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I've been extremely astonished with how stable ZFS on Linux has been for me - I remember when it was unusable.
"things like IPMI interfaces or SCADA devices the alternatives approache zero"

My strategy with IPMI has been to assign IPMI non-routable, private IP addresses, then block that address space at the interior of the network (which is sort of redundant) and then require folks to SSH onto an interior host and connect to IPMI that way.

I would be very interested in, and receptive to, criticisms of this model ...
Can't zoom.
Agree they deserve a good part of it. My qualm is mostly around what "good" is. Employee #50 making $350k off a success doesn't feel like like a tragedy to me. If employee #5 made that at Box, I'd be upset too.

I disagree strongly about your characterization of risk. Long run losing of $10k for 10 years is nothing like losing salary completely for a year. Unless you've been very good with money, taking a year with no salary in the Bay Area means Ramen. That year is also the start-up's most risky and the one with the least support. Most of the time when I hear these arguments it's from employees who have never tried founding. People who've tried both and know how difficult it is to keep yourself going for a year making nothing and trying to convince someone to pay for what you made don't think the equity split is unfair anymore-- even when they go back to being employees.
"I'm in the news industry." and a bit of a resigned shrug with knowing grin is an adequate explanation. It also, IMHO, makes you look like a responsible person who takes charge when you try to line something up in advance of getting forced out the door.
It's not about disagreement. The poster put "scare quotes" around sexism, implying that the issue does not even exist or is worth discussing.

That's not an "opinion" it's an implicit way of saying that everyone talking about it is kind of dumb for even bringing it up.

EDIT: OH WOW, I HAVE BEEN DOWNVOTED. Which is not something I normally care about since I post quite controversial things anyway. But downvoted by the same people complaining about being "unfairly downvoted by others"? The hypocrisy of you.
Good thing they're optional, then.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GTK%2B#Client-side_deco...
I like Haskell but I see no future in terms of widespread adoption for it. It's simply too alien for your typical CS grad and for some projects one would like to use it for (let's say security critical),
laziness (and non-predictable behavior in terms of memory use and performance) is a big problem.

We do however see some of its features being slowly introduced to other languages which is nice, I guess.
I've made this point before, but since it's a bit relevant here, I'll make it again (sorry to repeat):

If you're primarily interested in making money, or if you love the startup but not the compensation, you should NOT work at that startup.

If you're a good developer, you can get a better deal by working at an established company and simply investing. This has been true for every startup offer I've ever seen. Ever.

I've considered lots of startup jobs because I believed strongly in the companies. Every single time, however, I was able to get a larger chunk of the company by keeping my current job and simply investing.

To give an example, my current job pays about $250k, and one year, I invested $100k of that into a startup, leaving me with ~$150k of salary. This $150k + startup equity was a better deal than the startup was offering in both salary and equity (BY FAR). Plus, equity bought as an investor is much less tax toxic than equity options received as an employee of a startup.

On the other hand, most people who work at startups aren't interested in money. If that's you, that's totally cool!
I'm similar to you - only went to University for 1 year when I was 20 just to get on a placement, where I showed enough aptitude in programming to get taken on permanently. That year was awful, being taught by professors who knew less than me, and would only teach COBOL as "that's what you'll be using for your entire career"

My partner is the most intelligent woman i've met, and she's very senior at a decent Uni in England - she teaches staff and PHDs how to teach, and gives keynote speeches around the world in this.

Even SHE knows the University system is fucked. For her, it won't be replaced by MOOCs, though they will be part of the mix.

Her Uni have got a (semi-secret) plan to amalgamate professional quals like a Cisco CCNA for example into the credit path for a 'normal' degree. The idea, long term, is to have learning as a lifelong thing, as opposed to something you do when you're young and can't be arsed. Eventually the government would give credits to people in work who've paid their dues so they can do courses relevant to them and universities would be open all hours.

I don't think it'll work out, but we can only dream...
This is a really poor analysis. Making $250k after five years at a large company is not the norm, except possibly in finance. The Googles of the world are littered with people who didn't make Senior after 5 years or who got taken into "The Perf Room" and made quiet, shameful exits.

Startup jobs are massively overrated right now, and most startup offers are terrible because there are so many unqualified people willing to work for next to nothing, but this guy is overrating big-company jobs. The truth is that, in both cases, most options are rotten and most people get a bad deal. It's important to recognize this, in order to fix it.
I think you're jumping to some conclusions there.

Most "creepy" men are socially awkward and can't do anything about it, or at least they haven't been able to do anything about it yet. To villainize them out of hand isn't helpful either. Some of them undoubtedly have social disorders, so coming down on them seems unfair as well. Maybe there are some people that are creepy on purpose, but I suspect that is a very small number of incidents.

People have a responsibility to learn how to respectfully approach potential partners, but the rules on that are vague and there's no authoritative resource on what they are. But there's absolutely a bottom line, that we should aspire to make sure everyone feels safe and respected.

But, on the flip side of the coin, people have some responsibility in learning how to learn how to reject someone clearly but respectfully. Walking to the other side of the room and talking to your friends about the creepy guy is literally the stuff of other peoples' nightmares.
Nice chart, although it would be really important to see references to the data sources and more notes on methodology (at the very least, they should have included dates on which the valuations were measured! Also, how exactly do we define "debt" and how is it computed/where is it referenced from?)

Also, the "Rest of the World" stock market capitalization is much larger than I would have expected, since it seems to exclude the largest exchanges (US+Europe+China+Japan). It would be nice to see a more detailed breakdown of that; perhaps I should do one :)

I would guess India+Brazil should be pretty large combined, and there are probably companies with tiny & illiquid float trading on obscure exchanges, but large capitalizations.

And yes, as another commenter noted, using the notional for derivatives valuation is really quite misleading -- I guess this is the easiest number to compute, and is probably the one supporting the point they are trying to make, but there should at least be more of a note telling people about it.

Still, nice work! It's good to see things in perspective.
Therein lies the problem. Most humans are not conscious of their own mental state. When they are it is most often temporary and abstract.
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There aren't very many strings. I am a year into the BizSpark program. So far, I have only been using a small VPS, always on, for the product I am working on - so I am not taking as much advantage as I could. Azure is very nice, comparable to AWS and Google Cloud
I realize I need some neologisms.
I think you should probably research that a little better. If you see look on wiki[1] you can see a focus on gold held by governments. The US for instance holds 8000 tons of gold.

However if you dig ;-) deeper you find out that a country like India is estimated to have 15,000+ tons [2] of gold held privately traditionally as jewelry. This Indian form of savings is widespread and does contradict your statement regarding physical gold. Other countries have similar although normally less savings held in this form.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_reserve
[2] - http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2011/07/14/indias-600-bil...
browser.html makes more sense. Web standards are, at this point, their own form of GUI toolkit, and why does Firefox need more than one? It is just bloat.

https://github.com/mozilla/browser.html
I think you misunderstood what he is saying (or maybe he wasn't clear enough): in the first paragraph he says that code decays when it is "changed", meaning when the codebase is enlarged, grown, more functionality added. On the second, when he talks about interventions, he's not refering to the same kind of changes, but to "code maintainence", which is a distinct and different kind of effort, the one that prevents the decay. For instance, from his point of view, a unit test is not a change to the codebase, but an intervention. Therefore, the codebase organism enlarges and rots with more code added, and bug fixing, test, refactors, etc, are the efforts needed not to rot. (Conclusion: the analogy is not the culprit :)
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Yes, interactions with other human beings have different personal (to the counterparty) and often social acceptability (as well as, often, moral and/or legal status) based on context, including, especially, whether they are welcome by the other person. The difference between rape and consensual sex is a fairly extreme, obvious, and readily recognizable example, but, while the intensity and severity varies, its common across pretty much the whole range of human interactions.

Failing to recognize this and act accordingly is the essence of objectification.
This is not what's happening though AFAIK. In the lottery illustration there will be a single payout. In derivatives the risk of default for a certain "class" is treated as IID, and banks can leverage a certain amount on different risk classes (100x is not unusual).

But as 2007 demonstrated the real world risk is not IID. And at 100x leverage a 1% movement can totally wipe out a bank.

Also it's not like the 2007 crisis was fixed in any meaningful way. The FED just bought 1.4 trillion of MBS derivatives and is now sitting on them, actual value still unclear. Probably to be paid by the tax payer through 20 years of austerity.
According to your link, your first example should be 10 lakh
It's weird how this flies over the head of so many.
I've used 2.0 on a Server 2016 TP4 and two different Windows 10 with zero problems. The person you've seen running it probably didn't install Winpcap or something along those lines, hence why installing 1.12.8 solved the issue.

My main criticism is that I don't get a separate window telling me the progress of the file loading. I work sometimes with big files and it takes a few seconds to load them. On 2.0 at first I didn't know what was going on, because there's only this very tiny progress bar at the bottom.
So you wasted years of your time and years of the other people time simply to get some stupid letters to add to your CV? Sorry, I ran out of sympathy.
Yes, and no.

You'll see the titlebars anyway because they contain worthwhile controls now. You know, like with Chrome putting the close buttons on the tab bar. Evince (a document viewer) has the page number, back-next, find, annotate button, zoom controls, options dropdown and a lil' more on there, for example.

The other thing is that the control buttons you won't want are opt-out:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GTK%2B#Client-side_deco...
> your browser has a nearly-
> unique fingerprint

Must be one of the few iPhone 6+s users in Germany O_o
All IT departments now want people with programming skills, and a lot of people who are already in IT don't like programming. I think you will get offers from most IT departments that you interview at.
"You didn't actually cubano's point. You're straight so you weren't attracted to any of the guys who approached you. cubano was saying it would be different if you were approached by a woman you were interested in. Perhaps the indirectness would seem coy instead of creepy."

Maybe the women that cubano observed were not attracted to any of the guys that cubano saw approach them either? Maybe they weren't attracted to them because they were actually creepy?

I have never seen a woman treat a friendly guy who approached her as creepy just because the guy wasn't "attractive" to her, unless that guy was only being "friendly" in his own mind and actually acting very sleazy.
This startup bets up to $10,000 that your marriage will end badly
No idea where you got that many-most figure. I hang out with a lot of founders. Don't know any except for repeat founders who get founded pre-product. Not saying it doesn't happen, but it's rare, and finding that Angel to fund you that early is not easy.
I have used the previous version several times over the years across computers, operating systems and browsers. My worry was always about browser fingerprinting, which meant that using a popular configuration like Windows XP/7 with IE 6/7/8 would help "hide in the crowds and not stand out" better than other choices would.

Even with this new version of Panopticlick and its associated help pages, it's disturbing to know that browser fingerprinting cannot be completely defeated.

In the help page, the recommended limited effect approaches to handle browser fingerprinting are:

1. Use Tor - this is probably useless for most people due to the low speed of browsing (I know everyone has to pitch in to share bandwidth with others, but this is not an easy compromise at all).

2. Use Privacy Badger - I do use it with Firefox and Chrome, but it's not available for other browsers, which is not ideal for me.

3. Use NoScript - I tried this a long time ago and found that it crippled almost every site I regularly visited. I realized this was too heavy and cumbersome a solution. I can easily recommend uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger to other non-technical people, knowing that those wouldn't usually cause issues with websites. But it's not possible to recommend NoScript to non-technical users who just want to get things done.

My earlier conclusion on browser fingerprinting was that ironically, it usually traps the more technical and privacy oriented people who may use more of the unpopular solutions in order to derive privacy and security related benefits.

I wish there were easier ways to defeat browser fingerprinting, because we may not even know which sites are using it to track us (unlike say, cookies or super cookies, where the evidence is usually visible).
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Whoa thanks for pointing out copper spice! I use Qt everyday at work and this could be cool to mess around with for some projects.
Secure/hide: I disagree. A lot of gold is stored in heavily guarded, hidden underground vaults, which have evolved to be secure over thousands of years. I can't imagine why or how securing and hiding Bitcoin could ever be costlier than that.

Reasons to believe why Bitcoin might scale to gold sizes from that graph over time: my thoughts on this are at https://cs702.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/on-the-potential-adop...
a fundamental difference between W^X and PAX is that PAX can be disabled on a per binary based, where W^X is applied on the whole system. That more aggressive aproach has been applied first on OpenBSD and i like to believe that's that they are referring to
Co-founder here! This was a simple idea that occurred to us a couple of months back.

We realised that most people nowadays, due to a shorter and smaller attention span, tend to skip words, lines while reading any form and content. This has led to a lack of comprehension.

Blinkr helps you read better, while simultaneously creating an aura of suspense while reading an unfinished document :D

Looking for any sort of feedback :)
Divide the number of bitcoin transactions by the power spent mining, and each transaction consumes enough power to run an American household for a day and a half.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/bitcoin-is-unsustainable
Native appearance maybe?
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Out of curiosity, How much experience do you have, and what kind of work do you do? (eg management, coding, lead engineer?)
I'll ignore your ad-hominem and your strange attempts to change the topic to your uncommon definition of sexism (as opposed to the original definition used by blowski, Pauline Leet, Caroline Bird, and everyone else here).

You are correct that it is possible that by giving people snacks they prefer, I'm affecting their future preferences in some way.

So what? All actions might possibly influence people's future preferences in some (probably unpredictable) manner. Why would I trade actual predictable present-day happiness for unpredictable changes in future behavior that might theoretically be somewhat better?

(If you disagree with me that influence on future preferences is unpredictable, and think you can predict social dynamics better than random chance, offer me a basket of bets at favorable odds.)
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Do you not think that a better solution would be for people to accept these differences?

Seems pretty obvious to me.
Having an open discussion about state surveillance is essentially impossible on hacker news given moderation policy, liberal use of banning, astro turfing and corresponding up and down voting and flagging that occurs. HN Mod policy is to claim they take such claims seriously but nothing changes and those who complain too loudly get banned.
What are the advantages over treating servers as cattle?

http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/openstack-pets-and-cattle,...
You treat them nicely while you keep your records and protect yourself as well as you can. You can say "No" nicely, and you can instigate a lawsuit without ever losing your decorum or sense of fair play.
Trying to prevent browser fingerprinting? The odds are against you
I like xkcd's visualization better, because the quantities are displayed logarithmically: each part of xkcd's visualization uses squares which represent 1000 times more money than the previous part's squares.
I am the only right handed person that I know who wears their watch on their right hand. Most people think I am left handed because of it.

I think I started it to be different when I was a teen and the habit just stuck.
The reason one would want to do this is to reduce wear on the watch, since the dominant hand is going and doing things the dominant wrist is more likely to be smacked.
This goes double for expensive watches.
Good luck finding a entry-level job, any entry level job in Spain that pays you more than 900€ per month in Spain, Italy, Portugal... even France and maybe, Germany (although I have less information there).

From what I see, you might get 2-2.5K€ per month in the rest of Europe. Ireland and UK are, AFAIK, where the highest salaries in IT are and even there you are going to get 2-3K€ per month at most.

Most lawyers I know in Europe start their careers earning minimum wage. And they do that for a few years until they are promoted to full lawyers or open their own practice.

Doctors usually spend their first years with temp contracts of 3-6 months in Hospitals for slightly more than minimum wage. This is after they finish their degrees and do the mandatory internships they need to do to get their MD degree.
I am constantly amazed by how many people fail to detect Randall Munroe's sarcasm and mockery...
> most Watches are designed to be worn on the left side.

Yes, for right-handed people. The opposite is true for left-handed people, and left-handed versions of watches.
Gold gets stolen all the time. Most people only keep it in the form of jewelry, but almost everyone knows several people who've had someone break into their house and steal it. (People who keep gold as a stash of wealth generally don't have it in their physical possession.) I'd argue there are probably thousands of instances of gold theft for every one of bitcoin.

It's just not much of a story. Bitcoin is new and interesting, gold isn't.
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That's a shit deal. It's built on *nix? It's got the guts to share, but not the spirit. So selfish. Bad ecology.
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There are 3 major steps to getting a job (IMO).

1st) Resume + story. Search google for 'Harvard Computer Science Resume' or 'Georgia Tech Computer Science resume' and use their format. There are standard formats that are widely used for top jobs. You then need to get ready for behavioral interviews. This involves getting a minimum of 3-5 PAR stories ready and to think hard about all the stuff you have done over 10 years. Practice them.

2nd) You need to prep for technical interviews. I'm not a coder, but in my field (finance) there is a lot of material available. I know I have seen stuff about technical interviews here.

3rd) Network. Obviously LinkedIn is extremely helpful for locating contacts. Search for past people from the Newspaper, your high school, any groups you are in. For education, I would probably leave it blank rather than putting a high school on there so it doesn't draw attention to you not having a degree.

It will be extremely hard for you to get a job via a career posting. You will need to reach out to friends and ask them for 'advice' and if they know of anyone that you should talk to in their company.

Expect this process to take 4 months. It seems like forever, but it will take a while. That will be fine. Once you have your new gig, you will be in an exciting new industry.

Source: I just got hired by another large company after a search after shutting down my business.
Matt is a really good guy and was my employee at Kongregate.
AFAIK both GTK and GIMP severely lack Windows contributors - what else is to be expected, than shitty experience on that platform? If I remember well, a few years ago GIMP even stoped publishing it's Windows builds, because there wasn't no one to take care of them. Complaining won't make much of a difference - but sending bug reports, patches will.
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I've been out of school 3-4 years, and I work at a large company. I'm about 10% a manager, 10% a resident data scientist, and 80% a coder, and I love my job.
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Having an open discussion about state surveillance is essentially impossible on hacker news given moderation policy, liberal use of banning, astro turfing and corresponding up and down voting and flagging that occurs. HN Mod policy is to claim they take such claims seriously but nothing changes and those who complain too loudly get banned
Well, not quite -- if odds of winning are in fact around 1 in 200MM or less, there is no market failure here.

Their point would still stand if they sold 100MM tickets though, so as not to confuse the two issues (ie. the notional amount and the expected value), perhaps it would have been a better example that way.