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Hmmm. I don't follow your words here.

Does it really take you hours every month to "learn" bookkeeping?

No. It takes a few hours upfront to learn it.

Then you use what you learn to appropriately vet accounting professionals and software so you can make informed decisions.

You are conflating learning a subject with doing that subject. Those two things are different.
probably:

1. strong fundamentals of L2/L3 networking
2. software defined networking state of the art
3. linux and windows virtualization state of the art
4. distributed storage state of the art
5. familiarity with commodity 64 bit hardware of all varieties (supermicro, dell, hp, etc.)
6. kernel debugging skills (maybe not development)
7. networking debugging skills @ the packet level
8. strong understanding of http and proxying
9. strong understanding of load balancing
10. strong understanding of wide area networks
11. physical datacenter knowledge i.e. how to actually install shit and get it to work together.
12. power fundamentals

for example, solve this problem:

we have a datacenter in oregon and a datacenter in virginia. connect them physically and logically. know what the goals are, know who to call, what to ask for/buy, and how to debug it.
No more selfish than tech workers making $100K-200K/year who believe they have a right to the bay area more than those non-tech workers being pushed out.
You're implying that there is some kind of well-accepted notion of Bryan Garner being a poor guide to usage, but you link to some articles that are just nitpicking small terminology differences.

The second link in particular is tendentious. It claims Garner gives "a savage indictment of the behavior and character of those who use Stage 1 words [new usages]" in his book MAU.

But if you follow to the linked page from MAU, you read that Garner is, in an appendix, giving a series of wry analogies for the process of acceptance of new terms -- not a savage indictment at all. In other words, Garner is not himself saying all new usages have "a grade of F", etc., he's saying that is how some new usages will be perceived, in a very gross and qualitative sense, by a strict static conception of the language.

Since Garner comes right out and explicitly says all of the above, the link you cite comes off as picking a fight. There's nothing there.

Having read MAU (back in its first edition), I have to say that Garner strikes me as a very good guide to usage. I still enjoy perusing the book.

Taken as a whole, do you really have significant issues with MAU as a usage guide?
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> However the requirement to sell twenty percent at below market value is simply going to pass that cost on to everyone else who cannot qualify for the lower priced housing.

That's not necessarily true. Future purchasers are one source of money, but others include builders, investors, and landowners. If the 20% requirement is typical and historically consistent, then presumably that has already been priced in by the property market. In other words, the parcel value may already be discounted from your alternate-universe value to reflect the below-market requirement. In that case nobody really pays more; it's just that whoever held the parcel when the requirement was created wasn't able to sell it for as much as they might have.

Even if it were 100% true, I don't think anybody involved would be shocked to hear it. If you have a limited commodity that you sell at auction, the richest people will get the commodity. With housing, that means you may in effect create a community of only rich people. Presumably the citizens of Mountain View want a different outcome. If you just don't like the mechanism, you should suggest a different one. But if you're disagreeing with their goal, then the mechanism's mostly irrelevant.
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Does the main SaaS make money? Use that money to get your first 10 sales. Do annual deals for cash-flow.

If someone told me that they will make $1mio in sales on a $156k investment, and they wanted that investment from me (not just do it themselves), I would think it was some kind of scam.
Looks like bus rapid transit (BRT) could be a great solution for SV. If they could get dedicated bus lanes (which is probably politically impossible) you could really clear up a lot of traffic and establish a way for people to forgo owning a car.
hey boris - here's a blog post that has a quick video in there for you http://blog.drift.com/introducing-drift-daily

this post might be helpful too:
http://blog.drift.com/automated-lead-intelligence
human,

fuck those other humans. write what you want to write.

humans die everyday. their voices are never heard.

you have an opportunity to speak. take it.

sincerely,

council of space bats
OT, but do the vatican museums have "stolen art"?
It's been decades since I went, but I seem to recall mostly stuff made explicitly for (various incarnations of) The Church.

There is stolen stuff appropriated and variously recycled in many cathedrals/chapels/basilicas, I just don't remember it in the vatican.
Please don't post political stories to HN unless there is something unusually intellectually interesting about them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Articles like this make me glad I went into science.

If I'm going to work 16 hour days, 6 days a week, I may as well be getting something useful out of it.
> decide to forgo change

That's not the exactly the issue. It's creating an environment where they reap all the benefits of change with none of the downsides, which is a common theme almost everywhere.

For example, no one is against the change in their home prices or the change in tax revenue that comes from hosting lots of jobs. But they are vehemently against the change in landscape required to house those workers.
^^ This right here, is exactly what I'm talking about.

Again, the idea of prose linting is not terrible, and in fact I do a hacked up version of it with a set of standard "find/replace" operations for specific writers who have specific issues. But a giant, general-purpose ball of rules of dubious provenance applied to a generic abstraction called "prose", is what I take issue with.
I imagine the city would pick who gets to stay in the affordable units through a lottery or similar; IIRC, Facebook has a similar development next to their "1 Facebook Way" building.

10k housing units might be enough to give one or two years' worth of Google new hires an apartment; there's no way that it's sustainable to just throw it in as a benefit (plus the tens of thousands of existing employees would be outraged). I imagine they'd use it for temporary new-hire housing and/or intern housing.
Last I joined in on the discussion I got quite convinced by the argument "if Nvidia can use a propietary license for their Linux graphics driver, then Canonical can use the CDDL for their ZFS driver". Substitute for any other propietary modules that people like to load in their Linux kernels.

Can anyone point me out why this argument is wrong? Googling around for this I was actually suprised that propietary kernel modules are in fact a debated topic (obviously to little success of the opponents), but doesn't the practical existence of propietary kernel modules at least show that no-one has had a problem with this for a long time, legally speaking?
Being one of the rare natives in Silicon Valley who reads HN, let me chime in here: The history of anti-development in the Bay Area really goes back to Marincello [1]. Back in the mid 60s they had a plan to turn the Marin Headlands into a suburb full of ranch houses and cul-de-sacs.

>"Marincello was originally conceived to house up to 30,000 people in 50 apartment towers, as well as hundreds of homes and townhouses. There would also be a mall and a grand hotel at the highest point of the headlands. [2]"

It got shot down through heroic community activism and now we have that wonderful open space instead of condos. Of course, open space makes people want to live here and then they complain about how it's so expensive because it's so nice and wouldn't it be nice if we built a lot more housing.

Why does everybody have to squeeze into this tiny little area? You've got the whole rest of the country that's mostly empty to work with. There are plenty of alternative metropolitan areas that are far cheaper. Why bring everyone here? I think it's because the wealthy venture capitalists and executives who own the companies and like to be on-site managing and talking to people and such like living here, so everyone else has to live here too in whatever accommodation they can find.

1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marincello
LinkedIn is awesome. Every great biz opportunity in the last 10 years has come from it.

My only comment is they could do better by cutting down on recruiter spam and poorly thought out sales pitches.

Just increase the amount of money to send unsolicited emails, especially to more senior people.

Maybe they could have a chat with Amazon as well. Those people abuse LinkedIn way too much.
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I too think this one will die eventually. They should focus on core tech:
- RUST
- Embeddable webview and JS engine
- Make Thunderbird more a priority than "something that we don't care about"
So you're implying that Oracle would use its standing as a Linux copyright holder to sue Canonical for violating the GPL by integrating the (Oracle copyrighted!) CDDL'd ZFS? On the one hand, I give points for the absurdity of the scenario -- and that it makes no sense would certainly not dissuade Oracle. But on the other hand, even this bizarre scenario is missing something that all of these litigation scenarios seem to lack: damages. James Bottomley explored this issue[1], and I continue to be amazed that others either ignore it or don't treat it explicitly, as it will be the first question that will be asked by any lawyer: where are the damages? I actually ask this earnestly: can those who fear litigation here at least take a swing at establishing the economic harm here?

[1] http://blog.hansenpartnership.com/are-gplv2-and-cddl-incompa...
It's a cookie that applies across all browsers and devices, and you cannot remove it. There is no way to opt-out of this tracking.

Analytics and ad operators, social media firms, and other data exchanges can identify you using this, and they can use this information for tracking what you say and do online.

Verizon has been in business with these companies to sell your identity to them -- Verizon is effectively including your name, address, Facebook account, and email address with every HTTP request you make. Again, this applies across all browsers and devices, and you cannot opt-out.
Forget “bottom-up” reporting of emissions. Try an atmospheric monitoring system
FB made $6B in revenue in Q4 2015. LinkedIn made $862M in Q4 2015. Given the ultimate size of the global digital advertising market, it seems that there is much more growth potential in expanding share of advertising $$ than trying to expand to brand new businesses.
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> I also fear about what Oracle could do, as they are copyright holders of parts of Linux

They have already published commits to Linux under the GPL, they cannot just "take it back". The worst Oracle does is stop contributing to the kernel, which they rarely do to begin with. The "worst" Oracle can do is sue third parties that violate the GPL on their part of the kernel - which would predominantly be proprietary vendors.
Interesting. When I ran my S Corp, my goal was to avoid estimated tax payments. At the end of the year, the accountant would calculate the required taxes and I would issue a "net zero" check that only paid taxes, or a bonus check with a enormous withholding. The remainder was taken out as a dividend.

Taxes paid via withholding are treated as if they are paid in through the course of the year which avoids estimated tax payment penalties.
0.0899% == half
Good article, I submitted it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11240888
Graphical programming is a lot of fun. That might just be personal preference, but objectively it's at least very different from enterprise programming. There are lots of interesting problems, and you can see the fruits of your labor pretty literally. Plus, knowing how to create a solid engine opens up the freedom to work on ideas that you are actually passionate about.

One problem is that lots of people want to be game developers, so the working conditions and pay can suffer. But the consensus among indie developers who I've talked to is that the pay isn't as bad as people make it out to be, and it's still worth spending a few years 'paying your dues' at a large company, if only to learn about how the development process works in the real world; there's a whole lot more to making a game than writing a good engine. Unfortunately, game development also suffers from Publish or Perish Syndrome, so it's hard to get a foot in the door with large companies unless you've already shipped a game.

I'm saying all of that as somebody who thinks that they would enjoy being a game developer, but I've never worked in game development so most of what I'm saying is secondhand information. It's enough to make me happy to stick with learning on my own time for now, though.
The problem with BRT is that according to California's definitions, it has an unavoidable negative environmental impact. It took six years to do the environmental assessment for the Van Ness BRT in SF.

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2014/07/transit-projects-are-...
The r/Bitcoin moderators are running a bot that has a list of accounts whose comments or posts it automatically removes. It's essentially being shadowbanned from that subreddit alone, and the users in question are not notified of that. Want to test? Make a new account and make a comment against Bitcoin Core or pro-blocksize increase, and see what happens within a few minutes.

The mods of r/Bitcoin have also personally tried to get me banned from reddit through untrue accusations to the reddit admins (they tried to get me globally banned for "doxing" theymos, notice the timestamps: http://i.imgur.com/THhruNm.png when I called him by his first name, which he himself publicizes on his LinkedIn page as associated with his handle "theymos"). Obviously the ban had no merit so it did not stand up to admin scrutiny.
The framing of this article very much misunderstands the scientific method.

Science is a process. It's a method where you conduct a series of disciplined, reproducible experiments and use this data to build a model of the truth. Science never gives you the truth directly; instead, you get a series of successively more accurate representations of the truth that you can use to make predictions. Those predictions are not guaranteed to always yield a positive result, but when they come up negative, you have more data with which to refine your theories.

Casting this in black and white terms - "this effect has been debunked" - is doing a disservice to science.

Rather, a negative result in this study should be grounds for further investigation. Why did it come up with different results? Is there something different about how they ran the study? Is there something different about the subjects, something that may hold useful lessons in its own right? Was the original data flawed? Does the effect hold only under certain conditions? All of these would be very useful things to know. The point of science is not to say "This is true and this is not", it's to be able to create increasingly refined models of "This is true under these conditions, and if you apply this model in this situation, you will get these results."

By analogy with physics: the ancient Egyptians (the Ptolemaic kings) believed that the sun revolved around the earth. To make this model work, they had to invent increasingly more complex epicycles in the motions of planets. Copernicus came around and showed that the earth revolved around the sun in a circle. Kepler re-examined this data and said no, planets actually move in ellipsis. Einstein re-examined this data and came up with a tensor calculus that even more accurately predicted the orbits of the outer planets. Now, there is strong evidence that Einstein's theory of general relativity is "wrong" too, but we don't have anything to replace it with.

Was the Ptolemaic calculation wrong? Well, technically not - as my physics professor pointed out, they were just doing a Fourier decomposition of the observed data. And for a kid making a sun-dial on a beach or a hiker who wants to know when the sun will set, the first term of that series is perfectly adequate. But the advantages of the heliocentric and relativistic models are that they can predict the data with increasing accuracy, without adding extraneous magic numbers.

Similarly, when a psychological study can't be replicated, it doesn't necessarily mean the basic idea is useless. Rather, it means that we should look further into the situations where that idea is useless, and refine our models so they gain additional predictive power.
As a remote employee who has successfully pushed Flowdock into the culture of my last three employers, I've got things to say here. :)

I think the core thing is to treat group chat like physical office chat. So:

- Don't use it to make decisions
- Don't expect anyone is paying attention
- If you need someone to pay attention, @ them
- Stay in flows/rooms/groups with your close working companions, visit others when needed

Maybe I've been lucky that this has come pretty naturally to the people I work with, but Flowdock has been a lifesaver for me, and gone a long way towards making it easier to hire more remote people.
That's quite a delight for the ears. Reminds me of Stéphane Picq's work on the Dune computer game soundtrack, back in the early 90s. It had some similar sounds.
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Very interesting indeed. It's been posted 4 times in the past 2 months btw :) no discussions though.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=https:%2F%2Fhbr.org%2F2016%2F0...
>"I can describe this in more detail later if anyone's interested."

Yes, please.

BTW, that was some of the best nerd sniping I've seen.

https://xkcd.com/356/
I wonder how this would work without any magnetic switches - just that having made my own cardboard viewer for a nexus 7 and without the magnetic switch you have to tap the screen somehow which breaks the experience (for me)
That's called a ban, not a shadowban.
I worked on a very large team making a AAA game and it was tremendously fun. Games are at the intersection of high-end art, tech, design and commerce. Working with 150 highly skilled, highly diverse and highly enthusiastic people on a focused 2 year project was wonderful --even though I only controlled a few small corners of it. And, even though we had several months of schedule overrun and the stress that entails.
The question is what do you define as a community. The housing market is the size of the whole Bay Area, yet local governments responsible for housing are very fragmented and very different. There is a vast difference between San Francisco (850,000+ habs) and its neighbor Brisbane (4,000 habs). Some communities try to reap the fruits of the economic growth of the Bay Area while making other support the cost.
> all of which gives me useful info and context about the writer and their education level and the amount of effort they put into the piece and the amount of editing it underwent and so on.

From a reader centrist point of view, I can understand lamenting the loss of this information channel. From the author's stance, I can imagine wanting to tighten up alternate channels of information and present a clearer message. The author always has this ability, through natural circumstance, effort or research, so this tool would do nothing but make it easier. As a reader, it may change the assessment to whether they ran a proselint-like tool or not, but in the end those are just assumptions. The writer could be making specific choices to disregard the linting tool on purpose. In the end, reading is still an interpretive experience, this just allows authors more options.

> The way to improve genuinely bad writing is not with rules and tools -- it's with lots of reading, a little mentorship, and lots and lots and lots of practice.

Generally good advice for any thing, but I think it's worth noting that different people learn in different ways, and providing more methods for learning is generally an improvement, and opens the field to more people. Tools that look to circumvent historical methods for achieving skill often face an uphill battle from those that used those historical methods. It's easy to see why, as it looks like it has devalued much of the hard work they put into their skills. This may be true to an extent, but the gains often far outweigh this, as making a skill accessible to more people has wide ranging benefits for society in general.

In more concrete terms, I see no reason why a tool like this can't be a multiplier for mentorship and practice. At the very least it enables exposure to ideas that might not have been encountered before.
i only wish the federals followed the suit and let 100M (1/3 of the US population, about the same as MV new allowed units ratio to existing) new immigrants into the country
If Alice just wants to know the average height of the population, why is she doing a hypothesis test that the height isn't 65 inches?

Since her hypothesis test is designed to help answer the question of whether or not the mean population height is 65 inches, why should we expect it to tell us anything about the mean population height other than whether or not it being 65 is consistent with the data observed?
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> protecting one's (likely) most significant investment

Because some additional housing is going to completely crater house prices in the area?

I don't buy it.
I'm familiar with the evidence for all your claims except for the one about caffeine.

Why limited caffeine?

What I've seen is that caffeine works for some people and it doesn't work for others.
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For me this is quite interesting. Because some one has said that it has debunked a study doesn´t means that he has done it. There is still the possibility that the new study is the incorrect one.

That a team claims that there is a problem it is a good sign that this needs more studies. But it will be jumping to conclusions telling people that the original study has been debunked.
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There's a lot of whitespace removed, but also IMO they used way too many colors. Once you highlight everything, you're highlighting nothing.
So your refutation of the concept that "both military and civilians have it bad" involves the assumption that the United States is the only country, Vietnam was the only war, and people called up to the military can easily avoid the trauma of being shot at and having to take other human lives by.... buying a gun and starting a firefight.

That's not the best line of argument I've come across.

Although when it comes to Vietnam, I did once chat with an older Vietnamese person in Vietnam who said his worst experience of war was seeing banged up American GIs in the hospital next door. Other Vietnamese civilians' worst experiences were food shortages as the war largely passed their particular inconsequential valley by. Others died agonising deaths under bombardment, which was disproportionately likely and certainly no less painful if they happened to have [been] signed up for one of the armies and sent to guard something. Not all experiences of war are the same, but as a general rule you're going to spend a lot more time being shot at if you're a soldier, and probably don't feel better for shooting back, especially if you're a conscript.