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Proven? that's great.

You're right, from a technology point of view. But for this system to run, you need to convince a lot of people, from different cultures/backgrounds, to use it.

Maybe talking about the safety of the bitcoin network instead of a mathematical proof makes that marketing challenge easier ?
Thanks a lot for your feedback and its great that you see value in this contribution. I will definitely be adding those to GitAlias in the near future
This has come up a few times!...

I left because I was utterly sick of churn, NIH, and the endless succession of this week's magic (javascript framework etc) bullet. OK. It's different. It's almost never better.

Also felt most of my efforts were NOT making the world a better place but tech was contributing HARD to the throwaway world we need to cease, not increase.

I now work maintaining and restoring an early Elizabethan estate. Some of the things I do might outlast me, and it seems a worthwile contribution to the world. Some of the work done will count in a century or two all being well.

Do I regret leaving? Hell no. Best decision I ever made.

Still read HN because I am still interested in tech, but mostly not the 80% that the world seems to have settled on. I am extremely agin many of the uses, decisions and techs that give us the modern world. Exponentially increasing throwaway hardware on a finite planet? Surveillance? IoT? Security? Everything as a data slurping webapp? Disrupting perfectly sensible things that work nicely? Meh ^ 200.

I'd be glad to get involved in a project that I could believe made a significant substantive difference. Like if a Mr Musk phoned (not terribly likely) about alternative energy, climate change or some such...
I sent details to HN per mail and other means. One of the companies is MSFT (others here named the other companies), they created manys accounts around BUILD confernce 2015. Before that event HN was a pro-Apple, pro-open source with little MSFT news - something you would expect from startup and SV investors. If you would have a proper interface, you could watch such activity in real time and act. Some third party interfaces like http://hckrnews.com/ show also stories that got hidden despite high commitment from the community. Almost every day I find insightful stories that vanished off radar. And it visible that not so nice stories about certain companies get immediate reaction by publishing a minor news story that very rapidly gets traction on HN frontpage and the not so nice stories is spammed with comments and flags to push it off the frontpage.

Disclaimer: I have nothing against a certain company per se, I just don't like how the do their PR in a very shaddy way, and how they destroy things (like their own products for very short term greed). And I would prefer if HN algo doesn't punish stories if there are more comments than votes - as this is the most common way for them to "hide" stories.

Edit: Now it makes sense, it explains why MSFT is so interested in HN (woos Y Combinator startups into their eco-system, present a polished new MSFT, PR is trying to hide ugly truth), it fits my observation of a massive user increase (green accounts) around BUILD 2015 event, etc "Today, Scott Guthrie and I joined Sam Altman, to announce a partnership with Y Combinator, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators.": https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/stevengu/2015/02/09/y-combi... and "Microsoft woos Y Combinator startups with $500K in Azure cloud credits" http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/09/microsoft-woos-y-combinato... , "Microsoft offers $500k in Azure credit to woo Y Combinator startups" http://www.geekwire.com/2015/microsoft-offers-500k-azure-cre... "$500k of Azure credit for YC startups" http://blog.ycombinator.com/500k-of-azure-credit-for-yc-star... "Microsoft Wants To Buy Love In Silicon Valley" https://techcrunch.com/2015/02/10/microsoft-wants-to-buy-lov... ... as Alex Wilhelm of TechCrunch wrote "It will be interesting to see what percentage of the current Y Combinator class chooses Azure over AWS". What's then answer? It certainly changed HN, that's my impression.
Otherwise known as NPV...
Any idea how many are still wearing it?
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I almost feel as if there's a corollary in the tech industry, specifically with long time employees. When an employee has worked somewhere for a long time, certain systems are considered untouchable (as if they were made by the hand of God), until the brilliant person who came up with them leaves. Then there's a flurry of development to replace unmaintainable pieces, or get to that next level of performance, etc.

Plus, new people will avoid that area, considering it plowed and looking for whatever new green pasture will net them that recognition and promotion.
I'm skeptical. It must be hard for a once innovator like Intel to revert to the mean.
nope, they're pretty spendy.. If you want to see whether or not you're diabetic, get a cheap glucometer. You ought to be able to get one with 10 or 15 demo strips for under $20. check your blood sugar first thing in the morning after you wake up, and if it's over 100, you are pre-diabetic (congratulations!)
TIL Romania is the 6th largest wine producing country in Europe, and 13th largest in the world [1]. I live in California, and I've never heard of Romanian wine. Is the wine mostly consumed within Romania?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_wine
Common reasons to sell -

The person running it is getting to retirement and the kids aren't that in to taking over, or some of the kids would rather have the cash - often the case in Buffett's purchases

You want to cash in and do something else eg. Paul Graham selling Viaweb and ending up with this YC stuff

Maybe diversification

Maybe you have VC like investors who want/need to monetize
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Putting [repost] would probably have an impact on the vote ratio up and down given that in many online communities 'repost' is seen as a negative thing perhaps.
I agree that the blockchain is a whole lot of overkill for these applications. I think people have to realize that blockchains are only justified if parties don't trust each other or their communications channels. It's a solution for Byzantine consistency. If you don't have Byzantine consistency problems, just use Paxos or Raft.
I know several people who got full-time gigs at companies you would definitely have heard of with almost no prior professional software experience based nearly entirely on the fact they went about fixing bugs in commercially supported open source projects. Some hired by the vendor itself. Others hired by people reliant on those projects.

Demonstrating initiative, conscientiousness, and acumen are apparently sought after traits.

Some in Python, some in Ruby, some in Javascript. What they all had in common is that they'd all been working food or coffee service up to that point, not programming professionally.

I'm not entirely sure where the 3 month time limit came from that you added?
So, I just posted a comment pointing out people like upvote club sell upvotes for HN, but it looks like at least they don't have the option to sell HN upvotes anymore. What happened, did the mods finally beat them? Or did they ask nicely that they stop that?
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(Is this where people start flaunting their phd:s, professor titles? j/k ;-) academic here as well - I do not hold a phd)

Well, I realise the topic + contrast bit but is it really treated as a null anaphora, rather than acting as both topic and subject marker in my example...? My examples referred to information structure more than anything.

Yes, I realise you can have sentences like "Ashita wa Tanaka ga..."/"Sou wa hana ga nagai." - I've even seen a discussion on double topics (some old, theoretical text by Yasuo Kitahara IIRC, probably more known for 'Mondai-na Nihongo'). I also realise that in some contexts where it seems to denote a subject its noun is only a topic ("watashi wa unagi desu").

Logically, it would indeed be quite difficult for a subordinate clause to contain the/a topic.

Anyway, I'm curious if you happen to have further explanations (or articles)!

(Unrelated note: why is it that Japanese of all things make us crawl out from under our rocks...? :-))
Sounds like the author did something to piss off her neighbors. The city wouldn't get involved without a complaint, right? Sounds like one of the neighbors is a squeaky wheel...

To avoid situations like this either go to the city first and ask for an exemption. This shows them that you aren't some slacker, you're intentionally doing this. Offer to play wildflower seeds and such -- will sound nice. And get to know your neighbors. Send them a basket of cookies on Christmas... Tiff's Treats... they aren't very expensive.
A buffer overrun can't overwrite random memory that isn't mapped into your process. We solved this issue with virtual memory like 35 years ago.
I'd be interested if you could find some posts in AskScience that were remotely successful, which you could reasonably argue were made by shills.
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You say agile and devops is the reason your interest waned.

What did you not like about them? :)
Yup. I find that the hardest part is finding the link, not finding the content in the link though.
The concept of Kolmogorov complexity can be extended to infinite strings, see e.g. L. Staiger's _The Kolmogorov complexity of infinite words_ (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030439750...).
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I wrote about combining Closure and Uglify, for ClojureScript here: https://blog.jeaye.com/2016/02/16/clojurescript/

The result was about 20% savings ungzipped; 10% savings gzipped.
So would using max-width along with center be appropriate? That seems like it would be very accommodating.
For the ones that left IT after getting tired or burned by it:
Suppose you worked on IT but only half-time. Do you think things would have been much different?
If one thing trumps another, it means the first thing displaces or achieves victory over the second.

"Trump of homo sapiens" means they were victorious, as they trumped the other party.
It's actually the definition of childish disregard and lack of empathy to be amused by, or indifferent to the suffering of animals. It's not uncommon, but it's the sign of a basic failing of character and cognition.
It's worth it. I've done two 10 day courses and you learn to develop your focus in ways that are pretty hard to believe without going through it.

I know about a dozen people who have done the 10-day Goenka course. It is definitely hard work because you are meditating for around 10 hours a day, but it isn't actually what I would call hard to do; all your needs and schedule are taken care of and you just give into it.

A lot of the resistance for me was actually preparing family and clients for me being completely offline and unreachable for 10 days, and going through that was a revelation separate from the benefits of the meditation.

The recommendation I give to everyone is that if you have any interest, just book a course several months out when you think you may be able to make it. If you end up not being able to or not feeling ready, then you can very easily cancel in advance, and there is usually a waiting list anyway. However, booking a spot seems to set the wheels in motion.
I dont think you could stop upvote fakery. Maybe like highway speeding just try to control it enough to keep things somewhat safe.

Old, established accts on all the sites can be, and are, sold to people for purposes of fake upvoting. Maybe limit the number of upvotes one can do in a day. Doesn't seem a major inconvienence and makes the upvotes more valuable.
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I was actually considering Romania (and still thinking about Hungary) as a place for winery. It is great place with huge potential and new generation of wine makers is doing interesting stuff.

But at the end, I decided on Moravia region, as my family is making wine here for few hundreds years and it is always good to continue tradition.
I had a vague plan to start working on something like this recently with the idea that I could automatically take audiobook media files and their accompanying ebook representation and use it to automatically re-divide the file by chapter (or using something based on chapter). Not sure if this will work well for that (or if my use is considered "common"), but I'm certainly glad to see it.
I'm pretty sure my contractual rights, phone numbers, domains, etc. can be inherited like anything else. Since I own a couple of domains with our family name, my descendants may find them useful.
The market for false likes/views/followers/etc becomes an increasingly difficult place to sustain (especially financially) as detection of typically fraudulent use grows constantly easier with machine learning.
I don't understand the downvote. The main argument looks valid:

> If you have several tasks to execute, what is your first thought on how to plan out those tasks? A task list (aka list of functions) or a series of composed tasks placed in a single sentence (aka expression)? The answer is obvious: humans think about the list first because procedural programming comes more naturally. This I believe is the main reason why Haskell or lisps haven't taken over the programming world.
I have about 2/3 of an 8080 emulator running CP/M for a MSP430 LaunchPad somewhere; because that MSP430 only has 2kB of RAM it has to swap to an external SRAM device. There's AT keyboard support (via an external level shifter).

I got it to the point of booting (very slowly) up to the command line prompt and processing basic commands, but unfortunately I never figured out how to make the screen work, so that's where the project stalled. The hardware's since been broken up and repurposed.

All in C and hand-written assembly tied together with a makefile, using tools that are in Debian. The standard flash tool (also in Debian) is really easy to use and even supports JTAG debugging over USB. (Also the MSP430 has a lovely assembly instruction set if you want to work with that sort of thing.)

Can't comment about AVR or ESP; never used them.
The only reason I keep my G Watch R is because I get real time traffic notifications while driving two/from work. It has saved me quite some times from getting stuck in a car jam... Except the time it notified me after being rear hit... That time it pissed me off a bit, but stil worked :)
Maybe more than a toe dip based on the price, but for me, getting a MUSE device helped me start meditating and I haven't stopped since. The thing I like about it is that it gives you feedback when your mind is focused (and feedback when you are not) and quelled my own internal fear of 'am i meditating correctly?' I can't vouch for the scientific basis of it but it has helped me in my everyday life.

http://www.choosemuse.com/

(I am no way affiliated with this company)
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I would love to see it used with real-world examples. There are two main situations IMO where this would be useful:

- For developers creating websites. The cost of set-up would be high because you'd need concatenation+minification+etc in place, so I'd love seeing some examples to see whether or not is worth it. From what I know, this could be similar to tree-shaking, so there could be huge gains here.

- For library creators. However the top-most variables would have to be preserved, since other developers need to use them (which seems possible[1]), so I'll be trying it out.

I am also wondering about the performance boost for JS (besides file size) and whether this would be useful for something like Node.js or not (free performance). If anyone has more information please share it.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/q/3025827/938236
Just because someone takes offense at a statement, doesn't make that statement an insult. I'm sure that Richard Nixon despised being called a liar, doesn't mean that he wasn't a liar or that it was an insult. Sometimes an observation hurts, and that should impel you to examine yourself, not lash out.
The two examples you have aren't really comparable.

In the case of Google Wave, this was an experimental new way of communicating. I remember it being cool and exciting at the time, but I definitely didn't get the impression it was a commercial product. And afterwards they ended up open-sourcing the whole thing as an Apache project.

Google Buzz was a little less experimental, but as another poster mentioned, it was a free consumer product and second it ended up being superseded by Google+.
You need a clean abstraction when describing elementary algorithms at an undergraduate level. A lot of work has been done on cache-oblivious algorithms that respect the memory hierarchy, including from the authors of the classic CLRS book.
I like how you removed all of my prerequisites so as to completely change my position.
Lawns are a two-fold problem. First, they force you to waste a bunch of land on lawns. In our county, the minimum lot size is about a quarter of an acre. In our pre-zoning code neighborbood, lots are less than one third that size and everything works just fine.

Second, municipal governments make it illegal to actually do anything with that land other than wasting it as a lawn. Can't have chickens, can't plant it, etc.
Jesus I really thought I read the whole comment...sorry about that
Jerry Seinfeld on Meditation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh7Yru3cHoA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeRdy6LrOAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-YFdJSnGI0
He didn't argue anything, he asked for evidence to support a claim, which is totally reasonable, unlike your reply.
I have a comparison using an Angular app here: http://www.syntaxsuccess.com/viewarticle/angular-application...
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Feeling incredibly burnt out after a few years of (mostly failing) startups, I didn't want to give up on the only skills I had, and I ended up dabbling in football analytics. I've found it very satisfying, and though there aren't a ton of paying jobs, I'm somehow managing to make a living out of it. I wrote about the experience recently:

https://deepxg.com/2017/03/10/500-days-of-numbers/
Would you mind translating this into english? Even seeing the definition of LTV above, I still don't understand the story your comment is telling.

What is "paid user acquisition"? How would a higher "lifetime value per user" enable you to do it? How is your app monetized to arrive at this LTV? What would it imply for you to have "designed it around monetization from day 1", what would be different? Why can't you change it now?
While this is a nice sentiment, I'd be happy to hear any real productive advice you might have. I've been fighting this and the war on drugs for a while. As time goes on, sadly I feel like we're losing more ground than we're gaining.
> I now work maintaining and restoring an early Elizabethan estate

how did you pick up the necessary skills to be able to do this?
It looks like something that would take years of focused effort, rather than an easy jump.
Every single one of those things can be fixed with a few minutes of Googling. Is it a shame that some of them (I'm looking at you, updates) took a while to have a good solution? Yes, welcome to software. Should the defaults be different? Maybe, but realize that most Microsoft customers don't exactly read HN...
Likely true. However those particular topics are specifically ones where people with no informed background flippanlty reject the knowledgebase of people with professional background. And that casual disdain for life-long experience also can grid the gears of the informed strongly enough to comment.
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"Your taxes do not fund "this" exactly. It's not like Berlin govt will let people live in those places for free, just at an affordable price point. "

It's a costly subsidization, taxpayers are definitely subsidizing it.

'Gentrification' and 'higher rents' are not necessarily the same thing.

Berlin is becoming more prosperous - that's a good thing, it's what we all want.

But it means there's going to be a shifting of neighbourhoods here and there.

Particularly, the most accessible properties will be in most demand.

I don't think Berlin has the same problem as the Valley with vastly disproportionate incomes, or Toronto with massive influence of foreign dollars and large numbers of newcomers + low interest rates.

I stayed in Berlin for a while, and I can assure you there are tons of fairly inexpensive places to live - they just aren't in the most choice neighbourhoods.

If there were truly a dirth of affordable places in the area, then there might be cause for concern ...
In addition to this interview with Ezra Klein, Harari was also interviewed recently by noted proponent of Vipassana meditation, Sam Harris, in a podcast episode released earlier today:

https://overcast.fm/+BSCDk9Xmk
Go has one of the largest tech companies on earth actively pushing it and pouring countless programmer hours into developing tooling and support for it. That pretty much trumps all of its misfeatures in terms of gaining adoption.
Given the ongoing cost and incredible amount of hassle involved in managing insulin for diabetics, I would think many would jump at the opportunity to discontinue medicating multiple times a day, and would go to pretty great lengths to do so.

But, the risk of "testing" insulin response yourself would be pretty high, too, so I would hope folks would do so under doctor supervision. Hopefully, this will make that kind of experimentation become more common. If there's something to it, a whole lot of people could see a tremendous improvement in their quality of life.
Then you're on the wrong subreddits. The ones I like the most are small or medium, have in depth conversations, analysis and interesting content. Or just gifs of cats, which is also something that I need from time to time.

You tailor your own reddit experience.
Interesting. This way you get an upper bound on the Kolmogorov complexity of any given string. Do you know how good this approximation is in the worst/best/average case? This sounds like the kind of question that would have been investigated.
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Large areas of the city did the opposite of gentrify already. So what do you want, of course people in those areas want to move to nicer ones.

Stop crapping the whole place up, the few pockets that are still nice are of course going to see higher rent prices. If you don't like gentrification there are plenty of cheap areas in the city for you to live.

This article smacks of an agenda. They want the whole city to be bad, it's not enough yet.
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" complain instead that "cities like Munich, Frankfurt or Hamburg" do not do enough to prevent rent price hikes."

Rent is undeniably a function of the market.

Setting rent prices is like fixing bread, milk egg and gasoline prices.

Of course, at the margins, in specific cases, some things can be done.

Surely things like limiting how much rent can be raised in a year, maintaining renters rights etc. - or even zoning to make sure that there are types of housing that will facilitate different types of people ...

But there isn't really a huge problem. Even in Frankfurt and Munich there are tons of low-cost places - just not right downtown. Tons of decent flats around town.
The Mind Illuminated book. It's new and is pretty quickly becoming a go-to recommendation for meditation how-to for lots of various practitioners.
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Doesn't sound like healthy skepticism or productive empiricism to me...
As he said, lectures at a uni.