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I actually use Stack Overflow to look for idiomatic ways to do things in languages that I don't have a lot of experience with. So I literally search for things like how to duplicate arrays, even though I'm quite capable of achieving the required output myself. In fact, I use SO almost exclusively for "Is this a bug with a common workaround" and "Is there a more idiomatic way to do this" questions.
My understanding is that it IS common to lie, or else to redirect the conversation from what was made in the last position to what is desired for the new position. Why should it matter? You're being hired to fill a position that's worth x amount of compensation; the primary reason to ask for prior compensation seems to be to to get a "deal" (i.e., rob an employee of potential earnings).
All credit goes to Matthew Rayfield (http://matthewrayfield.com/). He has some very... interesting projects that should be right up HN's alley.

Code for the project can be found here: http://matthewrayfield.com/goodies/gamepad-input-to-3d-print...
Python libraries that were used to generate Black hole image
Actually, no one has ever done that.
As far as checks and balances go, the irony is that most of them were introduced on the power of the monarch, and it was done by giving power to the Parliament. This makes sense in this evolutionary approach, because when you start with an absolute monarchy, of course an elected body is preferable.

But now, you have a problem in that your Parliament is essentially unchecked, and e.g. all your human rights protections are mere laws that are within Parliament's authority to repeal (well, and ECHR, for now - but even there UK got a special exemption for this exact reason).
Should be easy enough to test with a remote control.

I just learned than IR-transparent plastics are more common than I thought: they reduce heat load and make the plastic last longer.
The question I would ask is, is that 75% in support of monarchy in general, or the current monarch in particular?
I disagree with the direction gp is taking, big projects involving money and people are not easy. On the other hand your example might support his argument.

You've drawn attention to an Airbnb engineer with a bunch of other interests that don't seem directly related to the infrastructure behind the company. I'm sure they use these things, but they aren't going to be critical to the success or failure of the site. That suggests the technical challenges of Airbnb aren't enough to keep someone with a large amount of maturity, drive and focus busy and interested.
*1966, NASA was founded in 1958.
I've never quite understood the logic behind #3. Why wouldn't I just scale my monolith up and down instead? I could see some instances where being able to do it independently would be useful (e.g. when the feature has unique resource requirements), but I would guess that, for us, 9 out of 10 times, it has been fine to just scale the monolith as a whole up and down as necessary.
I've been interested in looking into Gopher for a while. Does anyone have any recommendations on a good introduction into Gopher, when you would use it, etc?
Because thousands of people moving in and out of a building overflows into a robust neighborhood - food being sold on the streets, restraunts and theaters hosting new experiences every day...

The neighborhoods being built up into luxury towers no one lives provides no business to the would-be shops and galleries nearby, leaving them as empty as the streets around the High Line...

"Last March, beloved leather bar Rawhide at 212 Eighth Ave. closed after rent rose from $15,000 to $27,000 a month. Close to a year later, it remains vacant.", from 2014,

https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140204/chelsea/vacant-sto...

There's other articles along the same lines if you google 'empty storefronts high line nyc'
Exactly, and there’s in particular the very special kind of rent extracted by the hiring of people to work for you without profit-sharing, and using your negotiation power as a capital owner to get people to agree to the terms of your employment contract stipulating your appropriation of the whole work product.

I’ve found the writings of David Ellerman to be very elucidating on this topic, and admirable for giving a deep critique of capitalism without any reliance on Marxism. He relies on a labor theory of property rather than a labor theory of value, and a Lockean liberal notion of inalienable rights. Two short texts that make a good introduction:

https://www.abolishhumanrentals.org/human-rentals/the-great-...

https://www.abolishhumanrentals.org/human-rentals/the-fundam...
The main reason antennas are hard to understand is that their dimensions are comparable to the wavelength they are tuned for. Unless you are dealing with microwaves, the systems used to generate and detect RF are modeled using "lumped circuit elements". For example, resistors, capacitors, inductors, and transistors. And, at first, big sparks. These elements are small compared to the wavelength.

The design of those elements and the circuits using them was historically pretty independent from formal electromagnetic theory, as developed by Maxwell. The intersection was Oliver Heaviside, at the end of the 19th century.

Before Heaviside, RF electronic design was a largely a matter of groping though the practicalities of employing those circuit elements to create oscillations and couple them to resonant wires supported as high as possible.

As the peer posts explained, antennas are resonant structures in which electrons are caused to slosh back and forth. As they slosh, they accelerate, and as they accelerate, they radiate electromagnetic energy. But, it is best to stick to the rules of thumb at the level of the ARRL handbooks. To understand the EM theory related to radiation and antennas, you really need to work through to the final chapters of Griffiths, "Introduction to Electrodynamics".

But that is not necessary to get an intuitive understanding of antennas, to construct them, or to run the modeling software.
I fall victim to it myself at times.

It's classic expert talk, "oh, that's easy." Perhaps to you :)
That's the idea. I'm working on flight software for Orion, and there are many levels of redundancy, both in design and process, that are put into the software architecture. It's extremely expensive, but flight software is still a drop in the bucket compared to mechanical, propulsion, and electrical systems. It should have an expected failure rate much lower than the physical systems, and should never be on the critical path. We're not doing fancy stuff, it's just gotta be robust and fault tolerant.
However, not discussing compensation with your peers ONLY benefits the companies you work for. It encourages anti-competative behavior.
MacBook airs have tiny holes near the microphone. If it’s plugged, it’s very difficult to hear what’s going on.

Other macs may be like this too.
>Well, a number of people use Eastern Europe location as a filter for 'cheap labor'.

Thanks for the idea. As East European I'll use this opportunity to improve my English speaking skills (on the phone).
Seconding nitrogen's request – I'm very interested in any pointers to further reading.

A potential cause for this effect might be that widespread bargaining reduces a market's efficiency, since prices are less transparent for buyers and sellers.
Yes. Shanghai uses a plate auction instead of a lottery like Beijing.
$600/hr is the equivalent of about $1.2M/year salary. That's exceptionally rare. Unless you're being cheeky with "should be", I think you have beliefs that are misaligned with reality.
What counts as "independent expert in specialized field"? Because as an independent backend contractor (java/spring/scala/akka) that straddles the line between architectural consulting and staff augmentation (usually long-term contracts), I see real resistance to going above $200/hr since even in the bay area you can hire full teams from vendors at around that price point for man hours.
Better yet, some kind of physical flag when a write is being attempted. When it flags unexpectedly, you know the logs are worth looking at.

Pirates used to install locks on their satellite receivers to prevent countermeasures, or at least defer problematic updates.
My dentist gave me two options for removing my wisdom teeth a few years ago, 1: go to a dental surgeon and be put under, 2: have some kind of anesthesia but not be "asleep". I chose #2. It was some sort of concoction that, if I remember correctly, was only meant to stop me from remembering the pain/experience.

I don't have the paperwork but I've always been curious what is was that he gave me/if it was common practice. Also, if it was purely a sort of amnesia, was I in excruciating pain during the time?

I have since moved away and not been back to a dentist. If it is common, I can only imagine the stupid things I would have said or done during the procedure since during the onset I remember being extremely high. It kind of made me embarrassed to return the couple of times I did only because I don't remember what I could have done.
Maybe 30 years ago. They did ok on the ones they used for certification, but after than quality slipped and they became death traps (what anyone doing manufacturing in China has to look out for, actually).
Reminds me of early Xbox days.
I don't think its to do with fairness, but as this exemplifies, wealth accumulates over generations. If left unchecked then over 400 years a few people own a huge chunk of the world. Why? Is that good for society? Doesn't seem so. Yet society spends a lot of time and money enforcing these laws. Certainly you want your children to inherit if you've done well, but hundreds of years later?

Ownership is a fiction of society, as are most rules, and its probably up to us to decide what "fairness" means. I find it hard to make an argument that someones great grandchildren to the nth level has any claim on this property. So inheritance taxes do seem reasonable.

I have wondered if the modern trend of the rich establishing "foundations" is a way to sidestep inheritance taxes. The foundation will accumulate assets that will be controlled by the heirs some goes to charity which is good for society, but still more and more assets will of necessity be controlled by the foundation and all tax free.
> Posting salaries is rare in the US. It's becoming the law in California, but this is hardly universal.

Citation needed on that. I really hope you’re right and I’m ignorant here, but I think you may be confusing it with the recent state law that makes it illegal for prospective employers to ask about salary history and theoretically requires them to give a salary range to an applicant when asked. I say “theoretically,” because there’s no way for anyone outside the company to verify that the salary range they give is in any way related to the budgeted range.
I'm not sure I see the point, it turns a language that looks a lot like verilog but with lots more parentheses into verilog - why not just write verilog in the first place?
It doesn't exist because the politicians decided (with the help of the person with the patent) to force it on the public by writing laws that said they all had to have this tech when it became viable.

In addition- just as with airplanes- when your life is on the line if a thing doesn't work, you're very conservative about change (oh please add a battery and electronics...)

Third- it doesn't solve a burning problem- if the market wanted it and without #1, it would be available.
Good you wouldn't want to work for someone with that level of missing neurons anyway.
If they have a series of tests to perform, I'd expect them to order the tests so that the ones with the highest chances of anomalies that will make them abort testing come later in the series. It doesn't seem all that unreasonable given that for them to really have the spectacular failure occur on the last scheduled test of the series.
> Still, the guy who can create "Chart.js" (an artist) should be getting paid a lot more than a guy who can only use it (a craftsmen).

Why? One without the other is pretty pointless. I can accept the roles are different but not that either is particularly harder.
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Ahhh.... I didn’t catch that. Yes, that makes a huge difference. Land in rural areas can be worth a few hundred dollars an acre versus a few million dollars an acre in a major city.
I think most would agree that property that was stolen or taken by force from somebody who produced it, is not earned. So it's not an arbitrary definition. And if that is so, why would passing it from generation to generation make any difference to that determination?

I am a Russian immigrant, by the way, born in the USSR back when it was still a thing. I don't have much sympathy for the kind of wealth redistribution that was practiced there. But it's important to understand that the reason why it happened was because inequality was allowed to grow high enough that a sufficient number of people in the country could be motivated to revolt, because they felt the risks justified the potential rewards. And it doesn't even matter if they were right or wrong - the point is, if you are afraid of that history repeating, then you should support measures that prevent the conditions that caused it from happening again. And that involves acknowledging what the society deems fair and unfair, when it comes to property ownership.
Equally important might be the milieu in which you exist - Newton was fortunate to be surrounded by people like Hooke and Boyle, who helped constitute a robust scientific society that transmitted his ideas and gave them favor. He was not, say, merely laughed at, or burned at the stake, or told that his ideas had no marketable value.
scan them.

They don't take up very much space at all as .pdf files. An advantage is that they can be donated either as printed, or as scanned, to one or more of the archive sites. Ensure that there are enough dots/inch when scanned so the text is easily read.
Everything that causes gentrification, from A to Z
How the art of desktop applications has plummeted over the last ten years or so. Used to be that cross platform releases were - often - tight, well crafted, native looking, nicely functional apps built with care on some suitable abstraction library. Qt, Gtk, whatever.

These days more and more otherwise worthy projects seem to be delivered via the monstrous deformity known as Electron.

Another half gigabyte or so gobbled up to keep a simple calendar running? I'll stick to my Osmo.
It depends on which Marxists. Some would say that land that your family can cultivate (or otherwise productively use) on your own, without hiring labor, is your personal property, which is not theft. Land that you own, but can't extract wealth from it without hiring other people to do so (and collecting rent from what they extract from it) would be considered theft.
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Why can’t you have a good tea culture with “poor quality” tea?
It's the same reason that software engineers love greenfielding projects. Architecting clean, fresh systems is romantic! You won't make any of the mistakes that you've now learned from! All this needless complexity can be done away with once and for all.
Cybercoders is particularly dysfunctional. Avoid at all costs.
> It's not like performance or look-and-feel is a huge issue.

Well, the calendar is unusable on my macbook, while iCal bundled with macOS has no issues. So guess which one I'm going to use?
what did the romans do for us?
both. If it doesn't need to be 'crisp' then a microwave is good enough. Other wise the oven is slower but better.

With both methods, the various technique(s) used can make a lot of difference to the final palatability of the end product.
good for you that you have nothing to hide in your calendar and contact list.
Well, in the sense that polynomials are universal approximators too (on a compact domain). See this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19709834
Can't you just tell them not to bother with the interview any further and refrain from wasting everyone's time if they're not prepared to offer what you've asked for?
Though the costs are invisible to you, our model raises prices and essentially gentrifies care, making it more difficult for those lower on the ladder to afford care (bringing along the associated public health issues) and robbing other priorities (like medical research) of cash.
> If the candidate is rejected your startup lawyers sue the pants of the SWC for violating U.S H1B law.

Is this an easily winnable lawsuit? Can't the company just show that the candidate failed their interview process suggesting they lacked the actual job skills required?
Oh, I agree. And the rich should remember it, and start acting accordingly.
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Ask HN: Where to start with getting in to retrocomputing as a hobby?
I have been interested in getting in to retrocomputing as a hobby recently. What's a good place to start? I have some interest in electronics and hardware, but I am more interested in software overall. Are there any good blogs/forums/other resources to read on how to dive in?
Such a good piece, written far, far too soon. Thank you, Fred.
Granted, Steve Jobs' genius helped give Apple the bargaining power to seal that deal, but...
Cornell scientists create 'living' machines that eat, grow, and evolve
That is dependent on your IRC client not on IRC itself, just use a more robust client. I use Textual and it provides embedded previews of pictures and video directly in the chat window/feed...
> You get into how our fingers prune up for better grip in the water

Awfully skeptical of that claim. While there is more friction area potentially, skin is very easy to damage when "pruned". You can't use any significant force in this condition making normal skin with higher force capability much more useful in water.
Also can't be computed.
Yes, my suggested phrasing above should get you a fair salary without reference to previous good pay stubs, assuming you make inquiries as stated. If you weren't overpaid before, you should get at least a similar outcome, but you would get a better one if previously underpaid as many people in protected classes unfortunately still are.

If you were overpaid, and want to try to keep being overpaid, see below for a scenario that you can mentally adjust from fixing underpayment to preserving overpayment (in which case verification is even more important if the employer decides to bite that bullet).

Underpayment of disadvantaged colleagues is so much more common and so much more long-term impactful than overpayment of anyone involved in this style of negotiation; I care more that the law addresses the former than that it prevents the latter. People have useful indirect ways to signal high pay anyway even if they were forbidden from saying it explicitly, far more than underpaid people.

The prior pay information is illegal for employers to solicit in these jurisdictions, even if they are willing to make it voluntary by accepting no for an answer. The only way the info will make it to a law-abiding California employer is if the candidate decides it's to their advantage to volunteer it, as they probably would if the initial offer is a low-ball. If the candidate doesn't volunteer it unsolicited, the info can't legally come up (and if it somehow does [e.g. turns up in a third party background check] the employer can't use the info during the hiring process).

As for why that needs to be allowed, consider this scenario:

Company: What salary are you looking for?

Candidate: Market rate.

Company: How about $X? We like you and it's the highest we usually offer for this position to a new hire.

Candidate: Hm. While I agree $X is within the market rate range, I currently make $X+10k which is also within that range. Can you at least match that?

Company, after consideration: Hm. Yeah given that we don't want to force you to take a pay cut, we'll make that exception.

Or, even more compelling last two lines:

Candidate: Hm, my current company is already paying me $X, and has been doing so for 3 years now despite my skills growing significantly in that time. Can you recognize that growth with a modest pay raise?

Company, after consideration: Hm, we realize you won't trust our willingness to support you if we keep your compensation stagnant for a fourth year and counting. We can't break our salary band, but we'll at least give you $10k/year extra in restricted stock units [assume a public company].

In such scenarios, verification makes sense to require and allow.

Also note that these jurisdictions generally have explicit bans on paying differentially based on protected attributes like old age or gender, and that these laws about salary history (which are just a tightening of their former greater permissiveness that still prevails elsewhere) don't override those rules.
There is if the candidate makes their salary a very clear upfront condition of employment and the employer pushes them through a lengthy interview without disclosing zero chance of them being paid that much because the company does not have the money. They are leading a candidate on in bad faith.
Having a lot of money is really the sole area where US health care actually is the best in the world. Efficiency is somebody else’s problem.
DDD isn't synonymous with microservices. Although it does help decouple a lot of your internal components so that they can be split into isolated services later on, there's nothing stopping you from hosting them in a single monolith. In fact there's very little downside of doing it that way.

The number of merge conflicts is reduced because the code has good internal separation. Scaling can be done on the entirity of the monolith that is simpler than trying to do this on a microservice level.

I'm working on a DDD typescript framework at https://www.npmjs.com/package/@node-ts/ddd that helps better structure node apps for domain driven design
The first step is to get people to acknowledge reality without morally tagging everything.

The moral tagging creates emotional walls to keep the acknowledgement of reality out.

Leaving it out avoids tribalism and other tropes from dominating the discourse.

If you can get people to at least agree on the terms of reality and the context it exists in, that's a major win.
Ask HN: What are cheap hacks to launch MVP?
Domain registrar, hosting provider, designing pages, static vs dynamic page... What are the cheapest options available?
afaik they didnt do anything
Me too; it's an cleverly simple way to say something that seems obvious, but bizarrely isn't. I guess like Erlang itself, Joe was good at expressing the complex tersely.
That only works if they’re not putting back doors into their hardware.
Look, if you want an inheritance tax, I don't object, even if it's 50%. (I might at 90%, though. And if you're going to rely on an inheritance tax, you also probably have to tax trusts...)

I just object to the "they have to much, so we should take it from them" rhetoric, on the principle that, once they're done taking what the rich have, then they're going to decide that those who have the most at that time are now the rich, and the process will continue. And it won't stop until they decide that I'm the rich, and they should take what I have. In the process, they'll destroy the economy of the country. I really would prefer that that particular genie stays in the bottle...
Not for all parameters. I pushed out a origin change on Akamai this year and it took about 75 minutes.
All government services, whether it's tax returns, import or export permits and so on. None of them give me any value and I have to fund them and use them