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Twitter gives you the ability to curate yourself a feed from comments of people you deem interesting enough to follow and keep up-to-date with, as far as I know. I mostly use it for my literary pursuits, and being able to follow editors, agents, and authors at the same time with minimal hassle has made twitter very useful to the fiction scene.

Alternatively, in the tech world, it gives you live updates on various developers that people look up to. technologies you want to keep up with, and updates on exciting open source software.
WeeChat + relay clients can do it as well, you only run weechat in a tmux/screen somwhere and connect to it with a relay client (Glowing Bear or WeeChat-Android). Works nicely, with synced state and arbitrary history scrollback
I think you're thinking of http://www.deeplearningbook.org/. The chapters I read from that were very good, but I didn't finish the book so hesitated to recommend it.
That's about 5 miles from downtown. Within the city limits, but that's about it.
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I started a software product development company when I was in PA 10 years back. However, it never kicked off. I moved out of PA since then. I never got time to shut it down. I have been showing 0 revenue 0 expenses on my Schedule C. What is the right way to close the company? Can a company remain dormant and I continue to pay 0 revenue, 0 expenses in my Schedule C till I have a concrete plan to revive it? If you have a Sole Proprietorship LLC how do you manage? Is there any support group / website dedicated to be successful in this business structure?
Do your 5MM connections do anything that garners the attention of CNN and Google realtime search indexing?

Do you have backend data services and data analysis jobs behing those 12-core front-end servers?
"skill"? That's bullshit, you can't tell anything about skill from a person's poorly phrased question. Especially since that person's primary language might not be English.
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Hey HN! I've been working on a startup on my own for a few months now, and am now working on it full time. It's a niche B2B with a promising trial slotted for November. As time is running down, I'm looking for extra hands to help in the following areas:

* Front-end: React SPA performance improvements, setting up automated testing/QA

* Back-end: Need to code up an operational transform server -- Node, Python, or CL. I've hashed out roughly the OT functionality on the front end but need to set up the backing server

* Ops: I'm a bit overwhelmed with hosting options. Happy to pay either for advice or for you to actually set it up. There are two different services with very different performance requirements. Security is a concern in both

I'm pretty flexible in terms of working style. I'm currently in Amsterdam, but incorporated in the US. This is building to an MVP, so if all goes well there would be more work afterwards!

Edit: Contact info local part is "felipe" domain is "fov.space"
<see Twitter's mission

I was going to ask What is it's Mission but then the more important question is Why Is it used?

A straw into someone's brain not knowing if they drew acid, water, colored water or truth serum first into the straw before discharging and reading.
Where in the US is the tax rate 50%?
Very cynical, but I tend to agree. I think the idea of the libertarian individualistic decentralized web is a non-starter for the general public. If you see the decentralized web as a matter of degree of centralization of individual services, however, a continuum where you can have a web for your family, a web for your job, your own personal web, a web run by your neighborhood, a web for your government etc. and conventions/interfaces to allow strictly regulated communication between those levels, I think you see it as an inherent quality of the web.

The problem isn't that Facebook mediates the relationship between you and the people you went to high school with, or that twitter mediates the relationship between you and Washington Post reporters; it's that once those relationships have been well-established and don't need any more protection (or need protection from Facebook itself), there's nowhere to take them to on the web. It shouldn't be easier to send baby pictures to my mother and aunts through Facebook. If one of us wants to make the effort to get some off the shelf appliance (or appliance that needs Debian installed and apt-get run periodically) and hook it to the web, and establish a hub for the family that provides most of what facebook provides, it would be better if it were both possible and easy to create and access.
I think it's just what you're used to -- I like London tap water, but dislike Manchester's water.

There's a water hardness map for England (PDF): http://www.dwi.gov.uk/consumers/advice-leaflets/hardness_map...

(But you should go to Manchester anyway.)
Twitter two main sins are: being less accessible than you like, and being more accessible than you like?
I use a daily systemd timer on my home machine to remotely back-up the data on my VPS. From there, my home machine backs-up a handful of data from different places to a remote server.

Make sure you check the status of backups, I send journald and syslog stuff to papertrail[0] and have email alerts on failures.

I manually verify the back-ups at least once a year, typically on World Back-up Day [1]

[0] https://papertrailapp.com/
[1] http://www.worldbackupday.com/en/
Important question. If it's a Wordpress site, then all you need to back up is the theme and your MySQL db. If it's a static site then just use rsync or sync to a git service.
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Hashtags are everywhere, but it doesn't follow that Twitter is - see FB, Insta, even LinkedIn.
Most of the news reporting I've seen cast on individual Reddit communities. I don't think such a thing can be done as easily as twitter except through hashtags, thus the coverage on twitter being more twitter-wide hashtagging rather than sub-tweet communities.
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I use AWS S3 for this as the storage prices are so cheap, at $0.03 per GB.
I recommend using a utility called s3cmd, which is a similar to rsync, in that you can backup directories.
I just have this setup with a batch of cron jobs which dump my databases and then sync the directories to s3 weekly.
Well, wait a minute. The Eleusinian mysteries were ancient by the time that Socrates was mentoring Plato. Plato was just the first to write this stuff down. How do we know that Plato wasn't reporting what Socrates taught him? And, if true, how can we be sure that Socrates didn't get the idea from someone else?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusinian_Mysteries
As any Six Sigma green belt will tell you, use The Five Whys [1]

The vehicle will not start. (the problem)

Why? - The battery is dead. (first why)

Why? - The alternator is not functioning. (second why)

Why? - The alternator belt has broken. (third why)

Why? - The alternator belt was well beyond its useful service life and not replaced. (fourth why)

Why? - The vehicle was not maintained according to the recommended service schedule. (fifth why, a root cause)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys
It'll be interesting to see if the AirPods have similar latency issues or with push toward Bluetooth Apple have resolved many of the latency issues (obviously low latency wireless is totally possible).
Or avoid expensive, uncooperative, proprietary SQL vendors. I'll keep pretending and stick with sqlite and PLSQL.
Sounds like you are a lot more fastidious than the average person.

I don't really see any need to clean my stove (or even the controls) more often than 1x / week (I cook daily), and the cutting board always occupies the same space on the counter, so the counter also gets thoroughly wiped once a week. The table gets wiped 1x a day, not after every single meal. Dishes, plates, and utensils just go soak in the sink so I only batch wash everything once a day.

Note that I'm still following all the usual food safety protocols, e.g. separating raw from cooked and washing my hands at appropriate times, etc.

I guess what I'm saying is that it probably does take you 20 minutes to clean after every meal, but that's probably much higher than average, and shouldn't be what keeps the average person from cooking.
I always trying to use singular form. I didn't give it much thought, I just don't like repetition, and all those "-s" are exactly repetition (not even saying about non-trivial things like "man-men", etc). The only place where it bit me every time is table for users. "user" apparently is a reserved word and I can't use it as a table name (without quoting). Otherwise I liked my approach.
Everybody's weak the first time they do something for reals; that's not really what I'd classify as a weak programmer, but rather junior.

When interviewing a junior, ideally they'll have been programming since before college and are actually intermediate devs in disguise. But when actually hiring a confirmed junior, you look for a spark of intelligence but also go in on the understanding that (a) their potential is unknown, and (b) there are only so many juniors you can allocate across teams and maintain productivity. Juniors are a speculative investment.
I made https://www.switchup.org - all the revenue is from advertising. I spend around 10 hours a week on it and have another full-time job/startup. The website is run by two freelancers and a full-time hire.
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>But in what way does science in the 21st century continue to advance and preserve human enlightenment? It isn't difficult to acknowledge the opposite effect -- that science has led to a certain disenchantment with the world and our place in it.

I think that the regression of human enlightenment comes more from your insistence about how science destroys magic, which never actually existed, than from science itself. All science has done is politely explain that our ways of making sense and meaning out of our experiences have to conform to the way the world actually is.

>Philosophy is more important to science than ever as it struggles to meaningfully interpret its data, especially in quantum mechanics and neurology. I know it upsets scientists to think about receiving help from a philosopher.

Nobody is upset about seeking help from a relevant domain expert. However, we are continuing to try to politely explain that trying to make sense of the world in terms of ghosts or Platonic Forms does not work. Naturalistic philosophers hear no complaints from scientists, because their philosophizing fits inside reality.

The problem comes from the rather irritating philosophers who continue to insist that a world without ghosts or Forms is innately meaningless and has no place for human life in it.
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That's the point. As Zuckerberg taught us, you have to onboard the cool kids first. Then you grow. The federated network people don't get this.
What happens when people in Virginia decide they want to move to California?

Georgists (including myself) tend to see anything less than open borders as deeply immoral.
Sorry Gumroad, I often get those mixed up :)
Interestingly AFAIK, Cato institute is pro-legalization.
Twitter is a cheap way to get response quotes for an article without asking anyone any questions. It's gotten so ridiculous that some news "content" is just a series of embedded Tweets. Serious news organizations should band together and restrain themselves from this silly practice. It violates one of the most important rules of interviewing, which is to know who the source is and what her biases might be so that the quote can be presented appropriately.
I only know for Android since that's the only mobile OS I have ever used so excuse my question if it sounds stupid:

Why should I pay for your app if Android has a built-in backup/restore system for contacts? Or does this work by creating backups periodically in case you accidentally delete a contact you might not have wanted to?
> 1 . > It is these "decentralized" people who are out of touch, not the ordinary people.
> This statement seems a bit condescending, just saying..

I don't think that's what condescending means.

Decentralization/Centralization is nothing new. In fact the entire history of humanity is about pendulum swinging back and forth between centralization and decentralization. And in 100% of the cases when this happens it's not because of some elites convince people to switch, but because it makes sense for people. "Normal" human beings are not as dumb as these elites think. So we don't have to worry about decentralization never happening. It will happen. And probably back to centralization. And then back to decentralization again. Just not through these efforts to "educate" people. It's because these elites are so out of touch with how real people think that their attempts at convincing people don't work.
That's somewhat fair. It's certainly true that Wikimedia has a fair number of active projects that haven't had much of an impact. Apparently there have been at least some discussions of streamlining their work although organizations universally find it hard to avoid scope creep.

I'd point out though that, according to Wikipedia :-), the Internet Archive has a staff of about 200 so a few hundred employees/contractors doesn't seem out out of line as the baseline for a non-profit information infrastructure project.
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>I was very much a weak candidate when hired for my first programming job after university.

Being a weak candidate and being an inexperienced candidate are two different things.
I know I'll be dowvoted to oblivion but I'll say it anyway...

You advocate for privacy,
You advocate for openness,
You advocate for transparency,
You advocate for interoperability,
You advocate for host-it-yourself,
You advocate for customisability,
You advocate for scriptability
...

But then all of a sudden "oh no IRC, not enough colours, geez, running a bouncer, who wants to do it?"

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I'd design irc-v3 to be bouncer-friendly, and maybe to integrate some bouncer-y features into IRC servers as well (most IRC servers keep logs anyway)
It's more like suggesting that they should drive their own cars, pump their own gas, or change their own tires in an emergency. Nobody is suggesting that people should be able to program a webserver.
Twitter is not like random comments section, because you can build your own network of interesting people by following only what genuinely interests you. There are a lot of great people on Twitter working on products you or I use every day that share good commentary or tease what's coming, curate links that I'll probably be interested in reading or share a "heads up" if there's something to be vary of, reporters following a story, bands for upcoming plans etc. etc.

It's also interesting to follow some people you strongly disagree with just to see their day to day thinking, what they're reading and how they may've come to their conclusions.

You can also share a request/call into action/product you just launched etc. with your network and they'll spread it for you if you provide them with an interesting feed and generally quality stuff - must be a quality list of people you follow/they follow etc.

It's like your own personal humint if you know how to take advantage of it.

If you just engage with a bunch of random people, it's not that useful indeed.
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Fun fact: you can ignore EC2 instance roles and use the Amazon Cognito service for processes to obtain role-based short-term credentials.

I've described it previously as "Kerberos for the AWS Cloud" (which will make any self-respecting crypto nerd squirm) but hopefully it conveys the general idea. Yes it was designed for mobile & browser use, and yes the API isn't pretty, but it's there.
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That's funny, 'cause in my experience, In America, even in California, you mostly get taxed on money you actually make. I mean, mostly; it's complicated. But mostly you pay taxes on the net, not the gross. I mostly don't pay taxes on money I spend on employees and equipment (there are a bunch of exceptions; I pay 7.5% on payroll for employees, and depriciation on capital assets is... well, a matter best left to the accountant. Still.)

And, uh, 50% sure, that's what you pay if you take home a whole lot lot of money and live in California... something that usually doesn't happen during the first years of a startup. In my experience, "starting a business" take home pay rarely gets you much above the 20% tax bracket, even in California; you re-invest the rest.
It's a great place for me to talk to other furries. Not sure how that translates to an eleven-figure business.

I suppose I can try to make a more general case for it. Twitter is the global community of people who have some specific thing in their brain that is also in your brain. It's not the place to share life updates with your college buddies and cousins. It's a place to find people who have a specific niche interest you share, and to share in the thoughts that you all don't necessarily want to express to the people you interact with day-to-day. Unlike Facebook, you can actually meet people there. And it doesn't require the sustained attention (I won't dare call it obsession) of places like forums and LiveJournal so a wider crowd is willing to use it. I still don't know if it's an eleven-figure business, but I'm glad it exists. It makes me feel more connected to the world.
It was a good idea, but the execution was ridiculous.
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In the US, we switch water sources willy nilly because of capitalism and political maneuvering: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis

I definitely don't trust the municipal water sources + local plumbing my landlords provide to be of the highest quality. I'd like to measure what actually comes out of my taps but I'm not aware of a lab which would affordable do contaminant level testing for just a few samples.
Before down voting me, please provide a source that includes the whole context then and substantiates your claim.

And this is not the only one. I have provided exampled of at least two others.
After sales tax? Everywhere.
US taxes on global income if you're a tax resident of the US. There are ways to do it but at the low end it costs more than the taxes so it's not worth it.
For any non-static website - Heroku FOR SURE. It's not even a question - I have two companies that both run on Heroku - both startups are profitable and both will remain on Heroku for the next couple of years. (https://www.switchup.org and https://www.trycarriage.com) - I know massive scale billion dollar companies that are on Heroku (e.g. Deliveroo, Macy's)

The cost/benefit analysis is ALWAYS positive in favor of Heroku until you hit super massive scale (minimum 2-3 years out for most startups, if ever). It's super easy to use. Their feature set is increasing monthly and they can handle a lot of different types of setups.
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We can (thermodynamic ally speaking) make a huge radiator going from the earth to the moon, warming up the moon and cooling off earth.

Will it happen in 5 (or 500) years? Probably not, but it's not an entropy issue.
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Modern physics says that statistics is essentially what you need to model a universe. Statistics isn't the weakness, the paucity and the bounded nature of the dataset is.
I find this unseemly.

Grief is a vital part of the healing process. This strikes me as a part of a goal to avoid/numb it.
I must strongly agree with this one. Just switched from DigitalOcean to Vultr myself. Vultr is the only decent one I'm aware of who'll let me run OpenBSD. No other OS is good enough for me. Strongest security in the world, and no need to update as frequently as with other OSes or distros.

Choose OpenBSD for your Unix needs. OpenBSD -- the world's simplest and most secure Unix-like OS. Creator of the world's most used SSH implementation OpenSSH, the world's most elegant firewall PF, the world's most elegant mail server OpenSMTPD, the OpenSSL rewrite LibreSSL, and the NTP rewrite OpenNTPD. OpenBSD -- the cleanest kernel, the cleanest userland and the cleanest configuration syntax.
These days, there's also Trello.
The book apparently attacks the popular idea that philosophy is over.

And that word "revisionist," used so frequently to dismiss what one thinks they already know -- how useful is that word in advancing anything but maintenance of the status quo?
Oh man these are great. The one the Times did on Syria was fascinating, thanks for the link!
Seems like with a high resolution enough image, some of these effects may actually make the problem easier.
Maybe electric cars are not that great then? If an electric car would cost somethilng like a regular car and offer 600 km range on a "tank" full of electricity or hydrogen, everyone would buy one without the need of banning regular cars. This is exactly how railway steam engines lost ground to diesel and then to electric. Electric cars already have other advantages such as the lack of needong a gearbox, very good torque/seed characteristic which enables fast acceleration.

I'm all for electric cars, but outright banning regular cars at EU level just feels plain wrong. What about forcing this upon other less wealthy EU member states, just like they did with migrant quotas? Selectively banning them at city level by the local authorities due to pollution and noise is a much better idea.
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There's a lot of lazy journalism looking for a quote, any quote, because they're required to have one in a story they're writing.

This isn't new. When I was an analyst, some reporters would call me for a quote about something. There were times when I didn't have anything to say because I didn't know anything about said thing. But some would pester me for a quote anyway so they didn't have to give someone else a call.

Twitter does seem to have become a particular crutch though.
OK, I admit: for WiFi it is not called "baseband", but something like "WiFi chip", but the functionality is the same (just for WiFi instead of, say, UMTS or LTE) - it also runs a hidden, probably bugged, firmware.
To play a devil's advocate, Spolsky's advice was provided at a different time. Perhaps then the requirements and thus necessary skills were different from today, and it might have made sense to rely on his quick and polarizing criterion. I do agree that his tone is brash, noninclusive and overall damaging to the industry as a whole. I would imagine some people would be discouraged from even trying to get into the industry after reading some of his articles.
> I wish there was a technical name for this cycle! The pattern seems to happen in every industry over time.

Seizing the means of production? Socialization of industry?
Fair is in the eye of the beholder. But the only reason the rich pay so much in nominal taxes is because their incomes (which are directly and strongly correlated with their wealth) are so ridiculously high.

Keep in mind that just because Bob is paying a million dollars in taxes and Julia is paying ten dollars in taxes does not mean the system is unfair towards Bob. Especially if Bob should actually be paying three million dollars in taxes, but has used creative accounting practices and tax avoidance schemes to reduce his tax burden.
Other countries, like Panama, don't have the same infrastructure or financial obligations. They can operate at much lower tax rates.
The Conditioned object seems like it should be a part of Guava/Java 8 :)
I run an XMPP server for myself and a few friend and have had no end to the trouble with it getting OTR or any level of encryption working reliably before friends lose their interest.

Please, someone, just offer us an open source slack clone that runs off on a R-pi and has a walk through wizard to enable the 99% of typical install requirements.

Even as someone who works in the industry, I dont have time to learn the bells and whistles that running a chat server requires.