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I couldn't disagree more. There's a lot of jobs that add little to no value. In a fictional efficient market economy that conforms to neoclassical assumptions, sure, every job is value adding. But does anyone believe that that is the world we live in?

It's comforting to think that just going to work and doing your job is actually contributing to something, but I just don't see how that can be generally true and definitely not universally true.

Even if we just measured contribution in purely capitalist terms, e.g. shareholder value, I don't think your claim is true. I think there have been several studies showing that the average company destroys shareholder value on net. It's likely that a lot of employees in such companies are also destroying shareholder value. And this is just shareholder value - to say nothing of the value destroyed for other stakeholders.

Yes, it is possible to lead your life in such a way that even if you work very hard, you're still a net drain on humanity.

Sorry, but we have to think much harder about how we can create a net positive contribution.

We need to go beyond high school guidance counselor nostrums like "work hard! study hard!" and really struggle with the issue of how we can contribute.
Sadly, the 2.3 requirement is inherent, since the RubyVM::InstructionSequence dump/load API was introduced in 2.3.0. However, you could probably still benefit from http://github.com/byroot/bootscale.
> The real concern here is that the country that's furthest along in extracting the methane is also pretty low on the list of countries that take great care with environmental concerns.

As a westerner, you can only enjoy your 'environmentally-friendly' (It's really not) lifestyle, because you outsource all your manufacturing pollution to China.

If all the stuff you used were made domestically, your nation's carbon footprint would increase - massively. And China's would decrease.

The atmosphere doesn't care about these accounting tricks, though.
Q: Where is Go in May 2017?

A: 1970
But now I have 25 million and I've heard:

- Dump it into the SP500

- Dump it into CDs

- Give it to a money manager and hope for the best. If it doesn't work out at least you can blame him/her.

Who's advise to take?

It's really starting to astonish me the financial ingnorance on HN which must be attributed to younger folks who had no skin in the game in 2000 or 2007 and think investing is easy.
> Taxes are high on tobacco because of the harms. Here in the UK, there's support for minimum alcohol prices, to stop alcohol getting too cheap.

I will argue that the reason taxes are high on tobacco is because its become social suicide to defend tobacco. The taxes are high on tobacco because its an easy case to make that gets no opposition. Alcohol is next in line.

I'd argue that if something is bad but popular its hard totax (i.e. special TV tax, special Netflix tax, special Facebook tax), or that something is good but unpopular its too easy to tax (tax foreigners, tax the poor, etc).
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Improving the efficiency of biomedical research.
I thought he was talking about the existence (or lack) of struct types, not the ability to lay things out in a struct.

The presence of struct types reduces allocation churn, so all memory management things become less important.
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If you check ukrainian conflict subreddit or some of the Facebooks accounts of the volunteers you will find out that they were actively using VK to track their enemies (army and mercenaries from Russia) and to communicate with "sympathisers" from Russia.

Anyway - now they will post them on Facebook - what does it change? It is an open info regardless.
I would propose for the government to put approved content under https://city-park.gov.uk so that concerned people can limit their browsing to that site.
If I didn't have a kid, I would try to live this way as well. Sounds really nice.
'Neural audio synthesis' really misses the point. This is just the same technique applied to emulating real instruments, which is already a massively well solved problem, and unlikely to result in any significant improvement.

Music synthesis, on the other hand, is an unsolved hard problem. For example, producing harmonic accompaniment to a hummed melody, or rendering a given chord sequence in different musical styles, or making a drummer that can pick up where someone's beatboxing left off..any of these have the potential to reach a huge audience.

Synthesizing real instruments basically says 'we know nothing about this space and are going to ignore all the works that's already been done in it.'
I use umatrix with 3rd party images turned off by default for this reason.
So will they be coming after Square? I use square cash to pay friends and even rent.
The problem with equity crowdfunding right now is that most of the tech startups aren't raising money through the portals. What percentage of the YC Summer 2017 batch do you think will go on to raise money through the equity crowdfunding portals? My guess is that few, if any, of the YC Summer 2017 companies will raise money through equity crowdfunding. And this is a huge problem for potential equity crowdfunding investors. Equity crowdfunding investors simply do not have the opportunity to invest in large number of the best startups. Go check out the types of companies raising money on the funding portals, most aren't tech startups. You'll find all sorts of bullshit companies, everything from board games to restaurants!
If only Picasso had been forced to work in an open office, imagine what he could have achieved.
It sounds more like you just had dysfunctional management, not that the concept is bad.
I don't think so. I feel like invent a language is more and more useless in nowadays.
How long have you lived this lifestyle?
they're literally engaged in a war against russia, so can you blame them?
Are there any online maps that aren't Web Mercator? Google Maps, Here.com, OpenStreetMap, Bing Maps, MapQuest are all Mercator-only, with no easy option to switch.
I bought a condo at the peak of the market before the crash, 11 years ago. So far, it's only gone down in value, regardless of what the rest of the market does. Even after refinancing it years ago into a 15 year mortgage, it's STILL worth less than I owe on it.

Hurts
Looks Like More Forking Going on in the IoT
A proposal to add fuzzing support to Go
Only works for hills?
Do you happen to have a link to the LA Times series to which you're referring?
An ISP chooses to provide you with access to some websites but if you want to pay more to get the full access you can.

How is that evil?
Ironically, the AHCA would significantly cut spending on drug rehabilitation programs. So, basically, the GOP are telling their constituents they are going to help them, and then passing legislation that does the opposite. It doesn't surprise me at all. They are in the pockets of big pharma and big healthcare.
>"the industry's deal flow is large enough that they are fine with a small number of false negatives since false positives in their portfolio hurt more"

This is backwards. Funding a company that goes nowhere is far smaller an error than turning down the next SpaceX.
whereas if I am developing I prefer a more customized setup with multiple screens and stuff so I have that better at work than at home.

That may be true at Google, but there are a bunch of supposedly high-tech companies which are happy to give people seriously cruddy workstations. Even though my home setup is actually a 5-year-old monitor on a standing desk I bodged from an off-cut of worktop, it's dramatically nicer than what I have in the main office.
I'm afraid I'm getting stereotyped as an enterprise dev against my will. I've been on interviews where that was certainly the vibe I got. No matter how much I stress that I'm interviewing while I have a job for the purpose of getting away from that culture, I can't shake that opinion it seems. Trust me I would gladly program in anything other than corporate Java if given a chance.

I think I've got the worst of both worlds too, because before this I was in academia, where I was also bored with the slow pace of things.
Yep, I agree. I personally like it being optional. Not end-to-end encrypted has an advantage of syncing messages to all other devices and use secret chats when privacy is more important than syncing.

Another feature I missed is ephemeral messages in secret chats: We can have messages automatically deleted after certain time (Although I wish the time settings are more fine grained).
Very few production multithreaded generational GCs use per-thread nurseries.

But probably all of them use thread-local caches, or what you might call per-thread caches. I think that's what you might have meant.

Per-thread nurseries is a shit idea unless your language has extra-super-high levels of infant mortality. Remember that in a per-thread nursery genGC, the write barrier has to infect the pointed-to object with the global heap so that future stores to that object also trigger the barrier. In a normal genGC, the pointed-to object is unaffected; the stored-to object is merely shaded (or card-marked, or logged, or whatever) for revisiting.

Humorously for parent's post, to my knowledge the first instance of a thread-local cache was the idea that a multithreaded compacting GC can chop off a slice of memory from the global bump allocator and then use it to service a thread-local allocator. Not 100% sure though because maybe Boehm and friends beat everyone to it.
Yeah, if "letting developers define the memory layout of objects" means "value types" then that's obviously true.

But C# has value types, and the generational hypothesis certainly holds for C#. So while good memory management becomes less important, it doesn't change what the optimal MM approach is.
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I didn't see where the parent assumed the $3k per month would stay static.

Also recall that selling a place for more than you paid for it doesn't mean you've made money. As I'm sure you know, owning property also involves substantial ongoing costs (beyond the purchase price) that never get recouped: maintenance, property fees, incidental construction / renovation, insurance, mortgage taxes, real estate fees, and so on. Never mind the lost investment potential from the down payment, which is now a sunk cost vs. something that could have earned interest in the markets.

I'm not trying to challenge your anecdote; just to recognize that even with stories like yours the truth is complicated and hard to assess.

For my part, my experience has taught me to be especially wary of "hot markets" - the hype that comes with them IMO artificially inflates real estate prices to a point where the underlying value can easily get lost. I happen to be very lucky in having a rent situation that easily beats purchasing, even over multiple years. But I acknowledge rental arrangements can also get hyped, so a bad rental situation can also cost you.
I agree with this. What's to stop me from opening a bunch of the containers and using them to DDOS someone or to send out spam emails? I'm already playing around with system commands and they seem to be entirely unrestricted.

Basically I can run any bash script, as is, with

import sys.process._
"BASH_COMMAND" !!

And I seem to be able to at least cause the containers to endlessly restart quite simply.
How is this different from all of the existing web annotation systems?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_annotation

Do you have a new idea for web annotation?
How can bad programmers be improved into hirable ones?
Doesn't Google own a portion of Uber? Can't they use that for access?
well, that's not what I said either, so bad on you for the false analogy. Staying in line with my actual argument and using your analogy; what is the success rate of chemo? This is absolutely a main driver in the treatment decision making process.

5%? Nah, I'll pass; I don't want to spend my last six months in agony, so it's not worth it (i.e., bad trade-off). 95%? Hell yes, sign me up. Your own analogy supports what I said earlier.

On a side note, the statement "Chemotherapy will probably cure your cancer" is also not true and shows a bit of ignorance re cancer therapies in general.
From what I understand this issue is ridiculous is the States. I also live in Sweden and in my town 1Gb internet is included in my rent, using the city's network that had basically built fiber in the entire town. On top of that we have tons of ISPs to choose from, some the smaller ones focus on security and anonymity for example.

In contrast most places in the US have no competition at all, which is kinda ironic since the US is the birthplace of the Internet.

I have come to believe the there is no right or wrong absolute answer in regards to markets. Some need regulation, others don't. Internet does though, since it is already a vital part of the modern world. It's not just for porn or games like many old US politicians want to believe. The internet has to be protected from greed.
Chinese maritime claims have no basis in law, but they want to maximize their legitimacy anyhow. One avenue is through military dominance, which is very powerful but invites resistance/blowback. By adding claims of intended economic exploitaion, they get a rationale which is non-threatening, and can be used by anyone who wants to avoid conflict with China to say "see, their aims aren't so hostile after all."

They don't have to make the charge go away, they just need to FUD it.
It actually is banned according to this: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/6bv8a4/rclone_...
Can you talk more about the crazy low rates? What terms are you getting?
>How about a language that has every feature I want and slowly every feature that everyone else wants. If it has been tried and done successfully before, I have not seen results in commercial software realm.

Well, C++ and C# would be those kind of languages.
You can still live minimally with a kid (obviously with school and such travel is harder, but homeschool/unschool is always an option). There are many tiny home documentaries out there with people who have kids. Because I don't have Netflix convenient, here's something I think might be relevant: http://www.theminimalists.com/familylinks/
See, you've obviously put significant thought into this, even to the point of building a model. Most people I know, they buy a place because they need a place to live. They also tell themselves that buying a place is a great way to grow your capital. They may be right, but when asked "where are you going to live, once you've sold?" most people I know have terrible answers. Most people I know answer "I'll just buy a new place."

The reality is that most people I know would rather rent – it's easier and in many cases even cheaper here. But the problem is that here is Stockholm, and Stockholm has a highly dysfunctional rental market where it's practically impossible for anyone to just come on to the market and find a place to rent within a week or two. You're more or less forced into buying a place if you're going to stick around. People that stick around for a couple of weeks, maybe a month, are going to be fine – plenty of hotels and such make it easy to stay. But if you're staying for more than a month, but probably less than say three years – you're more or less SOL. There's a sort of secondary (and even tertiary, believe it or not) rental market, but you'll probably be moving around every few months whether you like it or not.

I can't help but think the chips are stacked against those who just need a place to live for a while, here in Stockholm at least.
Probably less that they're "Russian", than that they hand over all their data to the Russian government. VK was taken over, seemingly because of pressure to turn over Euromaidan protestor's names.
I wonder how much of it is won't work extremely long hours for low pay.
About a week :-) Took about 2 months for us to ramp down life in SF. We're planning on staying in cities for ~3 months at a time each.

When we shut down [1] my last company, my girlfriend said "it's now or never." I had realized that I dreaded going to an office every day, so I'm working on making my new company 100% remote.

[1] https://blog.staffjoy.com/staffjoy-is-shutting-down-39f7b5d6...
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Which is interesting to me because if you go through the triplebyte process the impression you'll get is that they are looking for a very academic/textbook CS student who can balance a binary tree on a whiteboard while verbally explaining the operational complexity of an unladen swallow.

From my perspective, there is an impedance mismatch between the triplebyte process (heads-down algorithm nerd) and the findings that they are presenting here (product-focused, culturally well rounded hacker, been around the block a few times and has experience in other startups).
I totally agree. One could argue that one way to view the value proposition of YC from a VC perspective is that they apply a smarter filter than "the buddy system."
Ive actually seen people take pain killers for being sore from working out as you mentioned. It's mind blowing.
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I can tell you why there is discrimination against Enterprise programmers. Two reasons: Most people who have worked in an enterprise have had at least one bad experience with an incompetent programmer who was just a seat filler. That means that the enterprise isn't a good filter, and even worse, it means that even if you are good, you're willing to suffer working with incompetence.

The other factor is that enterprise programmers tend to prefer places with a lot of process in place. They want to see a well defined pipeline with tests and approvals and gates and so on. Pushing untested code to production isn't even in their mental space, but sometimes you just gotta do it at a startup when you got a press hit and your traffic just doubled. Basically, they tend to slow things down by demanding doing things right.

Now, for the first problem, that's just wrong -- just because you were in an enterprise doesn't mean you are bad or you are willing to deal with bad people. It's just a cognitive bias.

For the second problem, those people are right, there should be good process and it will be better in the long term. But in the short term it feels like they are slowing things down, because startups generally don't have the luxury of investing more time now for a bigger payoff later, or at least they don't think they do.
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If you think hard enough you can probably come up with 10 music tech projects that had similar awesome promise and never delivered on it. Really, it's not like we're short of ways to make new weird timbres or timbres that are oddly redolent of others..but if weird is all you need, you can just buy a modular and be half-way to outer space already. As you know there, there's typically a vast waste of sonically uninteresting space in between the sweet spots - one reason I've become suspicious of synths whose primary claim is the broadness of the sound palette, because that promises endless tweaking for ultimately unsatisfying results.
Dota was originally a StarCrat map.

But the WC3 map and later on Dota Allstars made it popular.
Being a shareholder doesn't usually give you access to non-public materials.

They'll be able to get emails, technical docs, and deposition testimony via the court system.
It could be a problem if Russian government is getting all the data. A rising concern about Facebook in India remains the same.
His late career has been less impressive vs is early career. Also, float can dry up if insurance sales drop. So in many ways it's worse than a loan from your broker it's got totally random size fluctuations. He just happened to be really lucky / skilled at running an insurance company over time so that this was not an issue. However, that says more about running an insurance company than investing.
If you take a look at any fingerprinting code in the wild, ALL of them use your DNT setting as another bit to track you.

It had the exact opposite effect it intended to have.
Investment companies usually have a different legal structure than a typical startup and are subject to different regulations. You could however start a conglomerate, like Berkshire Hathaway, that invests in startups like VCs do.

So a "fund" wouldn't legally be allowed to raise money using equity crowdfunding. But a "conglomerate" that invests in startups structured as a C-Corporation could raise money through equity crowdfunding. Hope my reply helps!
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> with $1K+ per month maintenance fees.

wow! How are these itemized? Or is it just referred to as a single line-item "$1,000.00 Maintenance fee" ?
Yep and others, I've been around programming long enough to have seen that come and go several times now.
> Very few production multithreaded generational GCs use per-thread nurseries.

> Per-thread nurseries is a shit idea unless your language has extra-super-high levels of infant mortality.

Isn't that what TLABs are? HotSpot uses TLABs by default, unless my info is out of date… For example, [1] shows the generated assembler for object allocation, which uses nonatomic pointer bumps.

I think we might be talking about different things by "per-thread nurseries". All I mean by a "per-thread nursery" is a TLAB.

[1]: https://shipilev.net/jvm-anatomy-park/4-tlab-allocation/
Yes, because as long as you don't spend too much any of these things will work. The market trends upwards over a long enough period, so as long as you're disciplined enough to handle the downturns, you'll continue to make money while doing no work.
No, you put 100% of your net worth into that condo. Assuming that a market crash doesn't affect your ability to pay your mortgage you're still seeing a positive ROI in regards to imputed rents.
So do Facebook and Google to US gov. But I do agree that Brazil should follow this trend and shutdown Google and FB.
Your best bet is a side project. Do something fun in a language you enjoy, and talk about that in the interview instead of the work you do. Make it big enough that it warrants an entry on your resume. Or contribute to a well known open source project.
>>This is really interesting. Again, enterprise bias here, but an enterprise programmer who's managed to get shit done in a big corporate environment should be highly valued. Not only can they program, they can also put up with all of the bullshit that it takes to get things through to production. There is something to be said about a programmer who can essentially handle the politics as well.

--- Very true.
This looks cool. As a writer I've actually discovered how much fun it is to record story telling, like as if I was at a bar or a backyard BBQ. There's some fun performative aspects to it!
they said enterprise devs are failing more interviews because of cultural filtering by the hiring company, not that they are failing the technical assessments more than other devs.
"but an enterprise programmer who's managed to get shit done in a big corporate environment should be highly valued. Not only can they program, they can also put up with all of the bullshit that it takes to get things through to production. There is something to be said about a programmer who can essentially handle the politics as well" - These people are gold, will hire them all day long... just did at one of our healthcare startups.
Please watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8yYJ_oV6xk (Retired Police Captain demolishes the War on Drugs)
FWIW, my side project[1] takes the opposite approach: start with a bare minimum project structure, and add pieces on top via a cli. So, for example, instead of starting with Flow by default and having to rip it out for TypeScript, you start with neither, and can run `pult add typescript` if you need to.

[1] https://github.com/Concatapult/pult