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Good animations should draw the user's attention to certain things. If everything animates arbitrarily, it just becomes a distraction.
Especially when they say, 'oh but our banking and financial system is sound' without any knowledge of the subject.
The difference between Vancouver and SF/London/NYC is that it has no accompanying income boom to make the real estate prices affordable for working people. There's no significant financial or tech industry. Nobody gets rich from working in Vancouver. In fact, Vancouver tech jobs generally pay _less_ than other Canadian cities despite the greatly higher cost of living.
Why'd you switch from adderall to vyvanse? I've been thinking about going to see a doc about getting back on something like that for a while now. I've... not been so well since I stopped. (fellow SE Michigander here)
(Rosetta Stone is software for learning human languages. Apple's tech for runtime binary architecture translation was called Rosetta. It was written and supplied by a UK company called Transitive, which was acquired by IBM to bring foreign instruction set support to their non-x86 high end platforms)
Inspired by systemd, dealing with distribute services restart distributly.
re: my point...there are "body shops" for big companies, but no anchor development in the province.

I'd love to see something take hold. I'd love to move there, but the infrastructure and base for something more isn't there.
There are lots of well paid jobs in SF. Not so in Vancouver.
Recently it was revealed that Vancouver police actively works with Chinese secret service of some sort to track down the dirty money and send them back to China where they are promised humane treatment but as soon as they land in China they are executed.
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Are those actually in production yet?

(Not trying to be snarky, just though those were still not really ready yet)
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I completely get that technical interviews aren't great at accurately predicting success on the job.

What I don't get is all the whining that seems to happen from interview candidates who seem to think they are hot stuff and deserve to get hired but blame it on a bad interview process. It's not like the interviewers aren't aware of the shortcomings of the technical interview.

I have yet to learn of another industry where people routinely blame interviewers for their being rejected. I mean it seems like in other industries people are just hired almost solely based off resumes, and while everyone also realizes it sucks, they don't seem to think the interviewer is an idiot for not hiring them.
Never ever agree to anything at all under pressure. If that's what it takes for the offering party they are either incompetent or malicious there is no pay-off in finding out which. That goes for hiring offers but also for any other kind of offer.

The one exception I can think of for exploding offers is if a key employee has left and the company will lose direction if the position isn't filled immediately. This normally is not the case in start-ups.
It may go Pao's way after what the Judge (Kahn) did and said today:

"Kahn said there was enough evidence for the jury considering Pao's lawsuit to conclude that Kleiner Perkins acted with malice, oppression or fraud, which in California is the legal threshold for awarding damages that are designed to punish and deter particularly bad behavior."

"Per this standard, there is sufficient evidence from which a reasonable juror could conclude that Kleiner Perkins engaged in intentional gender discrimination by failing to promote Ms. Pao and terminating her employment,'' the judge said in the one-paragraph decision."

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It's a shame, because the jury will take this as 'direction' from the judge.

Pao should lose here.

1) She had a consensual relationship with another employee, Ajit Nazre, at the firm.

2) She broke it off then complained to HR that he was still bugging her.

3) John Doerr himself (the top guy at KPCB) was made aware of her complaint to the HR department and was going to fire Ajit Nazre.

4) Pao then pleaded with John Doerr and the other senior partners not to fire Ajit Nazre. Those 'pleading' emails she sent were read out loud to the jury.

5) And now she complains the firm did nothing to 'save her' from Ajit Nazre ?!

Then she thought "let me add some 'gender discrimination' to my lawsuit here." And yet three other female employees of the firm testified there was no discrimination against women. One of the women spent 15 years at the firm too. And she no longer works there, so has no reason to hold back anything.

Unfortunately, with the judge sending a strong signal to the jury today, Pao is probably going to win here.
This seems like what the article suggested. The issue then just becomes that not everyone has the time to do side projects and some of us are lucky enough that we really enjoy what we do for our job, so even when we have spare time we still work on the company project.
Would probably be funnier in the original German version. For example the worldplay "Your Hellishness" instead of "Your Holyness" works better in German ("Eure Hölligkeit" vs "Eure Heiligkeit").
All the money flooding into Vancouver is the results of billions and billions of dollars flooding out the U.S trade deficit, hitting China, and boomeranging back into hard assets all over the world.
Where were all the elderly, disabled, overweight, and children? I wonder if the a380 is going to survive operation after the first crash happens.
Yeah, the real solution is to knock down the single family homes on the CoV peninsula (Which is only about 100 square kilometers) and put up multi-family dwellings. It doesn't really matter one iota what a single family home costs, they're land-inefficient. How much would a single family home in Manhattan cost?
This happens in Beijing a lot: many chinese see property as a store of value like gold or something like stock that appreciates and don't even bothering renting it out. I live in a nice beijing complex that is only around 60% full, all apartments are sold of course.
Quebec province was heavily subsidising the video game industry back then (and I believe still is though to a lesser degree) which might have not played in Vancouver's favour.
How is it asking for trouble?

I don't read the comments first as I always assumed that one was supposed to read the article first in order to understand the comments.
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The kind of hardware we deal with it's called Congress. There's where the party we've built comes into place.
Why not pull down a decent example of code that fits their resume's skill set and having them go through it with you line by line to tell you what they would do differently or why they like it, etc.?
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Of course it is. It says so in the language spec, and even in the official tutorial here: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/arguments...

Swap is a nice litmus test.

To people who claim that Java doesn't have pointers, I counter-argument by the fact that you can make a circular doubly-linked list in Java. Thus, a reference is a pointer though with lesser capabilities than in C++. In contrast, you cannot make a circular doubly-linked list with C++ references which are object aliases.

Actually, I have the following analogy: pointer ~ symbolic link; reference ~ hard link.

Java's references are misnamed.
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I've lived in Vancouver for 15 years and have no idea how you can even come close to those conclusions. Maybe you live in a different world than me but I have never felt close to unsafe in the city and don't know anyone with health problems in their 20's. Yeah, buying a house is expensive but rent isn't unreasonable if you're ok with roommates. In the summer I'd argue its one of the best cities in the western world. Beaches, mountains, and beautiful people.
Hey I used to be in the same boat as you but recently I seem to have gotten over it and get lots of offers =D

If you're interested, the way I got over it was by just accepting the fact the interview process is not perfect and in the end I have no idea what these people are looking for. That being the case, I just do my best and enjoy the fact I get to work on algorithmic questions usually much more interesting than what I would get to see while working. I guess I try to just have fun!

It really seems like a lot of people freak out because they are afraid of rejection. I don't want to get stereotypical about how nerds are antisocial or whatever, but I definitely found that once I stopped caring whether I was going to get hired or not, I started doing and feeling a lot better. I actually started enjoying interviews because I get to see interesting questions, see what other people are working on, and because I am junior, learn about more technologies and why they decided to use them.
> "pass by reference" is an incorrect phrasing

No, it isn't.

In C, a pointer is a reference. It supports arithmetic, but it works like a reference as well, so the name applies.

What might confuse people is that in C, you do have to specifically ask for a reference to something, whereas in Java, everything which isn't a primitive type is already a reference.

It's true your code can't dereference those references such that it gets access to all of the data in a List object, for example. C works the same way, again: It's entirely possible to say something like 'typedef struct foo mfoo;' and then declare all of your functions to take pointers to type mfoo, and client code will never be able to get its hands on a struct foo object. FILE pointers work just like this, for example.
Amazon does hire local talents. I know a few people there.
http://www.slideshare.net/deanwampler/reactive-design-langua...
What if you've already convinced people/companies to buy your product/service? Do you think you still need a co-founder then?
No. Steam and the (Apple, Google, etc) App Stores exist for a reason - Mozilla's colossal failure.

I can't count the number of times I have been out somewhere with my top of the line android phone, loaded a responsive HTML5 webpage and then finally gave up after spending way too much time trying to get to the data that I was after.

The mobile app experience is terrible. Static compiled code will always run way faster than dynamic languages. Mozilla's ideology doesn't allow compiled code, even though that's basically what asm.js is all about.

The smartest and best thing Mozilla or some new browser vendor could do would be if they embraced android . The amount of quality engineering that has went into building that modern, ultra lean framework is epic.

Imagine if someone made it so that anyone could do the equivalent of <html><object apk="my.apk" /></html>. That would be pretty great.

Ofc for all sorts of cultural reasons it probably won't happen. Imagine Microsoft open sourced windows xp in the 90s, and no one bothered to do anything with it. That would be the equivalent of today's situation.

PS Google can obviously do it - but maybe they are leaving it shut off because according to their current calculations the App Store revenue is better than having dominant browser market share. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush...

A thread with some great commentary on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5226309
A Saudi (go figure) once wisely told me: "The greatest thing about American democracy isn't the vote - many democracies have that. The greatest thing about American democracy is the Bill of Rights, which states what the majority is not allowed to do the minority".
What I take from the case - there is rampant sexism in the industry but she was not harmed by it, because she is a Machiavellian cutthroat overachiever ...

The blackbook especially shows she did the groundwork for that case way back ...
Vancouver and BC have a close knit, vibrant tech community with a long history. I've never been short of a great work in Vancouver since 1990.

Price Waterhouse Cooper has a "BC Techmap" project:
http://www.pwc.com/ca/en/technology-industry/bc-techmap.jhtm...

This is a big poster you can order.

Unfortunately, the preview site for it is defunct.
The map traces the linage of tech companies in BC back to the 1940's.

Here is someone's shot of the 2003 version:

http://cie-unsw.blogspot.ca/2012/06/announcing-gig-engine.ht...

If your idea of a tech scene is that there must be a mushrooming of "like Facebook, but for dogs" type startups, then indeed, no, Van is not a hotbed for that kind of thing.
I'm sorry but this is the single most retarded description of Vancouver, I know Vancouver has fucking problems but you've turned it into something like LA riot.

You know who is getting squeezed? It's people who grew up in Vancouver, whether they are Aboriginal, Indian, Asian, Black, Caucasian, Chinese, Whatever.

I just don't think this has anything to do with race but more with socioeconomic classes. Are certain cultures tend to be higher in the ladder? Of course, but anyone that is working and trying to live in Vancouver is feeling the heat from the lack of leadership.
With great skepticism. (I worked for years in academia and have published many papers.)
Even if they were idiots, so what? There is no proof that idiots can't be successful in business.
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Ask HN: Windows vs. Ubuntu/Linux for Coding
I use Windows for all of my work, and so it is easy for me to manage and organize all my stuff. Moreover, the sound quality is better in windows, atleast to me.

But most coders online seem to hate windows, and suggest using ubuntu.

So, should I use ubuntu or Windows for coding?
Ohh, reminds me of Gopher days!
Why not? It's effort to cancel them and has equivalent results.
That's because you haven't lived in the suburbs. You probably live in a bubble. I admit that "one of the worst places to live in the western world" could be a hyperbole, but that's why I said "one of the worst" and "imo." Jesus you guys have tight asses. You have to realize that there is some anger in my tone. I have seen many people I care about fall through the cracks here. Again, I am talking about the suburbs. IMO, where the real issues arise. The cities are bubbles of ignorance.

Anyways, I take it you have not lived out near surrey or richmond. It's a bit different in the suburbs. The city is a much nicer place to live, especially when you have rich parents.

And yes it is amazing in the summer, in Vancouver, not the suburbs. The nature is undisputed, but that's about it.
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I think the best option is a hybrid. Use windows, but use vagrant when you code.
I always skim the comments first to make sure the link isn't just worthless click-bait. I don't like to reward manipulative and deceptive tactics.
I lived in Vancouver for a year, (being based in Montreal), and I didn't really like it. The racial segregation, the juxtaposition of homeless people with overpriced joints in Gastown, the avoidance of political conversation in favor of weather and hobby talk, the police brutality I personally witnessed... there was a lot to love, but a "just-so" cluelessness permeated everything and really bothered me.
That's kind of like asking, "How do you learn how to code?"

The answer is to do it. Do it often, do it a lot, over and over. The linked tweet provided great advice, as do other resources and comments in this thread. But the bottom line is that you learn by doing, and trying hard.

I remember reading the same section of a paper at least 30 times, no exaggeration. I would read it, then go and look up the topic online, then read it again, then go do something else, and then read it again. Over and over for days. i parsed every symbol and word of every line. And then one day I was elucidated. I finally understood it, and it was a feeling of awesome communion with the gods.

I'm not sure if there's a short cut, but I'll be monitoring this thread along with you in the hopes of finding one. Do what the others said and print the paper out, and take a pencil and highlighter to it. Look up terms you don't know online and be diligent in your use of search engines. Just stay at it, and don't give up!

As an afterthought, most modern computer science papers have a graphic or figure on the second or third page that does a good job of explaining the idea visually. Older papers tend not to have this, or it's buried deeper in the paper. Look for this key graphic and use it as a guide or framework to understand the rest of what's being said.
> Welcome to the world of Jewish law, in which it's considered acceptable to find ways around rules.

Welcome to every religion.

As a Catholic, I order pizza at 11:30pm on Good Friday and having probably wolfed down 2 slices by 12:01am after a day of fasting. I have Muslim friends who shift their hours around during Ramadan to sleep during more of the day.
> It's not "direct democracy". It's just democracy.

Uh? I think we are in a Representative Democracy[1] and what DemocracyOS proposes is a Direct Democracy[2]. It is not "just democracy" since both Representative and Direct democracies are forms of democracy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy
In Vancouver it's well known that the overwhelming majority of Chinese people who emigrate here have English variants to their name. If anything the study underestimates the figure as many non-Canadian Chinese (particularly in HK) do have western variants.
Because the number of web pages is growing far out of proportion to the number of people who surf the web, advertising is getting less and less effective. Rather than finding some other way to make money, or some other, more effective way to advertise, more ads are displayed, they are animated, play videos and sound &c.

It is for that reason that I set firefox to partially disable flash. I can watch a video if I click a certain link, but most videos are disabled. I did that not because I don't like the video but because their sound is obtrusive.

Particularly vexing to me is that I often visit what appears at first to be an interesting article, but very first thing I'm presented with a "Like Us On Facebook" popup. How do I know whether I like you, when I haven't had the opportunity to read your article yet?

The money from the web is concentrated into a very few hands - Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft. They're not going to give it up willingly. We need to find a way for the sole proprietor to earn a living online.
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Good for him, and I'm not surprised, but why don't we congratulate everyone who publishes a math paper?

Will we also have an article if a pretty woman publishes a math paper?
Reminds me of Grigori Perelman. Rejecting the fields medal prize money was an extraordinary powerful way to make his point that money is not everything in this world.
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You wanted to talk about strawmanning?
Democracy does exactly that - it gives everyone the same vote, regardless what minority they come from. Therefore, it protects any minority for maximum possible extent. You don't need any formal rules on top of that; in other words, the solution to "tyranny of the majority" should not be "tyranny of the minority". (I really hate the phrase "tyranny of the majority", by the way, because it simply isn't a good way to describe democratic voting, where the majority is emergent and not determined ex ante.)

But let's say, indeed, majority wants to violate the rights of minority. Stripping other people from voting rights isn't democratic (even if it's voted by everybody), because it violates the basic democratic rule, "every person should get the same power in politics". Democracy is defined by the end result (same access to power), not the procedure (voting). (In fact, democracy allows for tradeoffs where a person gets little more power in exchange for more accountability.)

It's true that even without stripping other voter's rights, minorities can still be persecuted. But it is a cultural issue, which won't be resolved by formal constitutional framework. In fact, historically, it very often were elites (that you may think are the solution) who participated or even organized these persecutions.

For example, in the U.S., there is a large minority of people in prison who are not protected by democracy, because they don't have voting rights. I would appreciate proof of any claim as to how any sort of republican institutions in the U.S. helps these people be protected. I don't see that.

Someone wrote below that the solution could be super-majority vote, like 80% of citizens to agree to change the constitution. I think that's a wrong idea, which doesn't give enough credit to people. This can possibly protect a minority, but it can also delay progress in helping minority. The minority that needs to be overruled in super-majority voting can keep the status quo longer than desired by most, and that's unfair too. We don't know what the future morality will be; it may be different in positive, not negative, fashion compared to today's morality. We could perhaps say, though, that the future society will be more happy with their own morality than ours (because they can compare the two, we cannot); therefore, it should be possible for them not be too conservative and implement it.

Anyway, this debate is always rather academic, because politicians only rarely vote with the majority. (And no, pre-war Germany is not a good example, as I already explained above.)
> This topic (I do not know why) raises some serious emotion-based responses on coders.

I saw the title on HN, and was like "uhhh, no shit, why is this here?". Then surprisingly, it all of a sudden it has 80 points and almost 50 comments debating the details. I don't think there's any actually real debate on how Java actually works, this must be a purely linguistic. Or as you say, "emotional".

SQL NULLs, on the other hand, is a real philosophical war. One which the wrong size is clearly wrong and need to be crushed into ashes underneath our boots. We are not debating jargon, we are defining databases which could certainly outlive our sons and daughters!!!! .. Ok, sorry. But I just don't think it's good comparison with students who just don't really get Java. Database design is largely a matter of opinion, Java method calls are not.
It's possible that they are so wealthy that their income from other sources far outswamps whatever rent they would accrue from the properties, so it's not worth the inconvenience of renting them out. Remember, many of these properties are purchased outright (no loan) and held as long term investments.
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