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I don't consider myself unmaterialistic. I'm happy that I'm comfortable and secure. I don't put too much value on material things but some of them do make my life better. If I could get a ton more money without anything else in my life changing, then sure, I'd take it.

But if that money came with power, a high profile job, I'd have to work a ton, have a ton of stress, change my lifestyle, my main social circles would have to be with other rich people, nearly all the attention I ever got would be from people I can't trust not to want something... just no. I'm happy now and that's not an equilibrium I want to upset. Nothing about the day to day lives of rich, powerful people seems like so much fun as to outweigh the negatives, which if you pay attention, seem to be many.

"The best life is one the gods don't notice."
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A lot of this is nothing new. Solar heaters were around in the 70s (though not that common), heat pumps have been around since the 70s, LED lighting has almost nothing to do with house construction (you just screw in an LED bulb now instead of a CF bulb or incandescent bulb, the Edison socket remains the same), and I don't think underfloor heating is all that common (nor is it new, they've had that since the 70s too). PV on the roof has nothing to do with house construction either; it's equally easy to add it to a new house as an old one. Heat pumps are really the only thing here which have a big effect on the design and construction of a house, because of the need for ducting, which really, really old houses usually don't have. But if your house is 40 years old or less, it was probably built with ducting for a central heating system of some kind, so putting in a heat pump isn't a big deal. Even on an old house, it's not that hard to retrofit one if you put the ducting in the attic.

Face it, house construction really hasn't changed much in a century, and definitely not since the 1950s. We're (in the US) still using 2x4 lumber assembled on-site, making walls with gypsum board, etc. Even "manufactured houses" use most of the same techniques and materials.
Don't forget that it is silly to equate 10% of the company at founding with $60 billion today.

He would definitely be rich, but there would have been a fair bit of dilution.
The more important part is that in a country that supposedly has very strong free speech laws, the government can issue a gag order, for any reason they deem, without using normal courts.

Surely that's a very, very bad thing.
Another workaround is to encrypt with a key that is a checksom sum on random bits stored one each by all your users.

When a judge demands your private key, the only way to get it is to send an email to everyone asking for their secret bit.

The trick is that this information has to be useful to law enforcement but not your business. (Because you can't access it either).
No kidding. Not too long ago Ted Cruz was a xenophobic, extreme-right religious nut. Now the media is playing him up to be some sort of moderate (he's still a religious nut).

By contrast, Trump is a moderate masquerading as a conservative caricature.

The worst part is that it looks like you guys will be stuck with an 'establishment' president who'll simply continue the status quo of funnelling money to the rich and waging wars in 3rd world countries (Hillary).
I don't know what the solution is here.

One of my sites enjoys a ridiculous number of fraudsters trying to make purchases, many - but very much not all - from the tor network.

The easy solution is to punish everyone and ban tor exit nodes from access, and woo, a significant reduction in my fraud rate.

The way I justify this to myself is that the site only accepts payment via PayPal and/or credit cards, and paying with those in itself gives up a good amount of privacy.

For sites that don't make a profit and have to use unpaid time to clean up the mess from some tor nodes, I really don't know what the solution is.

It definitely sucks for legitimate users.

Edit: one more difficulty is that I don't know if I was targeted by one or two lazy-yet-determined fraudsters who only use tor, and so make tor look worse than it is with their repeated attempts. No idea even where to begin with that one.
I have several personal CVs.
All about nothing, I made an unique CV for each job description I'm into. Only to try to fit as close as possible what I figure they want (no cheating, only highlighting what is more interesting for them).

But only when I personnaly ask for a job.

On contrary, when they come to me, I refuse to give other information other than publicly available : they are coming, I do not work for them yet.
I don't know if I'd say the quality of life is 50% lower, but some of the reasons I prefer the US: (1) higher salary, (2) lower taxes [though this depends where in the US you move to], (3) you tend to work at HQ [better projects] rather than some satellite office, (4) more access to the latest tech [Amazon/Netflix is pretty bad in Canada], (5) more entrepreneurial/driven people [again depends where you move], (6) generally lower COL.

I know people will bring up healthcare, but I would argue if you have a high-paying job in the US, you never really worry about going bankrupt due to healthcare and you get access to some of the top physicians/hospitals.

Now don't get me wrong, Canada has a lot going for it. I think Canadian cities tend to be run better and this shows up as being safer and cleaner. Canadians also tend to be nicer and because they are 100% committed to the rat race, they tend to be less high strung and competitive.

Overall, I had to move from Canada since there weren't any jobs in my home town. I could have move to Toronto (3 hr flight) or I could have moved to the Bay area (3 hr flight). I'm the same distance from family, so why not go for the bigger opportunity?

Final disclaimer: this is my own opinion. Obviously some people will look at the US and go "yuck". Live where you want to live. It's all good.
I thought this was well known already? if you send your data to someone else's server (even if you are renting it), there is no way you can be reasonably sure it will remain untouched.
I think the old whimsy Google would think adding a minion gif to emails was a completely lazy and boring idea.
Interesting analysis!

Actually the Hoover dam streams 2000 tons per second [1]. So we may not be far off!

Basically build 15 Hoover dams worth of nuclear plants in Antarctica and their plumbing.

Expensive? Yes. But also quite doable especially compared to cost of losing coastal cities.

1. https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/ReclamationDamsIrrigationProje...
We've all given stuff away by making decisions in our lives. We make what we think is the best choice, and then we live with the consequences. Regret doesn't change tomorrow.

That said, were I in Woz or Job's shoes, I would have given this guy a big check at some point, as a thank you. Actually maybe Woz did--neither he nor Wayne seem like folks who would talk about such a thing if had happened. Not likely from Jobs though.
Exchanged comments with Cloudflare's CEO on the topic and in my opinion it appears that they simply don't understand that their view of the situation is skewed.

Here's hoping that given they truly do appear to care about TOR users that they'll revisit the situation and find a better solution.

Here's a link to Cloudflare's blog post an the related comments on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11388560
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Report of $120m funding from January last year. It also links to a SEC filing. http://www.businessinsider.com/juicero-raises-120-million-20...
Of course I would. In fact, that is an excellent metaphor.

At least in my family, we follow the following pattern to arrive to a decision:

We choose what we want for the family, we discuss the possible paths, and we decide where we invest the resources of the family. In others words, we have a form of government.

What we don't do is this:

We discuss and decide about nothing, because we trust that the result of the forces of our internal interactions it's the only true path to 'optimal' outcomes.
Hah, I was denied access to Canada for a 3 day business trip to meet with a client.

So we applied for a visa, and that was denied because there's no category for software developer or designer or PM in NAFTA. And even if there was, I would have required an engineering or graphic design degree to be eligible... without doing a costly analysis to make sure no one else in Canada could do my job.

Agreed with above comment about this being a gimmick.
Great point. It's easy to say "Canada looks better than the US", when you don't know what it's like to live in Canada. It has it's own unique problems.
This is a tradition that needs to die. There should at least be serious media outlets that publish "No Fool with us" policies.
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I'm really quite excited to write out the experience, though I have to admit over 10 years have passed so I've got to focus to dredge back up the memories.

The 'wiped out, zero points' actually makes the most sense from a pragmatic standpoint. Figuratively speaking, you get zero points when your culture/society/etc is annihilated, wiped out. So there was an incentive to behave in a way to avoid being destroyed.

Just to sum things up, during the conflict & negotiation stage with the "victim" country, the coalition had them surrounded in one tiny town, otherwise taking over the rest of the country. When negotiations failed, the last holdouts were destroyed. It didn't have to end that way - the coalition was okay with letting them have a little compound and stay out of the way...but they didn't like that, made all sorts of demands and noise, and were eliminated out of convenience (my convenience, not necessarily the entire world's).
> Hillary is the master of no extremes.

except for consistently lying...
> the Internet at not being able to find scans of that 55-page photo spread.

Because the scans of the paper don't exist, it wasn't in the printed media, it's a 55-photos slideshow in an online English news site, and it was with the quotations from the Onion without any commentary:

http://www.commentary.com/region/asia_china-daily-screenshot...

Somebody had fun selecting 55 photos for the slideshow.
If it somehow blew up would the CIA have taken full responsibility or would they have conveniently blamed terrorism or ISIS?
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It's a good point - I'm not sure who really thinks of reddit as a secure and private platform. Warrant canaries certainly make more sense for gmail or dropbox or something.

That said, while your behavior regarding reddit might not change, it could inform your political behavior. Since organizations can't say they've received NSLs, it's really hard to survey and see how common it is. I'm glad reddit's case here is gaining interest, and hopefully other companies will take part in this program and also get attention when it happens. It would be good to know just how prevalent this practice is.
No it actually rolled out, it went live at midnight in your timezone.
One of the weird problems here is performance, though. A naive approach to left-pad, might involve (new Array(n+1)).join(padChar), for example, since javascript doesn't actually have a consistent language-native way to create an arbitrary-length string. That technique ends up, in some javascript runtimes, taking orders of magnitude longer to run compared to a for loop with string concatenation. The array.join method is one line though.

So, imagine the scenario where you've got a commonly-used function that gets vendored and from there copypasta'd into a lib/common or some other location in your project. You've basically just cut yourself off from any updates that the module author might make when new javascript optimization hacks come around (or obscure corner-case bugs need protecting against). It's a small problem, but it is at least worth considering.

There's also this whole thing with licenses - there's a fundamental difference between using a library and copying its source into your build tree. The MIT license doesn't care, but the LGPL certainly does.

I do like the idea in general. You should extend it by doing tree-shaking or dead-code analysis. "This library is big, but you're just using one function call, let's just copypasta that one in here".
Once you've witness a few elections, you start to see this stuff repeat over and over again.

"Oh my god! Candidate X won New Hampshire, what an upset! Who knows what will happen!!!"

[5 months later...]

"As expected, the candidate everyone thought would win the nomination did."

It's a bit of a farce. I swear the nomination process was created solely to see newspapers.
It's been commercialized in a "Hey we're cool" way.
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I do agree that abstractions that reduce the amount of code you have to write can allow you to devote more brainpower to the code at hand. I would argue that global abstractions are generally inferior to local abstractions for this purpose though. If you make the language locally more complex (via defining terms i.e. functions) you can leave that complexity behind when you don't need it. If your language grammar is naturally complex you have to deal with that all the time.

As for English... Writer's block and futile rewriting cycles are real issues that basically every writer grapples with. On the other hand, coder's block isn't really a thing, and refactoring occurs infrequently compared to writing.
Completely agree. Maybe will focus on that as the next round.
Looks like we are decades away from using external energy and propulsion sources. Looks like chemical propulsion is the way to go in the near future.
Differences between developers
Please read:

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/f70eec70dd58f0bfa904ec4a886dfc12
We'll see. Trump has said that he will prevent TTIP/TPP and put a 40% tax on Chinese imports, but who knows if he will follow through.

I certainly don't think that he'd be at all bothered by the economic fallout of those things.
What would those internal issues be? Wanting to be appreciated by your peers?

The argument made by the author is that the graph implicitly transmits a message which I think most of us don't agree with: "Passionate developers work all the time."

So, you're right - it's not harmful because it causes people to crave external validation. It doesn't and therefore removing it will not make the craving go away.

Rather, it's harmful because it makes the people who do crave validation behave in ways that are counterproductive for everyone.
Really an immature oversight not just in the tone, but in the actual understanding of the product. It's a utility for most users.

What if AT&T just played a fart sound in the middle of a call if you hit a button on your screen? Of course that would go wrong. How did they think this was any different? They're not just some startup anymore.
Some nitpicks:
The CR-Z is a subcompact 2-seat hybrid hatchback.
The Prius is a compact hybrid hatchback (NOT sedan).
The BRZ is a 2+2 sport coupe (the back seat is nearly unusable).
Last year I had new year resolution to have each square in my graph to become some shade of green.

Did I contribute very many very small commits? Yes.

Did I think about everything I do daily from a global/sharable/modular perspective? Absolutely!

Did it make a dent in the world? No.

Yes, it was stressful at times. But I still think I became a bit better at approaching problems from re-usability perspective.
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progressive expanded rights and freedoms

If that includes freedom of speech, you may want to rethink Canada. Say something politically incorrect and expect to be pulled in front of the on Human Rights Commission to explain yourself and potentially be fined.

In terms of corruption, try googling "Sponsorship Scandal".
Reply to a previous message in the chain?
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Companies don't like auto-generated CVs because putting together a good CV is a sign of expertise in that field.

When I go through a stack of CVs, the ones that jump out to me are the ones in which the candidate seems to know exactly what I'm looking for--and you have to have experience in the field to know what matters. These are things like not listing a bunch of information under Education if you have 6 years of experience, or making sure to emphasize the right languages/frameworks you've used on projects.

The good CVs seem to exude both a skills confidence and the experience to know how to describe them well.

Generated CVs don't get that. They standardize every candidates background, making it difficult to know if the CV itself demonstrates expertise. Besides that, it's exhausting to look through a stack of the same document and try to distinguish candidates.

My best advice is to use LaTeX to create a personalized resume template you like and just keep that up to date. I originally stole this from jedberg [1], but you can find mine here [2], and there's a HN thread about it here [3].

[1]: http://www.jedberg.net/hire_jeremy_edberg.html

[2]: https://github.com/rickhanlonii/rickhanlonii.github.io/blob/...

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10502227
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A lot of applications are much closer to home. For instance, I've seen a few teams pitch the idea of building a robust, small-satellite network to serve as a platform for Machine-2-Machine messaging. I think enabling the global IoT industry is really going to unleash some spectacular applications. Internet everywhere is of course a popular idea that's being worked on. I particularly like the low-data rate, low monthly charge model that I've seen pitched. Seen teams pitch internet anywhere for as low as a couple of bucks a month.
Tor can't possibly be the only signal of fraudulent activity though? It may be one that has an easy "solution" however, but one that's easily circumvented (one of the many free VPN services out there).
I think this is a little hyperbolic but not too much. I'd expect a similar mindset and internal use of G+ is a large reason it wasn't scrapped a year ago.
Nice try, Dean Pelton.
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GP was emphatically not saying that Perl 6 is the abstract and simple one. GP was saying those qualities apply to Go and are what make some personalities like Go more than P6. You like the Go qualities and not the P6 ones; QED.
Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7035361
"Hillary is the master of no extremes."

That really depends on where you're coming from, politically. Compared to some places in the world, the most "liberal" and "socialist" Democrat (no, not Hillary) is already a right wing extremist. For starters: She's a hawk. She and her husband deliberately came in to office to push the already right-leaning Democratic party further to the right. She's for enlarging the already massive surveillance state. These are not moderate positions to a lot of people. Maybe moderate compared to Trump.

Regarding whether a moderate or an extremist is more likely to win, there's little evidence that Presidential elections get decided on political positions. Sadly, personality and style are far more significant.
Your Wikipedia link to "stream processors" is for the wrong kind of stream processors. For a decades, the digital signal processing and graphics worlds have used the streaming abstraction to design programs and hardware. Their applications are typically expressed in pipelines, and do have to continually process data.

"Big data" stream processing is obviously related as its a dataflow programming model, but it's still very different in practice. The streaming abstraction is generally more free-form, and not realized directly in hardware. I contrast the two kinds of streaming in Section 2 of a paper from a few years ago: http://www.scott-a-s.com/files/pact2012.pdf
I don't know what it was like back then, but these days (at least here in the UK) banks want personal guarantees from directors/owners etc. for business loans, even to Ltd companies.
If I was 19 again I would definitely go for startup - I would be more aggressive and less focused on security. From where I'm now I can see people who got really high were involved in startups extensively. That's your turbo through career ladder - what would take you 10 years in big corp you can achieve in a year within startup.
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I'm not trying to "mansplain" to you at all, whatever that means, but it is always a joy to have your comments dismissed through meaningless terms by a Tesla owner. Being dismissive of others for having a differing opinion is just unproductive to turning people towards Tesla.

I am just trying to point out that to some people, standing and pointing at superchargers as some viable way to make it cross country is really dreadful, and yet people still try to sell them as though they are the most amazing thing. I have also recently driven from DC to FL. In all, it was about 1000 miles one-way. I had to stop for gas twice, filled up when I got there, and filled up twice on the way back. Let's say that adds 30 minutes each way to a 14 hour trip (and yes, you can certainly fill up, use the rest room, and sit down to eat in 15 minutes - it's not a 5 course meal, it's a roadtrip). If I compare that to having to stop every 200 miles - again assuming that you could get a 100% charge in 30 minutes, which AFAIK you don't, you get to 80% or so - you would need to stop 4 times on the way for 30 minutes each. You have now arrived 1.5 hours later than I did.

And honestly, what do you do for 30 minutes at each of these stops? If you left at 9am, you would stop for lunch at noon, second lunch at 3pm, dinner at 6, and second dinner at 9 in a Tesla. And then you're saying "you get a smooth, quiet ride that doesn't leave you tired at the end of the day's driving", but honestly, just buy a nicer car. What are we comparing, a $75000 Tesla and a $15000 Kia? There are so many wonderfully comfortable ICE cruisers out there, test drive an Acura TLX, quiet and comfortable, same price as a Tesla 3 with double the range.

I feel like we are in the early days where people really try to downplay and apologize for the charging issues on electric cars, but it's not the way it has to be. Musk showed that very amazing 'drive up battery replacement' thing awhile back, and then it just died. How awesome would it have been if that became reality, rather than just plunking down superchargers every couple hundred miles?

Sorry I don't mean to rant, it's just incredibly awkward trying to point things out when Tesla owners/fanboys are so excited and dismissive of anybody who prefers to drive with an ICE.
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I agree, but still, I clickbaited, and was happy to do so. intercom prices are strangling us, especially since you want triallers in the messaging system but you pay even for those users that don't pay you.
> The way I justify this to myself is that the site only accepts payment via PayPal and/or credit cards, and paying with those in itself gives up a good amount of privacy.

Prepaid credit cards are essentially anonymous, as far as I know.
Absurd. Even if for some odd reason you buy into the unproven idea that things would be bad for what you do with Trump as President, moving to a new country when someone might only be in office for 4 years is ridiculous and shows that you act on emotions, not rational and logic.
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