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Cant help dude..it would be boring to solve with help. try hard. Good luck!
Do Penny Arcade Fans Want A Fun Job Or Fun Life?
Time to name and shame.
sure, will try
That "café" -> "cafeś" replacement is pretty scary. It looks like the built in strings.Replace function makes the same mistake:

fmt.Println(strings.Replace("multiple cafe\u0301", "cafe", "cafes", 1)) // multiple cafeś
It's more anti-"being woken up by your neighbor being an asshole"-ism. I'm sure as a night owl you wouldn't appreciate having your neighbor play trumpet at 7am after your late night of jamming.
Also, the Apple ads weren't pretending to be an independent party - it was clear to any naif who was footing the bills for the ad.
Hey dude, please post up a BTC address so we can send you some cash to tide you over.
Go to google, copy-n-paste the url into the search box, click the link from the search results page and you're in!
fmt.Println(strings.Replace("multiple cafeterias", "cafe", "cafes", 1))
Exactly. Incidentally, the latest NFL collective bargaining agreement mandates that 47% of all league revenue go to the players.
One of the reasons I decided not to pursue a master's degree is their ridiculous over-reliance on undergraduate GPA scores.

I was kind of a dumbass in college. I didn't take anything outside of my major seriously - I merely took them to fulfill the so-called "general education requirements." As a result, my GPA suffered.

More than half a decade later, those mistakes are basically ensuring that I can never get into a top-tier master's program, regardless of my GRE/GMAT scores or letters of recommendation.

Sigh. Oh well.
This is only true if you make the BIG assumption that everyone has valuable contributions to make to the global economy. There's various evidently false things it depends on, like that no-one is both successful and hoards money just for the fun of it.

So this is not true. I would even argue it's very, very not true, and that the medieval economy illustrates this. It was a lot like a bitcoin economy : unfalsifiable money (gold) in limited supply. Most people unable to contribute in any meaningful sense.

What did we see ? Equitable distribution of goods and services (and gold) ? Hell, no.

Of course, bitcoin is in the moronically stupid position that it both depends on the economy it has doesn't exist (power, and bitcoins MUST be divided over many players that don't trust eachother for bitcoin to work) and it itself is a centralizing force.

And that's ignoring the fact that it depends on preimage-attack resistance of SHA256. That's currently true, but keep in mind that it's 12 years old and the previous standard, MD5, held out for ~17 years. Whilst I would say it'll likely last a bit longer than MD5, it's (overwhelmingly likely) not immortal.
You will bounce back. Let us know a Bitcoin wallet where we can chip in whatever is in our ability.
>The first 3 failed so miserably that there's not even a crater from where they imploded.

Beautiful way to put it.
That I definitely agree with.

Another of Apple's very-negative ads, the famous "1984" anti-IBM ad, is a good example of that. Analogizing your competitor to a dystopian totalitarian regime risks coming across as shrill and over-the-top, but Apple managed to pull it off.
Agreed -- the fallacy pushed out into society that higher education is the only path to success is absolutely absurd.

Even moderate domain expertise in most fields will trump the copious amount of useless information floating around in textbooks today.

Traditional academia has already begun to erode over the past few years, but I'll be happy when society finally wakes up and recognizes that empty credentials shouldn't always serve as the absolute indication of future success or achievements.
I can't speak for your situation so don't take this as a goad, only my thoughts on the idea of doing a triage/after action/autopsy.

I know that feeling. I have failed before and hard. I did however resolve to ensure that it wasn't for nothing by, as your co-founder suggested, dissecting it. What I found was that instead of it just being a downer, I realized how many good things were done and how many exciting developments, both personally and professionally came out of what was at the end of the day a failure.

In the end the margin of failure can be tiny - but I would guarantee that you will also be able to find some massive successes in there as well. Adding to that the benefit that others would take away and I think it would be of great benefit.
This really looks like the FDA sticking their nose into something they should. 23andMe is making false claims about the efficacy of their test in their marketing material and the FDA isn't okay with that. They're not even ordering 23andMe to stop testing, just to stop marketing their service as something it isn't.
Please do update us when you are better. We would love to know that a fellow Hacker is doing well.

Shoot me an email at sid_cool1234(at)yahoo.co.in and I can see what I can do for you.
Yeah, I get that. It's just that you might assume that the strings functions would operate on character boundaries (as defined in the blog post) and not based on runes (code points). Leaky abstractions and all that...
By the way C++ standardized it? Yes, the only big difference is property accessors.

By convention? Nope.
The term struct pretty much stands for a pure data construct. C++ attempted (and pretty much failed) to make this distinction. Some languages, like C#, did a much better job.

In the real world we are always urging to being consistent. While other languages do a pretty good job by enforcing it, on C++ this is more on your shoulders.
If we had the extra cash reserves...yup :)
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Tangentially, Road Fever is a pretty epic read about two roadtrippers who get from the Tierra del Fuego, Argentina to Prudhoe, Alaska, in 24 days. Border crossings, mechanical issues, weather, the Darien Gap, all covered. (They took a ferry I think). Looking at the pictures and the intensity, 90km has to feel like an eternity on actual land
I was not expecting to read a comment like that on my Wednesday afternoon. Certainly thought provoking ;)
Interesting. I was under the (wrong) impression that you could drive or motorcycle from South America to North America. Seems all but impossible.
The purpose of the normalization package is to help you work with text under these constraints. I can't imagine many situations where strings.Replace would be sufficient for reliably manipulating natural language. The cafe example is to demonstrate the why you might need the package.
> the display is lackluster

This is putting it very nicely. It has low contrast, and really poor viewing angles in terms of legibility and color. It's plenty bright enough though. Now if only I could get f.lux on it...
He definitely needs to be called out on this. Of course companies will always try to pay the minimum that they can get away with while employees will try to get as much as we can. That's normal in negotiations.

But saying that "we're not a terribly money-motivated" is just bullshit for, "we're not terribly money-motivated when it comes to your compensation so please be thankful with what we give you and don't ask for more.".
Check out the transfer upgrade trick. I used it to keep my grandfathered unlimited data plan on Verizon while getting a new phone at the subsidized price a month or two ago.
I got laid off when my son was 2 months old and my wife was on maternity leave. That was about 9 years ago. You can pull through this.

(My solution was to relocate countries, from Victoria, Canada to Silicon Valley. We did this in 2 weeks. Now, ironically, I'm doing a startup, but living back in Victoria.)

If you're a programmer and a US citizen, you have won the talent + nationality lottery. (I'm the former, but not the latter.) If you're both, realize how fortunate you truly are.

One course of action is to...

1. Move to Silicon Valley if you're not there right now. It's a boom, and it sounds like you don't have much to lose at the moment.

2. Go be an early employee at some startup that is funded. Maybe you'll get lucky and it's the next Dropbox or Snapchat. Or maybe you'll just earn good money in a great climate.

3. Consider doing another startup once you have savings or can bootstrap doing consulting. However, bootstrapping takes a LONG time and requires serious commitment.

Good luck!
Peter
Indeed. On a singular i7 machine with a gigabit connection, a number of frameworks are in the 400,000-600,000rps range when returning super trivial responses. In comparison, from the original Google blog post:

To demonstrate scaling of the Compute Engine Load Balancing fanout we used 200 n1-standard-1’s Web Server running Apache v2.2.22 on Debian 7.1 Wheezy Images. Users are encouraged to use larger VM types for better single machine backend web serving, however here we demonstrated the scaling of the load balancer to backends and were not concerned with the backends themselves using every cycle to serve responses. Each backend web server received ~5K requests per second, which is an even distribution.

So, to match the peak rps of solid (but not top of the line) dedicated hardware appears to take upwards of ~120 instances of n1-standard-1 (assuming that it scales linearly, of course). Not a trivial number.

That said, I am impressed at how quickly this can scale up. If you have a site that normally runs fine on a couple of instances, but occasionally sees massive spikes in traffic, this could make sense. And from a purely engineering point of view, GCE and EC2 are quite interesting.
That's almost as bad as the political attack ads I see these days...

I'm surprised they didn't mention Larry Page's former friends or love interests.

That is absolutely disgusting, Microsoft.

I gladly typed this on my arch linux laptop.
This Guy Monetized The Harlem Shake & Killed It
I am really interested in RethinkDB, and just wish I could convince myself to use it in an actual product. What's peoples' use case for the most part? I mean, I use PostgreSQL and MySQL for most of my applications, and Sqlite for smaller stuff. I've steered clear of the whole "NoSQL" movement up til this point, but Rethink seems to have the correct cross-section of a) features from SQL DB's that I use, and b) features from NoSQL-styled DB's that I want.

tl;dr -- Should I use Rethink as my primary data-store, considering that I don't use many advanced SQL features for the most part?
> If a paper does not cite the relevant previous work,

This is elevating form above substance. Ron & Shamir's work has the proper form, the proper names, and yet the material it contains is rubbish. It cites "relevant previous work", so long as you think that none of the work in industry is relevant.

The gold standard should not be if a work follows a set of practices, advisable as they may be, it should be if a work advances the understanding of mankind. One of these papers did, the other does not.
Yev from Backblaze here -> Personally, I think that the biggest part of the is price sensitivity. External drives are geared towards consumers, who simply will not buy the drives if they go up too much in cost. The internal drives we were buying are targeted at business' who have a choice to make, either buy at the higher price, go out of business, or get creative. We try to go the go creative route because we really don't want to go out of business, and paying the higher prices for drives, especially in this case, would have gotten us there.

Backblaze tries to avoid the "enterprise tax" as often as we can, and internal vs. external drives are just another example of how "enterprise-grade" items get marked up because the target market will pay for it.
'Neverquest' Trojan Threatens Online Banking Users
I consider myself a lot less Smarter than people here on HN so I never comment. But your 70 words made me.

'Manthatfell' - You are a very brave person to write something up like this very openly. But, If a Man of the Family loses hope it tears that family apart. Trust me. I observed this very closely. HN Community is so strong, kind and supportive.

You already found a lot helping hands. You are now 'Manthatfellbutgotup'. Just start Running..
Ah. She kind of swallowed the "from." Thought she said "for my mom."
Yes, but the 1M number there is simply counting up all the unspent blocks in the first year. Though the author presented an argument for further distinguishing blocks into "maybe satoshi" "not satoshi" sets, that wasn't actually done for the count.
You are a gem, if we get couple of thousands like you with loud voice this world would be a great place to enjoy.
First off it's a lie that Assange needs to come to Sweden for interrogation, we (sweden) interrogate people abroad all the time, it's called 'Mutual Legal Assistanced Treaty'.

So he can be interrogated in England or at the Equador embassy just fine.

After the first chief prosector dismissed the case directly, and another prosecutor (Marianne Ny, who is a close friend of the womens attorney) brought it up again a week later, Assange stayed in Sweden and was available for questioning for four whole weeks!

Then he was told by swedish authorities through his lawyer that he was free to leave Sweden and did, for England.

Three months later prosecutor 'Marianne Ny' issues a european arrest warrant for suspicion of sexual harassment, so that they can question him which they according to the prosecutor was unable to do during the four weeks he remained in Sweden.

Also, neither of the two women went to the police to issue a rape accusation, they wanted to know if they could force Assange to take a HIV test, as they both had unprotected sex with him (the women were also friends).

Here is the actual preliminary investigation on which this 'case' is based, it's in swedish naturally, but if you are able to read it/translate it you will be absolutely clear on how this is all a sham and not even remotely sexual harassment.

http://www.magasinetparagraf.se/bilden/forundersokningen-avs...
There are a series of serious and growing issues with higher education and the pursuit of a career as an academic and this is clearly a symptom. As I see it, there are three separate goals: personal growth of students (education for it's own sake), providing a quality workforce, and expanding the reach of human knowledge and achievement. Through a series of well-intentioned but misguided attitudes, the whole system is getting progressively more broken and serving it's goals (or my version of them) less and less.

It's a hard problem to solve, and we see the beginnings of solutions, but we all have a long way to go and the future doesn't necessarily look all that promising without some pretty significant changes in our culture.
I was born in Sweden and have lived in Sweden all my life, how about you?
OP, please let us know what rough geographical area you are located. This will allow some of us to at least give you some sort of referral to work; I can help out in the SF Bay Area but seeing the responses there are plenty better positioned who can lend aid and support to you.

Fight hard and good luck.
Poll: According to you how much the value of bitcoin will be after 6 months?
Within few weeks we have seen value of a bitcoin first reach $500 and now it is approaching $1000. So, according to you what will be the value of bitcoin after 6 months? Do you see it going up or down? Why?
Above $10000
$5000 - $10000
$2000 - $5000
$1000 - $2000
$100 - $500
$10 - $100
I don't work at Google, but when people say something like "cue the downvotes" or "I know I'm going to get downvoted," I proceed to downvote them because that's an incredibly stupid and meaningless thing to say. In fact, it reeks of arrogant stubbornness ("I don't care about the community, I know I'm right, etc." Knowing you're right is not bad in of itself, it's being arrogant about it that is).

So I downvoted you.
This seems to happen with (especially female) journalists writing for fashion magazines. Salaries are low but number of applicants is high.
@Slava and others. When it comes to database, you know, there is always a fear... A new company, young (extremely talented though) folks, etc.

You need to put out in the front page of your website use cases. Real world use cases where one can read testimonials and facts, regarding RethinkDB capability, readability and stability.

It will help people to make the step toward trying it, and if they'll try, and get satisfaction, they can end up using it in production.
yeah, anywhere BUT hackernews. flagged.
That one's an interesting case, too, though. It didn't really come out and say any of that; it just let the viewer fill in the blanks. Case in point: In 1984 everyone interpreted it as obviously being about IBM. When it was re-issued in 2004, everyone interpreted it as obviously being about Microsoft.

Compare again with "Scroogled", which quite literally consists of little more than a pile of long-winded lecturing. Seriously, sitting through one of those ads transports me back to my sophomore history class. The one where the teacher had no shortage of. . . opinions.
Wow ! What a man ! By reputation, I knew you from your rant on Ruby on Rails years ago and your move to the python ecosystem. As a Rails lover, at first time I was thinking like the mainstream about your rants and your opinions. Later I discovered learnXthehardway series and your work and found them awesome. But today, I definatelly appreciate you Zed, hope one day I will meet you in person, even for a 15 minutes coffee time. Have a nice day and good luck themanthatfell, one advice.
Never give up, as a men we should never abandon even how deep is our situation (I even took the risk to quit my job in 2011 while my wife was giving birth of our first child), you'll always find a way. If you have 1 chance on 100 to get something, just try 100 times and you'll get it, even Thomas Edison tried 10K times before finding the way to make the light bulb.
You're more like the rest of us then most will admit. Be strong. Take care of your family. Good luck.
As a marketing person this makes me cringe for my industry, expecially in the tech world where we are not always the most popular department. Microsoft should be able to attract great marketing talent so I don't understand why they keep putting out this quality of advertising.

Clearly the ad budget is there to have options and talented people work on their briefs. Having a dig at competitors is fine now and again. I once did very cheap video that poked fun at Google that went a little viral/popular but it was done in fun, as much mocking ourself, not like this. And I cant believe one marketing team in MS has produced this steady stream of flops over the years. It makes me wonder what environment they have that creates this output.

A year or so ago I considered writing to them looking for work as I feel they are in a great position to stop being the bad guys and let other companies take that mantle. The need to be brave and approach the market in an open honest format. On top of which they often have good tech that doesn't get explained correctly and falls by the wayside. But doing marketing like this, they'd be better doing nothing.
Come work on a modern functional language!
I wasn't thinking that I'd really want to pluralize text like this, but maybe you'd want to turn people's names into links in HTML source or something. If someone's name ends with an accent, and if the unicode isn't normalized, strange things are bound to happen. The blog post is great at pointing this out, and it sounds like people are working on a go.text/search package to help, so that's good. I'm not saying Go is broken, just that this kind of stuff can be really surprising.
...or not.

The phenomena of modern times are exponential in nature and difficult to predict, but past success is no guarantee of future survival. Nuclear war is peanuts compared to climate change; this is an issue several orders of magnitude worse.
I didn't upvote the submission, I didn't downvote you - but if you call people shills when they are not, some of them might. And I find 1M R/s impressive, but you can ignore it if you think it is trivial.
Map of the stock market, based only on price data
Any small business that's selling something online. If the website falls over so badly it can't sell anymore, and there's only one guy who knows how to fix it, guess who's going to get the 2 AM call from the boss?
how is this getting upvoted? A stupid ad, made to look like it's not an ad, WTF? This needs to get off HN and find its home on Fark or something.
You can't win if you don't play.

Most of my business ideas don't make it out of the box. One did well enough, about $100k over 6 years, now we are being sued for trademark infringement. Bogus according to several lawyers, but no money to fight it.

Shit happens, fall back, regroup, fight another day.

At this point you do what needs to be done for the family. Take care of them and they will take care of you. Then see if you can figure out what happened and try a new idea.
If you're in Boston and if there's anything that I can do, listening or some freelance work, we're always looking for talented people at Splitzee.com.

Also, full disclosure, I am the CTO of splitzee.com, a group fundraising platform.
I wanted to share the link so that if anyone wants to create a collection for this guy, please let me know so I can make sure that there are no fees and that he gets every penny.
Splitzee is a fundraising platform that can be used for any cause, and this type of fundraiser is what we see our site being used for all the time.
I don't want my intentions to be misconstrued, I would love to see any collection set up so I can pitch in a few dollars, I just hadn't seen one, and really do think Splitzee would be a great choice.
All the best!
In Soviet Russia MPs lobby you
I read more into it and you're right; they posted the comic, then posted a passive-aggressive "apology" comic, then started selling the shirts. They took down the shirts and apologized, and then Krahulik later said that taking down the shirts was the biggest mistake he's made. So it's actually worse than I originally thought.

Also the Fruit Fucker does not rape PEOPLE, it rapes fruit. There has been outcry, but pretty balanced by the fact that it "takes advantage" of an inanimate object.
This is the amazing "Sunday" research paper. It's OK if you stop at the giant red typo, but you may eventually get the point:
"The short path we found (which is depicted in Figure 6) suggests (but does not prove) the existence of a surprising link between the two mysterious ﬁgures of the Bitcoin community, Satoshi Nakamoto and DPR. It is reasonable to assume that all the accounts described along the top of Figure 6 belong to the same person, but to be on the safe side we refer to him as a “Founder” rather than as Satoshi Nakamoto. We are sure that analyzing this ﬁgure will start a very vigorous debate in the Bitcoin community."

In other words, "we're covering our asses so we don't have to retract, but we're expert and relevant to this bitcoin thing."
Patent trolls are certainly a problem, but realistically you can't have laws without someone trying to abuse them.

I think it might be more effective to attack the problem from the other end: making sure patents like don't get issued in the first place. Maybe it's not reasonable to expect every jury to understand the basics of encryption. But it is reasonable to expect the patent office to understand prior art in cryptography.
If he is not motivated by anything like ego or credit then - as Charleton Heston would have said in a lame 50s Bible movie - 'He really is the son of God.'
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