skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This pretty well mirror's PG's assessment of startups:

"Economically, you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instead of working at a low intensity for forty years, you work as hard as you possibly can for four. This pays especially well in technology, where you earn a premium for working fast." (1)

I've started or been a member of, I dunno, 7 or 8 startups at this point in a 20 year career.

The biggest success had the absolute worst work culture, longest hours, was the most detrimental to personal time, personal health etc.

The one with the brightest potential, best team, and best work/life balance was an utter failure.

(1) http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html
That's just wrong-headed.

Every binary in the chain can be signed and reproducible (theoretically; we aren't quite there, realistically speaking, and the bootstrap, as you note, is tricky). Forcing every user to build everything from source every time is just a mess, and provides little benefit over signed (reproducible) binaries for the vast majority of users.

It sounds like you (and the guix project) are conflating two orthogonal concepts and making "reproducible builds" into a concept that won't work in widespread use, and maybe even has negative value. We want reproducible builds so that we can be certain that the binary a vendor ships us is built exactly the way they say it was. We don't want it so that everyone is forced to build everything from scratch every time.

Reproducible builds means we can build an identical binary from source to prove that it is what we think it is. It should not mean we must build an identical binary from source every time we install a thing.
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Is http://package.json.is/ really better documentation for what package.json should look like than than regular-ol' documentation, https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json?

It seems that this format, while a clever idea, is going to have a lot of problems in describing more complex json documents, which may have optional arguments, arguments that are mutually-exclusive, etc etc.

For example, in the package.json example alone, there are several properties that can be either a string or an object, but it would be hard to expose that in this system.

But maybe this isn't supposed to be documentation, in which case I'm just confused about the purpose of this.

Edit: If more information about the available properties were available at each level (i.e. from the top-level, here are all the possible props; from the "contributors" prop, here are the different possibilities) and this could be used to document one's own project-specific JSON, this could be very cool. But the best would be if it had a way to integrate with a proper schema validator.
or less 'winky' faces in the article
Cool, now if they could not show ads for their paid service, that'd be great.
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Nice, but too bad this is not in JSON Schema (it's a custom bunch of html strings in functions). I would love a more complete JSON Schema for package.json (with custom stuff like browserify or babel config) as VSCode is able to autocomplete JSON files from that.
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Have you tried the EnChroma color-blindness glasses? It would be an easier solution than designing data viz to avoid using color blindess color-combos or requiring dynamic options, IMO.
One of these scared the heck out of me as a kid. I had just gone to bed and was staring up at the ceiling and a small ball of intense light with crackling tendrils around it flared in the middle of the room and was gone. I ran out and got my parents, and I was so obviously scared my Dad eventually climbed into the attic above my room and reported a burning smell in the air but couldn't find anything out of place.
No. ;)
Yeah cuz that worked out really well at Yahoo.
Fastmail has a family plan that costs $5/year (in addition to your normal account cost) and lets you use personal domains. That is the reason I'm looking at them as it was the best price I could find for such a service.
As someone who recently had to face this issue in my family (should one of us stay home with our daughter or should we do daycare?), I think I disagree.

Simply put, daycare is much more economically efficient than having one parent stay home with one child. In a daycare setting, one adult can care for up to 4 children. Most stay-at-home parents are NOT parenting 4 kids at once.

Like most things in the world, specialization has all sorts of advantages. Daycare is able to provide stimulation for our daughter that a parent at home would struggle to provide; when it is your full time job to take care of a number of kids, you can dedicate your time to creating stimulating and fun activities for them.

I also think there is benefit in the socialization aspects of daycare. Learning to be around other kids and be the social creatures we are is a good thing.

Now, I do believe that a dedicated stay-at-home parent can of course provide all of these things as well, it is just very difficult and inefficient... it is the same reason we all don't grow our own food and make our own clothes... division of labor and specialization are great things.
All right, but who will be doing "less important" and perhaps boring things, which can lead to many problems in the future in case of neglecting them?

I got bitten by this pretty badly. But perhaps bureaucratic load in Europe is much harder than in the US. And for me, it was never a question of need — the need for designated operations/administration employee was obvious from day 1 after incorporation, I just thought I can't afford it.

Well, I was wrong. I couldn't afford not having such a person. Some people say the same about lawyers.
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That's 5h20 NOT working, 7 days a week... bs ?
Mostly async. There are some tasks that end up getting schedule at specific times -- conference calls, code deployments (sometimes), etc. But The vast majority of time is flexible. It really is a great setup for coding.
Added a --secure flag which will install popular modules only (>10k downloads last month)
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I was poking around for fun a while ago looking into the barcode and you could buy scanners that could read from NC IDs but they weren't free/cheap.

I haven't seen a new ID, haven't bothered getting a new one since I turned 21 a few years back so I have no idea what the newer ones have or don't have.
I feel like specialized domains in general require devs with domain expertise.

Maybe waterfall with unusually good specifications can use cog-like devs, but the few times I've seen that done it didn't turn out very well.
Hayek is NOT one of the reasons we're in this. He has been largely ignored as an economist, unless one makes the assumption that Satoshi was influenced by Hayek's "The Denationalization of Money".

As a political theorist he has had a fair amount of impact with the "Road to Serfdom", which he worked on after Keynes was mysteriously elevated to Sainthood after his death and Hayek largely ended his pure economics writing. There's a great interview with Hayek where he bemoans his lack of impact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqhe4K1Jz-8
> It made testing a pain - you needed to set up and run 11 different services on your machine to test anything.

That is explicitly not the "microservices kool aid." The first thing a microservice needs to be is independently testable, so it can be independently developed.

All you had there was one monolithic service.
If anyone from confirm reads this: You should probably change that video on your site if that's a real ID.

That name, DOB, address, and license number is easily discernible from the video.
I think the issue may be that "good friends" and "most intense friendship" are very different entities.

I'm sure I don't have more than five of the "most intense" sort of friends, but there are a lot more people than that who I care deeply about. Relationships that are very close when 'active' are presumably a different category - I think most of us have old friends and family who we feel strong connections to, but don't actually talk to on a daily or weekly basis.

Time places hard limits on how many people we see frequently and at length, but frequency and quality are fairly independent axes. I'm assuming "most intense" requires a high score on both.
The Iron Law of Program evaluation: "The expected value of any net impact assessment of any large scale social program is zero"; the stainless steel law: "the better designed the impact assessment of a social program, the more likely is the resulting estimate of net impact to be zero."

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Um, IPS, BSD ports and pkgsrc are a thing.
By your own evidence, s/most tech innovation/most business success/
New facial recognition algorithm is so smart it doesn’t need to see your face
Changing a chip from having 8kB of L1 Dcache to 16kB might be far more expensive in design terms than making a similar change in L3 cache but from a blank slate would either be more expensive to design in the first place? When I look at the layout of a late model x86 the regular structures of the caches stand out in the die photos among the irregular hand-tuned logic. Yes, there are follow on effects on the layout from changes in cache size but I don't see any reason a priori to say whether increasing the L1 size will tend to make designing the rest of the core logic harder or easier.

So I still don't see any reason to back off from saying that a cell of L1 costs as much as a cell of L3, modulo concerns about keeping the cache size a power of 2.
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Yes, because it could be available while looking at your actual config file (JSON document), and showing you info specific to the element you're looking at, instead of on a separate page and requiring searching for a relevant element.

Why would this be any harder to describe complex JSON documents? Optional arguments don't need to be described if they're not in your specific file – not by something like this anyways. That's what the regular documentation is for, and this could easily link to it too.

Mutually exclusive arguments can easily be linked-to, or, rather, if your file contains one of those arguments then the contextual info can link to any other mutually exclusive arguments.

Why couldn't the context info state that valid values include either a string or an object (of some type and that type linked to in the context info)?

I'm confused about your confusion! It seems like this is a really handy way to show documentation specific to a selected portion of a JSON object for a given format.
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>Forcing every user to build everything from source every time

>We don't want it so that everyone is forced to build everything from scratch every time.

I believe it is you who is confused. I never suggested this is what reproducible builds are about.

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Substitut...
> Here is one example of an ironic piece of waste: Sam Leffler's graphics/libtiff is one of the 122 packages on the road to www/firefox, yet the resulting Firefox browser does not render TIFF images. For reasons I have not tried to uncover, 10 of the 122 packages need Perl and seven need Python; one of them, devel/glib20, needs both languages for reasons I cannot even imagine.

This is a better read than the linked article, really.
We pay $12/month so Hulu diesn't show us ads. Really worth the extra money.
It worked out well for her, considering her personal networth from Google and Yahoo is probably over $500m now.
I'd say if you find an office manager / administrative type that fits all of the criteria mentioned you should pick that person up immediately as part of your first 5 hires. A person with those people skills and willingness to do the minutiae across the board is a force multiplier for everyone else on the team. The difficulty is finding someone with all of the qualities listed in the article.
$3000 CAD per year per condo/house is very small consolation given all the negatives.

For example, just one of the many problems – a foreigner buys residency ($100K paid to Quebec, not BC), buys a house here, then continues to run his business in China, while their family moves into the house full time. Then their family uses up social services like universal healthcare, public schools and universities, while collecting low-income tax rebates because the breadwinner is not a Canadian tax resident, and does not need to declare their global income.

That's not some thought exercise, it's a very common occurrence here. So the rest of Canadians end up paying taxes to finance all this, and get inflated housing costs as a bonus. I don't see how that's a good outcome.

I've no idea how things work in Switzerland, but they don't work in Canada with our current laws.
Anecdotes from individual travelers are interesting but not very relevant or useful. The DoT publishes statistics for airline on time performance.

http://www.transtats.bts.gov/ot_delay/OT_DelayCause1.asp
Almost a good analogy, except your uncle has enough money to last your entire life and more. That changes how people would decide.
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The difference is exactly what I said: if they deleted it, it's gone forever. If they hide it, it can come back. I've seen pages I cite disappear for a year or two thanks to scummy squatters - but they came back! It's the difference between being sentenced to execution and to 1 year of prison.
Apparently, that exists. From the article:

> Hulu will still have advertising. The two current paid tiers — $7.99 a month with some ads and completely ad-free at $11.99 a month — are going to remain.
But what if it's a caustic truth?

Seriously, the world isn't all fluffy fuzzy happiness. Sometimes people honestly dislike and even despise one another, but they can still produce good work together. Gilbert & Sullivan are a good example.
Harry Potter has better story and better lessons.
Shopify's EmbeddedSDK does plugins (or "apps") very securely, but it comes at a development price. Instead of getting write access and running code on the server directly, you basically interact with an API via an embedded web page. Basically an Iframe. The API is more secure than getting to execute arbitrary code; but it is more restricting as a developer. Not perfect, but much better.
I did this recently, costs/specs:

Case + Mobo + Heatsinks + PSU: $740

2x E5-2670v1 (8c/16t ea, not ES): $120

128GB DDR3 Ram: $240

6x 4TB 2.5in Disks: $650

Total cost: $1750

Motherboard has 2x 10GbE, 16x port LSI SAS/SATA controller. Case is a 2U, 24x 2.5in bay, with 2x 920W Platinum quiet PSUs. With a larger budget 256GB of ram and 2x 14c/28t CPUs are pretty reasonable (~$1000 more)
Agreed. Also in general the amount of bugs in Nix packages that go unfixed for months at a time is tough as well.
OK, so a guy slandered another on Facebook, claiming that the hotel owner housed pedophiles. This was found to be untrue, however the slanderer wouldn't retract his statements. Anyway, in the meantime, the hotel owner was threatened by local IRL internet white knights, to the point that he decided to move away. Now he's won damages for all this.

This seems like the proper course of the legal system... I don't see why it's relevant on more than a local level.

It's interesting, however, how little it takes to whip up small-minded people into a fervor. A simple (false) facebook post has enough people losing their capacity for rational thought that the target has to leave town.

Also, I love the implication that ex-cons shouldn't be able to ride on public transit. "Look everybody, this guy's trying to live in a lawful manner after leaving the (penal/rehabilitative) system! Even though the closest apartment he could both get and afford is across town from the only job he could get, he shouldn't be allowed on the bus like any other paying customer!"
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This Pennsylvania guy probably made a killing on the Wal-Mart-Jet.com deal
Did you read that in Mapheads, the book by Ken Jennings? I came across that interesting lil factoid just yesterday.
Whether it's a caustic lie or a caustic truth, it's still caustic. Either way, what good do you see coming of its revelation in this context?
> A disengage should be understood to probably be an accident

I don't think it should. A disengage is simply a precaution. Whether it would have been an accident if the self-driving car had continued on is a question of counterfactuals, and they examine it with the recorded data and simulations of the car software to see what would happen; and they report that of the 269 disengages, only 13 probably would've led to an accident with physical contact with something it shouldn't've, and at least 2 of those are trivial. You claim to have read the report in detail, so I'm not sure why I have to explain this.
> If the other people chat with you, eat with you, or just otherwise interact with you ... they're your friends.

That really doesn't follow. I've had to maintain a pleasant working relationship with folks I've cordially loathed (and I'm certain the feeling was mutual). In every situation, we were friendly, pleasant and worked together well — but at the end of the day, we couldn't stand one another. Sometimes you don't get to choose your colleagues: your only choice is to quit or to continue.
67% of Japan is covered by forest. How come they have an ecological deficit?
This definitely seems like another edition of "researcher generalizes from handful of white college students to entire country".

If you asked me to name a group with the largest percentage of fake friendships, "college business management class" would be right up there with "popular clique in high school". So the topic is worth talking about, but I'll bet the number is skewed way to the high end.
I wonder if any of you use it recreationally, at home. Is it
worth buying, assuming you have some spare cash?
I agree with you on the wording. "Overlooked" is a better word for this hire. "Controversial" would be hiring, I dunno, a VP of Sales before the product is built. (Not that that ever stopped anyone in the '90s, but hey.)
I could tell you where they are in the willamette valley.

Also, a friend is moving to John Day Oregon, and they also have a fiber network there.

Outside of Oregon I have no idea. Maybe search for telephone cooperatives in the areas you want to move to?
Agree with this but I would also ask the auditor to be very specific about the risk that she believes your organisation is exposed to. If its a specific concern about the suitability/support of certain tools in use in your infrastructure, you can respond to/address those. In particular, I would make sure that the risk is clear about the impact it could have if an OSS project was discontinued (as the parent refers to): its unlikely to have an immediate impact as, by definition, you have a working instance of the tool and the source code so nothing stops working. In many ways this is comparable to the sort of escrow clauses that auditors sometimes look for in commercial support arrangements and which are often deemed acceptable mitigation for commercial products. She should also be clear about likelihood. In my experience (I've been an auditor for c18 years), it can be the case that auditors think about the doomsday scenario - e.g. ALL of the OSS projects you use close down - rather than the more likely scenario that one or maybe two go dark. Again, if she can articulate the specific risk it may be possible for you to respond to real likelihood of a key tool's project stopping (which would parent's approach already covered but which can be prioritised according to risk).

If however its a more general/vague concern about OSS support then you'll have a hard time dealing with it and acceptance may be the appropriate route.
This seems like a very average deal for investors. They would have similar returns if they invested that money in Amazon or Facebook stock
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As a founder with ADD, I'd sell my soul for one. However, great organizers are rare.
It's really a question that ought to be asked to someone who actually deals with wires in the industry as their day to day job, but I suspect that area is actually the most useful metric, because it can be directly plugged into formulas for tensile strength and electric resistance.

This doesn't really preclude a logarithmic scale, but it should be the kind that's easy to convert (i.e. increasing numbers denote increasing area). Looking at AWG, it could actually even be decimal, like dB. Consider: 17 gauge is almost exactly 1 mm^2 in area, so if we pick exactly mm^2 as 1 on our hypothetical scale, then 10 would be 10mm - close to 7 gauge, and -10 would be 0.1mm - close to 27 gauge. And there are plenty of industries that already know how to work with dB scale, and use the shortcuts that it offers.

By the way, while looking up related things, I've discovered the existence of a weird unit called "circular mil" (basically, cross-section of a wire 1 mil in diameter) that is, apparently, already used in US for wires that are out of bounds on AWG gauge scale. Which seems to indicate that cross-section area is, indeed, the preferred metric.
1. We are talking about a movie projector. Our eyes are the photo detectors and they work very differently to CMOS devices.

1.5, fov does not matter. It's area.

2. As I said, It's true strobed (scanned) lights do look brighter to our eyes than their counterparts for less wattage, but only by a small amount I think.

I stand by my statement, making a movie projector will be hard with this thing because of heat and power requirements.
I crosschecked the address with NJ public records and it is, indeed, real. Should definitely change that IMO.
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Haha, are you serious? You said:

"Whatever. The downvoters are probably the people who thought Ellsworth Toohey was the hero in The Fountainhead."

You just look at your downvotes and you make some pretty ridiculous assumptions about the people who disagree with you - that anyone who disagrees with you is an idiot who didn't understand who the hero of the book was.

If you expect to be taken seriously in discourse, you would do well to be mindful of how you present your views.
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