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So hi.remotetogether.com is a community and support group, but I'm going to eventually create products around RemoteTogether.

The forum is just the start. Also have some podcasts coming soon. Sorry for the confusion.
And likely all of it had to be vetted by lawyers before being released, to avoid lawsuits from third parties.
> The perfect capitalism of frictionless competition and complete transparency is the enemy of its own intent. In highly competitive and transparent markets, profits are driven asymptotically to zero. Groceries, gasoline, airline tickets... these are extremely low-margin industries

Correct, assuming no extra wealth is created e.g. innovation

> At any rate, capitalism where everyone has similar information and resources works quite poorly.

For capitalists. I think parent meant it works best for the rest.
Somewhat misleading headline; critical quote from the article: "Neither study implies that Alzheimer’s disease could ever be transmitted through normal contact with caretakers or family members, the scientists emphasize."

This study purely covered transmission via a specific kind of transplant. Still important for understanding the disease, though.
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A consensus system like Ripple makes a lot more sense. Blockchain and hashing is ridiculous when there are better ways to achieve the goals.
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Shankar is all round a very practical book to pass quals, very poorly structured, highly pretentious by dealing with say parth integrals with grassman variables but doing an awful job at basic stuff such as adding angular momentum.

If you've got a math background I'd recommended you skip Shankar even more vehemently than I usually do.
I'm looking at this right now! :)

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Followed by a five-comic arc leading up to a duel between Carmack and Stallman.
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Ah, i was not thinking in terms of having a micro socket on the dongle. Silly me.
Check out https://containership.io - Also open source and works in any data center.

Edit: Full disclosure, I am the founder of ContainerShip.
Indeed, but as consumers this doesn't affect us if an OSS version comes out as a result? Nor would it be an effective law enforcement tactic.
It really seems though like this sort of work is more suited to the dataflow model F# promotes, though?
> AMD is still better for bitcoin mining

Neither CPUs nor GPUs have any remaining relevance there, given ASIC/FPGA miners.
Minetest is very good, and can be modded with Lua.
Definitely; if this whole thing goes under one day, it'll at least have been a tremendous learning experience for the industry.
I agree that top-line growth accrues to the middle 50%, but I think the proper question is: what policies maximize the prosperity of the middle 50% (as opposed to maximizing the top-line number)? That said, I expect the answer to that question is more or less what the developed democracies are already doing.
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1 trillion is the current GDP of Australia, a modest szed industrial nation. 1% of energy consumption for just that much currency is not an all worth it.
By making it illegal, governments simply weaseled out of the issue and put the burden on business owners. If they really would have wanted to solve the issue, they should have compensated business owners for the risks of hiring women instead.

It being illegal is pretty irrelevant for the discussion - in Nazi Germany it was illegal to be a Jew. Laws are being made by fallible people.

Is it really discrimination if arguably the man brings higher value to the company than an equally skilled woman? This is very different from discrimination against minorities, because there is an actual relevant difference between men and women.

It's not fair, but that is what nature has handed us. If societal consensus is to make up for the difference, society should do so via their governments, not shift the burden to random private people. It's not a business owner's fault if you get pregnant, especially since it's probably illegal by now to have sex with an employee.
Yeah, I'm not sure.

It was pretty hilarious.

I got a bug-fix from the form developer that his button wasn't working, and I kept trying to explain to him that it couldn't possibly work, it didn't do anything.

Finally he explained that if the user had clicked the fake button already, and then changed their search to a search that reported the same results, it wasn't pretending to search again, and this was causing a lot of bug reports from his client.

I helped him rewrite the fake button to make a bigger deal about (fake) searching again, and apparently the bug reports went away.
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What if I want to jack up just a single corner? One stand is still safe, right?
I'm not so sure about the "increasingly common aspect ratio" comment
http://i.imgur.com/COZJe0p -- looks like the main landing page!
IMHO the biggest factors when evaluating a new programming language boils down to "modules" i.e the methods for creating reusuable units of code, and "package management" i.e. how easy is it require previously built units of code and combine them to create compound units. I wish he had talked more about those aspects.

For me, any language that misses these two is not worth the effort unless you have really good reasons (i.e. every clock cycle counts in an embedded program).

Anyway, to that end, what is OCaml's packaging ecosystem like?
I'm kinda surprised by this. My impression was that Walmart Labs had great success in deploying a pure-openstack private cloud in record time which was immense in scale. Why would they want to deploy to other clouds?

https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2015/summit-video...
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Who cares whether a judge issued the judgement? The fact is that most of the poor cannot take time off to travel to a courthouse at an appointed date and time, thus those judgements are entered without any defense.

It shouldn't come as a shock that the poorest citizens are the least likely to show up to a hearing where they will be forced to pay money.

Even from a strictly legal perspective, detainment for a civil judgement based upon evidence from a massive domestic surveillance dragnet is very Constitutionally suspect.

But to be totally honest, I don't care what legal mechanisms allow this.

It is simply wrong.
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> If I'm the best farmer its probably in the entire cultures best interest if I get the most farmland because we'll share in the utility of an average increase in production despite the unfair concentration.

This is probably little consolation to out of work farmers unable to purchase food for lack of employment.

The question is at what point do such concentrations cease to enough of the culture/population to be worth the negative consequence?

It may be more beneficial, over all, for more to have jobs within an industry and thus able to afford essential goods than for maximum efficiency at the cost of fewer able to earn a living.
Thank you for the honesty. I am always looking for support groups as a remote worker and occasional traveler, but to be honest myself, I believe there are too many opportunists/ profiteers in the digital nomad 'industry', and it simply annoys me. I will not be participating, but I wish you good luck.

For anyone interested, r/digitalnomad is probably the best 'support group' currently.
I personally think that Shankar makes a great companion to Sakurai. Shankar is less rigorous but it explains things in a more accessible way which can be extremely helpful if you find Sakurai too terse on some topics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elWIVKWhWTk
If you did have a co-founder, they would encourage you to do it anyway, or offer to do it. There are good reasons to favor teams over individuals.
Perhaps just do (another) Show HN instead of trying to piggy-back on a largely unrelated topic?
I used to develop my apps on 5-10 year old computers for precisely this reason. Their limited cache, RAM, etc would show both hotspots and trouble spots fast because the app visibly couldnt perform well (or crashed lol). Ignoring microoptimizations, algorithmic and architectural changes benefiting old PC often made new one scream with performance.
Have to make sure the family has still enough income, as women often choose lower paying jobs. Also take care of the desire for part-time work, sick children and issues like that.

Lastly, this would actually take away privileges from women (privilege to choose to be a stay-at-home mom), but if that's what feminists want, why not.
Big news is Apple finally feeling effects of weakness in China and the collapse of demand in oil dependent places like Canada.
The real reason to avoid single page apps.
They provided the comparison to last year in the opening paragraph of their press release. I don't understand what value you're adding.
So it's like Deltacloud? (https://deltacloud.apache.org/)
I don't even want color and terminal graphics done goodly. I code with two monochrome terminals on the screen using vim and the command line.
You know, they compare it to last year in that same sentence.
Superficially it looks like revenue growth has slowed down quite a bit. But the Reuters article mentions that "the strong U.S. dollar ... knocked about $5 billion off the company's revenue":

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-sells-fewer-iphones-exp...

That makes quite a difference (and illustrates that it can be pretty hard to figure out growth numbers for a multinational corporation, even one that has a super-simple product line like Apple's).
They also mention this, in the downsides:
"Main thread blocking while decompiling large files"
Just yesterday I read an NYTimes article announcing how Apple is beyond their growth phase.

> Investors have long relied on Apple to deliver one crucial attribute: growth. Now they are beginning to wonder whether Apple’s days as a growth stock are coming to an end.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/25/technology/looking-for-sig...

$74.6 billion ---> $75.9 billion is not huge but it's noteworthy they've maintained positive numbers.
"I'm just saying from a pure mentality standpoint, it's not 100% opposite."

A customer who has paid a lot of money for a software license and a support contract has the right to demand that you fix it if it doesn't work. They're not being a bully; they're just demanding what they've paid for. They have a right to threaten to take their business elsewhere, and to escalate the issue to your boss if you aren't being helpful. As a developer I need to understand that this customer is paying my salary, and their business may be losing money because of a bug that's my fault. I should have some empathy for their distress.

However, someone who has paid nothing for open source software has no right to the developer's time. They're trying to get something they're not entitled to by bullying a developer. The developer should have no problem telling the user to fuck off.

So it seems to me that in these two situations, both the user and the developer are in very different mental stances.
Aha, that actually makes a lot of sense. I was only thinking about which numbers should have unique names, not whether the names we've given them make sense for their positions. Thanks!
Too bad ripple was premined. They are seeing some success as end points with banks though.
Lots of enterprises want the ability spill over into public cloud to accommodate burst load, but run their steady load in-house.

You might also want to quickly gain a presence in a geographical region you don't have hardware in (ever or yet).
theories:

* cloud bursting during high load

* disaster recovery

* putting things in geographic regions where they don't have their own hardware
Here's a breakdown
https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/11283#issuecomment-1752468...
Why I care about Firefox OS fading away
That important metric actually understates their sales due to the strength of the US Dollar this last year. On a constant-currency basis, it is about 15% higher. Just goes to show the 'real' results are even more impressive.
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Every company, perhaps every individual, wants to be a big fix in a small pond, rather than one of many small fish in a large pond.

I seem to recall that back during the industrial revolution, every supplier of screws had their own direction and density of winding. Thus the engineers running various massive projects had to introduced and enforce various standards to get anything done at all.
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The point is that although they posted a record quarter, it is hardly better than 1 year ago. Their revenue one year ago was substantially higher than 2 years ago.
The real conclusion is that, all else equal, music decreases cognitive performance (memory tasks, mostly) a bit. It doesn't conclude that actual workers are more or less productive. Enjoying yourself more, even at the expense of cognitive performance, might be far more valuable in maintaining motivation and productive work.

A quick search didn't turn anything up in the literature, but my guess is that some distraction is beneficial in real-world scenarios. The challenge of productive work, for me, is generally staying on task, not summoning my cognitive abilities. If music can redirect or 'absorb' stray attention, it may assist in staying on task. Certainly a wealth of experience seems to support this; I have a very hard time getting things done without music.

TL;DR: I wouldn't extrapolate real productivity from memory tasks in a study.
> So what are the numbers, for immigrants and Germans?

I don't know of any recent study, as I told you?

> Eyeballing the numbers, this seems unlikely. As far as I know, tens to hundreds of people were not struck by lightning in Cologne

But you need to amortize the numbers over time and the population of the country. The biggest problem in Cologne was that the police got caught flatfooted, something that's unlikely to happen again (German police normally have plenty of experience of dealing with nasty crowds, see the hooligan problem). 9/11 was also a horrible event, too, but there's pretty much zero chance that any terrorist will ever again be able to fly a passenger plane into a building, so the statistical risk of experiencing that when boarding a plane is essentially nil (and was extremely low even beforehand).

> So on the one hand, we've got left wing types denying reality as you do above

First of all, I'd be careful with categorizing me as a "left wing type" (except by US standards, but David Cameron would probably count as a "left wing type" there now). In this area, my stance probably comes close to classical liberalism, which is traditionally considered a centrist position (plus, my overall positive view of law enforcement tends to not win me many friends on the far left). More importantly, I like to base my judgement on facts, not anecdotal media reports.

Second, I'm the one who has cited actual statistics that at least so far seem to disprove your thesis that Muslims seem to be disproportionately prone to crime and to which you haven't offered a counterargument (remember that a single counterexample disproves a universal thesis). Conversely, you seem to base your claims solely on anecdotal evidence (the plural of which, I remind you, is not data).

Note that I haven't disagreed that immigration will likely negatively affect the overall crime rate in a measurable way (if only because of the low SES of these immigrants; other factors may come into play, too, but that would be pure conjecture at this point). I have also pointed out that it is likely to cause social problems in general because of the known difficulties with integrating a large foreign population with limited resources across a language and culture barrier with (often) considerable skill gaps.

> Unless left wing types can compromise on ideology and actually acknowledge reality (Muslims raping women is a vastly larger problem than lighting strikes), people will turn to the racist right for solutions.

I did not make a statistical comparison between Muslims raping women and lightning strikes; I referred specifically to the events in Cologne, which do not appear to have had a religious motivation or cause.
Note that the article is about a C++ rewrite of Minecraft rather than the Java version.
Not everyone is you. While I agree that flashy graphics are silly in the command line, I find color-based highlighting to be quite useful.
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And nobody upgrades Windows computers or Android phones? Where is the evidence that Apple product owners upgrade more frequently?
How is this alienating anyone? This is a command line tool. The end users are suddenly using a different language as a result. Their install process was streamlined and system dependencies were removed by including it in the install package.

The same thing could have been achieved within Python, but from an end user perspective I'm guessing this is an improvement for most of their customers.
I'm also a single founder, but apply anyway. Are you averse to finding co-founders? I haven't found any yet, and I might or might not. I'm open to the possibility, and I believe YC may be a great place to make connections to finding a co-founder.
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> ...what incentive does a billionaire have to ever obey traffic law?

I'm no billionaire, but I used to think along those lines: Just budget a couple grand a year for tickets and insurance hikes, then go wild. Unfortunately for me, there's more to traffic violations than fines. There's traffic school. There's getting your ride towed, leaving you standing on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere (this was pre-uber). There's waiting until Monday to get it back, because the impound lot is closed on Sundays. It's quite a hassle, so I don't speed or drive aggressively anymore.

> You also go to jail for being too poor to pay the fine for failing to signal.

Well... you don't immediately go to jail for failure to pay fines. For traffic stuff, it takes weeks before you're actually hit with a fine. Most courts also have payment plans or discounts for financial hardship. It's not as cruel of a system as you might think.

It's only slightly related, but paying the late fine on the spot was what I found so odd about the Texas bill. Cops never accept money. Asking a cop, "Can I pay the ticket here, right now?" is usually a veiled attempt at bribery. If the cop says yes, you're negotiating price. Then you use more veiled language like, "Is there is discount for paying it now?" Etc.
Innovation is friction, I think. It's a sort of local monopoly - I have this benefit that my competitors do not have.
Only if your barometer of success is a monetary one. I happen to like playing Minecraft when I'm not making something and killing it and iterating (yeah bruv), and it makes my future computer from beyond the moon chug at times. (I don't point the blame at Java nearly as much as at the naivete of its development, however, and it has gotten somewhat better over time.)
"Don't do something that literally no one was going to do, so I can show off my math knowledge" is more like it.
My favorite is 418 - I'm a teapot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_Pot_Control_...
Exchange rates are killing them. The strong USD is cutting into profits in a major way. With iPad, Mac and now iPhone showing flat (and negative) growth I would expect a fairly flat stock price for the time being. When/If the USD begins to lose value to other currencies I'd call that a good time to consider to build a position in AAPL.

I don't have a position but was hoping for a big win this quarter. AAPL exemplifies a lot of the issues many companies are having because of exchange rates and I do not expect the broader market to do much better for awhile.

Especially with so much foreign debt in USD, a lot of companies are going to have a hard time paying off bonds and loans, hurting their ability to grow.
Does delta cloud have a UI and mange the business side of things? (When it safe to deploy, when deploys are blocked, etc).
So can we itemize the exact benefits of this type of deal versus taking a somewhat bigger stake up front? I can think of a couple:

1. In the case of a sub-$100M exit, where perhaps founders are getting squeezed, every little bit of extra equity counts. YC graciously forgoes their stake in the company. That's unquestionably good.

2. In the case of a big exit, YC essentially bypasses dilution and targets a fixed post-dilution equity stake, regardless of how much subsequent investment the company took on.

That lets founders retain more equity early on and thus be that much less diluted, while still getting YC ballpark what they'd like to get in the end. So that's nice.

But how might subsequent investors feel about YC getting the same fixed percentage of a IPO'ing Series B vs. Series E stage company? Could this possibly complicate funding down the line? Is it "too good" of a deal for YC in the Series E case?

(I admit the absolute amount here is fairly low, and YC is "special" in the industry. But I'd want to sketch out the consequences in detail before taking the deal.. someone "pays" for these founder and YC benefits.)

Another (scary?) thought: might more investors demand this sort of deal down the line? Would a seed or Series A or Series B investor ask for fixed percentages of IPO/acquisitions? I can't even fathom how that would scale or complicate taking on investors.. Does this only work of it's a special one-time thing?
As per HN Guidelines, it's OK to resubmit an old article that hasn't been discussed in the last year. In fact, I upvoted it. However, it's customary to put the year of publication in parentheses after the title of an old article so that people know it isn't current and they may have read it before.
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Didn't stop NUKE, PHP Nuke, DotNetNuke, etc.
> Mozilla devs appear to be completely out of touch with what their core goal should be . . . Instead the Process is holy and cannot be altered

They made a mistake. They then fixed it and admitted exactly what the mistake was. Because they did so, they're called completely out of touch.

I often advocate for my employer to be more open in our postmortems, but responses like this make it impossible for my side to win the argument against folks who claim, quite reasonably, that admitting any kind of mistake will result in people using it against us later.
Now that's what I call a bug report: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/11283#issuecomment-1752468...
Obviously we can't all be taught by Feynman or Minksy, but given the most common answer to "What subject do you dislike the most" is "math" we probably need to do better. It's also a vicious cycle, we're raising our future math teachers to dislike math
These days, it's pretty good. opam is the tool of choice:

http://opam.ocaml.org

I've found it to be surprisingly reliable and easy to use.
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Is it incredible? Do their competitors have systemic problems getting their customers to upgrade? I don't see that. If anything, I still see plenty of iPhone 4s and 5c models and content customers.
> Why would they want to deploy to other clouds?

Christmas / Thanksgiving shopping in the US would be my guesses.
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Does this improve the likelihood that it is treatable?

Some previous theories had been that Alzheimer's was essentially genetic. But never fully genetic, instead of guaranteeing your chance of getting it, it just increases the likelihood.

So my question is: Could this hint at Alzheimer's being the result of some yet undetected infection in the brain that some people are more prone to due to genetics, and that is transmitted due to brain tissue sharing?

PS - What I am asking about isn't that far from the latest research, see: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/574944_4
Any ideas how they end up at a 25.5% tax rate?