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Agreed, hydrogenated oils - whether from vegetables or ruminants - all seem to have adverse health effects. But to keep things in perspective, margarine is #3 in the list of top sources, after (presumably non-vegan) baked goods and animal products - http://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2005/document/html/ch...
<If you don't know about it or don't have an account, it's probably because you're unintelligent and not funny.>

What if I'm unintelligent, but funny? Can I get a part-time account?
I love the Stross "Laundry" novels. Added to my reading list.

Thanks.
It's obviously a smaller market. I'm just suggesting that it's possible, and providing some anecdata.

From a real standard of living, the cut in pay is overwhelming made up by the fact that I live in my own detached 2k+ sqft house on a .25 acre of land (and at significantly less than $3500/mo). Again, just looking at the city of SF directly, there are 13 homes for sale under $750k with a min of 2bd/1.25ba. Take a pay cut, have access to 40 times as many houses.

It's possible to do software development and not pay $3500. Which was what the above poster was talking about "I'd love to stop paying $3500/month in rent, but any property to buy around here has a median price of $1.2 million."

the most important differentiation between Portland and SF?

Also, the most important differentiation between Portland and SF is the weather. Anyone will skill can get a job here (I've never had to look more than a couple weeks).
This is roughly my guess as well, though I'd guess a ZIP code or some similar geographical construct (ZIP3, ZCTA, etc.) rather than a city name.
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If it broke the browser, it didn't do its job well.
>part of the force resulting in net negative low skills worker immigration.

That assumes that these workers are coming from countries where opportunities for paid work are equal to or better than those available in the US, and are equally lucrative. Many workers come from communities destroyed by the drug wars, or from economies ruined by corrupt governance. If those structural factors don't see improvement, the impact on net low-skilled migration to the US won't budge much.
"Is this so bad? Falling into something of a European-type rut with permanent 8% unemployment and modest GDP gains? I remember the 90s. Everyone was buying shit non-stop. What kind of life is that?"

It was a pretty fabulous kind of life. People felt rich, there were shiny new buildings going up everywhere, the government's budget was running at a surplus, there was a general feeling of optimism and hope for the future. Given the choice, I'll pick that over trying to come up with reasons why our current situation of general political and economic misery is somehow morally better.
Thanks for teaching me a new word (monopsony)! It's been a long while since my vocabulary has been increased with something that's not a millennial invention.
Your argument can be applied to minimum wage. How dare the government say I can't work for $5/hour if I want to? Labor regulations have a purpose and statistically reduce harm.
Somehow related: "The bipolar LISP programmer" (http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm).
I was wondering:

As the HN crowd seems to have quite a lot of Rust supporters, would it be a good selling point in a job description ?

i.e if (it's just currently a personal hypothesis) a company were to consider to (re)write some part of its Rest-ish microservices and that Rust was the chosen language, and was looking for people to help on that, would it make a `interesting++` in your mind ?
for real services used by real people by a not-so-startup company, in europe.

edit: I already deployed in production for my previous company some (with a very stricly limited scope) microservices in rust (with everyone approval) and it was quite a success, so I'm more and more thinking that rust is now enough developed to fit the market of language for microservices, as it's more or less "understand HTTP, read/write from redis/postgresql/mysql/memcache, do some transformation in between" and Rust now support these operations quite well
"might be" absolutely constitutes probable cause.
Depends, do you want it to actually work?
It seems to me that part of these job fairs should include some funding to help homeless shelters keep daytime operations in place... I'm not sure about the logistics vs. other conventions, but it could/should be similar that part of the fees are operational costs behind the location.

Alternatively, how hard would it be for an employer to provide barracks, or other housing options for seasonal employees?
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If revenue from that tax on an individual is exceeded by the increased healthcare costs then it's more like an insurance premium.
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Pop psychology meets programmer mythology.
An opinion piece that shrieks about raising property taxes on land owners and demands that it's only fair that retirees have their incomes slashed instead? A counterpoint?
Print the article I just read, frame it by the doorbell.
They were and they did, now the guy races 72' catamarans around SF Bay for fun. I'd say his bet worked out just fine for him.
Perfect is the enemy of good. If once every 20 years an accident happens and then 20 years after 20k people get cancer, that is an acceptable loss. And its' not even clear if Fukashima will be that bad. Right now the estimated deaths are going to be zero.
My question is pretty open-ended, so 'use XYZ in Clojure' works too.
Sadly, you are wrong. 4 years of computer usage is not nearly enough to be prepared to be a programmer.
A friend of mine asked me about this last weekend, and I basically said that I've drunk enough kool-aid at this point to do anything to use it as my main work language. I'm lucky enough right now to have a lot of autonomy for my projects, and I'm using that to build some tools in Rust, but it's different than being able to focus on it full time.
Good point - but there is potential incoming revenue to pay for that.

In this very remote use case, I doubt CAD (Computer Aided Dispatch) vendors are going to write this use case into their development plans.

Unless they saw this on HN...
>It's actually a very exciting situation because it means there's huge untapped potential waiting to be unlocked. YC has tapped into this just a little bit.

Very much agree. The root problem stems from people's inability to independently measure value. They rely on external signals (traction, reputation, etc), because believing in a team and product independently is hard work. It's a leap of faith, where you have to believe in yourself first. Most people would rather run with the herd.

That said, there are more and more people who don't follow that pattern. As they become successful and turn to investing and supporting the next generation, I think we'll see a lot more daring ventures come to light.
I think Medium is nice too and will be doing some writing there.

I think I'm looking at things over the span of 2 decades of keeping one's presence and information online whether self-hosted or with a service, both of which come and go.
It sucks that `~[]{} are so well hidden on Scandinavian keyboards (did people not program when these where made?), but what the hell are you on about with Apple?

They do sell Macs with American keyboards in Norway (including laptops! no additional fee) and they have very easy software keyboard layout switching. I have 5 layouts on my OSX, and at least as many on my iPhone.
Is it just me? I find it unbelievably demanding. I think writing even relatively simple web apps almost always turns into something mind numbingly difficult. The amount of extremely dense material you have to read and ingest, the number of things you have to stitch together, all of which claim to be easy but in fact require deeper understanding because they never quite do what you need them to, the abstraction of what you have to understand… and then, on top of it, almost nothing is greenfield, so you have to go down a really deep and dark rabbit hole of someone else's highly intricate logic.

What can I say? I consider it to be one of the hardest things I've done. I have no idea how people find it easy, but clearly some do.

A lot of the horrendous complexity in our field comes from churn. But hey whatever the vector, it is (and of course this is just my opinion) hellaciously demanding.

Just a quick note, my post here is intended as a narrow response to the specific claim that programming is not demanding, not the general comment tree.
I agree the syntax is sensible. I quite like it in Swift:

protocol Numeric {
func +(lhs: Self, rhs: Self) -> Self
}

func<T: Numeric>(a: T, b: T) -> T {
return a + b
}
The 'Sign up for email alerts' notice sparked quite the dissonance in me! A great read.
Right. And there's no time limit as far as I know.
>what are the other options

Go to a judge, communicate the situation, and maybe get a warrant if the judge deems it appropriate. That's how the system is designed to work.

>The chance of checking and making sure while in the process inconveniencing someone far outweighs the chance of not checking.

>If you are the parent of this missing kid and the police tell you your child might be there but they can't look into it, you would be ok with that?

There are good reasons we don't let emotional parents head the investigations of their missing children.

The laws constraining law enforcement exist to stop harm that used to happen at their hands, but no longer does because those laws are in place (modulo lack of enforcement).

If there are situations where the law is an unreasonable constraint on law enforcement, then we should change the law to take that scenario into account, not argue for carte blanche to take whatever action is deemed maybe possibly useful.
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<corn (maize) was just grass, tomatoes were berries>

Actually, both were completely unknown to the Old World until brought from the new world, as were potatoes. ("Corn" was previously a generic term for edible grains.)
Civilized society depends on the cooperation of the law abiding populace. It's your civic duty to answer the door. It's a categorical imperative.
It's a fair point, but there's a lot of write-only Perl, PHP, and C out there. Let's make sure we don't hold new Rust code to a higher standard that that stuff.
You still have entire regions in ukraine and belarus where you can't grow anything that can be consumed.

I would agree with any other industrial accident. But the reality of nuclear accidents is that you end up polluting at the scale of a country. That's a big Damocles sword to live under.
This is the same advice I was going to give and is how I've been working on my design skills.

One addition: you should look through Dribbble [0] or similar sites for inspiration, and you can use pre-existing resources for Sketch or Photoshop [1] to build mock-ups. I find it better to improve on design by iterating a bunch on mock-ups before working in HTML/CSS/iOS (since I'm much more familiar with going from design mockup -> front-end).

0 - https://dribbble.com/search?q=website
1 - e.g., http://www.sketchappsources.com/
There are as many mosquitos here as there have always been... Its very hard to get rid of them in a tropical country.
That sounds like the same technique an HR person would use for hiring, not someone looking for skill in an individual.
I had the same response when I realized a feature I really wanted was only on nightly (and would probably still be interested). However, in the last month-ish I've been using a fresh nightly every day, multirust has made it super easy to update, and I've only had breaking changes to my dependencies once.
The case is more complex. Oracle is claiming that Google violated their copyright by cloning Java API's for the Android development kit. They didn't use the code from the Oracle API's, but rather provided the same interfaces only.

Oracle won and now they're going to try to bleed Google dry on the Android front.
I hate the argument of the rich "leaving"

Where are they going to go? And once you come to the logical conclusion that only a few outliers will actually "leave", they will leave a void that someone will fill, and be taxed.
Which one is the compose key? Sitting on mac with American English QWERTY?
I am surprised they are revealing this one.
http://jauntvr.com/
http://vrse.com/
http://nextvr.com/
https://www.felixandpaul.com

and several others.
No, they're not. Unlike animals, plants lack a central nervous system, which would allow them to feel pain and ultimately suffer. Yes, plants respond to stimuli, in the same way a ball being rolled off a table does. But you cannot say plants and animals have the same capacity for sentience. Even if that were true, it should be immediately apparent animals require more plants to feed throughout their lifespan than do vegans.

I hope you made this comment out of ignorance, not arrogance. Take a look at http://adaptt.org/veganism.html - The Insipid "Killing Plants" Argument, if you're honestly sure plants and animals are the same.
Last 12M ending 9/30/2015 (last available financial data): Google did $71.7Bn in revenue and $14.7Bn in net income. I assume the lawyer meant that Android had generated $31Bn since inception, but that can't mean gross revenue since they only take a 15% cut on the Play store (so wouldn't be able to show $22Bn of profit (71% margin). So $31Bn in net revenue implies $207Bn in gross revenues. The Apple App Store did $20Bn in 2015 and generated 75% more revenue than Google (http://blog.appannie.com/app-annie-2015-retrospective/), implying $11Bn in gross revenue for Google Play, or $1.7Bn in net revenue in 2015.

tl;dr: Oracle lawyers are full of shit
The problem with that statement is that the vast majority of the software business world interprets anti-proprietary software as being anti-business. And, not entirely without reason given that it's extremely difficult (almost impossible) to build a large software business without licensing. If you're RMS then you point to things like contracting for changes, but much of the software industry would be unsustainable on that footing. For a bad analogy - it's like watching two people speaking variants of English - they're using roughly the right words but both come away confused.
you have no way to quantify those numbers, "irresponsible disclosure" is frankly, just a bullshit term.
exorbitant! quite right

The overhead for a unix process is significantly more than a lightweight JVM thread. In some cases this memory overhead can prevent you from utilizing the smaller cloud instance types which are sometimes the most cost efficient.

Also with MRI you can't light up all 4 cores, or 8 or 16 without spawning extra processes which burn memory and that can make your server less cost efficient if your app can use the RAM.
1.6 with alpha features is essentially the nightly on the day that 1.6 entered beta. Backports are incredibly rare while the trains are running.
It's almost as if Amazon is being criticised for offering the jobs in the first place, and instead they are being saddled with the entire burden of the issues homeless people face. I think that is unfair. What Amazon agreed to do is essentially look the other way on issues which employers usually see as reasons to not hire. It is very clearly seasonal work and there are many benefits to doing that work which might lead to more reliable jobs in the future.
So what is a "high-end" black name?
"Reported by entirely fallible human beings" is usually enough.
> you have no way to quantify those number

Neither do you, therefore we're just having a bullshit argument.
Then they could get a warrant and there would be no question that they could enter the premises for a search.

They did not, so they could not.
Sounds like a half-hearted effort, resulting in predictable outcomes.
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The whole point of mosquitos drinking blood is because its more protein rich and helps them lay more eggs.
My experience fits in his model though. I'm type A and more into ML languages than Lisp. Maybe not strictly type A: Java is too boring for me..
This is awesome! It would also be really useful to have column indicating which open source license the project uses.
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How do we request your .ODT files? No contact info is visible in your profile.
My takeaway is that Amazon doesn't give a shit about homeless people issues and is just looking for seasonal cheap labor.
the other 25% is: try very hard not to change anything?
Connecting social data across Android and iOS
That's not what that phrase means at all. "good enough for government work" is akin to "close enough", a reference to the half-assed nature of most government work.
Take a look at JHipster: https://jhipster.github.io.
Not necessarily. Android is one of Google's primary vehicles to deliver mobile ads. Those have fabulously fat profit margins.
Only a little bit less than coca cola at $46b, they have very high global market share of a product bought by billions, that almost everyone over 10 have purchased dozens of times.
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opinion that taxes on income are a bad idea

Do you mean earned income, aka labor? vs unearned income, aka capital?

If you are advocating the shift of tax burden from labor back unto capital, reversing policy of the last 35 years (Reaganomics), then I agree with you.
I took it as a positive. It's an opportunity for homeless people to be given a chance. As long as the lessons are learned.

That's a fascinating web site and interesting article. They use the term "people" a lot (great!), but refer specifically to only women being impacted (bad but very PC),
"She said she and the other women in her shelter felt burned". That might be that the shelter is a female only shelter, but it's very common.. However, I read about 10 articles on that site. They were only about women or a black man... Very interesting. On the surface, it looks like a prejudiced website (PC on steroids).

On a side note, Australian Bureau of Statistics says that ~70% of homeless people are men, but most articles in Australia talk about the plight of homeless women. I wonder if that becomes self-fulfilling: extreme sexism in the media means that homeless men are neglected for Political Correctness' sake.

Personally, I think most media have a lot to answer for in driving prejudice as hard as they can, especially in the last few years. While some call for a men's movement, I see how much feminism drives sexism - and we don't need more sexism driven by gender based movements. We need society to universally condemn prejudice.
Why we applied to YC despite having gone through another accelerator
In Buffett's day, value investing made a lot of sense and allowed Buffett to put out wise-sounding soundbites like "I don't invest in what I don't understand" and helped shore up the folksy image of Berkshire Hathaway, who owned ostensibly uncomplicated companies like Heinz.

But today we live in a world where the way to make money is through regulatory arbitrage (Uber) or startups chasing risky business models. Additionally, accounting trickery is orders of magnitude more elaborate today, and high frequency trading may have permanently impacted traditional models of volatility.

Of course, this applies only to publicly traded companies. My overall point is that determining value from fundamentals alone is nowhere near as straightforward as it used to be.
I wouldn't say that Oracle won, as I don't believe Google has given up nor do I believe they have exhausted the legal tactics/maneuvers available to them. I fully believe this case will end up in front of the supreme court, as fundamentally this is a 1st amendment issue: do you have the right to say what other people are saying? (that's effectively what re-implementing APIs is).

I believe the 1st amendment provides for this.

My hope is that Google does not settle the case with Oracle, as I'm sure this case shows up at the top of their legal budget.
And it all could have been avoided with a measly (for Google) 4 billion dollar Sun acquisition on Google's part years ago.

I honestly still dont understand why they didn't.

I ask this question with zero snark intended. Can someone please give me a good answer why Google didnt buy Sun?
I am not sure what this article achieves. I think it only discourages companies from hiring homeless people.

How is the risk of going into these kinds of jobs any different for a non-homeless person? Possibly even greater, given they are paying rent/mortgage, car lease whatever.

Would it be better if these kinds of job completely abolished? Anyone who puts their hand up for these jobs, knows or should know what they are getting into.

Having said that, efforts should be made to work out the issues rather than just bash anyone who is trying to lend a hand (even for selfish reasons). For instance the shelters could adjust their policies and accommodate the people who work during the night (and have proof of it).
When presented with something unexpected, you will be much happier and much more successful if you focus on figuring out what's interesting about it, than if you focus on complaining about why it shouldn't be there. Alternately, just ignore it.

Pretty much the only thing you shouldn't ever do is make a public statement about "why is X on Y?". That's really the only way you lose.

Source: decades of reading digital forums. Also, life. The same lessons apply equally well to adult life in general. Seriously, no good will ever come of asking this question, anywhere, ever.
I could definitely believe that. Something along the lines of "using chapstick makes your lips produce less moisture, thus making the chapstick seem more necessary". Our bodies like their equilibria and will adjust to preserve them when interfered with.
---> It's bullshit that police are coming to the door and dragging them outside while trying to determine if a search warrant is in order.

I think this is the biggest issue! Their rights where violated.
This is great, but I'm willing to pay for SSL certificates that are managed inside of AWS, just like domains are purchased and managed in Route53.

As long as AWS provides an API to provision certificates, that would be awesome. I use Nginx, and need access to the private key and cert.
This is like a litmus test for the right answer. We immediately jump to feasibility. We know it'll work, it'll just be hard.
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For the technically adept, consider swapping uMatrix for NoScript.

It does everything NS does, and more. Though at the cost of a more complex interface, and a few more failure modes.

This includes: Scripts, cookies, CSS, XHD, frames, and other elements, on a host-by-host, or domain, basis, with optional default rules.
I spent literally one evening reading Kotlin reference and I understood an entire language. It's just a Java with slightly altered syntax and a lot of simple yet useful batteries included. I immediately was able to start coding and reading standard library. On the other side in the past I spent around week reading book about Scala. Yet I couldn't read Scala library, it was just too complex. So I don't agree that their complexities are even comparable.

Scala is like a Haskell. It's very powerfull, but to understand and use the entire language, one should make a serious investment.
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Good. Fake rape claims are extremely damaging, not just to the people they're made against, but also to every single real victim of rape.