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I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that the downvotes were related to the subject of the comment. More likely, they were to do with the way it (and the other comments on this thread by bruant) were presented.

It would have taken no effort to have phrased the idea in a way that invited others to discuss it and learn more about it. Instead it was an, evidently, unwelcome (and totally unjustified) stab at the people who might be reading.

benbreen's comment was far more interesting and made me want to learn more about the subject.
> Beware of assuming that every law passed with the intent of protecting workers actually has that effect.

Be even more wary of believing a CEO's account of how he ran a company into bankruptcy is the fault of everyone but him.
A reasonable person, lets say a neurologist or developmental psychologist, might very well say there are differing levels of intelligence between girls and boys. It depends on what you're measuring. When they study intelligence closely enough, there are absolutely differences between the sexes. I don't think it's sexist to say that girls are generally better at interpersonal communications than boys (a form of intelligence). Even if it's that debatable (and I'm sure it is), moving from a disagreement on opinions to a title IX complaint is not warranted.
I hope they find her, a $100K isn't anything to sneeze at.

I did go to a garage sale in the Bay Area where an older couple there had the manuals for an Altair 8800 which they kept because they thought they might have some historical value to someone but threw out the hardware because it wasn't really useful to anyone. But over the years it is very hard to know what will and what won't become collectible in the future.

Back before Jobs turned Apple around you would be lucky to get $500 for an old Apple I, after all who wants the first computer of a failed computer company? :-)
Oh dear Looks like my reference to We by Yevgeny Zamyatin went over peoples heads.
How cool. Makes me wonder what might be worth more in today's disposable age.

Maybe ten years from now, old cellphones that had removable batteries will be in high demand, because a sun flare blew out all the modern ones. shrug
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One particular down-side I've noticed when browsing those sorts of threads:

I often "view" them before people have stopped posting to it. As such, I have absolutely no idea which ones are new or which ones I've already read after I've refreshed the page to get new items.

The only easy-to-implement solution I can think of is allowing us to sort the posts in chronological order as opposed to the hybrid point/time system that's currently in place.
Imo Subway is losing because it's the world's slowest fast food. I do enjoy Subway, but (at least here in germany) you can't get it delivered, and the process of pondering and ordering and watching them slowly put it together is excruciating and pointless exercise in standing around and wasting time, especially when you've watched it 4 times already with the people in front of you.
Is the +VISA keyword meant to indicate that the hiring company will aid candidates in obtaining a visa, or that the candidate must already have the right to work locally?
Using WebRTC datachannels for p2p networking in games is challenging and fun.

I am personally using it for networking in a WebVR side project (which is far from finished), where the challenges are the differences between clocks, interpolating between received positions, and more. You can try the current version here http://guido.io/WebMetaverse/ (open it multiple browsers and observe).

I ended up implementing a signalling server (in Elixir) and client, which made me understand much more of what is going on under the hood.
Nope. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoCities#Closure http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Yahoo
Amen to being real. I've had a boss that is insecure, obviously wants to assert themselves and does so in non-direct ways, like through email, but can't do it in person and acts nice (falsely, as I've now come to learn). It drives me nuts.

Being direct and honest saves a lot of time. However, people come from different backgrounds and have different levels of comfort in expressing themselves, so we often have to learn to deal with such people.
A film about concurrency: Run Lola Run (1998)
Honeycrisp are easily the best apples I've ever tasted.

Which makes me wonder how we ate so many Red Delicious when I was a kid, because they taste -- as the article said -- like sawdust.
I was an Oracle Product Manager for the core database. Larry would often offer to be available for anything that might raise the profile of Oracle. He also solicited suggestions for anything high-profile to get involved with - sports, causes, whatever. He said that his goal was to be someone who could call any CEO in the world, and no matter how much that CEO might hate Oracle, the CEO would still take his call. And if the CEO took his call then Larry would use his wealth in any way possible to make the sale.

Larry is guilty of a lot of things - but his high profile was very calculated and served business interests.
Great service, thanks Matt.

One suggestion for the posting text: maybe provide a more machine-readable template for submitters to provide metadata? Just a minimal amount of metadata to make it easier for those who write mini-apps to parse the submissions.

To refer back to the most recent hiring post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9471287

Seems like submitters try to do their own, e.g.

Soostone | NYC or Remote Possible | Functional Programmer (Haskell) | Backend, Frontend, DevOps, UI/UX Engineering

San Francisco - Full Time - iOS, Android, Design

GoDaddy | Product Manager - Managed WordPress | Sunnyvale, CA or Phoenix, AZ | Local

How about this, for each job:

[Company name] | [Job title] | [location(s), semi-colon delimited] ["Remote", if applicable] | [Full-time/Part-Time/Intern/Visa/Remote | [Optional list of semi-colon delimited skills]

e.g.

Acme | Senior Database Engineer | San Francisco, CA; Las Vegas, NV (Remote possible) | Full-time | MySQL
Self driving cars is a natural off-shoot of Google Maps. By pushing this standard, Google can ensure at least revenue sharing if they don't get the entire self driving car business. It simply adds to data consumption which they benefit from. No different from Google Fiber.
You might be surprised. There are conditions under which browsers will impose a 4ms minimum delay when you ask for less. I believe it's when you set a timeout within a timeout.

Edit: close. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webappapis.html#timer...

"Timers can be nested; after five such nested timers, however, the interval is forced to be at least four milliseconds."
+1

I reckon that it's more than 'being an asshole' It's about being yourself. If you are an asshole then be one. If you're a nice guy, be one.
Karma based voting is supposed to drive attention to the most popular stories and users, and away from everything else. It's possibly not seen as a serious problem because the system is working as intended.
INTERNSHIP would be a nice fix for the "intern" problem. However I suspect that requiring willingness to schlep or dig into regex might be considered by employers to be a feature rather than a bug :).
I'm confused. Why do I need to ignore the history of slavery in Africa?
What is going on with that web page? The browser gives some security warnings and only the headings load.
Is this another shining example of modern web excrement where we are required to let things run rampant in the browser just to view an article?
The examples just seem preposterous. Like a sibling post says, "I have a black friend who wants to listen to music. What music do I play to please him?" -- seriously? Would you say that about your friends? What about asking the person in particular, as I'm sure this doesn't generalize to skin color? Or, "Who are your top 5 rappers?" That's making quite an assumption. Or, "I'm having black friends over for dinner, what should I cook?" Like, whatever you normally cook, unless they are e.g. vegetarians or have allergies?

Yeah, in summary, I think the thing that bothers me most is what seems to be gross generalization all over...

Having said all of that, I am not black.
> I think that in some vague sense, self confidence (sometimes spilling over into egotism) is a requirement in order to occupy high positions.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
Something I learned during my first job (big box co. tech support and computer sales): self service is great for people who know what they want or know more about what they're buying than the salesperson does. Groceries is a great example of this: I generally know what I like to eat a lot more than most grocery clerks could possibly know, and I get groceries pretty often.

It's less ideal when you don't know much about the product (just that you need one) and don't have the time to go spend a few weeks researching the purchase. I spent some time selling computers: for most customers, they knew what they wanted to do with the computer already (skype a military spouse, work on MS Office Documents, play Skyrim, whatever), but if I was helping them chances were they didn't know how to quantify that in terms of CPU/RAM/HDD/Graphics card/etc., and being able to actually narrow their selection down to a few computers that could meet their needs and explain the differences between them seemed to really put people at ease in what would otherwise been a confusing process.

To expound on my point: I don't know anything about... say... HVAC systems. A self service system for purchasing an HVAC would probably be unnecessarily stressful and confusing for me (at least, it would force me to go become knowledgeable about HVAC systems), and I might even make a mistake and get one that can't actually handle heating and cooling my house. This is an obvious place where a knowledgeable salesperson could save me a lot of time and frustration.
arm guards are worn by all Olympic-style archers (there are some traditional archery styles where they are slightly less common), but wearing two arm guards is something you might see at summer camp before the counselor gets the chance to show how the equipment should be used...
Thanks for pointing out the typo - I've fixed the title now!
Lately I've been experimenting with asking for raises quarterly and so far it's worked out great. My tips for people:

1) obviously know who is in charge of how much you make. Like actually get to know them.

2) find a way to stand out amongst your peers. For me it was a dedication to learning new tools that have benefited us and actually being good at my job.

3) go out of your way to get shit done and do stuff right.

4) ASK for a raise from the person in charge of your $$$ directly. Don't waste anyone's time and don't wait on the sidelines hoping people will take notice of your efforts. If you don't ask to get paid more it won't happen.

5) be so good that if your company looses you it's really going to hurt.
Ask him to share those secretive surveys that hr get with all the staff
By helping out the compiler you can get better performance. But I like to think that current JavaScript engines or future ones are quite smart and can optimize beyond that.

Lets say you are writing software for a cargo company ... The code has well defined classes. The company now wants to expend by including buss goods. But in the code, the terminals and containers will only accept trucks ...
It would be better if the terminal code checked if the good fitted etc.

Thinking about Buss vs Truck is much better then thinking about Array vs Object, but you shouldn't let classifications limit the solutions either.
I work for one of the large MOOC providers. We "sell" "certificates" as a means to enable us to keep on providing education for free for those who would otherwise not have access to it. Certificate sales enable us to function (e.g. pay for staff and infrastructure) and work with our university partners in putting on courses for free.

Every day we get email from learners complaining that we charge for certification. Everyday we also get email from learners thanking us for providing free education. It's a tough balance.
Uhhm, I know how to follow the other sheeple devs, for example yesterday I was all over angular, today I am so onto react, tomorrow I will follow whatever the interwebz tell me - so I can haz raise please?

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I work for one of the large MOOC providers. We "sell" "certificates" as a means to enable us to keep on providing education for free for those who would otherwise not have access to it. Certificate sales enable us to function (e.g. pay for staff and infrastructure) and work with our university partners in putting on courses for free.

Every day we get email from learners decrying us and complaining that we charge for certification. Everyday we also get email from learners thanking us for providing free education. We don't differentiate the experience at all between these groups: one might be seen as subsidising the other.

It's a tough balance.
You latched on to the least important part of my comment.

The thing is, the linked article is a grab bag of outdated (mount filesystems with noatime [0]) or just plain wrong (btrfs is bad for SSDs) factoids and bits of advice. It's clear that the author hasn't gone to the trouble to fact or efficacy check most of his assertions. We need fewer top-ten lists of cargo-cult suggestions to extend the life of your PC, not more. :)

What's more, you're going to pains -however small- to extend the life of something that will easily last for far more than five years. Five years is a long time in the SSD market. My ~five year old 100GB SSD is still going strong. It cost ~$400 when I purchased it. Today I can spend ~$400 and get a 1TB drive that's substantially faster than and at least as reliable as this one.

There's something to be said for frugality. I know: I've been using the same laptop for the past eight years. There's also something to be said about not worrying about wear when using highly durable tools that are designed to last for a decade or more. [1]

[0] relatime has been available since ~2007 and was made a part of the defaults mount option since ~2009.

[1] After all, if a tool lasts for ten years, you'll only ever buy ten of them in your lifetime.
We're on HN, right ?

{
"company_name": "Acme",
"job_title": "Senior Database Engineer",
"locations": [
"San Francisco, CA",
"Las Vegas, NV",
"Remote"
],
"full_time": true,
"skills": ["mysql"]
}
> "I don't want to spend two hours researching every little consumer electronics product I might buy, and I'm willing to pay a slight premium to someone who is able to spend five minutes educating me. I suspect there are many others who are similar."

That's basically REI's business model. Their staff has extensive personal experience with what they sell, and the stores run classes on what equipment to get and how to use it. They've got a lot more customer-facing staff than something like the supermarkets mentioned in the article need, because REI customers need more educating than people buying groceries. It's a real pity that Best Buy and friends are run more like a hybrid of the grocery stores and a used car lot.
FWIW, the drive from which I quote usage stats in my comment is a 100GB OCZ Vertex LE. So, this is the fabled "double whammy" of OCZ-manufactured drive and early SandForce chip.
Or, just have a nice interface on top. Something like http://hnhiring.me/, but with actual features - sorting and filtering, for starters. Maybe even embed that functionality into HN for "who's hiring" posts, instead of relying on a 3rd party website.
Would INTERNS do? INTERNSHIP is a bit long, and I don't like +INTERN; we like HN threads to consist of plain, good English. It's moot anyway because half the posts would ignore it.
Quarterly that's very pushy - how's that working out I could see there being a risk of -ve outcomes

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#3 I fixed a multimillion screwup at British telecom Neither I or the Company accountant got even a thank you.
#5 Cemetery's are full of indispensable people
I think the idea of keeping apples to their proper growing climate is a crucial point: these new tasty apple discoveries occur in the UMN orchard, and once selected, a branded apple really will do well on the market if its quantity is constrained and only grown by a few farmers. So, with the UMN orchard as ground zero for the apple discoveries, it would seem that farmers nearer to the orchard have a huge advantage with regard to actually taking an apple from lab orchard to farm to market.

Tainting the identity of the Honeycrisp for example because it was grown in the wrong climate would be something any farmer growing Honeycrisps would want to prevent, else risk the bad impression and lower sales.
Status is, almost by definition, the epitome of something where "fake it til you make it" works. Once you are regarded by others as having high status, you then have high status.

If a man is spitting game, looks good, is banging an attractive woman and confident that if she moves on he can move on to the next one, it's pretty tough to describe him as anything other than high status.

The learnability of a signal doesn't make it false. A lot of people just find it threatening that becoming attractive to them is simply a learnable technique, rather than a signal of what a special individual they are.
Algolia (YC W14): We just raised our Series A. What’s next?
If one wants to share data with two different web-workers (doing different computations on the same immutable data), there is still a problem. Or so I suppose (?)
You can trust us, I mean, look at our homepage...
[user takes a look] aaarrgh my eyes, the visual noise, not so much a cacophony of design as an incontinent angry bowel disorder of a design.
That's a little too far in the machine direction, it would be annoying for humans to read.
Based on "scriptable" and the short example I'd guess this is a headless browser ala PhantomJS, but then it says it requires PyQt/PySide so maybe not?
I've seen the same video before i knew what a monad was, it helped me in understanding the use case of monad and ultimately monad. Monad is just a generalization of that particular use case. Some resources that helped me in understanding monads

1. Brian Beckman: Don't fear the Monad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhuHCtR3xq8&feature=share

2. Functors, Applicatives, And Monads In Pictures - http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_...

3. Three Useful Monads - http://adit.io/posts/2013-06-10-three-useful-monads.html

So its been not just one resource but multiple resource before it hit me that it was such a simple concept. So i would suggest to go over them (in order) and also look at other resources (mentioned by others).
I personally agree with you. The best kind of job post, to my taste, is by someone I'd be working with. But I fear it would be a step too far to impose this on the whole thread.
What I find amusing are body cameras. We want them so bad to protect against police officers violating civil rights, but think how fast they'll ramp them up to doing things like face recognition. And why not? Imagine being able to spot criminals with warrants on them by just walking around in a crowd. Of course, it won't stop there. Hmm, I better go pay off those speeding tickets that are due...
Someone I know works for a company in Florida that runs the servers and sells the license plate cameras to the police. One of many companies I presume.
Well, actually, I've wanted a bust.
Ugh, that culture sounds like hell on earth. I am amazed by the unique capability of humans to take our most ingrained needs and desires and turn them into shame. Whether it be sex, or food, or "wasting time", or even just displays of emotion, we have somehow managed to turn these most central of human feelings into something bad. I'm not arguing that we should completely give ourselves over to our base urges, but acknowledging they exist, that everyone has them, and that they can be a wonderful thing would be a great start.
Being a jerk and having very little empathy will definitely help you becoming successful in money and glamor sense. Not sure if that will help you to become successful in your life since your jerkiness and empathy will eventually spill over to your personal life causing life to be pretty much miserable.

But you do not need to read books to learn this: actually no book will teach you this. Life will. Sadly, sometimes that it is too late.
Yes: the speed of light. Individual particles can't interact with each other at the Planck frequency. So this model treats every particle as if it were a self-contained computer that encodes information in whatever degrees of freedom it has. Note that this model says nothing about how many bits are in each computed state. It only counts the total number of states that the universe could potentially compute. That number is ~2^500.
Re 1, We don't paginate comments any more. I had a fine time ripping out that code.

Re 2, that seems worth considering. Presumably most recent at the top?
Why I am hardly a defender of the social sciences this is exactly how you are supposed to do this. You create a hypothesis and then you test to see if it correlates with the effect you are interested in. You of course should not develop your hypothesis and test on the same set of subjects or else you just end up with garbage.

Of course there is still the slight problem of determining whatever correlates you have found actually correlate with an abstract state like narcissism.
Shameless plug for a Chrome extension that I wrote that helps with this a bit (if you use Chrome).

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Exercise to the reader. This site was built by a minimalist. :)
> I believe Jobs and Patton would have been just as successful if they had not been. But their legacies are (maybe forever) tarnished because of it.

Except the research doesn't support this opinion.
There was an interesting article a while ago on weird beliefs of some intelligent people. It really shows why 'intelligence' is a limited world and we shouldn't try mirroring beliefs of people (outside their area of expertise) because they're "smart".

Great examples are Gödels beliefs of ghosts and paranormal activity; some older Nobel laureates turned to 'weird' (for the lack of a better word) ideas at some point in time; etc. Not cited in the article, Gödel also believed to have found a logical proof of the existence of God: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontological_argument#Kurt_G.C3.....

People got upset that religions got included it. I can understand the disagreement, but I can't understand the need to censor the discussion. Whether you believe it or not, it shouldn't be a stretch to concede that religion is weird, in some sense. It's completely outside our usual phenomena, and it's an arbitrary explanation for several questions, or maybe it's a relief. But it's as strange as it is interesting that so many people hold those beliefs.

The original discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9525645
Javascript is not an operating system.

There aren't many operations in javascript which will block. The only real issue is that your javascript code executes in the same thread as UI. Which just means you need to think a bit harder about keeping it responsive.

"Start threads!" in programming is usually a lazy hack.
> Forgot to add in communication networks between the isolated I/O bound "supercomputers".

Nope. This model makes no assumptions about the actual computations being performed at each particle. The particles could be communicating or not, it doesn't matter. The total number of potentially physically computable states is still the same.
At least it's not the NSA then.