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With my NYC salary and ALSO saving for down payment I obviously still can't afford to own any NYC real estate.

I have friends who do own houses out in suburban and rural areas. While it is expensive for them, because they do not have NYC salaries, I could afford their homes quite easily. Their monthly payments are often a fraction of my rent.

The problem is that if I move out to the sticks, my salary will also go way way down.

If anyone knows how I can make NYC money and not live in NYC, let me know.

Actually, never mind. I would rather keep paying rent and not owning than live outside NYC. What do I care anyway if I pay monthly rent or monthly mortage payments? I have food, shelter, and everything else. Who cares that I don't technically own the place I live in?
As a JS programmer with some Clojure experience I can confirm that the JVM is absolutely the biggest turn-off for me personally. Lisp syntax, immutable data structures, laziness, all splendid. The build/runtime environment, not so much.

Sounds like I should revisit CLJS based on your comment.
Well, if you're paying the kinds of amounts these guys are for legal firms, I'd expect them to have an answer for any contingency.
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It'll be amusing if this thread pops up on n-gate's weekly HN summaries: http://n-gate.com/hackernews/
>So it's not like they're this small boy strongarmed by a bully.

I agree with all three of your points. Let me take a different tack to see if this makes my point more clear. Apple sued Samsung over rounded corners. The gall of them. As if anyone can own the concept of rounded corners.

Apple shouldn't be allowed to prevent other companies from building phones with rounded corner designs.

Imagination shouldn't be allowed to prevent other companies from building phones with GPU designs.

Clearly, both things happen. There are lots of phones now with rounded corners. Lots of phones with GPUs. But well placed litigation can hobble your nearest competitor or destroy a small one. The result is massive losses of productivity that could have enriched society.

All this thanks to the Capitalist idea that someone can own rounded corners or GPU designs simply because they have the most money. Capitalism rewards those with capital, not those who work hard and add value to society. Those two things are not mutually exclusive, but contributing to society is not a requirement and frequently does not occur.

Theoretically, a single super capitalist or small group of them could corner the market on everything and be rewarded for no other reason beyond ownership. Together, they could stop all progress. With companies like Apple sitting on $200,000,000,000 overseas, but failing to ship a new "pro" desktop since 4 years ago, this theoretical situation looks a lot more real every day.
So is the total number of bitcoins 1400 smaller now that the cold storage wallet doesn't exist?
>Altitude is certainly a challenge, but acclimatization takes out a lot of the difficulty.

And the sherpas on Everest also use oxygen themselves. Above about 7000m or so, you're pretty much out of the range where the human body can function in any sort of long-term way. You don't acclimatize at that level.

For peaks in the 6000m+ range (and even lower), acclimatization is somewhere between helpful and crucial. And that's about as high as I can go personally. Above that really does become a different game for almost everyone.
I would guess it's related to the prevalence of javascript combined with the low barrier to entry to build javascript app and the relatively low startup time of a nodejs app.
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Fastest growing runtime, largest module ecosystem. That's it. The goal is to encourage adoption and validate a product quickly, so you ride the biggest wave.

AWS has the resources to grow teams around different languages / runtimes, smaller players (or recent IPOs) do not in the same capacity. Targeting anything other than Node would be "the largest" disservice to your customer base in the case of Twilio, and would artificially slow any other player.
Have you heard Apeman by The Kinks? I think you would enjoy it! Its the same sentiment in musical form, always really resonated with me because its so true.
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Dead people have opinions about net neutrality too.

Since ping times from the afterlife have such bad latency, they don't mind letting ISPs get away with whatever they want.
On Angelist, there are many in Canada that SAY they are willing to sponsor a visa, but I haven't had any luck yet. I guess it depends on the kind of visa required.

I am in the same boat as you, looking for an international position. Try Indeed too.
Be sure that you are really isolated if relying on it for protection. Its only as secure as the least secure node inside the bubble, and there can be quite a dangerous in large networks like in a company or campus. It would not surprise me if a number of WannaCry victims was behind nat and got infected by a machine on the same local network.
this is hilarious, Facebook can just launch their own coin if needed if you want to compete with them that way by giving users coins which will give them monetary incentives to use your service, hell Kik is laying the playbook for FB to copy them
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Yes, being in the small group that wants people to actually use proper accessible markup as WCAG indicates does put me in a minority, it's true.

However, this concept that there are a lot of minorities so obviously we can't cover all the bases seems a little silly. Do people of color need different markup? Do women require somebody adds special javascript libraries so they can access the content?
Making content accessible to a screen reader is part of our job as web developers. Just like the site isn't done until it renders in IE 11, it's not done until it reads with NVDA. In fact, often times people can install an alternative browser, whereas it is currently impossible to install an alternative pair of eyeballs, so I would go so far as to advocate accessibility before heroic browser compatibility battles but obviously I'm biased here ;-)
Capitalism can be thought of as a complex learning system. We, as a society, want people to contribute the most that they can to the overall goals of humanity and capitalism acts as a vehicle for that.

Comparing it to another popular complex learning system, neural networks, might provide insight on failure conditions.

Income taxes can be thought of as gradient regularizers.
Basically limit the amount of weights accumulated per training session (wealth per tax year). Estate taxes can be thought of as weight regularizers (that occur once per lifetime). Maybe it would be more palatable as a tax on wealth yearly.

One of the ways that networks fail (and capitalism can fail) is with extreme values on weights (wealth) on small portions of the network. There are ways to counter this on a neural network - some are heavy handed (l1, l2 regularization), but some are just clever without direct analogies (dropout, batch normalization, etc).

I wonder how the conversation would change if we had to calculate our income tax as a percentage of total wealth each tax year.
This is good advice, and just as important is for authors to release the code they used.

For my Master's thesis in AI (12 years ago, so before most of this open stuff) I compared an existing Genetic Algorithm, described in a published paper, against my improvement. My improvement was significantly better.

However, I relied on the prose description of the original algorithm. The original paper (cited many, many times) didn't even have pseudocode, let alone source code.

For my paper, I included pseudocode of both the original algorithm and my improved algorithm. But we still didn't have established practices for how to make source code available to readers, in such a way that they'd be archived long term.

Is there an established way now?
...can you clarify this?

Looking up 'exculpatory no' implies that the matter was clearly settled in 1998 by the Supreme Court, which decided the doctrine is wholly invalid and the obstruction charge can be applied.

If there's iffy case law here, I'm not finding it successfully.
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I'd be interested in checking it out once finished. re-frame's abstractions have been great to work with.
When I read the swapping capability... mind -> blown.
Even if the policy choices are foregone an investigation punishing those responsible for this identity theft seems merited.
Less than what exactly?
What I want to know is: why did they need to lose any performance or fuel economy at all?

Am I missing something? My understanding is that this was all because they couldn't meet emissions targets without using a certain amount of DEF. They calculated that to do that, the customer would have to refill the DEF tank "too soon" (meaning sooner than every regular service interval at the dealership, which is at least 10,000 miles).

So the simple fix is, in my mind: make the car use a lot more DEF so that it can generate the power and economy advertised, but the DEF tank will have to be refilled far more frequently (perhaps every 1000 miles, guessing). The driver will have to do it themselves obviously. And add some software code so that the car refuses to operate if the tank goes empty. If drivers can figure out that they need to put fuel (gas or diesel) in their car to make it go, and that it's going to die on the side of the road if they run that tank out, then they can do the same with a 2nd tank of fluid too.
That may have been true in the 1970s, but light truck and passenger vehicle emission regulations have been identical for a long time. Looser fuel economy standards for light trucks certainly causes manufacturers to push them harder though.
> but in reality they just want Facebook without Facebook actually owning their data

Truer words-. Thank you both for working on diaspora* and also for your subsequent realization that completely-unnecessary-decentralization-just-for-its-own-sake is not actually what 99.9% of people want. They just want to be in control of their data.
Even back in the 90s, I knew people who would bring a separate travel laptop that would just have the basic set of apps and a VPN client. So, once you got to your destination, you'd login via VPN and download what you needed. This was at Nortel, so it's not like it was a very high security company, just moderately secure. Not everybody did that, but certainly enough people did. The department kept a couple spare laptops for just this purpose that would get wiped and restored to their default config after the travel.
> a pretty horse that could sprint but died when it saw its shadow

Sounds more like an Arabian horse. Famously skittish but fast.
The article on Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_calculator, looks like a much better link to me.

The following other mechanical calculator also seems to be an important step: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmometer
I have had a very similar realization regarding customer service. I used to think manners obliged me to be patient on the phone or at the customer service counter. That I should jump through all the hoops put before me. And finally if the outcome put before me was unsatisfactory that I should accept it and move on. But I've come to see that customer service is just as much something I'm paying for as the root service or good I'm buying.

Furthermore, the notion that an acceptable remedy to the problem that a company cannot have it's shit together enough to adequately service the occasional difficulties surrounding the transactions of its products is to impose upon me has become unacceptable in my mind.

I know this is going to sound entitled but think of it this way, it is also an entitled position to assume people should be obliged to fill out forms, perform extra steps or wait in line because of a mistake a company has made.

I'm not encouraging anyone to treat people like garbage but my threshold for corporate BS has become extremely low and I ask for issue escalation pretty fast if a company isn't fixing a problem.
Please note my original title was "I'm developing a new and faster MQTT broker".

HackerNews changed it and I cannot edit. Point being (a) I do not even know the naming is final, (b) this is in no way a finished product, it is a 7 day prototype.
Sure. In the context of an already-filed lawsuit, however, that's asking for trouble. The other side has the legal right to discover relevant documents that you hold; deliberately trying to make that harder during a court case is arguably unethical, and is certainly frowned on by judges.
Very very true. The greater your ability to conceal your thoughts, especially in the case of escalating provocations, the more information your interlocutor will reveal until the strategic balance shifts.
Clojure's "killer feature" for me is the by-default persistent data structures.

Are there any other functional languages out there with similar features? Lisp or otherwise.
> In fact, a screening for single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 14.3 kb of noncoding Y chromosome sequence among 52 male horses of 15 different breeds did not identify a single segregation site.

That's just part of the Y chromosome.

But this is a better cite:

> We used high throughput sequencing technology to identify the first polymorphic Y-chromosomal markers useful for tracing paternal lines. The nucleotide variability of the modern horse Y chromosome is extremely low, resulting in six haplotypes (HT), all clearly distinct from the Przewalski horse (E. przewalskii). The most widespread HT1 is ancestral and the other five haplotypes apparently arose on the background of HT1 by mutation or gene conversion after domestication.

Wallner et al. (2013) Identification of Genetic Variation on the Horse Y Chromosome and the Tracing of Male Founder Lineages in Modern Breeds

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

So yes, it seems that all domestic stallions descend from just one ancestor stallion. That's amazing!
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3. A slanted liftgate that sacrifices cargo space so their crossover doesn't like their parents' station wagon and/or minivan.
But how are you "bringing your email into the country" any more than you would be if you just sent an email?

If they can't access my sent email when I send it from abroad without a warrant, then how does me entering the country without a phone or computer allow them access to my email?
This is all starting to feel awfully similar to the time shortly before the last major bitcoin crash.

I've had 2 people who know absolutely nothing about technology tell me of their plans to take out 401k loans to buy in over the past couple weeks. Both refused to hear it when I pointed out how bad this decision could turn out. Both had fully bought in to the stories being pushed by "$100k by the end of the year!" type crazies/pumpers on reddit.
He hasn't proven himself to be politically savvy like past candidates and he lacks key differentiations like Trump or Hillary. If he attempts to storm to the top without currying favor it will fracture the DNC and if he wins he could have a situation akin to Trump.
Not that any of these "peek into the subculture" style articles ever get all the details just right but this:

Then, in the spring of 2014, the company announced a collaboration with Nike on a basketball sneaker called the Foamposite. Supreme had collaborated with sneaker companies for years, but Foamposites were especially prized by sneakerheads. All of a sudden, Supreme had a whole new audience—one already accustomed to limited releases and camping out to get them.

is a glaring error. Supreme has never not been a favored brand of sneakerheads, and that relationship surely didn't start with Odd Future or some recent Nike collaboration. It goes all the way back to the 90s/early 00s when everybody on Niketalk was pairing box logo tees with their vintage Air Maxes and, contrary to the assertions in the article, all these brands (Supreme, Stussy, Freshjive, etc) were transitioning away from being purely skate/surf focused and starting down the streetwear path they've been on ever since.
This. For languages with a good module system, it's almost trivial to use modules either in-process (e.g., monolithically), or out-of-process exposed via HTTP or some other network interface (as microservices). Then the discussion becomes about writing modular code rather than microservices.
I'd recommend a read of The Practicing Mind to see how it might be different.

A tedious task can easily be therapeutic if you go in with a "beginner's mind". It's kind of meditative, being present in the moment through the whole task.
I don't know that battery replacements would be that frequent, nor do I think gas station mechanics are unheard of now.
That definitely sounds wrong - if you're leaving unburnt fuel in your exhaust, that is wasted fuel, you could burn it further and get more energy out of it - they seem exactly in line with eachother as goals. Do you have any source for that statement?
Given how cheap DEF is and how easy it is how to fill, I wonder why automakers have the perception that consumers don't like to fill them up.
> We live life by the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." This obscures that there's often a wide variety in the things we would like others to do unto us, and that assuming everybody wants what you wants often leads us to do exactly what they don't want.

That's a brilliant insight. Thanks for sharing!
This is odd. I find myself moving to Assembly nowadays.
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Wow. The person who writes that site sounds remarkably angry and upset at the world.
Things like climbing (and power lifting - another one I have some experience with) do test your physical and mental abilities as a person. There comes a point in both where it is you against yourself. Do you continue or turn back? Overcoming those mental hurdles is an enormous challenge, and personally rewarding.

When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath...I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness, no anxiety. I have not lost the mastery of my feelings, there are actually no more feelings. I consist only of will. Messner on the first solo ascent of Everest
Even calling them "historians" makes them (and their methods) seem more similar to modern historians(') than they were.
I feel that Rich Hickey alone makes the Clojure community very healthy, friendly and warm. The JVM is solid, reliable and battle proven, is it not?
Hopefully the EFF can challenge this in court and this provides good evidence that the FCC is ignoring what Americans want.
Just did exactly that. Thanks!
I agree with you.

If they're attempting to use the 5th Amendment to conceal that information, I assume it's only a matter of time before Judge Alsop compels Uber anyway. What duty does Uber, a separate entity, have to protect Levandowski if it retains a copy of the report?
This is exactly what I was hinting at: IEEE journals (TGRS, etc.) are filled with deep learning and machine learning on satellite imagery papers.

They are more tech focused journals and have less impact.
Berlin is an obvious choice.
The currency is based on Ethereum, so it's doubtful they'd be able to modify the supply of coins at will.
So uh... It rivals .txt files?
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Speaking of engine maintainability, there was a fun thread on big marine engines on Reddit a little while back: https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/5wr5...

>They burn approximately 200-300 litres of oil a week and have a capacity of about 1200 ltrs in the sump. Main oil filters are done every 20,000 hours or sooner if the differential pressure across them increases above 1 bar but there is no oil change schedule for them. Each engine is 33 years old and all have between 92,000 and 98,000 running hours.

>The warranty will be indefinite as long as you stick to the maintenance schedule. It's not like a car engine, almost every part with the exception of the crankshaft, entablature, bedplate and general items like pipework etc have all been replaced at some point according to the maintenance plan. Pistons are changed out every 40k hours, bearings, heads, liners etc all have their own lifetime too.
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But that backend you were building could have already been built on Lambda. Granted, you'd have to plug in some other AWS products like API Gateway, but the cost would still be the same or cheaper than what Twilio is selling.
This isn't apparent unless you read the article I linked, which is long. I don't expect you to.

The main violation appears to be emitting excess amounts of NO2, a pollutant, and some particulates.
We had a number of people in my team who started taking prescribed drugs 2 weeks prior to the trip. Now, I never took anything, but from us measuring blood oxygen levels a few times a day, the drugs seemed to have helped absorb and retain oxygen levels in your blood stream better. It didn't seem to mask symptoms. In fact, by the time we got to base-camp nearly every single person on the team had some mild symptoms of altitude sickness (headache & dizziness). It's just that nobody's symptoms escalated to a full-blown HAPE (except for mine that is). Having said that, I don't think anything but proper acclimatization will help you with HACE. Once you get it, which typically happens at very high altitudes, you're pretty much screwed which I believe happens nearly every season on Everest climbs.
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This is a much better description than what is on the homepage. Why doesn't it just say this??
true, but have you actually used tropo?

Their documentation is horrible and you are extremely limited when running the code on their servers. If you need to do anything complicated, you have to have things running through their WebAPI.

They have made breaking changes to their API without communicating with their user's.
You have a point there. Using money removes the arduous pontification of whether the favor was worth doing, aka "helper's guilt".

Especially when both parties enjoy some sort of prior established trust (long friends or acquaintances), it's even easier to use money even if it won't compensate for a comparable market rate service.

E.g. "Would you mind helping me with X, Y or Z and I'll buy you lunch(es)?"
That could just mean they based it off Lambda's.
I think part of the problem is that being a founder of a profitable tech company is painted as the promise land, filled with riches and being the master of your own destiny.

The reality is that it's a job like any other, but with way more stress, hours, responsibility, and people's livelihood depending on you not fucking up.

A big part of the problem is that it is rather difficult to talk about burnout, depression, etc with others as people think you are living the dream. Not to mention, it's expected you keep up appearances as the person steering the ship.

The only way to survive this and keep going is to find people you open up to, to talk things out and work through the shit. It kind of sounds like you are keeping this from your wife, at least in part, which is a big red flag. If you don't feel comfortable sharing everything with your partner in life, who can you talk to for support?

Don't keep on trying to fix this on your own.
> I assume it's only a matter of time before Judge Alsop compels Uber anyway.

For that information, he already has.
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