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I just want to say that that I lost one of my close friends Thom Simmons last April due to Fentanyl overdose. He was a young, voracious autodidact prodigy that was always way ahead of the curve especially with technology. I met him through the #django irc channel about 7 or 8 years ago when I was starting out with python and django and we developed a friendship that lasted until he overdosed on fentanyl and died in a motel room alone last year. I had reconnected with him in his final weeks as he struggled to get clean and desperately wanted out of his situation but he felt trapped, afraid, alone, and hopeless. He broke down crying to me over the phone a few days before he died, after I helped pay for a night in his motel room because he had run out of money. I didn't realize the full gravity of the situation or know that he had already relapsed at that point and he was dangerously close to the end. I believe that Thom knew it was his last week on Earth and he was saying goodbye to me. He told me what a special friendship we had and how much that meant to him, how he hadn't met many people in his life that he could trust. We laughed a lot about the many memories of late nights programming, scheming on grand ideas for the next major social platform we wanted to build. He showed me Reddit when no one knew what it was, he showed me hackerne.ws before it was known, he helped me set up a trixbox server and program asterisk with voip connections, we built a custom PLC software for a startup and worked on other various projects. We also shared the disease of addiction and unfortunately he couldn't get the help he needed to stay clean and sober. Upon his death all he got was a short blurb in a rural Texas local newspaper, not a word about the amazing person, friend, genius he was. I later found out that 15+ people died of fentanyl overdose in his town that weekend, all of them addicts that lost the battle.

I had to get that out because every time I hear about fentanyl it reminds me of Thom and I hope that our society finds solutions to help addicts overcome the extremely dark and twisted pull of drugs and addiction so that other amazing people like Thom don't meet the same fate.

I'll never forget his memory and the amazing person he was, and that the very fact that I met him and we became friends was because of the same technology he was so fond of.

(http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/pearland/obituary.aspx?pid=...)
because that's the revenue we use to pay the developers.

I'm not sure what you mean by "vendor spying". Perhaps this is a reference to the FCC-required controls for 802.11 devices.
Why would sacrifices be any more likely than executees to be buried with shackles still on?
uBlock Origin usually rather decreases RAM usage, since ads tend to take up a fair chunk of RAM, too.

If you want to troubleshoot it, type "about:memory" into the URL-bar and hit enter, then click the "Measure"-button to the left.
This should give you a pretty detailed listing of everything that takes up RAM, and usually, high RAM usage is caused by an extension having memory leaks, so you'll probably see a pretty big number somewhere near the root of the tree and should be able to follow it along to whatever is causing it.

If it is an extension, obviously try to find a replacement, if it's not an extension, you should probably file a bug report...
Thanks, we updated the title from ”On a roll”.
In the UK I got sent to ENT clinic, then a cat scan to make sure it wasn't anything serious.

Then, the doc told me they couldn't do anything, but if it distressed me there was counselling available to help you learn how to deal with it.

So while your experience may have sucked, they can do something, they just can't cure it.
SIMD is not about threading. Of course you can multithread it too, just like any other code.
who gets to be laid off first, the CEO or the developer?

Wrong comparison. The CEO and developer are both employees. I've outlasted laid-off CEOs at several places of employment.

The comparison is between an employee and an owner. (Of course an owner may ALSO be an employee, maybe even CEO, and an employee may also be an owner, but comparison should consider these roles separately.)

The employee is risking having his assets stop growing temporarily as he is forced to go find another source of income. The owner might have no income from the business for a long time even if it is succeeding (or ever if it fails) and has to hand over already-earned assets to the business in hopes of getting it back plus more, but if things go south, he might not get anything back and may even be forced to hand over additional assets to cover damages. The employee's risk is temporarily not gaining assets, while the owner's risk is potentially losing his.

Reality is a little murkier than this separation, because an employee might lose assets moving to a new city only to get laid off. In a certain sense, an employee is the "owner" of a small service business providing services to a customer (his employer) and owners can trade off equity for risk by bringing in partners, but the big picture is still that people who decide on ownership vs. employment are choosing between two very different risk/reward profiles.
If you're doing it because you love it, then you should consider that joy/satisfaction as part of the comp package. A lot (most?) high-paying jobs are high-paying because people don't love doing them and they involve a lot of sacrifice. That's why they call it 'compensation'.
Yeah i wonder how much of it has to do with instant feedback. Turning that knob or throwing that switch tells you without seeing what you have done. With touch, or key combos, you often have to glance at a screen to tell if it actually went through or not.

I think a similar thing is at play with people's love for the modem handshake squeal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV8DEJ8ydJQ

You could tell, once you heard it enough times, how well the connection was.
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Why do you need to disclose your salary? It's just as easy to say "I won't accept the position for anything less than $X"
How would you say Noms compares to Datomic[1]? Both projects are working on the same idea of representing a database as tree of commits over time.

From my quick inspection, it looks like Noms shows some focus towards working in multiple branches, whereas Datomic, at least in its marketing materials, just talks about preserving a single timeline.

[1]: http://www.datomic.com/benefits.html
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I think that is just the sound of your muscles tensing. I hear it too when I clench my jaw muscles, at the same time I hear a louder version of my tinnitus. So at least for me they are distinct sounds.
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Actually, that's a huge speculation. Breaking someone's train of thought with an error that needs fixing right that second could just as well cause some bugs.
It's not like the infrastructure would physically cease to exist if they went bankrupt.
I added an issue for you: https://github.com/mxstbr/sharingbuttons.io/issues/32
You actually said it yourself without realizing it: because it's single process but multi-threaded.
My doctor told me "You have no disease. You have a symptom of a disease." Which he honestly intended as good news. Then he sent me on my way with the guidance to relax and learn to live with it.

I remembered why, after seeing this guy once years before for another ent problem, I never went back to him.
If city governments are so incompetent, why are ISPs lobbying to prevent municipal networks?
The top number is more like 6-7%: http://www.techpolicydaily.com/internet/whos-making-money-in.... That's including wireless. Weighted average cost of capital for VZN is about 5%; for companies like Frontier is about 6%.

The Chattanooga network is illustrative: http://www.nyls.edu/advanced-communications-law-and-policy-i....

Revenues are about $100 million, with operating expenses being $85 million. That's about $15 million profit, on about $400 million invested, or under 4% ROIC. The system was funded with bonds issued at 4.5%, meaning it would never break even without being subsidized by electric ratepayers.
First UWP needs to have market share.
Definitely seems that way to me. For those of us that intentionally don't use ad blockers, I see literally no reason to use this browser over anything else. I see lots of reasons (extensions, comparability, compatibility, support, etc) _not_ to use it, though.
Having no way of their own to biologically reproduce (yet), it is in the interest of queer rights that our most successful individuals (especially entrenched non-liberals such as Thiel) remain in the flesh and kicking for as long as possible; the sexually conservative majority tends to reproduce faster than us, liberals aren't making any babies, and the populations growing the fastest in the world have a history of anti-queer violence.

>Future generations

yeah, those people
I'm fine with the not discriminating part, it's the asking part I'm concerned with. It seems like censorship and going against Freedom of Speech to me.

A better law would be that employers may not discriminate or refuse to hire someone if they refuse to tell them their previous salary.

Specificity is key, just saying you can't ask feels too overreaching. The intent is to prevent discrimination, not speech.
*until Comcast is allowed to acquire Level3. When you can't buy backbone traffic from anyone but competitors, you'll see just how hard monopolies can punish smaller competitors.

I expect Cogent will be the next company to be acquired by one of the last-mile providers after Level3.
Does your htop display threads?
Have you had better experiences when you modify the design to use an UNLOGGED table and update such a table within a transaction? (I assume most of the use cases are as a cache for data that actually exists elsewhere)
Ok, so maybe I'm just bad at math. I know that if you make 200k as an engineer in NYC (which is STILL high[1]), you make around 10k a month after taxes.

10k - 2k for rent - 1k for expenses = 7k saved if you don't go on vacation, and literally do nothing that costs money for ten years. Even saving 7k a month, you won't save 100k a year.

[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/new-york-city-software-en...
> During a recent test-drive on a country road outside St. Louis, their steering-wheel hack sent the Jeep into a muddy ditch, and they got stuck.

Guys, either get access to a track for testing or do this virtually. Tired of seeing them risk others' lives.
Doesn't the fact that people are trying to compete with those services suggest that you can? Bing maps, Apple maps, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Digital Ocean, Joyent.

I don't think technology is that different. Incumbents have always had advantages. That doesn't totally preclude the possibility of competition. It might be that they compete by providing less value for less cost (eg the maps might not be as good, but they might be good enough for some users), or by servicing users that the incumbent doesn't care about (side note: isn't this what The Innovator's Dilemma is about?). But it's rare that a competitor is so dominant as to totally preclude any possibility of competition. You certainly haven't provided an example of one yet.
I agree, except what I generally tell a recruiter what I want for a job before an offer has even been made, and I usually work with multiple at once. It gives me some haggling power without being the one who has to haggle directly.
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You could take a look at the results in Portugal:
https://mic.com/articles/110344/14-years-after-portugal-decr...
There's a new awesome podcast called Rationally Writing made by Alexander Wales and Daystar Eld(http://alexanderwales.com/rationally-writing/). I highly recommend it, I'm sure HN crowd will love it.

Also I recommend a fantastic course "Writing about Dragons" by by Brandon Sanderson - https://youtube.com/channel/UCyUHzyUE31r16wUL4vEVRJA
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There is nothing inherently "open" about the current system. Windows is a closed source platform and Microsoft can write it to block whatever they want to. If they wanted to block Win32 apps, they could. (SmartScreen, by default, DOES, if they're not appropriately signed or commonly downloaded.) The idea that encouraging user level apps to use UWP because it is safer does not inherently mean some draconian lockdown is coming.

If Microsoft is going to lock the platform down, they're going to lock the platform down. There's nothing you can do about it. But Microsoft choosing to use competent security in app design has nothing to do with it.
You could be right, the 'tweens'/millennials could just choose to stick with SC. But I think it's just as telling with SC's recent spate of features that are moving away from the ephemeral nature of the app ( ie Memories ). Where you can store or save Snaps or Stories.... oh you mean sort of like a personal gallery? Which leads naturally to newsfeed.

Bottom line is that the photo/messaging apps are converging. And I don't think there's necessarily any loyalty to a particular platform especially if they have very similar features.

The crowd will move to the platform where their friends are, and where the celebs/bloggers/artists/influencers are. And IMO I think IG has a slight advantage with that group at this point because of the non-ephemeral nature of their app which led/leads more naturally to those types building their 'brand' and following. Nobody wants to spend hours and energy creating content that simply disappears. But these types have followed the crowd onto SC and lived by the SC rules, but I'd have to believe they would prefer the other model if they had a choice.

So I guess what I'm saying is that these 2 apps are converging to the same point, albeit from different ends of the spectrum with different pressures. And once that happens, loyalty to a platform goes out the window, and being able to capture the cool kids and influencers will be the key to where the rest of the crowd goes. So I don't think it's 'certain failure' from IG's point of view, and certainly still anyones game.
This is good news in that I generally feel any setback for an apparent patent troll is a good thing.

But this isn't too broad. Looks like a very specific issue to this trial... not even this patent claim or case, let alone a broader implication for patent claims in general.

It sounds like VirnetX's lawyers simply referenced a previous case too often in the judge's estimation, and so he's throwing the verdict out, meaning a retrial would be necessary. Case doesn't seem to set any precedent (or, what precedent it does set on referencing previous trials might cut both ways for patent plaintiffs and defendants). Noting regarding merits of claims or anything as far as I can tell from the reporting.

If anyone more expert can weigh in or correct, that'd be appreciated too!
> 3-4k is easily rent in NYC

Only if you insist on living by yourself, or renting a luxury apartment with your friends/family in Manhattan. Going under $2k a month is easily possible if you have a large, multiple earner family or roommates, especially if you live outside Manhattan/Brooklyn. Plenty of New Yorkers manage with incomes less than $60k, and if you can live like them, saving 10k a month on a $300,000 salary is easy.

There is nothing requiring you to spend a certain amount of money just because you are earning a certain amount of money. We don't have sumptuary laws, after all.
>Well, they are.

Clearly they aren't. Say an engineer can make a company $1 million per year. They are only willing to pay $200k per year in total compensation, but they complain that they can't hire enough engineers. Obviously they aren't paying enough per engineer.

>At a certain point, don't you think it's better to share some of that opportunity with smart foreigners? How many Teslas does an American twenty-something need?

So it's not the multi-billion dollar companies that are being greedy, but the engineers making $150k a year?

Companies want to import foreign workers to depress wages so that they can save money, and your instinct is to blame the workers who don't want lower wages?
The issue seems to me that app stores don't let other apps be app stores, maybe that should change.

I don't think Steam allow other game marketplaces to upload their software either, maybe that should change too.
After more reading it kind of sounds likes better couch db?

And cool if so, but the CSV analogy is really confusing.

When I think of CSV I think of a ghetto data exchange format that I can send or receive to a less technical person. As I understand nom, it does not sound like its for non technical people.
Because sacrifices have intrinsic value (spiritual value). The shackles can be explained as part of the ritual.

Prisoners are just worthless people that you want to get rid of. Not only would the shackles get removed before burial; so would their shoes etc. They would be stripped and dumped.
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It's interesting that this resembles the trend in Japan that many attribute to their lackluster economic situation post real estate/bubble collapse in the early 90s and the subsequent dirth of lifetime salaryman type job oops.

They are called the parasite generation, the herbivores, etc.

Some good things about it, some bad. Good in that fewer neglected children of patents who were not prepared, bad in that our current economic model depends on pop growth...
I have Sonic FTTN 50Mbps service. I've used Sonic over the years and have always enjoyed their service and their mission as a business. I've lapsed a few times because their DSL in some places in SF is just crap, but that's because of AT&T and distance to the closest CO.

Where I'm at now (prob less than a mile from their fiber service, sigh..), when we first moved in, we got Comcast. Of course, the Comcast service was all over the place. Some days 1Mb, some 100Mb (which I never signed up for, but just received), some 45Mb (what I signed up for). As usual, I had man techs come out to try to fix things and of course, none did and all of them had a different excuse as to why things didn't work. So many support people promised me good service but I never got it.

Fed up, I saw I could get Sonic FTTN and it's been rock solid for over a year. It's never gone down and just works - as I would expect. It's too bad we don't have more ISPs like them because if we did, access would be a totally different experience.
I can't speak to Google Fiber but Project Fi is self-sustaining/profitable, according to what I have read.
> There's nothing you can do about it.

Indeed. Except switching to open platform.
Please comment civilly and substantively here or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm not saying being a nerd is a bad thing either. I wave my nerd flag with pride.
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And they also didn't work on it for the entire six years since Chrome was released. The project was shelved temporarily while development was focused on other things.

I have been running Firefox Nightly along side Chrome for the past year or so, and have been using it as my main browser for a few months now, and I've been really happy with its performance.
I have never heard of any high-profile tech leaders defending the recreational use of opioids, nor is it a popular position on HN. What's often praised, however, is education (eg. not throwing all drugs into the same bag).
Those middle books are indicative of something...i'm just not sure if it's planning or rework :)

I'd be interested to hear what you think of the approach (planned or reworked) when you hit the Sanderson books.

Enjoy!
> The people with the real power (Senate, Supreme Court, Federal Reserve) are not elected.

My brain is in a slow mode today. Are Senators not elected?
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It would be useful to be able to have an option for 16 (SSE)/32 (AVX)/64 (AVX512) byte aligned stack in Rust, to help with SIMD alignment requirements. That would help with SIMD related stack alignment code and reduce cases where dropping down to assembler is needed. Of course external ABI might need need to have normal alignment.

Ability to selectively align functions too would be nice. Sometimes it's nice to get them to 64-byte boundary, to reduce icache latency and waste. You usually only have 512 64-byte lines of L1 instruction cache, sometimes it pays to be able to choose where it's spent.
That was not my reading at all; like greenshackle, I did not see any contradiction between what you quoted, and the point you made.
I wouldn't be surprised since this never seemed part of Instagram culture. I haven't used the Instagram feature of direct messaging either. I'd like to see friend lists in Instagram though, to filter between friends & family and artists. I guess that train has passed though, and Facebook instead chose to un-chronolgize the feed by how it "knows" what you want to see... sigh
Hi, I've just installed it. I like it. I'm a tab hoarder too and I've never found a solution that works for me.

I've raised a few issues on github, feel free to ignore them!
Fwiw, i was referring to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12212276

The author explicitly says Git is a competitor
When is a forth a better unix than Unix?
Or at least be looted after burial. The fact that nobody dug up and removed these shackles says this grave was more important than the average.
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Perhaps they were writing so much in Go that they set the '/' key to shortcut to '::'.

...but yeah, I am also curious.
> Multiple news articles lately have pointed out that Verizon makes orders of magnitude more money from running "dumb pipes" than does EVERYBODY else in the mobile advertising ecosystem put together, including the content companies.

Then what is the rationale for buying one of these failing content companies, Yahoo, for $4.8b?

> Google does not want to get into VZ's business because it is a capital intensive business

As is cloud computing, but Google is forging ahead with GCP. This also doesn't square with your previous point that the ISP business is seriously profitable - if it was, Google would be rolling fiber out nationwide, as it has the cash to spend on capital-intensive project if it sees a high NPV in doing so. But it doesn't, so it just rolls out fiber to support select Google endeavors and keep the major carriers somewhat in check.
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I just bought The Story Grid off the back of this recommendation. Thanks!
I've subscribed!! Thanks for sharing.
I agree with this: employees are at a huge information disadvantage. However, I think a better (& admittedly more radical) solution to this problem would be to force employers to publicly post anonymized salaries by job title. That way prospective and current employees know exactly how much they ought to be paid. It makes salary negotiation almost trivial.

Preventing employers from asking about previous salary does not prevent them from discriminating against women, which is the intention of the MA law. I can definitely see how this law might hasten a transition away from an era where salary was unfairly pegged to gender - but only to the degree that employers aren't still just blatantly discriminating by gender.
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But Autopilot users are supposed to be watching the road. Assuming this is the case, if the user had seen the vehicle he ought to have applied the breaks.
In my opinion this is the most important insight into Smalltalk: that Smalltalk is renaming indirect function calls as "messages". If Smalltalk message passing were asynchronous, and if Smalltalk objects were processes, then Smalltalk would be closer to the vision that Kay conveys.

I believe it was Jonathan Rees who emphasized the relationship between Smalltalk's messages and generic functions.