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Ask HN: Struggling to pay rent this month. Can I help you with a gig?
Hi HN, long-time contributor with ~1500 karma; throwaway for obvious reasons.

When I used to see these posts, I always was thankful for the position I was in. I never hesitated to send a personal message with my regards and best wishes, and most of the time I'd include a small bit of help. I'm hoping this all comes full-circle, because I desperately need it.

Let's not make this about financial planning (it's otherwise pretty good) but a client has just told me (after telling me they were waiting on a third-party...) they're unable to pay their invoice this month and it's put a strain on me.

About 2 years ago I had an excess of $100k in my bank account. As someone in their early-mid 20s, I was doing very good. I don't live lavishly or have super nice things; I'm pretty frugal and basic. But after some hospital expenses and some very bad luck, I'm down to less than $1k in my accounts, and my assets are non-existent as, well, they never really existed in the first place.

My stack is Ruby/Rails, HTML/CSS/jQuery (yeah, I know), and Sidekiq for background jobs. I can integrate any API or build them quickly. I've scraped more websites than I haven't, and I'm pretty good at it. A JS framework (likely Vue or React) is in my New Years Resolution. Point being, I can get things done and get them done right. I can also consult on SEO, copywriting, marketing, and a couple laughs if need be.

I'd prefer to stay publicly anonymous; I can send over some samples of work via email and we can jump on a call/Skype/hangout/whatever.

I know this won't be met with some of the kindest thoughts; remember, everyone has a story. Some of them are prettier than others. At the end of the day, we're all human.

Again, to reiterate, I'm not asking for hand-me-outs; I can't morally accept them. I'm not asking for a loan. I'm asking if I can start hacking away on that project you've been putting off.

Email: q3qjbo9iku2aipq@jetable.org (forwards to my personal)
As an enterprise grows, you either retain centralized control and have hierarchy, or distribute control by treating parts of the org like independent, federated entities (think Berkshire Hathaway).

The military's size, scope, and mission are unique. You need top-down control, because otherwise most folks won't decide to run up a hill into a machine gun on their own. That mission focus (do stuff with force), cascades into the supporting services.
This seems to have unfolded rapidly and the details are very light so I would like to suggest that no, this is not 'almost' an open and shut case.
BTRFS Still Not Production Ready [discussion Thread]
I'd appreciate it if you'd respect my trigger warning for the phrase "trigger warning". Thanks.
(Note: I did not read the article so I can't speak to the GP's point, but this comment isn't really about the article.)

I don't think so. I don't think people are asking for all possible triggering scenarios to be covered. They're asking for people to take some time and consider how others (less privilege || victims of abuse ||etc.) might be affected. A trigger warning is essentially a heads up.
Perhaps it's more accurate to say there are well-known, pervasive, use cases that are not possible without HKTs.
That Enigma project that he bases his opinion on looks rather suspicious for me.

Here is their white-paper: http://enigma.media.mit.edu/enigma_full.pdf

I am a bit skeptical on anything with blockchain in the synopsis these days.
I think we can stand to wait for those closest to him to release more information when they're ready.
1) modern interface
2) polyglot architecture (multiple languages work together in the same notebook)
3) native electron version

yes i am one of its developers.

here's an example of working with Python and D3/JavaScript together: https://pub.beakernotebook.com/#/publications/560c9f9b-14e6-...

and the electron version:
https://github.com/twosigma/beaker-notebook/wiki/Electron-Be...
That's still pretty good for a company you thought was (somewhat?) dysfunctional!
I think the lesson to learn from this is to be wary of anybody who says they can look at a system for organising people that works well and write down a recipe for how to reproduce the essential elements of that system. Even if they were partially responsible for creating it. Most likely, nobody understands why it works in enough detail to write down precisely what it would take to reproduce it.
Well, we should at least try to find out what happened. It's the natural thing to do, and the easiest way to do that, is to dig up links related to the matter, so we know the true story.
Excellent points. Hard not to rage at this though. It is beyond distressing.
Hmm, I don't understand this story and links here. Why would a very successful person with family commit suicide over police-brutality? No comprendo.

The appropriate response would be to get even through a court of law, or even paying to have some legs broken if it were justified.

Perhaps he was depressed or mentally ill?
For readability for people who don't have a 15 360 X 1080 screen:

Chih-Wei,

We have repeatedly said, including in emails (both before and) following this that went unresponsive to afterwards, that we wanted to collaborate and contribute. We simply were not willing to pay money up front to do so.

You will be free to take any improvements we make to Console OS on GitHub and integrate them upstream. We didn't go to all this effort to make a bunch of empty device trees, and call it a day.

If you want to discuss this further, with a path to resolving it - my door is open.

But this list is not the place to do it. Continuing to repeat the same points here, only slows my ability to lead our team to deliver - attempting to stop a legitimate fork by these means, will not succeed.
I've been following this saga for awhile. I feel sorry for them. The best analogy is to liken it to a slow motion car wreck. The Kickstarter comments thread reads like an instructional manual on how to make your customers hate you.

The average backers perception is that most of their time is spent doing damage control for not being able to deliver on their promises by shifting the blame to Intel for stopping development of Intel-IA.

They should take ownership for fucking up. Blaming Intel is the last thing they should be doing. What does Intel have to do with it? Nothing, of course. Their dependency on Intel doing the work certainly wasn't mentioned in the Kickstarter's Risks and Challenges.

In a way I'd like to help them, but all their business decisions are just so awful that you just can't help but stand back and watch it unfold through the splayed fingers of a facepalm. I think they will somehow decline this offer, even though it will/would be a terrible mistake to turn it down.

This should be a good lesson to founders. You can't just punch up a menu of stuff you want, claim it's mostly done and then fail when the going gets tough. If you are telling the market you can deliver it, you need to be able to deliver it.
Do we really have such poor social skills that candor and niceness are at odds? Really? I get that it can be a difficult goal to achieve both, but goddammit we're all adults here. We should all have developed those skills! Just because you're going to be frank doesn't mean you have to be an asshole about it. This whole idea seems to justify people taking the easy way and putting nice and candid at opposite ends of a spectrum.
> Maybe I'm missing something, but what does implicit "this" arguments have to do with functional programming?

They're implicit mutable state. Whether you think that has anything to do with functional programming is another matter, I suppose.
It's still technically illegal if they turn down qualified applicants for jobs that were not the same religion/sect/cult.
Unlikely you are going to overwhelm Redis in a non-deterministic fashion. What do you even mean by overwhelm?

The post only concerns itself with in-memory workloads; I don't think Aerospike is competition in this space, while their advantage is against workloads working against SSD backed datasets. "After Google published a blog post “Cassandra Hits One Million Writes Per Second on Google Compute Engine” – using 300 nodes, we followed the same steps and documented how Aerospike Hits One Million Writes Per Second With Just 50 Nodes On Google Compute Engine. [...] Aerospike on SSD is very comparable to that of RAM. At 100% write, the SSDs are able to sustain 226,000 transactions per second compared to 239,000 for RAM." [0] Redis would have no problem hitting 250K IOPS on just a single core provided by GCE (or AWS EC2 or similar).

[0] http://www.aerospike.com/resource/aerospike-soars-in-the-goo...
For the confused, ConsoleOS was successfully funded at $78,000 on kickstarter to release a version of Android that dual boots with Windows. After a year, nothing was released. The head of ConsoleOS, Chris, claimed the Intel dropping their Android project was the reason. He finally released code on github and it was just the Android-x86 project with the name changed. He claimed to have wanted to contribute significant code to the Android-x86 project but was refused and posted a single private email from a long chain as proof.

From Reddit, it has come to light that Chris has orchestrated numerous other crowd funding projects that failed at best or appear to be outright scams at worst.

Here, the head of Android-x86 is calling Chris on his bluff and promising to pay Chris $50,0000 if Chris posts code for just 10 of the 100 new features that were promised in the kickstarter a year ago. In the follow-ups to this request, Chris made a request to change venue for the discussion, a request to take the discussion private, and additional excuses. The head of Android-x86 stated again that no more discussion was required, just post the commits for any 10 features out of the 100 of Chris' choice publicly in the next 24 hours and get $50,000.
It's ok to have invalid object as long as you have a final validated state to declare the object as clean.

For a model object, I usually run several passes over its fields after the fields have been populated.

1. Run simple field transformers for individual field (e.g. toUpper, UUID generation, Modified time, Trim, CleanseChars, DeleteChars, Max, Min, Default, etc).

2. Run compound field transformers on related fields (e.g. concat two fields into another one, extract data from another field, compute percentage from another field, etc).

3. Run validation rules on each field.

The validation is run at the end so that it can check the derived fields after transformation.

Validation has a target profile: ForCreate, ForUpdate, ForLoad, etc. Only the target relevant valuation rules defined on the fields are run. E.g. ForCreate profile doesn't check the Required validation rule on the auto generated ID field since the ID will be generated in the database.
It's probably the single most ported distribution, from a variety of remixes for desktop, netbook and recovery uses alike to usually being the first target for every microcontroller and single-board.
Twitter changes its policy on violent posts
Liver hormone may be the off-switch for sweet-tooth, cocktail cravings
What will it be: “.MOTORCYLES” or “.MOTO”?
This is exactly why I posted in a previous thread that OSS projects and even public domain stuff need to patent their ass off. They should collect it into nonprofits that defend OSS institutions. Aside from self-defense, the main reason to patent all this stuff is so the big companies can't. This example shows they will do it any opportunity they can for anti-competitive purposes.
It would be great if we could practice Radical Candor here on HN. Let me give it a try.

I believe that mono-cultures perform much better than diverse cultures, and that startups who actually practice diversity (as opposed to giving lip service) are less competitive. As evidence, I submit that the core teams of every monster startup I can think of were mono cultures.

However once a company reaches critical mass, then diversity is a useful tool to increase the labor supply and thereby minimize wages. In well established industries, globalism and immigration are useful tools to increase labor supply and diminish wage pressure.

Under this theory, both diversity and globalism are tools used by 1%-capitalists to wage economic war on the middle class. Economic data shows the economic war is working.

Furthermore I assert that those who control the media actively suppress thoughtful critiques of diversity and immigration in order to protect their economic interests.

WDYT?
I had this exact experience at the movie theater, yesterday. There were two cash registers at the concession stand, but there was some ambiguity as to whether the second one was staffed. So, at first, like everyone else, I queued up at the first register. I asked around and nobody seemed to know whether the second register was open.

However, I noticed that the line on this register was moving rather slowly, and not wanting to be late for my film, I decided to take a risk and walked up to the second register. Lo and behold, it was actually open, and I had my popcorn in about a minute. If I hadn't been late for my movie, I don't think I would have gone to the second register.
Samsung gives you a bunch of different agreements to agree to or dismiss. I chose not to agree to sending my media information to Samsung, nor voice data. The remainder of the TV's features work fine.
Same problem here on a Windows Phone.
Sorry to hear that would you be willing to describe the abuse in more detail?
New Family of Android Malware Virtually Impossible to Remove
> The real question is, what can we do to make living a transparent and open life possible

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but are you advocating for people to make as many details of their life open and transparent on the internet because we should have nothing to hide?
I actually come across this scenario quite often in retail outlets with poorly designed queue layouts (e.g. an H&M with with 2-4 registers behind a long counter and a single ad-hoc queue lined up in front of one of them).

My reasoning is a little different (and a little more charitable I suppose in its generalization about human nature): I don't want to go step in front of the register with no one waiting in it because I don't want to look like a sociopathic jerk. I also assume that is why most people haven't done so.

At the same time, I know as soon as someone does step up and do it, people will grumble but the single ad hoc queue will redistribute itself into 3 more balanced queues. I'm usually waiting for someone else to be that sociopathic jerk.

What I wish is that the manager of the store gave a little more thought to this issue in the first place.
Unfortunately we don't have anything to go on - he never wrote he promised blog post, and his thread is gone. It's not our story to tell, and he didn't leave one behind. Anything we do is speculative now. Hopefully he left something for his loved ones that they can share and we can run with.
It's not gawking. It's trying to find out what happened.

Given who he is, it's the least any interested person would like to do.
Amazon has begun firing off lawsuits against review stacking companies specifically to fight this type of problem.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/18/technology/amazon-lawsuit-fa...
The problem with this idea is that media here in the UK (the red tops, Daily Mail, tv news etc.) would just turn on you, berate you, and then, eventually, ignore you. The headlines would start something along the lines of:

"Arrogant American tax-dodgers refuse to abide by the law... and take it out on you!",

or, "Facebook choosing terrorists over us!"

Promptly follow that up with reports about the number of UK jobs at risk.

All the focus would end up being on the social and economic consequences rather than the cause, and eventually the sheep would turn on you as well... or, worse, just learn to live without you while still being apathetic to the Governments assault on their liberty.
Easiest yes, but hardly the most accurate or sensitive.
An Aging America Shies Away from Risk
I had never heard of quaternions so I Googled the book title you suggested. In addition to the Amazon link [1], I also found a question on the gamedev SE where they talk about building a mental model of quaternions [2], which I found informative.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Visualizing-Quaternions-Kaufmann-Inter...

[2]: http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/4801/how-can-you-...
Wow, such a tragic loss. One of the reasons why Linux is to widely popular these days (Debian, Ubuntu, etc.).

Amazing work he did - he already did more than many people does in their entire lifetime. Life is fragile, appreciate it :-( Rest in peace, Ian.
Personally, I don't really see much of a difference. Some 5 year olds are better at $x than "grandmothers". So wouldn't "to a 5 year old" be ageist as well?
> Applications (GUI toolkits) must implement their own fonts antialiasing - there's no API for setting system wide fonts rendering. What??! Most sane and advanced windowing systems work exactly this way - Windows, Android, Mac OS X. In Wayland all clients (read applications) are totally independent.

That's interesting, I didn't know that. Is that going to be a huge mess after Wayland transition (which is likely to happen in 2016)? I'm used to fontconfig managing global fonts settings. What will happen in Wayland case?
Pee in a Jar: Dirty Materials in the History of Science
Why Every Software Tester Should Watch Pulp Fiction
They're very expensive compared to wifi, especially compared to their performance, and based on anecdotal reports their lifespan isn't very good. How's your mileage been?
I hadn't thought of the Armstrong panels. How do they install? I always assumed they were permanent (or nearly so), glued to the walls.
Here is the screenshot of the email
http://imgur.com/b7xousy
this is done by cloudflare, not hn i think.
Rest In Peace Ian! Thanks for Debian!

For the rest of you working on free stuff for humanity - go dark now, the times have changed, don't expose yourself in public. And start lifting!
A few years ago ohloh used to be the place to check but I haven't checked in a couple of years.
I don't think I'm following you.
They did not spring up 'overnight'.
I was actually thinking that this proposed law is precisely how you "solve" the warrant canary "problem". No need to order anybody to make false statements - but if you take the canary down, you've broken the law, and you created this problem for yourself.
On the contrary: let's dig up all the links we can so that we can find out who was responsible, and prevent it from ever happening again. Just before he died, Ian had said he was going to devote the rest of his life to fighting police brutality: http://pastebin.com/dX3VSPkM

Not only would we dishonor his memory by not digging up links and making speculations about what happened (did he commit suicide, possibly due to a brain injury from the police beatings? Or was he killed by the police? If so, by whom?), we are also putting ourselves in danger. What happened to Ian could happen to any of us.

Of course we should be sensitive to his family and friends and not traumatize them further. But that's no excuse for leaving the criminals who did this to walk free and kill more of us.

Don't "wait for the family to release more information". Find the information yourself, in Google Cache, on Twitter, wherever you can. It may not be there tomorrow or the day after. And don't wait until people are no longer paying attention. That's a losing public relations strategy. Seize the day.
W. Edwards Deming got the closest I think?

System of the organization comprises the relationship between systems within it, how those systems change and vary, the methods of knowledge learning and transfer, and the psychology and behavior of the people within it. And importantly, it's how all those pieces interact with each other that makes the most difference.

It's a system. There are some common elements. Above that base level, there is much truth in what you say, but the most important thing you can learn is a mental model for organizations in the most general way possible.
It's mostly trolly though. I mean, read through some of his complaints:

> No high level, stable, sane (truly forward and backward compatible) and standardized API for developing GUI applications

Really? He's calling Win32 sane and stable? The API where they're constantly having to introduce terrifying new hacks to stay bug compatible with themselves and still failing?

Most of it's the same trolls we hear every day. A lot of it is good, well-founded bitching that the Linux community can absolutely do nothing about (we don't have access to hardware specifications we don't have, that simple. Until various trouble manufacturers, nVidia first and foremost, decide to start playing ball, their hardware is always going to suck on Linux).
High quality service isn't exactly what pops into mind when I think of Hetzner...
Why is Twitter always catching flak for this? What makes them different than literally any other company? They provide a software messaging service, among a sea of other software messaging services. They're a blip on Humanity's timeline.

It just feels really contrived to count all the black people at Twitter and then start complaining about it. Why does it matter?
There has to be something else going on when a person is confronted by the police and they decide to arrest you.

I can only imagine that he was agitated somehow and may have been either mentally unstable or intoxicated.

Suicide is not a normal response to being locked up by the police for a few hours.
That's why we need to get as much info as possible, so we know what let to it.
> The appropriate response would be to get even through a court of law, or even paying to have some legs broken if it were justified

Do you know anything at all about police and the courts in 2015's America.
Ian Murdock may have committed suicide
Ok, in what way does it not "scale"?
Agreed - as much as anyone may want to know the exact reason(s) and or the "true" story...we may never know and while some form of closure is preferred we should avoid trying to figure out ourselves
Is the bitcoin community large enough to support a nonprofit like that? How many patent lawyers would they need and how much would that cost?
I don't have any work that I can offer, but I wish you the best of luck. I know the fear you might feel about not being able to pay your bills. Chin up!

If I happen to hear of anything, I will ping you.
Agreed. 3 years is quite short. However, this person is a marketing manager so they have a very different perspective on the authority required to be an expert in programming.
It really bothers me that traces of someone's existence can be wiped out with a mouse click, be it on twitter, google, facebook, or other sites. I read the tweets while this was going on, I was hoping he would find some other means to cope and raise awareness, and to hear that he actually went through with it. :-( I go to reread and see if there's anything I might have missed and his twitter page is gone as if he never existed.
The human migration out of Africa left its mark in mutations
I don't know why you would assume that.

> I'll just say that there's more than one way to look at the differences between programming paradigms.

That's actually what I'm saying and your original post is saying the exact opposite. I'm glad to see you've come around!
Debian mourns the passing of Ian Murdock
"It's a valid strawman argument" isn't my conception of a valid argument. Validity includes relevance, not just internal consistency. The point of religion is that there is no such thing as disproving the existance of god, just as there is no such thing as a valid proof of the existance of god. Religion is built on faith, which is the rejection of proof. Dawkin's faith in science is a religious view, not a scientific one.