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For sale to whom? The software industry is among the richest industries in the US. Who could possibly out-bid them?

Apple has $38 Billion in liquid assets [1]. Facebook has $18 Billion [2]. Amazon has $20 Billion [3]. Alphabet (fka Google) has $73 Billion [4]. Microsoft has $102 Billion [5]. In the last quarter of 2015, the largest companies by market capitalization were Apple, Alphabet, and Microsoft [6].

[1] https://ycharts.com/companies/AAPL/cash_on_hand
[2] https://ycharts.com/companies/FB/cash_on_hand
[3] https://ycharts.com/companies/AMZN/cash_on_hand
[4] https://ycharts.com/companies/GOOG/cash_on_hand
[5] https://ycharts.com/companies/MSFT/cash_on_hand
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by...
first they take your high capacity mags. Then they take your certs.
So before Airbnb existed, people should not have traveled?
130k for experienced engineers is very low by SF standards. That's average for senior positions in Dallas. 150k is the bare minimum for a senior dev unless you're getting a boatload of founders shares in a very early startup.

Google, Apple, and Facebook pay more. A lot more just in salary, more like 180-200k before options/RSUs.
It is a little different when the CEO is on record saying he has no interest in doing an IPO in the foreseeable future.
In a word - specificity. The same question arises in a number of older fields of study, for example "is chemistry the same as physics?"
London comes from capital going to it due to very low property tax rates and basically no income tax for wealthy foreign people via 'non-domiciled' resident tax law. Housing becomes a store of wealth / commodity investment vs. a thing you use like a car.

As a result a property investment bubble feeds on itself and creates the london problem.

To reverse that you make it unattractive as a store of wealth and attractive as an active investment via renting it out. And you remove supply creation limits. You would decrease the unfair demand side by taxing them like a typical UK resident.

Also zoning policy usually doesn't help at all with typical height limits.
The problem is Australia is too large for a dozen submarines to patrol. That kind of duty is pretty arduous, and if you don't give the men enough R&R they quit.
The greatest philosopher who ever existed: Johann Schmidt. (seriously). Why? His principle of ownness.

My musical tribute: http://www.upload.ee/files/5775110/allthingsarenothing.mp3.h...
No you definitely didn't :). I'd say probably a common HN bias is to ignore institutional forces when it is convenient. Glad to hear you are excited about NixOS!
There is considerable overlap, but neither is a proper subset of the other. If anything, math is a subset of CS, except for the part that isn't.
Her pay was tied to Yahoo's performance via stock. She lost tens of millions because of her poor performance. It just so happens that CEO compensation is so inflated that she still ended up with staggering amounts of money.
At PlanGrid we (employees) pushed for a longer window. One of the founders explained that this "convert to NQO after X time" is not an IRS-tested policy as of yet. The lawyers are wary of it and the negative tax consequences will hit employees under the AMT line the hardest if the policy is wrong.

That said, they are working on it and intend to implement a similar policy if possible. Reputable founders and investors don't want to force people to stay just to keep their options, nor screw people out of compensation they earned.
If the spread is nonexistent, why exercise at all? Why not just dump your money in an index fund?
Does HN not have a an explicit list of all actions that are unacceptable?! We need to get the TODO Group in on this. Also, so that everybody knows that my opinion is more valid, I am a 1/32 Cherokee left handed 87 year old black woman. On a related note, I demand that you implement trigger warning flag function.
Her husband runs one of the largest commercial real estate firms in the country, if not the world.

Whatever money tech companies throw into the kitty, it pales in comparison to the wealth, patronage and influence that real estate has on politics. Real estate fuels political machinery -- generates lots of fees for lawyers and accountants, lots of bullshit jobs for dumb brothers in law, etc.

It's also a lucrative business -- her husbands firm stands to make $1B selling post office property alone via an exclusive contract.
I never claimed there is a minimum amount, I just said that not anything over the net is automatically subject to the new "customer's host state's VAT applies" rule.

No, you said only service providers, citing two of the biggest firms in tech.

Unfortunately, the rule is far more general than that. Anyone selling any sort of digital services or products online is covered, even if it's just someone selling crosswords from their kitchen table that are then supplied in electronic form.

You can't advertise as "9.99EUR + VAT"?

Technically, probably not. For B2C sales, prices are typically supposed to be shown VAT-inclusive according to the various consumer protection rules. Naturally that is difficult if you don't yet know what the applicable VAT rate is.

Or guess the VAT rate based on geo-IP location association?

You can guess, but that infamously is not a sufficient standard of proof of customer's location for the required record keeping, so you might have to change your mind later. For the reasons above, that can cause compliance issues of its own.

There are other problems with relying on IP-based geolocation as well. For example, some EU member states have regional variations in the applicable VAT rates for the same products or services. To the best of my knowledge, no IP-based system yet exists that has sufficient accuracy to cope with that. In fact, even within the regions they do cover, most such systems are expected to give the wrong answer perhaps 10% of the time because proxies, VPNs, errors in the underlying IP-to-location database, and so on.

There are plenty of other problems with the new VAT system as well. We haven't even talked about being accountable to and subject to audit by the tax authorities in every member state, or the number of such states that have already sent out mass demands for incorrect tax revenues under threat of immediate legal action if they aren't paid, in some cases even demanding payment faster than the receiving small business could reasonably take legal advice to make sure it wasn't their mistake.

The whole VAT mess is just a giant screw-up, a set of rules designed after long and expensive debates, perhaps conceived with noble intentions, but ultimately implemented with horrific incompetence. Unfortunately, the same could be said of various other recent EU rules affecting small businesses, consumer protections, and related areas as well.
Idk. The recent tsmc 16nm finfet process offers great leakage numbers (30pa/um) . coupled with packages that can manage extremly tiny packages like the one from tere-circuit could be really interesting , if it was affordable.

Or the other option is to build multi for chips like marvel with their Lego concept offered, all at advanced nodes, but most of the dies after reused from previous designs.
It's a 3% penalty on the difference between what you owe and what you've paid. It's a pretty minor amount, but there is a penalty.

http://www.inman.com/2012/06/08/dont-sweat-quarterly-tax-dea...
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> When your own appetite for meaning is satiated, and you are ready to start making meaning games for others. When you’re ready to play god for your own amusement.

So what the author is effectively saying is that at a certain age one jumps (more or less) from being at the receiving end of meaning-games to being at the transmitting end of it. What the author is reluctant to acknowledge is the fact that his (ever more abstractly phrased) "appetitive for meaning" has not ended (via being satiated, for culture-induced meaning by its nature cannot be satiated), but rather has taken on a new form and position (whilst still remaining an appetite).

The author, as of now, is as bound to the cultural shackles as his teenage self. Indeed now he is helping perpetuate the cycle.
Some of my noticings.. Many of the "founders" of the field are still quite young, which is refreshing. Although they tend to say how back in the old days it was so much easier to get new stuff published. Maybe that is so, but my personal opinion (as an apprentice) is that we haven't reached the hockey stick yet.
People have been looking to me to provide professional answers almost since I started my career - I've historically been the best, or one of the best, developers everywhere I worked.

Younger people I've known are typically headstrong in the ignorant way of youth - they can't help it, they don't know what they don't know. I haven't seen young people pay particular attention to what older people say.

But young people aren't usually very interesting, so not being culturally relevant to them doesn't really affect me in any way.
Yeah, the main effect of "while you were gone" is just that I have to reload the page twice when it stops updating or when I restart my browser. Dumb and mildly annoying, but only mildly.
Elixir and Phoenix
As someone who maintains a container runtime (runC) I don't really agree with the statement that v1 had too much flexibility. Sometimes you want to have different resource pools for different resources. That's a useful feature. And while I understand the reasoning of the no internal process constraints, there's just some issues there that just make life annoying (you have to create two subtrees if you actually just wanted to make one). The reason some of these constraints and requirements came about is (IMO) because of bugs in cgroup controllers and the maintainers of the controllers didn't want to fix the bugs (for example, the CPU controller would weight processes in an internal node differently to processes in leaf nodes).

However, the fact that you can only have one hierarchy is a good thing (it makes container setup much nicer). Too bad that systemd will probably assume that it should own the root hierarchy (which will probably result in countless conflicts with container runtimes that don't buy into nspawn).
It's the mysterious side of Roman culture. Also, the language itself is an isolate and of linguistic interest as language isolates are unusual in Europe.
Gives a whole new meaning to the padlock icon on the address bar.
My guess is that the rest of the USA calls it 'the left coast', as in left-leaning.

Compared to middle that is conservative leaning.
Here's a guess: the short answer is that the physicist would say 'yes', but would be unable to solve problems that the chemist would consider trivial.
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I don't know... I unchecked that a while back and I still get annoying "while you were gone..." curated shit. Maybe I have to log out/in or something?
The problem with making apartments a "free market" is that tourists on vacation are inherently willing to spend more money on a per-week basis than a permanent resident. Once enough apartments become bespoke hotels, the dynamic of the city will change, in my opinion for the worse.
It is more accurate to say that Roman culture is a blend of Latin, Etruscan, and (later) Hellenistic culture. The Romans may have finished them off, but not before appropriating massive amounts of culture: the household shrine, burial rites, and the fasces to name a few examples.
I enjoy philosophy of mind like Dan Dennet's work, especially relevant to A.I. is the question, what is human intelligence, mind, consciousnes, creativity.

John Searle's Chinese room has occupied my thoughts for years. Now Convolutional Neural Net's that translate Chinese to English and answer questions lead me to believe that the guy in the Searle's Chinese room is redundant.
Funny, as students we were expected to solve the exam problem and "show your work"...

I think the root a the problem is that the goals of the researchers are not aligned with the goals of Science. This isn't a criticism of the researchers but instead of the "game" they are forced to play.

For example,the goal of Science is to move the ball(knowledge) down the field for the benefit of mankind. We don't reward researchers for doing that, at least not very well. We reward researchers for writing papers full stop - not for making their research easy to reproduce or build on.
I was going to agree but decided to load up web site to be sure:

https://www.gluster.org/

I don't see a list of features at all here or an obvious link to them. Most sites have something like this (see "Why Sector/Sphere?"):

http://sector.sourceforge.net/

Or this:

http://lustre.org/about/

Wait, that one almost sucks as much as GlusterFS site. It could also use a page detailing exactly what it can and can't do with obvious link on front-page. At least it had obvious link and basic description, though.

So, hard to judge writer of recent post on what features were in GlusterFS, etc if their page doesn't go through the trouble to list them without us having to dig. I'd have to point two fingers. Fortunately, Wikipedia to rescue doing what site didn't do:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlusterFS

Note: Oh shit, it still doesn't mention encryption. Not in the comparison or list of distributed filesystems either. Still undocumented for casual researcher.
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I think it is possible to create a movement against Feinstein. But it would be most powerful to turn the party against her.

I don't think she would hold her position if other Democrats came to her and said she was hurting fundraising.
Out of curiosity, have you ever tried to learn say, networking by reading the Linux stack?
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Do you like to play love games? - old gregg
It doesn't count til somebody finds an Etruscan orgy painting.
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So that you can get restricted stock in the startup you worked at for no out of pocket expense...?
No that is not what I think at all, see my follow-up comments below. I just think the combination of shitty tools + incentive structure is even more insurmountable. This is a tough problem that should be attacked from as many fronts as possible.

> The main thesis projects are typically very high value and consequences of sharing it far more complex to understand.

Commercial value, the university is just more stringent on the licensing/ownership restrictions, or something else?
Maybe, it's too early to tell. The thing is that Facebook has to convince content providers to do it...Twitter already has them doing it; they just don't seem to know the value. Facebook is for sharing links, to me that's a lot less valuable than original content in the space (per user).

I'm not saying Twitter should be worth more than Facebook, only that their core component is undervalued, but Twitter seems keen on killing it because they are trying to focus on meaningless stats like MAUs, which have only a small importance to do with what their model should be.

If Twitter were under someone who saw it as an information company instead of a social media platform, imo, it would be a steal of a company at the current market price...unfortunately Jack and his team are incompetent.
Feinstein isn't stupid. She knows the bill is over the top.

They're deliberately taking an extreme position in an attempt to force a fake compromise (which will ultimately wind up being just as catastrophic to the US software industry). This is a classic tactic, and it works.

Senate Committee on Candy: "Gum is a problem. Okay, life sentences for anyone caught chewing that evil stuff in public."

The Public: "WTF?"

SCC: "Okay, you're right, that's a little harsh. Let's meet in the middle and make it only a $100,000 per stick fine."

The Public: "Whew!"

... and I'm guessing that any "compromise" would take the form of clauses along the lines of the FISA courts being able to rubberstamp people into compliance. In secrecy. In bulk.

I cannot help but wonder if one of the requirements for being on the Senate Intelligence Committee is that the spooks have dramatically compromising blackmail material on you. This would explain a lot. (On the other hand, I believe that Feinstein is a genuinely bad person, and we would be better off without her).
> Code is a joke, most data is processed using "pipelines", which in reality means some irreproducible mess.

You're not wrong, and it's not limited to bioinformatics; Reinhart-Rogoff's findings were reversed when an additional 5 rows were included in a spreadsheet they used to calculate their correlation between GDP growth and debt ratios. And of course, they insist that despite the actual outcome being twice as strong and in the opposite direction, they still support their original position.

I wonder if one can get a CS PhD by producing enough retractions. Of course, it won't win you many friends in the academy, and would probably lead to less source code made available. But given the Perl code I've seen published who's termination condition is a divide-by-zero exception, one can argue that peer review in the information age has to include code review.
I don't think Mozilla Corp takes donations for software development. The Mozilla Foundation does take donations, but it doesn't develop software. Rather, the foundation works on outreach (those cute videos you sometimes see on the Firefox start page).

Mozilla is a bit of a weird entity, half non-profit, half very much corporate, yet all code is free.
Its so weird that there aren't more women in tech. Amirite? What could possibly be driving them away?!?!
A small sampling of how this preforms on some B&W images I had laying around (all my family)....

My Grandfather & Brothers: http://adam.gs/v/IMG_0090.jpg http://adam.gs/v/IMG_0090.color.jpg

My Grandfather, My mother and my Aunt http://adam.gs/v/IMG_4629.jpg http://adam.gs/v/IMG_4629.color.jpg

My grandfather and my grandmother: http://adam.gs/v/IMG_6868.jpg http://adam.gs/v/IMG_6868.color.jpg

From my perspective, these are decent results considering what they have to work with, I think it did a very good job.
Huh?

RISC-V with the compressed extension is incredibly efficient in its encoding. Better than x86 or ARM in both static and dynamic bytes per program.

Also, Icache pressure is a huge problem in modern warehouse-scale computers.

Any processor that cares about performance will almost certainly be implementing the C extension to RISC-V. It also enables more efficient macro-op fusion, turning common two instruction 4-byte idioms into a single, more powerful instruction.
I think it's pretty awful for a YCombinator employee to come into the comments and chastise a commenter for bashing a YCombinator company. In this case especially, as lots of abuse stories exist about Airbnb.
imho, the only reason to go to 14nm and below is if you are pushing the envelope in terms of performance (HPC) or integration (smartphone). Everything else can probably stay at 28nm or above and be combined with 14-7nm using 2.5D or 3D package integration. Note that unless you are a Tier-1 system player you will "never" be able to get known good dies from a big fabless semi vendor, but taping out twice yourself and combining them yourself is pretty straightforward if you have a good packaging partner (like Amkor/ASE)
Sounds like they have to start reducing the price to fill the oversupply...
Isn't that the norm for executives?
I provided ranges in the paper. To focus in further, you will need to get actual quotes from vendors. This is because the price is completely opaque and depends on circumstances.

http://www.adapteva.com/andreas-blog/semiconductor-economics...
>I'm saying that it is a contradiction of the beliefs commonly found on HN, reddit, etc. about how corruption works.

What, specifically, is being contradicted? Because your suggestion that tech companies can't influence one policy issue doesn't seem to contradict the belief that money influences politics.
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Also the govt has shown there is a put on property as the UK is a land pyramid scheme.

They bailed out all the banks to prop it up. After this help2buy (help2sell in reality) to have the govt underwrite risk when the banks stepped out.

This isn't capitalism.
Not much seeing much output from that initiative which I signed btw.
read the opposition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_over_the_atomic_bombing...

yes, the torpedo factories are a valid target. How large were those, how many square meters of the final destruction was a military target? A city with families and children is not a valid target. If Truman gave a warning to the civilians beforehand most of them could have been saved and they could have still destroyed the factories ...

According to the geneva conventions it is a war crime (not arguing about how reasonable the conventions are etc.).
> ...it's about conveying what someone has already desided to be true.

I think the field strives for a little more than that, at the very least discussion is preferred to rote learning. Logic provides a common language for that discussion.
(4) isn't really true. Mediaevals saw philosophy and theology as distinct (yet intertwined) disciplines, and had great respect for philosophy. Look at how much respect Thomas Aquinas had for Aristotle. Aquinas was also heavily influenced by Averroes and Maimonides. And surely the list of significant mediaeval philosophers is longer than that – what about nominalists such as Wiliam of Ockham?
American, libertarian, anarchistic capitalism has proved too extreme an overreaction to it's nemesis doppelgänger, communism. Democratic capitalism with sensible safety nets and evironmental regulations isn't as suicidal for us and the planet as what the Koch bros want. Furthermore, with deep learning and automation of most jobs (human-piloted transport, white-collar analyst jobs) will create millions upon millions of people without jobs or retrainable prospects while remaining, ultraefficient and uberprofitable businesses hoard cash while bleeding out the middle class, the engine of the economy. Lots of idle, unemployed, broke people is a recipe for unrest and civil strife.
If you're successful person, you can already give a damn about what others think. When you're not that succesful, maybe it matters then.
How this IoT startup is competing with GE and winning
Not terribly difficult. I wrote my own blogging engine in C [1] which I still use [2] (it also uses this library I wrote: [3]). Last modification I made: support for gopher [4] for that "retro feel."

[1] https://github.com/spc476/mod_blog

[2] http://boston.conman.org/

[3] https://github.com/spc476/CGILib

[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/
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This is not my field (just an enthusiast) but consider that a typical fusion plasma has a density of 10^20 particles per cubic meter. Even if your plasma is 1 cubic centimeter, that's still 10^14 particles! Thus a full-on EM simulation, where every charged particle interacts with every charged particle, is not practical. A full-scale simulation is still unrealistic even if you typically cheat by breaking the problem up into cells and ignoring the Coulomb interaction beyond cell boundaries.

Fusion machine design is a combination of hard-won experimental knowledge and theoretical guesswork. I'm skeptical of the current wave of fusion startups simply because they don't have the weight of the decades of experimental work that have gone into tokamak research. But hey, they might make a breakthough, who knows.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique
I've seen them. Just recently I had a short burst of collisions. It happens. Don't underestimate the resolve of someone who wants to grind an axe.
Were your tapeouts shuttles or full production tapeouts?