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I keep running into Windows code from Microsoft that still doesn't work with /. It'll probably be there forever.

The code I write is regularly ported between OSX, Linux, and Windows, and I routinely make it work with both, as well as being agnostic about line endings.

The opposite problem, Linux programs not working well with CRLF, is there as well. I find git to be more or less unusable with CRLF source files, so I run a 'tolf' utility on all checkins. Linux programs ported to Windows tend to run poorly, like being case sensitive on filenames in some places but not in others.
Part of it is also that good teams do not want to give up 'home' games. So we end up getting teams like the Jags with a small fan base, or the Dolphins.
Tell that to Alexander Litvinenko.
Messaging app Kik just launched a bot store
My big secret to productivity
This is some of the best longform I've read in a while.

If you're wavering between reading it or not, read it.

I immediately bought one of Talese's books after reading this article. He's a fantastic writer.
The choice between spending a weekend with the family vs ensuring a critical customer demo happens is an easy choice to make.

The harder choice occurs when you don't really have a choice. You are the only member[1] who can feed your infant, who requires food every 1-2 hours (if you're lucky you get 2 hours in between), AND your co-founder is counting on you to do your 1/2 of the work for the demo.

[1] In the US, pediatricians recommend only nursing for the first 6 months. That's not something all families can follow, but our family decided to adhere to that recommendation. Further for the first few weeks, pediatricians also recommend not using pacifiers and bottles, so the baby (and mother) can get a solid nursing routine going. This puts a massive constraint on mothers during the first few months of parenthood.
http://kik.me/leftpad.bot
I posted one of your share links into our Slack, and was really impressed with the image it found (your `meta property="og:image"`) & attached in the rich snippet! Nice work!
see also:
- https://twitter.com/SeattlePrivacy/status/716460499106340864
- https://twitter.com/jdormansteele/status/716807343988715521
Maybe start by allowing startups to have remote staff
https://pchiusano.github.io/2014-10-11/defensive-writing.htm...
Not really. In the 50+ year history of amateur mycology clubs in the U.S., there hasn't been a single recorded death from mushroom poisoning.

By far the biggest risk involved with foraging mushrooms is tick-related illness, including, but not limited to, lyme disease. Followed by getting in a car/bike accident on the way to forage, getting lost in the woods, falling injuring yourself, getting shot by hunters or pot farmers, or getting trampled by a cow -- all of which are orders of magnitudes more likely than accidentally poisoning yourself.

And fwiw, there actually are chemicals that you can use to identify some mushrooms, but the government has banned them -- one for being a date rape drug, the other because it's a precursor to meth.
Don't schedule meetings on Monday AM. Why on earth would you do that? Give yourself a day of work to be able to polish up the demo.
It's not a mistranslation. Japanese tend to use "eight" to stand in for "a large number", but "nine" sounds cooler in English.
That is a bit surprising. I think I have an expensive Condo in San Diego, and your rent on a one bedroom is still $1400 more than my 2 bedroom condo off of Balboa Park, 2 minutes from Downtown and 10 minutes from the beach.
PPMagic: C/C++ Preprocessor Magic
From MSDN on MAX_PATH: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...

I first encountered this issue when helping new developers get started with NPM on Windows; older NPM versions produced deeply-nested node_modules trees that could easily overflow the limit.
Absolutely. If a business is offering services that a customer is using to commit a crime, the police wouldn't be doing their jobs if they didn't go down and ask for logs.
I've taken 1.5 years worth of sabbaticals since I graduated 6 years ago. Can't recommend enough especially if you want to learn, build side projects and take better care of your health!
kebab-case-is-better
Generally when people say capital they're referring to large amounts of money, sufficient to fully-capitalize a business venture. Somewhere in the neighborhood of $10 million and up. A "capital-intensive" industry is one in which you need a lot more than this to enter the market.

Also it's not exactly easy to emigrate. People may be mobile, but they're not liquid.
Looks like a research in machine learning will only be done in huge corporations. You'll need an amount of funding comparable to LHC.

Time to use better models like kernel ensembles, maybe they are not that accurate, but they are easier to train on a single CPU.
Yeah, the existence of Vancouver, London, and Hong Kong's housing markets make me feel grateful that at least SF isn't that bad.
Maybe Apple is happy protecting their customers from arbitrary third parties who want to map their internal networks via webrtc. There are plenty of problems with webrtc, especially from a security perspective, and the benefits do not necessarily outweigh the costs. If a developer wants to build "webrtc-like" functionality on the apple platform, he can build an app using the many networking libraries available in iOS.
So the main difference between neovim and vis is that vis only aims for 80% features?
CRLF comes from DEC operating systems. DOS was inspired by CP/M which was inspired by DEC operating system conventions. (CP/M operates remarkably like RT-11. DIR, COPY, etc., all come from DEC.)
Thx for the link!
How immutable is it? Is it using blockchain?
Yes, but it is only temporary. As long as you have a robots.txt file excluding some URLs, those URLs will: 1) not be crawled by the Internet Archive crawler, 2) not be shown in the Wayback Machine. Any already-crawled pages will, however, invisibly remain in the archive, and will reappear once they are not in the robots.txt anymore.
Los Angeles got lumped in with other places in this article, but it completely misses the sprawl problem - you want to pay less? sure! Just sit in traffic!

>$569,500 in Los Angeles, Zillow data show.

If you want a decent quality of life without 1-2 hour one-way commutes and you work in tech, most likely you need to live either in Sillicon Beach (Santa Monica/Pacific Palisades to about Redondo) or Pasadena or Irvine areas. None of these are as cheap as $600k. Rents are catching up quickly as well.

If you are trading traffic for cheaper rent, Bay Area has those options too.
Paul Graham and others have stated that Jessica was perhaps the main driving force behind YC. In 10 years, YC has produced multiple multi-billion dollar corporations, and it's only just getting started. Once we start seeing power companies, aircraft companies and more, then... Yes, I think YC will be judged in the future to have had the single biggest impact on the economy, at least of any company, in the first half of the 21st century.
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Eri...

It's amazing what you can do by typing in the name of a graph on Google. I guess that's why my school teachers marked down my score if I forgot to label my graphs.
Unlikely. According to the article they've been rolling this out for months. It's not like they flipped a switch today to turn it on.
I'm disgusted the detectives carried around child porn even tho it's evidence and not only brought it to a potential crime scene but offered to show it to him.

Would they bring around cocaine or a gun from another scene? I'm assuming the police officer is exempt from distributing child porn as long as he's accusing of something before showing it.
How football clubs calculate the cost of buying players in the transfer market
And I find that when you really dig deep and go for the projects that you are truly passionate about you will participate with people who are your friends. Words are words but the founders of Y combinator are a small group. I would think they are friends. A personal opinion/thought
Fill in your own special circumstances. Going just based on his name, he sounds like he had a severely elevated risk of exposure to the Russian government. I'm pretty sure he knew about it. None of that applies to actsasbuffoon.

As an American in the US, my special circumstances dictate that the US government is very dangerous, and the largest, possibly only, risk that I'd suffer from the Russian government getting my data is that they'd share it with the US government.
The point is that toxic customers tend to sap your bandwidth. If you impose a time cost on them it throttles their ability to do so.

One way or another the problem works itself out, which lets you focus on the paying (i.e. actual customers).
ZFS supports being case-insensitive.
They were being mean on Facebook, which means they were being mean under their real names and photographs to a nine year old child.
Does this improve performance by widening the bounds of type stability?
I'd really like the option to send SMS to non-whatsapp users with a GUI signaling that this is happening (and an option to disallow this). Balancing multiple text clients sucks.
It's been one of my many pet hates about Windows since first having to use it regularly, around NT or 2000. Windows isn't even consistent with itself over the look of things bringing elements of previous and future versions of Windows to your desktop.

To add to the sibling comments...

From MSDN "Windows continues to support the old-style Open dialog box for applications that want to maintain a user-interface consistent with the old-style user-interface"

No, no and thrice no. If I'm on Win 7, everything should look Win 7 consistent. Likewise if I'm on 10 it should all look 10, perhaps with necessarily reduced functionality if it's a deprecated call.

If I'm running Visual Studio on 7, I don't want all my icons, and GUI to be of 10. No matter how diligently you upgrade, there is always something visually out of step. Even with only MS software.

I suspect it was the very late arrival of a Windows Style Guide made a lot of developers get the habit of doing their own thing. Then they'll start faffing around with variations so you can have preview in open. Hell, might as well do our own everything. The rules didn't say you shouldn't.

Mac always had a pretty tight, and extensive, Style Guide with apparently thought down to individual pixels; Windows seemed not to care, or not understand when it did care. Around XP Windows started caring more about UX, but probably far too late.
The comic doesn't actually address freedom of speech, it addresses the First Amendment of the United States Constitution (and conflates it with free speech). The first is an amendment to a contract between the people of the United States and the government of the United States and the second is a philosophical principle. The concept of Free Speech did not start with the United States constitution and any reference to the First Amendment when referencing Free Speech kind of misses the point.
Maybe he's a two-headed space alien.
Ah, sorry, yes, I meant the verbs. Originally I was going to make a comparison to nouns—nouns in Lojban, which have a -j suffix.
> [1] In the US, pediatricians recommend only nursing for the first 6 months

That's what maternity/paternity leave is supposed to be for. And yes I agree that's hard to do as a founder. Personally I have an incredibly bad track record at taking even a week off and I'm not even a founder per se.

That said, there is always a choice. You might not like the options, or the consequences, but there is always a choice.

The choice might just be to quit/sell your business and get a job job, if you want more time to spend with your baby. Or it might be to put up your baby for adoption so you can focus fully on the business. There are better choices/options somewhere between the extremes.

I have an interesting insight into this through my girlfriend. Soon after she was born, one of the parents essentially skipped town to focus on their business, the other quit their high paying fancy job to focus on the kid. Now one of them is rich, the other has a daughter that adores them.
I'd be surprised if they did. I really don't see a business reason for them doing so. They are clearly laser focused on enterprise, which means massively bespoked internal build systems and work flow. And they'll be competing against a lot of entrenched internal solutions.

GitLab and Atlassian have a pricing model for displacing existing systems and encouraging adoption, but I can't see GitHub following suit. GitHub looks to like they want to be the Apple in the Apple vs Android. Android has the largest user base but due to Apple's premium pricing, they have the largest profit.
Ironically, I've heard one reason the word "fuck" shows up on Japanese products is that the shape of the letters is aesthetically pleasing.
How or why does something being "interesting" automatically imply that it's "OK"?

Interest is nothing more than a human behavioral response to a stimulus, it typically has little to do with what people think is "moral" (which itself is usually vague and hard to define). Just think of how many people find watching documentaries about serial killers, crimes, or atrocities like the holocaust or the jonestown massacre, entertaining. Not to mention your typical news channels in the US, which tend to disproportionately showcase negative events as opposed to positive/neutral ones. Does having an interest in that kind of media somehow imply a moral approval of it?

If the documentation is there, people are going to read it, and the more out of the ordinary it is, the more likely it will be that people find it interesting. Uniformly condemning people for having interest in deviant topics is a slippery slope to justifying censorship or thought policing. Accepting that it's natural does have the consequence of possibly giving some people the idea that it's "OK" to do questionable things on the basis that it will grant them some kind of fame/notoriety, but that would arguably only happen with a small minority of people (since the barrier to entry to conduct these sort of depraved acts isn't exactly low), and thus would probably have a smaller negative impact on society than just flat-out condemning everybody for having questionable interests.
I don't think that it's all hackers. Without mentioning the neighborhood (because this borders on stereotype, and these things usually devolve into an x vs. x neighborhood discussion), I live in a neighborhood where people mostly hold non-technical titles like "marketing manager" and "product manager".

And they've all worked out, shopped for groceries, had breakfast, etc. before 9am.
The media and law enforcement have been so misleadingly sensational in the past about every drug that it is hard to take them seriously anymore. Flakka sure sounds pretty bad but who could know? After watching Reefer Madness you realize that you can't trust a thing that comes out of their mouths. I was systematically filled with all sorts of non truths about drugs as a kid in the DARE program. You don't forget being misled like that when you are so impressionable.
This is a good example of why I do use Debian.

Debian has never had the goal of being the latest shiny thing on the block. And that's why people people keep coming back to it. Sure, over the years I've dabbled with RedHat, Ubuntu, Mint, and so on, but then repeatedly I rediscover, that, oh yeah, security and stability actually matter.

Debian Stable cuts the right balance for me by incorporating the latest security patches but not the latest features/bugs. This is a heck of a lot more work for the Debian maintainers than simply rubber stamping whatever the upstream software developers release, but it's proven worth it.

My only disappointment in Debian here is that they didn't catch this time bomb and disarm it preemptively.
Ancient horse-dung bacteria is helping locate where Hannibal crossed the Alps
Given its author, it would be even more remarkable if this algorithm was incorrect. See my comment on the article.
> Why on earth would you do that?

You tapped your investor to get a meeting scheduled with Apple in order to convince them to use your data in their map application. Apple gives you a time, and lets you know Jobs will be in this meeting[1].

How bad do you want success?

[1] If this seems contrived situation, it actually happened. Former US VP Al Gore, a partner with one of our investors, was on the board of Apple and arranged the meeting. When the team went to present to Apple, they found out Steve Jobs wouldn't be able to attend the meeting. We later found out that he was in the hospital, and sadly, he eventually passed on.
Well yes, talent doesn't come out of nowhere, but it's still an awesome story.
(Many) Lessons from Building a Node App in Docker
I'm not sure how you drive on the highway, but I don't usually drive at a constant speed. Instead, when I need overtaking power, I have fast throttle response with a turbo that is already spinning.

I'm not familiar with what BMW did for a 335, but I do know that the 335 is quite a bit more expensive than an A4.
I remember my first tech jobs in the dot-com bubble of 1999-2001. I could see my managers doing everything wrong, but couldn't convince them why it was wrong. I thought it was because I hadn't been to business school. Now I know it was because I was 22.

You're just going to have to "grin and bear it" for 3-4 years before people will start listening to what you think. In the mean time, focus on showing up every day on time, wearing a clean shirt, using your manners, and learning to do whatever they're asking you to do, really well. Those things will distinguish you from the other fresh graduates more than you'd think.
I disagree--dual-licensing is absolutely a thing, as is white-labeling. The author is putting a price on hiding his involvement. Why is that not a valid thing to do?
Yes binary transparency for package managers is extremely needed esp because we've been widely publicizing this vulnerability a lot now with no real fix.
VMware vSphere Integrated Containers
>I am constantly amazed by the way in which people will try anything to get high.

Research "jenkem". Doubt anything will ever top it. Proof even amazement is finite.
Normally an order on your back-end is linked to our device ID with a session ID. However our device ID can also accept user-generated data within fields on your website/mobile app. So if your customers enter their email address during your checkout process, that email will be tied to device ID and you can then look up suspicious orders by their email address.
Now this is a cool innovative use of VR.

Imagine if you could look around your current kitchen, dining room, etc. and see how it would look with different furniture, paint, what have you.

I guess this might fall more under augmented reality, either way cool concept.
26-year-old hacker Geohotz gets $3M for self-driving car startup
This shouldn't be news. Snowden broke the NSA leaks ages ago, everyone should know a mysterious hacking group has access to gov files...
Where do you work that this is possible? I graduated recently and my employer is pretty generous and flexible with vacation time, but I can't imagine asking for several months off just because I feel like it.
Interesting. I saw her video and they didn't list any names so I assumed they were anonymous comments.
Well, this is interesting to see after what happened to npm a few weeks ago. Check out the getting started page, there's an npm install:

https://dev.kik.com/#/docs/getting-started
Isn't "sponsored content" still required to carry a notice? In that case it should still be possible to block automatically...
Sorry, but why are you (actually looks like a lot of people) congratulating someone going on a sabbatical?
I'd wager the 'person' who won at the end with 2 bids was most likely the house.
Do you use the "git flow" feature of SourceTree ?

I have a hard time trying to sign my merge commit. (after a new release for example)

I wonder if you were able to do it ?
> But whatever the cause may be, I think it's quite reasonable for people outside of my generation to view us as hilariously infantile for essentially trading away all possible negotiation power for a craft beer at work and the chance to buy $7 coffee.

As opposed to when the last generation sat around while the government made unpaid OT legal?
No, you can't.
> Now one of them is rich, the other has a daughter that adores them.

This is an interesting read: https://www.quora.com/Was-Steve-Jobs-a-good-father-according...
"the internet is basically built on UNIX" is an odd thing to say. In the early days of the Internet (early 1980s, 1970s if we want to include ARPANET as the current TCP/IP-based Internet's predecessor), it was a very diverse place, with lots of DEC operating systems (TOPS-20, VMS), IBM mainframes, and various other mainframe and minicomputer vendors, with Unix by no means predominating. The Unix monoculture (and later Unix/Windows biculture) grew through the 1980s and was well-established by the 1990s. Major protocols such as IP, TCP, UDP, TELNET, FTP and SMTP were all developed prior to that Unix monoculture taking hold. FTP in particular shows the pre-Unix heritage very clearly, with support for record-oriented filesystems (STRU R, MODE B, MODE C) for DEC and IBM operating systems, support for systems that don't use 8-bit bytes (e.g. TYPE L36), built-in ASCII-EBCDIC translation (TYPE A and TYPE E), support for ASA carriage control (TYPE A C and TYPE E C), and support for TOPS-20 paged files (STRU P). (These are all features pretty meaningless on Unix systems, which is why Unix FTP clients and servers largely do not implement them.)
The trick isn't to simply build up SF. Build up Oakland. Build up San Jose- have you seen our downtown? Build up on the Peninsula- (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5032555). Build it up so the Bay becomes a true tri-city area, then a city of its own, from Santa Rosa to Hollister.
All animals live on Mars? You've lost me.
Engineers might stay up until 2am, but they stay up until 2am at home because nobody else is bugging them. If they eat, it's gonna be cheap stuff or frozen trader joes food from the freezer, more time efficient.
To give some context - John Lees-Miller (the author of the post) is my cofounder at Overleaf[1], which now serves over 350,000 users after growing from a side project of ours that started just over three years ago.

This post is written from the experience of building and scaling the service to cope with continually rising demand, and ever-changing requirements. Hopefully it provides some tips on how to avoid common pitfalls!

Thoughts appreciated.

[1] https://www.overleaf.com
In 2008 I moved out of Toronto and when I went back a few years later there were dozens of new high- and mid-rise buildings that had been built downtown. Telus Tower was built from 2007 to 2009, 32 stories. 120 Bremner is 30 stories, same time period. Cityplace has about two dozen high-rise residential towers that were all built in 2-3 years and are 30+ stories tall. It does not take 4 years to construct a highrise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityPlace,_Toronto
good lord. what a feat. tbh i'd have fucked this up.
The really sucky thing about working on Windows is the paths. On Linux my applications are in /opt or /usr/apps. On Windows the path names seem super long and include all sorts of parens and spaces and such.
Ah, the Facebook link is buried in the article.

> But her reporting did not impress some of the good people of Selinsgrove, and they let Hilde have it on Facebook Saturday night. “I think this is appalling that u would do a story like this when all the facts are not in yet,” wrote one commenter. Her parents were attacked too: “does no one realize that this is a 9 year old reporting this type of graphic information!” wrote a Facebook poster. “I mean, what parents are encouraging this type of behavior!”
I think he meant that since she was a cofounder she didn't really need permission
Ubuntu LTS npm broken by gzipped JSON responses