skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With its built in thread-thread FIFO support, something like RaftLib (http://www.raftlib.io) would likely rock on this. Almost have it working on Parallella, initial results are pretty decent. Seems far better than TLB/DRAM/potential page fault for every thread-thread FIFO access.
Sure, and all sorts of systems are hacked one way or another. I suggest giving up on the idea of policing it and release that idea of control.

If your intention truly is social impact then focus on what can be accomplished by the participants. Forget about the bastards, they aren't worried about you.
Because it was an awful, awful, idea, and is almost never what you want.
IMO, no.
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No it's still a startup. It can be a very high growth startup, shooting to a $100M valuation.

It's just not the wannabe unicorn that VCs want.

There's a HUGE gap between what VC wants and a "lifestyle business" (I hate that term, thanks for not using it.)

Redefining startup to be this very, very narrow set of "businesses that will be over $1B in valuation within 5 years" is wrong, it's silly, and it's getting worse.

9 years ago on Hacker News the difference between "lifestyle" and "startup" was "businesses that will reach over $100M valuation in 10 years."

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Put another way, I would take a %10 chance of having a $100M business over a %0.1 chance of having a $1B business. (assume in both cases you end owning %5 of the stock at exit, though realistically without VC money you'd likely own more equity percentage at $100M than at $1B)

VCs generally want you to take the second bet, even though the statistical value is 1/10th as much for you!

Worse, you can only found one business at a time, while the VCs can invest in dozens at the same time. So your risk is much higher (not even mentioning that they are investing OPM)

VCs interests are not aligned with founders.
It's not a rewriting of history. The dibblegate conflict occurred at the end of 2014.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/scalaz/9X_putSGoCY

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/scalaz/code$20of$...

Calling Tony Morris a rapist was probably the highlight of the affair: https://twitter.com/shajra/status/544712807220908032

Up until they realized they couldn't take over the community, Lars Hupel and Miles Sabin had no publicly stated plans to leave Scalaz.

Cats initial commit is early 2015.

https://github.com/typelevel/cats/commits/master?page=74

I have no idea why everyone dislikes them so much. I use Scalaz, and it's pretty great. From what I've seen Cats is nearly the same thing, I just saw no reason to switch. In what way do you believe Cats is significantly different from Scalaz, beyond the fact that you apparently dislike the people involved?

Incidentally, scalaz-streaming was also pretty nice - mathematically I liked it but it was simply not as performant as Akka streaming. I'd love to use it if it becomes fast.
I went to school and graduated with large loans because my parents didn't pay for my schooling. And I agree with the parent poster 100%. Saying software developers are underpaid is on of the silliest and out of touch things I've ever heard.
HN's seriously voting up this libertarian wank?
Not OP, but it depends. If they take the good bits (simple unit files, process monitoring), and ignore the bad bits (trying to do everyone else's job, sinister plans for world domination, no fun at parties), than I'd be cool with it.

heck, just stick process monitoring into the rc.d model. You'll get the Best of systemd. Especially if you don't take the Rest of systemd.
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Gnome3 is in a fight againt anybody who doesn't just want to look at the pretty colors. It really doesn't do anything right.
Being an early employee doesn't make you a founder, no matter your effort.
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Perhaps you missed the irony that you further the meta-commentary? Why is it OK for you to go-meta on my comment, but not for me to respond to an actual exchange in this thread?

I saw the parent completely sidestep the content of the grandparent's argument and focus on trivial form issues, and I found this in bad taste (and an all too common occurrence), and wrote so. Simple as that. And while the quote might imply the parent is an idiot, it was simply meant as a quote that fits the practice -- as asked by Teever.
This seems like a sort of non-story; what it takes for there to be a new family tree is someone entering the field without an advisor in this dataset (i.e. probably an advisor from a different field) and then taking on PhD students, etc. And that seems unlikely at different points in time for a variety of different reasons.
The linked video in the article isn't very impressive from a scientific point of view (i.e. it could smell the owner doing the burying etc).

But it is super cute! https://youtu.be/nNgv3opJqoQ
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I watch an average of 8 hours of twitch daily while working from home. I use adblockers without issues on their site. The only thing that I had to mess with was uMatrix, but that happens everywhere, especially with so many CDNs etc loading content.
Hey,
I was using many time trackers before, but automatic time trackers like RescueTime or ManicTime show only time spent on devices. Tracking time using traditional time trackers like Toggl is just too much hustle – one has to remember to set up timer every time he began new activity.

SaveMyTime takes advantage of nasty habit humans have – we unlock our phones about 120 times a day, every few minutes. App replaces standard lock screen and asks “What have you been doing since you last checked your phone?”, then it takes the input, analyzes and gives insights how you spend time.

I spent a 1 month developing this app with group of 150 beta testers. I’ll appreciate any feedback and happy to answer all questions.
> You're assuming that investment actually happens.

Of course! I am assuming that investment actually happens because I put money in my savings account and I receive interest.
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> About the closest you can get to that with a programming language is Lisp, but it's still half-way there compared to a spreadsheet, when you can see the data all the time as it is placed and updated.

I think that Kenny Tilton's Cells was an attempt to get that sort of interactive update functionality in Lisp. I was never able to figure it out though.
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You have missed my point.

Comparing with Arch and saying it is easier - well, gee, sure - not a particularly high bar to clear! The same about installing the desktop using a package manager.

If you have to actually do any of that, you have lost already, at least as far as a productive desktop is concerned. My point is not that it is hard to do but that you shouldn't have to do it in the first place!

Desktop OS should come with a working desktop out of the box - many desktop Linux distros actually give you a choice during the install and preconfigure one of the major ones for you.

BSDs make excellent servers and there this simplicity and Unix-like approach to running things are a large benefit. Modern Linux distros tend to be way too complex and "black-box" like in this regard. However, having to go through all this to run a desktop is an unnecessary masochism for people who have way too much time on their hands, IMO.
Holy hell! This is amazing! I just read both changelogs (QGIS and UE) and found them very interesting even though I'm not doing anything with either of them. I can imagine making such visual logs is much more time-consuming than just browsing through commit logs since last release and retyping commit messages in plain English, but the potential of such visual logs to actually get read and understood is much greater.

My question is - is there any tool that one could use to quickly capture a few seconds of a selected region of the screen as a video/GIF? Preferably one that would subsequently allow to throw away some frames from the beginning and ending. Such a tool would speed up the process of creating visual changelogs quite a bit.
Should decison maker's spreadsheets in business, policy, and government be peer-reviewed in the same way as scientific papers?

Disclaimers: 1) Yes, scientific peer review needs improvement. 2) Yes, spreadsheets are not ideal for science... what makes business less important?
Do you do extended vacation between jobs?
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You raise a very good point. When I first saw this announcement I thought it was a great deal for foreign founders. But as a US expat I know what a curse it is to be a "US taxpayer". Foreign founders who end up being US taxpayers without planning for the consequences could suffer greatly. That scenario of your home bank closing your account is very real in countries that refuse to submit to the FATCA reporting requirements.
Found the libertarian.
"When Mylan bought it, EpiPens cost about $57 each."

I can concur. I have a family member I purchase these for. At first, it was like...okay, $50 after insurance. Now $100 after insurance. The thing is...nobody really seems to care until things spiral out of control. Who the hell is watching our backs in America? Is it the FDA, the FTC, Congress (likely too busy defunding AMA to care), the DoJ? No idea. I wonder if gov't agencies like the DoD who stock tons of epipens pay the same prices that we the public do? Does the DoD purchase from another market to get out of the huge sticker price? I'm curious to see how many people in the gov't get around purchasing these in the US for their own agencies yet didn't raise extreme alarm at the ballooning prices for the American consumers.
Seems somewhat similar to Certificate Transparency project, where issued certificates are recorded in a public (merkle tree) log.
Or Skype, which just tells you something like "we've updated your Skype application, which among other things means less bugs and improved performance".
If they had renters, they could pass those savings on. The article discusses how landlords are keeping units empty because it has become too risky/expensive to rent them.

When the law has become so restrictive that people would rather not engage in commerce at all, then it is broken. This isn't helping anybody.
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Is anyone more familiar with it able to discuss how the identity part of this compares and contrasts with DANE?
I fully agree with you. The issue is not people like you and me, it's 22 year old kids who are willing to work 16 hours a day and undercut everyone else.
Any other industry would threaten to leave town.
I don't know. But it shouldn't be too hard. Just install FBSD after windows, and find some instructions for booting windows from boot0/booteasy, the freebsd bootloader, or take the easy way out and get grub2 from the package repository, and follow the instructions for setting that up, followed by the instructions for dual booting windows and linux, with any obvious modifications.
>It's also about familial/class privilege. Once you get in with a good mentor (for academics that means advisor)...it sets you up for life. Getting into a good lab (train under uber mentor X or Y), no matter if your work is crap or not will gain you citations and socialization that a lesser one would not.

Which is similar to the reason why blacks haven't bounced back from slavery that "ended in 1865". The started from less than zero. Not only poor (immigrants also arrived and started poor), but also seen as dangerous/inferior etc and having to face Jim Crow laws etc, segregation (up until the 70s), redlining, poorly funded school districts, etc.

That held them down far longer than most other races, e.g. asians, jews, irish etc had to face (with the posisble exception of latinos), and never allowed them to build enough "familial/class privilege" to sustain mass movement to middle class/upper middle class.
Working your butt off has zero to do with having a executable vision that creates value.

Clearly shit needs to get done, but there's only so many hours in the a life of a startup and being able to see what needs to be done ultimately is more important than just getting stuff done.
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"I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."

- Bill Gates
Thanks, you are the developer right? Great work!
Yes, LICEcap is good for this: http://www.cockos.com/licecap/
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I have written an OpenSource software (https://speedata.github.io/publisher/index.html) that generates PDF files and I provide ZIP files for various operating systems (Mac/Linux/Windows 64 and 32 bit each). Now from time to time I mess up the ZIP files (such as removing the x flag from the binaries).

I'd like to run a simple test from time to time on each of these operating systems (if possible) that does the following:

1) download a ZIP file from a given location and extract it
2) change to a directory (a hello world example)
3) run a binary from another path within the ZIP file and check if a PDF file has been generated.

Of course I could do a much better check with PDF comparison etc.

How can I automate this task? A "free" online solution would be nice, but any automatic testing solution is appreciated.
An alarming number of business spreadsheets contain Excel errors. But it's the linga fraca of businesses, departments & teams everywhere.
They could also build a larger road for the most popular commuter route. Or even some form of public transport that's good enough for people to want to use. I realise that the idea of spending tax funds on improving infrastructure is considered radical in California, but I feel that it has some weight of historical evidence behind it.
On the other hand, a language & tooling that by default compiles to a static executable, such as Go, means no dependency trouble or installation steps at all, now or in the future. Just copy 1 file to all your machines and you have that command available.

If the software is open source, you can still change anything with your text editor and recompile the executable, usually with a single command (go build, IIRC.) Additionally, you can keep all the executables for all your versions and modifications.

Try to do that with Python, when the change you need is somewhere deep inside a library. At best you'll spend hours setting up multiple Virtualenvs; at worst it will just be impossible. Case in point, you can't use a Virtualenv for ntfy on OS X of you want desktop notifications (for whatever reason.)
It's not equally valid, there's a possible win-win scenario--increasing supply; instead SF opted for a zero-sum game.
Well... the family claimed it was true for decades (especially the father). Granted mostly for money, but there is some grey there.
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Glad to help. I've been in one for about a year or so, and can't recommend it enough.

Not sure how known the concept is, but I think it is fairly well known, especially if you run a bootstrapped startup. And if you're listening to the podcast Startups For the Rest Of Us (recommended!), I'd say it's probably close to 100 percent. One way of finding people for your mastermind is to visit the MicroConf conference, run by the same people as the podcast. (It's a lot easier getting a ticket for the European conference than the US one.)
Your post was a general statement that working from home is usually light on working.

Stop and think about that for a second. Many of us here are 100% remote. How are we to interpret your general statement, except as insulting?

A little self-awareness would be far more helpful to you than lashing out in anger.
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Good point.

As a technical matter. Once a property is built on, how do you distinguish between land value and the building value-add without some arbitrary valuation?
They should be if not. It's dumb and probably against Amazon ToS.
Don't bring your work home with you on a regular basis. It requires effort because it's easy to bring your work home with you no matter your job. Keep work at work.
The widening wealth gap refutes that assumption; wealth is accumulating at the high end and not being re-invested back in the rest of the economy.

A widening wealth gap can only occur if the wealthy are investing their money and getting good returns on it.

If the wealthy were hoarding their money, then it would not be growing and the wealth gap would shrink (since worker's wealth would increase, and the wealthy would consume some of their wealth).
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Thanks for reading. If you like it, please contribute. We're rolling out user space threading right now, next project is to build back in accelerator support.
Context-switching is expensive. You have to swap out the data being worked on by thread #1 and swap in the data for thread #2. So you end up being bottlenecked by memory bandwidth and latency rather than by raw compute.
Absolutely the same case in India and then some more.

I would argue that Uber (and Ola) have raised my standard of living as far as transport is concerned. I've stayed in Bangalore & Chennai and have travelled in a few more cities.

All problems that you mention ring true here plus an additional things - most taxis & autorickshaws don't even run on the meter. Every ride involves a ritual of haggling the price. If you're new to a city, it is certain that you would be fleeced. Then, many would deny the ride to a destination if it is not a hotspot. On few days I've take the local transport, I get dropped off a kilometre away from my home and have to walk the rest.

I would never take a local taxi or an autorickshaw if there is an Uber/Ola available.
Came here to say this, and in general any dataset that has a chance of having incomplete data is going to tends towards this same result.

Maybe the problem is less pronounced for "successful" companies, but given my past experience looking at the data, I wouldn't take this at face value.
As someone that is soon moving to san francisco for a job, can someone explain to me why tech jobs are still located there? are tech workers really resistant to moving out of that horrible city and state? I will take a 10% reduction in salary to live in Miami, Atlanta or New York over San Francisco. All of those are cities with actual vibrant culture and the rent is actually lower.
Oh a sarcasm detector. That's _real_ useful.

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It will be interesting to see what happens to these people if Trump were to get elected, given his promise to investigate H1 visas.

Will he ask whistleblowers to step forward? Perhaps deport these "extraordinary individuals" and hand over their green cards to the actually deserving ones in the queue? Or is the number of affected people too small to matter?

Many people on message boards rarely seem to appreciate the actual pull of a person like Trump. Very few people actually want to support Trump, but the system badly needs a shake-up, even one that might well be too arbitrary and might negatively affect more people than it helps. The alternative feels like being the frog boiling in water.

While I am on the matter, I would also comment that the H1B visa lottery mess itself can be cleared quite quickly by someone who is not catering to lobbyists. Ask the ones who obtained their higher degree in the US if they genuinely think there are more people who are qualified to get the visa than the number of people who actually receive it - that is, does it make sense that there would be a lottery for the visa?

I know this opens an entirely new can of worms - why does getting a degree in the US give any more credibility? Here is a not very PC answer: being a student in the US actually gives you a chance to understand the culture and work ethic which makes the US what it is, which is almost 100% lacking in people who suddenly find themselves in the corporate environment of a completely different culture from their country, don't particularly care for assimilating, and often cause a lot of questions to be raised about whether the H1 visa is actually serving its designed purpose.
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The IRS has some information about trading as an income generating activity (it's a fuzzy line):

https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc429.html

Any proceeds are taxed as business income, not as capital gains.
You can do some optmizations to Emacs line handling. emacs -nw can help, I think. But by the time you've really hit Emacs' limit, you should have split your line anyway. And there is always nano, for the truly desparate.
This might be a team wide thing at Amazon but I have seen mixing the two in a single team. Its called reduced hours and can be very helpful for people coming back from maternity leave (as well as others).
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I agree with the main message: we are not underpaid. Considering the risks we are taking (both in life and in career) we live comfortable lives indeed.

A side note: when you said "I didn't have to pass a single licensing exam" I immediately thought of the way our profession tends to have that kind of exam every time we interview each other. A big part of interview for a software developer is based on the exam-type material; this is very different from the way other professionals, even engineers, have their interviews. (Does not contradict your message, just a note.)