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Not affiliated or related with yc but I imagine yes, it would be frowned upon. Don't hire them because you want to get into yc, hire hem because they are good at what they do and a good fit for you. Secondly, while getting into yc is a laudable stepping stone, you should think of life beyond yc. If you don't get into yc, will you fold your company? If yes, then you're already not committed enough.
I hope they will fix their VMWare + Docker compatibility. I love terraform, but right now i need to delete manually my VMs to avoid terraform apply crash on trying to capture IP addresses from VSphere.
I wish that was on the table. Even still gp's point would stand that beggars have a hard time justifying being choosers.
In that case, I guess we're just drawing from different glossaries. I've always heard "blocked" used to mean "can't execute because of something other threads are doing" regardless of whether that's starvation or getting slept by a mutex.
where's bitrig?
FYI, you should take a look at the application itself, it allows for multiple ideas
One key factor is that they require English fluency, since every employee is in a position to be customer-facing.

The progression with most other fast food chains in CA was that once you start hiring employees who don't speak English, then you have to have all shift managers be Spanish-speaking, leaving no upward path for line employees who aren't bilingual. Before long, most of the kitchen crew is non-English-speaking.
It will amaze me if this post isn't flagged to death within a couple hours.
There's more legal legwork than just incorporating. Contracts, Terms of Use, etc.
Duly noted!

In the first episode, I got feedback that people wanted to hear more from me. Perhaps I went too much in the opposite direction here. Converging, slowly :)

Btw the aim is 50/50 -- these are not meant to be "interviews".
It's another victim of Cost Disease: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...

>The first New York City subway opened around 1900... it suggests costs of... $1-4 million per kilometer... inflation-adjusted equivalent of $100 million/kilometer today... a new New York subway line being opened this year costs about $2.2 billion per kilometer, suggesting a cost increase of twenty times...
Terraform is great but there are certain things that I still use Cloudformation for (simply because you can't do it right now using Terraform). One example is rolling updates on your ASGs. Last time I checked you can't do it via the aws_autoscaling_group resource.
I've used MailChimp for an e-commerce. Reasonable prices, great design and straightforward usage. The analytics was useful and if you need more you can connect to Google analytics. Tons of integrations available.

The built-in design editor was infuriating in how it handled copying elements but overall it was easy to use.
None of which is related to whether or not its sustainable to keep pumping money into Flint.
The first line of the article is: "The solution to all of Earth’s metal problems, or the space rock that would completely obliterate the world economy"
They don't have franchises like the other chains.

I don't think that's a factor. Both corporate-owned stores and franchisees use the same employee demographics, generally. Sometimes you'll find a franchisee who is an immigrant from outside the Americas and find a lot of family members and their friends making up the crew. (For example, there's a local Taco Bell that has more South-Asian employees than not.)
Great stuff.

We have been doing "state environments" using different var files and different state files for a while now, while keeping the same terraform files.
Or real world attacks on solid implementations.
I would argue that actually it does - in order to bring the world commodity market crashing, as is suggested by the article, it requires iron coming down to earth and bringing mass down the gravity well, safely, requires either a great deal of energy or something like a space elevator.

Under the assumption that no space elevator exists, then this argument is spot on. The iron outside of earth's gravity well would be cheap for building in space, the iron on earth would be "cheap" for building on earth.

Commodity movement in either direction wouldn't make sense, so two distinct markets for iron would exist.
it was partially a woman-made object
I upvoted it. I agree about Saudi Arabi, they get preferential US treatment because of the monies and oil.
From the article:
> The funding was approved by Congress in December and signed into law by President Barack Obama, but the EPA had to review and approve a formal request from state officials detailing how the city intends to use the grant money.
In my experience, there are many black employees at fast food places in Oakland and southeastern S.F. (Bayview).
Exactly. The software business is about commoditizing your competitors stack. The internet business is about eliminating commodity stacks.
If you send from non-SPF listed IPs you will get rejected in many places and most likely marked as spam in those you don't. SPF particularly and DKIM and other anti-spam measure are in wide spread use and enforced by the receiving SMTP server either directly or via spam scoring system rules.
>their corrupt Republican governor

What does the party affiliation have to do with this particular statement? Additionally, your citation doesn't seem to link to a corruption case.

If a Governor is corrupt, just say 'corrupt governor' and provide a link (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Blagojevich).
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For this we have been creating the CloudFormation in Terraform itself. CF is a giant mess to work with.
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Working in fast food means responsibility and planning: time clock, rules, clean uniform, proper shoes, standards for behavior, etc. Some millenials aren't held to such basic standards elsewhere in life yet.
Regarding Scandinavian countries, while these are very rich, the cost of living is also very high. The high equality perceived from statistics is actually an economical pressure.

Had a friend in Denmark employed as univerisy lecturer. His salary was very high, yet they were struggling with two kids and wife unemployed (due to language barrier).
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You'll need a citation for that. Otherwise it's just baseless speculation on par with saying you can drink from New Zealand lakes.
How does it compare to say Arch?
Ultrix forked off BSD 4.2. It was the Unix I learned first, and working with it when the civilized world was working off BSD 4.3 variants made life really awkward.
Cool idea! I hope the experiment produces positive results. A few random thoughts:

- offering a perk to some employees that you don't offer to other employees could get you in trouble

- say all delocated employees are from SF are young white males, and an older black woman want a delocation bonus to move from a non-SF city to somewhere else (hint: I bet your lawyer is gonna say you need to cancel the perk, or offer it to everyone​, and I would agree with that lawyer)

- as an new employee eligible for your delocation reimbursement, I'd rather it just be a bonus, as I don't wanna have to explain to the company exactly what I spent the money on (why is it any of your business that I spent $8,000 at Kink Movers to relocate my 50 Shades Of Grey Inspired BDSM Dungeon?)
It is funny.. I was just combing through old BSDs earlier today. I'm giving an internal talk next week about some changes I've been making to mbufs, and I was trying to find out when mbufs were introduced. They've been around since before I wrote my first FreeBSD, Tru64, and BSDI drivers in the 90s.

The earliest I can find is 4.1c from 1983, but that looks more fully formed that I expected. And there is a fragment in a 2.9 from 1982, but I think that leaked in from 4.1.
- Meta-submissions receive an extra penalty.

Another reason why analysis is tricky, as such submissions are hard to algorithmically identify.

If manual penalties were public, they could be accounted for in a model. That's another reason why I like Reddit data better; fewer unknown penalties.
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And you get better offers when you're poached by a VP you are acquainted with.

It shouldn't take long to confuse your salary in these circumstances with the salaries of people working for and around you. Your immediate reference is probably that VP who is also VP :D
This is missing a lot of BSDs. Now granted some of them are dead, some inactive, some just missing. The ones I can think of off the top of my head: PC-BSD/TruOS, MirBSD/MirOS, Bitrig, HardenedBSD.
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Is it? The IPT can theoretically go anywhere inside Saturn's orbit (maybe it was only Jupiter?). It's entirely possible to reach some pretty valuable asteroids in that range. Send an IPT with mining equipment, leave the equipment behind and fill the ship with the processed or semi-processed precious metals. 50 tonnes could be turned into a cool billion dollars[1] without absolutely destroying the market (ease them in slowly).

There's risks, but that's sort of Elon Musk's thing. And the money would help cover this Mars colony plan.

[1] ballparking using the going price of gold and platinum of around $1200 USD/ounce.
> I'm sure the free market will figure out ways to improve water quality.

OK, I'll bite. So how would the free market possibly improve the water quality in Flint?
A city without clean drinking water is unsustainable, regardless of how much money you "pump" into it.

You can't drink money.
> 'builders and maintainers of the infrastructure'?

Python, Django, Postgres, PyPy, Rest Framework...

I don't want to just list out all the dependencies we're using, but I'm guessing at least a simple majority of all the page views from YC startups involve Python.
The modern art gallery MONA in Tasmania charges for admittance, unless you're a resident of Tasmania. I've never heard anyone complain about unfair treatment there. The kind of tourist who would consider that a deal-breaker would probably be the kind of low-quality tourist you wouldn't want anyway.

A tourist trap isn't "you're charged more than the locals", a tourist trap is "you're charged for crap".
I'm not asserting it wouldn't work well, but I just wanted to add my personal experience from the few times I have experienced it. Thanks for informing me about the Hawai'i discount, though.
We called it "Project Thor", or "Rods from God". Seriously. Phone poles made of tungsten. In orbit.
You have to jump through some mental hoops to somehow get "краса" out of "прекрасно". It's literally "пре" + "красный", where "красный" in modern Russian means "red".

I'm not disputing that it originated from a word meaning "beautiful" (which happened to also mean red, as in the archaic "красная девица", which does not actually mean "red girl" as google translate might think). But saying that you could simply split up the word and get "краса" out of it is disingenuous.
All this love of microprose games and no mention of Silent Service? This was the first "choose your own path" kind of game I ever really got into.
I read somewhere that it was originally an elevator simulator that they built the game around.
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It's all about the timezone.

You can take 4-5 hour difference top, that leaves you an afternoon to work together and talk when you need to.

Any link with >8 hour difference is doomed to failure, you can't communicate at all.

On top of that, you need to all be extremely experienced and autonomous, and you need to have regular trips to meet in person.
Twitter doesn't play them if you don't want to.
He stated that happened to him before.
And still didn't disable autoplay.
No case.
I suspect you're right re: Scenario A. But I think it'll be at the detriment to engineers in high cost of living areas.

Manhattan and SV don't have a monopoly on great engineers for the vast majority of engineering roles.

Remotes won't take the hit. It's those who for some reason (family, prestige, other) are stuck in these centres.
I would imagine one of those places is my apartment. Lead is bad, but it's not that bad... Removing lead from gasoline is probably 100x times more important than other hand wringing
This is fascinating. Thanks for writing this paper, guys.
From all Peter Molyneux games, my favorite was Magic Carpet.
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Gravity is a conservative force, so bringing the metal down with a space elevator will release exactly the same amount of energy as just crashing it into the surface. The rate may be different (though how would you dissipate that energy ? Note that there is essentially zero thermal contact with the athmosphere or anything else on a space elevator except at the bottom 20km or so)

That's one of the reasons why space miners are proposing to just crash the asteroids into desert areas.
Hah, memories of angry people waiting for the elevator are flooding back to me right now.

Yikes, here comes the VIP!
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Both great points.
I travelled through New Zealand for many months, and there were parts that I loved about the country. There were also parts that I really didn't like that seemed to be all about a culture which exists there which sees travellers as easy to take advantage of.

As a hiker, I was lumped into a category of travellers called "backpackers," which created frequent distress. The street crime is very real. I was victim of an attempted robbery (luckily I got out on the better end of it, somehow), being charged different prices from locals, being given an enormous fine for sleeping in my car when I was sick and tired with a broken phone, and felt it was unsafe to drive any further. I also found erroneous over-charges on my credit card from two NZ businesses that I spent countless hours disputing until they were removed, and spent many nights in shabby, unprofessional hostels with undesirable staff.

The whole thing was a lot different than my experience backpacking around Europe when I was younger.

However, the nature is really incredible, and relatively unspoiled. There is so much to see in such short distances, and it's one of the best places in the world for hiking. The international culture is wonderful. I made friends from all around the world. Some NZ'ers are incredibly friendly: I was invited into people's homes, given meals and I hitch hiked around the South Island without any incident or problem (I somewhere read (cannot verify) a conspiracy theory that hitch hiking in the US was always relatively safe, but the CIA/FBI created a campaign against it).

That said, many of the most famous and attractive places to visit in NZ were overwhelmingly packed with tourists. Milford Sound in February felt like I was in Beijing. Tongariro was swarmed with too many tourists doing the crossing, all lining up in file one-behind-the-other. Wanaka and Queenstown were a disaster, just too many people.

The worst problems were not even in the Bloomberg article. All of them seemed to have stemmed from working class New Zealanders who had hard-working lives that saw backpackers as an easy target.
Well yeah, he's in med school. Maybe one day it won't be a massive sum, but, for now, he's broke.
If that private corporation were a mining company in Montana they would choose to take the profits, go bankrupt, and again have the people pay to clean up the mess.
I agree, finance is being used here as a way of framing sustainability. But it's obscuring and distorting the entire basis of economy altogether, which is living ecology. If people are denied the basic ability to improve the livability of their communities because of allegiance to global market tab sheets, then money has replaced the very thing it is meant to serve: human beings.

All this talk of there not being any jobs is hypocritical balogne. There's clearly plenty of infrastructure work to do, not to mention basic life stuff, like raising and teaching kids, growing food, building community... But the global market has stripped life itself of its value for these people.

Your community and mine aren't far behind, from the looks of things!
Why tungsten ?

The idea of warfare using "mass drivers" has been studied for quite a while. It means that the first nation to do this is essentially unstoppable and can destroy whatever they want. Including all life on earth.

By contrast, for nuclear weapons, lots of people seem to believe that they can destroy all life on earth, or at least all animals, and they most definitely can't. They release lots of energy, but not enough. Mass drivers, however, are in fact capable of doing it.
Some of them run on goodwill, it's not very expensive to host a tracker. Nyaa runs on JList ads.
Yeah, agreed.

Unfortunately when you inevitably make changes to your CF config, `terraform plan` doesn't help because it's likely you changed something inside the `template_body` and Terraform just knows the string has changed and doesn't tell you what part of the config changed. Parameterising as much as you can helps.
On the impact of full-page writes
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Are you saying that from experience or speculation?
Would you mind unpacking "NC research triangle"? North Carolina? Three research heavy universities?
It's even bigger than that. Detroit had to raise rates on Flint because a combination of depopulation and terrible management left its water system in dire straits.
However you construe the problem (unpleasant, low social capital, etc.) I've gotta believe that in a functional labor economy, illegal immigration would not be incentivized to this degree.

And yeah, some of the jobs are very unpleasant (I've worked a few of them). The article's sly portrayal of toothless guys and drug addicts refusing cushy gigs picking grapes at vineyards is meant to give an impression without coming out and saying something that probably cannot be supported by the data: the jobs are good and the citizens are lazy.

Every argument that "we simply can't get American citizens to do it" seems to be an appeal to a broken system staying broken.
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Because if you know no one will ever use it, you also reduce ambiguity.

Then you can solve the remaining issues with using — instead.
Would love to know how fundraising has been impacted by being a remote first company. Did you get resistance? Are there certain investors who are fundamentally for or against?
Food can be shipped though, so there's a cap on how high wages can rise unless you start adding import taxes.
I think they want more infrastructure and accommodations, not less visitors.
Well done guys/gals, any product that helps abstract or attempts to prevent vendor lock-in has my vote. Great work as always HC.
Have you tried OpenTTD?

https://www.openttd.org/
By shutting down the EPA?

Yeap, that would work.

/s
Who said anything about weapons?

The point being argued is that rather than spend $100M to fix a broken city, spend it to relocate the former residents elsewhere.
Don't drink and dd. Spoken from experience.
Likely depends on how many square inches of the human are covered, and where on the human they are located.
How does someone learn this skill? I get that it obviously takes a ton of work, but how do you even prepare/study for (whatever it takes work to do) in the first place? The intuition required seems so different from what my intuition of computer systems would allow even imagining.
Click the Dashboard link at the top-left.

https://badssl.com/dashboard/
The article I link in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13899164 makes the case that it was more complicated than that, with Detroit making a long term offer at least competitive with the new water system Flint was going to participate in.
More info on the exoskeleton at http://rewalk.com.

I couldn't find pricing, battery life, or how hard it is to put on each day (I suspect that may take lots of time because one must make sure the joints of this skeleton rotate along the same axes as the knee and hip)
>Why tungsten?

Dense. Great thermal properties, unlike say lead, steel, or iron which would burn up on re-entry. Kind of the ultimate fuck-you to the life when you think about it...

...First because of the obvious utility for anyone who has them, and is willing to use them as you say.

Second, because it would cost sooooo much to lift those heavy bastards, their casing, and the fuel to keep them up there into orbit.
The U.S. uses import caps instead of import taxes to protect the local farmers and ranchers. My country and Argentina and Australia would sell them all the meat they could otherwise.

Europe does the same. So yes, farmers and ranchers are protected by import restrictions.
"You can say what you want about economic aspects, but socialism brought gigantic improvements in a lot of social and cultural aspects of life in those societies (gender equality, literacy, etc)

Ok, good point, but it's also debatable that 'socialism' had anything to do with it.

You had previously classical, feudalist regimes overthrown by new populist leaders, who did a few things in the name of progress particularly education and literacy, but were even more totalitarian in other terms.

The Communists in Russia took every farmers farm - i.e. the basis of their livelihood - and arguably their dignity in the name of the revolution.

Castro, Momar Gaddaffi, even Napoleon - they all did the same, i.e. increased literacy, education, and some aspects of governmental progress, but invariably created their own totalitarian kingdoms. Arguably, the good things they did were just a means to power.

The 'revolutions' were merely a means to leap forward in progress wherein there was stagnation before.

In the UK for example, instead of a 'major revolution' - there were 'mini revolutions' from 1215 Magna Carta onwards.
Someone should convert it to graphviz.
I think there is a bit of hesitation for some VC's in backing a remote first company - but some are all for it. Investors aren't as much a hivemind as one might think - they all have different theses that impact how they interpret remote first companies.

We did raise some money in the early days (when it was much more faith than evidence) but I don't recall any concern about our remote intentions from our investors. Since then - we've reached profitability.
Statically typed PostgreSQL queries in TypeScript
I highly recommend watching this playlist about AI self-improvement and safety [0] by Rob Miles. Probably best short overview I've watched on the topic.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qfIgCiYlfY&index=6&list=PLB...
I'm a Linux sysadmin/developer and I've literally never used a Linux GUI.