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No there really isn't. Justin is getting at a truth about startups: "If you can just avoid dying, you get rich." Paul Graham wrote that 8 years ago (http://paulgraham.com/die.html), and I wonder if it was (subconsciously?) an inspiration to this post by Justin? My guess is that it's actually more likely that Justin feels this truth intuitively. I believe that this is a truth that is so fundamental to startups that if I could ask founders only one question when investing, it would be, "When will you give up?"
Ask HN: Which companies have kind, supportive, talented teams?
Hi HN,

I want to find a good place to work, except the rubric by which I measure "good" has changed. No longer am I striving for the best salary, compensation package, the best status symbol, the most interesting problems to solve. We've all heard or lived the horror stories of 80-100 hour work weeks under demanding sociopaths, surrounded by people who take pride in their lack of social skills.

I want to be happy, and the number one contributing factor to workplace happiness is how well you like your manager and fellow team members. It's not exactly easy to find this out without knowing someone inside those companies. So, where do you work, what is your immediate team like in terms of personality, and what is the rest of the company's culture like?

Thank you for your time in answering this question. I truly appreciate it.

Will Ediger.
OpenBSD kernel enforces it (even inside the kernel, not just user mode processes):

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=142120787308107&w=2
I decided to ask this exact question!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10643458
I think Chrome is considering getting rid of DHE cipher suites now.
"Fear of uselessness" seems to be a euphemism for the fear of dying, both the process and the ending.

I'm not sure there is a great answer here, so I'm just going to post the Alan Watts talk that brings some perspective for me.

Alan Watts - Music and life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4

"[..] but we miss the point the whole way along, it was a musical thing. You were supposed to sing or dance while the music was being played".
Picked up an RPi0 yesterday at MicroCenter in Cambridge MA for $5+tax. The power supply was $7.99+tax, $6.99+tax for an 8GB µSD card and I'll have to buy a 40-pin header for it and solder that on, not to mention time to find a ARMv6 distro and burn it ... and still no connectivity (Linux Wifi? Yuck!) ... so yeah, TCO rules!

Not sure the C.H.I.P. will be much better (I am a Kickstarter backer) so I will probably stick with the BBB @ $55/ea or RPi2 @ $40/ea (both not including PSU); at least they both run Ubuntu Snappy and have ethernet built in.
I am not a battery or electronics expert but my understanding is that it is not ideal to simultaneously charge and discharge a LiPO battery, so most don't support passthrough.

I use a RAVPower Xtreme (26800mAh - though I'm not sure if I believe that rating) to power a dashcam and had similar requirements to you. However, I've implemented a DPDT relay and a 12V boost regulator to switch between the battery pack and car power (ACC), depending on the ignition status of the car. So when the car is on, the battery is being charged only and the dashcam is getting power from the car. When the car is off, the battery is only being used to power the dashcam.

I've not tested it with a Pi but there is not an interruption in power long enough to disturb the dashcam (the relay spec is 8ms operate time). The battery pack is charged using a 2A 5V charger. I can't properly assess the charge status/history of the battery as it only has 4 LED's and I don't want to take it apart but so far my commute and other driving is long enough to keep it ticking over.
The problem with the coal vs. nuclear pollution impact is the liability structure. With a coal death, there is no easily identifiable responsible entity. With a nuclear accident, there would be a line around the courthouse: irradiated and condemned properties, cleanup costs, claimed deaths, etc. This cost translates to insurance and regulatory overhead.

It just sucks that coal impact is so anonymized by all pumping into a shared atmosphere. Unless there can be a successful class action against the whole industry that won't change.
Been using NuBank for about 8 months and I must say, it is the best bank experience I've ever had. They put great effort into every aspect of their business. From the mobile app to the customer experience, it's perfect!
(Now that I've promoted you please raise my limit amount - haha jk)
wouldn't it only fly into space if it's velocity was in that direction?

And....wouldn't it interact with everything along it's path?

I mean..it wouldn't be quantum tunneling correct? (I've only taken rudimentary physics related to standard mechanics and electricity/magnetism).

But it seems to me, since the LHC is underground, it would have a decent probability of hitting something along it's path to space, or am I way off?
> Wales, Scotland and Ireland were taught the language at the point of a sword.

AFAIK this is somewhere between very incomplete and clearly wrong in the case of Scotland, and to a lesser extent Ireland. It may actually be a bit more accurate to say that of England, come to think of it: it's just that the pointing of swords happened a while earlier there (to the extent that it really happened) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_settlement_of_Brit... . But this just highlights that it's probably impossible to reasonably declare languages non-native on this kind of basis.
I just tested this three times, and it looks like it's right around 30 mA saved, so the rumors are true!

I'm going to tinker a little bit and see how low I can get the power consumption (disable HDMI, disable LED, and just have Pi running by itself). I'll post back here with more details.
I look forward to using it in hobby projects.
Can't edit this post anymore, but I'll reply here: I just ran tests with HDMI disabled, and it looks like it does save ~30 mA. Running more tests, will leave a top-level comment with more notes soon.
> Not any more quickly than the Earth would fall into the existing Mount Everest.

Of course it would happen more quickly. Everest is kept separate from the rest of the Earth by atomic bonds. But an Everest-mass black hole, created at rest on the Earth's surface, would fall through the ground to the center of the Earth very quickly (a few minutes of travel time), gobbling up all the matter within at least a few atoms distance of it's path. Then it would shoot past the center, sailing up toward the other side of the Earth. It would oscillate back and forth, effectively in a damped orbit about the center of the Earth, accreting more and more matter.

Since the accretion rate is probably proportional to the cross-sectional area of the black hole, and the area is proportional to the mass, the black hole size would grow roughly exponentially, at least until it came to rest at the center of the Earth. At this point, it would start accreting as fast as the liquid iron or whatever can get pushed into, which I imagine becomes very fast very quickly.
I don't know any other db that lets you put arbitrary constraints in transactions and run queries as if you were in the past.
I read the title, saw the photo of the author, and made a snap judgment that the article was going to be a pseudo-intellectual, covertly conservative argument, such as: "Why race is actually a thing, sometimes" or "Why gender pay imbalances may be sometimes helpful" - and my snap judgment was right.
> the other is less palatable

Yes. For right-libertarians, the right wing party in american politics is more palatable than the left wing party.
i had a fantastic time contributing some code to the ghost.org blog platform. they are incredibly well managed, fantastically transparent, and provide a great deal of support for people contributing to the codebase. very much an a+++++++ would contribute again situation.

Probably the thing that sets any receptive project is its ability to identify areas where it needs help and setting aside well defined (and documented) projects in those areas. In many projects, there's lots of work needed to be done but the priorities aren't obvious and so lots of contributions get left on the floor because they're just not in any way priorities for the active maintainers. it takes lots of work and maturity for a project to advertise this sort of stuff which is why these situations seem few and far between.

Regardless, try to invest time in filling in the current needs of projects rather than unsolicited work. some unsolicited work (bugfixes) is easily accepted, but features are often hard to incorporate especially if they're not aligned with the short term goals of the project.
Extensive recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10243101
For me it's all about the lexicon verbssssssssss
Brain broken. (applause)
Apple reportedly paving the way for Lightning headphones
Student Debt in America
I've found that OS communities have largely come a LONG ways over the last few years. Most are helpful and are full of smart, nice people. That said, there are always going to be a few less than cordial people in every crowd.

When picking an OS project to get involved in, there are only two suggestions I have:

1. Make sure there's a fair sized community behind it with > 1 committer (not much worse than getting involved with a project that just dies)
2. Make sure it's something that's going to hold your attention for a good while and it's something you're passionate about. Generally, contributing to OS projects isn't really a fly by night thing (of course depending on the level of involvement you're looking for). If you get involved with a project that has a great community but isn't something you're actually passionate about, chances of long term involvement aren't really high.

From personal experience, the Python community has been the most enjoyable for me to date. Filled with academics and hackers, scientists and CRUD so developers, I have yet to see another community filled with such diversity from which comes intelligent, positive discussion and results.
There is no guarantee that all of the momentum will end up in the black hole.
Hard drives and protocol overhead are to blame.
1gig+ .11n wifi is common, Ethernet is always an option but in either case neither will be the bottleneck.
An Artificial Pheromone System for Robotic Swarms
They'll make it up on "Shipping and Handling"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ0n9TQ2gNo seems a worthy session on the topic (from C++0x / drafts times, so it has some hands-on rationale / insight :))
Epic's Unreal Engine 4 team and the community around it is an amazing kind, supportive, friendly and talented group of people.

http://unrealengine.com/

Its one of the reasons I got back into game dev and chose to use this engine.

The engine itself is state-of-the-art and the improvements per each release is AWESOME.

As the engine is a commercial offering that is open source, there are a lot of people involved. This makes it easier for new people to get onboard.
They twitch on a biweekly basis
http://twitch.tv/unrealengine/

Have a look at the last two release notes for an example of what they get up too.

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/unreal-engine-49-released

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/unreal-engine-4-10-release...

If I recall correctly, 4.11 is more a stability release then feature release. It is the release currently being developed. Check out the Trello board to see what features are being developed where

https://trello.com/b/gHooNW9I/ue4-roadmap

I'd advise to sign up for an account, link your github account, have a look through and join the forums.

I've got the same account name on there if you have any questions.
Can you give an example?

I have some speculation as to what you're referring to, but it's easier if you just say.
Just curious, is innexpensive a requirement, and would one of the nuc/brix setups work for you?
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution
What's funny about discrimination is some is overt, but much more is covert. Overt is mostly frowned upon, although e.g. car insurance companies still openly charge men more. I'm pretty sure that's only allowed because men aren't the "protected gender" when it comes to discrimination.
Oh, I'm not talking about reusing the Pi power port to connect the Wifi, I'm saying that you could connect the Wifi to the single data USB port, but use a Y cable to connect the VCC/GND lines of the Wifi adapter directly to the charger.

EDIT: Like this (the right one is the Y-cable):

+--------------+ +------+
| | | WIFI |
| Rasp Pi | +--+---+
| | ^
+--+------+----+ |
^ | |
| | |
| | D-/D+ |
| +-------------->+
| ^
| VCC/GND |
+ +
Charger Charger
I think fixing easy bugs are the easiest way to get around and interact.

https://bugzil.la/sw:%22%5Bgood%20first%20bug%5D%22&limit=0
I spend my life first and foremost in a community. I think it makes perfect sense to look for a good community first and then check in on their project.

That said, I've noticed that all of my favorite communities are centered around good work, and that good work makes it easy to find and share joy. A great community isn't going to be working on something stupid.
Would appreciate a source to this claim, especially if this is trying to imply that this is 1 of the 3.
This is harsh but true. If you're at risk of losing your job, and you need all that income just to survive - without saving anything - then you're already not in a sustainable situation and should fix it while it's easy, not after you lose your job and become desperate enough to take on foolish debt in the stress of the moment. Similarly, if you depend on your job to pay the mortgage, then be prepared to lose your house when you lose your job. It's not the end of the world, you can still get a pile of cash out of it.
From what I've seen of you in the Rust community, you might be one of the people who has the chops to actually make a large positive impact on a project's community. But for me, at least right now, without practicing a bunch, I think it would be futile and frustrating, and I suspect most people are in that boat.
It would hit things, but that just means that it would drill a hole a couple of atoms wide as it passed through the earth and exited the other side.
The companies buy debts for pennies on the dollar and then try to recover what they can from debtors.

So if the debt can be "bought" for pennies per dollar, why can't it be settled for this amount by the unfortunate people at the end of the bludgeoning stick?

You know what would be fun? A site that lets people get together and buy these debts and then instead of hounding the debtors, forgives the debts and then sends a nice card informing the debtor that they are now forgiven this debt with the names of all of the people who kicked in to wipe it out.
You could follow bank truck routes.

You could find where someone lives based on an instagram photo of them standing behind their car.

You see a car in a driveway and check it against the app you built with this data to find out when they're not home to interrupt your burglary.

You could plan hijackings of valuable shipments.

or kidnappings of wealthy people.

Lots of crap you can do when you basically know where someone or some vehicle is at all times.

I'm sure there's much worse, that's all I can think up from comic books and TV, but real pro criminals must have a million uses.
Samba has a very supportive and vibrant team [0].

[0] www.samba.org
I really like Darktable as a project. It's a competent alternative to Lightroom for editing, but its library management features haven't impressed me (read: I couldn't really get it to work with more than a few dozen photos), not that Lightroom is great.

I'd love to see Darktable improve even more into a great Lightroom alternative. Props to the team.
Such a program already exists: http://rollingjubilee.org/
https://github.com/nylas/N1

I really do enjoy the Nylas team and are well receiving of any issues I find or any support I need developing a plugin.
I have always had a mixed experience, and I think I mostly agree with that blog post, for the most part. I know our most recent migration to Drupal 7 (still ongoing, about a year after I started working on it in my spare time; it's the most painful migration I've ever worked on, including migrations across CMS and languages...this particular site has been migrated from OpenACS->Joomla->Drupal 6, all of those jumps were faster and easier than the jump to Drupal 7).

I'm very uncomfortable with the direction of Drupal (the willingness to break backward compatibility without credible paths forward for users being the most painful for me). I've always assumed mostly it's due to my own ignorance, but this blog post confirms some of that discomfort is not just me not knowing what's going on. There's been a big move of putting things into the database that once resided in code, and this makes it really challenging to figure out how anything works. The abstraction runs really, really, deep, almost absurdly so. Trying to figure out what makes a page happen is an exercise in frustration a lot of the time, as it has pieces that are in code, pieces that are in Views, and pieces that come from other mysterious locations (there's stuff that I just assume will always remain beyond my kin).

Drupal 8 seems to be further down that path. Certainly there are improvements, but it just requires so much knowledge to even begin to work on anything in Drupal that it's incredibly frustrating for someone that dips in every week or so, to add new functionality or fix a bug on my company website.

Earlier in this migration, and at several stages along the way, I've assessed whether I could move our site to something else with less effort and end up with something nicer (both for users and to maintain). I opted not to at several points along the path, but I'm still not convinced that was a wise choice, even as close as I am now to launching a D7 version. Frankly, I dread working on the damned thing. It's just not fun.

As for github, I don't actually blame an OSS project for not wanting to move into a proprietary source hosting platform. I have uneasy feelings about my own projects being hosted there, and plan to work on a gitlab or Phabricator or something else deployment eventually, so we are not beholden to a proprietary third party (github is a great product and they seem like great people, but so was SourceForge at one time).

Anyway, if there were some other thing (I don't like using the term CMS, because people often assume I'm wanting a CMS...when "content management" is effectively 0% of my use case for Drupal) that had integrated forums, ticket tracker, shopping cart with subscriptions and licensing, and a way to manage docs, and it didn't require mountains of custom code, I would have already moved away from Drupal. I've considered building something custom with a framework, but this isn't my core competency or interest; I just want to put some pieces together and sell and support the software I do want to work on full-time.
The World's Most Expensive Diamond Owned by 7-Year-Old Girl – Infossible
That's pretty specific to Paris. In the smaller cities there's been a small increase of VO/VOST movies but it's still not that popular outside of the arthouse kind of cinemas.
For example in Rennes, only one of the two main cinemas in the city ever offers VOST movies...
Wow! That is an astounding difference. Thanks for your quick action. If your numbers are correct looks like you just reduced idle usage by close to 50% - 0.2 watts to 0.1 watts or something - if a solar panel has to get through fog and night-time on an attached battery, that is a huge difference!
>Jacobson oversaw a security process that began at a printing plant where pieces were made, separated by value and stored in a vault. He was responsible for transporting those pieces...

Thinking a system is secure just because there is a process in place, however careless the design, seems like a recurring theme (society?).

I wonder if it's a psychological bias (or lack of security awareness) in the sense that you'd rather trust an system you can observe than a secure black box. Or maybe it is the fact that the workings of the system in place can act as a distraction to its possible flaws?
> How would you feel about pro-lifers hounding a CEO out because of a donation?

This is difficult to compare. A donation to keep an existing right versus a donation to take an existing right away. For these to compare, it would have to be a donation toward a proposition that stripped women of the right not to have an abortion, which is nonsensical.

> His opinion is/was not extreme or unusual.

That's a horrible justification. There used to be majority support for slavery, segregation, anti-miscegenation, etc.

> Is it reasonable to expect the full-range personal of views (and voting patterns) of a CEO to be agreeable to every employee?

Like I said, I didn't want to get into who should be able to say what when. But if it's free speech for Eich to make that donation, then it's definitely free speech for people to protest against him for making it as well. Again, no one forced him out. He resigned voluntarily. The people complaining held zero power in Mozilla.

> If my boss is professional & courteous when dealing with me, I couldn't care less if he were a KKK Grand Dragon.

Even if you were a black employee? I'm not sure I could be so magnanimous, but kudos to you for that :D
I remember enjoying Go's IRC room early on, but it has gotten …more difficult. I fear this is inevitable and will happen to Rust, but it hasn't yet, which is an extremely pleasant surprise.
If you're just using it as a headless server, you can run standard Debian on this generation of Allwinner hardware. You download a Debian Jessie installer image from the Debian website, load it on an SD card, hook up a serial console and go through the install process as usual with the standard Debian-packaged kernel. Debian doesn't have the device tree specifying how hardware is hooked up on the C.H.I.P yet because it's new, so this won't yet work on it, but in theory I think that's all that's missing.
> First and foremost, in Italy we dub our movies so well, the dubbing itself could be considered a mastered art.

I think that's just what we tell ourselves to feel better and for national pride. I started watching movies in English many years ago and, even when my English was not yet very good and I had to use subtitles, I preferred watching the original version, the real actor is just much better. Now, after living in the US for a few years, when I hear dubbed movies they sound just ridiculous: everyone speaks with the same flat intonation, there is no emotion in the words, it all sounds fake and, funny detail, I'm now much more aware that the voice is out of sync with the lips. It's both hilarious and painful to endure.
'Feoffer' is probably the worst word there. But just maybe the worst snare in English is 'positive' — the other 'positive' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_organ . Yes it's obviously some kind of loan-word, but then so are most English words...
Just did a bunch more testing, and I can get it to idle at ~40 mA if I disable HDMI (inside `/etc/rc.local`: `/usr/bin/tvservice -o`).

With a WiFi dongle (so it can operate on the local network at least) and HDMI disabled, it hovers around 120 mA. Very, very nice!
how much did two $9 computers cost you total? postage and tax included?
Scikit-learn is pretty great.

Very appreciative, smart, and plenty of room for beginners.
I was about to write the same thing. Perl 6 is a great community, and they really seem committed to keeping the community welcoming and engaging.
The $1mm donation to St Jude's was pretty classy, even given the crooked scam. I hope it helps some kids.