising prices, unnecessary lock-in, slow moving technology, litigation. As an engineer in a team where engineers lead decisions like which cloud provider to use, rather than some exec on the golf course, I hope they keep their appeal to those customers who don't want to play the enterprise sales game.
Turbotax jacked their prices up quite a bit this year as well.
Existing financial systems process many orders of magnitude more transactions than Bitcon does. There's no acceptable excuse for its current consumption VS the throughput it provides.
640K should be enough for anybody(tm).
I generally avoid the word "idiotic", but it fits here. Can we flag articles for stupidity?

Article tl;dr -- Airlines used to get from airport to airport faster. Airlines used to be late a lot of the time. Airlines increased their estimated flight times in order to achieve higher on-time percentage. The reason they did this instead of just being faster is that they love using more fuel.

I'm not anywhere near the airline industry myself. The next time I see misreporting on my own company or industry I'll look back at this and remind myself it could be worse.
Message your manager, say you need to have a little talk, and then tell them you will be leaving.

Optional preceding step: get new job first.
Interesting to see a static typed language growing on the frontend, while Python is now the most popular backend language.
It baited me into something more interesting. I've been bamboozled!
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Notice they talk about the destruction of archilogical sites in Iraq he and Syria in the last 2 decades bit attribute it to the media’s boogie man Sadam. The author should realize that the majority of the destruction was done by Obama funded isis in the last decade.
The Importance of the Design Brief
As the article makes clear, this is not a unilateral ban on competing with tax prep software companies, but rather a deal (pre-existing but now codified into law) in which the companies agree to provide free tax prep software to low-income taxpayers and in exchange the federal government agrees not to create a competing product.

To me this sounds like a great deal for taxpayers. In exchange for not spending tons of taxpayer money on a project which may or may not turn out well, makers of existing high-quality products agree to voluntarily give free access to it to the majority of taxpayers.

The bill additionally codifies funding for the VITA program which provides free in-person preparation services for low-income taxpayers.

I think this is about as good as the situation can get without actually simplifying our tax code.
Pingtop: Ping multiple servers and show the result in a top like terminal UI
> The average user doesn't even know about fingerprinting

Yet. Give it one or two scandals, maybe involving a heavyweight like Reddit, and users will be aware of what fingerprinting is and why it's not in their interest to have their digital fingerprints taken, analyzed and stored every time they enter the internet equivalent of a grocery store. Give them analogies they can understand and they will feel like they're in a dystopian surveillance state movie, because that's what we're in on the internet.
Houston's answer to affordability is sprawl, which has some big problems of its own. But add housing they do, something the Bay Area has failed miserably at.
Transgenic monkeys carrying human gene show human-like brain development
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We know the basic rules of physics, how all the little bits interact. We also know that if you combine enough of the little bits, you'll get a system with no analytic solution. Where, provably, all you can do to learn things about is simulate it.

So it's possible to discover new and unexpected behavior of a system with modeling that hasn't yet been experimentally verified. You don't know if such a phenomenon is present in the real world until you do experimental validation, but that doesn't mean your model is wrong.

Maybe a more accurate statement would be 'laws of nature found to give rise to new phase of matter'.
Not like there's a lack of open source web browsers. Why go specifically for the closed source Chinese-owned browser that asks for your crypto keys and provides a "free" "VPN"?
Whilst I'm pretty heavily experienced in Rails I'm less-so in Django. If I had to guess Rails being dreaded is down to experienced Rails veterans wanting to move onto the new hotness, and the rise of Python / Django being simply down to the fact that people newly getting into web development are far more likely to know Python than Ruby.
The urban areas are full, and that’s because those urban areas have jobs for low skilled/less educated people. Rural America is not an attractive option for educated, highly skilled people, let alone the opposite. That’s the real problem that exacerbates immigration issues. Build up the rural areas. Imagine if Amazon’s farcical contest for HQ2 had chosen Kansas, Alabama, or even Vermont. It would have revolutionized the place for generations.
Is it that hard to make a new/empty profile and assign it as admin and then delete the old profile?
I didn't know it's a web framework.
As I always like to say, we are getting the government we deserve.
Most often I get a 403 forbidden
Not ballistic armor but D3O is one material used for impact protection that is flexible but becomes rigid when there's an impact. (I have a ski hat with ribs of this material.)
Firefox will now let you block fingerprint-tracking and cryptojacking
To be "fair" that also includes the c-section delivery...
I wanted to follow along - your blog looks excellent, I'll check there and micro.blog. Thank you.

Incidentally (and rhetorically), how I have not heard of micro.blog? It looks amazing! This whole thread has become a goldmine of interesting things.
That's a weird assumption. I hate politics due to the influence of money, first past the post voting, and gerrymandering.
This is very exciting, but it seems it's just building in partial uMatrix functionality. It's really becoming a pain to have so many overlapping tools doing the same thing.
The competence vs years graph is interesting to me because over time things converge, but women and non-binary folks are significantly less confident in the early/mid career.
Pick two:

* A desirable place to live

* No growth

* Affordable

And for growth, you get to pick a mix of growing out, in and up. San Francisco proper obviously can't sprawl, so it needs to grow in and up. And the surrounding suburbs need to start doing their part too.
I am talking about MSIX and the sandbox evolution model from Project Centiped, with the new Win32 project format for store deployments.

Based on COM, and UWP, which is nothing more than a saner COM, now being internally widespread via C++/WinRT adoption.
I will say, vote with your dollars. If you don't like Intuit's lobbying, please don't feed the beast and use their services.
Doesn't Brave, Brandon Eich's project, already do this? Its nicer to use to.
"Nidavellir is real? Seriously? I mean, that place is a legend. They make the most powerful, horrific weapons to ever torment the universe. I would very much like to go there, please."
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