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You know dang this should have been marked as a dupe. I think you should fine tune it to say if a story has > 100 upvotes or > 20 comments it should be marked as a dupe and redirected to the original story ( as it was done before).
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Consider using http://www.PayScale.com to find out what you should be paid. You can put in details about your specific job (skills, education, city, title, etc) and it will give you an accurate range of what the market is paying.

Note I work at PayScale BUT this is exactly one of the types of problems we're solving.
That would be unconstitutional in the US.
I've seen some of the enforcement actions - on a first offense they often just give you a stern warning unless it's clear you were doing it willfully and maliciously (interfering with a company's communications because you have a bone to pick, for instance).

Amusingly, there's been a few cases local law enforcement has asked the ham community to RDF people using their frequencies - at least here most law enforcement uses APCO-25 without encryption, so is easy to monitor and mess with by and large - because it's easier than having FCC get involved.

My favorite mistaken transmission was when a friend noted spurs coming off the strategic command in Omaha that were ending up on ham frequencies. We reported it, an hour later all their spurs were gone.

In any event - yes - monitor mode stuff they won't be able to detect unless they see your equipment, but most equipment is required to restrict the cell frequencies in such a way it's not easy to modify to detect. Most other equipment you have a jumper to enable "everything but cell" TX/RX (Looking at you Yaesu VX-9).
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> But list efficiency and manipulation would likely be futile. Today, cache is king. Which means, linked lists are out.

Out for what?

> CAR/CDR? Let's not.

Works okay even today on a typical Intel 64bit processor.

> The glory days were not that glorious. There are stories out there of runaway garbage collections, that grinded on for days.

Maybe in the early days. Lisp Machine development started in the mid 70s and ended in the early 90s. In the later days its GCs (it provided several different, cooperating GCs) were quite sophisticated.

> Today you get garbage collections in your web browser that would embarrass any Lisp Machine ever built.

It won't. Browser GCs are actually not more sophisticated compared to a later day Symbolics GC. The language model of JavaScript is much more primitive than what ran on a Lisp Machine.

Lisp Machines had the same problem like we have today: a hierarchy of memory with different speeds. Very little 'fast' memory, and much much slower, but much larger, virtual memory. Actually the Symbolics Lisp Machines had pretty sophisticated GCs which you even won't find today on typical machines. Caching was all important on Lisp Machines and there was a lot done for that.

A typical Lisp Machine in the Mid 80s had something like 16 MB RAM and 100 MB or more virtual memory on slow disks locally or over the network. End 80s it was 40MB RAM and a couple of hundred MB virtual memory on local disks. Without effective caching strategies this would not have been useful. Some special machines had more RAM, but this was very very expensive.

These machines saved optimized images from which they booted. The memory was sorted according to object types into regions. Lists were converted into a vector-like representation (cdr coding), etc etc.

At runtime a copying GC would move objects around into generations with object-sorted regions, improving locality. An ephemeral GC tracks changed memory in RAM.

Additionally there were a lot of data structures which were under special memory management like networks packets or raster arrays.
OpenWrt is meant for single router/switch installations in the home or office.

These switch operating systems are for building large fabrics for out of 48-port 10g/40g top-of-rack switches (soon to perhaps be 25g/100g switches?). They support automated configuration management, large BGP configurations (often through Quagga), probably some layer 2 magic, and probably some hardware acceleration for network virtualization on the later Broadcom chips.
Google has had support for PBKDF2 in PyCrypto since around August 2012[1].

1: https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5...
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I find serif fonts to be perfectly readable even on 1280x800 displays.
It's such a ridiculous line. Even putting aside that many laptops and desktops cost over $1000 Intel spends over $10 billion a year on R&D and machines.[0] Add to that the kind of engineering that goes into the physical form of a Thinkpad or a Macbook Air, both of which are far more impressive that a stationary monolith. Then add the kind of engineering that goes into a modern Ubuntu, Windows or Mac OSX. Someone estimated as far back as 2008 that just the Linux kernel alone represents over 1 billion dollars of R&D.[1]

[0]http://fortune.com/2014/11/17/top-10-research-development/

[1]http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/10/linux-kernel-worth-1bn.html
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Look around the responses for the notion of controlled access to the drug, and the obstacles it imposes on putting out a generic.
>But we failed to stop the Taliban (Mission Definitely Not Completed), which just shows we failed to learn anything from the Russians and/or the British.

That's why the Taliban are comfortably ensconced in Kabul, right?

>So, why are we there now? Anyone? Bueller?

We've withdrawn all but a token force. There are less than ten thousand US troops in Afghanistan.
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Dude, definitely try it. It doesn't taste anything like pulled pork, ripe or unripe.

Source: frequent eater of Cambodian jackfruit :)
> But action was required on Kotaku's behalf because they weren't acting ethically. Here's another Totilo statement about how Kotaku messed up: https://archive.is/fL71k

What the fuck does that have to do with Quinn? Oh right: nothing.

> That you find people's concern over undisclosed relationships in reporting something worthy of mockery is appalling and quite frankly all the evidence needed to show you're out to push an agenda that requires overlooking a very traditional staple of journalistic integrity.

That you find it remarkable or notable that people who write about games know people who make games shows that you have very little understanding of the trade press. "I know this person" is not a relationship that needs disclosure.

There's no clear consensus on things like Kickstarter, by the way. While investment would be a clear ethical breach, Kickstarter is--by law--not an investment. Kickstarter backers are not acquiring any kind of stake in the company. There's no clear journalistic rule that would, for example, prohibit backing Kickstarters but still permit preordering games (and I've never once seen a gator demand that game preorders be disclosed).

Similarly, the distinction between, for example, making payments through Patreon, subscribing to a game such as WoW, or buying a DLC season pass is quite subtle, and there are no universally agreed, widely established rules on what is and isn't acceptable. This is a matter primarily of personal taste, not hard-and-fast rules.

In any case, _none of this supports your claim that I am an unethical journalist_. I've linked you to a page that should (assuming our CMS is working correctly) list every single article I have written. Which of those pieces is unethical, and why?
Ask HN: Need advice on startup options
About 2 years ago I co-founded a company. For various reasons, earlier this year, my co-founder and I parted ways and came to an agreement that I would take a partial cash buyout and a percentage of the company as stock options.

According to our agreement, I was granted 166,667 stock options (3%) at a strike price of $0.089/share. The company at that date was valued at roughly $2,000,000. The board granted me a 10 year exercise window.

Fast forward to today. The company continues to grow around 20% month over month and just raised a nice Series A, with a post-money around $40m.

Did I screw up by not exercising the options earlier this year? Am I making the right choice by sitting on these? What should I do in this scenario? I honestly have no idea what the smart move here is. I have just enough liquid cash to purchase the options now, but my understanding is that I'd be taxed on the current value, which I guess would be somewhere around $1m, meaning I'd owe the government hundreds of thousands of dollars right?

Any advice on what I should do is much appreciated!
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So on a weaker FDA it would be exactly the same, except that now your guarantees about the safety and efficacy of the drug are reduced. How is that better?
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There are two sides to this:

1) A business with good fundamentals doesn't need a VC.

If I've got cash flow, I can probably get a loan with a bank on much better terms than any VC will give me.

If I don't have cash flow, well, okay, I need a VC. But then, tautologically, my business doesn't have good fundamentals.

2) VC's only care about unicorns.

Since VC's make up their whole portfolio based around the 100X+ returns on a single company wiping out the losses from the rest, fundamentals are irrelevant. Being in the hot buzz which enables you to flip to somebody else for 100X is far more valuable.

A business with good fundamentals sells for about 10X which is nowhere close enough to offset the rest of the losers.
I'd want a combination of video evidence along with a complete record of the EKG readings interpreted by a team of cardiac electrophysiologists.
For citizens, it was the basis of all political morality/legitimacy . There was a pretty well-kept wall between the citizens and the rest of the populace. By joining up, Rico is disowned by his father. And otherwise, Rico is a square-jawed fkup.

I always took that as a way to keep the economy and the war-machine separate. You get the general vibe that it's an otherwise post-scarcity society.

If you were a citizen, you were part of the part of society that used force. It's the basic Libertarian trope about force in that regard.

SFAIK, ST was based on ideas from the Swiss system, obviously drawn to the exponential.
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It's very prevalent here in Cambodia too. One of my favourites fruits, and it in NO WAY tastes like pulled pork when it's unripe.

I actually prefer it slightly unripe, since it can quickly become exceedingly gooey and sweet.
I think they're being a little too clever with the name.

https://bitcoin.org/en/faq#wont-the-finite-amount-of-bitcoin...
Actually, there's a decent argument that Delaware (and Ireland) act as parasites toward their neighbors.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/rogue-state
> Your Lisp code (unless it's an emacs tool) will never work with anything or anyone else.

I wonder how the Lisp I'm using got its Cocoa user interface. Oh, it has an Objective C bridge, so that it can create natively looking Mac applications...
Note that the 55x price and 2x price are done by different groups.
We had a similar experience. Google started giving us "Sharing quota for this file has been exceeded" errors.
It's nor war in the classical or modern sense, but mankind has a pretty violent history. It's a slog of a book, but Pinker's "Better Angels" and all that.
Now more than just an insanely strong beer.
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There is a post on Random ASCII about programs raising the Windows(tm) timer from 64/sec to 1000/sec for no good reason wasting power and wrecking battery life.

I work on stuff that needs to run for years off of small batteries. An issue has been previously just like Windows(tm) all RTOS depended on a heartbeat interrupt. Which means the RTOS wakes up every 1-10ms to check if a timer has expired, see which task should be running, etc. The truth is, 99% of the time there is absolutely nothing to do. Or in my case 99.9% nothing to do.

I've had to roll my own routines to keep track of how long till the next timer expiration and use that set a hardware timer that wakes up the uP. And also for timers that don't require low latency, marshal the events and do them all at once every so often.
I'm lucky to live in a county with a good library system that supports this model, but what about the rest of the country? Are they all served as well as me?

$10/mo doesn't seem too outrageous if you have no other alternatives. If you are a heavy reader then this makes sense vs. buying from Amazon or another retailer.

I suppose it comes down to strength of library - for $10/mo, can you match other book seller's content? I took a look for a few books I've been reading recently - it seems about a 50% match. Personally, not for me.
Well there is Larry Lessig, who raised more than his $1MM goal from smaller donors to run as a referendum candidate with the sole purpose of getting money out of politics. That being said, he has zero name recognition when compared to Trump and is certainly not going to be as "entertaining".
Does anyone else think that these unoriginal, doomed-from-the-start startups are a direct result of funding institutions looking for founders that appear really good "on paper"? You know, experience with this BigCo, a degree at that IvySchool, etc. Even YC may be becoming guilty of this, as it seems like a top school brand is a prerequisite.

Or the more sinister metric, do you have growth? PG wrote that startup=growth, and that growth is the all-encompasing metric. Might this incentivize some prestige-seeking 'entrepreneurs' to do things that don't scale like pumping money into convincing users to join their website, or making fake accounts?

Not that growth and a founder's unsustainable touch early on aren't excellent things for which to strive. But in any system in which there is prestige to be gained, there will be those who will match patterns and fool the heuristics of the gatekeepers.
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> How many computers exist that aren't known to man?

That's a tough question to answer. The universe is a big place, so i'm going to go with a lot.

Although, I do understand your annoyance. The original phrasing with the "in the world" is stupid.
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Did the Symbolics List Machines have Z80 processors in them? Or was it another machine in the MIT labs you're talking about?

"...by someone who had hand-wrapped Z80 boards in the MIT AI labs at one point".
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For most uses, rsync -a (preserve all possible metadata, like cp -a) is preferable to rsync -r ;

Also, unless you have a very large (breadth or depth) tree, you can just let rsync synchronize the entire path - it is quite efficient, will pick up additional diretories (you need inotifywait -r for that, and AFAIK you still have an unavoidable race).
I would pay a significant amount of money for pentadactyl + Tree Style Tabs that just worked, without bugs. It's a significant part of my workflow, and I'm not sure if either will survive XUL deprecation. :(
You could read the chapters on memory management and GC in the Symbolics Genera 8 manuals: areas, generations, resources, ephemeral GC, generational copying GC, full GC, ...

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/symbolics/s...
"the monk has clearly "chosen" to share them to the writer"

Even if you accept that, it doesn't mean it's not a dick move to share the photos on the internet.

Think about the photos you've shared with friends. Would you be happy if all of them were made available to everyone in the world?
Is there any resource you recomend to someone that wants to understand the implementation of these systems?
Not the implementation of lisp, but the implementation of these specific environments (lisp machines os's) in lisp. Specially with regards to memory management.

EDIT: you seem to have posted a relevant link in another comment as I wrote this one, but I'd love more information if available.
http://genome.cshlp.org/content/24/5/831.full

"Widespread and frequent horizontal transfers of transposable elements in plants"

Observation for example, of horizontal gene transfer between palm tree and grapevine.
Ask HN: What tools/strategies are good for keeping a project anonymous?
I was unable to find any previous posts that answered my question.

My name can in no way be associated with a project I am currently working on, how do I launch it?

Considerations for example: registering a domain and launching in places like Product Hunt.
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What I want (Scala land):

trait Robot
var serialCode = generateSerialCode()

def gas

def engine = Engine(gas)
def body = Body(engine)

class SunnyRobot extends Robot
def gas = sun

class OilyRobot extends Robot
def gas = oil

Protocol extensions don't hold state. They are meant to provide default implementations for a type, not as a 1:1 relationship with the class it's implementing functionality for. Following what you're saying, I would be doing something like this:

* `extension Robot where Self = SunnyRobot { def gas() = ... }`

* `extension Robot where Self = OilyRobot { def gas() = ... }`

That looks all good and well, right? Ok, well now my sunny robot wants to find the sun and my oily robot wants to go find oil. How to provide functionality unique to each of them? Maybe I'm just not getting something, but I'm pretty sure protocol extensions are not the answer to the problem I'm trying to describe.

When you're working in front-end land, you can do your best to stay functional and be cool and all that jazz, but it's just a waste of time usually. You're going to use a lot of state and you just have to learn how to manage that effectively (IMO). What this boils down to for me is that I might build a cell that does 3 things great and will be on every cell, but then business designs call for 2 slightly different cells still based upon that main cell. Oh and when those different cells are tapped, different things should happen.

So again, I just go about doing it with the simple base class gonna throw you an exception unless you override the "abstract" method. This way, I get to keep state going down and classes can actually fill up naturally rather than playing the protocol game.
That F22A doing a Kulbit: I'm not sure that counts, he uses way too much time to get around as compared to the Su-37.
> and generally act like you're throwing a tantrum

Personal attacks are not allowed on HN, and your comments are generally breaking the guidelines about civility. We ban accounts that do this repeatedly.

(Many other commenters have been breaking the guidelines too in this thread, and I'm not posting this because I agree with any of them.)
Mountain papaya (Vasconcellea pubescens) will also grow in temperate to cold regions. I have seen them growing in areas that get heavy frosts (but the probably wouldn't cope with actual snow). Interestingly, yellow papayas are what I would call a pawpaw and I didn't know that there was a completely different fruit called a pawpaw.
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In the UK, if you find something of value, you can take to the police station. The police give you a receipt. If no one has claimed the item after some period of time (3-6 months?) then you can go back and collect it. You did your best.

Let's say I come into possession of an iPod touch that way. Should I still have no right to privacy?
Wideband radios are not all that new. My radio is a Kenwood TS-820S from the 70s and covers multiple bands from 160M to 10M. My cheapo Radio Shack walkie talkie from 15 years ago covers most (all?) of 6M to 2M (i.e. all kinds of serious bands that I'm not allowed to transmit on). My Yaesu VX-5R from 10 years ago can do full-on wideband receive, from 6M up to microwave.

With the help of an auto-tuner to match the SWRs there's no physical reason I can't transmit/receive bands I'm not supposed to. It's not like tweaking a VFO is really a technical challenge, they're well-understood technologies. And the frequency display on my radio is literally just a frequency counter for my own edification, the base TS-820 non-S model doesn't even have one. To find your frequency you look at the dial, there's a printed scale for your band. You know what happens if you are pushing the limit too far? The FCC tracks you down and you get a pink slip telling you that they know what you're up to.

You both underestimate what older radios can do, and overstate what newer radios can do relative to them. The reasons that you didn't see people transmitting off-band before was primarily social, not technological. As for receive, the FCC was flipping out about people intercepting cellphone calls on omniband radios - 15 years ago. Omni SDR was around 10 years ago too, with the same capabilities (see: GNU Radio), it just cost more than $10 for a rig.
Capitalism is just a system where the owners of capital are the marginal claimants of revenues. Everything beyond that is ideology.
> But no, you keep harping on about the utterly fucking trivial indie games industry

Personal attacks are not allowed on HN, and your comments are generally breaking the site guidelines about civility. We ban accounts that do this repeatedly.

(Many other commenters have been breaking the guidelines too in this thread, and I'm not posting this because I agree with any of them.)
Why won't the thieves disconnect the GPS/reader from the zipcar after they have broken in? Is that actually tamper-proof?
In this case, that someone is a big company from another country. In the case of donating food in general, instead of the money going to some local farmer, it goes to some farmer in Brazil.

The economics of this are a bit more complicated than that though. If importing food from Brazil was cheaper, someone should already be doing it without any charitable intentions. And if if it's not, then it makes more sense for the charity to buy the food locally than pay more to import it.
Which SSL certificate provider should I choose? Which one is a trustworthy one?
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How about TinyCert [0]?

[0] https://www.tinycert.org/
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There are no exceptions in swift.
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Either way, it smoothes out the booms and busts.
>There's a very significant and logical reason why American corporations - particularly tech companies - are accumulating so much cash: repatriation taxes.
Absolutely.

I'll claim no authority to speak on corporate tax policy (at least from the perspective of firms); on the face of it, I can imagine that it might be reasonable to suggest that tax policy is the major contributor to the dynamics of firm investment behavior.

I wasn't, however, really sincerely questioning why, e.g., AAPL is accumulating cash or necessarily correlating that fact with domestic investments. It was sloppy writing on my part, but my intent was only to give an obvious example of capital accumulation.

Surely, cash is not the only means of firms funding investments. Firm investment behavior will be guided by a variety of factors; my thought was to point to macroeconomic factors like insufficient aggregate demand, capital flight from EM and persistent deflationary pressure to provide simpler explanation to the conclusions of the OP.
That's not how pollution works. Exposure limits are based on relatively safe values; exceeding those values can seriously affect people in the area. 40x legal limits is a serious issue, not a case of 'a bit more of a bad thing'.