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I believe rather broadly that it is the community's duty to uphold the community, and that means every institution - the state, the church, the corporation, the family - has a part to play in creating a better place to live.

"All they need is X" is often a misleading ideal. The further you are from your own context and culture, the less you will pick up on cues that seem small but can make all the difference in how people's behavior and environment can be changed for the better. Do people drive or walk/bus to work? Do they eat frozen food or go to the farmer's market? If they hear a bump in their house at night, is their first reaction to get their gun or 911?

A wholly strong community benefits everybody. People are friendlier. Government is more trusted. Corporations can hire talent by touting their home as a pleasant alternative to the coastal city rat races. And if it works in one place, chances are people elsewhere will seek to emulate your model, instead of having it thrust upon them.
The half strap: self-hosting and Guile
On the plus side 30 years of legacy laying around also includes a lot of mature and well maintained libraries.
I don't disagree that characterizing it as an "alien" would not have been out of place at the time.

However, it was not "confidential" in 1996. That is simply a ridiculous statement.
Ask HN: What's my profitable startup worth? (detailed stats provided)
I've been running a US-based real estate related startup for a few years. I handle all aspects of the business myself from coding thru customer service and I've set it up so that it can run on auto-pilot for long periods of time (ie. months) while I focus on other interests. It's never been marketed, doesn't have a blog or any social presence. It does however have some great clients & industry partners who view my business as being more than a one person show. I have previously received multiple buyout offers, but until now I haven't seriously considered selling and I'm not sure if I actually will or not.

TRAFFIC

2013: 1.4M sessions, 5.4M pageviews & 33% bounce (60% desktop, 32% mobile & 8% tablet)

2014: 1.7M sessions, 6.2M pageviews & 54% bounce (42% desktop, 48% mobile & 10% tablet)

2015: 2.5M sessions, 10.8M pageviews & 54% bounce (28% desktop, 64% mobile & 6% tablet)

Source of traffic: 50% organic, 37% referral, 13% direct & 0% social

REVENUE

2013: $135k revenue - $2k expenses = $130k profit

2014: $105k revenue - $5k expenses = $100k profit

2015: $140k revenue - $5k expenses = $135k profit

Source of revenue: 30% AdSense, 20% users & 50% affiliate marketing

Expenses: hosting & credit card processing fees

2014 revenue reduction: caused by affiliate marketer closing their program

For obvious reasons, I’m using a throwaway account, but I will answer followup questions. However, I won’t disclose the name of my startup or it's address.

So what do you think my startup is worth?
Absolutely. Amazon is selling magic beans[0], quite often. They have lots of tools that they convince new engineers are the best. But quite often, if not always, the existing FOSS tools (upon which most of AWS is built and from whence they came) offer superior performance at a far better price point for most scale.

In tribute to the Dead Milkmen, in case you want to sue me, I'm talking about this book - http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Beans-Nutrient-Rich-Disease-Figh...
Rails is a hammer with a normal head but no claw. Hammering nails in is the more common case, but if you need to do both you're better off with the two-clawed one.
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The issue I think is that C++11 doesn't fix those shortcomings, it does provide better alternatives (though without much of the compiler support Rust does, at least without adding more tools on top), but you have to know about the issues with the originals and find out the alternatives exist.
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I can only encourage to use Haskell for such kinds of problems. This was my first Haskell program and I was productive quite fast thanks to "Learn you a Haskell" and the great Parsec library for parsing the Dockerfile.

If you are an experienced Haskeller I would be very glad if you look over the project and problems in an issue. Because mostly I have no idea whether what I am doing is idiomatic or not.
I understand that, I merely intended to demonstrate that ignorant simplicity is not a preferred quality of the New Yorker among its readers.
I can't find the specific posting, but IBM has some jobs that are being labeled "back to workforce" in the data scientist/analytics area. May be worth looking into?
The U.S. Constitution assumes that people have "rights" but does not articulate a theory of what those rights are. Do they exist in the state of nature, as Locke believed, or do they arise from recognition by society? The Constitution takes no position on that.
Je ne crois pas que ce soit un problème isolé au Québec. Il me semble qu'après un certain âge, la plupart des gens réagissent moins bien au changement. Cela dit, je partage ton sentiment. Peut-être cette mentalité nous quittera-t-elle avec les Baby Boomers.

Pour être plus positif: connais-tu le secteur aérospatial de Montréal? C'est une partie importante de l'économie qui est souvent méconnue (manifeste dans la réaction vis-à-vis l'aide d'un milliard de $ offerte à Bombardier).
http://www.aeromontreal.ca/sector-aerospace/
That's great if your content can fit on one physical drive - but that's not the case for everyone.

However, even that aside, I would likely still use ZFS even with your solution since I make sure of other ZFS features aside just running a software RAID (eg ZFS snapshots, checksumming, send/receive, etc).
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I agree they could've mentioned them. The Gates Foundation, and GiveWell + their recommended charities are basically an exception to the rule.

I agree with the gist of the article though - you can do very good by donating to AMF or GiveDirectly, but if you want to go to help somewhere, consider a place where you'll have it easier to do something, as opposed to just looking good on Instagram. Doubly so if you want to be a social entrepreneur. Unless you take extra care with your idea and work to get to know the population, a much better way to help would be to start a normal business, and funnel excess profits to GiveWell's current favourites.
Philosophy adopted the scientific modus operandi of knowledge production, but failed to match the sciences in terms of making progress in describing the world.

Science is what traditionally is called "natural philosophy". The idea that science is not a form of philosophy is a useful abstraction but it's an interface not an atomic type (the same is true for academic philosophy). Or to put it another way, academic philosophy and hard science both often rely on forms of formal reasoning that makes their practice continuous with mathematics and its system of formal reasoning.

Linnean taxonomies of intellectual endevours are useful. Like all models they're wrong.
I'm pretty sure it doesn't need one - it just warns you if the remote server doesn't have one. Kind of like how browsers will warn you if a remote site's SSL cert is bad, but they'll let you through if you insist.
Rust is designed as a systems programming language, so it was explicitly made for situations where zero-cost abstractions and explicit memory management matter. Embedded devices and kernel development are two places that matters, but there are more: web browsers, web servers, databases and runtime systems all come to mind.
$10 DRM Free on GOG: http://www.gog.com/game/omikron_the_nomad_soul

$10 on Steam as well: http://store.steampowered.com/app/243000/

One of my favorite games, however I recommend playing it on Dreamcast if that's an option, as the PC controls are a little painful to work with.
>> Therein lies the problem. You can't trust VPN providers.

Your link is borderline nonsense.

The only real evidence they give about not using VPN's is when hidemyass proxy gave up some Anon's in 2011. However, it very clearly states in the hidemyass TOS that their service is not to be used in illegal activity, which is exactly what the hackers who they gave up were doing. They only gave up the information after receiving a court order, even though they had seen the hackers in chats saying they used their service, at which point they did nothing until the government stepped in.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/26/hidemyass_lulzsec_co...
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That's a good story that the Fraser institute made a lot of noise about, and made a great headline but in reality Ontario was still contributing more in tax revenues and EI contributions than it got in equalization payments:

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2013/03/30/money_s...
Depends how big the page is ;)
If every house around you is turned into a high-rise then your property values are going to shoot up massively. So, cash out and move. The real question is why can 1x people living in an area decide that 99x people get to move there or not.

In the end Mixed use walkable communities are much better for both peoples health and the environment. You can always move to the middle of Montana if you don't want to live near development, but carving out the hart of city's and saying "FU I have got mine" causes worlds of problems.
You are correct about Hammer 2, but dont forget about Hammer 1.
Remembering David Bowie's singular film career
Fun, ambition and dynamism at work in the French tech recruitment sector
This might make a good "Show HN".
Personally, as invested as I am in the software space, I think Canada should not invest in software technology, at least not exclusively. It's cheap enough that we could still encourage it.

I was doing my Masters in Medical Imaging at the University of Toronto (did not complete). The number of talented students and professors that I interacted with on a regular basis was astounding. And they were working on really amazing things.

Here's a group of potentially 100s of well-educated students that came out of the Canadian education system, so our tax dollars went towards a lot of their training. And once they're done their PhD, they're stuck trying to compete for very limited faculty positions, or finding a post-doc program somewhere, usually abroad.

The brain drain in biotechnology is the one we should be worrying about. We have fantastic resources available here in terms of teaching hospitals and facilities, but no one's taking advantage of it. And the space of biotechnology is so broad and unexplored, that we could be investing in a number of avenues to try to achieve something in the area.

To quote the cliched Wayne Gretzky: Skate to where the puck is going, not where it is.
I think AWS doesn't go for "superior performance at a far better price point for most scale". They go for, our solutions are a click away, and take far less time to setup then rolling your own. You know because engineer costs are the biggest cost component really.

Once your at a large enough scale, then yes engineer costs become a smaller component and becomes worth it.
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I don't like the powershell, and even I know that's an absurdly unfair bias.
Especially after the removal of verification from noted cultural theorist Milo Yiannopoulos.
They are separate in the sense that they are raised, trained, funded, etc. by the state government. The fact that operational control is ceded to the federal government in times of war doesn't change that. The US military can't call up a unit that doesn't exist, or that no longer responds to its orders due to a constitutional crisis. The Second Amendment implication is that the federal government may not prevent the formation of a separate state militia. What happens after that is irrelevant to this discussion.
Yes using something like "strong" rather than "bold" as they did in the HTML spec.

For custom sections where you want to add styles you should consider what you are styling such as an "event", "highlight", "keyword", "first", "last" etc. Although the HTML5 tags are a lot more descriptive, numerous and extensible now, so css classes may not be the only option to add style descriptors to your content.
>a story to the country about resource driven prosperity which was factually incorrect

In a way, all stories about resource driven prosperity are incorrect. Natural resources are exported and so is the wealth they bring. You never hear about the prosperity of mining towns because they never have any, and when the resources run out they don't have jobs either.
> [...] This is the irony of C++. While there is a very nice subset of the language, that does nearly all the same things Rust does. You still have 30 years of legacy laying around. You likely won't find a job that EXCLUSIVELY follows the C++14 guidelines. You WILL have to learn the legacy patterns, and work with legacy code, and make legacy mistakes.

Large existing codebases are a strength of C++ though. Any new replacement language won't magically make those codebases go away.

> [...] But legacy C code never stood in the way of C++'s adoption. There are always gonna be MORE programmers tomorrow, then today. People adopting a language is hardly a zero sum game.

The killer feature of C++ was the seamless interoperability with C which allowed trivial use of C libraries, and, most importantly, easy piecemeal evolution of large C codebases.

For example GCC is begin ported to C++ with relative ease, while a rewrite in rust would be a significantly more complex endeavor.

Then again, beyond lifetime checking, rust and C++ are very similar languages and seamless interoperability is not inconceivable. I believe that's the missing feature for rust to achieve world domination.
It's not exactly a new approach, but it may finally get off the ground...
Not even worth responding to
Economic news is propaganda anyways, just don't trust that. Information is power, scepticism is the defense of the weaks (us) against this power.
Excellent article title. It reads like "frobnicated bulbulation increases
business intelligence agility from learning the known unknown through shared
stakeholder values".
I'm currently reading it too, and am about 100 pages from the end. On a chapter-by-chapter level I think the quality is mixed, in the sense that not every chapter has the impact and pace that the first chapter has. In some chapters it feels like he labours a point for far longer than necessary for the reader to get the message.

One criticism I hear quite a lot is that DFW's own writing on the topics of addiction and depression are shallow and not representative, though I can't really say how true this is for lack of experience.

The thing that worked for me in I.J. was that Wallace managed to combine elements of comedy and tragedy, not just in alternating parts but often within the same body of text. Some chapters are so tragic as to be darkly comic, in particular some of the descriptions on the backgrounds of members of AA.

Plus, don't forget that Infinite Jest isn't his only work :). I haven't read The Pale King but have heard that it does away with a lot of the verbosity of I.J. and feels a lot more focused, and there are other works of fiction and also his more journalistic essay-ish type pieces, for example those from A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (the collection, though the titular piece in particular I found very funny).

I'd also highly recommend Oblivion: Stories, even if Infinite Jest didn't gel with you, as I think it's as emotionally powerful but a lot more focused than Infinite Jest. It doesn't attempt the comedy/tragedy mix that I.J. seems to try for, and as a result the stories are shorter but just as affective.
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I wouldn't say you're worried for no reason, but software is an outlier: it requires very little equipment to build. You could literally write software anywhere in the world as long as you have a computer, and as a byproduct, an Internet connection.

If you're sufficiently motivated, you'll always be able to find work, either as an employee, or as an independent consultant.
Correct. But I believe they sell and market it this way. Their best value is for companies that want burstability, convenience and/or have dysfunctional organizations that have slow internal expensive bureaucracy.
"De gustibus non est disputandum."

"Diff'rent strokes, for diff'rent folks."

If you don't like Bowie's list, you can make your own.

I had enough of philosophers and internationally acclaimed authors in high school. Literature teachers have their own canon of books that must be read, and I hated having someone else's idea of an influential book forced down my throat. While it isn't quite as bad as "stop liking things I don't like," an unsolicited "you should like more of the things I like" is still irritating, when I'm not in the right mood for it.
Back in the 1990s we had X Windows in our computer lab and it was routine to run an app on one Sun workstation and interact with it on another. This "just worked" with Linux and in 1995 I was laughing at RDP and crashy Windows 95 and NT.

Around that time KDE rocked the world with a beta release desktop that "almost works" but since then the Linux desktop has stagnated rather than advanced.
Don't pensions rely on the market in order to remain solvent? Where does the supposed gain come from? Either it comes from the markets, in which case the workers are better off investing in the market directly, or it comes from the people paying into the system today, in which case it collapses as soon as the debits exceed the credits.

And no it's more like "pensions work 75%"[0]

[0] http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2013/04/insolvent-union...
Interesting to see him studying traditions he stepped into. Like African American origins of rock, sort of starting from Richard Wright to soul and rock histories. I thought J. R. R. Tolkien would have been in there.

Been listening to a lot of his stuff, focussing on the sort of literary thread about his Berlin era that you can read about on his wikipedia page[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie#1976.E2.80.9379:_B...
> Node has a great package system

Having used both, Node's package system is horrific compared to PHP's Composer. Composer's built-in composer.lock system is something NPM sorely needs by default.
If given the choice, please grow my organs inside of a sheep.
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Ask HN: What's a good way to get into a network security career?
I'm a software engineer working for a consulting company. I haven't done any real programming at work in over a year and a half now because my current client has me doing IT and SharePoint Administration work instead. So I'm thinking about a career change that my current work experience can help me with.

I've been thinking of getting in to the security side of IT. My background is pretty technical. Besides programming experience, I know the basics of networking, some hardware, and in my current work I'm managing an active directory, some Windows Server machines, a couple SQL boxes, and SharePoint.

So for someone with a little bit of IT background, where would you start? Going back to school isn't really an option right now. Though, I'm open to the idea of getting a cert or two if they'd help. Any good resources to help make this transition happen would be very much appreciated.
NVidia and AMD haven't even utilized processes beyond 28 nm, at all (they are still in the pipeline).

Budget-conscious projects use 180 nm. [1] [2]

[1] http://info.scichina.com/sciFe/EN/10.1360/112010-977

[2] http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/about/
can't you install Google Play Services apk from apk mirror or similar?
Which don't follow the much professed C++14 guidelines and can introduce the errors that Rust is designed to prevent.

:.:.:

I don't have an issue with C++ itself, its just the meme that "C++14 will solve all of C++'s problems". It won't. C++'s problems are now locked in, and fixed. They've been known for 25-30 years, and we'll deal with them for another 50+.

Yes the tooling is great, there are amazing libraries, there is still virtual templated necromancy, there are still null pointers, and use after frees. There still will be tomorrow, and there still will be in 50 years.
That's a really good explanation of the db's function, thanks.

Are you guys still single process? That killed a few pretty important lmdb use cases. I've always been curious why you did that.
Aside from situations where high security is needed (which would necessitate a dedicated piece of hardware to be the 2nd factor), Why are you adverse to using a smartphone as the 2nd factor?
Milton Friedman makes a good argument against the distribution of wealth that addresses your concern directly. Definitely worth a watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRpEV2tmYz4
Why is that a point worth making in reply to a comment that is merely defending simplicity, not ignorant simplicity?
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Is it "morally wrong" when another animal eats those eggs, or is this not a particularly useful example?

This thread is pretty weird. Rayiner isn't saying anything shocking; he's recapitulating political philosophy that most of us learn in high school. It's one thing to debate Rousseau vs. Hobbes, another to act like the concepts of the general will and the state of nature are novel.
I'm currently learning Common Lisp. After I wrote my first real program with it (not a tutorial), I knew I made the right choice. After hours getting everything to work, when all was said and done, all that was left was this tiny, succinct thing. Was this really everything I was trying to do? Had the answer really been that simple? And I thought to myself, this is what programming is supposed to be, not a bunch of spaghetti code brute forcing one's self through the program, but the search for something concise and beautiful that says something about the problem and solution.

There seems to be a certain personality associated with lisp programmers, which emanates when they speak about the language. So logically I was pretty confident in my choice from day 0. However it wasn't until I actually made a program with it that I was emotionally confident and content with the choice.

In conclusion, I recommend you build a program with Haskell, Lisp, and/or an idea from the dragon book. That experience may give you the best idea of what path will be the most rewarding.
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Mac mini, using software RAID. Only annoying thing about it is that it's fairly aggressive in powering down external drives, so sometimes you have to wait for spin-up.
Or you could adopt any number of other inits that have much the same benefits as systemd-as-init, but without all the baggage.

Frankly the reason systemd even gets attention is because the likes of Gnome needs a part of it, logind, to handle logins/sessions, and that it basically absorbed udev (after udev had existed as a independent project for a decade).
Thanks. I was writing an application that had unrelated components that all acted like view models.

I looked at existing mixin libraries, but found some that either injected themselves into the prototype chain or patched Function.prototype to let mixees customize behavior. I didn't like that, so I thought of this approach.

The rest has been a continuous process of simplification, but I never got back to writing that old application :).
How does this change anything? I just meant the manner of using one's name for businesses, services etc.

Also note the mysterious ";)" at the end of my comment. It indicates I wasn't being serious