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>In this respect, a humanities or broad liberal-arts education — meant to teach critical, analytic thinking, and engage students with questions about the human experience, does not seem like a bad idea.

I had never thought about the humanities in the context of what should they be doing. This was an insightful piece of what humanities could be.

Having said that, given the liberal arts classes I took at university I would not trust that group collectively with any detail of society that could impact outside of their academic world. The amorality of scientific knowledge would be a great deal preferable to that nonsense.
Ask HN: Do you use any realtime PaaS/framework and in case you so which one?
I have been using Firebase for some time but it turned out to be quite pricey, which is why I was thinking about a self hosted alternative like rethinkDB, do you use some in production/ have made any experiences?
Not really. It's more like the FBI wants access to a particular storage locker and has the ability to open it, but wants apple to build a new kind of saw for that door so they can use it on other doors later.
I'm pretty tired of these articles that grossly extrapolate conclusions from a very limited study.
> The project is open source and open to contributions from anyone.

The project is exclusively governed by three Google employees, listed at https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/GOVERNANCE..., all contributions are at their discretion.

All contributors must sign a legally binding licensing agreement with Google which includes a patent grant, per https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/CONTRIBUTI....

The Web is powerful because you don't have to ask permission. AMP is not cut from that cloth.
Legacy costs are why. You think "oh, it's just a big record store with some privacy controls, no problem!", but pretty soon you're trying to integrate some COBOL based system hosted on an IBM 360 to load data that is stored in a poorly specified format (mostly just text transcriptions of whatever idiosyncratic method that practitioner used--everybody did something a little different) on the order of a hundreds of millions of records. You may literally have to hire and army of data entry specialists to retype every single record in your new format, millions and millions of them. And you can't outsource that part due to regulations, they have to be housed in a secure facility that you need to build and get accredited (by who? It's unclear, you need to figure it out yourself. Oh, and if you guess wrong you're going to prison.).

And this is before the lawyers get involved with their reams and reams of regulations that all make your job more difficult. If you think you could just dump the database and load it on the new system think again, that's an unacceptable data risk, you need to broker all of the data through yet another system.
A tutorial that I wrote a while ago "How to get Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) if you are not a U.S. citizen"

http://lukasz-madon.github.io/how-to-get-individual-taxpayer...
I use Silicon Valley Bank and honestly while they are by far the most popular choice for bay area companies, their online portal is atrocious. In-fact, I exclusively use their iOS app (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/silicon-valley-bank-mobile/i...) since it is the only thing that is bearable.
Check out the Decentraleyes plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes...

The nice thing about a project like AMP is that it's a slow-moving target & all AMP pages fetch from the same URLs. That makes it easy for a tool like Decentraleyes to cache all of the AMP assets, resulting in even more speed & a privacy benefit.
I agree with you in principle and in the past only accepted connection requests from people I know as well. However, I think LinkedIn's promise as professional social network has really diminished over the years and mostly functions as nothing more than a job board at this point. I probably have about 100 recruiters I have never met in person in my network. As a contract dev updating my profile serves as a way to push notify these people that I'm in the market. It's really the only value I see left in the platform.
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There are also tax consequences for switching corporate structure. The laws may have changed from when we did a few switches between LLC, S, and C, but those were far from only tedious. There was a lot of money we suddenly became liable in taxes.
And what are they?
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Yes, I meant a single $15/ mo profile doesn't need a full time job.
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Yet curiously when Ireland hacks the global economy to lure entrepreneurs to do business their people get all pissy. Funny how that works.
What would that look/behave like? I ask because I'm starting out on making some tooling for gaining insights into coupling and coherence in ruby, and I'm at a brainstorming phase.

E.g. automatic domain concept detection and suggested refactorings around domain concepts.

Re-organizing file systems into virtual filesystems based on multiple views/perspectives on the project, etc.

Any ideas you have would be really good timing to hear about
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Willingness to pay didn't vanish, it's just that how we pay has changed. No, we don't pay for iTunes, but iTunes is the entry point to the iTunes store, so there's plenty of revenue coming in through that. And while iTunes and OSX are free, the hardware that OSX runs on makes up for that by being more expensive.
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> No chance. Not with Congress the way it is now, and run by Republicans. Neither will Sanders.

100% of the House and 1/3 of the Senate is up for election at the same time as the President. There's no particularly strong reason to believe that the next Congress must look like the current Congress.
Meh the PR responses would just be the same if any. Since the first amendment can't protect you from repercussions based on what you say with private companies it would be the same as if Apple hired an employee who then only used profanity or spoke grotesquely at work.
I don't think I can do this without source access to skype, unless I'm missing something?
> it would cost more in lost new subscriptions to remove them.

How does that make sense?
It's no worse than most sales channels, but my situation has been complicated in that I haven't really had the available bandwidth for more work. I spend maybe twenty minutes a week on LinkedIn and I ignore every message that doesn't mention a walrus (my profile explicitly says "mention a walrus"), so my effort level is very low.
I don't see myself in that board.
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I'm not the one who downvoted you, but I assume it's because you're advocating direct democracy, because everything else is spot on.

The problem with direct democracy is that people end up voting on things that don't affect them, which they don't have enough time or incentive to fully consider, but that severely harm other people.

Representative democracy (in sufficiently small communities) works because a representative can then afford to take the time to hear members of the community out before making a decision. And when the communities are small, individuals actually have the capacity to make their grievances heard and can potentially personally sway enough other voters to change an election outcome.
I don't know of any light-weight markup language that are intentionally designed to be context-free and unambiguous. I wish I did.

I'm not sure if any exist, although some people have tried to write grammars for existing markup languages.

http://roopc.net/posts/2014/markdown-cfg/

https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoc-grammar-prototype

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6178546/antlr-grammar-fo...

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Markup_spec
He has given large sums of money to the University of Oregon also, if not $400 million.
Double taxation for C corps is on dividends but not salary so this isn't really as big a deal as you'd think.
As before, people will move to the new world. This time it is called Mars.
new inventions aren't suppose to be obvious to an expert in the field. If this was enforced properly the second point would be taken care of with existing law.
As the other poster notes, that's exactly what node is.
I think the researchers are seeing the effect of mindfulness in action. Changing the conditions forces the body/mind to not go on auto-pilot and focus on the minutiae of the task. Consequently they improve through this deliberate practice. The changing conditions is forcing people to really think and focus on the task at hand.
I would think it is also important to repeat things with same conditions long enough for the muscle memory/ heuristics to kick in. If you change conditions rapidly there will surely be no learning involved.
In my experience it mostly just boils down to having the right processes and being strongly motivated to do things right rather than push things out the door as quickly as possible. Assuming superiors have your back, this is doable. It's when they don't or when the developers lose or completely lack motivation that things start to fall apart.

Lack of motivation often means lack of process, lack of process often means lack of testing and maintenance, lack of testing and maintenance often means lack of quality. It's a vicious cycle too - once you start down the road it's harder and harder to get motivated about your product again.
>The PC market is shrinking quickly

There were 275 million PC units sold in 2015, and approximately the same number is expected for 2016. Sales were growing until 2011, when they peaked at around 360 million units. So certainly sales have shrunk, but I wouldn't describe them as "shrinking quickly", according to forecasts.
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With magazines, at least those for very specialized audiences, the ads can actually be quite useful. For a general interest magazine, like TIME, or Scientific American, the ads are just filler for me. I'd rather have an ad-free version of the magazine.

But for something like QST (a ham radio magazine) where almost every advertiser is offering something I have an interest in, and where there are no physical stores in my area where I can go to browse the merchandise in person, the ads do a great job of keeping me current on what is available but are easy to ignore when I'm reading an article. I'd be disappointed if QST was ad-free.
Seems like bison does not support running user-defined code to handle things like C's declaration vs statement problem. Is that true? Otherwise seems like Bison covers all the problems mentioned in the article.
He's adding context for those people who may have heard of MooseFS but not LizardFS.

It's certainly not a big contribution to the discussion but it's not entirely without value.
Yeah, I was thinking that, too. And it's not just any forum, either. It's the notorious Yahoo Answers where people regularly troll each other as both question askers and answerers. See, for example: http://memebase.cheezburger.com/artoftrolling/tag/yahoo-answ...
"respond any time anybody asks about FBI and San Bernardino to say: the real conversation is about China wanting to unlock the phone of a US Embassy employee who they suspect is a CIA agent and don’t we want Apple to be able to say they can’t do that."
awesome tool! One feature request:

Being able to search/filter by name. I often find some file being included in the build and its a pain to track down exactly who uses it (ok, not a huge pain, but it would be so much easier to do it in this)
I reply to messages from random people who ask to connect with an email telling them that if they have a reason they want to talk to me, please send me an email about it.

Most people never reply, so I presume they are just trying to bump up their numbers.
Hear, hear. The freedom to vote with your feet is one of the most important characteristics of the American experiment.

Among all voting methods it is uniquely effective and accessible - you get a large roster of fifty 'candidates', and the cost of moving to another state is much lower than the cost of buying an election.

When power is ceded from state to federal level, diminishing the diversity of candidate states, an important form of democracy is curtailed.
I thought this would be about code scaffolding tools (only because of my recent frustration and research in the subject, which I will explain now).

I've been looking around for an authentication microservice and/or nodejs application starter kit. The core idea is that passportjs is installed with sane defaults, ready to add some social network support, ready to enable as an openID provider. For the user: register, login, edit profile, maybe a public ``GET /users/:username``. The appropriate middleware export to use in microservices (Supporting Laravel and flask would be a gratuitous plus).

Most of what I've found is not explicitly the scaffolding I'm looking for. I'm not looking to use a nodejs version of WordPress (aka automagic monolith framework with plugin ecosystem). I'm looking for something where the application is scaffolded out instead of hidden behind automagic. Something where the express/koa is laid out in traditional webserver fashion ready for natural tweaks, addons, etc. No opinionated subversion of control from the dev, no reverse engineering and forking the framework for trivial tweaks.
Honestly I think this is the best argument above all else. Yeah Apple can technically create the software the FBI wants and while it could be used as a precedent setting case, that isn't guaranteed. But forcing a company to write custom software and essentially work for the government for however long with them directing resources towards this versus other areas of their business?

This could seriously hurt their business not just from PR but from a resourcing perspective. I don't think any company should be forced into working for the government. Maybe some exceptions exist for things like physical manufacturing pipelines during war time but this is obviously not that.
Also, interested in how well Top Down Operator Precedence works with real-world languages: http://javascript.crockford.com/tdop/tdop.html
i totally agree that the work you do is the most important factor in your satisfaction with the work you do, and that free lunches and other perks are superficial. that said, there're some interesting thoughts formulated in this.

"What they want most is a great boss who cares about their development, and a company that focuses on and develops their strengths."

what people care about is their own development, the boss and the company are beside the point. the boss and the company are how the worker makes their money, the worker is how the boss and company make theirs. of course, if their interests align in other ways the situation will be more attractive.

"A kind gesture by a camper ruins the natural instincts and therefore the lives of these cool bears."

this metaphor... i'm not sure about this metaphor. i see that workers are bears and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are free lunches and vacations, but i'm not sure i see what the workers' natural instincts are. making their boss money? and if they no longer make their bosses money, their cool lives are ruined? wouldn't it be the bosses' nice situation that's been ruined then?

"But what is the right culture? More importantly: What is a winning culture?"

winning's more important that rightness. interesting.

"Human beings are not looking for company-bought goodies -- they are looking for meaningful, fulfilling work."

yes, this, completely. i agree with that, but i don't think what he thinks that means is what i would think that means.
Yeah, you'd need to talk about it with an accountant and maybe lawyer before doing so, but it could work out very well for some people.
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> I don't think it's fair to say he lost interest in it. It's a combination of 1) having less power than people think; and 2) having to be everyone's President, not just the people who elected him.

I think its mostly #1, combined with the fact that reform was behind a few high-priority economic issues, and by the time they were taken care of, Congress was embroiled in campaigns for the midterm elections, where the Democratic majority fell to a Republican majority unusual (even in the history of divided government in this country) unwilling to work with the President (Mitch McConnell, famously, stated that his #1 priority as Senate Majority Leader was to assure that Obama was a one-term president), which meant there was no way for any reform agenda Obama had to make progress.

> If you were President and had a good faith desire to govern by national consensus, what would you do?

I don't think any President has had a good faith desire to govern by national consensus (nor do I think that governing by national consensus in the US, at any point in its history, would be a reasonable or even sane desire.) OTOH, Presidents have very little practical choice, on certain matters, other than to operate within the constraints set by Congress' willingness to participate.
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I proactively do not click on adwords or suggested links or anything. In fact if I see an ad for bikes shops in London I will scroll down and click on the next link.
Re 1. I think it's actually quite fun to take a piece of code, understand it and change it to meet new requirements. There's a good healthy challenge in that. I think a big part of the reason devs hate it is because they can't read code well. They can write it, but not read it. (I realize I'm generalizing, but it is based on some experiences.)

Re 2. This is very true.
I expect to own my operating system in the same way that a tenant owns the interior of building. The landlord cannot walk into the home uninvited. The landlord cannot install cameras or listening devices in the home. As Justice Roberts said in Riley v. California (which also applies to computers, surely), "Modern cell phones are not just another technological convenience. With all they contain and all they may reveal, they hold for many Americans 'the privacies of life.'"
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Eh. I don't use Gmail because their login page is ad-free. I use it because my workflow is better.

I was expecting your screenshot to show the minimized amount of ads within the inbox. But you could argue that Outlook is reasonably minimal, Gmail is only text, and Yahoo/AOL are panelled ads.
But what you are forgetting is that Apple has been fully compliant and cooperative throughout this investigation. The problem with building a backdoor into a highly encrypted security system gives pathways for others to find the same backdoor. If other hackers knew there is a for-sure way to gain access and hack an iPhone, they will find that path. With today's plethora of technology, a line needs to be crossed in order to protect our privacy. We hold so many personal details inside of our phones and if by some chance the backdoor were to be released, chaos and panic would run ramped. I can understand completely why Apple deems this process "too dangerous".
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That's a lot easier than tearing apart every piece of software in a car to look for security vulnerabilities, intentional backdoors, and private information leaks.
Unleashing rate limiters is like releasing a water gate -- now you know which part is too weak to stop the flood.

By doing this, we can have more insights of system performance and find out which part is too "weak".

There is no reason that we couldn't increase the rate limiter if we keep improving the system in overall.
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Which one do you feel adds more value to the conversation.

Knowing it's written in C++, or knowing it's a fork of an existing project that many might be familiar with?

Do you think people are more likely to say,

"Hey, this was written in C++. I liked other C++ software so I'm going to try this"

or

"Hey, it's a fork of moosefs. It had some details I would've liked changed, I'll give this a shot" ?
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Where are you getting that number? Northern Ireland will likely be dropping it's rate to 12.5% in the near future, giving businesses access to the UK at the same rate as Ireland.

http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/ct/

Edit: Strings attached

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/budget/11929790/Ireland-s...

>However to qualify for the lower rate, companies must show they are genuine innovators and employ highly skilled people in the country.
Under the policy, dubbed the 'knowledge development box' (KDB), firms will need to demonstrate their earnings are tied to patents and copyrighted software that were created by research and development carried out in Ireland.

>The aim is to encourage local and international businesses to hire skilled workers and boost innovation, rather than simply basing tangential parts of their operations in the country to pay the low headline tax rate.
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Ask HN: Getting into an embedded startup?
Throwaway because I tie my main to my real self.

I'm an EE. I love embedded work. I used to do it for a major non-software company, but I couldn't stand the work environment. Because of the... sensitive nature of my work I had a lot of trouble finding a new job. When I finally did it was with a small, local, non-embedded software company.

I really want to get back into it. I have been out long enough that many companies won't even talk to me about these kind of roles because of my current one. I don't particularly want to work for a large company anyway.

My overarching career goal is to start my own company in the hardware or embedded space, preferably with other people. I don't have the network of people I need to find partners in this, though. Thus, I'm considering trying to go it alone. A nights/weekends thing would be doable, because my current company has a sane non-compete and has nothing to do with the hardware or embedded spaces.

As an alternative, I would love to be one of the first employees at someone else's startup. I just had an interview with one, though, and was rejected despite the technical chops because "in our current stage and needs, we wouldn't be a good fit at this time". I obviously disagree, but something about the way I present myself gives the impression that I am not early-stage material. My pickings for hardware/embedded startups here are really slim, so I want to maximize my chances of success because I think I would be a valuable addition to any of them.

I figure a solo run, even if small and ultimately unsuccessful, would gain me more respect and attention from the types of companies I want to work for. It might even solve my problem by creating the company I want to work for.

Am I misguided? Clueless? Nucking futs?

For context: I am in the Midwest. I will not move farther west. I would love to move farther east, particularly DC/Baltimore, North Carolina, or Georgia.
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Nice anecdote, but can you provide at least ANY detail on why they picked BeeGFS?