skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should feel somewhat lucky, because your parents made a substantially bigger investment in you than you realize, through which you were allowed free time to acquire the technical aptitude to become a developer (or whatever else allowed you to become a high earner).

Whether you want to keep feeling guilty is up to you, but you should definitely go thank your parents again!

> When I read about the guy who takes two trains a bus and walks a mile to get to work, while trying his best to save just $1100 for a car

In countries where public transportation is the norm, there isn't anything strange about the first part of the sentence. It's just that USA really punishes non drivers through some really poor infrastructure choices made 60-70 years ago.
I get the idea. I'm saying we're better served by improving our Earth baskets than trying to add a Mars one. Moving 1% of your net worth out of your home currency doesn't make any sense if 99% of your money is invested in a Ponzi scheme. You want to move some of it to a safer investment before worrying about outlandish economic collapse scenarios. Not all diversification is created equal.

Not sure what you mean by extinction avoiding tools or why you think developing them on Mars will be easier than on Earth.
I'm blocked by a sign in page. Did they take down the blog in the last day?
Yeah, I don't think you can even die in the minefield in Full Throttle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDpMfjfiqt4).

From reasonable abrupt endings, the most hilarious one was in the Neverhood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4MARAsx1Vo
Hi Techcorner,

(First time on this site, someone sent me this thread)

About 16 years ago, I was in a kinda similar place to you - making a lot of money but ambitious and wanted to grow grow grow. Not a tech biz but very information centered.

Very long story short, while it was far from easy or an uninterrupted "up and go the right" path I was fortunate enough to survive my gazillion mistakes and we currently have about 150 staff in 7 countries. I don't have any investors, partners, or significant debt. I spend about 95+% working "on" my business vs. "in" it.

It sounds like you're a good guy and perhaps my input can help you think through your options. If you drop me a note we can do a brief call and see if the chemistry is a fit. I've never done any coaching or mentoring outside my own organization before but I wish I had had access to a resource like the 2016 me along the way so it stands to reason some of my takeaways from my journey could be of value to you.

Best wishes for continued success.
> There are never no strings attached. At the very least there are social expectations. Some people feel expectations very acutely and try hard not to set expectations they aren't sure they can fulfill.

Starting a company is filled with social expectations and refusing to raise money is certainly not going to spare you from them. Founding a company is an exercise in setting expectations you're not sure you can fulfill, you'll certainly be setting those expectations with your early customers, by definition you'll be making some sort of agreement with your first customer that you've never fulfilled for someone in the past. You want to manage the expectations of course, but to say that raising money implies expectations and thus the best course is to not consider raising money is foolish. You'll likely just compromise your ability to meet other expectations.
Yea, I thought about that, but he doesn't mean theta, either. What he's giving is a physical impossibility proof -- you can't do memory access better than sqrt(N). When he gives a physical example of a machine of arbitrary size that accesses memory in sqrt(N) time, then we can talk about theta.
Not a Drill: SETI Is Investigating a Possible ET Signal from Space – Observer
Meh, the quality of Roadtreks hasn't impressed me much; but I get your point.

The Promaster looks to be the sweet spot between size and expense. But holy cow, Sportsmobile wants $9K for the pop-top option, on top of an $80K build.

I guess I have to admit that there's a bit of sentiment attached to that "VW" badge, too. Ignore the fact that VW vans haven't been the quirky little beasts we fondly remember in over 20 years. Now you'd have to take a second look to distinguish it from a Chrysler (in fact, the U. S. vans were Chryslers for a short time).
> What if its okay for different groups of people to retain their autonomy and their sovereignty--something people have fought and died for throughout history?

Depends. I much prefer personal autonomy over national sovereignty. While I understand that many people feel strong national identification, I lost this long time ago, maybe because I felt Czecho-Slovak but my country split, maybe because I see the pain of my grand-father due to his Palestinian origin.

Fortunately, currently for me the soverenity of states usually result mostly in bureocratic annoyances, such as when a colleague of mine couldn't join me on a face-to-face meeting, because he is from Ukraine and would first need to obtain visa for Ireland.
You need to use the result of the query to place yourself in the right cycle (in this case by starting with the box matching your name).
I remember as kid just being in awe of the game mechanics and the graphics in those Sierra games. It was fun just to explore and type stuff in and see what was possible, even if you had no hope of ever finishing the game.
real world ocaml is pretty good: https://realworldocaml.org/

there's also a mooc that i've heard good things about: https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/parisdiderot/56002S02/sessio...
You could always take a one-lock box and build an adapter that accepts two locks, and keeps the box locked if either lock is present.
The graph in the article shows the impact of L1, L2, and L3 cashes. If array fits into L1 cache the access will be the fastest and then it degrades with L2 cache, then L3, then generic memory.
Sounds like you would be much more successful as a consulting shop then :)
The great thing about being a doomsayer is that you only have to be right once.
> I would be keen to point out this does not mean there is a conflict of licenses from a legal point of view. Before anyone starts making claims like "you're not allowed to do this", see the use of the ZFS kernel module in recent releases of Ubuntu.

AFAIK it's only packaged as a dkms-package:

Package: zfs-dkms
Version: 0.6.5.6-0ubuntu8
Priority: extra
Section: universe/kernel
Source: zfs-linux
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers...
Original-Maintainer: Darik Horn ...
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad...
Installed-Size: 8 325 kB
Provides: lustre-backend-fs,
lzfs, lzfs-dkms
Pre-Depends: spl-dkms (>= 0.6.5.6)
Depends: dkms (>= 2.2.0.2), zfs-doc (= 0.6.5.6-0ubuntu8)
Conflicts: lzfs, lzfs-dkms
Replaces: lzfs, lzfs-dkms
(...)
xenial/universe amd64 Packages

Note that this is in "universe" not Ubuntu proper.

From DKMS(8): dkms is a framework which allows kernel modules to be dynamically built for each kernel on your system in a simplified and organized fashion.

> I shall say no more on the matter as a refuse to be drawn into a licensing debate...

I really don't want to start that debate, but I also think the "Ubuntu distributes (binary) ZFS" isn't quite accurate.

Now, how this all shakes out in terms of whether or not ZFS is bundled with Ubuntu ("on the ISO so to speak"), and if it then really makes a difference that it's distributed as source-code that can be automatically compiled -- I don't know. I wouldn't think shipping pythons source (to be later compiled to byte code, pyc) is enough to dodge GPL restrictions on bundling other code/binaries as part of a distribution.

But, yeah, whichever it is, CDDL code isn't likely to ever be upstreamed to the kernel proper.
My frankenstein Amiga compatible computer
What about an Emacs-like editor fully written in OCaml: https://github.com/aryx/fork-efuns
Easy to write an Emacs plugin then ...
The question is: is the EU the symptom or the cause of peace in Europe? According to the Nobel price committee, the EU is the cause. But I have some doubts... a badly governed EU could even spark nationalist resentments instead of containing it.
I dunno, does a Tesla even have what you could call a 'drivetrain'? Isn't there basically just a motor bolted to each drive wheel?
FTFY http://afscme.tumblr.com/post/40696645755/fify-wall-street-j...
Your first point is a fair one. Although in this situation I think it falls under the "rarely" category, for a few reasons:

- I do architecture, middle-tier, front-end, backend, DBA, devops, and engineering management. I have only met a few people my entire life at my level with all of those skill sets.

- I work an ungodly number of hours and a single new hire is unlikely to be willing to do the same.

- I have a significant amount of proprietary knowledge that while not unusually is very unusual to find in a single person.

I can't say for certain it would take three people but I can say for certain it is either multiple people or one extremely rare person who is going to have a lot of demands and take a long time to find.

And I say this as someone who does hiring. I have interviewed literally hundreds of people.

Per your second point, as I answered previously. I'm not entirely sure the CEO and/or investors wouldn't fund the suite personally. I can't go into detail here on why I feel that way. And even a small chance at a suite is not something I'm willing to risk.

Per your third point, it was more. They have actually paid me back some so I'm optimistic about the rest.

Per your forth point, either its true or they lied and I can't see why they would lie. The team team trusts me and they confide in me. More so they they do with the CEO or even HR. It may not be my problem if they leave but it doesn't bode well for the company.

Edit: as an aside we have had a job listing out for someone to take over just part of my job. We haven't even had anyone apply... and no, I didn't sabotage the listing. HR wrote it.
It definitely contributes to the resentment that a lot of people feel towards tech employees. Especially when you consider that the multi-hop public transit trip like that probably costs him 20-30% of his daily pay. Contrast that with: http://sfist.com/2016/07/06/heres_what_employees_of_google_a...
> "They've poisoned the well. "

That's exactly right. It has always costs every company I have been with more to hire an H-1 than a local person so we have only done it if we can't get anyone local -- which is exactly the way the system is supposed to work, and that intended system seems perfectly fair to me.

These scammers fuck it up for the rest of us.
A lot of people who currently work for or aspire to work for the government would be mortally offended.

And then?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12379646
"Wonka's Grand Entrance" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz9jc5blzRM
Is the grisly Reaper mowing...? :(

Alternatively...

Do you know what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted? He lived happily ever after.
That's explicitly mentioned in the article.
I am pretty sure it's wrong. I just made a comment about this on the author's article. He claims information N~rm, but for any normal material you have mass proportional to r^3. So N~r^4, not r^2 as the author claims.

Black holes and information is a thorny issue, see e.g. [1]. So I suspect something went awry in the argument when (s)he brought quantum gravity into it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox
You mention parents twice when the comment you replied to never did. Why?

You're projecting that the commenter succeeded because of their parents, not in spite of them.
Even simpler: send it in a padlocked cardboard box which Maria can rip open with her hands. Nothing in the problem statement says that the box itself has to be resistant to attack.
Generating a screenplay from a bunch of existing screenplays is about as good as generating a poem from a bunch of existing poems. I think there was a story the other day showcasing AI-generated poems, and all of them pretty much sucked. They might be able to pass as "modern art", but they were a far cry from poems like "O Captain, My Captain" or "The Highwayman".
What I usually reach when thinking along similar paths, using me (programmer) vs my doctor friends, is the failure scenario:

If I introduce a bug it will hurt revenue in some way, possibly affecting the company's operations. If most doctors mishandle a patient it could have significant, immediate effect on that person's life.

I deal with the responsibility weighing on me, but they've had to get used to dealing with a much heavier responsibility.
Hehe, they cannot drive the jalopies to Mexico fast enough. It is amusing to see a junker towing two more junkers along I-10 enroute to today's crossing point.
Amusing, that is, until you speak to some dealers and find out the "why" is to keep used vehicle values inflated.
Good night, Herr Doktor.
Subscribe to www.rvmobileinternet.com. That site will answer every single question you could ever possibly have about how to make it happen. I work full time with a grandfathered Unlimited Verizon plan and a Cricket Wireless cell phone (on AT&T's towers) and I use a cell booster when needed (http://amzn.to/2c52cSG). In the past 4 months I've only needed to move twice for lack of coverage.
Facebook image object recognition in action
This part is here since quite some time (since the introduction of the "new" protocol, two years ago). It is not the complete picture since it's only the low-level view (mDNS and protobuf). It's not sufficient to build a client since you still have to figure out the content of the messages. The gap is the extension that was provided until now (as a minified JS).
Put.io is amazing and worth the money
Used Nextdoor after home purchase, since I only was only comfortable using their snail mail postcard verification. Nextdoor does indeed treat their location verification more seriously that other services, although that likely is warranted give the possibility (and consequences) of abuse.
Not in the HD re-release he wouldn't
Also the part about not being able to pay off his 800k mortgage?
some links related:

- https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-22/dc-22-presentations/...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD2Wxe4RLeU
I'm curious as well...I've tried using the Git integration within MSVS ,and it was a ~very~ unpleasant experience. I suppose in some instances it may be nice to visually see changes, but I've always preferred the command line for git.
dammit 2016.
You are simply piercing through what the mystics called the Veil of Isis. Introspection will help you I feel, more than consensus reality or various manufactured illusions and delusions that those close to you cling to in order to distance themselves from the void, but really seek solace in the fact that the path that you are on is well-trodden and others have been there before you.

The fundamental problem is "desire", of any sort, which stems from the Ego. Individuals who, through circumstances or deliberate means, manage to chip away at the Ego, pretty much all go through this "dark night of the soul".

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

Have you read Nietzsche? His concept of the Übermensch is particularly useful I feel.

Also John C. Lilly and his concept of metaprogramming. If all that can be said to exist is the Void, then the first step to finding peace, is to give yourself fully to it.
On this, the occultist Aleister Crowley used the concept of Babalon which exacts a heavy price (the blood of the adept, meaning his self-identity).

When that realization sets in and there is no fixed "I" there anymore, everything becomes easier.

One becomes what one imagines...
There are lots of sewers for human waste at truck stops, some gas stations, and parks that he could dump it down, I would rather do that than throw it in a dumpster.
> which I'm sure is much slower than light in a vacuum.

Speed of signal in copper is about ⅔c, I suspect silicon will be in a similar ballbark – and the metal layers linking the silicon layers are made of copper anyway. So it's about 8"/ns… and the (three dimensional, 10+ layer) signal routes are anything but a straight line.
I'm a full-time pharmacist working 50 hours a week, with several investment rental properties.

Since April of this year I've been sleeping in my 2002 Toyota 4Runner in the parking lot at work. Shower at the gym, infrequent laundry runs, hang out all day at the library with all the other strange people. Pros: feeling of simplicity and freedom; enough said. Cons: a mid-sized SUV is too small and not private enough. I want privacy when I first wake up and put on my contacts and get dressed. I want to wake up, sit up and meditate for 30 minutes without anyone seeing me.

I'm getting a Ford E-150 van for $1500 next week. Going to put in hardwood flooring, maybe insulation and plywood on the walls. Excited.
I really want a feature that would allow me to cast from my phone to my desktop. I have a big TV plugged into my desktop but I can't cast to it from my phone, I have to remote in and manually control the desktop, it's painful.
That entire genre had a lot of issues. People like to talk about the Gabriel Knight 3 / cat hair moustache as being the pivotal moment for the death of adventure games, but really it was all along in the design.

Puzzles were difficult, natural language processing is a hard problems, and commands/grammers could get weird/complex. The icon based point-n-click cleared this up a little, but Sierra had a business model build around needing to order hint books (or play with large groups of people).

No one wants hint books, because once you use one hint, you tend to just keep using them. With the Internet and things like UHS for adventure games, this model kinda hit a wall.

Telltale, Double Fine, et. al. brought this gene back by treating it more as an interactive story. The puzzles were less crazy and you could get through them without a hint guide.

Broken Age is a stealer example of both versions of this genre. Part I is more like Telltale, except with better puzzles. It's easy to get through, but still challenging. Part 2 goes back to the Sierra model though, with puzzles that make little sense and are insolvable for most casual and moderate gamers without a hint guide.
Here's a much harder variation. There are three changes:

(1) No prisoner is distinguishable from any other. In other words, they must all have the same strategy.

(2) The prisoners are all given coins, so that they can make random decisions.

(3) The goal is now to find a strategy that will eventually halt with probability 1 (in other words, how long it takes can depend on the coin flips, but any run that takes infinite time must happen only with probability 0). However, the prisoners are not allowed to take chances when answering "yes"; they can only say "yes" if they are certain that every prisoner has visited the room.

It has a very elegant solution.
I can't decide if I should be excited about this or not.

"The signal’s strength indicates that if it in fact came from a isotropic beacon"

My question is - what is the signal? Maybe I missed it, but what makes them think this is artificial?
you also see excessive standardization and commoditization of software in these industries... institutionalize incrementalist thinking that slows progress and eventually makes all the participants vulnerable to outside disruption.
"Baffling" "signal" "from HD 164595" is probably none of the above.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?nowrap=true&...
What did you expect? "Welcome, sonny?" "Make yourself at home?" "Marry my daughter?" You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.

He'll always be the Waco Kid to me.
This is amazing. I had no idea this even existed.
This epic geek hero video will hit you right in the feels
Certainly, it's a big question that nobody can answer for sure. My point is mainly that saying people have fought and died for this stuff throughout history isn't really an argument against disaster after the fall of the EU.
Safari has gotten quite good, btw, if you're on a mac. I mentioned this to a guy on the original Chrome team, and he said he wouldn't be surprised if it were faster now.... Chrome used to be all about speed but now it's about features.
The FBI wants to rig the elections. No need to think as far ahead as Russia.
I liked Return to Zork. I thought it was a really well put together game. Nemesis I never got through the first part, but this makes me want to go back and play it as well as Grand Inquisitor.
Short FB and GOOG, since both are entirely dependent on ad revenue, and marketing budgets are the first to be cut in a recession.

The problem with shorting equities like that is that your downside is unlimited. "The market can stay irrational longer than you can hold your short position," or whatever the saying is.
I like both Emacs and OCaml but I can't see a case where I would want to use Ecaml. In what situation is it useful?
How on earth did it cost $1000 to get a door handle repaired?!
Show HN: Ruby on Rails Jobs UK
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." One of my favorite quotes from Willy Wonka.
Very sad. Young Frankenstein was probably my favorite movie as a kid - the Frau Blucher scene[1] always made me laugh. He'll be remembered (and watched) for a very long time, which I suppose is the greatest honor an actor can receive.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdIID_TGwhM
Beautiful and inspiring read about exploring one's individual freedom. May society find it's freedom by collaboration and sense of community.

We as a society have the resources and technology to achieve much more freedom. Freedom enables the creation of even more freedom.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12384741
Since Brexit hasn't actually occurred, its a little early to call any of the prognostications as to what it might produce "failed".
It's really infuriating how few people will believe you and follow up on the 'tells'. Even people who must have experienced that before. The only reason I can think of for that behavior is an inate hope that other people are reasonable.
Do you mean that you need instructors or people to take existing material and get it into your platform?
Yeah, but that is not an argument not to include that in the analysis of how a function behaves when you throw lots of data into it. Also, the author comments this in one of the parts.
Why do you associate public transit use and not owning a car with low income? I make $100k+ and I don't own a car; I commute to work every day on public transit (with two transfers on the return journey, something a lot of people say high earners won't do) and I use public transit to get around whenever possible.
New stats show Uber growing, Lyft shrinking
I think it's worse than that -- for me it all reads, "young person with zero responsibilities chooses unsustainable lifestyle and has an awesome time". What happens to the designers when their boat needs serious maintenance, something that boats need _constantly_? We already know that one of the van guys basically only was able to function because a friend helped him sell his (broken down) van and move his crap home for him.

Game development is also a terrible platform to build a life on. What happens when you burn out? What happens if (when) no-one likes your game?
Microsoft-launches-new-tools-curbing-online-abuse
I'm still really disappointed that the Cast protocol is effectively closed, and Google only supports casting from Chrome, Android, and iOS.

I think Google is really shooting themselves in the foot regarding adoption. I'd love to have a command-line Cast client for Linux, integration into pulseaudio, a Firefox Cast extension, a native UI (non-browser) video player, etc. Sure, some people have reverse-engineered the newer protocol, but I've never gotten any of the unofficial clients to work reliably (and some just flat-out don't work at all).
The tennis was was so straightforward I was thinking it must be a trick, but it was that simple.