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It's easy to say that if you don't have experience from the receiving end...

For a very long time I ran publicly accessible NTP servers. Usually this required little to no maintenance, sometimes we'd get hammered (like when a large ISP rebooted all of their customers boxes at the same time). But usually it wasn't a big deal.

Now, when you have hundreds of thousands of people using your services, it doesn't take many people who have decided you are going to fix their problem, as a percentage to get overwhelmed. Mostly users were great, but there were a few...

My company provided Linux support, and our support number included an option users could select that was prefaced with "If you are an existing customer and are having a service impacting emergency, press 1 to receive a call back from a technician within 15 minutes."

This system would allow them to leave a voicemail and then would log a bug in our tracking system and would start calling our senior on-call tech and their backup, 24 hours a day. It was either the second or third time in a week this happened, and I replied with a "You are not a customer, this is not a service impacting outage, and you are reporting our servers replying to your computer's requests for time service."

The level of vitriol I received in return convinced me it was time to stop offering NTP as a public service.

Most people will spend some time understanding what is going on before reaching out to someone they've never heard of before, expecting them to fix the problem. But if you have enough people using something you provide, you will run across people who have huge expectations of you and get pissed off if you don't fix their problem.
I did not advocate for everyone living in cities. I advocated for more city housing, as currently it is unaffordable to many who do want to live in them due to demand outstripping supply. If you want to see my view as Pol Pot style authoritanrianism, well, I'm not even sure where to start.

We need more city housing because there's plenty of demand. I understand plenty of people want to live in rural areas, and I wish them well.
Did anyone here even read the article? It's saying exactly what existing comments here are complaining about.
I made an effort to learn Dutch for around 6 months of last year. Although it's a well known as a language, it's only spoken natively by around 20 million(ish), so isn't massively useful outside of the Netherlands and Belgium, among a few other places in the world. My first language is English. I just wanted a second language under my belt and I enjoy spending time in the Netherlands. The problem with learning Dutch is, most people (that I came across at least) in the Netherlands are already fluent in English and from my experience it seemed like they'd much rather just speak to you in English. So to actually speak Dutch there, it's important to be clear that you don't want to converse in English and that you're trying to improve your skills. It was really important to me that I'd speak a bit of Dutch every day, ideally to native speakers. This requires a bit of effort (as I live and spend most of my time in England), but it's suprising how easy it is to either find Dutch people here to speak to and also online.

It benefited me in the sense that I ended up making some new friends out of it and had a lot of fun just learning (or trying to learn) a second language. I think learning a new language like this can open up some doors and can help you meet a lot of new interesting people you'd perhaps not have met otherwise. I'd love to pick it up again next year. So we'll see.
1) There's no reason why you should assume every strategy is equally likely. It's absolutely not the case. When you play poker, do you assume your opponent play their cards randomly just because you don't know their strategy? It's not a realistic prior at all.

2) Playing the Nash equilibrium means that you may not be fully exploiting the opponent, true. It's also possible that you're opponent's strategy is to give you a million dollars if you say "abracadabra". So how about that? Check-mate interviewer.

3) If you want to make the problem harder on yourself, you can be my guest and try and assume a realistic distribution of strategies for your opponent. That distribution will have a peak around the nash equilibrium, so you'll have to end up calculating it.
MacPaw is launching another MAS, access all apps for $10/mo
I recently made the jump from startups to bigger co. For me there were a few considerations:

1. We’re at the end of a bubble and doing a slow pop. Multiple companies that have raised a lot of money don’t have the revenue or unit economics to be sustainable. Employees with compensation tied up in stock aren’t going to do well. Had a friend leave two companies within 6 months (didn’t bother vesting) that both raised over $100 million because the executive teams were celebrating $900 deals.

2. Startups don’t exit anymore. Waiting 8-10 years for an exit is unacceptable. It might be okay for founders who take a couple million off the table at the B round or VCs who keep the IRR on their books, but for employees it’s a fail.

3. Founders as rockstars. The narrative is hurting the industry. People I like and respected raise money and become narcissistic assholes. Last founder I worked for who I considered a friend told me “he was like Elon Musk or Larry Paige, a technical genius, and not to question his leadership”. This was after he fired his cofounder and chased off the one other employee of our seed stage startup.

4. Risk vs. Reward. As an employee with founders trying to keep 50% of the company to be like Zuck, companies never exiting, and no idea what the terms of later rounds are, working at a startup is becoming stupid. Saying it’s about the mission, it’s about learning not earning, when the VCs and founders are doing great is disingenuous.

We’re at the end of the cycle. I’ve seen 3 now: 2001, 2008, 2016. Hopefully in the next round the powers that be will figure out how to better reward everyone who takes risk working at startups. Right now employees take almost as much risk as founders for much less reward.
You're confusing being a jerk with communication styles and cultural differences. You'd never hire anyone from the American inner city, from parts of Scotland and Ireland, parts of New York, and similar. Some very nice people talk loudly, swear, and use politically incorrect language.

This is part of the reason some URMs can't get ahead in US corporate culture.

Yes, Linus does swear a lot, and uses aggressive language. That's part of his style, his culture, and how he communicates.

No, he is not a jerk. The reason Linux beat the BSDs is because Linus is a very nice guy. He created a community which, despite the harsh language, was very welcoming, and willing to mentor new people. The BSDs created elitist, closed-off communities, which were unwelcoming to newcomers.

If you made a mistake, the BSD communities would write you off. The Linux community would tell you what you did wrong, and how to fix it, even if they used harsh language to do so.

The Linux culture is also quite meritocratic. It doesn't matter how you communicate, or how incompetent you were a year ago. If you're doing good technical work today, you're welcome. More than other cultures, arguments are taken at technical face value, not by who makes them.
To be honest I've always been pretty amazed that the web doesn't fall apart much more easily than it actually does.

The fact is that most sites work only with some kind of caching in front of them at any scale; my guess would be on a site by site basis there will be a slow performing piece of code somewhere that can be exploited with low resources on the part of the attacker.

In a lot of cases, simply creating a session a couple of 100000 in a short enough space of time, would be enough to overload the majority of sites...
The real never-ending life of it. Most cities have off-hours- NYC is literally a 24/7 city.
Which tools do you want Justinmind to be integrated?
There is a very well established theory of intelligence and scientific branch called psychometrics since the start of the century. If see you live in US its the country with the most widespread use of iq tests in SAT, army, law schools etc.

I am not even sure if we need to understand it fully to build an AI that is capable.or producing the measurable output of it. Since it will outperform humans in everything it doesnt matter imo.

I suggest the book Superintelligence talks about these exact questions.

Semi jokingly, we understand much less of quantum theory than intelligence.
These claims that we must do what science dictates are self-serving, and the ongoing chant is getting really tiresome.

Science does not lead inexorably to policy. Science is only the first step, in how it allows us to understand the world around us. What we want to do about that is an entirely value-based decision. Deciding to implement policy demands filtering that understanding through a lens of our collective values as a society. Those values are fluid, and very frequently in controversy. It seems like the demands to "follow science" are an attempt to sweep some of that controversy under the carpet.

In the case of climate change, it's pretending that there's cost/benefit analysis to be done. It ignores the possibility that the cost of doing something will exceed the likely damage expected. (I'm not saying that's the case, I'm just saying that folks are trying to skip that part of the conversation)

It pops up in other cases, too. Virtually every economist will tell you that free trade is almost always a net positive for all involved. It harms a few, but on net the entire society is much better off. If we stopped with the science, then we should remove all tariffs and be done with it. But before we do so, there's still a moral question to be resolved: if a few people are paying the price to improve our overall economy, do we owe any debt to them, to make them whole afterwards?

So stop pretending that a lack of the policy you want demonstrates that we're scientifically illiterate. Instead, recognize that the science can only inform our debate over the values.
Yes. Unless you intend to spend a lot on equipment upfront, don't register for VAT. You don't have to unless the company's income hits a certain threshold (I forget exactly how much now). Just be careful about any VAT you think you might save (offsetting purchases against collections). The burden of quarterly returns is a pain.

Also, while the UK is still in the EU, consider starting a Limited company in another country with a different corporate tax structure. Perhaps somewhere like Ireland, Latvia or Malta might suit your requirements better.
Understanding science requires some scientific mindset.

The climate scientists talk about 1 degree Celsius increase in global temperatures and some react with "I am fine if the temperature would increase by a degree Fahrenheit".

Instead, what a person should realise is that an increase in global temperature of a mere 1C is shorthand to trillions of trillions of Joules (energy).
Admittingly, the constant changes and breaking stuff in Ionic 2 is getting a bit... tired. I know it's not at 'final' status yet, but still.

But we've been using it for a long time and have, in the main, had great results with it.

Xamarin has however come on leaps and bounds since out team started doing mobile development. And is free too... so I could see us switching to Xamarin to get native performance on apps that demand it.
Canadian lawyer and entrepreneur here. The Canadian equivalent is a Federal corporation ($200 filing fee + $20/yr). The government's online step-by-step system does most of the work for you, but doesn't touch the share issuance part. You'll need to do that yourself but there are lots of resources available online for how to issue shares to yourself.

The main cost is hiring an accountant to do the tax return for you. Or figuring out how to do it yourself using software like TaxTron.

If you have employment income + your side project involves a lot of ongoing losses then it may be a good idea to use a partnership or sole proprietorship for tax reasons.

Talk to your lawyer/accountant. There are fewer lawsuits here so you may decide a sole proprietorship (unincorporated business) is fine. Each province has some equivalent of a "Master Business License" that allows you to use a name other than your own for business purposes (so you can cash cheques, etc.).

To conclude (for Canada): generally startups go with a corporation. Side projects might be a corporation, a partnership or a sole proprietorship.
It's not saying exactly what the comments are saying.

It is saying, essentially, "The Obama administration opened Pandora's box, and now we have an evil, bigoted, fascist dictator inheriting all of it."
By the same token, there are hordes of Americans who affect a belief that there are no races, and think any attempt to apply Darwinism to human nature is the quintessence of evil. Liberal Creationists.
The idea that everyone needs to commute in a separate vehicle is an outdated notion whose time has past. It especially makes no sense with shared self-driving cars, which are more like small buses than privately owned passenger cars in function. The total number of vehicles on the road would end up drastically reduced.
First of all, you're right about trying to correct the wrongs in the society you live in - as Thiel had done.

I do however disagree that creating new sovereign territories is bizarre and unwarranted. Thiel himself has partnered with Milton Friedman's grandson to establish the sea steading institute which is very commendable.

There is a real danger of the whole world turning socialist and communist before the inevitable collapse on it's own weight. Where would you run to if government turned against you? Where would you run if you were Snowden? If you look at the EU and UN, these are just signs of what's to come; one wolrd government that eventually collapses due to inherent inefficiencies.

I for one am really glad Brexit happened. More territories need to follow the same route.
> You pay for the cost of government elementary schools even if you homeschool your kids

and you receive the benefit of living in a society where most people have a minimum level of education. You can then hire these people and not have to pay to teach them how to read.

> You also pay for the cost of public parks even if you never use them

Maybe you personally somehow never enjoy seeing nature, I don't know. You still enjoy the benefit of a society where people get to see a little nature which is shown to make people happier and more productive, rather than everyone living in a bleak grey dystopian landscape.
At least this account (name) showed a surprising amount of self awareness ;)
I wasn't suggesting only displaying the cache link, but rather providing a list of alternate links (if available - not all sites allow archival, or the cache might be stale) so they are always there at the top of the page.

It's not exactly clear what is best netiquette regarding linking because larger sites that rely on advertising and can handle the traffic will welcome more clicks, but smaller sites would rather be cached. Better for HN not to encourage or discourage either, but give both options and let the readers decide.
> Some adult guy preferring to draw pokemon avatars and doing some small things without value over more or less challenging things.

That is a bit disdainful. It has at the very least value for him. Isn't it the most important?
Would someone explain the counterpoint that this will, "further disenfranchise voters by using the recounted ballots of the loser to determine the winner"? I can't understand how counting voter's second and third choices until a majority agree on a candidate could be seen as disenfranchisement.
You're describing toll roads, which of course work fine.
The NHS's 1.2M employees are trapped in a 'reply-all' email hell
Nice to hear some good political news out of Maine, home to one of the worst governors in the country. Maine is a great place that deserves better.
I recommend that you do not form a company until you have validated the project. I wrote a blog about it that explains why:

https://blog.nugget.one/2016/08/19/dont-form-a-company/
Sometimes members of the PMC are on the PMC to help committers do things in the Apache way - Jim (in particular) is a member of the ASF board and likely mentored the project early on (I'd go check to be certain but I'm mobile at the moment).
Intel RealSense SDK-Based Real-Time Face Tracking and Animation
There's a bit more about the people in the pics here in this dailymail article

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3900776/Photographer...
But it's a large deadweight on the economy. It requires the production of considerable amounts of parking that is never, or almost never, used or needed by anybody. It makes parking easier only by hiding the cost of parking in everything else, in a wholly regressive way. And it's not a "commons problem" like air pollution - it's just the government deciding that a particular private good is nice, and everybody should be forced to provide it. It's silly.
>The comparison is pointless because Karnazes isn't a sprinter just like Knuth isn't leading major software efforts.

That makes sense, except that OP said "You don't have to be a jerk to get ahead in life", he didn't mentioned being a leader. The followed commenters brought the leadership point into attention and then subtly implied that there is more correlation between being a jerk and a leader.
Haha, nice of you to promote your own empty thread rather than accepting the one actually on the homepage.
So what type of job can you get if you specialize in cryptography?
Says English is his second language -- maybe the connotation is different, and he didn't mean to be condescending in the slightest.

Kind of like ELI5 -- not actually a five year old, but literally taken, it would sound fairly strange.
I studied only an entire year (2 semesters), and I have a fairly different view of Japanese. A Japanese person exerts no more effort to 'be on track' with their native language than anyone else. I'm not sure what you mean about sentences getting too long too fast. As a first semester student, perhaps more experience would better-inform your sense of sentence complexity.
How to migrate from Sun IDM
Kudos to them, from my (cursory) knowledge of Social Choice that's a fairly good voting method.
To be specific, I'm talking about today and how BASIC is an anachronism, not unlike making your own natural pigments just to learn how to paint.

BASIC was nothing but bullshit, it taught me nothing other than computers are obnoxious and difficult to use. I spent several years "learning" how to program in BASIC, later QuickBASIC, and the stuff I cranked out was atrociously bad. The only excuse I have is that I was coding like they did in the magazines I bought, their code was a disaster as well, and I had no way of knowing there was a better way.

It was only when I switched to Pascal (via TurboPascal) that I realized how to program. At that point things started to make sense, and no longer was I feeling like a third class citizen: Programs in TurboPascal would run very quickly compared to BASIC. They were compiled. While the performance wasn't on par with C, it wasn't nearly as hard to get right as C was.

I wouldn't recommend Pascal today, but there's other languages that are as good or better.

Today there's absolutely no reason to teach BASIC as an introduction to programming. You're only going to hurt people.
I found this video of CGP Grey to be a nice explanation of the Ranked Choice / Instant Runoff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE
This is amazing news. I'm now wondering how voter training will work?

I feel like a lot of people might get it backwards and mark the third party as their second or third choice. Also the mainstream candidates with the most money would have an incentive to spread misinformation.
There will be temporarily when I get the chance to vacation up there!
Wikipedia has a really comprehensive article [1] on this type of voting, but for most purposes of discussion this is the relevant paragraph:

"Proponents of IRV note that by reducing the spoiler effect, IRV makes it safe to vote honestly for marginal parties, and so discourages tactical voting: under a plurality system, voters who sympathize most strongly with a marginal candidate are strongly encouraged to instead vote for a more popular candidate who shares some of the same principles, since that candidate has a much greater chance of being elected and a vote for the marginal candidate will not result the marginal candidate's election."

It's generally viewed as a means of gradually stepping away from some of the problems of a two party system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
Often corporations distribute to shareholders using dividends. There's a dividend tax credit that offsets the corporate tax income (more or less). More broadly, there's a principle in Canadian tax called "integration" where the tax authority tries to make it so that it doesn't matter whether you earn the money through a corporation or personally. More information on integration: http://www.ey.com/ca/en/services/tax/taxmatters-july2013-int...

So, no, generally there's not "double tax". But yes, there is administrative overhead that could exceed the taxes if you're not making much money.
If I were to change the system, I would have ballots ask 10 or 20 or so questions based on issues, and each party gives their own response to each question.

The voters then choose their answers they favor for each question, and they can choose multiple answers they agree with, and a point goes to the party for each answer.

The party that gets the most total points among all voters wins, they then decide the people to run that position.

We really have to focus on issues politics, instead of people politics.
It will be very interesting to see what effect this has on the two party system. AV (as it was called in the UK's 2011 referendum) allows voters much greater freedom in expressing their first preference, and I will be interested to see how first preference votes differ the first time people are given this additional choice.
Way off to the right - in liberaland.
Plurality voting is the best system. You can't view the actual casting of the ballots as the only part of the process. The campaigns and surrounding public discourse are the opportunity for the coalitions of our society to decide on two broad-appeal candidates. The "runoff" happens in conversations between citizens, and in primaries within established coalitions, not inside a ballot counting machine.
Are you the last person in SV to hear that Google offers catered lunch & free food?
I'm also pretty sure that there are supporters of his that actually want to send all immigrants back to where they came from.

They want to protect their culture and values from the effects of mass immigration from people with very different heritage and values who are discouraged from assimilating and encouraged to join in the culture of grievance and victimhood preached by the progressive left. Repatriate everyone is definitely the most extreme position I have seen. A moratorium on all immigration is the next most extreme. Then there's the White Nationalist contingent, they are OK with immigration so long as it is from Europe but not anywhere else. Regardless, there's a general sense that the inflow of illegals must be stopped before any plan for amnesty should be allowed on the table and that the prevailing dogma that the entire world has a fundamental human right to immigrate to the US needs to be rejected completely.
Roav: Smart Driving Computer
I studied in Copenhagen and did some Danish courses which at the time I considered a total waste of time since pretty much all Danes I knew spoke perfect (if sometimes heavily accented) English. I used it once when I got lost in Iceland and the only person we could find in the vicinity was an old lady who didn't speak a word of English. Danish though, even as rudimentary as mine, was just fine.