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> what pain do you want in your life?

> A more interesting question, a question that perhaps you’ve never considered before, is what pain do you want in your life? What are you willing to struggle for? Because that seems to be a greater determinant of how our lives turn out.

> The daily drudgery of practicing, the logistics of finding a group and rehearsing, the pain of finding gigs and actually getting people to show up and give a shit. The broken strings, the blown tube amp, hauling 40 pounds of gear to and from rehearsals with no car. It’s a mountain of a dream and a mile-high climb to the top. And what it took me a long time to discover is that I didn’t like to climb much. I just liked to imagine the top.

It's an amazing point, but the article's kind of meh; I think these two selections convey the TL;DR.

It also rings SUPER true. A few times in my life now, it's felt like the Universe has handed me what I asked for... only with strings attached that I couldn't stomach.

I also keep thinking back to a friend who's immensely passionate about gardening and food. I met her when she was a Disney Imagineer, and now other people fly her around the world, so she can live in their houses and cook them food. And any time I think or encounter anything interesting food related? She's who I turn too. Watching her trajectory is seriously changing my idea as to what "passion" is, looks like, and results in.
Right. Either a county is so small it doesn't matter to sales, the grey market will fill it, or it's too big to ignore.
I love that jeelabs blog.. Also, some languages running on esp8266:

https://github.com/yesco/esp-lisp

https://github.com/zeroflag/punyforth

https://micropython.org/

(and of course lua which i didn't try because its official... https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware)
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The history has been that odd preferences for the content & operation of museums and foundations very rarely outlive the founder, so you're looking at at most ~20 years of purely interior weirdness.
ESR is Eric S Raymond, a troll that made his fame from writing about/antagonizing the Free Software community. His "accomplishments" include starting the "Open Source vs Free Software" naming controversy and ruining The Hacker's Dictionary.
My company uses a C++ subset (no STL, no malloc) on all of our embedded projects, which are mostly on ARM Cortex-M4.

I'd love to learn and start using Rust in our work, but we are client-project-driven, so it will be hard to justify the investment and productivity drop. I think it would make it easier to attract top talent, though things are weird in the embedded world.
It's the opportunity cost. That parking lot is going to go--the question is what's the best use of that (now) prime land? An ewok museum is not it.

Far be it for me to tell someone what to do with his money, but I was just in Pittsburgh visiting the city's fantastic museums bankrolled by Carnegie money. Carnegie didn't build a museum in service of his own ego, he left something that could become a central part of the city's experience.
The 2005/2006 "Limited Edition" DVD sets contain the theatrical release as "bonus".
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Original_unaltered_trilogy
Yeah, many distros have Rust packaged already; I can think of at least Debian, Fedora, and Arch. We're working on it...
Right, it's not like Annie Hall has faded into obscurity like, say, How Green Was My Valley which is now known primarily as the answer to a trivia question.
> The only reason it wasn't exactly 6 was for business/logistical reasons.

The person you are calling inaccurate said as much in different words.

If it wasn't exactly 6 then you shouldn't call it 6.
>To me it looks like Google essentially is moving everything to Go, and this project is to help with it.

Interesting - first time I have heard such an opinion. Why do you think it may be so? One reason I can think of, is they get more control over the languages they use.
Full agreement. Minor quibble:

> Just look at Open Source and Linux. It's obvious that Linus is no where near compensated for the imprint that his work has had on technology, yet he did it and continues to do it anyway.

I've read that Linus has a personal fortune of at least $40 million. (He presumably commands an hourly consulting rate in the high five or even six figures).

So yeah, he's no Gates/Jobs, but he's doing pretty well for himself. And Linux would never have been viable as a commercial product. (It would just be some Finnish dude's buggy/incomplete Solaris clone).

IMO a better example in tech of a founder making a financial sacrifice for the common good is Jimmy Wales. If Wikipedia had been a for-profit/ad-supported site, he'd be a billionaire now.
> Its really sad for those 50 employees who had to lose their jobs due to incompetence of Medium's executives and its business model.

Isn't it worth considering that those 50 employees should have never been hired, but only were due to incompetence of Medium's executives and its business model?
This is so true. The evidence presented by the government is totally underwhelming.

This Twitter thread lays out the most concise and compelling case I've seen, compiled from open-source intelligence:

https://www.twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/8166215536432...
His recollection is not wrong, Taiwan didn't had a public election until the mid 90's, and even the 1996 one was a bit iffy, until 1987 Taiwan was under martial law, and until 86 you couldn't form political parties.
The Republic of China was a unitary state before and during the "communist rebellion", it continued to be a unitary state after it until 1991 (and until 2000 technically the KMT still "ruled" Taiwan) when the National Assembly which hasn't been (re)elected since 1948 voted itself out of office finally after about 10 years of some liberalization.

Today Taiwan has a ridiculous number of political parties (nearly 300) with 3-4 of them actually having seats in the house, tho effectively Taiwan is a 2 party country with sweeping swings in number of seats and leadership between the Democratic Progressive Party and the Chinese National Party.
The basis of this opinion is ... italics?
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I think 25+ years is plenty.
The problems lie both in the lack of field inheritance (something talked about in Rust as "virtual structs") and the difficulties with modeling a bi-directional tree structure with the borrow checker.
I think it's different with physically intensive jobs, such as nurses in the trial, and mentally intensive jobs, such as programming etc. The latter may very well end up being equally or more productive, while physically intensive jobs probably would end up with reduced productivity.
Then why is it that you get just as good, if not better, search results when you type words in decreasing order of information content and omit common words, some of which are essential for parsing natural languages? E.g.

Beatles walrus -> the song "I am the walrus" by the Beatles.
Tintern vacuum -> the song "Vacuum cleaner" by Tintern Abbey.
It's not an "ewok museum." I'll refrain from what I would normally append to that sentence given HN guidelines. You may not care much for American Illustrators but many do.
> First of all, relax. Second: Pay was not cut.

First of all, I am relaxed.

Second of all, please read my comment and the comment I was responding to. It says:

>> the hours that were cut also wouldn't have to be paid to the people not working them.

and then the conclusion is:

>> In a perfect situation this would have led to higher employment numbers and happier employees.

Which, again, is hippie logic. I don't know anyone who would be happy with a 25% cut in pay.

I was not responding to the article. I was responding to a comment with faulty logic.

Regarding your 2008 example. This is irrelevant. Of course people would take a cut in pay under such circumstances. Yet, again, this is irrelevant given the conversation. The proposal here is that utopia exists somewhere around working six hours. Then someone realized you can't do that and still produce the same number of widgets. Then someone said you don't need to pay people 8 hours if they work 6, yet, they should be happy. And, BTW, we can employ more people, because, well, you need 8 hours to do 8 hours of work.

The whole thing reeks of a government program designed to burn cash for who knows what reason. Spend millions researching something that can be demonstrated to be utter nonsense in 15 minutes in front of a white board.
Technology is often a moving target, particular when it's end-user facing. You're betting that your choices will allow you to keep moving with that target, rather than get left behind by the latest browser release, iOS release, Android release, etc. etc.
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Hi all - I wanted to share a little project i've been working on and was hoping for some constructive criticism or feedback.

www.simplecarnews.com

If you're anything like me, Reddit is blocked at work, and trying to find an aggregate source of automotive news is damn near impossible (pls lmk if there are any resources out there). My internet tabs are usually maxed out on the typical sources: Jalopnik, R&T, Autonews, etc.

I'm basically trying to replicate https://news.ycombinator.com/ for the auto vertical.

Please let me know if you think this might be helpful, useless, or any features you would like to see. Enjoy teh prototype!
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About time for it to be in all distros. ;)
Ships are about 2.5x more efficient than trains according to this: http://business.tenntom.org/why-use-the-waterway/shipping-co...

Drag is indeed huge, but so are the ships.

One interesting thing about ships is that drag depends heavily on speed. If fuel efficiency becomes a greater concern, they can go a bit slower to compensate. Of course, that increases other costs....
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I'm under the impression that Taiwan is Nationalist China.
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>So, we are shifting our resources and attention to defining a new model for writers and creators to be rewarded, based on the value they’re creating for people. And toward building a transformational product for curious humans who want to get smarter about the world every day. It is too soon to say exactly what this will look like.

Could this be any more vague and Silicon Valley baloney-ish?
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Medium's customer isn't readers nor advertisers. It's publishers - they're a B2B business and should syndicate content to publications around the world.
You are choosing an outcome which you think will happen in the future. It is not certain that this outcome will happen.
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I have that set. It's not really a quality image, more VHS than DVD
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I did, a few years ago for $0.25 each at a garage sale. I'd love an HD, professionally done and legally available version, though (Disney De-Specialized edition, or some such).
Which opinion are you challenging, that the Oscars should be a metric of cultural impact, or that Annie Hall is better than Star Wars?
That response is talking about something else because your original comment accidentally said "PyPy", which is an implementation of Python, instead of "PyPI", the package repository.
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It mostly has at the Gardner in Boston but even that's been shaken up a bit recently.
Honestly, though, Tomster v. electrons-circling-nucleus branding aside, both ember and react are currently experiencing a lot of community-driven convergence in core philosophy.

For example, ember-redux exists to take the functional centralized state-management of redux that makes react great and ports it to ember. Similarly, react-scripts takes the developer-ease of ember-cli and gives it to react. Everybody uses the DDAU for handling DOM interaction, shadow-dom-tree-diffing (or whatever it's called) for rendering, some sort of declarative remote data-layer in both ember-data and redux-orm (and there's even ember-redux-orm), and junk like animation-handling and whatnot all expose the same change-attribute-yield-block API to the programmer.

If you look beyond the stylistic difference of things like writing jsx v. hbs, there's actually very little philosophical difference between modern 2.x ember and modern react
Easy? It's beyond easy. It's trivial.
...later found this nice explanation of RL concepts if it helps someone: https://www.nervanasys.com/demystifying-deep-reinforcement-l...
The way I understand it, quantum speedup simply means that the set of candidate solutions for a problem contained in BQP are more accurate over time.
No mention of AMD and Nvidia both of which have grown 3+x over 2016. It makes sense, they are the Levi Strauss' of deep learning (in that they are selling shovels during a gold rush).
> The whole point of fact checking is that the fact check / rebuttal is put side by side or preceding the original claim, with evidence and its own citations.

I'm not well read on this topic but I would like to be. I've never heard this solution presented, likely due to my lack of research. Can you provide citations of this solution being suggested and/or implemented?

Besides that, while I agree it is better than pure blocking I still feel it would be a government over-reach. I wouldn't like a company doing it either.
Lithium is fairly common. The limiting resource for battery production is actually Cobalt.
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> but it seems like Chris read Facebook's Haystack paper and decided to implement it himself in Go

That definitely sounds like the initial impetus for this project, and a perfectly good reason to make "yet another" file system. Additionally, I can understand how taking POSIX compatibility out of the requirements might make writing and maintaining this project a bit more fun.
For the bi-directional tree structure, it seems to me you could use Rc<Widget> for the children and rc::Weak<Widget> for the parent field.
Ah, yes, @dpp, creator of the Scala web framework Lift:

https://blog.linkedin.com/2009/06/15/video-linkedin-scala-te...

(Video is offline)

To which Twitter's Nick Kallen replied on stage, incredulously, "... I don't think that's correct."
I bet the nonchalance here has a lot to do with Sci-Hub. Although supplementary materials are still a problem there.
Soldering tip: tack a pin down on opposing corners of the chip before attacking the rest.
Yours isn't a valid example. Did your household income go down by 25%.

In other words, if a law was passed that nobody could work more than 6 hours a day, five days a week your family would be severely affected. At that point it is almost guaranteed your wife (and you) would not be happy because your life would change accordingly.

That's my point. Sure, in a case where a spouse can make-up the loss or there's an income surplus a change in income might not be traumatic. My wife could stop working entirely and we would probably not even notice. Yet that's not typical at all, is it?
> Rust is great and all, but every time I play with it I just don't see how it would work well with the complex inheritance tree that is a widget toolkit (meanwhile GObject works just fine, even if it's a little verbose at the C-level).

I'm not convinced that this is the best way to build widget toolkits rather than just how it's always been done. I'd like to see one built more on traits like IClickable instead of subclassing button.

HTML/CSS is already like this (for styling only), attributes can be mixed and matched.
I predict the quality of free Dropbox service will go down (or not significantly improve) after they become publicly-traded, similar to what happened to Facebook, since the stockholders will force them to monetize the free accounts. They why I avoid using free but proprietary services.
EDIT: This comment is not that informative on the subject. Ignore it. Read this one instead https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13323756

It does say 5 to 7 hours and looking up other Swedish media that have reported on the length on shifts they also say 5 to 7.

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article22726117.ab

http://www.gp.se/nyheter/göteborg/sextimmarsdag-på-äldreboen...

http://www.fria.nu/artikel/119894

The report itself is a bit vague what it actually means by in practice.
>That's... not an easy thing to do.

Offering something easy to post that's looking good across devices?

Gimme a break, they have a single basic template, and minimal authoring tools. With these constraints, there are literally tens of thousands of Wordpress, Ghost and vanilla HTML templates by various developers/designers with 1/1000 the resources of Medium that look just as good across devices.
Nope. Racism is a domination system, so it _does_ matter who’s the majority.
That's why I quite like the approach of using existing C tooling and SDK, then linking in "user-land" Rust. I wanted to run stuff on the RTL8710, and it seemed crazy to start rewriting all the HAL from scratch.

But it only took an afternoon to bolt Rust into the C build because Rust's FFI story is really nice (imo). So I get the best of both worlds: existing C HAL and SDK with the pleasantness and safety of Rust.*

* With the assumption/hope that the HAL isn't buggy, since Rust will rely on that to not explode :)
Yeah, but that's grammatically valid. It's not a question, but it's a valid sentence.
Regardless of the user-base, there will always be a small segment which accounts for the majority of your business's support costs ( filtering / banning / rate-limiting / etc ).

The best advice I can give you is that you have to treat every user as a good customer until proven otherwise. The last thing you want is false negatives affecting your revenue stream and alienating potential customers.

It's unfortunate you are experiencing issues. Do your best to keep internal metadata on every user you interact with. Document and tag all related support communications. Get a good CRM. Once you've collected a bit of data, look for common signs of a troubled user and see if you can make any changes to policy or software to prevent future issues.
> it's felt like the Universe has handed me what I asked for... only with strings attached that I couldn't stomach.

This. Very beautifully put. I've had a similar experience w.r.t. my chosen career. I was a boxing standout in the amateurs, and despite all the "heads-up" I received (unsolicited) from my Indian Uncles and Aunties, I was drawn to sport for 2 reasons.

1) The glamour of a Prize Fighter, making a ton of $ and getting all the women (Ali , Sugar Ray Robinson, Roberto Duran are all said to have had women lining outside their hotel room after a fight)

2) I was very gifted and being Indian-American I was told that I would have a great "outside the ring" story that would be intriguing and sell tickets etc.

I was walking down opponents with ease and was winning shut-outs (on scorecards). Got noticed at the National level, even got inquiries from the folks running the Olympic Trials. Then, 1 day, I was sparring without head-gear and walked right into a straight right. My nose was broken and I was bleeding for a while. It hurt so much. That's when I realized I literally didn't have the stomach to take a real beating, not to mention the head-shots that cause long-term brain damage. Until that night, I never gave the health-concerns any real thought.

I slept over it, and the next day, I told my coach (in person) that I was done. I was expecting him to convince me to stay on because he was with me for nearly 10 years and he had great plans for me, but he said nothing. He later told me that my eyes told him all he needed to know.

In that sense, you could say that I couldn't stomach the "down side" of being a Boxer. And so here I am, a code-monkey sitting inside a cube, talking to my computer. Oh well.

I still feel like I "pussied-out" because in Boxing, you need 3 things to be successful - Ring-IQ (it's a thinking man's sport), the Chin (or you get KOed easily) and Heart (will-power).

I guess I didn't have the heart.
I hear this mentality a lot, but I wonder how true it is in practice.

The pool of engineers who are experienced with your stack will be bigger if you pick a "winning" or "popular" stack. But in my experience at Big Co, the stack is as often proprietary as not, yet Big Co can attract talent anyway.

Having lived through transitions from Popular Stack Today to Popular Stack Next more than once, I have yet to go through the experience thinking that the upgrade path is easy.

Proto-jQuery to jQuery, jQuery to Backbone, Backbone to Angular, Angular to React, React to other React-like things... these frameworks were all "winners," but I can't describe the upgrade path without using the word "rewrite."
My main concern has been FileStore i.e. running an obj store on top of btrfs/xfs/zfs which even an armchair storage hobbyist (like me) can see, from first principles, is a truly awful idea (journal-on-journal, etc).

Bluestore will fix that at long last.
Or you can just allocate your resources so that you're permanently safe with your choice.
That's because the iPhone didn't have 1/100 the features of competitors -- it had 80/100 of the features, but focused on the 80% that mattered (no "fm radio" or "mobile flash" for example).
This is why I'm sceptical of any doomsday scenario. Too many times they turned out to be damp squibs. Think population bomb, peak oil etc.
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Is Erlang really a new language? I recall first looking at it in the '90s.
Thank you for filling in the blanks. You pretty much summed up my definition.

I can only guess at the reason why Spacemacs team chooses this term, but there is one simple problem with it.

Users of Spacemacs are encouraged (by this naming quirk) to treat it as somehow essentially different to Emacs. That's wrong.

It would be of benefit to all for the code that comprises Spacemacs (layers mainly) to be released as packages. It would place greater emphasis on Emacs as the actual core product, and allow people to use and collaborate on smaller chunks of Spacemacs, without the monolith problem.
Ah but I think the key here is that it doesn't say "how will this player respond" but "how would a player respond".

No matter how I've played against it to get to where we are, it'll play the same from that point on. It won't identify me as a risky player from my pattern, nor will it try and classify me as "unpredictable" in some way. It'll play each move as though it has sat down at an already in-progress game between two random opponents.

> It's possible for an AI to evaluate a move based solely on the resulting board position, but it wouldn't be very good. Pretty much all AIs play many turns out to see if the move is any good.

I would strongly argue that these are identical situations. Playing out scenarios in your head but taking into account no history is the same as "evaluating a move based solely on the board position".
I'm years out of college, so unfortunately, most of my network of "known entities" have financial obligations that need to be met.