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I agree it isn't for everyone. But there are many different types of people it is for. I don't really fit with "stepping outside your comfort zone" etc.. But quoting and traveling and working online works for me.

I think way more it is about this type of thing being in your comfort zone. When I hear people talking about how they stepped out of their comfort zone it seems to me they just aren't comfortable plodding through an office for 40 years. Doing that is outside their comfort zone. The reason they did something else was because it was in their comfort zone.

I think there are benefits to shaking things up and trying things you are not comfortable with. I think way more often when people talk about that being successful for them what they really did was shake off the shackles of an uncomfortable situation and found one that is more in their comfort zone.

I think it sounds cool to say you are being adventurous and brave by doing things those boring friends are not willing to do as they stick with their boring jobs. But I don't think that is really the most accurate way to view it.

If you want the best chance of a change making you happy figure out what you really are comfortable with and create that.

If you want to grow, challenge yourself and try different things.

There is a small group that is most comfortable constantly challenging things. For them their comfort zone is to constantly be taking challenges most people would find uncomfortable. If those people really want to step outside their comfort zone they should seek the opposite of wha they are comfortable with which they don’t want to do. They also tend to like to see themselves as mavericks and brave, etc. so the story of challenging themselves sounds good to them so they use it.

For most people, fairly small attempts to live outside your comfort zone, followed by a chance to reconcile what you learned during your challenge into your lifestyle will be the most effective way to grow. We (the types of people reading this) tend to think of growth as really important. I agree but I think we may also emphasize that a bit too much and just plain happiness too little.

But who knows, I certainly don’t. These are just my thoughts this day on this topic. I do think Aristotle was right about the importance of an examined life. But at the same time I don't see a huge correlation with that thinking and how satisfied people are with their lives.

Still I believe accurate self evaluation is useful in figuring out what to do next. I think the whole step outside your comfort zone thing is largely a myth - especially the way people explain what they mean by that.
It's surprisingly dismayingly automatic what attracts clicks, including on HN.
I think his complain is that hacker news gets a bit cargo culty with trendy languages.

It doesn't really matter how novel, interesting, or well-constructed the project is, if it's implemented in whatever language is popular at the time, it has a good chance of making it to the front page.
The problem is that everyone will need the ninja voodo stuff eventually, most often during the learning phase of git when you easily hit some of the land mines and have to revert. Like when you commit to a detached head, change branch and loose one week of work. After we switched to git at work every single one of us, without exception, did this kind of mistake at least once the first month. Aborting "rebase in progress" isn't exactly easy either if something went wrong during the merge.
If it's good enough for Jane Austen, it's good enough for me.
In the trade we call this "post-rationalisation" and it's worse than worthless, it magically adds value to the worthless.

Good design, especially good logo design, is self evident and doesn't need this kind of drivle.

Also, it's objectivley a bad logo. Always has been. Always will be. It makes me angrier than it should, but that's why designers design I suppose.
Ask HN: Those in security or enthusiasts, What is your virtual setup like?
please list networking configs, s/w and specs, e.g.

Host - Windows 8
Ram - 8gb
HyperVisor- VMware Workstastion/Virtualbox.....
Guests
PFSense - 512ram
Kali - 1gb ram
XP - 512gb ram
Win 7 - 1 gb
Win server - 2gb ram
Metasploitable - 512gm ram
Why is it objectively bad? Logos are pretty subjective things.
>the adults who should have been there to protect me were my parents

and at her own account its them that failed her. Parents pushing kids to do adult things, 7 yr old bikini contests, reality tv and other stupid shit.
Won't scale well, will unbalance anything it's put on or put along side of.

Subjectively- color pallets is awful. Font choice is poor.

In my view Paul Rand was never a "great" designer, just a prolific one.
Medical industry as I understand it employs all possible methods to curb competition. These include heavy political lobbying. The Washington heavy weights make sure their competitors cannot find enough political ammunition to curb them unless there is strong fact based evidence against their method.
This author is quite exaggerating a bit. It seems like he himself is constantly preoccupied with politics. Fine. But this doesn't mean other people who he see with his eyes are necessarily thinking in the same pattern. "Machiavellian" is such a heavy word. Go started out with a purpose, a purpose which makes a lot of sense. It's not all about "make a new language and shove the new rules onto everyone by coupling it with Very Fast Build Times, a kind of veto-proof Defense Spending Bill in the Congress of computer programming." Such a design has a lot of practical value.
Rewriting something in some hipster language du jour is not a newsworthy event. Writing yet another blog platform (there must be thousands by now), let alone a "minimal" one, is not a newsworthy event. This froth just pollutes the stream. I've been reading this site for years, but "I wrote X in obscure language Y" garbage finally made me register. It's not the tools you have, it's what you do with the tools you have.
They don't hold all of their patents under one company, they split them up. If you prevail against them in the lawsuit, the only patents you'd collect from them are the ones you just overturned.
What about this:

https://www.debian.org/News/2015/20150426
'It also feels pretty far from the theoretical purpose of options trading. Options are meant to provide insurance (a “hedge”) against potential losses in a stock position. Market makers like my friend create the environment in which to buy the insurance. This bot instead treats that market like a roulette wheel—except it knows exactly where the ball will land. “If someone else has what we call the ‘future script,’ ” says my friend, referring to the crystal ball of the algorithm bot, “it really feels like they’re just robbing you."'

Robbing who? This is about as far from robbing as I can think of.

1. Someone offers to sell a bunch of options, because he thinks he'll make more money from this than if he didn't sell those options.

2. Someone buys these options because he think he'll make more money than if the didn't buy them.

3. Time reveals the guy who bought the options was right, and he makes money.

This is simple speculation, and has nothing to do with robbing.
Just some videos on YouTube. It's been quite a while, so can't say anything specific besides that those particular reviews weren't very positive.
> untested file(1) implementation

Completely unfounded assumption.

> the author was completely unharmed by the unit tests that he failed to write

That's always valid, having written unit tests or not, and a lot of unit test lovers write thousands of irrelevant unit tests that let bugs slide

> Where I work 2500 lines of new C code without a single line of tests would be laughed off the code review system

A lot of software has been written without unit tests which doesn't mean they don't work (as opposed to what detractors might say). In fact there are a lot of them you're using right now.

> There are no real heroes in programming, only people who haven't yet figured out how to write tests.

Yes, sure, "Unit tests are the only true way", not to mention unit tests in C are much LESS frequently possible, especially in low level stuff.

I just find risible how people accepted this unit test fetichism without questioning. Uncle Bob fans always makes me laugh
I'm honestly surprised that this kind of thing is running ANY OS, and not direct hardware control paths. Let alone the fact that they didn't use FB ECC ram... that's even before going down the path of code quality. Not having a safety case for a hardware off or powerdown state... though if they had such a thing, odds are it would have been botched worse than the system to begin with.

Personally, I could never handle the stress of designing or building something like this... I worked in a security software team for a bank for a year, that was about as far as I can get in terms of job stress. Just the same, it seems to me some of these choices were clearly rookie level mistakes that shouldn't have been put in production to control motor vehicles.

I also agree, that it would really make more sense for car mfgs to get together to form some standards for production and core controls. If they're determined to use an actual OS, then it better damned well be the most thoroughly tested OS, running on certified hardware, with certified controls in place.

If you mess up the code in a number of places, people don't die... Tasks that control fast moving and/or heavy machinery, medical devices, etc should have very tight controls in place.... this is the kind of situation where software is and should be treated like an engineering discipline. Most of the time it's more of a craft, this isn't one of them.
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When a founder can't explain what his own company does, it's a bad sign.
…insanely charismatic or… discovered something earth shattering…

Or just kept executing well.

The company is 12 years old. The initial investments and staffing were likely modest and provisional.

But going back to investors year after year, always having delivered what you predicted at each step, and proving that you've accumulated proprietary technical advantages, will get you to a giant company.
Which implies Theranos only uses standard devices for their service, then?
They have so much money because there is lots of money to be made in this field and they have a pretty compelling story.

Also, those investors have likely done their due diligence and liked what they saw.
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As heliodor mentions below, language schools will sort you out.

In Brazil I walked in and made gestures that I wanted to learn Portuguese (they refused to speak English, even though some of them could, a little). The conversation went on like that and eventually one of the staff took me on a bus to where I would stay with a family. I ended up with a relatively wealthy family, others at the same school were in totally different environments.

One thing I hadn't accounted for was the paranoia of that situation.

My host family were really nice, but early on we had a discussion about how much people earned in the UK (with the aide of a translation dictionary). The next night I heard them arguing, I could tell it was about money, I was fairly sure it was about me. I recorded a little snippet of it and when I played it for a friend later when I got back to the UK he said they were talking about footballer's salaries :)

At the time it made me really self-conscious. It's tough when you're all alone and you don't have anyone to talk to in your native tongue. Leaves you entirely alone with your thoughts.
26yrs old, Academia (Info Sec), I was in the final year of my BTech Computer Science, i got a scholarship from my Undergrad(UG) university to do my final(4th) year in South Korea as part of an Academic Exchange. The catch was that when i returned upon completion of the exchange i was to work as a TA at my UG university. when i returned i worked there for a year and was sent to do a Master's(Info Sec& CyberForensics) abroad, the catch was that again i had to return and work as Faculty(lecturer) at my UG university. So my career path has been chosen for me in a way.

i would prefer to get into private industry when my contract finishes.
What will c++17 be?
You're wrong.

You cannot say you haven't found all the dependencies, but you can say you have found all the dependencies (given the constraints I placed above).

The halting problem only says that you cannot prove that a given program will halt.

However, you can prove a specific program halts if, in fact, that program halts.

The original question was not "can prove that I can find the dependencies for an arbitrary binary", but "can you prove that all the dependencies were found for a single specific binary".

For some program that has an infinite loop you can say "I don't know if I've found everything", but if you have shown that you have hit every code branch, as I said above, then clearly this program both halts and has had all dependencies found, excepting different behavior for user input within those already explored branches.
Because you are asking lawyer for less lawyer jobs.
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The lack of ECC memory means that you don't even need that... the effects of a little solar flare, or even noise from a powerline nearby could have caused the issue.
It's also interesting there are so many foreign policy heavyweights, and many in a certain range on the political spectrum. I'm not suggesting some conspiracy, I just wonder why.
It takes time and effort to get somebody who is not looking for a job to talk to you. It's going to cost a lot of money to hire anybody with a random approach. As far as I know, even Google or Apple cannot afford this - every time their recruiters contacted me it was about a job in alignment with my qualifications.
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Ubuntu 15.04 ins some daily build version installed without any bios changes (everything, I have tried worked like a charm).
Arch needed to disable secure boot (that should work in any Win8 labeled machine). Some things (GPU sleep) needed a bit of thinkering.
Foursquare may have a lot of data, but isn't that data getting stale? I mean, a lot of the location/check-in data is from the particular demographic of user who played the mayor game, and many of those users don't play anymore (or nearly not as much).

On the other hand, Google and Apple don't need you to install anything additionally on your phone and they know where you are and when you're there.
I used to work for a small company and was their only IT person. This was an internet business with a dozen employees and I was responsible for taking care of the office computers and network, as as well as taking care of web properties they had and maintaining an e-commerce platform from the late 90's. The whole period was terribly stressful. I worried a lot about everything I couldn't fix quickly, and lost every bit of work life separation possible.
>The initial investments and staffing were likely modest and provisional.

The initial investment was $16 million from what I've read. That's a lot of money to give to then 20 year old with no record whatsoever.
I like the Ztory one, but I think it should state more about the product:

https://www.ztory.com/en
Since when do newspapers write about the lack of something happening? That's sort of anti-news, isn't it? I could potentially see them writing something like that as a throwaway sentence in another article about the company, but the phrasing you've quoted is incredibly awkward and would probably never make it into a real news story.

Also, an algorithm doesn't have to be perfect, it merely has to be right more often than it's wrong. So what if you get a few false positives and a couple of your trades blow up? That's why you're managing a portfolio and not dumping your entire assets into a single trade.
I feel that Stripe has an army of designers only to create landing pages for new products. They are always remarkable examples of design and function.
I feel I'm fairly impartial here, as I regularly vote up comments by members that you list as victims. I looked at all the posts you linked, and did not see any evidence for the pattern that you claim. This doesn't mean you are wrong, but I think it at least means it isn't as obvious as you feel it is.

> Let's agree on one assumption: largely, comments
> on HN will be voted upon fairly.

I see no strong reason to make that assumption, and further doubt the existence of a universally agreed upon definition of "fairly". I think the simpler explanation is that some comments that you (and I) think are good are downvoted by others who think they are bad.

Perhaps some of these are "vendetta" votes against the individual, but I think most downvotes are based on the content and tone of each individual comment. While there are sometimes extreme short-term swings to the negative, I think the process tends to balance out with extra upvotes for comments the majority considers (rightly or wrongly) unfairly grayed out.

But in my opinion, the result is majority rule, rather than anything universal or conspiratorial.
I agree, I have absolutely no clue what they do. They mention Twitter, but don't seem to be a Twitter competitor.
> Although she can quote Jane Austen by heart, she no longer devotes time to novels or friends, doesn’t date, doesn’t own a television, and hasn’t taken a vacation in ten years. Her refrigerator is all but empty, as she eats most of her meals at the office. She is a vegan, and several times a day she drinks a pulverized concoction of cucumber, parsley, kale, spinach, romaine lettuce, and celery.

Every time I read about these ultra successful people, I just think they are freaking machines... and I don't mean that in a derogatory or mean way.

I am genuinely amazed people can operate like that. I know I can't.
Your logical fallacy is, drum roll... : Hasty generalization

Congratulations! You win nothing.
The animations lag behind scrolling though, if you scroll down, they appear just as they scroll by. In my opinion those "popup" additions to websites are very annoying and as implemented here, detrimental to the site.
They gave him $20,000 to build a car out of Legos and its amazing.
When I see CSV I think RFC4180. It's not a real "standardised standard", but good enough to be one, and probably what a lot of tools will produce and consume if asked to process CSV.
What if many people are not doing it because they think that many people are already doing it, and actually as a result of this, very few people are doing it?
I switched between a few jobs in different countries and continents. Not quite travelling, but much more relaxing and paid for.
The review is pretty realistic.

I use UX305 with Arch as my "procrastinate, err code, in coffeeshop" machine and it is a great notebook for the money. The keyboard with no backlight is main issue (for me). And the sound sucks.
Yes, the obvious thing you miss is that according to the OP the unit tests should contain the tests for the bugs detected by recent third-party fuzzing and the "file" should contain the fix to that. Instead, there most recent test is 6 years old but there's the whole brand new implementation of the whole "file" utility.

It does sound CADT-y.

http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

"It hardly seems worth even having a bug system if the frequency of from-scratch rewrites always outstrips the pace of bug fixing. Why not be honest and resign yourself to the fact that version 0.8 is followed by version 0.8, which is then followed by version 0.8?

But that's what happens when there is no incentive for people to do the parts of programming that aren't fun. Fixing bugs isn't fun; going through the bug list isn't fun; but rewriting everything from scratch is fun (because "this time it will be done right", ha ha) and so that's what happens, over and over again."

Specifically, why didn't somebody just remove the ELF part from the existing code, if the goal was "reducing the attack surface by removing the features?" (which can be a reasonable strategy for increasing the security).
Try checking your RCPT header next time. Create a throwaway Yahoo account and change the password. You'll find it's sent with 128 bit encryption over TLS. If using a Gmail account to recover, Gmail defaults to HTTPS. You'll find you're secure every step of the way. To call email insecure is to be rather outdated with advances in the past 4-5 years.

Furthermore, nice assumption under 'a'. Mnemonics are a powerful learning device for memorization, I advise you look into them. The human memory is a powerful thing and committing several randomly generated password consisting of 20-50 characters it not "impossible".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Master_of_Memory

I do not remember my passwords. I remember mnemonics which help me remember my passwords. It's not entirely foolproof but it is far more secure than a single-failure-point system.
I left my job in the UK nearly nine months ago. I travelled overland through Europe to Turkey while working on a couple of freelance projects, mostly staying in hostels. Since then (and after spending a month over Christmas with my family), I've been in India for nearly four months, working on more freelance projects. I'm going to try somewhere more digital nomad-friendly soon though.

It's hard work. As one of the other comments mentioned - travelling itself is time consuming. But I think the biggest issue for me travelling alone is a lack of regular social contact. I suppose I'm a relatively solitary person - I enjoy spending time with people, but can survive without it. Europe was way better for meeting people (in part due to staying in hostels). India is tougher in that respect - but it's cheap, it's such an amazing country, and the people are friendly. Having the opportunity to read more has been cool. And learning to kite surf.

I've been really lucky to have worked with some awesome clients so far (in part because they've been both understanding and just generally curious of my lifestyle - but also just because they're great people working on fun projects).

The digital nomad lifestyle is something I'd wondered about for years, and I knew it was something I had to try, even if just to get it out of my system. Travelling without a time- or money constraint changes your experience for the better, I think. I have no regrets - I absolutely recommend it, even if it's just a short-term thing that you change your mind about later on. And yes, pack light :)