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HN is no place for racial flamewars. You've taken this thread disastrously off-topic. Please stop, and please don't do it again.
I could share my personal experience, such as the time when I told a boss of mine with whom I had a great relationship that I was going to take a day off before I got close to burning out, using the actual words "burning out", but even though all the anecdotal responses are heart warming and all,...

1) this sort of thing is almost completely situational; i.e. depends on your specific context

2) you won't know exactly how it will play out until you've said words that you can't take back

3) at which point, if you miscalculated, you employer now has info that puts you at a disadvantage

4) company-employee relationships by definition and structure give the company asymmetric advantages in issues such as information, financial negotiations, and time-line strategies.

I say all this, not to be a wet-blanket, but rather to offer an alternative. You can accomplish the same thing using different words. If you're burning out, don't ask for understanding from your company, do the right thing for yourself and do what is necessary to put yourself back on a sustainable path. If this includes giving a different reason for how you end up dealing with it, tell them what they need to hear, but, do not add 'worried about your job' to 'burnt out'.
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How can you blame them when you combine lines just for the sake of line reporting?
And if interested in Jodorowsky and Moebius, watch Jodorowsky's Dune. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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But if LPs are targeting a certain return, then their capital allocation could swing towards including more Treasuries when their interest rate goes up.

Of course that's in a vacuum. In reality I expect many of the asset classes in their portfolio to have some dependence on Treasury rates, which perhaps would result in wider capital reallocations (or change in relative allocations going forward).
I don't have the finger bandwidth to caveat every statement I make. Yes _new_ nanoparticles. I could make a new nanocoating, apply it to everything and then when it turns out to not by safe, my Inc can fold and I can continue on my merry existence. Nanoparticle toxocology is a complex field. And these _new_ substances penetrate cells walls very readily. It isn't antiscience to question the harm these things can do.
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This is what resonated poorly for me. Airbnb has numerous advantages over hotels that they can put into ads. No part of this ad compels me to stay at an Airbnb, and it makes them seem petty/smug.
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Even if the firehose was affordable for mere mortals, those mere mortals would still need the funds to receive potentially hundreds of thousands of tweets per second (peak)) – which is a lot of bandwidth, persistent storage, processing cycles, etc – and that doesn't come cheap either.

If someone can't afford access to the firehose, then my guess is that they can't afford the infrastructure to consume the data anyway.
> DRM-laden online books is a red flag that the college you are attending is a thinly veiled profit center, not an education provider.

So then most US colleges? Like spectralblu said, this is common in lower level classes—especially math classes for some reason.
Seems they could survive even if everyone paid their card off every month.

They could survive, but they wouldn't like it. They call people who pay off every month "deadbeats". You can't make this stuff up!!!
http://www.creditcards.com/glossary/term-deadbeat.php
We haven't just thought about it, we intend to do it! :)

We're just waiting until we're happy enough with our Numpy array API that we'd be confident in calling it "mostly stable".

The (real) Numpy's C API is a perfect example of an API in which gradual accretion of new functions & functionality has given rise to a monstrous (both huge & horrible) API. The naming scheme & parameter patterns are inconsistent; sometimes the names are ambiguous (ie, unclear because they are overly general) or confusing (ie, the function does something other than what you'd expect from the name); and there are several very-similar functions, where it's not always clear which one you should use.

I do understand why the Numpy C API has evolved this way: Once you introduce a function in an API, you can't remove it / rename it / change its parameters, or you will break backwards compatibility with your earlier releases and cause headaches for many of your users. (And of course, there are constraints upon an API written in C, that do not affect an API exposed in Python or Nim.)

So we're really trying to dogfood our own API as much as possible before we inflict it upon the public. :)
it is different to have simulated engine noise inside the car and some exterior noises to alert pedestrians/etc that a car is coming
It's been removed* - provided a bad UX for people coming into Nim since it doesn't support C extensions / importing of modules that use C extensions, which can be a fair bit. If you try to use them regardless, it's easy to crash the REPL.

* It's not entirely removed, just obfuscated so that if needed it can be still used as long as you "know what you're doing" and are willing to put up with it not being a general purpose REPL. Use

nim secret

to run it.
There is no functional difference for users, and only a small one for creators.
Heh... 1x7 I'm silly :) I got bored, does the multiplication part ever get faster?

http://i.imgur.com/GJUqE5f.png
Is it better to move things around instead of just deleting things? Replies don't exist in a vacuum, so detaching from parent comments breaks meaning and intent, not just location on a page.

Seems better to censor by deleting unwanted content with prejudice instead of waffling and breaking context.
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Would this also explain why there's few women on the internet outside of popular social media sites? The old "there's no girls on the Internet" meme seems to still be true in some sites.
I agree. The strategic need for startups to exist in the Bay Area combined with the cost of living/cost of talent has caused costs to soar, necessitating more funding. Combined with easy money, this has been a tinderbox waiting to blow for some time.
I've also been using Pass. It is excellent, however the problem is that there doesn't appear to be much in the way of support for mobile devices. Not in any solid, working way anyhow. I decided to try out dashlane (http://dashlane.com) and so far it's been excellent with support for android and iOS devices as well as a desktop app and browser support. It does all I need.

Obviously those who like to keep their passwords close to their chests and host the password database on their own server, this won't apply but for the rest of us, I've not found anything as good.
Oh, I see. No, generally I try to share what the people in our newsroom have learned instead of the other way around. My parent comment was genuine frustration. BTW, I don't see your comments as out of line or overly-negative at all.
On the (sadly rare) occasion I get to play with music stuff these days, I really have trouble going away from my 2x1440p+rMBP 15 screen space. Even just the rMBP is super cramped. Different strokes, I guess.
And I can't read the whole paper since it is paywalled.

> We have shown previously that single-walled carbon nanotubes can be catalytically biodegraded over several weeks by the plant-derived enzyme, horseradish peroxidase1.
I'm having trouble figuring out with Google -- what does CUD stand for here?
Since language is ultimately a social contract between speakers attempting to convey meaning, you'll need some people to agree with you on that before we can call it a change. But you're welcome to try :)
"Athanasius Kircher: the Last Man Who Knew Everything" by Paula Findlen, a history professor at Stanford, is a good book that touches on this:

https://books.google.com/books?id=C0iGO0Hr95UC

One way of thinking about it is that polymaths like Kircher and Dee simply can't exist anymore because the sheer amount of data encompassed in science and the humanities have expanded beyond the capacities of any single human mind. It's worth keeping in mind that early modern polymaths still generally believed that the age of the world could be measured in thousands rather than billions of years, and that the sum total of all human knowledge could fit in a few hundred feet of library bookshelves. No one in a position to be a polymath now holds those illusions anymore.
Doubt it. Sounds to me like he was fishing for information so he could find out who they were. If they'd said, "Sure, we want $X million!" then they'd have to hash out a delivery method, all of a sudden they're on USGov's turf.
I've always enjoyed this video of a guy showing how to write Conway's Game of Life in APL, step by step: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4
Interesting that it's tied in with McKinsey & Co.

Without having dug into it much, I quite like it. There are definitely a lot of resources out there to learn, and - regardless of how true it is - feeling like a resource is the _right_ one for you probably helps.
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As cool as this is, It would be nice if choosing the expert path would also offer links to recommended books on programming. I've personally found books like sicp, the c++ programming language and etc to be the best source of programming knowledge (after an appropriate math or programming intro).

But it's often pretty hard to find out which books are worth reading, of all the books that have been published in the last 30 years, are any still germaine to modern programming?

I tend to prefer books because just listening to a video about something does not work for me (especially when it's just a guy talking), a book with a bunch of exercices and ideally a corriger really allows you to learn at your leasure (and are much more portable than a video on a mooc site)
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I wish they had involved ACM and IEEE in it instead of doing their own thing.
I've spent 20 minutes reading this thread. You have never actually said anything other than, "I have friends who tell me this is the way it is so I trust them." and "there are Solaris specific requirements that make Solaris different."

tptacek has responded with specificity, actually detailing how the Solaris team is, in fact, wrong in their guidance.

From my perspective we have a two-way conversation in which one person is arguing about what their friends say, and the other is trying to talk detailed cryptographic requirements.

It might help if your Solaris friends could identify what those FIPs requirements are, and how /dev/random fulfills them, but /dev/urandom does not. That would be interesting.

After all - the Linux team, who presumably also consists of pretty smart people, also believed they were right regarding /dev/random versus /dev/urandom, and it turns out it wasn't the case with them either.
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You wrote: "As such, one could argue that the startups have been acting completely rationally by taking advantage of the willingness in the private markets to invest at exorbitant valuations."

In the words of Clay Davis from The Wire: "You think I have time to ask a man, 'why he givin' me money?' Or 'where he gets his money from?' I'll take any motherfucker's money if they givin' it away."

Many VC's encouraged startups to raise as much money as they could while the getting was good. That is a good move for the VC's (raises the value of their shares) and the entrepreneurs (they get more money). But everyone should have known that interest rates were going to rise in the future, and that's the one trigger that will truly change the capital market.
Iran and Hezbollah were able to do the same thing with CIA operatives in Beirut using only commercial-grade software.[0]

[0]http://gawker.com/5861484/iran-and-hezbollah-caught-all-the-...
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300 bucks a month is kinda crazy for what is really just hosting a file. You could do the same with a dropbox account.
That's a silly argument. The point of the ad is that the hotel taxes allow the city to offer better public services. Of course if your analysis only considers 1.4% of the tax money you'll find the benefits aren't that impressive. But then you have to account for what the other 98.6% of the money is doing: presumably providing other public services!

If SF spent the whole $12 million on libraries, that would be $55/employee/day, which seems plenty to keep libraries open for an extra few hours. Even if SF only spent "some" of the money on libraries, as the ad suggested, even spending $3 million would come to $14/employee/day which seems enough for a meaningful expansion of services.
That is for natural languages. Written language is not a natural language, but an invented one, and are often governed by real rules.
It's the difference between "established company" and "startup" though, isn't it?

Sure, at an established company with 50+ up to tens of thousands of employees, all these nuances and efficiency-by-working-less gains come into play.

But, when you are 3 people and you have to ship 6 features in the next 2 months, and each feature will require a minimum of 3,000 lines of code, and you can write 200 lines of code every 6 hours... your only option is to work faster and better and longer than any potential competition. Maybe you can pull two to two and a half 6 hour sessions every day instead of just one per day. There's always a race against the clock for runway.

Most of the "great" products we see from the past were created by driven teams overworking themselves to change the world. The entire 30/40 hour stable work with vacations and breathing room and weekends off comes later in the life of a company.
True. They could have tried bitcoin. Receiving is the easy part -- spending it and remaining free might have been a problem, though...
The sensitivity of any of that is really questionable.
I suspect that's an important part of why confident ignorance is seen as the "stupidest" trait. Being confident has social advantages, so without a significant risk of looking stupid for overlooking something, everyone would try to be confident all the time, and confidence would have a very low signal-to-noise ratio for determining who to trust.
Probably create/update/delete. CRUD without the R.
I think that's still an option. At least that was an option for the music service.
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The fear of looking stupid is probably what stops most people from ever doing anything interesting.

I do see an occasional startup fumblebrag and think to myself "that was a stupid idea." But I rarely think anybody is stupid for trying.
This was pretty cool and seems great for young beginners.

I wonder, though, what is the modern equivalent of messing with BASIC after school? It certainly isn't Coding for Dummies is it? Would it be messing with the browser console? Messing with Python?

On a side note, I still think the beginning of the first SICP lecture is the best introduction to Comp Sci (I watch it to get motivated/inspired sometimes!). What got me into Comp Sci and programming was Ableson's quote:

> So as opposed to other kinds of engineering, where the constraints on what you can build are the constraints of physical systems . . . the constraints imposed in building large software systems are the limitations of our own minds.

Just made it feel limitless, because it really can be.

Also I am surprised that for "Expert" they recommend Coursera, edX, Udacity... but no books. In my experience, most "video courses" tend to be aimed at beginners or intermediates, with a few awesome exceptions like the Algorithms courses in Coursera and some on edX. Still though, I believe the most interesting and "Expert"-level knowledge of Comp Sci and programming is in dead tree format. But I guess it's hard to pick a few books to recommend.
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http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Home/Wb2/Files/Interpretation.htm...
Read this as Anal Sea HAHA
Previous discussion from the Wired article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10414375
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Nope, because of fraud expenses, new customer acquisition and customer rewards, the fees from transactions alone aren't nearly enough to make them profitable.

Discover is right now giving me 10% cash back on Apple Pay purchases made in person ... :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio...

In a professional setting, in the context of a marketing/naming discussion, I doubt anyone would have a problem saying "that's too close to the name of a popular porn site". Nobody whose humor has grown past a 12-year-old's will respond to that with "and how exactly do you know that?"; it's the job of the people in that room to know about myriad brands and products that they may or may not use, and the connotations of various names.
It's ad-free except for 7 shows. It's not even like it's the 7 most popular shows, it's just the ones they couldn't get the rights to play ad free.

I'm fine with a company saying unlimited data with a note that says except for Thursdays from 4-7pm. The problem is when they say unlimited data, but it's not really unlimited at all for anyone. That would be more like hulu saying it was ad-free and then showing commercials after you watch more than 100 minutes.
I just sent them an email suggesting this :)
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Most of all, make your contribution visible to your leader, or to KPI, or to anything evaluating your contribution. If no one knows your great works, It worth nothing to your career.

First, know how they evaluate your works.
Took a job at a big name tech company in the bay area, I hate it. options?
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I started using it for only one touch gesture to start with, too, until I realized I could control almost any navigation with swipes and taps. Swipe left and right to switch browser tabs, make a circle "refresh" motion to refresh the page, 3-finger swipe down to close a tab...
I imagine it's not arbitrary. They're charging what they can get for renting their property.
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That's really cool.
I think the evidence that people don't understand these things bankers are selling makes it all the more obvious they're doing something criminal.

IANAL but I've got to think there are consumer protection laws against selling things to people without them understanding what they're buying.
Well, you're right. That certainly is a conspiracy theory.
I'm not sure that the CIA has ever been a real ally of the people in general, but to the extent that they are, it's similar to the inclusion of the USSR in the Allied Powers during World War II.
Why not? It expands to 2 statements and a statement-expression:
int i = 0;
while (i < 4) {
i++;
}
I wonder why there exists "computer science" but not "finance science" or "air conditioning science" or "automotive science". It makes me doubt that computer science is really a thing. Algorithms, logic, computation, electronics are covered by other more fundamental "sciences" such as mathematics, statistics, physics, etc. Is computation really justified as a scientific discipline of its own?
I just remember the one c programming book I spent hours reading memorizing the std libraries... All of the string functions and how I'd write int main over and over again...
Ah, that totally makes sense, thanks!
That "silly" argument is directly refuting the silly specificity on the silly poster.
Their point about competition is an interesting one. Usually where you find one payday lender, you find many. If there were a lot of profit in it, wouldn't someone arbitrage the interest rates and win all the business for themselves?

Then again, that's a bit of a straw man argument. We don't let people buy and sell organs, regardless of whether we could ensure that they were paid a fair price in an efficient market. Maybe the answer is, if the true break-even interest rate to lend to this market is 300%, then perhaps the moral answer is to not participate.
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Startups thrive on taking advantage of early employees and as long as there are naive employees willing to take the risk and work for nothing I don't think we'll see any changes.
Even then, you need a business model.

Gitlab has a clear business model that works just fine even with the decentralized nature of Git. Nothing Twitter has tried to make money works at all if decentralized, or even if other people build clients for the same central server.
There is sellability and there is profitability. Two entirely different things, but ultimately that which is sellable will be exploited for financial gains, and often it is pro`fit`able
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Politically correct people, people who don't care and people who don't understand.

Which is why real-names policies are a bad thing.
There's a link to the original parent in what I posted.

Eventually we might build more software support for this.
Well, banning the plow would also have saved a lot of topsoil.

http://world.time.com/2012/12/14/what-if-the-worlds-soil-run...
Whitespace significance is practically the only resemblance, then. Wirth's languages obviously were garbage collected.
Hmmm, except I can't play YouTube videos outside of YouTube and Play Music doesn't give me access to the raw MP3 files, therefore the second point wouldn't apply. I think the difference is that Google isn't proactively enforcing this rule so for example, the Kindle app can link to the Kindle store even though that's technically not allowed.
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Maybe I'm the one confused here, but your response doesn't make sense to me -- it's like you're almost agreeing with the librarian but you don't think you are. Airbnb "started it" by focusing on one specific service (libraries) and humble-brag-whining about how it better improve because they/customers are paying so much. It makes perfect sense then to show how that one specific service Airbnb singled out will not be able to achieve what Airbnb says it should, because it doesn't get nearly as much money as Airbnb implied by tossing around a huge number.

As to hypothetical numbers at the end, why? The percentage the libraries get is fixed by the city, presumably...

P.S. Apparently they have variations of the ad for other services. Maybe on some, however they phrased it makes more sense, but not really in the libraries' case.

P.P.S There is actually a small fallacy/glossing-over in the librarian's argument: the $12MM (or 1.4% thereof) is (presumably) an increase that Airbnb can claim credit for. But theoretically the library could have other sources of income that together would allow for more opening hours. I guess the assumption is that they don't have a lot of surplus.
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Funny, the first thing this ad reminded me of was Uber's marketing strategy. They just do a better job of getting the public on side than this ad did.
Not an American, but living in the U.S.

That quote is fairly eye opening. My culture is quite a bit more modest than the general American culture, to a degree that "confident" Americans are fairly annoying for not being modest.

That's a very good way to put it, and yes, you're right, it's ingrained in this (HN/Tech) and the more general American culture.