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Ask HN: Creating value but feeling invisible at work, advice?
I joined a mid-stage startup around 9 months ago as an engineer. I report directly to the CTO. When I joined, I quickly took over development of a legacy internal marketing tool. In my time here I've cleaned up the code, fixed errors, improved data accuracy, and improved the user interface, which has resulted in direct and measurable improvements to marketing and a lot of real value to the company. I'm also more personable than the previous engineer on this project, and communicate directly with my users to improve their workflows and resolve issues they have. The tool is used by the CMO and his staff, and he frequently notes how happy he is with the tool since I took over. I determine what I'll work on each week in direct consultation with the CMO.

I've noticed that the CTO, my boss, does not care at all about this tool or my work on it. The CMO is a happy customer, but the CTO is the one who will determine promotions and assign leadership opportunities within our team. If he doesn't notice or care about the work I'm doing, my future doesn't seem bright. He assigned another engineer (who has been here 2+ years, since the early days) to be the official "lead" of this project. She is lead only in name, has never contributed to the tool, and knows almost nothing about the project; she simply asks me each week what I've done lately, and it gets reported to the company as "Lead and team."

What should I do? I'm behaving as the lead. I'm a valuable engineer. I just want my value to be recognized.
and is completely against the HN guidelines. what are rules when everyone breaks them without caring?
We already do pay attention to performance. In general, Rust should already be in the same league as C or C++. Please open issues if you find something that isn't.
No, you don't need to be on Instagram
Most (maybe all?) deciduous trees can be cut down to the stump without dying: they'll just grow back. This art is ancient, called coppicing.
No need for a blog, I can think for myself, thanks.

The fact that this policy is intrusive, expensive and yet demonstrably irrational (at least on the part of the public) is pretty self-evident. The idea that we need some method, whether legal or social or both, to control irrational responses like this is a pretty a pretty natural conclusion after that.

Perhaps the idea that the government should not react due to irrational popular pressure is somehow libertarian, but really, it seems pretty non-ideological. Not wanting intrusions and restrictions on individuals just because a bunch of people are overly panicky is very reasonable.
> I find adobe.com really interesting. What were they doing back then?

Adobe was founded by ex-Xerox PARC employees, so perhaps not surprisingly their first couple of successes were printing related: PostScript and Type 1 fonts in 1982 and 1984, respectively. By 1986 they were working in desktop publishing with the development of Illustrator.
I can't recommend enough the book Seven Databases in Seven Weeks by Eric Redmond & Jim Wilson. It covers the whole range of different types of databases, with just a little bit of theory (the CAP theorem).
Interesting history and perspective. What ever happened to key escrow for exported crypto with >56-bit keys?
Your definition of secrecy is missing the point. By your definition, nothing can be secret, as anything can be represented as numbers. Secrecy comes from not knowing which number is the correct one, not from not being able to construct the number in principle.

The useful distinction that is usually made between secrecy and obscurity hinges essentially on how easy it is to swap out the thing that's unknown to the attacker that security depends on. If your crypto key leaks, you generate a new one, and you are secure again, which is why the crypto key is a secret. If your source code leaks, no such thing, which is why hiding it is obscurity.
This would perhaps be doable with something like VMGL[0].

[0] http://sysweb.cs.toronto.edu/vmgl
I also found a great video lecture by Martin Fowler on the topic: http://youtu.be/qI_g07C_Q5I
Those agencies both have wider mandates, so they won't want to continue to expend resources on pointless screening. Much of the criticism of the TSA is rooted in the fact that it exists to expend resources on screening (maybe with some arguing about whether 'pointless' belongs in the statement).
Who am I? I am the system administrator, Paul Ford. Like any system administrator, I will be slow to respond, will get everything wrong, and will act imperiously while never acknowledging wrongdoing. Consider this part of your authentic tilde.club experience!

That is just perfect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript
I don't think it's possible, people on different platforms issue different queries partially due to marketing and insiticts on what works and what doesn't.

Also commands that already sort of work lead to more queries issues lead to better quality.
Pros and cons of SaaS
I don't think React render calls is the issue. I think it's just a visual UI issue that could be largely solved with some sort of clear loading state (like a spinner).
Yeah, have fun shipping it, or since there are for the military, in a bunker, airplane, submarine, desert base...
> Further, the applications themselves were portable between POSIX implementations.

It appears you may be new to this whole "Unix" thing. Application source portability was never absolute, not by a long shot, back when Sun and SGI and HP were still relevant to what Unix was. They all had value-add APIs, little different ways of doing things which were deliberately different from everyone else's to encourage lock-in. And even disregarding that, the BSD/SysV split was even stronger then than it is now, with heterodox APIs like STREAMS still in use.

Linux and the Open Source BSDs are still different, but the standards are better-followed and the auto-configuration tools are better.
There are some real gems in there. mentat.com and then there's entity.com a resume of sorts for Marty Connor who is now apparently the Corporate Operations Engineer at Google.
Ask HN: What is the current Systemd discussion status?
I'm observing there is a group of people speaking against Systemd and at the same time it looks like adoption of it by major distribution is proceeding. Can somebody point me to some sources describing core of this dispute, how big is each of these groups, how reasonable are the arguments against systemd etc. Thanks
It's all true, though.
Whatever happened to Simple?
well mp5 is right around the corner as well. Out of curiosity, what do you think the world is going to do when it's confronted with the choice between pushing out open source competitors or letting them in?
Do you mind me asking how old you are? I say 17-25, but I know a wider age range could certainly use an app like LifeLesson.

Yes, these things just simply aren't taught. So you end up with clueless young adults who become clueless adults. If you do try to teach yourself, you most likely resort to Google or Youtube, infinitely broad search engines with no filters whatsoever. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it makes it harder to find credible information. However, if you do and you're anything like me, it's bookmarked and never to be found again.

I think categories and career specific LifeLessons are an excellent idea. Maybe then you'll have less students lost in an inescapable amount of debt, still unsure of what they want to do with their lives.

Thanks so much for your feedback.
When I was in Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) for a while, I tried out some restaurants and foods of various cuisines. (Many of the malls in KL had food courts with different ethnic food specialities.) Quite good. Roti canai (pronounced roti chanai) was one good item (among many - mentioning it because it is a breakfast item, the topic of this thread). It is like an Indian paratha, but with a bit more fat/oil used to make it. In the places where I ate it, they served it with an egg spread and cooked into the top surface of the roti. Almost a breakfast in itself, with some tea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roti_canai

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paratha

Or what I ate could have been roti telur, since it had egg in it (according to the first Wikipedia article above).
Amazon to Open First Brick-and-Mortar Location
> Changing a number to a string and using it as a string is exactly as bad as changing a string to a number and using it as a number.

Both of those are examples of strong typing in action.
As annoying as some parts of Node's programming model are, this really seems like the perfect job for it.
The linked document was created from a SQL query to return a comment with the lowest score from that time period: the lowest score was -4, and the Algolia API does not have any [dead] comments.

However, I will concede that the API may be buggy: the lowest comment score from 2013 on was always 0.

I'll check with the new API to see if anything is different.
I was in Silicon Valley two years ago meeting a partner of one of the most famous VCs in the world and when he told me to my face, told me “Jeff, look, you’re not 25 years old having just left Facebook as a product manager, because if you were I have $5 million for you.” He looked at me and said I was worthless.

Facebook actually has 25 year-old "product managers"?
It's changed a number of times. First it was M:N, then 1:1 was added, then 1:1 was made the default, now M:N is getting removed.
Nelson Guerrero
I don't quite get what you're saying. If you had made the "risky" move here and used MedXT your solution will continue to work and will improve. You're still better off than with the clumsy desktop tools that you were using before.

Big companies do mergers all the time (including GE and Siemens selling off and buying business units). Change will always happen.
Odd, I'm running Clementine right now, and the volume is at 50%, while VLC is running at 10%, and Ardour is at 100% volume. All running through JACK. Did I mention they're all playing audio at the exact same time?

sounds like per-application volume control, myself.

I'm surprised you didn't know that, considering the pomposity you took while educating me on Unix[1] above. should we be taking that comment with a similar grain of salt?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8434382
Could sexy music videos be crafted solely for viral effect – not objectification
In Gmail - Click on "more" then "filter messages like these" as so - http://i.imgur.com/OdJpKoE.png and set messages from that sender to be automatically deleted.
Urban Layers – Explore the structure of Manhattan’s urban fabric
Agreed! There's a total disconnect between what we hear from people looking to ease public anxiety and what we see and learn on the news.

It's actually so contagious that even taking off your hazmat suit incorrectly can get you infected. That's because the virus can live for some period on surfaces, and that's the reason why doctors use a buddy system to remove their protective gear. It's also the reason houses, vehicles, and hospital rooms have to be decontaminated after an ebola victim passes through.

According to the World Health Organization: "People can be exposed to Ebola virus from direct physical contact with body fluids like blood, saliva, stool, urine, sweat etc. of an infected person and soiled linen used by a patient."

So, touch an ebola victim's bedsheets and you can get the disease. That's why it's so alarmingly contagious. It is NOT like AIDS and it probably IS something we should worry about. In this case, public paranoia might actually save lives.

Here's the link to the WHO site: http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemi...
Videolean: Explainer Videos Made Simple
Thanks! I support having the most convenient defaults. Not only for integers, but for other stuff too. Is there a default now for 3.33? Is there a default for "string in quotes"? If there is, integers should be the default too.

I believe that everybody can invent as much red tape as he wants, the hard thing is making it concise and effective for the everyday use, not for the writers of compiler.

Digressing, were there any discussions about using var like in Swift (instead of let mut)? What is the rationale for not making that more minimalistic?
I think he's implying that they awarded it to blue LEDs in order to promote low power consumption/green tech.
I created a Fig environment in case anyone is interested in giving it a spin.

https://github.com/merlin83/rediscluster-docker
Function Purity and Immutability in D
Is there a vegan category?
I'm on windows, and It's terrible!
I preferred the extension much more.

I have this terrible floating icon in the middle of my screen. It's as ugly as Facebook Messenger on Android.

In the settings you can disable "Always on top". But then it requires you 2 clicks to open the Hangouts app. One click on the Windows taskbar, and then one on the icon when it appears.

Stupid developers! How about keeping the OS the way it meant to be used, with the tasks inside the taskbar. Not floating windows everywhere.
In terms of running a kitchen, and how to think about food, I really liked the book The Everlasting Meal [1]

It was a bit fluffy, but gets at the heart of how to run a kitchen as an ongoing concern, rather than as a place you dive into as a one-off recipe, and leave when done.

[1] http://smile.amazon.com/An-Everlasting-Meal-Cooking-Economy/...
The thing is, for floats there's a default that makes sense. For strings, there's a default that makes sense.

Integers, on the other hand, are harder. You _probably_ want i32, even on 64 bit machines, but then an i32 can't index an array, so for integers used that way, you want a machine-sized integer.
Ask HN: Is it worth it to get an Associates Degree in Software Development?
Per-host is also not well-suited for elastic computing. Pricing should be billed for host-hours instead, if you ask me. I'm familiar with zipkin, but it's an overkill for most projects; Etsy CrossStitch - although I follow Etsy's projects, I don't think I've seen it. Anyway, I think I've exchanges comments with you before in here, but the issue is that you guys have some large enterprise clients, and usually with companies like yours, pricing totally gets shifted towards that model. It's really too expensive to pay more for monitoring (although I greatly value the data), when it exceeds the cost of the server itself. At least, business people can hardly justify something with clear costs like hardware (cloud or not) to something without 100% clear benefit to them (as they don't use it; it's for the developers, who's job should be to write code that just works and doesn't require all these expensive babysitting tools, if you see my point). This is not to attack you or anything, but my experiences across multiple organizations. Worst case (at least with your competitor New Relic) is that you pay for internal dev servers as well. Come on, give me a break - how can you compare live with dev servers, really? This is the abuse that I'm talking about. Maybe it's a different situation with you, I don't know, but it's really unfair and a frustration for us.
Ask HN: Why are there still no queryable 'cheap flight'-websites
http://www.swoodoo.com/de/powersearch

Swoodoo had a very good approach to this. You could type your departure country and your arrival country and it would query all flights between them.

You could pick a date, it even lists you the cheapest dates and then you could proceed to book your cheap vacation.

Unfortunately Swoodoo now changed the featureset of Powersearch so that you can't put to big locations.

So for example, the following query would go through in the past:

Start: Europe
End: World

or

Start: Germany
End: World

It had advantage of booking really cheap vacations but now its gone.
Anyone know why they did this and why is nobody able to do it? I mean it can't be that hard on the technical site, so are they maybe pressured by airlines?
Do you have a more credible source than a website from someone who claims to have received letters from aliens? There seems to enough scientific consensus that ITER will work to convince people to spend quite a bit of money on it.
I dont really see a difference in American eating habits when compared to Europe. Most of them looked like variations of the same thing. I would love to eat chocolate bread when I was younger every morning like Amsterdam. The biggest difference is the American/Europe vs Asia (Japan/Korea).
Just tried this on my Moto X:

Me: "Find me a target"

<nearest target shows up>

Me: "Directions"

<changes to "directions to target">

<shows a list of targets to select>

Me: "first one"

<chooses Portland Galleria Target>
Older Wifi uses 2.4 GHz; since 802.11n came out years ago it also uses 5 GHz. Generally 5 GHz frequencies are recommended, when you have a choice, because usually there is less interference.

While we're at it: In the 2.4 GHz range there only are 3 non-overlapping channels: 1, 6, 11. I think 14 also is an option in some countries, not including the U.S.
What does this have to do with Coin?
I could do this, but without following a recipe I think it would turn out bland or bad. But you know, that's a temporary problem. I will try this.
Please can you link to which bit of the HN guideliens that you think are being broken by downvoters?
> for floats there's a default that makes sense

Really? In C I use both doubles and floats all the time.

> i32 can't index an array

Why? Is it because Rust would use less than 32 bits for indexes on some platforms? And how should then the indexes for arrays be written?

You have really a hard job, when such basic things change?
New products increase the size of the pie. When websites became something everyone could have, some work was lost to do-it-yourself tools but more was gained by the larger market.
Fitbit Is Now Officially Profiting from Users’ Health Data
The rules are not what people seem to think they are.

I've seen enough threads where people claim the subject is not "HN material" in which it has to be pointed out to them (by dang usually) that, in fact, this is not just a forum for technology, startup culture or 'hacking' however you define it.

The community has become large and diverse enough that there's a good chance quite a few people will find a subject of interest which you don't care for. This doesn't mean that Hacker News is necessarily declining in quality, but rather it means your particular biases are no longer as normative as you once thought. Hacker News material is defined entirely as whatever gets upvoted, that's the system, it's no more or less meritocratic than that.

But people seem to find it an affront when some stories make it to the top of the heap, as if they got there by cheating.
Oh man, this reminds me of my first shell account, and SDF, and the actual reason I got into computers. So excited. Maybe I could write a little communication API-type thing that these kinds of shell servers could implement, so communities could be linked together in some way? Hmm. That would be cool. I think I just found a good reason to mess around with Rust.
Step-by-step JavaScript interpreter, written in JavaScript
That's probably not exactly the right perspective. It's about empowering people who do not have the same skills. I don't think Weebly is aiming to replace the web developer: highly skilled people will always be in demand because they're inventing new things and pushing the boundaries on cutting-edge tech.

Weebly seems to be aimed at mainstream people who think "Boy, I should have website for my wedding/club/team/group/gaming clan." Of course, their goal is make that more and more empowering over time though. If you think about it, what you can do with Weebly was potentially difficult for the average web developer 10-15 years ago -- I'd say that's a leap! Before I started programming, I used front-page and dreamweaver to get started. Eventually, I got more sophisticated as I got more interested in building things but it was empowering to create a website without knowing HTML or CSS.
There are many who might deserve a Nobel. But it's worth keeping in mind that the literature prize has traditionally followed the precept given by Nobel that it be given for writing that is "idealistic". I'll just quote Wikipedia here:

Nobel's choice of emphasis on idealism in his criteria for the Nobel Prize in Literature has led to recurrent controversy. In the original Swedish, the word idealisk translates as either "idealistic" or "ideal".[2] In the early twentieth century, the Nobel Committee interpreted the intent of the will strictly. For this reason, they did not award certain world-renowned authors of the time such as James Joyce, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Marcel Proust, Henrik Ibsen, and Henry James. More recently, the wording has been more liberally interpreted. Thus, the prize is now awarded both for lasting literary merit and for evidence of consistent idealism on some significant level. In recent years, this means a kind of idealism championing human rights on a broad scale. Hence the award is now arguably more political.

This is why a lot of authors, who are otherwise considered world-class, don't win.
Forced comments on downvotes is a suboptimal idea. I would far rather someone drops an "I disagree downvote" and ignores a post than have pointless "I downvoted you because I disagree with you" threads.
If I have to manually configure one thing, and not the other, the one I don't have to configure wins.

Pulseaudio solves my problems. JACK didn't. You can claim that JACK did, that I'm lying, that I'm crazy, or whatever. You can claim that I'm a weev-level Nazi-troll bent on destroying all that is right with the Universe. (You seem to like doing that.) The fact remains: Pulseaudio allows me to control volume independently of application and play multiple audio sources at once, whereas JACK didn't give me either of those things.
I just noticed that Bruce has moved from Valve to Google... . Interesting!
Ubuntu patched CVE-2014-6277 and CVE-2014-6278 today:

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2380-1/

Red Hat's initial patches were more complete than upstream's patches, so updated Red Hat (and CentOS) systems are not vulnerable to CVE-2014-6277 and CVE-2014-6278. RH still contains the parsing bug(s) which is why the Shellshock test script shows a problem, but there is no known exploit so they consider it a regular bug and not a security bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147189

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1147414
Tinder blamed as Hull becomes syphilis capital of Yorkshire
Oh, weird in what way? I was considering using it for horizontal redis scaling recently, under the impression that redis cluster was further away from release than it seems to be.
I heard of a HTML5-based alternative some time ago called the "ugoira HTML5 zip player". It uses a ZIP file of PNG/JPG files and renders the animation using JavaScript onto a <canvas>. There's a detailed slide deck talking about it [1] and the source code is available too [2].

[1] https://marcan.st/talks/2014_pixiv_ugoku_player/

[2] https://github.com/pixiv/zip_player