skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Meekness" is encouraged among the faithful corpus.

I would agree that I have met many kind and decent members of the LDS church, but I have also seen how the Church urges families to threaten or enact shunning of their relatives who choose to leave the Church, and their forays into political activism are inhumane.
or omit the trip all together.

There's another "or" .. or take the regular streets instead and cause even more local congestion. That's a real issue in LA where on some routes freeways can be only marginally faster than taking cut-throughs during rush hour.
I had to withdraw from Effexor myself. The electric shock symptom is real. It is brutal. Combined with withdrawal from benzodiazepines, those were some of the worst days of my life
See: http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/clisp/clisp/doc/Why-...

NeXT wanted to keep the Objective-C frontend to GCC proprietary, but Richard Stallman believed that would violate the GPL.

I know, it's terrible: NeXT had to contribute back to a community they only wanted to take from.
Ah wasn't sure if you were doing it on an FPGA or not but I've been wanting to give it a try myself. It looks like it'd be really nice for some projects that I want to attempt (in particular an HDMI compatible ambient lighting project for my TV).
I second ELK, and I even stronger-second Splunk being overpriced (with the caveat that if you do deploy it, I think it's the best option, just not really worth it).

I think it's really important to internalize the idea that there is no Platonic ideal of a logging solution. It's a fundamentally frustrating manifestation of entropy that you're going to wrestle with, but it's a really necessary goal to work towards long term. Sort of a "the first step is admitting powerlessness" kind of deal.
I think the short answer is that it's just a massive amount of difficult work to get one of these high-performance GC algorithms implemented, and it has to be highly customized to the language implementation.

Also, the original implementations of Python and Ruby are so slow in general that it's not clear that improving the GC is the best use of one's time.

In the open-source Common Lisp world, CMUCL and SBCL have for years used Douglas Crosher's multigenerational collector. Guido and Matz would have done well to use it too -- it's much better, probably, than either of theirs. It's still far behind the JVM, but the point is, Python and Ruby didn't necessarily need the very latest research; they just needed 1995 technology instead of 1975 technology.
Even worse when you realize that you're paying that $1200 for only 48GB of memory.
> Moral: When money is growing on trees, pick it.

The problem is that taxes can quite literally cause you to lose money.

For example, exercising options (at a gain) is a taxable event whether or not the options are actually liquid. In fact, if you're an early employee and your startup has been very successful, you could literally be looking at a tax liability of tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, even if your strike price is only a couple thousand dollars. (That would be the case if you were a very early employee and the company was very successful - ie, the exact situation we think of as the "upside").

If you leave the company (voluntarily or not), you have 90 days to decide whether or not to exercise those options and pay the taxes immediately, even though you won't get to actually sell the underlying shares until a liquidity event happens. There's no guarantee that the liquidity event will give you the same (or higher) price, and even if those options tank, you don't get your taxes back.

So, if those options subsequently tank to "only" double what they were worth when you joined the company as employee #1, you might think "hey, that's great - I made a 200% return on my equity". Except, you didn't - because the taxable amount was 100 times that - so you're deeply in the red.

(These numbers are all made up, but the orders of magnitude I'm talking about are quite realistic under the parameters I described.)
I've seen the same thing with an ActiveSync bug. Much quicker but you lose the running context of any apps just the same.
There's lots of good stuff here, but while your code might not be the most important aspect of your SaaS startup, your code can't be garbage either. I've seen lots of startups and early-stage businesses rot from the inside because of bad coding practices and not being able to deliver features in a timely manner or what they do deliver is broken and buggy, driving customers away.

If you can't deliver the features your customers need because of shit code, that really does matter.
>Create a subreddit for a news site, and each new article on the news site automatically gets a new post on the subreddit.

Amusingly, https://www.reddit.com/r/hackernews/
But I'm not complaining that it can't do something magical and new. I'm complaining that it can't do what the same product could do from the same vendor five years ago.
Venlafaxine seems to be one of the worst SNRIs/SSRIs wrt discontinuation syndrome. Except for the nausea, I had the same experiences when quitting cold turkey. The most problematic symptom for me were the "electric shocks" when moving my eyes or head to fast.

For me, getting off venlafaxine was way harder than quitting tilidine, tramadol or the z-drugs.
Of course they are nice, every salesman is nice to future prospects. They want you to join their cult.

In reality, the people of Utah consume the most anti-depressants in the US, teen suicide rates are among the highest in the country, and if you're not a straight, white, male, mormonism is a terrible environment.
> that would be a net subsidy of $y, not $y+$x.

That's exactly what I was arguing, yes. That $y is important and $x is irrelevant.

> They can't opt out of the road part of the service charge and build their own roads.

That has no real bearing on the economics of the situation. Paying $x to the government for roads and paying $x to a private contractor for roads work the same way. That's why the net subsidy is $y.

If there is a tax that's applied specifically to gas companies that isn't directly paying for infrastructure they use, then that tax can be subtracted from the subsidies. But the gas tax doesn't fit that bill; if anything it undercharges.
Is this missing a sarcasm tag? I don't really get it - but then am tired.
Escape velocity of ~ 500 m/s, that's slower than most rifle bullets travel!
It was no doubt an important acquisition, but 'the most important'? Someone who makes such a bold claim has gotta be someone who really knows computer history extremely well.

This is just one of those 'what if' scenarios.

If Apple didn't buy NeXT someone else would've innovated a good capacitive touchscreen device. Maybe it would've been Nokia. They were busy with experimenting with that long before the first iPhone got released, see the Nokia 770 and Maemo (or actually check its successor, the Nokia N800). Perhaps Elop would never have become the CEO of Nokia. Perhaps Nokia would've still be around. Perhaps not? We'll never know. Everything's connected.
Apple's OS of that era was still single-threaded and an antique next to Windows. NeXT gave them a modern OS. Performance was falling further and further behind Intel-based systems. NeXTSTEP ran on Intel, Sparc and PowerPC. And most of all, NeXT gave them Steve Jobs.
Why You Need a Risk Management Plan
Yeah, I agree, that is a good way to put it. The K-1s were such a mess... I think I got 15-20 pages worth of complex tax documents. It was especially messy since we had a part ownership of another company in a different state. I don't consider myself a financial dunce either (I can handle W-2s and 1099s fine). Employee stock purchase & RSU awards at big companies are honestly so much more straightforward (and fair).

The way I got diluted also made me really take the advice to heart I always hear on HN - when there is a buyout, the executives will be the ones at the table arguing for themselves to get paid. But nobody is going to be there for you.
Doctors can be notoriously ignorant and contradictory when it comes to mental illness-treating drugs. There's a lot of literature out there and a lot of them don't keep up. I don't know why it is.

Not that you shouldn't trust doctors, but I always do some Googling to get a second opinion about all psychoactive drugs I'm prescribed.
wikileaks.org is now a propaganda arm of the Russian government
What does it actually tell employers, and, for whatever that thing is, how likely is it that having a CISSP is a reliable indicator of that thing?
The Federal Republic of Germany certainly was/is a much freer market than East Germany.
I use pen and paper. Well actually write everything in a sketch book and keep an index of themes on the cover and number all the pages so if I need to refer back I find the theme and page number.
You might rethink that "batshit crazy." Mormon beliefs are your standard "God told prophet to write things down and start a church." No crazier than any other religion.
The New MacBook Pro: The Complete Filmmaker Review
I don't want to pay just because people disagree with me though. For instance, I've had relatively innocuous comments get downvoted on Reddit because it's an unpopular opinion. A great way to get downvotes is to find a thread where people are complaining about speed locks in apps and post "studies have shown that distracted driving is at least as dangerous as drinking and driving."

You'll almost instantly get downvoted to at least -5, despite the verifiable truth of the statement.

It would make vote brigading really attractive as well. Imagine if /r/TheDonald users could have caused a financial impact to anyone just by downvoting their comments. Reddit would have been a nightmare.
I can see how it would imply that negative connotation.
It surprises me how many others here have 17" Macbook Pro's.

I thought I was the last man standing.

But it's true, changing the HD with SDD, and it even runs Sierra fine.

But also: it shows that under Jobs, they were making working horse-machines for developers. This is in big contrast to what Cook is up to. He could also be running Pepsi, Coca Cola or Exxon.
Pardon my ignorance, but I did a search on this thread for the word "lawyer" and there was no match.

My stupid question: Doesn't San Francisco have good lawyers who are specialized in this stuff? I mean, a lawyer who's getting paid by you, not by the company.

I'm not advocating complete ignorance of the matter, but there are people who know the ins and outs of this and are aware of most of the missteps through which they can guide you.

My point is that having a lawyer also serves as a deterrent and sends a signal you're not to be hustled. It also tells you about the people you're dealing with: the company not liking it should set off your spidey sense.

I mean, the first thing someone who's hustling would do is to be offended you're taking precautions because it hurt his feelings that you don't "trust him". It's not that you don't trust him.

These things are just like prenups. People's feeling about them stems from the assumption that at the time they're activated, they'd be feeling the same for each other as they are now, which is not true. By the time a prenup is activated, people usually hate each other, and a prenup serves to protect you from the future version of them, and them from the future version of you. The versions that hate each other. There's a reason billionaires have the cheapest divorces, and artists/athletes have the most expensive ones.
Congratulations. What is this GPing thing, actually? Your website is very thin
on this matter, which is the single most important thing.

Also, you could have put all this lengthy news on your website and put a link
to it as "Show HN", that would have served much better.
Why can't you have children? Would it completely throw her off her eventual completion of her residency or just delay it?

All women deal with it differently, but most are able to function within their normal bounds until at least the six or seventh month.

> Writing this comment makes me realize how painful it feels at times that her medical training runs our lives.

s/runs/ruins/?
It does sound like the best option available.

Is anyone out there aware of a solution that currently exists (and is available to people like you and I?).

Reddit has made it easy to embed comments on a site since last year: https://redditblog.com/2015/03/23/announcing-embeddable-comm...
trolltrace.com
They definitely had an agenda in the last election, but that's a huge stretch.
I've been saying for years that anyone who believes silicon valley is in a bubble needs to put their money where their mouth is and short SVB stock.
> Perhaps people would stop "rolling their own" crypto if there were half-decent, maintained, documented solutions out there. Maybe some day!

For transport security, HTTPS or SSH. Why go lower level?

Cert based stuff sucks, and cert management sucks. All of these suck harder because of backwards compatibility. Slowly, people are coming round to the fact you need to just deprecate stuff and get on with our lives. But the most sucky thing is OpenSSL.

Sometimes, I think OpenSSL has actually done more damage than good. You accept a shitty library because everybody uses it so it must be secure, right? Wrong. And the API is so hostile, the docs are awful. Most things that use it or try to replace it are awful (M2Crypto, PyCrypto, PyOpenSSL, even urllib3 [0]), as if the awfulness of OpenSSL seeps into your thinking - I know it's happened to me once or twice, just interfacing with OpenSSL. Even cryptography suffers from being based on OpenSSL.

Every time I have to use OpenSSL on a new project, I can't wait to see it die.

[0] https://github.com/shazow/urllib3/blob/master/urllib3/util/s...
Consumption taxes are typically seen as a bad solution because they are regressive.

If coupled with increased progressive taxation elsewhere this might be okay, but otherwise it's a big problem.

The truth is there isn't a 'simple' solution to this, which is part of the reason that status quo is unchanged (another part of the reason is obviously the lobbying power of large/multi-national corporates.
SC4 is a PGP replacement designed to be simple and easy to use:

https://github.com/Spark-Innovations/SC4

Some (but not all) of the code has been audited. Based on DJB's TweetNaCl.
I have the Blade Stealth and haven't had any problems with it yet apart from an update that caused my fans to keep on spinning. It's been fixed since then.

I do agree that Linux has very variable performance and experiences across machines. I really do like the laptop though. I'm looking at the Razer Blade Pro (that machine is a beast but looks sexy still) and some Dell Precision laptops for an upgrade (will be passing on the Blade to my brother) but the Pro is extremely costly at the moment.
Nah you'd use either micropayments or a pay in advance scheme.
I think its valid to ask if Jack Dorsey is the next executive to leave.

The moment Anthony Noto went to Twitter, all wall street could talk about was that he was brought in to sell the company.

Who ever the next CTO is, they're going to have some tough decisions to make. Twitter already has to pay out an extreme amount of compensation in stock options just to get and retain talent.

I don't want this to seem inflammatory to people as twitter obviously has some serious engineering talent, but does anyone consider them to be a big name in tech anymore? They seem to be in the range of say PayPal in that they have a decent reputation but they aren't really a name that gets you any resume recognition anymore.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/business/dealbook/twitters...

> By way of comparison, the company reported $2.2 billion in revenue for 2015 — meaning that it paid out 31 cents in stock-based compensation for every dollar of sales it collected.

You're going to be fighting several battles that aren't really engineering related,

- how to finally fix harassment that seems to be much more pronounced on your platform than pretty much any other mainstream social media site.

- how to get alot more advertising dollars on your site to an audience that short of reddit, seems to dislike advertising more than most social media sites.

And on top of all of this, you're probably going to have to shrink your engineering head count to make yourself look more appetizing to potential acquirers.

Yikes......
Thanks for the explanation. I thought Unix and Linux had something to do with eachother, but looking at the downvotes, I was wrong :D
> No crazier than any other religion.

Yea, I believe that's what I said.
He specified desktops though. Pretty sure you don't have a desktop jostling around in your bag.
Ideally we should tax things that take us away from our collective values and reward or leave alone things that contribute to it.

IMO, we should tax things that don't contribute to actual growth. Basically companies that merely extract wealth from the system without contributing anything of value like high frequency trading and predatory patent trolls.

Taxing income makes no sense to me. Isn't that a disincentive to work? Work is one of the primary drivers of creating prosperity.
You could replace FireWire in that sentence with LaserDiscs, BetaMax etc. Fact is some technologies just don't take off enough to warrant long term support.
Hi, the creator here.

I've been playing around with a lot of SaaS ideas in my head and needed a tool that would allow me to play around with different pricing strategies. I hope this tool will help someone on their journey to creating a SaaS company.
My attention is more valuable than that. It's /my/ attention, I get to set the price, and I don't accept their offer. They're welcome to block me from their websites, if they feel that's not acceptable.
Yeah I agree. My 2010 MBP isn't going to last much longer and have no idea where to go after it dies.
The AMA enforces an arbitrary limit on the number of medical school spots and therefore doctors in the US. They create a shortage of doctors in order to keep doctors' pay high.
From the article: the market obscures the true price of software.

No. There's little regulation or other government meddling in software markets. The price almost certainly represents the value.

Everyone: stop overvaluing software.

PS
Linux, GCC, go, NetBSD, FreeBSD, etc etc etc.
the das blinkenlights were so badass though
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson is generally considered the definitive biography.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs_(book)
There are plenty of things a secret store still buys you.

- It knows how to encrypt and store secrets securely. Having one specialized application have an opinion on how to do that is much better than having a hundred ones that do it incidentally. The central one will be audited and monitored. The hundreds will invariably mess it up.

- It tracks who accessed a secret and when. This is critical information for remediation and ongoing scope reduction. Knowing who accessed what, when gives you the context for why; all three tell you how to further reduce the authority that application has.

- It can generate "minimal" credentials on-demand. I.e. a new key that only lets you access what you need and for a limited amount of time.

- It can encrypt things on behalf of the requester, such that the requester never sees the key. That is good, because it can be one-way. It is also good because if a service is compromised, the compromise may be detected and remediated (access revoked) before all data is dumped and compromised. Having the secret store lets you do e.g. rate limiting and centralized monitoring, for example.

- Secret stores can know how secrets are linked; making it easier to do revocation, and easier to determine the impact of a breach or misuse incident.
> what we want

We being the operative word. Do "we" want people to buy more soylent green and fewer flatscreen TVs? Depends on who "we" is.

I submit that in aggregate what "we" want is what "we" are already buying.
you can trust their skills and ability, but trusting their intentions shouldn't necessarily follow.
I do agree with the support. I have a cheap Dell Inspiron with 1 year complete warranty which I extended to 3 years (very cheap package) and their service is so great that they came the next day I called them to ask about a keyboard replacement and fixed it on the spot in my home.
Citation? As a member the LDS church, I have never been urged to shun those who have left, and find the idea extremely deplorable.
That's giving too much credit to the journalists for the comment streams being terrible. Most of the terrible comments are not because people read the article and are angry about how good it was, I'd say a very very small number are.
It feels like Twitter the company should be imploding, but it must be a secure business if its the next president's primary communication channel.
> Since "karma" is transitive across Reddit and across news sites, users are slightly less likely to troll. You could also do this with some sort of reputation system across websites (Disqus could add in something like that).

While technically accurate, "slight less likely" isn't statistical significant when it comes to trolling.
Watching the Climate Science Bubbles from the Outside
> Trickle down economics doesn't work.

Trickle up economics (is that what you call a luxury tax?) doesn't work.

> August 1993, the Congress decided to eliminate the “luxury tax” since it did not achieve its main objective...According to the tax's critics, these revenues were disappointing and unsatisfactory and also negatively impacted the incomes of the sellers of the luxury items.
Luckily they also support direct donations via bank transfer (SEPA), so I can give it to them without having the coffee cut by Google or PayPal.
I was on zopiclone for over a year. I stopped cold turkey, it wasn't a problem, although I do still miss it sometimes. I see that it's one of the top ten meds obtained using stolen prescription pads in France; or that Dublin drug rehab clinics see more people addicted to it and I understand that there's obviously potential for addiction there.

I was on Venlafaxine (regular release, not extended release) and missing a dose was as unfun as everyone says it is. Tapering down (from 350 mg) was, for me, easy enough and I stopped after 6 weeks.

My current med has different side effects, but also isn't as effective. I'm not sure tapering down and then back up on a different med is worth the risk.
I do dislike them exiting the router business.

As for losing customers, well, then we will look at the sales numbers.

I wasn't "happy" with the new MacBook Pro lineup, but I personally love the direction they're going. The only bad thing is the price increase, but they will drop the price.

But for your "I'm a customer I matter" comment. No you don't. Apple isn't going to let people who want a gigantic laptop with a million different ports get in the way of a wireless or standardized port world. I hate the fact that my work monitors have all these connections. You have all these cords coming out, different port types that do the same thing, and how many times has somebody gone to a meeting only to have to bring some dongle or find out that they have hdmi and the conference room is vga only or something? All of that is stupid. It's 2016. We can do better. I don't want to be tethered to the wall or a some device like a slave.
As a Mormon, I have a hard time imagining this site being very interesting. Between fairmormon.org, lds.org, all the anti-Mormon sites, and the missionary duos, just waiting to knock on a door near you, I think the world already has a pretty clear view into the workings of the Mormon church, their history, and their beliefs.

Sure, the Mormon church "hides" things, but most of that stuff has to do with disciplinary councils, excommunications, when people were baptized, etc. I can't imagine knowing that Edgar Jones was baptized in 1953, or Deloris Canflap cheated on her husband, is going to make for a compelling web experience; but who knows?
BSD is Unix-based.