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>"We are living in a time when doing what gives us meaning and what market demands from us are ever so aligned. Building things that motivate me gives me meaning. And there is a market for those things"

Apparently not tho, right?

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There are conflicting pieces of advice in the start up world I think.

1, do something that you're passionate about, a startup is a tough and long, to remain engaged enough to put in the effort necessary you have to want to do it.

2, Build something people want.

Ive heard both of these pieces of advice from y combinator folks via videos etc.

If people don't want what you're passionate about, it won't do you any good to build it anyway. You have to be passionate about something that people just happen to want too.

Yet if I look at success stories I don't really believe the founders were that passionate about what they ended up with ; they later will rationalise what they have with something that sounds like a legitimate passion by abstracting out to a level that meets that requirement.

So I think the advice that says 'do what you love!' even when combined with 'make something people want', is not particularly useful.

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I think you have to be passionate about making a business work. Not necessarily passion for that project, but passion and determination to make your own thing a success. The market has to determine the eventual shape that thing takes. Chances are you won't be particularly thrilled in your gut about your apartment rental solution, or cloud file sharing service. Honestly, thats not that exciting is it. But when asked the founders will talk about it like they're saving humanity. I don't buy their enthusiasm for the project itself, what I think happens is they have a passion for making their own thing work.

Market fit first + passion is great. But passion needn't be for that idea. I think passion for the idea can be a problem as shown here.
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Too bad I can't downvote you because downvoting isn't about a comment disagreeing with your opinion, it's about a comment not adding anything to the discussion.
Lawsuit against the hospital thats what the lady needs to do. Would be a nice college fund for her kid.
> Isn't it a little fucked up that most (all?) of our social networks don't allow for you to share content to other people without implicitly making a statement about it?

Related to your IPFS comment, social media is also skewed towards sharing links to content which is hosted elsewhere. "Sharing a video" is really sharing a URL to a Web page containing a video, which may not be there tomorrow.

The restrictions on social media services, like Twitter's short message length, and the restrictions on media services which make it non-trivial to save copies, like YouTube hijacking the right-click menu to remove "save as", reinforce each other.

Hopefully something like IPFS can disrupt this situation, so that content starts getting shared again, rather than just URLs whose destination is controlled by a single organisation.
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I've never seen a queue at a polling station more than a couple of people long in the US. I don't live in the South though.
Great for when you go out of the country and away from a wifi connection so have no access to data. One step forward and two steps backward.
Whenever I see some of these 'countermeasures' I usually run them through some high end commercial face recognition algorithms I have access to. In many of the cases the countermeasures are completely ineffective. They may fool some things like opencv DIY algorithms, but not the expensive stuff :). For those the most effective strategy is to just tilt your head to the left or right a lot, though that will possibly give you a sore neck and you'll definitely look silly.
I go to what could be considered a fairly diverse high school, and in my experience, your comment is pretty much right on the money- especially the second part. Sure, there may not be legal barriers per say, but take one look at the cafeteria and you'll realize that there's a clear racial divide (Hispanics only hanging out with other Hispanics, etc.). Like you, I don't really know how to change this, short of just calling everyone out (which would probably only breed more tension).
Could you please give me your full name and address?

Providing the information publicly shouldn't be an issue since you don't believe in the concept of privacy.
What's so scary about CPS? Lawyers are expensive, and dealing with government bureaucracy tends to be time consuming and frustrating.
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>while all the Irish, Italian and Jewish are only viewed separately on second inspection

That used to be different in the past, though, e.g: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Italianism#Anti-Italianis...
Wow. "depression is caused by toxic social environments." you have no idea how you just helped me there. :)
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Let me guess, all the tech products you own are made by Apple?
Was there any work done around OS X support or are there licensing issues there / not enough support from Enterprise?
> Today the "Modern Technologist" has to rely on a new set of languages: Verilog, VHDL

That was a complete surprise ending! :)

I like surprise endings, and he makes a lot of good points, whether or not I agree with them. But, I totally wasn't expecting "I'm done with C++ because: hardware." I was expecting because web or because awesome new high performance functional scripting language <X>.

A lot of what he's talking about there will still run compiled software though... FPGA programming and C++ aren't exactly mutually exclusive, right?
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I think is more phobia about technology than an actual problem.

I get that this is a radical view on HN, but when topics like this come up, it's always slippery slopes and fantastic nightmare scenarios (like 3D printing your face). I feel like we're in the 1980's debating over how to handle traffic laws for our flying cars in 2010 just because someone built one.
> My doula rubs lavender essential oil on my temples, and my husband plays “Push It,” the Spotify playlist I created for labor and delivery. I have a photo of Beyoncé propped up on the over-bed table, because if anything can inspire me, it’s Queen Bey.

That poor, poor child.
I for one would strongly prefer an economy with meaningful competition, instead of one where a certain group of economically privileged insiders organize a cartel so that they can collude to fix prices and decide how much money to extract from the general populace which needs the goods and services they control...

because you've basically just described what they call a "trust" when they make antitrust legislation.

(Alternatively, you've described the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, later found unconstitutional - leading to FDR's infamous court-packing attempt - and considered by a little under half of economists to have been a major contributing factor which prolonged the Great Depression.)

Getting more power to ordinary workers is laudable when it comes at the expense of the power of their large-corporation employers... not if it comes at the expense of everyone else in the economy.
I read this article, or a version of it, four years ago when I quit my last job to go work at an agency. Since then business has only picked up.

It's not like these big name agencies employee hundreds of people. It's not like GE folding. So I don't think it's fair to judge the state of the industry mostly on the status of those companies.
Funny thing, I need to use an amazon workspace from time to time for my job. I've managed to keep 100% Linux (for my personal boxes) professionally and at home for a good long time now, but a specific (and thankfully rare) access requirement was solved by using a Windows Amazon workspace.

Guess what? No Linux workspaces client.

So now to gain network access to a particular resource (a web address), I run the Windows workspaces client under Wine under Linux, which gives me access to a properly virtualized Windows workspace, which gives me access to a web address that is hosted on Linux.

It would be a comic tragedy except that it was so damn easy to make it work, and it works very well.
My success at programming congress from a fundamental desire to write better code tomorrow than I did today.

Some may call that passion, but it can come from any number of places. It's not very important why you choose this path, or really how you accomplish it, just that the attitude and (to a lesser extent) outcome are present.

I'm sure others have found success by different means, but this has been a common thread in the small part of the programming community that I've observed
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I think the old definition of knowledge as "justified belief" is too simplistic and not useful.

Knowledge is essentially another word for bias. We can never really know something for sure. We only have our beliefs and common language. The best we can do is communicate our beliefs in the common language and agree to work on removing the double standards. That is to say, if I have one standard for believing X to degree Y, then I shouldn't have a completely different standard elsewhere.

Thus, I can never really disprove anything totally (unless that concept is logically impossible), I can only show you that your believing it constitutes a huge double standard relative to other things you don't believe.
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I dunno, as a dev you can just docker your environment and if your Macbook air dies, you buy a new one, and simply pull your images and your back to work in minutes.

Even setting up a mac from scratch for me only takes an hour, and I run an array of different web-apps.

An hour lost at worst once a year isn't worth much to me.
It's definitely time to stop deifying programmers, but I'd stop short of saying that it doesn't require talent. Every skill or trade requires some measure of talent.

I pay my bills by being a perfectly average software developer. Luckily I was naive enough to dive into it even though I didn't have a CS degree.

I'd hate to think that anyone getting started today would be discouraged by this attitude that programming is a skill bequeathed at birth to a lucky few.
Wow, that site's pretty cool.
Fully agree with what you're saying. Just a nitpick about bind (which I'm sure you're aware of, just for the sake of others).

The return type of {boost,std}::bind is unspecified (it's basically just a "callable"). This means that bind doesn't have to do type erasure. On the other hand, {boost,std}::function has to do type erasure, which can boil down to a virtual function call. But that's orthogonal to where the callable came from.

Another thing to keep in mind is that if you're writing a function like `copy_if` which takes a callback, but doesn't have to store it for later use, it's much better to take the callback as a template type rather than going through the type-erasing {boost,std}::function. Doing the latter makes the compiler's job a lot harder.
the last photo in the link was 10 min walk from my house. At that time (20yrs ago) they'd turned it into a ball pool for kids to play. Currently they've turned it into a Zoorkhaneh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahlevani_and_zoorkhaneh_ritua...). This is nostalgic!
The interesting question is why would anyone make such a contradictory statement? Why would they make the code physically available to everyone and yet make it legally unavailable?

Why is that contradictory? That's how every piece of sample code in a book works; the book generally has a copyright statement at the beginning and no license on the code. That's how, for instance, Microsoft's sample code explicitly works: there's a license that clearly states you can't use it unless you make nontrivial modifications.

That's also how code under non-simple-permissive licenses works. If I post something under the AGPL, it's legally unavailable for many purposes. If I post it under GPLv2-only (as I would default to for, e.g., a kernel module), it's legally unavailable to even GPLv3-only software.

In my experience it's been pretty easy to ask the author and say "Hi, I'd like to use your code under this license, here's my use case, can you provide it under that license?", and a good chunk of the time they'll say "Sure." For that question, it doesn't really matter whether the software is under any license at all to start with.

Don't compare those of us living under the rule of international law adopted in Berne in 1886 with people in failed states.
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It doesn't seem especially strang. I regularly see people with phones bigger than the iPhone 6. I assume they chose them because they wanted them that size.
Certainly, backward compatibility is critical and has always been a weakness of mine. I've always been an idealist there.

But in xkas' case, this was code from before I really learned how to program; let alone design a proper parser. This would be like asking for strict compatibility between Linux 0.01 and Linux 3.0.

I understand how SMWC became trapped in a cycle of using xkas v06, but any new projects really have no sane reason to be using it anymore. And I'm not even saying, "use bass instead!", there's dozens of cross-assemblers that work much better than it ever did (it would seem that writing an assembler is a rite of passage for ROM hackers.)
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- Q: What Operating System does a WorkSpace run?

- WorkSpaces provide users with the Windows 7 Experience, provided by Windows Server 2008 R2.

Suits only a windows user - lets say you need a ubuntu machine; the EC2 m3.large similar to the "Performance" workspace bundle. The difference between AWS Workspace and AWS EC2 is huge ($48), while AWS Workspace will cost you $60, EC2 Machine with same configuration will cost you $108.

But the advantage with the EC2 machine - is you should be able to shutdown the machine when not in use, so a 50 Hour/Week will cost you only $39, that is $21 less than the AWS Workspace. So any AWS workspace single user who can use Linux Machine does not benefit from AWS Workspace.
Asthma inhalers, poppy seed muffins, whatever. If the false positive rate is even just 1% or .1%, then the results must automatically be treated with suspicion and the dignity of the accused shouldn't be infringed on (e.g. You tested positive, it could be false, we'll need to run some more tests).
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Insurance is an included option at checkout that buyers can select / unselect to cover their order in case there is damage or loss during transport.

Suppliers can choose what type and duration of warranty coverage to offer their buyers and the coverage is stated on the product’s page.
The many worlds interpretation is far more common amongst the physics community (well, the parts that care about this sort of thing.)

We don't do things in physics with polls, really. We tend to prefer maths. And, much of the in-your-face weirdness of QM simply goes away with MW. You only have to accept that all paths are taken, but only one is observable to you. Not surprising, since you're an entity that obeys quantum mechanical laws.

Since the actual predictions and experimental evidence for Copenhagen and MW are identical, it doesn't matter which you prefer. If you're not careful you run into philosophy pretty fast here - fun, but not useful.

Copenhagen (kinda, sorta, not really when you do the maths) leads people to think (and I have been guilty of this) that there could be some sort of magical non-quantum 'observer' that causes the wave function to collapse. Which is bollocks.

Many worlds forces you to consider the environment of the system (including the mythical 'observer') as fully quantum systems. Which is much closer to what the maths actually says.

Copenhagen and MW give the same answers, but Copenhagen gives sloppy thinkers a silly avenue to get lost in. "I am a privileged, magical Observer, who is not at any point affected by the measurement I make."

And, hidden variables are so strongly constrained by experimental results that you are out there in the wilds if you propose it. Not actually a crank, but carrying the burden of evidence.

We are an epiphenomenon of quantum objects interacting under the laws of quantum mechanics. And the Many Worlds interpretation allows us to move past the philosophy and make actual, real, testable prediction.
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You are speaking for others - which is basically what the article is about. Judgment sucks and it's much easier than speaking your own truths - for example, do you have children and/or gone through birth?
I've never understand what these kind of boilerplates are for. Well, kinda understand if you're doing projects that takes just a few weeks to complete. Otherwise, you're just better off starting with your own boilerplate.

I mean, how does updating work? If you improve the scaffolding, people need to merge in their changes? Why is this not a CLI tool that would be effortless to update?

Although I must say it's impressive work made on this, and that it's cool to be able to generate many things, I fail to see any big value in using these kind of boilerplates.
Come on, that's pretty understandable given a previous stillbirth.
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I never said subtyping isn't necessary, and if you read my reply to btilly, you'd see that I actually suggested otherwise: subtyping is basic, natural and necessary, so languages should do it right.

Also, as I again previously said, nominal typing and even nominal subtyping are fine (well, I said “tolerable”, since they have downsides for modularity, but that's a topic for another day), but conflating inheritance with subtyping is a problem. To put it in Java terms, a subclass should only be considered a subtype if:

(0) The subclass doesn't override any methods that aren't abstract in the superclass. A subclass can do whatever its implementor wishes, but a subtype can't behave differently from a supertype.

(1) The subclass doesn't directly mutate any inherited fields from the superclass - this destroys inherited invariants. OTOH, reading inherited fields is just fine in a subtype.

In other words, a subclass is a subtype if and only if the type-checker has enough information to tell that the Liskov substitution principle actually holds.
a lot of comments in here about how drug testing is ok for some positions, like truck drivers and the like.

If your reasoning is impairment in some jobs could cause physical harm - surely a reaction time based test should be implemented for these workers to complete each morning before they turn on this heavy machinery. This would be much more effective in identifying unfit workers, doing it daily ensures that workers are prepared to work for the day when they come in.

Its definitely disappointing seeing a supposedly educated group of people buying in so readily to ages old propaganda. I cant believe how many people think a pre employment drug test is going to keep truckers off meth - let alone completely legal and untested things like nodoz, cough syrup, sleep medicines, etc.

I'd much rather drive around a trucker on marijuana than benadryl, and i'd absolutely rather drive next to a trucker who used marijuana 12 days ago than a trucker who is double dosing cough syrup and taking some nodoz to stay awake.
In 1996 I started work on a 2D rendering engine in ARM assembler which did alpha-blending and vector antialiasing. Substantial parts of it were later rewritten in C, but the core pixel-blitting loops are still there in ARM as far as I know. It shipped hundreds of millions of units and was at one point present on the majority of mobile phones manufactured in Japan, Korea and Taiwan in the mid 2000s. It is still going, and some software products are still being shipped today which contain that code.
Let me state right out I don't think this person deserved such treatment, and basic critical thinking and cross-checking the prescription for the inhaler (which surely should've been a phone call away?) in theory absolves the issue. It's just, well, personal experience leads me to be wary of medical care, not simply hit autopilot and think things will turn out great. It can from time to time! But, hey, this kind of story is an excellent caution...this is why it's very, very important to pester the ever loving dogsh!t out of your health-care provider to have every single detail prepared in your file before going into - essentially - the custody of a medical facility.

No matter how many times it might seem stupid for me to reiterate that with my condition I can't have any blood thinners - no Aspirin specifically - I simply don't trust anybody new with being, well, competent enough to make the connection themselves. I police what goes into my body with pretty good results. I go out of my way, time and again, to discuss my specific treatment needs and precautions. Granted, not everything is in my control, but the things I can monitor, I do try to get a handle on.
Moot point. You still created patient zero. ;)
I checked out Amazon Workspace a few months to see if I could get rid of one of my laptops. Alas, my client's VPN caused issues. I opted for creating a vm and accessing it through the web via Guacamole. I can get to my machine from anywhere. http://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/
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OS X licensing for off-prem machines is a tricky thing, and the technology being used for streaming complicates it further, if I recall.
>> Should we be offering that access and privilege to governments?

They already have it.

>> your argument seems to be that it's "unfair" not to offer the same to businesses? Bizarre.

In Sorrell vs IMS Health (2011) Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor IMS Health, that Commercial Speech was protected under First Amendment. This case is particularly relevant since IMS Health counsel successfully argued that Government could use Prescription data to market cheap generics to physicians however Pharmaceutical companies were prohibited from using the same information. The judges decided that this was unfair and amounted to restriction of commercial speech.

And few days ago the US Supreme Court in 6-2 decision in Spokeo inc. vs Robins ruled that there has to be a concrete evidence of harm/injury before data brokers can be sued.

So regarding my reasoning being Bizarre I think not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorrell_v._IMS_Health_Inc

http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/spokeo-inc-v-robi...

http://fortune.com/2016/05/16/supreme-court-spokeo-decision/
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That's not a "fancy ellipsis", that's an ordinary, standard U+2026 horizontal ellipsis.
It is not three period characters in a row.

HN appears to support Unicode://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9105273
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"Then why don't you put that promise in writing? It's called a License."

Because the author of this particular source code strongly prefers users who like them who are ignorant of the law? The author doesn't want to get sued for his license.