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I feel like there's 2 completely different paradigms to open source, or at least it felt that way for me. There's starting your own project and contributing to someone else's.

I initially started with my own projects, a few very minimalistic plugins or tools to scratch an itch. I put them on Github with no real advertising, save mentioning to the json resume folks that I was at least willing to help with LinkedIn importing since I was working rather extensively on converting my linkedin data to json resume. That project is pure garbage in terms of how brute force and un-developer-friendly it could be, but it still got a handful of stars in spite of that not really being the purpose anyway.

Fast forward to consuming open source plugins for work purposes and seeing projects almost there, needing a PR or two. In a couple of instances I'll fork a project and merge PRs manually because I see business value in circumventing waiting on the author. I may also need something they would otherwise reject. I feel like this is stage 2. I'm getting value for my own needs, I'm using the tools at my disposal not through direct PRs to my project but capturing the work of others.

It wasn't until I got to what feels like stage 3, getting my first PR merged into the core project I used. My very first PR was rejected and immediately feels like a loss but I was trying to tackle the problem using an admittedly 'hacky' way that while it solved the problem, smelled terrible. Getting that first accepted PR, even on the very low hanging fruit I've tackled up until now, is its own kind of high. Having done it on a few other projects spanning multiple languages and setups, I feel stronger as a developer whether or not that equates to actual quantifiable results. If I can clone your project and contribute one of two things is happening, either it's drop-dead simple (in most cases it certainly is) or I'm showing my competency for being able to do what the maintainer says I can do. That said I have contributed to some projects that were unintuitive and yet I was still able to solve the problem at hand. While frustrating as hell in comparison, even those projects have a tendency to teach me quite a bit.

It's because of stage 3 that I now actively try to evangelise my developer friends to make the same plunge, many of whom don't feel they have the time to contribute. I not only found that I have had the time, but it becomes a worthwhile pursuit and it shows my competency to others. Having said all of that I do feel I've gotten lucky. My first PR rejection was handled so amazingly well and when asking for clarity, I wasn't made to feel inferior. They clearly explained the problem, thanked me for spending the time on it at all (which is probably the most crucial thing), and proposed the more elegant solution of waiting for gulp 4. Getting something like "This is dumb. Why did you even submit this?" would've probably turned me off of contributing for another few years overall, much less to their project again. Even faced with that, I would still push myself to contribute because the benefit of even one accepted PR outweighs all the negatives.
I loved this line from the article "With unsolved US VISA problems for STEM workers, IT companies might have to get creative to hire potential employees." -- Yeah, creative...like paying a living wage for the location. Pay salaries that will allow someone to rent their own 1B (not bunking) and the "shortage" will magically disappear.
Also Germany has a limit of 252, IIRC, and I expect the majority of long freight trains passing through Switzerland to be international services. There are plenty of old axle counters in operation around Europe because ultimately it's a limitation more in theory than in practice.

Along with the steep gradients, you have to remember there's far more passenger services on the lines, so pathing constraints force freight services to be shorter (you can't have them accelerating that much slower than passenger services, or they start taking up a disproportionate amount of capacity on the line).
Pokemon Go is a monster mobile hit
Bitcoin reversed to fix protocol errors, this is not a protocol error.
My argument is that UBI would distribute existing (massive) productivity gains to citizens directly as a "citizen's dividend", instead of the current model where its being siphoned off by large corporations for investors, while leaving the working class with stagnant wages for decades.

This would push wages up, as employers would have to pay more for the privilege of utilizing labor.
Nicely done! I did a similar thing with the VueJS/horizon.io combo. It's a little rough around the edges - I just wanted to have some sort of scaffold for personal stuff. Link is https://github.com/kylestlb/vuex-horizon-scaffold for anyone interested. And yes, there are tons of devDependencies so I wouldn't call mine minimal I suppose :)
Any idea how long the signup page is down? I made my account yesterday and, when forced between using my google auth and making some pokemon.com account, it was a no brainer to not use my google account. It took me a few tries but since this is a game and not something in the realm of life-and-death, I found it wasn't horrible to actually wait. And try again.

The entire issue is predicated on using your google account credentials which isn't really mandatory. Maybe I'm overly cautious but I don't use my google account to auth anywhere. If that's the only option, and it's not a google product.. then it looks like I'm not using that service.
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If you want the benefits of a blockchain without the Wild West stuff, why not set up a private chain with an "approver" instead of miners? I'm sure many companies interested in Ethereum are going this route.
Again, your entire argument is pointless lawyering. The European Communities Act 1972 specifically says that UK domestic law has effect "subject to" EU law, and that's been interpreted by the courts to mean EU law has primacy over domestic law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Communities_Act_1972_...

British Ministers have spoken repeatedly about their frustration at finding out they cannot implement law changes wanted by their constituents because they conflict with EU law.

Yes, the European Communities Act can be repealed at any point as part of the process of exiting the EU. But until that happens, EU law has primacy over Parliament's own laws both by widely held legal understanding and social convention.

To reinforce it one more time: by your logic everyone is sovereign and can simply choose to ignore the state at any point. It's an intellectually useless argument because it ignores the behaviour of the courts, the existence of laws stating the opposite and the ability of the state to force you to comply (which may in fact be via fines rather than jail sentences).
Smart girl. She dodged a bullet.
Wages in Italy are exceptionally low if you're used to US wages. They're generally below the average for large European countries as well. On the other hand, Trentino-Alto Adige is one of the happiest places in Italy to both live and work, but that wage isn't going to go far in the North.

The additional question, not answered by the career page, would be is this a contratto a tempo indeterminato or something else?
I had some of the same questions...my suspicion is basically two fold

1) the infill change may have been intended to make the print times comparable (he suggested both were about 18 hrs)

2) He may have been attempting to compare the default (or default-ish) settings of each machine
You're assuming and generalizing what people think based on nothing but your own prejudice. Maybe GMOs pose no risk (even though the definition of 'GMO' is so vague that it is impossible to be so generally affirmative), but what if I want to eat traditional varieties, what if I don't want to support multinational companies which ruin the lives of small farmers around the world, don't I have a right to do so ? Should that right be taken away from me because you don't think personally it is something worthy of concern ?
That is not true. Bitcoin has never reversed a transaction without a signature.

The only time you are probably talking about is when someone made a block with a 9 billion bitcoin reward. Even then, they just convinced the miners to start a different chain. Thus, the chain with the 9 billion coins block just died. So yea, no reversal without a signature, ever!
Is it simply, that fewer people can afford insurance/visit a doctor? So they die of 'natural causes' and never get diagnosed?
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I think the main innovation in Spanner is the notion of Truetime not the atomic/gps clocks though. In fact MSR has come up with something called ClockSI that does global snapshots with a modified NTP I believe.
A) Because people have severely constrained resources and imperfect information with which to allocate them.

B) escrow, insurance, etc. are just poor attempts at implementing reversible transactions, so if can why not just have them instead of using a greenspuned tangle of partially overlapping partially conflicting tools with who knows what kind of jurisdiction issues
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I hope some policy makers in the government keep a watch on such threads. They will get an idea about the loss of taxes, that these remote would otherwise pay if they were to be employed in the US. Not to mention the social security and the indirect economic contributions. In fact all the anti-immigration camps should get a reality check at this point. In 5-10 years, most of the US tech jobs will be remote and not a dime of the remote worker's income will reach american shores.
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I saw the video shot - it was linked here, I think - and what was released is just a puff piece. She talks about realizing her life's purpose and that leading to the creation of Theranos. Perhaps he got some more interesting footage, too, but I expect the company owns it all as a work-for-hire. (And if they don't, that's really dumb considering they just exposed your CEO to one of the world's great interviewers.)
I would note that "computation" is work done over time. Causality.

There may exist an alternate form of causality that isn't time bound, which may be exposed here over short periods of time. I would hesitate to judge it "computationally infeasible" until we know more. :)
Right now everyone's collecting and fighting in "gyms" with the assumption that fighting each other comes later.
I always ask for reasons for the rejections, but I rarely get a response

It's unlikely you'll get a response like that after a 'no hire' from legit companies. They avoid giving that kind of feedback because of legal ramifications.
Today, yes, but the ideological goal of the EU is to convert it into a US-style federal union (in recent times some of them try to deny this because reality is closing in, but it has always been there). Hence large transfer payments between EU countries in the form of "structural adjustment funds" and euro policy, etc.
According to this[1] only 16+ year olds are counted for the purposes of determining labor force participation.

[1] http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
when I teach innovation classes we talk about the difference in mindset between making 1, making 10, and making 100 of something (and obviously this would scale to 1000+ but that is kind of beyond a lot of students). Until you have experiences with scaling manufacturing you have no clue.

I used to do consulting work on this (my background is in manufacturing). Typically I would come into a company at the prototype stage and work with them to redesign the prototype to make it manufacturable...I loved doing it but wow does that mindset have to change about what can be accomplished. There was an article on HN a while back about why you can't manufacture like Apple that I really should have saved, it makes this point beautifully.
I am responding to what you wrote. I quoted it. If I am misunderstanding it, please explain how.

Or you know what, don't. I'm growing convinced that you're not engaging in good faith anywhere in this thread. And if this is going to be regular practice, please GTFO of the Haskell community.
This reminds me of the Therac-25 bug. IIRC, overflow of a byte and zero meaning "ok" collaborated to cause big trouble.
Sorry for going off topic, beginner here. Does anyone know of a solution to receive payments in LATAM / Central America?

And could someone link a few resources on how to encapsulate the processor?

The ones that I've searched for don't support this side of the world. Even with PayPal I haven't been able to figure out how to withdraw - or even to make online purchases. I'm probably doing something wrong but I'm stumped on all accounts.
Any American citizens working remotely still have to pay US taxes.
The UK while it still remains. They have managed to push housing affordability to levels not seen since the last crisis. Rather than try to solve the problem, governments have done everything they can to keep things like they were before.

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/mortgageshome/article-367...
Do comments turn gray after a single downvote? I honestly don't know. I personally don't care much about whether comments are gray unless they've turned the "I can barely read this" gray. The standard (first level?) gray just tells me that someone (or a couple of people) downvoted the comment, but that doesn't mean much. I've often "rescued" gray comments. The ultra-light gray often does indicate something and I'm less likely to read those.
I've never watched SV, but if he prefers tabs I'm surprised his girlfriend didn't break up with him first.
Underrated comment here. The same exact part can cost $20 or $2,000 to produce depending on tolerances!
Hillary last week? Is this a serious question?
This is a normalization that I have used and seen other people use. I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that PMI is better for every task.
because certainly none of those remote jobs would go to American workers, right?
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It seems like the main thing making that process fast is the fact that it's doing polling. But Linux does polling too, when there are enough packets coming in. Likewise, if you really are dropping packets very early in the networking stack, you wouldn't reach the TCP layer and would have a small working set in the kernel too.

So, why not just implement this very fast userspace process as a kernel patch? That seems much easier...
That car may be 100 years old, but the last German three-axle cars were build in 1959 (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbau-Wagen_(DB)#Dreiachsige_U...), and some of them were still in use in 2014 (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Umbauwagen_der_DB_Bahnba...)
Or a throttling delay versus other posters. I caught someone's eye on HN, and now I'm limited in how many comments I can post in a sliding window compared to other users.
I personally wouldn't trust PayPal for anything more than running a kids lemonade stand - there are far too many horror stories.

There are plenty, but PayPal is a huge business with many customers. It's difficult to know how often bad things really happen with PayPal compared to other services, because probably the vast majority of their customers in each case just get things done and never comment publicly on it.

It's also difficult to know how many of the horror stories really are horror stories, and how many are just someone upset that their terms were changed on reasonable grounds because of greater volumes or fraud risk or whatever. I've seen plenty of small merchants irate about a certain amount of their funds being held back as they started to trade more, but while some of the payment services do seem to be better at communicating these things and the reasons for them to their merchants, it seems likely that all of the payment services would have made similar decisions under similar circumstances.

This potentially distorted perception is a PR problem for all major payment services. Today Stripe still gets a warm reception on HN most of the time, but there's definitely an element of nostalgia and/or gratitude in that, and half a minute of searching will find you plenty of small merchants on other forums who describe their experience with Stripe in the same four-letter terms as others describe PayPal.
GloVe might be what you're looking for: http://nlp.stanford.edu/projects/glove/
> Going from ‘The DAO is based on Unstoppable Code’ to ‘if we screw up badly enough, WE WILL FORK YOU’ is a big change that shouldn’t be taken lightly

This is what I find so galling. If code is code is code, then the outcome should be what the code says it is. But whoops, we decided we don't like the outcome so let's toss that out.
Apollo 11 source: “Check continuity on O2 cryogenic tanks before allowing stir”
A serious two word request from someone who's a huge fan of open source projects and uses a lot of them:

"Improve Descriptions"

A lot of tools have a similar generic description: e.g.: "This tool helps programmers do more." Please compare and contrast your tool with others with the same general idea. It'll help us decide whether to adopt it or not.
Exchanges do time ordered processing on their own exchange (with different levels of precision). I don't know of any exchanges that offer execution time as a constraint, but new order types can be created if they were deemed valuable (it takes SEC approval).

That said, it wouldn't alleviate the issue necessarily. If firms detect problems in the clock sync between exchanges you are right back to the same problem, and now you've added a complex bit of tech that requires a bunch of competitors to agree on.

This seems, to me at least, to be one of those problems that it is better to let the problem surface than to try to alleviate with an abstraction layer that is leaky and error prone.
I wonder if this is conflating Cambridge, UK with Cambridge in the US?
So use PTP with a local source instead of NTP over the internet.

"On a local area network, [PTP] achieves clock accuracy in the sub-microsecond range"

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

I disagree that the problem the patent purports to solve is particularly difficult, given the technology that is already readily available (PTP, an OS with a high resolution clock, machines located in exchange data centers).
Huh, we were just talking about this looking at the sunset behind Manhattan across the river from Brooklyn yesterday. Didn't know it was almost the exact day it happens.
If the EU had direct legislative powers, it would most likely be structured by letting it legislate EU law, not the national laws of the member states, the same was US federal law is interpreted under US federal law, not under the laws of individual states.

We already have experience with this, in that the ECJ is already the highest court for matters of European Union legal matters, such as the interpretation of directives, and national courts in EU member states will often need to interpret cases in light of EU law.
I always find it funny that the summer ManhattanHenges (there are two, one as the sun's inclination increases and one as it decreases) are so celebrated, yet the winter versions of the phenomena (when the sun lines up with the city grid at sunrise) are ignored. As someone who used to have to drive uphill along one of Manhattan's streets during my winter morning commute, they were far more noticeable/annoying.
There is no such thing. (Was this an attempt at a troll?)
> It should go without saying that Solomonoff induction is totally useless for practical applications, if interesting theoretically.

Indeed, just like Turing machines and the lambda calculus. Still an important theoretical step though!
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There's a more readable version of the graphic if you click through to Hardie's site:

http://www.whiterabbitdesigncompany.com/interrotron.html

and then click the PDF link at the bottom:

http://www.whiterabbitdesigncompany.com/uploads/1/4/1/3/1413...
No, I'm not planning to sell https://sheetsu.com, no worries. It's not worth that much yet. I'm just curious if solopreneurs are selling their companies and if yes, how did they do it. Or if they keep it and profit.

P.S. I'm eager to talk about your use cases for the coming months. You can find my email on the website mentioned above.
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